Rise of Rurik - Chapter 650

[Chapter 651 Lake Ilmen under the blood-red sunset]

The sudden attack caused a large number of so-called soldiers from Pine Needle Manor to flee for their lives. They ignored the dead and wounded companions, and just rushed to the farm to meet everyone and said enemy attack.

These are good, even the women are armed with farm tools or pure sticks.

Someone rushed into Vadim’s residence, ignoring the face of the young prince who was having fun with his concubine, and yelled in horror, “My lord! Enemy attack!”

“Get out!” Vadim, who was naked, threw a wooden cup casually, unable to stop the messenger’s alarm at all.

“My lord! The people of Ross came over, and many of them died. You…you have to take everyone to beat them back!”

“Wait?! Is this real?!”

Vadim lost all interest, and he woke up instantly: “Fight! They must be repelled, and everyone must be organized to defend the farm!”

The Pine Needle Manor issued a war alarm, Vadim hurriedly put on his clothes, and walked out of the residence with a sword in his hand.

He summoned his cronies to fight the enemy himself, but found the whole farm in chaos.

He didn’t know what the enemy’s situation was like at all, and the armed men in the entire farm had no way of knowing, but the words of those who escaped were too horrifying.

A group of messengers who are good at running were assigned an emergency order, and their task was to move rescuers along the lake.

The Ross people are definitely not weak, and the upright fighting Pine Needle Manor is likely to lose. It will be different if the Slavic forces of the entire Ilmen Lake are gathered.

Vadim saw the cowardice of his troops, and the appointed “supreme coach”, Harold the Varyag, came in a hurry with a few brothers.

Harold didn’t know what happened yet. It seemed that Ross’s army was coming, but his instinct told him that the information was wrong.

“What’s going on? Where is the enemy?”

To Harold’s surprise, Vadim yelled at him when he came up: “Am I stupid for paying for it? I want you to train the army, why is my team collapsing?! Now that the Ross people are coming, you idiots are here escape.”

This is like being shot with a brick for no reason.

Harold choked for a moment, not knowing what to say.

But I felt sorry for this face, so I rebuked: “You asked me to lead soldiers. I used to lead people, all of them were Varyags. What did you ask me to bring? Look at your men, take off your clothes. You can see the ribs like dead branches in the shirt. This kind of skinny people can fight?! They can’t fight. You just force them to fight. How dare you say me? Look at yourself, regardless of the pregnant wife, busy with five If you mess around with a woman, you will lose face.”

“You! Are you mocking me?!” Vadim had already clenched the hilt of his sword.

Harold’s brothers were not used to this cub who suddenly gained power. Even if many Slavs were present, they all picked up their axes and seemed to fight.

Vadim is not a brute, and it is not a good thing for a big enemy to fight among himself.

He gave Harold a white look: “We are going to repel the Ross people, you come together, and your benefits will be indispensable after the war.”

A group of people rushed to the so-called battlefield aggressively, but where is the enemy?

The living area of Pine Needle Manor is so large that tens of thousands of people can live there.

It was rumored that the Ross people had already killed in the farm, and soldiers trained in other regions returned to the farm one after another. They originally wanted to fight the enemy in the streets, but after all the tossing, the screams of killing were loud, and no one knew where the enemy was after all.

They tossed for a long time but found nothing, and the nervous fighters gradually eased up. Some people even began to complain that this was a farce of “wolf is coming”.

Sure enough, Vadim took his cronies around the farm and found nothing.

Finally, the kid arrived at the scene of the horrific crime.

More than a thousand armed men gradually gathered here, watching the tragic situation of the dead was shocking, and some even knelt down and vomited on the spot.

Sure enough, there was an attack, just like a lone wolf attacked the sheep pen, and if some sheep were to die, they would withdraw after eating some meat.

It wasn’t until this time that the insider reported to him what had happened. The angry Vadim really wanted to take action immediately, leading his clan to attack, and destroying the White Tree Manor, which was in collusion with the Ross people. .

Grund’s actions directly detonated the anger of Pine Needle Manor, as if pouring gasoline on the fire.

But the full-scale attack worried Vadim. If he could, he would have done it long ago, and now he still needs the cooperation of the alliance farm.

Gathering 10,000 people is unrealistic, but it is feasible to gather the men and women of your own farm first, and get the fighters to 5,000.

As for those allies, they can send at least 3,000 people!

It depends on the situation tonight, how many reinforcements can come.

Vadim hopes to gather a large army in a short time.

The chaos did not subside, but everyone saw the dead body, and the restlessness in Pine Needle Manor became more and more serious.

A cautious Varyag took advantage of the chaos and fled back to the farm.

Karl was not afraid of the previous battle at all, and he was even quite relieved to see people from his hometown in a foreign land.

This guy found the boss Harold, and his appearance gave many old guys quite a message.

Seeing Carl, Harold punched him with good intentions: “I thought you were dead.”

“Dead?” Carl said with a smile, “Our brother has always been happy every day, and it’s okay to die. But today I have an adventure.”

“An adventure?”

“There are actually Danes on the Ross side! Boss, I have something important to tell you, it’s about our life and death!”

In an instant, everyone realized the seriousness of the situation.

Harold and his group of thirty brothers gathered in the residence, and the doors and windows were all sealed. Karl explained his experience in Norse.

Now, the words shocked everyone.

Who would have thought that the main force of the all-powerful Ross people would come to kill them, and Rurik, the leader of the Ross people who sank the Red Dragon and killed the Danish King Harold, would personally lead the army!

The assassinated old leader of Ross, Otto, was unscathed, and his son took the main force to seek revenge, with the purpose of killing Pine Needle Manor without leaving any traces?

Indeed, when a war broke out between the Russ and the Gotlanders a few years ago, the Gotlanders were killed to extinction.

“Brothers, the Danish brothers on the opposite side will give us some advice for the sake of the same clan. They will launch a full-scale credit record tomorrow, and we must evacuate at night. I said we should run away with our belongings.”

“Where are those women?” Someone yelled nervously.

“That’s right, we still have to take these slaves to the south and sell them.”

“There are other belongings, we have to get something to eat before we go.”

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The subordinates started to talk about it, and Harold, who knew the stakes well, was furious: “Fired! Your life is at stake now! Hurry up and pack up your belongings and prepare to evacuate. Our longboat can carry up to twenty more women. The twenty most beautiful ones are selected and taken away, and all the others are executed.”

The brothers were all stunned.

“Boss, this is not appropriate! We still rely on this to make money.” Someone said.

“When is this? The Ross people can suddenly kill them, and only the Ross people can do this kind of thing. If it weren’t for us Danes on the opposite side, tomorrow will be the death of our brothers. What are some women in the local area? You can’t do it after losing your head.” happy!”

Everyone looked at each other and had nothing to say.

They are a group of businessmen, and they are also a group of rogues who kill and rob goods. Whether they are businessmen or rogues depends only on their own environment.

With the enemy at hand, they had no intention of working for Vadim, and felt that it was foolish to fight the Rus.

They immediately screened the sixty women under their control, picked out twenty young and beautiful women, and took them away. As for the remaining forty people, they were taken away and killed one by one.

Harold and his gang were very skilled at doing this kind of thing.

No one knew about the silent killing of the so-called Varyag mercenaries and their preparations to flee after nightfall.

In other words, after Vadim personally encouraged the people of the entire Pine Needle Manor, their fear was replaced by anger, and everyone waited for the reinforcements from the allies to arrive at the farm to launch an attack tomorrow.

Even if there is no attack tomorrow, the traitor White Tree Manor will be attacked within a few days, and then the Ross people entrenched there will be killed.

Those messengers who notified the enemy’s attack ran to the nearest ally’s manor one after another in a posture of vomiting blood tiredly, and then rushed to the next one.

The area of Lake Ilmen is very large, and it is impossible to notify all the manors in one afternoon. Only five farms received the notification before evening. Under pressure, these farm leaders gathered the men of the manor with complicated moods, holding all kinds of Take some dry food and move to Pine Needle Manor.

Their ships are canoes, and the Ilmen Slavs have not yet learned the technique of assembling planks to build ships, and they dare not capture the passing Varyag longboats for their own use.

There was nothing the Slavs could do to transport soldiers to the Pine Needle Manor by boat, so they walked on foot. Fortunately, their ability to sew leather boots made the journey not painful.

They moved forward in the wasteland by the river in the afternoon, leaving the straight field ridge next to the fields with wildly growing wheat seedlings. There was no road ahead, and the walking speed of the group of people slowed down.

Everyone does not know how the Pine Needle Manor was attacked, but the entire Novgorod was surrounded by Vadim and declared war on Ross, and it was aimed at the violent temper of the Varangros. If Vadim was defeated, everyone would suffer a catastrophe disaster.

They all realized the truth of the cold lips and teeth, but how useful is it to send two or three hundred people to support them?

There were only five manors on the way for reinforcements, and it was already dark when they arrived.

Reinforcements arrived from three estates, and they saw no war, only a great crowd of men and women preparing for battle.

Vadim personally entertained three manor owners who led troops to support them. While hosting a banquet, he asked seriously how many reinforcements were there.

He was full of joy, but reality poured cold water on him.

“A mere eight hundred people?! What is this? When I planned to lead an army to wipe out those traitors in White Tree Manor, you people who supported me stood still!”

The three manor owners couldn’t argue with their mouths. Their respective manors had a small population, and they had shown their sincerity by taking out so many people in total.

Vadim had no intention of wasting any more words, after all, a group of reinforcements arrived.

But very suddenly, many people saw stars shining in the forest in the south.

what is that?

It’s Ross!

Must be Ross!

The Ross army is camping in the south of the manor!

The restlessness in the manor forced Vadim to walk to the shore of the lake in person, looked at a bonfire in the south at two o’clock, and began to curse in anger.

Grund left a few subordinates to continue to watch at the mouth of the river symbolically, and those left behind deliberately lit more bonfires, in fact to show their existence to the enemy.

The left behind did a little too much, just because the enemy’s manor lit a lot of bonfires, which is obviously a provocation, how can the brothers not wantonly light fire to counter it?

The reinforcements from the five farms finally arrived at Pine Needle Manor in the middle of the night. The reinforcements were exhausted and out of breath, and Vadim’s subordinates were exhausted from the whole day’s tossing.

The total strength of the reinforcements was nearly 1,500 people. In addition, the Pine Needle Manor was able to muster 5,000 men and women soldiers with all its abilities. It is obviously feasible to piece together an army of more than 6,000 people.

But everyone was too tired. Vadim planned to take the initiative to attack tomorrow, so he had to continue to accumulate strength due to the current situation.

He even had some optimism, blaming himself for being uncomfortable with his angry words to his allies in the evening.

Five farms sent nearly 1,500 troops, not counting defected farms, and there were more than ten farms that did not send troops just because they had not received the news. If the situation escalated for a few days, I might really gather an army of ten thousand people!

10,000 fighters, as many as 10,000 men and women armed!

This is a very astonishing number for everyone, enough to support everyone’s confidence in winning.

Novgorod has never been as powerful as it is today.

Vadim even lamented: “How can we let the Russians succeed when we assembled such an army decades ago?”

The Slavs fell asleep one after another, and at night, a group of sneaky people rushed to the lake.

Grund and his subordinates did not say a word, and the mouths of the twenty women under strict control were tied with ropes, and their hands were also tied with ropes.

Some women didn’t know what the future would hold, and their struggles were rewarded with slaps from the Varyags, while some dishonest women were simply tied hands and feet and carried by strong warriors to the longship.

No one noticed what they were doing, and it didn’t matter if they did.

The long boat was quickly overcrowded, and the few people on the shore finally pushed the boat to the shallows and were pulled up by their companions.

They paddled hard enough to push the boat into the lake.

Now, Grund finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Also very suddenly, a wild idea came to his mind: “Brothers, the main force of the Ross people is fighting that arrogant Vadim. It must be a big battle. Shall we brothers watch the battle?”

Perhaps everyone in the audience murmured that they were not afraid of anything on the lake, and the bold people quickly unified their attitude-keep a safe distance to watch the big show.

No, they just floated on the lake and waited quietly for the sunrise, and waited for the onlookers to watch the Ross people clean up the violent Slavs.

On the other hand, Grund himself had escorted the captives back to the army assembly point in White Tree Manor as quickly as possible.

A total of three captured prisoners saw that there were Varyags everywhere, and the Volkhov River was covered with terrifying large ships. They were so frightened that they lost control, their legs seemed to have lost their muscles, and they were unable to walk, so they threw them on the ground Just shivering.

Rurik was quite surprised by Grund’s return, and he became interested when he saw the trembling captive.

“My lord, we know a lot of specific information about the enemy, as well as these three captives. We have made meritorious service, and you have to give some bounty.” Grund sat on the ground and asked for credit.

“Forget it, give each of you a silver coin and go down to rest.”

“That’s all?”

“It’s a meritorious service for you to capture a prisoner, but I didn’t let you do it, which is a violation of the rules! Originally, you didn’t expect to get anything, so I will give you a silver coin and go eat quickly.”

Grund shrugged, and left with his brothers angrily. They searched for the smell of wheat and hurried to the big pottery urn where the wheat was cooked, and received their dinner directly.

Rurik interrogated the captives on the spot, and threatened in Slavic that they would be pardoned for their treasonous crimes as Pine Needle Manor, in exchange for letting them report their knowledge.

This report is good. Rurik and his cronies are fully aware that the rebellious Vadim is gathering troops and intends to take the initiative to attack. Obviously, Vadim needs more time to make strategic preparations.

In this case, the war is not a simple counter-insurgency by the Ross army, but a confrontation in which both sides intend to initiate a full-scale war?

This time, the last bit of psychological ambition in Rurik’s heart was gone.

The soft light of the setting sun swept across the forest, and the faces of the Ross soldiers gathered by the river turned orange. Soon, the setting sun turned red!

“What a bloody sunset!” Arik couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.

“Indeed. Brother.” Rurik said casually: “These three captives are handed over to you. You know what to do.”

“Oh? I understand. Boy, I thought you were going to be merciful.” Arik laughed.

Rurik couldn’t laugh, and he looked solemn: “As I said, the rebellious Pine Needle Manor must be destroyed. Now you and I both know that if we don’t do it, they will do it on their own initiative. If these three people participate in the rebellion, they must die.” Enlightenment, let’s help them face up.”

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“I understand.”

“Well. Do things neatly, and take them to a hidden place to give them a good time, which is also our kindness.”

Arik nodded yes, escorted the captives to the farm with a wooden face.

Old Otto saw all of this, he didn’t say anything, and there was only one satisfaction in his heart.

[End of this Chapter]