Since he temporarily possessed military power from his father, Rurik naturally had to direct the operations of the three hundred men at hand according to his own will.
As a new military commander, shouldn’t you try some new tricks?
For example, they used some new tactics that the Ross tribe had never seen before, and through these tactics, everyone involved in the operation was shocked.
Whether Rurik admits it or not, the prophecy has come true, and all the warriors present believe that this is a major test of Rurik's ability to serve as the new leader.
This battle is really a battle for the new leader to establish his power in the future! It can be said that even a small-scale victory can gain more support from the tribe than the invention of multiple devices.
Rurik knew this. What my Ross brothers want is victory in the battle.
He had no scruples in publicly questioning the tactics of the Russians in traditional combat, where the Russians charged in unison and overwhelmed the enemy with their momentum and sheer power.
The only thing he could think of that could bring changes to the Ross tribe's military operations was the "pincer offensive" that was tried repeatedly by later generations of military strategists, and Rurik had something even better. This time, he wanted to experiment with a tactic of encircling three buildings. The ultimate goal was to complete the annihilation of the enemy.
Rurik sat on the snow and used some branches he picked up to outline the positions of himself and the enemy, and conduct "sand table deductions."
Otto and the brave warriors he had on hand sat on the ground, and everyone understood Rurik's tactical arrangements to some extent.
Facing the complicated tactics that his son was determined to implement, Otto frowned. "Rurik, is this possible?"
"It must be possible. As long as everyone cooperates properly."
"You...but you actually asked your mercenaries to fight with Fight against fleeing enemies? Besides, they will really flee in the direction you designed. Can you see the future in this regard?"
Rurik thought his father's question was a bit funny. I think it may just be because of all the previous tactics of the Ross tribe, there is no "pincer offensive", and there is no "encirclement three queues" tactic that is more complex and more vicious than the "pincer offensive".
"Dad, take your main force and sneak over as I ask. If you can defeat these...these Tavastians are the best. If they escape, my mercenaries I will shoot them."
Otto originally thought that his son's plan was very clever, and only his son could come up with this kind of plan. He also felt that Rurik seemed to put himself in a more dangerous position.
After all, Otto is the big leader, and he can take back military power at any time.
Otto basically agreed with Rurik’s decision. In addition to claiming that the main force who would lead the outflank attack would try to complete the battle as quickly as possible and kill all the enemies, Otto also gave Rurik fifty warriors. There were also twenty hunters with short wooden bows.
In this way, Rurik could lay out as many as 70 ambush troops on the road to intercept the escape area.
The battle plan is laid outLater, more than 300 Russian warriors formed three fighting groups. The two groups led by Otto were responsible for "Surrounding Three", and Rurik's seventy people were responsible for "Que One".
The warriors crossed the glacier, which was actually seven hundred meters wide, and took the time to rest in the woods on the other side of the river until dawn, when the short daylight was about to come.
Rurik rested for a while wrapped in a piece of leather, as did almost all the warriors of the tribe.
Only the soldiers on guard duty kept their eyes wide open to pay attention to the changes in the stars.
The stars have reached their correct positions and the sky has begun to turn blue.
The sentries began to wake up the sleeping tribesmen one by one. After a while, one by one the soldiers lifted up the leather and stood up.
Otto wiped his face with snow, then took out a bronze helmet from his sled and put it on his head. He also put on a thin layer of mail coat, and then put on a fur coat to keep out the cold. A leather belt was tied around his waist, and a shield was slung on his back.
He held his steel sword high, supervising the movements of his clansmen, and roared to urge them to prepare for battle immediately.
Rurik’s little hand held a leather helmet, and he looked at it thoughtfully.
"Master, put it on quickly! We are going to fight soon." Jevro, who was already wearing leather armor, urged.
"Oh, I'm a little confused."
"Are you scared?" Yevluo smiled slightly: "Don't worry, anyone will be nervous in the first battle. Wait. You will be relieved after you have experienced it more."
At this moment, Rurik felt that his Yevro was a battle-hardened veteran. Yes, this person's more than ten years were probably spent licking blood from a knife's edge.
Rurik was very concerned about Yevlo’s thoughts. He asked: “If...the enemy is the Tavastians, what would you do?”
“Of course. "Destroy them all."
"Let's fight." Rurik made up his mind. He felt that his situation was too magical. After all, reality is reality, and the first battle in life is coming. .
He pulled off the hemp rope that tied his hair, rarely loosened his beautiful ponytail, and then buckled the leather helmet, which seemed to have little defense, on his head.
Rurik did not wear high-end armor such as chain mail, and he did not even wear leather armor. It wasn't that Rurik thought defense wasn't important, but that the armor was too heavy for his small body.
Besides, the troops under his command have unique combat methods. Theoretically, everyone should try their best to avoid close contact with the enemy. Just use the long-range weapons at hand to shoot the enemy before close contact.
In this way, the mobility of light armor is much higher than that of heavy armor.
On the other hand, most of the people led by Otto had to wear more leather armor, even if they were covered with a piece of deerskin.
Because Yevlo’s intelligence clearly pointed out that the unknown enemy faced by the Russians was likely to be huge.Fire a lot of arrows. Those arrows were destined to be mostly bone arrows, and maybe two layers of leather could offset the arrows' attack. As long as they can survive the enemy's arrows, the Russian warriors will have an absolute advantage.
In this way, when the sky turned blue at dawn, the Russians unloaded their sleds and brought only the weapons for combat. There are only twenty people who seem to be relatively weak, shouldering the important task of "looking after the house".
On the contrary, Rurik's men were different.
The obviously weak commander Rurik was sitting on the sled, with a crossbow beside him and more than twenty arrows behind him.
In this battle, the seventy men of Rurik's unit who were responsible for intercepting "Que Yi" actually brought all the arrows in their reserves. The total number of arrows of all kinds amounts to fifteen hundred!
Based on the number of bonfires alone, Rurik could not judge the enemy's strength very well. The so-called "preparedness" meant that he was ready to use up all his arrows.
The Russian troops divided into three groups and began to take action.
On a macro level, surrounding the unknown and abrupt hills, the Russian army took the lead in launching a pincer offensive in the true sense, aiming at the large number of bonfires on the hills.
The general direction of the three Russian armies was eastward. Otto personally led more than 70 people to detour to the north side of the hill, and another confidant led 90 people to detour to the south side of the hill.
They were not gathered together in a tight formation, but in a loose formation, forming a net for catching fish.
Otto developed his imagination and came up with this trick based on the operation mode of the tribe's trawler. This trick is to imagine the enemy as a fish.
It is best if the enemy is willing to face the enemy head-on. In this case, it is not up to his son to take action. Otto firmly believes in the power of his own people.
If the enemy flees, it will ruin the son's reputation.
Probably, that’s it.
Otto was a little worried, but the arrow could not be turned back. His troops from the north had already caught up with their brothers from the south.
Dark figures moved forward in all the woods near the hill. At this moment, the sky was gradually getting brighter.
At a relatively high position, the howling north wind makes it even more desolate.
Otto saw that the position was almost there. He estimated that not only was the entire network completed, but now was a good time to close it.
Are we going to make a surprise attack? Pooh! I'm afraid the enemy has discovered that something is wrong.
Stepping on the snow-covered slope, Otto drew out his sword. With the buzzing sound of the sword, he roared: "Russians! Attack!"
After receiving this order, those who were still advancing slowly accelerated their running speed, and at the same time, they used swords or axes to knock on their wooden shields to increase their momentum.
"Ah?! Has there already been a fight?!"
Pausing for a moment, Rurik, who had already established a "blocking position" on the hillside, heard the shouts from his fellow tribesmen. , couldn’t help but panic.
Jevluo can comfort him: "Master,Nothing to worry about. I will protect you. "
"Protect me? Am I still a woman? ”
Jevro deliberately teased, “Oh, my master. If you keep your hair loose and wear a one-piece linen dress, it does look a bit feminine. ”
“Dressed as a woman? It's fun, if it makes the brothers happy. But I am a man, and I must prove myself in this battle. "Rurik immediately pulled out his dagger and pointed the blade directly at the bonfire on the top of the hill not far away. "Brothers, load the crossbow and wait for my shooting order. "
Rurik's side has begun preparations.
His twenty crossbowmen were divided into two rows, each row was relatively far apart, and they formed a formation of about The thirty bow-wielding hunters in the team formed a tight group. Don’t really expect a wooden bow to give arrows the range. Besides, many of the long arrows hunters have are sharpened small animal leg bones, which are set on long branches. Such bad arrows can kill small animals. Next, Rurik is weak against enemies with leather armor.
Rurik relies on the archers to throw arrows to create chaos, and the crossbowmen are the main force in the attack! The idea was perfect until it came into contact with the enemy, but Yevluo was not at ease. At this moment, Yevluo seemed to have become a military staff officer, and asked all the soldiers to stick their swords and short spears in the snow. After the enemy broke through the arrow formation, they drew their weapons and started fighting, especially the remaining twenty warriors. They were all standard sword and shield bearers. They took the lead in launching a melee attack due to the short time gap before the crossbowmen transformed into melee infantry.
Jevro himself is mentally prepared to protect Rurik even if he is injured. This is not only to follow his professional ethics, but also to be grateful for being reused. < /p>
Preparations on Rurik's side have been made, and the battle has begun on the top of the hill that he cannot see.
The people who lit the bonfire are not the legendary Tavasti at all. Subhuman.
But this is the first time that the Russians learned such a term from Jevro.
Otto can’t control that much, and it’s not his own people under the current circumstances. It's the enemy. The enemy is the enemy. It's enough to leave two people alive to find out their identities. All the Ross warriors can distinguish the enemy from the enemy perfectly. The reason is that they wear bronze helmets.
As for the enemies? They didn't seem to notice that they were being targeted by powerful enemies in their camp from the beginning.
The enemy's slow response made Otto laugh.
p>“We gave you the opportunity to prepare, and you just woke up from a dream. ”
The battle began, and Buero Otto personally fought with a sword. The young warriors under his command had already charged bravely.
A short alien wearing a cotton hat was killed by the Russians. stabbed down with a bright white steel sword.
And those aliens who had just come out of the tent wearing a leather coat because they heard the terrifying roar, just picked up their stone spears and even crudely made hammers, and saw a large group of tall and strong people. people rushed over.
More than a dozen foreigners took the lead in starting an instinctive counterattack. It was so fast that the Russians attacked so quickly that the foreigners had no time to use short wooden bows and shoot arrows to counterattack.
They also fired some arrows. Just as the Russians estimated at the beginning, arrows made of bones would only serve to harass the Russians unless they blinded them.
Seeing that the arrows were of little use, the alien warriors tried to stab and attack the armored Ross warriors with stone spears. The obsidian spearhead could make deep scratches on the Ross wooden shield, and the damage was basically the same. The young and strong Ross warrior wielded the steel sword he spent a lot of money to buy, and cut off a head with just one critical strike.
There were also aliens who attacked with hammers, but they were all a head shorter than the Russians. They were knocked hard by the Russian soldiers and fell to the snow, and were immediately stabbed to death with swords.
The so-called battle is really about losing ten skills with one strength. When it comes to battle, Otto will choose veterans who have killed Gotland soldiers.
What happened on the hill was basically a one-sided battle. In terms of stature, physical fitness, weapons and equipment, and even the number and organization of the two sides, the two sides were not at the same order of magnitude.
Otto thought that the enemy was very strong, but the reality was that the Russians were bullying them.
A middle-aged man wearing a hat made of a large number of squirrel skins sewn together is the leader of the aliens who lit the bonfire.
The battle declared his defeat from the very beginning. The leader felt that he wanted to move his head, but he survived in a desperate situation. Well-equipped attackers, why didn't they come from the west?
Indeed, from the leader's perspective, escaping to the west is the only way out. Because there, there are invincible guards.
After speaking in a language that the Russians did not understand, the remaining foreigners covered in leather began to carry their own weapons, mainly short spears and hammers. A few people picked up the bow temporarily, but they ran out of arrows, so they simply took off the bow string and used the bow as a stick.
They began to run toward the west and down the mountain.
The leader led more than thirty people on the so-called safe escape road.
It seems that as long as you run away fast enough and abandon the treasure you caught before, the attacker will definitely come to snatch the treasure, and you will be safe? Is treasure more important or life more important? The leader and his men have to choose to save their lives.
However, Rurik and his seventy special warriors have already set up a battle formation and are waiting for the enemy!
The leader never dreamed that not only would his men not survive the desperate situation, but that many of them would die suddenly for no apparent reason.
The suddenness of his death is really incredible.