Chapter 434 The Rus People Are Preparing for War

The sacrifice is over, and the days and nights will gradually increase in the future, but the climate will become warmer.

This warmest gathering, the Gulf of Bothnia, which was once frozen for several meters, is now no longer cold and has become a good place for swimming.

It's just that the situation this year is too tense. After the sacrifice, the Rus people have three full weeks to prepare for the war. The time is not long or short. No clan members are willing to play and recuperate. machine.

Although the clan was upgraded to a duchy, it was only a nominal upgrade, and even outside the sphere of influence of Sweden, the neighboring kingdoms such as the Frankish power and the British kingdom were not recognized at all.

Because, she is still a tribe.

Rurik knew he needed to build an at least a more effective management system, a kind of "supervisory system," so that the thousands of people in Rus could work in harmony with each other.

But how to achieve mechanical precision in reality, Rurik issued a mobilization order to the tribe, which was warmly welcomed by everyone. When the resolutions were actually implemented, he also had to issue a large number of general orders.

Of course, even if it is a general order, as long as the clansmen do it, even if the efficiency of the work is not high enough, the organization and mobilization it shows are much higher than Ross's allies.

Even the huge population of the Melalen tribe could not fully organize the population of the entire tribe. The Russ did it like never before.

Rurik, under the name of "Dukes of Ross", appointed a number of lower-level organizers of production.

For example, Fisk's mother, a woman officially endorsed by Rurik, was in charge of commanding most of the married women in the clan, engaged in important tailoring, and provided new clothes to a large number of Ruth warriors by handicraft As well as repairing old clothes. They rush to accept the tasks given by Rurik, because it is not only to support the clan's expedition, but also to allow them to quickly obtain tangible benefits.

Women tailor sackcloth and leather, repair their husbands' leather armor, mail, and shields, push large pottery urns to the seaside to boil salt in seawater, and smoke jerky dry like wood on a massive scale in smoky longhouses.

Harrozosen, who is old and often forced to stay behind in his hometown, is doing a similar job, but this person is also a battle-hardened person and a natural candidate for military commander-in-chief. He should lead a Rus army into a larger army. He manages as many as 500 fighters, and the task that Rurik gave him is precisely according to the traditional set of training army formations. Heavy fishing work. They are the strongest labor force of the tribe, and also the strongest combat power. Naturally, they have to undertake the heaviest labor, and their physical fitness gradually becomes stronger during the labor. As the so-called mining workers have since ancient times, it is easier to train into a strong army.

Another group of older men,

They can still essentially take the axe and fight again. After all, the years are not forgiving. They really want to put on the old armor, and finally die on the battlefield. Unfortunately, their weak bodies can no longer withstand the wind and waves at sea and the battle after landing. Their participation in the war was equivalent to adding a burden to the Rus' army, and in their homeland they could still provide their own support.

The elderly were assigned chores by Rurik, such as fishing in the sea, mixing clay, processing spears and arrow shafts, and so on.

They can do these low-energy jobs. The children who have been raised by Rurik for more than two years can not only do it, but also have a higher level of organization and discipline.

Rurik knew very well that if his young men grew up, they would be the best people to use.

The children work together to complete the work of the adults. They operate two-person saws and fell trees, swing their axes to beat the stones that are hot and splashed with sea water, and rely on new technologies of thermal expansion and contraction to quickly mine iron ore. They also boarded the fishing boat with the recommended fishing rod, and also squatted on the ground and cut the special arrow shaft for crossbow with a knife.

Rurik's mercenaries, when they were not practicing in peacetime, showed themselves as fishermen and lumberjacks, but more than 90% of the profits from their labor were taken away by Rurik. Now they have resumed their old jobs. In addition to continuing to work as fishermen and lumberjacks, they are also divided into groups and rotated to help the blacksmith shop.

Who is the real berserker? Just selecting a strong man to put on the scale armor with huge armor is even a Ross-style berserker?

They certainly had to be strong, and they had to have an unwavering belief in Rose's victory.

They had to be people Rurik could trust.

The first batch of mercenaries had been accepted as Rus by Otto, and after a ceremony, they became "bloodless" Rus warriors. They can only get commissions from the chief family, and the food and drink expenses all come from the gold master, so they must depend on the gold master. This part of the mercenaries has received a very interesting material supply from the main family.

Who will be the berserker in armor? First of all, the first batch of outstanding mercenaries have all the requirements. Then the mercenaries go to the blacksmith shop to help, isn't it the same as making armor for themselves?

In the combat readiness plan issued by Rurik, all the projects are for combat readiness, such as processing amber, glass beads and making silver ornaments, work has been completely suspended, making storable food, weapons, and good ships have become the three most important tasks.

There is actually a high degree of commonality here, that is, the need for large-scale wood.

Fortunately, in the area near Roseburg, the giant trees for shipbuilding have long been cut down, and the remaining small trees are not easy to build ships, but they are good materials for repairing.

The best wood comes from the north of the gulf, and Elrond certainly can supply pine in great lengths, but to bring that back, the Rus need the sea to freeze into ice.

Making charcoal blocks only requires ordinary wood immediately. No, a batch of new charcoal kilns are quickly built, and even wood strips are covered with soil and smoldered in the open air.

Time has quietly entered into July, and the entire Roseburg is immersed in smoky fire all day long.

Men and women, a large number of laborers cut down the trees around Rosberg wantonly, and even the woods that Rurik intended to train the little warriors were soon cut down into bare flat land by these little warriors.

The vegetation of Roseburg has put a steady stream of energy into this working "war machine", and Rurik is not worried about everyone's damage to the vegetation, because the most important thing in this world is wood! On the contrary, extensive logging is also the way for the Rus to ask the mountains and rivers for living space.

Rurik's orders were by no means limited to Rosberg.

Some of the ships headed north to Fort Elrond, and when they returned they brought back fifty men.

Including the appointed current city lord of Elronborg, Mechasta from Corvin, who was young and strong, this time he passively responded to Rurik's call with a weapon. The prime-age man of Kewen's steel squirrel will completely join the army in this way. In addition, all the Russian fishermen who settled in the north also responded to the assembly order issued by the leader.

A longship broke into the Oulu River basin in the eastern part of the gulf, and the messenger handed the order of the conscription to Rigus of the Salmon Lord tribe. This old guy was helpless. He had no intention of fighting with any Gotlanders. He just wanted to continue to live his ordinary life after paying the tribute.

He really had no choice, so he personally brought a hundred warriors and fought side by side with the Rus again. Soon some longboats stopped at the mouth of the Oulu, and took with them the conscripted warriors of the Salmon Lord tribe, armed only with short wooden bows and bone spears. When they first arrived at Roseburg, the first One thing is to change weapons and equipment. They replaced the spearhead made of iron, the wooden crossbow transformed from the short wooden bow, and a large number of iron cluster arrows, which instantly increased their combat power.

Rurik did not expect to recruit all the Kewen tribes. Although they all surrendered, the Russ actually conquered two tribes, the Grey Squirrel and the Lord of Salmon, and the other three. They were hacked to death by seven or eight hundred people, and their spines had been broken long ago. It may be a bit far-fetched to use the fighting power of those guys.

Times have changed. Due to the geographical estrangement, the current hatred between the two Kewen tribes has been completely eliminated because they have no direct interest. After all, the Salmon Lord tribe has essentially monopolized the salmon fishing industry in the Oulu River, and their food has been guaranteed unprecedentedly. As for the population lost in the previous war, it would be better to trouble the surviving women of the tribe to give birth in large numbers. A large number of newborn children are already babbling.

Just arrived in July, an unexpected but reasonable rain fell on the entire Baltic Sea region, and even a mudslide occurred in the area where Rosberg is located! The black mud was sprayed from the mountains with branches and stones, and finally broke into the fjord.

Fortunately, no one was stupid enough to go mining in the mountains in the heavy rain, and the Russ also suffered some losses.

It was some houses with simple structures that collapsed due to rain, and some people were accidentally killed. Such deaths are attributed to the fate of the deceased. The deceased was hastily buried, and the vast majority of the Rus were not afraid of the rain and were still preparing for war.

The summer rains come and go quickly, and this rain has also had a very adverse effect on some areas.

Some of the heading wheat has fallen down!

The place where the incident happened is Gotland Island. Perhaps the local area is not suitable for growing wheat. The fishermen forcibly opened up some barren land and sown rough. They did not expect high yields from the land. An addition to life.

The southern island of Öland is like a cucumber, and in the middle of the island is Borgholm, which has become a gathering place for the Swedish army.

The war was suspended, and the main body of the Swedish army was renovated here.

King Orekin immediately built a stone boat altar on the island, so-called local sacrifice to the sun on the summer solstice.

And the Saxons of Borgholm have never forgotten the beliefs of their ancestors. On the day of the summer solstice, when the sky enters a brief gloom (Oland is already outside the polar day zone), the Saxons hold high torches smeared with turpentine and seal oil, and dance in circles around their "sacred wood totem". , the Saxon priestess also tore her hoarse throat into a strange state of madness.

Olegin really couldn't understand such a custom, and he didn't want to interfere with a group of Saxons who were newly promoted to serve under his account, just like the Saxons wouldn't care about the sacrifices of the northern guys. The two sides played their way through the summer solstice, but the repair of the army and the digestion and absorption of the spoils still required a process. Especially at the moment when a lot of wealth has been seized, people's inertia is really getting stronger and stronger, and the brave warriors hope to rest for a longer time.

As the rains hit in early July, a disease quietly spread among the Swedish troops stranded in the south.

Although this disease is not a huge crisis, it has caused a lot of people to suffer from diarrhea and collapse, and some soldiers are still alive. In essence, they ate the seized jerky. They didn't know that many jerky had been left for too long and were slightly spoiled due to improper storage.

People in the north, they dare to eat shark livers that taste amazing, and they dare to ignore the smell of the fish they catch. But they didn't realize that many of the seized dried fish they were eating today were contaminated with botulinum toxin. Although the amount was small, there were more and more people running around. How did Olegin know that his army had suffered such a calamity? He was speechless with anger.

When the sun reappears, the wet earth begins to dry up quickly. He had to do a sacrifice on the spot, choose a random person from the captives, and sacrifice the god Odin with blood in order to end the disease.

He felt that the blood sacrifice had come to fruition, and there would be fewer and fewer belly troubles in the army in the days to come.

This matter brought a lot of trouble to the Swedish army in the south, and it really disrupted the rhythm of Olegin's war. Although the battle to attack the southern silver castle to snatch the legendary "Silver Mountain" must continue, he still has a large number of soldiers and a large number of soldiers. Although he encounters a little resistance, they are all obstacles that can be quickly overcome in the great victory that is destined to be achieved. .

At least the rainfall has little impact on the tribes such as Melalen in the lake area. The local wheat has not fallen, and the rain has soaked the earth. help! This meaningful main force made Gould, who went to the lake area by boat to recruit troops, very happy!

The negative impact of the rains on the Ross clan's preparations for war quickly dissipated, and production quickly returned to normal.

The time is already the fifth day of July in the Julian calendar. In the past seven days, despite the influence of rainfall, Rosberg has produced a considerable number of instruments.

Two hundred spearheads of average quality were made, and the matching wooden poles about three meters long were also cut, and the spears were left with the final gluing and binding work.

The five-house blacksmith also completed the production of fifteen pairs of "fish scale armor". When a sturdy man put on the armor, Rurik only felt that the man was like an ancient armored fish. It is really beautiful without fish scales. It is obvious that a large number of large pieces of nails are hung on the chain mail.

On the contrary, the armor was covered with very thin silver, and it was a little whitish as a whole, which also made the armored warrior show a very eye-catching posture.

The strong man's torso is firmly protected, and it is precisely the strong man who has the ability to carry such a heavy armor. The makers of the so-called armor, the blacksmiths discussed it, and they added the shoulder and crotch designs with additional bent and bent armor pieces.

So with such a strong "silver scale breastplate", does the Berserker still need shield defense? Rurik felt that the strong man in front of him only needed two axes to break into the enemy line and cause great chaos.

Roseburg can provide a lot of war supplies, and most of the soldiers who are eager to go out are gathered here.

It seems that Rurik only needs to supervise the production, maintenance, and verification of various materials, that is, supervising the pre-war drills of the soldiers.

But he still has to wait for Gould's return.