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 weapons were far inferior to those of the Russians, and their vigilance was relatively low. Based on these circumstances, he dared to Be bold and “advanced”.
Real danger is approaching for the Tavastian hunters who are busy catching squirrels.
A group of Russians in white robes formed a group. Each of them held a crossbow. From a distance, they could see that the target was ready for battle at any time.
Sure enough, 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.
However, 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 deadliest arrows naturally come from heavy crossbow arrows, which are thick arrow shafts as thick as a 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 moment: "Take the available weapons, bury the bodies, and we'll find new ones."
In fact, no one was too lazy to deal with the body anymore, so he buried the body with a shovel. Afterwards, he panted and complained to the boss that this was a unnecessary step.
Someone gasped and shouted: "Aric, we can't do this. Are you afraid that our brothers will be exposed? They don't even look at the thirty of us gathered in a group. They have to be fools to not see that this is the footprints of a large group of people." You want to kill them? Are you afraid that your brothers will be exposed?"
"Oh? If you say that, I have to think about it."
The man's face darkened: "We...should spread terror. Let them know how powerful we are."
"What do you have in mind?"
"These people are obviously not Corvins. They are enemies. They should be hung up like skinned squirrels. Didn't you notice that we have seized new leather now? All the squirrel skins here should be treasures given as tribute to us! "
Arik's mind suddenly opened up: "Okay! Let's do it like this!"
This group of 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 should be skinned for humiliation. prey!
On the first day after entering the riverside forest, Arik and his men killed as many as eleven enemy hunters, and eight more bloody corpses were hung on the trees. The tragic sight made even Ross Scout feel sick.
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!
The Rus built fires in the woods to keep warm and roasted the squirrels they had snatched from the dead. Fortunately, they were not crazy enough to become Hannibal, and Aric continued to eat the oatmeal scones he brought from his hometown in Roseburg, eating them with the snowflakes that were available everywhere.
The next day, they acted 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 became very strange there, like a fire." A Ross warrior lying in the snow muttered to Arik.
Arik poked his head and thought about Kehas' previous information: "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?
Someone else 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 these words came out, at least ten people's thoughts were stirred.
Others 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, but in the end we had to fight with such fools." Fighting with weapons. That’s fine, we put on armor and fight with them, I’m going to chop off their heads!”
After this round of events, everyone made their attitude clear. The brothers were going 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.
Arik 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!"
Originally, Rurik hoped that his cousin could be a real scout and try his best to find out the true identity of the enemy without exposing himself.
However, what he was most worried about happened. Arik was indeed a scout, but turned into a flesh detective.
Arik didn't realize that this was a reckless act, but he was trying to deceive the enemy's main force, so that if he could defeat him, he would fight, and if he couldn't defeat him, he would release arrows and then fight and leave.
Of course, it was impossible to evacuate voluntarily, but he still had to evacuate and send people to report to the rear with information, because according to the plan made by his brother, Ross's crusade army would come by boat after the ice melted.
Thirty Yetis appeared on the ice and formed a skirmish line to approach 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, Tavastia hunters felt the most real threat.
Some people claimed that they were attackers. Although they could not be sure yet, many hunters believed based on instinct that they were enemies.
The Tavastian hunters holding bows gathered together one after another. They were dressed in gray-brown furs that were patchwork and stitched together in a messy bunch.
"Is this all you have? It's not enough for me to kill you 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 man stood out from the gray-brown crowd gathered opposite. This man boldly stepped forward and opened his arms to show that he was not afraid of threats.
This man was shouting incomprehensible words, and 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 fired.
The heavy arrows, built to break armor, directly hit the approaching man's eye socket, killing him instantly and falling 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 the others were squatting on the spot.
Only Arik stood without fear. With his "Qilin Arm" and leather gloves, he relied on brute force to string his steel-arm crossbow, completely ignoring the threat of the enemy's 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, and then shouted: "Russian! Wooden crossbow! Projectile!"
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.
This time the Russians simply used the captured arrows to retaliate with their own people. Seven Tavastian hunters were hit by arrows, and the rest of the hunters fled.
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.
Is the battle actually like this? !
Before the fight started, the brothers who were good at archery were killed crazily by the arrows of this group of weird snowmen who emerged from the snow?
The hunters frantically fled upstream of the glacier. One man hurriedly pulled out a strange arrow from a brother, and turned a blind eye to his brother's wailing and vomiting blood.
The Russians also launched a pursuit, and during the pursuit, three more people were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
Do you want to leave one or two injured people 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. Ross's scouts who were cleaning the battlefield were busy seizing weapons and food. Just as Arik requested, the enemy's corpses were hanging on the treetops like strips of seals with their skins peeled off, with blood dripping scarlet. It dripped all over the ground and was frozen again.
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 fire-stricken hill fort.
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, if we follow the footsteps left by the enemy to reach their camp, we can kill their commander, so that all enemies will be There will be 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.
The snow is talking! The snow is shaking!
A group of snowmen came to life and emerged from the snow.
Arik looked around: "Is everything okay? You're not freezing to death?"
The Russians held each other safe and immediately started new actions.
So, wasn't Arik completely worried that the fleeing enemies would sound a war alarm, causing them to appear in large numbers?
It was not that he was not worried, but he coveted the great glory after the "decapitation operation" was successful and ignored all the dangers.
Yes, those enemies would run away after being hit by arrows. These enemies would also bully the weaker Covin people.
In fact, it was not the case. Those who escaped fled through the night.
When Arik had already started a new journey, the fleeing Tavastians officially informed the news of the attack to Vateyala who had just woken up.
In the early morning, the comfortable spring sunshine was still unable to melt the snow in the mountains, forests and lakes. In the old Gray Squirrel Mountain Fortress controlled by the Tavastians, the people occupying this place began to work again.
The hunters who plundered the leather resources here, or the hundreds of 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 very peaceful day.
Until the exhausted brothers who fled ran back, shouting about the "snow monster who is good at archery".
The warmest house lives in the noble commander Vatyala. 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 warriors and shouted that they were exaggerating.
No, Bakan, who surrendered, said very vigilantly: "Sir, this must be a Russian."
"Russians?" He turned his head hurriedly, "The world is stuck in ice and snow, and the Russians dare to rush here? Isn't the hometown of the Russians far away in the west? Is this reasonable?"
"I don't know. But being good at archery is indeed their style."
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, wondering 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!"
Vateyala glanced at his words and could tell that this man's fear was definitely not an act.
The three surrendered chiefs of Kovin all described how their people suffered heavy losses due to arrows in the decisive battle. Of course, out of shame, they only emphasized that they were badly defeated by the arrows of the Russians, and never mentioned this. Even in the melee group fight, the Covin people did not gain any advantage.
This caused some misjudgments in Vateyala. The so-called Rus people were only good at arrows, but when it came to archery, Tavastia hunters were 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 escaped back.
However, those who escaped became more and more exaggerated.
The Russians really came to take revenge. Although it is very strange, the Russians must have really come. There seemed to be between a hundred and two hundred of them, maybe those guys were doing some winter squirrel hunting too?
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 a coward for our brothers to continue to stay in the camp."
Watyala made up his mind. He stood up and walked outdoors. He immediately began to worry about his men and sent people to recall those who had gone far away for hunting.
Around noon, as many as four hundred Tavastians gathered in the empty space inside the mountain.
Vateyala 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 over our hunting grounds, this is not okay! Some brothers were killed by their sneak attacks, and all the warriors We must take revenge! Now they are probably approaching us, and I will lead you to eliminate them all. Think about the consequences 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 warriors, just like attacking and resisting the Karelia people. In addition to placing a hundred warriors for defense, he personally led more than 200 people to walk on the glacier and the nearby snowy forest in order to reach the enemy. The decisive battle between the Russians.
He had made a good calculation and took it for granted that the Russians would run into them like wild boars.
But Arik is not yet strong-minded enough to actually lead thirty brothers to fight one against ten. The Russians have special weapons. Based on these weapons, Arik has already figured out a rather wretched and so-called not upright method in actual combat. means of killing the enemy. So what? Only the winner is qualified to explain what it means to be strong in martial virtue.
