Rise of Rurik

"The Rise of Rurik ()"!

The lake wind blows away the morning fog, and the sun shines on the bear altar after the war.

This important ritual center and trade fair of the Karelians quickly disintegrated under the dawn attack of a partial division of the Ross army. After the prosperity disappeared, only a corpse was left, and the violent Ross warriors who had been violent for hundreds of years were busy searching for property.

Arik disembarked from the big ship and floated ashore. The Vips who participated in the battle also entered the bear altar as attackers for the first time.

Completely different from the Ross army, the Vips servants looked at the devastated tent group, they had no joy of victory, only fear.

The lake fog rises, and they attack. The lake mist cleared and they plundered.

In a very short period of time, this place that was once regarded as inviolable by the Vips was destroyed.

Some Ross warriors vented their anger and set fire to the leather tents with a ready-made fire source and let them burn.

There are also female captives who have been spared for the time being. The Ross people are happy wantonly, but they still make up for it with an ax afterwards.

Aric walked menacingly and fearfully, and he indulged the rampage of his men, even enjoying their frenzied destruction.

He motioned to Telavis: "Let the Veps do it."

"Just put stakes on the shore? Look here, there are corpses everywhere."

"Wouldn't it be better? Other Karelians will see this, and we will shock their nobles deeply."

Arik felt that his decision was very reliable, and Vipus' servants followed suit.

The wooden stakes were erected, and the heads of the envoys who received the tribute were stuck on them. Their faces were already gray, and the broken necks were all stained with black blood. The ferocious horror has always made Vipus servants jealous, but this The group of Ross veterans has seen it all.

Seeing that they had finished their work, Arik shook his neck and ordered to Telavis: "Let's go. Follow me closely and see what treasures the brothers find."

What interesting things can be found in tents and wooden sheds?

Some useful wooden utensils such as combs, small boxes, and wooden bowls were put into sackcloth sacks by the Rus, and some interesting bone utensils and leather were also hidden. Looting is an opportunity to make a fortune. Alec has always been generous. He doesn't even care too much about his brothers embezzling gold and silver. As for the discovery of a large amount of supplies, it shouldn't be divided among everyone.

Instead, give it to the Duke.

He carried two swords and walked into the area with the densest concentration of fighters, which also had the tallest wooden shed. Compared with the large number of small conical tents, the buildings here were obviously permanent. As it happens, Vips servants claim that this is the Bear Altar itself.

The Karelians do worship bears, as evidenced by the sight of a group of lowly bear-skinned warriors lying dead on the ground.

The berserkers of the Ross army wearing the heaviest scale armor, they are the madmen who break the formation, and they are also the strongest and strongest. Their iron helmets are not only reinforced and interfaced chain mail is added, but also the upper jaw of the bear is stared at the head, and the upper jaw with a tusk is used as a characteristic sun visor.

The berserkers of the Ross army are the real "bearmen", and this group of Karelian bearskins who are said to be altar guards are all fakes.

More than a dozen older priests were killed, and the young priests were beheaded. There are as many as 300 dead bodies here, and what Arik can conclude is that the enemy didn't kill them all at once, and they still ended up like this despite their all-out resistance.

The two flag captains walked over with smiles, each reporting their results, and presented the gem necklaces they had snatched.

Arik squinted his eyes and looked: "That's it? What else did you find?"

"Boss, what a nice necklace, don't you want it?" one person said in surprise.

"Give it to me? Forget it. Keep it for yourself. Tell me what else you find."

Another said: "We also found the cellar where they keep the hides, and there are a lot of squirrel skins in there! It's amazing."

Squirrel skin? The first thing Arik thought of when he heard the word was that it was a currency.

"Haha, it looks like we found their money bank. Let's go! Let's take a look..."

The battlefield has returned to calm, and the Karelian fishermen only escaped because they were not important. They saw the violence and terror of the attackers, and they knew that their homes were completely destroyed. All the canoes escaped, and they rowed eastward to reach the nearest settlement, at least as far as the village of the Lydians on the east bank of the lake, where the Karelians were their lords, and told them about the foreign army Destroyed the bear altar, rested and then looked for the chief's "big tent", telling all the Karelian nobles that the disaster was coming.

It's just that those who successfully escaped from the bear altar have already rushed on the road of reporting, and what awaits them is another difficult trek.

At noon, a staggering number of reindeer were driven to the dead bear altar, and most of the tents were either burned or destroyed.

Arik inspected the cold cellars, and asked the brothers to take out the hides of squirrels, ferrets, lynxes, forest cats, and foxes, and bundle them with hemp rope and quickly transport them to the big ship.

No one can plunder these leather treasures, they will be dedicated to Rurik, Duke of Ross.

In addition, anyone who grabs something is their own!

The opportunity to plunder is given to all, including Vipus servants, who legally join in the hunt for treasure.

Apart from a small amount of gemstones and a batch of precious small animal hides, the most valuable seizures here are probably those deer.

Arik was stunned by the astonishing number of deer.

As many as forty reindeer were killed, their fresh hides were stripped, and their entrails were violently thrown directly into the lake, except for the nutritious and delicious deer liver.

A large bonfire appeared by the lake, and the Ross people made roasted whole deer extravagantly.

Everyone ate meat crazily. Even the Vipus people were lucky enough to eat the half-baked venison leg. The Ross people also gave some salt as a gift. The delicious taste moved many people to tears.

The people were immersed in the joy of victory. When they set off, no one would have expected that the armed reconnaissance would have such a big harvest, let alone that the Karelians, who were boasted to be extremely powerful by the Suomi, would be so weak.

Sitting around the bonfire and eating barbecue, Telavis asked Arik a soul question: "So many deer, how do we deal with them? Take them all away?"

"Of course. Bring the deer back and we'll be heroes all over Russ. These deer will make our lives much easier in the future."

"But there are too many deer, you...you can't fit them all into the boat."

"Haha, then eat them all." Arik's words were teasing, and he laughed himself after saying that.

But Telavis' question is very critical. The Ross squadron does not have enough transport ships, but this is not a problem.

Arik thought for a while: "We still have to bring back as many deer as possible, and some of the deer can be used as rewards."

"To whom?"

"To the Veps."

"You?" Teravis was taken aback. "I doubt that you are so generous."

"Brat, are you mocking me?" Arik smiled with anger.

"I... I dare not."

"I'm sorry you don't dare. But the Vipus still participated in the battle. They are servants, and we have to give some rewards. By the way, how many deer are suitable for them?"

"It's up to me? When they come twenty, just give them two hundred, or more. In my opinion, we are very good at raising deer. It doesn't matter if we give them more. This way we can also receive more in the future." tribute."

This was actually a good idea, but Arik cast a skeptical look. He didn't say anything, but he was muttering in his heart that this kid was speaking for his servants.

"I'll just give them two hundred, I've decided. As for more deer...we'll stop our armed investigation now, and this will be the landing point for Ross's army, and our army will gather here."

"Ah! Are you going back to move the transport ship?"

"Of course. Time is urgent, we will act tomorrow."

When they learned that they would be rewarded with ten deer, the servants of Vipus all bowed their heads in emotion. They were authorized to select ten deer by themselves, and they were smart enough to select a total of 200 fawns over one year old from the deer herd. what does that mean? These extremely young female deer can give birth for the first time this autumn, which maximizes the interests of herders from a utilitarian point of view. The rest of the young deer who were obviously just weaned, they didn't pay attention.

A fawn is born in spring, and if it is a female, it will be conceived in the autumn of the following year. Even if it is a reindeer that is raised, the Karelians will not let a deer live to be ten years old, they will kill the old deer for meat. Therefore, a female deer can only give birth to eight babies in a lifetime, and ten deer are the current limit. This kind of creature is not high in fecundity.

Just like the cattle and sheep of the grassland nomads are the lifeblood, the Karelia and other tribes that graze in the cold zone, the reindeer are their lifeblood, and their economic foundation is almost based on reindeer breeding.

After being selected in this way, the Vipus basically took away the most fertile female deer in the huge herd. Arik, who was like a demon king, was too lazy to know about such professional things.

And Telavis and other Kewen people are purely seeing through, they have already regarded the Vips as distant and non-threatening kin, and everyone has left seeds in the village of the Vipus, and they will basically not be responsible in the future, let them Not bad to get some excellent fawns.

Throughout the afternoon, the huge herd of deer was counted in groups, and the Ross people with excellent computing power counted the exact number of the herd of deer.

Excluding the deer that were eaten, there were still 3,400 heads, and then the deer that were rewarded to the Vips people were removed, and the Ross people controlled 3,100 heads.

The more than 3,000 deer are also exquisite, and there are as many as 800 young deer inside.

They're not wild reindeer at all, and there aren't many real wild reindeer in the area anymore. The Bear Altar was originally a center for the Karelians to trade reindeer, and all the domestic deer captured by the Rus Army.

These deer thus have two important features that distinguish them from their wild counterparts.

First: They are large in number and clustered together. They are indifferent to their companions being skinned, roasted, and eaten by humans. They continue to eat grass by themselves, completely losing their aggressiveness and only remaining purely docile and humble.

Second: stags are always artificially screened out, and a batch of stags are kept as breeding deer. The female deer is the most domesticated by the Karelians.

The female deer is much more docile than the male deer. The female deer is the main animal force for carrying goods and pulling sleds. This is very clear to the leather craftsmen of the Ross people. A small number of species of deer and a large number of female deer have created an astonishing number of fawns in the deer herd.

After all, the bear altar is a trading place, the antler of the young deer is also a commodity, the meat of the young deer is more delicious than that of the old deer, and the Karelians are also trying their best to eat well when it comes to food.

Arik and other Ross people paid more attention to the development prospects of young deer, and it was this kind of young deer that was easier to tie ropes and pull them to the Mercury.

The herd of deer was divided into ranks, and the bear altar itself began to be thoroughly cleaned of the battlefield.

In principle, Arik and his fellows did not want to collect the bodies of the slain Karelians, but the plan was completely changed because of this herd of deer.

Why did the army leave? On the contrary, the brothers occupied this place, and the dead bodies of the enemy were either buried or burned, and the Ross people built their own permanent settlements on the ruins of the tent group, so as to give priority to the use of fishery resources here, so as to serve as an excellent army gathering place .

The settlement should have a name, and since it is a bear altar for the Karelians, the Rus also adopted this meaning and took a Viking name - Bjornvistadt (Bjornvistadt). Meaning: Bear Festival Town,

On these issues, Arik showed his greatest command, not to mention the diversion of the deer, and the army was also diverted.

The next day, the four flag captains under the sun were forced to get together to draw lots.

Arik held a silver coin with Justinian's face printed on it, and selected a lucky centurion to escort the first batch of supplies back through a group of operations of guessing heads and tails. Who would really want to be in this wild place? They had won a battle, and many began to fear Karelian reprisals. Although the brothers are very confident, if the opponent suddenly kills thousands of people, things will be difficult.

Although the latter had a low probability, the fact that the three centurions were retained was clearly God's choice, and the result of the coin toss cannot be questioned.

They dug big pits, threw all the bodies in, covered them with soil and marked them. The mark was nothing else, and the heads of the twenty Karelian envoys were transferred to this gigantic mound, a sort of macabre tombstone.

The Vips decided to go home by land, and the nineteen people took some iron weapons rewarded by the Ross people, drove as many as two hundred young deer, and walked on the familiar road.

Why nineteen people? Just because one person will act as a messenger and return to Vips village in a big boat to tell the local people what happened.

It was a long trek home overland, and the well-hikered Vipus were unafraid, their inner ecstasy surpassed all, and everyone fancied that it was a good thing for them to submit to their new blond masters of Rose. Ross people are not like masters, but like parents. In their concept, only parents have such generous rewards.

This is of course just their wishful thinking.

Vipus are sheep. Killing them for meat is one way of using them, and letting them grow and shearing their sheep regularly is also another way of using them. Obviously, the latter is better. It is meaningless to kill them to grab a wave. Aric naturally implements the latter option, and he can't think of a third way.

The remaining 300 people used local materials and began to build a walled settlement. This would be a huge project. Considering the possible retaliation of the enemy, defensive fortifications must be done. Big trees are felled fast, and sheds will be the fastest to be built. It is very difficult to build a fence in a short time. It is very important to convert some wooden sheds into wooden towers. This is a watchtower and a commanding height for archery.

This group of young veterans put their experience of fighting against powerful enemies here. After all, they relied on the advanced civil construction to take advantage of the decisive battle in Gotland.

Arik left first with a large number of seized, and now three longboats towed the Mercury, all the boats furled their sails, and headed south along the shoreline of the lake relying on the most traditional oars.

When the Ross fleet came, they had to sail carefully due to the unknown environment, and they kept a slow speed. Now that there was nothing to worry about, Arik had only one thought on his mind, to bring the Vips chief aboard, and then rush to New Roseburg immediately.

And it was done in just four days!

It took only four days for Arik to reach the mouth of the Neva River from the northernmost point of Lake Ladoga, together with the aging female leader.

The paddling brothers did not enter the downstream mode until the fleet entered the faster-flowing Neva River, so they had a chance to take a good rest. They arrived in New Roseburg smoothly. At this moment, the surrounding area of ​​the city is already in the busy period of wheat harvesting. The farming peoples of the whole Eastern Europe have started their wheat harvesting season. Even Rurik brought his new group of wives and concubines to show his closeness to the people. , using a wooden flail to ram the freshly harvested ears of wheat to shell the oats.

Arik's return was no exception, it must be the results of the armed investigation, but Rurik, who was busy with farm work, learned that only four ships, one large, three small, had come back, and things became complicated.

Rurik was taken aback suddenly: "Oops, don't let my carelessness and his recklessness cause my army to suffer great losses!"

He put down his farm work and hurried to the pier...

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