Rise of Rurik

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Those Karelians seem to be young?

Do not. They just fled to the north, and after settling in their winter pastures, the survivors were left with a grief and a plan for revenge.

The old chief died of breathlessness on the way to escape, and his son Cascowe was elected as the new chief by the refugees.

The strength of the "big tent" tribe is gone, but its influence still exists.

Before the old chief died, he made some plans for his son, but Kaskuwei obeyed the will of the people and made a decision that went against his father.

revenge! Revenge is required! Revenge has to come sooner!

The priest who spread defeatist speeches was killed by his own hands, and the refugees had no more decadent thoughts of failure. After the first winter after fleeing, they began to fight back.

The first step in fighting back is marriage.

The chief Kaskuwei took his cronies to the "Little Tent" tribe to propose a marriage, and the marriage proposal went more smoothly than he thought. Since the two sides are traditional allies, the "small tent" has long been afraid of the "big tent", and a young man who succeeded the chief also came to propose a marriage. Marriage is a must.

Kaskuwei married the daughter of the "Xiaojing", and when the raw rice was cooked, he told the "Xiaojing" tribal leader a terrible truth.

The "big tent" tribe suffered huge losses in the strong southern Rus war, the sacred bear altar was taken, and the large camp Isotalwa was slaughtered. The tribe's prime years suffered huge losses, as did the reindeer they depend on for a living. The once populous tribe is now only a fifth of its former size...

His description is very real, and no chief really wants his strength to be greatly weakened if you think about it.

For a moment, the leader of the "Little Account" felt that he had been deceived.

Because the alliance with each other is based on the strong foundation of the "big tent", now it is impossible for the other party to deter the two allies "small tent" and "east tent" from the perspective of strength, but his daughter has already married.

This news spread like wildfire, and some elites of the "Xiaojing" tribe were ready to move. They don't know what Russ are, maybe it's just a group of strong people, but the "big tent" is the strong people right in front of them!

In the past days, tribes have been sending tribute to each other. The "big tent" tribe is a group of blood-suckers. While they are strong, they are also weak in sustainability.

Some elites sighed deeply: "Why should we honor that Kaskuwei as the Great Chief? My sister is married, and we have to provide a group of reindeer, which is unreasonable. Now we are stronger!"

Therefore, the speaker is the eldest son of the current leader of the "Xiaojing" tribe. With his power and prestige, he is basically the next leader by default.

He decided to strike first, bypassing his ambiguous father, and organized his capable cronies to assassinate Cascowei.

But he never imagined that Cascuwei would go against his father's decision this time, and he felt that he should use brutal means to get what he wanted.

On the contrary, Cascuwei made the first move and attacked the battalion commander of the elite of the "Little Tent" tribe, and carried out a dark night sneak attack on the leader's family.

The bloody night has passed, and the "Little Tent" tribe has changed.

Kaskuwei's new wife screamed and cried, smashing her husband's despicableness in the face of the corpses all over the floor.

Looking at Cascowei, his face was as calm as a stone. He specially spared the old leader's life, and specifically explained in the face of his questioning: "This is a necessary sin! From now on, only the big tent tribe, your tribe no longer exists. I will treat your tribe kindly, and I will rule over all the tribes, Then organize a large army to fight the Rus invaders, the hateful Tavastians, and the hateful Suomis."

The Karelian society has undergone a major political reshuffle, completely because of the huge disaster brought about by the savage attack of the Rus Principality. The Karelian people, who are still in the tribal alliance stage, completed the upgrade of the emirate within a year. .

Kaskuwei called all the frightened herders in the small tent tribe, and he declared himself "the chief of all the deer breeders\

,"He claimed that this was a power given to him by God, and God also gave him a great mission.

"The alien Rus are south of the Great Lake, and they are going to take our deer and pastures, kill all the men and children, and make women slaves. They are already doing that and have amassed an army by the lake. I want to unite all the deer farmers, organize a huge army, and wipe out all the Rus."

In the spring of 835, he announced the establishment of the "Emirate of Karelia". Kaskuwei was the first chief of the country, and the position of the chief would begin to be hereditary.

What choice do the herdsmen have? In this bitter cold land, the herdsmen are willing to pay tribute to the strong man, as long as the strong man promises to protect everyone's safety.

The "Little Tent" tribe disappeared overnight, the herdsmen turned into subjects of Kaskuwei, and the men swore allegiance to the strong man. As for the unfortunate slain, they saw that Cascowi sent someone to bury them.

After Cascuwei succeeded, the remnants of the "big tent" tribe drove the reindeer from the winter pasture to the traditional territory of the delisted "small tent" tribe. The population strength of Cascuwei finally recovered to 10,000 people. Up to 3,000 people can be summoned to fight. What is a soldier? As long as a boy has the ability to draw a bow and shoot an arrow, he is a warrior. Therefore, the so-called 3,000-strong army has a huge amount of water. Facing the powerful Rus invaders, Cascowei has no good countermeasures.

Soldiers' shortcomings in personal abilities and weapons should be compensated for by their strengths, right?

In the summer of 835, in the far north, in what is now the Republic of Karelia, the indigenous Karelian people were spontaneously conducting a wide-ranging integration of power.

The old leader of the "Little Tent" tribe died inexplicably in one night, and Kaskuwei's wife knew that the murderer was actually her husband. However, this woman is not stupid, Cascuvi will die, and her son will most likely become the king of all Karelians!

The man made a great decision, and an army of two thousand rushed to the "East Horde" tribe. He abdicated the tribal chief and declared that the "East Horde" tribe disappeared and became part of the emirate.

As for the death of the "East Horde" tribal leader and his family who did not understand it, no one cared anymore.

Cascowi's integration movement continued, this time his continued eastward integration of the more eastern populace.

They reached the shore of Lake Onega and swept all the small tribes along the shore. These residents do not have a unified self-proclaimed name at all. Although they have formed a large number of small communities with only a few dozen or more than a hundred people, they do not have their own names at all.

Cascowei's idea is simple. The environment here is somewhat like Ladoga Lake. The residents of Onega Lake are simply called Veps. The reason for this is only because the real Veps once surrendered to him, but He needs the surrender of the Vips.

Cascove used the whole warm summer to recruit troops, and even encouraged the herdsmen to immigrate immediately to the shore of Lake Ladoga, where the water and grass are better.

The results of his "armed action" even far exceeded expectations and greatly increased the knowledge of the Karelians accompanying him.

The world is so vast that people are walking eastward in the boreal forest and encounter another group of people - the Perm people.

This word directly refers to the concept of "exchange" in ancient Finnish, but there are not many Perm people, and they do not have large clans that occupy a dominant position. The market in "Perm" exchanges daily necessities. There are almost no outsiders in their world, so they all call themselves "Perm people".

Kaskuwei's army came, although for various reasons only 500 soldiers remained when they rushed to the Perm area. Cascove personally led the team and rushed to the market of the Perm people. The chief of the emirate came to a scattered clan society. This concept was like the army of the Principality of Ross beat the emirate.

The Warchief lived to be his most hated enemy, but it worked so well that he took in as many as two thousand men and hundreds of thousands of reindeer without breaking a sweat!

The Karelians are worthy of being the bully of the northern icefield, and those who have made achievements have indeed stronger organizational mobilization power, which is why they have been able to beat the Finnish tribes such as Tavastia and Suomi in the past to take advantage.

The expansion of the Karelian Emirate is not at all about Kaskuwei's desire to show his power. He hopes that his subjects will gather more and more, and only by relying on more troops can he regain the lost land and dignity from the Rus.

The troops marching eastward returned to the pastures at the junction of Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega in late autumn, when even the local Ludi tribes declared their allegiance to the chief of the emirate.

The assembly order was issued just after the first snow in winter. According to Cascowe's order, all men who could draw the bowstring in the emirate were warriors and had to assemble in the new camp.

He began to count his troops and finally regained his lost confidence in the face of an army of up to 6,000 people.

It's just that these 6,000 people are full of water, and there are only 4,000 men who are really capable of fighting.

How can the Karelians, who are active in the north and south of the Arctic Circle, rely on their frigid animal husbandry to feed a large number of people? Their ancestors were indeed residents of North Asia. In ancient times, they followed the footsteps of reindeer from the forests of Central Siberia to the present area and entered the period of great division in Europe. The Karelians are only a part of it, but they are also very Bad territory. It's not like their blood relatives, the Dear Shanians, are planting wheat, and it's even less like their relatives, the Magyars, who have become a populous cavalry nation.

Such a force has been enough to carry Cascowei's self-confidence, the power is in the hands of the army, everyone is calling for a war, and launching a counterattack war is also the fundamental reason why the people support his rule.

Cascuwei subjectively hoped to have a decisive battle with the Ross people, but he had a high probability of losing in a head-to-head confrontation.

It would be great if they could pull out their stronghold for an early victory.

They were supposed to perform the winter solstice sacrifice at the Bear Altar, but now they can only do it at the new camp. The sacrificial ceremony became an opportunity for the army to gather. He Jing provocatively selected 2,000 people and started a counter-offensive after the ceremony. Target, Bear Altar!

Naturally, they first arrived in the hometown of Isotarva, and the Karelian army, which had mixed multiple communities, found dense human skeletons under the snow.

People were frightened first, then furious.

A chief will ask rationally: "Great chief, the Rus people are so fierce, how should we deal with it?"

What tricks can Cascuway have, the skeletons on the ground shocked him, but he must maintain a tough attitude before his subordinates: "The Ross invaders have built a fort at the Bear Altar, and we are going to take it. According to the previous battle, Ross Human arrows are very powerful, so this time we have prepared more arrows. We will be able to tear down their fortress with the advantage of the arrows, and then kill all the enemies mercilessly.”

He just wanted to rely on the superiority of his troops to complete his first victory, just as the Zulu army went to besiege the British army's stronghold.

The Ross hunter, who was hunting squirrel skins, encountered a lot of active "black skins", which seemed to be bears and not bears, and the hunters immediately retreated when they realized that it was a potential enemy.

The two sides have already discovered each other in essence, and Cascowy did not intend to hide the army's actions. Seeing this situation, he ordered: "Follow me!"

The Ross hunters retreated to the wooden fort in Xiongji Town. Someone frantically beat the deerskin drum to attract everyone's attention. The messenger had already concluded that the person who came was Karelian, and the number of the other party was astonishing. Obviously, they wanted to demolish Xiongji Town.

Ross hunters and fishermen turned into warriors. They were warriors, and the winter period was the busiest period in Bear Festival. After the winter sacrifice in New Roseburg, there were more than 50 Rus and 100 Slavs. People, and even fifty Suomis, arrived at Bear Festival Town on a sleigh to plunder the local small animal resources.

War threatened this new city, with as many as four hundred settlers in the whole city, the men came together to make a major decision and issued a very succinct statement: "This is the territory of the Principality of Rus, even if the battle is fought to the end. Not one person can be lost!"

Women and children were evacuated, and some men of their own age were forcibly removed. More than a hundred people had to leave the town of Bear Festival. They rode sleighs on the frozen Ladoga Lake, just to make an emergency to New Roseburg.

What is the strength of the enemy? There may be a thousand or more.

At least the enemy's purpose is clearly to destroy the fortress, then they must pay the price in blood!

The Principality of Ross mobilized 250 combatable men in Bear Festival Town. Since they were almost all hunters, almost everyone could hold a bow. Not only short wooden bows, but also a number of wooden arm crossbow equipment, and even heavy individual equipment such as steel arm crossbow specially used for bear hunting.

As early as spending on the construction of settlements, Rurik thought of the issue of urban defense. The border troubles in Karelia have not been eliminated, and the existence of Bear Festival Town itself is an insult to the enemy, and it is also the gathering place for the next crusade against the enemy, so it must be a big fuss in defense.

The hunters only wanted the leather, and the meat was all kept in reserve. There is also a batch of wheat and hard-frozen fish in Xiongji Town. Although there were more than 200 people crowded in the fort, everyone prepared a lot of food for hunting, and even bought some flatbreads in New Rose Fort during the big sacrifice.

The people are confident, and their food reserves are enough to withstand a month-long blizzard, so it's no problem to withstand a month-long siege by the enemy.

Based on their own experience, it would take at least fifteen days for the prince to gather reinforcements after receiving the news.

Fifteen to twenty days, the critical period to become a guardian!

On the other hand, Great Chief Cascowe was on a personal expedition, but his army of 2,000 people was not monolithic. Many tribes and dense clan communities recognize his power, and the composition of the army is also very complicated. The soldiers lack the tacit understanding on weekdays. As for attacking the Rus, they do not have a clear concept of death in battle, but they all think about it after the war. Grab some iron.

Word spread that the Rus possessed a great deal of iron, which almost wiped out half of the fear of the enemy.

A group of troops dressed in deerskins, holding short spears, throwing spears, skinned wooden shields, and a large number of bows and arrows began to appear in the snow-covered grasslands outside Xiongji Town. fight.

The crossbow has been wound, and the torsion slingshots placed in the corners of the tower and the fort have also been charged. Many people don't wear armor at all, so they temporarily use deerskins and bearskins as temporary defenses.

They hid behind the wall in absolute silence, leaving the entire fortress almost empty.

This situation made Kaskuwei difficult, but fortunately this Karelian army is not lacking in recklessness.

Compared to the Ross Guardians, the hostile Karelian warriors had more hunting experience, and lacked the concept of fighting.

Someone murmured: "Maybe the Rus people were scared away, their main force was not here, they were worried that they would run away overnight because of their lack of troops."

Some people say that and some people are going to try it.

Cascuway sent a hundred men to approach the wooden castle from all directions, and just as it was approaching the trench, the hidden guardian of Ross suddenly appeared.

The crossbow and torsion slingshot shoot with precision first, followed by a random hit with the bow and arrow.

The Karelian scouts suffered a loss, and they fled, so for the glory, Cascuvi gave the order to attack the whole army.

2,000 people besiege the wooden fort with 250 people? It is reasonable to say that "10 times the attack" is the correct tactic, but how can the weapons and equipment and fighting will of both sides be at the same level? The 100 Slav warriors in the guardians are not good at archery, but they are also spearmen who have fought hard in the flag team. These years of good food and drink have made them different from other Slavs and become a strong existence.

Most of the people in the Ross native hold crossbows, and the Suomi people are also good archers.

Of course, the Karelians and the Suomis are of the same origin, and they are both good archers. Just after surrendering to the Duchy of Ross, the Suomi hunters have been fully equipped with iron arrow clusters, and they can even buy a lot at the market!

On the other hand, the Karelian army, the army assembled by the Kaskuwei chief, is still widely using bone clusters.

On the first day of the battle, the Karelians left more than 50 corpses and pulled more than 100 wounded in various situations to retreat.

On the third day, a new round of attacks began again. Cascouvi made some temporary wooden shields tied with small tree trunks to continue the attack. This time they successfully reached the ditch, but suffered a loss in the offensive of climbing the wooden wall.

On the seventh day, this is already the third round of offense! Arrows have become the main weapons for each other's attacks, and the Karelian army has been reduced to causing damage by projecting arrows, and it is impossible to predict what kind of results can be achieved. The attack has become more of a catharsis, and the Karelians are also learning war in the war, and now there are no reckless men who risk accurate arrows to rush.

It was at this time that a small blizzard hit, and the cold finally forced Chief Cascowe to calm down. So far, he has lost 200 people, some who died in battle, some who died of serious injuries, and more than 300 who were lightly wounded by arrow wounds.

Some people thought of retreating, but ended up killing the Great Chief on the charge of disturbing the morale of the army.

A small fortress could not be attacked for a long time. The Great Chief was in love with the battle. He decided to move reinforcements from the rear. Before the arrival of the army, the existing army was to besiege the Bear Altar, in order to make the opponent tired due to hunger and then launch a general attack.

However, Ross's white-ground and blue-striped flag fluttered in the cold wind, and the existence of the flag was the worst mockery.

The fort guards had more than twenty wounded in three battles, and two hapless men were shot through the neck to death. In contrast to the enemy, some corpses fell into the trenches, and the enemy was unable to collect the corpses.

Let them continue to besiege!

The warriors who were originally nervous are now in high spirits, and the Karelians once again showed their inferiority to the fullest.

It seems that the Ross guards can go out of the city to attack themselves, the reckless ones will do so, and the guards just want to take it easy. Everyone knows that the prince has already made some preparations to attack Karelia again, and the unsolicited arrival of the enemy is just an opportunity!

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