Chapter 434： The Rus are preparing for battle

The ritual is over, and the night time will gradually increase in the days to come, but the climate will get warmer and warmer instead.

This warmest gathering, the Gulf of Bothnia, which was once frozen several meters, now the sea is no longer bitterly cold and has become a good place for swimming.

It’s just that this year’s situation is too tense. After the sacrifice, the Rus have three full weeks to prepare for war. The time is not long or short. No one is willing to play and recuperate. The entire tribe has taken action and has become a full force. Of the machine.

Although the tribe was upgraded to a duchy, it was only a nominal upgrade, and even outside the sphere of influence of Sweden, neighboring kingdoms such as the Frankish forces and Britain were not recognized at all.

Because she is still a tribe.

Rurik knew he needed to build at least a more effective management system, that is, some kind of "supervisory system", so that thousands of people in Ross could operate in coordination with each other.

However, how to achieve mechanical precision in reality, Rurik issued a mobilization order to the tribesmen and received a warm welcome. When the resolutions really started to be implemented, he had to issue a large number of general orders.

Of course, even if it is a general order, as long as the clansmen do it, even if the efficiency of the work is not high enough, the organization and mobilization shown by it are much higher than that of Ross's allies.

Even the large population of the Mellaren tribe can't fully organize the entire tribe's population to do things. The Ross people have done it like never before.

In the name of "Duke of Ross", Rurik appointed some people as subordinate organizers of production.

For example, Fisk’s mother, this woman got the official endorsement of Rurik. She was in charge of most of the married women in the tribe, engaged in important tailoring work, and provided new clothes to a large number of Ross fighters by hand. And repairs to old clothes. They are rushing to accept the task assigned by Rurik, because this is not only to support the tribe's campaign, but also to allow them to quickly obtain tangible benefits.

The women tailored linen and leather, repaired their husbands' leather armor, lock armor, and shields, pushed large pottery urns to the sea to boil salt, and smoked and dried wood-like smoked fish on a large scale in the smoky long house.

Harrodsson, who is often forced to remain in his hometown when he is old, is doing similar work, but this person is also a man who has experienced many battles and is a natural candidate for military commander-in-chief. He should lead a Ross army and integrate it into a larger army. He manages as many as 500 soldiers. The task given to him by Rurik is to train the army in accordance with the traditional set. Every day he has to spare time to log and mine in the mountains, and he has to take time to do it. Heavy fishing operations. They are the strongest labor force of the tribe, and they are also the strongest combat power. Naturally, they have to undertake the most onerous labor, and their physical fitness gradually becomes stronger during labor. As the so-called mining workers, since ancient times, it has been easier for them to prepare and train into a strong army.

There are also a group of older men, who can actually fight with an axe. After all, time is not forgiving, they really want to put on the old armor, and finally died on the battlefield altogether, but their weak body can no longer withstand the wind and waves of the sea and the battle after landing. Their participation in the war is equivalent to adding burden to the Russian army, and in their hometown, they can still provide their own support.

Older people are arranged by Lurik for handyman duties, such as fishing in the sea, mixing clay, processing wood and arrow shafts for spears, and so on.

They can do these low-physical work, and the children who have been raised by Liulik for more than two years can not only do it, but they are also more organized and disciplined.

Rurik knows very well that if his young men grow up, they are the best talents to use.

The children work together to complete the work of the adults. They use two-person sawing and logging, swinging axe to hit stones that are hot and splashing seawater, and rely on new technology of thermal expansion and contraction to quickly dig iron ore. They also carried the suggested fishing rod to board the fishing boat, and squatted on the ground with a knife to cut the special arrow shaft for crossbow arrows.

The mercenaries of Rurik, in peacetime, when they are not practicing, they show themselves as fishermen and loggers, but more than 90% of the profits from their labor are taken away by Rurik. Now they have resumed their old professions. In addition to continuing to work as fishermen and loggers, they are also divided into groups and rotated to help in the blacksmith's shop.

Who is the real berserker? Just select the strong man to wear the scale armor with huge armor, even if he is a Ruth-style berserker?

Of course they must be strong, and they must have an unwavering belief in Rose's victory.

They must be people Rurik can trust.

The first batch of mercenaries have been accepted by Otto as Russ. After a ritual, they became the “lack of blood” Rus fighters. They can only get commissions from the leader's family, and all the expenses for food and drink come from the gold master, and they must be attached to the gold master. This part of the mercenaries received very interesting supplies from the owner.

Who will be an armored berserker? First of all, the first batch of mercenaries have all the requirements. Then the mercenaries go to the smithy to help them. Isn't it the same as making armor for themselves?

In the combat readiness plan issued by Rurik, all the projects are for combat readiness. The work of processing amber, glass beads and making silver jewelry has been completely suspended. Making storage-resistant food, weapons, and ships for good deeds has become the three most important tasks.

In fact, there is a high degree of commonality in this, that is, the large-scale wood is required.

Fortunately, in the area near Roseburg, the huge trees for shipbuilding have long been cut down, and the remaining small trees are not easy to build ships, but they are good materials for repairs.

The best wood comes from the north of the bay. Of course Elronburg can provide a large amount of pine wood of amazing length, but to transport the wood back, the Ross people need the sea to freeze into an icy road.

To make charcoal blocks, only ordinary wood is needed. No, a batch of new charcoal kilns were quickly built, and even the wooden slats were covered with soil and smoldered in the open air.

Time has quietly entered into July, and the entire Roseburg is immersed in smoke all day long.

Men and women, a large number of laborers wantonly felling the trees around Roseburg, together with the woods where Rurik intended to train the little soldiers, were soon cut down by these little soldiers into bare flat ground.

The vegetation of Roseburg puts a steady stream of energy into this "war machine" in operation. Lurik doesn't worry about the destruction of vegetation at all, because the most indispensable thing in the world is wood! On the contrary, it is a large-scale logging, and it is also the way for the Rus people to ask the mountains and rivers for living space.

Rurik's order was by no means only applied to Roseburg.

Some ships went straight to Fort Elon in the north, and when they returned, they brought back another fifty people.

Including the appointed current city lord of Elronburg, Mezzasta from Corvin, who is very young and strong, and this time he passively responded to Rurik's call with weapons. The mature man of Cowen's steel squirrel, so he completely joined the army. In addition, all the Ross fishermen who settled in the north also responded to the assembly order issued by the leader.

A long boat broke into the Oulu River valley in the eastern part of the bay, and the messenger handed the conscription order to Rigus of the Salmon Lord tribe. The old guy was helpless. He had no intention of fighting any Gotlanders, he just wanted to continue living his ordinary life after paying the tribute.

He really had no choice, so he personally took a hundred soldiers and fought side by side with the Ruths again. Soon some long ships docked at the mouth of the Oulu River and took away the conscripted warriors of the Salmon Lord tribe with short wooden bows and bone spears in their hands. When they first arrived at Roseburg, the first One thing is to change weapons and equipment. They replaced the spearhead made of iron, the wooden crossbow transformed from the short wooden bow, and a large number of iron cluster arrows, and their combat power instantly increased.

Rurik did not expect to conquer all the Corvin tribes. Although all these people surrendered, the Rus actually conquered the gray squirrel and the Salmon Lord tribes, as well as three other tribes. The Battle of the Ice River. They were hacked and killed seven or eight hundred people. They had their spine broken long ago. It might be far-fetched to use the fighting power of those guys.

The times have changed. Due to the geographical barrier, the two feuding Kewen tribes have completely eliminated the current feuds because they have no direct interest. After all, the Salmon Lord tribe has essentially completely monopolized the salmon fishing industry in the Oulu River, and their food has been unprecedentedly guaranteed. As for the population lost in the previous war, it would be enough to trouble the surviving women of the tribe to give birth to a large number of women. A large number of newborn children are already learning words.

Just in July, an unexpected but reasonable rain fell on the entire Baltic Sea area, and there was even a mudslide in the area where Roseburg is located! The black mud squirted out of the mountains with branches and rocks, and finally broke into the fjord.

Fortunately, no one is stupid enough to go mining in the mountains in heavy rain, but the Ross people have also suffered some losses.

It was some poorly structured houses that collapsed due to rain, and some people were accidentally killed. This kind of death was attributed to the fate of the deceased. The deceased was buried hastily, and the vast number of Rus people were still preparing for war despite the rain.

Summer rains come and go quickly, and this rain has also brought very negative effects to some areas.

Some wheat that is about to head has fallen over!

The place where the incident occurred was on Gotland. Perhaps the local area was not suitable for growing wheat. The fishermen forcibly opened up some barren land and sowed them crudely. They did not expect the land to be highly productive, or for them, the wheat produced on the island was An addition to life.

The southern island of Öland, which is like a cucumber, and Borgholm in the middle of the island, has become a gathering place for the Swedish army.

The war was suspended, and the main Swedish army was repaired here.

King Olegin immediately set up a stone boat altar on the island, so-called on-site worship of the sun on the summer solstice.

The Saxons of Borgholm have never forgotten the beliefs of their ancestors. On the day of the summer solstice, when the sky entered a short period of gloom (Eland was already outside the polar day zone), the Saxons held high torches coated with pine resin and seal oil, and danced in circles around their "sacred wood totem". , The Saxon priestess also tore her hoarse throat and entered a strange state of madness.

Olekin really couldn't understand such a custom, and he didn't want to interfere with a group of Saxons who were newly promoted to work under his account, just as the Saxons did not care about the sacrifice activities of the northerners. Both sides spent the summer solstice each playing their own games, but it still needs a process to repair the army and digest and absorb the spoils. Especially at the moment when a large amount of wealth is seized, human inertia is really getting stronger and stronger. The brave soldiers hope to rest for a longer time.

As the rain hit in early July, a sickness spread quietly among the Swedish army stranded in the south.

Although this disease is not a huge crisis, it has caused many people to have diarrhea and collapse. Some soldiers are struggling to death. In essence, they just ate the seized fish jerky. They didn't know that many jerky had been placed for too long, and they were slightly corrupted due to improper storage.

People in the north dare to eat shark liver that tastes amazing, and even if the fish caught smells bad, they dare not eat it. But they didn't realize that many of the seized dried fish that they eat today are contaminated with botulinum toxin. Although the measurement is small, there are more and more people making trouble. How did Olekin know how his army was hit by such a disaster? He was very speechless with anger.

When the sun reappeared, the wet ground began to dry quickly. He had to make a sacrifice on the spot, randomly select a person from the captives, and sacrifice the great **** Odin with blood in order to end the disease.

He felt that the blood sacrifice had results, and there would be fewer and fewer stomach troubles in the army in the days to come.

This incident caused a lot of trouble to the Swedish army in the south, and it really disrupted Olekin's rhythm of war. Although the attack on the southern Silver Fort to **** the legendary "Silver Mountain" must continue, he is still a man of many soldiers. Although he encounters a little resistance, he is only a fast-crossing obstacle in the great victory that is destined to be won. .

At least the rainfall has very little impact on the Mälaren and other tribes in the lake area. The local wheat has not fallen down, and the rain has infiltrated the earth. After the rain, the sunny world is even warmer. It unexpectedly has an impact on the food production in the Mälaren lake area. Help! This meaningful main force greatly delighted Gould, who personally went to the Lake District to recruit troops by boat!

The negative impact of the rain on the preparations of the Rus tribe quickly dissipated, and production quickly returned to normal.

It is already the fifth day of July in the Julian calendar. In the past seven days, despite the influence of rainfall, Roseburg has produced a number of considerable equipment.

Two hundred spearheads of average quality were made, and the matching wooden poles about three meters long were also cut, and the spears were left with the final bonding and binding work.

Gohu blacksmith also completed the production of fifteen pairs of "fish scale armor" ~ www.novelhall.com~ When a strong man put on his armor, Rurik only felt that this man was like an ancient armored fish. It really doesn't have the beauty of fish scales. Obviously, a large number of large armor pieces are hung on the chain mail.

However, the armor was wrapped in very thin silver, and it was a little whitish overall, which also made the armored warrior show an extremely eye-catching posture.

The torso of the strong man has been firmly protected, and it is precisely the strong man who has the ability to carry such a heavy armor. The so-called armor makers, the blacksmiths discussed it, and they added the shoulder and crotch designs with additional bends.

So with such a strong "silver scale breastplate", does the Berserker still need a shield for defense? Rurik felt that the strong man in front of him only needed two axes to break into the enemy line and cause great chaos.

A large amount of war materials can be provided in Roseburg, and most of the soldiers who are in urgent need of expedition are also gathered here.

It seems that Rurik only needs to supervise the production, maintenance, and verification of various materials, and that is to supervise the soldiers' pre-war drills.

But he still needs to wait for Gould's return.