Rise of Rurik

The selected people rode on their horses. At the beginning, the training they experienced was just sitting on horsebacks, and a group of people formed a horse team and wandered seemingly aimlessly on the snow.

Rurik was even mixed in, and Arik, Medvedt and others were also beginners.

Under the **** of real Pechenegg cavalry, everyone learns how to control horses and runs in skills for a long time.

When the rider basically learned how to ride a horse during the three-day special training and began to try to ride a horse galloping, many young cubs felt that they were born with this material. fighting.

Horse fight? Just like the skill of riding and shooting, it can be carried out at any time, and even the rider can pick up a short wooden bow by himself to explore the profundity of riding and shooting on his own.

During the training, the second winter snow came unexpectedly.

Unlike the gentleness of the first snow, it accompanies the storm and is bitter like the fury of a god.

The walls of the settlements are excellent windbreaks. The people hide in the city, the horses hide in the stables, and the domesticated animals and poultry are in the pens.

All living creatures are hidden in a warm place and are hard to resist ice and snow. I am afraid that only the hardy reindeer can resist the cold with their thick fur.

After this blizzard, the world was completely frozen.

Lake Ilmen had thick ice, and the snow in Novgorod was not more than a big hip, and the roofs of all houses were so thick that it was frightening.

After the blizzard was over, the people in the city first swept the snow at their doorsteps, and then used methods to clean up the snow on the roofs as much as possible.

A large amount of snow accumulated on public roads and was gradually pulled out of the city by animal sledges.

Those early ponies and a large number of reindeer took on this work. Although they were all horses, the local ponies were only suitable for work as workhorses, while the Turkic savage horses trafficked by the Pecheneg were used for fighting. pregnancy.

There is no shortage of labor for staying in Rick temporarily. Three hundred soldiers of Ragnar were mobilized, and they were paid to clear the snow. At first, everyone was happy, but as soon as the two consecutive days of work came to an end, many people were directly exhausted, and some were panting and feeling cold all over. Although there was too much bread to eat and greasy grilled fish afterwards, Ragnar had to take a good rest. Almost at the cost of overdrafting their lives, these Danes piled up a snow-rammed pyramid outside the city. For a while, the innocent children had a big toy that served as a slide.

The top of the Snow Pyramid has a high commanding height. Some children are standing in certain sections, their round eyes are staring at the horse riders who gather again not far away, talking about those people, and even expressing some great dreams.

Rurik's own equestrian skills have become more exquisite. Clamp the belly of the horse with both feet to brake, and lightly kick the belly of the horse with both feet at the same time to move forward, holding the reins in both hands, and pulling left and right while pulling to the right. Apart from not knowing how to "reverse" the mount, overall it is really a good horse that is obedient and understanding.

He wears a fur hat with a velvet head, his own short sword hung on the belt around his waist, and his small golden beard, the whole person looks quite a classic Cossack image.

His young cavalry men were given a uniform clothing-white bear fur.

The helmets of elite mercenary guards are decorated with bear heads, and the more elite soldiers wear bearskin coats.

As an emerging military force in the Principality, the cavalry must be a combination of magnificence and combat effectiveness.

Young people like their new coat very much. It has an excellent ability to keep out the cold, and the thick white fur is soft and comfortable to the touch. When they think of it as bear skin, a sense of pride arises in their hearts.

Even the ten Pechenegg "coaches" under Rurik's command, they also have new bearskin clothes, and even their own pointed iron helmets decisively poke the bear's head, and the terrifying bear upper jaw is full of fangs. Become the place of the sun hat. It is quite strange that all ten of them wear sunglasses.

In other words, the horse riders who gather together wear wooden frame sunglasses on a large scale, so that the white snow is not blinded by the dazzling white snow.

Kagan is the real instructor, and his current forty subordinates are real teaching assistants. More than forty of them constituted a small cavalry combat unit, and Rurik deliberately asked his own people to imitate it in all directions.

Therefore, on the first training day after the snow, it’s time to stop the boring slow-moving horses, and it should be the beginning of cavalry combat training.

Some thick-mouthed pine poles are pestle on the snow. The poles are all wrapped in deerskin and tied firmly with cables.

They are all targets, what kind of training will be carried out today, the clever young rider just grasped the hilt of his steel sword and guessed it.

Rurik stood in front of many cavalry on horseback, his tall posture simply stood up directly on the saddle, so that a pair of eyes overlooked his subordinates and Kagan's Pechenegg allies from a height of about three meters.

"Brothers! Is it too boring for you to ride horses all day? In my opinion, you have learned how to ride horses. Starting today, you will learn to fight!"

"I have discussed with the Kagan brothers. First we learn to ride and chop, then learn to jab with a spear, and finally learn to ride and shoot."

"I heard that compared to fighting on foot, fighting on horseback is more difficult. As long as you learn it, you will be the strongest soldier."

"Now even I, like you, must learn from the Pechenegians. I will train with you..."

There is no big reason, even if Rurik knows that he is standing at a historical watershed, starting from today, the Duchy of Ross has formally learned cavalry tactics before he can truly become a cavalry. He thinks this is a historic moment, how do the young soldiers feel? Everyone just hopes to become an excellent cavalry sooner, and to contribute to the Principality in future battles and earn huge amounts of spoils for themselves.

Rurik seized the opportunity to create the cavalry for the purpose of not defending the land and protecting the country. If the principality had not expanded wildly over the past few years, it would have taken some time to digest the prey. The suspension of expansion is for better expansion and rapid internal development of comprehensive strength. The establishment of cavalry is a direct manifestation of this strategy.

Because it continues to expand its strength to the south, the superiority of the duchy’s navy is almost useless, and the cavalry will become the new "imperial battle axe."

After Liulik finished his preaching, Kagan received the order and immediately took his own person to show what is horse-riding.

The Pecheneg people are holding a saber with a slight curvature that resembles a Tang Heng knife. It is indeed a knife. Although it has a sharp point, it is sharpened on one side and deliberately thickened on the other side. The slight curvature of the back of the blade is deliberately done, just to adapt to the riding and cutting. It weighs five pounds and is really a heavy weapon to kill the enemy.

In comparison, Rurik’s cavalry is still equipped with a standard infantry steel sword, which is flexible and double-edged, and weighs a little more than four pounds. The Ross and other Vikings, who are good at rowing, have trained too strong arms in rowing. The four-pound sword is still quite heavy. This is nothing. The bursting muscles are attached to the bones, and the hand holding the sword does not feel it. tired.

The two weapons have one thing in common, they are both straight handles.

Seeing the Sabre of the Pecheneg people, Rurik's intuitive feeling is that it resembles Tang Hengdao too much.

Thinking that the nature of these guys were Turkic people who had been run away by the Eastern Empire, it was normal to absorb Eastern military technology for their own use. Of course, what Rurik thought of was to redesign a saber for his subordinates-a Cossack saber with a larger bending arc.

Not only the new saber, but also a batch of spear riding is planned.

As for how to use a spear to ride, Rurik knew how to use it. He decided to emulate the breakable spear of the Polish hussar. The spear was used twice by the enemy. In this way, the spearhead does not need to be too particulary, the only choice of spear wood to be particular about, it must be easy to break.

Kagan led the team to show off in front of everyone. They galloped like lightning with the Turkic Sabre high, took a deep cut against the wood pole wrapped in deerskin, and then drove away.

The entire cavalry team was dispatched continuously, and some soldiers roared for a lifetime, and then the saber was slashed.

At the beginning, many deer skins showed little damage, and as a result, more than forty rides came for two rounds of slashing, and the completely damaged deer skins slumped casually, exposing the internally cracked wooden stakes.

There is even a wooden stake that has been chopped down.

Kagan rode his horse with arrogance and faced Rurik: "You have seen it all. If they were enemies, they would have been seen as **** by us. Remember, you have almost only one cavalry battle on the grassland. Opportunity. Seizing the opportunity means that you can survive, so you must use your full strength in this blow. I have heard a rumor that some strong fighters can chop the enemy in two with a single knife!"

Rurik also shuddered at the later description, and his men had been dumbfounded by the messy stakes. They can't help but be surprised that those prairie men are obviously not tall, how can they ride on horses and chop stakes so much. If they were given an axe, wouldn't a big tree be cut down in the blink of an eye?

Finally, the young Ross cavalry was divided into ten teams, each under the leadership of their Pecheneg captain contacted with horses and hacks.

Since the prince was willing to use deerskin as a target, the brothers died.

The young warriors all understood Kagan's warning, and they all swung the steel sword with the greatest strength.

However, this kind of slashing is always in the air. Simply grasping the right slashing opportunity while riding a horse will have them train hard. Even if it was lucky to chop the stakes, because the power is mutual, the reaction force is the same as the rider's chopping strength, and the hands are numb for a while.

Some people even shook the steel sword off their hands, directly embarrassed.

Without him, Kagan deliberately made a special statement about this matter, saying that the so-called dismantling of a cavalry's weapon while fighting is no different from suicide.

"Anyone who got rid of the saber! You should be thankful that you are on the training ground. If you are on the battlefield, you are dead!"

Is it just a few stern warnings that it's over?

Since Kagan was hired as a coach to train soldiers in accordance with the rules of the prairie, he was hired as a coach to get a lot of training freedom, so for this matter, the wrongdoers were punished in full accordance with the rules of the prairie.

Eighty young cavalry soldiers had five swords out of their hands, including the manor’s son.

The five people learned that they would be punished with whips, and immediately screamed for mercy.

Even Medvedt and Arik, who are riding horses, are also paying attention to Rurik's reaction to this matter. According to the attitude of the two nobles, the arms of a group of "just-bearded" cubs are too weak, and it is understandable to take off their swords.

Rurik's face was iron, and the people's begging for mercy was like flies flying around and annoying.

He yelled: "Just follow the laws of the grassland! You will be punished if you make a mistake! Listen, I would rather you sweat and tired your muscles and bones during training, and bleed at most, and I don't want you to be killed on the battlefield! Your whip is to make your memory long! Remember this pain! When you get injured again on the battlefield, you can also hold it back perfectly."

Kagan listened very much to the words of the Rurik brothers.

With a whip in his hand, Kagan, as the chief instructor, declared in advance: "Your prince's statement is completely correct. You have resisted the pain now and will not be afraid of fighting in the future. Everyone draws a whip. This is already my greatest mercy. "

Look at the five people who were all tied to separate stakes, their thick coats were stripped off, and even the inner shirts were gone. Only the white backs were fused with the snow everywhere.

Kagan was about to do it, and Rurik asked fiercely, "There is only one whip? What is your real law?"

"It's... Three Whips."

"Then three whips. Kagan, come here first..."

Rurik didn't want Kagan to hurt the killer. He only emphasized in a low voice: "Just three whips, don't be too cruel, try to make a small amount of bleeding, I cut the stakes so hard, I don't want you to beat people to death with a whip. "

"I have my own measures."

Five people each received three whips, and three clearly visible blood stains appeared on their white backs.

Many eyes looked at the punishment, and the young cavalry was stunned with his mouth uneasy.

Ruriek riding a horse is as firm as a sculpture. He has faded away from what used to be immature, but now he has become a strong and ruthless man. The cavalry who has high expectations for him requires his brothers to be ruthless.

"You have all seen it!" Rurik pointed out with his sword straight: "This is the rule! They have let go of their weapons and are punished according to the law! I am fair, and I am definitely not punishing you for no reason. From now on you must step up your training, wrong. If you are punished, there are rewards for doing well."

As a result, in the following hack and slash training, the young riders showed mercy to the stakes and guarded their swords from getting out of their hands. Even so, when night fell, there were as many as ten people who were rewarded with the whip.

The cavalry complained in the unified dormitory, but the ten people were independently arranged to a new dormitory.

The fireplace warmed the dormitory. The ten hapless whipped eggs were all lying on the soft beds. Their back wounds were cleaned. First, the spirits were roughly debrided and sterilized, and finally a layer of honey was applied along the wound.

Kagan is indeed merciful~www.readwn.com~ The so-called injuries are bruises a little bit harder.

Because the local Slavic farms expanded their traditional skills of tree-hole beekeeping in the past warm seasons, they harvested more honey. They sold the honey to the Duke of Rose on a large scale, so Rurik received far more honey than ever before. . Honey is not only for food, but also a kind of medicine. Since a sucrose block attached to the affected area of ​​the oral ulcer can accelerate the wound healing, it means that all kinds of sugar blocks can promote the healing of wounds on the body surface.

What's more, honey does not know that it is a mixture of fructose and glucose, as well as a lot of vitamins. Its viscous form can also form the outer protective layer of the wound.

Some people were punished with a whip, and the rest of the staff connected in series, and quickly developed a set of means to prevent the sword from being released-tied the right hand to the hilt of the sword with a cloth strip.

This behavior was acquiesced by Lurik, and Kagan would not stop him when he saw it.

Compared with riding and shooting, horse hacking tests the tactical ability of a prairie cavalry. After all, riding and shooting is just harassment, it is a tactic of slowly cutting meat with a knife, the purpose is to force the enemy array to appear serious flaws. The really decisive tactic was that the cavalry group rushed in to break the formation, and finally turned into a saber to slash and slash the fleeing enemy. Therefore, it takes a lot of time to hack and slash, and this is the root of the prairie cavalry.