How to fight? What are tactics?
The Ludi people have no idea of these advanced things. What they think of war is simply fighting with weapons. Even though they gathered almost all the men who could fight, they only gathered more than 300 men.
If they hadn't learned that they could get treasures by fighting, they wouldn't be as enthusiastic as they are now.
The Ludi people were really mixed with a small group of Karelian exiles. More than 300 tribal warriors dressed in deerskin walked out of the village and were raised into a black mass on the ice.
They were jumping around very excitedly. Similarly, the Russians in the distance also gave up their illusions.
The crossbows and torque slingshots are charged, and the Ross hunters holding short wooden bows are also ready. Although there were few of them, they were already wearing chainmail armor under their leather jackets. Everyone's positions are slightly spread out. Although they are all holding bows and crossbows, their shields and swords are placed beside them for immediate weapon switching.
This is a bear hunting team with iron armor. They are dealing with powerful bears. If you wear chain armor when hunting, you will have a higher chance of saving your life from the bear's paws in critical moments.
Obviously these weapons are perfect for small-scale conflicts.
I don’t know which guy started it, and the Ludi people who were ready to go suddenly acted collectively.
The barbarians have no fighting skills. This time they rushed towards the Ross hunter like a wolf.
Look at the two hunters holding torque slingshots. They shouted one after another: "Shoot now?"
"Wait a minute! Come closer and hit." The half-kneeling leader calmly said .
"Attention! We only have one chance."
"Then let them in!"
The leader's so-called "in" means to release this group of tribesmen. To a place within the reach of a short wooden bow.
"Now, bow throw!"
Several swords immediately flew towards the enemy formation, hitting the enemy with beautiful parabolas, but the combat effect was too blurry.
The bow-wielding Ross hunter continued to output, and finally it was the crossbow’s turn to shoot!
The javelins fired by the two torsion slingshots hit the two people one after another, and the warriors holding crossbows also hit them one after another.
The person who was hit by the arrow fell down immediately, causing a stampede from his successors and a surprise to those in the front row who had escaped. The Ludi people saw with their own eyes that their relatives were shot and killed by despicable outsiders. Rather than being suddenly furious, they were aroused by fear. Hesitating out of fear, the tribesmen and warriors retreated lazily.
The Ludi people still kept sprinting, that is, running on the ice. Even though their simple leather boots were anti-slip, the overall speed was not very fast.
The Ross hunters got an advantage and took advantage of the opportunity to recharge their crossbows. Facing the arrows that the opponent started shooting, they were not afraid of danger and received another round of precise shooting.
A third round of shooting is no longer possible!
The hunters threw away their crossbows one after another. They saw the appearance of the enemy clearly, and they looked down on this group of people from the bottom of their hearts.
A group of pigtailsThe humble man actually dared to fight with crude weapons. Let’s call it bravery!
It was the bravery of the Ludi people that made the Ross Hunter Director give up the plan of tactical retreat, and instead prepared to fight with shields and swords.
"Odin is watching! Organize a shield wall!" The leader gave the order, and the old guys immediately gathered together to form a single row of arc-shaped shield array.
Of course, after two rounds of shooting, the Ludi people were already shaken in military morale. Only 30% of the troops who really rushed to the front line and could fight with the Russians in close combat, these people are also the bravest. Many others were actually pulling away the injured, or simply retreated.
The close-range fight has begun. This is a battle between steel swords and steel axes against bone spears. One side has chain armor and shield protection, while the other side only has a deerskin.
The focus of the Ross Steel Sword is on assassination. The sharp blade can easily pierce the enemy's waist and abdomen, and the bleeding slot will immediately cause fatal injuries.
The majority of Ludidian warriors have never participated in battles in the past. This is the first time they have taken up arms to fight with another group of humans. Naturally, it is completely different from cooperative hunting. They thought highly of themselves, and when they realized that many people had died, they threw down their weapons and ran away.
Even the Karelian exiles who have the strongest call for battle. These guys all carry iron weapons, but they are a complete joke under the weapons of the Ross hunters.
Although the shield wall composed of twenty people is weak, it is not easy for a hundred short tribesmen to break through. I saw more than twenty corpses added to the ice, and the remaining people had given up fighting.
"Hey! Idiots continue to kill us, I saw your backs! A group of cowards! A group of natural slaves!" The leader of the Ross hunters yelled in Norse, but the other party couldn't listen at all. You know, all they have to do is run for their lives.
The mass panic brought about the collapse of Lu Di's army. They fled to their village community. The men returned in shock and called on the women to run away with their children.
For a while, the village fell into huge chaos, with the cries of women and children everywhere, and the roar of reindeer being violently dragged out of their enclosures.
The elderly female leader tried to stabilize the mood of the people, but unfortunately even the leader could not do it when the disaster was approaching.
Did Ross’s hunter team really rush into the village and kill people?
If the hunters could fully realize that this group of tribesmen were really unbearable, they would naturally rush in to search and kill. The battle went so smoothly, as smoothly as if there was a trap ahead.
The Ross Hunter stayed outside the village, watching the development of the situation like a covetous beast.
The old female leader finally realized that she was not completely helpless. The controlled Ross messenger was very likely to become the mediator to avoid war.
The wooden cage that was supposed to contain the little beast was opened.
"What? Are you going to kill me? You are seeking your own death!"
The female leader sat down directly and faced the Ross messenger and begged: "Your The hunters are too powerful, we don’t dare anymore!I don’t dare to fight anymore, please let them calm down. "
"..." The messenger looked puzzled. He calmed down a little, and then realized that the hunters had a fight with the Ludi people, and the small number of Rus people actually won easily.
This kind of victory really shocked the messenger. There is no doubt that the Russians are powerful, but these Ludi people are too weak.
The messenger had a plan in mind and shouted. : “You must pay the price for killing our people. Those Karelian exiles hope to destroy you by the hands of the Russians. It's too late to surrender now, otherwise the Russian army will arrive and you will all die. "
The female leader was so frightened that she nodded like a fool.
Now that the messenger had no regard for life and death, he simply ordered with the authority of the Ross army: "Now, Only by capturing all the exiled Karelia people and executing those who caused the war can you quell the anger of the Russians. "
"Ah! ? As long as I do this, you can withdraw your troops? "
"Yes, but...it depends on your sincerity. ”
The female leader nodded, she already knew what to do.
She accepted the messenger as a guest and immediately found a young woman from the tribe to serve him.
She also called on the people who were busy escaping to settle down, find the fleeing Karelia people, both men and women, and apologize to the Russians.
The released messenger finally returned to the ice. When he saw it. When he saw the corpses and the thick blood stains on the ice, it was obvious that there was a terrible killing on the other side.
He returned nervously and was immediately questioned about the Ludi people. The living conditions are not surprising to the hunters, but...
The hunter leader thinks that is an excuse: "Is it all because of the provocation of the remnants of Karelia? I think the Ludians themselves chose the war. ”
The messenger couldn’t bear to kill: “Their female leader does not want to fight anymore and is willing to apologize.” ”
“Apologies? Compensation for what? "
"Some venison, and... women. ”
“A woman? Brothers, it is true that Lie Xiong cannot touch women outside, but they are all a group of dwarves. Do you guarantee that this is not a conspiracy? "
"This..." The messenger thought about it and asked again: "Boss, what do you think? "
"Hey, someone dared to attack us. It turns out that the legendary Ludi people are them. You go there again and let their leader come to the ice to negotiate in person. I am not a fool, I will not enter the village. ”
The messenger nodded. Even if Leader Lu Di showed sincerity, what if they suddenly betrayed him?
The messenger made another trip and ordered the female leader to take all the captured cards with her. The Lelian exile apologized to the hunter.
An old woman holding a wooden staff was the female leader. She finally saw the legendary Rus people. Those legends were basically true. They were really tall.
And she saw that the Russians were all wearing bear skins, and they actually killed a lot of bears. It was so hideous.The ferocious bear's head was immediately displayed, and there were layers of bear skins on the sled.
This is a small bear hunting team. Wouldn’t it be better if there were more...
The dead tribesmen on the ground are heartbreaking, but on the other hand, the Ross hunters were unscathed.
An old woman announced her surrender, but was the surrender just a matter of words?
The Fierce Bears faced a group of Karelians and immediately became murderous.
The leader ordered in Norse: "Keep the young woman and others will kill her. The method must be clean and neat to show our power to the Ludi people."
A large number of Ludi People watched from a distance, and then they saw the Russians wearing bearskins performing murders!
The horrific scene caused many people to faint. The female leader on the front line really saw what the heads were rolling around.
Of course the exiles who fought had reasons for revenge, but now they are all dead.
The female leader slumped on the ice asked tremblingly: "In this way, you can let us go?"
"Don't be stupid!" The leader of the bear hunting team raised his head. Angry: "You have been conquered by Ross! Hand over fifty women to me! Take out two hundred deer! Especially you, follow us to New Ross Fort, you must surrender in front of our prince!"
"Ah!" The female leader was shocked, "Didn't you agree that you don't have to marry women?"
The messenger did not translate this sentence honestly, so he explained it conveniently: "This is a one-time thing. If you hand over the women this time, you won’t have to do it in the future.”
“But our whole clan can’t afford so many women.”
The female leader’s explanation makes sense. The hunters took it as proof of non-cooperation.
The leader of the bear hunters played with his sword. The female leader did not understand the Norse language and knew the anger of the conqueror.
The bear hunting team simply set up camp on the ice, and all the bodies of those killed in the battle were captured by the Ludi people.
That night, the bear hunting team enjoyed the service of the captured Karelian women in the camp. According to the leader's plan, these women will be placed in the Bear Sacrifice Town Fortress to remain slaves.
As for the women who were ordered to hand over by the Ludi people, they were all sold directly to Prince Rurik as slaves. According to his idea, a woman should be able to sell for one pound of silver coins, provided that she remained pure. , which is more profitable and safer than selling bearskins.
The bear-hunting team only gave the Ludi people one night to prepare. Once the time limit was exceeded, the bear-hunting team would evacuate, but the Ross army would come next time.
The clans had no choice but to reluctantly hand over the young girls. A tribe of more than a thousand people took out almost half of the girls in the tribe to appease the Rus.
The female leader had no choice. She decided to apologize to the leader of the Rus in person, hoping that her obedience would preserve the entire tribe.
When the sun rose the next morning, the female leader went there in person, and fifty more crying girls walked towards the Russian ice camp.
The girls were frightened as soon as they arrived.One, because those Russians are simply giants. There were also several clearly unclothed Karelian women wrapped in leather, gnawing on dried meat with dull eyes, like "meat-eating corpses."
All the Ludi people gathered on the edge of the frozen lake outside the village. They watched as part of their deer was given to the Rus people in vain, as well as the tribal women whose future they did not know.
They buried the war dead overnight, and when they encountered the Ludi people who suffered heavy losses one after another, their backbones had been broken by a mere twenty Ross hunters.
The clan leader thinks that the female leader is dead, and they are electing a new leader. As for the future, will they really accept the control of the Rus? Everything is unknown.
But continuing to escape is not advisable!
To the east and south are the western-controlled areas of the Perm people and the remnants of Karelia. They are all on guard against the Lydy people trying to grab their living space.
To the west is the big lake, and on the other side of the lake is the area controlled by the Rus.
Or north? That's even more undesirable. The bear hunters rushed down from the northern stronghold!
The Ludi people have nowhere to escape! The clan leaders are all praying, hoping that the female leader's departure will bring about the kindness of Leader Ross, just like what the messenger described.
There was no need to hunt bears anymore, so the bear hunting team asked the Rudy people to take out a batch of sleds and connect them with Ross's sleds in series with cables.
Now there is no need to tie the dwarf-like girl Ludi with a rope. Even the old lady, the female leader who "asked for forgiveness" is completely free.
They were authorized to wrap themselves in bear skins that had been recently peeled off and use animal hair to keep warm. However, this outfit seemed too scary.
The reindeer sleigh and the free reindeer herd headed north, and the whole team lived on roasting frozen bear meat.
They successfully arrived at the Bear Sacrifice Town, which the female leader knew well - the lakeside sacrificial center of the Karelian people.
"Where have those Karelians gone?" she asked.
The bear hunter replied that they would all be killed.
The town of Bear Festival was revived in another way. It was home to a group of Rus, immigrants from other Viking tribes, and a group of Suomi people.
The Suomi people, who had a feud with Karelia, stood here. They also began to breed reindeer. Bear Festival Town has become a hunting, herding, and fishing base for more than 300 people.
For the first time, the uncontested Ludi people saw the Viking longships pushed ashore and a large number of frozen fish placed on the ice.
At the same time, the female leader realized that the bear hunting team that attacked the village was really ordinary in Russian society. There were fortresses here, there were men and women, and they were almost all hunters. She knew the basic situation of the Suomi people. The legend was true. She saw the short Suomi people chatting and laughing with the blond Rus people!
The discovery of the Ludi village by the bear hunting team immediately caused a sensation. The returning people were afraid that other brothers would form a group to destroy the village, so they hurriedly convened a Nordic meeting and announced the announcement of the Ludi people in the indoor venue. Surrender to the prince, now to attack without authorization is to disobey the monarch.
With this warning, the Russians who were eager to try gave up.
When the female leader Lu Di learned of this situation, she didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. She was at least glad that she had surrendered at the critical moment, otherwise there would have been no way for Ross's main force to cross the ice lake to kill people. The guys close to this fortress were enough to destroy Rudy.
They took a short rest in the Bear Festival Town, then walked in a large circle counterclockwise along the lake shoreline to reach Vipsalawa, where they rested again in the village of the Vips people.
The female leader met the old female leader of the Vips people. The two old sisters explained the situation to each other, which completely confirmed the surrender attitude of leader Lu Di. She saw that when the Vips raised the Ross flag, it was equivalent to saying that they had become Ross people.
Joining Rus is not a slave. Being loyal to the prince of Rus means you are a Rus. In the future, sending people to participate in wars is just a formality. After the war, you will still have the right to share the spoils and buy salt and iron.
She even knew that the huge Suomi people had surrendered as a whole. Within the huge Principality of Ross, all Suomi people could move freely, and there were also a large number of Suomi people in the Ross army. Look at the men of the Vips tribe again. They are fully equipped with iron weapons and have better bows and arrows.
Obviously the Vips have the smallest population, but their combat power has become stronger.
More than that? The female leader noticed that a large number of babies appeared in this small tribe. This was very abnormal. Their children did not die in large numbers?
Is this what the messenger said that surrendering to Rus will lead to prosperity?
Lüdi people also want to enjoy this kind of prosperity!