Rise of Rurik

The victory came too easily, and Ragnar wanted to slash and kill himself, but the battle ended before the main force of the army arrived.

Winning a group of guys who can't resist is really not brave. The seized materials are distributed by the army, and there are not many left in the hands of everyone.

The blood-stained Karelian camp was too unlucky, and the corpses were pulled onto the ice and covered with snow to make mounds, so that when the ice and snow melted, the corpses would sink into the huge Lake Onega.

Rurik chose an open space to camp, but when the soldiers went to ram the stakes to secure the tent, they hit a stone.

That's literally a stone!

Rurik stayed by the bonfire and roasted the fire, and his soldiers beheaded some captured deer on the spot.

Arik took his guys into the forest to search for critters, and Ragnar took his brothers to another reverse exploration.

The army of the Principality of Ross arrived here, and the only other settlement was destroyed, which means that the west bank of Lake Onega is already the territory of Ross.

The battle was over in the morning, and many people went to explore the forest treasures in the afternoon before they could build camping tents. As for those who set up tents, they reported their major discoveries to the prince.

"Prince, we found a large piece of stone." The speaker's eyes were bright, and what he said was definitely not Miaoyan.

Rurik had long noticed that there were stones in the annihilated Karelian remnant camp, and was wondering how they got the stones since the place was short of stones.

The reports of his subordinates surprised him.

"Stones? There are still stones in this place?" he asked.

"It's a stone. You can see it just by peeling off the snow."

"How could there be such a good thing?" How could Rurik be able to sit still? He stood up suddenly.

Just as Svetlana was about to reach out to hold her, she suddenly heard her man's request: "Lanna, come with me. And everyone else, come with me."

Rurik was followed by a group of people, who soon picked up wooden tools and began to scrape snow on the so-called stone discovery.

Rurik saw that the bottom layer of the snow nest that was first opened by his subordinates was a very hard gray.

"It's a rock!"

The snow here is knee-high,

Because the wind that swept across the ice surface carried all the snow attached to the ice layer to the lakeside, so in some places the snow was enough to cover the waist.

"What should I do?" someone asked.

"I've been thinking about getting stones to build our city. Brothers, get moving and try to clear the snow. I want to see how many stones there are here."

Some makeshift wooden shovels were made in a rush, and even reindeer participated in the snow removal work, relying on the powerful force of the deer to pull the wooden planks and quickly strip the snow like a snow plow.

The rock formations under the snow were gradually exposed, and the sun began to shine on the stones.

It seems to be a whole piece of rock, with a small amount of lichen attached to it, and even some special lines.

Those lines became clearer as the peeling continued.

Suddenly, the snow-shoving people saw patterns of rough lines.

"What is that? It looks like a swan." Svetlana asked, covering her mouth in surprise.

"Did the Karelians do it? They worship birds?" another asked.

Maybe the painting on the rock was really done by the Karelians, maybe some other mysterious tribe.

Rurik had an idea and sighed: "In my opinion, this is what God gave us."

"How?" Lana asked again.

Now, Rurik's blue eyes looked at the frozen Lake Ladoga: "All this is an oracle. When spring comes, the lake thaws, and the swans and geese that go south will come back. So, we are the masters of this land, The pictures on the rocks are proof of God's gift."

There was no objection, and the kingdom's interpretation was accepted as truth.

Rurik improvised and ordered: "We're going to mine the stone here, and we'll do it now. We'll have to pull the boat over in the spring. We're going to chisel this swan rock and carry it to New Roseburg. Well, we If a quarry settlement is to be built here, let’s call her Swan Stone Town.”

How to dig stones! A sledgehammer, a forest axe can be rammed, or a chisel can be struck slowly to make square stone bricks.

The snow was cleared further, and the workers were panting from exhaustion.

In the evening, the faces of the returning people were full of joy of the harvest. They discovered the small animal resources that were quite accommodating here, and they used a wooden crossbow to make a precise sniper. The ferrets and squirrels hiding in the treetops fell to the ground.

There was even a hunting madman who came back with a ten-tailed squirrel tied up with ropes, and immediately started skinning at the camp.

At night, the lake is full of bonfires.

The stone excavation site has reached a certain scale, and as many as fifty people are desperately smashing stones.

It doesn't matter if you make a lot of granite crushed stone, they will be mixed with lime cement to make concrete. Or smashed into smaller and larger particles to partially replace the necessary quartz sand for cement.

You can get paid by the prince for your work. No, a group of Ludi people also joined the work after eating.

The camp was full of the clanging sound of smashing stones, and Arik, who had hunted a lot, returned, and it was very uncomfortable to hear this all in his ears.

He chewed on squirrel meat and teased his brother: "Other brothers are busy hunting, but you love the stones here."

"You think I'm weird?" Rurik asked with a smile.

"It's strange. We should have seized the opportunity to hunt."

"Let's dig more stones! I was totally surprised to find stones in this place. In the future, a city will be built here, and the new city is expected to replace the island quarry on Gogran Island. After all, this place is an inner lake, and we don't have to consider the tide at all. The problem, the excavation work in the warm period does not have to worry about bad weather. And after the ship enters Lake Ladoga, the stone can be selectively transported to Novorossberg or Novgorod…”

"Are you calculating this?" Rurik obviously didn't finish his words, and Arik, who had a headache, interjected: "I'm a pure warrior, thinking about this makes me a headache. Maybe my Asraki can get along with you. chat."

"Yes. Of course she can. She's a professional businessman and the most calculating. So, her second child is about to be born, right?"

"Soon. It's about the same as the high priest." Arik asked casually: "Have you thought about the child's name?"

"It's called Oleg."

"What if the girl?" Arik asked again.

"It's simpler, it's called Onega, which is the name of this great lake."

In Old Finnish, the suffix "ga" means "great water surface". Naming a girl after a lake is also a beautiful name.

"So what's the name of Gustav's brother or sister?" Rurik asked now.

Arik shrugged: "It depends on her own will."

When the two brothers talked about their wives and children, there were two women who had been listening intently.

Lanna was determined to give birth to a direct-line crown prince, and Carlota wanted to give birth to a son of her own duchy.

No, there were still people working on the dig site after dark, and another battle was going on in Rurik's house sleigh.

Rurik was entangled with his two women, and now no one can avoid suspicion. All three of them took the initiative, that is, Rurik was tossed and felt a little back pain the next morning, while Lanna and Carlotta, Obviously got a baby with a happy face.

It is not advisable to stay cold here for a long time, and it would be bad if there is a sudden cold wave and heavy snow.

After breakfast, Rurik held a military meeting. In addition to admiring the rapid assault of the cavalry, they also chatted with each other about the abundant local products.

The prince then delivered an important speech on the development of local stone resources, emphasizing the importance of lakeside stones for urban construction, and all nobles agreed.

The Rudi people, who were so servile, thus found new jobs.

Lake Onega is located on the edge of the low mountain range that extends out of the Kola Peninsula. It is a huge glacial lake as a whole, and there are rocks on the lakeside.

The Ludi people don't have to trap animals and skin them and sell them to the Rus people, they can directly dig the stones and transport them to their villages, waiting for the Rus people to come and pick them up.

Digging rocks can't be a high value-added job. You can earn living materials by doing this job, which is much better than the original poor life.

The female leader Rudi and the elected Makut were given new orders - to dig stones for generations.

Rus people generally disdain to do this kind of work, a group of servants is perfect for it, and everyone hears it without objection.

Rurik wanted to stay by the lake for two more days. He wanted to give the army more hunting time, and he wanted to set foot on this big lake to observe the landforms in person.

At the same time, the stone excavation project continued, and the Ludi man received more axes, hammers, and iron spears to rip off boulders with chisels, and began to use the technique of thermal expansion and contraction to produce a large amount of gravel.

Stones, large and small, began to be produced, and they were thrown indiscriminately on the sled. Even a sled should not carry too much weight, and stones of any shape need to be processed twice when they are transported to New Roseburg.

As many as three "swan stone carvings" that have not been discovered have to be carefully chiseled, they are sacred to Rurik Fuyu, but they are to be placed in the Great Temple of Ross.

Of course, it was not the Karelians who carved the "swan", but an even more ancient group. Those lakeside settlers who disappeared for thousands of years have left these legacy as the treasures of the Rus.

Rurik led the team to investigate for two days, and he was surprised that there were a lot of stones under the snow in this area, as if a huge mountain range was sinking.

There were as many as ten sleds loaded with stones, and they were littered in such a mess that Rurik felt like a huge pile of construction waste.

They are not garbage. By smashing the mixed cement to make concrete, the hardened ground project of Harvest Square can be quickly implemented.

Rurik is a smart man, and there are people in the team who realize the value of stone.

More than just stones, metal ore may be found with stones, and it would be even better if iron ore and copper ore were found.

The lake was full of cold winds like knives, and the hunters were not afraid. One hundred Ludi warriors did not kill the enemy to offer their names, but turned into masons and provided stones to Ross to prove their loyalty.

The Rudi people are very satisfied with their new jobs, that is, the captured Karelian women can only be dragged away like cattle.

They are all dwarfs, and they shouldn't be like this, just because the overall poor living environment suppresses a person's growth. In this way every woman is very light, although the Pecheneg is as low as a man, the latter is short and suddenly, his arms are as hard as a stone, and it is easy to control such a woman.

As for the blond and blue-eyed Russ and other Vikings, standing in front of them is a powerful shock.

After a rather detailed count, as many as six hundred Karelian women were captured. The first conqueror was Kagan. He killed the old man and all the men of all ages with the custom of the grasslands. Therefore, these six hundred people were only young women and young girls.

Their resistance was completely lost, and Rurik, as prince, publicly announced his treatment of them.

It was still the principality that followed the old rules, women who were fertile would immediately marry a new man, and women with young girls would marry with their daughters.

From their standpoint, it seems that the only option is cooperation, and they feel that the whole of Karelia has completely perished. Since they do not want to commit suicide for the tribe, they can only be slaves to the conquerors.

They don't have any extravagant hopes for the future, and Rurik also has no intention of harming these guys. From the standpoint of the prince, Rurik wished that this new group of women would desperately give birth to children, so that a new batch of roaring soldiers could be created in fifteen years at the earliest.

Their obedience is that they gather together quietly, like cargo, in shack-style tents that can keep out the cold.

Those hunters from Suomi and Xiongji Towns insisted on staying to hunt, accompanied by the Ludi people who continued to dig stones, and at the same time began to build the so-called "Swan Stone Town".

The real three "swan stones" have been integrated on the sled.

The large troop began to return, and the food and supplies in the reserve are still very sufficient, even feeding the up to 600 female prisoners is no problem.

Is this the end of the crusade?

Kagan, who was sitting by the campfire with his brothers and gorging on porridge, was happy that one of his men was holding a Karelian woman.

Not only did they eat by themselves, but they were also busy stuffing wheat into their women's mouths, and at night they carried their women into their shacks to be happy.

The next day, they appeared again and changed their appearances.

Pecheneg people, both men and women, have strange little braids on the back of their heads, and women's braids are more fancy because of the tradition of growing their hair.

These Pecheneg men not only possessed their bodies, but also further turned the Karelian women into Pecheneg.

The stretched "black long straight" hairstyle of women has disappeared, replaced by densely braided hair, and some dyed hemp ropes are also mixed into the hair as a decoration.

The intention of doing this is very obvious. Although returning home with some supplies purchased in Ross will slow down the speed, wouldn't it be more slow to bring a woman?

That must also be done. The Pecheneg Tribal Alliance needs foreign women to give birth to new warriors at any time, not to mention that the appearance of these women is not much different from the Pecheneg women. When they put on the traditional costumes of the grassland, they could not see the difference.

This team continued to move forward, and whoever got the experience in the winter expedition was none other than the Ross cavalry.

Each of them killed the enemy! The ferocious performance can be described as a brown bear. The sons of those peasants can't go back. They have had the experience of killing the enemy and have really seen blood, and the whole person's heart has been changed.

In this way, he was the son of the boyar native nobles. This time, they used the cavalry to participate in the battle with steel swords.

Because the princes must be appointed, their identities are real Ross warriors, and they have already belonged to the top class of the duchy.

Without him, although there are only 80 pure Ross, all of them will be officers in the future, and they will have to rule ten people at the last time, and the best of them can become the flag captain of the expanded cavalry flag team.

This Eastern Expedition naturally also greatly touched Rurik. He was extremely well prepared for this battle, and as a result, the war ended with a surprise attack by more than a hundred cavalry.

The cavalry embodies a huge tactical advantage, so why not expand it?

The plan to expand the cavalry was already specified.

"It seems that the cavalry work is going to speed up..."

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