Rise of Rurik - Chapter 674

[Chapter 675 Balance after the Great War]

The lord general died and morale collapsed, and the Karelian army’s courage, condensed by hatred and rage, collapsed again in blood.

It’s a total breakdown, they’re trying to get out of the encirclement.

Those who can escape seem to have a chance of life, while those inside the encirclement will be ruthlessly crushed by the wheel of history.

Rus would surely conquer Karelia, a major victory Rurik accomplished a generation ahead of schedule.

Multiple spears pierced Esairas’ body, and he was stabbed several times and fell to a pool of blood.

“If I knew this earlier, I might as well take my clansmen and retreat quickly…”

The Dazhang tribe has not perished, but it is not far from extinction.

The population advantage of the most populous Karelian tribe is a thing of the past.

The men in the encirclement are being crushed into powder, and another group of Ross troops has begun to hunt them down.

Once it turns into a rout, the pursuers will mercilessly slash their backs, and the most exaggerated results often come from this.

The fleeing people were stunned. They saw many pursuers similar to themselves. They were all black-haired short men, completely different from those blond giants.

Because they are Suomi.

Once upon a time, the Suomi people, who avoided the Karelians as much as possible, seemed to have gained the courage of the Ross Principality when they boarded a warship of the Ross Army.

This pursuit is not only for killing, but also for robbery.

Or the Suomi people have little desire to kill the fleeing enemy. Killing the enemy is a matter of convenience. The biggest purpose is to rush into the enemy’s tent group, before enjoying the enjoyment of killing all the Varyag troops lost in the blood, to grab the spoils .

Because the Duke has already said that robbing is to rob based on one’s ability, and the Suomi people will have the opportunity to rob if they seize the opportunity, and the spoils won will be recognized by the Duke.

Alec didn’t know how many enemies he hacked to death. His robe was stained red with blood, and the helmet was sticky and exuded a strange smell of rust.

He has been directing his men to fight, and the battle has turned into a chaotic battle, and the Ross army has basically turned into a personal chaotic battle.

He finally saw that those people with bandages on their heads had rushed far enough that reason finally returned to their heads.

“Oops, let those servants take the lead, they will grab more!”

Arik raised his swords in the chaos, “Brothers, those Suomi people have already gone to rob. Let’s not love to fight, follow me to rob!”

He tried to get his brothers’ attention by shouting, and his efforts seemed to have some effect.

However, the Suomi who were the first to attack had already rushed to the enemy’s core camp area, and the looting had already begun.

How many treasures are hidden here in the tents made of wooden slats, sackcloth and animal skins?

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The Suomi people have been broken into pieces, and they searched around with sharp weapons, and even allowed hundreds of Karelian fighters to escape.

They really gained a lot. Some people found the shivering young women, they curled up with frightened eyes, and some even held iron daggers in a state of resistance.

There are also men who are hiding. When the curtain of the tent is lifted by the intruding Suomi warriors, they stab directly with short spears.

This is a kind of desperate resistance. The person who is stabbed is pulled away by his companions, and the enemy who resists is ruthlessly killed by the follow-up intruders.

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The women who were found were disarmed. They were dragged out of the tent by their hair or by their feet, and then tied hands and feet with hemp rope.

A Suomi warrior with a bandaged forehead controls a woman who is his prize.

Rurik warned his men not to kill indiscriminately at the bonfire last night. They did not kill indiscriminately when they arrived at Suomi’s servant army. The resisters would naturally be killed, and everyone else would be captured.

They are more keen on looking for young women. After all, many Suomi men are difficult to marry. They enthusiastically accept orders to participate in this large-scale war, just to capture a woman back.

Many people got something, and all the inexplicable women who stayed in the tent were arrested. This time, more than 400 people were arrested.

Once the woman was caught, and a few supplies were collected from the scene, a Suomi warrior tried to leave the chaotic battlefield quickly.

They escorted the captives to the lake by various means, which really surprised Arik, and then he became angry and contemptuous.

“This group of short women is obviously only liked by this group of guys who are also dwarves…”

Arik taunted the futile style of the servants with contemptuous eyes, and he led his brothers to continue chasing and killing the remnants of the enemy, but unfortunately the last Karelian fighters had escaped far enough.

The pursuit did not last long, and ended when the last enemies rushed into the dark green forest in the distance.

Isotalva has collapsed, and there are layers of corpses lying around the lake, and a large area of the lake has been dyed dark red by the bloody stream.

The scarlet warriors stood on the pile of corpses. Russ, Balmerks, these pure Viking warriors inspected the corpses everywhere, and immediately stabbed them to death with an arrow when they found them dying and pretending to be dead.

The occupied tent clusters were full of sword-wielding warriors who smashed tents, chopped down wooden supports, and looted hides for anything they could use.

This place has already been scouted by Suomi and the Vips, and the pure Viking warriors who followed were picking up leftovers in a sense.

The brothers thought they could get a lot of leather and so on, but what they didn’t expect to find was rubbish.

Negative emotions are spreading. The bloody Viking warriors blamed the servants for robbing too much.

Arik’s head was hot with anger, and already more than a dozen brothers were complaining to him that they couldn’t find any useful loot.

He bumped into Yevro, who was also leading a buddy to collect loot, in the camp area of Isotalva, and the two met quietly.

Look at the old buddy, Yevluo originally meant to say hello, but of course he was harshly criticized.

“What did you Suomi people do? You snatched all the good things, so my brothers couldn’t get anything.”

The startled Yevro suddenly came to his senses, and when it came to looting loot, the barrenness of reality also made him angry: “Brother, you are blaming us for taking too much. God is watching us, you can’t mess around.” Say.”

“Why not talking nonsense? I saw with my own eyes that your clansmen rushed the fastest, and you were busy looting before the enemy was eliminated.”

“Does it mean that we robbed a group of slaves? Could it be that you have a crush on those short women?”

“Of course I don’t like it.” Arik continued to be harsh: “You must have also grabbed gold and silver. Now my brothers and I can only grab a batch of rotten cloth.”

“You? You’re slandering me!” Yevro stuck his sword on the ground in anger, took off his helmet and opened his arms, “Lord Rurik will make a judgment! It’s the Lord who gave the order, and everyone robs according to their ability. Don’t complain if you don’t get there. Besides, we didn’t get any gold or silver, and these Karelians are incredibly poor. I’m standing here, and you can search me.”

“You…” Arik was stunned, mainly because his brother gave the order.

As a cousin, he shouldn’t disobey the orders of his cousin, who is a duke. Arik, who claims to be generous, doesn’t want to leave bad words for others.

He hesitated for a moment, and sighed: “But we didn’t completely wipe out the enemy, you are responsible.”

“I am responsible. The pincer tactics let go of some enemies because of the mistakes of the troops I was in charge of. As for how much responsibility I have and what punishment I should accept, this matter should be judged by the Duke.”

Having said all this, Arik felt that it was very unpleasant, so he had no intention of asking further questions.

The battle was over, and the sun finally shone meanly on the land after the war at noon on a cloudy day.

The enemy’s wounded would eventually die of blood loss, and it was a cruel kindness for Ross’s army to make up for it.

Even the seriously wounded of the Ross army, those who were obviously only breathless, were given death by their companions to end the pain.

The war is so cruel, and the lake wind has begun to carry a bloody breath.

In the war of the cold weapon era, when the battle is over, the battlefield is always muddy, and the blood is as bad as the meat from a meat grinder.

However, Rurik was completely immune to such a cruel scene, the fleet had all broken down, and he took all the follow-up soldiers ashore.

“Is this the enemy’s core camp? They are really a polar nomadic tribe…”

The group of conical tents made Rurik think of the Inuit first. Wait a minute. When it comes to blood and culture, the Karelians and the Inuit do have a relationship, so there is not enough commonality in building tents. No wonder.

Soon Rurik saw the Suomi warriors sitting on the ground. The battle was over, and the men who had grabbed some loot were laughing and chatting.

There is also a group of women sitting here, who are clearly captives. Rurik can already guess their ending, and that kind of ending is also what he would like to see.

The work of cleaning the battlefield has been fully launched, and an astonishing number of arrows are being recovered meticulously.

Whether it is the enemy’s or one’s own arrows, whether they are useful or broken, the arrow hunters are patiently searching.

The enemy’s arrows are all inferior. The only thing that satisfies the searchers is that the arrow clusters of the enemy’s arrows are mostly carefully polished deer bone pieces, and the bone pieces are wide-edged. It is also possible to kill the enemy, but it is a pity that the quality of the enemy’s bow is really bad.

A large number of short wooden bows were seized, and the bow strings were more likely to be found by searchers than the bows themselves.

The bows of the Karelians are too low-quality, and they are good for use as fire sticks. However, more than 2,000 bow strings were found, and the number surprised everyone.

Reindeer are full of treasures, and Karelian people’s economic life almost depends on reindeer farming.

The reindeer is the only large herbivore in northern Asia and northern Europe. The stag tends to be particularly tall and strong, and the big tendon on its back is used. The Karelians use it to make special strong ropes and bowstrings.

The deer tendon bowstring may not be as good as beef tendon, but its quality is at least far better than the oil-soaked hemp rope. Rurik was surprised to find so many ready-made bowstrings!

There were surprises and surprises. What shocked the entire Ross army was that everyone had thought of capturing an astonishing number of reindeer here, but only a few dozen were found. What is going on?

Don’t the Karelians here live on reindeer.

What’s even more strange is that Rurik ordered his subordinates to forbid the killing of women and children, but apart from the three or four hundred women with flustered eyes captured by the servants of Suomi and Vips, there were really no other prisoners.

Some old men appeared among the fallen enemies, but other than that, no enemy cubs or other women were found in the entire tent group.

The brothers under him did not kill indiscriminately, and there is no evidence of indiscriminate killing. Facts have proved that when the Ross army landed, the entire tent group was wiped out of women and children!

As for the astonishing number of women who were captured, the situation was also extremely abnormal.

Braururik went to investigate in person, and Gevro had already brought the astonishing results of the interrogation, and there was even important news brought by Telavis on behalf of the Veps.

The fighting is over and thousands of bodies have been examined.

The dead bodies of the Ross Army were pulled out and transported to an empty lakeside to form a matrix.

It’s a pity that Rurik hopes that the Viking brothers in the army will not suffer any losses. There are still ten unlucky guys who were pierced by the enemy’s spearhead in the neck, and the dead basically died of this.

The largest number of casualties came from the Suomi people. There were as many as 150 small corpses lying here. Their heads were all tied with red bandages, and this headdress allowed the pickers to identify them.

The wounds on their bodies were so varied that any onlooker could be sure that most of the dead would not have died had they all fought in metal chain mail.

In the chaotic battle, the combat effectiveness of the Suomi and the Karelians was about the same. Even if the former accepted part of the costume change, they were facing an opponent who was desperate.

They were pecking at each other like rookies, and their fights were extremely ferocious.

The total loss of the Ross army was like this. The total number of casualties was less than 200, and there were also 200 wounded. Almost all of the wounded were Suomi’s servants.

As for the enemy’s corpses, the exhausted Ross army did not move the corpses for detailed statistics, and people made estimates one after another, judging that the enemy would have killed 3,000 people no matter what.

In the evening, the filthy and arrogant soldiers lit huge bonfires. They looked down on the broken tents of the enemy at all, and resented that the enemy’s poverty could not grab many good things, so they used the materials of those tents as firewood. Some rotten leather was also used as fuel, causing the bonfire to emit a special smell similar to barbecue.

The largest bonfire is where Rurik held a military meeting after the war.

The setting sun does not exist, it should be dusk, the western sky is dark yellow, and experienced people feel that there will be a rain in the future.

The weather in August is like this, a rain is a cold.

Anyone who knows a little about the eastern region far away from Roseburg’s hometown knows that September in the Julian calendar is the rainy season in the east. There will be a high probability of rain for the first half of the month, and the world will become muddy. If this When the time comes to start a war, the soldiers really have to fight fiercely in the cold, damp and mud. If the soldiers don’t die in battle, they lose their lives due to the cold and sudden and inexplicable diseases.

The flames dissipated the cold of the night.

Rurik saw that everyone was not happy after victory, and he knew very well what the captains of the banners and centurions were thinking.

Of course, he knew more about the enemy, which was a series of news that Yevro easily heard from a group of female captives.

If the content of those messages is basically the same, it can be concluded that these messages are all true.

Many people were holding back their words, and when Rurik asked the brothers to speak freely, everyone shouted and made the campfire full of voices.

“Take your time, tell them one by one!” Rurik ordered.

They were asked, in order, to give their thoughts on the battle, and in particular the reasons for their gloom.

Perhaps most of the people who have the right to hold meetings here have some reservations. Seeing that Arik and Hailafeld complained unreservedly, the brothers followed up without any scruples.

A lot of people are pointing at Suomi’s servant army, accusing them of not being busy killing the enemy but busy looting, resulting in incomplete pursuit and killing, and some people escaped.

As for despising the enemy for being too poor, it is another matter.

This is a bad sign!

Rurik gritted his teeth and asked himself, how could the proud Vikings value a group of Finnish servants?

After all, in terms of the face of the enemy, it is indistinguishable from the servant army.

The accusations made by the Viking warriors are not unreasonable. Since the slave army dares to be out of step with the main force, is it okay?

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“I have to coordinate this matter. If the interests of some people have to be sacrificed, then the Suomi people…”

He pondered for a while, calming down the restless people, and then preached: “The Suomi, the Vips, they captured some prisoners. After my investigation, I found that these women were slaves of the Karelians! They are not slaves themselves, but women captured from other places, even women who were given to the Karelians as tribute. Some of them were originally Vipus, originally Suomi. Our servants Since the soldiers found their lost clansmen, that’s why they didn’t seal the encirclement well.”

This is a fact, but only a very small part of it.

The children of slaves are still slaves, that’s how it’s done here in the Karelians.

The slaves did come from the Vips and Suomi, and a large part of them actually came from the Tavastians who had completely collapsed.

Slaves, these female slaves dare not go to war, and they have almost no thoughts of their own, like docile lambs being led away by new conquerors.

They were cowardly at first, then submissive, until they learned that the conqueror would consider themselves a child-bearing wife.

Rurik was very satisfied with the actions of the servant army. From sensibility, he felt that this was the last warmth on the violent battlefield, and from reason, the Suomi community could get a group of young women with fertility.

This is war, let’s calculate the economic accounts carefully!

Allowing the servants to get the spoils is a useful means for the monarch to maintain the loyalty of the opponent, and in most cases it is more effective than military deterrence.

The expansion of Rome was this set of tricks. The Roman army naturally ate meat, and the excellent servants also ate meat dregs. Even the worst servants had broth to drink.

However, if his basic army, especially the brothers who came out of Old Roseburg, feel that the Duke has treated his brothers badly, it means that the monarch is shaking his own ruling foundation.

It is undeniable that this trend seems to have sprouted.

Rurik continued his words: “Servant warriors can enjoy the women they capture, Ross, Balmerk, Melaren, all Odin’s warriors, I know what kind of women you like! You have to be tall and young, you have to be good-looking and good at work. You like girls of your own race, and you like Slavic girls who are similar to your race. You don’t look down on these short women at all, let the servants get them! Other than that In addition, all their seizures will be taken away! This is the punishment for their wrongdoing!”

If this is really the arrangement, all the pure Viking warriors in the team will be satisfied.

To be fair, more than a hundred servants died. After all, they shed blood for the Principality of Ross, and it was only natural that they got some booty.

However, the crime is also very serious, so that the merits and demerits balance out, those Viking warriors look down upon the poor and short captives who don’t understand the language, let the servants take them away.

After all, the Vikings such as the Ross and the Balmerks are not as good as before, and the brothers already have the economic ability to pick and choose.

If you must marry a woman, isn’t there a ready-made good way?

They found that they could run to Novgorod with a sum of money and buy their daughter’s marriage from a local Slav farmer.

This is actually a win-win choice. The Viking warrior got a desirable woman as his wife, and the wife’s natal family also needed the in-law relationship to be protected by the Viking conqueror.

Due to their aesthetics, the first choice for the identity of their wives is the Viking family, followed by Slavic women, and the last is these short women from the Eastern Land.

As for the fact that the high priest of the principality is a deer breeder, this is a special case, or a special case appointed by Odin, everyone firmly believes.

If it is said that people in the society of the Principality of Ross will be divided into different grades invisibly because of their birth, the grade will depend on their mother.

It is not surprising that a Viking man in the Principality of Ross married two women.

Both parents are Vikings, and this kind of person has the highest status.

One side is the Slavs, and the other side is the Finns in the East in a broad sense, and the identity is the third.

The last thing is that both parents are from the land of the East.

Regardless of the ethnicity of the hereditary nobles, their noble status defined by the duke has another chain of contempt.

The Principality of Ross is currently unable to achieve the so-called equality of everyone. Rurik, who gave up his naive delusions, based on realistic considerations, knew that he had to support the high and low of the crowd in the ninth century AD.

He can temporarily not set a very clear hierarchy of monarchs, ministers and ministers, and the unspoken rules born spontaneously in society can not be negated inappropriately.

The interests of the Vikings in the Principality must be maximized, and among them, the people of Ross must enjoy the highest interests. This is the basic situation of the Principality. Old scalper, a huge Rus nation can also be created abruptly.

It’s a pity that everyone fantasized about plundering the enemy’s 100,000 reindeer in World War I before the war, but this kind of thing finally came to naught.

There are as many disappointments as hopes, and it is reasonable for people to attend meetings with resentment.

As for why this group of enemies are so poor, Rurik has already heard the description of the prisoners relayed by Evro and knows that it is almost the same.

He began to preach solemnly on this matter, and finally simply asked Evro himself to stand up and speak out…

“It turns out that they fled overnight, and tens of thousands of women and children have fled with a hundred thousand deer!” Someone stood up in anger to answer the question.

Some people shouted: “We can’t let them escape! We have to pursue!”

“Since this is not all of the Karelians, and their great chief has not been killed, we must continue the war to the end! We must not retreat until we have captured a large number of deer!”

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It’s amazing that those who complained just now, their resentment towards the servant army has disappeared.

The battle will continue, the Rus army will continue to fight the enemy, even if the battle may last for many years in the vast new world, until the Karelians are completely defeated and a large number of reindeer are plundered, the battle cannot stop!

They were so resolute that Rurik went along with it.

Knowing that the small leader who was a junior officer of the servant army was present, Rurik announced loudly: “Continue the war! As a duke, I only want 30% of the spoils! The first, second, and third flag teams, as well as the shooting flag team, Brothers of the Ostara army, you have the right to share the remaining 60% of the spoils. Servants of Suomi and Vipus, because of your wrong performance in the decisive battle, you can only get the last chance in the future war as a trophy.”

For such an order, all the Vikings welcomed it very much. The servants felt that the spoils they could enjoy were pitifully small. After all, they were busy looting and letting go of a group of rout soldiers. said.

The situation is not bad. If the Ross army really made a major seizure, such as snatching 100,000 reindeer, according to the Duke’s order, Suomi can also get 10,000 deer, right?

The living brothers can all get ten deer, isn’t this a great reward?

[End of this Chapter]