A raid came to an end? The appetite of the Viking army was satisfied?
In Edinburgh, which is mainly built with wooden materials, the fire is developing irreversibly and rapidly. The people who looted almost searched for usable belongings in the flames, and finally everyone had to evacuate outside the city.
Viking warriors who died in the fierce battle, or were injured, could not get help in the chaos.
Biyongni took his people and retreated with the musk they had caught. They were the last to withdraw. Biyongni and Floki, the two brothers' heads were burned by the fire and they were sweating profusely.
, they bared their teeth and evacuated, obviously dissatisfied with the meager amount of treasure they had plundered today.
Didn't we say that the people here are very wealthy? The legendary mountains of gold and silver do not exist.
Withdrawing the limited treasures that the Lord had looted from the monastery, Biyongni still felt hungry.
As night fell, Edinburgh, which was located entirely on the highlands, burst into flames.
The entire city was burning violently, as if the earth was cracking and magma was gushing out.
The fierce flames illuminated the darkness of the night. People sat outside the city, panting and discussing the gains of today's plunder with their friends.
There are also people who regret that they did not bring back their brothers who died in the war.
A piece of heavy news spread in the temporary camp of the Viking army. In order to confirm the reliability of the news, a large number of people went to the forest camp selected by the commander Rurik to find out in person.
Sure enough, an unknown corpse was hanging from the top of an unknown tree. It was said that the deceased was the leader of the burning city.
Is his name James? Or Edward? No one cares about the name of the Earl of Edinburgh in Northumbria, just like the names of the other garrison soldiers, whose names are not worth mentioning.
Some people who saw the corpse still doubted its authenticity until they saw the enemy's flag and the capture of exquisite swords.
These tokens are enough to prove that Rurik personally killed the enemy leader!
He was the one who destroyed the enemy's suspension bridge with his cronies and led the army to quickly attack the city. It was he who killed the enemy leader.
When Biyongni led people into the camp, he heard all kinds of discussions, the most important of which was the praise for Rurik.
"Listen. Our little brother is the real hero." After hearing the news, the blood on his face had dried and hardened. Biyongni patted his brother Floki on the head.
"Rurik is a hero. However, the information he provided is wrong."
"Yes." Biyongni sighed, "Looting this place will not make us rich in one battle. Let's go, I want to talk to him."
After a while, Biyongni stood at Rurik's camp.
At this moment, Rurik was lying calmly on the grass, taking a nap with his legs crossed, waiting for his intimate work to come looking for him.
Finally, Biyongni and his gang came back.
"Why are you so lazy? I thought you were being engulfed by the fire you set." As he said this, Rurik stood up.
Biyongni was inspecting the hanging dead body and shouted: "The rumors are true. It was you who killed this enemy chief?"
"Yes! No. This man was a noble and died in the rebellion. I'm afraid your people killed him, but it doesn't matter. Brothers, come here and talk."
Rurik waved his hand and exchanged the Biyoni brothers, opened his mouth and asked: "Edinburgh turned into a sea of fire, every brother must have become rich."
Biyoni was very worried about this matter. He noticed that there were a lot of carriages and a large number of sacks in Rurik's camp. As soon as he sat down cross-legged, he asked: "Are these sacks filled with wheat?"
"Yes."
"Huh? Didn't you participate in the robbery? Did you get a lot of gold and silver?"
"Not really." Rurik denied, with no regrets on his face.
"Ah! Are you... not sorry?"
"Regret? There are some. Edinburgh is not as rich as it appears. You Balmoks are busy collecting gold and silver and killing people everywhere. I can only take the opportunity to save a batch of grain as much as possible before the fire destroys the granary. Biyongni, it seems
You are not satisfied."
"Of course." Biyongni sighed again and said, "I took the guys and got a few boxes of silver from the monastery..."
"Ah! Silver? How much?"
"A mere four or five boxes is obviously not enough to pay for the purchase of a large ship."
"This is the main wealth of the people of Edinburgh?" Rurik asked cautiously.
"That's probably the case. The coins have to be distributed to my brothers. I have more than twenty brothers who have died, and the living and dead have the right to share the silver equally. According to the rules we set before, these silver coins are all
Mine, the Geiger brothers, and the Vashobi guys also got a lot of treasures. As for the others, except for some iron tools, cloth and food, they got nothing. Now you see, the city is already here
Burning, I dare say no one is satisfied."
When Biyongni said this, his meaning was very clear.
Rurik's eyes stared seriously at his Biyoni brothers: "Then find a new target!"
"Okay! We are already here. If we attack inland, we can sack the nearby villages. At least we can get another batch of sheep and wheat to fill our stomachs."
"Is this okay? I...I can't believe that you have lost your desire for gold and silver."
"Are you questioning me?" Biyongni slapped his thigh fiercely and simply complained: "You said that everyone can get rich by looting this place. Obviously that is not the case. You should... really set a new target."
Rurik smiled slightly awkwardly, then he slowly stood up and pointed his right hand towards the south.
"I asked for good news from the locals. There is an island in the south. It is one of their temples (referring to the monastery). There are a lot of treasures there. We should rush over and take possession of it."
"Ah! Could it be that the locals are deceiving you? Their so-called wealth is just a boast?"
"Probably not." Rurik shrugged and smiled deliberately; "I learned that about thirty years ago, someone robbed there and took away a batch of treasures. According to my analysis, it was the Bergen people at that time.
They did a good job. They plundered a lot of gold, silver and slaves, which led to a large number of sea warriors to conquer. Our Shetland allies also moved to the islands because of this."
How can Yongni understand this news immediately? The core of what Rurik said is to give everyone new good news.
Biyongni was too lazy to continue thinking. He and his brother Floki were both too tired from killing and just wanted to use their heads and hands by the stream flowing into the sea.
"That's enough! Let's attack a new target. All brothers must be very welcome. This place is a sea of fire and it is not suitable to stay for a long time. I plan to rest for one night and then go on the expedition tomorrow. What do you think?"
"That's fine." Rurik nodded: "I'm not worried about the counterattack of the enemy's regular troops. I guess there won't be any. We don't need to fight or stay here. The new target I learned is called Lindisfarne.
Dao, please tell your brothers this news as much as possible."
"Okay. Why don't we organize a meeting tomorrow morning to talk." After that, Biyongni stood up and left with his brother Floki.
Rurik's territory finally fell into silence. As the hanging pottery urn cooked the wheat, Rurik sprinkled salt and began to taste the delicious food.
The captured Paul is now a slave. He is just a "skilled serf" under the Earl of Edinburgh. Compared with his previous treatment, the current situation is not very bad.
Rurik had no intention of persecuting this "future useful tool", so he allowed him to eat a lot of wheat. After hearing that he was unable to marry due to poverty, he promised to arrange for him to marry a slave girl after arriving in the far north. As for the slave girl, she herself
They were probably women kidnapped from the Kingdom of Northumbria.
Thinking of these things, Paul was even somewhat relieved. He even began to think from the standpoint of these maritime barbarians, and began to compare the differences between his new masters and his old masters.
During the day, Paul was still a humble grain officer, preparing grain to be transported to the south. Now, he has become a slave to the Vikings, a barbarian tribe on the sea.
The huge change did not destroy his heart. Anyway, he was a poor man who had been a slave all his life. Apart from his faith, he had nothing to lose. And his new master, a beautiful young man who called himself Rurik, was not only dissatisfied with his faith.
Exclusion, somehow this young man still knows something about the sacred faith?
In short, Paul suffers from Stockholm Syndrome.
He was not treated in any way in the barbarian camp, except that he was not allowed to leave freely. But the once noble Earl was now in a situation like a hanging salted fish.
In order to survive, even Paul revealed some things about Lindisfarne Abbey, and he suddenly realized it after thinking about it! It turns out that in 792, a group of barbarians who attacked and robbed the monastery, and the barbarians who destroyed Edinburgh in a battle today, after a lapse of time,
They must have been a family for forty years!
Perhaps it would be treacherous to tell God this to his enemies?
He no longer cares about so much. Not only will the new master not take away his faith, but he also promises a lot of rewards for doing things, just because the new master urgently needs a knowledgeable grain officer. He has never been a saint, and if he betrays the news about that holy land, he can
In exchange for the prosperity of his future life, he sold it without hesitation. This is the so-called death of a dead Taoist friend but not of a poor Taoist. He firmly believed that he would get something unprecedented from his new master because of this move.
How true is Paul’s unsolicited information?
Rurik is willing to believe that 97% of what he says is true.
In this era, the whole of Britain was poor. The Saxons continued to conquer the country, and the whole of Britain was in constant internal strife. Therefore, they were defeated by the various Viking colonists, and finally they were able to eat away the large Danfa area.
.Their main wealth is concentrated in monasteries in various places. Ordinary people are struggling to survive on the line of food and clothing. Due to poor nutrition and sanitation, the local infant mortality rate is very high. Every time a woman gives birth, she is on the line of life and death.
Wandering, so the population is maintained at a low level.
It was not only the creed of frugality and asceticism passed down by the priests that forced Northumbrian farmers to live in poverty, but the most critical factor was that they had no basis for improving their lives.
Their spiritual life is still indifferent, as if in this short life they only pay taxes to the nobles, serve as soldiers with farm tools in wars, and go to the monastery regularly to listen to the priests' sermons.
Pity the few captured women, they were tortured by the Viking conquerors all night, and in the morning, many of them were tortured to death.
The men who did this kind of thing included the men from Washobi. They obviously planned to kidnap these women back to their hometowns, but they never thought that their one night of indulgence would kill them. As long as there were still women alive, their spirits had collapsed and they were broken.
In the end, Geiger had no choice but to regretfully order the guys to give the insane person a good time.
It was dawn, and the sleeping Vikings got up one after another in the rising sun.
People saw that the raging fire in Edinburgh was still sparsely populated, with gusts of southerly wind blowing from the blue sky, and huge smoke columns still rising into the sky.
All the heads of families who fought in the battle, the bravest warriors, and representatives of those Shetlanders.
A total of more than thirty people stood in Rurik's camp. They all sat in front of the gruesome corpse of the Earl of Edinburgh, which was still hanging, and listened to Rurik explain what was going to happen next.
Before that, all parties reported losses to each other, and a siege battle ended. Including the fighting in the city, the army killed a total of forty brothers. Sadly, the bodies had been turned to ashes in the fire.
Of course, some people say that when the brothers who died in battle were pulled out, they were burned in the open air and turned into ashes. The dead died in the same place. They died in the battle, and their souls must have gone to Valhalla.
Pairs of eyes were staring at Rurik's handsome face. Rurik glanced at the group of Balmok allies again, and their deep eyes revealed greater ambition.
"You are a group of sea wolves who can't get enough to eat. Obviously after we successfully destroyed Edinburgh, you still can't be satisfied. I heard that most of you didn't grab any gold, silver and jewelry?"
Having said this, everyone immediately showed their unwillingness.
"Don't be angry. I plan to attack a place in the south called Lindisfarne."
At this moment, Geiger of Washobi interjected bluntly: "Please tell brothers, is there gold and silver there?!"
"Oh? It's my Geiger brother. Your father Ostan hopes that you will lead your guys to make a fortune in this battle." To be honest, Rurik was quite dissatisfied with his son's interruption, but these savages really wanted to make a fortune.
Full of desire. "Just continue to believe me. If you attack that Lindisfarne, you will get a lot of gold and silver."
Rurik immediately patted his chest like everyone else and assured: "If there is no treasure there, the Bergen people who returned home with loads decades ago will not be able to explain it. It is still very rich there, and we will occupy it and seize the gold and silver. If
You are still not satisfied with our new victories, and we can go further south. We have enough troops to attack all the towns we encounter along the coast of the British Isles this summer until our ships can no longer carry any more booty.
."
"Then let's do it!" Geiger suddenly pulled out his iron sword, "I plan to leave after eating the wheat."
"I agree too." Biyongni agreed.
Immediately everyone agreed deeply, and everyone was afraid that they would be one step late and thus be at a disadvantage during the robbery.
To be honest, Rurik doesn't think that his noble status will really be taken seriously by these guys. Only Ross and Ross's servants will firmly believe that their Lord Rurik is deeply blessed by Odin, and let them stand firm.
The reason I believe it is that the most ordinary Russian people have indeed received great economic benefits from it.
In the same way, all self-proclaimed nobility is just a way to win over others and do it to yourself. If you say too much and you believe it, it would be too stupid.
The current situation is a little tense for Rurik, because if this group of de facto pirates are not satisfied, they will be furious and it is not impossible to suddenly tear up the alliance. After all, the Magnute family is not the Balmok tribe.
Under the rule of the powerful, those families will continue to recognize the status of the Magnute family only if they receive benefits, and will they recognize the commander-in-chief status of the Biyongni brothers and the son-in-law of the Magnute family.
Rurik has now drawn another big pie. Apparently, all the elites among the Balmoks once again recognized the legitimacy of their rule for the sake of getting rich.