Prince Ross, a grand banquet is held on the first floor.

Admiral Goldlund, the four captains of the Citizens' Banner, the newly promoted Captain of the Banner of the Deer Army, and the Captain of the Second Cavalry, these officers and their subordinates will be the main force of the next expedition.

The governor of New Roseburg, the high priest, the owner of the mill and bakery complex, and the head of the state-owned iron smelting complex, as key officials of the capital, must also participate in this banquet.

Blue Fox, Governor of Gothenburg, Bejahir, Earl of Demyansk, and the de facto Earl of Finland, Yevlo, are three military nobles and vassals, and they are obliged to participate in this key event.

A large number of wooden tables are placed on the wooden floor, and the cold dishes prepared in advance are served one after another, and the exquisite glasses are poured with fine wine, waiting for the guests to take their seats.

Rurik prepared hard dishes for the guests. A strong stag was being roasted after being slaughtered. It was originally a clay kiln for baking a lot of biscuits and bread, and a stag was becoming fragrant.

The people attending the meeting arrived at the palace in the evening. They took off all their weapons, put on casual clothes, and only kept their meat-cutting knives, entered the banquet scene and took their seats one after another.

The officers who are ready to go are seated on the left, and the others are seated on the right.

Rurik, the most honorable pastor, faced north and south, with a thick wooden wall behind him, through which was the surging Neva River, and the Rabbit Island fortress and pier on the opposite bank.

The geographical location of the attic palace almost coincides with that of the Winter Palace, which was intentionally done by Rurik, but his own palace is too shabby.

Blue Fox, who has seen the royal palace of Aachen in Frankland, has a deep understanding of this point, and he dare not talk too much, especially today, he who was present at the meeting saw

The blackbird actually participated in the banquet.

"What's the situation? Blackbird and Verika, two girls sitting together? As for?"

The round-faced blue fox sat casually on the surface, his cunning eyes looked around, paying attention to the attitudes of the participants. Sitting not far away was a dwarf with black hair. This deer breeder, who was said to be Vahavanin, suddenly became the talk of the people in the capital. After all, there was a lot of commotion in the open space outside the city this morning. A huge herd of stags suddenly appeared. The king unexpectedly organized such logistics on a whim, and promoted a person for this.

This is beyond the cognition of the blue fox, and now we have to continue to wait and see.

The atmosphere of the venue was always restless. King Ross changed into a casual attire, showing a hale and hearty look under the oil lamp.

Most of the people present knew each other, even the four banner captains from Novgorod, these four were all veterans, and they had seniority in the Ross Army, which made other people have more or less dealt with them.

The appearance of any stranger must be vigilant. They did not dare to comment on the priestess of Verika's follower, but they all noticed that there were very obvious runes on the girl's hands. The runes are not surprising, she is a bit too arrogant to tattoo the "life guard" plane on her hands! Does she deserve it? !

People who don't know the inside story are so witty that they suppress their doubts in their hearts, thinking that the high priest is sitting here, maybe this is the arrangement of the high priest.

Thus, the existence of Vahavanin, the deer breeder, has become an anomaly. No one wanted to talk to this short man. The brothers looked down on this kind of slave who worked for the king, but this man was of the same family as the high priest. come and go

, the brothers have to isolate for the time being to see the aftereffect.

"Everyone be quiet!" Rurik, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his arms to signal the whispering guys to be quiet.

"You all know the purpose of inviting you to meet today. I have read all the documents you submitted to me this afternoon. I trust you. All the preparedness materials in reserve are intact..."

Sister-in-law Asuraki is in charge of the main mill in the capital, and she has roasted a large number of extremely long-lasting Daliba for the army.

This large bread with oak chips and oak wood chips added on purpose is precisely because of the presence of these wood chips, which further enhances its storage resistance. As a trade off, they are as hard as wood when they dry naturally. Fortunately, Ross has a very mature craftsmanship for making saws. It has become an essential tool for carpenters and shipbuilders today, and it is perfect for cutting Daleba.

But Asraqi went a step further. Considering the actual needs of the army, it would be time-consuming and laborious to spend time cutting dry hard bread during the war period. Why not do it in advance? Saw as many large bars as possible into sheets, they are still hard, at first glance they look like whitish pine boards, but at closer inspection they are bread slices. It can be chewed dry as a dry food that can be eaten at any time. The disadvantage is that it is more harmful to the oral mucosa than the waste teeth. The best way to eat it is to soak it in soup and eat it.

Daliba, that is, deep-processed products, is the most ready-to-eat military rations in the Ross Army's reserves. In addition, there are pickled salty fat, salty meat sauce, and sauerkraut in pottery jars, which are their staple food adjustments.

In terms of meat reserves, Ross is the most traditional and

Classic salted fish jerky and air-dried meat mess, which are based on kabayaki dried herring and cod fillets.

Asuraki is the sister-in-law. Although her family originates from the defeated island of Gotland, she doesn't have much affection for the island.

Businessmen only need a stable base as their home port, and then they can organize their fleets to sail across the seas. If the home port collapses, they can organize their fleets to another place and continue to take root.

She doesn't have an elder brother, even if Rose never ransacks Gotland, the responsibility of the family will still fall on her shoulders.

Those have become the past, and now he has given birth to his son Gustav, who has three generations of grandparents with King Ross. To a large extent, Asilaki won Arik with her hue, and then gained Rurik's approval with her talent. For myself, that is to borrow the seed from Arik to reproduce the only male heir for his family.

Little Gustav is only nine years old, if he begs Rurik himself, this child will definitely be able to join the expeditionary army. Asuraki didn't do this because she didn't want her only son to be in danger. After all, Gustav was not born a warrior, and his life was limited to being a businessman, because this was an agreement with the royal family.

In the future, when Gustav takes full control of this swollen family business, he must also be loyal to Rurik and Prince Osborn Slav.

Of course, the Governor's Mansion is fully responsible for the logistics of the expeditionary force. Asiraki controls most of the mills and all the hydraulic mills in the capital. She takes out the wheat from the warehouse and processes it in her hands as much as possible, and then seals it after making it into coarse flour. It is so convenient

Used by the army during wartime.

As the saying goes, the most traditional wheat cakes of Ross and the northerners are made of coarsely ground oatmeal flour and placed on hot stones to make cakes. It is really an ancient cookie.

In terms of military rations, wheat replaces oats as much as possible, and considering practical factors, these mass-produced coarse flours are just mixed with wheat and oats in proportion. As for the matching cooking utensils, there are not only conventional cast iron pots, but also this simple iron plate.

Finding good smooth pebbles in a war zone can be difficult, but iron plates are excellent special cookware. It is said that the Frankish world is full of rivers and rivers, scooping up a bowl of river water, quickly kneading the dough and then flattening it, and then putting it on the hot iron plate, presumably just chatting with the guys for a while before picking up the wheat cakes with a sword.

Asraqi and Konusson worked closely together, and they organized rations for the Ross army according to the standard of 4,000 people eating for half a year.

Compared with the large-scale war three years ago, due to the mobilization of fewer troops, the current military food reserves are not as good as they were then, and the quality is much higher. A major reason is that in the three years since the outbreak of the Great War, Ross has not suffered any war damage in the rear, all kinds of people are content with production, and the core territory of the entire kingdom has accumulated a lot of wealth in absolute peace.

The abundance of logistics can be seen, and Ross is fighting a very rich battle again. Only in this way can Ross be qualified to launch a sea and land expedition.

He still stayed on the second floor of the palace to submit the report to Rurik in the afternoon, and he was still reading it when he thought about it.

Adequate logistical reserves are enough. The army has been exhausted in Frank until the deep winter.

Rurik didn't expect the army to rely entirely on its own reserves, and even fished in the local waters, and even sent envoys to ask for additional transport ships to deliver food.

Why bother? It's better to bring a batch of silver coins and buy them in Saxony, Netherlands, Flanders, Cologne and Mainz on the spot after arriving in the Frankish world.

In fact, Rurik's plans for obtaining food are quite different. In the traditional northern world, there is almost no concept of "logistics". The best way to solve the problem of food in wartime is to loot.

Based on the blue fox's written report, Rurik can hardly imagine that the black fox, who was a vassal of the Duke of Great Bavaria, plundered Lothar's territory under the banner of Nassau. They even dared to attack big cities like Trier and Metz, and they seemed to have succeeded.

That boy Black Fox is a free man, and from the beginning to the end, Rurik never expected that he could really lay down a territory in Frank's heart and firmly control it. The cost of turning Nassau into the territory of the Kingdom of Ross is frighteningly high, so why bother? For Ross, the best result is to support a local force that is absolutely friendly to Ross for future peaceful trade.

Although he was a little upset, Rurik was willing to admit that the black fox boy was Ludwig's vassal. After all, thinking about it from another perspective, it was I who let that little fat man go on a rough road. If he was killed, he could only consider himself unlucky.

Now that kid is developed, if he doesn't recognize it, it will damage his image.

This is not a matter of entanglement. Of course, the Ross Expeditionary Force will have a base for wintering, and that is Nassau-Koblenz. No matter what that boy Black Fox thinks, Mr. Ross

The army's cavalry, infantry, and inland river fleet must stand in the Lahn Valley of Nassau and Koblenz on the other side of the Rhine. Relying on the dangers of the mountains and the great river, and the advantage of the ships that Ross is proud of, the Ross army is in the flat area of Koblenz, the "German Horn".

As long as the supply of military rations is stable, this battle can be fought for a long time.

What supports the strong combat effectiveness of the Ross Army lies in its powerful armaments.

For those heavy armors that have been galvanized, the purpose of galvanizing is to make the armor visually mighty, and its interior is the most important. Thinking of Lothar's army, there must be no obvious difference between its armor and Ludwig's army.

After all, according to Blue Fox's report, the so-called first wave of expeditionary troops wore the earliest plate armor and wiped out a Frankish army believed to have 800 men.

The new version of the plate armor is more effective than the former. If there is an infantry battle, can Ross organize a plate armor group with a size of 1,000 people?

According to the tactical phalanx formulated by Rurik for Ross, the heavy armor group is basically used as a tactical reserve team. Ross is good at using bows and arrows. Although it is contrary to the traditional martial arts in the northern world, using long-range weapons on a large scale to seal the victory before hand-to-hand combat is very important for Ross.

After all, Ross in the past was limited in size and could not withstand large-scale casualties. The fact is that the war three years ago caused heavy losses to Ross. Fortunately, the grand strategy of large-scale intermarriage more than ten years ago highlighted the new generation of mixed-blood fighters not only supplemented the shortcomings of the predecessors, Ross finally had a huge source of troops.

but this

It is not a capital that can be squandered. Compared with the huge size of Frank, even if Ross integrates the power of the entire Northern and Northeastern Europe, the population is far inferior to Frank.

Nearly a full year of war preparations, Governor Konusson Jr. reported a clause to Rurik, written in black and white: 500,000 standard arrows.

Is there really such a number? If Rurik hadn't made a surprise inspection and went to the warehouses serving as barracks and saw the arrows piled up neatly like a wall, he would be sure that Konusson was not lying.

Thinking about it again, the capital has the most powerful industrial resources in all of Russia, and it is also the location of the metallurgical complex.

A standard arrow is divided into three parts: the cluster, the shaft, and the fletching.

Ross's attitude towards arrows is completely different from other forces. It is a consumable product. The original intention of the design is that it doesn't matter if it is scrapped after one shot. Of course, it can also be used repeatedly, but because the quality of the arrow shaft is average, soldiers don't expect extravagantly.

With New Rose Fort as the center, more than 30,000 people have lived in this area for a long time. A large number of Suomi people went to the capital to ask for a living, so the craftsmen among them immediately found work-orders for military supplies.

The elastic woodworking lathe mass-produces straight and slender pine poles, which are soaked in turpentine and then dried in the shade. After the holes are drilled with bows, arrow clusters are installed in collars. Arrow tufts, wooden poles, and feathers are assembled together. The Suomi people are fully capable of this kind of work. After all, there are a large number of forest hunters who make a living. They usually make arrows by themselves. Now they are making arrows for King Ross in the capital. Not only can they get a stable salary, but they can also learn new techniques.

After all, the state-run fletching machine

The number of people in the organization is limited, and it is also responsible for the production of the javelin, and the maintenance and new manufacture of the torsion slingshot. They naturally thought of labor outsourcing, and the Suomi people with the cheapest labor cost made their debut.

Rurik only cared about the quality of the weapons, not who made the arrows and javelins. What's more, the Finns were only weak in the past, and their lives were stable and their trade was smooth. Treat them fairly. The Finns, mainly Suomi, can no longer be underestimated in all aspects.

Rurik has already made a big strategy, and he is waiting to take this opportunity to announce it to everyone.

Staring at him with eyes in pairs, he listened attentively to the preaching of the venerable king.

Especially those who submitted written reports, they all knew that the king was very busy with inspections and studying reports in the palace. Everyone expected the king to give a pertinent evaluation of their work.

Rurik cleared his throat again: "Everyone! I have reviewed all the documents you submitted, and you have done a good job. In this battle, our army's logistics supplies and weapons and equipment are not fully prepared. You really prepared 500,000 arrows, and Novgorod prepared more than 100,000 arrows.

Never! We're going out with more than 600,000 arrows! We can shoot any enemy into a hedgehog. "

As soon as the words fell, the serious meeting room burst into laughter again.

"Now the navy is also ready. The huge fleet and various warships can cover the entire Kronstadt berth. Goldlund!"

"Yes." The only admiral has long been impatient.

"The sea trials of the Monarch of the Sea are all normal, you have now been ordered to expand the sailors, and now the results are great.

good? "

"Yes. I have already prepared for this battle. Those fishermen who signed up in advance have heard the news, and now they have assembled with supplies. My naval personnel has doubled, and now the strength has reached one thousand." He paused, "One thousand is absolutely true."

"Very good. But you still have to tell them to bring their own food for future operations. The king's military rations are only for the expeditionary army." Rurik thought.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, they are enlightened. And." Goldlund smiled.

"How? What are you laughing at?"

"Many people planned to go to the mouth of the Rhine River for activities, where the fishing resources are very rich. Instead of worrying about them, if the army wants to eat fish, the brothers will immediately catch fish and supply it to the king."

It sounds so good, but with the addition of the navy, the strength of the expeditionary force will increase by another thousand.

The original plan was to dispatch about 3,000 people to stir up trouble in the Frankish world based on the strategy of elite soldiers. Now it seems that the reality is not against the plan. Including the navy, the number of soldiers has reached 3,500, and including various logistics personnel, the number of soldiers has reached 5,000.

wait! Since the north has been stabilized, the "Northern Alliance" is not a play-by-play organization. The ports and sea areas that were once closed to the northerners have been opened, and trade has resumed. The northern heroes from all walks of life have paddled their boats to the mouth of the Rhine River for activities.

Moreover, Yevro can choose some Jianyong from some Suomi people staying in the capital to serve as archers to assist in the battle. Blue Fox did it in his Gothenburg fief last year.

Mobilization, I'm afraid that some Gothalan people in Gothenburg couldn't hold back their anxiety and already rowed to the Netherlands to join forces with the brothers of the same race stationed there.

The Netherlands area was the main base of Ross's first round of expeditionary forces, and the second base was Nassau-Koblenz in the inland river.

Rurik stopped chatting with Goethelund, and when everyone saw the king standing up suddenly, everyone stood up in surprise.

"You all sit down. Forget it." Rurik shook his head: "Standing and listening is fine.

This king's expedition will adopt the mode of advancing both land and sea. The land troops, all horses and reindeer were loaded first, and arrived in Riga as quickly as possible to meet with the local garrison, and then marched along the coastline to the Principality of Saxony. I will advance with the cavalry corps myself, through Courland, Memel, the Lagoon, Rostock, Stralsund, Lbeck, and into Hamburg in Saxony.

In terms of sea routes, Admiral Godlund served as the marching commander. During the operation, it was consistent with the king's army. After arriving in the Jutland Peninsula, the sea fleet detoured to the port of Rotterstad in the Netherlands and waited for the king.

The king's cavalry will go directly south, going to Hamburg, Bremen, Mnster, until they reach Cologne. "

A large number of nouns came out of Rurik's mouth, and only the officers present knew the meaning behind these nouns after systematic study.

Some are real settlements~www.mtlnovel.com~ We have dealt with them in the previous battlefield, and some seem to be just the king's whim to give the unnamed place a name.

Indeed, in this era, the southern coast of the Baltic Sea has too little population, and most of the areas are not developed at all, and there are no-name places everywhere.

So much so that Rurik named it precisely after a thousand years, which is a bit abrupt.

"I'm done. Do you understand? What do you think?" Rurik asked.

The officers were deeply shocked, but the others looked at each other in blank dismay because of cognitive limitations.

"Great!" Blue Fox took the lead in applauding to break the embarrassment, although he was puzzled.

With him taking the lead, everyone applauded and congratulated, and no one raised any objection to Rurik's marching strategy.

Even the so-called various boats transporting reindeer in the initial stage is very risky in Rurik's view.

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