Rise of Rurik

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John wakes up from his short sleep, he subconsciously pulls around with his hands, and suddenly wakes up when he finds the limp existence.

That is not a dream! It's true!

John, who was awake, stared at the pitiful eyes cast by the woman beside him in the morning light.

He knows that he has no turning back, but this is the road to personal glory, and the fool will try to turn back.

Obviously this mansion belonged to the Earl of Bamburgh, and it became the residence of the king of Northumbria. Now, a lower-level knight has taken possession of it.

John decided to make himself king, and the news spread throughout the army.

Some people are full of hope, some people just watch the wind and watch the rudder, and many people are very angry about this arrogance.

There is even another kind of person here!

These people are indeed hateful. They do not hate John's usurpation of the king's power or the blasphemy of the queen. Their greatest hatred is very simply-why are you.

John likes to mention the infamy of "usurper", as for this, he himself has not bothered to think about it.

Those who hate John, the anger has to be suppressed in their hearts. Even for those who bow and flatter at the door of the mansion, they must consider the imminent and severe test.

Even if this John is a bastard, there is no one in the whole city of Bamburgh who can integrate the people and raise the morale to fight against the invasion of sea barbarians.

Even if you want to liquidate John's evil deeds, you have to wait until everyone wins the war.

Ask yourself, what is the relationship between the ruins of the king's family and mortals? What good would it be to be a trespasser or usurper?

At least this time when John rode his horse to suppress the looting of food, he managed the situation cleanly.

A large number of neutral spectators do not care whether their king is called Ernred or John. They know that they must survive in the city until the end of the barbarian soldiers.

Most of the people in the city are neutral, or the hardship of life has honed them into docile sheep.

They still don't know that the magnificent "Great Viking Era" has arrived. In the years to come, it will be the norm to drag the family and move to the defensive fortress built by the lord.

Compared to the walls of family residences built by ordinary country lords to guard against bandits and wild beasts, the walls of Bamburgh are also made of wood, except that it has a larger range and higher height.

In this way, you can withstand the barbarian's attack by the wall?

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Lindisfarne Abbey is a stone wall! The ending is still fall.

Although she was not officially crowned, Queen Anna, who was legally regent, faced the soldiers and civilians who rushed to the gate of the mansion early in the morning. She firmly endured the pain of adding her body and announced that John had become the new sign of the palace.

The current responsibility of the magistrate John must be to keep the people of Bamburgh and to force the enemy to retreat.

As for what powers the harem chief John can obtain after all, Queen Anna remained silent.

People have noticed that the once arrogant queen has completely lost her temperament. People are whispering to denigrate the woman's indiscretions. Once someone murmurs when the war is over, the woman should go to the monastery to be a nun to apologize. What's more, they are fighters who hate John's usurpation of power. They naturally think that John, who has a clay leg, has the ability to usurp power, and it must be the scheme of the young queen.

After all, Bamburgh’s city defense work began in the early morning.

John stood at the head of the wooden wall and ordered the people to collect stones and transport them to the city wall, as well as transport wooden blocks to the wall.

A large number of pottery urns were also collected and filled with soil as heavy throws, waiting for the opportunity to kill possible wall-climbing enemies.

After all, the strategic position of Bamburgh and Edinburgh is similar. The two cities are essentially military fortresses, and only on this basis did they develop into a regional administrative center. There is a reserve of arrows, swords and spears in the city. Now John does not hesitate to recruit all men from ten to sixty years old. Whether they are immature or old, they must all take up weapons now.

Young children and elders don't have to fight with the enemy. John only hopes that when the crisis comes, they can protect themselves with weapons.

As for the women and children in the city, they were all driven to some controlled residential houses. In essence, they are guarded by soldiers to prevent getting in the way in battle, or even to avoid becoming hopeless victims of battle.

I have to say that John has a certain city defense wisdom, which has a lot to do with the Frankish military knowledge he learned in the cavalry.

Some people began to wonder whether the sea barbarians were really going to attack Bamburgh, and some people noticed those who emerged from the woods.

The remnants of cavalry and a small number of infantry entering the city are just the fastest fugitives, and there are still a large number of fighters fleeing behind them.

The exhausted soldiers returned to Bamburgh. They immediately received food and water, but they did not get any chance to rest, so John forced them to take up their weapons again.

There were people escaping from the woods throughout the morning. They moved on the bare farmland after the harvest, and finally returned to the city.

John got the support of three hundred tired people, and it will take some time before they can regain combat effectiveness. One good thing about these people coming back is to dispel the doubts of the unsteady people in the city about whether the enemy is attacking.

The Viking fleet is being killed in Bamburgh, this is absolutely true!

At lunch, the soldiers stationed at the tower were horrified to see a sail appearing in the bay not far away.

"The barbarians on the sea are coming!" The soldier yelled and struck the warning bell desperately.

The call of the alarm was like thunder, and the cooked wheat in the bowl suddenly no longer fragrant.

The soldiers scrambled to climb the tower, and John himself climbed up, watching the approaching fleet with mixed feelings.

John consciously used his best efforts to gather a small number of inherent defenders, gathered in the armed collapsed soldiers, armed the boys and old men in the city, and thus pieced together a "army" with a strength of up to two thousand.

Such an army can be considered a big army? Among them, only three or four hundred people can really fight.

The situation in Bamburgh is extremely complicated. In this small town, people from all the surrounding villages drove a small number of livestock into the city for refuge.

The barbarians at sea have come, and the number of people taking refuge in the city has reached as many as four thousand.

The enemy is already landing!

There was a mess in the city, the soldiers and the men who had been enlisted shivered, the women cried and the children screamed, and the people waited for the enemy's attack in panic and anxiety.

At least the people hiding in the city are at ease because of the strong wooden walls. They will be looted and killed by landed pirates at their homes in the country. Only this city can save their lives.

They naturally think that the defensive ability of the wooden wall can save everyone's lives, but they don't know that the Vikings who landed carried the ladder made when they conquered the stone wall of the monastery, and even the main parts of the siege cart were taken down and transported.

Of course, Rurik came here prepared, he did not intend to land indiscriminately and attack the city.

The fleet entered a small fjord, the sea breeze circulated here, and the waves became more violent.

Big ships like Aphrora swayed violently with the waves, and those warriors who paddled in long boats had to be washed their faces often by the sea.

The captured Einred has seen the towers in Bamburgh, is it really a safe place? Will the Vikings keep their promise, as long as they pay the ransom, Bamburgh can avoid destruction?

But he is now more worried about the big ship being overturned by the waves.

With an undaunted appearance, Rurik held the huge mast and looked down at the King of Broken Arms: "Look at this sea area, it can be a small port. It seems that your people really don't know how to build ships, really don't. Willing to fish."

This is indeed the case. In addition to building a flat boat in the Kingdom of Northumbria, the technology to build larger ships has long been lost.

"We are about to land! The king of Northumbria!" Rurik patted the man's bearded face, "I am the Duke of Ross, and you are the defeated king. Being captured by me is not a detriment to honor. I want to take you to land, and I will let you go back and continue to be king, provided that you keep your promise. Will you hand over the tribute?"

"I will." Einred said without hesitation.

"I'm not afraid that you will regret it." As he said, Rurik faced the bow, but turned his back to the king: "Is that Bamburgh? It's just a wooden city. Remember, if you irritate me, I will let you in." The corpses on the ground witnessed the fire in this city."

Einred had nothing to say, he felt that the boy in front of him was a little devil, and in a few years he would be a murderous tyrant.

Northumbria is just a small character destined to be destroyed, occupied, and colonized in the Viking torrent. The huge kingdom will become a colony of various Vikings and permanently change the population and language structure of this place. .

Rurik didn't care about Einred's attitude towards him, he was already organizing the landing.

The long boat rushed to the beach directly on the big waves, and the Aphrodite stopped offshore, and Rurik and others escorted Einred to the beach of Bamburgh in a long boat.

Sometimes, nearby villagers return to some rocky areas by the sea to pick up mussels. As for fishing, they are more willing to row small boats in the calm river.

After the Viking army assembled the army aggressively, Lurik left only a handful of people injured in the previous battle or in poor physical condition, a total of 100 people staying at the camp of the landing site.

The remaining 600 fighters pulled the seized horse-drawn flatbed with ropes (the packaged parts were assembled at the seaside), carrying the camping materials, and even the four torsion slingshots and all the bull catapults that had been dismantled and went straight to Bamburgh. .

In this era, 600 heavily armed soldiers are a powerful military force in Western Europe.

In Frank, only a nobleman at the Duke level has the ability to quickly take out such a mobile force.

The army marched in full gear, swaggering through the wormwood grassland and small pieces of harvested wheat fields on the seashore, perhaps within two kilometers of walking, and arrived at Bamburgh.

The enemy soldiers are coming down the city! The huge force is shocking!

The Northumbrian people on the city wall were trembling with their short spears. Even though they had more troops, they seemed to have a lot of people. In fact, once the city was broken, they were all lambs to be slaughtered.

Someone suggested to the defensive John who had just been publicly canonized by the queen: "We should send someone to investigate the reality. We should probe the attitude of the enemy. If we can give them some money to leave, the brothers will not die. "

Originally, John, who had a problem with the war, was thinking about how to defend. He patted his forehead and thought that "taking money to eliminate disasters" was a good idea.

After all, people only remember who forced the enemy to leave. Whether it was defeating or spending money to eliminate disasters, people only looked at the result. At that time, his John Stockwood's kingship will surely gain public users, so that he can legally occupy Queen Anna and legally own the kingship.

Who will be this messenger?

Of course, whoever proposes and implements it!

A soldier named Jacques took up the job of envoy, and he originally proposed the idea. To express Bamburgh’s desire for peace, two young priests were forced to follow Jacques.

John is willing to implement the plan to spend money to eliminate disasters, but he doesn't know the appetite of barbarians.

The Earl of Bamburgh’s property is currently equivalent to being owned by John, and he ordered Jacques to bring a pound of silver as a meeting ceremony.

On the other hand, Rurik stood under Bamburgh with a large army.

He looked at the low city wall, and naturally contrasted it with the stone walls of Borgholm Fortress and Lindisfarn Abbey.

The King of Broken Arms was hidden. Rülik turned his head and looked at Erinred, who was sitting still on the ground. He pointed to the wooden wall and said proudly: "This is Bamburgh? What kind of wall is this? Our siege rush A car can be manufactured quickly as long as it hits the city gate once."

Paul truthfully translated, and then Erinred boldly requested: "You take me to the city, and I will ask them to take out the money and food, and there are a group of young pure women. If you get these, go quickly."

"Oh? This will drive me away."

"This……"

Rurik shrugged and yelled arrogantly with an intriguing smile: "I like your food, your silver coins, and your women. But I like your land better!"

"Ah! You... don't plan to leave?"

"A joke." Lurik touched Ernred's head with a smile, and motioned to the joking brothers to camp immediately.

Is this a joke? Is it really a joke? How did Geiger of Washoby ignore his father’s teachings on opening up new territories? Every family leader became interested in the land itself, and even the Bergen immigrants from Shetland were also evaluating the development potential of this area.

Biyuni and Geiger, both rebellious, came over and pointed out that a fierce attack could easily break the city.

"You are teaching me to do things? I am your commander, and I still obey my command."

Biyuni was a little displeased, pointing to the wooden wall and yelling, "My brother! Are you cautious about this fragile wooden wall like a sheepfold?"

"I still want to settle this matter peacefully. I intimidate them and force them to give up the idea of ​​resistance and hand over their belongings obediently."

"What do you want to do?" Geiger asked promptly.

"Like we did on the coast near the monastery."

"A campfire everywhere again?"

"Of course. Not only that." Rurik said and pointed his finger at the open space: "They can see all our forces now, but it won't work at night. We will light a bonfire here, and we will also be on the landing site. Do the same. I will also send a few brothers into the forest to guard against the enemy's surrender camp and capture the fleeing enemy."

"I think this is unnecessary." Biyuni shook his head boringly.

"Brothers, just follow my resolution. This is a strategy. When you Balmerks make expeditions in the future, you can use these intimidation tactics in the face of powerful enemies. It is precisely because we are allies that I tell you this. Kind of Ruth tactics."

Bijuni had nothing to say, and then casually put on another sentence: "It's okay. Brothers have a good rest. Tomorrow we will regain our perfect spirit, even if we storm the city, we will be full of strength."

People began to act in accordance with Rurik's actions, and those who were ordered to enter the forest area to the north quickly had unexpected gains.

To be precise, it was the defeated soldiers who were still fleeing to Bamburgh. They fled all the way and finally reached the city, and they were captured by barbarians who were waiting for them.

But the Vikings did not hurt the killer. In a short period of time, more than 30 prisoners were twisted to the Viking camp.

When these frightened soldiers and armed peasants saw their king here, they were shocked by their bone marrow surprises, and then they were mixed with all kinds of flavors~www.readwn.com~ It was already afternoon, which should have been leisurely. In the afternoon of September, the Russ had arranged a city camp that seemed to be lax in defense, but was actually a hidden murderous intent.

There are Viking warriors who have been watching the movements of Bamburgh. In the woods to the north and south, bow-making warriors are also set up to watch.

Finally, a gap was opened in the wooden door of the walls of Bamburgh, and someone came out carrying the Northumbrian flag.

Lying on the leather cushion soaked in the afternoon sun, Rurik was immediately awakened.

"Master, there is a situation! It may be their messenger." Yevlo said cautiously.

"Messenger?" Rurik immediately got up and complained: "I have experienced a morning storm, and now I want to rest, but now I want to talk to the enemy's envoy?"

"This... if you don't want to talk more about it, I will take it with my brother to kill him."

"No. The messenger came just right to let the captured King of Broken Arms talk to them. We already lacked a messenger with a message, and now the problem is solved."