As long as sufficient discipline is maintained and everyone who forms the human wall is well-trained, this wall cannot be easily broken open.
Even if the enemy army uses chariots and the human wall forms a spear formation, they can still be completely restrained.
If discipline is loosened and the formation is not solid enough, it will be very difficult to organize again after being overwhelmed.
Looking at the guys laughing and joking around, Rurik's brows jumped up unconsciously.
"Have you all had enough?!" Rurik yelled angrily, "Kanuf, what are you doing?! Your human wall was easily breached by them. If this was a fight, many of you already dead."
Kanuf smiled and muttered: "Fisk is too strong, he can overthrow us all by himself. Look, we are just some children, only Fisk is the strongest."
"He's right." Fisk was extremely proud at this moment. "They are too weak. Obviously I don't need anyone else. I can break through their wall by myself."
What else could Rurik say, but he could only shake his head helplessly: "It's just because you are too weak. If we are all adults, I don't believe that you alone can break through the wall. Even after some training, you will Unable to break through.”
After saying that, Rurik clapped his hands vigorously and ordered all the children who were still sitting on the ground to stand up.
He shouted loudly: "Don't be in a daze! Fisk said that the human wall you formed is too weak. He can easily break through it by himself, just like a harpoon piercing a salmon. You all stand up, if you can believe it I will fully accept my orders until the wall is strong enough that he cannot break through."
They are all people who are inspired to grow up to be excellent warriors, eager to make great achievements in future fights.
Playing is still playing, the training that started in childhood still needs to be carried out.
In itself, it is part of their daily life.
The main reason why the human wall can be easily broken down is that the children who form the human wall are too young.
They are generally only six or seven years old. They can hold wooden shields and wooden swords for a long time, and they are already doing very well. If you want to become very strong in the future, you still need to practice and eat more meat.
By simply improving your physical fitness, you can indeed block powerful attacks. If you strictly follow certain techniques, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
The so-called technique here is to make the human wall really form a whole.
Rurik originally thought that the basic skills had been taught to them, but the test results were disappointing, and he needed to give them some guidance in person.
So what are the so-called basic skills?
It's quite simple.
Since the human wall is three levels deep, the people in the last row use their shields against the second row, and the people in the second row continue to use their shields against the first person.
For the next whole day, Rurik trained them to do this well.
Does this really work?
In autumn, the days in Northern Europe are getting shorter and shorter. Children on the hills light a bonfire with flints. They all sit around the bonfire and sit on the ground.
They all trust Rurik very much, but after long training, everyone is very tired.
Many people still carried pickled fish in their bags, and they ate the fish meat around the flames and talked about the training.
Kanuf handed "leader" Rurik a piece of dried fish and asked by the way: "Is this okay? There are two people supporting me from behind, so Fisk can't break through?"
"Hey, you have to ask Fisk about this."
Kanuf shook his head, and he actually asked Fisk, and the answer he got was naturally very simple.
Fisk is the eldest of all the children, even though he is only nine years old, it is natural for him to bully a group of younger brothers, and this is the source of his confidence.
"Rurik." Fisk came over and said confidently.
"What's wrong?"
"Maybe your strategy is effective, but look at them. I think the human wall they formed is still not effective. No matter any strategy, I can break it down. It only takes me one person!"
"Then give it a try." Rurik grinned and shook his ponytailed head, "How about we make a bet?"
"A bet? What to bet on?"
"Just bet a salted fish. If you can break through the human wall, I will give you a salted fish. If you can't break through, give me one. What do you think?"
"Hey, it's settled." After saying that, Fisk stood up, deliberately posing in a very strong posture to show his strength, and then walked aside.
At this moment, Rurik boasted that after a day, the group of children had been trained to almost the same level. Each of them had remembered the essentials of anti-collision and understood their role in the entire team.
After eating the dry food at noon until the sun was about to set, everyone spent most of the time walking in line in a three-layer human wall.
During this training, the three groups serving as "attackers" also participated in the human wall training.
Rurik doesn't understand, but Fisk should be able to understand that after this intensive training, the wall is no longer what it used to be. Is it possible that Fisk is still particularly confident in his physical fitness? At least Rurik believes more in the power of the team.
But that's not necessarily the case. Kanuf approached Rurik again. After talking, Rurik could clearly feel the child's worry.
"Are you scared by Fisk?" Rurik asked in a low voice?
"No...I...I'm not afraid of him. He is very strong. I'm afraid that even if you use grappling, you won't be able to defeat him. I'm still worried about our human wall."
"So you're still scared."
"I don't. Actually, I still want to ask, when we grow up and fight the enemy, for example, if Fisk wants to take revenge on those guys in Gotland, we will line up in a human wall to fight?"
"It doesn't have to be this way." Rurik shrugged, "Look at us, there are only forty-six people including me. In fact, I need more people, such as a hundred or five hundred people. In this way we can form Multiple walls. So look at this..."
Rurik thought, this matter can either be explained clearly in a few words, or it can be explained with great effort. Can Kanuf, who wants to understand the situation, understand?
As a child, you can understand better by looking at pictures directly than by listening to them.
Rurik grabbed a few sticks and gave Kanuf a demonstration on the land under the light of the campfire and the setting sun.
The so-called one wooden stick represents thirty people, and he used four wooden sticks to form a square. With one square in hand, he laid out four more in succession.
By adjusting the position of the wooden stick, the graphics also change dramatically.
Rurik was moving the wooden stick while explaining. Kanuf, who stared wide-eyed, was not retarded. He knew that a wooden stick represented a human wall of thirty people. In Rurik's hand, many human walls were doing their jobs. position changes. But no matter how it changes, there are two other human walls on both sides of each human wall, and even on the back of the human wall, there is another human wall guarding it.
Therefore, when hundreds of people gathered together, there was no flaw at all.
Although Kanuf still doesn’t know how the adults participated in the fight, after Rurik’s fiddling with it now, he firmly believes that if the future fights go as Rurik planned, it will probably be a tragedy for Fisk’s father. It won't happen.
Why?
There is no flaw in the entire formation. As long as the shields of the human wall work together to block the enemy, then there will be a unilateral sword thrust.
"Now, I completely understand." Kanuf's eyes widened with admiration on his face.
"My dear brother, everything starts with the forty-six of us. After you learn it, you will teach the other children in the tribe. When I become the leader in the future, we will fight like this. Deal with it as I show you, There are a thousand enemies coming, but they can't break through our human wall. They can only be killed by being stabbed to death by us, but not a single one of us will die."
Kanuf couldn't help but sigh: "Ah! If this is the case, the patrolling Valkyrie will see all this. If one of us does not die, we will destroy a thousand enemies. When we die of old age, will we be picked up by her because of these achievements?"
These words made Rurik a little confused. He calmed down and deliberately agreed with Kanuf's guess. "Yes, the Valkyries are fair. They need real warriors, not fools. As for me, I just want to live my life with glory."
"You will." Kanuf subconsciously patted Rurik on the shoulder, "You are the person I trust. You will be the best leader, and I will always follow you."
When the bonfire is about to burn out, night is about to fall. It is very dangerous to continue to stay outdoors. The Ross tribe is not afraid of wolves. They are worried about the nocturnal wolves that attack their children.
Rurik could feel that in the vast Northern Europe and even Eastern Europe in this era, the number of large wild animals must be several times that of humans.
After the bonfire burned out, everyone went back together, and each other was mentally prepared to form a human wall tomorrow. Even if it was for a salted fish from Rurik, Fisk would not be able to break the human wall away.
What Kanuf thought about most that night was Rurik's stick demonstration.
After returning to his wooden house and eating the dried meat brought by his mother, he found some sticks to play with.
"Kanuf, are you playing a game?" His mother had never seen her son play these strange things.
"Rurik taught me that."
Speaking of Rurik, his mother thought of her son's "defeat" and the strange training of a group of children howling on the hills during this period.
The woman came over and asked earnestly: "Did you learn anything from Rurik? For example, the methods he used to subdue you?"
Kanuf continued to tilt his head and said perfunctorily: "I have learned a little bit. He has nothing else to teach me now. He said that the men in the tribe fight on their own. He was very opposed to this, so he organized us stand up."
At this point, Kanuf became excited. He held a pile of wooden sticks and copied Rurik's demonstrations from memory in front of him.
Viking women are not weak, and when necessary, women will also pick up swords. After all, men and women in the same tribe must all be related to each other. Usually, men use swords to resolve external conflicts. If the situation is urgent, they will take action as a whole.
Kanuf's mother knew how to fight, and watching her son's demonstration with a wooden stick, she felt an unprecedented sense of astonishment.
During the long period of fighting, the men of the Ross tribe have figured out the basic formation routines. Forming a human wall and launching an attack is also their specialty.
But no one had ever thought of organizing hundreds of people into multiple human walls to fight in complex formations.
Her eyes widened and she began to imagine a strange scene in her mind.
Her husband followed the leader Otto, and hundreds of men formed a circle with a human wall. They had battle axes or swords hanging on their waists, wooden shields tied to their left arms, and short spears in both hands. The spearheads of hundreds of short spears faced outwards, poking at enemies rushing towards them from various directions.
After all, the men of the tribe are also good at using short spears, which are actually harpoons for fishing and one of the sharp weapons in battle.
Now, Rurik, the son of the leader, organizes children to play with wooden shields and swords. He will also organize children to use wooden sticks as short spears.
At this moment, Kanuf's mother deeply felt the wonderful things contained in Rurik, and she even felt that this matter was not as simple as a child's game at all.
She calmed down, signaled her son to continue playing, and then said, "I want to go out immediately."
"Mom, what are you going to do? It's very late now."
"Don't worry, I'm going to the priest to explain something. I'll be back soon."
Soon, the woman put on a thick deerskin coat and went out, trotting all the way to the residence of the priests, and went straight to the home of the most respected Grandma Vilia to report the matter.
