Rise of Rurik

Remember [new] in one second! The great battle was over, and the Russian army undoubtedly won the final victory.

Even if this victory comes somewhat unexpectedly.

"Prussians? That's it? You came to attack me with heavy troops. Are you really not prepared? Now you are easily annihilated by me."

Although he stood out on the front line, Rurik failed to assassinate an enemy in the end.

His warriors subconsciously protect their king, so they rush to the front line one by one. The shield walls they build are nested inside each other and are indestructible. In the end, they squeeze the enemy to death...

The Ross Cavalry rarely launched a group attack in the final stage. After beating the fleeing enemies to pieces, they then chased down the last lone person and killed them with metal.

There were shaking figures everywhere, and the soldiers were busy cleaning the battlefield. As usual, they dealt mercifully to enemies who were dying and vomiting blood, and they also looked for valuable trophies among the corpses.

Iron swords, hand axes, short spears, and all kinds of weapons were gathered up.

The well-informed warriors found that their weapons were better than those of their enemies. The rusty hand ax blades were not sharp, and the so-called iron swords also bent with one step. "Perhaps, our fathers twenty years ago would have regarded these things as treasures. Now we have better ones." Everyone felt a little regretful, and scrap metal was piled together into a hill.

Who would like a trophy like this?

Vahavanen and his men were busy firing arrows into the air during the fierce battle. People forgot how many rounds they had fired. Now the thumbs wearing the deer bone wrenches were numb, and both arms were aching.

They were ordered to recover the arrows, and these black-haired short men also got their favorite "scrap copper and iron" from the pile of corpses, even the rusty ones.

The axes they took back and remade would be very useful. After all, there is no need to pay for loot.

The orange light of the setting sun shone on the earth, and the nearby forest was rustled by the sea breeze. The sound of the wind masked people's calls, while the soldiers continued to wander around the huge battlefield. Some even pried open the mouths of the dead in an attempt to find gold teeth. .

Rurik found a clean area, gathered the weeds together to serve as a meadow, sat down on it, stuck the steel sword beside him, and quietly let the sunset illuminate his face orange.

After a while, Fisk returned with a mighty cavalry team.

The bald general immediately spotted the king whose blond hair had been illuminated orange.

He hurriedly dismounted, walked quickly holding the hilt of the sword, stood in front of Rurik and sat down gracefully with a slide.

"We won. Alas, it feels like winning is not very glorious." Fisk said with a smile.

"Maybe." Rurik nodded: "Now it seems that maybe you can wipe out these militiamen with the cavalry. They are so arrogant that they seek revenge on us without even wearing armor."

"However, there is no denying that they moved very quickly."

"I have to admit this. But, what's the use of pure happiness?" Sitting on the battlefield littered with corpses in the sunset, a sense of sadness poured into Rurik's heart: "The battle with Prussia has never occurred to me this year. in my imagination.”

"Things have already happened, and... we have killed thousands of them. King!" Fisk reminded.

"Any suggestions?"

"Yes. Maybe we can take advantage of the victory and pursue it. They must be moving fast because there is their village not far away. We can

Take advantage of the victory to pursue and plunder again. "

"No need." Fisk didn't expect Rurik's rejection to be so straightforward.

"Why?" The smile quickly turned into confusion. Fisk stretched his neck and sighed: "As long as you give me a little time, the cavalry can find their village. Even if they can't find gold or silver coins among these poor people with tattoos, , at least we can find some food. It is their autumn harvest now, and we can loot their granaries to fatten our horses."

"That's the truth. But I don't want to spend any more time here. The horses are tired now. Do you expect me to give you permission to launch a new operation now? Or allow you to go to the south for armed exploration tomorrow? Enough! We We will leave this time-wasting place. Originally we only planned to find a beach to make a temporary camp for the night and leave, but now it has consumed too much time. Listen! I want to go to Pomerania as early as possible and go to Hamburg as early as possible .”

Seeing Rurik's resolute attitude, Fisk lowered his head knowingly: "Okay! Okay... So when will we set off? Still according to the original plan?"

"Just follow the original plan. Set off tomorrow morning! Take away the valuable loot, and put the rest, especially all the dead bodies, here. And!" Rurik emphasized in particular: "Our temporary camp is at the Prussian The altar. It is obviously a big altar! When we set off, the last troops set fire to the camp. Anyway, we have killed thousands of them. I will only be able to deal with the Prussians with swords in the future. I don’t need to worry about anything. .”

"Your Majesty deserves to be a hero blessed by Odin! I am willing to

The king finally set fire to it. "Fisk flattered.

"Okay. Before that, we must hold a funeral for the soldiers who died in this battle tonight."

A great battle was over. Even though the Ross army had the upper hand, the two armies still turned into hand-to-hand combat in the final stage. A very small number of Ross warriors were hit by spears in their vital points and died.

More than ten people died in the battle, and more than fifty people were injured to varying degrees. The Ross army's armor and organization gave it an advantage, and such an extreme casualty ratio has become the norm for the army along the way.

However, it is difficult to burn the remains of soldiers to ashes in one night.

The bodies of the victims of the Tenth Flag Team in the previous battle were still burning in the pyre on the coast. When today's battle ended, the blackened skeletons were still burning with flames.

Fortunately, the priests who accompanied the army stayed at the camp. When the victims were brought back, they were simply buried at sea collectively according to another Nordic tradition.

A circle of wooden piles was erected on the coastal beach to serve as a temporary stone boat altar.

This night, Verica, Blackbird and other female priests put on plain white robes and held oil lamps in their hands to sing an elegy for the remains of the warriors placed in the altar.

Forget it, all the remains were placed on a long boat. A large amount of firewood was piled on the boat, and some grease to lubricate the weapon components was poured on it. After it was ignited, the boat was pushed into the ocean by the soldiers, letting it go deep into the Baltic Sea. Drift away.

In the end, some of the soldiers' hair, their corresponding belongings, and the iron nameplates that could prove their identity were placed in independent pottery urns, and after being sealed, they became pottery coffins. They will be placed together with the clay coffins of those who died in the previous battle. When the war is over,

Afterwards, he was placed in the cemetery of the capital city.

Thousands of people attended the funeral ceremony that night. The bonfires on the coast formed a bright belt. The soldiers watched the fire ship drifting into the distant sea until they disappeared without a trace.

"This is how they ended up. If I died in Frank, it would probably be the same. Not bad..."

Death in battle does not mean that everything is lost. Now the king treats his brothers who died prematurely in the battle. When Frank fights a powerful enemy, his body will not be exposed in the wilderness if he dies in battle. The remains are turned into ashes or sink into the sea, and some of them will always rest in the cemetery.

Even though everyone firmly believes that the warriors will immediately go to Valhalla after sacrificing their souls, the majority of Rus warriors are of Rus-Slavic mixed descent, and the young warriors are naturally influenced by the culture of their Slavic mother clan.

Buried deep underground into the underworld, there is the Slavic Pantheon deep underground, which is completely opposite to Asgard and Valhalla above the sky in Varyag's Nordic belief.

Who knows where the soul goes after death?

Only the priests will struggle with these illusions. The young warriors believe that Frank is a place containing huge wealth, and they should think more about how long the expedition will take.

In just half a day, the dead bodies stranded on the battlefield will begin to rot and stink. If they are left for another two days, they will turn gray-white, and the entire area will become stinky. Anyone who is exposed to it will be suffocated by the stench.

But for those scavengers, the smell of blood caused the animals to commotion. When they noticed that the powerful "two-legged things" had all left, wolves, foxes, bears, crows...all kinds of animals would join in.

A gluttonous feast before winter.

It was a calm night, and the soldiers who wanted to rest all day still exercised their muscles vigorously.

The infantry suffered some losses, but the cavalry remained unscathed.

Rurik had no intention of trying to capture the entire Sambia Peninsula immediately. Because he dismissed the "tongue grabbing" issue after the war, he didn't know that he had defeated the main forces of the two Prussian tribes on the peninsula, and he didn't know that there were others. A tribe named Kedenau is still grinding its way to the battlefield.

The Russian army did not have any form of pursuit of victory. Even if the cavalry left the battlefield and rushed south, they could historically destroy the Denarua tribe. Such a legendary Mindaugas family could be disintegrated from the roots.

However, the Teutonic Knights, together with the Dobzen Knights, jointly attacked Kdenau in 1228, thus establishing Königsberg.

The Dobzhen Knights were founded in the northern part of the Kingdom of Poland. They were named after the place where they were located. The location happened to be the place where the Polish and Prussian tribes clashed fiercely. Duke Conrad invited not only the Teutonic Knights mercenaries, but also In its territory, the city is home to the Dobzhen Knights, which mainly consists of Mecklenburg knights.

All this is from another dimension, but the ancestors of these knights still live on this land.

Most of the Teutonic warriors were from Saxons and Bavarians, while the knights of Mecklenburg were almost all Mrs. Oberlidy Tesla.

Now, in AD 843, there are certainly no Obertridites serving in the Russian army.

However, the thirty slaves who were bought by Blue Fox and participated in the defense of Ross's Shop in Hedeby Port seven years ago were kidnapped as slaves by the Danes.

A local farmer from Obert Liddit.

The man named Wadi was now transferred by Blue Fox to his younger brother Black Fox. This man converted to God and is now a vassal of the County of Nassau-Coblenz.

As long as the huge Russian army continues westward along the coastline, after passing through Pomerania in a broad sense, the first place it arrives is not the Principality of Saxony and its capital Hamburg, but the Oberlidit area. The Russian army will inevitably encounter a fateful encounter. The local Slavic chiefs who had already converted to God and were loyal to the Frankish nobility - all the surrendered chiefs were made counts by Charlemagne.

The ancestor of the Mecklenburg family was one of them.

So, the Russian army set off that morning!

Taking advantage of the morning tide, the infantry pushed the longship deliberately beached back into the sea. Having learned the lesson from their previous slow landing, since the road ahead must reach the lagoon, they simply held the huge oars like their fathers, and sat on the long boat to move at the same time with all the warships.

On the land route, the cavalry and the deer formed a long and narrow procession on the coastal beach.

They wanted to advance due west in order to leave the Sambia Peninsula as soon as possible.

At noon that day, they passed by a settlement protected by a large coastal mound. The strange thing was that the village was empty, and the scouts who investigated found nothing of value.

If the Russian army had used the village as an overnight camp in the past, it would have been too early. People were extremely disappointed with the wealth owned by the Prussians and did not expect to get any treasures from their settlements, so they were disgusted and left the settlement calmly.

That evening, the Russian army was at the westernmost tip of the Sambia Peninsula, an unnamed promontory with a ninety-degree angle.

It is actually Cape Tallan. Through here, the Russian army will officially enter the Vistula Lagoon in half a day.

While the Russian army was rushing forward with all its strength, the dilly-dallying Kdenau army finally arrived at the Pusketis altar area.

Before these Prussian warriors arrived, they smelled an indescribable odor.

An ominous feeling enveloped everyone's heads.

They entered the land that was supposed to be wheat fields along the dirt road that they had walked for hundreds of years, and what they saw was that strange things were spread everywhere.

When they noticed a large number of ravens circling in the sky from a distance, many people had already guessed the outcome.

More than 500 soldiers of the Kedenau tribe wanted to join forces with the Denarowa army, but finally they completed the joining forces - together with the dead in the battle.

Pairs of eyes stared as if they were going to explode. They spontaneously covered their mouths and noses. Most of the soldiers simply knelt down and vomited in the stench. People couldn't believe what they saw, but they quickly found the body of "Blood Priest" Turk in the pile of corpses.

The chain armor was severely damaged, and some weird weapons killed the warrior regardless of the armor.

Many people tried their best to stay calm. They drove away wild beasts and ravens in an attempt to find living people among the corpses. This was naturally impossible, but they found some strange arrows.

These Prussians are knowledgeable and know what arrows are good. The arrow has three feathers, and its texture is like the flight feathers of a wild duck or chicken. The arrow cluster is slender and sharp like an iron ingot. The strange thing is that it is not the usual sleeve-mounted collar for iron clusters, but a collar that is inserted into the arrow shaft after drilling a hole.

In their knowledge, there is no iron cluster with such a structure. The Danes do not

That would be the case, not for the Poles, and certainly not for the Pomeranians.

The main stronghold of the Kdenau people was centered on present-day Kaliningrad and extended to the southeast of the Vistula Lagoon.

This kind of living environment allows them to communicate with many others and have a certain understanding of their armed conditions. Many of the weapons in their hands are even exchanged from them.

The Danes are both enemies and friends. Free trade merchants are popular with everyone, but Danish chiefs who invade with tribal warriors are extremely dangerous. The same goes for the Polish tribes.

The Kdenau tribe in Prussia lives in a relatively remote environment. If Danish pirates want to attack them quickly, they must enter from the exit of the Vistula Lagoon and then find the lakeside settlement in Kdenau to launch operations. The cost of a sneak attack It is so high that in people's perception, the Samba tribe in the north often faces surprise attacks by the Danes.

For the Kdenau people, they had to be more careful about sneak attacks from Polish tribes.

Now the people of Kdenau finally stood at the altar of Pusketis, which was empty, the fire was not extinguished, and there was a burning smell everywhere like a huge tomb. This altar of the goddess of the earth in their faith, the priests, finally accepted the dead child. their souls. Its figure in the burning fire seems to be a cremation for all the war dead.

What does the future hold? have no idea. The only thing that the people of Kadenau can be sure of is that thousands of warriors died and the Blood High Priest Turk was killed. They are the only strong ones in the entire peninsula. The Kdenau tribe is obliged to abide by the tacit understanding in the past and accept refugees from the Samba tribe and the Denarowa tribe. The Moment of Care group

Weave everyone together, because the current problem is no longer simply a question of the second killing of strange invaders, all current Prussian kin may become a threat.

There will be new immigrants rushing to the Sambia Peninsula, and the territory will be divided among these related tribes.

The people of Kdenau did not want to join the internal strife of the Prussians. The times had already decided that they must become the kings of this small world, otherwise they would be swallowed up by the torrent of the times.

All this has nothing to do with the Russian army marching into the west for the time being.

After leaving the Cape Cavalry and walking only twenty kilometers, the world ahead became familiar to everyone.

"It seems we have arrived at the Vistula Lagoon." Rurik looked around and sighed.

"On the left is the water, and on the right is the sea. Is this the new lagoon? I don't know how long we will have to linger on the sandbank. And I haven't seen the exit yet." Fisk answered smoothly.

"We'll see it soon. Let's go! We'll set up camp in the evening."

Rurik said so, and in the afternoon the entire army must have arrived at the uninhabited lagoon exit area.

The Russian army was not the first to arrive on the sandbank here, but it was the largest and set up a camp here.

There will be Prussians building fishing villages here, but it is not in this era. If the Prussians of the Samba and Kdenau tribes are interested in this place, it will only maintain the situation of no man's land.

Because it was undeveloped, the Ross Army could only stay on the boring beach and cut down the trees on the ridge of the sandbank to light bonfires.

In front of everyone is a relatively wide and very calm waterway. For this reason, the Russian army has to transport horses and reindeer personnel to the other side.

Everyone is used to it, Xi

The overnight camp in the sun has been initially completed, and the waterway director's boats have begun to transport reindeer in an endless stream. Everything is in order. Everyone just wants to leave the Vistula Lagoon as soon as possible.

Because the king was very sure: "This will be the last lagoon sandbar we experience. After passing it, we will stand in Pomerania, one step away from Saxony."