Rise of Rurik - Chapter 749

[Chapter 750]

Rurik was wearing a war robe, he was covered with chain mail reinforced with iron plates, and even his face was protected.

This defensive armament was too much, and the heavy armor made him an unmoving iron man.

He stood on the front line of the battle grandly with his sword in his hand, setting a firm example for the soldiers.

Arrows had already hit him, and he muttered contemptuously: “This is not even scraping!”

Behind him stood a group of fierce men, Grund and his guys who were covered in iron armor with only a pair of eyes exposed, their bloodthirsty long sword and evil ax had long wanted to lick human blood.

The arrows of the Ross army are outputting very normal firepower, which is normal for Ross, and it is really an unbearable “big gift” for other forces.

If the opponent’s will to fight is mediocre, their faith will be shaken under the continuous precise sniping of the crossbow, and continuing to attack will often force them back.

If the battle becomes hand-to-hand combat, even a well-defended fighter will suffer losses due to a variety of bizarre reasons. As long as the battlefield keeps a distance and one’s long-range weapons continue to kill the enemy, it can cause one’s own tired arms and the other’s dead body.

Rurik was contemptuous of Karelian enemies, but his opponents behaved recklessly.

“They actually resisted my arrows? It’s really brave, but it’s a pity…”

There were shouts of killing everywhere, and Rurik was unable to convey orders verbally.

He has more efficient means, which are flags and drums.

The sound of the leather drum became tense, and the melee soldiers were preparing for the final fight.

Let’s look at Kaskuwei, the leader of the Karelian army. He no longer cared about his face scratched by the arrow blade, and continued to lead the charge with a sword and shield.

A group of his soldiers fell to the ground, and more people still rushed to the front line.

The inferior spears of the Cajun soldiers moved forward in unison, and people’s minds went blank, even ignoring the comrades who were shot and injured by the arrows, like tools that could only kill.

They’re going to poke the spearhead into the body of the Ross invader, but…

The captain of the Slavic flag team and the governor of Novgorod, Medved, has a dull face and is not afraid of danger, and his eyes are even full of contempt.

He stayed in his army to give orders, and then the halberd that entered the woods was put down, and the Slavic warriors holding the halberd suddenly lowered the spear wall in front of the Cajun attack, just like the Macedonian phalanx a thousand years ago.

When the running soldiers realized that something was wrong, there was no time to pause.

The flesh and blood collided with the halberd. It was very pitiful. The spears of the Ka army were not as long as the halberds of the Ross army, and the Slavic flag team standing in a dense formation could guarantee that three halberds could deal with an enemy.

This is a powerful weapon for killing people. The halberd has a sharp spearhead, followed by an angular bloodletting groove. It is not so much a spear as it is a stab. The enemy will be a blood hole that cannot be healed.

The soldiers in the first two rows were stabbing wildly, and the soldiers in the third row pecked from the sky with the blades of their halberds.

The leather hats of the Cajun soldiers can keep out the cold, and the defense is meaningless. Those who have been hit by a blow and have not died quickly have been cut by the ax blade…

If he hadn’t lost his feet in danger and fell over in the snow, Kaskuwe had also been poked with a bloody hole by the Ross’s unique spear.

He gnawed on the snow with his mouth and his mind was slightly cleared, then he scrambled and retreated.

He is not greedy for life and afraid of death, this retreat is an instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

When he was a little sober and wanted to straighten out the team, he found that he had already suffered heavy casualties!

Just look at the situation on the entire battlefield!

Those uniformly dressed Russ stabbed at the spear wall, and the shield formed the wall and stabbed with their swords.

They formed an unshakable wall, with only fallen Karelian warriors in front of them, and the wall was advancing slowly.

The soldiers behind didn’t know the purgatory ahead, they were still rushing madly.

“Retreat quickly! Go to the rear and fight again with the whole team!”

In the chaos, Kaskuwei almost broke his throat, but it was just an incompetent roar.

No one heard the great chief’s cry, there were shouts of killing everywhere, and one person’s cry was drowned out, and there were only red-eyed fighters from both sides on the battlefield.

Although the Ross army fought in a hurry, the enemy’s more wrong actions and the influence of snow delayed their advance, which gave the Ross army a short and extremely precious time to line up.

The Slavic warriors became the main force of the Romanian army because of their numerical superiority, and the wall formed by the halberds became a solid central army that stood still.

Arik’s First Banner team moved to the left wing one after another, and the old guys of the Second Banner team moved to the right wing with the young men of the Sixth Banner team.

Let’s talk about those Suomi fighters, they were desperately shooting arrows into the air from a very safe rear, and the mere chaos caused was forcing the Karelian army to continue to rush forward.

Even the torsion slingshot simply started to launch a throwable short spear called a heavy javelin, which was launched with a low charge, plundering the head of the fierce front line with a large parabola, and hitting the enemy behind.

All this is exactly like the bloody battle that took place on Gotland Island. The Gotland Islander Army at that time was more brave than this group of Karelian Army, but they still lost a lot in the end.

In a very similar formation, a tried-and-true formation, the Ross army launched a counterattack.

Rurik signaled his subordinates to wave the flag, and the sword and shield fighters on both wings began to encircle them tactically.

The enemy has already lost a lot, and their forces are all here, and the soldiers are so compact that it is not easy to wield their weapons.

This glance is very similar to the battle of Canning, except that the Ross army is in a position equivalent to the Carthaginians.

The left and right wings were outflanking. At that time, Rurik issued the order “Closing the bottle caps” to the “Iron Man” Grund and his group who had been waiting for a long time, as well as all the Suomi and other long-range soldiers who had switched from assault to melee weapons. “The command.

Grund the Dane, his iron armor concealed his ecstasy.

He and his brothers don’t need shields at all, and their armor is invulnerable.

They rode a sled directly to the rear of the Karelian army, and a group of iron men jumped off, followed by a group of Suomi axemen with disheveled hair.

Even the Saaremaa Island envoy Telalan who lived in New Rose Fort, and his companions, all went into battle as soldiers of the Ross Army.

Telalang had to believe that the war he personally participated in completely surpassed his own cognition. There were fighting people everywhere, shouting everywhere, and there were corpses in disorder.

Prince Ross has an armored army, and the prince himself is quite young but also covered in iron armor.

Ross’s army is very good at killing people, and they can organize a large army to carry out expeditions in a short period of time!

Telalan is very grateful for his status as a servant. If he is stupid enough to be hostile to Ross, the village in his hometown on Saaremaa Island will be easily wiped out by them.

As for Telalang’s entourage, they were all members of the Ross tribe who were expelled in the old days. After decades of time, they have changed too much. Ross has indeed changed and become a powerful force.

The arrow support of the Ross army has ended, and the encirclement has been completed.

Poor Great Chief Kaskuwe, it is almost impossible for him to die in battle now.

He howled like a wild boar, and his whole body was squeezed inside the crowd by his companions who said he was protecting him.

The still alive Cajun fighters faced the bloody swords and spears on the inner wall of the Ross army’s encirclement, and then they were covered in iron monsters.

They were terrified. There were thousands of people holding weapons, but they were desperately squeezing towards a central point.

In theory they have the ability to fight their way out of the encirclement, even if it costs a lot of death.

They were indeed terrified. In order to avoid being stabbed and killed, some people scrambled to use the shoulders of their companions as stepping stones and climbed on top of people’s heads…

It took only half an hour for a large group of unexplainable sarcoids to change from extreme arrogance and bravery to the current timidity.

In the wars of the old era, the strength of the two armies can be roughly distinguished at the moment of fighting in the wilderness, and then it is just waiting for time to ferment.

There is no such thing as the mighty Hulk who can turn the tide and turn the tide against tens of thousands of people. Those with a large number of people who are well equipped and have high morale are almost certain to win. The Ross army came to the far north hoping to fight a decisive battle. They seized the opportunity and now they have Without any suspense, the Ross army paid some insignificant losses, like a large army of meat grinders slowly strangling the encircled Karelian army.

Rurik was just outside the formation, and without giving new orders, he stood and watched the enemy be annihilated.

Cruel indeed, but Rurik was convinced that his men would end up in the hands of the Karelians, at best a fate of slavery.

Don’t look at the opponent who has suffered a fatal loss now, they are also the little overlords in the north after all.

Ross must give power to all the servants, and also lead everyone to fulfill their alliance obligations.

“Maybe you still have more troops. If you continue to fight resolutely after two major defeats in a row, I will only inflict another heavy loss on you.” Rurik murmured to himself. The Afghan people have sufficient human resources.

Killing a group of people who have given up their resistance is no longer an honor.

But the warriors from the Ross tribe and various Viking tribes, they regard the enemy as a kind of sacrifice, and they need to use blood to priest Odin.

I am afraid that only the Suomi and Vipus have a deep-rooted hatred for the Karelians. They are the most violent revenge for the tribesmen who died in the conflicts of the past generations, and for the tribesmen who were taken away as cattle and horses.

The Russian army stepped on the enemy’s corpse to shrink the encirclement, Karelia’s worst defeat is a foregone conclusion!

When there were more than a hundred living people left, Rurik belatedly gave the order to stop.

The last living people in the encirclement were all captured, and the Ross army easily found a well-dressed person, who was supposed to be an aristocrat of the other party.

The interrogation had a major result almost at the moment of capture, and it was entirely because this person had to maintain his backbone at the last moment.

After he was knocked down by the halberd, he was tightly tied up with ropes by the Suomi warriors swarming up, struggling wildly like a wild boar captured alive, but he couldn’t escape the fate of being pulled away.

This person howled angrily: “I am the great chief of Karelia, even if you kill me, it will not be your turn to be a group of insects!”

From this point of view, he did not have to be dragged like a prey, but was brought directly in front of Rurik. After being kicked by the Suomi soldiers, his knees were sore and he knelt directly on Rurik’s side. before.

The battle was over, and the soldiers were rectifying the wounded and collecting the dead. A large number of armed soldiers searched for trophies, and made up for the enemy’s wounded with a happy sword.

Rurik has already removed his heavy armor, and the faces of the victorious people are full of joy.

Many young children participated in the “big battle” for the first time. At the beginning, everyone was nervous and some even humiliated their diapers. Now that they have won a complete victory, the sense of fear is gone, but the ecstasy after the victory still makes many people feel uncomfortable. Trembling, the smile on his face couldn’t be stopped even if he slapped him.

Banner Captain Fisk has finally become a fierce general. With his military exploits today, he has surpassed his father who died fighting for Rose fifteen years ago.

After all, he was a member of Ross’s clan, and he was the one to be promoted. Naturally, Rurik didn’t miss him. This person had indeed grown into a ruthless person.

Fisk was asking for credit, and he didn’t shy away from his words: “I stomped another twenty heads, I swear to Odin.”

“I’m fully convinced that it’s not worth your boasting just to deal with these fools.”

Fisk was dazed at first, and then he laughed arrogantly: “It seems that I need to kill some Danish warriors to be worthy of showing off.”

“That’s natural. Listen!” Rurik stared sideways meaningfully: “You won’t have to wait long for this opportunity.”

“Ah! Is it finally going to an all-out war with Denmark?”

“Will do.”

Rurik naturally didn’t think about when to launch a full-scale revenge against Denmark. The current situation is really one and the other, and now an all-out attack on Denmark would be militaristic. If Ross’s army moves again, its combat effectiveness may be doubled.

While Rurik, Fisk, and Knuf were chatting with each other, the unlucky man was pushed over and fell to his knees.

“Who is this person? Let me guess, it won’t be their leader?”

“My lord’s opinion!” Suomi soldiers immediately echoed.

“It really is their leader?”

This question was not reported by the soldiers, and the kneeling man directly revealed his identity viciously: “I am Kaskuwe, the great chief of Karelia, the most noble person in the northern snowfields. You Rus people who trample on the forest will be punished.” Cursed by the forest god, you will be killed by the ice god, and even the air god will suffocate you.”

This man’s ferocious face was full of provocation, and his eyes were even more murderous, which made Rurik extremely uncomfortable.

Although Karelian, the language has only slightly split off from Old Finnish in this day and age.

Rurik probably understood, and learned that it was a malicious curse of a king.

Rurik Kinoshita bowed his face and asked, “Do you know who I am?”

Kaskuwe was taken aback: “You actually understand my words? Call your leader, I will insult him!”

“Our leader?” Rurik spoke calmly, and there were roars of laughter around him.

Rurik smiled and touched the man’s dog’s head, and tugged at his fluffy hair: “Stupid man, I am the only leader of Ross. It seems that I should let you die to understand. I am Rurik, from the Principality of Ross The supreme leader, Rurik, the conqueror of Suomi and Tavastia, the leader of the Veps. I am talking about these tribes, you must know them, and now I will take them to avenge you. How about it? Look at the corpses all over the ground , your people are everywhere. You are defeated! Your sneak attack is meaningless. I can spare your life, I will cut off your hands and feet, as long as you can be a deer and keep kneeling. I And cut off your tongue so you can’t abuse anymore.”

“You’re humiliating me!” Kaskuwei simply spat out a mouthful of phlegm.

“It seems that you don’t appreciate it. Your saliva is dirty, like stinking feces.”

“Then you kill me!” Kaskuwei only wanted to die quickly, but…

The leader who captured the enemy is said to be the great chief of the so-called “Emirate of Karelia”.

A group of arrogant and weak people in the north dare to call themselves a country?

Rurik has a good reason for the conquest, precisely because this so-called country is attacking his servants. Since they are a country, this makes Ross’s conquest very formal.

This is a war between countries, and it has developed into a war of annihilation.

The real battle is indeed over in half an hour, and the rest is no longer a battle.

By noon, more than half of the cleaning work on the battlefield was completed. The soldiers were quite dissatisfied with the capture. The poverty of the opponent was shameful, but a group of brothers who were busy chasing brought a lot of harvest—an astonishing number of reindeer.

At least 10,000 deer have been spotted, and there are plenty of sleds.

It was Arik. He and his brothers had been chasing the remnants of the enemy, and found the Karelian camp not far away, and captured a small group of people this time.

Why celebrate?

The Ross army sacrificed 20 reindeer to the 50 brothers who died in battle. Even if there were many Suomi people in it, even if there was not a single member of the Ross tribe, according to the Nordic etiquette represented by Ross, Rurik declared that the souls of the dead When you go to Asgard, you will wait for the Valkyrie’s approval at the gate of Valhalla.

This statement at least gave an explanation to the dead and the living. The living people immediately began to slaughter the reindeer, rewarding themselves with the captured venison roast.

This is not the end!

One king doesn’t kill another king?

absurd!

In the early morning of the next day, amidst the sound of drums in the morning light, all the soldiers of the Russian Army who participated in the battle were watching a spectacular event!

The number of captured Karelian fighters was very small, and they were willing to serve as slaves to escape the fate of being killed.

The people in Ross’s headquarters disdain this kind of slaves, but Suomi soldiers are willing to take out a batch of squirrel skins to buy.

The Suomi had good reasons, and this was an act of venting their anger.

The captives also pointed out a concept, that is, their new camp – a large camp in the gap between two great lakes.

Therefore, most soldiers of the Ross army are very happy to invade their camps and capture more prisoners, especially their women.

Perhaps the happiest were those Slavic warriors.

The Karelian women captured in the last war became the wives of Slav warriors, and most of them had just given birth.

The Rus and other Varyags looked down on such short women, and the Slavic warriors also disliked them in principle, but unfortunately there was no better choice.

Everyone was simmering with a desire to plunder, and before that, they were watching an execution.

Many people murmured that it should be given to this arrogant sneak attacker, the blood eagle, and some Slavs said that they should be smashed into meat paste by one person and one stick.

The descriptions of all kinds of strange punishments are really horrible.

Rurik is not a murderous maniac, and brutal punishment will not bring him pleasure.

He came to be the executioner to give further prestige to the fighters of various ethnicities under his command, that’s all.

Poor Kaskuwe had no idea that he would die at the hands of what appeared to be a teenager, who was blindfolded for his final moments.

Perhaps, beheaded by an axe?

Rurik did not, just like killing a deer during a sacrifice, he cut Kaskuwei’s neck with a sword.

He collapsed and pulled out crazily. With this final fatal struggle, the onlookers of the Ross army cheered.

He didn’t look at it too much, handed the sword to his followers, and wiped off the blood on his hands with snow.

Kaskuwe died, and before he died, he knew who defeated him.

Even though he had remorse, he finally realized that the terrifying combat power of the Ross invaders, as well as the forest god, lake god, sun god, and other gods did not stand in the Karelian camp.

A huge number of enemy corpses have been taken away, and it takes time to bury them. Now that the land is frozen hard, how can we dig the soil?

The corpses were pulled by the sled to the distant forest and discarded at random. The dead would eventually turn into a pile of bones. At least during that time, the stench would not spread to the bear altar. It would only cause the hunters of the Principality of Ross to stay away because of extreme bad luck.

Only the war dead of the Duchy of Ross were burned uniformly and turned into ashes.

Rurik didn’t have the time and energy to give all the corpses a proper ending. It was a courtesy to bury the enemy. At most, he dug a hole to bury Kaskuwe.

After a little reorganization, the Ross army gathered elites and rushed forward on sleds. Under the guidance of the captives who begged for their lives and decisively led the way, the army rushed to the big camp without any accidents.

Along the way, they even intercepted and killed several Karelian reinforcements. When they rushed to the big camp, the locals thought they were people returning from the battle.

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As a result, all that was waiting was the ruthless looting of the Ross people.

Poor Kaskuwe’s wife was killed for not doing so.

The “Big Tent” tribe in Karelia (the core is actually the “Eastern Tent” tribe) suffered a catastrophe, and most of the people left behind were old and weak. Except for young women, they were all killed and all their property was robbed.

The spiritual core of the Ross Army is the Vikings. What is the difference between riding a sled and riding a longship?

Rurik did not let go of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to destroy the country. Although gold and silver were not captured in this battle, as many as 2,000 women were captured!

Naturally, this fatal blow to the Karelian camp also resulted in the deaths of more than 5,000 people.

Just as history should have happened, this blow should have been done by the third prince of Ross, Igor, but today’s time and space was historically completed by the first prince Rurik.

After this battle, the Karelians were destroyed in an era of powerful forces. Their emirate was only in the first year, and there was the first king of the emirate, who was attacked by the Principality of Ross.

After all, Rurik was not surrendered by the Karelians, because the dead cannot surrender.

Most of the warriors who fought took a woman, either as a concubine or as a slave, and Rurik was sure that they would all become de facto concubines.

Ross triumphantly brought more than 2,000 captives, an astonishing amount of leather, bone arrows, and even some bone flute instruments, and drove 100,000 reindeer to the south happily along the shoreline of Lake Ladoga.

After all, the weather was getting warmer and the army was dragged down by so many trophies. Rurik didn’t dare to take the risk of walking on the ice for fear that the trophies would fall into the Great Lakes.

Karelia has not disappeared, and their remnants have become small family blood clans scattered into dust, and it is no longer possible to condense into a settlement of tens of thousands to form an emirate.

They were historically broken back!

So far, in the northern part of the Duchy of Ross, there is no longer any threat after only one winter campaign.

[End of this Chapter]