Chapter 842： Cavalry Parade

The new war horses are all nailed with iron horseshoes, and each horse has a simple saddle made of leather and a stirrup made of rope temporarily.

Formal horse riding gear is still being produced in various hand-crafted workshops. They are mainly a mixture of leather and hemp. Once they are ready, they will be immediately supplied to the troops.

The first task of the new cavalry is to learn how to ride a horse, which is a big challenge for extremely young boys.

They have to learn to build an intimate relationship with the horses they allocate, learn to sit on a simple saddle to endure the discomfort of their buttocks, and adapt to the bumps of horses during exercise, and even learn the Turkic vocabulary for horse control.

Kagan and his Pechenegg’s most elite cavalry were good coaches, and Rurik himself rode on horseback as the best supervisor.

After the first seven days of special training, the children fell horses frequently, thanks to the softer snow. Some people suffered minor internal injuries but this was only the case.

Most of the children aspire to be mighty and invincible cavalry, even if they fall from a horse, they will desperately get up.

For the first time a child with good savvy rides on a horseback, he tightens the reins and kicks on the noose with his feet. The whole person is like growing on a horseback.

People with poor understanding have to practice more.

To be fair, the Pecheneg people knew the purpose of the Ross people buying horses from the beginning, and they knew that they had to be kind to their friends from afar, so that they could successfully exchange for a batch of strategic materials that the tribal alliance urgently needed. Kagan led this national mission. When the tribes took out their horses, he selected them, and selected the young and docile ones.

No inferior horse was imported into the Ross, or the Pecheneg grassland Turkic horse was naturally docile.

The main lineage of the horses exported by the Pecheneg is an older Mongolian horse, mixed with a small amount of the lineage of the desert horse. The docile appearance has not changed, and the overall quality of the horse has been slightly improved. It is also of this kind of blood, cold resistance and amazing endurance, and this is the only way to continue the march for three months to reach Novgorod.

The exhaustion along the way made all the horses lose too much weight. They marched against the river and replenished energy by gnawing on the dead grass along the river.

When they arrived at their destination, most of the horses were unable to ride. They were confined in a warm pen, fed a lot of oats and carrots, and their physical fitness quickly recovered.

Until now, the horses bought by the Ross people are still delicious and delicious.

In recent months, horses and their new owners have been busy training, and the coldest months of January and early February are high-intensity cavalry training. At least Kagan has always thought this is absurd according to his knowledge. The weather is too cold, horses running around in the open will lose their fat crazily.

Kagan has completely shut up in the face of the new situation, because the Ross people have oats and wheat, and their Rurik brothers are really willing to invest in feed.

The long mane of each horse is made into strange braids by their owner, just like their owner's own face.

All Viking people have a special obsession with their hair and beards. Even children, their chins grow golden fluff and start to renew their beards. When they are long enough, they tie them up like tiny cables.

The long mane on the horse’s neck is exactly the same, and wealthier children can also add drilled amber flakes or simply drilled glass blocks, which is beautiful and serves as a marker to prove that it is their own mount.

The training of the young cavalry is very lively!

Hundreds of horsemen were riding around outside the city. Because it was still early in the spring ploughing and all the flat fields were covered with snow, Rurik unscrupulously allowed his new cavalry to run around the wider world. A large amount of horse dung is left directly in the field that has not melted snow. They are a kind of treasure.

The damp and hot horse dung was quickly frozen into ice lumps, and Rurik sent a sled to collect it, and then threw it into a huge woodcut with a special overall constant temperature and humidity that was inaudible. It was here. Ferment all kinds of manure. It is really disgusting. Viking immigrants and Russ who love to clean up stay away, even if there are rumors that these things can make the land fertile.

Although the manure fertility of cattle, sheep and horses is very limited, it is different after fermentation.

More importantly, during this fermentation process, nitrifying bacteria will multiply wildly, and a part of the fermented feces will undergo a more foul-smelling process such as cooking and precipitation, and finally some whitish soil nitrate will be obtained. The finished product is already a very good potash fertilizer, but the output is at the laboratory level. Rurik needed it for military purposes, and as an auxiliary tool for bow drills to get fire.

All human and animal manure and urine can be collected and collected as much as possible. So far, Viking immigrants and Ruths no longer need to search for natural soil under the roots of dead wood to make "tinder". The self-made products have far exceeded the needs of the army during picnics. quantity. As for transforming it into a more powerful weapon, it is only at Rurik's own will.

The large amount of horse dung left after the cavalry training will be taken away immediately. In such daily training, the cavalry walks their horses in a neat and tidy area.

All the young cavalrymen formed a dense column in the morning and walked in a big circle, and in the afternoon they organized a small group to run a single vertical and short distance.

Those 100 recurve bows that were traded have not yet been equipped with troops, but they have become a kind of rewards designed by Rurik.

Rurik is planning a cavalry outing at the end of the winter. It has been ten days since the special training, and all the new soldiers have learned to ride horses.

They are equivalent to getting a driver's license, although they still have a long time to improve their skills. They are in the internship period and need a horse-riding excursion to improve quickly.

Look at the cavalry now! They put on uniform costumes. Although they were far from participating in the battle early, everyone did not even call them cavalry. They rode horses to form a dense formation, which was really quite mighty.

In ten days, the entire hand-tailor workshop in Novgorod has never stopped, especially the relocation of the entire workshop from Mälaren to Novgorod Vodgen. This man made a lot of work for the ready-made garment industry in the Duchy of Russia. A set of standards. Those housewives who take the opportunity to make a fortune by mobilized labor are widely used as seasonal temporary labor in the "first garment factory in the Principality", and they must accept the standards of the garment factory.

The tailor's standard was established by Fodgen. For this elderly man, he was hired by Prince Ross as the head of the garment factory. With the high salary bestowed by the Prince, he can continue to run his own factory. His desire to make a fortune securely in this life has been realized, and his children will inherit their status as a matter of course.

Fodgen was a proper doer. When the prince placed a state order, he naturally ordered his slave laborers to work overtime in order to get an extra bonus.

The female manager of the state-run garment factory is Blomma, the mother of Rurik’s young love general Fisker. She and her sisters are only responsible to the prince himself as a tailor. Based on a set of non-strict labor schedules set by the king, it is ordered to tailor garments. The finished products will be given priority to the army, and the rest will be put on the market.

Fodgen is the general consultant of product quality control and the person in charge of the garment factory, but his energy is more focused on his own workshop. Those slave laborers were just serving as cattle and horses for Fodgen. Since most of the slave labor had been bought by Rülic and put under Broma's management, Fodgen's own "horse and cows" were already quite small. Even so, in order to get more benefits, these slaves can only "pulling" all day long.

In this unequal social environment, it would be an honor for a slave to be a bull and a horse for King Ross. This does not mean that Rurik is a good man. The fundamental reason for giving more benefits to private slaves is that the prince controls the most wealth of the principality. If you give a little to the slave, your living conditions will be completely new.

What he needs is the work of tailors, and within ten days, enough bearskin coats and hats have been made.

The young cavalry all have white "Wushanka hats", and the other name is *** hats. The leatherized bear skin is cut and stitched, and the key parts are coated with loose glue for reinforcement. It doesn't have much defensive ability, so it is more suitable as a hat against the cold. But it's such a form, entirely out of Rurik's preference.

Making barreled Caucasus papa hats is another option, and Rurik still chooses the former. Without him, Wushanka hat can cover the ears and the whole cheek, which is too suitable for the extremely cold north.

In addition to the fur, the young cavalry has a uniform white bear leather jacket with sleeves sewn on the leather vest. The overall appearance is more self-cultivation, which is more suitable for sports with arms on horseback.

The trousers are also uniform. This is a mixed stitch of coarse and fine linen. Their overall style is larger. This is suitable for the fast-growing bodies of young cavalry, making a pair of trousers usable for many years. As for the long trouser legs, it’s never a problem. The Slavs are better at making leather boots than all Viking tribes. The brown boots made of deerskin and wool felt are also large in size. The warrior’s trouser legs are too long to fit easily.

The little warrior’s legs are short, and the feet are wrapped in a few more layers of cloth, and the trouser legs are stuffed into the boots. Valley

They wore snow camouflage to a considerable extent, and an astonishing number of polar bears turned into their clothes. Some blue cloth strips were deliberately sewn on the white leather jackets, including their white fur, and the forehead guard of the front face of the Wushanka hat was sewn with interlaced blue stripes, as if to put the flag of Rose on his forehead.

They don't yet have their own sabers, and the belts are hung with integrated daggers and hand axes.

They all raised a spear about three meters in length, and the polished carbon steel spear head shone in the sun. Each spearhead is tied with blue and red cloth strips, which adds to the military's might with multiple colors.

What's more wonderful is that all the children wear wooden frame sunglasses to protect their eyes from the glare of the snow.

The cavalry assembled in such a posture, as the chief coach Kagan and his Pecheneg soldiers looked intently, and all took a breath.

More than ten days ago, the children who saw the assembled armored steppe cavalry for the first time were afraid and timid.

The Pechenegg army in the current round was shocked.

Kagan knows that these children are currently incompetent, but it is a short time before they become excellent cavalry.

The Neo-Russ cavalry and Pecheneg cavalry assembled an army of six hundred horses. If this is an elite force and rushes to the territory of the Frankish kingdom, it can be burned, looted, and looted.

Wearing new clothes and holding a spear, the humble person has become a member of the mighty division, and the young warrior is very confident. Everyone just wants the princes and princes to gather together. For this reason, everyone has brought enough dry food, and even the saddles are hung in sacks, which are filled with oatmeal for feeding horses.

Rurik held the reins and controlled the horses to set on the snow and preached again: "Young cavalry! This time I will patrol the entire Ilmen Lake before spring plowing. I will patrol all the villages and all the subjects. . You are the fighters I rely on, and the most important military force of the Principality. Now follow me to complete the great tour to prove that you have controlled the horses..."

Speaking of excitement, Rurik drew out his steel sword abruptly, the blade pointed directly at the sky.

Upon seeing this, all the young cavalry raised their spears high, shouting at Ullah as Rurik had taught them.

Thousands of people admired the assembly of cavalry, including Otto, who put on his shirt again and admired his son's brilliant actions with the help of his attendants.

The forehead of every young cavalry bears Rose's Peugeot, and the interlaced blue stripes are the oars.

Old Otto watched all this with a calm face and pressed his tear ducts with willpower, so that he did not burst into tears because of excessive excitement. He never thought that Ross would be able to form a huge cavalry force, or that a few years ago he had never thought that there could be a new type of cavalry. Since cavalry exists in other countries, it would be foolish for Ross not to form his own cavalry.

In the sound of the horn, the Ross cavalry mixed with the Pecheneg cavalry began a counterclockwise armed parade around Lake Ilmen.

The spears are riding towards the sky, like a moving grove. The horse teams line up in double columns, forming a team that is nearly one kilometer in length.

The young cavalrymen talked and laughed along the way. Most of them were Russ, and they were not too long since they were born. Everyone is ignorant. They learned that the world is vast and beyond the cognition of mortals through education. He didn't measure the earth in a down-to-earth manner, and didn't make a big circle around Ilmen Lake, especially to do it on horseback.

The cavalry team deliberately circled the city of Mstisk, the old Rus, to let the people take a good look at the cavalry of the Russ, and to let the parents of some children know how prestigious they are now as the sons of the cavalry.

As for the cavalry team to arrive at the dozens of villages built along the lake like a bead to house the "hidden people," a powerful deterrent with military power is a major purpose.

The people stood on both sides of the icy road and paid attention to the mighty cavalry. They saw Prince Ross himself, and they took off their hats and saluted them. More people just watched.

Rurik didn't ask for more, and he didn't bother to order these people to kneel and kowtow. He just wanted these people to take a good look at the demeanor of the Ross cavalry, implying that they would weigh their own weight.

The huge cavalry team successfully arrived at the rest stop of this patrol-New Ostara.

As a prince, Rurik also has to take a good look at what her woman has built into the southern important town of the Principality.

The first cavalry squad was stationed in the south of the lake, and the young cavalry hurriedly mounted their horses to meet their princes. Even Carlotta got on the mount and had a horse meeting with her man.

The heart of ecstasy was beating, and Carlotta wanted to jump on Rurik's saddle.

"This is your brand new cavalry? It's really mighty." Carlotta couldn't think of any more compliments, and her face was already distorted by the exaggerated smile.

Rülik smiled slightly and stared at the city. He saw Svalgard, Duke of Gran, who came here to visit a few days ago. This man also rode a horse, showing this man in a cautious manner. His riding skills are extremely clumsy.

"Carrota You run New Aostara very well."

"That's natural. How? Come to my city for a good rest?"

Rurik nodded: "I just meant it. I want to take a good look at my Karl and you." After all, he deliberately opened his arms, "I didn't bring any women with me this time, you know. ..."

Carlotta understood completely, she nodded with a knowing smile, and then ordered her subordinates to open the gate of the wall.

He also said: "Although my city is small, it is enough for this army to live in. The accommodation conditions are certainly not as good as Novgorod."

"It's okay, I don't even need you to provide extra support. Let's go, I'm going to the city to take a rest."

It was at this time that Svalgard consciously caught the opportunity to interrupt, and he hurriedly screamed to attract Rurik's attention.

"You? I just want to ask you, how do you see and hear in the south? My Carlotta is an old friend with you. Does it remind you of the past a long time ago?"

Svalgard replied very simply: "Prince, I am even willing to remove the title of duke. I intend to move all Granites here to guard the southern border of the Ross Principality for you. We Grans are too few, and there is no one at all. You are the only true hero to claim the qualifications of the duchy."

This was quite surprising to Rurik, but the man was quite self-aware.

"If you want to, just do it. My southern border population is too small. With hundreds of Granites, my southern defense pressure is much less. I'm tired. My army and my allies want Go to the city to cultivate. Carlotta!"

"Ok."

"I hope your remaining stable can carry six hundred new horses."

"It doesn't matter, I will breed more horses for you in the future. I have built many stables in advance."