Rise of Rurik - Chapter 747

[Chapter 748 Parthian Tactics on the Ice Field]

A small team of sleds is running wildly on the ice field. People don’t worry about the appearance of a mere one hundred and forty people. They are high-spirited and well-equipped.

How much can be captured from the conquest of the Karelians?

Maybe there could be plenty of deer.

Telavis led his more than 30 soldiers, and a hundred elite soldiers of the First Banner Squad to help out. Although the number of troops was small, they were powerful.

Thanks to the previous combat experience, the soldiers sat on the sled talking and laughing, and they reached a wonderful consensus that they would support the brothers in Xiongji Town to fight against the enemy, and everyone could not gain anything of value.

At some point, the Rus’ view of war became war for war’s sake.

Rescuing the brother who was attacked was justified, and killing the attacker was also justified. The desperate killing was to show Odin the strength of a real man.

What’s archery and trapping for squirrels?

Bear hunting is not a very great honor these days.

It’s only “fun” if you’re on a battlefield killing spree.

On the other hand, the Karelian army that besieged Xiongji Town turned into a full-scale siege after three consecutive failed charges.

Relying on the superiority in numbers and the slow increase in troop strength, the big leader Kaskuwei has no better way, but can only think about launching the fourth round of attack after the troop strength increases.

The young and great leader who founded the emirate did not allow the warriors who followed him to win a quick victory. His boasting was in vain, and the war turned into a war of attrition that no one liked.

At least the Karelians have mastered the land and can afford it.

Reindeer are a “walking farm” from which the Karelians obtain their blood, meat, milk, hide and bones.

The former is food and drinking water, and the latter is the source of clothing and weapons.

As many as 30,000 reindeer were driven to the area near the town of Bear Festival. After all, this area is the traditional Karelian pasture.

With the material support of these livestock, Kaskuwe had the capital to besiege the city.

Even in the face of a fortress with ditches piled up with rammed earth and timber, the chieftain was basically helpless and could only resort to the clumsy method of besieging the city. As for when the siege will be a leader, only God knows.

In order to prevent the people inside the fortress from coming out to find something to eat, they built tents around the fortress one after another. Often a dozen people took turns to stand guard and watch, and a large number of Karelian fighters were ambushed in the woods behind.

There is another major reason to support this group of people fighting – the bear altar.

Most of the soldiers lack knowledge of the regular army of the Principality of Ross. They only saw the sacred sacrificial center being stolen by the enemy, and even shamelessly built a fortress.

More than 200 people died in the battle, and dozens more died after their injuries deteriorated.

Most of the Karelian fighters were originally from the clan, but now they are called to fight as father and son brothers.

They saw the death of their relatives and friends, and saw the Holy Land being taken away, and the fire of revenge ignited in their hearts drove them to hang on.

The Ka army was powerless to take the city, and the Luo army in the fort had no intention of going out of the city to fight.

When the eighth day of the battle began, the two sides reached a strange tacit understanding. The standing became quiet, and no one took the initiative to launch an attack. Even the Ross, who had superior weapons, was too lazy to shoot a light javelin with a torsion slingshot. Wide-eyed and small-eyed, they are clearly waiting strategically.

On the tenth day of the war, a flag with blue stripes on a white background was flying on the frozen lake from the south!

The Karelians with good eyesight were taken aback, and the guards thought it was reinforcements from the Rus, and they were extremely vigilant and immediately passed on the news.

Unlimited waiting has been sapping the authority of the great leader, Kaskuwei slapped his thigh and stood up from hiding when he heard the news.

“Calling brothers, the reinforcements of the invaders have arrived. We are unable to conquer their fortress, so we will kill their reinforcements and sacrifice blood to the gods of mountains and lakes!”

The soldiers who were about to go mad almost dispatched their nests, and the strange movements of the Karelians also shocked the Ross army stationed in the fortress to the top of the city.

The garrison saw clearly the flags hung by the sled team, and everyone was very happy that the prince sent reinforcements, but it was a pity that there were only so few people?

In contrast, those Karelian people dressed like bears are running like they are going to a wedding.

The bullhorn sounded, the cowhide drum was slammed, and the people at the top of the city shouted desperately, hoping that the sound would reach the small-scale reinforcements to help them raise their vigilance.

Although the Russians despise the Karelian army, they are not so arrogant that they can fight ten by one.

Not far ahead is the snow-capped lakeside, and a fortress looms.

Telavis could see the flags of Rus flying from the fortress, and he could hear a vague noise in the distance, the meaning of the sound, the message had been distorted by the cold wind that plundered the ice.

But there was one thing that caused the DNA of all soldiers to tremble!

Let’s talk about the First Banner Team, the brothers are about the same age. In the summer, everyone digs the land to plant wheat in Mstisk, and now they work together to catch pine trees and hunt white bears in the north.

There were fighters from the First Banner in the Bear Ritual fortress, and there were even more in Telavis’ reinforcements.

A hundred warriors belong to the same centurion, and its centurion is here.

The Centuries are subordinated to the “fleet” of four platoon-level combat units, and the commander is here.

In fact, when they ran to the Kekisalmi stronghold of the Veps, they were also led by the centurion. They themselves formed a fierce winter hunting army.

They dumped a batch of their hunt in the settlements, and then sent in reinforcements.

The centurion could intuitively determine that the large number of swaying figures were dangerous enemies.

“Brothers, pay attention! All you see are enemies, prepare for battle!”

In decree, the brothers on the sled roared in unison,

The shields they were carrying were unloaded one after another. This time they did not wear chain mail because of hunting. While losing some defensive power, it also allowed everyone to gain lighter combat power.

Looking at the seventeen-year-old Telavis, it was naturally not the first time that this kid had participated in a battle, and he was actually scared when facing an enemy several times his own.

He had to resort to the tactics of the centurion in battle, so the centurion naturally commanded the entire team.

A wonderful tactical plan was quickly formulated and put into practice. All fifteen sleds suddenly stopped on the ice field, and the soldiers began to deploy tense personnel.

They had five bear-hunting sled-mounted torsion slingshots, as many as thirty men with wooden-armed crossbows, and almost all the rest with short wooden bows.

Their identities are hunters, even if short wooden bows are not very good combat weapons, at least hunters are excellent.

The special conditions contributed to the astonishing amount of long-range weapons and equipment of this small reinforcement force, and the frozen Ladoga Lake and reindeer sleds provided everyone with amazing mobility.

The sledges became the launch platforms for the arrows. After the adjustment of the staffing, the sledges began to rush towards the enemies gathered by the lake in a double-column force.

The sledge is rushing, and the commander, the centurion, calmly ordered: “Take a bow! Free throw! Use the wheel tactics, don’t get entangled with them!”

The reinforcements have full battlefield initiative until the arrows are fired.

When they approached the array where the enemy gathered, they shot arrows first, and then quickly withdrew.

This is a special Parthian tactic in which the archers never linger and do not give the enemy archers a chance to aim and shoot.

The arrows came crackling, they were not dense and many arrows fell on the ice due to the wind direction, but some of the strongest ones began to cause killing.

The torsion slingshot fires the light javelin used for hunting bears. This thing is a large arrow, which is longer and heavier, and the kinetic energy fired by the slingshot is powerful.

The light javelin hit the bewildered Karelian soldiers, some were pierced through the arm, and some were directly pierced through the chest.

Death came so suddenly, such a death in battle was beyond the imagination of the Karelians.

At this moment, the big leader Kaskuwei once again thought of the hateful arrows of the invaders during the previous year’s war.

The first round of attacks ended in a circle, and the reindeer were out of breath. On the other hand, the Cajun, their people still kept gathering, but they were clearly watching.

The two sides were shooting arrows at each other, and most of the arrows fell on the ice.

Immediately afterwards, the Ross made some adjustments, and a new round of sprinting began again.

The crossbow and torsion slingshot became the absolute protagonists. They fired one after another at a very suitable battle speed position, and gave the Kajun a heavy blow with the advantage of range.

More than 20 Cajun soldiers were either killed or injured. The soldiers who shot arrows in vain had no choice but to pull away the injured brothers spontaneously and retreat for the time being.

Everyone followed the instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, but the big leader Kaskuwei could not bear such humiliation.

He thought about that sad rout again, and even thought that if he had fought with the enemy early, even if the weapons were at a disadvantage, he wouldn’t end up in a rout after thousands of people died.

He persuaded the fugitives with his cronies, and finally carried an iron sword as a sign to kill the deserters.

He gave the order: “Rush up! Rush while shooting arrows, and fight them hand-to-hand!”

Either retreat into the woods to play insidious tactics, or actively pursue on the ice.

The Karelians did not want to be cowards anymore, they chose the former.

However, this group of Ross people has faded from their former recklessness.

Stepping on special non-slip leather boots, as many as 600 Cajun soldiers were ordered to hunt and kill them on the ice.

They shot arrows as they moved forward, and a large number of bone cluster arrows smashed towards them.

The Russians finally ate some helmets, and people could use shields to block them. However, the reindeer was hit by arrows and went berserk. Two sledges lost control.

The centurion had an idea, and led the rest of the sleds to collect the fallen people, and retreated temporarily regardless of whether they were injured or not.

“A two-legged hunter outruns a sled? What a joke! Watch me tire you out before I kill you.”

The centurion was betting that the Karelians would come after them for war.

The Russian army deliberately retreated southward, always staying on the edge of the enemy’s wooden bow range, hanging their appetite to lure the enemy deep.

Finally, this kite-flying tactic caught more than 200 people, and the killing and harvesting is now.

The reindeer were frantically beaten, and the painful deer endured the exhaustion of running and continued to sprint, this time they rushed towards the crowd.

Many Rus soldiers on the sled have already unloaded their bows, and they hold swords and spears.

The sled became a kind of chariot, and the centurion made a pact with Telavis to destroy the fish that had been caught.

It can be said that the wars Rurik commanded in the past gave junior officers a lot of books to learn, such as pincer tactics that were transformed into annihilation.

More importantly, Rurik provided a philosophy of war, that is, to fight a war of annihilation as much as possible.

It seemed that the fleeing Ross invaders actually turned around, and it was too late for those who were a little tired from the pursuit to escape.

The reindeer sleigh rushed over vigorously, and the Cajun soldiers instinctively avoided, but what awaited them was sniping with crossbows, as well as stabbing with spears and swords.

Cajun fighters approaching the sledge were pierced with spears or cut with swords.

The sled team took two wings to complete the outflank, and staged the retreat of the Cajun army. Next, a Ross soldier wearing a huge nose-protecting iron helmet, holding a round shield and a steel sword, got off the sled.

“Shield Wall! Now!” The centurion gave an order, and four well-trained “fleets” and a hundred soldiers built four shield wall groups, and finally merged into one.

The shield wall was advancing rapidly, and the Kajun who was retreating in the stage attacked with all their strength, and the two sides fought together.

The steel sword was stabbing, and every stab was bloody. The Ross shield wall was like a meat grinder, and the enemies encountered were killed one after another.

Telavis and his Vipus warriors were not watching the show either. They fought with their bows, shooting to push back the enemy’s reinforcements in the rear, and throwing arrows to disrupt the enemy’s position in the encirclement.

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Next, it was just the simple killing of the men…

The debate ended quickly, and the corpses on the ice were lying here and there. Some wriggling people were still twitching, and the Ross men made another sword.

The ice layer was exuding enthusiasm, which was actually from the evaporation of warm blood water. The ice surface was covered with a big rainbow, and the bloodthirsty warrior with his face and blood red turned his head, which shocked the Karelian army to flee.

The centurion was covered in the blood of the enemy. He wiped his blood-red face with his arm, and looked sharply at the brothers on the left and right: “Tell me, did anyone die in battle? Was anyone injured?”

They said to each other that they were safe and sound, and some people clamored that brother XX had suffered internal injuries.

“It’s a shame for a soldier to be wounded by someone who is weaker than a bear!” He cursed secretly, then looked at the restless brothers, “Let’s go! Let’s take advantage of the victory and pursue.”

A mere one hundred people broke up the attack of six hundred people, and killed more than two hundred people in the opponent without any death.

The Karelians were terrified, and now Kaskuwe could no longer hold back the fleeing brothers.

The Cajun troops on the sidelines were all withdrawing, and this withdrawal became a rout.

Kaskuwe had no choice: “Let’s retreat to the forest camp and organize the team to find a way!” He issued a retreat order, but the army was fleeing.

Confidence crumbled and the team dispersed, and Kaskuwei had to lose again in humiliation.

Of course he won’t accept his fate, and if he can summon more people, there is still a chance of winning.

The Ross people wanted to pursue them, but the reindeer were tossed hard. They are animals with amazing endurance, but they lost their strength after a few bursts of short-distance bursts.

Teravis was very sorry, and stood on the sled and looked at the fleeing back and shouted: “You run away! Idiots! You Karelians are so weak that they are only worthy of being slaves!”

At least Telavis didn’t expect that the Karelians, who were called by the Covins in the past to be stronger than the Tavastians, were so inferior.

The reason is very simple. It is all because the Principality of Ross is too powerful, and it is actually a full-level boss in the Baltic Sea who abuses food in the Arctic Circle.

The opponent fled very quickly, there was no chance for more than a hundred brothers to pursue.

The guards of the fortress in Xiongji Town enjoyed a wonderful battle in a comfortable mood, which made their self-confidence even more bursting with confidence.

If everyone is worried that the strength of the Cajun army is not far away, they will take the initiative to go out of the city to challenge, and the enemy’s inferiority is fully displayed. Now the guards feel that they will all go out of the city to fight the opponent, and they can even arrogantly declare: “You two thousand people were defeated by our four hundred surrounded by people.”

The centurion and his close comrades in arms were not overjoyed by the victory. They confiscated a batch of low-quality arrows and hand-to-hand weapons. Rarely, this challenges the cognition of Ross people too much.

Will God Odin be satisfied with defeating an enemy of this level?

They use animal bones and teeth as weapons, and bears and wild boars also use teeth as weapons. In a sense, the enemy is not a human being, but a kind of beast. The most proud First Banner Squadron of the Ross Army is actually conducting a special hunt.

Looking at the fortress and those guards, it is really hard to describe…

[End of this Chapter]