Rise of Rurik

【The Rise of Rurik】 【】

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The navy can always be one step ahead of the cavalry. After getting the bright light, Goethelund raised a string of flags on the flagship. The colorful flags with different stripes turned into a special naval language, which turned into one sentence: All troops are landing with arms. .

If they bring a guide from Memel, the Ross army may be able to get some basic general information about the target area.

The army advancing by sea and land spent more than two days on the sandbar. They knew very little about what they might encounter ahead. They only knew that the army's garrison tonight was on Prussian territory.

Prussia? Who is that? What the king said must be true. They were a group of people who spoke a similar language to the locals in Memel.

Do you want to conquer them? The king did not issue this order.

How should Goedelund understand the King's meaning? As the saying goes, unless the King gives a clear order to "treat those who are about to be conquered kindly", only then will the Russian army maintain restraint. As long as the king has no clear instructions or the orders are vague, there is extremely wide freedom of operation here.

At first, Goldlund felt that the navy still had to anchor in a nearshore area with deeper water. After that, the entire army took basic weapons and supplies and went ashore to rest. After all, the brothers have been eating, drinking and eating on the ship these past few days. The soldiers are crowded in the cramped cabin. Not to mention the smell of feces and urine, even the smell of sweat is enough for everyone. It is always too long to smell the smell. Once everyone has it, Chance still likes to stay on the shore.

But as the fleet advanced in order, the warrior with eyes like an eagle riding on the mast was so surprised to see a strange sight!

Then, the eagle-eyed soldier pulled the rope and made a dangerous rappelling, and hurriedly told the general what he saw.

"it turns out

Have a large settlement? ! Who does that belong to? Do you see it clearly? "Standing on the towering stern of the ship, Goldlund listened to the urgent report from his subordinates. He believed that what his subordinates said was true, but...

"Absolutely true."

"I got it, you can go down." Goldlund waved his hand and said: "There is no need to climb the mast anymore. No matter what the settlement is, we are preparing to land with arms!"

Goldlund was extremely decisive. Due to the observation results from the observation tower, the subsequent landing operation could not be slow, and no one could be comfortable.

The cabin is like a cave, filled with hungry bears.

The young Rus warriors had already shed blood with their swords, fighting and plundering for their demands. The cavalry had previously completed the plunder at Kretinga, which greatly disgraced the four infantry banners that accompanied the navy.

A new settlement suddenly appeared, which meant that the appearance of the Russian army was sudden and that the opponent was unprepared. The most important thing is that a settlement that can be seen with the naked eye on the mast must be large in size, and its vicinity must be developed so that the Russian army can build a perfect campsite if they seize it. Handy, it can also satisfy the infantry's desire to plunder.

Now, the Ross Navy is simply making tactical adjustments on the sea.

The soldiers beat drums and blew trumpets, and the flagship once again hoisted a series of newly organized flags, which translated as landing, enemy, battle, and free plunder.

At first, the soldiers staying in the cabin thought that the admiral was just announcing "prepare for landing", and the soldiers organized their clothes, weapons and supplies in an orderly manner in the cabin. Everyone thought that we were going to land on a deserted beach. At least we could step on the beach with our feet and cut down trees.

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It is a beautiful thing to light a bonfire and eat a hot meal.

Now, the imagined good thing has become a wonderful thing.

"Put on your plate armor and chain mail. Whoever the enemy is, we will make a fortune by robbing their village. We can't let the cavalry take the lead this time."

Similar shouts abounded in every cabin. The deck skylights were opened. The soldiers helped each other put on their plate armor and skirts. They carried round shields and swords on their waists. Many of them were carrying their own short wooden bows. With a few arrows, they climbed out of the skylight and stood on the deck waiting for the rope ladder to get off the boat.

Although beach landing is a technical job, the Russian army has become more and more experienced in this area.

The coast not far away is quite clear. If you look closely, there seem to be some small fishing boats moving quickly there.

The presence of fishing boats means there is a fishing village. Are the brothers trying to attack just a small, boring fishing village?

No matter what, it's like hunting in the wilderness. Shooting a ferocious bear or a large wild reindeer is hard to come by. Hunting some hares is also a key reward.

Soldiers wearing armor had to climb a rope ladder to enter a rowing longboat. This process was extremely dangerous. If a soldier accidentally fell into the sea without emergency help from his companions, he would be carried directly to the seabed by his equipment and drowned alive.

No one thinks about this. If someone falls into the sea and dies, it can only be said that this is the fate of the person involved.

Fortunately, the soldiers were well-trained, and some smart people used the characteristics of the hand ax to hook the rope. The small iron ring at the end of the ax handle was originally used to install the rope to prevent the hand from falling off. Now a longer cable is tied, and when the soldier is completely After entering the longship, recover the hand ax that serves as a safety grapple.

Safety is really safe, but this

The soldiers will definitely encounter the ridicule of the soldiers who have boarded the ship.

The main battleships are all troop carriers, and the armed cargo ships also play the role of troop carriers along the way.

There were enough Russian naval ships, and soon half of the four infantry teams had completed the conversion to small boats.

Like their fathers, a team of thirty men was in charge of a ship, and the commander's title was "captain," and he was now a proper captain.

Four teams of thirty formed a centurion. As long as the centurion saw that his brothers had assembled, he would not wait for direct instructions from the flag captain, so he would fly his own team flag (actually a piece of white cloth with numbers sewn on it). ) and started paddling hard in the rough direction of the target.

They scrambled to be the first, and the longships were like giant centipedes swimming on the sea.

Just like the "twigs" all over the body of centipedes give people a sense of fear, when people on the shore with blue tattoos all over their bodies see countless "centipedes" approaching the coast, all they can do seems to be running away.

…

Because the settlement that the Ross Navy encountered and immediately targeted was actually not a small village.

The canoes cruising offshore worked hard to get closer to the shore, and the fishermen with blue tattoos rushed onto the beach with their fishing gear and rushed towards the settlement...

If just one person yells in a settlement, people will regard him as a mentally disturbed fool.

But when many fishermen collectively went ashore to issue danger signals, and even women living in coastal houses dragged their children and ran inland, the situation became extremely serious.

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"How is this going?"

"Sir, I'm afraid it's the Danes! Danish pirates suddenly came!" The nervous fisherman

The people trembled, and the news revealed was specious.

"Are they really pirates? Aren't they merchants who came here to buy amber? Did you see clearly?"

"Their ships are everywhere, with huge oars floating on the sea like centipedes. They are not merchants at all, they are definitely some Danish lords preparing to attack us, just like... they have done before."

"What a tragedy. It seems we have no choice but to fight." This powerful man clenched his fists. Although he didn't know the enemy's details, he didn't show the slightest flinch. His next move seemed extremely skillful - just It was as if they had learned of the Rus' attack through divination.

Denmark and Rus are the same concept for the people living in this area called Ancient Prussia. Those people who crossed the sea from the north are collectively called the Varyags, and it is also appropriate to describe them as Danes.

This local authority figure has unique physical characteristics. With great perseverance, he used woad ink to tattoo dense patterns on his skin. Especially on this face, the zigzag pattern even completed the nose. cover.

In this large settlement, only the most distinguished people are eligible to get the most complex tattoos.

He was a clergyman, a warrior, and a general.

The main responsibility of him and his priests, as well as the men who live in this large settlement, is to guard his great altar and serve as the large settlement in the northern trading city.

As a member of the Baltic ethnic group, "Prussian" is the self-proclaimed name of the locals, and its original meaning is simple and straightforward - a real man.

Prussia, as a loose confederation of tribes,

There are as many as twenty tribes, among which the Samba tribe is located at the northeastern end of the peninsula area. The peninsula is also named after this tribe, namely the Sambi Peninsula.

This name is a combination of the words "low land" and "white". It claims to have the same root as the name of Semigalia in the north, so that the languages ​​​​of both sides can be common.

But the Prussians and those in the north spontaneously made a distinction.

Whether it is the Kurans, the Semigalians, the Okshtets, or even the Latvians and Thelons, these tribes who speak different languages ​​are not so crazy as to get tattoos on their bodies.

Let’s talk about the love for tattoos (must be blue tattoos). The Prussians have a deeper love for tattoos than Denmark, Sweden, and Russia.

Now, what was unexpectedly targeted by the Russian navy was the northern sacrificial center of the Prussians, where the soul of the chief and the god of death, Puskaitis, was worshiped, so it was also a huge cemetery.

The priests have to perform their duties on various festivals, and their biggest duty is to guard it with arms.

A settlement is formed with the altar as the center, and all people who move here are given an obligation to protect the altar.

In a sense, the status here is close to that of the Great Temple of Uppsala in the Lake Mälaren region of Sweden. The residents near the temple once regarded the local priests as the leader. Now Uppsala is the first temple of the Kingdom of Rus in Sweden. In the temple, the priest is the concubine of the king, and the obligation of the local people is also to protect the temple.

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However, in the Sambia Peninsula, the guardians of the Pusketis Altar are always faced with thorny security issues.

They don't know why their ancestors wanted to live in this coastal area

A large altar was built near the lagoon. Since this place has been an altar and a cemetery since ancient times, everyone had no choice but to protect it with their lives. After all, no one thought that if the altar was destroyed, there would be a suitable place to rebuild it.

Priests have always said that the ancient wooden pillar standing in the high altar can communicate with the world of the dead by going deep underground.

The armed high priest in his prime, dressed in blue stripes, stood on the mound of the altar, showing off the spectacular indigo patterns on his chest and back. He held up a dexterous small wooden shield in his left hand, and a Frankish-style broad-bladed sword decorated with amber in his right hand.

A large number of blue-striped warriors gathered around the altar. They were priests, and even more were armed men and women.

No one who can live here is a coward, even the women are fierce female warriors.

Because it is a large altar named after Pusketis, the god of earth. The sacred tree of the altar reaches directly to the underworld. Sacrifice here can be called the most glorious end of an ordinary life.

They are not afraid of death, or they can be honored if they die in battle.

This is like Valhalla and Asgard in the beliefs of the Rus warriors. It floats high in the night sky, and a star is it.

In Prussian belief, there are many passages to the underworld, and the underworld is the destination of all souls.

The Great Altar of Pusketis is the only large altar in the Samba tribe, and the villages of the tribe are also located in the woodlands and small plains not far from the altar.

The high priest estimated that about three hundred to four hundred warriors had gathered, and he was really satisfied with the result.

"Children of the God of the Earth! We are always on guard against attacks by Danish pirates, and now those evildoers have finally

Yu appears again! They are coming with force and are once again trying to rob our altar and rob our wealth! Let them land! Let their dirty blood be sacrificed to our great god and our deceased ancestors! "

Most of the warriors dressed in indigo didn't even wear common clothes. It wasn't because they were poor, it was just intentional.

All the Prussian tribes gathered here, and all of them fought fiercely. Although their weapons and equipment were really crude, they were very good at using the dense forest in the area, and they frequently succeeded in sneak attacks on the enemies who landed.

This time is no exception.

The high priest and his people are well-trained. They not only actively mobilized the altar guards, but also actively sent people to nearby villages to summon reinforcements.

As for summoning other tribes to send troops to help, considering that the Samba tribe may not be so bold to recruit troops for free to help fight, based on the past experience in fighting Danish pirates, this time the tribe mobilized early enough to win quickly.

Morale increased, and the soldiers armed with various weapons screamed with excitement.

The high priest ordered again: "Do it the way we used to win battles in the past! We all hide in the woods, and men and women lie down to hide! We will let the Danes enter the altar, as long as they relax their vigilance..." After shouting here, the high priest He made a throat-cutting motion in front of everyone. "Strangle them! Leave no one behind!"

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The soldiers shouted again, and it was immediately absorbed by the forest and blown away by the sea breeze.

The elderly and children were ordered to evacuate to the nearest village urgently. As for the bottles and cans, they left with only a small amount of food rations. These weaklings all agree with the high priest's determination and their execution ability is also poor.

It's extremely strong, and what stands out is "not adding chaos to the battle."

Just like the Frankish iron sword held high by the high priest, it was essentially captured from Danish pirates in past defensive battles.

It is said that when the Danish ministries had intense exchanges with the Franks in the past era, the lost Frank weapons fell into the hands of the Danes. When some Danish lords led their brothers to rob houses and capsized in the ditch, some of the weapons fell into the hands of the Prussians.

The Prussian ministries welcome the Danes for peaceful trade, and they can also distinguish what kind of visitors are deeply malicious. Generally speaking, as long as there are three dragon-headed longships, they must be pirates who come to carry out sneak attacks. They can just kill them without explanation. .

In many actual battles, the Smurf-like high priest discovered a number of tactics to lure the enemy deeper.

Because pirates come to capture slaves and plunder amber, silver coins, food, etc., the essence of capturing people as slaves is to make money.

Since you are here to seek wealth, wealth can be used as bait. Those pirates and one villager were prey, but they didn't know that they accidentally entered the altar. The local villagers suddenly transformed into hunters, while the Danish pirates became the prey.

In the past years, the side of Pusketis High Altar has won many sieges and annihilations. Although I don’t know how the Danish pirates dared to sneak attacks, this generation of high priests did not hesitate to complete another major capture.

A large number of Prussian Samba warriors with disheveled hair and blue stripes rushed into the forest. They lay on the ground one by one and covered their bodies with dust and mud. Their brown hair was similar in color to the humus layer and they originally had fair skin. This time they were covered by large tattoos. Covered and stained with mud, they had perfect camouflage, these Prussians

The hunters become one with the land, waiting for their imaginary Danish pirates to step into their trap.

At this time, the first batch of Russian longships had begun to enter the local people's small dock, and the soldiers were amazed at what they discovered!

(The Pusketis Altar of the Samba Tribe of Ancient Prussia was the city of Granz during the rule of the Teutonic Knights and the Kingdom of Prussia, and is now Grenogradsk)