Chapter 577： Rurik expedition to Tavastia

Chapter 577-Rurik's Expedition to Tavastia

Entering May, the rushing Oulu River is no longer violent. After the flood season caused by the melting of a large amount of winter ice and snow, the valley is peaceful enough to allow the long boats of the Ross people to drift freely.

In a sense, the Land of the Orient (Finland) is more like an island separated by rivers and lakes. The well-connected waterways can even allow ships from the Gulf of Bothnia to reach Lake Ladoga in the east.

The Tavastias did not know the right time to migrate to the lakes in central Finland. Since they discovered a large lake in the north and traces of the Corvins this year, they began to follow the waterways northward.

There are thousands of lakes in the central part of the lake. This is a large group of natural reservoirs, and most of the rivers derived from them flow into the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga.

There are also many rivers that meander and flow into Lake Oulu, and then the Oulu River flows into the sea known to the Ross people.

Once they learned of the existence of a waterway leading directly to the core of Tavastia’s rule, all the Rus had to do was to assemble their forces to launch a rapid assault on the Huanglong.

The Duke’s order has been passed to Roseburg.

Although Lord Rurik has long stated that this year the brothers will sharpen their swords and Huo Huo expedition to looting Britain, since there is an unprecedented expansion in the Eastern Land, there is no reason for the brothers to disagree.

The Ross fishermen who were cruising on the sea learned of the news that they arrived at Covenstad, which was under construction, and traced the source of the river along the river to find a large lake. There are a large number of fish in the lake, which can be compared to the brothers. Casting the net is more hopeful.

Rurik plans to recruit a hundred long ships, and it is estimated that this will take some time.

The facts were far beyond his expectations, because a big ship was stunned upstream on the river.

That was the Mercury, the only ship with a manned propeller as auxiliary power. Her own name is hung on the side of her ship, except for the flag of the Ross people, and for the time being, the main mast of the first sail is also floating with the famous flag.

How can she go against the current just relying on a few strong men constantly stepping on the pedals. The real core of power comes from the two long boats that tow her, and the people on the long boats who are ordered to strengthen are busy paddling.

The full-loaded long ship pulled two or three boats upstream with ropes. Although it was a waste of time, the ships arrived at the camp of the Russian army on the river outside the Old Grey Squirrel Hill.

For a while, long boats stopped at the bends of this river. With 120 long ships and the Mercury sailing destroyer, the Russ assaulted and formed a powerful inland fleet!

It was a very clear day, and Ruriek proudly boarded his temporary flagship.

He was standing on the stern deck of the Mercury, standing at this height overlooking the dragon head warship that filled the river.

In this situation, who would dare to say that the Russian army is not invincible?

At least in this Nordic world, the Ross people are invincible.

Arik was infected by this grand occasion, and he arrogantly shouted against the warm south wind: "We are not going to war! We are easily occupying the entire Tavastia, they are all our slaves."

"Yes! We will make a fortune." Heliger also agreed.

At this time, if Rurik said that he did not like excessive killing, it would be the purest hypocrisy.

The main achievement of the foreign war is naturally the commander-in-chief. In everyone's mind, Liu Rick is a "human slaughter" and is precisely the hero that people are most proud of.

Rurik really didn't want the war to be bloody. He needed Tavastia to become a new servant to replace the economic role of the Corvins. With such a large army invading the enemy's territory, the enemy should be able to surrender, right? I hope so, if the enemy wants to trap the beast and still fight, he will not be merciful.

The Corvins have been saying that Tavastia is rebellious. In this case, Liu Rick had to prevent his opponents from fighting to the end. He prepared more weapons and equipment, including fifty sets of "silver scale armor", which could make fifty strong Han became an invulnerable and ruthless man rushing to fight.

Look at the brothers again, the ships are waiting for the order of the flagship to set sail.

There is no more hesitation. With a wave of Rurik's hand, the sailor standing at the bow shouted at the tugboat ahead: "Let's go!"

Two thousand people and more than three hundred prisoners of war took a total of 121 ships. The ships also carried some wheat and dried fish, as well as deliberately vacated space for storing trophies.

That Terho, who had once again attached himself, and the five leaders of the Tavastia village who had been forced to surrender in a very complicated mood became the guides of the Rus army, and they would identify the correct channel.

Are these people trustworthy? Rurik is not worried, he knows that he has a right retreat. Because the end of the river in this area is the mouth of the river, which is the Gulf of Bothnia of the Rus.

The Russian soldiers were full of enthusiasm and followed up to two hundred fishing boats. What happened to them?

The fishermen are not going to fight, let alone among them there are many female fishermen and elderly people.

It is mainly because the Corvins who fled to Roseburg say that the lakes upstream of the rivers in their hometowns are rich in fish. Everyone believed it to be true. Regardless of whether there was such a war or not, everyone had to go and find out. Now led by the Duke’s expeditionary fleet, the fishermen are confident that they have also been given a new mission-logistics supply.

Not to mention that there are some special merchants among the fishermen.

The merchants all came from Lake Mälaren, in fact, almost all of them belonged to the large family of the Mälaren tribe. The merchants actually wanted to do the work of a slave trader, and they determined to try their luck closely following the Duke’s fleet.

The Ross Fleet, which was motivated and fully rested, set off in the morning, and after only the entire day, they saw the vast expanse ahead in the evening.

The gorgeous sunset has dyed the world of mid-spring into a lazy hue. The Ross Expeditionary Force naturally docked and camped on the spot, and the 200 following them stupidly occupied the river surface like crazy, and they lighted the oil lamps to prepare for night fishing.

Everything is simply a blessing from God, and the bait that has just been thrown quickly attracts the bait.

The Ross people used cod fishing tools in the waters in the lakes, and large European perches bit their hooks one after another.

The Kewen people who originally lived here have long known the fish resources here, but they are unable to make more flexible fishing lines and high-quality barbed hooks. Facing the vast lake, most of the time they can only stare, and can only do inshore fishing like luck.

The Ross expeditionary army camped and slept on the spot, and the lake was "stars shining."

The fishermen who caught Ross during the night had a huge harvest. By the early morning, when they woke up, the fishermen had spontaneously opened a fish market on the shore.

"They are really business savvy."

A market suddenly formed, Rurik was overjoyed, and this morning he also happily ate the delicious grilled sea bass.

The best-selling in the market is freshwater cod. In fact, many people don't know what to call this fish, but its fat fish oil and large body are really coveted.

A large freshwater cod can weigh up to twenty pounds! Who would refuse a fish at the low price of a silver coin? A few brothers bought it together, and then divided it into pieces. This feast of nourishment was really a powerful breakfast.

If it is not necessary not to eat wheat, the Russian army reached such a consensus.

Thanks to the gift of Lake Oulu and the superb fish-fishing skills that the Rus people were forced out of their long production and life, Rurik was delighted to receive a rather crucial supply.

European perch, freshwater cod, and northern pike were piled directly on the boat. The Ross people who were accustomed to eating fish were no longer sensitive to the smell of fish, but this tossing prisoner of war was really uncomfortable.

Although it is May, the temperature throughout the day is relatively high at noon, and it is good to have 5c at night. The lower temperature allows the fish to be preserved for a longer period of time, but the majority of the Ross people are not picky about the mildly rotted fish, it can only be said that this is forced out by life.

Lake Oulu, this is the limit of the Rus people's exploration in the "Eastern Land", and the rivers and lakes in front are unfamiliar.

Rurik only knows the basic geography of the wide-area world, knowing that everyone insists on going east to Lake Ladoga, and then moving along the lake can reach Novgorod and Novgorod.

Now he relies heavily on the directions of survivors such as Telho. The Ross Expeditionary Army used the expeditionary force to raise sails against the south wind on a wide sea like the ocean. It took a whole morning to plunge towards the southernmost river of the lake. Hukou.

All six survivors were controlled on the Mercury. They pointed to the river and claimed that they would move up the river from this, and insist on advancing on the widest river to avoid breaking into the wrong tributary, and finally arrived in Tavasti. Ya's sacrificial center.

"Are you all right to give directions? Well, if you lie, I am nothing more than killing all the prisoners, including you. When I find your village, I will kill everyone in revenge."

Rurik's words were a threat, and he was capable of doing so.

In particular, the five village leaders with families and tribes all knelt down on the deck, praying for mercy from the supreme ruler of the Rus.

"You are merciful? It depends on your performance afterwards. You must hand over a batch of belongings, and then take out some young women to prove your surrender."

Rurik put his words here, he was not afraid that these survivors would not cooperate. Really uncooperative? Big deal, the brothers took a bit of effort to search in person.

In this Ross expeditionary army advancing in the river, people really think differently.

The vast majority of Russ, Mellaren and Balmerks all have the common identity of "Vikings." Ordinary fighters are too lazy to care about the grand plans of big men. What they want to do most now is to rush to Tavasti. In the hinterland of Asia, first shot some leather and dried meat, and then captured a young woman to immediately solve the desire of the lower body, and then took him back to his own home to become a second wife.

Among the few Corvins, Kejas and Mezzasta are purely vengeful. Look at these two guys who once brought their respective clansmen to beat the bloodshed, they are now "sympathetic to father and son." The two are sitting on the battleship of the Rus, and they are all dressed up like a Viking. The two of them didn't paddle, but they held a short spear, each with a head of Qian.

Watkad, the most powerful commander of Tavastia, and his brother Watyala, with their heads pierced into the spearheads, became the splendid spoils of the Corvin.

Looking at the young soldiers in Rurik, the boy and the girl, everyone experienced the cruel battle once again, and it was simply guaranteed that no one died in the battle.

Carlotta, Duchess of Ostara. She wanted to talk to her own person, Lurik, but because of her mission, she had to manage the "valkyries of the world" under her command, and then keep in step with the young men and soldiers under the management of Bald Fisk.

Their youngness does not mean that they lack strength. The long boat they are on is pulled by the ropes of the ship ahead. The children continued to paddle, talking and laughing along the way.

On the contrary, it is the Danish John Invar, who still has a silver cross on his chest, but is it still necessary to maintain this faith now?

His identity is a clergyman, if there is no current experience, his destiny must be to become a priest of a monastery, and even have the qualifications to become a regional bishop.

The hands of clergy must not be contaminated with the blood of others! Unfortunately, he has broken the ring on the battlefield.

He wandered all the way through the foul, muddy and terrifying battlefield. He subconsciously wanted to pray the last prayer for the dying, and suddenly he thought of these barbarians in the woods who knew what they believed in.

The war dead were everywhere, Lord Rurik gave an order, and the burly warrior arbitrarily chopped off the dead Qianshou just to make a statistics to calculate the merits, and the corpses drifted with the crowd...

John Invale's brain was deeply stimulated, and now he just kept paddling, not wanting to harmonize with the fact that others laughed about killing the enemy.

It was another docking retreat. Now the river has become relatively narrow. Fortunately, the water depth of the river is still gratifying, like the Mercury with a shallow draft can still drift smoothly.

Rurik knew that it was okay to drive the Aphrodite into the river. Just imagine a very large ship appeared in the enemy's hinterland. What kind of forceful oppression is this?

They camped on both sides of the river, and people ate the last raw fish, even if the fish was not fresh, it was burnt to black and oiled and sprinkled with salt. Everyone still feasted.

Sitting by the bonfire, Rurik talked to his confidants: "I heard that the enemy walked for six or seven days before arriving on the battlefield along the same path as ours. They rely on one pair of feet, we have a boat, we Faster."

Arik took advantage of the trend and said: "You can't always think about arriving tomorrow?"

"If that's the best. In my opinion, we have arrived in the next three days."

The brothers had another wonderful imagination of occupying the enemy's hinterland, dreaming about how much benefit each would get, and how many captive women could be packed in the space vacated by the ship.

Speaking of women's issues, the men talked without reservation or even the lower limit. Not surprisingly, Arik deliberately headed the head and praised his brother for becoming a real man before he became an adult.

The brothers laughed, and Arik also expressed his best wishes: "Carlotta, you are going to have several sons for Rurik. Your tribe needs your son to inherit, so you have to please your Rurik."

It was fair to say that even though Carlotta was blushing, she was not at all taboo, but insisted on raising her chest and claiming that she could do it, and then took Ric's arm.

The Ross people, or the women of all Viking tribes, are the same. They will fight on the battlefield like men, and they will take care of their families. They are obliged to protect the interests of the tribe. They are naturally proactive.

Carlotta takes the initiative, and Lurik is not a passive one. Carlotta's pressure needs to be released, and Arik's words really stimulated her heart.

This night, two people...

The next morning, when the sun came out, Rurik was very happy, and so was Carlota.

As the saying goes, the large group of young young fighters in Rülik's training and work are usually coordinated by men and women. On the battlefield, they cooperate to defend the enemy. It would be weird if there is no sentiment.

Rurik wanted the same effect. Just like the Spartan culture, a resolute mother and a brave father can naturally give birth to the strongest warriors to defend the tribe. To put it bluntly, the girls of the "Valkyrie Legion" that Carlotta was ordered to lead are all destined to be the wives of a new generation of Ross male soldiers.

The Russian army's voyage continued, and it seemed that it was not far from the destination.

Now that the five surrendered village leaders feel more and more to behave well, they are trying their best to prove that they are a loyal dog. The alliance has fallen apart anyway, and each village can only show its own magical powers if they save their lives.

They are all pointing to the fact that the river has become wide Not far in front is the Tavastia Sacrificial Center, which is also the core of the rule.

The fact is true. Standing on the stern deck of the Mercury ship, Rurik saw a lakeside of this long and narrow lake from a distance. Those old villages are quite similar.

The destination is like this, the entire fleet is boiling.

The Ross, Balmerks, Mellaren, and Corvin were all cheering and shouting that they could make a fortune and then take women captives.

On the other hand, those prisoners of war who were still **** with ropes, they had ignored the pain of being chopped off their fingers, and they shed tears one by one.

Without him, this is where they sent troops more than ten days ago. Who would have thought that more than half a month has passed, and when everyone comes back here, the owner has changed hands.

The Tavastias on the shore, the canoeists on the lake, almost retreated out of instinctive fear.

They had never seen such a scene before, with a large number of large boats running rampant on the lake, and the sails and the waving flags seemed to have other meanings. Most of the left-behind people are women, especially the most people living in the center of worship.

The woman instinctively started to flee, and the Tavastia fighters who stayed behind took up their weapons to at least set up their positions to guard against unexpected events.

"Look! Your lord, they still have an army, and they seem to be fighting with us." Yevlo pointed his hand very vigilantly, and the implication was to urge Rurik to launch an attack.

"They are trying to kill themselves, Jeflo, you have a loud voice! Send my order to let the brothers land on the beach! Remember, try to get alive."

"Yes!"

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