Rise of Rurik

The Brudenie family has a lot of private wealth, and in order to protect their wealth, it is logical to build their home like a fortress.

For safety, he also raised a team of full-time servants, more than 50 people, fully equipped with short spears with iron spear heads, and even broken-blade daggers around his waist.

In addition to these people, many farmers in Pine Needle Manor also have their own metal tools.

There are blacksmiths in the manor. Due to the geographical location of Novgorod, it is very difficult to get iron ore. Blacksmiths know basic metallurgical techniques, and due to the plight of raw materials, they have to repair the metalware of the residents.

If there is war, the men in the manor can quickly assemble, show their iron sickles for mowing grass and wheat, as well as hoes for digging the ground and iron axes for logging, and attack the enemy. Because of these excellent "weapons", they obviously have an advantage in the fight.

And this is precisely the task that Regus of White Tree Manor gave to his eldest daughter Lilia, which is to get metal tools from the Ross blacksmith through in-laws.

Is it simply more tools to make agricultural production more promising? Not only. Because of these iron farm tools, the critical moment is the weapon.

Almost all the iron and bronze wares in Pine Needle Manor are imported from Smolensk in the south with agricultural products. A small number of them were also bought from a few Varyag merchants who came from the southeast like a lone ranger.

The ranks of the servants showed the power of Brudenne himself, and his servants were armed with real weapons compared to the peasants with iron scythes. In this way, it also makes other clansmen dare not have the key to unreasonable thoughts.

This powerful team of servants has an overwhelming advantage against the local residents.

In the face of the Rus, their strength was gone.

Brudne's home is like a fortress, and as long as the enemy can't break through his carefully constructed wooden walls, the interior is very safe. The stored food and water can support a family with all the servants for at least a month.

However, Otto had never seen the so-called fortress of Brudene, the chief of Pine Needle Manor, in all these years.

It's just a wall made of wood. How many times can it hold an axe? !

The army of the Rus not only landed, but they were walking fast on the road of the manor.

Brudeni's servant rushed into the wooden wall with a sad face and shouted: "The Russ are here! The Russ army is here!"

The roar frightened the gatekeeper to slam the door shut.

Disregarding any etiquette, the family went straight to the manor's bedroom.

At this moment, Brudenie, the head of the manor, is already sharing a hearty meal with his family, two wives, eldest son and wife, three daughters and youngest son.

The appearance of Jiading's gaffe made him very unhappy.

"You go out to me, how can you be wild?"

"But, those Rus, they've come in!"

"They came yesterday, and now they finally come to me?" Brudenie put down his spoon and waved his hand: "You can leave. I'll go see that Ross leader in person in a while."

"But they've..."

"Go away! Don't disturb my breakfast!" Brudenie threw the spoon over with a stomach full of anger, and the frightened family ran away.

Brudne's youngest son, Vadim, hurried to pick up the spoon thrown by his father, took it back, wiped it clean, and gave it to his father. By the way: "Dad, why! Why do we give those robbers a lot of wheat every year."

"Why? Why else?" Brudenie's breath remained undisturbed. "Because they are strong and we are weak."

"We are weak?" Vadim's big eyes revealed great doubts, "We can organize thousands of people to fight against them, how many people can they have?"

"We tried and we lost."

Brudenie's words revealed a strong sense of grievance, and Vadim clearly felt it.

"Then keep fighting! Even if we kill a thousand people, we have to beat them. We can't always be like this, giving them money year after year, and now they want my sisters to be slaves to them. How? We are people, not sheep!"

In Vadim's view, since last year, "young women" have been added to the list of tributes requested by the Rus. Said to be a wife for a young Rus, according to past legends, Vadim is more willing to believe that it is to be a vile slave to the Rus.

Isn't this more humiliating than the humiliation of paying tribute to wheat?

The younger son's words were so hard, Brudenie felt relieved. He glanced at his eldest son's slightly dull eyes, and couldn't help sighing in his heart, the two of them were brothers born to the same mother, how could there be such a big gap in consciousness? !

In the future, is it appropriate to hand over the position of head of the estate to the eldest son?

Thinking of this, Brudenie, who was in a better mood, asked his younger son: "Vadim. If you have the opportunity to lead our people, how would you deal with these Russ robbers?"

"Of course, attacking them actively!" Vadim blurted out without thinking: "Gather all of our men who can hold a wooden stick, and women who are strong enough. We will attack their army and defeat them with absolute numbers. Maybe we are weaker, if we act as a whole manor and unite with other manors, we will definitely be able to defeat them.”

"Oh? What if some manor doesn't cooperate with us?"

Vadim was stunned for a moment, then said with a strong attitude: "Then destroy them completely. Dad, we are the leaders of this big lake, and we are their masters. I heard that all those bastards in White Tree Manor are willing to be Ross. Human's hounds, they betrayed us. We should completely wipe out Whitetree Manor and let other manors know that it is only right to follow us."

"Okay! Very ambitious!" Brudenie patted the head of his youngest son, who was only ten years old.

Hearing the young son's high-spirited words, Brudeni became bold. Now that the Russ are here, let them wait outside for a while.

I just want to hang them for a while to show their insult.

Of course, Brudenie's decision obviously overestimated his own strength, and his actions will definitely bring him losses.

The family still eats together, as if the world beyond the wooden walls has nothing to do with them.

As everyone knows, although some householders live on the food provided by Brudenie, they may not all be loyal and devoted to it at the critical moment.

The housekeeper, who was rolling and crawling immediately, should have reported that this year's Rus people have become a little strange.

It was a staggering number of men in sun-reflecting metal helmets, clearly armed for battle.

Due to the status quo, Jia Ding thought about it with his toes, and it can be estimated that there will be a bloody storm next.

Out of instinctive fear, many people on guard quickly chose to avoid it and slipped away through a small door. Only a few people still stay in the main house's house, because they believe that no matter how arrogant the Rus people are, their purpose is simply to ask for money.

This is very embarrassing. When Otto arrived under the wooden wall, he did not see anyone to meet him. All he faced was a wooden door with a huge latch, and a circle of wooden walls with no other reliable entrance.

"Leader, it's very wrong." A tough Ross warrior approached: "When we came last fall, the guy named Brudenie brought his family and his group of trash-like people with him. We are greeted by the men."

"Maybe they saw us like a pack of wolves and they all ran away?" another speculated.

"Forget it. Let my axe do the trick."

A strong man stepped forward, his shield behind his back and a recently purchased steel sword in his waist. As for his preference for using weapons, he still loves his big axe.

Combined with traditional Viking-style logging, this axe can skillfully and quickly cut down a large tree up to one meter in diameter.

A mere wooden wall, what's the point of hanging teeth?

He was about to smash the door violently with a big axe, but Otto hurriedly stopped him.

It wasn't that Otto had any kind thoughts. On the contrary, he had already had an opinion on Pine Needle Manor after listening to the explanation of White Tree Manor.

"Leader? Don't cut it!?" the strong man asked.

"No, Styke. I'm very angry right now! Of course you can easily chop down this weak wooden wall, and that still won't quell my anger."

"Boss, what do you mean..."

Otto smiled: "Is it suffocated? Did you see the houses around here? Go and snatch what you need. The only thing is, try to blow the residents away, and take away the grain and dried meat."

Of course it's not enough to just tell a strong man, Otto immediately faced his army and issued a looting permission.

Lost of restraint, all the Rus immediately threw themselves into the feast of looting.

The residents who lived near Brudenie's house were basically the richest group in the entire pine needle manor.

In fact, when the vast army of the Rus walked on the muddy streets of the manor, most of the residents had taken their families and their mouths to emergency shelter.

The Rus people began to loot and loot!

Including Kawei, who is a blacksmith, he never felt that looting was wrong, or that he did not understand whether it was right or wrong to do so. The basic principle is not one's own kind, allies and servants, they are the enemy by default.

The fleeing residents often stuffed some wheat as food rations into sacks, and then took their families to evacuate to hide. Most of their belongings were left at home, enough to eat this year's wheat harvest, and all of them were captured by the Rus.

These seizures, of course, are not within the scope of collecting tribute.

A scorching smell began to permeate the air. It was malicious arson, which Otto had acquiesced in.

Warriors of the Rus, their faces beamed with joy of harvest.

Many people have begun to carry burlap sacks filled with oatmeal, and some people are carrying a few dried salted fish, happily walking out of the empty house. Since the leader wants to punish the arrogance of Pine Needle Manor, wouldn't lighting a fire make the leader very happy?

More than a dozen rooms were lit with flames, and the thatched grass on the roof absorbed a lot of rain, and the flames gradually ignited the thatched grass, causing the roof to rapidly billow with thick smoke, and a large amount of transpiring water vapor further demonstrated the horror of the smoke and dust.

The air of this era is very clear.

White Tree Manor farmers working in the fields noticed black smoke coming from the southeast, and many people thought it was a forest fire for a while.

Rigus stopped the panic for the first time. He told the panicked people that this was the crusade against the Pine Needle Manor by the Rus.

Of course, he was also muttering in his heart. Could it be that the leader of Otto still couldn't hold back and launched a military offensive against those people?

Otto planted the patterned steel sword on the ground, resting on its ruby-encrusted hilt with both hands. He stared sharply at the wooden wall, waiting for the person inside to give him a formal response.

Few warriors have plundered wealth to their satisfaction.

According to the new rules set before departure, all the officially collected tributes, except for the priests and the chief family, are distributed equally among all the participants.

All the property obtained by the current military looting belongs to the owner. Human abilities are indeed different, and luck is also different. Some people searched very little, and some people could barely carry the seized Mairen.

In the end, everyone gradually ended the looting, because they had basically been satisfied.

It was during this process that those residents who had been reluctant to leave and tried their best to keep their food rations became the devils of the Rus.

What happened to those people was really sad, and Otto didn't care at all.

Finally, the scorched smell in the air rushed into the wooden wall, and Brudenie, who was immersed in the imagining that he was a strong man, woke up in an instant.

"Come on! Go and see what's going on? What good things did those Russ do?!"

The family members, who were always on call, seemed to have all disappeared at this moment.

"It's abominable." Brudenie stood up and ordered his weak-hearted eldest son, "Boyk, go and see what's going on."

"Dad, is it really me?" Fear was written on the young man's face.

"Idiot, you are going to be the manor of the future manor, why..."

Brudenie, who was angry again, stomped his feet and directly ordered his younger son: "Vadim, your brother is a coward. You are more brave! Go and see what happened."

"it is good!"

Vadim immediately stood up and ran to the outdoors.

The two boys, who are nearly ten years apart in age, do have the same mother, and there are three girls separated between them. Perhaps it is precisely because the Brudeniers are considered pampered that all the children born have survived.

Vadim is only ten years old, and he is indeed very ambitious in front of his father today.

But he did not have any plans to snatch the status of his eldest brother.

As the saying goes, a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. He has never seen war or bloodshed. He learned from the mouths of his parents and clansmen the humiliation that continued on his manor and the entire Novgorod region, as well as the despicable faces of those shameful traitors.

Do you still need a reason to fight back against the invasion by force?

A brave heart is brewing in Vadim's little heart. He had seen the Rus people long ago, even the hateful Rus leader, and clearly recognized this furry and bearded face.

They are indeed strong, but that doesn't mean the Rus are invincible. If a farmer is sure to lose against a Rus, what about ten? As long as everyone unites and is not afraid of sacrifice, won't it be logical to defeat the Rus?

However, when he saw the sky darkened by smoke and dust across the distance, fear also arose in his brave heart.

His dexterous body leaned close to the wooden wall, and through the narrow gap, he saw that the wall was densely covered with people!

These are the Rus!

Vadim's bravery suddenly disappeared more than half, what he saw was a large number of axes and swords, as well as the hideous faces of the Rus.

A figure suddenly swayed behind the wooden wall, and Otto keenly discovered this sneaky little figure.

"There are people there. Show me." Otto gave an order, and the three strong men rushed over immediately.

All three of them were holding big axes, and they had a tendency to chop the wooden wall to pieces.

They rushed over like three brown bears. Although they were separated by a wooden wall, Vadim suddenly panicked and fell to the muddy ground.

He didn't care to get rid of the mud on the cloth robe, and ran to the hall of his own house, to report the terrible fact to his father-the Rus army was madly destroying!