With the longship, the wide Rhine is no longer an insurmountable moat.
Each long boat can transport fifty civilians to the opposite bank at a time, ten boats is five hundred, and if small fishing boats are added, it is not a problem to transport seven hundred people at a time as a group.
This is true in theory, but in practice it is a completely different matter.
At first, those people who were eager to flee for their lives panicked. They did not carry a lot of daily necessities, but always brought a few days' rations and a small amount of pottery cooking utensils
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