Chapter 782： Cavalry

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The Ross and Danish fighters who have experienced many battles have seen a new way of fighting. The Pecheneg cavalry and the Frankish cavalry they have encountered are completely two tactics. The Frankish cavalry are brave, because they dare to rush and assassinate with a cavalry spear. On the other hand, the Pechenegs, they shoot an arrow and run away!

Smart people such as Arik and Ragnar, they can realize the disgusting and cowardly of this tactic. Pechenegg's archers ran away as soon as they shot their arrows. In order to dodge the arrows, the warriors could only use their shields to resist. They just wanted to counterattack the enemy and ran away.

Of course, Arik also thought of the soldiers in the array to restrain themselves with crossbows. It's just that both sides are good at archery. Does the Ross army still have an absolute bow advantage? At least one thing is certain, if the Russ are all infantry, they can defeat them at best, it would be too difficult to complete the annihilation.

Only a few people realized the advantages of the Pecheneg cavalry, and most people just watched the excitement.

The show finally ended, and when all the performances were over, the gathered crowds retreated one after another.

This night, the ten cavalry soldiers who performed fully were treated with high courtesy. They are just slave warriors in the tribe, and now they have become guests of Prince Ross!

Naturally, their former owner Kagan was present again.

A small banquet can be regarded as the beginning and end of today's work, so Rurik officially accepted the ten men as his subordinates.

Let's look at the ten cavalrymen gathered together to kneel on one knee, accepting the order of "Ros Khan".

"Now you are all my servants, and you will work for me in the future. You must do your responsibilities, and if there is any betrayal, you will be hanged in public. As long as you perform your duties, you will get stable food, clothing, and housing. And an allowance. When you get older, I will reward you women and eventually become my shepherd and raise more horses for me, and your son will also work for me."

This relationship is good, and the brothers who work for Prince Ross can get more.

They all said yes.

"Very good. Just sit down! Finally drank my wine, you are my warriors..."

The people who can be selected by Kagan must be the elite of the Pecheneg people, and these ten people must be qualified to become officers.

They each reported their own names. The names in various Turkic languages ​​really confuses Rurik. They learned the true meaning of their representatives. The names are nothing special.

Some are called "Langya", some are called "Big Arm", some are called "Arrow Feather", and some are called "Big Eyes"...

As the name suggests, the soldier named "Big Eyes", among the many children of the small-eyed grassland, this person has big eyes.

They have a variety of names. Because they are all slaves, the naming rights belong to the master in theory, so it is naturally impossible to take any elegant names. In other words, the names of the Pecheneg people are generally taken randomly, and there are no rules and they are quite random.

Kagan's own name is quite particular, meaning "Khan's Sabre." This is like the Viking lord naming his son "Bjorn", the so-called "lord's attendant."

None of the Pechenegs has a surname, or the surname is meaningless to them, especially for a group of slaves.

Even the concept of surnames lacks practical significance for most of the people under the jurisdiction of the Rus Principality. It is only the coercive measures taken by Rurik that make the living Slavs of the Novgorod region have a wide range of meaningful surnames.

At least these ten people must have a surname so that they can be easily managed after serving as cavalry officers.

They were half drunk with each other, and when Rurik had an idea, he pointed at the people clockwise according to his current seat, and rewarded them with what they called the last name.

"You are called one, you are called two, you are called three...you are called ten. This is your attribution name (the concept of surname), and you will call yourself your first name in the future. You must add this to the end."

Rurik spoke in a Slavic language that they could understand. What choice could a group of slaves have, the new master gave the surname, and the brothers would just be grateful.

In the previous warm period, the city of Novgorod was in large-scale construction, and the movement of building houses is still continuing. You can get rewards for building a house for the prince, and you can mix in one day's ration at the last time. Lurik spent a lot of money on this, thanks to this year's grain yield and the fleet looted a batch of grain in Frank and Britain, which was a good way to cover the financial expenditure.

It is undeniable that there are currently a number of good-quality woodcuts in the city that are idle. They were built to cope with the future population expansion, and now they come in handy.

Each of the ten will be a cavalry officer, and each of them will be assigned a woodcut leng to live temporarily, so that they can live a better life than the regular mercenaries of Rurik, and are in fact similar to those of the same clan who still live in the barn. The ground draws a clear line.

The temporary lives of these ten people are still resting. They have the right to move freely in the city, and they do not need to spend their own money for three meals a day. Their personal weapons and armors are still in seizure, including their own mounts are still being kept for breeding.

In fact, all the Pecheneg people are in a state of leisure. The people who live in the barn will spend their own expenses from now on, and their owner, Kagan, is responsible for living expenses. In this way, how to spend the money is See Kagan's own wishes.

In his opinion, his Rurik brothers have done their best. The subordinates live in the brother's warehouse without spending money. What he wants to pay is the food for the remaining forty subordinates and the food for forty war horses. Rurik is in stable supply, and the price of oats has stabilized at ten pounds per silver coin.

Compared with people, the brothers' horses are the most important. In the hometown of the grassland, horses can still eat turf in winter, even after a winter, the horses of the entire tribal alliance are in an extremely weak state. It's not that everyone deliberately abused their horses, it's all because of the lack of seasonal factors in the pasture. In addition, when the pasture is luxuriant, the horse herd has entered the breeding period. Therefore, in the eyes of many grassland people, it is necessary to raise troops in winter and spring. Waiting for the strongest season of war horses in autumn is the best time to start a war. .

It is precisely this factor that the horse team of Kagan and his entourage set out in late summer and arrived in Ross in early winter. If you change the season, the horse can live to death...

Even so, the horses that arrived in Ross were very weak. Thanks to the large amount of oats provided by the Ross people, the weak horses recovered quickly.

Everyone loves horses. Kagan used to be incapable. Now that he has money, he immediately buys oatmeal to feed the horses.

In this way, Rurik directly negotiated with Kagan about a preferential feeding agent price. It is said that each horse stays in the stable every day and does not go out without tasks. The standard meal for each horse is five pounds of oats a day, supplemented by a small amount of yellow. Root carrot and cabbage. Even if the vegetable supply is a preferential category, labor costs and venue costs are exempted, and the hard expenditure of 200 pounds of wheat a day for 40 horses must be paid.

200 pounds of oats a day? Isn't it just two pounds of silver coins in ten days?

I heard that the winter in this lake area will end in early March. The brothers have to wear it here for five months. The cost of feeding forty horses is a large amount.

Rurik is very reasonable, and the cost of raising horses as an agent for this winter has accumulated to 30 pounds of silver coins.

In contrast, people’s food costs are much less.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to rest, Kagan did not hesitate to wander around Novgorod. He bought new leather clothes for himself, and also specially bought sunglasses for his subordinates, which was very costly.

The glassware sold by the Ross people fascinated him, and he couldn't stop using the flower-scented soap for bathing.

Buying, buying and buying is another payment of wealth.

Even so, he still feels that he is making a lot of money!

Nowadays, because of the mass production of die-cast glassware, they have become so much cheaper that they were originally extremely expensive, so that you can buy a glass plate with five silver coins, and a glass cup with ten silver coins. Kagan hurriedly bought more, and immediately stuffed a large amount of withered grass in the wooden box, and sealed the stacked glass tableware.

As for simple colored glass bead pendants and necklaces, he also bought a few sets, so-called take them back to his mother, sisters, and beloved wife, and as a tool to win over the leaders of the alliance.

It was just three days, and the one hundred pounds of silver coins for selling horses had already been spent at seventy pounds!

Among them, he also ordered ten Ross steel swords, and even with ten gold coins donated by Rurik, the young local craftsmen melted the gold coins and plated them on the sword.

The so-called silver coin is indeed a commonly used accounting tool in Ross, and the income from Kagan's horse sales was earned back by Lurik in a short period of time.

On the other hand, Rurik has given the order to form the cavalry, and he needs some time to wait for the selected people to assemble in Novgorod.

Of the one hundred horses purchased, ten of the best mares will be fully used for breeding. Of the remaining ninety horses, eighty will be pure war horses, and the last ten will be noble mounts.

People such as Arik, Jeflo, Medvete, etc., everyone must learn to ride a horse and learn to manipulate weapons on horseback.

Let's say that the 80 riders with the 80 war horses cannot have a single source, or even select the riders, and Rurik will use them as a tool of control.

The Sixth Banner Team, with all young members, selected 30 people, 25 people from the most loyal White Tree Manor, no one from Aostala, and five people each from the Calf and Angler Manor (including A son of the leader).

There are also ten traditional lakeside estates that firmly surrendered to the rule of Ross after the counter-insurgency war. Their boyar leader must hand over a son to join the cavalry.

Among the eighty cavalrymen who have collected so much, there are also restrictions on the age of the personnel. The so-called minimum age is fifteen years old, and the upper limit is twenty years old.

Thirty people are boys from Ross's home, and the remaining fifty are pure Slavs.

The cavalry unit should be the elite. Of course, Rurik wants to build a team composed entirely of Ros’s people. The current situation dictates that the cavalry unit will not only be a mixed unit, but the internal language is also Slavic.

The order has already been issued, and the selected personnel are required to arrive early, especially those manor owners who handed over their sons to be cavalry. If they miss the date, they will be disrespectful and should be punished.

The people in White Tree Manor were really happy about this. They looked majestic and majestic on horseback. If they had a choice, the boy would naturally be more willing to be a cavalryman.

The Rus Principality pursues a simple civic soldier system. All men have the obligation to serve as soldiers. In this regard, the Slavs and all Vikings including the Rus have reached a complete consensus, but everyone is destined to be only infantry. Now being a cavalry has become a new choice.

Medvedt is responsible for his share of 25 people, and according to the requirements of the prince, he will quickly select qualified personnel. First of all, they are young fighters in the Slavic flag team. The average age is only 21 years old. Even so, many of them participated in the big battle in Gotland many years ago with their immature posture, and there have been many battles since then. Participate. They are still young, and there is nothing to say about their loyalty.

Although Fisker, the captain of the Sixth Banner Team, could not step down as captain to become a cavalry, he still implemented the issue of being ordered to select people. In the settlement of their youth city, a competition within the flag team was held immediately. Although I don't know what it means to form a cavalry team, at least the selected personnel must be strong. They competed in wrestling in the snow, and also competed in archery, and competed out 30 boys in a more gentle way.

Duchess of Ostara, Carlotta, became the five riders. She wrote a letter that the long boat sailed on Lake Ilmen where there was already ice floes. The letter arrived at the Fortress of New Ostara. The five candidates will be selected soon. Certainly. Even if this once extremely desolate tribe lacks men, it is okay to gather five 15-year-old boys. Of course, Rurik also considered their practical factors, and this only required five people.

The Calf Manor and the Angler Manor stood firmly in the camp of Prince Ross in the counter-insurgency war. They enjoyed a lot of post-war dividends. Today, the two leaders have no worries about the issue of being a cavalry. They didn't just hand over one son, but also their nephew. A total of ten boys handed over by the two men were all intimate with themselves because they didn't want to let go of this shortcut that could make future generations prosperous.

But how many other ten manor owners, how many of them have this kind of consciousness?

Because of geographical isolation, they only knew that a group of horseback riders from the south had gone to the north, and they basically didn't know the identity of the riders. What does it mean for the prince to build a cavalry unit? Mostly for better control.

The prince ordered to hand over his son to be a cavalryman, and the owner of the manor took it for granted that this was a behavior similar to proton.

What else can I do? Without surrendering his son of the right age, the lord's thunder anger would be bad as soon as it came.

The departure of the youngest son means the complete loss of inheritance rights to the manor. Naturally, the eldest son of the manor owner is happiest. However, the child's mother thought about it, always felt that the son would not come once he went, and became a slave-like existence who only obeyed the prince's orders.

This kind of thing was happening in many manor houses, and the boy who was desperate to become a cavalry for a while was also panicked, as if he was going to Novgorod by boat to break into the fire.

The personnel have been assembled one after another, and they have different expectations for their own future.

Especially the sons of the manor, they came trembling, what they saw and heard was not what they expected.

They saw a herd of fat and sturdy horses, all mounted on saddles, horse bits and reins.

A group of prairie people on horseback stood majestic behind the horses.

look! The blond man.

Who else could it be if it wasn't Prince Rurik? !

Indeed, Rurik fearlessly feared the north wind, letting his blond hair follow the wind to praise. Although the weather is good today, the wind is slightly stronger, showing the desolation of Northland. Look at this group of Turkic wild horses. In addition to eating oats and carrots every day, their manes are also growing wildly these days. They should be gradually consuming their physical energy, but they are stronger and stronger. They are completely different from their counterparts who spend the winter on the grassland and are physiologically sluggish.

While Kagan was shopping in the city, Rurik was busy equestrianism.

Most of the running-in period has passed, the mounts I have chosen are obviously very high in IQ, and the orders given are all well implemented. This horse received an elegant name. The so-called "Monkbjorn" and the so-called "Black Guard" are indeed a domineering name in Viking culture.

It was Rurik who issued the assembly order It was seen that the boy who had been selected ignorantly gathered in the open space outside the city and was blowing in the cold wind. He rubbed his feet against the horse belly, and the horse walked slowly.

Prince Ross reviewed his subordinates from an absolute bird's-eye view and gave a brief lecture.

He did not dare any more and ordered: "The gentle and powerful steeds are here. Go and choose your own horses! Remember, those who choose steeds must swear to treat their horses kindly. It is your comrade-in-arms and your future. family……"

A humorous horse picking event began. Under the watchful eyes of Kagan and other Pechenegg cavalry, a large group of young novice knights chose their mounts. Curiosity and joy were all written on their faces, they subconsciously stroked the horse's mane, and hugged the horse's head again. The sons of the manor who had been worried, this chin couldn't immediately learn to ride a horse, in order to have the majestic appearance like a prince.

In Kagan's view, these young people must not have the talent for riding horses like Prince Rurik.

Next, Prince Pechenegger's own as the chief coach, train these yellow-haired guys into cavalry! By the way, I can also earn a tuition fee and purchase a batch of materials so that I can bring it back to my hometown next year.