Rise of Rurik - Chapter 784

[Chapter 785 Just one arrow smashed Pecheneg’s arrogance]

Even if they shoot with a crossbow on horseback, they still need a lot of time to learn how to use the crossbow well.

It’s not just a crossbow, the subordinates use infantry weapons, which are not suitable as cavalry weapons.

It’s like changing a rifle to a horse battle because the barrel is too long and it’s not suitable. The improved carbine is all carbine, and there is also the operation of equipping the cavalry with Bobosha. The latter is naturally a good thing that Budyonny did.

The principality of Ross is equipped with the most crossbows with wooden arms. Except for the core bronze-cast crossbow mechanism, other parts are all kinds of wood.

Even if it is a short wooden bow, it is a wooden pole with a length of 98cm when the bowstring is removed. The crossbow made with it is too wide to look at, and it is still very obstructive for horseback combat, unless the group of cubs use it. Lightweight recurve bow.

Rurik immediately invented a way to deal with the trouble, which is to install a simple bracket on the right side of the saddle, so that the existing crossbow can be placed at an angle of 45°.

The bow arm of the wooden arm crossbow used for horse warfare must also be shortened, at least to 75% of the previous one.

The shoulder support should also be canceled, and it should be gathered into a straight stick, which is convenient for hanging and shooting on horseback.

After preliminary experiments, these improvements seem to be effective. In just two days, eighty wooden arm crossbows were all whittled down into horse fighting models.

The range of the standard light arrows they fire has not been shortened, although the draw distance has been shortened a lot, and the deformation of the bow arm has also increased.

This is of course not a good thing, and the service life of the short wooden bow at the core of the crossbow is reduced.

To put it bluntly, what Rurik needs most is the Pecheneg’s tendon-horned recurve compound bow.

It was another sunny and very cold morning, the cavalry training entered a new stage, and the grand festival of the Ross people was just around the corner.

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Hanukkah is almost here!

All the people attach great importance to this festival, which is “New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day” in the whole Rus Principality.

All ethnic groups under the Principality will hold grand sacrifices on the winter solstice, and consider this to be the teaching of the new year.

This custom is very similar among the Pechenegs!

According to the deal, Kagan persuaded his men to hand over thirty recurve bows.

At first these slave warriors were very reluctant, Kagan comforted: “You will get that kind of horizontal crossbow, although the ordinary carpentry of the Ross people is terrible, their crossbows are really wonderful. You just have to fight with them Exchange, when you go back, the person who handed over the bow will get a new one, and the crossbow still belongs to you.”

This is all the brothers are convinced.

No one dislikes that they have too few bows. One more crossbow brothers have one more choice.

The slave soldiers noticed that the crossbow of the Ross people could make beginners become sharpshooters in a short time. With this bow, hunting groundhogs and foxes on the prairie must have become much easier.

But why is there only one point in Kagan’s pattern?

He couldn’t understand the mechanical structure of the Ross’ crossbow machine, but he understood how the bow arm was connected to the crossbow body.

He couldn’t help muttering: “I’ll go back and remove your short wooden bows, install a recurve bow and fix it with glue and rope. Isn’t it a good weapon? The slow rate of fire is nothing, my people have become gods Shooter. Magyar boys, I will teach you a lesson when the time comes, so that you can open your eyes.”

Because the Pecheneg tribal alliance is facing quite dangerous international conflicts, they are actually outsiders, and the Magyars and Khazars directly compete for the lower Volga area with rich water and grass. The dispute continues and maintains a dynamic situation. balance.

If one side has better weapons, the balance will be in favor of the side with advanced weapons.

Kagan was so forthright because he felt he had gotten a big deal.

Isn’t that true for Rurik?

The two brothers who are sworn brothers are getting what they want.

The combination of tendons and horns of the Pecheneg recurve bow is a high-tech material science, and the mechanical structure of the cast bronze crossbow machine of the Rus is even more high-tech.

However, only in terms of production efficiency, the Russian crossbows are still highly productive.

Today’s rest day, both soldiers and good horses need to take a good rest.

Soldiers have the right to eat and drink, especially gnaw on the roasted deer legs, so as to ensure that the muscles can be further expanded and the combat effectiveness can be further enhanced.

Horses should also be treated as a snack, five pounds of oats is not enough, the amount of feed is doubled, and more yellow root carrots are added to supplement vitamins.

The reindeer sled pulls some goods, and the goods are tightly packed by a piece of cloth.

Rurik himself led a small group of subordinates, and they all walked on the snow firmly on wooden shoes nailed with iron.

The sleighs were parked in front of the barn where all the Pechenegs lived, and the noise outside brought people out of the house.

Kagan had already talked with his brothers, and this enthusiasm walked out of the gate, showing his sworn brothers with open arms.

“The weather is fine today, a good day for trading. Look at my subordinates, their bows will soon become your possession. So…”

Rurik nodded in satisfaction, and motioned his subordinates to remove the cloth on the sled.

In an instant, the neatly stacked crossbows with wooden arms were dazzling.

“Start exchanging now. Thirty crossbows are all yours.”

“Thirty?” Kagan showed a slight embarrassment on his face, so he leaned closer to Rurik’s body, and couldn’t help but twitched: “Brother, I changed my mind. Your crossbow is very beautiful, since you value my compound bow. Otherwise, we will expand the business, and I will exchange all forty bows with you in equal amounts.”

“Forty for forty?!”

Rurik involuntarily stepped back, his face trembling violently.

He quickly stabilized his mood and agreed decisively.

Unexpectedly, Kagan would do such an extreme thing. If this guy brought a hundred recurve bows, wouldn’t he have to sell all of them?

“No, I have to control my emotions, and I can’t let him see me holding a recurve bow.” Rurik hastily controlled himself.

“That’s the deal.” Rurik held his head high and snapped his fingers, and his subordinates delivered a steel-armed crossbow as planned.

“What is this? It’s also a crossbow?!” Kagan was taken aback.

“This is my personal gift to you. It is the best crossbow we have. Of course, the cost of making it is astonishingly high. One is worth ten of your bows. Now I am sending someone to get an extra ten wooden arm crossbows. Bow, take this opportunity. I! I can show you how to use this steel-armed crossbow.”

Having lived in Ross for almost two months, Kagan has never seen the steel arm version.

He really didn’t understand that a piece of iron could actually be used as a bow?

He was very surprised, this crossbow is weird with iron arms, one is equal to the price of ten recurve bows, why is it so expensive.

What surprised him even more was that special tools were required to wind this thing.

It is no surprise that the crossbow is stretched and wound Kagan, and the steel arm version is also possible, but a strong man will basically collapse after doing it a few times, unless a winch tool is used.

Winding is so laborious, and the whole thing is quite bulky, how about shooting with it?

If it doesn’t work well, wouldn’t it be a waste to buy at a high price.

I saw a very short and thick arrow fitted with a quiver, it was not even as long as a person’s forearm, and even thicker than a person’s thumb.

Seeing that the iron plate armor that the Pechenegs had taken off was still hanging outdoors, Rurik pointed at it just after winding it up: “Brother Kagan, it seems that you made the armor into a dummy and placed it at the door. Is it important?”

“Of course. In the city, I can understand that you don’t let your brothers carry weapons. Anyway, you ordinary Russ walk on the road without weapons in your hands. I can only show our identity by putting on armor.”

“Because the city is a very safe place, except for the patrolling soldiers and my guards, ordinary people don’t need to use weapons to protect themselves. It doesn’t matter.” Rurik had an idea: “I need a target. Brother Kagan, believe it or not I can pierce your armor with one arrow.”

“Ok?”

“One arrow pierces armor.” Rurik further emphasized.

Rurik repeated it three times in a row, and Kagan was sure that he had heard correctly, but Prince Ross’ description was clearly a fantasy.

The quality of Pecheneg’s iron plate armor is naturally not good due to the limitation of materials. A cavalryman wears hard cowhide armor inside and armor on the outside. face shot!

Ordinary cavalry, of course, could not have such luxurious equipment. As the number one nobleman of the Khan family, Kagan naturally gave his personal soldiers a good set of armor.

Kagan has plenty of self-confidence, and it just so happens that this is also an opportunity to prove that Pecheneg’s armor is advanced.

“Okay! I’ll let my subordinates wear leather armor, and then put on iron plate armor. Just shoot at him, and I will lose if I can penetrate.”

What is the meaning of such reckless words and Qin Wang’s lifting of the tripod?

Before Rurik had time to persuade him, Kagan called out to his subordinates like a demon, and immediately a very proud Pecheneg soldier stood up, patted his chest and claimed that his armor was invincible.

Rurik just glanced at it, and he couldn’t stop sighing in his heart.

A closer look at the so-called armor-piercing is that the iron sheets are connected in series, just like the scales of a carp are closely stacked, but even so, can it withstand the blow of a carbon steel armor-piercing arrow?

“This…isn’t appropriate! If I accidentally kill your subordinates, I will blame myself.”

“Brother, are you cowardly?” After saying that, Kagan laughed.

Immediately, a madman quickly put on the leather armor and then the armor, and stood on the snow in the posture of zama stance.

The nobles want to play a “game” and stand in the position of slave soldiers. This is a shortcut to change their fate. As the saying goes, wealth and wealth are sought in danger. Some guys just want to try the body armor, which is tantamount to asking the future Khan Kagan is loyal.

Let’s look at the Pecheneg warrior in armor and zamabu. He has already imagined that he will become a general under Khan in the future.

This person is so active, what is it not provocation?

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Rurik didn’t bother to be more humble, stomped his feet vigorously, with murderous intent in his heart, and said bluntly in the Slavic language they could understand: “Soldier! You may die! You could not die, all of this is your own choice. I You’re a man, and if you die, you’ll be buried in our Rus warrior cemetery.”

Let’s see the Pecheneg warrior punching his chest with both fists: “This is my destiny, come on! It is also my honor to be killed by Khan Ross. However, my noble armor can stop your noble arrows. ”

Rurik looked at Kagan’s resolute and extremely expectant eyes again, and kept a distance of about 20 meters from the arrow tester. He half knelt down and held a steel-armed crossbow, aimed and pulled the trigger.

With a crisp sound, the slender cone of the sharp carbon steel armor-piercing arrow directly pierced the man’s abdomen, or most of the 10cm arrow clusters had been buried in it.

The man screamed so loudly that he was knocked down by the powerful kinetic energy, and then he covered his stomach and rolled all over the floor, with blood oozing out.

Kagan was dumbfounded by all this, and the onlookers hurriedly rushed up, and even Rurik dropped his crossbow.

Kagan, who hastily knelt down, was shocked by the scene in front of him. The long and narrow arrow cluster was almost completely buried in it. It ignored the iron armor and leather armor, and pierced deeply into the warrior’s stomach.

“I’ve shown mercy.” Rurik approached him and said with a stiff face, “If I shoot his heart, he will die.”

“You!” Kagan gritted his teeth, “You might as well kill him directly. Hit him in the stomach, and he will die in excruciating pain from a severe fever.”

At this moment, the painful Pecheneg warrior shouted: “Kill me. I lost, I should die!”

The successful piercing of the armor by this arrow gave Kagan an indescribable shock. He really had to pull out his own meat-cutting knife, wanting to slash his subordinate’s neck hard to complete the “willing to bet and admit defeat”.

However, he clearly held the handle of the knife tightly and was still an assistant, so he turned his face sideways: “Rurik, you…”

“Don’t you want me to be him?”

“Is it possible? He is a reckless man, I want him to live. You can give him death, but you can also give him life!”

“Yes.” Rurik remained calm: “We Ross people have some advanced medical skills, but whether he can survive depends on…”

Rurik paused on purpose, and said deliberately: “You are already in Odin’s domain. Whether this person can survive depends on God’s will. Kagan, you and I continue to trade, and you have also seen I will bestow on you the power of this crossbow.”

On the other hand, Kagan was no longer happy to get the killer weapon, but deeply shocked.

Facing this sharp weapon that destroyed his brothers’ belief in iron armor defense, how could he be happy?

He shivered and rejoiced, fortunately, the Principality of Ross was in the far north, and it would take three months at the fastest to reach Ross!

Fortunately, Pecheneg and Ross are in a substantial alliance, and I am glad that I and the prince of Ross are sworn brothers.

If the person who shot and killed them might have created a rift in the friendship that had just been established, judging from Kagan’s amazing performance later, Rurik could see that this person actually valued his subordinates, even though they were all slave fighters .

It seems that being merciful is the right choice.

Soon, the transaction of crossbow for recurve bow was successfully completed.

Maybe a reckless man’s act of trying an arrow can turn into a good thing?

There is currently no real hospital in the Principality of Ross, and the priests take on the jobs of doctors and nurses.

Ordinary people do not encounter severe colds on weekdays. The most common is still diarrhea caused by eating a bad stomach.

With the improvement of the sanitation level of the entire principality, the common diseases in the past have been reduced too much, the infant mortality rate has plummeted, and the life expectancy of the elderly is still increasing.

Because people all will carry out heavy physical labor, the people seeking medical treatment because of bruises increases thereupon.

In the era when the Ross tribe lived in the fjords, the priests took on the job of treating diseases. Of course, that kind of treatment was mixed with too much witchcraft, and whether it had to depend mainly on good fortune.

Now the situation has obviously changed!

Because the Principality of Ross has set off a revolution in surgery!

In principle, it is not a routine with the Frankish Kingdom.

[End of this Chapter]