Rise of Rurik

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A cavalry regiment rested on the outskirts of Gstadorf.

In recent days, this team has been busy clearing up an intruded Norman fleet. The cavalry unit has gradually evolved from the initial rage of receiving the news to the present resentment and exhaustion.

The two cavalry returned on horseback. They dismounted and hurriedly reported the discovery to their chief.

"My lord, we have investigated. Not to mention there are Normans, even the villagers..."

"What happened to the villagers?"

"Dead! A lot of people died, and there are corpses everywhere. The attackers are so crazy that they don't even let go of the children."

"Damn it!" A big hand slapped his face fiercely.

Hunter, Earl of Bremen, has returned to his territory. This Gstadorf village is his benevolence, and all villagers are tax sources.

"Who killed them? Oh, let me guess, only the Normans can do this."

The scout looked confused and couldn't help asking: "My lord, what shall we do?"

"Wait, is the wheat harvested?"

"not at all."

"Ah, this is the only thing that makes me happy among countless bad things. Tell the soldiers and follow me into the wheat fields. I...I want to go to the village and see in person."

Before the poor villagers had time to harvest the golden autumn rye, they were killed by the assaulted Vikings. This was not a big village chief, and more than 200 people in the village fell dead in the village.

The attacker was not someone else, it was Ragnar's.

They have been chased by Earl Hunter, and when the initial contact war began, they went straight upstream along the Weser River. They had made some gains in the upper reaches of Ningbao, but they could not break the local wooden fortress and had to retreat. They tried to looting the village. Unexpectedly, the prestige of the Normans spread prematurely, and the village Jucun who heard the news evacuated gently.

Poor Gstadorf, they are a little farther away from the Weser River, and the overall environment is closed. The news of the Norman invasion is not clear, so when the butcher knife came, it was a tragedy that was completely wiped out without even decent resistance.

The poultry and livestock raised by the villagers were looted, and part of the wheat was also harvested.

Ragnar’s department had no intention of staying for a long time. This man had been avoiding the head-on encounter with the Frankish cavalry. No matter how reckless he was, he was not so stupid that there would be a group of infantry with tomahawks to fight against the cavalry group. He obtained a batch of key seizures in this village. After guarding the corpses of villagers in one place for the night, he took the tribe to continue rowing and sailing away. In the next battle, try to search for some oil and water from the big city of Bremen.

As for Ragner's failure to search, he was forced to retreat and he encountered the Ross Fleet by chance.

But here, the Earl of Bremen, the cavalry corps he led is by no means underdog. Although there are nearly two hundred horseback infantry with poor riding skills, more than one hundred of them are veterans who follow him regularly out of the city to suppress bandits. His team made a great contribution in the recent truce in the Conquest of Denmark, because this team greatly enhanced Prince Ludwig's cavalry strength.

Even though the brave and combative Frankish army has gone through three hundred years of depravity, it has made it difficult for the infantry unit to hold even the Danes of the same race of the past, and its cavalry unit is still the mainstay of the army. All the cavalry from the headquarters and the lords gathered together, and the prince had a total of 1,300 horses, but standing majestic on the battlefield, the Danish king Horlick froze, and the result was naturally Denmark's failure.

The war with Denmark has not yet stopped, and bad news came from my hometown.

East Frank was already going to win. He learned that a group of Danish Norman pirates attacked in a roundabout way, and the prince ordered the Earl of Bremen to immediately bring his elite back to fight the fire.

At the same time, he sent a letter to the horse to make the Earl of Flanders, who had just expelled the Norman forces, throw his soldiers and defend his territory.

The Earl of Bremen finally encountered Ragnar, who was plundered twice this year, and the cavalry troops quickly raided Ragnar's shore camp. As a result, all the people who came ashore returned to the ship.

An army floated on the river, and a large army rode on the bank for defeat.

The two sides shot a small amount of arrows at each other, after all, they were big eyes and small eyes.

The fleet was going down the river, and it was troublesome for the cavalry to catch up with them, and Bremen was to the south of the river, and the cavalry was all to the north of the river.

What made the earl's mouth fragrant was that the nearest ferry was still upstream, which meant that they had to go through the transition and then turn back to continue chasing the drifting enemy. They were helplessly destined to waste some time. There is no way, even horses cannot move fast for a long time. Each cavalry has only one horse. They must cherish horsepower, and they need food supplies from nearby villages.

In the village of Gstadov, facing the smelly corpses on the floor, the furious earl ordered the soldiers to bury all the dead bodies.

The soldiers excavated the divine pit, dragged and carried the corpses with terrifying wounds, and then sealed the earth to build a huge mound.

The horses gnawed frantically in the rye field, and even the rider seized the time to harvest part of it, rushing to do hulling operations, and the rye was cooked and eaten as everyone's ration.

Although the supply was within the earl's plan, the entire village had been abandoned, and he could no longer collect taxes. He knew he had to face even worse conditions. The territory was ravaged twice a year by the Normans, and the villagers fled everywhere in panic. Once the farming season of next year was delayed, he would suffer a severe economic blow, and the decline in fiscal revenue would mean It is difficult to feed many soldiers. Once the armament is slackened and the Normans come to search again, how can there be enough fighters to fight?

"Damn Norman, I must annihilate you!"

He swore that even though he realized that his cavalry could not run the Norman fleet drifting down the river, even if he caught up, the cavalry could not run wild on the surface of the river.

Even if it cannot catch up, it is good for the army to withdraw to Bremen.

It was a fortified city, with walls made of stone and wood. Relying on these, the Normans could not attack the city even with wings.

However…

It was another morning when the cavalry army marched along the river and soon encountered another village called Akmustede. There was no attack here, or it was still attacked.

How can a small village gather up to five hundred people? The wandering people had gray heads and faces, and they saw the cavalry holding the "Three Lions Banner", as if they had seen an angel, they rushed in crying and howling. Seems to be the noble Lord Earl, crying even more thrillingly.

"What happened?" The earl heard the news immediately.

"My lord! It's a Norman! They..."

"What happened to them?! And you... are not villagers at all."

"My lord! Bremen, it was broken! The Normans broke the city and killed everyone. We were lucky enough to jump the wall to escape..."

"Jumping the wall? The wall is so tall, why didn't you fall to death?"

The speaker calmed down, then returned with a horrified face: "The people who fell to death under the wall formed a slope. We can only be safe by falling on the dead."

Just hearing this explanation, the earl had a nightmare in broad daylight in the first sense, and when he asked, everyone was telling the same thing.

Suddenly, the earl's instincts tightened, and he fell off the horse, with one leg still hung on the saddle. The horses were also shocked this time, and a raised leg neighed, causing the earl to severely strain his thigh.

He was supported by his subordinates, beat his chest hard and endured the pain in his legs, and continued to hear about the situation of the refugees in Bremen.

In this way, some extremely subtle circumstances further surprised him.

There was a special Norman who came on a big boat. They were neatly dressed and generally wore white robes. They raised a unified flag, and the white base was printed with a slanted blue cross...

"Huh? Could it be, Rose?"

Originally, there were no Normans invaded, and his daily life was safe and even a little boring. Hunting and going out of the city to suppress bandits were both very important fun. The sight of the Blue Fox as an envoy to Ross once made the count very interested. As for the concept of the Principality of Ross, he didn’t understand. Considering that the other party was an envoy, he was also hostile to Denmark, and even proposed the possibility of an alliance with Bremen. sex. His first understanding of the concept of Roth is not bad, but because of his arrogance and faith as a nobleman, he cannot form an alliance with the Roths in principle.

He felt that he did not say anything to death. The so-called military alliance can be thought of. Commercial transactions are possible. As long as the Ruths obediently meet some harsh conditions, it shows that the nobles of Bremen are not barbaric with foreign countries. People trading. He listed ten kinds of taxes at that time, naturally, he said casually, and finally determined that the city tax, customs, and business tax must be collected, and the right to choose is in the hands of the Russians. He felt that it was already a great mercy to deal with barbarians in foreign countries by levying heavy taxes instead of killing them directly.

"Sure enough, you Ross and Danes are exactly the same! Normans are Normans, hungry wolves who can't feed themselves!"

Because of the accidental fall of the horse and injuries, coupled with a major blow to the soul, the earl had to stay in Akmustede village for two days. His cavalry corps also needs to rest, and the local refugees need to be comforted.

In the days of rest, the count did not just lie down. He ordered his subordinates to capture all the young and adult men among the refugees. Regardless of whether they wanted to, these people had to take up arms, and those who dared to oppose him were directly hanged.

Three merchants lost all their goods and took their wallets. The soldier also saw the money open, and the merchant complained that the lord had not protected the merchant's interests by paying heavy taxes and was lonely, so he was hung to death in public for the crime of resistance. As for the merchant’s money, the cavalry and fighters directly embezzled it...

With the act of killing the chicken and the monkey, the other men no longer complain, even if they did, they dare not speak clearly.

The weapon was insufficient, so he replaced it with a sharpened wooden pole, and got the long-handled wooden fork of the villager's grass on the spot. After all, the people who can successfully escape from the city wall are mainly young and middle-aged men. After they were forcibly called up, the Earl assembled an army of seven hundred people.

Bremen is destroyed? The earl still had a thought, the so-called his own inner castle was heavily guarded, and the barbarians would enter the city to looting, and they could only sigh in the face of the inner castle.

He wants to rescue his family members to defend his inner money, so he can make a comeback.

A group of conscripted inferior infantry slowed down the entire team, and the depressed cavalry unit was unwilling to advance fast. Fortunately, this village is not far from Bremen, otherwise there would not be a large number of refugees fleeing.

This group of people spent the night in the forest, languidly lingering into the morning, when someone began to notice the unusual weather in the direction of Bremen-thick smoke.

"Oh no!"

When seeing the smoke and dust with his own eyes, the earl instantly thought of a hundred bad things. All the sluggish people got up. The earl could no longer care about the so-called infantry that was sluggishly away. He urged all the cavalry to throw off the tail of the group of cranes and rush towards Bremen!

They were going back to fight the fire in a hurry, and they squeezed their bottoms in an attitude that they could save some.

So in the eyes of those infantrymen, when should this matter not escape? The figure of the cavalry had just been hidden by the forest, and a group of infantry was scattered like birds and beasts.

Who is arson? It is the combined forces of Ross and Ragnar.

Originally, it was very dangerous for the coalition forces to stay in the city for a long time, but there were too many things to move away.

Arik wanted to retreat early, but a large amount of wheat was helplessly stupefied by the soldiers of the Rus army who went into battle and carried them for a whole day. Numerous ryes are initially estimated to be about 900,000 pounds. The Ross Sergeants laughed and talked about the so-called looting of one million pounds. All ten ships in the fleet had to share some weight. The amount of cargo should not be underestimated.

This was only the capture of Maizi, and the Russ army and the people of Ragnar really managed to search the houses one by one. Some people who were hiding were picked out, but all the people found by Ragnar were dead ends, but they were captured by the Ross people, and the woman among them could still be a cook. This is not the last trace of humanity that the Ross people have maintained. It is indeed the fact that the army expedition to Britain back then also caught a handful of women as cooks. The brothers are just doing the same thing in Frank, and everyone still likes to eat hot meals when they are exhausted after searching for their belongings.

They all kept obeying the promise that they would survive by cooking the wheat honestly. If you really want to kill these women, Arik can't do it. The Saarema people under Spuyute want to bring them to live on the island.

A small group of captives was an accident. The Russian army was more concerned about the seizure of various metal objects. Of course, a batch of wooden utensils, such as wooden chairs and wooden barrels, were taken away.

They did not find the wool warehouse, but intercepted a large amount of wool, and the seizure was enough to make people happy.

Allied forces searched the city for two full days, and in the end it was the Russ army who occupied the Earl’s mansion and found the most wealth. For example, the earl’s treasury was looted. Although there were not many silver and gold coins in it, half of them could fill the national treasury, and the rest would be divided by the brothers.

It was a dawn, and the coalition soldiers had already withdrawn to camp outside the city. The two daytime raids and removals made the brothers tired. All the work was worthwhile. The people of Ragnar finally tasted the joy of harvest, because once they were allowed to live in by the Prince Rus, their possessions were enough to make the tribe back home. .

More than two hundred men had a good rest. They got up and gathered under the blue sky, and soon there was a dense light.

Arik and Ragnar stood in front of them and jointly taught that all the so-called robs have been taken away, and those that cannot be moved cannot be left to the Franks.

The so-called all this is part of the war. The Frankish kingdom is the root of all evil, destroying Ross's industry in Denmark, destroying the free trading port of Hezeby, destroying the homes of the Stonewall tribe and killing many people.

The so-called Frankish kingdom must get its due revenge. The Bremen army is a participant in the war. Burning this city is the perfect revenge.

The coalition soldiers are in high spirits, and they need the most explosive catharsis, such as creating a purgatory in flames.

"Fire! Follow me!" Arik roared, calling his men to rush into the city.

Upon seeing this, Ragnar also greeted his subordinates to shock with torches.

Most of the houses in Bremen are single-story, and have thatched roofs. The pure wooden structure is easier to burn.

If there is any building that is the most perfect torch, it is the pure wooden St. Peter's Basilica.

In the beginning, there were only small flames everywhere. With the weak north wind helping out, the fire gradually became frantic. When the sun rises, many places have caused soaring fires. The orange-red flames are facing the golden yellow sun, and the gray-black smoke soars up, quickly forming a column of smoke up to two hundred meters, which expands under the wind. And terrifying.

The wooden cathedral in Bremen will eventually be destroyed in a fire, and the restored church will be made of pure stone. Only in this time and space, the arsonists became Normans.

The whole city became a big oven, and all the arsonists evacuated, for fear that they would become a barbecue by running too late.

Allied forces boarded the ships, and the fleet drifted along the Weser River calmly, only the "volcano" behind them continued to gush fire and smoke.

Arising the city was proposed by Arik, after all, the first battle of his career was to kill all his opponents and burn down the town. Ragnar felt that this was a clever plan, and the raging fire was in line with his need for revenge.

The two sides hit it off and created history all at once.

Vikings plundered Frankish villages and towns have long been recorded, and the 836 Bremen fire must be a highlight. A large northern Frankish city fell into flames, and nearly 10,000 people died in this Viking raid. It will surely shake the entire kingdom.