A small sled team ran wildly on the ice field. People were not worried about their mere appearance of 140 people. They were high-spirited and well-equipped.
How much could be captured from the conquest of Karelia? Maybe there could be plenty of deer.
Tyravis brought his more than 30 soldiers, and was assisted by a hundred capable soldiers of the First Standard Corps. Although the number of troops was small, the combat power was strong. Due to the experience of the last battle, the soldiers sat on the sled and talked and laughed. They reached a wonderful consensus that they would support the brothers in Xiongji Town to attack the enemy. They could not gain anything valuable.
At some point, the Russians' view of war became fighting for the sake of fighting.
It is only natural to rescue the brother who was attacked, and it is only natural to kill the attacker. The desperate killing is to show Odin the power of a real man.
What is shooting arrows and setting traps to hunt squirrels? Bear hunting is not considered a very great honor these days.
Only the killing spree on the battlefield is considered "fun."
On the other hand, the Karelian army that besieged the town of Bear Festival turned into a full-scale siege after three failed charges. Relying on the numerical advantage and the slowly increasing troop strength, the big leader Kaskuwe had no better way. He could only think of launching the fourth round of attack after the troop strength increased.
The young and great leader who founded the emirate did not allow the warriors who followed him to achieve a quick victory. His boasts came to nothing, and the war turned into a war of attrition that no one liked.
At least the Karelia people can afford it because they have the right location.
Reindeer are a "walkable farmland" from which Karelians obtain their blood, meat, milk, hides and bones. The former is food and water, and the latter is the source of clothing and weapons.
As many as 30,000 reindeer were driven to the area near Bear Festival Town. After all, this area is the traditional pasture of the Karelian people. With the material support of these livestock, Caskuwei had the capital to siege the city.
Facing a fortress with a trench made of rammed earth and timber, the leader was basically helpless and could only resort to the stupid method of siege. As for how long the siege would end, only God knows.
In order to prevent the people inside the fortress from coming out to look for food, they built tent strongholds around the fortress. There were often more than a dozen people taking turns to stand guard and keep watch, while a large number of Karelian warriors were ambushed in the woods behind them.
There is another big reason to support this group of people in their fight - the Bear Altar.
Most of the soldiers had a serious lack of knowledge about the regular army of the Principality of Rus. They only saw the sacred sacrificial center stolen by the enemy, and even built a fortress shamelessly.
More than 200 people were killed in the battle, and dozens more died from their injuries.
Most of the Karelian warriors were originally from clans, but now that they were recruited to fight, it was actually fathers, sons, and brothers joining forces. They saw the death of their relatives and friends, and saw the Holy Land being taken away. The fire of revenge ignited in their hearts drove them to refuse to leave.
The Qatari army was unable to capture the city, and the Romanian army inside the fortress had no intention of leaving the city to fight.
When the eighth day of the battle began, the two sides actually reached a strange tacit understanding. The two sides became quiet. No one took the initiative to launch an attack. Even the Russians, who had the advantage in weapons, did not bother to use a torsion slingshot to fire a light javelin. The big eyes stared at the small ones, obviously they were waiting strategically.
On the tenth day of the war, a flag with a white background and blue stripes was flying on the glacial lake from the south!
The Karelians, who had good eyesight, were shocked. The people on guard thought it was the Russian reinforcements, and they were extremely vigilant and immediately passed on the news.
Unlimited waiting has been eroding the authority of the big leader. Upon hearing the news, Kaskuwe stood up from his hiding place with a slap on his thigh.
"Calling brothers, the invaders' reinforcements have arrived. We couldn't conquer their fortress, so we killed their reinforcements and made blood sacrifices to the mountain and lake gods!"
The warriors who were almost going crazy were almost in full force. The strange movements of the Karelian people also shocked the Russian troops stationed in the fortress to board the city.
The garrison saw clearly the flags hung by the sleigh team. Everyone was very happy that the prince sent reinforcements, but it was a pity that there were only so few people?
On the other hand, those Karelians dressed like bears were running as if they were going to a wedding.
The horns were blown, the cowhide drums were beaten fiercely, and the people at the top of the city shouted desperately, hoping that the sound would reach the small reinforcements to help them be vigilant. Although the Russians despised the Karelian army, they were not arrogant enough to fight ten of them one by one.
Not far ahead is the snow-capped lakeside, and a fortress suddenly appears. Terravis saw clearly the flags of Ross flying in the fortress, and also heard the vague noise coming from the distance. The sound meant something, and the information had been distorted by the cold wind that plundered the ice.
There is one thing that makes the DNA of all warriors tremble!
Let’s talk about the First Flag Team. The brothers are about the same age. In the summer, they all dug fields to grow wheat in Mstisk. Now they work together to capture pine trees and hunt white bears in the north.
There are soldiers from the First Standard in the fortress of Bear Festival Town, and there are even more reinforcements in Tyravis.
One hundred warriors belong to the same centurion, and its centurion is here. The Centurion is also subordinate to the "fleet" of four platoon-level combat units, with the commander An Zai. In fact, when they arrived at the Kekisalmi stronghold of the Vips, they were also led by a centurion. They themselves constituted a fierce winter hunting army. They threw a batch of hunting results at the settlement and then sent in reinforcements.
The centurion could intuitively determine that the large numbers of shaking figures were dangerous enemies.
"Brothers, pay attention! All you see are enemies, get ready for battle!"
Upon receiving the order, the brothers on the sleigh roared in unison,
The shields they were carrying were removed one after another. This time they did not wear chain armor because of hunting. They lost a certain amount of defense and also gained lighter combat power.
Looking at the seventeen-year-old Tyravis, it is naturally not the first time that this boy has participated in a battle. He is actually scared when facing an enemy several times his own.
He had to resort to the centurion's strategy for fighting, and in this way, the centurion naturally commanded the entire army.
A wonderful tactical plan was quickly formulated and put into effect. All fifteen sleds suddenly stopped on the ice field, and the soldiers began to intensively deploy personnel.
They had five bear-hunting torsion slings mounted on sleds, as many as thirty people armed with wooden-armed crossbows, and almost all the remaining personnel held short wooden bows. Their identities are hunters. Even if the short wooden bow is not a very good combat weapon, at least they are excellent hunters. The special conditions contributed to the astonishing amount of long-range weapons and equipment of this small-scale reinforcement force, and the frozen Ladoga Lake and reindeer sleds provided everyone with amazing mobility.
Each sled became a launching platform for arrows. After the personnel configuration was adjusted, the sleds began to rush towards the enemies gathered by the lake in a double column.
The sled was rushing, and the commander Centurion calmly gave the order: "Put up your bow! Freely launch! Use wheel tactics and don't get entangled with them!"
Before the arrows are fired, the reinforcements have full battlefield initiative. When they approached the enemy's assembled array, they fired arrows first and then quickly retreated.
This is a special Parthian tactic. The archers never linger and do not give the enemy archers a chance to aim and shoot.
The arrows came crashing down, they were not dense and many arrows fell on the ice due to the wind direction, but some of the strong ones began to cause killings.
The torsion slingshot fires a light javelin used for hunting bears. This object is a large arrow. It is longer and heavier. The kinetic energy of the slingshot is strong. The light javelin hit the confused Kareli soldiers. Some were shot through the arms, and some were shot directly through the chest.
Death came suddenly, and such a death in battle was completely beyond the imagination of the Karelian people.
At this moment, the big leader Kaskuwe once again thought of the hateful arrows of the invaders during the war the year before.
The first round of attacks ended in a circle, and the reindeer were panting. On the other hand, the Cajun army still maintained a gathering posture, but they were clearly watching.
The two sides were shooting arrows at each other, and most of the arrows landed on the ice.
Immediately afterwards, the Ross people made some adjustments and a new round of sprint began again.
Crossbows and torque slingshots became the absolute protagonists. They were launched one after another at a very suitable combat speed position, and relied on the advantage of range to give the Kajun a heavy blow.
More than 20 soldiers of the Qatari Army were either dead or injured. The soldiers who were shooting arrows in vain were so angry that they had no choice but to spontaneously pull away their injured brothers and retreat temporarily.
Everyone follows the instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, but the big leader Caskuwei cannot bear such humiliation. He thought about that sad rout again, and even thought that if he had fought with the enemy early, even if the weapons were at a disadvantage, thousands of people would not have died and still ended up in a rout.
He took his cronies to persuade the fleeing people, and finally carried an iron sword as if to kill the deserters.
He gave the order: "Charge up! Shoot arrows at the same time and fight them hand to hand!"
Either retreat into the woods and play cunning tactics, or actively pursue them on the ice.
The people of Karelia no longer wanted to be cowards, they chose the former.
However, this group of Russians have lost their former recklessness.
Wearing special non-slip leather boots, as many as 600 members of the Qatari army were ordered to chase and kill them on the ice. They were shooting arrows as they advanced, and a large number of bone arrows were thrown at them.
The Russians finally ate some helmets, and they could block them with shields. However, the reindeer were hit by arrows and went berserk. Two sleighs actually lost control. The reindeer were hit by arrows and ran around in pain. Everyone was thrown off.
The centurion had an idea and led the rest of the sleds to collect the fallen people. No matter whether they were injured or not, they pulled up the sleds and retreated temporarily.
"Can a hunter on two legs outrun a sled? What a joke! I'll kill you after I tire you out."
The centurion was betting that the Karelians would pursue him because of their love for war.
The Russian army deliberately retreated south, always staying at the edge of the enemy's wooden bow range, whetting their appetite to lure the enemy deeper.
Finally, this kite-flying tactic caught more than 200 people, and the killing harvest was now.
The reindeer were beaten wildly, and the painful deer endured the exhaustion of running and continued to sprint. This time they rushed towards the crowd.
Many Russian warriors on the sled had taken off their bows and were holding swords and spears. The sled became a kind of chariot, and the centurion and Terravis made a pact to annihilate the group of big fish caught.
It can be said that the wars led by Rurik in the past gave junior officers a lot of things to learn, such as the pincer tactics that were transformed into annihilation. More importantly, Rurik provided a war philosophy, which is to fight a war of annihilation as much as possible.
It seemed that the fleeing Ross invaders actually changed direction, and it was too late for those who were a little tired from the pursuit to escape.
The reindeer sleigh rushed over with great force, and the soldiers of the Qatari army instinctively avoided it. However, what awaited them were crossbow sniping and spear and sword thrusts. Qatari soldiers who were close to the sleds were pierced by short spears or cut by swords. The sled team completed the outflank on both sides, opening up the escape route for the Qatari army. Then, a Russian soldier, wearing a huge iron helmet with a nose guard, got off the sled carrying a round shield and a steel sword.
"Shield wall! Now!" the centurion gave the order, and four well-trained "fleets" and one hundred warriors formed four shield wall groups, and finally merged into one.
The shield wall was advancing rapidly, and the Kajun troops who were retreating in the stage attacked with all their strength, and the two sides fought together.
The steel sword was poking, and every poke was bloody. The Ross shield wall was like a meat grinder, and all the enemies it encountered were killed.
Tyravis and his Vips warriors were not just spectators. They held bows and took the lead in the battle, shooting at the enemy's rear reinforcements to push back, and also throwing arrows to disrupt the enemy's positions in the encirclement.
What follows is just simple killing by men...
The debate ended quickly. The corpses were lying on the ice in a staggered manner. Some of the squirming ones were still twitching, and they were stabbed by the Russians. The ice was radiating enthusiasm, which actually came from the evaporation of warm blood. A large area of the ice surface was covered with blood. The bloodthirsty warriors with their faces and bodies turned red, and the Karelian army fled in shock.
The centurion was covered in the enemy's blood. He wiped his blood-red face with his arm and looked sharply at the brothers on his left and right: "Tell me, did anyone die in battle? Was anyone injured?"
They told each other that they were fine, and some said that a certain brother had suffered internal injuries.
"To be injured by such a person who is weaker than a bear is such a shame for a warrior!" He cursed secretly, then looked at his restless brothers, "Let's go! Let's pursue the victory."
A mere 100 people actually defeated an offensive of 600 people and killed more than 200 people of the enemy without any loss of life.
The Karelian people were frightened, and now Caskuve was unable to hold back the fleeing brothers. The Qatari troops who were waiting and watching were all withdrawing, and this withdrawal turned into a great rout.
Kaskuwe had no choice: "Let's retreat to the forest camp, organize the team and find a way out!" He issued a retreat order, but the army was fleeing.
Confidence collapsed, the team dispersed, and Cascuwe had to suffer another humiliating defeat. Of course he will not accept his fate. He can still recruit more people, and there is still a chance of winning.
The Russians wanted to pursue them, but the reindeer were tortured terribly. They are animals with amazing endurance, but they ran out of energy after running wildly for a few short distances.
Terravis was very regretful. He stood on the sled and looked at the backs of the escapees and shouted angrily: "Just run away! Idiots! You Karelians are so cowardly that you only deserve to be slaves!"
At least Terravis could not have imagined that the Karelian people, who were called by the Kovins in the past to be more powerful than the Tavastians, could be so inferior.
The reason is very simple. It is entirely because the Principality of Rus is too powerful. It is actually a max-level boss in the Baltic Sea who abuses people in the Arctic Circle.
The other party escaped very quickly, and there was no chance for more than a hundred brothers to pursue him.
The defenders of the Bear Festival Town fortress enjoyed a wonderful battle in a comfortable mood, which made their already good self-confidence even more confident. If everyone is worried about the Kasbah army’s superiority in strength and takes the initiative to go out of the city to challenge, the enemy’s inferiority is clearly demonstrated. The guards now feel that they can all go out of the city to fight the opponent in a decisive battle. They can even arrogantly declare: "You two thousand people were defeated by four hundred of us." People surrounded.”
The centurion and his close comrades were not overjoyed by the victory. They confiscated a batch of inferior arrows and hand-to-hand weapons. It was not surprising that the arrow clusters were bone fragments, and the spearheads among them were also bone fragments. The number of iron weapons Very few, which is too challenging for the Russian people's perception.
Would Odin be satisfied with defeating an enemy of this level? They use animal bones and teeth as weapons, and bears and wild boars also use their teeth as weapons. In a sense, the enemy is not a human being, but a kind of beast. The most proud First Flag Troop of the Russian Army is actually conducting a special battle. Hunting.
Looking at the fortress and those defenders, it’s really hard to describe...
