Rise of Rurik

Now that he had temporarily gained military power from his father, Rurik naturally had to command the battle of his 300 men according to his own will.

As a new military commander, shouldn't we play some new tricks?

For example, use some new tactics that the Ross tribe has never seen before, and through these tactics, shock everyone involved in the operation.

Whether Rurik admits it or not, the prophecy is fulfilled, and all the warriors present agree that this is the great test of Rurik's ability to become the new leader.

This battle is really the battle of the new leaders in the future! It can be said that even a small-scale victory can gain the support of the clansmen more than the invention of multiple devices.

Rurik knew this. My Ross brothers, all they want is victory in battle.

Without hesitation, he questioned the traditional tactics of the Rus people in a public battle, using their momentum and sheer strength to overwhelm the enemy.

The only thing he could think of that could bring changes to the military operations of the Ross tribe was the "pincer offensive" that had been tried and tested by later strategists, and Rurik had a better idea. This time, he wanted to experiment with a tactic of encircling three ques and one, the ultimate goal of which was to complete the annihilation of the enemy.

Rurik sat on the snow and used some branches he picked up to outline the positions of himself and his enemies, and to make "sand table games".

Otto and his brave warriors sat on the ground, and everyone understood Rurik's tactical arrangement somewhat.

Otto frowned at the complicated tactics his son was determined to execute. "Rurik, will this work?"

"Definitely. As long as everyone cooperates properly."

"You... But you actually asked your mercenaries to fight the fleeing enemies? Besides, they will really flee in the direction you designed. Can you see the future in this area?"

Rurik felt that his father's question was a bit funny, but on second thought, it was probably just because of all the previous tactics of the Ross clan, there was no "pincer offensive", and there was no more complicated and vicious than "pincer offensive". The "surrounding three ques and one" tactics.

"Dad, you take your main force and sneak over as I ask. If you can defeat these... these Tavastians are the best. If they escape, my mercenaries will shoot them."

Otto originally thought that his son's plan was very subtle, and only his son could come up with such a plan. He also felt that Rurik seemed to put himself in a more dangerous position.

After all, Otto is the big leader.

He can take back his military power at any time.

Otto basically agreed with Rurik's decision. In addition to claiming that the main force who would lead the outflanking attack would complete the battle as quickly as possible and kill all the enemies, he also gave Rurik fifty warriors, among which there were twenty others. Hunter with a short wooden bow.

In this way, Rurik could place as many as seventy ambush soldiers on the way to intercept and kill the fleeing land.

The battle plan was arranged, and more than 300 warriors of the Rus formed three battle groups. The two groups led by Otto were in charge of "Wei San", and the seventy people in Rurik were in charge of "Que One".

The warriors looked across the glacier, which was actually 700 meters wide, and took time to rest in the woods on the other side of the river until dawn when the short day was approaching.

Rurik rested for a while wrapped in a piece of leather, almost all the warriors of the tribe did.

Only the soldiers in charge of the sentry, their eyes widened to pay attention to the changes in the stars.

The stars have reached the correct position, and the sky has begun to turn blue.

The sentries began to wake up the sleeping clansmen one by one, and after a while, a soldier lifted his leather and stood up.

Otto wiped his face with the snow, then took out the bronze helmet from his sled and fastened it on his head. He also put on a thin layer of mail, and then put on a fur coat to keep out the cold. A belt was fastened around his waist, and the shield was slung over his back.

He held his steel sword high, supervising the movements of the clan, roaring and urging them to prepare for battle immediately.

Rurik held a leather helmet in his little hand and looked at it thoughtfully.

"Master, put it on quickly! We are going to fight soon." Yevro, who was already wearing leather armor, urged.

"Oh, my spirit is a little trance."

"Are you afraid?" Yevlo smiled slightly: "Don't worry, anyone will be nervous in the first battle. You will be relieved when you experience more."

At this moment, Rurik felt that his Yevlo was a battle-hardened veteran. Yes, this person's more than ten years are probably the days when he was wrapped in a knife and licking blood.

Rurik was very concerned about Yevro's thoughts, and he asked: "What would you do if... the enemy was the Tavastian?"

"Of course they will be wiped out."

"Then let's fight." Rurik sighed, he felt that his situation was too magical, after all, reality is reality, and the first battle of life is coming.

He tore off the hemp rope that tied his hair, loosened his beautiful ponytail in a rare way, and fastened the leather helmet, which seemed to have little defense, on his head.

Rurik didn't wear high-level armor such as chain mail, he didn't even wear leather armor. It's not that Rurik thinks defense is not important, but the armor is too heavy for his small body.

Besides, the troops under his control have a unique way of fighting. In theory, everyone should try their best to avoid short-range encounters with the enemy, just use the long-range weapons at hand to shoot the enemy before zero-distance contact.

In this way, the mobility of light equipment is higher than that of heavy armor.

On the other hand, most of the people led by Otto had to wear more leather armor, even if it was a deerskin.

Because Yevro's intelligence clearly pointed out that the unknown enemy faced by the Rus is likely to launch a large number of arrows. Those arrows are destined to be mostly bone arrows, maybe two layers of leather can offset the arrows' attack. As long as they survive the arrows of the enemy, the warriors of the Rus have an absolute advantage.

In this way, when the sky was blue at dawn, the Russ unloaded their sleighs and only brought combat weapons. There are only twenty people who seem to be relatively weak, shouldering the heavy responsibility of "housekeeping".

But Rurik's men were different.

The obviously weak commander Rurik sat on a sleigh with a crossbow at his side and more than twenty arrows behind him.

In this battle, the seventy members of Rurik's subordinate who were responsible for the interception of "Que Yi" actually brought all the arrows in reserve. All kinds of arrows add up to 1,500!

Based on the number of bonfires alone, Rurik couldn't judge the enemy's strength very well. He was prepared to shoot arrows.

The Russ soldiers began to move in three groups.

On the macro level, around the unnamed and abrupt hills, the Rus army took the lead in starting a pincer-shaped offensive in the true sense with the aim of a large number of bonfires on the hills.

The general direction of the three forces of the Rus was to the east. Otto personally led more than 70 people to the north side of the hill, and another cronie led 90 people to the south side of the hill.

Instead of clumping together in a dense formation, they formed a loose formation that formed a net for fishing.

Otto developed his imagination and came up with this trick based on the working model of the tribe's trawler. This trick is to imagine the enemy as a fish.

It is best if the enemy is willing to face, so that his son will not go into action, Otto firmly believes in the strength of his own people.

If the enemy flees, he will fulfill his son's prestige.

Probably, that's it.

Otto's heart was somewhat worried, but the arrow from the string could not return. His northern detour unit had already joined his southern detour brother.

One by one, dark shadows moved forward in all the woods near the hills, and at this moment, the sky was getting brighter.

At a relatively high position, the howling north wind is even more desolate.

Otto saw that the position was almost the same. He estimated that the entire big net was not only completed, but now was a good time to close the net.

Are you going to do a surprise attack? Pooh! I'm afraid the enemy has already discovered that something is wrong.

Stepping on the snow-covered soil slope, Otto drew his sword, and with the humming sound of the sword, he roared: "Russian! Attack!"

With this order, those who were still advancing slowly accelerated their running speed, and at the same time, they also used swords or axes to beat their wooden shields to gain momentum.

"Ah?! Is it already fighting?!"

Pausing for a while, Rurik, who had already established a "blocking position" on the hillside, couldn't help but panic when he heard the shouts from his fellow clan.

Yevro can comfort him: "Master, don't worry about anything. I will protect you."

"Protect me? Am I still a woman?"

Yevluo deliberately joked, "Oh, my master. If you continue to loose your hair and wear one-piece sackcloth, it does have a bit of a feminine touch."

"Dressing up as a woman? It's interesting, if it makes the brothers happy. But I'm a man, and I have to prove myself in this battle." Rurik immediately drew his dagger, and the blade pointed at the top of the hill not far away bonfire. "Brothers, wind the crossbow and wait for my firing order."

Rurik has already started preparations.

His twenty crossbowmen were divided into two rows, each of which was relatively far apart. They formed a line array of about twenty meters in length. The first row was half-kneeling and the second row was standing.

Thirty hunters with bows in the team formed a tighter group. After all, the current short wooden bows of the Rus really don’t expect it to give arrows the range. Besides, the long arrows in the hands of hunters, many arrow clusters are sharpened leg bones of small animals, which are set on long branches. Shooting small animals with such a bad arrow is not a problem, and it will be weak in the face of leather armored enemies.

Rurik hopes that the archers throw arrows to create chaos, and the crossbowmen are the main force in blocking!

His idea was perfect until he touched the enemy, but Yevro wasn't reassured. At this moment, Yevlo seemed to have become a military staff officer, and asked all the soldiers to stick their swords and short spears on the snow, so-called once the enemy broke through the arrow formation, they would draw their weapons and fight. In particular, there were twenty warriors left. They were all standard sword and shield players. They were the ones who took the lead in launching a melee attack due to the short time difference before the archers were transformed into melee infantry.

Yevlo himself is also mentally prepared, even if he is injured, he must protect Rurik. This is not only to follow one's own professionalism, but also to be grateful for being reused.

The preparations on Rurik's side were ready, and at the top of the hill he could not see, the battle had already begun.

The people who lit the bonfire were not the fabled Tavastian at all.

But the Russ also learned such a term from Yevro's mouth for the first time.

Otto can't control that much. In the current situation, if he is not his own, he is the enemy. The enemy is the enemy, and it's enough to leave two live interviews to find out their identities. All Ruth warriors can perfectly separate the enemy from the enemy, the reason is that the bronze helmets are put on each other.

As for the enemy? It seems that they did not find themselves in their camp from the beginning, and were targeted by powerful enemies.

Otto scoffed at the slowness of the enemy's reaction.

"We gave you the opportunity to prepare, and you are just waking up like a dream."

The battle began, and Brau Otto personally fought with his sword, and the young warriors under his command had already charged bravely.

A short alien in a cotton hat was stabbed by the bright white steel sword of the Rus.

And those who just heard the terrifying roar, this is the alien who got out of the tent temporarily wearing a leather coat, then just picked up their stone spear, and even the crude hammer, they saw a large group of tall and strong people people rushed over.

More than a dozen aliens took the lead in starting an instinctive counterattack. It is the speed of the Rus people's impact, which makes the aliens basically too late to use the short wooden bows to shoot arrows to counterattack.

They also fired some arrows crookedly, just as the Rus estimated at the beginning, the arrows made of bones, unless the eyes of the Rus were blinded, the bone arrows only have the meaning of harassment.

Seeing that the arrows were of little use, the alien warriors tried to stab the armored Russ warriors with stone spears. The obsidian spearheads could give deep gouges to the Russ wooden shields, and the damage was basically the same. The young and strong Ross warrior, holding a steel sword that he spent a lot of money on, beheaded a head with just one crit.

Another alien attacked with a hammer, but they were all one head shorter than the Russ. When they were hit hard by the Russ warriors, they fell to the snow and were immediately stabbed to death by the sword.

The so-called battle is really a one-handed attack, and when it comes to combat, Otto will choose veterans who have killed Gotland warriors.

What happened on the hill was basically a one-sided battle, and the two sides were not in the same order of magnitude in terms of stature, physical fitness, weapons and equipment, and even the number and organization of troops.

Otto thought that the enemy was strong, but the reality was that the Rus people were abusing vegetables.

A middle-aged man wearing a hat stitched with a lot of squirrel skins, this person is the leader of the aliens who lit the bonfire.

The battle had declared his defeat from the very beginning, and the leader felt that he had to move his head, but he survived in desperation. Well-armed raiders, why didn't they come from the west?

Indeed, from the boss's point of view, fleeing to the west is the only way out. Because there, the invincible guard.

After speaking a language that the Russ did not understand, the aliens in leather began to carry their weapons, mainly short spears and hammers. A few people temporarily picked up their bows, but the arrows ran out, so they simply removed the strings and used the bows as sticks.

They started running towards the west, down the hill.

The leader led more than 30 people to the so-called road of safe escape.

It seems that as long as you escape fast enough and abandon the treasures you have caught before, the attackers must patronize and grab the treasures, won't you be safe? Treasure is more important than life. The leader and his guys, choose to save lives.

However, Rurik and his 70 special warriors have already set up a confrontation formation and waited for the rabbit!

The leader never dreamed that not only did his subordinates not survive in a desperate situation, but many people would die suddenly for no reason.

The suddenness of his death is truly incredible.