Rise of Rurik

Those who deliberately resisted were slashed without hesitation, those who threw their weapons on their knees begged for mercy, and most of them were brought under control.

Rurik and his elite mercenaries entered the city proudly, and the king Ernred and the small group of warriors who followed him entered Bamburg with a very subtle gesture.

It was less than a week before Bamburgh came again, and Ernred seemed to have passed a full ten years.

A few days ago, he assembled a large army here to fight the savage pirates on the seashore.

Now he and this group of Viking pirates have essentially formed a coalition and entered the city as a conqueror.

He hurriedly appealed to Rurik: "Let your men be merciful! The usurper will be executed, and I am still the king. If you have any requirements, I will order it to arrange it. If you don't want to rob you, I will send someone. delivered to you."

"Of course, you still do it. I have arranged for people to restrain my subordinates. However, they are a pack of wolves, and I can't control them well."

At this point, Ernred had nothing to say.

Fortunately, Rurik and Balmerk were prepared, and the Balmerk Vikings broke into the city. They were essentially a large group of Nordic fishermen. They really have no guilt about the wanton killing of the enemy, but they can hardly do anything with an axe at a screaming woman.

The Balmers were full of ideas of robbery, and they found a large number of women and children imprisoned.

The women were all driven down chaotic roads, and then more who were hiding were brought out.

The leaders of each family are indeed trying their best to restrain their subordinates. They are all watching the actions of Biyonni, who has the most troops. Since Biyongni, the son of the leader, has maintained a lot of restraint, it is very easy for them to loot and loot. Really hurt.

For the time being, they did not wantonly loot the property, but arrested the dejected people everywhere, unloaded all their weapons, escorted them to the front door that was knocked open, and then drove them out of the city to detect them one by one.

The soldiers who were escorted to the city gate saw that the king himself was here, so they all knelt down and asked the king to forgive their sins.

But Ernred had already made up his mind, and he had informed Rurik of his attitude towards the subjects of Bamburg: "Those who participated in the rebellion shall be hanged, and those who were coerced shall be released. The priests, women and children are innocent. of."

Kill the rebel soldiers who set up false kings,

Rurik didn't mind letting the Vikings do it. If these people must die, kill them now!

Although the city was broken, Rurik did not intend to violate the agreement and kill those who gave up the resistance. First, he did not want to be a one-man slaughter of villains, and secondly, he needed to establish his own benchmark of credibility among friendly troops and enemies.

There is only a difference between zero and countless times when attacking the kingdom of Northumbria. The future Vikings here will definitely visit and establish some kind of contact with the local king, which is not very bad. Base.

A group of kingdom warriors who participated in the rebellion were taken out of the city. They were pinned on the grass by the Vikings. The hanging was too slow, and these people were stabbed to death by short spears.

One after another, the warriors of the kingdom who gave up their resistance went to the end ignorantly like sheep, and were killed needlessly.

Rurik has no guilt at all for this matter. Specifically, it was King Ernred who killed the killer, and the Balmers who carried out this matter had nothing to do with the Rus.

A large number of women and children were driven out of the city, and the peasants who were obviously forced to defend the city, as well as boys and old men, were all pardoned by the king.

Because of this, the Balmers have no intention of wasting their arm strength by lighting the axe on these guys.

Before long, more than thirty Viking warriors appeared vigilantly escorting more than a dozen special Northumbria!

These kingdom warriors were guarding a mother and son, while a woefully wounded man was pulled away with his arms crossed.

Ernred was still standing at the gate of the city, and he wanted to see with his own eyes the large crowds coming out of the door where the folding fan had been knocked open, to see the rebel soldiers executed, and to see the Vikings keep their word against ordinary people and priests.

He saw the small group of soldiers walking towards him, and saw the beautiful face of his queen in the crowd.

However, after learning the news, this face is really more and more hideous. He wished he could cut the prostitute's face into cracked ground with a knife, put it in a cage, and hang it on the wall of the York Palace to show the public. These crazy thoughts were just thoughts after all, and he wanted to hear what the filthy queen had to say.

However, he saw that his son Ella was alive and intact, and the fire of rage was instantly extinguished by half.

Rurik was standing at the gate of the city, so what would happen when the king and his wife met in such a wonderful manner?

Rurik stood on the wall with the posture of watching a play, and saw the queen with a really beautiful face. When he saw the king, he immediately knelt down on one knee, and then cried like a terrifying man, crawled over and hugged Ernred's. foot.

Being cuckolded, Ernred wanted to kill the prostitute himself, but of course he couldn't do it as a king. He kicked his foot suddenly, and Queen Anna was pushed down. Unexpectedly, the little prince Ella ran over and grabbed his waist, shouting, "Father, don't do this to mother."

Seeing the face of the orthodox heir to the throne, Ernred temporarily held back his anger.

The terrified warriors of the kingdom promptly threw a man who had been beaten with a sap, and then all knelt down on one knee.

One person said bluntly: "Your Majesty, we have all committed capital crimes, and we have been bewitched by this John Stockwood. Now, we have captured this traitor and ask you to forgive us."

The fake king was caught alive!

Ernred stepped forward, stomped on John, and cursed: "You traitor! You actually coveted my throne! Your family is just a humble dung, and you want to become noble! I To kill you! Cut your flesh little by little until you become a skeleton..."

The king vented his anger with abusive words, and Rurik, as a spectator, was too lazy to intervene in the family dispute.

In the end, Rurik had seen enough, for fear that the wrathful king would trample the false king to death, so Yevluo took his brother to control the king.

Here, Anna, who was crying so much that she was crying, took the initiative to explain her sins. She did have reservations and pushed all the sins on the false king. It was the same in the first place. Her own son inherited the throne. As the queen mother, she still enjoys great wealth and honor.

Everything is the sin of the false king!

How to deal with the false king, how to deal with the queen, Ernred has his own ideas.

The false king John will be publicly executed, and Ernred even asked Rurik what kind of criminal law the so-called Vikings should take as wicked traitors?

"The biggest punishment... is to cut the flesh from the back, knock off the ribs, and tear the ribs apart. The whole person is hung up like a bleeding eagle."

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The handsome young man said calmly, making the criminal law even more terrifying.

"Do you know the punishment method in our kingdom? It is to extract the prisoner's intestines, use a winch to extract all the intestines, then chop off the limbs and dig the heart." Ernred said angrily.

Rurik shrugged, this is the style of the meat factory dismembering livestock, the blood is really blood. As for how much deterrent effect? Anyway, throughout the ages, the rebellious army has always risked beheading to do things, and would they still care about torture after failure?

"It doesn't matter," he said, "you can really cut off the flesh of this fake king bit by bit. Or, you dig a big hole and put a lot of snakes in it. You throw the fake king in and let the snakes live it. Bite to death."

"Oh? A good idea. Just do as you say!"

Is Ernred unintentional, or does he really want to do this? Rurik's eyes glanced at the young Ella, the ignorant little prince's name was really familiar to him. Ella, Ella, who threw Ragnar into the shooting nest and killed him alive, is this ignorant brat?

Anyway, Northumbria needs a prisoner to suffer from the punishment of the snake's den.

The criminal law for the false king has been determined. As for Queen Anna, who cuckolded herself, although she probably did it because she was submissive, as a king and as a man, if she endured this, she would lose her prestige.

Anna waited for the ending she expected.

If it is an ordinary woman who does such a green hat, no matter if she is forced or voluntarily, according to the criminal law handed down from the ancient Saxon era, that is, being crushed to death in troubled times and then thrown into a pond or river (this has been found by archaeology). evidence).

But she is the queen. Once the king executes the queen, the whole country will be shocked. All neighboring countries will send letters of condemnation, and even letters of condemnation from the Holy See will arrive.

Anna's ending is to bring back to York for trial. She will lose her queen position and will go to York's women's convent to atone for the rest of her life.

As for Prince Ella, he is still the Crown Prince.

Because of this, Ernred has grounds for divorce. However, he lost his left arm, and the kingdom's territory was freely accessed by the savage Vikings. It was such a shame that he now had to pretend to be a surrenderer. He put revenge in his heart, and all things like marrying a new wife were put aside, and he was carefully handling his relationship with the Vikings.

The city of Bamburgh is broken, and all those who are controlled are fish on the chopping board.

The Viking army entered the city one after another. In order to show the sincerity of his cooperation, Ernred had to put on a smile to thank the Vikings, especially the leader of the Viking army, Rurik, for helping him regain the throne. At Rurik's request, he first identified the warehouses where the silver coins were hidden to some Viking "leaders", and then personally led Rurik to the Bamburg granary.

It was an area surrounded by wooden walls, and it was full of fenced buildings.

Not surprisingly, Britain's relatively humid and rainy climate requires such buildings to keep food from getting wet as much as possible.

Numerous sacks of sackcloth were tightly stacked, and Yevro was ordered to stab an arrow, and the brown-yellow oat grains flowed out like water.

As the inspection progressed, Rurik knew that there was also a large amount of rye stored here.

"How much food is there in all?" Rurik asked the king eagerly.

"This... at least one hundred thousand pounds. You take one hundred thousand pounds..."

"No!" Rurik shook his finger, "I want the entire warehouse."

"Ah? You... Could it be true that your ships can be loaded? Impossible. You can't take them away."

But seeing Rurik's confident and greedy face again, Ernred felt that he had underestimated the carrying capacity of the big ship, so he changed his tone of humility again: "Leave at least a batch of food, our subjects. Still need winter."

"What does it have to do with me? This year, I don't plan to invade your land. You satisfy us, and within three days, I will bring troops back to the north. After the event, you can bring your people back to York, they are all you anyway. subjects."

"Okay... okay."

Can the devil's words be trusted? Are they really about to leave?

Ernred felt dark in his heart. He tasted what Rurik had just said, and the more he spelled it, the more uncomfortable it felt. What is "not planning to occupy this year", do they have to make a comeback once or twice until they occupy the land?

If so, Northumbria could quickly build another army.

The once arrogant Ernred and his powerful cavalry team encountered a big nemesis, and now he has absolutely watched the "siege drama" of the barbarian Vikings himself, claiming to have a key understanding of them . Based on my own experience, I may be able to think of countermeasures within a period of time.

Rurik discovered the granary, and immediately began to order his mercenaries to use the captured wooden carts and pack horses to start loading and transporting the grain. This work continued until late at night, and almost the entire granary was evacuated! Some wheat has already arrived at the seaside, and there are still trucks of slow grain waiting to be pulled out after dawn.

This night, Bamburgh has become a Viking city through and through.

Treasures were scavenged everywhere, and all sorts of things deemed valuable were taken by the Balmers.

The gold and silver holy artifacts of the monastery were looted, the holy tomb was inevitably destroyed, and the holy corpse was dug out again...

Biyonni has harvested a lot, and the suitcases full of gold, silver and copper coins that have been turned over from the earl's warehouse have been sparsely moved out. A large number of Roman and Frankish silver coins are hard currency with stable value in this land. Roughly estimated, there is no problem with the total amount of silver coins exceeding 200 pounds.

The coins are the property of the Balmers Vikings! No one can be greedy! After the money is transported to the hometown, it is distributed according to the proportion of troops sent by each family.

But all the money Rurik didn't ask for it, and he didn't even need it.

Everything depends on the agreement when going out. Rurik said that for the covenant between the two tribes, he led a foreign army to win the war, and the property he plundered was betrayal.

Of course Rurik was not a good man who wanted nothing. He took all the food he looted for himself.

What are coins? How to feed your hunger with coins in the cold winter? Food is the most important thing!

Especially this year, the Melalen Lake area is facing the problem of lack of food harvest. The Ross tribe has encountered the largest baby boom ever. As the "God King" people admire, of course, they must find ways to get food for their people to survive.

There are also the demands of the Shetlanders. These guys also take the initiative to get food, which is one of their needs. Desperate Shetlanders lacked everything, especially women, and that was terribly lacking.

In Bamburgh, the three forces that made up the Viking army achieved their demands very harmoniously. Sadly, it was naturally the Northumbrians of Bamburgh.

Those young girls, and even young women who had just given birth and were carrying babies, were all kidnapped by the Vikings.

The people of the nearby farms dragged their families and fled into Bamburgh, originally to avoid the frenzied looting of the barbarians, but they were still kidnapped by the barbarians.

Originally, Ernred was worried that he would be reprimanded for ordering 300 young women to "make a kiss", but now he doesn't have to worry at all.

The rebels in Ernred's eyes are the righteous defenders of the city in the eyes of the people. They saw that the defenders were killed by the barbarians and fell into a huge panic, for fear that they would also end up like this.

Now, the eyes of the people are filled with intense hatred.

The distressed daughter was taken away, and the father howled hopelessly. The wife was even taken away with her baby in her arms, and the husband knelt on the ground and grabbed the ground with his head.

Take three hundred women away?

Do not! The Vikings kidnapped more than 600 people at once, and all the young women and children of the Bamburgh people who were under control were kidnapped.

If everything is according to the original idea, Rurik really does not intend to plunder too much, and will end the plundering war with two hundred pounds of silver, one hundred thousand pounds of wheat, and two hundred women.

Bamburgh was actually broken by the Vikings. After the city was broken, the Vikings naturally did whatever they wanted.

There were no family warriors in the Viking army, and they all got a woman. Poor girls in Bamburg, who became women overnight, not only that, but they will also spend the rest of their lives as Vikings. However, is this good or bad?

There is no reason to stay any longer, a lot of wealth has already been plundered, and as a result of continued action, firstly, the ship is really unable to hold new plunder, and secondly, the sea will become violent when the weather is cold.

After a three-day stay in Bamburgh, Rurik ordered a return voyage to end the great expedition of the summer.

The Avrora was loaded with a substantial fifty tons of wheat, and more than a hundred Bamburgh women were packed into the hold of the ship, and a group of iron objects were also seized.

The other people's longboats were carrying a lot of cargo, the Vikings rowed hard, and the woman with her hands and feet bound sat stunned and speechless.

A large fleet left Bamburgh Bay and headed north.

The barbarians of the sea have left?

Looking at the huge jib of the largest ship, Ernred intuitively felt sad in his heart, even more sad when a cool wind blew.

He knew that everything was just the beginning, having experienced the most tragic "Assumption of Our Lady" in his life, and the days to come will only be more severe for himself and the kingdom. That brat named Rurik now has the strength to order a thousand barbarians to do it with him, and I am afraid that this son will become the monarch of the sea in the future.

"God! The barbarians have taken our Gospels, and may your truth influence Rurik, the barbarian leader, and make him a devout saint! Let him and his men stop being barbaric...  "With a sigh, Ernred didn't know what to say.