Chapter 566： Covenstad Landing Field

Chapter 566 Covenstad Landing Field

A fishing boat left its home port to start fishing operations this year. A group of extremely bold fishermen have gone straight to the east of Roseburg. They are not chasing the sunrise. They are based solely on their glory as a Ros, and they are spontaneously awaiting expedition. The army takes the lead.

Better to say that is the case, the essential reason is that they want to seize the fishing resources from the Oulu River estuary, and get some big cod ahead of other tribes.

On Roseburg's side, the army is ready.

The warriors dressed in blue patterns and white robes, with their respective weapons, walked on the wooden planks and began to board the ship!

Rurik stood on a high place, witnessing this spectacular scene with enthusiasm. Now he can say, who would dare to question that the Russian army is not the Lord of the North?

The pride was overwhelming. He casually asked John Invar, the "little entourage" standing beside him: "Compared to the Franks, what do you think of our Ross army?"

"Powerful! Very powerful." John Invall hurriedly said.

"Really? I must bring you in this battle, and I will give you a sword and a shield."

Although he was mentally prepared, thinking that he was going to the battlefield, the fear in his heart resolutely surged into his heart. John Invall refused in his heart. After all, he accepted the so-called sacred belief. The priests said that the priests should not be killed, and their hands should not be covered with any blood, even sheep's blood.

"You still hesitate? You have no choice." Rurik shook his head and shut up John Inval who wanted to explain: "Give up your unrealistic fantasy. You are a Danish and not a sheep. I am here. You have finished studying Latin here. If you want to prove that you are still useful, you can fight with us. I don’t beg you to kill an enemy, at least you have to be in the army."

"Yes Yes!"

This conversation can be heard by Fisk.

This courageous young man walked up, grabbed John Invall's neck with one hand, and said to Rurik, "Brother, there should be no cowards in our army. He must kill an enemy to prove himself."

"Alright." Rurik shrugged, "Just give him a crossbow, and you will make him shoot. I changed my mind. Fisk, if this John Invale is timid, you will beat him up afterwards."

Now even Kanuf, who is considered a little weak, has become brave. For the young fighters who thrive under him, Rurik needs to behave better than in the decisive battle in Gotland.

In this era, boys were born to defend the tribe and the country, participating in wars, killings, and occupying a lot of weight in their lives.

The teenagers began to embark on the boat with backpacks, quivers, and water bags full of prefabricated food, and carrying light wooden crossbows.

The elite soldiers carry more weapons and equipment and are heavier. Even some two-wheeled trolleys are being **** by ropes and pulled to the deck by the people on the ship before being transported to the warehouse.

The Russian army is no longer a typical Viking pirate force that comes and goes. They have more sophisticated weapons and equipment, and their ships are extremely cutting-edge. For this reason, they also sacrifice a lot of military efficiency.

However, under the arrangement of Rurik, such a Russian army will reserve more logistics materials and heavy weapons for any battle. They have war toughness far surpassing other Vikings and have the ability to fight tough battles.

Of course, the comparison is also limited to the internal comparisons of various Viking forces. Compared with the Franks, the current Russ are probably weaker than the Frankish kingdom only in the limit of assembled forces.

A fleet that will be faster in the Gulf of Bothnia is formed.

Aphrora, Spellos, Gurdot, Duke of Ostara and Balmerk (Bijonni is simply named after his tribe), five sailing cruisers.

Mercury, Venus, Mona, Mars, four sail destroyers.

There is no problem with a cruiser carrying two hundred soldiers, and it is normal for a destroyer to carry one hundred soldiers.

Considering practical reasons, there are still ten transformed armed cargo ships that carry people and cargo.

Because this battle is no longer a simple crusade against the invading Tavastias, Rurik discussed with the elites and came to a very simple conclusion that the Rus Principality does not yet have the power to swallow the Tavastias. ability. Of course, this self-seeking force must be conquered, but it is not difficult to accomplish now, or even within a few years.

In order to avoid further provocations by the enemy, the Rus must build a permanent fortress at the mouth of the Oulu River. The Kovin forces in the Oulu River Basin have actually collapsed, and there is no need for any entrusted rule. This area will be directly occupied by the Rus and colonized. For this reason, it is very important to transform the summer fishing village on the island into a cement-reinforced wooden fortress.

The warm south wind swept away the cold, and the Ross Navy was dispatched!

The mighty army uses the technical advantages of its huge spinnaker to use the power of the south wind to achieve the highest sailing efficiency that this type of sailboat can have, even if the ship is full of people.

From Roseburg Fjord (actually present-day Luleå) to the island at the mouth of the Oulu River (actually present-day Luotto Island), the straight-line distance is only 140 kilometers.

The Ross fleet once reached an astonishing speed of twelve knots and maintained an average speed of eight knots overall.

They set off in the morning, and when the sun was almost setting that day, taking advantage of the last afterglow, the Ross fleet gathered in the natural cove of this island.

The cargo ship transporting timber stopped on the island to reconcile with the fishermen who had arrived earlier.

A fortress will be built on the island, but the Russian army will disembark at the mouth of the river.

Arik, who had already received the news, had lit a lot of bonfires on the coast, and a dazzling string of flames marked the best landing place at sunset!

Although landing at night is a lot of trouble, the hydrological conditions at the mouth of the Oulu River have helped the Ross people a lot.

The water level here is always less than two meters deep, the seabed is full of fine sand and rocks, and there is no ship-damaging reef. When the night is flooded, although the Ross people’s landing activities dragged on until night fell, the anchored ships stopped near the sea. Except for some heavy equipment and materials that were still thrown on the ship, the personnel were all landing on the water.

Rurik dragged his wet leather boots towards a bonfire nearby, and took off his boots skillfully until he was about to burn.

A pair of big hands suddenly picked him up from behind.

"Hey! What's the matter?!"

"Brother, you can count as coming!" Arik hugged his brother three times before he was about to put it down.

The light of the bonfire shone on Arik’s face, seeing his cousin again after more than a month, "You... have become old."

"Really?" Arik touched his bearded face and smiled.

"Your tone is a bit smelly..."

"It's impossible, these days we have eaten too much raw meat, and we drink wolf blood. Now that the ice and snow melt, brothers have a chance to eat fish..." Arik couldn't help but sigh with emotion as he watched the army assembled under the night.

"Rurik."

"Ok."

"You brought too many troops."

"Is it too much? Two thousand people are a lot?"

"It's actually two thousand people?!" Hearing it, Arik slowly laughed, and soon his group of scouts, who were sleeping and eating, clutched their chests and laughed.

"why are you laughing."

"Haha, I am laughing at those stupid enemies who never imagined that they would be annihilated by such a large army. We will win quickly."

Although Rurik was struggling, he still had to listen carefully to his brother's detailed introduction of the enemy's situation.

Looking at the vast number of soldiers, they lit new bonfires one after another when they got off the boat. Often seven or eight people gathered together to grill the fish caught last night or cook wheat in a pottery urn.

There are even five large iron pots sandwiched between a simple stone stove, but it takes a while to eat the wheat cooked in this pot.

Regardless of whether the food was lost or not, many people ate fish wholeheartedly and fell asleep wrapped in leather blankets.

Rurik’s elite mercenaries set up burlap tents for their golden lord after dinner.

The offshore camp of the Russian Army is under construction. The dense bonfires here echo the stars, and the pirates not far away also light up a large number of bonfires.

The Ross army has landed, and the Tavastians have not been able to know the matter for the first time.

Arik told the truth about what happened to his brother during this period. The brave Ross scouts had lost a lot of energy. In the face of the swarming enemy reinforcements, Arik's actions became more and more conservative.

The Tavastia realized that the opponent was weak and began to "push and fight." Although they still suffered from bows and arrows, they did not shoot or capture an enemy because of their closeness. At least the Ross people were driven to the sea.

Tavastia hunters have already discovered that the sea is thawing, and new ships have arrived at the island not far away. This group of forest hunters saw the ocean for almost the first time. The endless waters aroused their fear, and their courage to continue chasing disappeared.

There are fifty tired brothers under Arik, and the arrow is ultimately the loss. Every time the ice disappears and the snow melts, only these tired people take the initiative to attack. As the commander Arik takes the lead and doesn't want to do this.

The two warring parties reached a very subtle tacit understanding, and both maintained a certain degree of restraint, so that an area near the Oulu River into the sea suddenly disappeared from human activities.

With a new understanding of the enemy, Rurik made new arrangements in his mind.

Can the snow in Finland speak?

Those Tavastias are obviously the foundation of the Finnish nation after a millennium. If these people realize that they can use the geographical advantages of the mountains and forests to carry out military operations, will the Russian army suffer?

Rurik was really not in the mood to fight guerrilla with them, presumably the other party didn't have any ideas in this regard. It's best to take some means to induce their main force to engage in a decisive battle with themselves, but the enemy will easily act according to their own ideas?

He didn't dare to think that the enemy was too stupid. The army is here, and there must be a clear main direction of attack.

This main attack direction couldn't be more clear-the old gray squirrel hill fort.

On a new day, the unfinished landing operations of the Rus people continue, and the construction of the camp at the mouth of the sea has also been stepped up.

With the experience of building a fortress in Gotland, the civil engineering of the Russ has become somewhat structured. More than a thousand people joined hands to cut logs. A large number of pine trees were inserted in the dug soft soil pit to form wooden pillars. Relying on these wooden pillars, a group of wooden sheds are suggested to start construction.

In Rurik’s plan, the wooden fort on the island is the last fortress of the Rus, and this land-based camp will be operated for a long time.

The military camp currently under construction and the island fortress under construction will exist as a brand-new settlement for the Russ. Its name is simple and conventional-kwenstadt (Kwenstad).

If this is a large settlement, it will naturally have the suffix of burg. After all, she can only be a small fishing village. No Rossi would think that this will develop beyond the glory of Roseburg.

Covenstad, originally describing the summer camp for fishermen on Hailuoto Island, has become the official name of the new settlement.

Rurik was not so stupid that he immediately moved into the old gray squirrel hill fort just after landing. Out of a cautious and stubborn sense of security, Rurik asked the army to at least move all the materials down, and then the most basic of the camp. The defensive measures have been built, and the attack will be discussed later.

In the two days after landing, the Ross people were busy building camps. Preliminary wooden walls are being spliced ​​and constructed, and people with shovel digging for reinforcement. Some people are already mixing the small amount of cement and river sand that they have brought, intending to use them to reinforce the key parts of the camp.

They were not simply "building houses." A group of sentries carrying crossbows were arranged to lie in an ambush in areas far away from the camp. They were ordered by Liurik to monitor and guard against possible sneak attacks by the enemy while also grabbing their tongues.

"Tongue" unsolicited!

No trace of the opponent was found for many days, and some daring Tavastia hunters tentatively touched the coast. Some hunters were shocked to see a large number of ships moored in the distant sea, and some of the ships were like mountains floating on the sea!

The hunter hurried to the east, only to inform the boss of the shocking news as soon as possible.

In this process, someone was shot and even captured alive by the ambushing Rose sentinel.

Five unlucky Tavastia hunters were beaten up first, and finally dragged to the camp under construction with blood on their faces.

It was at this stall that Rurik and all the flag captains, centurions, and even Balmerk's allies made a clear strategic plan for conquering the invaders.

The plan is based entirely on the comprehensive information obtained by Arik and his team for more than a month. Rurik made exactly the same judgment as everyone else, that is, the intruder can stay here for a long time, relying on the legacy of the Kewen people. Mountain fort.

The fire and the poisoning of the soldiers made the Old Salmon Lord Hill fort also lack the interest of the invaders.

The Tavastiya invaders built a stronghold based on the well-prepared old gray squirrel hill fort As long as this stronghold is removed, the enemy may escape into the forest for a short time without fleeing, but there is no stronghold. After all, they all left.

Perhaps the two sides can find an open area outside the mountain fort for a decisive battle, but the river has thawed. Where is there any open field in this river area for the two armies to set up a decisive battle?

Then don't think about the decisive battle, the army will go straight to Huanglong this time to completely demolish the old gray squirrel hill fort! As for fighting a siege, compared to the expedition three years ago, this time Rurik was really prepared.

Those two-wheeled carts are not simply pulling bundles of arrows, grain, and dried salted fish; their primary task is to serve as a vehicle for heavy weapons.

The torsion slingshot and the bull trebuchet are tied with twine on a two-wheeled cart, and they have simply become a mobile weapon. With ten torsion slingshots and ten catapults, combined with a strong bow crossbow, there is no chance for the opponent to win.

Some centurions were actually veterans of the year, and everyone talked about it when they mentioned that enlistment.

What's even more amazing is that the former owner of the Grey Squirrel Castle was in the Rus army. Mechasta and his people sounded of attacking the Tavastians, but they were happily fighting for Rus. After learning that the key to victory in the war was to destroy the Grey Squirrel Hill Fort, the old owners of these fortresses did not hesitate to specify the attack plan.

Destroying your old house is still the same happy thing? Things are different. Mechasta and the people live in the new home of Elronburg very comfortable. The homeland is gone. The old village is demolished and the Tavastia people are beaten. The Corvin people want to be driven away for their ancestors. Revenge for the pursuit of murder.

Now, the five "tongues" have been escorted over shortly after the military conference, and the situation has undergone some favorable changes.

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