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Rurik wants to start a war on Bornholm. It is a war and not a war. Watermark advertising testWatermark advertising test

His request surprised everyone.

What is meant by a soldier who surrenders without a fight? As long as the army is driven over, the local fishermen will obediently surrender? There is still such a good thing?

Arik, Spuyute, Medvete and others felt unreliable.

As a guest, Ragnar felt that this possibility existed, but at that time he landed on the island to negotiate with those people, but the islanders quickly pulled out an army to prepare to fight.

He naturally informed Rurik about the news and asked Prince Ross to think about it.

"Your warning is very important, so I must be prepared with both hands. It is best to use force to deter them from surrendering obediently. If they choose war, then fight! I assume that they are a whole and a strong army. Obviously they are not So. I will respect their strength for the time being, and I will naturally show off the strength of the Russian Navy."

Rurik ordered the assembly of the army to launch an expedition. Now it is the midsummer slack period. It is not a problem to mobilize a 1,000-man army.

A thousand people said it was not too much, and it was not too small, but this scale did not show Ross's military strength.

But Rurik intends to make all the battleships of the Russian Navy go out. First of all, the "Eight-Eight Fleet" will be assembled outrageously, and another twenty standard armed cargo ships (including fishing boats) will be assembled together.

If you just assemble the "Eight-Eight Fleet" to rush over, it is probably purely to fight.

When he announced that there were 20 more cargo ships, some smart people had already guessed the Prince's other intentions.

Because of the so-called cargo ships, they are indeed cargo ships, but they also retain the mechanism to drop the trawl net and the manual winch to rewind the net.

Naturally, lightweight and surprisingly tough materials such as nylon do not exist in this era, and the fishing nets are all linen woven. Such nets can be very large, making trawl fishing possible. Of course, its realization is based on the large-scale acquisition of flax fibers. Now that Ross has opened up the flax planting area around Lake Ilmen, the flax resources that were rarely obtained in the past are quite sufficient now. Large-scale ropes and fishing nets are local Slavs. Women's money-making work.

Although there is no such high-tech as sonar, even if a sailing ship drags a big net to cruise in the sea, it can still catch a lot of delicious herring.

Even if the fishing nets have to be repaired on a large scale after each sailing, the cost of repairing the nets is very small compared to profit.

Because the dimensional span of the Poros Sea is much higher than that of the Mediterranean. What's more, the Mediterranean has a unique Mediterranean climate, which makes the climate on the north and south sides of the sea area similar, and the temperature and nutrients of the sea water are also unified in a wide range of areas.

The situation in the Baltic Sea is different, especially in summer, there is a big hydrological gap between the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia and the southernmost Pan-Danish Strait.

If you can choose, the herring school likes to run to warm waters the most.

In the midsummer season, the seawater of the Gulf of Bothnia, where the Ross people are home, is only 10c, the warmer Gulf of Finland waters rises to 15c, while the Danish Strait waters have exceeded 20c. Such high hydrology is naturally due to the warm white Atlantic current and the solar angle. A large amount of nutrients from the Atlantic Ocean are poured directly into the Baltic Sea along the strait, creating an eutrophic zone in the entire Danish Strait.

Although the various Viking tribes don't quite understand the reason, they live by fishing. Through years of experience, they also know that sea area and when is a good time to fish.

The West Baltic Sea has the most abundant fishery resources in the entire sea. Giant herrings as long as men's forearms can be caught there, and beluga whales, minke whales and a large number of seals can be hunted there.

The Danes who lived as a guest revealed the news, and the people of the Duchy of Russ began to imagine major possibilities.

Rurik's determination is undoubtedly to follow the idea of "expanding the fishery economic zone".

Bornholm Island happens to be in this rich fishing area. The Ross people had no chance to plunder before, but now there is a chance.

The military meeting was over, and Rurik gave an order and led everyone to prepare separately.

Arik's task is to assemble the First Banner Team. Although the soldiers have been scattered to fish, they should now try to gather three hundred people as much as possible.

The Slavic flag team should also be mobilized, and at least two hundred men who are extremely difficult to get seasick must be selected to board the ship.

All the boys in the young men of the Sixth Flag team suspended their schooling, took up arms and all joined the action, so that nearly two hundred people could be added.

One hundred people from the prince's guard were selected to participate in the operation.

As for the remaining 300 people gap, the problem is better solved by recruiting fighters from the surrendered tribes, such as the Vips and Ludi. The two groups have a larger composition, but Rurik thinks it over. , A group of fresh troops came from the Suomi people.

The so-called one thousand people of Rurik are only one thousand people of the Duchy of Ross. Ragnar will naturally bring his brothers and allies together. That is their own business, and how many troops they send is also Ragnar. Own meaning.

The expedition mobilization order was issued, and the army began to gather!

Regarding who the war is against, the purpose of the war, and the way the war is conducted, all are issued in the form of paper documents.

The villagers around Ilmen Lake knew about the war, but the war had nothing to do with them. If anyone starts to worry, there is nothing more worrying than the owners of the manor. They sent their youngest son out to be a cavalry for the Kingdom of Rus. In winter, the cavalry attacked the dilapidated Karelian remnants. It was not a big problem, but the new war was clearly a battle between the Principality and another group of Varangans. This is clearly a civil war of the Varangans! It's a duel of the strong! Wouldn't it be as if your own cub went to join in the fun?

Can the cavalry still run at sea? Didn't those war horses unload their saddles to breed ponies?

The conscription order issued by Rurik does involve the young sons of the manor who became cavalry. All the cavalry will participate in the battle in the form of infantry, including ten Pechenegs. The precious cavalry is extremely precious even if they dismount to fight, and they are all regarded as the actual support of the archers.

The prince also ordered that the army should complete the strategic assembly on Tombstone Island, and the assembly must be completed within the first three days of July.

The order came suddenly, and the messenger Xingzhou also headed to the direction of Roseburg's hometown as quickly as possible, and could not bring the northern troops over at the appointed time. The essence of the principality has been moved to the east for several years, and all the forces mobilized by Rurik are from the east.

According to his vision, the Russian Army and the Danish Allied Forces, together with professional sailors who manipulate ships, will have a total of 1,400 people, and they will be divided into as many as 36 large ships. It seems a waste of space.

In fact, it is not the case. Twenty standard armed cargo ships each carry a huge trawl net, and the people on them are also a handful of fishermen. In the early years, Lulik signed fishing agreements with some tribesmen. They rented the boats of the princes to fish and became a special kind of tenant farmers. Now the broken fishing boats are replaced by standard cargo ships/fishing boats. The number of broken ships is 20, and the new ships are still 20. They changed their shotguns, and now they must fulfill their contract to go down to the southern waters to fish under the **** of the battleship. A fishing boat is controlled by a family, and as long as some soldiers are added, it is a good combat unit.

Most of the fighters had to stay on the sixteen warships, and some of them stayed on the armed cargo ships with bows and arrows.

The big boats staying at Lake Ilmen followed the rushing Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga, then into the Neva River, and gathered at the berth at the mouth of the sea.

The date of the expedition was quite close to that of the summer priests. So Liurik set the 28th day of the summer ceremony as the departure date.

But a strange situation happened that made him speechless!

An imposing big shark cruises the ocean, and often follows a group of Indian fish to take advantage of the fun.

Regarding the fact that the expedition to Bornholm Island was actually a force to deter them from surrendering, this incident has been posted on the bulletin board of Harvest Square along with public documents. The people of Shilla Fort knew the king's decision. There are so many smart people in this city. An opportunity to go fishing in the southwestern waters is in front of us. How can we not take advantage of it?

In the Viking society, fish and wheat are staple foods. Most of the coastal tribes do not have the ability to produce wheat, and their lives are basically tied to fishing. Shilla Fort has attracted people from all walks of life to trade here, and the population expansion has also given birth to various industries.

More than the official large shipyards, because only in densely populated areas can there be more orders. The shipbuilders from Mlaren and Old Ross are not idle, although their skills are still in the traditional long rowing boats. The same harvest orders. Because it is not only locals who order, but also Suomi people in Finland.

Nowadays, the fishing boats of the entire Gulf of Finland are flying the flag of Ross. The Finns, who were once incapable and cautious, are now fishing in the ocean.

A group of wealthy people in Finland began to upgrade their boats, and the canoes were replaced by long Viking boats, which also detonated their crazier fishing ambitions. Jevlo, the naturally canonized ruler of Finland, can also organize a very traditional Viking fleet, just like the most traditional Vikings to achieve sea life. If there is a group of people whose ships are like long Viking ships, dressed like Vikings, weapons are like Vikings, and their language can also speak Norse, then they are Vikings. Now Jeflo can organize such a team, they are a group of "short, black hair" Vikings.

Even if the seawater in the Gulf of Finland is low in salinity, the cost of salt production is indeed high. It is natural that the Balmerks of Narvik Port who want to sell salt to make money are simply unable to compete with the Balmerks of Narvik who want to transport good salt. If the salt is made for personal use, the situation is completely different.

Salt is a kind of just need, not only people want to eat salt, but also because it is the most cost-effective medium for keeping meat fresh.

People have reached a consensus that the Southwest Baltic Sea has the best fishery resources in the entire sea area. It is rumored that the total amount of herring there is ten times or twenty times that of the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia, which is several times stronger than the waters of Gotland. It seems that as long as you rush to the Danish waters to fish for fish, you will inevitably have a bumper harvest. The biggest problem is how to get the fish back!

It is the end of June, although the temperature is pleasant, but the cold winter is not far away. Snow will fall in October in the earliest Julian calendar. As long as there is the first snow, the remaining days will be getting colder day by day. Then when the great ritual in midsummer is over, the wise family has to make salted fish to intervene in preparation for the winter. Although the Principality now has plenty of food and supplies, it is really foolish to base its survival entirely on eating wheat!

Smart people have to prepare with both hands, because a large number of people do not have fields in their hands, and it feels unreliable to buy food through money. Only the skill of fishing is firmly in their own hands.

Rurik was in Fort Shilla, watching the construction of the third-floor palace started, his mood was extremely comfortable.

Since a large number of people are ready to move, they want to bring their own dry food, weapons, and ships to march with the army, or to follow the army's unnecessary search of Danish fishing grounds, why do you do anything to stop it? On the contrary, this is a great thing, as the prince Rurik publicly announced his strong support.

The salt in the entire Shilla Fort market has been bought clean, and Lurik himself is a big buyer.

While the Balmerks who transported the salt made a fortune, the locals who boiled the salt at a very high cost also expanded production, which in turn led to the local charcoal-burning kilns and clay-mania business.

But Rurik did not bring too much food on this trip, and it seemed that the expedition was uncharacteristic.

He has made up his mind. Since the expedition to force the surrender of Bornholm islanders to be deterred by force, the common people of the principality have developed into a "herring plundering movement", and the army should also follow the public opinion and mainly use abundant catches. For food.

A herring is pinched off the head and tail, and the internal organs are cut off. Herring's fine linn doesn't matter. Both men and women can put it into their mouths to chew and swallow. This is also the most traditional and purest way of eating herring by the Vikings.

What if there is not enough salt to marinate the fish?

As long as the fresh fish is processed, it can be dried directly by the sea breeze, or grilled into jerky by the campfire. As long as the dried fish becomes dry and hard and enters winter after the remaining three months, everything will be fine.

Rurik personally participated in the summer solstice ritual, and the fleet set sail on the same day.

Most of the main force of the Principality's fleet was assembled at the berth at the mouth of the Neva River, which was called Kronshtadport by Rurik. It is because there is a Kotlin Island in the depths of the bay, which makes the impact of high tide and low tide on Shilla Fort much less. Rurik was incapable of this. If he could, he would build a long and narrow breakwater along the trend of the sandbar, turning the berth into relatively still water. However, this project was not completed until 2019 on the other side.

Any coastal city has to face the problem of sea tide erosion. Fortunately, Fort Shilla is a short distance from the Neva River estuary, and there are also a number of sandbars as guards.

A large number of boats finished the day's fishing work and deliberately ran aground on the beaches of the Neva River, so as to avoid sea tide erosion perfectly. The fishermen then repaired their nets on the shore while repairing their boats.

Every day, there are always boats out fishing, and a group of boats are always repairing.

Now, the once lively river beach is suddenly deserted, but the mooring place for the big boats is very lively.

People from all walks of life are determined to take part in the excitement, and businessmen from all walks of life have their own ghosts.

In principle, everyone has never liked the Danes, and now this opportunity to plunder the catch should not be let go. Many people simply don't plan to really fish for fish. Since there are royal pirates, how can other brothers not be free pirates by themselves? Invade the Danish marine fish, and looting the ships that do not carry the flag of Russia, even if the Danes start to protect, the brothers still have the Principality fleet covered?

The flagship Aphrora has been repaired several times, and she has been to the warm Atlantic waters, so there are barnacles attached to the bottom of the ship. The barnacles were cleaned up, and the planks of the hull were partially replaced. She is already a hard-working veteran, and still wants to be a flagship, but it is no longer the most effective one.

Rurik was the flagship, and it seemed that he had bid farewell to his hometown elders, but a crowd of "elders" followed closely behind.

How many long rowing boats are there to follow? I'm afraid there are a hundred ships!

Standing on the stern deck, he did a visual inspection and a little count, feeling that this number should be broken by one hundred!

The fact is that as many as 1,500 people have brought their own boats into the group. Whether they bring fishing nets or simple fishing rods, they are going to looting in the Danish waters. These long rowing boats were all replaced with spinnakers, which became the most distinctive feature different from the Danish ships, and the blue flag of Rose on the masts was a straightforward identification.

On the surface, Rurik would take an expedition with an army of 1,400, but in reality there is a reserve army of 1,500 behind.

Is this all?

When this fleet entered the port of Helminki, and when Yevlo learned of the expedition, the new force from Finland was not only the 200 people led by Yevlo, but also four of the thirty long ships that followed. More than a hundred Finnish fishermen.

But when this mixed fleet entered Tombstone Island for supplies, it simply attracted a group of Swedes to join.

It was already the last day stipulated by Liurik, and the arrival of the mighty army shocked the merchants not knowing what had happened. When they learned that Prince Rus took the initiative to use force against the Danish waters, things became more subtle.

The merchants are not thinking about doing business, so it is better to maneuver the ship to try their luck in the southern waters following the pace of the Ross fleet.

Therefore, from the standpoint of the messenger and talker Swinder, his whole person collapsed. Maybe this is fate! The Ross people organized a huge fleet that he had never seen before, or five thousand people rushed to Bornholm.

The islanders have no resistance at all, and the number of people on the island is probably not as good as this fleet. If Prince Rose is willing, he can clearly kill the Danish king and cut off the head of the Danish king.

But Prince Rurik seemed to have no meaning in this regard.

The huge fleet has already headed to the south, the next destination-Saaremaa Island.

Now that things have become like this, Rurik feels that the group of old pirates on Saaremaa Island are also being idle, causing them to push their long ships into the sea, although there is not much to them, one less is not a lot, there is Forget this opportunity to join the group.

Suddenly a large fleet appeared on the Tombstone Island of the Rus. The Rus Principality almost rushed towards the Danish waters. Was this provoking a war against Denmark?

When the news reached the ears of King Bjorn of Sweden, the information had been seriously distorted.

He was a little annoyed that he was not the commander of this army, thinking about the relationship between each other's allies and sending troops, since they have gone south, the matter is fine.

In recent years, Tombstone Island has become more and more prosperous~www.mtlnovel.com~ The self-contained trade routes of the Ross people have overshadowed their own Port of Birka. Although the trading economy of Lake Mlaren is centered on the Port of Birka, the market scale is not comparable to that of Rossby.

Envy produces jealousy, and envy breeds hatred. An evil thought passed in his mind and was immediately rejected: "Maybe I can take advantage of their emptiness to attack? Oh! No! If I do this, other tribes will not help me. But the Ross people settled afterwards."

He had to give up anxiously and continue to live his peaceful life. But the Roths had to guard, because he could not guarantee that the increasingly powerful Roth would not have a keen interest in Sweden's control.

This problem is inherently tricky. The Ross people have always owned a tavern in Birka and sold ironware and other materials publicly. Every year, they used silver coins to buy supplies. Every year, there are rumors that some people have left the lake and immigrated to Ross.

However, the king of Bjorn was mixed as a leader. His power came from usurping the throne, and he was only recognized by other tribes.

It seems that he can only watch the huge Mlaren Lake being sucked away by the Ross Principality of wealth and population.

He was really helpless.