Rise of Rurik

The Russ Army knew the enemy's troop strength more accurately, and the information he had learned before had obviously caused Rurik to seriously overestimate the strength of the opponent's troops, so that he, who was already under some pressure, immediately had no worries.

Originally, allowing the fleet to collectively broadside the enemy near the coast is to rely on the ship-borne weapons to consume part of the enemy's army, so that the pressure of the follow-up landing battle is suddenly reduced.

Pine Needle Manor gathered 3,000 people? The manor was the leader of the rebellion, and the other so-called rebels did not send troops to gather?

Could it be that most of the manors are really keeping watch, who will win and serve whom in the end?

As a result, the strength of the Ross Army is not equal to that of the enemy, and there is no suspense that the victory belongs to Ross.

Victory must belong to Ross!

The vast number of warriors simply regard tomorrow's war as a feast of slaughter, and many people do not feel that they can grab many good things in a pure peasant village.

Lord Rurik issued an order to eliminate the rebels by their roots. Is this decision really appropriate? It is obvious that a group of prisoners can be captured and taken away as slaves. Many Balmers in the team think like this, but they are now New Rus and have to obey the Duke's orders.

What can make everyone have expectations is to loot food. The rebels are a huge manor, and they must have a large amount of surplus food, as well as some livestock and poultry.

No one expects to loot gold and silver treasures, seize grain, cattle and sheep to eat with open stomachs, but everyone is full of expectations.

Although he knew more detailed information about the enemy's situation, Rurik was not stupid enough to tell everyone the revised news.

Strategically, it is natural to despise the enemy, but tactically, it is necessary to pay attention to it. Even a soldier who only holds a wooden stick has a probability of causing the heavily armored Rus army to capsize in the gutter.

Rurik was determined to remain the same and continue to convince his brothers that the enemy was an army of ten thousand people, so that they would not suddenly underestimate the enemy.

This night, not many people are anxious about tomorrow's war.

The sky tonight is okay, there are obviously many clouds in the night sky, and the stars and the moon appear and disappear.

Since tomorrow is the war, many soldiers are sleeping around the bonfire, a large camp has appeared outside the White Tree Manor, and the army is snoring one after another.

As for Rurik, he naturally lived in Svetlana's old boudoir.

Moonlight shone through the wooden windows on Lanna's serene face, like other Slavic girls, and the war didn't make these women go away.

Rurik just wanted to sleep with his arms on his back, but Lanna leaned on her side and boldly offered herself: "Tomorrow, I will also join the battle."

"You? To be a female soldier?" Rurik was not surprised.

"Yes. Just like Carlotta, she's a nobleman, and so am I. She can lead an army, and I should be involved."

"What can you do?" Rurik asked bluntly.

"Probably archery?"

"Forget it, you're still a child."

"Huh? As if you weren't a child."

Rurik was stunned for a moment. Indeed, even though this body began to grow golden beards, it was still a young child.

"Have Carlotta taught you archery?"

"Other sisters taught me. We are all your women. You say that I am the most honorable. If I am an idiot, wouldn't I be embarrassing for you. Besides, this is the century-old revenge of White Tree Manor, so you can let me join. ."

"Never mind. You and I are still a wedding away, and it makes sense for you to participate in this showdown. I hand you over to Carlotta, remember, you have to be brave. To be my first wife has to be like a Valkyrie, I just like you like this."

Svetlana, who was already in love, suddenly felt an indescribable depression. She cherished the opportunity to be alone with her man in her boudoir tonight. She was ready to do everything a wife can do, but she herself The man who ordered himself to be a female warrior was even above all else.

She tried to calm down and looked at her index and ring fingers by the moonlight.

"Maybe I can shoot another enemy tomorrow. I don't want to kill, but..."

"You have no choice. This is war. If you don't kill them, they will kill you. Only by eradicating Pine Needle Manor can this lake be truly peaceful." With that, Rurik reached out and pressed Lana's Arm, "Don't look at your fingers, I'll give you a crossbow tomorrow, you can't draw a bow and shoot. Oh? Fraser taught you Mediterranean archery? I like you with a wrench."

Lanna didn't know what to say, so she closed her eyes without saying a word...

Rurik brought a group of young warriors, and now Svitalana has become one of them.

The young and old friends of Fisk, Kanuf, and Telafis were all ordered to participate in the war. First of all, they need to participate in the new war gilding, and secondly, they are also good archers to make the Ross Arrow Formation even stronger.

A group of capable young soldiers are the generals of the future army of Rurik, and they all need to seize every opportunity to accumulate combat experience when they are young. It was also their youth. When the other veterans were sound asleep, these young cubs chatted a lot around the bonfire, and when their eyes were bloodshot, they couldn't stand it and lay down and fell asleep.

At the dawn of the genius, the poultry brought by the calf manor collectively "went crazy". The snoring of the poultry overwhelmed the snoring of the warriors. When the awakened warrior thought that there was still a bloody battle to be fought today, he was instantly refreshed, and it was impossible for him to fall asleep when he got up.

Soon, the early farm women hurriedly cooked the wheat while the time was still early, so that the army eager to go on the battle was fed.

Rigus also went out of his way. He knew that Rurik had brought a lot of food, but he ordered to use his farm to save food, and called on every family to donate generously, just to get more from the defeated enemy after the war. food and other trophies. How could Rurik understand these thoughts of his?

Rigus was promised that the White Tree Manor would receive a large amount of loot for the feat of full support, and even a higher political power-proxy rule.

Rurik did not explicitly say that he had already made a plan in his heart. After the victory, he appointed Medvet, the successor of White Tree Manor, as the interim governor, and also entrusted this person to mainly solve the mess after the war.

Medvedt will not be canonized as an earl. He said that direct rule is real direct rule. Governor is such an official position. If the monarch does not like it, he can change people at any time. Just appointing a native as the governor is the optimal solution under certain time conditions. Ultimately, the governor must be a pure Rus.

After breakfast, the assembled warriors were in high spirits.

The riverside station was full of warriors in blue stripes and white robes, and their polished iron helmets shone in the golden light of the rising sun.

The huge fleet is moored by the river, and some sailors are already wearing them and waiting.

The army has been assembled, and the warriors are like a group of wild bears.

This is indeed the case. For some of Rurik's elite mercenaries, their helmets bear the entire bear's head, and the mad bear's upper jaw and fangs are like the brim of a sunshade hat, and their hideous appearance makes them invincible. They are the madmen who were selected to be berserkers. They are all strong, and they are also covered with heavy armor made of thick patches. The weapons in their hands are two battle axes. This is a group of madmen, and they are the most fiercely shouted.

Rurik stood on the Avrora, he took off his hat and the iron helmet with the gold trim, and pulled out his short sword to show his warrior style.

He raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers! Follow me and kill the rebels! Today, Odin ordered you to kill! Blood sacrifice Odin!"

The three thousand warriors responded, beating their shields with their swords, and rhythmically emitting Viking battle cries from their mouths.

This roar shocked the ordinary people of the entire White Tree Manor to feel the horror of the underworld, and the women were glad that this group of iron-clad berserkers were not enemies.

The squirrels in the forest hid in the tree holes one after another, the mink beasts hid in the caves, and the birds flew away in groups in fright.

This roar even made the hostile Pine Needle Manor a bit different, and both Vadim and the army of 6,000 people he had worked so hard to assemble felt a strange tremor.

earthquake? Maybe something terrible happened today.

Maybe... war!

A group of priests broke into Vadim's house, and they did not hesitate to express their concerns. Because the Rus people did not go far, since the enemy attacked yesterday, maybe there will be another attack today.

A year-old priest explained the result of his divination in horror: "Today there will be a war."

war? Of course there will be a war!

Even if the Russ did not come to attack, he, Vadim, would choose a good day and auspicious day for a full-scale attack. Since the priests are all talking about a crisis, I am afraid this is the will of the gods.

Pine Needle Manor began to assemble a large army, and all those who could afford arms were organized. No one knew when and how the hostile Rus army would appear. The armed men instinctively guarded the farmhouse, and more than 6,000 people gathered into a "super-strong fighting group", objectively adopting a passive defense.

At the same time, the Ross army had already boarded the ship, and they were about to enter the vast waters of Lake Ilmen against the Volkhov River.

A large number of brisk rowing longboats took the lead, and the thousand strongest soldiers of the first and third flag teams entered the vast lake first.

It was followed by the sailing destroyers, mainly the Avrolla, and the sailing destroyers and armed cargo ships at the end also entered the Great Lake one after another.

The time was only in the morning, and the huge Ross fleet began to adjust the queue in the lake.

Last year's sea and lake battles made Rurik deeply aware that his army had serious communication barriers, that is, it became difficult to communicate with each other after organizing a large fleet.

How can each ship clearly understand the command of the flagship?

A simple set of semaphores has become popular among sailors.

Because the traditional Nordic rune and the Roman alphabet can be converted into each other, this is not unusual, purely because both sets of alphabets come from ancient Greece. The semaphore system has been born, and each letter has a corresponding semaphore action.

Those sailors who were responsible for pulling the ropes and raising and lowering sails and retracting the anchors turned into signal soldiers. Relying on this communication system, the Ross fleet formed a tactical formation.

The four most sturdy cruisers are in the front, and the destroyers are in the rear. The traditional rowing longboat is in the middle position, and the slow armed freighter is in the rear.

The mighty fleet sailed in the vast waters, and the huge jibs easily took advantage of various wind directions. The entire fleet headed straight for the slightly hazy Pine Needle Manor on a route close to the lake.

At first, to those on the shore, a strange dark blue shadow appeared on the lake. It just so happened that the armed men entrenched in Pine Needle Manor were forced to assemble, and some people began to notice the approaching monsters, and some people gathered by the lake to watch the shadow approach.

What exactly is that? Some say it's Rus, some say it's ridiculous.

More people are simply watching the theater. They are farmers who have spent their entire lives farming by the lake. They have never traveled very far in this life. It seems that the whole world exists around Lake Ilmen. As for the Robbers, it is never clear. from the dark place.

They have never seen a big ship, so how can they talk about a huge fleet.

Not only them, but even the Danes can't imagine things they haven't seen, such as the fully-staffed fleet of Ross.

Finally, the dark blue shadow became clear, it seemed to be a boat, maybe not a boat, and many farmers couldn't tell why.

Instead of going to war, thousands of armed men gathered at the lakeside, so busy watching this incredible western scene, they even ignored whether it was an imminent danger?

It's as if beachgoers who haven't seen the horror of a tsunami, even point to the strange white line of the approaching sea level, laughing and joking...

However, this group of people watching the fun has put the entire group of armed men in danger.

Rurik was standing on the bow deck, and the Avlora was ready for battle.

Wooden boxes filled with cast-iron bullets were placed on the deck, and some javelins were held by the warriors themselves. In the cabin, a group of warriors with crossbows were waiting, including Svetlana, who took the initiative to invite her. She also cautiously embraced a heavy steel-armed crossbow, and her tender hands clenched the two pointed arrows.

"My lord, I saw a group of people gathered by the lake!" The voice came from the mast, and it was the sight of the sailor with excellent eyesight.

Rurik squinted his eyes to observe carefully. For the time being, he couldn't see anything, but there was a large group of strange shadows by the lake, and behind the shadows was obviously a large village settlement.

"Is that Pine Needle Manor?" he asked Woodface's dad.

Otto's deep eyes saw everything, and said solemnly: "Your enemy has made a fatal mistake. Have you seen those shadows? I dare to conclude that the enemy is already gathering forces."

"They are so brave?" Rurik asked in surprise.

"No! They are reckless. Rurik, this is a good opportunity for us to kill the enemy, and everything is in our plan."

It should have been half of the plan was cancelled by the sound of the cannon, but Rurik didn't have the wishful thinking to predict that the enemy would foolishly run to the lakeside for the first time and become a group of targets to be bombarded. But this is the truth, the enemy is standing stupidly waiting to die.

Rurik thought of the Russian army standing in Austerlitz and being shot.

The Russian army is all Slavs, and the guys who knocked on this group of pine needle manor are the purest Slavs.

Opponents are standing for some reason, but they are courting death.

Rurik immediately ordered: "Flag bearer! Inform the ships to act as planned! Change formations immediately!"

The man who tied himself to the top of the mast immediately waved two flags, the notification of the order was very smooth, and the Ross fleet formation was changing.

The sailing cruisers and destroyers gradually formed a single column formation, between the hostile Pine Needle Manor on the east bank of the lake, and the single column of the Ross Fleet entering the Great Lake from the north all faced the enemy on the port side.

The sailing cruisers with the largest deck area, all the twenty-five bull catapults of the Rus were all moved to the overtime.

Numerous shooters boarded the deck one after another, and the decks of each ship suddenly became crowded with armed men.

All long-range weapons were charged, and Rurik, who was in the flagship, announced when to drop anchor and turned the ship into a fire fortress on the lake.

I saw Rurik stretched out his thumb to estimate the distance, and the entire single-column fleet was heading towards Pine Needle Manor with an inclined course. The large crowd on the shore was clearly visible, their weapons reflecting just in the sunlight.

Just when it was only about 150 meters away, the Avrora broke down and reeled!

The flagship is like this, and the ships have followed suit.

At the same time, Vadim, who had already entered the crowd by the lake, had clearly seen a huge fleet coming into his eyes. He couldn't believe what he saw, but the spruce-like mast fluttering on the towering mast was the temperament of the Rus! All the ships fly the same flag!

"It's the Russ! Prepare for battle! Fight with them!"

Vadim's screams were broken, and people realized that the war was imminent, but who would have thought that the Ross army would actually arrive at the manor in this way?

Very suddenly, there was a buzzing sound like a wild bee dancing in the air, and the Slav warriors of Pine Needle Manor raised their heads. They saw a bunch of flying black lines and a bunch of bird-like shadows in front of them.

What are these strange dark shadows? Do not! They're pounding this way!

Even as some people start to panic, the killing comes.

The hum came from the whirl feather's javelin, which was fired from a torsion slingshot. More dark shadows are the tapered cast iron projectiles shot by slingshots and the pebbles thrown by trebuchets.

The projectile and the javelin were smashed down with strong kinetic energy, and the victim was either smashed to a head, or the javelin was deeply stabbed to the ground, and even shot through two people.

Death came so quickly, and the companion died so inexplicably. The crowd began to show a strong panic. Those warriors with short spears and sharp axes just panicked, and a large number of arrows fell from the sky!

At such a distance, the improved wooden crossbow can also hit the light arrows that lack penetrating power to the crowd at the lakeside. This time Rurik gathered more than 500 archers. Because the crossbow was charged in advance and inserted into the arrow, the soldiers of the flag shooting team had just completed the first round of torsion slingshot launch, and immediately picked up the crossbow and launched the projectile.

First, the bullets from more than seventy heavy weapons hit, and then there was a rain of arrows composed of more than five hundred arrows.

Not to mention the Slavs on Lake Ilmen, the Frankish army who fought back and forth with the Danes, had never seen such a fighting style.

Another army in this time and space that intends to adopt this combat mode is the Tang Army. Rurik's inner spirit of the East drives him to use long-range weapons without hesitation.

No, the tragic casualties caused by this single blow alone caused the morale of the armed men in Pine Needle Manor to collapse. This was a collapse that Vadim himself could not recover!

The second round of torsion slingshot shooting came again soon, although it became free shooting, and the shooting density was severely reduced, it was the collapse of the further accelerated shore armed men.

"Huh? Has this collapsed? It's absurd." Rurik's prediction could have imagined that the enemy would be an idiot who would collapse at the touch of a button.

Most of the soldiers were quite surprised, they still tried their best to charge the crossbow and twist the lever to charge the torsion slingshot.

Otto still urged his son with a calm face: "It's time for the landing troops to attack and imitate the enemy to escape."

"Right."

Rurik hurriedly ran to the starboard side of the flagship, and shouted at the thousand people on standby, holding a dagger: "It's time for you to land!"

Arik fully understood when he saw his brother shaking the dagger frantically. This was the signal agreed by the two brothers.

Thirty longships acted collectively, and the soldiers rowed hard, they drilled out of the gaps between the warships, and quickly completed the last 100-meter sprint in the attitude of a landing craft.

The oak keel gnawed deeply by the muddy lake, and the first and third flags of Ross, wearing leather helmets and wearing identical clothes, began their deadliest attack, and their enemy, led by the so-called six thousand Vadim The Slavic army, they have been unable to organize a decent defense.

The grief-stricken Vadim, he has been wrapped in the fleeing army by his cronies and fled to the farm...