Rise of Rurik Chapter 449

As Arik plundered all the way, the main force of the Rus Army was also making active pre-war preparations.

The big businessman Gould and his eldest son "Silver Fox" Snoreva both stood on Gotland. This is certainly not the first time for Gould.

The last time he landed on the island was at least twenty years ago, when he joined Visby as a Danish businessman.

He pointed out a general direction for Rurik, "Visby is just west, and it can be reached by the army through this small island."

In addition to assisting in the transportation of supplies, the merchant's job is to bring back the spoils as early as possible.

On a bright and joyous morning, the captive who was taken into custody ushered in his own ending.

A large number of women and children were **** with their hands. They were driven by the Ross fighters on the long ship, and then they approached the largest Aphrodite and five other cargo ships.

The children were hoisted aboard the tall Aphrodite like cargo in a strange hoisting method.

As for the women, they were temporarily untied and forced to climb the rope ladder to board the ship.

They boarded the ship, and their destiny changed completely from this moment.

On the occupied pier, Gould, still dressed in gorgeous clothes, was eager to board the ship. Rurik and Otto were standing in front of him.

"There will be a great battle in the future. We will win a big victory, and then we will be able to catch more slaves." Gould's words were full of vicissitudes, and the words were exciting.

From the corner of Rurik's eyes, he glanced at someone who was still climbing not far away.

"Those women, they are not slaves. At least not in the future."

Gould smiled, "Oh, I know. They will be the wives of warriors, but are they loyal? I hope they are loyal."

Otto shook his head indifferently, "Those children can be repaired into obedient women. As for the existing female prisoners, if they betray their new men, I will order them to be executed after the war."

Gould took a step back subconsciously, knowing that Otto would really do it.

"Okay." He sighed deeply, and then asked softly, "Rurik, this time I have taken away all the spoils that I have captured. This Slitomo has no valuables at all. Is this something? Too hastily."

"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Rurik squinted, with aura in questioning.

"Me? I dare not, you have your own plans, of course I fully support you."

"Then tell you." Rylikon lifted his chest. "I will tell you a story. A long time ago there was a warrior named Hannibal, who brought an army to defeat powerful enemies. He always wins because of him. After the war, the spoils were distributed to the brothers. After the soldiers vented, they sold the captured women to the merchants, and bought the money and meat. When his soldiers enjoyed the penniless, they would do it again. Organize the army to continue fighting. You know, they have enjoyed it and they are afraid of losing. They have lost and they are mad and want to take it back."

"Huh?" Gould suddenly realized a row of foreheads, and then asked with a smile, "This Hannibal you are talking about, is it... you are nicknamed yourself?"

"No!" Rurik deliberately lied, "I saw it in the sheepskin book kept by the high priest, and Odin rewarded me with the ability to understand it. Hannibal is a hero of a distant age, and now I Just to imitate him and become a new hero."

Gould couldn't believe it, Otto didn't speak for the time being, but his body was trembling with surprise.

It can be said that the army commanded by Rurik resembles Hannibal's Carthaginian army in many respects. This is not just the tried and tested pincer tactics.

Both sides are mixed forces formed by the integration of multiple ethnic groups. Although the composition of the personnel is somewhat complicated, it seems that the combat effectiveness is guaranteed at present. Rurik used the promise of marriage contracts, mysticism, personal charm, power and wealth to dominate this army. That Hannibal did a similar trick.

Hannibal's clever way to preserve combat effectiveness was to keep the army "poverty."

If every soldier is dragging his family and holding a lot of wealth, will they still desperately?

The Rus were an ancient army, but also a Viking army.

They like fighting, and of course they like women and money. They have temporarily lost these,

Rurik set an example. He entrusted Gould to take away all the coins he had seized. Just like the soldiers, the rations and weapons and equipment left were very rich.

Most of the seized cattle, sheep and reindeer were forcibly transported away, and all the cargo ships of the Ross fleet were full of human and animal properties.

Now Rurik can't take care of the cattle and sheep and make the cabin smelly, and he has no chance even if he regrets it now.

Gould boarded the ship and commanded the Ross transport team, relying on the strong late summer south wind on the sea all the way north.

According to the plan, these human and livestock materials were first unloaded on Tombstone Island, and the left-behind islanders were responsible for taking care of them. After completing the mission, Gould returned home immediately, but the direction of their movement changed.

The Aphrola now has two torsion slingshots left, and only one of the remaining cargo ships. The best ten were converted into land warfare weapons and mounted on small carts to participate in the decisive battle.

Gould's team was a group of sailors, as well as the obviously old and weak warriors selected by Rurik from the flag team.

This returning fleet must circle to the western coast of Gotland. Under the leadership of Gould, who knows the location of Visby, there are as many as twenty empty and light armed cargo ships and the huge Aphrola. A flag of Ross came out and controlled the port of Visby. All ships entering and leaving the port were the enemy by default. At that time, the Ross fleet either directly sank the enemy ship with a bulbous bow, or scuttled with projectiles at close range with a torsion slingshot.

Gould's mission in the war was carried out about five full days later, and the mission was to blockade.

Of course, the huge cargo ship lifted a larger spinnaker and left, and the shock to the soldiers was enormous.

The day of the expedition is this early morning! The twelfth day of August in the Julian calendar.

The long-term repairs regained the energy of the warriors who had passed away. Thousands of people gathered on the coast with their stature weapons and equipment, carrying bags full of food and water bags.

The people of Novgorod have always used a type of backpack, which is just a combination of a folded and stitched linen cloth and a hemp rope. This ancient and classic backpack design was popular in this war.

The Ross army became a little strange, but it seemed to Rurik that there was a strong smell of Ross.

They have eaten as many as 500 seized sheep in recent days! Even Slavic warriors who don't eat much meat on weekdays are also a rare feast in life.

The mutton makes the soldiers mad, and their roar is even more fierce.

Lumia wears a helmet with antlers, and she is also complimented by the gorgeously dressed priestess.

The girls from the Valkyrie regiment brought by Rurik wrapped the altar in concentric circles.

Lumia looked at the eastern sun, raised her head and opened her hands, and shouted vigorously in Nosse, "King Odin! Thor! Frey! Freya! Freja! Al! And the gods!" Give us victory! These twenty cows are our gifts to the gods!"

After all, the sword-bearers Rurik, Otto, and Haro Zossen started.

This is the sacrifice of the Varanges, and all the Corvins and Slavs participated in it. These alien warriors now have common interests with the Ruths. In this extremely extravagant sacrifice, they were distracted and meditated on the gods they believed in.

The Corvin men Mezzasta and Kejas looked to the east, meditating on the river **** of Oulu and the sun they believed in.

The Slav Medveit and his Novgorod warriors prayed for the Slavic war **** Peron to give strength to the brothers, and the sun **** Dzhborg to give everyone warmth, and the chaotic Chernoborg, pray for him Don't take away your life.

Twenty cows were sacrificed, and the blood of the cows stained the altar and flowed into the sea. Finally, even the carcasses of the cows were thrown into the sea. They won't eat the sacrifice this time, and the corpse of the cow was finally presented to the ocean god.

Many Ross fighters were attracted by the smearing of two bloodstains of bull blood, and thus received the blessing of the gods.

The Corvin and the Slavs all settled down, and they boasted that they had also received some kind of great blessing.

The army removed the camp, leaving only a pile of wooden sheds.

"Brothers! Let's go!" Standing on a reindeer cart, Rurik started the decisive battle against Visby.

The Port of Slitomo was empty, it seemed like an abandoned settlement fell into silence.

Rurik and Otto were too lazy to wait for Arik to return. Both of them estimated that the fifty elites who killed the red eye must be hacked everywhere. He was a little worried about his cousin Arik, but Otto didn't care at all.

The Ross army platoon is in a rectangular array. The two warrior flag teams are in front, the heavy team (the captured Baishagang men are temporarily unarmed and forced to do this work), the priests and the flag team of shooters are in the core position, and the tail is carrying the long. Spears' Slavic flag team and Mellaren flag team.

Rose's gold-rimmed Duke's flag was placed on the deer cart, and Rurik sat cross-legged.

The army set off in the morning and moved at a faster speed along the route of the Slitomo people to Visby.

The narrow and long mound at an altitude of 100 meters gave birth to a stream, and in the evening, the Ross people successfully found it.

The army camped on the riverside, and someone with keen eyes such as Carlotta, she discovered that the meadows of this generation had obvious traces of being eaten by sheep.

Because sheep gnaw grass very seriously, they tend to gnaw off the grass roots very seriously. The sparse meadows in some places must be the reason. The sheep dung eggs found have become new examples.

The army camped in the woods beside the stream, and they cut down the pine trees and immediately started a fire. A large number of people ran to the stream to replenish fresh water, and some tried to touch a few fish.

The sunset became more gentle, and the whole world became golden. However, some soldiers were sensitively aware that the distant scenery was a bit strange.

Some soldiers, they were distressed by the discovery of goat **** eggs, and the dialects looked like the world was too wide open, it was unbelievable.

The mound is in the east. Looking closely, there seems to be a house there?

The main force of the Rus army carried a lot of luggage, and it was not easy to climb the mountain. They spent some time bypassing the mound and walking along the river. So bypassing a village.

A group of soldiers approached the leader's camp, which was being built, with great interest.

"My lord, there seems to be a village in the east." The soldier raised his axe to guide him, his eyes full of greed.

Rurik sat on the ground and warmed the fire, and he could see what his men wanted to do.

At this moment, Otto, who had tied the rope, walked out of the tent, "What are you talking about? The east village?"

"Yes, Lord Duke. Brothers' instincts can't be wrong. It's a village. Wouldn't it be nice for us to take people over and grab their cattle and sheep?"

He drools when he thinks of roast lamb Otto. It was during this time that he ate lamb unscrupulously during the days when he landed on the island.

"Then go do it!" Rurik stood up and thought for a while, "Let Haroldoson lead you. I'll give you some advice and try to get as much life as possible."

Some fighters immediately asked, "What if they resist?"

"Then cut off their heads!"

Soon, Harrodsson gathered almost a hundred people, and this group of fighters ran wildly in the twilight, eager to make a fortune before the decisive battle.

The temptation of wealth and food makes the soldiers tireless, even if they have walked for more than half of the day.

However, when they did arrive in the village, they suddenly discovered that there were a large number of dead bodies, and the large number of charred pillars and blackened stones in the village were telling the terrible incidents that had happened here.

In the twilight, the Ross soldiers who are staying at this death scene, where do they plan to plunder? They felt an inexplicable horror, and the village seemed to have received a curse from a **** or an attack by a monster.

However, Haro Zossen has experienced many battles. He inspected the gray corpses of some of the dead, and saw some holes with thick thumbs and a large number of traces of axes.

It's Arik! It's not this madman who has ghosts.

The brothers didn't want to stay in this disgusting place anymore, they urged Harrodsson to leave quickly.

"Okay! This is a cursed place, let's go back quickly!"

They continued walking along the stream, and a large bonfire of gas in the distance was the camp of the army.

Rurik was going to sleep in the tent, at least in the tent, the high priest Lumia and Duchess of Ostara Carlotta, these two girls slept soundly.

A large number of soldiers ate and huddled up beside the campfire and fell asleep.

Otto took off his boots, and he still walked a lot as a duke that day. Rurik also took care of his father. He made his maid Otto squeeze his feet, and the old fellow applauded one after another.

Rurik was blowing in the wind, buckling the shreds of fish meat between his teeth, thinking about the decisive battle in his mind, and he was confident about the battle.

Harrodsson hurried back with his looting brothers. He went straight to the Duke Battalion Commander, and saw that the old man with a beard was pinched by a group of girls?

Harozuosen smiled and hurriedly moved in: "My brother, you will enjoy it too much."

"You? You came back suddenly?" Otto waved them to leave.

The girls gathered next to Rurik again.

Rurik casually ordered: "Well, my servants, you all go to the stream to wash your hands, and then rest."

They murmured in Slavic and left in a whisper, obviously they were really not satisfied with Otto's.

Rurik raised his head, "What's the matter? Could the villagers be cut down by you all? Or are you defeated?"

"Beat me? It's ridiculous! We are Ross people. But..." Haroldoson sat down suddenly.

Otto asked to dry lamb chops, "I'll eat something first."

Harrodsson recovers his strength a little bit, which shows the terrifying scene of the village. After hearing this, Rurik and Dad made their judgment almost instinctively. They said in unison: "Arik did it."

"It must be him. The villagers were killed, even with cattle and sheep. Those cattle and sheep started to smell bad, which is really damning! Now..." Haro Zuosen looked at the half-eaten lamb chops in his hand, and it suddenly stopped fragrant. .

He threw the lamb chops directly into the fire.

"Why don't you eat anymore?" Otto asked.

"I'm tired, I don't bother to think about Arik. It's just..." Haro Zossen smiled heartily. "It seems that I have to pick a few beautiful women from the captives and arrange them for my Kanuf. Let them pinch my feet. I'm leaving!"

Harozuosen waved his hand, but Otto laughed.

The next morning, the Ross army left a lot of black meadow traces and a field of cattle, sheep and fish bones.

Before the sun reached the sky at all, there were more than a dozen pathfinder soldiers running back to the huge matrix of Rus people's movement.

As he was getting closer to Visby, the really brainy scout Arik didn't know where he was now.

Rurik had to send some more people who were good at running to act as scouts.

Now, these people have returned with important news.

They gathered in front of the deer cart of the duke and his son, and the leader said: "Death was found in the front. There are dead cattle and sheep everywhere, and some people's corpses were burned."

With what happened yesterday, Rurik is not surprised now. He jumped out of the car quickly and asked, "People, cattle and sheep are all dead again?"

"Yes, my lord, even the house was burned down. We checked, the dead body showed signs of our crossbow arrows, and the wreckage of the house was still warm."

"It's Arik again." Rurik pinched his waist and looked angry.

"Don't be angry." Otto's big hand covered his son's head. "Let's go and see the situation. Our army will stay overnight there tonight."

"Huh! I will clean up the mess for him in the end." Lurik looked ahead.

When seeing a dead body for the first time, many people will yell in horror, or even faint. Perhaps the woman was even more timid in this matter.

There are a group of women in the army, most of them are female soldiers of Rurik. They have seen a large number of corpses in the Battle of the Beach. After screaming and stimulating, they now have strong resistance.

As for the elite Ross warriors, they don't care anymore, because death is also a part of life.

Now Rurik saw the terrible tragedy. The grass was just a mess of corpses. What was even more absurd was that he actually saw the corpse of a chicken.

The Ross warriors instinctively drew out their swords and axes, and the crossbowmen also wound their arrows. They instinctively felt that this place was too murderous.

Rurik pinched his waist and stomped his feet, Otto approached behind him, "You...are you afraid?"

"It must have been Arik's doing it, and it can only be him. It is so cruel to avenge the uncle? Is he going to impose the death penalty on the entire island? Also, look at these chickens, they have also been chopped down. What a waste! What the **** does Arik picture?"

"Of course it's revenge!"

"This is revenge? I don't understand, and I can't do it."

"This is bravery!" Otto stroked his son's head, and his big hand was directly pulled down by Rülic.

"I don't want to be so brave. This is a butcher's behavior. I have to dispose of these corpses."

Based on experience, Otto and Harrodsson judged that these bodies had been dead for three days.

The men in Baisha Port who were forced to fight are now also forced to contain their bodies.

If the Rosses feel fearless, the Slavs and Corvins have a new understanding of the viciousness of the Varanges, and this group of Rosses is as vicious as another group of Varanges!

But the Slavs felt a sense of similarity from the destroyed village. It turns out that Varyag also grazes and grows oats.

Rurik did not observe the large number of wheat fields here, and the Slavs realized it. Part of the wheat fields were also burned, and they were obviously almost mature. The saboteurs are the Varangas, and they are also the farming and herding. Unfortunately, the brothers in Novgorod are not as belligerent as they are.

The foul-smelling corpses with black blood were piled up, then covered with a large number of wooden blocks and ignited, forming a huge fire mound, illuminating the entire village wreckage.

As the high priest ~www.mtlnovel.com~, she also prayed to the corpses of these hostile forces under the instruction of Rurik.

People settled down, and the army camped there. Lurik, who had just calmed down, was sitting on the ground gnawing on a dried salted fish. His elder brother-in-law Medvedt ran up carrying a handful of grass, and in Slavic speaking with interest, he introduced the yellowish grass with particles hanging in his hand.

"This is oatmeal?!" Rurik was taken aback.

"Yes! There are wheat fields around this village, but unfortunately a lot of them have been burned."

"It's really unlucky." Liurik rubbed the oats hard, rubbing the bran away to see the soft and waxy particles inside. "The wheat is not cooked yet."

"Yes, but in ten days I think I will be able to harvest."

Seeing enough dead bodies, these unburnt wheat is good news.

"Then take control of this place. After we have cleaned up the Gotlanders, we will also take their wheat!" After all, the soft and waxy grains were thrown into the fire by Rülic, and a flame of wheat-flavored flames ignited...

Chapter end