Rise of Rurik

"The Rise of Rurik ()"

Harald gently took off his hat and boldly declared his intention: "I... came to beg for peace."

Otto nodded, the other party sent people for this purpose of course, it is not surprising at all. The key lies in what conditions the opponent wants to ask for.

He first asked: "Are you a messenger? Who are you, can you speak with weight?"

"I...I am Harald of the Krorev family. I...just a businessman."

"Businessman?" Otto pointed to the tent curtain and said deliberately: "There is a head at the door, that is your king. King Gotland is dead, where is your new king? Let that guy come over, so I can Consider your surrender."

Harald was a little flustered, but he was also secretly overjoyed. Those priests in charge of the altar hope that Harald will be the new king and then make peace with the Rus. There is no benefit to being the king in a time of crisis. The only effect is to become a victim.

Harald emphasized again: "I'm just a businessman."

"Businessman? Not necessarily!" Otto twisted his neck, he was already a little impatient. The people sitting on the left and right at the same time, including Rurik, felt that things were too strange.

"Speak the truth!" Rurik suddenly said, "I can restrain the soldiers. Tell the truth, and no one will harm you."

Harald's eyes narrowed slightly. A young beautiful boy? Does this person speak a lot?

Just as Harald was due, Otto scolded again: "Come on! Who are you? Or Visby, what is your new king's attitude?"

"Yes! We..." Harald knew that there was no need to retain information, and that the current Visby was no different from the ruins. "I am indeed a businessman, including the king Harald who was killed by you, and is also a businessman himself."

"Where's your new king?"

"There is no new king! We only have more than ten big merchants, some of them were killed by you on the battlefield, some were forced to row away yesterday, and were all sunk and killed by your fleet. The people of Visby tried to snatch Property is killing each other, and the streets are full of corpses, just like... the battlefields I passed by."

Is there such a thing? !

Rurik couldn't believe what he heard. If it was true, then the enemy killed each other under high pressure and terror?

"Is it? Visby is now a ghost town? You haven't even elected another king." Rurik asked, sticking his head.

"Everything is over!" Saying this, Harald pointed to the south: "Some people go there, and they will die of hunger and thirst in the woods. The priests have also fled, and they are going to take refuge in the temple of Odin. There are only a handful of people in the whole of Visby holding on, old people and young children."

Rurik had already heard a lot: "So you mean, you are the last powerful person in Visby?"

"Probably...that's it."

"Oh? Are you the new king?"

"No! I'm not a king. I've never thought of it this way. I'm just a businessman." Harald hurriedly denied it, as if claiming to be a king was a grave sin.

Otto was enraged, and he asked: "A merchant? What are you here for? Are you here to beg for peace? For whom?"

"It's my family."

"Really? I thought you were going to beg for peace with others, but you only care about yourself?"

Listening to this, it seems that the old leader of Ross is very dissatisfied with his rhetoric? However, the matter has come to this point, Harald has no intention of changing his mind.

"Why should I care about other people? I'm a businessman and not a soldier. I have a lot of money, and I'm giving it up to buy peace."

Having said that, Harald immediately ordered his entourage to push the box in front of him, and he personally opened the box to reveal the silver coins full of Dengdeng.

"It's a hundred pounds of silver."

Otto squinted his eyes: "Do you think that this money alone can buy your peace? Our Rus army killed thousands of you, and our losses were minimal,

There is still an army of 3,000 men. Our army can easily occupy Visby, all the wealth is mine. "

Harald had an idea and hurriedly flattered: "This is just a greeting, it just represents my sincerity in surrendering. My family will be very useful to you. You must not know where the merchants hid the money when you enter Visby. I basically know it. You will get the entire wealth of Visby in a very short period of time. Also, the great leader of Ross, please take a look at this woman."

Things have finally reached the most critical step.

"This is my daughter Asraqi. She is as beautiful as a fairy from Asgard. I dedicate her to you, to be your woman."

Otto froze for a moment, his eyes erratic to look left and right. Yes, everyone's eyes were fixed on the beauty's face and figure.

"Be my woman? Haha, I'm too old." Otto waved and shook his head again, completely refusing.

Harald was a little flustered: "Then, I am willing to dedicate it to your son. My daughter has always longed to marry a real warrior, she is sixteen years old, and I have turned away all businessmen in the past four years. The proposed marriage is just to wait for a real warrior. The Russ are a real warrior!"

Such flattering remarks made the hearts of the elites of the Russ Army present happy, and most of them knew that the reason behind these words was just the security that this person longed for.

Otto was coaxed into a happy mood, and he motioned to his son Rurik: "Child, this woman is your wife..."

As if a steel needle had been pricked in the back, Rurik's head buzzed and he hurriedly stood up: "No! This is ridiculous, she is obviously much older than me."

"Oh? That's the reason? You're not even twelve years old, and Odin doesn't want you to break the rules and get married immediately." Otto looked at Harald's trembling eyes again with pride: "Forgot to introduce, this is It is my only son Rurik, who is the commander-in-chief of our army. Don't look at him as just a child, he was the one who commanded the last day's final battle and quickly defeated your Gotland army."

Aslaqi had already given up her heart, she could marry anyone now, as long as she could exchange her family's peace through this marriage. Unexpectedly, the father and son of the leader of Ross refused one after another. Not only was she unexpected, but now she has to accept that the Gotland army was defeated by a beautiful boy.

In fact, Rurik was also holding back a lot of energy, completely learning the woman's name, and he almost laughed when he heard it.

Indeed Gotland, shouldn't she be the wife of Ragnar the Dane? This woman was determined to be a real woman because there were few records by the Frankish historians.

Rurik tentatively believed that the rumored beauty Aslaki was the woman in front of him. Don't say it! It's fair to say that at the age of sixteen, she has the figure of an adult, and also has immature facial features that are close to that of a child. Her brows are deep and her chin is a relatively rare conical shape, which shows that she must have eaten mostly soft things in the past, and she is indeed a pampered fairy.

After listening to Harald's report, Otto had no intention of being rough with the family.

"Asraki! Your name is Asraki? Look up at me now." Otto ordered.

The girl slowly raised her head, sniffed hard, and tried to put on a calm face.

"You long to marry a warrior? Answer me!"

"Yes! My only condition is that through my marriage, the Rus will reward my family with security."

"Yes, a woman who talks about love." Otto has always noticed that the eldest nephew Arik's head is sticking out when he sees the beauty, and now he has made up his mind: "In that case, I will promise you to my nephew Aric. He was a true warrior, and among his wounded Gotland warriors more than 300 people died! He was favored by Odin, and though he was wounded, he never suffered from disease. He also traveled to the unknown and far-flung South East. How? Only such a warrior can be your husband."

Otto originally thought that Aslaqi would be very happy, but he couldn't imagine that when he heard Arik's name, the girl was completely a bolt from the blue.

Even Harald's mouth was trembling, and he didn't expect "Arik the Butcher" to be sitting not far from him.

"How is it? What are you in a daze? What are you afraid of?" Otto scolded, and immediately ordered Arik, who was eager to try and is now ecstatic: "Go! Now take your woman."

"Okay!" Arik said in response.

Of course, there is also a Pelavina with a baby at home, and her wife is not fake, but tradition also stipulates that a good man can marry multiple wives and raise a lot of female slaves.

Arik, who has already controlled a lot of money and made great achievements in war, longs for the most complete conquest of Gotland's foes. Wouldn't it be nice to own this most beautiful woman in Gotland?

He grabbed Aslaqi's elbow, but the girl was actually fighting, not to mention that the strength of the competition was much stronger than that of Peravina.

With the intuition of a warrior, Arik dares to judge that this woman is by no means weak! She is definitely a female warrior, only because of the particularity of the two fingers of her right hand was discovered by Arik.

Both the Kovin and Finn archers wear wrench fingers made of deer bones to draw the bow, and use the wrench fingers to hook the strings.

Ross bow hunters and other tribal archers almost always hook strings with their index and middle fingers.

Asuragi's two fingers were unexpectedly thicker.

"Get up for me!" Arik made a strong effort and pulled her up neatly.

Otto was a little displeased: "Asraki, Gotland's woman, isn't my Arik worthy of you? You don't have the right to bargain here! Be honest with me! I warn you, I don't care if you are Arik or not. Fairy of Sgard, but Odin does stand on the side of us Russ. You can refuse, and soon you and your father, and everyone in your family, will all have your heads on the wood."

Harald was also anxious, although he didn't like the brutality of "The Butcher Arik" very much, but the so-called "Butcher" looked quite heroic, at least much better than those businessmen who were full of flesh. .

"Aslaqi, don't refuse! He is your man, and for our family, you must..."

In an instant, she obeyed her father's instructions and gave up resistance, hooking her head and letting Aric take her away. Immediately afterwards, Asraki actually sat beside Arik and became a member of many elite forces of the Rus army.

Although there was a situation, Otto felt that he had done a good job, and his attitude became kinder: "We Rus people are reasonable. You give half of your family wealth and your daughter, and I will allow you to surrender. It will also protect the safety of your family. Don't be Gotlanders in the future, just be our Russ. Your family will serve my family and my Rurik in the future."

Is this the security statement? It looks like it is.

For Visby, Harald has no nostalgia. The Rus people have become a powerful force. Looking at the spirit of the Ross leader, Harald does not think that this person or even the entire Rus tribe will submit to the Melalen people.

Of course, making money as a merchant family is the most important thing. Although the daughter was given to the notorious Arik in exchange for the safety of the family and hope for the future, the sacrifice of the daughter was worthwhile. It is for her that she is really guilty of being a father.

Harald and Aslaqi, father and daughter, both listened to those bad rumors, and the truth is true. Arik is a strange man who has a vengeance and even slashes at the poultry raised by the enemy. . But that never meant that he would be cruel to his own woman.

It is true that he is a cold-blooded man, that is only for the enemy. Now that he's in control of what is said to be the most beautiful woman in Gotland, he just wants to hurry up and finish the wedding ceremony, preferably tonight.

Harald brings uplifting information, and Rurik decides to believe the man, that Visby has become a rotten ghost town.

The military commander Rurik immediately made a decision, the army stopped any repairs, and after lunch, the whole army rushed to Visby, and dinner was eaten in the city.

The seemingly loose Ross army began to gather, and they quickly buried the last bones of the brothers who died in the battle, but they took the time to eat the jerky.

The vast number of warriors began to growl uncontrollably when they thought that there were still a lot of cattle, sheep, gold and silver, and even the stock of wheat in Visby.

The Ross army began to form a team. Although the two warrior flag teams were reduced a lot, the team lined up in a matrix was still heroic.

The flag teams lined up in an array, and the flag bearers carried the flag of the flag team and began to march forward in neat steps.

Especially the Slavic flag team, the 800 spears marched like a forest, their neat pace gave Harald and his entourage a huge shock.

Loads of pack reindeer were pulling carts full of cargo, and some were pushing and pulling two-wheeled carts with some kind of heavy equipment.

Harald rubbed his eyes hard, and he saw a group of girls and boys. This group of very young warriors was also lined up in a very neat line. They either carried bows, or bows that were parallel to the wood. Follow the line ahead closely.

It seems that the Rus people have also dispatched all the power of their tribe. Even the leader of Rus was trained as a warrior by the children. For this decisive battle, the Rus people must have been preparing for many years!

And this is just the power of the Russ, Harald looked at all this with straight eyes.

Look, it was such a neat army that walked across the battlefield full of gray and white corpses. They almost lost nothing, and there were as many as 900 Danish mercenaries lying on the battlefield.

"The Rus people are so strong, if the Danes come to reinforce, the Danes will lose in the end!" Harald couldn't think about it anymore, but hung his head and was busy on the road, he was eager to leave this terrifying battlefield .

As for the future of the family, it all depends on the fate of the Rus people.