The wealth accumulated by the residents of Borgholm was all in the hands of the Swedish army in one day.
Although it cost a lot of casualties, the wealth plundered by the army instantly made every soldier alive rich.
However, the army's high-intensity battle has lasted for more than ten days. They are not tireless gods of war. When the fortress surrendered, the soldiers who were tense were discouraged.
Olegin can be sure that his task now is not to attack Kalmar immediately. His team is exhausted and weakened. Without an important repair, attacking Kalmar will be a hit.
He controlled the wealth and food of the entire fortress, and put a lot of effort into distributing the spoils.
Even though Karl was not satisfied with his father's distribution strategy, Olegin forcibly completed his decision, and as expected, the result was the support of friendly forces.
He was once the leader of the alliance, and now he is the king. He has never been a puppet of the great landowner of Mellaren!
For example, the Yelmalens, who paid a lot of casualties, were allocated a lot of spoils, and the other tribes also enjoyed generous spoils.
His Melalen tribe sent the most troops and took the lead in fighting vicious battles. It is understandable that they got the most spoils. However, in order to win over people's hearts, Olegin did not take away many silver coins.
What is Borgholm Fortress? Everyone has indeed fought hard in the past few days, but the wealth here is not abundant.
The Danish Kalmar is the treasure land where mountains of gold and silver are piled up!
The Malaren Army obtained a large amount of dried fish and cheese, and immediately slaughtered all the cattle and sheep of the Saxons in the fortress to make dried meat for the army.
Like locusts, they swept away all the Saxon property, but they also gave the surrenderers enough food to satisfy their hunger.
However, the existing food is not enough to support possible future wars.
The rainfall is completely over. Rain in summer is always like this. It comes and goes quickly.
The calm sea is still full of boats. All tribes in the Swedish army are sending people into the sea to fish. There are also people looking for edible shells on the beach and going into the sparse woods to hunt rabbits.
Olegin gave the coalition forces a "holiday" and ordered the surrendered Stein to hand over some young women for the army's entertainment.
The Saxons agreed to this humiliating order because they had no choice...
Food, silver coins and women were all Olegin could think of to stabilize the morale of the army. That's it.
According to the contract, he did not give the Russians much loot, but only "rewarded" some dried fish and cheese. This stingy move made the dukes of each tribe think that Otto would be furious, but the Russians Unexpectedly easy-going.
Is there really an ulterior deal between Ross and Melalen?
The Russians with their big ships have been fighting until now, but their huge cabins are empty. What are they planning? Could it beJust the honor of victory?
A lively coastal settlement has turned into a huge military camp. The prosperity of the past is gone. What is left is thousands of eager eyes and an insatiable appetite.
At least Rurik's foresight made the Russians' military supplies now very sufficient. Eating the stored food for a long time will inevitably make everyone feel bored. No, the two cargo ships turned into fishing boats. They dragged the large hemp rope nets they had stored in their reserves and swam back and forth in the offshore. Not to mention catching something unexpectedly. The silvery herrings.
It was a sunny afternoon, and there were still two days before the new expedition.
Rurik, who was staying at the coastal camp, was handling a wooden crossbow out of boredom, and led his men to use the targets with rotten wooden boards as a game.
What about Otto? He just nibbled on a shot shelduck at noon, took another sip of his treasured liquor, and now he was taking a leisurely nap in the tent.
Many warriors instantly turned into hunters, especially the Covin people. Excellent young archers like Terravis used their superb archery skills to kill including but not limited to Nordic shelducks, White-headed loons, seagulls.
The various long-range weapons widely equipped by the Russians directly dealt a major blow to the birds fishing offshore. Normally, these vigilant birds are difficult to catch by the locals. Unexpectedly, a few arrows or a group of master squirrel shooters attacked. The Russians soon began to roast these captured birds around the campfire. Meat.
For a girl like Carlotta, Rurik also gave her a mission. Rurik's ten Slavic maids all followed Carlotta, harvesting mussels on a large scale at the rocks on the beach with axes and knives.
The fishing boat finally came back, and two big bags of fish were left behind by the people on the boat who were laughing like fools.
As night fell, Rurik, who had been playing bow and arrow all day, sat by the campfire. There was a string of grilled herrings in front of him, and there were mussels boiled in sea water in the earthen pot, and there were two more. Roasted wild duck legs.
Otto still held a bird that was so cooked that it was difficult to see its features and gnawed at it, praising that the island was not as barren as it seemed.
"What a great place. Could it be that those Saxons would settle here? This duck is too fat, and we in Roseburg won't be able to enjoy this taste."
Rurik Eating fish leisurely, he said casually: "I'm afraid Olegin doesn't want to stay here forever. We will attack Kalmar in two days. When everyone returns after the battle, what will be the fate of Borgholm?" "
"That's none of our business." Otto looked disapproving. Rurik, on the other hand, felt inexplicably worried. Otto undoubtedly saw this too.
"Don't have any worries. This is Olegin's war now. We will accompany him to finish the game, that's all."
"Okay! Okay. ..."
There are things Rurik doesn’t want to say for now. He doesn’t feel offensive.Kalmar's army will encounter setbacks, because intelligence from all parties points out that Kalmar has a large number of wealthy fish merchants, and only these people can build wooden walls. Without a vicious solid wooden wall, what would the coalition have to fear?
The threat does not come from Kalmar, but from the Danes in the distance!
Rurik, who has a good understanding of the geographical structure of the region, knows that the southernmost tip of the island we currently occupy is not far from the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark.
Now that the war has reached this point, are the Danes just pretending to be deaf and dumb and just sit back and watch their people being slaughtered and their interests being violated?
Rurik was quiet for a while and then suggested: "Dad, we should seriously consider the problem of encountering the main Danish force. Maybe while we are resting here, Danish soldiers have already entered Let’s go to Kalmar and wait for work.”
Otto never thought about these things. Since the war has been going very smoothly, he felt that the next battle would be smooth sailing.
"You mean, we want to fight the Danes on a large scale?"
"Maybe!"
"Oh! That would be great!" Oh Tuo threw away the half-eaten duck meat and started gearing up.
"No! Don't be impulsive. I don't want to have a large-scale fierce battle with the Danes right now."
"Why? We should have settled our accounts with them long ago, and one will gain endless glory." The opportunity is in front of you, and many people will become famous because of it, so you are not willing to participate?" Otto asked, but in fact he hoped to gain some glory in the twilight years of his life, even if he died in battle, it would be honorable.
Rurik didn’t want to pursue these things at the wrong time and place. Seeing his father’s attitude become serious, his attitude also became serious: “We just want to avoid fighting the Danes. Unless he has to fight. In my opinion, after Olegin defeated Kalmar, he still wanted to expand his victory. His ambition may have expanded to the point of fully attacking Denmark. If he really had such a plan, I would sit back. The Avora quickly retreated."
"Huh?" Otto shook, "Escape?"
"I have to go back quickly. Let's all unite to deal with the full-scale counterattack of the Danes."
At this point, Otto said no more...
The conversation around the campfire came to a thrilling end. Ruoli. Otto was too lazy to believe that Ke's words came from someone else's mouth, but Rurik was so steadfast in his oath that he had to consider this possibility. With their current strength, do the Russians really have the ability to fight against the entire Denmark as a family?
Maybe in the future, at least not now.
On a macro level, Rurik thinks highly of the strength of the Danes because this is in line with historical facts. The history that Rurik knew was that because the Danes controlled the rare warm zone in Northern Europe, their agricultural conditions were better and they could support a larger population.
In fact, Rurik only knew part of what he knew.The waters from Jutland to the island of Bernholm are the so-called Øresund fishing grounds. Herring thrives here, and the end of the fishing ground extends to the entire Kalmar Strait, which is why the Russians can catch a lot of herring locally.
A new journey is just around the corner. Just the day before the expedition, the Swedish army, which was almost rested, has regained its former glory. They became very aggressive because of Olegin's blatant propaganda: "The Danish merchants in Kalmar are extremely wealthy, and every soldier there can become rich!"
The lowest level of each tribe The soldiers are fishermen and farmers themselves. They risk their lives and fight just to get the spoils of war.
Relying entirely on this group of excited warriors, Olegin felt that he had a chance to win. Sure enough, just as Rurik estimated, Olegin's ambitions were already expanding, and he hoped to win the battle through his own conquest. A huge territory!
After all, he is not a pirate. He must always control a large tribe that attaches great importance to agriculture. Olegin always has the idea of expanding territory. In his old age, he can't wait to eat more and more. territory.
No, he officially began to re-arm the Voskas and Saxons, and officially appointed Stein as Duke of Borgholm, even though the settlement was almost looted.
In exchange, Stein was ordered to organize a huge army, that is, his tribe, from boys over twelve years old to men over fifty, all took up arms and were incorporated into the army. In an instant, Stein was stunned to organize a "big army" of up to 700 people. Given the strength of these people, no one thought that they were really strong soldiers.
Olegin couldn't care less, and the two servant armies assembled a lineup of nearly a thousand people.
He could not completely trust these people, so the weapons he gave them were extremely crude. They couldn't even think about armor, even if it was covered with another layer of leather. They had only two weapons, short spears and hand axes, and their only defensive equipment was a shield made of wooden boards.
Stein fully understood that he would lead his tribe to participate in the attack on Kalmar and charge forward as an important force. He would have to make a lot of sacrifices in the future. But he really had no choice. Even if he wanted to rebel, would the Kalmar people who were attacked understand this and not respond indiscriminately to any armed men who came over?
After all this torment, the women of Saxony cried so much that Olegin cried out that it was unlucky.
Soldiers from all tribes of the coalition were full of confidence in the expedition tomorrow morning. Each of them had obtained silver coins. When they thought about getting more in the new battle, they were so excited that they could not sleep peacefully. They selectively ignored the casualties. possibility.
Like the Saxon servants who were forced to assemble, a large number of people stayed awake all night because of fear. They never thought that they would have to fight those who settled in Kalma. The two sides had no relationship for so many years, and bilateral trade was normal. They did not expect that the harmonious two sides would be forced to fight against each other.
The war was not something that a group of Saxons could control. In the early morning of the next morning, the warriors who woke up ate fish or other food and pushed the boats to the beach to wait for the morning tide to rise.
The Saxons and Voskars boarded their own ships one after another and were closely monitored by the fleet of the Malaren army.
The Russians also returned to their big ship early. The Avora once again acted as a perfect follower closely following the Melalen fleet, but in fact it also blocked the servant army. The fleet's cowardly retreat.
As if being oppressed by the roar of a huge beast, Stein on the boat always felt that the huge ship would easily crash his own boat. In fact, this was indeed the case once a collision occurred.
Now Stein has understood everything in the previous battle. The owner of the big ship is the Rus, which is the "hateful Rus" mentioned by the Gotlanders. Three years ago, Arik led his troops to storm a stronghold on Gotland. The crazy killings became a nightmare for the entire island.
This time Stein completely understood where the nightmare of "hateful Ross" came from. These people were indeed part of the so-called Swedish army, but they seemed to be outside. For example, in battle, those damn arrows were almost fired by the Russians, making the wooden wall an extremely dangerous place.
It can be seen that in the following battle, the Kalmar people will also repay the pain of being killed by arrows.
It was precisely during this battle that Stein's thinking was completely subverted. Arrows were actually such terrible weapons!
The army set off in the morning. Because the daylight hours are extremely long, the morning here is actually very early.
The voyage waiting for the Swedish army is actually only thirty kilometers. Even if it is sailing against the wind, this distance is a continuous journey of up to six hours.
Soon, the army began to pass through the deepest part of the Kalmar Strait. Standing on the bow deck of the ship, Rurik could clearly see the land in the east and west, because the current strait was narrowed to a mere Three kilometers away.
"Everyone, be on alert. We will encounter enemies at any time, and be prepared to destroy their ships!" Rurik ordered loudly, but he also stayed at the bow of the ship for a long time. A while.
The mercenaries operating all the torque slingshots roared, as if they were about to start a sea battle with the enemy.
However, looking at the narrow sea, it was empty. Only the Swedish army's huge fleet calmly passed through the narrowest part of this section.
It is a relatively wide sea area, but in fact, you can still see the land to the east and west, because the width of the strait in front is only about seven kilometers.
The calm sea worried Rurik. He was afraid that the enemy would suddenly emerge from some fjords and catch the coalition forces by surprise. Even though the Ross army was fearless, it would be too sudden for other teams.
"Why are you still up there? This is already a battlefield. Get into the cabin and wait quietly!" Otto, who was standing on the lower deck, roared and hurriedly climbed onto the bow of the ship.
He held down Rurik's head and ordered: "Get down quickly."
"It's too quiet." Rurik said coldly.
"What are you quiet about?"
"I'm afraid that the enemy is already ready. It stands to reason that there should be many fishing boats in this area, but in the end it's just us."
Otto looked optimistic: "That must be because the enemy is afraid. It doesn't matter, we have strong troops, and Olegin is determined to win."
"Ah! Look! The land in front of me, according to me Look, Kalma is here!”
Rurik pointed to a relatively vague area, which was land and showed signs of being developed. More and more people saw the clues in the distance clearly, and Otto, who squinted his eyes, concluded that it was a settlement.
"Rurik, if those who surrendered are right, this is Kalma, the ultimate goal of our army. My dear, get down quickly!"
"I No." Breaking free from his father's hand, Rurik pointed forward with his sword: "Brothers, prepare to fight, even if we don't land, we will use the torsion slingshot to support the friendly forces!"
The soldiers roared again! .
Seeing this, Otto smiled with satisfaction and returned to the lower deck. Yinte also had to organize soldiers to wait for opportunistic fire support. The so-called giving a wave of blows to the enemies who may have near-shore defenses allowed the coalition forces to The landing force's operations were smoother.
The battlefield became increasingly clear. Karl led some black warriors and took the lead with three ships. This matter was supported by Olegin. He needed his prince to be neutral in this "decisive battle" It is worthwhile to take the risk in order to obtain direct legitimacy for rule by making great achievements.
No, Karl squinted his eyes. He had already seen the panicked people in the fishing village on the other side of Kalma.
"Haha! We still caught them off guard! Brothers, row like crazy, the glory belongs to Melalen! Go for it!" He held Olegin's sword high, standing on the boat as if flying .
The Mellaren Army once again took the lead in rushing to the beach, but what awaited them was indeed the residents of Kalmar who had made preparations for war.
It can be said that those Kalmar people who did not evacuate, whether they were Danes, Götalanders, Gotlanders, or Norwegians, had to fight against the attacks for their wealth, their industry, and to fight a battle.
A big war is simply unavoidable. Fortunately, all Swedish military forces have made adequate preparations for a decisive battle before going out. Many people even regard this as "the sacred key to qualifying to enter Valhalla." war".