A huge procession moved south along the frozen western coastline of modern Finland.
Woima Kashad, who has turned into a leader, dragged his painful feet and leaned on a wooden stick as he struggled to move forward in the ice and snow.
He must remain alert and very loyal.
Otherwise, the powerful bows and arrows of this group of Russians can easily kill you.
Because he actually saw the horrific death of his companions.
The heads of some companions were completely shattered, and the enemy's short and thick arrows completed all this. He was fortunate enough to observe the unique arrows of the Russians at close range. After seeing the various weapons and equipment of this group of people, he could not imagine that these three hundred people were actually a group of madmen armed with steel.
He clearly saw the iron mail armor worn by the leader of the Rus!
"If you guys had a fight with those guys, who would win?"
Woima Kashad kept his thoughts in his heart, and he spoke humbly all the way. Like a hound.
For those who are willing to cooperate, Otto is not stingy about feeding them some wheat cakes.
Compared to this leader, Otto was actually worried about whether the group of deer herders following the team would escape.
After three days of camping in the wild, Otto felt that he was worrying too much.
The transformation of reality is very subtle, just like those deer herders who have willingly regarded their sons as their leaders. Otto had no worries about this. He even felt that with the help of this group of deer herders, the team would be less burdened as they moved forward.
If anyone is the master of snowshoeing, the deer herder must be the master of the masters. Their winter grazing involves driving their reindeer herds through the snowy world.
Now they have lost all their deer, but they are also guaranteed safety and protection.
The deer herders began to take the initiative to help the mercenaries directly under Rurik share some of their luggage. They also took the initiative to sit on the ground and drill wood to make fire, and even hunted.
Another big reason why they work so well together is Rumia.
The deer herders who had relatively simple hearts were more likely to trust the words of their female tribesmen, and Rurik also fulfilled his promise. The deer herders, who lived almost purely on meat, suddenly lived a happy life. The days of wheat cakes and wheat porridge.
Once they eat wheat, they want to eat it every time.
This is exactly what Rurik promised. The reward for raising deer for the Russian people is not only safety, but also food security. The "security" here refers to highly nutritious wheat.
Like the deer herders, the Rus are masters of snow.
Because cowardly people basically die in childhood and grow into strong men, they are first of all guys with extraordinary perseverance.
Everyone wrapped up their leather jackets tightly and endured the dry and biting wind from the Arctic in order to quicklyadvance at a speed.
Under normal circumstances, the Russians can only walk up to twenty kilometers a day on foot in the snow.
If you step on the ice, the situation will be much better.
They set out on a clear morning and continued their journey at night. Throughout the evening two days later, the team walking along the coast encountered a slightly wide frozen river.
"Where is this place?" Otto forced Voyma Kashad, who was leading the way, to explain.
The leader, who knelt down in front of Otto to show his humility, hesitated and said: "I...I don't know the name of this river. Because we Kewen people rarely touch this place."
While Jevro was translating, Otto, who was in a mood of excitement, raised his big feet and knocked Voima Kashad down. The pain made the man huddled on the ice and screamed, thinking that his A life was lost.
"Jevlo, help him up! Others, let's cross the glacier!"
After that, Otto took the lead and walked into the frozen river, followed by the others. back.
Up to now, the team has already entered an area that they have never understood. For all the Ross people, everything they are seeing is brand new.
Exploring the unknown world, everyone has a desire to explore, but also a deep fear in their hearts.
Otto is willing to shoulder great responsibilities, become a great explorer, and lead his people to move forward.
The team spent the night in the forest on the other side of the river, and bonfires were quickly lit in the pine forest.
As a result, the tribesmen almost instinctively "teamed up to explore the map" and accidentally discovered suspicious footprints in the forest, which seemed to be the presence of some big prey.
The tribesmen who tried to hunt succeeded!
The hunters happened to find a white bear that had suspended its "partial hibernation" and took the opportunity to kill it.
Before falling asleep, Rurik happily gnawed on a piece of half-cooked bear meat. He only took one bite and was made uncomfortable by the strong smell.
“Damn it, I thought I could stand shark meat, and I can also stand white bear meat. It’s so disgusting!”
Rurik threw the meat to himself casually Rumia, he rinsed his mouth with hot snow water and ate the wheat cake he brought.
Rumia happily took the bear meat and distributed it to the deer herders and children in a blink of an eye.
Real deer farmers never shy away from the taste of food. They are a group of people who can eat fresh meat raw and digest it well.
From the perspective of the deer farmers, they feel that this is a favor from their new masters.
A fat white bear was dismembered and its head was chopped off, becoming a symbol of Otto's strength. The snow-white bear skin is also carefully peeled off. If you ignore some holes in the leather, it is a wonderful daily necessities. Otto had already thought of bringing the bearskin back to Rossburg to be tanned and used as a soft mattress for his bed.
It can be said that Otto’s idea is really worthy of our Russian name.
However, the white bear died from at least five crossbow volleys. The white bear did not even have a chance to fight back and died of internal bleeding. The same is true. Rurik, who can't stand the life of purely eating fur and drinking blood, can't stand meat without blood, let alone bear meat with its strong smell.
However, the scene of the Russians skinning and dismembering a white bear almost frightened Voyma Kashad.
In the view of Kewen people, it is best not to actively provoke animals like white bears. Who would have imagined that the Russians hunted the violent white bear as if it were a hunt for something.
After hunting a white bear, Otto felt much better.
And those tribesmen who have been traveling all day long have hope for their journey south.
The Russians began to focus on the surrounding scenery, trying to find small animals hidden in the snow.
It was another two days of journey, and some Russian warriors already had some new things in their luggage. It was mainly white down snow rabbit skin. A few lucky people managed to catch ferrets using makeshift traps.
They crossed another frozen river midway and stopped at a very large frozen river.
At this point, Woima Kashad, the leader of the way, announced something very important.
He panted and approached Otto, who was sighing at the glacier and ice sea, and pointed at the defense line of the river and said plausibly: "My tribe is coming. Knowing that we are walking along the river, the nearest tribe is Gray Squirrel Hill Castle."
After hearing Jevro's translation, Otto nodded and motioned to his men to take the leader down and reward him with a piece of wheat cake.
It was approaching evening, and Rurik felt that the troops would camp here to rest. He didn't expect that his father would leave him with him.
Those deer farmers have already begun the traditional trick of drilling wood to make fire. They use hemp rope and sticks to make "auger wood fire tools". Of course, the Russians also have this skill, and even it is GF exists.
As the first bonfire burned, the fire soon spread to all the bonfires.
On the frozen coast, an old man with a white beard covered his young son's head with his big hands.
Although it is a sea of ice, Otto realized the superiority of this place.
"Do you know why I let you stand here?" Otto asked deliberately.
"Is... looking at the sea of ice?"
"Bah! Have you seen the island in the distance?"
Rurik squinted slightly Opening his eyes and looking around, he constructed a geographical structure in his mind that resembled a bay.
At this point, he suddenly realized.
"Is this... a bay?"
"Yes!" Otto nodded with satisfaction: "It's very suitable for a settlement, isn't it?"
"Is it really appropriate?"
"My child, we should try." Otto stroked his son's head, "Our fishing boat has never touched this place, but I have aI have a wonderful premonition that if we start from here and head west on the ice sea, we can reach Fort Ross. "
Father's words suddenly aroused Rurik's strong curiosity. He closed his eyes and desperately thought about a possibility.
Because of the geographical structure of the Gulf of Bothnia, Rurik It is very clear.
It can be said that in the past time, the Russians were measuring the "structure of the known world" along the coastline.
An idea came to mind.
Rurik suddenly broke away from his father's big hand: "Dad, please give me a moment. We won't set off tomorrow morning until the sun reaches its highest point in the sky. I want to be sure of one thing. "
"One thing? What is that? "Otto was a little confused.
"This is where we are now. You should know that our world is not a plate held up by the branches of the world, but a big ball held up..."
Rurik talked for a while, but his father didn't care about it at all. Understand that the only thing that made Rurik feel comfortable in his embarrassment was his father's approval of his willful decision.
Otto decided to give the tribe a long rest. After all, according to the leader's words. , you can reach your destination quickly by walking along the glacier.
At that time, Otto does not believe that those Covin people can kneel on the ground and swear to be loyal slaves, but they will still have to use force to force them to submit. /p>
It is said that there may be hundreds of people in that tribe. Because of the previous battle, Otto felt that these unknown enemies were fools. Their only advantage was that they had more people. The premise was that children and women could be warriors. < /p>
It is natural to despise the enemy, but Otto does not want to force his men. It is said that only by recharging his strength and launching a battle can he achieve victory in the shortest time.
He learned that he can finally win. The warriors who were fighting solemnly were grateful for the opportunity given to them by their leader and the prophecy of the high priest, so they prepared their weapons in their respective shacks, or took the time to sleep.
What about Otto? Early the next morning, he did not pay attention to his son's towering branches on the ice. Instead, he took a few young cronies for a walk on the frozen coast.
Otto was there. Examining the geographical conditions of this area, the more he explored, the more he felt that not building a stronghold here would be a waste of its unique geographical location.
It can be said that Otto's vision is wise, because in another place. In this plane, it was the Swedish king who conquered Finland and built a city here.
She is the city of Oulu, a beautiful city that is frozen in winter and produces salmon.
Now, the Russian hunting army is the first to camp here. In a sense, the "Swedes" of this plane completed the conquest of this place in 830 AD, and a city may have been built as a result. The time of her construction is also historically determined to be 830 AD.
Remember that Rurik experimented with the trick of measuring latitude.?
This time, he repeated his old tricks and only wanted the precise geography of a campsite.
Rurik used the rope ruler carried by the team as a measuring tool, and then inserted a pine branch into the hole drilled in the frozen river. The length of the pine branch exposed on the ice was trimmed to a standard stika. That is the so-called 98 centimeters.
The length of pine branches requires precise figures, but Rurik only found the length of the sun’s shadow at noon.
No one knew what Rurik was doing. Some curious warriors watched for a while, and then they felt bored and evacuated.
The sun is shining brightly today, and this is the river that runs to the southwest. The Arctic wind can easily wreak havoc on the frozen river. If you stay on the river, your ears will be filled with whirring sounds, Rurik insisted. Stay here, for noon is approaching.
After some preliminary calculations, Rurik calculated today’s solar altitude angle using the Julian calendar.
In the end, he only needed to get the maximum length of the sun shadow, and all the problems were solved.
Otto never left his son, nor Rumia. This girl also insisted on standing in the midday sun, letting the cold wind howl.
Rurik used his sword to draw a line where the sun's shadow was the largest, and then hurriedly took out a tape measure to measure.
He began to use the ice surface as a scratch paper for calculations, using the tip of his sword to draw symbols on it that Otto could not understand at all.
"Rurik, what are you doing? Is it a prayer spell?" Otto Shadow asked in surprise.
Rumia basically understood it. She explained for her master: "Big boss, my master is calculating."
"What is the calculation?"
"It's... calculation..." Rumia couldn't say it for a while, because she didn't really believe that the world she was in was on a big ball.
Rurik did some trigonometric calculations and finally obtained the precise angle value. Finally, he calculated the latitude of the campsite.
Rurik estimated that there must be an error in his calculations, but the error was within an acceptable range.
He put the sword back into the leather scabbard with great interest and approached his father.
At this moment, Otto, who was confused, had been watching for a long time. He loved his son and couldn't bear to disturb him, and he stood here to show his support.
"Did you get good results? What on earth were you calculating?" Otto asked.
"Dad, I already understand. Our current location is 65° north latitude."
Otto heard some confusing words, and Rurik also realized that his words were old. Dad basically doesn't understand.
Otto scratched his beard and continued to ask: "Rurik, you just need to tell me, can we go back to our hometown directly after crossing the ice sea? Have you found the way back?"
< p> Rurik nodded deeply: "Found it. We are walking due west. When we reach a new land, we need to walk north for about a day.If you can... you can return to Roseburg. ""Huh? Is this true? "Otto was overjoyed.
How can Rurik be completely sure? Although this is the theory, the latitude of Fort Ross is 65°4′, and the current campsite where he is currently is barely less than 65°. 1′. The latitude difference between the two places is very small, but if you put this difference on the ordinate, it is at least more than twenty kilometers on the map.
Rurik is willing to believe in the power of mathematics. Wanting to believe his own calculations, he stamped his feet vigorously and said firmly: "Move slightly to the west and north, and we can go directly back to Roseburg! "
"Okay! I listen to you. Otto directly pulled out his sword and pointed to the west: "I have decided that after we conquer those Corvins, we will return along the glacier." It was here that we crossed the ice and headed straight home. ”
Otto immediately began to publicize the news, saying that the team could go home all the way west, which would definitely save a lot of time when everyone returned. At first, everyone was worried and instinctively felt This is not reliable.
Since it was Rurik who played the trick that looked like a "sacrificial ritual", many people believed that Rurik had received a revelation from God.
Then don’t worry about anything. Once the Kovin people are dealt with, everyone’s road to victory will no longer have to take a detour.
The short day has passed, and it can be said that the Ross camp is at the mouth of the glacier. After staying for more than a day!
The swords and axes of all the warriors were sharpened, they had eaten enough, and their mental state was back to its peak. Everyone was fully prepared to face the unknown battle, and it had even begun. Dreaming of getting rich.
It was another sunny morning, and the Russians who were ready to fight finally set off.
Before setting off, Otto suddenly asked Voy who was leading the way. Makassad: "You must know the name of this river. "
Jevlo translated for Otto and relayed a rather special name of the river "River with a Great Flood", which is simply "Oulu".
So in other words, the original meaning of Gaihe is "Honghe"
"Olu?" OK! An interesting name. Maybe I'll build a Fort Oro and control this place forever. ”
History has reached a coincidence here, because the Swedish conqueror from another dimension named the newly built fortress “Olu Castle”. The conqueror named it in the Finnish language. Add a common place name suffix in Northern and Western Europe.
Woima Kashad does not know the exact reason why the Rus are the leader and asks for the name of the river. It seems to be simply to prepare for future battles?
Facing the menacing Ross army, Woima Kashad, who was leading the way, was extremely happy.
Because he longed for a war, because it was not his war, but it was possible. Give yourself a chance to escape.
Woima Kashad pointed to the river and threatened that it would take two days at most.Within a short distance, the Russians can reach the village called "Grey Squirrel Hill Fortress", where more than 10,000 squirrel pelts will become the trophies of the Russians.
What is irrefutable is that the fighting spirit of the Russian people has been completely inspired!