Chapter 027: The Sea
On the islands where the "Tooth Hunters" are stationed, the people of the tribe still live a routine life. There are so many archipelagos in the Black Sea www.biquge.info that the tribes will not settle permanently on one island. After all, the resources on the island are limited, and they are not enough to spend the entire tribe. So, once the resources on an island are depleted, they will board a longship and go in search of the next island, or the next prey. This is also the origin of the traditional Nord house, the ship-shaped longhouse. Their entire house was built on an upside-down longship, which would turn into a fishing boat or even a warship if needed.
The island occupied by the "Tooth Hunter" is not small, and there is a small hill in the middle, which makes the island quite rich in resources, and even more rare, there are valuable metal veins. It is also for this reason that the "Tooth Hunter" tribe has been living in this garrison for a long time, which is why Nodi can quickly determine the location of the garrison
Just off the coast of the island, a family of three is rowing a small boat, dragging fishing nets, cruising leisurely on the waves, where the fish are quite abundant, and this casual net can make their boat full of salted fish. An old man with gray hair struggles to pull the net, while his wife and his little grandson slowly swing the oars. After his son was married, he took his daughter-in-law and divided the family, and now he should row that little boat and follow Yar's fleet and go out on his own.
This is also one of the Nord traditions, every man will build a longboat with his own hands before starting a family, and this longship will accompany the man for the rest of his life. After getting married, it will serve as a love nest for himself and his wife in the future, and spend a good night together. When the child is born, it can serve as a warm cradle, and after he has completely lost his strength, he will also lie in this boat, slowly drifting to the place where he is buried, and at this time, if his wife is still there, he will generally be with him, ten fingers interlocked, while recalling the past of the two, while slowly falling into eternal sleep.
The longship may be the only romance of the fierce Nords.
In recent times, young men and women have been on the battlefield with frequent wars, and their offspring, who have no power to protect themselves, are left to be raised by the elders who remain behind, and at the same time teach the Nords all the skills they need.
The old man asked the little grandson to look at it with wide eyes, and then he screamed, and pulled his hands hard, and the water surface suddenly splashed one by one, and then, the strong fishing net entangled with the lively fish and shrimp was pulled onto the boat by the old man. The seafood shaken off the net covered the bottom of the boat, and the little grandson cheered excitedly.
The old man puffed out his muscles proudly, then squatted down, humming an old ballad while untying the fish and shrimp from the net, and it was no surprise that today was another bumper harvest. To be honest, every day I can catch endless seafood, firewood, and clothing, and from time to time, the parents of the children will bring back a lot of trophies. To be honest, there is really nothing to complain about these days. Apart from... He glanced at his little grandson, who was rowing happily, and couldn't help sighing, except that this kid was a little soft, and he didn't look like a Nord at all. However, he is not worried at all, when the child grows up a little more and can handle the axe, as long as he gets on the longship, the cowardly sissy will also be trained to be a tough guy of steel. The old man was busy when he suddenly heard the little grandson shouting, "Grandpa, boat!"
The old man raised his head, and sure enough, a dense shadow of sails appeared in the fog on the sea level, and it seemed that it was a large fleet.
"Ha, it seems that your parents are back," the old man touched his grandson's head and said with a smile, "Let's go, let's see what good things they bring back!"
"Okay!" The grandson immediately became excited, and his rowing hand couldn't help but be a little faster, provoking the grandmother in the back to keep shouting to slow down! Indeed, they never thought that anyone would dare to seek the bad luck of the powerful "Tooth Hunter" tribe.
As the two sides got closer, the old man's face turned pale in an instant. The opposite flotilla had the marks of three clans, but none of them were "hunting fangs". With such a huge fleet and heavily armed warships, it is self-evident what they want to do at their doorstep.
He slapped his grandson on the head who was still rowing excitedly, and regardless of the grievances of the little grandson, he shouted loudly, "Turn around quickly, run away!"
However, it was too late, the fleet quickly approached, and then, from the longship, a rain of secret arrows was sprinkled. The old man who was standing was the first to be hit by the arrow, and fell backwards with a scream, while the old woman, with a cry of sorrow, rushed forward, pressed the little grandson under him, and then snorted a few times and never moved again. The little grandson was completely frightened and stupid, and only shrunk into a ball in his grandmother's arms, shivering.
I don't know how long later, grandma's body was removed, and the bright light sprinkled into his eyes again, he opened his eyes tremblingly, but saw a hideous big face, he just wanted to scream, but his throat was choked, and then he was picked up like a chicken. He suddenly felt a suffocation, and his whole body twitched aimlessly in fear.
"Hey, boss, I found a little cub!" the man laughed.
"MD, hurry up and deal with it, do you still want to catch him back and raise him?"
"Yes, yes!"
Poof, the little grandson was slammed on the board, his consciousness was in a trance, and when his vision was clear again, he saw the man wielding a big axe and slashing it down. This time, the scream in his throat finally broke out, but after a click, the screaming stopped abruptly, and the sea breeze, with the smell of blood and stench, fell on the man's face.
"Cut, that's a bad deal. The man covered his nose and picked one of the fish that had just been caught that was still bouncing, ignoring the blood stuck to it, and bit it down.
The raid was so successful that Noddy sent a small fleet of ships to lure the flotilla guarding the vicinity of the garrison out to sea, and then, with the help of the morning fog before the rising sun, quickly surrounded and annihilated it. Then, before the people on the island could react, they quickly landed on the shore and killed the camp of "Tooth Hunter". The war has been going well until here. The old and weak women and children in the village were simply vulnerable to unpreparedness, and although they picked up their long-idle weapons and tried their best to resist, they could not gather their combat strength at all, and they were divided and surrounded and annihilated one by one.
Nordi walked slowly through the village, his axe still waving, but he was at a loss. Along the way, seeing their people looting and burning the house in a hurry, and even a few soldiers were stripping a screaming big-bellied woman, the originally high fighting spirit suddenly shook a little. Before he decided to go into the sea business, it was a normal scene, and sometimes he would be involved in it, laughing with the looted treasure and slashing the original owner with an axe, he would look at the burning house and laugh and add another fire, and he would hold the struggling woman and laugh, and enjoy the desperate and painful groan before his men did it. But since when did he get tired of it?
Plop, plop, two crashes sounded behind him, and he quickly turned around, only to see two corpses holding weapons staring at him staring at him, and behind them, there were two throwing axes.
Garbit climbed over a low fence and walked up to him, then stepped on the corpse, pulled out the axe one in each hand, and then smiled teasingly at Nordy, "Boy, you're stepping back. ”
Nordi smiled bitterly and laughed at herself, "yes, it's been too long since the good days." ”
Chillclaw's Yar laughed twice, turned around, and ran to the next battlefield again. Nordi shook his head helplessly, tsk, this is the Nord people, sure enough, I slack. Then, without hesitation, he rushed to another stalemate warband.
The invasion should have gone well, but they unfortunately missed one point, and that was the vein. Mining and forging were too old and weak to do, so some of the people who were beginning to weaken but were still able to do it were sent here by Yar to take charge of mining and crafting weapons for young people. In general, there are still a large number of veterans with actual combat experience hidden in the deep tunnels, and the news of the attack on the settlement naturally spread over there quickly.
Hearing that someone was coming to trouble their tribe, how could these veterans who had not yet been cold still endure it? So they grabbed the weapons they had just built, and even the shovels and T-shaped pickaxes used for mining rushed out of the mine.
The soldiers of the coalition army were scattered all over the village, and they were elated to rob, and a group of strong men with weapons suddenly appeared in front of them, and they were also startled, but the ferocity of the Nords quickly stimulated them to rush up and slash, but how could the scattered five fingers compete with the clenched fists, these scattered guys were outnumbered and quickly cut down. However, the soldiers of the coalition army were not vegetarians, they were also men who had crawled and fought on the battlefield, so they quickly spontaneously formed a group at several large intersections to resist the attacks of these miners and blacksmiths, and the two sides soon got together.
Anyway, to put it bluntly, the tribal warriors are actually mobs who wander the sea, not the regular army of the Nord Kingdom, so their armor rate can only be described as regretful. In this way, the sharp axe can easily split the skull of the enemy, severing the limbs of the enemy, and making the duel even more bloody.
After a while of blood and severed limbs, the miners finally couldn't hold on. Although they have rich combat experience, the soldiers of the coalition army are not the first brother to go to the battlefield, although the battlefield was once stale, but slowly, the balance of victory is still tilted towards the coalition army.
Experienced miners were aware of this, so they retreated with the help of buildings and various obstacles. The miners in the rear even demolished the houses and used the longship as a roof in the middle of the road as a cover, while the warriors in front quickly flipped over the longboat to avoid the arrows and axes of the pursuers.
It was a very effective move, and although the bunker was rudimentary, it did save some defeats. As more and more miners joined the battle with large quantities of freshly baked throwing axes and arrowheads, the coalition offensive was gradually curtailed. Several of the Jarrs noticed this, but even when Skoll himself led the charge, he was driven back by a large number of throwing axes and arrows. Alan also organized a group of death squads to outflank them from the flanks and rear, but the miners were also on guard, so these death squads really died.
The original good raid turned into a tug-of-war, which made the morale of the coalition soldiers a little low, but the Yars didn't care, anyway, their main purpose was not to take down this settlement, and it was just right to take advantage of the time to move the looted materials onto the ship first, and the right should be compensated, so as not to steal chickens and lose rice when they can't get it.
Sure enough, before it was dark, a low horn came from the side of the coalition ship. Several Yar frowned, worthy of "tooth hunting", and the reaction was really fast.
Yarsibelius was incredulous when he first received the news that his garrison had been attacked, and he could not imagine that attention had been paid to him, but soon this disbelief turned into anger, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered the whole army to turn around, leaving only a few light longships symbolically following the Svadian fleet to make his position clear.
He wants to remind those fools who have forgotten the power of "tooth hunting" to recall the horror of being slaughtered.
When he returned to his camp, he smiled contemptuously, there were many ships in the offshore waters, but they were all in a heap, some of them had not even finished boarding, and the fleeing warriors were being hunted down by their angry people.
Hmph, a rabble.
"Flotilla, another flotilla is coming!" Sibelius turned around with a frown, and sure enough, two more large flotillas appeared on the surface of the sea, rushing straight behind them.
"Hmph, I see, I see!" Sibelius sneered, "'Shark', 'Blood', 'Frost Swallow', 'Chillclaw', and 'White Gull', very good, very good. He then ordered "to attack the enemy forces in front of you with all your might, and kill them all before 'Shark' and 'Blood' rush over." ”
"Wow!"
The warships frantically charged the sea, and sure enough, the three chaotic troops were simply vulnerable, the whole fleet completely lost its control, and all the ships scattered and fled, unable to organize effective resistance at all, and quickly dispersed. Behind them, "Crazy Shark" and "Bloody" didn't expect their allies to be defeated so quickly, so they turned around and prepared to flee the battlefield. However, how could the arrogant "Tooth Hunter" let go of Wang 8dan, who offended him?
Sibelius naturally won't, looking at the ship with his head scurrying, he sneered, and ordered, "Leave those cowards who escaped, turn around, and kill the two things that don't know whether they are alive or dead." ”