Chapter 567： Encounter under the night

Chapter 567 The Encounter Under The Night

The five Tavastia captives were escorted to the big tent of Lurik. Compared with being captured and the unknown fate, the captives are now shocked by the huge camp of the Riros and the large number of ships, and then this fear transcends Death itself.

Lurik had no intention of hiding his identity, considering the language commonality between the Tavastia and the Corvin, so he showed his identity in front of the captives.

"You Tavastias, invaded my territory and killed my servants. Now, we Rose are here for revenge. I! It's Rose's... the leader."

Originally, Rurik wanted to say that he was a duke, but his opponent didn't understand this vocabulary and gave up.

Mechasta, the Corvin, has only unstoppable anger towards these enemies, yelling casually, "Don't talk nonsense with them, we should kill them."

"No need." Rurik stretched out his hand to motion Mezzasta to shut up, and then told everyone bluntly, "I didn't intend to kill these five people."

"Don't kill?" Arik became alert and smiled again. "Is it kindness?"

"It's a tool. We shouldn't have to listen to them, let them be messengers, and let them go."

Everyone looked at each other and thought that this decision is also okay.

The five captives quickly listened to Rurik's declaration of war.

"We Russ are here to destroy you all! I will attack your fortress! Tell your leader, we want a decisive battle. If you are brave, look for an open area to fight with us. If you are afraid of our army, stick to it. Your fortress. If you are cowardly, leave my territory forever! All who stayed and determined to fight with us, both men and women will eventually be killed. Go ahead and tell your leader the attitude of the Russ."

It is equivalent to saying that the young leader of Ross only gave the Tavastia two choices: war or escape.

They were beaten to their noses and faces were bruised and swollen, and many of them were beaten with panda eyes.

Some people squatted on their stomachs, with a lot of disdain, "We... will never run away. Our leader will fight you decisively."

"Decisive battle? I'm afraid your leader will see my army scared and run away." Ruriek continued to provoke.

"No... we won't flee, this side of the sea is our territory, you... you are the enemy!"

Stiff mouth? Rülik liked their attitude of keeping their mouths stubborn and disdainful.

Rurik looked at the left and right, smiled, and sullenly faced the captive provoked, "I understand your language! Listen! I'm going to chop off your leader's head and use his skull to make a cup of water for my humblest slave. ! Tell your leader truthfully."

Of course, they were not released easily, and all five prisoners had their ears cut off maliciously by Rurik's order.

This is not over yet.

Rurik's provocation and the arrogant plan to explain his purpose is to ensure that the enemy will also pursue a decisive battle. As long as the enemy is angered, the enemy will become reckless and will be driven by anger.

Rülik's actions ended here, but Arik also gave these exiled prisoners a terrifying gift.

That was terrible skin, now being packed and thrown to the captives.

These skins are all from the Tavastia family who died earlier, so I can’t think of it...

The captive was so frightened that he even forgot the pain of being amputated.

They each carried a piece of leather on their backs, and staggered away with pain and anger.

So far, most of the Rus people have been very convinced that after such humiliation, the enemy must also long for a decisive battle.

Even if there is no open area in this area, as long as it is a decisive battle, the Ross people can play a huge tactical advantage.

Seeing that the layout of the camp was almost the same, the Rus Army began its final preparations under the leadership of Rurik, and they were about to fight.

As Rurik hoped, the five released captives fled along the river, encountering their fellow clan at the location of the old Salmon Lord Hill.

Although they were terribly humiliated, they were still horrified to explain the fact that the Rus army had killed them. When they unloaded the stripped leather, all the people around were shocked, and many people simply vomited!

The Tavastias gave the Ross people the infamy of "skinning hands", looking at the **** corpses of the same race that were hung up, the commander Watyara who was sitting behind ordered that once a Ross was caught, it would be like dealing with a hunter. Squirrels and ferrets, like squirrels and ferrets, hang up alive and peel their skin for a tooth for a tooth!

The five people who had their ears cut off were quickly escorted by their tribesmen to defend the already tight old gray squirrel hill fort.

Seeing their boss, these five people burst into tears involuntarily.

"Don't cry! Don't be cowards! Tell me what happened to you! Tell me if the Russians really want to attack us!"

One person wiped his eyes and looked up at Vatyara in anger, and his right hand pointed to the west suddenly: "We saw their camp, where there are at least a thousand people! I saw the leader of the Rus, who is a cannibal. Hungry wolves that spit out bones. They said they want to fight us decisively and kill all our people."

"Huh? Are they really so determined?" Hearing this, Vatyara stood up suddenly, and the veins on his face almost exploded.

All the capable people sitting in this wooden house were completely blown up when they heard that the Ross people had actually made such an attempt.

Someone rose up and roared: "Then fight them decisively! Our spearhead is also iron! Our arrow clusters are also iron! We are crowded, kill them, don't take prisoners!"

"Yes! The last failure was just an accident! If we were fighting upright, we could kill them all by swarming."

"Don't live! Even if you capture a hundred enemies, hang them up and peel them. We don't want a slave!"

"So we will summon all the brothers now and go out to fight them!"

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Although some people feel that the rash decisive battle is a bit reckless, looking at the current atmosphere, those who act cautiously are afraid that they will be beaten by their brothers as traitors.

How are these Tavastia's elites so angry because of just a few words of intelligence? It's all because of the bad behavior of Arik's scouts.

The horrible corpse being hung up is the most ferocious humiliation. Arik has accomplished his purpose, and he has already aroused the fury of his opponents.

Infected by such an atmosphere, Vatyara, who currently has more than 1,300 Tavastia warriors under his command, completely ignored the previous defeat and was ambushed. He was dazzled by anger and yearned for a decisive battle. .

Those tribesmen who lost their ears continued to describe what they had seen and heard in the Rus camp, which continued to shock them that their opponents were also building mountain fortresses.

It was a mountain fort leaning on the coast, with tall wooden walls, and a large number of huge boats floating on the sea, the size of which is a hundred times the size of a canoe!

The Ross people dress almost exactly the same, as if their linen is inexhaustible.

The Ross people are very tall, and they seem to be able to fight with bears bare-handed, and then use their teeth to bite the bear’s neck and eat the bear meat...

The more he said the words, the more ridiculous, Vatyara felt that the five poor people were scared and start to tout the arrogance of the enemy.

Someone interrupted them: "Nonsense! We are fighting the enemy, not the monsters in the forest. As long as we gather to launch an attack, they will lose!"

Some people who are not very determined by their own will become scared when they hear the description of the "earless". This is completely different from the righteous indignation just now.

The anger that commanded Vatyara couldn't be calmed down, and he couldn't think of any strategy, even he was not clear about the true strength of the Ruths, and what he knew was extremely limited.

However, some people have proposed a "cunning plan" that everyone finds interesting, the so-called "ruling the person's body by his own way".

The "cunning plan" is like this, the Tavastiya army left more than a hundred people to guard the outside of the mountain fort, and the remaining 1,200 people set off! Everyone rushed to the bend in the lower reaches of the river and laid ambush at the burnt woods and mountain fort.

The ever-changing forests are difficult to fight decisively, and even the Tavastias can't stand this kind of terrain. There is no flat place that can be used as a decisive battle than the abandoned village next to the river, where there is a flat river beach enough to fight in battle.

The Tavasti runners did not want to seize the battlefield first, but set up ambush first, and when the Ross army appeared, they suddenly rushed out. They beat their opponents by surprise, and were about to drive them into the river, so that their opponents were not killed by weapons. To die is to drown.

Why don’t people who don’t have a better plan think this is a clever plan? !

Vatyara slapped his thigh: "Okay! Just do it! Opportunities can't be taken, let's act now!"

Hurry is really rush, Vatyara is not stupid enough to ignore the speed of soldiers.

The Tavastiyas, who learned of the landing of a large number of enemies two days ago, are saying that a big battle is inevitable. fear? confused? These all become meaningless.

Almost everyone knew of the horrible corpse that was hung up, and their minds were occupied by anger.

The brave Tavastia warrior was hung and skinned like a hunted squirrel? ! Who are the Ross people humiliating? !

Middle-aged, young, and even some teenagers in the tribal alliance, these Tavastia men from the southern Huze region, they wear a variety of leather clothes, carry their short wooden bows and quiver, and carry Iron spears, javelins, iron swords, iron axes and wooden shields gathered into a mighty army, and followed their own leader Vatyara to leave the mountain fort.

The ordinary people who have just immigrated here cheer for the heroes, wishing them a great victory, and thoroughly laying the alliance's absolute rule over this newly conquered territory.

The women and children were cheering. The hundred or so soldiers who stayed behind beat the wooden shields and yelled, and others beat their little drums to cheer.

Infected by this enthusiastic atmosphere, and then realized that my own army is so large, how can the small characters in the army not think that they will win?

What are the Ross people? This will be an ambush for the brothers to be the first to beat them on the battlefield. Relying on the strength of troops, the victory is not easy to come by?

Optimism permeated the entire Tavastian army, and it was aimed at this size of force, which is extremely rare in all military operations of the tribal alliance!

The last time Karelians sent out an army of this size to invade the territory was ten years ago, and the subsequent battles were all maintained at the size of two to three hundred people.

The glory of the new victory will be in his own hands, and there is a "cunning plan" blessing, Vatyara has no doubts, his mind has deleted the concept of "failure".

Perhaps this is not arrogance, but because he has listened to false information and made a wrong estimate of the strength of the Ross people.

They didn't start their action until noon. Even though the team was a little messy, after night fell, they still touched the old Salmon Lord Mountain Fort.

Do not! They did not enter the burnt mountain fort.

Every soldier of the Tavastia army, they have been walking along the riverside woods. When they approached the big bend of the river and washed out the flat ground, they saw an incredible amount of bonfires in front of them.

"Not good! Are these all Ross people! Why... so many people!"

The horrified Vatyara was shocked, and urged several people in the team holding simple torches to put out the fire immediately.

People stood in place and talked about it. No one thought that the Russ would act so swiftly. They had already arrived!

Watyara hurriedly gathered his cronies and brave people. He knew that no matter how brave people were, he would not dare to forcibly enter the Rus camp. As long as he watched the starry bonfire, he was shaking involuntarily as the commander.

Although Vatyara didn't want to, he really felt the fear.

Fortunately, the shadows of the brothers were hidden in the night, and the extremely limited torches (that is, some branches that lighted) were not lighting, but only a weak light source to ensure that the team did not get separated.

He pointed to the dense bonfire: "We are still a step late, but we must fight the ambush."

"How to fight?" someone asked.

At this moment, the person who proposed the "cunning plan" immediately thought of a new strategy: "In my opinion, brothers still enter the woods. Spring has arrived, and the past day was quite warm, and there must be fog tomorrow morning. We used the cover of morning fog to attack suddenly. , Will surely kill them by surprise."

"Wonderful!" Vatyara laughed and slapped his legs: "Just do it, we will go quietly, just like we are hunting together, we must not let the prey notice."

Vatyara made a brief deployment. The team that had been advancing along the river was dispersed to a certain extent. They entered the forest and divided into several groups. They were hidden in a position about five hundred meters near the Rus camp.

They were determined to wait, and when the morning mist came up, the brothers began to act.

But is this the perfect solution?

Even if Rurik felt that the Tavastias were chicken dogs, they were not arrogant enough to despise their opponents like a group of ants that could trample to death at will. He was worried that the Tavastias, one of the ancestors of these Finns, would not play cards according to their routines. The so-called robbery would make it reasonable to set up a false bonfire during the night to rest.

Besides, although this place has been turned into ruins, it is true that the Russ once again arrived here by pure military means.

There are also some thatched huts that can be repaired to live in. Thinking of the village of the Salmon Lord tribe three years ago, it has become this way now, Rurik feels helpless.

Kejas and Mechasta, as well as the more than fifty Corvin archers who had been assigned to the shooting flag team, all returned to their hometowns. Seeing the homeland destroyed by Bingxuan, they had no nostalgia besides sorrow.

The Corvin soldiers obeyed Rurik's orders stupidly, and even when they camped and rested, all the crossbowmen remained on guard.

Of course, they were eating grilled fish around the bonfire, talking and laughing, waiting for the big iron pot and pottery urn to cook the wheat, and all the people who finished the food stayed in their own positions.

The savvy Ross veteran certainly felt that his Master Rurik was too cautious, it's always right to be cautious in the battlefield.

The Russ army set up camps with its back on the river, which of course mainly considered the convenience of water access. Torsion slingshots and catapults are still placed on two-wheeled carts, they are arranged in an array, and the shooting direction is uniform to the outside of the camp. The shooters were scattered around the campfire, and there were melee warriors guards nearby. All the soldiers complimented the baggage placed in the core and Rurik himself, which is the classic marching and camping formation of the Rus.

This formation does lack some creativity, and it is also the safest in this time and space in Northern Europe.

Rurik's move is not only that, this formation is just to build a tortoise shell, but it is a passive defensive move.

His real brilliance is the arrangement of sentry in the woods. No, the Tavastias feel that they are perfectly hidden. The sentry quietly retreats, and then hurriedly told Rurik about this incredible but very realistic news.

More than one sentry returned, and almost all of the sentry returned!

Rurik, who wanted to sleep for the last good night before the war, couldn't sleep well.

The sentries came one by one, shocked that the enemy army had already completed the encirclement almost without the knowledge of the Russian army, and his scalp was numb.

"These Tavastias are not fools! I underestimate them!"

How to do? Rurik quickly stabilized his emotions in consternation, and this hurriedly ordered all the centurion and flag captains to come to his thatched hut command post.

He decided to do everything he could, and come early if the decisive battle is coming. The Ross people have to be on a flat ground. Isn't it beautiful to beat their opponents to a defensive counter attack? !

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