Chapter 664： Vipslene

"The Rise of Rurik (!

After leaving the mouth of the Volkhov River, Arik’s squadron searched for the right west bank in the huge Ladoga Lake.

The Mercury led many long boats straight to the west. After a day of sailing, on a new morning, when the fog on the lake was dissipated by the sun, the dark green and narrow shoreline was near.

The fleet landed and set foot on this unexplored land.

Can the mysterious Karelians be spied around here?

The warrior with the crossbow was ordered to explore the nearby woods.

The leather boots rustled on the soft pine carpet, and with their keen eyes, they noticed some smart pine trees jumping between the treetops.

Suddenly, an arrow swishes past!

It was the Corvin archer who was accompanying him. Shooting pine trees with bow and arrow is already their mastery. It was not someone else who shot this arrow, it was Telavis!

"Boy, good job!"

The Ross soldiers praised them, and the kid stepped forward with a smile, and put away the arrow in the pine tree. He didn't have time to deal with this little hand immediately, so he hung the tail tied with a small rope on the belt around his waist.

He was almost fourteen years old, and he was a little older than Rurik. That's the height. Based on his pedigree, he was obviously powerless to look like a golden bear like the brawny Ross.

He has a slightly flat face, and his hair and beard that are beginning to sprout are tan.

It is said that the language of the Karelians is similar to that of the Kovins. It is for this reason that the young man led the tribe and was temporarily assigned to the First Banner to participate in this armed investigation.

Approaching noon, the forest expedition team came back at the warmest time.

"Have you found any suspicious traces?" Arik asked in a slightly eager tone.

"No, there are quite a few squirrels. This is for you." After all, Telavis untied the spoils and threw it over.

European red squirrels are very big, and the tails of Nordic red squirrels are even more outrageous. Such big tails are helpful for climbing and jumping in the forest, and this is also the favorite of hunters.

This pine tree has a broad tail and is almost half a stika. It is not too small. Arik almost held the huge seizure in both hands, which also attracted the rest of the camp to watch.

The brothers gathered, Arik stepped on a sturdy dead wood, holding the squirrel head in one hand and the tail in the other, showing off in public.

"You have all seen! Our hunters have been captured by this big! There is no one else in this place, we can make a fortune here first!"

Everyone had guessed what Arik meant, and they raised their hands and cheered.

Arik is such a person. He has a noble status, and he also has a difficult experience. The complicated and contradictory life experience makes him care about the feelings of his brothers very much. He is not a greedy person, nor will he deliberately give charity. He has struggled to produce a lot of wealth, but he also lacks ambition to seize new wealth.

The huge red squirrel moved his heart, and the soldiers of the First Banner were also moved!

Are squirrels easy to catch? Could it be that the pine forest here is full of these beasts?

Even if they did not have a clear consciousness, huge amounts of loot and hot money poured into the society of the Rus people, and the silver coins that were once rare are not much. Although prices are boiling, everyone has a lot of money! Even the Duke has provided many labor opportunities for everyone, and even disabled people have the opportunity to accumulate some silver coins to buy living wheat.

The price of once cheap squirrel skins has risen. Those small-sized squirrel skins are not valuable. It is the large-sized goods displayed by Arik that are worthless! Only this one end can make a certain warm, comfortable and gorgeous mouseskin hat. The price of unprocessed mouseskin is two silver coins.

It's still early, and it is necessary for the brothers to explore the area of ​​this location. If the Karelian camp is really found, wouldn't the brothers launch a raid and make a fortune? !

Besides, it's a worthwhile trip just to prey on squirrels, ferrets (brown fur in summer), and foxes.

He gave his brothers a three-day holiday, and he really did his job as a hunter.

Do not think that the First Banner Team are all young people from the Principality. They are all excellent hunters and fishermen.

They are not as capable of drawing a bow and shooting arrows directly to shoot down turtledoves in the treetops like the fellow Kewenmen. They are not good at archery. The crossbow on hand makes up for the technical disadvantages and can easily complete the targeted shooting.

The wooden arm crossbow, it appears to be inadequate for the damage to the armored enemy, but it fully demonstrates what a crazy small beast hunting weapon is.

The police foxes swayed among the fallen leaves in twos and threes, and suddenly the crossbow arrows flew silently to complete the hunt.

They even hunted a miniature reindeer herd, carrying eight deer back to the camp by the lake.

Some hunters go there for two days, although they are hunting expeditions in unknown forests, their full hunting experience keeps them from getting lost.

With the camp at the landing site as the center, the soldiers of the First Banner team explored the lakeside forest with a radius of about 20 kilometers. They gained a lot from this trip. When everyone came back and called them, they were sure that no one was lost. They showed off their prey to each other and ate the half-cooked meat. They quickly came to an obvious conclusion-there is nothing here. People area.

They were veteran warriors covered in iron, and many of their equipment was to kill the enemy. They never thought that they would become wilderness hunters again, so that the chain mail of the body protection became a total burden.

There are foxes, squirrels, wolverines, minks, and reindeer, among which squirrels are caught the most. Whether it is direct shooting or netting traps, each soldier has at least one squirrel skin to be hunted. Individual hunters, such as expert hunters among the Corvins, can have ten squirrel skins scraped from their waists.

The young Telavis is just such a talent. He tied the tail and limbs of the squirrel with a rope, until it was completely unfolded, and carefully peeled with a steel dagger. The meat is naturally roasted and eaten, and the remaining subcutaneous fat in the leather He was particularly careful to shave it clean, and after such a simple process, the untanned leather has not rotted for a long time after being dried in the shade.

He thought about it. After completing this task, he immediately sold the leather for money in Shilla Fort.

They boarded the ship again, and everyone had an unexpected gain. They are not satisfied at all, instead they regard unknown enemies as wild animals running around, desperate to be hunted by themselves.

Soon, the squadron advancing along the west bank of the Great Lake passed by a river into the mouth of the lake.

What kind of river is this? No one knows.

Aric admired Telavis' superb shooting skills. He was on the flagship Mercury and patted this kid on the shoulder and asked casually, "Do you know what river this is?"

"Me? I don't know."

"Strange, you Kewen people have never set foot in this area?"

Arik was really mentally retarded by this question, and Telavis was embarrassed to scold him, so he had to say: "If there are activities here, they are also Karelians."

"Really? I think it is clearly a no-man's land. For three days, my subordinates surveyed a large area. The moving objects were small beasts, no living people or even bears. This lakeside forest is a good place. "

"Should we enter the river and go to the upper reaches of the survey?" Telavis asked kindly.

"Forget it. My brother said that the Karelians should be active in the northern part of the Great Lakes. It is strange, if it weren't for the cold and clear fresh water, I would have thought I was cruising in a new ocean, where is the northern shore of the Great Lake? ?"

"Maybe, this is a sea of ​​fresh water..."

Arik shook his head and didn't answer any more questions.

They passed through what is actually the Burnaya River. This river is unusual. As long as they go against the current and walk the correct waterway, they can reach the core area of ​​Finland's Suomi allies. But how easy is it to find a very tortuous waterway in the maze-like complex upstream lake area? If there is no map, ships entering upstream have to try and make mistakes everywhere. Even if the right waterway is found, it must be a very tortuous and time-consuming voyage.

The glacial lake area in central Finland nourishes thousands of rivers. They turn into some large rivers or flow into the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Bothnia, or into the sea-like Lake Ladoga.

The abundant water resources nourish the dense pine and cedar forests, and then squirrels and mink jump freely, which also nurture large beasts and people.

But the forest is not a place for raising reindeer. Karelia's original meaning is "herders", and they do not stupidly graze in the forest area.

There is a lot of grassland in the north of the big lake, which is a good place for natural grazing.

However, not only Karelians live around the Great Lakes, but other small ethnic groups who speak similar languages ​​are also living their own closed and quiet lives.

Even the leaders of those small tribes must recognize the authority of the Karelian tribal alliance, serve them, and provide tribute to the Karelian chiefs.

An unnamed coastal island appeared in front of him, and Arik knew from the feeling that it was another uninhabited island.

Uninhabited islands often have their own resources. For example, some birds use this as a habitat. Hunters wait until they can pick up a batch of bird eggs and place them on a hot stone slab to make delicious omelettes. They are really good for picnics.

They passed the waterways between the island and the land smoothly, and so far, the entire voyage has been shrouded in dullness.

The rowers don’t even have to work hard, many people simply retract their oars. Both the Mercury and the long ship behind were raising the spinnaker, and slowly drifted northward under the warm south wind in the summer.

enemy? Does the enemy really live on the shore?

People even began to suspect that if the Duke looked at the unknown enemies too highly, he would actually regard the powerful enemies described by the Suomi and Tavastias as powerful enemies.

Ten days have passed since I left the Novgorod people. Except for the familiar faces of my brothers, I really can't see the shadows of other people.

They start to be lazy, and it is often the case that anomalous things suddenly appear in the distance.

Arik, who was dozing off, was awakened by the sailor, and he hurried to the high stern deck, and indeed saw the boat floating on the lake in the distance.

"What is that? Is it a canoe?" he asked.

The sailor messaged: "After so many days, we finally saw other people."

"No. That's the prey, we..." Arik wanted to kill them, but then he thought about it. He has been wandering in unknown waters until now. He doesn't know the way forward. Who owns those boats? I'm afraid It's a Karelian.

"Let's go, let's go forward at full speed, and we will catch up before the boat escapes!"

Arik immediately issued the order, and the Mercury, which had a manned propeller, began to enter its top speed.

Those long boats are even more commanding. They retracted their sails, and one by one big oars stretched into the water, like a huge water strider rushing fast on the surface.

If the boss asks for a job, the brothers will not do anything.

Looking at the canoe, the angler on the boat naturally noticed the abnormality, and instinct drove the fishermen to row and escape for their lives.

Looking at the squadron entering the combat state, the fleet is advancing at the fastest speed it can achieve. Soon, they saw a lonely canoe, with three ships in front of them all running for their lives.

The two sides have completely unequal strength, just like the leopard chasing a rabbit, and the result is naturally the victory of the Ross Squadron.

The flaunting Ross fighters forced the canoe to a halt, the soldiers screamed, and even drowned out the enquiry shouts of the accompanying Corvins.

The Corvin saw the frightened fisherman on the fishing boat. There are men, women and even children here. They are trembling with fright, but their faces are familiar and even kind to the Corvin people.

There was a canoe with a torsion slingshot from the hull of a big projectile ship. It was quickly silent, and the drowned caught the dropped cable and pulled it onto the Mercury.

The other two boats saw the situation, and the fishermen were completely arrested. They were easily captured by the Ross people who were on the boat. They were **** and twisted to the flagship Mercury.

They are all frightened rabbits. The man looks calm, but in fact he is frightened stiff like a wood, only his big open eyes are trembling. The woman was shivering with fright and curled up in her arms to hold the crying child.

For these people, don't want to make Arik have any compassion. If he starts to kill, he doesn't mind holding an axe and slashing over. After all, he will be cruel and cruel if he does more of this kind of thing.

After all, Arik behaved very rationally on this issue. Even if he was beheaded, he would have to do it after obtaining useful information.

He urged Telavis: "Boy, it would be great if you knew the language of these captives. I hope you can understand Karelian."

"let me try."

This face of Telavis made the captive feel a little safe. He sat down and asked casually. What made him gratified, although the other party's language was a bit strange, it seemed that it was only some vocabulary modified.

Is it a Karelian? The captive denied it.

The woman and the child are still huddled together, obviously not wanting these people to cooperate. Only the captured man claimed that he was not a Karelian at all.

Who are they? A word called "Vipslene".

Vipslane? Are they in harmony with the Karelians?

The words of the captives were also very clear They Vipslane, or the Vips, existed as servants of the Karelians.

From this, Telavis accurately judged that the Ross Squadron finally officially entered the control area of ​​the Karelian forces. The Duke’s previous estimate was also very correct. The boats of the seemingly powerful Karelians are also common canoes in Finland. This kind of boat is more advanced than the raft, and encountering the Ross ship is tantamount to shaking the tree.

Perhaps it was a young child who was worthy of trust. The captive explained some very crucial information that the entire squadron needs most to observe.

The captive made it clear and plain, and when Telavis relayed it, Arik was ecstatic...

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