The new war horses are all nailed with iron horseshoes. Each horse has a simple saddle made of leather and stirrups made of rope.
Regular riding equipment is still being made in various handicraft workshops. They are mainly a mixture of leather and linen. Once they are ready, they will be immediately supplied to the troops.
The first task of the new cavalry is just to learn to ride a horse, which is a great challenge for extremely young boys.
They have to learn to build a close relationship with their assigned horses, learn to sit on a simple saddle and tolerate the discomfort of the buttocks, adapt to the bumps when the horse is moving, and even learn the Turkic vocabulary for horse riding.
Kagan and his Pecheneg most elite cavalry were excellent trainers, and Rurik himself, on horseback, served as the best supervisor.
After the first seven days of special training, the children frequently fell off their horses. Thanks to the soft snow they fell on, some suffered minor internal injuries, but that was all.
Most children aspire to become invincible cavalry, even if they fall off their horses, they will try their best to get up.
This is the first time for a child with good understanding to ride on a horse. He tightens the reins and puts his feet on the rope, and the whole person feels like he is growing on the horse.
People with poor understanding will have to practice more.
To be fair, the Pechenegs knew the purpose of the Russians buying horses from the beginning, and they knew they had to be kind to their distant friends, so that they could smoothly exchange for a horse that the tribal alliance urgently needed. batch of strategic materials. Kagan took the lead in this national task. When each tribe took out its own horses, he selected them and selected the young and docile ones.
No bad horse was imported to Rus, or the Pecheneg people’s steppe Turkic horses were naturally docile.
The main bloodline of the horses exported by the Pechenegs is an older Mongolian horse, mixed with a small amount of the bloodline of the large-eating desert horse. The docile appearance has not changed, and the overall quality of the horses has been slightly improved. It is precisely this kind of blood that is cold-resistant and has amazing endurance, so it can continue to march for three months to reach Novgorod.
The consumption along the way made all the horses become too thin. They traveled against the river and replenished their energy by eating dry grass on the riverside.
When they arrived at their destination, most of the horses were unable to ride. They were restrained in warm pens and fed large amounts of oats and carrots, allowing them to recover quickly.
To this day, the horses bought by the Russians are still provided with good food and drink.
In recent months, the horses and their new owners have been busy training, doing high-intensity cavalry training in the coldest months of late January and early February. At least Kagan has always found this ridiculous based on his knowledge. When the weather is too cold, horses will lose weight if they run around outdoors.
Kagan has completely shut up in the face of the new situation, just because the Russians have oats and wheat, and his Rurik brothers are really willing to invest in feed.
The long manes of each horse are neatly styled by their owners.The strange braids are just like their owner's own appearance.
All Viking people have a special obsession with their hair and beards. Even children will start to grow golden fuzz on their chins, and when it is long enough, they will tie it up, as if Tiny cables.
The long mane on the horse's neck is exactly the same. Richer children can also add drilled amber pieces or simple drilled glass blocks, which are not only beautiful but also used as markers to prove This is my own mount.
The training of young cavalry was extremely lively
Hundreds of riders were riding horses outside the city. Since it was still early for spring plowing, all the flat fields were covered with snow, and Rurik was not able to do anything. Let your new cavalry run around the wider world without any scruples. A large amount of horse manure is left directly in the fields where the snow has not yet melted. They are a treasure.
The hot and humid horse dung was quickly frozen into a lump of ice. Rurik sent people pulling sleds to collect it, and then threw it into a special overall constant temperature, humidity and smelly huge dung. In the wooden carvings, all kinds of excrement are fermented here. It was so disgusting that clean-minded Viking settlers and Rus' people shunned it, even though it was rumored to fertilize the land.
Although the feces of cattle, sheep and horses have very limited fertility, fermentation will make a difference.
What’s more important is that nitrifying bacteria will multiply wildly during this fermentation process, and part of the fermented feces will undergo more stinky processing such as cooking and precipitation, and finally get some whitish soil nitrate. The finished product is already a very good potash fertilizer, but the output is at laboratory level. Rurik needed it for military purposes, as an auxiliary tool when making fire with a bow drill.
Collect all human and animal excrement and urine as much as possible. Now the Viking immigrants and the Russians no longer have to search for natural earth salt under the roots of rotten trees to make "tinder", and self-made products are far away. Exceeded the demand for military picnics. As for transforming it into a more powerful weapon, it only depends on Rurik's own wishes.
The large amount of horse manure left after the cavalry training will be collected immediately. In this way, during every day of training, the cavalry will walk their horses in an overall tidy area.
All the young cavalry formed a dense column to run in a large circle in the morning, and in the afternoon organized a small team to run single vertically and short distances.
The hundred recurve bows traded have not yet been equipped with troops, but they have become a kind of reward designed by Rurik.
Rurik is planning a cavalry excursion in late winter. It has been ten days since the special training, and all the new soldiers have learned to ride horses.
They are equivalent to getting a driver's license. Of course, they still have a long time to improve their skills. During the internship period, they need a horseback riding excursion to improve quickly.
Look at the current cavalry. They have put on uniform uniforms. Although it is still very early to participate in the battle, they are not even called cavalry. They ride horses to form a dense formation. It's really quite mighty.
The entire Novgorod craftsmanship in ten daysThe tailoring workshop never stopped working, especially the man who moved the entire workshop from Mälaren to Novgorod Vodgen. This man largely set a set of standards for the ready-to-wear industry in the Rus' Principality. Those housewives who were mobilized to work and take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune generally worked as seasonal temporary workers in the "First Garment Factory of the Principality", and they had to accept the standards of the garment factory.
The tailoring standard was set by Fo Degen. For this elderly man, he was hired by the Prince of Rus as the director of the garment factory. With the high salary given by the Prince, he could still continue to operate. own factory. His desire to make a fortune steadily in this life has been realized, and his children will naturally inherit his status.
Fo Degen is a real man of action. When the prince issues a national order, he will naturally order his slave workers to work overtime in order to get an extra bonus.
The female manager of the state-owned garment factory is Bloma, the mother of Rurik's young general Fisk. She became a person valued by the prince simply because of her tailoring work. She and her sisters Responsible only to the prince himself, he tailors garments based on a not-strict work schedule set by the prince. The finished products are given priority to the army, and the rest of the products are put into the market.
Fordgen is the general consultant of product quality control and the person in charge of the garment factory, but his energy is more focused on his own workshop. Those slave workers were working as cattle and horses for Vodegen. Since most of the slave workers had been bought by Rurik and assigned to Broma's management, Vodegen's own number of "cows and horses" was already quite small. Even so, in order to obtain more benefits, these slaves can only "work all day long".
In this unequal social environment, it would be a real honor for a slave to work as an ox and a horse for the Prince of Russia. This does not mean that Rurik is a good person. The fundamental reason for giving more benefits to private slaves is that the prince controls the most wealth in the principality. If you give a little to the slaves casually, the living conditions will be completely new.
What he needed was the results of the tailors. Within ten days, a sufficient amount of bearskin coats and hats had been produced.
The young cavalry all have white "Ushanka hats", and their other name is just hats. Leatherized bearskin is cut and stitched, and key parts are reinforced with pine rubber. It doesn't have much defensive capabilities, so it's perfect as a hat to keep out the cold. But its shape is entirely due to Rurik's preference.
Making barreled Caucasian Papaha hats was another option, but Rurik still chose the former. Otherwise, the Wushanka hat can cover the ears and the entire face, which is perfect for the extremely cold north.
Except for the fur, the young cavalrymen have uniform white bear skin jackets with sleeves sewn onto the leather vest. The overall appearance is slimmer and more suitable for the movement of the arms on horseback
The trousers are also uniform. This is a mixture of thick and fine linen stitching. Their overall style is larger. This is to adapt to the bodies of young cavalry who are still growing rapidly, so that a pair of trousers can be used for many years. As for trouser legs being too long has never been a problem, the Slavs were better than all the Viking tribesThey are all good at making leather boots. The brown boots made of deerskin and wool felt are also very large in size, and can be easily stuffed into the warrior's trouser legs that are too long.
The little soldier has short legs and small feet, so his feet are wrapped in several layers of foot-wrapping cloth, and his trouser legs are stuffed into his boots.
They wore snow camouflage to a large extent, and a surprising number of polar bears turned into their clothes. Some blue cloth strips were deliberately sewn on the white leather jacket, including their white fur, and staggered blue stripes were sewn on the forehead protector on the front of the Ushanka hat, as if they were holding the Ross flag on their foreheads.
They do not yet have their own swords, and wear a combination of daggers and hand axes on their belts.
They all raised a spear with a length of about three meters. The polished carbon steel spearhead shone brightly in the sun. Each spearhead is tied with blue and red cloth strips, adding to the might of the army with multiple colors.
What’s even more wonderful is that all the children are wearing wooden-framed sunglasses to protect their eyes from being burned by the glare of the snow.
The cavalry gathered in such a posture. As the chief instructor, Kagan and his Pecheneg soldiers took a closer look and all took a breath.
More than ten days ago, the children who saw the assembled armored prairie cavalry for the first time felt fear and cowardice.
The Pecheneg army was shocked now.
Kagan knew that these children had no fighting ability now, but it was only a matter of time before they became excellent cavalry.
The New Rus’ cavalry and the Pecheneg cavalry assembled an army of 600 cavalry. If this was an elite force and rushed into the territory of the Frankish Kingdom, it would be difficult to contain them by burning, killing, and looting.
Wearing new clothes and holding a spear in hand, a humble person has become a member of the mighty army. The young warrior is very confident. Everyone only wanted to gather the princes and princes, so everyone had brought enough dry food, and even sacks were hung on the saddles, which contained oats for horse feeding.
Rurik held the reins, controlled the horses and gave another lecture on the snow: "Young cavalry, this time I want to inspect the entire Lake Ilmen before spring plowing, and I want to inspect all the villages. , patrol all the subjects. You are the warriors I rely on and are the most important military force of the principality. Now follow me to complete the great patrol to prove that you have mastered the horse."
Speaking of excitement, Liuli. Ke suddenly pulled out his steel sword, the sword pointed straight at the sky.
Seeing this, all the young cavalry raised their spears high and roared Ula as Rurik taught them.
Thousands of people admired the gathering of cavalry, including Otto, who put on his battle uniform again and admired his son's brilliant move with the support of his attendants.
Every young cavalryman has a Ross badge on his forehead, and the interlaced blue patterns are the oars.
Old Otto watched all this with a calm face, relying on his willpower to suppress his tear ducts, so that he did not burst into tears due to excessive excitement. He never thought that Ross could still form a large cavalry force, or how many yearsI had never thought of the existence of a new unit called cavalry before. Since other countries already have cavalry, it would be foolish for Ross not to form his own.
At the sound of the horn, the Russian cavalry and the Pecheneg cavalry began a counterclockwise armed parade around Lake Ilmen.
The spears are pointing toward the sky, like a moving grove. The cavalry lined up in double columns, forming a team nearly one thousand meters long.
The young cavalry were talking and laughing along the way. Most of them were born after the Russians, and they were born not too long ago. Everyone was ignorant. They learned about the vastness of the world through education. Beyond the cognition of ordinary people, he did not measure the earth in person, nor did he circle around Lake Ilmen, especially when he was riding a horse.
The cavalry team deliberately circled the old Russian city of Mstisk to let the people have a good look at the Russian cavalry troops, and also to let the parents of some children know what their sons who are now cavalrymen are. How majestic.
As for the cavalry arriving at the dozens of villages built like beads along the lake where the "hiding people" were housed, using military power as a powerful deterrent was an important purpose.
The people stood on both sides of the ice road and saluted the mighty cavalry. When they saw Prince Rus himself, they took off their hats and saluted. Most of them just watched.
Rurik had no more demands and was too lazy to order these people to kneel and kowtow. He just wanted these people to take a good look at the Ross cavalry, suggesting that they weigh their own worth.
The huge cavalry team successfully arrived at New Ostara, the rest stop for this patrol.
As a prince, Rurik also wants to take a good look at how his woman has built the important town in the south of the principality.
The first cavalry team was stationed south of the lake. The young cavalry hurriedly mounted their horses to meet their prince. Even Carlotta got on her mount and had a horse-riding meeting with her man.
Her heart was beating in ecstasy, and Carlotta wanted to jump onto Rurik's saddle.
"This is your brand new cavalry, it's so powerful." Carlotta could not think of any more complimentary words, her face was already quite distorted due to the exaggerated smile.
Rurik smiled slightly, took a good look at the city, and saw Duke Svalgard of the Glen who came here to visit a few days ago. This man was also riding a horse. The restrained appearance showed that this person's riding skills were extremely poor.
"Carlotta, you run New Ostara very well."
"That's natural. How to take a good rest in my city"
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Rurik nodded, "That's what I meant. I also want to take a good look at my Karl and you." After that, he deliberately opened his arms, "I didn't bring any women with me this time. , you know"
Carlotta understood completely. She nodded with a knowing smile, and then ordered her subordinates to fully open the gate of the wall.
Although my cityIt is enough to accommodate this army, although the accommodation conditions are certainly not as good as those in Novgorod. "
"It doesn't matter, I don't even need any extra supplies from you. Come on, I'm going to the city to take some rest. "
It was at this time that Svalgard felt that he had a chance to interrupt, and he hurriedly called out to attract Rurik's attention.
"You and I are just going to ask you. , what did you see and hear in the south? My Carlotta is an old friend with you. Does it remind you of the past a long time ago?"
Svalgard answered very simply, "Prince, I am even willing to get rid of the Duke. title. I plan to move all the Gran people here to guard the southern border of the Principality of Rus for you. There are too few of us in Gran to have the qualifications to call ourselves a principality. You are the only one who is the real hero. "
These words surprised Rurik, but what this man said was very self-aware.
"If you want to do this, just do it. The population on my southern border is too small. With the addition of hundreds of you Gran people, the pressure on my southern defense is also much less. I'm tired, my army and my allies are going to the city to recuperate. Carlotta"
"Yeah. ”
“May your remaining stables be able to carry six hundred newly arrived horses. "
"It doesn't matter, I will breed more horses for you in the future. I have already built many stables in advance. ", please remember:, free fastest update, no anti-theft, no anti-theft