Chapter Twenty-Three: Night Walking

In the early morning glow, on the beach by the sea of the Navia Peninsula, one or two thousand strong Viking men were running forward on the soft sand under the unified command, although their speed was not fast, but the pace was very even, although the team was a little scattered when they ran, but each of them tried to keep a neat formation.

Evan also ran with the team, and half a month had passed since the hall meeting, and these days, while Evan was urging everyone to train, Toskelly contacted a few blacksmiths and handed them over to Leaf's father, Harriet, and everyone unified the processing of bow and crossbow accessories, and asked the boatman Albert to find some old men and women to make bows and arrows as soon as possible.

And the four Ole brothers! With a large group of age-appropriate teenagers and girls! In the eyes of this group of children, Evan is undoubtedly a charismatic lord, and he is very kind and humorous.

Evan also led everyone to take a day out to make simple training tools and make various obstacles according to the memories of their previous lives, which also made the people who participated in the training for the first time complain.

After Evan ordered to kill the first clansman who shouted to quit and not participate in the training, everyone really quickly devoted themselves to the training that had been arranged, and they did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

Although the training was hard and tiring, Evan always took the lead and always completed various tasks during training, which also made this group of unruly men slowly admire.

Let's be honest! With Evan's current status, he doesn't need to work so hard at all, he just needs to sit in a chair in the back like all the lords, eat fruit and drink oat wine, and command, but Evan just relies on his sixteen-year-old and not strong body to participate in all the training programs, and compare many strong men, which cannot but be admired by the clansmen.

This also made Evan slowly gain prestige in the hearts of the clansmen, but compared with Evan who was meticulous on the field and whipped people at every turn, the little lord off the field was kind, enlightened, and cute.

He could sit down and chat with any of his people, even slaves, with a glass of oat wine, with a piece of bread, and from time to time he would sit cordially in the ground and tell stories of heroes he had never heard before.

The three heroes in the story worked hard all the way to protect the little master, they were so powerful, and the devil they faced was also more powerful than the other, but in the end they still won again and again, and the people who listened to these stories were full of blood, and everyone couldn't help but fantasize about becoming such heroes.

The clansmen never imagined that one day the lord would sit beside them so casually, drink and laugh with them, and tell so many stories that they did not know.

Those stories are full of unknown philosophies and knowledge, and the young Evan is always so intelligent, as if he has the whole heaven and earth in his head, from the earth to the blue sky, from the sea to the strange continent, as if he does not understand, every time people listen to the heart, blood boiling.

This also made them feel that Evan was very kind, like their own children, and their minds were unconsciously attracted by Evan's charm, hoping to protect and obey the young leader.

In fact, Evan himself was extremely anxious, he knew in Skelli that Ramqvist was a very powerful lord, and his people were more than twice as many as him.

Now that Ramqvist has died in the hands of Linda, in front of countless people on his own turf, Ramqvist's family and children will definitely take revenge, the Vikings have always believed in blood debt and blood payment, and only death can quell this upcoming war.

Although Linda betrayed him, not to mention whether handing over her could calm the other party's anger, but let him hand over Linda, he was unwilling, maybe it was the man's self-esteem, maybe it was Linda who he had always loved, anyway, no matter what the reason, he wouldn't hand it over, and he didn't even think about it.

Don't say it's Linda, even if it's for this kind of thing, you can't hand over any clansman even a slave, that will lose people's hearts, and make everyone feel that their leader is cowardly.

Now that these people are his own people, he has the duty to protect them, for his own safety, he is afraid of the other party's power, he is afraid of war and death, and he is afraid of the other party's revenge and betrays his people, such a thing Evan has never thought about from the bottom of his heart.

Whether in his previous life or in this life, he has the responsibility he should have as a man, since he has done it, he dares to bear any consequences, and since he has done it, he will not regret it, even if he faces death.

But he won't give up on himself and give up his efforts, what if the rabbit is in a hurry and bites? Not to mention Evan, who has not weak combat power.

Therefore, he now urgently needs to integrate the team, and spare no effort to build a good relationship with everyone, and use both soft and hard to make everyone surrender to him as soon as possible, so that when the enemy arrives, he can obey the order and give a head-on attack.

It's not that he didn't think about it, while the other party hadn't reacted yet, he would sneak attack the other party and give him a heavy blow, but! First of all, he has just taken over as the new leader, and he is afraid that he will not be able to serve the public at a young age, so if the clansmen who go out to fight do not contribute to their work, is it not that he died too unjustly?

And again! There are several other lords between them and Ramqvist's territory, so it is easy to cause new troubles if they rush to send troops, and it doesn't matter if you have no dealings with them.

In case Ramqvist's heir contacts other lords to form an alliance, then he will bring as many people as he wants, and Evan will not do this kind of stupid thing.

Now for the time being, Evan has not thought of other ways to live a good life, he can only improve his own strength as soon as possible, and then get everyone's recognition and respect as soon as possible, which is also the purpose of Evan to walk around his own people and build a good relationship no matter how hard and tired he is every day.

The men and teenagers in the clan have greatly improved their physical strength and reflexes after these days of training, and when they feel the changes in their bodies for the first time, they can't help but be extremely excited.

They knew that such a change in the Dao could increase their chances of surviving the battle countless times over, which also made them more conscious and serious in their subsequent training.

And almost half of them are now equipped with more simple and practical bows and crossbows, this new lightweight long-range weapon, which can save more physical strength when used, which also makes them love this light weapon abnormally.

The remaining half of the stronger Vikings were specially selected, and they were assigned a larger bow and arrow, which is also Evan's latest idea, he combined the memories of his previous life to make this long-range lethal weapon, which was once popular in Europe [English Longbow].

This longbow was about five feet long, each carrying twenty-four arrows, and the range was even longer, about three hundred to three hundred and sixty meters, and after a long period of training in strength and accuracy, because the Vikings lived in harsh conditions from an early age, they were strong and tall, and they were explosive, and a good archer could shoot twelve arrows a minute, and the worst could shoot eight.

Looking at these Vikings holding up the English longbow, one can imagine the scene of a thousand longbows on the battlefield and shooting arrows at the same time, it will be unstoppable.

If 10,000 such archers, after a volley, it is not impossible to defeat any lord of the Navia Peninsula, or even the king's army.

Thinking about the sight of Vikings with English longbows sweeping across the British Peninsula, Evan felt both happy and expectant.

The time came to autumn in training and waiting, and Ramqvist's successor did not move as if he was dead, which made Evan extremely anxious, and there was no news of any troops sent out by the outpost.

The most embarrassed Kelly didn't know where to get the news, because Ramqvist died too suddenly, and there was no heir designated, so his older sons did not obey each other, and they quarreled, and now they are busy robbing the people and property, and attacking each other, and there is no time to send troops for the time being.

After getting such news, it doesn't make Evan feel at ease, he doesn't want to sit still again, he doesn't want to taste the pain brought to his family by hesitation and luck again, so he is thinking of a way all the time, hoping that it is best to end this cancer once and for all.

While he was just thinking a little, the day of training was coming to an end, for it was now the harvest season of the fields, and the "men", who were the main laborers in their respective households, were about to return home to prepare food for the winter.

This is also a part that cannot be reduced under the laws of nature, and the phrase "people take food as the sky" is equally practical everywhere in any era.

Therefore, although everyone was reluctant to give up, but in order for their families to survive the long winter smoothly and not to freeze and starve to death, everyone had to temporarily disperse again again, so that after preparing food and firewood for their families, they would return here again to determine the route of this year's raid or get the latest instructions.

Late at night on the day of the end of the training, a group of more than 30 people led the tall horses, quietly left the tribe, and rode away to the north of the Navia Peninsula not far from the dense area of the tribe.

Each of them was wearing a simple armor made of leather armor, carrying a long sword around his waist, and a strange weapon was inserted in the place where the short axe was originally inserted in the back waist, that is, Evan specially equipped each of the more than 30 people with a "**".

Evan rode in front, he was flanked by the Oller brothers, Olaf was not in the team, Evan needed him to stay and take care of the territory, in fact, to put it bluntly, he just didn't want him to continue the adventure. Deliberately made an excuse, but fortunately, he did just take over the territory, and many things are inseparable from people, otherwise! It's really hard to keep Olaf, who is known for his bravery.

[Everyone, I'm very sorry, because my father at home is unwell, and the update time of the recent daily update can not be determined, which has caused you the trouble, and I apologize to you here, please understand! ] With my father's health improving, I will definitely break out, thank you for your continued support, and thank you for all the products. 】