Rise of Rurik

"Rise of Rurik ()"!

The Lord was dying and his morale collapsed, and the courage of the Karelian army, which was gathered by hatred and rage, collapsed again in blood.

It's a total collapse, and they're trying to get out of the siege.

Those who can escape seem to have a chance of life, and those in the circle will be ruthlessly crushed by the wheels of history.

Rus was bound to conquer Karelia, and Rurik achieved this great victory a generation ahead of schedule.

Multiple spears pierced Asailas' body, and he was stabbed several more times and fell in a pool of blood.

"If I knew this earlier, it would be better to take the clan to retreat quickly..."

The big tent tribe has not perished, but it is not far from extinction. The population advantage of this most populous Karelian tribe is a thing of the past.

The men in the encirclement are being crushed to powder, and another group of Rus troops has begun to hunt down.

Once turned into a rout, the pursuers will ruthlessly slash their backs, and the most exaggerated results are often derived from this.

The fleeing people were stunned. They saw a lot of pursuers similar to themselves, all short black-haired men, completely different from those blond giants.

Because they are Suomi.

Once upon a time, the Suomis, who avoided Karelians as much as possible, boarded the battleship of the Rus army and seemed to have gained the courage of the Principality of Rus. This pursuit is not only for killing, but also for robbery.

Or the Suomis have little desire to kill fleeing enemies. Killing the enemy is a convenient thing. The biggest purpose is to rush into the enemy's camp group and loot the spoils before enjoying the slashing and killing of all the Varyag troops lost in the blood. .

Because the duke has already said, robbery is robbing on the basis of ability, and the Suomi people have the opportunity to rob it when they seize the opportunity, and the loot will be recognized by the duke.

Arik no longer knew how many enemies he had hacked to death. His robes were stained red with blood, and his helmet was sticky and gave off a strange smell of rust.

He has been commanding his subordinates to fight, the battle has turned into chaos, and the Russ army has basically turned into personal chaos.

He finally saw that the people with the cloth strips on their heads had rushed far enough, and his reason finally returned to his head.

"Oops, let those servant guys take the lead,

They'll grab more! "

Arik held up two swords in the chaos, "Brothers, those Suomi people have already gone to rob. Let's not fight, follow me to rob!"

He tried his best to get his brothers' attention by yelling, and it seemed to be paying off.

However, the first Suomi people had already rushed to the enemy's core camp area, and the looting had already begun.

A group of tents built of wooden slats, linen and animal skins, how many treasures are hidden here? !

The Suomis have been broken into pieces, and armed with sharp weapons, they searched everywhere, and even let hundreds of Karelian warriors escape.

They really gained a lot. Some people found shivering young women, they curled up in a ball of horror, and some even held iron daggers in a state of protest.

There were also men who were hiding. When the curtain of the tent was opened by the intruding Suomi soldiers, they stabbed directly with a short spear.

This is a kind of desperate resistance. Those who are stabbed are pulled away by their companions, and the enemy who resists is ruthlessly killed by the subsequent intruders.

The women found were disarmed, dragged out of the tent by their hair or by their feet, and then tied with twine.

A Suomi warrior with a bandage on his forehead controls a woman who is his trophy.

Rurik warned his subordinates not to kill indiscriminately at the bonfire last night, and they did not kill indiscriminately when they arrived at the Suomi servant army.

They are more keen to find young women. After all, many Suomi men are difficult to marry. They enthusiastically received orders to participate in this large-scale war, just to capture a woman back.

Many people have gained, and all the inexplicable women who stayed in the tent were arrested, and this time, more than 400 people were arrested.

Once the woman was caught, and a little necessities were collected from the scene, a Suomi warrior tried to leave the chaotic battlefield quickly. They escorted the captives to the lake by various means, a move that really surprised Arik, followed by anger and contempt.

"This group of short women is obviously only liked by this group of guys who are also dwarves..."

Arik scornfully mocked the unpromising style of the servant army with his eyes. He led his brothers to continue to hunt down the remnants of the enemy, but unfortunately the last Karelian warriors had escaped far enough. The pursuit didn't last long, and finally ended when the last enemy fled into the dark green forest in the distance.

Isotalwa has collapsed, a layer of corpses lay scattered on the lakeside, and a large area of ​​​​the lake has been dyed dark red by the blood-colored stream.

Crimson warriors stood on the corpse piles. Russ, Balmerks, these pure Viking warriors checked the corpses everywhere, and found those who were dying and pretending to be dead and immediately stabbed to death with an arrow.

The occupied tent complex is full of sword-wielding warriors who wantonly smashed tents, chopped off wooden supports, and plundered hides for whatever was available.

This place has been probed by Suomi and Vips, and the pure Viking warriors that follow are picking up scraps in a sense. The brothers thought they could get a lot of leather, but what they didn't expect to find was some garbage.

Negative emotions were spreading, and the blood-colored Viking warriors blamed the servants for robbing too much, so-called sitting and watching the remnants escape successfully in order to rob.

Arik's head is hot, and more than a dozen brothers have complained to him that they can't find any useful loot.

He bumped into Yevlo, who was also collecting loot with his buddies, in the Isotalwa camp area, and the two met quietly.

Look at the old man, Yevluo was kindly saying hello, but of course he was severely criticized.

"What did you Suomi people do? You took all the good things, so that my brothers couldn't take anything."

The startled Yevluo suddenly slowed down, and when it comes to looting the spoils, the barrenness of reality makes him angry: "Brother, you are blaming us for looting too much. God is watching us, you can't mess around. Say."

"Why don't you talk nonsense? I saw with my own eyes that your clan rushes the fastest, and you are busy looting before the enemy has destroyed you."

"Does it mean that we robbed a group of slaves? Would you like those short women?"

"Of course I don't like it." Arik continued to scold: "You must have grabbed gold and silver, and now my brothers and I can only grab a batch of rotten cloth."

"You? You're slandering me!" Yevlo slammed his sword on the ground in anger, took off his helmet and opened his arms, "Lord Rurik will make a judgment! It was the lord who gave the order, and everyone looted and looted according to their abilities. No one who can't be allowed to complain. Besides, we didn't get any gold or silver, these Karelians are incredibly poor. I'm standing here, you can search my body."

"You..." Arik was stunned, mainly because my brother gave the order. As a cousin, he should not disobey the orders of his cousin, who is a duke. Arik, who prides himself on being generous, doesn't want to leave bad words on others.

He hesitated for a moment and sighed: "However, we didn't wipe out the enemy, you are responsible."

"I am responsible. The pincer tactics let some enemies go because of the mistakes of the troops I was in charge of. As for how much responsibility I have, and what kind of punishment I should accept, this matter should be judged by the Duke."

Having said that, Arik felt very uncomfortable, so he didn't want to ask any further questions.

The battle is over, and the sun finally shines stingly on the post-war earth at noon on a cloudy day.

The wounded of the enemy will eventually die of excessive blood loss, and it is a cruel kindness for the Russ army to give the mending knife.

Even the seriously wounded of the Ross Army, those who obviously had only one breath left, were also given to death by their companions to end the pain.

The war was so cruel, and the lake wind began to carry a bloody smell. In the war of the cold weapon era, when the battle is over, the battlefield is always muddy, and the bloody tragic image is like the mud of meat from a meat grinder.

However, Rurik was completely immune to such a cruel scene, the fleet had all broken down, and he brought all the following soldiers ashore.

"Is this the enemy's core camp? They are really a polar nomadic tribe..."

The group of teepee tents made Rurik think of the Inuit first, but wait a minute, when it comes to ancestry and culture, the Karelians and the Inuit do have a relationship, so the commonality in building tents is not enough Surprised.

Soon Rurik saw the Suomi warriors sitting on the ground, the battle was over, and the men who grabbed some trophies chatted happily. There are also a group of women sitting here, who are clearly prisoners. Rurik can already guess their ending, and that ending is also what he is happy to see.

The work of cleaning up the battlefield has been in full swing, and an astonishing number of arrows are being meticulously recovered. Whether it is an enemy's or one's own arrows, whether they are easy to use or broken, the arrow hunters are patiently searching for them.

The enemy's arrows are of poor quality. The only thing that satisfies the searchers is that most of the arrow clusters of the enemy's arrows are carefully polished deer bone pieces, and the bone pieces are wide-blade. It is also possible to kill the enemy, but unfortunately the quality of the enemy's bow is really pulling the crotch.

A large number of short wooden bows were seized. Compared with the bow itself, the bowstring was what the searchers were most willing to collect.

The bows of the Karelians are of poor quality, and they are good for burning fire sticks. However, more than 2,000 bowstrings have been found, and the number is surprising to everyone.

Reindeer are full of treasures, and the economic life of the Karelian people almost depends on reindeer breeding. Reindeer can be described as the only large herbivore in North Asia and Northern Europe. The stag is often very tall and strong. The large tendon on its back is used. The Karelian people use it to make special strong ropes and bowstrings.

The deer tendon bowstring may not be as good as beef tendon, but its quality is at least far better than that of oil-soaked hemp rope. Rurik was surprised to find so many ready-made bowstrings!

There are surprises and mistakes. What shocked the entire Ross Army is that everyone thought to capture an astonishing number of reindeer here, but only a few dozen were found. What is the situation? Do the Karelians here live without reindeer.

What's even more peculiar is that Rurik ordered his subordinates to forbid the killing of women and children, but apart from the three or four hundred women with panicked eyes captured by Suomi and the Veps servant army, there were really no other prisoners.

There were some old men among the fallen enemies, and apart from that, there were no enemy cubs or other women found in the entire tent group.

The brothers under his command did not kill indiscriminately, and there is no evidence of indiscriminate killing. Facts have proved that when the Ross Army landed, the entire tent group was already extinct!

As for the staggering numbers of women captured, the situation was also extremely abnormal.

Without Lauririk to investigate personally, Yevro has brought surprising results of the interrogation, and there is even a major news brought by Telavis on behalf of the Vips.

The fighting is over, and thousands of bodies have been examined.

The dead bodies of the Ross Army were pulled out and moved to an empty lakeside in a matrix arrangement.

It is a pity that Rurik hopes that the Viking brothers in the army will have no losses. There are still ten unfortunate people who are pierced in the neck by the enemy's spearhead. The dead are basically killed by this.

The most dead came from the Suomi people. There were as many as 150 short corpses lying here. Their heads were all tied with red bandages. This headdress allowed the corpse pickers to identify their identities. The wounds on their bodies were various, and onlookers could be sure that if they were all wearing metal chain mail when they fought, most of the dead would not die.

In the chaotic battle, the combat effectiveness of the Suomi and the Karelians was only half a catty. Even if the former accepted a part of the costumes, they were facing an opponent who was still struggling. They pecked at each other like chickens, and the fighting was extremely ferocious.

This is the case with all the losses of the Ross Army. The total number of casualties was less than 200, and there were also 200 wounded. Almost all of the wounded were Suomi's servants.

As for the corpses of the enemy, the exhausted Russ Army did not carry the corpses for detailed statistics. People made estimates one after another, judging that the enemy must have killed 3,000 people no matter what.

In the evening, arrogant soldiers in filthy clothes lit huge bonfires. They looked down on the enemy's broken tents, and resented that the enemy's poverty couldn't grab much good things, so they used the materials of those tents as fuelwood, some The rotten leather is also used as fuel, causing the bonfire to emit a special smell similar to barbecue.

The largest bonfire is where Rurik held post-war military conferences.

The setting sun does not exist. It should have been dusk. The western sky was dark and yellow. Experienced people felt that there would be a rain in the future. The weather in August is like this, a rain is a cold. Anyone who knows a little about the eastern region far from the hometown of Roseburg knows that September in the Julian calendar is the rainy season in the east. When a war is launched at this time, the soldiers really have to fight hard in the cold, wet and muddy. Maybe the soldiers don't die in battle, but they lose their lives due to cold and sudden and inexplicable diseases.

The flames dispelled the cold of the night.

Rurik saw that everyone was not happy after the victory, and he was very clear about what the captains of the flags and the centurions were thinking.

Of course, he knew more about the enemy, which was a series of news that Yevlo easily heard from the mouths of a group of female prisoners. The contents of those messages are basically the same, and it can be concluded that these messages are true.

Many people were full of words, and when Rurik asked the brothers to speak freely, everyone shouted and made a loud noise at the bonfire.

"Take your time, and speak one by one!" Rurik ordered.

They were asked to give their views on the battle in order, and in particular to explain the reasons for their sullenness.

Perhaps most of the people who have the right to hold a meeting here have reservations, that is, seeing the two fierce generals Arik and Hellafield complain without reservation, the brothers will follow up without any scruples.

Many of them were pointing at Suomi's servant army, accusing them of not busy killing the enemy and busy looting, resulting in incomplete pursuit and killing, and some people fled.

As for despising the enemy for being too poor, it is another matter.

This is a bad sign!

Rurik gritted his teeth and asked himself, how could a proud Viking look down on a group of Finnish servants? After all, the enemy of the battle is indistinguishable from the servant army. The accusations of the Viking warriors are not unreasonable. Since they dare to be out of step with the main force as a servant army, is it worth it? !

"I have to coordinate this matter. If I have to sacrifice the interests of some people, then sacrifice the Suomi people..."

He thought for a while, calmed the restless people, and then preached: "The Suomis, the Vips, they have captured some prisoners. After my investigation, I found that these women were originally slaves of the Karelians! They were not slaves themselves, but women caught elsewhere, even women who were given to the Karelians as tribute. Some of them were Veps and Suomis. Our servants The warriors found their lost people, that's why they didn't close the circle."

This is a fact, but only a tiny part of it. The children of slaves are still slaves, as the Karelians do here. The slaves were indeed from the Vips and Suomis, and a large number were actually from the Tavastians who had completely collapsed.

Slaves, these female slaves dare not go to war, and they have almost no thoughts of their own, like meek lambs being led away by new conquerors. They were cowardly at first, then behaved obediently, until they all learned that the conqueror would see them as wives who could bear children, and the situation changed completely.

Rurik was very satisfied with the behavior of the servants. In terms of sensibility, he felt that this was the last warmth on the violent battlefield. In terms of rationality, the Suomi community could get a group of young women with fertility.

This is a war, so let's calculate the economic accounts!

Let the servant army get the spoils, which is a useful method for the monarch to maintain the loyalty of the other party, and in most cases, it is more effective than military deterrence. The expansion of Rome is this trick. The Roman army naturally eats meat every day, and the excellent servants also eat meat dregs, and even the most inferior servants have broth to drink.

However, if you let your basic army, especially the brothers who came out of the old Roseburg, feel that the duke has treated them badly, it is the monarch who is shaking the foundation of his own rule.

It is undeniable that this sign seems to have sprouted.

Rurik continued his words: "The warriors of the servants may enjoy the women they have captured, the Ruthians, the Balmerks, the Meralonians, all the warriors of Odin, I know what kind of women you like! You You have to be tall and young, handsome and good at work. You like girls of your own kind, and you like Slavic girls of your own kind. You don't like these short women at all, let the servants get them! Other than that , all their captures will be taken away! This is the punishment for their wrongdoing!"

If this is the case, the pure Viking warriors in the team are satisfied. To be fair, more than 100 servants died. They shed blood for the Principality of Rus, and it is natural to get some spoils. However, the sin is also very serious, so the merits and demerits are equal, and those small prisoners who do not understand the language and are despised by the Viking warriors, let the servant army take them away.

After all, the Vikings such as the Rus and Balmers are no longer the same as before, and the brothers already have the economic ability to pick and choose. If you must marry a woman, isn't there a ready-made good way? They found that they could go to Novgorod with a fortune and buy their daughter's marriage from a local Slav farmer. This is actually a win-win choice. The Viking warriors get a good woman as a wife, and the wife's maiden family also needs the protection of the Viking conqueror by affinity.

Due to their aesthetics, the first choice for the identity of their wives is the Viking family, the second is the Slavic women, and the last is the women of these short eastern places.

As for the fact that the high priest of the duchy is a deer breeder, whether this is a special case or a special case appointed by Odin, everyone has no doubts.

If it is said that the people in the society of the Principality of Rus will be invisibly divided into three, six and nine grades because of their origins, the rank will depend on their mothers. It is not surprising that a Viking man in the Duchy of Rus married two women. Both parents are Vikings, and this kind of person has the highest status. One side is the Slavs, and the other is the Finns in the broad East. The identity is the second. The last one is that both parents are from the east.

Hereditary nobles, regardless of their ethnicity, have another chain of contempt that is detracted from their noble status as defined by the dukes.

At present, the Duchy of Rus cannot achieve the so-called equality of all people. Rurik, who has given up his naive and delusional considerations, knows that he must support the high and low levels of the crowd in this ninth century AD. He can temporarily set a very clear ranking of rulers, ministers and ministers, and the unspoken rules of the spontaneous birth of society can be improperly negated.

The interests of the Vikings in the principality must be maximized, and among them, the Ross natives must enjoy the highest interests. This is the basic plan of the principality. Although the basic plan seems to be small at present, it is through the men who work hard to cultivate the land. The old scalper, a huge Rus nation can also be created out of nowhere.

It's a pity that before the war everyone fantasized about looting 100,000 reindeer from the enemy in World War I, but this kind of thing finally came to nothing. With as much hope and as much disappointment, it makes sense for people to come to the meeting with grievances.

As for why this group of enemies is so poor, Rurik has already voted on Yevlo's description of the captives and knows that they are inseparable.

He began to speak solemnly about the matter, and finally asked Yevro himself to stand up and speak...

"It turns out that they fled overnight, and tens of thousands of women and children have escaped with a hundred thousand deer!" Someone stood up in anger to answer the question.

Others shouted: "Can't let them escape! We have to chase!"

"Since this is not all of the Karelians, and their chief has not been killed, we must carry the war to the end! We must not retreat without grabbing a large number of deer!"

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It's amazing that the people who were complaining just now, their grievances against the servant army have disappeared. The fighting will continue, the Rus army will continue to fight the enemy, even if the fighting may continue for many years in the vast new world, the fighting cannot stop until the Karelians are completely defeated and the reindeer are plundered!

They were so determined that Rurik moved with the flow.

Knowing that the junior leader of the servant army was present, Rurik announced loudly: "Continue the war! As a duke, I only need 30% of the spoils! The first, second, and third flag teams, as well as the shooting flag team, Austrian Brothers of the Stara Army, you have the right to share the remaining 60% of the spoils. Servants of Suomi and Vips, you can only get the last 10% of the spoils in the future due to your wrong performance in the decisive battle. ."

For such an order, all the Vikings were very welcome. The servants felt that the spoils they could enjoy were pitiful. said.

The situation is not bad. If the Ross army really has a major seizure, such as grabbing 100,000 reindeer, according to this Duke's order, Suomi can also get 10,000 deer, right? The living brothers can get ten deer, isn't this a major reward?

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