Chapter 407： The huge fleet rushes towards the Kalmar Strait

Some young children stand on the beach, and what they see before them is a scorched scene.

They are all Rurik's entourages and servants. Maybe they still have a little beautiful imagination about war. What they see and hear now makes everyone realistic and nervous in an instant.

Kanuf and Fisk, the two aspiring to become the future stars of the Duchy of Ross. For this purpose, they must visit the battlefield to make achievements at a very young age.

Young Fisk, he has always carried the sword of his dead father, vowing to avenge his father against the Gotland.

Are the Gotland people a group of hateful and wicked people? Some girls were transported to the Aphrodite, and each of them in ragged clothes was nearly broken. They are all Gotland women, do you want revenge on these people? He even these girls who are almost the same age as him are very pitiful, he wants to appease them, but also wants to possess them.

Yes, Fisker already has a pair of twin sisters. According to tradition, they are married from one to twelve years old. However, there are no rules that limit the number of men’s wives. Fisker desires more.

On the beach, he saw many scorched objects with strange shapes. After careful screening, he was shocked to find that the corpses of the enemy's deceased were stacked on top of each other. They continue to burn, and it takes a long process to turn them into powder.

The Ross people selected a small area on the beach, tents were set up, and most of the soldiers boarded the long-lost land.

They ate wheat and ate mutton, and even the captive slaves also ate cooked wheat.

The Ross soldiers who landed talked and laughed. They didn't think it was terrifying about the skyrocketing fire and the large number of corpses. After all, most of the people selected are veterans who have experienced many battles, and many of them are madmen who have participated in the war against the scientific people.

Most of the javelins that were thrown out by the torsion slingshot were recovered. Rurik counted them. The fleet shot out eleven, and now ten are recovered. Such a weak battle loss is really gratifying!

What made him more gratified was the huge arrow-like javelins, and their overall structure was not damaged. It can be seen that as long as the arrows are recovered, most of the long-range ammunition in the belly of the Aphrodite can be reused.

However, Lulik clearly saw an enemy being pierced and assassinated, but he couldn't find this lucky arrow. When I wanted to come, the arrows were pierced in the enemy's body. The Mellaren people who were cleaning the war carried them and threw them into the fire. Even the arrows with the people were turned into ashes.

He didn't take it to heart, but this long arrow of Stika was in Karl's hand.

At noon, in the tent of the Mellaren army.

Carl rushed in aggressively with a strange arrow, and presented it to his father: "Dad, this is the weapon of the Ross people. It is powerful. I think a lot..."

"You should call me the king!" Olekin, who was holding the lamb bone and sucking the delicious marrow, gave his son a white look.

"Look at this arrow! It pierced the enemy's chain mail and pierced the body."

"I know this." Olekin still didn't care.

"Wang! Do you really think it doesn't matter? They actually have such ferocious weapons."

"You mean the Ross people? So what?"

"You..." Carl gritted his teeth and said viciously: "Yeah, what about it. We don't have it. If the Ruths attack us, our soldiers will die."

"You! You...you shut up!" Olekin threw the lamb bones directly, and stood up while patting his thighs: "This is the time of war, and you actually said such a jerk. What is your intention? Ah! Are you? ……you think……"

Carl shook his head and raised his head: "All the tribes belong to them. They are rebellious. No one really believes that the Rus are weak. This extremely long sword is proof."

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"King, I don't like them. They pretend to be polite, but they are actually bastards. As long as they don't really surrender, our power is threatened. Our threat is never Gotland or Danish, the biggest The threat is them."

It seemed that this mad man became wiser overnight. As soon as he said this, Olekin was speechless.

Yes, Origen never thought about the possibility of backstabs. Should Carl's words be considered? Origen’s answer was rejection.

This refusal made Carl anxious. He paced and rudely approached his father: "We have killed more than a hundred brothers in this battle! My soldiers were almost wiped out. They are all our Mellaren's brothers. We just attacked a small fishing village and so many people died. If we attacked ten more, wouldn't it be that the Mellaren army was greatly injured? The other tribes of Feila were unbearable, and only this Rus tribe was conserving its strength. If we lose too much, how can we maintain our power?"

Carl's emotional roar was mixed with many key details, but the stubborn Origen didn't believe it at all.

Carl is brave and even mad, but he is not a brave man. Ever since he was humiliated by Arik in the fight, he hated the Ross people, even if it was out of personal grievances, he still wanted to suppress the Ross people, besides, now only the stubborn old guys ignore the rise of the Ross people.

What makes Carl resent today is that he observes the landing Ross soldiers, but their brows exude a different kind of temperament! They are not like the Merlaren army or a team of farmers and fishermen from other tribes. Their eyes are full of thirst for wealth and a trace of doubt about fighting.

This group of people wearing chain mail even extravagantly used obvious iron pieces to strengthen their defenses on their chests and crotch. Their armor was of the same level as those of the Danish warriors who were killed, and all they stared at were murderous eyes.

They drew their swords occasionally, and to Carl's shock, the colors of the swords were all bright and white. It's not a secret that the Ross people manufacture and sell "hard swords". Who would have thought that they could equip them on a large scale. Even the short spear they were holding, the so-called spearhead was simply a "short and hard sword" stuck in a wooden stick.

It's not over yet. Carl noticed that there were a group of clean and elegant girls among the landers, and they must be another ethnic group in terms of hair color.

There are also a group of short men with brownish-yellow-black hair. Although they are wearing leather armor, they carry wooden bows that are almost the same height as them.

The last time Karl saw the real Ross army, he was a kid. More than ten years have passed, and the Russ army seen today has refreshed all his knowledge.

He had to make sure that Arik was a brave warrior, and he had to believe that the child Rurik didn't care about the rumors. This child did have a lot of excellence.

Otto said that the old Piff might die of illness after a few years. By then, Rürik must become the Duke of Ross.

A young and wise new duke, a fierce war chief, a murderous army, and even the maids were trained to be polite. Isn't this a threat? . They can say that they have no intention of coveting power, but if they do, they really have the strength to fight for it.

Carl, he really hopes that Ross's fleet will be wiped out in this war, and everyone on the ship will be killed. Isn't that the biggest internal threat to him after he becomes the king?

No matter what he consciously said is reasonable, his father Olegin's attitude is as firm as a rock, so angry that Karl subconsciously clenched his sword hilt and cursed secretly: "You'd better die too, you'd better die on the battlefield, and then I The place is king."

Perhaps only careerists can have a clear insight into who the competitors are and their possible ambitions.

Didn’t the actions of the Ross people deliberately preserve their strength in the war?

The meeting by the bonfire Karl himself did not know a lot of inside information, especially the political transaction between Otto and Olekin in Lamb Leg Island before, and he also didn't know much inside information.

A new day has arrived.

The fog in the bay rose and dissipated very quickly. The warriors of various tribes who had regained their energy took their shelters one after another and pushed all the boats into the sea. In this battle, the tribes gained very little spoils, and only the Mellaren people gained a lot.

A small fleet took the lead to leave Blow Bay. They were two long rowing boats and a fleet that towed as many as twenty seized fishing boats pulling the spoils. A group of wounded also stayed on board, this is Mei Laren's fleet. Followed by an armed cargo ship of the Ross people, the sheep, slaves, and other useful things will be transported first to Gould Island in Lake Mälaren.

Everyone understands this leaving fleet, they are carrying the burden away, and the rest are more determined to fight.

But Karl didn't think so. It was reasonable for his people to leave with the spoils and wounded. Why did the Rus follow? They have one less ship, which is a manifestation of their retreat to preserve their strength.

As the highest commander of the army, King of Sweden, Olekin's mind is to continue to expand the results of the battle. He selectively ignored his son Carl’s obvious hostility towards Rose’s allies. After all, the top priority now is to continue fighting. What makes him more troubled is that he did not plan in advance for the next battle, and it is impossible to have a detailed plan. Because of the conditions in the southern waters, including the targeted Danish settlement Kalmar, he was hearsay.

In such an unclear situation of the enemy, without this mighty coalition force, Olekin would never have dared to launch such a war.

After everyone had a big meal on the shore, the various armies boarded their ships, and the dukes drove away from the bay noisily after counting their ships.

They left Buluo Bay completely in the afternoon, and then all the ships corrected their lines. They began to have a coastline that was almost purely north-south, heading south against the southwest wind.

At this moment, Olikin can proudly say that his Swedish army is already involved in a brand-new field, Sweden's sphere of influence has increased, and the next battle may break out at any time.

Olekin never felt that the losses in the previous battle were really great. Look, the ships of the Mellaren Army are everywhere on the sea, and the sight of collective paddles is truly spectacular.

He didn't want to look behind him, just because the five Ross ships were walking along the broken line, relying on pure wind to retrograde, and the speed was still no different from his own army.

Olekin gave his allies a new opportunity, but those fleets were still haggling. Now that the next battle that had been made was for them to attack, he simply deliberately slowed down the fleet to give the rear personnel time to catch up.

The Mellaren army actually stopped and went, and the Ross people simply didn't pull their sails and used speed limits to accommodate the entire army.

In the captain's lounge of the Aphrora, Otto was dressed in armor, and he was ready to go into battle immediately.

Rurik, along with his Carlotta, Fisk, Kanuf, and Telavis all sat in the cabin. Like the maids, they were all ordered to stay in the bottom cabin because they were non-combatants.

On the side of the ship, the deck was full of warriors holding bows and crossbows, so that when a naval battle suddenly broke out, only a single round of Aphrora would be able to strike the enemy with fifty arrows condescendingly. This has not yet been counted as the conical "armor piercing projectile" made by the cast iron of the torsion slingshot against the ship. Now the warrior is ready on the bow deck above Rurik’s head.

The long voyage is really boring, Otto is a little worried, he has never been to this sea in his life.

Ten years ago, his Sorgon fleet yaw due to sea fog, and the fleet actually skewed to the small island northeast of Gotland, which is the Gotland Sands. The island is a huge piece of granite in a sense, because of countless years of wind erosion and flooding, there is a lot of sand on the island. Otto led his team to a perfect ambush in the Gotland, but he lost his only brother.

He is really unfamiliar with this sea area, but there are young veterans in the Ross army who attacked Gotland three years ago.

It can be said that there is no shortage of navigators in the entire fleet.

In fact, Rurik is the greatest navigator, only because he can describe the geography of the entire Baltic world extremely accurately, especially knowing the situation of the next battlefield.

The captain’s lounge on the bow contains a huge secret. The porthole (which also takes into account the shooting holes of the bow and crossbow) shines the light in, and Lurik uses the tip of a knife to draw a map on a slightly whitish pine board.

He introduced a magical world to Otto.

Everyone knows that Scandinavia’s coast is complex and changeable. The shallow sea area near the sea is huge, and there are lush islands and sandbanks everywhere. In order to avoid stranding, the entire fleet is a little farther away. Sailing in the sea.

Rurik’s map does not show tens of thousands of islands, including bays of all sizes.

He specifically marked two extremely critical existences, namely Gotland and Öland.

Rurik directly pointed out an extremely rare peculiarity of the next battle: "Dad, what awaits us is no longer the open sea. Although you have never seen the island of Öland or even know its clear existence, I know it."

As soon as Otto wanted to ask if this matter was also an oracle, he shut up when he saw that his son was still introducing him. And Carlotta? She felt that Rurik was a god, because he could perceive the unknown world.

As an old guy on the sea, Otto has a strong spatial orientation. He has accepted Rurik’s method of drawing the map "up to north and lower south", and this time he quickly understood Rurik’s description. .

"The island of Öland is just southwest of Gotland. It is like a long wall and has become a natural barrier for the enemy. The Danes and Gotland must have established many strongholds on the coast, and there must be roads. The inhabitants of the Gotaland also settled here, and they rely on the island of Öland to be protected as a wall in the open sea. In this way, the extremely narrow and narrow sea area between the land and the island is our future battlefield."

Rurik’s description is indeed a truth. The sea area is the so-called Kalmar Strait, which is only three kilometers at its narrowest point.

With that said, Rurik settled, raised his head and stared at his dignified father, and then said coldly: "Dad, we will soon enter this extremely narrow sea. Our coalition fleet is very large. Once it breaks out. In naval battles, it is difficult for us to have a chance to turn around. Because if we turn around, let alone chaos in the team, we are likely to be backstabbed by the Gotland army. Since we have chosen war, we must go all the way south. This is a cramp. The battlefield is like crossing a single-plank bridge. In my opinion, the brave wins when meeting on a narrow road."

"You..." Otto, who was already frightened, finally said: "Do you really believe that a naval battle will happen?"

"At least we have to be prepared."

"This is an oracle, maybe it shouldn't be a secret exclusive to our Rus people. You should tell Olekin that the Mellaren army who has gone mad should not rush too fast."

Liurik shook his head: "This is the war they chose. We are only participating in the war to fulfill the obligations of the alliance. The losses they suffer are good for us, and I don't think the enemy's ships are really a huge threat to our ships."

Otto thought for a while, and felt that the same was true. "No one knows the battlefield better than you. Rurik, you are still the commander of the entire team. Do whatever you want."

Rurik nodded: "Then let everyone stay vigilant. Everyone is a weapon. Our ultimate goal is to attack the Danish Kalmar. Before that, Olekin will definitely attack the towns along the way. Maybe tomorrow we The first target is to be attacked, and a naval battle is likely to break out. Even if there is no naval battle, there will be fleeing enemies rushing toward the south."

"What will happen?"

Rurik pointed directly at a location on the map, that is, the lower left corner of the board, the part where the lines protrude, that is, Jutland Peninsula, and several key islands around it, and even the lower part of Scandinavia. The fate part, "This is the core of the Danes, dad, you see, it is not difficult for them to reinforce Kalmar. We may encounter the Danish army at sea! It is not just an attack on Kalmar~www. novelhall.com~Okay! Attack the Danes!" Otto is not nervous at all, he has even geared up!

His father's actions fully proved that his courage had not diminished. In fact, Rurik was extremely confident in the Aphrodite and only worried about other cargo ships. But for friendly ships, that is pure worry.

Rurik put the plank down and put it down and said in summary: "We are about to enter the Kalmar Strait, and the looting is about to begin. I hope Olekin will take it when he sees it. That guy is eager for honor. Will he forget after he has won a huge victory? How about his own weight? Is he ready to fight the Danes?"

"I don't think he can do it." Otto shook his head with a sullen mouth.

"Yeah!" Rurik shrugged. "So, our safe retreat is the most important if we are in the most serious situation. I don't care about the life and death of Olegin and Karl, they are just Mellaren anyway. The spokespersons selected by the big family, they are dead, and the big family can still choose a new king, and our business does not go wrong."

Hearing this, Otto's tense spirit finally relaxed. He subconsciously reached out and rubbed Rurik's small face, and smiled: "Good boy, I didn't think you were vicious, but I like it. Just do it and prepare to fight. !"