Rise of Rurik Chapter 787

According to the experience of previous years, in winter, the frozen Volkhov River will go to the Fort Novosibirsk on the Neva River, and it can be reached after a continuous journey for up to a week.

Perhaps horses are not suitable for advancing on the ice in the cold winter, just like Batu Khan gave up his plan to attack the Novgorod Republic in consideration of the cold weather. But no matter whether it's the capital or the speed, the important means of attacking Eastern Europe is to advance quickly along the frozen river. They even deliberately choose the glacier because it is the smoothest passage for horses in the forest area.

Although the times are different, is there a fundamental difference between Rurik's determined march and Batu and Sutai?

The latter's abandonment is wise. It must be handed over from the forests and grasslands of the south to Novgorod in winter. The total force of 20,000 cavalry troops will inevitably be large-scale unless they can plunder a large amount of food along the way. Dead!

The pressure on Rurik is much less, although he himself is now in Novgorod on Lake Ilmen. The surrounding environment is snow-covered and the pasture under the snow that can be eaten by the reindeer can be ignored. He has control. A large amount of wheat resources can be directly fed high-energy oats from reindeer and horses, not to mention the small number of large animals to be served.

The Principality Cavalry of Rurik and the Pecheneg Cavalry were all assembled, including the nobles such as Rurik, Kagan, and Arik, and all the horsemen were just over 130.

Generally speaking, even if the frozen lakes and rivers provide convenient roads for postal services, the extreme cold weather forces ordinary people to reluctantly run around. Even the madmen hunting in winter, they sweep small animals in the hunting area they have delineated, let alone put themselves on traffic roads meaninglessly.

The prince will go to Shilla Fort to participate in the Hanukkah festival!

The news was released early.

Ordinary people in Novgorod naturally hope that the prince himself can spend the festive season in Novgorod. Obviously, the prince is interested in the real royal city.

It is rare for the prince to organize a postal team, and a small group of local Slavic businessmen also intend to take this opportunity to transport the purchased linen and honey to Shilla Fort, eager to sell them at a high price.

The Ostarans also organized a tiny caravan of reindeer under Carlotta's instruction, only to make a fortune by selling a batch of the latest hard cheese and chunks of butter.

Even the Boyar of the traditional farms, when they discovered business opportunities, they spontaneously organized micro missions after receiving the news, and transported a batch of honey to earn excellent ironware for production and life.

They didn't have to go forward with great fanfare, but because the road was full of challenges, only a few hundred people walking in groups could eliminate the risk.

Many people poured into Novgorod, and the noise was getting worse.

As he approached the departure, Rurik had personally chatted with the assembled Ragner's ministries, and noticed the gathering of local merchants dressed like brown bears, and even Boyar's messengers.

"You guys, borrow the reindeer from the people in White Tree Manor? You pay for your travel expenses, I can't control it."

Tucao returns to Tucao, but it is Rurik himself who will organize a huge sled team.

This winter, the down-and-out Danish Stonewall tribes, men and women who were survivors of the war, have earned a sum of revenge through their labor. Their enthusiastic expressions clearly said they wanted to continue doing it. They are just like ordinary people. Once they get used to a stable life, maybe they won't be too entangled in the vengeance of licking blood?

It's great to stay Rick to chat with Ragner at this opportunity.

The Danes of the Stonewall tribe are now quite welcoming the Prince of Rose, Ragnar as the headman, and now they also regard Rurik as a presence close to their relatives.

In the warm house, people waiting to evade, Rurik and Ragnar talked to each other.

"Brother, I know that you are going to the North to participate in the Bright Savings Association. Of course I want to go about this. This time, I plan to bring all the men over, and give me any physical work..."

What Ragnar said was very pitted, there was no conspiracy in his eyes, but his purpose was clear-to make more money during the festive season.

Rurik smiled frankly: "Why bring everyone? Your men have been working, if not necessary, they will spend the holidays in Novgorod. You don't mind, the local Slavs are in the same place as our Vikings. It's a holiday."

"Oh, I still want to help you do more."

"Just take your brothers from the logging team. You have twenty or thirty brothers. When you get to Shilla Fort, I will arrange for you to take a look at the shipyard."

"What do you mean?" Ragnar's keen nerves were provoked.

Rurik calmed down, staring at him with alert eyes: "Don't you want revenge? Isn't it like the villain against the King of Denmark? I can give you a chance."

"Ah! Can I tell myself a few words."

"Speaking."

"I still think of Gotland, where I set up a stronghold. This is a shortcut to attack my Danish enemies."

"Yes." Rurik replied very simply.

"so……"

Ragnar could feel that the person in front of him was holding back a lot of words.

"I think about it." Rurik said, "just like my Spuyute, you can fund you to organize a powerful fleet. I authorize you to plunder in the name of Rose, and share the materials you grabbed. Give me half."

"Huh? Can I use your big ship?"

"Yes! No. The shipbuilding factory in Shilla Fort is already manufacturing large ships, and I am the owner of the ship. You took your brothers to fight with the Saaremaites under Spuyut after the war. The women and children of your tribe and all the people wounded in the battle stay in Novgorod. Me! I will take care of them for you."

Ragnar's nerves were deeply touched. What is this not a hostage? According to his plan, he will stay here for the whole winter and evacuate next spring to find a new settlement to establish a village. This plan seems to be ruined?

Rurik had anticipated this clever man's hesitation. This man did not seem to be caught, and did not want to be restrained.

However, safe asylum comes at a price. The development of the matter can no longer help this man.

Rurik deliberately smiled, and whispered in a persuasive way: "Don't you want to be the new king of Denmark? A new Denmark that is in peace with the Duchy of Rus, and a new king named Ragnar."

Ragnar has ambitions, but his ambition to be king has not yet been determined. Rurik took the initiative to mention this, and he was really moved.

An exiled nobleman finally made his choice.

"Okay. It seems that there is no better plan than this. I can continue to do things for you, but you must help me to overthrow Horrick's rule over Denmark. Take revenge further."

"Can."

In this way, Ragner himself participated in the festive season to vote for Rickner. The so-called Hanukkah in Shilla Fort is naturally political. Although the principality does not have a calendar for the Hajj system, Hanukkah has actually become a servant of all walks of life. Opportunity for local aristocrats to make Hajj.

Of course, it is very realistic. Because Hanukkah will make the winter market in Shilla Fort more lively, everyone needs a trading base to exchange living materials, but Shilla Fort is a material distribution center and an ever-expanding production-oriented city. Those living People who are extremely scarce of materials can peddle large beasts, small beasts, leather, etc., in exchange for ironware that is beneficial to production, and so on.

Ragnar's visit in person is a form of surrender.

Therefore, the Pecheneg people also went on horseback, which also reflected their respect for the principality.

Who doesn't want to talk about pomp? As a prince, if you don't deliberately show the gorgeous side, the public will find it inappropriate.

Rurik knew that he had to lead by example, interpreting a lifestyle that the nobles should have, such as wearing Chinese clothes and talking about hygiene, talking peacefully and behaved appropriately, especially with a mind full of wisdom.

A team of reindeer sleds that are not too small has been formed, except for those dedicated to riders, the most sleds pulled are full of oats and a small amount of hay.

Old Otto is older, he is in his dying year. Niya's condition is better, and countless gullies caused by aging are also engraved on her face.

As the prince Rurik participated in the event, Queen Svetlana, Duchess of Ostara Carlotta, and Countess of Narvik Noren must also go. They are all Rurik's wives and are obliged to participate in the event.

They were well-dressed, wrapped in white polar bear skin and showed a trace of dominance.

Svetlana is holding the three-and-half-year-old princess of the Principality, Velika, and Carlotta is holding her half-year-old son, Carl, even though she could not have been.

The two children were born expensive and it was an obligation to participate in the event. Even if Karl was only half a year old, participating in the event would take a huge risk.

Only the poor two-year-old Reglav stayed in Novgorod, stayed by his grandparents, and guarded the tomb of his biological mother, and spent the third Hanukkah he experienced. He was also two years old. Birthday and the death day of the birth mother and daughter Mary.

Thousands of people gathered by the frozen Volkhov River, and the reindeer sled mixed horse team was ready to go. People who live in remote areas also come to watch this good show and appreciate the heroic posture of the riders.

Ottoqiang cheered up and put on his beloved chain mail, a deerskin draped over his body, a gold-plated leather helmet on the gray head, and his white beard swaying in the north wind. He is aging fast, and the veteran warrior who knows he is going to die would rather die on the battlefield. Obviously, the gods would not give him such a destination, but spend the last days of his old age in happiness.

He was still the appearance of a veteran warrior, and no one was allowed to support him, so he stood on the snow with his patterned steel sword.

He is like a sculpture, gazing at his son who is about to leave, his eyes are full of a thousand words no longer need to be said.

Only the old lady Niya carefully stroked her only child, Rurik, and kept kissing her son's face, wishing him a perfect success in the festival rituals he participated in and presided over.

"Mom, there is one more thing you should remember." Rurik mentioned suddenly.

"What's the matter?" Niya let go for a while.

"It's Lumia. Her second child is about to be born."

"Ah! I remember. Time is so fast, Velika also has a new brother or new sister."

Rurik nodded: "When the ceremony is over, I will bring her back. At that time, you still have to help me with the baby."

"That's natural, more grandchildren, this is my happiness..."

This old woman had two sons who died early in a row, and she gave all her love to her third son, Rurik. Can the pain of losing a child at an early age be smoothed by time? The fact is that there are more and more grandchildren under the knees, and the past pains are really smoothed out. Niya would rather devote all her later years to caring for her grandchildren. She expects that the youngest of all her son's wives and concubines will also give birth to children. Then she will leave the human world surrounded by as many as twenty grandchildren. Woolen cloth.

The prince had a close relationship with his old husband and mother. Kagan, who was riding a horse, looked sideways at him, feeling envy and suspicion as well.

Is it possible that an old couple is a good old man? This couple is the original "khan" of the Ross people, and their Rurik brothers are too young. Is there any hidden feeling in it?

Could all that be true? Is it the **** of the Roths who descended favorably, a boy who descended like a meteorite and became the new khan of the Roths?

Kagan didn't dare to belittle himself, he covered his face completely, and even covered his mount with a layer of cloth to keep him warm. A woolen scarf wrapped around his fox fur hat, and wooden framed sunglasses covered the last exposed eye skin. This Prince Pechenegger became a "person in the cover" alive and well. Not only did his personal cold protection methods reach extremes, but his mount was also similar to other dependents.

Naturally, the prince and queen of Rurik did the most outrageous sleigh, which was simply a walking tent, covered with a large amount of leather to form a warm nest. Many wives and two children accompanied the noblest man in the principality, Rurik. Wind chill was avoided along the way.

The final greeting came to an end. Amidst the cheers of thousands of people, the sled team followed the Volkhov Glacier all the way north.

Ragner took his brothers to sit on the sleigh dressed in thick clothes, and talked about the interesting things they had encountered when they went to Shilla Fort.

The Pecheneg warriors, who covered their bodies to hide, took the crossbows and other weapons they had just exchanged and rode around as the guards of the team.

Rurik's cavalry team is the most ostentatious. Everyone wears extremely thick clothes. At the same time, the coat must be a Ross jersey, and the emblem of the principality must be clearly displayed.

Each cavalry of the Principality wears a spear, with a hook on the spear shaft, which is directly attached to the rear end of the saddle. The spear has a cold carbon steel spearhead, and the flag of Ross is hung below it.

Even each sleigh was planted with a flag, making the entire team flooded with Rose's white-background blue-patterned Peugeot.

This is really a beautiful scene, which meets everyone's need for pomp, and those Slavs who have returned to the Duchy of Ross also feel glorious at this moment.

Obviously, the advantages of planting flags everywhere are huge. The team can keep the team stable by looking for the flags. It has been left behind for hundreds of years. The color of the white flag of the world is also quite eye-catching, making it easy to return to the team quickly.

There are as many as four hundred people of all colors! If it weren't for a group of businessmen who wanted to sell Yiermen Lake's specialties, they would not be guilty of such a large team.

Thanks to the large number of reindeer seized by the Principality in past wars, this creature is the only large animal that can poke away the snow and gnaw grass roots in winter. They are also good at migrating in the cold and frozen soil in winter. Horses are not. .

At the beginning, the Pecheneg people were very confident, but even Kagan felt that the snow covered the world and the knife-like cold wind that was sensible by removing the back clothes.

Kagan didn't know that the Volkhov River runs from north to south, and on both sides of the river are tall red pine and spruce forests. This whole constitutes a roadway that can be traversed by the cold from the Arctic.

Thanks to the measures against the cold, the team will not suffer from freezing to death and frostbite.

On the first rest day, the entire team approached the woodland to rest, and the bonfire that ignited quickly gave people who fear the cold strong confidence.

This is the first time in the history of the Pecheneg people that they are deep in the far north. Kagan is carefully observing, and deliberately tells his hometown fathers and elders on the grassland.

Ragnar is also marching on the ice for the first time. The reindeer sleigh is really new to his people. Now the huge sleigh team of Prince Ross is even more novel, not to mention the team and the cavalry guard.

The two happily saw that Rurik was implementing his complete strategy. It turned out that the brothers never had to spend the night in the snow. A large number of wooden poles and linen were unloaded from the sled, and a large number of tents suddenly appeared in the forest.

Horses and reindeer gnaw oats wildly, and then gather them together, relying on the large trees that can be seen everywhere, and use linen cloth to make windproof curtains to shelter the sleeping horses and deer from the wind and cold.

This was true on the first day, and so was the second day.

Even if the time of daylight is getting shorter and shorter, it is already approaching that extreme value, but whenever there is light, the entire team will move forward in a tight formation.

It was a march at dawn. The team had just moved, and the firewood of the campfire that had just been demolished was still burning slowly.

Kagan was sleepy, and one inadvertently saw a large number of green ribbons appearing in the sky.

He cheered loudly when he saw it, and all the Pechenegians also raised their heads and screamed.

Their unusual behavior caused everyone to look up at the sky. Unlike the fussy Pecheneg, the Ross, Danes, Finns, and Slavs in the team all raised their heads to admire the beauty.

The surprised Kagan rode up to the prince's tent sled and talked with Rurik, who took his wife and concubine to admire the aurora.

He pointed his whip to the sky: "Is this the sign of your god? Is it a good omen? Or a bad omen?"

"You!" Rurik wanted to laugh, "Isn't this in your culture?"

Kagan looked dumbfounded.

Rurik shrugged: "Of course it is a good omen. Do you know Valkyrie's parade? Odin's family Valkyrie will cruise in winter, and the streamers you see are even the traces they leave. They will choose the heroes on the ground. , When the hero dies in battle, the soul can enter the temple. It is an endless glory. By the way, the high priest of the Ruth people, her soul went to heaven, she became the new Valkyrie, her eyes Watching us!"

Kagan can understand but understand, at least he can realize one, the so-called Rus people may also believe that the souls of their dead relatives can go to heaven and merge with Tengri.

But there is one thing that he has completely obeyed. The so-called here is indeed a sanctuary. The Ross people are actually blessed by their gods, and the brilliant streamers in the sky are the best indication.

Many foreign visitors see the aurora in the sky of the far north and think that it is evidence of the gods~www.mtlnovel.com~Rulik doesn't want to puncture the scientific principles inside. Not only is it unnecessary, but it can also be used by the Principality. no?

The kingdom under the aurora is really the Duchy of Ross! It is a testament to the glory of the Principality!

Now a group of warriors have rushed to the boundless frozen Ladoga Lake, and have passed through the town of Ladoga, where the winter catchers gather. I met another group of fishermen at the place of today's Walnut Fort.

There is no need for any friction, the team has entered the frozen channel of the Neva River, and all that is left is the final rush, into the real royal city of the Duchy of Ross, Shilla Fort.

They have seen the towering wooden city walls, and even the entire huge fleet that is like a forest of masts moored on the river and frozen by ice.

Rurik stood tall in the cold wind. Fortunately, he couldn't help pulling out his sword: "Brothers! We are finally here! Speed ​​up! Back to Roseburg!"

Horses and deer started a rare gallop on the glacier, and more than 300 flags were hunting and fluttering...

Chapter end