Rise of Rurik

The Brodne family has a lot of private wealth. In order to keep the wealth, it is logical to make their own home look like a fortress.

　　 For safety, he also raised a team of full-time family members with more than fifty people, and was fully equipped with a short spear with an iron spear head and even a broken blade dagger at his waist.

　　 Except for these people, many farmers in Pine Needle Manor also have their own metal tools.

　　 There is a blacksmith in the manor. Due to the geographical location of Novgorod, it is very difficult to obtain iron ore. The blacksmiths knew the basic metallurgical techniques, and due to the plight of raw materials, they had to repair the metalware of the residents.

　　 If there is a war, the men in the manor can quickly assemble and show off their iron sickles for cutting grass and wheat, as well as their plowing hoe, and the iron axe for cutting wood, and launch an attack on the enemy. Because of these excellent "weapons", they clearly have an advantage in weapon fighting.

　　 And this is precisely the task given to the eldest daughter Lilia by Rigus of the White Tree Manor, which is to obtain metalware from the hands of the Ross Blacksmith through in-laws.

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

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

　　The Jiading team demonstrated the power of Brodne himself. Compared with those farmers who have iron sickles, his Jiading is equipped with real weapons. In this way, it also makes other tribes afraid to think otherwise.

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

　　In front of the Ross people, their power is gone.

　　 Brodne’s home is like a fortress. As long as the enemy cannot break through his carefully constructed wooden wall, the interior is very safe. The stored food and water can support the whole family and all the servants for at least one month.

　　 However, Otto has never seen the so-called fortress of Pine Needle Manor Brodne in the past few years.

　　 is just a wall made of wood. How many times can it hold an axe and chop? !

　　 An army of Ross people not only landed, they were walking fast on the road of the manor.

　　 Brodne’s family rushed into the wooden wall with a weeping face, and shouted: “The Rus are here! The Rus’ army is here!”

　　 The roar scared the gatekeeper to close the door quickly.

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

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

　　 Jiading's gaffeic appearance made him very unhappy.

　　 "How can you go out for me?"

　　 "But, those Ross people, they have already come in!"

　　 "They came yesterday, but now they finally come to me?" Brodne put down his spoon and waved his hand: "You can leave. I'll see the leader of Rose in person in a while."

　　 "But they already..."

　　 "Get out! Don't disturb my breakfast!" Brodne got up and threw the spoon directly, scaring the disoriented family and running away.

　　 Brodne’s youngest son, Vadim, hurriedly ran to pick up the spoon thrown by his father, took it back and 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 can there be?" Brodne was still angry, "because they are strong, we are weak."

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

　　 "We have tried, we have lost the battle."

　　Brudne’s words revealed a strong suffocation, and Vadim was clearly aware of it.

"Then continue fighting! Even if we die a thousand people, we must defeat them. We can't always do this and give them money year after year. Now they are getting worse and want my sister to be their slaves. This How can we do it? We are human beings, not sheep!"

　　 In Vadim's view, since last year, the list of tributes requested by the Ross people has added the item "young woman". According to previous legends, Vadim is more willing to believe that it is to be a lowly slave to the Ross.

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

　　 The youngest son speaks so hard that Brodne feels secretly refreshed. He looked at his eldest son's slightly dull look, and he couldn't help sighing in his heart, they are two brothers of the same mother, how come the difference in awareness is so big? !

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

　　 Thinking of this, Brodne, who was in a better mood, asked his younger son: "Vadim. If you had a chance to lead our people, how would you deal with these robbers?"

"Of course it is to attack them!" Vadim didn't want to blurt out: "Gather all our men who can handle sticks, and women who are strong enough. We attack their army and defeat them with absolute numbers. Maybe we are relatively weak. If our entire manor takes action, and then unites with other manors, we will surely defeat them."

　　 "Oh? What if some manor does not cooperate with us?"

Vadim stunned, and then said with a strong attitude: "Then completely destroy them. Dad, we are the leaders of this big lake, and we are their masters. I heard that all the **** in White Tree Manor are willing to be Roses. Human hounds, they betrayed us. We should completely eliminate White Tree Manor and let other manors understand that it is only right to follow us."

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

　　Brudne became bold after hearing the brave words of the youngest son. Now that the Ross people have arrived, let them wait outside for a while.

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

　　 Of course, Brodne’s decision is obviously an overestimation of his own strength, and his actions will surely bring him losses.

　　 The family still gathers to eat together, as if the world beyond the wooden wall has nothing to do with them.

　　 As everyone knows, although some family members live on the food given by Brodne, they may not be really loyal to them at the critical moment.

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

　　 That group is a group of people wearing metal helmets that reflect sunlight. The number is very staggering. They are obviously ready for battle with their weapons.

　　 Due to the status quo, Jia Ding used his toes to think about it, and he can also estimate that there will be a **** storm next.

　　 Many people on guard, out of instinctive fear, quickly chose to avoid and slip away through a small door. Only a few people still stay in the main house, because they firmly believe that the Rus people are arrogant and the purpose is simply to ask for money.

　　 This is very embarrassing. When Otto arrived under the wooden wall, he didn't see anyone who responded. All he faced was a wooden door with a huge latch, and a circle of wooden walls with no other reliable entrances.

"Boss, it's not right." A tough Ross warrior approached: "When we came last fall, that guy named Brodne brought his family and his bunch of rubbish. Our men greeted us."

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

　　 "Forget it. Let my axe solve the problem."

　　 A strong man steps forward, his shield is behind him, and his recently purchased steel sword is stuck in his waist. Regarding the preference of using weapons, he still loves his long-handled axe.

　　 This axe, coupled with traditional Viking-style logging, can cleverly and quickly cut down a large tree with a diameter of one meter.

　　 District wooden wall, where are the feet hanging on?

　　 He was about to violently break the door with his big axe, Otto hurriedly stopped him.

　　 It's not that Otto had any kind thoughts. On the contrary, he had an opinion on Pine Needle Manor after listening to the explanation of White Tree Manor. Now he has eaten behind closed doors and feels sick in his heart.

　　 "Boss? Don't cut it anymore!?" the brawny man asked.

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

　　 "Boss, you mean..."

　　 Otto smiled, "Is it broken? Did you see the houses around here? Go grab what you need. Only one thing, try to blast away the residents, take away the food and jerky."

　　 It was not enough to just tell a strong man. Otto immediately faced his army and issued permission to looting.

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

　　 Those residents living near Brodne’s home are basically the richest group in the entire Pine Needle Manor.

　　 In fact, when the mighty Rus people stepped on the muddy streets of the manor, most of the residents had taken their families to take refuge.

　　 The Ross people began to looting!

　　 Including Kawei, as a blacksmith, he never felt that looting was wrong, or that he didn’t understand whether it was right or wrong to do so. In short, he just obeyed the leader’s order to looting. The basic principle is that they are not their own kinsmen, allies, and servants, but they are the enemy by default.

　　 The escaping residents often stuffed some wheat as rations into sacks, and then evacuated with their families. Most of their belongings were left at home, enough to eat the grain harvested this year, and all of them were seized by the Ross people.

　　Of course, these seizures are not within the scope of collecting tributes.

　　 A scorched breath began to fill the air. It was a malicious arson, and this was also what Otto had acquiesced in.

　　 Warriors of the Ross people, their faces are full of joy of harvest.

　　 Many people have begun to carry linen pockets full of oats, and others are carrying a few dried salted fish, happily walking out of the empty house. Since the leader is going to punish the arrogance of Pine Needle Manor, wouldn't it make the leader very happy if he lit a fire?

　　 More than a dozen rooms burned with flames, and the thatch on the roof absorbed a lot of rain. The flame gradually ignited the thatch, causing the roof to quickly billow in smoke, and the large amount of steaming water vapor made the smoke and dust more horrible.

　　 The air in this era is very clear.

　　The farmers of Baishu Manor working in the fields, they noticed the black smoke rising from the southeast, and many people thought it was a forest fire for a while.

　　 Ligus stopped the panic for the first time. He told the panicked that this was the Ruth's crusade against Pine Needle Manor.

　　 Of course, he was also murmured in his heart. Could it be that Chief Otto still couldn't help but took a military offensive against those people?

　　 Otto put the patterned steel sword on the ground, holding its ruby ​​hilt with both hands. He stared sharply at the wooden wall, waiting for the people inside to give him a formal response.

　　 Almost no warrior has found wealth that satisfies him.

　　According to the new rules set before departure, all the tributes officially collected, except for the families of priests and chiefs, are distributed equally by all participants.

　　 All the property obtained by the current looting belongs to the possessor. People's abilities are indeed different, and luck is also different. Some people search less, and some people can hardly carry the captured wheat.

　　 After all, everyone gradually ended the looting, because they were basically satisfied.

　　In this process, those residents who have been reluctant to leave, desperately trying to keep their rations, have become the ghosts of the Ross people.

　　 The experience of those people is really sad, Otto didn't care at all.

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

　　 "Come here! Go and see what's going on? What good did those Ross people do?!"

　　 Jia Ding, who was originally on call, seemed to have disappeared.

　　 "It's hateful." Brodne stood up and ordered his weak-minded eldest son, "Poik, you go see what's going on."

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

　　 "Idiot, you are the man of the future manor, why..."

　　 Brodne, who was angry again, stomped his foot and directly ordered his little 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 towards the outdoors.

　　 These two boys, who are nearly ten years old, do have the same mother, and there are three girls between them. Perhaps it is precisely because the Brodne family is considered to be pampered, so that all the children born to survive.

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

　　 But he did not plan to **** his eldest brother's position.

　　 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 his manor and the entire Novgorod region continued to encounter, and the shameful faces of those shameful traitors.

　　Using force to counter the invasion, is there still a reason?

　　 A brave heart is brewing in Vadim's small heart. He had seen the Ross man a long time ago, even the hateful leader Ross, and he clearly recognized this shaggy face with a beard.

　　They are indeed strong, which does not mean that the Ross people are invincible. If a farmer fights a Rusman, he will definitely lose, how about ten? As long as everyone is united and not afraid of sacrifice, is it not logical to defeat the Ross people?

　　 However, when he saw the sky dimmed by smoke and dust across the present, fear grew in his brave heart.

　　 His dexterous body leaned close to the wooden wall, UU reading www.uukanshu.com saw through the narrow gap that the wall was densely covered with people!

　　 These are all Ross people!

　　 More than half of Vadim's bravery suddenly disappeared. What he saw was a large number of axes and swords, as well as the ferocious faces of the Ross people.

　　 There was a figure dangling behind the wooden wall, and Otto keenly spotted this sneaky little figure.

　　 "There is someone there. Show me." Otto gave an order, and the three strong men rushed over.

　　 All three of them are holding big axes, and there is a tendency to chop the wooden wall into pieces.

　　 They rushed over like three brown bears. Although they were separated by the wooden wall and were affected by the instinct of fear, Vadim was panicked and fell to the muddy ground.

　　 He didn't care to get rid of the dirt on the cloth robe, and ran to his own hall, to report to his father the horrible fact-the Ruth's army is madly destroying!