Rise of Rurik

The huge war has settled since the 1983 War, and the entire northern world has completely changed.

The Kingdom of Rus did its best to use almost all of its elite warriors and its entire fleet to go into the war with overwhelming force. If Rose loses, of course the kingdom will still exist. She will have no choice but to continue to huddle in the ice and snow in the far north and lick her deep wounds. It will take some years to get out of the bitter cold land.

Ross gambled and won the fate of the country!

In 840, from early spring to early summer, the Rus-Swedish coalition swept across the Götaland region, and Scandinavia, except for the settlements of Norwegian tribes such as Oslo and Bergen, was included in the Kingdom of Rus.

Those Norwegians are not enemies, on the contrary, they are allies who can be contacted from outside. Because the Viking Kingdom of York that emerged on the British Isles was the power of the Norwegians, people who worshiped brave men and pursued warmth could not control it so much. They spontaneously rushed to immigrate to the Viking Kingdom in Britain. And because of the never-broken trade contacts, the Norwegians in Oslo have no objections to Sweden, Götaland and Rus, the other forces on the peninsula.

For these reasons, the army assembled by Rurik did not conquer Oslo, let alone conquer the Norwegian fjords one by one along the coastline.

Recovering all Norwegian power is not the purpose of this war, not even a secondary purpose.

From the early summer to early autumn of 840, the coalition forces commanded by Rurik finally encountered a real challenge in Denmark. The coalition forces began to suffer heavy losses, and after paying a heavy price, the Danish problem that plagued the entire Baltic Sea was solved in one battle!

The new Kingdom of Denmark, which believed in Odin, was born. Denmark immediately reached a historic reconciliation with all the northerners such as Rus and Sweden. Finally, the Baltic Sea became the Baltic Sea for all Vikings, and the civil war between each other ended. Of course, there is still the problem of pirates. Those are desperadoes who kill them when they find them. The existence of such gangsters cannot shake the peace treaty and alliance treaty at all.

But the great alliance in the northern world directly destroyed the wishful thinking of the Frankish nobles. While ordinary Franks knew little about the various Vikings, King Ludwig of the Eastern Kingdom knew only what a strong north meant.

Beginning in the autumn of 840, the Frankish army took the initiative to launch an offensive, during which there were elements of Saxony's restoration.

The expanding Rus and the territorially huge Franks would inevitably break out of war once their territories bordered. Rurik did not want the war of the century with the Franks to come so early, but the so-called "potential" existed, and he followed the trend, and the Winter War broke out.

Rus-Sweden-Saxony allied to attack the Eastern Kingdom.

The three battles of Bremen and the second battle of Elbe were won. The Kingdom of Rus paid the highest casualty price in history.

Ross was like this, and the Saxons suffered even greater losses.

However, the Eastern Kingdom, which was far away, lost a full force of 30,000 troops. The main force of Ludwig's glorious heavy cavalry disappeared, and a large number of infantry were killed in the battle. He no longer had the ability to pacify the north. What was even more critical was that he had to use the remaining troops to withstand the armed subjugation from his eldest brother Lothair. For this reason, he had to Only by surrendering a large amount of benefits to the victor without humiliation can the prisoner of war be restored to the throne.

In this way, the first, second, third, fourth and fifth banner corps, which constitute the core force of the Russian army, are composed of old and new Russians who directly obey the king.

Especially the first and second flag squadrons are not only descended from the old Ross tribe, but also have extremely rich combat experience. They are the leaders of combat effectiveness. They are also commanded by the king's favorite cousin, the popular Arik. Just so, the loss of troops of the two banners was extremely exaggerated. Although some miscellaneous people replenished them during the war, when the banners returned to the capital, the original establishment of more than 500 people, the veterans of the two banners only had more than a hundred. people.

The situation of the other four flag teams was relatively better, and half of them suffered irreparable losses.

In addition, the cavalry and infantry in the newly established standing army were damaged.

The loss of Ross's elite troops amounted to a thousand men. A large number of ruthless men with several years of combat experience who had fought their way through the mountains of corpses and blood eventually died together with the sturdy Frankish heavy cavalry in the far south. Such a vigorous death in battle satisfied the long-cherished wish of a senior Viking to die in battle. While those who survived felt sorry for the death of their comrades, they could also comfort themselves - their heroic spirits had gone to the temple.

But to be fair, more than 5,000 Frankish heavy cavalry were all killed in one winter, and Ross actually made huge trophies by pulling off the iron armor of the dead and skinning the horses.

The massive losses of elite veterans, as well as the deaths of a group of young warriors who had just joined, undoubtedly weakened the kingdom's military strength.

Is this really the case? Absolutely not.

The Kingdom of Rus is no longer the kingdom of the Rus tribe. When the men of the tribe married Slavic and Finnish women on a large scale, there were very few "pure-blooded Northern Germanic" descendants in the kingdom.

The crazy war gave the Finnish flag force and the Slavic flag force participating in the war great confidence. They suffered very little damage due to their responsibilities and tactical factors, and they were still the main force in the crucial decisive battle.

Medved, the governor of Novgorod and the king's brother-in-law, led an army composed of his hometown people in the final decisive battle on the Elbe Glacier, and was actually the absolute main force of the Russian army in the coalition. From this battle, even the humblest warrior can hold his chest high and tell his fellow countrymen: "Actually, I am a Rus warrior, and I am no different from the Varyags."

When your thoughts change, everything becomes different.

At least nearly a thousand Slavic warriors returned triumphantly. Each of them carried a large amount of loot, had a large amount of silver coins and cash, and had a mouth to tell the whole story of the war. They no longer think of themselves as serfs surrendered to the Russians. From now on, they are Russians! In the future, when the king raises troops, he himself will be the core combat force.

A nation named Rus is being born, and the children who combine the three ancestry of North Germanic, East Slavic and Pan-Finnish are growing up howling.

Even according to Slavic tradition, a boy is an adult when he reaches the age of twelve. He has the obligation to defend the farm and is also eligible to marry a wife. Instead of counting the anniversaries, they counted the year of birth as the first year, and counting up to twelve, the boy was considered an adult.

The large-scale marriages that began that year officially demonstrated its strong stamina. Starting in 841, the second batch of men and women of the baby boom generation came of age, and the boys among them became the source of the kingdom's soldiers.

In Novorosberg and Novgorod, every settled family has at least three children, and their reproduction continues. This situation is particularly prominent in the agricultural area of ​​Novgorod, where families have Five children is not surprising at all.

All this was unimaginable in the past. Due to Rurik's hard work and war dividends one after another, the core population of Rus's has been growing rapidly. However, the huge number of children previously was a huge pressure. Now, Rus's officially enjoys Huge human resources enjoy demographic dividend.

In the next ten years, at least 30,000 so-called Varyag warriors will be born. A considerable proportion of them have the blood of the old Rus tribe, and they are said to have a common ancestor with King Rurik himself. Anyone with the blood of Old Rus is a first-class person in the kingdom, and they naturally become the core members of the royal family.

In addition, the extremely large Slavs must be the majority of the grassroots people in the kingdom. They are objects of necessary marriage and another force that can be mobilized.

In the end, they will become a whole, but those with the blood of Old Ross can enjoy more social resources and status. Hierarchy is necessary otherwise such a huge kingdom would collapse in this day and age.

In this way, those soldiers who have made meritorious service must be rewarded, and the entire kingdom needs to enjoy the war dividends after victory. Among them, the closer the bloodline is to Old Rus, the more dividends they will enjoy.

In the kingdom, the Slavs from the Old Rus tribe (including those who were admitted later) and the White Tree Manor are the first-class people in the kingdom. The second level is the Vikings from other backgrounds, and the third level is the large-scale Slavs.

The division of people into three classes is now just a commonplace statement, and there is no legal basis to define it.

Classes are not defined by ethnicity. In essence, this is a class division. A top-down feudal hierarchical society is naturally evolving. As the king, Rurik can feel it personally and undoubtedly does it. No interference unless it threatens one's own power.

Because he is the biggest beneficiary!

Rurik had two hands, holding the Viking power in his left hand and the Slavic power in his right hand. Both hands should be grasped firmly, and then clasped together.

This, then, is the real reason for the triumphal procession, the fire tower return ceremony, and the collective burial ceremony in the capital.

The Viking army, the Slav army, and even the army of the autonomous Finnish county must form a square formation and parade around the city to accept the cheers of people of different ethnic groups.

And collective burial is more particular. No matter which ethnic group the deceased comes from, many of the deceased are even Götalanders and Danes who joined during the war. They all died in the war, and now the remaining ashes are eligible to be buried in one place.

The elite troops have suffered a lot, and the kingdom needs to train a large number of new recruits, especially those twelve- and thirteen-year-old mixed-race children who will be added to the various flag corps. These cubs are just young in age, their physique has nothing to do with being immature.

This situation is only reflected in New Roseburg. Although the capital city is a commercial town that emerged from the desert, the earliest settlers lived here for more than ten years. She has been enjoying the dividends of the rise of Ross. The children living here have been eating well and living well since childhood. Their physiques are far better than those of their ancestors who grew up in Rossberg Fjord. Most of them reached the height of 1 when they were only twelve years old. Just a thin physique.

Just because of this, their height is already the same as that of the majority of Frankish peasant soldiers. This is Rurik's so-called confidence that twelve-year-old children can serve as soldiers.

Simply facing the Frankish peasant soldiers, these brats can go out and kill them with swords and spears after some military training.

The triumphal parade goes on as scheduled!

The berserkers with bear heads on their heads held flags and opened the way, and directly behind them was a "military band" carrying leather drums and playing bone flutes and horns.

Rurik, dressed in fine attire, walked at the front of the procession, accompanied by the high priest, with his wife, concubines and children by his side. They rode on horseback and received cheers and praises from the people.

Then, each flag team dressed in full uniforms lined up in six columns and marched in the formation of each flag team. Each man carried a buckler on his back and hung a dazzling array of weapons on his belt. They tried their best to decorate themselves. The paint on their shields was repaired, their armor was polished and polished, and their helmets were wrapped with patterned animal skins and even dyed feathers were added out of personal preference.

Unsurprisingly, these soldiers all wore clean blue-patterned robes. There were inevitably a lot of holes in the robe, some of which were sewn and repaired, but everything was deliberately left intact. Such battle-damaged attire also proves that they have experienced bloody battles, further strengthening their sense of bravery.

The Finnish flag team is also dressed in the Russian style. Most of them wear velvet hats made of squirrel skin. The big red squirrel's tail is a beauty. The leather quiver on the waist and the long bow as tall as the height are another feature.

Their overall stature is on the short side, and they don't have the slightest sense of inferiority now. Because there are many Finnish compatriots who have been living in the capital throughout the winter among the cheering crowd, if you listen carefully you can hear the praises shouted in their hometown dialect.

Because the leaders of the Finnish flag team were none other than Count Javlo and his eldest son Kelha.

Even the kingdom's craftsmen troops participated in the parade. Kawi, his son Kuzneslav, and more than fifty Slavic blacksmiths who only worked for the king formed a special team with hundreds of professional sailors. . They brought ashore heavy equipment that had made special achievements, and pushed and pulled vehicle-mounted torsion slingshots and bull trebuchets to open the eyes of the general public.

Many people recognize this group of blacksmiths and will have to deal with them if they want to order swords or even various tools in the future. Most of the metal tools sold in the New Roseburg market are made by this group.

Finally, a forest moves within the city in full view of everyone.

The halberds were spliced ​​into a complete state, and the Slavic bannermen wore their proper uniforms, and all of them wore their own trophies of Frankish chain mail. They carried extremely long halberds, and the clean halberd heads were shiny in the sun.

Their attire was no different from that of Varyag warriors. This time they all wore captured Frankish helmets and modified them. No one dared to question that they were not elites.

The triumphal parade attracted all the people of the capital to crowd into the inner city. There were people admiring the army with wide-eyed eyes everywhere. There were also spectators sitting on the roofs, city walls and even some trees.

Harvest Plaza is where the parade begins and ends. Rurik wanted to give a public speech, but after all, his voice could not suppress the noise of tens of thousands of people.

A brand new wooden tower was built outside the city. When the parade ceremony is over, the wooden tower is also completed and can be lit.

Rurik had a lot to do today. After the entire army completed their parade and arrived at Harvest Square, they all left the city and headed straight to the cemetery area in the south of the city.

Not only the army, but also the people of the whole city took advantage of the situation and moved south collectively.

This is Valhalla on earth, where everyone belongs. No matter what their beliefs, subjects can be buried in this huge national cemetery if they so choose. As for those who died fighting for the country, their ashes will be brought back and buried here as long as they are able.

Rurik deliberately imitated Arlington National Cemetery, which is Ross's National Cemetery. Most of the people who had been buried previously had stone tablets engraved with rune epitaphs and some abstract depictions. For example, there are people who believe more in Thor, the god of thunder, and his tombstone is engraved with such a picture-the god Thor holds the hammer in his left hand and captures the Jormungandr python in his right hand.

Now nearly two thousand "wooden coffins" will be buried. The pits have been dug overnight and wooden signs marking the identities of the deceased have been prepared. Because the identity of the deceased is recorded in a book compiled by the flag team, the deceased also has his or her own identity plate, so that the kingdom will identify their tombs and erect monuments for them. More than a thousand people had clear identities, and the remaining hundreds of dead were people who joined the war and died fighting for the kingdom. For the latter, they were buried together with dignity.

As king, he himself delivered a brief speech.

"They have gained eternal glory, their souls have gone to the Hall of Valor, and their bodies sleep like this, forever accepting our respect..."

At this moment, Rurik admired the group of Catholic priests' eulogy for the deceased. The eulogy was extremely particular, and this speech had an element of imitation.

He then ordered the horn trumpeters on standby to blow their trumpets collectively, and ordered the arriving warriors to beat their shields together and roar a few war cries in a rhythmic manner.

Those who came from Novorosberg were buried and sealed by their families in person, and the rest came from the direction of Novgorod, and these dead were buried by their comrades.

Few people cried, and the overall scene was solemn.

I saw the noble past wearing a golden laurel crown, leading the soldiers to collectively kneel down and salute the buried soldiers.

There were half-kneeling people everywhere. The whole scene shocked the urban people who arrived one after another. It infected more people. After all, the entire capital was paying tribute to the war dead.

When night falls, a fire tower burns rapidly, tongues of fire spurting towards the stars.

A whole hundred reindeer! As the king, Rurik stabbed them to death one by one in public as a sacrifice to the gods.

He stopped the most important job that the high priest should do. As a "person blessed by Odin", there is indeed no one more qualified than him at this moment.

The fierce fire shone on the face of a little girl, and Velika watched her father stabbing the deer one by one intently. Her face was solemn, and she saw her father's tall figure jumping continuously in front of the flames.

In the end, the father was shirtless, raising the sword in his hand and pointing straight at the sky.

Rurik was performing a performance art in front of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. The people remained eerily quiet for a moment, with only the sound of wind and the crackling of flames in their ears.

A loud voice traveled far away, and people heard the cry of the great king: "O Odin, King of the Gods!! Rus has done it! Thank you for the victory you have given us! Accept our gift! Give us prosperity! Give us A new victory!”

In the end, it was Rumia who held up a dissected deer liver and solemnly announced to all those who participated in the final sacrifice: "Odin heard and saw! Odin is very satisfied! Odin will reward us with a brand new victory!"

That night, the entire capital fell into a carnival, and bonfires burning everywhere seemed to set the earth on fire... March, early spring.

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The hazy sky was gray and black, showing heavy depression, as if someone had spilled ink on the rice paper, and the ink soaked into the sky and blurred out the clouds.

The clouds overlapped and merged with each other, spreading out streaks of crimson lightning, accompanied by rumbling thunder.

It's like the roar of gods, echoing in the world.

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The earth was hazy, and there was a ruined city, silent and lifeless in the dim red rain of blood.

The city is in ruins and everything is withered. Collapsed houses can be seen everywhere, as well as blue-black corpses and pieces of meat, like broken autumn leaves, silently withering.

The streets that used to be bustling with people are now desolate.

The sandy dirt road that used to be bustling with people is no longer noisy now.

Only blood and mud mixed with minced meat, dust, and paper were left, indistinguishable from each other, which was shocking.

Not far away, a broken carriage was stuck deep in the mud, full of sadness. Only an abandoned rabbit doll hung on the shaft, swaying in the wind.

The white fluff has long been soaked into wet red, full of eerieness.

The turbid eyes seemed to have some residual resentment, looking lonely at the mottled rocks in front of them.

There, a figure was lying down.

This was a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old, his clothes were torn and covered with dirt, and he had a broken leather bag tied around his waist.

The young man squinted his eyes and remained motionless. The biting cold penetrated his worn coat from all directions and spread throughout his body, gradually taking away his body temperature.

But even though the rain fell on his face, he didn't blink, staring coldly into the distance like an eagle.

Following his gaze, there was a skinny vulture gnawing on the carrion of a wild dog, seven or eight feet away from him, occasionally observing its surroundings vigilantly.

It seems that in this dangerous ruins, if there is the slightest movement, it will instantly rise into the sky.

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After a long time, the opportunity came, and the greedy vulture finally buried its head completely into the belly of the wild dog.

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