As long as sufficient discipline is maintained and everyone who forms the human wall is well-trained, this wall will not be easily broken open.
Even if the enemy army uses chariots and the human wall forms a spear formation, they can still be completely restrained.
If discipline is loosened and the formation is not solid enough, it will be very difficult to organize again after being overwhelmed.
Looking at the guys laughing and joking around, Rurik’s brows jumped up unconsciously.
“Have you all had enough?!” Rurik yelled angrily, “Kanuf, what are you doing?! Your human wall was easily breached by them. If this It was a fight, and many of you are already dead."
Kanuf smiled and muttered: "Fisk is too strong, he can overthrow us alone. Look, we are just some children. , only Fisk is the strongest."
"He said it right." Fisk was extremely proud at this moment, "They are too weak. Obviously I don't need anyone else, only me. You can break through their human wall."
What else can Rurik say, but he can only shake his head helplessly: "It's just because we are too weak, I don't believe that you can do it alone. One person can break through the wall. Even after some training, you won't be able to break through." After saying that, Rurik clapped his hands and ordered all the children who were still sitting on the ground to stand up. .
He shouted loudly: "Don't be in a daze! Fisk said that the human wall you formed is too weak. He can easily break through it by himself, just like a harpoon piercing a salmon. You guys Everyone, stand up. If you can trust me, you will fully accept my order until the wall is strong enough to prevent him from breaking through."
They are all people who are inspired to grow up to become outstanding warriors, and are eager to grow up in the future. Made great achievements in the fight.
Playing is still playing, training from childhood still needs to be carried out.
In itself, this is part of their daily life.
The main reason why the human wall can be easily broken down is that the children who form the human wall are too young.
They are generally only six or seven years old. They can hold wooden shields and wooden swords for a long time, and they are already doing very well. If you want to become very strong in the future, you still need to practice and eat more meat.
Simply improving physical fitness can indeed block powerful attacks. If you strictly follow certain techniques, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
The so-called technique here is to make the human wall really form a whole.
Rurik originally thought that the basic skills had been taught to them, but the test results were disappointing, and he needed to personally provide guidance.
So what are the so-called basic skills?
It's quite simple.
Since the human wall is three levels deep, the people in the last row use their shields against the second row, and the people in the second row continue to use their shields against the first person.
For the next whole day, Rurik trained them to do this well.
Is this really effective?
The days in Northern Europe in autumn are getting shorter and shorter. Children on the hills light a bonfire with flints, and they all sit around the bonfire on the ground.
They all trust Rurik very much, but after long training, everyone is very tired.
Many people still carried pickled fish in their bags, so they ate the fish meat around the flames and talked about the training.
Kanuf handed "leader" Rurik a piece of dried fish and asked by the way: "Is this okay? There are two people behind me, so Fisk can't break through?"< /p>
"Hey, you have to ask Fisk about this."
Kanuf shook his head, and he really asked Fisk, and the answer he got was naturally very simple.
Fisk is the eldest of all the children. Even though he is only nine years old, it is natural for him to bully a group of younger brothers. This is the source of his confidence.
"Rurik." Fisk came over and said confidently.
"What's wrong?"
"Maybe your strategy is effective, but look at them. I think the human wall they formed still doesn't work. No matter what strategy, I It can be washed away, all it takes is me!"
"Then give it a try," Rurik grinned and shook his ponytailed head, "How about we fight. Bet?"
"Bet?"
"Bet on a salted fish. If you can't break through, I'll give you a salted fish. Give me one, what do you think?"
"Hehe, that's it." After saying that, Fisk stood up and deliberately put on a very strong posture to show his strength. , and then walked aside again.
At this moment, Rurik boasted that after a day, the group of children had been trained to almost the same level. Each of them had memorized the essentials of anti-collision and understood their role in the entire team.
After eating the dry food at noon until the sun was about to set, everyone spent most of the time walking in line with a three-layer human wall.
During this training, the three groups serving as "attackers" also participated in the human wall training.
Rurik is a little confused. Fisk should be able to understand that after this intensive training, the wall is no longer what it used to be. Is it possible that Fisk is still particularly confident in his physical fitness? At least Rurik believes more in the power of the team.
But that’s not necessarily the case. Kanuf approached Rurik again. After a few words, Rurik could clearly feel the child’s worry.
"Are you scared by Fisk?" Rurik asked in a low voice?
"No...I...I'm not afraid of him. He's very strong. I'm afraid you won't be able to defeat him even with grappling. I'm still worried about our human wall."
"So you are still afraid."
"I am not. In fact, I still want to ask, when we grow up and fight with the enemy,For example, Fisk wants to take revenge on those guys in Gotland, and we line up in a human wall to fight? ”
“It doesn’t have to be this way. Rurik shrugged, "Look at us, there are only forty-six people including me. In fact, I need more people, such as a hundred or five hundred people." This way we can form multiple human walls. So look at this..."
Rurik thought, this matter can either be explained clearly in a few words, or it can be explained with great effort. Can Kanuf, who wants to clarify the situation, understand?
As a child, it is easier to understand by looking at the pictures directly than by listening carefully.
Rurik grabbed a few sticks and laid them on the land under the light of the campfire and the setting sun. Kanuf gave a demonstration. One wooden stick represented thirty people. He used four wooden sticks to form a square, and he placed four more in succession. p>
By adjusting the position of the wooden stick, the graphics also changed dramatically.
Rurik moved the wooden stick while explaining, and Kanuf, who stared with wide eyes, was not mentally retarded. Knowing that a wooden stick represents a human wall of thirty people, in Rurik's hands, many human walls are making responsible position changes. However, no matter how they change, there are two other human walls on both sides of each human wall, even if there are people. There is also another human wall guard behind the wall.
Therefore, there is no loophole for hundreds of people to gather together.
Although Kanuf does not know the adults yet. How did he participate in the fight? Now Rurik is fiddling with it. He is very convinced that if the future fights are as Rurik planned, the tragedy like Fisk's father may not happen.
Why?
There is no flaw in the entire formation. As long as the shields of the human wall work together to block the enemy, then there will be a unilateral sword thrust.
"Now, I am complete. Understood. Kanuf's eyes widened with admiration on his face.
"My dear brother, everything starts with the forty-six of us. After you learn it, you must teach other children in the tribe, When I become the leader in the future, we will fight like this. If we deal with it according to what I have shown, if the enemy comes with a thousand people, they will not be able to break through our human wall. They will only be solved by being stabbed to death by us, and we will not die a single person. ”
Kanuf couldn’t help but sigh: “Ah! If so, the roving Valkyries will see all this, and we will destroy a thousand enemies without one death. When we die of old age, will we be picked up by her because of these achievements? "
These words made Rurik a little confused. He calmed down and deliberately agreed with Kanuf's guess. "Yes, the Valkyries are fair. They need real warriors, not A reckless man. As for me, I just want to live this life with glory. ”
“You will. Kanuf subconsciously patted Rurik on the shoulder, "You are the one I can trust." You will be the best leader and I will always follow you. ”
When the campfire is about to burn out, night is about to fall. It is very difficult to continue to stay outdoors.Dangerous, the Ross tribe is not afraid of wolves, they are worried about the nocturnal wolves that will attack their children.
Rurik can feel that in the vastness of Northern Europe and even Eastern Europe in this era, the number of large wild animals must be several times that of humans.
After the bonfire was burned out, everyone went back together, and each other was mentally prepared to form a human wall tomorrow. Even if it was for a salted fish from Rurik, Fisk could not let anyone kill him. The wall bursts open.
What Kanuf thought about most that night was Rurik’s stick demonstration.
After returning to his wooden house and eating the dried meat brought by his mother, he found some sticks to play with.
"Kanuf, are you playing a game?" His mother had never seen her son play these strange things.
"It was Rurik who taught me."
When mentioning Rurik, his mother thought of her son's "defeat" and the group of children on the hills during this time. The strange training of howling.
The woman came over and asked earnestly: "Did you learn anything from Rurik? For example, the methods he used to subdue you?"
Kanu The husband continued to tilt his head and said perfunctorily: "I have learned a little bit. He has nothing else to teach me now. He said that the men in the tribe fight on their own. He was very opposed to this, so he organized us. "
At this point, Kanuf became excited. He held a pile of wooden sticks and copied Rurik's demonstrations from memory in front of him.
Viking women are not weak. When necessary, women will also pick up swords. After all, men and women in the same tribe must all be related to each other. Usually, men use swords to resolve external conflicts. If the situation is urgent, they will take action as a whole.
Kanuf's mother knew how to fight. Watching her son's demonstration with a wooden stick, she felt an unprecedented sense of astonishment.
In the long time of fighting, the men of the Ross tribe have figured out the basic formation routines. Forming a human wall and launching an attack is also the men's specialty.
But no one has ever thought of organizing hundreds of people into multiple human walls to fight in complex formations.
Her eyes widened and she began to imagine a strange scene in her mind.
Her husband followed the leader Otto, and hundreds of men formed a circle with a human wall. They had battle axes or swords hanging on their waists, wooden shields tied to their left arms, and short spears in both hands. The spearheads of hundreds of short spears faced outwards, poking at enemies rushing towards them from all directions.
After all, the men of the tribe are also good at using short spears, which are actually harpoons for fishing and one of the sharp weapons in battle.
Now, Rurik, the son of the leader, organizes children to play games with wooden shields and swords. He will also organize children to use wooden sticks as short spears.
At this moment, Kanuf’s mother deeply felt that there was something wonderful about Rurik, and she even felt that this matter was not at allChild's play so simple.
She calmed down, signaled her son to continue playing, and then said: "I want to go out immediately."
"Mom, what are you going to do? It's very late now."< /p>
"Don't worry, I'm going to the priest to explain something. I'll be back soon."
Soon, the woman put on a thick deerskin coat and went out. He trotted to the residence of the priests and went straight to the home of the most respected Grandma Vilia to report the matter.