A new day, the beginning of hunting!
Arik did not capture anyone alive. The Russian scouts obtained a lot of useful information from the killed enemies. For example, the enemy's armament was far less than that of the Russians, and their vigilance was also relatively low. , based on these circumstances, he dared to boldly "advance".
Real danger is approaching for the Tavastian hunters who are busy catching squirrels.
A group of Russians in white robes formed a group, each holding a crossbow. From a distance, they could see that the target was ready for battle at any time.
As expected, Arik's desire to kill began!
Two Tavastian hunters saw something white shaking in front of them from a distance. They thought it was some interesting prey, so they touched it with their bows.
Naihe, ten people suddenly appeared from the snow!
The hunter didn't even have time to scream before he fell to the ground with several arrows in his body.
The most deadly arrows naturally come from heavy crossbow arrows, which are arrow shafts as thick as a strong man’s thumb and cone-shaped armor-piercing arrow clusters. Huge wounds often bring quick death.
"Two prey, what should we do?" someone asked.
Arik thought for a while: "Take the available weapons and bury the body, and we will find new ones."
In fact, no one was too lazy to deal with the body anymore, so he buried the body with a shovel , panting and complaining to the boss afterwards that this was unnecessary.
Someone gasped and shouted: "Arik, we can't do this. Are you afraid that our brothers will be exposed? You don't even want to look at the thirty of us gathered in a group. Unless they are fools, they can't see this." They are the footprints of a large group of people. Are you afraid that your brothers will be exposed? "Oh? If you say so, I have to think about it."
With a low face: "We...should spread terror. Let them know how powerful we are."
"What do you have in mind?"
"These people are obviously not Kewen people. They are enemies, they should be hung up like skinned squirrels. Didn’t you notice that we have captured new leather? All the squirrel skins here should be tribute to us!”
Arik's head suddenly opened up: "Okay! Let's do it like this!"
These Russians who lick blood from their swords have no objection to killing, and they even enjoy it!
The Tavastian hunters who are wandering in the forest to grab profits do not know that Ross’s avengers have arrived, and they do not know that in the eyes of the Ross people, they are not just simple enemies, but To be skinned and humiliated prey!
On the first day after entering the riverside forest, Arik and his gang killed as many as eleven enemy hunters, and eight more bloody corpses were hung on the trees. The tragic situation was even that of the Ross Scouts. I also felt nauseous.
But this is war, and Arik doesn’t mind using such vicious methods.
Anyone who dares to interfere with the interests of the Russian people should face this fate!
Russians light fires in the forest to keep warm and grill food fromSquirrels plundering the dead. Fortunately, they were not crazy enough to become Hannibal, and Aric continued to nibble on the oatmeal scones he brought from his hometown in Roseburg, eating them with the snowflakes that were available everywhere.
The next day, they took action again!
This time, Arik successfully touched the long and narrow lake inland. There were a large number of thatched buildings not far away, which was the village of the Salmon Lord.
"It's getting very strange there, like a fire." A Ross warrior lying in the snow muttered to Arik.
Aric poked his head, thinking about the previous information about Kehas: "The old immortal said that his camp was burned by the invaders. There is a cemetery of our tribe there, and it seems that it was indeed destroyed by them. "
Although the deceased was the child of a Russian fisherman and the cause of death was a sudden illness, it was a Russian cemetery after all. Even destroying a child's grave was an insult to the Russian people! Besides, if the enemy destroys the cemetery of the servant, how can the Russians, as the masters, not take countermeasures?
Another person encouraged: "I saw thirty or forty people wandering around. Even if we walk over in a big way, we can kill them all."
As soon as this statement came out , at least ten people were excited.
Some people shouted: "Our Lord Rurik is too cautious! That Kejas exaggerated the enemy and made us wear mail armor. Such heavy things were meant to fight the Danes. The result is that we have to fight with these idiots. Let’s put on armor and fight with them. I’m going to chop off their heads!”
Everyone’s attitude was clear after this, and the brothers just wanted to rush forward and fight. Just like when the capital conquered this place.
If the leader of the army was Rurik, he would definitely have to act more cautiously.
However, Arik became the leader of the scouts. The young man's head was filled with heat, and he was suddenly possessed by the God of War.
Aric stood up suddenly, no longer bothering to pretend: "Then let's do it! Let's walk over and shoot them! If they dare to fight, we will kill them!"
p>Originally Rurik hoped that his cousin could be a real scout and try his best to find out the enemy's true identity without exposing himself.
However, what he was most worried about happened. Arik was indeed a scout, but turned into a flesh detective.
Aric did not realize that this was a reckless act, but he was trying to deceive the enemy's main force. If he could beat them, he would fight. If he couldn't, he would shoot arrows and then fight and leave.
It is of course impossible to evacuate voluntarily, but he must still evacuate, and then send people to report to the rear with intelligence, because according to the plan made by his brother, Ross’s crusade army will be killed by boat after the ice melts. Come.
Thirty snowmen appeared on the ice. They formed a skirmish line and approached the undefended village of Old Salmon Lord.
The Tavastian hunters who were stationed here to rest discovered the approaching monsters one after another. They began to gather and instinctively assessed the threat of the approaching monsters.
Some people say that it is the legendary "snowman", while others say that it is actually the "snow elf".
As Aric and his men drew closer, the Tavastian hunters felt the most real threat.
Some people claimed that they were attackers. Although they were not sure yet, many hunters believed that they were enemies based on instinct.
The Tavastian hunters holding bows still gathered one after another. They were dressed in a mess of gray-brown furs patchwork and stitched together, and they were gathered in a mess.
"Is this all you have? Not enough for me to kill slowly." Arik was a little regretful. If the enemy only stood up with forty or fifty people, he would have a good chance of winning. In fact, the enemy gathered less than a hundred people, but Arik was convinced that he would win.
However, he did not order the men to continue moving forward. Instead, they all knelt down on the spot, picking up their crossbows and preparing to shoot arrows.
At this moment, a person stood out from the gray-brown crowd gathered opposite. This person boldly stepped forward and opened his arms to show that he was not afraid of threats.
This man was shouting incomprehensible words. Arik had no intention of talking to him, let alone maintaining the so-called peace.
He picked up his steel-armed crossbow and aimed at the approaching people and shot.
The heavy arrows made for armor-piercing directly hit the approaching man's eye socket. The man died on the spot and fell to the ice.
Seeing this, the Tavastian hunters who had their arrows in their bows were all shocked.
"It's the enemy! The enemy emerged from the snow!"
The Tavastian hunters hurriedly threw arrows, but Arik and others squatted on the spot.
Only Arik stood without fear. With his "Kirin Arm" and leather gloves, he relied on brute force to wind up his steel-arm crossbow, completely ignoring the enemy. Threat of arrows.
Those arrows hit the ice in a mess, and some arrow shafts simply broke on their own! The arrow was no less than twenty steps away from the Russians, and this was part of Arik's calculation.
"Are you done? It's our turn!"
He muttered to himself, then shouted: "Russians! Wooden crossbow! Shoot!"
Even if it is a crossbow modified from a short wooden bow, it is more powerful than an ordinary short bow!
The climate in Europe is indeed not suitable for compound bows, but this does not mean that they cannot be used. The Russians' wooden crossbows were also modified with rosin and deer sinew to enhance their elasticity, and the projectile range was indeed improved visible to the naked eye.
The Russians simply used the captured arrows to repay the gods with their own way. Seven Tavastian hunters were hit by arrows, and the rest of the hunters scattered like birds and beasts.
The distance between the two sides is actually less than 150 meters. At such a close distance, the steel crossbow can still show great power.
Three more people were hit by the arrows of the thrown steel crossbow, and they lost the ability to fight in an instant.
The battle is actually like this? !
You haven’t fought yet, but you are good at archery.Are the brothers being killed crazily by the arrows of this group of weird snowmen that emerged from the snow?
The hunters fled frantically to the upper reaches of the glacier. One man hurriedly pulled out a strange arrow from a brother and turned a blind eye to his brother's vomiting blood and wails.
The Russians also launched a pursuit, and during the pursuit, three more people were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
Should one or two injured people be left behind to ask for information? After thinking about it for a while, Arik gave up completely. Instead, he ordered his men to leave no one alive and behead all the enemy's corpses. Then, just like a hunter dealing with squirrels, he regarded these dead people as squirrels and finally hung them upside down on a tree for the enemy to see.
When we arrived here, everything had changed. The Ross scouts who were cleaning the battlefield were busy seizing weapons and food. Just as Arik requested, the enemy's corpses were hung like strips of seals with their skins peeled off. On the treetops, blood dripped crimson and then froze to the ground.
As night fell, after this victory, Arik's attitude towards the invaders was nothing but contempt.
The Russians left the hut village and had no intention of inspecting the mountain fort that suffered a fire.
They retreated to the woods again and gathered in the snow to discuss their next move.
Someone complained casually: "It seems that the Duke did overestimate the enemy. If we brothers were not fifty but five hundred, all those invaders would be wiped out."
"He's right." Someone immediately agreed, "The enemy is far weaker than we thought. In my opinion, we can follow the footsteps left by the enemy to reach their camp. We can kill their commander, so that all enemies It will definitely fall into chaos."
The proposal from his subordinate gave Arik a very bold idea.
"Then kill their leader!" Arik bared his teeth like a wolf in the snow.
Everyone exchanged attitudes. They originally planned to arrange for one or two brothers to go back and report the news, but now an opportunity to make a great contribution was presented to them, and none of the brothers wanted to be excluded.
They rested in the snowfield for the night, huddled together and hid in the snow nest.
Snow is talking! The snow is shaking!
A group of snowmen came to life, and they emerged from the snow.
Arik looked around: "Is everything okay? Didn't you freeze to death?"
The Russians held each other safe, and then started a new action.
So, is Arik not worried at all that the fleeing enemies will sound a war alarm, causing them to appear in large numbers?
He was not without worries, but coveted the great glory after the "Decapitation Operation" was successful, ignoring all the dangers.
Yes, those enemies would run away after being hit by arrows, and then they would bully the weaker Kewen people.
In fact, those who escaped fled throughout the night.
When Arik had started a new journey, the fleeing Tavastians officially informed Vateyala, who had just woken up, of the attack.
In the early morning, the comfortable spring sunshine is still thereThe force melted the snow in the mountains, forests and lakes. In the old Gray Squirrel Mountain Fortress controlled by the Tavastians, the people who occupied this place began new work.
The hunters who plundered the leather resources here, or the hundred men and women who immigrated here and decided to take root, began to do exactly the same work as back home.
It seems like today is a peaceful day.
Until the exhausted brothers who fled ran back, shouting about the "snow monster who is good at archery".
The noble commander Vatyala lives in the warmest house. He is more certain that his men will encounter terrible attacks than any snow monster.
"Snow monster? Ridiculous! You are all scared to death."
He pointed at the exhausted soldiers and shouted that they were exaggerating.
No, Bakan, who surrendered, said very vigilantly: "Sir, this must be a Russian."
"Russian?" He quickly turned his head, "The world is trapped in ice and snow. Do the Russians dare to rush here? Isn’t this reasonable?”
“But it’s their style to be good at archery.”
At that moment, someone who had escaped threw a strange arrow they had picked up.
"Is this an arrow?" Vatyala fiddled with this short, strange arrow with a tail, puzzled as to how a bow could be launched.
But seeing this arrow, the three alert surrenderers all looked nervously.
Bakan trembled and shouted: "It's the Russians! The Russians have this kind of arrows!"
Wateyala glanced at his words and could see this. Human panic is no act.
The three surrendered chiefs of Kovin all described how their people suffered heavy losses due to the arrows in the decisive battle. Of course, out of shame, they just emphasized that they were defeated by the Russian arrows. Losing money, never mentioning that the Kewen people did not take any advantage in the melee group fight.
This caused some misjudgments in Vateyala. The so-called Rus people are only good at arrows, but when it comes to archery, Tavastia hunters are not free. He concluded that the people who stayed in the burned mountain fort suffered a sneak attack. A small-scale failure could not explain anything. Besides, most of the people fled back.
But those who escaped became more and more exaggerated.
The Russians really came to take revenge. Although it is very strange, the Russians should really come. There seemed to be between a hundred and two hundred of them, maybe those guys were also doing some winter squirrel hunting?
The Corvins will either surrender or be destroyed. The Tavastians no longer need to pursue the Corvins, and the Rus will inevitably become a new threat.
"More than a hundred Rus warriors. Since they are going to attack us, it would be cowardly for our brothers to continue to stay in the camp."
Vatyala made up his mind, he stood up and walked When he got outdoors, he immediately began to worry about his men, and sent people to recall those who had gone far away for hunting one after another.
At about noon, as many as four hundred Tavastians gathered in the empty space inside the mountain.
Watyala stood on a high place, giving orders like a king: "I learned that the Russians who have a lot of iron tools have come to seek revenge. They want to take away our hunting grounds. This is not okay! Some brothers have been killed by them. The sneak attack is dead, and all the warriors must take revenge! Now they are probably approaching us, and I will take you to destroy them all. Think about the results after victory, you will all have better iron weapons and become stronger! ”
He never mentioned the possible advantage of the Russians in bows and arrows. His idea was simple, that is, to take the initiative to fight the advancing Russians and kill them all with their absolute superiority in strength.
He will never escape! In other words, no Tavastia military leader who has been entrusted with an important task will give up his honor and lead his troops to escape, not to mention the natural resources in this area are enough to make the entire Tavastia rich.
Vateyala began to organize the soldiers, just like attacking and resisting the Karelia people. In addition to placing a hundred soldiers for defense, he personally led more than 200 people to walk on the glacier and nearby In the snowy forest, hoping to have a decisive battle with the incoming Russians.
He made a good plan and took it for granted that the Russians would run into them like wild boars.
But Arik is not strong enough to really lead thirty brothers to fight one against ten. The Russians have special weapons. Based on these weapons, Arik has already figured out quite a lot in actual combat. It is a vulgar and so-called not upright method of killing the enemy. So what? Only the winner is qualified to explain what it means to be strong in martial virtue.