Chapter 581： You actually spurned us to fight against the Varangans

Chapter 581 of the text

The captives were pushed ashore and escorted ashore. They sat vigilantly not knowing their fate.

But one thing they already knew very well was that the so-called invaders were here, and they were actually Varangas.

Trying to fight them is really the stupidest decision. Looking at the situation now, I don't even have the possibility of running away.

Rurik was busy eating, and Jeflo brought his cronies into his house with a complicated mood.

"My lord, I'm back." Evlo asked through the leather curtain.

"Why didn't you come in? When did I make you stiff?"

"Yes, I will come in now."

Jeflo was indeed in a complicated mood. They walked into the house to meet their master, and their faces really made Rurik suspicious.

"What's wrong with you? Can't you tell me you lost?"

"No. The brothers solved them easily, but..."

"What's the matter?"

"Because of those enemies..."

"You are hesitating." Rurik stood up.

Yevlo sat down quietly and hooked his head. This behavior was indeed very abnormal. "They are Suomi people, they are my family."

"Really a Finn? Carlotta, you are really right."

Carlotta sat and giggled, and Lurik motioned to Jeflo to stand up, and changed his leather jacket: "Let's go and see what is going on with your Suomi."

But Yevlo didn't get up, "My lord, I have something to ask."

"Please speak."

"Please forgive them. If they are willing to surrender, then forgive them. It seems that this is just a pioneering force, and they will have a lot of people after them."

Rurik paused, he couldn't imagine that the decisive Jeflo was actually...

"You mean, our army has defeated their main force and there is no need to kill them? So, if their identity calls, will they be kind?"

"This...maybe not."

Suddenly, Rurik also hesitated. In these years of battle, his heart has gradually become steel, and his methods have become vicious, so that the Rus can survive. But back to the beginning, how does he want to be a slaughterer?

Rurik thought for a while, and then said: "Whether they are kind, it depends on whether they are submissive. You make it clear to the attackers because you are from Suomi. Well, for the time being, you control them. If something goes wrong, You are responsible."

Yevlo felt comfortable, and followed Rurik to meet the prisoners.

There is another group of fools who give heads away! The Ross warrior brushed his sword and axe, flaunting his fright at the frightened captive. They laughed when they saw the captive trembling in fear.

"Get out of the way!" Lurik came fiercely, dispelling the crowd of onlookers.

He saw the prisoners who had become a place, and almost all of them had black hair, and they all had a rather strong Asian appearance, but they also had some European colors. But they are all small, and if they fight close combat with this kind of people, the Ross people will naturally take advantage.

Rurik then conducted the interrogation on the spot in a language that the Suomi people could understand, which was still the most commonly used language, as long as the truth was told, he would spare his life.

In order to survive, the captive did not hesitate to explain the facts of the follow-up force.

This one news is enough to make Rurik's scalp tighten.

Even if the enemy is a group of chickens and dogs, it is an army of 3,000 people. Even if it is 3,000 wild boars, it is quite difficult to eliminate them in one day.

The cooperative attitude of these Suomi people is really gratifying. At the crucial moment, Yevlo was ordered to reveal his true identity.

Let's take a look at the performance of these Suomi people!

They were like grabbing a life-saving straw, lying on the ground one by one, smiling hippiely, saying that they were useful, because they respected the Evlo brother as the eldest brother, accepted his command, and were willing to serve as servants for the Varanges.

So you can harvest a large army of servants? If all the Suomi people are so submissive and know how to adapt, then there is no need to fight again.

In itself, Rurik knew the existence of the Suomi, and used his troops to complete the conquest, at least it should not be done this year.

But the opportunity was fleeting, Suomi's army came uninvited, and the Ross army was here. It would be foolish to give up the historical opportunity.

How long will the enemy arrive? Maybe only one day or two days.

Lurik urgently rushed all the centurions and flag captains to convene a military meeting in the Parliament of the occupied Tavastians.

When the people gathered for a while, the Ross people really talked and laughed at each other. They all knew that there was a group of Suomi people coming, but they all talked to each other to entertain their new women.

They laughed presumptuously, complimenting each other for being a real man, and saying that their new woman is a docile lamb, or a tough temper, as long as they pinch their necks...

"Don't laugh anymore." Rurik said with a stern face and let out a loud shout.

When the scene calmed down, Arik casually said, "Brother, I heard that there is another group of people to die? My two swords have not drank blood for too long."

"But the third sword below you has already drank blood." Rurik said casually with a sullen face, which caused everyone to burst into laughter.

Alix was not embarrassed, but stood up, and the brothers laughed in praise of him.

Because Arik picked a pair of good-looking sisters from the captives, and then...

This is what Arik thinks, his family needs some servants. The so-called servant can also give birth to some children to become a side branch of the family.

Rurik motioned for everyone to be quiet again, and said: "It seems that you all know things! Those captured claim that they are just the vanguard, and there are three thousand people behind. The enemy came by boat, apparently trying to start the water with us. war."

When it comes to the phrase "water war", everyone becomes eager to try again.

Rurik opened his hands again: "They dare to start a water war with us. This is a dead end. Brothers, we should be prepared to annihilate them as much as possible. Odin bless us, and the gods reward us with a chance. , This year we will conquer the entire land of the East!"

The whole land of the East? People listened with enthusiasm.

This is indeed the case. The so-called Eastern Land probably refers to Finland nowadays, but this vast area has been eroded by the Ross people for several years. At the beginning, the Ross people and the entire Swedes living in the Svealand Plain just understood the concept of the "land of the east", and lacked understanding of the specific geographical situation.

Rurik has taken out the geographic outline of the real world, and the Ross people know what the land of the East is before everyone else.

The Corvins and Lapps (deer breeders) have become reliable servants. The first battle of Tavastia declined, and soon they will also surrender to Rose.

As for the Karelians, they are no longer regarded as people living in the "Eastern Land", but as residents of far northeast Europe.

As long as Suomi has conquered, the Rus can be said to have conquered the entire eastern land and conquered the entire Finland.

Then, the lake war that will inevitably occur in the future determines the direction of all history.

Standing at the critical juncture of the historical trend, Ruriek became more and more thrilled as he thought about it. Look at my brothers again, everyone is full of enthusiasm.

Rurik immediately arranged his tactics. Because the wind on the lake was not as good as the sea, the long rowing boat of the Ross people just had strong maneuverability.

The Mercury has a human-powered propeller, which is auxiliary power, and it really relies on wind. She is still the flagship of the fleet, and may not be able to show too high combat power in lake and water battles.

According to the captives, the Suomi’s tactic was to release arrows from the archers on the boat as the canoe approached, relying on the superiority of numbers to achieve victory.

They seem to think that war is a hunting with a large number of people, but...

The advantage of the Russian army is that the leading warship has the dual advantages of maneuverability and defense. What's more, the Russian army also has this heavy weapon. Whether it is a bull catapult or a torsion slingshot, they can be immediately carried to the long ship and become a special ship-borne weapon.

Since it was a water battle, the Suomi felt that archery could solve most of the battles, and Liu Lix simply asked his subordinates to be equipped with bows.

The short wooden bow is at least a good thing for hunting. It takes a lot of effort to process wood, cane, and animal tendons into a short wooden bow. It is captured through a fierce battle with the main force of the Tavastians. The volume has increased substantially.

To put it bluntly, every soldier now has his own long-range weapon. Even if many people only know how to draw a bow and shoot arrows by luck, once a large-scale use is made to create a "barrage", there will always be arrows to kill the enemy. So twenty dragon-headed warships became the main force of the battle, each equipped with a torsion slingshot or catapult, and the rest of the oarsmen were all equipped with a set of bows.

The dragon head battleship is full of forty people, and 800 fighters form a mobile fleet capable of rampaging.

It's not over yet. The remaining long ships are closely following the sail destroyer Mercury. Although this force is no longer a mobile fleet, the fleet will still sit on a thousand people, becoming a slow and impenetrable existence.

The tactics have been set up, and the Russ army is determined to wait for work, holding Tavastalu and waiting for the main enemy to appear.

The main force of Suomi only appeared on the lake at noon the next day.

Chief Suomi Uko, he could see a large number of ships floating on the lake in the distance with his eyes, and instinctively told him that these enemies were very strange.

However, a crowd of village leaders who are eager to win have already recklessly led their men to rush forward desperately.

"Hey! Are you guys going to be heroes? The enemy is strange!"

"You guys come back, we will move forward together!"

Uko shouted, but in exchange for taunts in the hands of several villages: "Brother, what are you still doing? Come on with us, the late spoils are ours."

Uke gritted his teeth. He actually wanted to rush, but he felt that this matter was even more weird. He simply gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, even if someone scolded his coward, then scold him.

Most Suomi canoes are waiting for the leader's meaning. If Uko's flagship canoe does not rush, brothers shouldn't rush.

Twenty canoes went to challenge again, and the enthusiastic village leaders saw how the brothers behind had become cowards, and the cursing people now calmed down.

"What's the matter? If we say yes, we will attack together, so how come our brothers have become early birds."

Someone asked cautiously: "Boss, don't we become scouts now?"

"Keep on paddling and see what is going on with people in the distance. You are all on guard and shoot arrows as soon as the distance is reached."

In this case, the canoes of this group of Suomi people ran wildly on the calm lake, but they didn't know anything about their opponents. The only thing they could judge was that as the distance approached, those blurring the outline of the enemy ship was emotional enough.

The sight before him immediately shocked everyone.

Their recklessness is not that they are fools, because those ships are clearly...

"It's a Varang!" The reckless village leader was shocked and trembling, and all his courage was wiped out.

"Silly boys, turn the bow! Let's run!"

Give an order, all the canoes turn the bow.

However, as many as thirty oarsmen were holding the large concave oars of the Russians during the chase of the 20 mobile warships of the Russian army, which allowed the long ship to reach a charging speed of ten knots because of their strong physique, but Can maintain this rapid raid for more than half an hour!

Su Omi's recklessness has already pierced her wings.

Although Yevlo hopes that his kinsman can disarm wisely, the battle is still inevitable. The Rus army has been dispatched, and only a group of lightly injured people are left on the shore to control the camp. This decisive battle is also full of the Russ army. Respect.

First, the stone flew over and splashed water near the canoe. Then came the cone-shaped bullet fired from the clay of the torsion slingshot and leapt with a low whistling sound.

The dashing dragon-head warship ran against the south wind. As the distance drew closer, the heavy weapon shooting became more precise, not to mention, the crossbowmen on the ship began to exert force.

The Suomi people, who were frantically paddling and trying to flee, felt that it was safe to get in with the large forces, so they had to fight back.

They became live targets one after another, and some people fell into the water with arrows, and there were also canoes that were hit by high-grade cast iron pellets suddenly flying in with sawdust.

There is no suspense in the battle until now. The long ship Ross, which has the advantage of water warfare, caught up with Suomi's canoe, and the ruthless killing began immediately.

With no casualties, the Ross people used a torsion slingshot to easily drill holes for the enemy ship, and then used a crossbow to accurately shoot the people on the ship. For those who fell into the water, it was also a long-handled halberd to stab and slash.

The killing almost happened in front of the main Suomi people. Uko couldn't be pleased that he did not rush with the main force, but saw that the dragon head warships raging like hungry wolves prey, and immediately messed up.

The surrendered Nuoli was on Uko's canoe, and the messenger immediately became the target of venting.

Uke gave the boy a punch, which immediately caused bleeding from the corner of his mouth.

"You lied to me! These assailants who cross the sea are the Varangs! You actually tricked us into fighting the Varangs!"

Nuoli is also very strange: "They are Ross people!"

"No! Fools, they are Varanga. I'm crazy, I want to fight with them, Suomi will perish for this!"

But then again, the Varangans are clearly cruising in the southern waters. In the past, they have repeatedly attacked the coastal villages of Suomi to capture wealth and population. Uke is not mentally retarded, he can see that the "sea wolves" are the long boats with the heads of sea snakes that the Varangans are accustomed to.

Seeing his own clan being annihilated, Uko thought of running away, but it is not appropriate to run away if he is weak. The Suomi people rushed out, no longer see the Varang army of Civic appearing in the lakes, everyone's mood is very complicated.

The situation was more serious than it seemed at first. Uko saw the raging Varyag warships and clearly saw that the large group of canoes that Suomi's army had pounced on the lake did not tend to attack further. This is by no means timid, I am afraid it is. Waiting for the large troops behind it? !

Uke squinted his eyes and looked intently. He counted the twenty dragon-head warships in front of him. Not far away, there was a very huge ship with more warships approaching!

"Don't panic!" he yelled. UU reading

The roar calmed down the nervous people, the restless military spirit of the Suomi Army stabilized, the canoes instinctively moved closer, and no one was a deserter.

Do the two sides have to fight, and they have to fight the Varangians to death and death? If the Varangans wanted to kill, the Suomi would have faced extinction many years ago.

Maybe some special means can be used to prevent this war?

However, as the big ship approached, the huge cross-blue stripes on the triangular sails had already made many Suomi people in the army clearly aware that they had encountered that group of Varangans.

"Unexpectedly... it was them!" Uke was shaking all over, and his words were trembling.

Nuoli wiped the corners of his mouth and asked, "Do you know them?"

"Why don't you know? Their large fleet wanders in the bay every year, always encountering our marine fishermen, but they have never attacked us Suomi people. Why..." Suddenly, Uko sprouted A bold and dangerous idea, but this idea is indeed in line with the characteristics of the Suomi people who pay more attention to trade.

Since they have met each other at least many times, there has been no conflict before.

If the crisis of war can be handled through negotiation, isn't it the safest thing?

Someone must be a messenger! Uko was not allowed to be this messenger, but he had to take Nuoli with him.

Even now, even betraying old friends is something that has to be done. Besides, most Suomi people don't regard Tavastia as allies. Then, this Nuoli is a bargaining chip in exchange for a truce.

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