Chapter 258： A campsite at the mouth of the Oulu River

A huge team descended south along the frozen western coastline of modern Finland.

Woimakashad, who has turned into a leader, dragged his aching feet, leaning on a wooden stick, and struggling forward in the ice and snow.

He must remain alert enough and he must be very loyal.

Otherwise, the powerful bows and arrows of this group of Ross people could easily end their lives.

Because he really saw the terrible death of his companion.

The head of the companion was completely shattered, and the enemy's short and thick arrow completed it all. He was fortunate to observe the unique arrows of the Ross people up close, and seeing the various weapons and equipment of this group of people, he could hardly imagine that these three hundred people were actually a group of madmen armed with steel.

He clearly saw the iron chain armor worn by the leader of the Russ!

"If you guys, who would win a fight with those guys?"

Woimakashad kept his thoughts in his heart, and he humbled like a hound along the way.

For these people who are willing to cooperate, Otto does not hesitate to feed this person a little wheat cake.

Compared to this leader, Otto is very worried about whether the group of deer breeders who follow the team will escape.

After three days of camping in the wild, Otto felt that he was too worried.

The transformation of reality is very subtle, just like those deer breeders have willingly regarded their son as the leader. In this regard, Otto has no more worries. He even feels that with the help of this group of deer breeders, the team's advancement can reduce some of the burden.

If you say who is the master of stepping in the snow, the deer breeder is the master of masters. Their winter grazing is to drive their own reindeer herd and wander in the snow-covered world.

Now they have lost all the deer, but they have also received the guarantee of safety and protection.

The deer-keepers began to take the initiative to help Rurik's direct mercenaries share some of their bags, and they also took the initiative to sit on the ground and drill logs to make fire, and even hunt.

They are so cooperative, another big reason is Lu Mia.

A deer breeder with a simple mind can trust her female clan's words, and Rurik has fulfilled his promise. The deer breeder who feeds almost exclusively on meat suddenly lives a life of oatmeal and porridge. .

Once they have eaten wheat, they can't wait to eat it all.

This is exactly what Lurik promised. The remuneration for raising deer for the Ross people is not only safety, but also food protection. The "guarantee" here refers to high-nutrient wheat.

Like the deer breeders, the Ross people are also masters in the snow.

Because the cowardly people basically died in their childhood, and grew up into the strong Ross men. First of all, they were guys with extraordinary perseverance.

Everyone wrapped their leather jackets tightly, enduring the dry and piercing wind from the North Pole, and moved forward at a faster speed.

Under normal circumstances, the Ross people and the steps in the snow can only walk up to 20 kilometers a day.

If you step on the ice, things are much better.

They set off on a clear morning, and they continued on their way at night. In the evening two days later, the team walking along the coast encountered a slightly wide ice-bound river.

"Where is this place?" Otto forced Woimakashad, who led the way, to say so.

The leader who kneeled in front of Otto to show his humbleness hesitated and said: "I...I don't know the name of this river. Because, we Kewen people rarely get involved here."

After Jeflo's translation, the atmospheric Otto lifted up a pair of big feet and knocked Woimakashad down, so painful that this person curled up on the ice and yelled, thinking that his life would be lost.

"Jeflo, help him up! Everyone else, we cross the glacier!"

After all, Otto walked into the frozen river first, and the others waited close behind.

Up to now, the team has already entered a field that they have never understood. For all the Ross people, everything they have seen so far is brand new.

To explore the unknown world, everyone has the ability to explore, and there are deep fears in their hearts.

Otto is willing to shoulder great responsibilities, become a great explorer, and lead the people to move on.

The team spent the night in the forest on the other side of the river, and a bonfire soon lit up in the pine forest.

As a result, the people of the tribe almost instinctively "grouped to explore the map", and accidentally found suspicious footprints in the woods, and there seemed to be some big prey.

The tribe who tried to hunt succeeded!

The hunters happened to find a white bear suspended for "partial hibernation" and took the opportunity to hunt it down.

Before going to bed, Rurik triumphed on a piece of half-cooked bear meat. He took only one bite and was made uncomfortable by the strong smell.

"Damn, I thought I could bear shark meat, and I could bear white bear meat. It's disgusting!"

Rurik threw the meat to his own Lumia. He rinsed his mouth with hot snow water, and ate the oatmeal he had brought with him.

Lumia happily took the bear meat, and in a blink of an eye she distributed it to the children of the deer breeders.

The real deer breeders never shy away from the taste of food, but they are a group that can eat fresh meat and digest it well.

From the perspective of the deer breeders, they feel that this is the favor of their new master.

A fat white bear was dismembered, and the bear's head was cut off, becoming a symbol of Otto's strength. The snow-white bear skin is also carefully peeled off. If some holes in the leather are ignored, it is a wonderful daily necessities. Otto had already thought about it, and this bear belt was tanned and tanned in Roseburg and used as a soft mattress for the bed.

It can be said that Otto's ideas are really worthy of everyone's name as Ross.

However, the white bear died in a volley of at least five crossbows, and the white bear bleeds to death without even having a chance to fight back. The same is true. Rurik, who can't stand the life of pure hair-drinking and blood-drinking, can't stand the meat without bloodletting, not to mention the strong and bashful bear meat.

However, the scene of the Rus skinning and dismembering a white bear almost frightened Woima Kashad.

In the concept of the scientific people, it is best not to provoke an animal like a white bear. Who can imagine, the violent white bear, the Russ hunted it as if to get something.

After hunting a white bear, Otto felt much better.

And those tribesmen who have traveled a long way all day, have hope for the journey south.

The Ross people began to focus on the surrounding scenery, trying to spot the small animals hidden in the snow.

It was another full two-day journey, and some Ruth fighters had new tricks in their bags. Mainly white fluffy snow rabbit skins, some lucky people caught ferrets with temporary traps.

They crossed an ice-bound river halfway, and stopped at a very large-scale ice-bound river.

At this point, Woima Kashad, the leader, announced very important things.

Panting, he approached Otto, who was sighing at the glacier and icy sea, and pointed to the river defense line plausibly: "My tribe is coming. Knowing that we are walking along the river, the nearest tribe is Grey Squirrel Hill Fort."

Hearing Jeflo's translation, Otto nodded, motioned to his men to take the leader down and reward him with a piece of wheat cake.

It was almost evening, and Rurik felt that the troops would camp here and rest. He didn't think that Dad would give himself to him.

Those deer breeders have already started the traditional trick of drilling wood to make firearms. The so-called use of twine and wooden sticks to make "spiral firearms", of course, this kind of skill also exists in the Ross people, and even it is widely used.

With the burning of the first bonfire, soon the fire spread to all bonfires.

On the shore of the frozen sea, an old man with a white beard covers his young child's head with his big hands.

Although it is a sea of ​​ice, Otto perceives the superiority of this place.

"Knowing why I let you stand here?" Otto asked deliberately.

"Yes...Is it watching the ice sea?"

"Bah! Did you see the island in the distance?"

Rurik narrowed his eyes slightly, then looked around, and constructed a geographical structure that resembled a bay in his mind.

At this point, he suddenly realized.

"Here...is it a bay?"

"Yes!" Otto nodded in satisfaction: "It's very suitable as a settlement, isn't it?"

"Is it really appropriate?"

"My child, we should try." Otto stroked his son's head. "Our fishing boat has never been involved in this place, but I have a wonderful hunch that if we start from here and head west on the ice sea, we You will arrive at Roseburg."

His father's words suddenly aroused Rurik's intense curiosity, and he closed his eyes desperately thinking about a possibility.

Because the geographical structure of the Gulf of Bothnia is very clear.

It can be said that in the past time, the Ross people were measuring the "structure of the known world" with one pair of feet along the coastline.

A thought came to mind.

Rurik suddenly broke free of his father's big hand: "Dad, please give me some time. We will not leave tomorrow morning. When the sun reaches the highest point in the sky, I have to make sure of one thing."

"One thing? What is that?" Otto was puzzled.

"It's where we are now. You should know that our world is not a plate held up by the branches of the world, but a big ball held up by the branches..."

Rurik said for a while, but his father didn't understand at all. The only comfort that Rurik was in embarrassment was his father's approval of his willful decision.

Otto is determined to give the people a long rest. After all, according to the guide, walking along the glacier will quickly reach the destination.

By then, Otto didn't believe that those Kowenmen could kneel on the ground and swear an oath as loyal servants, and he still had to force them to yield by force.

It is said that the tribe may have a hundred people. Because of the previous battles, Otto felt that these unknown enemies were idiots. Their only advantage was that they had a relatively large number of people. The premise was that children and women could be fighters.

Contempt of the enemy is natural, but Otto did not want to force his men. It is said that only by replenishing energy and starting an action battle can the victory be completed in the shortest time.

Knowing that the warriors who can finally fight dignifiedly, they thanked the leader for the opportunity and thanked the high priest for the prophecy, so they prepared their own weapons in their shack, or made time to sleep.

As for Otto, early the next morning, he did not pay attention to the fact that his son was standing tall branches on the ice. Instead, he took a few young cronies and walked on the frozen coast.

Otto was investigating the geographical conditions of this area. The more he explored, the more he felt that not building a stronghold here would be a waste of its unique geographical location.

It can be said that Otto's vision is wise, because on another plane, it was the King of Sweden who conquered Finland and built a city here.

She is the city of Oulu, a beautiful city that is frozen in winter and produces salmon.

Today, the hunting army of the Russ is the first to camp here. In a sense, the "Swedes" of the original plane completed the conquest of this place in 830 AD. A city may rise from the ground because of this, and its construction time should be historically determined to be 830 AD.

Remember the trick of measuring latitude that Rurik had experimented with?

This time, he just repeated the old tricks, only seeking the precise geography of a campsite.

Rurik used the rope ruler carried by the team as a measuring tool, and then inserted a pine branch into the hole cut out on the ice-bound river surface, exposing the length of the pine branch on the ice surface, and was trimmed to a standard stika, which is so-called 98 centimeters.

The length of the pine branches needs to be accurately numbered, and Rurik finds only the shadow length of the sun at noon.

No one knew what Rurik was doing. Some curious warriors watched for a while, and they evacuated after being bored.

The sun is shining today. It’s this river heading southwest. The Arctic wind can easily wreak havoc on the ice-bound river. Leaving on the river is full of noises. Rurik insists on staying here because it’s noon. About to arrive.

After some advance calculations, Rurik used the Julian calendar to calculate today's solar altitude angle.

In the end, he only needs to get the maximum length of the sun shadow, and all the problems are solved.

Otto never left her son, and Lumia, this girl insisted on standing in the noon sun, letting the cold wind howl.

With his sword, Rurik made a stroke at the largest part of the shadow of the sun, and then hurriedly took out a measuring tape to measure it.

He began to use the ice surface as a draft paper for the calculation, and used the tip of his sword to draw symbols that Otto couldn't understand at all.

"Rurik, what are you doing? Is it a spell for prayer?" Otto Ying asked in surprise.

Lumia basically understood it. She explained for her master: "Big boss, my master is calculating."

"Calculate what?"

"Yes...calculation..." Lumia was not easy to say for a while, because she didn't really believe that the world she was in was on a big ball.

Rurik did some trigonometric calculations, and finally got the precise angle value. Finally, he calculated the latitude of the camp.

Rurik estimated that there must be an error in his calculation, but this error is within an acceptable range.

He inserted the sword back into the leather scabbard enthusiastically and approached his father.

At this moment, the confused Otto had been watching for a long time. His son who loved him couldn't bear to disturb him, and he stood here to show his support.

"Have you got a good result? What are you calculating?" Otto asked.

"Dad, I already understand. Our current position is 65° north latitude."

Otto heard some puzzling vocabulary, and Rurik realized that his father basically couldn't understand what he said.

Otto scratched his beard and continued to ask: "Rurik, you just have to tell me, can we go back to our hometown directly across the ice sea? Have you found the way back?

Rurik nodded deeply: "Found it. We are heading westward. When we reach the new land, we need to walk north for about a day before... we can return to Roseburg."

"Huh? Is this true?" Otto was overjoyed.

Where can Rurik dare to be completely sure, although this is the theory in theory, the latitude of Roseburg is 65°4′, and his current campsite is barely 65°1′. The latitude difference between the two places is very small, but this difference is placed on the ordinate, and the calculation error is eliminated, at least it is more than 20 kilometers on the map.

Rurik is willing to believe in the power of mathematics and in his calculations. He stomped his feet vigorously, and said with certainty: "A little bit to the west and a little bit to the north, we can walk directly back to Roseburg!"

"Okay! I listen to you." Otto drew out the sword directly and pointed to the west: "I have decided. When we conquer the Corvins, we will return along the glacier. Right here, we cross the ice and go home directly ."

Otto immediately began to promote the news that the so-called team can go home all the way west, so that everyone can save a lot of time when they return. At first, everyone was very worried, and instinctively felt that this matter was unreliable.

Since it was Rurik playing the trick that looked like a "sacrificial ritual", many people believed that Rurik had received divine inspiration again.

Then don't worry about anything. Once you have cleaned up the Kewen people, you won't have to make a detour on the road to triumph.

The short daylight passed by, and it can be said that the Ross people stayed in the camp at the mouth of the glacier for more than one day!

The swords and axes of all the warriors were sharpened, they were fed, and their mental condition was restored to their peak. Everyone is fully prepared for the unknown battle, and has even begun to dream of making a fortune.

It was another sunny morning, and the Ross people who were ready to fight finally set off.

Just before departure, Otto suddenly asked Woima Kashad who led the way: "You must know the name of this river."

Evlo translated for Otto and reproduced a special river name "a river with a flood", in short, "Oulu".

So to put it another way The original meaning of the harmony is "Honghe".

"Oulu? Good! An interesting name. Maybe I want to build an Oulu Fort and control it forever."

History has reached a coincidence here, because the Swedish conqueror of another plane called the newly-built fort "Oulu Fort". The conqueror named it in Finnish language, and added a common place name in Northern Europe and Western Europe. suffix.

Woimakashad did not know that the Rus was the leader and asked the exact reason for the name of the river. It seemed that it was purely to prepare for the future battle?

Facing the aggressive Ross army, Woima Kashard, who led the way, was indescribably happy.

Because he yearns for a war, because it is not his own war, but it may give himself a chance to get out.

Woimakashad pointed to the river and threatened that it would take up to two days for the Ross people to gnaw to the so-called "Grey Squirrel Hill Fort" village, where more than 10,000 squirrel furs would become the Ross people's trophy.

It is indisputable that the fighting spirit of the Ross people was thoroughly aroused!