Rise of Rurik - Chapter 841

[Chapter 842 Cavalry Tour]

The newly promoted war horses were all nailed with iron shoes, and each horse had a simple saddle made of leather, and stirrups made of temporary ropes.

Formal horse riding equipment is still being produced in various handicraft workshops. They are mainly mixed with leather and hemp, and they will be supplied to the troops as soon as they are ready.

The first task of a new cavalryman is just to learn how to ride a horse, which is a great challenge for very young boys.

They have to learn to build an intimate relationship with the horses they have assigned, learn to sit on a simple saddle to endure the discomfort of their buttocks, and moreover, they have to adapt to the bumps of the horses when they are in motion, and even learn the Turkic horse-riding vocabulary.

Kagan and his best Pecheneg cavalry were good trainers, and Rurik himself on horseback was the best overseer.

After the first seven days of special training, the children frequently fell off the horses. Thanks to the soft snow, some people suffered minor internal injuries, but that was all.

Most children aspire to become mighty and invincible cavalrymen, even if they fall off their horses, they try their best to get back up.

It is the first time for a child with good comprehension to ride on horseback, tighten the reins, put on the noose with both feet, and the whole person seems to grow on the horseback.

People with poor comprehension have to practice more.

To be fair, the Pechenegs knew the purpose of the Russ buying horses from the very beginning, and they knew that they must be kind to their friends far away, so that they could smoothly exchange a batch of strategic materials that the tribal alliance urgently needed.

Kagan took the lead in this national mission. When the tribes brought out their own horses, he selected them all, and selected the young and docile ones.

No bad horse was imported into Rus, or the Pecheneg steppe Turkic horses were naturally docile.

The main lineage of the horses exported by the Pechenegs is an older Mongolian horse, mixed with a small amount of lineage of the desert horse.

The docile appearance has not changed, and the overall quality of the horse has been slightly improved.

It is also this kind of bloodline, which is cold-resistant and has amazing endurance, so that it can continue to march for three months to reach Novgorod.

The exhaustion along the way made all the horses too thin. They marched against the river and replenished their energy by gnawing on the dry grass along the river.

When they arrived at their destination, most of the horses could not be ridden. They were restrained in warm pens and fed a lot of oats and carrots, so that their physical fitness could recover quickly.

Until now, the horses bought by the Ross people are still provided with good food and drink.

In the past few months, the horses and their new owners have been busy with training, doing high-intensity cavalry training in the coldest months of late January and early February. At least Kagan has always found this absurd with his cognition.

If the weather is too cold, horses will lose fat crazily if they run around outdoors.

Faced with the new situation, Kagan has completely shut up, because the Ross people have oats and wheat, and his Rurik brothers are really willing to invest in feed.

The long manes of each horse are arranged into strange braids by their owners, just like their owners themselves.

All Vikings have a special obsession with their hair and beards. Even children, when the golden fluff grows on their chins, they start to grow their beards, and when they are long enough, they tie them up like tiny cables.

The long mane on the horse’s neck is exactly the same. Wealthy children can also add drilled amber pieces, or simple drilled glass blocks, which are not only beautiful, but also serve as a marker to prove that this is their own horse.

The training of the young cavalry is extremely lively!

Hundreds of riders rode around outside the city. Since it was too early for spring plowing, all the flat fields were covered with snow, and Rurik had no scruples to let his new cavalry run around the wider world.

A lot of horse manure is left directly in the fields that have not yet melted the snow, and they are a treasure.

The hot and humid horse manure was quickly frozen into lumps of ice. Rurik sent people to pull the sled to collect it, and then threw it into a special huge wooden box with constant temperature, humidity and odor. Various types of manure are fermented.

It was so disgusting that clean Viking settlers and Russ of all stripes shunned it, even though it was rumored to make the land fertile.

Of course, the manure fertility of cattle, sheep and horses is very limited, and it will be different after fermentation.

More importantly, during this fermentation process, nitrifying bacteria will multiply wildly, and part of the fermented feces will undergo processing such as more foul-smelling boiling and precipitation, and finally some whitish soil nitrate will be obtained.

The finished product is already a very good potash fertilizer, but the output is at the laboratory level.

Rurik needs it for military use, and it is an auxiliary tool when the bow drill is used to draw fire.

All human and animal excrement and urine can be collected as much as possible. So far, Viking immigrants and Ross people no longer need to search for natural soil under rotten roots to make “tinder”. The self-made products have far exceeded the demand for military picnics. .

As for transforming it into a more powerful weapon, it was only Rurik’s own will.

The large amount of horse manure left after the cavalry training will be taken away immediately, so that every day of training, the cavalry walk their horses in an overall clean area.

All the young cavalry form a dense column to walk in a big circle in the morning, and organize a small group to gallop in a single vertical and short distance in the afternoon.

The one hundred recurve bows that were traded had not been equipped with troops, but instead they became a kind of reward designed by Rurik.

Rurik was planning a late-winter cavalry excursion, and it had been ten days since the special training, and all the new soldiers had learned to ride horses.

They are equivalent to getting a driver’s license. Of course, they still have a long time to improve their skills. During the internship period, they need a horseback riding excursion to improve quickly.

Look at the cavalry now!

They changed into uniform uniforms. Although it was still long before they participated in the battle, all of them didn’t even call it cavalry. They formed a dense formation on horseback, which was really quite mighty.

In ten days, the entire Novgorod hand-tailoring workshop has never stopped working, especially when the entire workshop was relocated from Mellaren to Novgorod Verdegen. a set of standards.

Those housewives who were mobilized to work to earn a fortune were widely used as seasonal temporary workers in the “principal first garment factory”, and they had to accept the standards of the garment factory.

The tailoring standard was set by Fodgen. For this elderly man, he was hired by the Prince of Ross as the director of the garment factory. With the high salary bestowed by the prince, he could continue to run his own factory.

His desire to make a fortune in a stable life has been fulfilled, and his children will naturally inherit his position.

Fo Degen is a solid doer. When the prince issued a national order, in order to get an extra bonus, he naturally ordered his slave labor to work overtime.

The female manager of the state-owned garment factory is the mother of Fisk, Rurik’s young love general, Bloma. She and her sisters are only responsible to the prince himself. Based on a set of not strict work and rest schedules set by the prince, tailor-made garments are ordered, and the finished products are given priority to the army, and the rest of the products are sold on the market.

Fodegen is the general consultant of product quality control and the person in charge of the garment factory, but his energy is more focused on his own workshop.

Those slave laborers were working as cows and horses for Verdegen. Since most of the slave laborers had been bought by Rurik and placed under Bromar’s management, the number of “horses” of Verdegen himself was quite small.

Even so, in order to get more benefits, these slaves can only “grind the ground all day long”.

In this unequal social environment, it would be an honor for a slave to be a bull and a horse for Prince Ross.

This does not mean that Rurik is a good person. The reason for giving more benefits to private slaves is that the prince controls the most wealth in the Principality. If you reward the slaves a little, their living conditions will be completely new.

What he needs are the results of the tailors. Within ten days, enough bearskin coats and hats have been made.

The young cavalry all wear white “Osanka caps”, another name is the ** cap.

The leatherized bearskin is cut and stitched, and the key parts are reinforced with pine gum.

It doesn’t have much defensive ability, so it’s perfect as a hat to keep out the cold.

But it is such a shape, completely out of Rurik’s preference.

Making barreled Caucasian papajas was another option, which Rurik still chose.

Without him, the Osanka hat can cover the ears and the entire cheek, which is very suitable for the extremely cold north.

Except for the hair, the young cavalry has a uniform white bear leather jacket, and the sleeves are sewn on the leather vest. The overall appearance is more slim, and it is more suitable for the movement of the arms on the horseback.

The trousers were also uniform, this being a mixture of hessian and linen, and they were of a larger overall style, which accommodated the still rapidly growing bodies of young cavalrymen, allowing a pair of trousers to be used for many years.

As for trouser legs that are too long, it is never a problem. The Slavs are better at making leather boots than all Viking tribes. The brown boots made of deerskin and wool felt are also very large in size. The soldiers’ trouser legs are too long and can be easily stuffed into them.

The little soldiers had short legs and feet, so they wrapped their feet with several layers of foot wraps, and their trouser legs were stuffed into their boots.

Valley

They wore snow camouflage to a considerable extent, and a surprising number of polar bears transformed into their clothing.

Some blue cloth strips were deliberately sewed on the white leather jacket, including their white furs, and staggered blue stripes were sewed on the forehead of the Osanka hat, as if to put the Ross flag on the forehead.

They did not yet have their own sabers, and hung from their belts a combined dagger and handaxe.

They all raised a riding spear with a length of about three meters, and the polished carbon steel spearhead gleamed in the sunlight.

Each spearhead is tied with blue and red cloth strips, adding to the might of the army with multiple colors.

Even better, all the children wore wooden-framed sunglasses to protect their eyes from the glare of the snow.

The cavalry assembled in such a posture, Kagan, who was the head coach, and his Pecheneg fighters took a closer look, and all took a breath.

More than ten days ago, the children who saw the armored steppe cavalry assembled for the first time felt fear and timidity in their hearts.

Now the round of the Pecheneg Army was shocked.

Kagan knew that these children were useless now, but it was only a matter of time before they became good cavalrymen.

The New Ross cavalry and the Pecheneg cavalry assembled an army of 600 cavalry. If this elite force rushed to the territory of the Frankish Kingdom, it would be difficult to stop the burning, killing, and looting.

Putting on new clothes and holding a spear, the humble become a member of the mighty army, and the young warrior is confident.

Everyone only wanted the intention of the princes and princes to gather, and for this reason, everyone had brought enough dry food, and even hung sacks on the saddles, which contained oats for horses.

Rurik held the reins, controlled the horses and settled on the snow to make another speech: “Young cavalrymen! This time I will inspect the entire Lake Ilmen before the spring plowing. I will inspect all the villages and all the villages. Subjects. You are the warriors I rely on, the most important military force in the principality. Now follow me to complete the great tour, and prove that you have mastered the horses…”

Speaking of excitement, Rurik pulled out his steel sword sharply, pointing the blade at the sky.

Seeing this, all the young cavalry raised their spears high and roared Ulla as Rurik had taught them.

Thousands of people admired the assembly of cavalry, including Otto, who put on his battle robe again, and admired his son’s brilliant move with the help of his attendants.

Every young cavalryman has Ross’ logo on his forehead, and the interlaced blue stripes are the oars.

Old Otto watched all this with a calm face, relying on willpower to suppress his tear ducts, so that he did not burst into tears due to over-excitement.

He never thought that Ross could form a huge cavalry force, or that a few years ago, he never thought that there could be a new unit called cavalry.

Since cavalry exists in other countries, it would be foolish for Ross not to form his own cavalry.

At the sound of the horn, the Russian cavalry mixed with the Pecheneg cavalry began a counterclockwise armed parade around Lake Ilmen.

A spear pointing towards the sky, like a moving grove.

The horse team lined up in double columns, forming a team with a length equivalent to nearly a kilometer.

The young cavalrymen talked and laughed along the way. Most of them were descendants of the Ross people. They were born not too long ago. Everyone is ignorant. They learned that the world is vast beyond ordinary people’s cognition through education, but they didn’t Measuring the land in a down-to-earth manner, let alone turning a big circle around Lake Ilmen, especially doing this by riding a horse.

The cavalry team deliberately circled around the city of Mstisk in the old Rus, so that the public could take a good look at the Rus cavalry, and also let some parents of some children know how majestic they are now as the son of a cavalry.

As for the cavalry’s arrival at the dozens of villages built like beads along the lake where the “hidden people” were housed, using military power as a strong deterrent is a major purpose.

The people stood on both sides of the ice road and saluted the mighty cavalry. When they saw Prince Ross himself, they took off their hats and saluted. Most people just watched.

Rurik didn’t have any more demands, and he didn’t bother to order these people to kneel and kowtow.

He just wanted these people to take a good look at the demeanor of the Ross cavalry, implying that they weighed their own weight.

The huge cavalry team successfully arrived at the rest stop of this inspection – New Ostara.

As a prince, Rurik also needs to take a good look at how his woman has built the important southern town of the Principality.

The first cavalry team was stationed in the south of the lake, and the young cavalrymen hurriedly mounted their horses to meet their prince.

Even Carlotta mounts her horse for a horse-riding meeting with her man.

Her heart was beating wildly in ecstasy, and Carlotta wished she could jump on Rurik’s saddle.

“This is your brand new cavalry? It’s really mighty.” Carlotta couldn’t think of more compliments, her face was already quite distorted by the exaggerated smile.

Rurik smiled slightly, stared at the city for a while, and saw Svalgard, the Duke of Gran who came here to visit a few days ago. This man was also riding a horse, and his reserved appearance showed that he His riding skills are extremely poor.

“Carlotta, you have managed Nuovo Australa very well.”

“That’s natural. How about? Go to my city and have a good rest?”

Rurik nodded: “That’s what I mean, I want to take a good look at my Karl, and you.” After that, he deliberately opened his arms, “I didn’t bring any women with me this time, you know …”

Carlotta fully understood, she nodded with a knowing smile, and then ordered her subordinates to fully open the gate of the wall.

He also said: “Although my city is small, it is enough for this army to live in. Of course, the accommodation conditions are not as good as Novgorod.”

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“It’s okay, I don’t even need you to provide additional supplies. Let’s go, I’m going to the city to rest.”

At this moment, Svalgard felt that he had seized the opportunity to intervene, and he hastily uttered something to attract Rurik’s attention.

“You? I just want to ask you, what is your experience in the south? My Carlotta is an old friend with you. Does it remind you of the past a long time ago?”

Svalgard answered very simply: “Prince, I am even willing to remove the title of duke. I intend to move all the Granites here to guard the southern border of the Duchy of Ross for you. There are too few Granites, You are not qualified to call yourself a principality at all, only you are the real hero.”

What he said surprised Rurik, but what this man said was very self-aware.

“If you want to do this, just do it. My southern border population is too small. With hundreds of you Granites, the pressure on my southern defense is much less. I am tired. My army and my allies have to Go to the city to recuperate. Carlotta!”

“Ok.”

“I hope your remaining stables can hold six hundred new horses.”

“It’s okay, I will breed more horses for you in the future, I have already built a lot of stalls in advance.”

[End of this Chapter]