Chapter 1061： Southward Conspiracy

All the cavalry squads that were released came back one after another, but there was one team that had not returned for a long time.

It was Ureko's team, and they were probably going to investigate far away. There is no need to worry about their safety. These ruthless people have experienced many **** battles, and they have rich experience in wild survival.

It doesn't matter that a ten-man team is not merged. Captain Fisk believes that they have their own destiny.

For Fisk, in the name of the great King Rurik, assisting the Principality of Ostara to establish a new stronghold with the South in this non-war period is a major task. He still has huge management power over the first cavalry team. After all, the king has gone to the capital and has no ability to remotely command the cavalry. Fisk, who is in power, can fully exercise his power. What he wants to do is to further explore the information in the distance and pave the way for Ross's future expansion.

A military stronghold called Vitebsk was about to be established, and after a few days of rest, Fisk had already left to gather his men.

Currently, there are only ten squads of the regular army under the First Cavalry Corps gathered in Lukiholm (Greater Luki), and since one squad has not returned, only nine squads of ninety people are really under the control of Fisk.

The 90 people were expanded and full after the war ended last year. There are some recruits in them, and the overall combat effectiveness has weakened.

Even so, they were the strongest marines in the kingdom.

Fortunately, the Principality of Ostara has changed from a navigator to a horse-riding force. They have contracted a considerable part of the horse-raising work. While providing the regular army with excellent horses, they keep the inferior horses for their own use. Although it is an inferior horse, it still has good strength after being recuperated and trained. The cavalry soldiers of the Principality of Ostara belong to the semi-productive civic soldiers, so that the horses and riders have a visible gap with the regular cavalry.

Considering that the recent Polotsk tribe did not even have cavalry, even the inferior cavalry still had a strong tactical advantage.

Since Duchess Carlotta thought of the name of the new settlement, it made sense for her to send her own people to build the settlement. As the Ostara cavalry is not strong, it must be appropriate for the soldiers to act as the labor force for building houses and stacking wooden walls.

King Rurik wanted to do his own thing in the north, and even sailed to Lake Mälaren to inspect the Swedish world and worship at the Great Temple of Uppsala.

A sprawling kingdom, the various Viking powers living in the seas of the north finally usher in peace. However, based on the current limited communication technology, Rurik could not personally manage this huge area.

The basic board of the kingdom is still the part of the Duchy of Rus, and the place managed by the governors is the core of the duchy, and it is also the real strength of the Rus Kingdom. The governors were either blood relatives or relatives by marriage. There are also some earls in remote areas, their existence is equivalent to "border earls", and their bloodline is either from the blood of the old Rus, or the new Rus who joined later. Due to the distance from the core area, granting them independent power is a low-cost means of maintaining the stability of the kingdom.

The Ross version of the "Country and State Parallel System" already exists. The closer each region is to the core region, the greater the king's management authority.

Just like the Principality of Ostara, she is an existence between an allied kingdom like Denmark and a Russian vassal. Just like the relationship between Carlotta and Rurik, they are husband and wife and siblings.

In this way, Ostara's expansion has really strong autonomy in law, and it is not necessary to ask Rurik for instructions. Besides, the time cost is too high to send someone to ask him for instructions.

As the saying goes, there is something wrong with the life of a foreign monarch, and Carlotta herself is a duchess. She was authorized by Rurik to mobilize the first cavalry of the kingdom for her own use, so she really began to exercise her power.

After all, the First Cavalry Corps was an elite force, and most of the personnel had to stay in the rear to continue training and keep in touch with the new town of Lukiholm in the south through the passage along the Lovady River.

Fisk decided to act conservatively. The more troops, the more consumption. The 300 cavalry cavalry team dispatched collectively only to fight. Now there is obviously no war, and dispatching one-third of the troops is enough.

But 100 rides are too few in Carlota's view!

In this way, the total number of cavalry of Lukiholm was still forcibly expanded to 300 cavalry, and Carlota went out of it. She mobilized her own people, and the merging Granites, and just pieced together 200 cavalry for Fisk to dispatch.

Fisker, who was so kind, had no choice but to claim these weak cavalry. "At least you'll be good builders."

In 841, a whole new situation was faced for the Kingdom of Rus and the entire Viking world.

The Danes deliberately raged in the western seas, some plundered Britain, and some entered the Rhine River and entered the hinterland of Western Europe to further armed intervention in the Frankish Civil War.

In the Ross Duchy of Ross, Rurik wanted to lick his wounds after the war and cultivated enough strength to expand again. As for the Swedish part, the Gotaland part, and the Finnish part, since Rurik announced that there was no large-scale war, the noble lords of various places were happy to peacefully produce and trade.

Only the Principality of Ostara, they were victims of the invasion war, and now they have turned the offensive, and they have become the vanguard of Eastern European expansion.

Carlotta has the strategic initiative, as well as huge strategic and tactical advantages.

Because, she knows the macro map of the Eastern European world.

The paper outlines the map, the black lines describe the land and the sea, the black lines inside the land describe the rivers and their basic directions, and the circles are the proven lakes. The picture is a painting by Rurik. He did not know the exact direction of the river, but he was able to depict the direction of the key river pretty well by understanding the territory of the Eastern European countries in later generations, especially the basic understanding of the Soviet-German war in World War II.

No one expects Rurik to draw accurately, as long as the explorer is informed of the existence of such a river, and then the latter personally finds it and draws it through some surveying and mapping methods.

Today, anyone who has received a Ross-style cultural education is convinced that Misrad (the human world) is a giant sphere.

In Ross, "Flat Earth" has no market at all among young people and nobles, "Earth" is the truth and can be practiced.

On the summer solstice, set up a stika-high wooden column, measure the length of the sun shadow at noon, and calculate the dimensions inversely.

The dimension of Lukiholm has been measured, and then a surprising conclusion has been drawn—10° lower than that of the old town of Roseburg, and 4° lower than the capital of New Roseburg.

What is the use of such a measurement? Very useful.

Due to the stika, a unit of length used by the Nordics, Rurik felt that it was as close to the meter as it looked. That being the case, estimate the two to be equal.

Rurik is considered the founder of "Russian Geography and Mapping", and he rudely interprets stika with the meter. Since the circumference of the earth is considered to be 40,000 kilometers in a circle, it is simply regarded as 40,000 kilostika, so-called 40,000 rosli. In this way, if the dimensions differ by 1°, it can be estimated that the difference is 110 kilostika (rosli) on the earth.

This has great strategic significance for the military, and people who built their strongholds in Lukiholm were able to estimate their straight-line distances from Novgorod and Novgorod Fort. Then, by knowing the speed of the horses in a day, we can boldly infer the speed of personnel exchanges. Another way of understanding is that once Lukiholm is attacked by foreign enemies, the defenders can infer that the reinforcements are theoretically the fastest reinforcements. Time, even if he abandoned the city and escaped, he could estimate how long it would take to retreat to the north.

This is Carlotta's choice, the choice of the Principality of Ostara, and she is actively expanding it on behalf of Rose. She is very clear that she must be responsible for the decision to expand, and if the expansion is frustrated, she will take full responsibility.

However, once the expansion is successful, the Principality of Ostara is a miracle, and Ross also achieves the strategic suppression of Smolensk.

"As long as I build Vitebsk, the river traffic will be blocked. In the future, the guys from Riga will not be able to contact Smolensk. Smolensk will not be able to obtain sea salt, nor will it be possible to sell grain and leather. Change the iron."

This is her strategy, an extremely sinister and murderous conspiracy. She was sure that if she acted like this, she would meet the counterattack of the other party.

She has no turning back, almost all of Ostara's cavalry has been handed over to Fisk, enough for the general to carry out military adventures.

She is indeed very sincere. If her son Carl is ten years older, it is natural to participate in the action. She felt that she was pregnant with Rurik's second crystallization, and this body was not suitable for military operations. From the rear, she brought the leader of the Granites, Svalgard, the current general of the Principality of Ostara, to command the cavalry and accept the command of Fisk.

This is a good thing. The weak Ostara cavalry happens to be training together with the regular cavalry. The high-intensity training during this critical period just strengthens their strength.

As a result, the grass near Lukiholm became a large-scale training ground.

The infantry is trained here, and the cavalry is also galloping. The latter practiced mounted archery, immediate archery, and dismounted archery, and then learned to thrust cavalry with spears, push against walls, and even charge swords and tomahawks. When the three hundred cavalry attacked, the entire Lukiholm building shook.

According to the plan, the plan to go to the south to build Vitebsk will be delayed until August.

This is a vicious conspiracy!

Why so? The whole month of August is the wheat harvest season in the Yinermen Lake area, as well as the wheat harvest season for the settled tribes in the entire West Dvina River Valley. The economy of the people of the Principality of Ostara is highly dependent on animal husbandry, and the livestock products produced by it are perfectly complementary to other industries in Rus, so that the labor force does not have to focus on growing wheat.

The Ostarans and the Pechenegs have been in close communication for many years. Naturally, they still believe in Odin and the gods in their beliefs. It is inevitable that a certain degree of Turkic transformation will begin in their living habits.

In mid-August, the wheat harvest of the Polotsk community is almost there, right? It happened that the cavalry rushed to the "threshing grass", which is a typical Turkic looting mode.

The cavalry will not get lost. First, since the Polotsk community lives along the river, the cavalry will inevitably encounter it when they run downstream along the West Dvina River. Second, there is Olaf (Old Harold). Elderly mercenaries as guides have a higher success rate.

Since it is a conspiracy, there is no need to hide it.

Old Harold wanted to serve as a guide in the follow-up missions to prove his worth as a guest secretary. He had to lead the way. Because he fully knew that this was Ross's strategy, his back was cold and praised.

Although there is no battle with swords and soldiers, the war has broken out! They want to cut off the lines of communication, they want to cut the necks of the Polotsks, they want to cut off the money route of the settlers in Riga, and they want to cut the salt and iron of the Smolensk people. Ross's move was to fight against the three parties, and he heard what the Duchess Carlotta of Ostara called to imitate the words of King Ross: "Conquering you, what is it with you?"

Wouldn't it be a great honor if he actively contributed to the conquest? To be fair, old Harold despises Vadim's usurpation of power in Smolensk from the bottom of his heart, because it is not upright enough.

It's not as good as Ross's move at all. Since he has decided to conquer, he will suppress the army in a dignified manner. Ross wants to cut off the line of communication. This is the glory of the Vikings.

The Principality of Ostara has an abstract bull's head flag with black stripes on a white background, and is matched with the blue striped flag of Ross on a white background. Mixed cavalry flies two flags at the same time, and the army dresses differently. It is not a problem to sew abstract bull's head patterns on the robes with black cloth strips, the attire of the Ross cavalry is more simple with interlaced blue cloth strips.

The white robes of the two are sewn in exactly the same way, the only difference being the coat of arms they sew.

Now, the fleets drifting on the Lovady River began to transport military supplies, chain mail, a large number of missing arrows and spare short wooden bows and wooden crossbows. Fisk was actively preparing for military action and had little time for himself.

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Just when this plan was completed and the soldiers were sharpening their sharp minions, the long-lost Ureko team finally came back!

Even if they found the source of the Lovati River and walked along the riverside area of ​​the continuously wide river, due to the rain and heavy losses of materials, when they arrived at Lukiholm, they were almost paralyzed.

Seven men and ten horses, the horses were in a little better condition, and the cavalry was exhausted from racing one by one.

Their staggering appearance made the receiver who found their trail almost unrecognizable as their own, thinking it was a small team of horses from Kyiv.

"What's the matter with you? The boss will come back before you can wait. It looks like you are fighting someone?" They were also comrades from the first cavalry team.

The haggard Ureko could only nod his head in acquiescence.

"Eh? No! How come you are only seven people. Where are Eric and the others?"

"Dead in battle!" Ureko replied with a hoarse throat, instantly causing the receiver to be stunned. He said: "Let us go back, I want to report our experience to Boss Fisk and the Duchess. It is very important! It must be fast!"

There must be something big, and the responders hurriedly took the reins of the returner's horses and brought them all back to the wooden walls of Lukiholm.

The Always Squad is back? ! Sure enough, they didn't wander off, but encountered war!

Realizing that the situation was serious, Carlota, Fisk and Svalgard, the three of them jointly held a debriefing meeting with the returning seven.

"You fought the enemy? Who is the enemy?!" As the captain of the cavalry, Fisk asked very directly.

After drinking some honey water and oatmeal, Ureko quickly recovered some physical strength. When he mentioned that he was ashamed of his escape, he did not add any self-beautification and described it as a failed military adventure.

"We discovered a village community called Polotsk, and we tried to loot the locals, but they fought back. Although they were weak, they attacked and killed the three of us..."

In fact, Ureke said a lot, so he told the whole story of the ten cavalry slaughtering the village, and also explained the specific circumstances of the subsequent attack.

Carlotta's forehead wrinkled like a ravine, and her mood was extremely complicated.

Her description of the slaughtering of the village has PDST, after all, the old Ostara suffered from this bad luck. But it is fair to say that the people who were attacked were the Polotsks. Because of their geographical proximity, they had close contacts with Smolensk, the archenemy of Ross. The team's adventure is not worth advocating, but it is not worth any criticism.

"You destroy their village, and it is only natural that all the villagers are furious." Carlota restrained his emotions and asked: "What do you think of their warriors?"

Ureko was stunned for a moment, thinking that he would be punished after being severely scolded, and it seemed that this would not be the case.

Fisk then urged: "Tell me. How do you hold Polotsk's soldiers?"

"The soldiers are weak, and the soldiers have no armor. They use spears, axes, and low-quality bows. We were attacked, and ten brothers killed them. Three brothers died, and the rest should have killed fifty of them."

"It seems that they are really weak." Fisk nodded. "Kill fifty people" is not credible, at least its description is the same as Olaf's description. After all, the latter had recently raided the Polotsk village and captured three prisoners.

"It's really weak."

"Then attack them! We have three brothers dead, so there is enough reason to attack." Fisk first became gritted his teeth, Ureko looked stunned, and quickly realized the captain's true meaning.

At this time, Carlota simply opened the skylight and said bluntly: "We must conquer Polotsk. I have no intention of destroying it. What we want is their submission. So I am in the name of the Duchy of Ostara, the United Kingdom of Rus. In the name of Polotsk, we will use troops against Polotsk. Avenging our dead brother is only a small purpose, our greatest purpose is conquest. You have really fought against them, and your experience must be promoted."

Fisk continued: "You guys came back in time. I will take you south again soon. In fact, whether you come or not, the expedition against Polotsk is also in our plan. Uleko, you Provided first-hand battle information, brothers really can't ask for it!"

Ureko fully understood that no one blamed him for his reckless actions, but instead got a reward. Obviously, it is not that he is reckless, but that the big men have the ambition to swallow the sky.

"I'm the captain, and I still want to avenge my dead brother." He gently hooked his head and said these words deliberately, like a whispering wolf.

"You will get your revenge. Come back to the team now! Tell the other brothers what you saw in Polotsk, mobilize the emotions of the brothers, we are going to crush the Polotsk army on the battlefield and conquer it with our killing. They." Fisk said excitedly, the big bald head that he made by deliberately shaving his hair frequently is now shiny, which highlights his imposing manner even more.

"As ordered!"

Without any modifiers, Ureko just replied to his full approval.

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