Rise of Rurik - Chapter 664

[Chapter 665 Kaiji Salmi’s Surrender]

Telavis recounted another piece of just-learned information in good order.

“Vipslane? A Vips? A servant of the Karelians?” Arik squeezed his beard and thought for a while, before telling Telavis, “Just kill this kind of servant.”

“Is it really necessary?” Televis looked embarrassed.

“What? Merciful? Just like my brother.”

“No. My lord, since they have provided the information, we can spare their lives. Do you want to destroy their camp, my lord?”

“Why not. They are weak existences. If they meet me, they should accept the fate of death.”

“Is it really necessary?”

Telavis took courage, for he was not a man of Ruth at heart.

He himself only admires Rurik, but has no high regard for this proud Arik.

Rurik is a smart hero, but the guy in front of him is a reckless man who kills indiscriminately.

These captured women and children are like weak rabbits. They have no ability or willingness to resist at all. Why execute them?

But Arik, the battle madman, tried to stop him forcefully because he was afraid that this person would not accept this kind of trick at all.

Besides, I am really a soft-spoken person.

Telavis thought of a trick and said deliberately: “If you choose to kill mercilessly, I will tell Lord Rurik afterward that the captain of the First Banner killed the tribe that intends to surrender, which caused the principality to lose a sum of tribute income.”

“You!” Arik, who was originally bloodthirsty and arrogant, was aroused by these words, and he frowned hesitantly. He really ordered not to do anything yet.

Arik walked into Telavis aggressively and grabbed the boy by the neck.

“You are very brave.”

But looking at Telavis, he squeezed out a meaningful smile in pain, and reluctantly said: “If you kill those who don’t resist indiscriminately, you will die tragically.”

That look seemed to kill, Arik shook his head, and with a sudden push with his right arm, Telavis was pushed to the ground.

“Forget it!” he said, “Just spare these people, tell me, what’s your plan? If their people really choose to surrender to Ross and are willing to pay tribute honestly, they can spare their lives.”

This Arik is a lunatic who wants to catch fish.

Telavis got up, he couldn’t bear to be with this madman, he just wanted to end the mission quickly and return to the command of Rurik himself.

Hastily he intervened with the captives, informing them with the utmost solemnity of the horrors of rebelling against Roth.

He mentioned a terrible death.

It was no ordinary death, but men, women, children, and animals were left alone, the canoes were destroyed, the houses were burned, and finally the grass covered the settlement, as if no one had ever been here, and all traces of existence were obliterated.

In order to survive, the captives chose to cooperate, but they didn’t know whether they were leading wolves into the house.

Seeing that Telavis had been sitting down and speaking an unfamiliar language with the captives, Arik asked impatiently, “Have you negotiated a deal with these guys? Hurry up, and kill them now if you don’t cooperate.”

“They’ve agreed.”

“Very well. What exactly is your countermeasure?”

“That’s right.” Telavis calmed down: “Our fleet arrived directly near their camp, and I will take a small boat to negotiate.”

“You? Are you going to persuade them to surrender alone? You are looking up to yourself.”

“It’s okay, I’m confident.”

Arik shook his head, one of the younger brother Rurik’s women, Cyborava, is the kid’s younger sister.

This kid almost shot Rurik in the war, so Arik couldn’t let go of his younger brother, and it was because of this factor that Arik couldn’t really regard this Kewen boy as his buddy.

But this kid shouldn’t have made a mistake, if something happens, my brother will have to blame it.

Arik cautiously warned: “You choose to log in to negotiate with them, I have no ability to protect you.”

“I understand! You still plan to kill them directly and plunder a large amount of property. After all, you have no psychological burden to rob the servants of the Karelians.”

“That’s right.” Arik smiled and slapped his chest: “I can assure you that I will not rashly choose an all-out attack, but…”

“I understand.” Telavis knew that he was risking his life, “I will convince them. We try to approach their camp in the morning. If I don’t return in the evening, it means that I was killed by them. At such a time, it doesn’t matter if you burn the camp to ashes.”

“Oh… that’s how it was arranged. Boy!”

“Ok?”

“Don’t die.”

When he said this, Arik actually had a smile on his face?

It was unnatural, and Telavis only felt a shock.

The captives accounted for the existence of a definite settlement, one called Kekisalmi.

What does this song mean?

Telavis easily understood that the settlement’s name was intended to be simple and rude – a large swamp beside a fjord.

(Kekkisalmy, present-day Priozersk on the northwestern shore of Lake Ladoga)

The captives claimed that the Vips were separated from the Karelian community not long ago. Their population is very good, and they rely on raising a group of reindeer, hunting, making canoes and fishing.

This kind of life is not surprising, because the Kewen people lived a similar life in the past.

With exactly the same production model, exactly the same face, the same hair color, and even a basic intercommunicating language, Telavis firmly believes that these people must have the same origin as his own Kwen community!

After all, he was very close to Rurik. As he got to know more about the Vikings, he learned that the Russ, the Swedes, the Danes, and even the people in the West were like brothers who were separated from each other.

In this way, the Kovins he knew were a tribe split from the Tavastia community. Obviously, the Kovins and the Karelians were also a family.

Should people who have a common ancestor be called brothers?

not necessarily.

The Danes and the Swedes fought bloody heads, and the Ross bloodbathed the Gotlands.

What Telavis feared most was that the leader of Kekisalmi would refuse to submit, eventually kill himself and put up a firm resistance.

Against the Rus invaders?

Brave is really brave.

However, is it not wise to rashly resist and lead to the extinction of the whole family in half a day?

Telavis didn’t have time to think anymore, he was the one who boasted that he was able to go to Haikou alone to persuade him to surrender, and he no longer had the right to hesitate.

Kaijisalmi is just a regional name, and her original intention describes the geomorphological characteristics of this region very well.

A waterway is drawn from the central lake area of Finland. She is the Wuksi River. Just when it is about to enter Lake Ladoga, the river channel quietly expands into a lake in a flat area, and finally converges into a waterway into the Great Lakes.

The special geography has resulted in a lot of wet grasslands around the lake, making it a suitable pasture for reindeer.

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The Vipus people found this land with abundant water and grass through continuous migration.

To the east of this place is the boundless Great Lake, and the surrounding environment is surrounded by dense pine and fir forests, creating this closed world, which is their small world.

Hence the name Kekisalmi.

A matriarchal clan settled here, their meager population of 800 people, they are all the Vips!

An old lady named Kartenika is currently the most noble existence of this tribe.

She is the high priest of the Vips, the highest wise man, and the witch doctor of the tribe.

Men, women and children follow her teachings, and regularly hand over some reindeer as tribute to the envoys of the Karelian chiefs who arrive in exchange for their protection. Their daily life is so ordinary and without disturbance.

It was as if the disputes outside this region had nothing to do with them.

Even some fishermen accounted for some strange observations in the southern part of the Great Lakes, claiming that some ships as huge as icebergs appeared there.

The people of the tribe regard this as a joke, and some people attach great importance to it, and the explanation of the most honorable grandma Kartenika is very mysterious: “Some mysterious outsiders must have broken into our world. If you don’t provoke them, there will be no Disaster.”

She foresaw the disaster, but she did not foresee that it would come uninvited.

No, when the morning fog on the lake dissipated, people in the entire settlement saw the giant floating on the eastern lake.

The men squinted their eyes against the sun, the light blurred the image of the giant, and they instinctively recognized that it was some ships.

Especially those who once spied suspicious presence, now screaming and running around the settlement’s villages.

The men spontaneously picked up stone spears and iron spears, and the bow bearers ran to the lakeside with wooden bows.

Escorted by a young woman, an old woman came out of the tent, leaning on crutches, urging everyone not to panic.

However, when she saw the moored boats with her aging eyes, the existence beyond her three views scared her back one after another.

“Quick! Get women and children out of the way! Take the deer into the woods and hide.”

“Men, don’t provoke them rashly.”

“Everyone retreat slowly!”

She thought of avoiding, and avoiding is not shameful.

Men and women also lack the consciousness to fight hard, they all just want to live a peaceful life, not to mention these strange giants are not like human beings, maybe they are emissaries sent by the lake god!

Coincidentally!

That’s what Grandma Kartenika thought, and she became more and more determined after thinking about it.

The clansmen can avoid it, but they have to stand here to contact the Lake God’s messenger or the Lake God himself.

On the other hand, Arik has restrained his subordinates, and the squadron has easily seen that this is not a small settlement. Based on his experience in conquests in Finland, he estimates that the residents of this camp are indeed only about a thousand people. .

“It’s all huts and tents, but there are quite a few deer.”

Arik sighed, and then asked Telavis and the captives who had already boarded the longship: “Boy, are you ready?”

“Okay! My lord, remember our agreement!”

“Of course. Boy, don’t you die…”

Four Corvins accompanied Telavis, and as many as eight captives.

The sail was put down, and the long boat slowly rushed up to the soft grass on the lake shore at an inclined angle. They followed the bow of the boat and got off the boat stroking the bow of the dragon.

This is home, and the captives returned to their own home, but there was no warmth of returning home.

The tribesmen all evacuated, and the captives were very pleased with the wise choice of the tribesmen, after all, there were hundreds of terrifying warriors staring at them behind them.

“Is this your camp? Is it Kekisalmi?” Telavis asked.

Someone responded immediately: “Yes. I hope you don’t do anything.”

“It depends on whether you cooperate. The Ross people are ferocious monsters. If you annoy them, it will be a disaster. Let’s go. Look at this village, everyone seems to have fled.”

That was not the case, and Telavis soon saw the edge of the settlement, where a man on crutches stood quietly, accompanied by his entourage.

“That’s our old leader.” Someone pointed out.

“Looks like a granny?”

“It’s Granny Kartenika.”

The name meant yellow flower, and Telavis was glad he understood it easily.

He raised his head up, the clothes of the Ruth warrior made him look heroic, especially the leather helmet on top of his head, which gleamed in the sunlight.

It was my own people who came with a strange lander, could it be the messenger of the lake god?

Kalteneka remained calm until contacted with the messenger.

She asked respectfully: “Messenger of God, may I ask, did you come to my camp to issue a will?”

God’s messenger?

absurd.

Telavis took off the leather helmet, revealing his face and the brown and black face.

Although similar in appearance to the locals, his physique is quite strong, which makes him very surprised.

“I am not the messenger of God.”

The old lady understood the words, and couldn’t help opening her squinted eyes: “You…you…are you the envoy of Karelia?”

“It’s not.”

“Who do you represent?”

“I represent Rose. I heard that you are the leader of the Vips, grandma, maybe we should have a good chat. Listen, this is related to the life and future of your people.”

Telavis remained serious, with murderous intent in his words.

The old lady was not stupid, and immediately invited the boy into her wooden shed for a good chat.

For a tribe with a small population and strength, it doesn’t shudder to admit it and pay tribute regularly. The Karelians are strong, and they are the servants of Karelia. The Tavastians are strong, and they are the towers. Servant of Vastia.

Kewen people?

Who is it?

Who are the Ross people?

In the wooden shed, Telavis introduced the relationship between his Coven ethnic group and Tavastia and Suomi, and then introduced the powerful Ross Principality.

He didn’t need to explain too much, but emphasized one fact: “The Principality of Ross is about to gather an army of 5,000 people to completely wipe out the forces of the Karelians. You must change to a new master.”

Five thousand people?

This number challenges the mathematical limits of the Vips people.

Here Telavis used “fifty one hundred” to describe the strength of the Ross army, but he was surprised to find that it was difficult for the Vips to understand the number of this scale.

Maybe Granny Carterinaika understood?

They had exchanged their names, and the presence of Teravis terrified her.

“Now, five hundred strong Rus are about to land, and they order you to surrender immediately and recognize Rus as the new master. They will land, and they will be safe if they pay tribute. This year the Karelians will perish, You will continue to live under the protection of the Ross…”

The old lady was in a dilemma. In fact, not only did she not find this young handsome boy disgusting, but she admired the boy’s strong muscles at a young age, as well as his honest and courageous character.

The kid had something the tribal men lacked – the courage of a warrior.

Those captives who came back nervously explained what happened to them, but now the old lady gave up completely.

The Veps surrendered, and at once announced the Rus as their new masters.

In exchange, the Conqueror of Rus would receive immediate tribute, provided that no Vips were harmed.

Grandma Kalteneka sighed deeply about the fate of the tribe and accepted this new fate.

[End of this Chapter]