Rise of Rurik

Chapter 563 Assassin in the Snowfield

A new day, the start of the hunt!

Arik didn't catch any survivors. The Rus scouts got a lot of useful information from the killed enemies. For example, the enemy's armament was far less than that of the Rus, and his vigilance was relatively low. Based on these circumstances, he dared to dare. Boldly "rush in".

Real danger is approaching the Tavastia hunters busy catching squirrels.

A group of Rus people in white robes formed a group. They all carried crossbows, and they could see from a distance that the target was ready for battle at any time.

Sure enough, Arik's desire to kill started!

Two Tavastian hunters saw something white swaying in front of them from a distance, and thought it was some interesting prey, so they approached with bows.

Naihe suddenly flashed out of the snow more than a dozen people!

The hunter didn't even have time to scream, and fell to the ground with several arrows.

The most deadly arrows naturally come from heavy crossbow arrows, which are thick arrow shafts like a strong man's thumb and conical armor-piercing arrow clusters. Huge wounds often bring quick death.

"Two prey, what do we do?" someone asked.

Arik thought for a while: "Take the available weapons, bury the body, and we'll find new ones."

In fact, everyone was too lazy to dispose of the corpse. He buried the corpse with a shovel. Afterwards, he panted to the boss and complained that it was unnecessary.

Someone gasped and shouted: "Arik, we can't do this. Are you afraid that the brothers will be exposed? Don't look at the thirty of us gathered in a group, unless they are fools, they can't see the footprints of a large group of people. Are you going to kill them? Are you afraid your brothers will be exposed?"

"Oh? You say that, I have to think about it."

The man sank: "We...should spread terror. Let them know how good we are."

"What's your opinion?"

"These people are obviously not Kewens, they are enemies, they should hang like skinned squirrels. Don't you realize that we have now seized new leather? The squirrel skins here should be tribute to our treasures! "

Arik's head suddenly opened up: "Okay! Let's do it like this!"

This group of Russ who licked blood had no objection to killing, and they enjoyed it even more!

Tavastian hunters wandering in the forest to gain profits, they still don't know that Ross's avengers have arrived, and they don't even know that in the eyes of the Ross people, they are not as simple as enemies, but as skinned and humiliated. prey!

On the first day of entering the riverside forest, Arik and his party killed as many as eleven enemy hunters, and eight bloody corpses were hung from trees. Even the Ross scout felt sick.

But this is war, and Arik doesn't mind resorting to such vicious means.

Those who dare to touch the interests of the Rus should have such an end!

The Rus kept fires in the woods and roasted squirrels that they plundered from the dead. Fortunately, they weren't crazy enough to become Hannibal, and Arik still ate the oatmeal scones he brought from his hometown in Roseburg, as he always did, with the snowflakes that could be found everywhere.

The next day, they were in action again!

This time, Arik successfully touched the long and narrow lake in the inland. There were a lot of thatched buildings not far away, and that was the village of the Lord of Salmon.

"It became very strange there, like a fire." A Ross soldier lying in the snow muttered to Arik.

Arik poked his head and thought about the previous intelligence of Kaihas: "The old man said that his camp was burned by the invaders. There is a cemetery of our tribe there, and it seems that they were indeed destroyed by them."

Although the deceased was the child of a Rus fisherman, and the cause of death was a sudden illness, it was a Rus cemetery after all. Even destroying a child's grave would be an insult to the Rus! Besides, the enemy destroys the cemetery of the servant, how can the Russ who are the masters resist?

Someone else urged: "I saw thirty or forty people wandering. Even if we swaggered over, we could kill them all."

As soon as this statement comes out,

At least ten people are sprouting.

Others shouted: "Our Lord Rurik is too cautious! That Kaihas exaggerated the enemy, and we must wear mail, such a heavy thing was to fight the Danes, and it turned out to be such a fool Fighting. Well, we will fight with them in armor, and I will cut off their heads!"

After this, everyone has made a clear attitude. The brothers are going to rush up to fight, just like the capital's expedition here.

If the commander of the army is Rurik, he must be more cautious.

However, Arik became the leader of the scout, the young man's head was hot, and the god of war was possessed immediately.

Arik stood up abruptly and was too lazy to disguise: "Then let's do it! Let's swagger 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 to find out the truth of the enemy without exposing himself.

However, what he was most worried about still happened. Arik was indeed a scout, but he really became a meat detective.

Arik didn't feel that this was a reckless act, but tried to deceive the enemy's main force, so that if he could beat him, he would fight, and if he couldn't, he would shoot arrows and then fight and walk away.

Of course, it is impossible to take the initiative to evacuate, but he must still evacuate, and then send someone to report to the rear with information, because according to the plan made by my brother, Ross's crusade will be killed by boat after the ice melts.

Thirty snowmen appeared on the ice, and they formed skirmish lines to approach the defenseless old Salmonlord village.

The Tavastia hunters who were stationed and rested here found the approaching monsters, and they began to gather, instinctively assessing the threat of the approaching people.

Some people say that it is the legendary "snowman", and some people say that it is actually a "snow elf".

As Arik and his men approached, the Tavastia hunter felt the most real threat.

Someone clamored to be the attacker, although it was uncertain, and many hunters instinctively believed it was the enemy.

The bow-wielding Tavastian hunters were still gathering, in a mess of taupe furs that were all patchwork and stitched together.

"Is that all you have? It's not enough for me to shoot slowly." Arik felt a little regretful. If the enemy stood up forty or fifty people, he would have a great chance of winning. In fact, the enemy gathered less than a hundred people, and Arik firmly believed that he would win.

However, he did not order the guys to move on, instead, they all knelt on the spot, holding up their crossbow and preparing to shoot arrows.

At this moment, one person stood out from the gray-brown crowd gathered on the opposite side. This person stepped forward boldly, and opened his arms to show that he was not afraid of threats.

The man's mouth was full of incomprehensible words, and Arik had no intention of talking to him, let alone maintaining the so-called peace.

He took up his steel-armed crossbow and shot at the approaching man.

The heavy arrow made for breaking the armor directly hit the eye socket of the approaching person, who died on the spot and fell on the ice.

Seeing this, the Tavastiya hunters with arrows on the strings were all shocked.

"It's the enemy! The enemy has emerged from the snow!"

The Tavastia hunter hurriedly threw arrows, but Arik and the others squatted on the spot.

Only Arik, he stood fearlessly, with his "unicorn arm" and leather gloves, he relied on brute force to wind his steel-armed crossbow, ignoring the threat of the enemy's arrows at all.

Those arrows hit the ice in a mess, and some of the shafts simply broke by themselves! The arrow was no less than twenty steps away from the Rus people, which was in Arik's calculations.

"Are you done? It's our turn!"

He muttered to himself, and then shouted: "Russian! Wooden crossbow! Projection!"

Even if it is a crossbow modified from a short wooden bow, it is more powerful than an ordinary short bow!

It's true that the European climate isn't ideal for compound bows, but that doesn't mean they can't be used. The wooden crossbow of the Rus has also been improved in terms of elasticity with turpentine and deer tendons, and the range of the projectile has indeed been improved with the naked eye.

This time, the Russ simply used the captured arrows to repay their gods in their own way. Seven Tavastiya hunters were hit by the arrows, and the rest of the hunters were scattered.

The distance between the two sides is actually less than 150 meters. Even at such a close distance, the steel crossbow can still show great power.

Three more people were hit by the arrows of the steel crossbow that were thrown, and they lost their ability to fight in an instant.

Is the fight like this? !

Before the fight, the brothers who were good at archery were madly killed by the arrows of these weird snowmen who drilled out of the snow?

The hunters ran frantically to the upper reaches of the glacier, and one person hurriedly pulled out a strange arrow on a brother's body, but turned a blind eye to the brother's vomiting blood and mourning.

The Russ also launched a pursuit, and during the pursuit, three more people fell to the ground with arrows.

Do you want to leave one or two injured people to ask for information? Arik thought about it and gave up completely. The backhand was to order his subordinates not to leave alive, and to decapitate all the dead bodies of the enemy. After all, like a hunter dealing with squirrels, he regarded the dead as squirrels, and finally hung them upside down on a tree for the enemy to see.

Reaching this place again, it is already a different person. The Ross scouts who cleaned the battlefield were busy seizing weapons and food. The corpses of the enemy, as Arik had requested, hung on the treetops like strips of seals stripped of their leather, dripping with blood. Frozen again and again.

Night fell, and after this victory, Arik's attitude towards the invaders was nothing but contempt.

The Rus left the hut village and had no intention of checking the mountain fort that was caught on fire.

They retreated into the woods again and gathered in the snow to discuss their next move.

Someone casually complained: "It seems that the Duke has indeed overestimated the enemy. If our brothers are not fifty, but five hundred, those intruders will be wiped out."

"He's right." Someone immediately echoed, "The enemy is far weaker than we thought. In my opinion, everyone follows the footsteps left by the enemy to find their camp, and we can kill their commander, so that all the enemies will be There will be chaos."

The suggestion of his subordinates gave Arik a very bold idea.

"Then kill their leader!" Arik bared his teeth like a wolf in the snow.

Everyone exchanged attitudes. Originally, one or two brothers were going to go back to report the letter, but now there is an opportunity to make great achievements in front of them, and none of the brothers want to be excluded.

They rested in the snowfield all night, huddled together and hid in the snow nest.

Snow is talking! Snow is shaking!

A group of snowmen are alive, they emerge from the snow.

Arik looked left and right: "Is everything okay? Didn't you freeze to death?"

The Rus held each other in peace, and then started a new operation.

So, is Arik not worried at all that the fleeing enemy will sound a war alarm and attract a large number of enemies to appear?

He was not without worries, but coveted the great glory after the success of the "beheading operation", ignoring all the dangers.

That's right, those enemies who were shot by arrows would run away, and these enemies would also bully weaker Kewen people.

In fact, those who escaped fled overnight.

When Aric had started a new journey, the fugitive Tavastians officially informed the Vatyala who had just woken up about the attack.

In the early morning, the comfortable spring sun was still unable to melt the snow in the mountains, forests and lakes, and in the old Grey Squirrel Hill Fort, which was controlled by the Tavastians, the people who occupied this place started new work one after another.

The hunters who plundered the leather resources here, or the hundred men and women who immigrated here and decided to take root, began to do exactly the same work as their hometown.

It seems that today is also a very peaceful day.

Until the exhausted fugitive brothers ran back and shouted the news of "the Yeti who is good at archery".

The warmest house lives in the honorable commander, Vatyara, who is more certain than any snow monster that his men have been attacked horribly.

"Snow monster? Ridiculous! You're all freaked out."

He pointed to the exhausted warriors and shouted that they were exaggerating.

No, the surrendered Bakan said very vigilantly: "My lord, this must be a Russ."

"Russ?" He turned his head hastily. "The world is in ice and snow, and the Rus dare to rush here? Isn't the home of the Rus in the far west? Is this reasonable?"

"I don't know. But being good at archery is indeed their style."

When it was, someone who fled back threw a strange arrow that was picked up.

"Is this also an arrow?" Vatyara played with this short and strange arrow with a tail, wondering how a bow was about to be fired.

But seeing this arrow, the alert three defectors all looked nervous.

Bakan shouted tremblingly: "It's the Russ! The Russ have this kind of arrows!"

Vatyaara glanced at his words, and could see that the man's panic was not acting.

The three surrendered Kewen chiefs were all describing that their men had suffered a big loss in the decisive battle because of waiting for the arrows. Of course, they just emphasized that they were defeated and lost by the arrows of the Rus people, and they never mentioned this. The melee gang fights against the Kowens didn't take any advantage either.

This caused some misjudgments in Vateara. The so-called Rus people are just powerful with arrows, but when it comes to archery, Tavastia hunters are not free. He concluded that the people who stayed in the burned fort were attacked by a sneak attack. A small failure could not explain anything, and most of the people had fled back.

The people who escaped and returned became more and more exaggerated.

The Rus people really came to take revenge. Although it is very strange, the Rus people should really come. They seem to be somewhere between a hundred and two hundred, maybe those guys are doing winter squirrel hunting too?

The Kovins either surrendered or perished. The Tavastians no longer had to pursue the Kovins, and the Russ would inevitably become a new threat.

"More than a hundred Ruth warriors. Since they are going to attack us, it would be a coward for the brothers to stay in the camp."

Wattara made up his mind, he stood up and walked outdoors, and immediately began to worry about his men, and sent people to call back the people who had run away to hunt.

Around noon, as many as 400 Tavastians gathered in the empty field inside the mountain.

Vatyara stood on the heights, giving orders like a great king: "I have learned that the Rus people who have a lot of iron weapons are coming to seek revenge. They are going to take our hunting ground, this is not good! Some brothers were attacked by them and died, all the warriors We must take revenge! Now they are probably approaching us, and I will take you to destroy them all. Think about the result after victory, you will all have better iron weapons and become stronger!"

He never mentioned the bow and arrow advantages that the Russ might have, and his idea was simple.

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He will never run away! In other words, any Tavastia military leader who has been entrusted with important tasks will not 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.

Vatyaara began to organize warriors, just like attacking and defending the Karelians. In addition to placing a hundred warriors to defend, he personally led more than 200 people to walk through the glaciers and the nearby snowy woodlands, in order to reach the enemy. Rus' decisive battle.

His wishful thinking was good, and he took it for granted that the Russ would run into him like wild boars.

But Arik has not been able to lead 30 brothers to one against ten, and the Rus people have special weapons. Based on these weapons, Arik has already explored in actual combat some vulgar, so-called not upright means of killing the enemy. How about that? Only the victors are qualified to interpret what it means to be adept in martial arts.

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