Rise of Rurik - Chapter 799

[Chapter 800 Swan Rock Inscription]

The victory came too easily, and Ragnar wanted to kill it himself, but the battle ended before the main force of the army arrived.

Defeating a group of guys who are powerless to resist is really not brave. The captured supplies are distributed by the army, and there are not many left in the hands of everyone.

The blood-stained Karelian camp was too unlucky, and the dead bodies were pulled onto the ice and covered with snow to make graves, so that after the ice and snow melted, the bodies would sink into the huge Onega Lake.

Rurik chose an open space to camp, but when the soldiers went to ram the stakes to fix the tent, they hit the rocks directly.

That’s a literal stone!

Rurik was still warming up by the bonfire, and his soldiers killed some captured deer on the spot. The deer skin was cut open, and each person was given a piece of bloody venison and was busy roasting it.

Arik led his buddies into the forest to search for small animals, and Ragnar led his brothers to another reverse exploration.

The army of the Principality of Ross arrived here, and the only other settlement was destroyed, which meant that the west bank of Lake Onega was already Ross’s territory.

The battle ended in the morning, and many people went to explore the treasures of the forest in the afternoon before they had time to build camping tents. As for those who set up tents, they reported to the prince with their major discoveries.

“Your Majesty, we found a large piece of rock.” The speaker’s eyes were bright, and what he said was definitely not Miao Yan.

Rurik had long noticed that there were stones in the camp of the remnants of Karelia that had been annihilated, and was wondering how they got the stones because there was a shortage of stones in this place.

He was quite surprised by the report of his subordinates.

“Stones? There are still stones in this place?” he asked.

“It’s a stone. You can see it if you scrape through the snow.”

“There is such a good thing?” So how can Rurik sit still?

He stood up abruptly.

Just as Svetlana was about to hold her hand, she suddenly heard her man’s request: “Lanna, come with me. And everyone else, come with me.”

A group of people followed Rurik, and soon they picked up wooden tools and began to scrape the snow on the so-called stone discovery.

Rurik saw that the bottom layer of the snow nest that was first torn apart by his subordinates was a very hard gray layer.

“It’s a rock!”

The snow here is knee-deep, because the wind sweeping across the ice transports all the snow attached to the ice to the lakeside, so some places are waist-deep in snow.

“What should I do?” Someone asked.

“I want to get stones to build our city. Brothers, move and clear the snow as much as possible. I want to see how many stones are here.”

Some temporary wooden shovels were made in surprise, and even reindeer participated in the snow removal work, relying on the powerful force of the deer to pull the wooden boards, and quickly peel off the snow like a snow plow.

The rock formation under the snow gradually revealed its true face, and the sun began to shine on the stone.

It seems to be a whole rock, with a small amount of lichen attached to it, and even some special lines.

As the peeling continues, those lines become more defined.

Suddenly, people who cleared the snow saw patterns made of rough lines.

“What’s that? It looks like a swan.” Svetlana asked, covering her mouth in surprise.

“The Karelians? They worship birds?” asked another.

Perhaps the paintings on the rocks were really Karelian, or some other mysterious tribe.

With an idea, Rurik let out a long sigh: “In my opinion, this is what God gave us.”

“How?” Lanna asked again.

Now, Rurik looked at the frozen Lake Ladoga with his blue eyes: “All this is an oracle. When spring comes and the lake thaws, the swans and geese that go south will return. Therefore, we are the masters of this land , the pictures on the rocks are proofs of God’s gift.”

Everyone heard no objection, and regarded the explanation of the kingdom as the truth.

Rurik improvised and ordered: “We will mine the stone here, and we will act now. We will pull the boat over in the spring. We will hew this swan stone and transport it to New Roseburg. Well, we We also want to build a quarrying settlement here, let’s call her Swan Stone Town.”

How to dig rocks!

A sledgehammer, a forest ax can be used for tamping, or a chisel can be slowly struck to make square stone bricks.

The snow was further cleared, and the people who worked were exhausted and out of breath.

In the evening, the faces of the returning people were full of joy of harvest.

They discovered the small animal resources that are quite accompanying here, so they used a wooden-armed crossbow to make a precise sniper move, and the ferrets and squirrels hiding from the treetops fell to the ground one after another.

There was even a hunting maniac who came back with ten big squirrels tied with ropes, and immediately started skinning in the camp.

At night, there are bonfires by the lake.

The stone excavation site has become a certain scale, as many as fifty people are desperately smashing stones.

It doesn’t matter if you make a lot of granite rubble, they will be mixed with lime cement to make concrete.

Or it can be smashed into smaller and larger particles to partially replace the necessary quartz sand for cement.

Work can be paid by the prince, no, a group of Ludi people also joined the work after eating.

The camp was full of the sound of clanging and smashing stones, and Arik, who had hunted a lot, returned, and it was very uncomfortable to hear this all over his ears.

He gnawed on the squirrel meat and teased his brother: “Other brothers are busy hunting, but you are in love with the stones here.”

“You think I’m weird?” Rurik asked with a smile.

“It’s strange. We should seize the opportunity of hunting.”

“Let’s dig more stones! It’s completely beyond my expectation to find stones here. A city will be built here in the future, and the new city is expected to replace the island quarry on Gogran Island. After all, this place is an inner lake, and we don’t have to worry about the tide at all. , Excavation work in the warm period does not have to worry about bad weather. And after the ship enters Lake Ladoga, it can optionally transport the stones to Novorosberg or Novgorod…”

“Are you calculating this?” Rurik obviously didn’t finish his sentence, and Arik, who had a headache, interrupted: “I am a pure fighter, and I have a headache thinking about this. Maybe my Asuraki can have a good time with you.” chat.”

“Yes. Of course she can. She is a professional businessman and is the best at calculating. Then, her second child will be born soon, right?”

“Soon. It’s about the same as the high priest.” Arik asked casually, “Have you decided on the child’s name?”

“It’s called Oleg.”

“What if the girl?” Arik asked again.

“That’s simpler. It’s called Onega, which is the name of this great lake.”

In Old Finnish, the suffix “ga” means “great water surface”.

Naming a girl after a lake is also a beautiful name.

“So what’s the name of Gustav’s brother or sister?” Rurik asked now.

Arik shrugged: “It depends on her own wishes.”

When the two brothers talked about their wives and children, there were two women who had been listening attentively.

Lanna is determined to give birth to a direct crown prince, and Carlota wants to give birth to a son for her principality.

No, there were still people working on the stone digging site after nightfall, and another battle was going on in Rurik’s house sled.

Rurik was entangled with his two women, and now no one is avoiding suspicion. The three of them took the initiative, but the next morning Rurik felt a little back pain from being tossed, while Lanna and Carlota, It was clear that she had a baby with a happy face.

It is not suitable to stay here for a long time in the cold, if there is a sudden cold wave and heavy snow falls, it will be bad.

After breakfast, Rurik held a military meeting. In addition to admiring the rapid assault of the cavalry, they also chatted with each other about the abundant local products.

The prince then delivered an important speech on the development of local stone resources, emphasizing the importance of lakeside stone for urban construction, and all the nobles agreed.

The Ludians, who were so servile, thus found new work.

Lake Onega is located on the edge of the low mountains extending from the Kola Peninsula. It is a huge glacial lake as a whole, and there are mountain rocks topping out of the soil around the lake.

The Ludi people don’t have to hunt animals, skin them and sell them to the Ross people, they just dig stones and transport them to their villages, and wait for the Ross people to pick them up.

Digging stones cannot be a high value-added job. Doing this job can earn living materials, which is much better than the original poor life.

The female leader of Lu Di and the elected Marcut received a new order – digging stones from generation to generation.

Ross people generally disdain to do this kind of work, and a group of servants is perfect for it, and everyone has no objection.

Rurik will stay by the lake for another two full days. He will give the army sufficient hunting time, and he will also set foot on this great lake to observe the landscape.

At the same time, the stone excavation project continued, and Lu Di’s men received more axes, hammers, and iron spears to attack the chisel to peel off the boulders, and began to use the technique of thermal expansion and contraction to create a large amount of crushed stone.

Large and small stones began to be produced, and they were thrown on the sled indiscriminately.

That is, a sled must not carry too much weight, and stones of any shape must be reprocessed when they are transported to New Roseburg.

As many as three “swan stone carvings” that have not been discovered have to be carefully chiseled out. They are sacred to Rurik Fuyu, but they are to be placed in the Great Temple of Ross.

Of course, it was not the Karelians who chiseled the “Swan”, but an even older group.

Those lakeside settlers who disappeared for thousands of years left this legacy and became the treasure of the Ross people.

Rurik led the team to investigate in two days, and he was surprised that there were a lot of stones under the snow in this area, as if a huge mountain range had sunk as a whole.

There were as many as ten sledges filled with stone, and they were piled up in such a disorderly manner that Rurik felt like a huge pile of construction waste.

They are not rubbish. After smashing and mixing cement to make concrete, the hardened ground project of Harvest Plaza can be quickly implemented.

Rurik is a smart man, and there is no one in the team who realizes the value of the stone.

It’s not just stone materials, metal ores may be found if there are stones, and it would be even better if iron ore and copper ore are found.

The cold wind like knives blows from the lake, and the hunters have no fear.

One hundred Ludi warriors did not kill the enemy and present the certificate of honor, but turned into stone workers and provided stones to Ross to prove their loyalty.

The Ludi people are very satisfied with their new jobs, but the captured Karelian women can only be pulled away like cattle.

They are all dwarves, and they shouldn’t be like this at all, just because the overall bad living environment suppresses a person’s growth.

In this way every woman is very light, although the Pechenegs are as short as the Pechenegs, who are short and straight, with arms as hard as stones, and it is easy to control such a woman.

As for the tall and strong Ross with blond hair and blue eyes and other Vikings from all walks of life, standing in front of them is a powerful deterrent.

After a rather detailed count, as many as six hundred Karelian women were captured.

The first conqueror to arrive was Kagan, who, in the custom of the steppes, killed old men and all men of all ages, so that the six hundred were only young women and young girls.

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They completely lost their resistance, and Rurik, as the prince, announced his treatment of them in public.

It was still the principality that followed the old rules. A fertile woman would marry a new man immediately, and a woman with a young girl would marry with her daughter.

From their standpoint, it seems that cooperation is the only way to choose, and they feel that the whole of Karelia has been completely destroyed. Since they don’t want to commit suicide and be buried for the tribe, they can only serve as slaves to the conqueror.

They don’t have any extravagant hopes for the future, and Rurik also has no intention of harming these guys.

From the standpoint of the prince, Rurik wished that this group of new women would desperately give birth to children, so that a new batch of screaming soldiers could be created in fifteen years at the earliest.

Their obedience was to gather quietly together, like cargo in shack-style tents to keep out the cold.

Those hunters from Suomi and Xiongji Town insisted on staying and hunting, and accompanied the Ludi people who continued to dig stones, and at the same time began to build the so-called “Swan Stone Town”.

The real three “swan stones” have been installed on the sled as a whole.

The large army began to return, and the food and supplies in reserve are still very sufficient, and it is no problem even to feed the 600 female prisoners.

Is this the end of the crusade?

Sitting with his brothers by the campfire, Kagan munched on oatmeal, delighted that one of his men was holding a Karelian woman.

Not only did they eat by themselves, but they were also busy stuffing wheat into the mouths of their wives, and at night they carried their wives into their huts to have fun.

When they made their appearance again the next day, they all changed their appearances.

Both men and women of the Pechenegs wear strange little braids on the back of their heads. Because of the tradition of growing their hair, women have braids, which makes them even more fancy.

These Pecheneg men not only possessed their bodies, but also further transformed the Karelian women into Pecheneg.

The woman’s stretched “black long straight” hairstyle has disappeared, replaced by densely braided hair, and some dyed hemp ropes are also mixed into the hair as a decoration.

The intention of doing this is very obvious. Of course, bringing some supplies purchased in Ross will slow down the speed when returning home. Wouldn’t it be more slow to bring a woman?

That must be done, the Pecheneg tribal alliance needs foreign women to give birth to new warriors at any time, not to mention the appearance of these women is not much different from the Pecheneg women.

If they put on the traditional grassland costumes again, the difference will not be noticeable.

This team continues to advance, and whoever has gained experience in the winter expedition is the Ross cavalry.

Each of them killed the enemy!

The ferocious performance can be described as a brown bear. Those sons of farmers can’t go back. They have had the experience of killing the enemy and really saw blood, and their whole hearts have been changed.

So this is the son of the Boyar nobles. This time they participated in the battle with cavalry and the steel sword was bloody. They already regarded themselves very high, but now they are even more arrogant.

Because the princes must be appointed, their identities are real Ross warriors, and they have already belonged to the top class of the Principality.

Without him, although there are only 80 pure Roses, each of them will be an officer in the future, and at the end they will have to command ten people, and the best of them can become the captain of the expanded cavalry standard team.

This Eastern Expedition naturally moved Rurik a lot. He was extremely well prepared for this battle, but the war ended with a surprise victory by more than a hundred cavalry.

The cavalry embodies a huge tactical advantage, so why not expand it?

The plan to expand the cavalry was specified in itself.

“It seems that the work of the cavalry is going to speed up…”

[End of this Chapter]