Chapter 487 From Fort Elrond to Camp Fiskole to Lake Saibolava
The Ross hunters all enjoyed being served like masters. Most of them rested for a whole day. Although they had sex with local women, they felt stronger.
Ross has formed an alliance with Balmok. Most people are very unfamiliar with this tribe in the Western Harbor. They seem to have 20,000 tribes. Every man has the dream of conquering the endless sea (Atlantic Ocean). They should not be underestimated.
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Rurik came with a strong purpose, and he didn't need to worry too much about the follow-up matters.
Mechasta accepted the task, and he arranged for some manpower to carry out mining in the winter. The furnaces of the blacksmith workshop in Ironburg were completely managed by Kawei and Kamne, and ferrochrome was still being produced.
Rurik's eyes were fixed on the north, which was the winter pasture of the deer herders, the land of bears and the land of giant trees.
Rurik only knew the macro-geographical outline of Northern Europe, but he did not know the precise location of the mineral resources.
He is an explorer who knows only a little bit, and other tribesmen simply don't know.
Heading north to hunt for precious furs comes with great risks, and the cold is more terrifying than polar bears.
It is said that the Russians or other Vikings were not afraid of the severe cold and dared to run shirtless in the snow. Only a few crazy people dared to do this.
Which of the hunters under Rurik's command is not fully armed? They all wear very thick clothes and the weapons in their hands are also very sophisticated.
He still took Seborava with him, and the two of them sat in a warm and wind-proof sleigh, carrying a heavy weapon such as a torsion slingshot. In the "reindeer army" driven by three hundred hunters, Balmok explorers, and even deer herders,
Rushing toward a very specific place.
Ironburgh is a key base in the north and is expected to develop into a prosperous city.
It’s just that Rurik considered the new situation, and Ironburg can no longer be regarded as a frontier fortress. He needs to build a further northern stronghold for winter hunting, and this stronghold must be operated year-round, thinking that it is destined to prosper in the future with new allies.
trade routes, providing a safe and reliable stop.
It must be in the north, it must be adjacent to a river, and preferably it must be self-reliant.
Rurik did not have to build a new stronghold because the Russians had already established it.
He didn't have anything to worry about. The army was advancing rapidly along the frozen river, and its destination was the lake upstream.
The Erlon River (Kemi River) originates from the Murmansk Platform. It flows into a soothing land where many rivers converge. Especially a very crucial one, which comes from the central mountains of Scandinavia.
In the north, the specific source is a mountain lake, and under the mountain to the west of the lake is the huge Narvik Fjord where the Balmok tribe is located.
The confluence of the rivers forms a lake, which is the habitat of a variety of cold-water fish and the spawning ground of many salmon populations.
In another era, a Finnish city called Rovaniemi was founded here? Now the Russians conquered it and established seasonal settlements.
Rurik decided to make it permanent. The so-called fishing in summer and hunting of animals in winter? It will serve as a station to welcome guests all year round.
Her destiny is Fiscolle Castle? Also known as Fisherman's Bastion, Rurik decided to name it permanently.
The destination of the hunting army? Fort Fiscolle! Forward!
The deer herders drove the deer back and forth, and only the deer pulling the sled moved forward faster.
More than three hundred people crowded into forty sleighs? They brought a batch of food and construction tools? They were very confident in building a solid winter, but the area they were traveling in was quite unfamiliar to everyone.
A sleigh was pulled by only two reindeer. Thanks to the smoothness of the glacier, Rurik did not feel that the reindeer were too tired. People continued to move forward under the cover of night for a while. When they were really tired, they camped in the snow beside the glacier.
How far is Fiscolle?
Rurik counted the time? They and his party were dawdling on the road for two whole days. They set off early in the morning, and it was not until the evening of the third day that people finally realized that the world ahead was smooth.
The soft light of the setting sun illuminates the magnificent sunset, and the frozen lake is also covered with glow.
Seeing such a scene, Rurik was also intoxicated by its beauty.
"The world of ice and snow is really beautiful? It's just too cold." An unknown force urged him to jump off the sled. Rurik stood on the thick ice and shouted an order: "Find our summer camp? Camp there!"
The fishing camp built in the summer was right next to the lake. Rurik looked around. Without bothering his men to search, he quickly discovered those wooden buildings.
The team soon set off to its final destination. Some people who had fished here in the summer had returned. They could not recognize the group of wooden houses covered with thick snow for a while.
Look at all this.
Rurik pinched his waist and was delighted with the struggle of his tribe: "How wonderful? I thought we would build a lot of houses, but I didn't expect it! It seems that I only need to build a wooden fence to protect the wind?"
Biyongni stepped forward: "I have been here before, and this is where I met your people."
"Oh?" Rurik slapped his forehead: "I remembered, you said this. What do you think of this place now?"
Biyongni shrugged: "There is too much snow. If it is cleaned, it can still be habitable. The house is simple, so we can build it immediately. At least it should be a stable camp. I don't want to sleep outside."
"That's fine. We'll start logging now, and then the brothers will disperse and hunt freely."
"Free hunting?" Biyongni was startled: "I thought your army was going to cooperate in hunting. Bears cannot be killed by one person. Could it be..."
Rurik laughed confidently: "My people like to hunt freely. If you encounter a bear, kill it or be killed by it. Real warriors are not afraid of the cold and wild beasts. If you die, it will be your fate."
.You should understand that the bravest warriors need this kind of experience."
Biyoni had nothing to say. He still felt that Rurik was reckless in letting his tribe go, because bears were dangerous.
Rurik had just settled down and even had a few words with Biyoni, when the crisis suddenly came.
In the wild world, danger always occurs suddenly.
Some hunters saw strange scratches on the wood of the old camp. They instinctively became vigilant and drew out their swords or picked up their crossbows with arrows.
There seemed to be a monster hidden in the ajar wooden door. Many hunters walked cautiously and opened the wooden door to see the monster nesting inside.
The monster began to roar, then rushed out with a roar, and finally its huge figure was exposed in the sunset.
Many hunters were knocked down, but thanks to the protection of their very thick leather jackets and the snow in the surrounding world, everyone managed to save their lives. They got up, picked up their swords, and started to fight the monsters.
More hunters took action, and hundreds of pairs of eyes saw it. A brown bear that had stolen a camp house to hibernate rushed out. More than a dozen hunters poked the bear with their spears, which were used as marching staffs. The bear was wailing in pain.
After struggling wildly, the Ross hunters did not dare to attack rashly anymore. They had a more reliable way to kill the bear.
The hunters in the team who were in charge of the deadly steel-arm crossbow used all their strength to string it up, then installed a cone-headed armor-piercing arrow, and shot the bear in the head at close range. Isn’t the bear’s skull an iron plate? The arrow was inserted into the bear’s forehead.
, the giant beast dies...
Such a crazy bear hunting scene was clearly seen by Biyongni.
He focused on the Ross Hunter's last attack, and was immediately stunned: "That crossbow of yours, actually..."
"How's it going?" Rurik's heart was beating wildly. He knew that the threat would be lifted in an instant, but he couldn't control his trembling at all. He tried his best to cover up his nervousness with a smile: "This is how we hunt bears, with the crossbow on
You can hunt bears, you can kill squirrels."
"It was killed by you like this? It's amazing. Rurik!" Biyongni slapped Rurik on the shoulder directly: "My brother, I ask you to give our tribe some crossbows. Oh no, we
I'm willing to give salt in exchange."
Do you want to send weapons to new allies? Rurik couldn't answer at the moment.
He simply remained silent, seeing Biyongni's understanding and not asking any more questions. The Russian crossbow had completely changed Biyongni's understanding of bows and arrows. In the harbor of his hometown, the tribesmen knew how to make bows and arrows, but the power of the hunter's bow was limited.
Generally, it can hunt wild deer at most. Otherwise, don't try to hunt bears.
Many of the people who were knocked down by the bear had their mouths broken. They were slapped by the tribesmen and praised, "God protects you and is safe."
Unexpectedly, the bear hunting operation started like this. The first bear killed was actually a brown bear. It seems that in this frozen world, there must be a number of caves hiding bears in the hidden corners of the forest.
The leather of brown bears is not as valuable as that of polar bears, as the former hibernates and the latter wanders around.
In this era, polar bears wandering on land would even use ambushes to hunt wandering reindeer. As for hunting seals on the ice cap of the Arctic Ocean, it was another option. The world the Russians entered was no different from a no-man's land.
, a group of deer herders who still live freely in the vast world, and they cannot have any impact on the ecology of this world.
The Russians are very sure that polar bears still roam this area. Now everyone has a new option - to find caves and shoot hibernating brown bears.
Bear bile seems to make a man more virile, but Rurik doesn't believe it at all. Some hunters are interested in the internal organs of brown bears, especially the liver. As for the bear meat, it is naturally shared by everyone, and everyone gets a piece of bear meat.
, everyone roasted it and ate it as the beginning of the hunting party.
The Russians settled down in the old summer camp. Carrying axes and two-man saws, they cut down the surrounding pine forests and reinforced their houses with wood.
A house selected by Rurik was fortified and built, and in the future it would be a storage warehouse for bearskins or other leathers.
The construction work lasted for three days. In addition to taking care of the sleigh-pulling reindeer, more than 50 people who continued to build the fence stayed. The other 200 or so people dispersed around the Fiskole stronghold. The hunters spontaneously formed hunting teams.
, they mostly use relatives and friends as ties, usually in groups of ten, dragging makeshift small sleds and carrying important supplies and weapons to the depths of the pine forest.
Rurik is among them!
Perhaps the most noble leader of the Russian people should not have ventured into the unknown ice and snow to hunt bears. Considering the public opinion and the attention of the "Prince" of Balmok, he felt that he had to shoot a few bears himself to prove it to everyone.
At a young age, he already had the ability to fight on his own.
The daily life of the tribesmen lacks entertainment. Having sex with wives and concubines and fighting with brothers are probably the most interesting entertainment. As for the game of "grab the pottery urn" (the original rugby), it is no different from fighting. People need all kinds of interesting things.
News, everyone gathered together to chat. Rurik concluded that people would not care how he hunted the bear. They only looked at the results. It was enough that Lord Rurik personally shot the bear. Because in the tribe,
The group of "wild story kings" will spontaneously add fuel to the fire, add various buffs to their Lord Rurik, and describe him as a heroic warrior.
How does Rurik hunt bears? The torsion slingshot on the sled is his weapon!
He took Saibolava, together with more than a dozen elite mercenaries such as Yevro and thirteen Balmoks including Biyoni, to form a bear hunting team and rushed to the eastern world.
They moved along a glacier, and the world ahead was very unfamiliar to everyone.
Not necessarily. Rurik fully knew that continuing to the east was Murmansk, and maybe he would meet a new family of deer herders on the journey?
They kept moving, as if they were the only living creatures moving in the frozen world.
The ice and snow absorb too much sound, and the world is extremely quiet every night when camping. Therefore, people can only continue to light bonfires, firstly to keep warm, and secondly to avoid attacks by unknown monsters.
Rurik had been advancing on the frozen Ellon River, and his bear hunting team essentially became the first expedition to explore the source of the river.
A team of nearly thirty people and six reindeer, they walked on the ice for another three days. The polar bears were nowhere to be seen! The world was peaceful and extremely cold, and everything seemed like the realm of the legendary gods.
A new frozen lake area appeared.
Wrapped in the snow-capped pine forest, the huge world ahead is actually covered with ice? It’s as if this place should be a sea!
It's not a sea, it's a lake!
Biyoni and Floki, these two Balmoks saw such a spectacular lake for the first time, and then an inexplicable sense of fear spread throughout their bodies.
The group of people were stunned, and Biyongni was still frightened. He asked about Rurik: "Maybe the bear is not in this area, so we should change the route. The ice and snow world ahead is very dangerous. Look at this big lake, there may be ice and snow monsters hidden in it.
If we continue to move forward, we may fall into the icy water and be pulled down by monsters and eaten."
Rurik didn't feel scared at all. On the contrary, he didn't find even a bear's footprints along the way, which was really annoying.
"What? Are you afraid? The future leader of Balmok, a strong warrior, is actually afraid?"
Rurik's words were full of disdain, and Biyongni simply stopped complaining. He asked: "What do you want to do? Keep moving forward? If you can predict the general situation ahead, I am willing to fight."
"Keep going! I'll never go back without killing a bear."
Rurik spoke with his teeth bared, how could Yunyi question such firm words? He teased his younger brother: "Floki, look at how perseverant your brother Rurik is, you have to learn from him.
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"My attitude is to keep going." Floki also patted Rurik on the shoulder: "We are brothers, and we will naturally face any challenges together."
Is this a word of encouragement? Rurik didn't care at all, he was just holding his breath. After all, he was the commander-in-chief of the entire northern hunting operation, and the majority of Russian hunters had made Fort Fiskole their base or were heading north.
Or to the west, these directions are all areas that everyone has explored, and we all know what prey there is.
So what's ahead of you?
"Keep walking! There is no difficulty at all in front of you, but a frozen sea." Rurik continued to bar his teeth, and said surprisingly: "That's not right, maybe the sea is not completely frozen yet. Biyongni
, you know? When we see that sea, if we put down the ship and drift westward along the coastline, I am afraid it will only take seven days to reach your harbor."
"What? Is this true? Are you sure?" Biyongni confirmed again and again. Rurik was willing to wait again and again. He still felt that Rurik was talking in his sleep too much.
Floki raised his head, not questioning his brother at all: "I believe what Rurik said is right. I want to follow him to see the sea."
"Then let's go." Biyoni didn't want to have any more questions. He only asked about a very practical thing: "We discovered this huge lake, Rurik, give it a name."
"Name?" Rurik really didn't think too much. He suddenly pulled Saipolava, who was standing next to him and dressed thickly like a little bear, to him: "Name it after her, Lake Saipolava."
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But this lake is essentially Lake Kemi. It is indeed the upper reaches of the Airon River (Kemi River), but the actual source of the river is still in the north.
It is a high-altitude tundra swamp. Under the combined action of groundwater and melting ice from the hills, it has become a "water tower" in Northern Europe.
It was also here that the prey Rurik longed for finally appeared! It was not a bear, just a small group of wandering wild reindeer.
Crazy, Rurik rode a reindeer sleigh and approached the deer. The deer apparently saw a group of black things approaching them on the glacial lake. They just chewed grass roots and looked up, and then encountered
Fatal attack.
Rurik personally controlled the torsion slingshot, and the installed mechanical aiming mechanism adjusted the wooden ruler. It showed a fixed shooting angle, and a javelin flew. It flew nearly a hundred meters, crossed a beautiful parabola, and accurately hit the target.
Among the deer, a deer with big antlers was stabbed through the neck and nailed to the snow.
The rest of the herd thought of running away, but it was too late.
There were ten reindeer in total. Except for the three that escaped, the rest were killed by the Russians' long-range weapons.
Jevro put down the steel-armed crossbow and exhaled happily: "Master, you accurately shot a deer. You are an elite warrior."
"Stop talking nonsense, we have achieved results after walking for so many days." Rurik smiled happily: "Now we have key supplies, the deer was given to us by God. Yevro, take it with you
The brothers recovered the arrows, skinned the deer, cut up the meat and roasted it. We will camp here, rest for one night and continue walking tomorrow."
During the deer hunting, all the Balmoks were spectators. Biyoni was so shocked that he had nothing to say. Rurik was obviously still a child, but he easily hunted the deer with the strange "giant bow" mounted on the sled.
Success! Now Biyongni is very interested in the torque slingshot again.
As for Floki, this kid no longer cares about hunting bears and deer. He just wants to see a brand new sea and the magnificence of the so-called Arctic Ocean in this winter.