Chapter 566 Covenstad Landing Field
Chapter 566 Covenstad Landing Field
A group of fishing boats have left their home port to start their fishing operations this year. A group of extremely daring fishermen have gone straight to the east of Fort Rosberg. They are not chasing the sunrise, but based on their own glory as a Russian, they spontaneously want to go out. The army took the lead.
At best, this is the case. The essential reason is that they want to seize the fishing resources from the mouth of the Oulu River and catch some big cod before other tribes.
On the Roseburg side, the army is ready.
The warriors in blue stripes and white robes took their weapons and walked on the plank to start boarding!
Rurik stood aloft, watching the spectacle with great interest. Now he can say, who dares to question that the Rus Army is not the Lord of the North?
His pride was beyond words, and he casually asked the "little entourage" John Invall standing beside him: "What do you think of our Rus army compared to the Franks?"
"Powerful! Very powerful." John Invall hurriedly agreed.
"Really? I must take you with me in this battle, and I will give you a sword and a shield."
Although he was already mentally prepared, when he thought that he was going to the battlefield, the fear in his heart resolutely flooded his heart. In his heart, John Ingvar refused. Did he accept the so-called sacred belief? The priests said that the priests should not kill, and they should not have any blood on their hands, not even sheep blood.
"Are you still hesitant? You have no choice." Rurik shook his head, shutting up John Ingvar, who wanted to explain: "Give up your unrealistic fantasies, you are a Dane, not a sheep. I am You have finished learning Latin here, and if you want to prove that you are still useful, follow us to fight. I don't ask you to actually kill an enemy, at least you must be in the army."
"Yes Yes!"
This conversation can be heard by Fisk.
The courageous young man came, strangled John Ingvar by the neck with one hand, and said to Rurik: "Brother, there should be no cowards in our army. He must kill an enemy to prove himself."
"Fine." Rurik shrugged. "Just give him a crossbow and you'll shoot him. I've changed my mind. Fisk, if this John Invall is cowardly, you'll beat him afterwards."
Now even Kanuf, who was considered a little weak, has become brave, and Rurik needs to do better than he did in Gotland's final battle against his thriving young warriors.
In this era, boys were born to defend the tribe and the country, and they participated in wars and killings, which played a large part in their lives.
Teenagers began boarding ships with backpacks full of prepared foods, quivers, water bags, and light wooden crossbows.
The elite warriors are carrying more and heavier weapons and equipment, and even some two-wheeled carts are being tied up with ropes and are pulled to the deck by the people on the ship and then transported to the warehouse.
The Ross Army is no longer a typical Viking pirate force that comes and goes on the go. Their weapons and equipment are more sophisticated and their ships are extremely up-to-date, which has also sacrificed a lot of military efficiency.
However, under the arrangement of Rurik, such a Rus army will reserve more logistical materials and heavy weapons for any battle. They have war tenacity far beyond other Vikings, and have the ability to fight tough battles.
Of course, the comparison is only limited to the internal comparison of the various Viking forces. Compared with the Franks, the current Russ are probably only weaker than the Frankish kingdom in the limit of gathering forces.
A fleet that will move faster to the Gulf of Bothnia is formed.
Avlora, Speros, Gurdot, Duke of Ostara, and Balmerque (named simply after his tribe than Jonny), five sailing cruisers.
Mercury, Venus, Mona, Maas, four sailing destroyers.
A cruiser can carry 200 soldiers without any problem, and a destroyer can carry 100.
For practical reasons, there are still ten converted and armed cargo ships that do the job of transporting people and goods.
Because this battle is no longer as simple as a crusade against the invading Tavastians, Rurik and the elites negotiated a very simple conclusion, that is, the Duchy of Ross does not yet have the ability to swallow the Tavastian forces in one bite. ability. This self-seeking force must of course be conquered, but not now, or even in a few years.
In order to avoid the enemy's provocation, the Rus must build a permanent fortress at the mouth of the Oulu River. The Kovins in the Oulu River Basin have actually disintegrated, and there will be no need for any entrusted rule. This area will be directly occupied and colonized by the Rus. To this end, it is important to transform the island's summer fishing village into a cement-reinforced wooden fortress.
The warm south wind swept away the cold, and the Ross Navy was dispatched!
The mighty army uses the technical advantages of its huge jib and the power of the south wind to achieve the highest sailing efficiency that this type of sailboat can have, even if the boat is full of people.
The straight-line distance from Roseburg Fjord (actually Luleå) to the island at the mouth of the Oulu River (actually Hailuotto Island) is only 140 kilometers.
The Ross fleet once reached an astonishing high speed of twelve knots, and maintained an average speed of eight knots overall.
They set out in the morning, and as the sun was nearly setting that day, the Ross fleet gathered in the island's natural cove, taking advantage of the last glow.
The cargo ship carrying the timber stopped at the island to reunite with the fishermen who had arrived earlier.
One of its forts will be built on the island, but the Rus army will disembark at the mouth of the river.
Arik, who has already received the news, has already lit a large number of bonfires on the coast, and a string of bright flames marked the best landing site in the evening!
Although landing at night was a lot of trouble, the hydrological conditions at the mouth of the Oulu River helped the Russians a lot.
The water level here is always less than two meters deep, the seabed is full of fine sand and gravel, and there is no shipwrecked reef. When the tide is flooding at night, although the landing activities of the Rus people linger until night falls, the anchored ships are parked near the sea. , Except for some heavy equipment and supplies that were still thrown on the boat, the personnel all landed in water.
Rurik dragged his wet leather boots to a nearby bonfire, and skillfully took off his boots until they were roasting.
A pair of big hands suddenly picked him up from behind.
"Hey! What's going on?!"
"Brother, you've come!" Arik hugged his brother and turned around three times before he was about to put it down.
The light of the bonfire shone on Arik's face, seeing his cousin again after more than a month, "You... have become old."
"Really?" Arik smiled as he touched his bearded face.
"Your breath stinks..."
"No way, we have eaten too much raw meat these days, and we also drink wolf blood. Now that the ice and snow melts, brothers have a chance to eat fish..." Looking at the army assembled under the night, Arik couldn't help but sigh.
"Rurik."
"Um."
"You brought too many troops."
"Is it too much? Two thousand people is a lot?"
"It's actually 2,000 people?!" Hearing that, Arik laughed slowly, which soon attracted his group of scouts who were sleeping in the wind and squatting with laughter while covering their chests.
"why are you laughing."
"Haha, I'm laughing at how those stupid enemies never thought they would be wiped out by such an army, and we will win quickly."
Although Rurik was exhausted, he still had to listen carefully to his brother's detailed introduction to the enemy's situation.
Looking at the vast number of soldiers, after they got off the boat, they lit new bonfires one after another. Often seven or eight people gathered in one place to grill the fish caught last night, or cook wheat in a pottery urn.
There are even five large iron pots sandwiched between the stone-built simple stoves, but it will take a while to eat the cooked wheat in this pot.
Whether it loses food or not, many ate the fish whole and slept on their heads wrapped in leather blankets.
Rurik's elite mercenaries set up a sackcloth tent for their lord after eating.
The offshore camp of the Ross Army is under construction, and the dense bonfires here echo the stars, and the pirates not far away also light up a lot of bonfires.
The Rus army has landed, and the Tavastians have not yet been informed about this matter.
Arik truthfully told his brother what happened in these days. It turned out that the brave Ross scouts had lost a lot of spirit. Facing the swarms of enemy reinforcements, Arik's actions became more and more conservative.
The Tavastians realized that their opponents showed weakness and immediately began to "pursue and fight". Although they still suffered from bows and arrows, they did not shoot and captured an enemy. At least those Rus were driven to the sea.
Already Tavastian hunters have found the sea thawing, and new ships have arrived on islands not far away. This group of mountain hunters saw the ocean for the first time.
There are fifty tired brothers under Aric, and after all, most of the arrows are lost. When the ice melts and the snow melts, only these tired people will take the initiative to attack. As the commander, Aric takes the lead and does not want to do this.
The warring parties reached a very subtle tacit understanding, and both maintained a certain restraint with each other, so that the area where the Oulu River was close to the sea suddenly disappeared without trace of human activities.
With a new understanding of the enemy, Rurik also made a new deployment in his mind.
Snow in Finland can talk?
Those Tavastians are obviously the foundation of the Finnish nation in a thousand years. If these people realize that they can take advantage of the geographical advantages of the mountains and forests to carry out military operations, will the Rus army suffer?
Rurik really wasn't in the mood to fight with them, presumably the other party didn't have any thoughts in this regard. It is best to take some measures to induce their main force to fight with them, but the enemy will easily act according to their own ideas?
He didn't dare to think too stupidly about the enemy. The army is here, and there must be a clear main attack direction.
The main direction of the attack could not be more clear - the old Grey Squirrel Hill Fort.
On a new day, the unfinished landing operations of the Rus continued, and the construction of the camp at the estuary began to intensify.
With the experience of fortification in Gotland, the Rus civil engineering has also become somewhat structured. More than 1,000 people worked together to cut wood, and a large number of pine trees were inserted into the dug soft soil pits to form wooden pillars. Relying on these wooden pillars, a group of suggested wooden sheds began to be built.
In Rurik's plan, the wooden fort on the island is the last fortress of the Rus, and this camp built on land will be operated for a long time.
The military camp currently under construction and the island fort under construction will exist as a brand new settlement for the Rus, whose name is simple and conventional - kwenstadt (Kwenstadt).
If this is a large settlement, it will naturally have the suffix of burg. After all, it can only be a small fishing village, and no Rus people will think that the development here will overshadow the glory of Fort Ross.
Coventstad, which originally described the fishermen's summer camp on the island of Hailuoto, became the official name of the new settlement.
Rurik was not stupid enough to immediately start marching into the old Grey Squirrel Hill Fort as soon as he landed. Out of a cautious and stubborn sense of security, Rurik asked the army to at least move all kinds of supplies down first, and then put the most basic of the camp. The defenses are built, and then we talk about the attack.
For two days after the landing, the Rus were busy building camps. Preliminary wooden walls are being built together, and men with shovels are digging for reinforcement. Others were already mixing the small amounts of cement and river sand they had brought with them to reinforce key parts of the camp.
They were not simply "building a house". A group of sentries carrying crossbows were arranged to ambush in an area farther away from the camp. They were ordered by Rurik to monitor them, guarding against possible enemy attacks while at the same time scratching their tongues.
"Tongue" comes uninvited!
No trace of the opponent was found for many days, and some daring Tavastiya hunters tentatively touched the coast. Some hunters were shocked to see a large number of boats moored in the distant sea, some of which were like mountains floating on the sea!
The hunter fled in a hurry to the east, only to inform the leader of the startling news as soon as possible.
In the process, some people were shot and even captured by the ambushed Ross sentries.
Five hapless Tavastian hunters were beaten and dragged to a camp under construction with their faces covered in blood.
It was at this stall that Rurik and all the flag captains, centurions, and even Balmerk allies made a clear strategic plan to conquer the invaders.
The plan is based entirely on the comprehensive intelligence that Arik and his group have obtained over the past month. Rurik and everyone have made the exact same judgment that the intruders can stay here for a long time, relying on the legacy left by the Kewen people. mountain fort.
The fire and the ravages of soldiers once had made the old Salmon Lord's fort uninteresting to intruders.
The Tavastia invaders built their stronghold completely relying on the well-prepared old Grey Squirrel Hill Fort. As long as this stronghold is removed, the enemy may escape into the forest for a short time and will not escape, but if there is no stronghold, they will all leave.
Maybe the two sides can find an open area outside the mountain fort for a decisive battle, but the river has thawed, where is there any empty field in this river area for the two armies to set up a decisive battle?
Then don't think about forming a decisive battle, the army will go straight to Huanglong and completely demolish the old Grey Squirrel Mountain Fort this time! As for a siege battle, compared to the expedition three years ago, Rurik had prepared a lot this time.
Those two-wheeled carts didn't just haul bundles of arrows, grain, and dried salted fish, their primary mission was to serve as a vehicle for heavy weapons.
Torsion slingshots and bull catapults, strapped to two-wheeled carts with twine, simply became mobile weapons. Ten torsion slingshots and ten trebuchets, combined with strong bows and crossbows, would give the opponent a chance to win.
Some centurions were actually veterans of the year, and everyone talked about that expedition.
What's even more amazing is that the former owner of Grey Squirrel Castle was in the Ross army. Mechasta and his clan heard that they were attacking the Tavastians, but they were happy to fight for Ross. After learning that the key to victory in the war was the destruction of Grey Squirrel Hill, the old owners of these forts did not hesitate to specify an attack plan.
Destroying your old house is still as happy as it is? Things have gone wrong. Mechasta and his clan live extremely comfortably in their new home in Elronborg. The homeland is gone. The old village has been demolished and the Tavastian people have been demolished. The Kewen people want to be driven out for their ancestors. Revenge for the murder.
Now, with the five "tongues" being escorted shortly after the military conference, the situation has changed in some favor.
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