Rise of Rurik

All that remains of the Robard clan, who flourished at one time, are ruins, their villages are occupied, and they themselves are either killed or taken captive as slaves.

When the foreign Horrick and Robard were strategically bound, they also took risks.

At that time, when the leader was killed, the people without the leader were forced to join forces with the outsider Horrick due to many considerations.

It's all over now...

Theoretically Denmark has regained its entire territory!

The Jutland War of 840, first the landing and retaliatory sabotage at the northernmost tip of the peninsula, and then the fortified battle of the Aleb Fortress on the Isthmus of Lindholm.

When the front was pushed all the way south to the Great Wall of Schleswig, the enemy in the town of Schleswig was swept away.

For the vast majority of Danish nobility, it's time to stop.

But the war will continue.

Just as Schleswig was recovered, another military meeting was held while the coalition forces were taking a short rest.

This is a meeting of victory, a meeting of unity, and a meeting that breaks new ground.

Even the many Danish nobles who attended the meeting, while praising Rurik, King of Ross, as the Holy Lord and King Ragnar of Denmark, as a great man, also bluntly and collectively demanded that they retire.

retreat? Why retreat? Where does the fight go?

Ragnar begged them to stay, and many nobles also persevered.

Some said that their tribe suffered heavy casualties and needed cultivation.

Some say that the Frankish forces have been expelled from Jutland, and at least this year there is no need to expand the war.

Others say their team has plundered enough loot.

Others said that they had to make a quick trip to the north so that the Gotalandites would go back to Scandinavia. It is precisely such a statement that it resonates with the majority of nobles collectively.

The Danish tribes were not welcome because of the Gotalandans. If it were not for the joint crusade against the tyrant Horrick, and the prestige of King Russ, no Danes would want the Gotaland army to wreak havoc on Danish territory, even if they wreak havoc on the territory of the hostile Robards. This is considered a Danish infighting. Denmark is unable to make irresponsible remarks on the Rus people who are too powerful. For the poor Gotaland people, they must leave.

This made Ragnar quite embarrassed.

Continue south into Hamburg, of course. But if the demands of many nobles are not satisfied, these guys will secretly choose another king, and then detonate a new civil war...

The parties in the military conference reached a compromise.

The main force of the Ross army will be divided into two teams by sea and land. It seems that they have returned to the tactical arrangement at Lake Wettern, but the fact is that Rurik has compromised the overall situation. As a king, if you bring together ethnic groups with different interests and demands in the territory, you must try your best to satisfy their respective demands.

The Danes’ statement is very true. The Gotalandans, as friendly troops, continue to rely on Jutland. As long as time delays, the alliance they forcibly created will split, and the Danes will expel the Gotalandans on their own.

They also verbally had a more euphemistic statement about the Swedish army. The nobles were convinced that the Rus and the Swedes were brothers, and the Swedes were more heavyweight than the Gottarans.

If you want the Swedes to leave Jutland, you can really only rely on King Rurik to persuade himself.

Ross County was to be divided, and the wounded had to be taken away by boat immediately.

Arik was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the ground troops of the Rus Army, and he administered the combat strength of the first to sixth flag teams. To this day, the continuous fighting has caused many soldiers to be killed or injured and transported away, which seems to be a huge six flags. The fighting force has been reduced to 2,000 people. For example, the valiant first flag team has been damaged in half, and the only remaining veterans in their early 200s are still the essence.

The cavalry was also incorporated into this team. Fisk collected some soldiers who could ride horses in the army through the captured horses.

The main force of the Rus army has lost a lot of energy in the battle that lasted for nearly half a year. It is at this juncture that the Slavic army, which has no losses, immediately reflects its own value.

Medved's fighters numbered as many as a thousand! At this season, they were supposed to be in the fields of Novgorod, cutting wheat, threshing, and growing, but now they were far away in the West. Since it was too far from their hometown, the soldiers simply gave up. Because the king promised everyone that the so-called army would get a lot of food supplies in the Earl of Hamburg, even if the farmland in the hometown failed, it would not make the brothers suffer.

More than that? Rurik made a solemn promise to stabilize the heart of the army - all fighters who go on expedition, regardless of ethnicity, life or death, will be exempted from all taxes this year.

In this way, the Rus army has 3,300 soldiers, which can be walked sideways in the current Europe.

And the blue fox also holds a mixed army of the Swedish Ankras Army and the Gothenburg Army, which still has a scale of 600 people today.

A team of 4,000 people was assembled, and the destination was Hamburg.

Without the command of the Supreme Commander, can this army maintain a certain degree of discipline and march?

As the restored Duke Ludov, the Saxon army he can gather now does not even have a thousand men.

Look at the Rus army, and look at your own people. The soldiers on one side are stronger than the legendary strong division of Charlemagne, and on the other side are the peasant soldiers who are like beggars. Weighing his own strength, if this Rus army is desperately looting on the road to the south, Ludov is convinced that he cannot stop it, so he can only pray that these Rus nobles will abide by the promise and will not take the initiative to loot Saxony villages.

But as the Duke of Saxony, he had to pay the price, and he had to take out a lot of new wheat as a tribute to appease the army not to go mad.

Liudov is not a fool. When he observes the tactics of the Rus army from a new perspective, he is also learning silently in his heart.

The military operations are unified and orderly. Troops were grouped and communicated by drums, horns and flags. Each soldier wears the same clothes and weapons. Each soldier has a large backpack stuffed with provisions, personal belongings, and wrapped with a curled cloth blanket on the outside.

What shocked him the most was that the Ross army made good use of arrows, and it seemed that most of the battles could be solved by archery.

He silently kept it in his mind, thinking that the five hundred cavalry he had brought from the Westphalian fief could be described as capable, but the whole army was wiped out. The Count of Hamburg brought two hundred cavalry and was annihilated. Is it understandable that if Prince Ludwig led a thousand cavalry into battle, he would be wiped out as well?

"I need these Norman troops to **** me on my way south. I need them to consolidate my rule. At least this year I need them."

As a result, the Russ-Saxony coalition of 5,000 people began to travel south by land.

At the same time, Rurik's side also acted, and the huge fleet carried the remaining Rus army and began to go north. At this point, Rurik still had 2,000 people under his command, that is, the elite standing army wearing bear heads, and the rest The strength of the troops seems to be very complicated. The huge fleet of Rus accompanied the fleet of the Danish nobles as they left Schlei Fjord all the way north.

At this point, Schleswig regained his calm and lost his vigor.

Everyone has evacuated everything, and although there are a lot of buildings, there is no one at the moment.

Some large pits were excavated to bury the people who died in battle, and the dead were buried in the ground. The dead of the Ross Army have been turned to ashes in the flames, and the ashes have been collected and brought back to the cemetery in New Roseburg for burial. The Rus' army swept the battlefield, which is extremely rare in today's European warfare.

Does this count as kindness? Eskil, the sage of the north, who was shot in the thigh, felt relieved...

"Maybe, he can really become a king like Augustus. Unfortunately, he is not willing to convert."

The carriage creaked, and Esquil still held his silver-plated crucifix firmly. Beside him sat a young priest who had escaped into the forest and was brought back in Schleswig. They rode together in a carriage and went south with a huge army.

He pulled back his black robe and occasionally opened the sackcloth wrapped around his leg to check for the injury. Thank God, his fatal wound was healing well, and as long as he didn't exercise vigorously, everything would be fine.

Esquill did not attribute this to medical skills, but believed it was a miracle. The arrow in the thigh can be described as a fatal injury. It must be because his piety has moved God, and all have God's blessing. After the situation is stabilized, the work of spreading the gospel will continue.

From Schleswig to Hamburg, even if the road is a little twisty, the total journey is equivalent to 120 kilometers.

Of course, this is not a big problem for the Russ army who often fights. Even if it is a land march, when each soldier has an extremely abundant logistical supply, the march is nothing.

For the Saxon army, dawdling was unavoidable.

As the commander-in-chief Arik had to accommodate Liudov's dawdling.

Precisely because of sufficient supplies, the Ross army did not target the villages along the way to loot. "On-site supply" is looting. This is indeed a shortcut to solve logistics. It is to get the local people who can be forced to flee by luck, and even lead to the tragic and tragic tactics of the local people. The general Viking army would give priority to robbery, but the Rus army was already 4,000 people in size, and they were marching across the border in Saxony, where they were unfamiliar, so they had to be cautious.

In the eyes of Liudov and the accompanying Robert, this group of Norman Rus troops from the north refreshed their understanding of Norman pirates.

The army is walking on a dirt road that is driven by the feet of travelers. This dirt road is not random. The villages along the way are action nodes. The road connects these villages and connects Hamburg to the north.

The villages here are all Saxons, but people who have fled from the north have long been informed of the war in the north. All the villages were vigilant. When they saw a huge army appear, and saw a large number of blue and white troops, the first thing they thought of was not the army of barbarians, it must be the regular army of the Franks.

The Normans of Denmark can't afford it, and the Frankish regular army can't afford it. Because the revenge killings of the Saxon people by Charlemagne's Frankish army are a nightmare that lingers in everyone's hearts.

The village leaders took the villagers to inquire about the situation, and immediately learned shocking things.

Ludov, who inherited his bloodline from Widukind, announces the resurrection of the Duchy of Saxony! The restored Duchy of Saxony declared its opposition to Ludwig, and all the conquered Saxons were freed from Frankish control at this moment.

The villages along the way doubted the authenticity of the incident and were afraid of retaliation by the Frankish army, especially the local Count of Hamburg. With Robert, the Earl of Hamburg, himself being dragged out to speak out, things seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

It's been too long! The Saxons, who were slaves to their country, welcomed back their king, vented their dissatisfaction, offered some newly harvested oats and rye as tribute, and the village declared their allegiance to Ludoff.

At the same time, they also understood the true identity of these neatly dressed troops. They are not Danes, but Rus. The Rus army is a foreign army. They are allied with the restored Duchy of Saxony. The purpose of their existence now is to help Ludov defend the hard-won fruits of restoration. It is this group of Rus who will fight against the possible Frankish counter-insurgency army. As long as a major victory is won, the Duchy of Saxony will not perish again.

Of course, these Saxon villages are also aware of the price of refusing allegiance. That is the countless northern armies. To refuse allegiance is to declare a confrontation, so that without the arrival of the Frankish army, this group of northern troops can raze the village to the ground.

Each village made the most rational choice - allegiance to Ludov as duke. Only in this way, they bought peace by paying tribute to this year's new wheat.

A village could supply five hundred pounds of new wheat, an amount that Ludoff himself had requested. Many villages had to hand over such a weight of "Proof of Allegiance". Ludov thus proved his power and satisfied his army's provisions. More importantly, he began to implement his contract with King Rurik the Great. .

Such an amount of wheat is only equivalent to an appetizer before a meal. For these Saxons, almost all of their restoration came from the alms of the Rus Kingdom. Restoration is a very accidental thing. Without the support of the Rus Kingdom, this kind of restoration would be short-lived, and it would encounter **** revenge from the Franks at that time.

Then all the Saxons still have to pay a huge price.

It was a secret agreement that the Principality of Saxony would hand over two million pounds of wheat to the Rus Kingdom to cover the military expenses of the Rus army this year, as well as the cost of purchasing the Rus Kingdom's military protection.

This is a very large amount, but Rurik is not asking for a huge price. He has a good reason: "We will help you restore your country and help you fight. We do not intend to occupy your land, and we will be allies in the future. I want you to spend two hundred dollars this year. Ten thousand pounds of wheat is already very friendly."

The uncontrollable Danes did not come, but the principled Rus came.

Liudov, who can no longer look back, is sad that because of his ambition, he can't even care about the lives of his wife and children in Westphalia. Control, confiscated wealth immediately paid as tribute to the Rus army.

In fact, for the huge Saxony region, their total population is as high as half a million.

In theory, a population of this size should be loyal to the Duke of Ludov, but he has almost no ability to control it well. He couldn't do what Rurik did, placing the kingdom's main population of 200,000 people in several large settlements, thus directly controlling it from top to bottom.

Liudov can still only control a core area like his ancestor Widukind, and then rely on his personal prestige to demand allegiance from the barons of the Saxon ethnicity. There are indeed variables here. The baron who has not been able to protect himself refuses him for various reasons, but continues to be loyal to the Frankish nobles. Man, I can't tell. Liudov is still not convinced that his "grandson of Widukind" call is perfect.

However, with him and the army of the Saxon barons who received reinforcements from Robert, Count of Hamburg, to support Schleswig, it turned out that his identity was indeed useful.

Indeed, Widukind is a well-known hero, and the viscounts also know that the descendants of the hero have not fallen, but have been deliberately placed far away to continue to be nobles. In the past year, they even knew that the grandson of the hero was assigned to the Danish world as a chess piece, and many Saxon barons sweated for him, for fear that the Danes would swallow him up.

The hero's grandson, Ludov, did not die. He was exiled to form an alliance with the Danes and the mysterious Rus. He is the grandson of a hero! Half a century has passed, and many heroic deeds have become word-of-mouth stories.

They did not lose the courage to rebel, and because of the outbreak of a full-scale civil war among the three Frankish princes, the Saxon forces in the northern frontier region are unparalleled in secret.

It is like a bundle of fuelwood that has been splashed with grease, only a little spark can ignite flames in an instant.

They did not hesitate to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, reluctantly to go to Schleswig, and now, barons, retinues and peasant soldiers, these Saxons were unparalleled in their support of Ludoff as the true Duke of Saxony.

After all, this is the only dirt road that goes north to Schleswig. The road from Ross-Saxony to the south is very slow for various reasons, and the 120-kilometer road took six days.

However, at the time of departure, Liudov's various Saxon warriors (including the hiders found in the Schleswig Forest) were only 900 people, and many people actually made up the number. Even if the numbers were made up, by the time the Allied forces arrived in Hamburg, the Saxon army had swelled to a size of 5,000!

Judging from the absolute numbers alone, Ludov's Saxony Army has surpassed the Rus Army's land troops, which made him instantly confident.

Now, the city of Hamburg is in front of you. Even if it is just a fortress-like city with a population of less than a thousand people, it has a large number of villages like stars guarding it.

Ludov was standing here, and Robert the Count of Hamburg respected him.

The whole of Hamburg ushered in the real Duke of Saxony, and all the local Saxons supported Liudorf, that is, all the Franks in the region were shocked!

The rapid development of things also shocked the Franks. Because it was the autumn harvest season, it was impossible for the Frankish peasants to leave their farmland, and they were caught and detained while they were working. All their possessions were confiscated, except for their body wraps and a limited daily food supply. They were collectively locked up in ten huge barns, under the strict supervision of the Rus and Saxon armies.

Instead, Robert was reunited with his wife and children, and his servants and last squires were proudly preserved. In fact, because of the loss of the absolute elite, Robert's earl status is only a false name. In the Hamburg area, he, the Earl of Hamburg, has no soldiers and no rights, and no common people recognize the status of this noble.

Due to the burning of Bremen and the destruction of nearby villages, people who have fled have created the densely populated area of ​​Hamburg. The banks of the Elbe are a good place for agriculture, and now the Frankish immigrants have been concentrated in custody after the local Saxons retaliated, and the remaining farmland has been occupied by the Saxons. At present, the **** act in the revenge operation, Liudov did not see that it simply did not exist. It was he who ordered the elimination of Frank's influence, and now he has a large number of Frank's "prisoners" who have nothing, a tactical purpose has been achieved.

Ludoff arrived in Hamburg ~www.readwn.com~ and immediately declared it the temporary capital of the Duchy of Saxony.

He stood on the top of the tower of the fort and looked into the distance. Everything was so beautiful, but it was also very magical.

Robert and his wife and children had moved out of the fort and camped outside the city with a handful of retinues.

Likewise, a large Rus army camped by the river outside the city.

Liudov knew that these Norman ruthless men would wait, and soon Rurik, King of Russ' huge fleet would come in from the direction of the ocean. He didn't want this in his heart, but Hamburg was an open area facing the river and the sea, and the Russ Army would use this place as a large military camp. At that time, the Russ-Saxony coalition could wait for Ludwig's response.

"Ah! I have to reorganize the army immediately. I will send emissaries immediately, ordering all the barons to want my allegiance! No! I will also send emissaries to go back to Westphalia to take the family. Yes, the matter of picking up the people is on first."

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