The Rise of Rurik

The aged Veria is highly respected in the tribe, and she has always maintained a friendly relationship with the leader Otto.

You know, it is a miracle that men and women in this era can live to the age of fifty, especially women, just giving birth is a hurdle. The big reason why there are more men than women in the Ross tribe is that they died in childbirth. This situation generally occurs in the whole of Europe in this time and space, but the environment in northern Europe is worse, and the situation is even worse.

As the head of the priests, Veria had been full of hope for her children since Rurik was born. A few years have proved that Rurik is far wiser than his father. Now the situation has changed again, Rurik is simply the best child born by the Ross tribe since its existence.

For seventy years, Vilia has witnessed the entire history of the development of the Ross tribe.

When she was young, the clan had just won the fjord from the Urals and started to establish settlements there. Afterwards, the tribe found a waterway to the east, so that the tribe did not need to compete for wealth with the Danes in the south, and no longer completely needed its own thinking demi-human friends.

The population of the tribe has increased, but the development of the tribe has been in trouble.

In a huge area, this fjord is already overcrowded, leaving the fjord to build a new settlement inland? That's the craziest move! Without the protection of the mountains near the fjord, the cold winter winds can freeze everyone who leaves the fjord.

Trapped in Roseburg in this fjord, the tribe can only maintain the status quo. Unless, all the people of the tribe leave here forever by boat, just like the people of a long, long time ago, they have taken their tribe to the south.

Veria mastered a batch of "books" of the Ross tribe, so she learned about some major events that happened on this land.

She even understood the other thing, that many years ago, the men of Gotland had attacked the returning convoy of the tribe, which caused the Ross tribe to become hostile to the Gotland.

Actually? Those people in Gotland are almost all Danes.

There used to be a large number of people on that island. Hundreds of years ago, under the leadership of a leader, they all sailed to the south. Some sources claim that they established their own country and obtained a vast, fertile and warm land.

The priests of the Ross tribe are almost all women. After all, under the influence of the warrior culture, the men of the tribe are most loyal to fighting. Only the women have a lot of time to quietly sort out the knowledge left by their ancestors and use the tribe's rune. Letters, engraving some old stories on wooden boards.

Therefore, Vilia is a priest, and she is also the wise man of the tribe. There is no second person in the tribe, and she knows more about the history of the tribe than she does.

The huge longhouse of priests, where a large number of wooden boards with written characters are stored, in a sense, it is also the library of the tribe.

Of course, a lot of knowledge is monopolized by the priests. In fact, Veria is very willing to let the children of the tribe get the information recorded on the wooden boards. Unfortunately, only a few people are willing to come and see it for so many years.

When Otto was a child, he was coaxed to look at the planks with a bit of honey by Veria, the lower priest. To Veria's delight, Otto learned the alphabet of his own family, and he also learned the knowledge on the board.

So Otto can become the leader, first of all, he is a strong warrior himself, and secondly, he learned knowledge from priests after all, and his interpretation of the myth naturally won the support of people.

Veria has some ideas, and she will implement it when Otto's fleet returns.

Until then, she will remain a spectator, watching what a young Rurik can train a group of children.

A new morning has arrived, and it is so commonplace that it feels nothing more than cold to all the tribe.

In contrast to this cold, after a simple breakfast, young children,

With his wooden shield and sword, he happily left his wooden house. Why are they so happy? Just because of a gamble about a salted fish.

A salted fish is not a big deal, but many kids have already staked their honor!

The stigma that the human wall was broken made everyone very unhappy. For the whole day after that, everyone worked hard to ensure that the human wall would not be broken again.

The children gradually gathered on the mound to the west of Roseburg. They gathered more and more. Rurik, who arrived early, saw that the people were about the same. After the order was given, the children followed the order very naturally and formed their own groups. neat line.

As usual, Rurik checked his subordinates with his little hands behind his back. Just because everyone is a child, the whole scene seems a little funny.

But to let some adults see this scene clearly, I am afraid there is only a sense of surprise.

Because, throughout the history of the Ross tribe, there is no leader who would require his tribe's warriors to line up in a neat queue to reach a matrix, and they don't even have the concept of this!

There were only forty-five of them, and Rurik saw at a glance that they were all there.

Still following the old routine, this morning is still the same. The so-called Rurik personally led the team and led everyone around the hill. First, it was a warm-up, and second, it was to exercise the coordination and discipline of the entire team.

The sun has risen, and the smiling children have finally had the moment they had been waiting for.

Looking at everyone, Rurik held up his wooden sword and gestured very bluntly: "I know everyone is looking forward to that! Now let's start! Kanuf! Fisk! You two are out!"

Both of them approached Rurik with great confidence, showing that they would not fail.

"Obviously, are you all ready?"

"Yes! I can still break through the human wall. It's all about strength, and I'm very confident in myself." Fisk said to himself.

Kanuf nodded: "Maybe he is very strong, this time, we should be able to resist."

"Then you all work hard!" Fisk patted Kanuf on the shoulder to encourage him, "I still have confidence in myself."

Fisk is a very brute force person, Rurik looked at him and estimated that in another twenty or thirty years, this child would grow into a bearded, muscular body, a very stocky body, and wielding a huge bronze sword. Axe man. This person has such potential.

Kanuf was justifiable to be afraid of him, but Rurik did not think that brute force would be of much use.

"Hey! Kanuf, look at me!" Rurik ordered.

"Ok."

"Yesterday's training, you and other brothers know that the essentials are those, don't think too much, just follow the essentials. Tell everyone, if there is a fearful escape, kick them out today."

Kanuf was still worried about the rampaging Fisk, and it wasn't until he was in the wall that he regained his confidence.

Now that Fisk claims that he can break through the human wall, the composition of the human wall has also changed.

It is also composed of three layers of personnel, with fifteen people in the first two rows and fourteen people in the back row. Every child is like a brick, sticking closely to each other, especially the people in the first row, their backs are supported by wooden shields, they really constitute a wall.

Kanuf in the human wall shouted loudly with his childish voice, and then led the entire human wall to rhythmically roar, showing a pressing momentum.

At this moment, a man with a high income held a shield in his left arm and a wooden sword in his right. He narrowed his eyes and took a serious attitude. Suddenly, the straight person rushed towards the human wall.

Upon seeing this, Kanuf shouted: "Everyone pay attention! Accept the shock!"

In an instant, Kanuf, who was in the first row, clearly felt the force acting on his back. It was the people in the second row who gently pushed with their shields, and the third row was also pushing the second row.

Rurik stared at what was happening. All the children bowed slightly and raised their wooden shields, especially in the first row. The shields completely covered the entire upper body. After all, compared to their current body, the wooden shield made as a toy was still too big.

Without more time for them to make more detailed preparations, the shield-wielding "bald" Fisk slammed into the human wall with his shield.

There was a loud bang of the wooden shield, the entire wall shook violently, and the formation was almost scattered. At the impacted part of the human wall, the children moved backwards subconsciously, but they still held up their shields. After the people in the back two rows suffered the impact, they immediately pushed the wooden shields and tried to push the former back to the front line.

Fisk failed, he carried the powerful impact of the run-up, his strength was completely diluted by the human wall, and he was almost pushed down by the rebounding human wall.

But the matter is not over.

Rurik, who was observing, had an idea and suddenly shouted: "Wall! The person on the left, the person on the right, move! Surround Fisk!"

His orders were very simple, and everyone understood them. The human wall quickly began to change, and the rhythm was so fast that Fisk had not yet reacted, and his back path was surrounded.

Eventually, Fisk was pinned down by a swarm of shields, immobilizing him. He tried hard to escape, but he couldn't escape the tight circle of forty-four children with wooden shields.

As Fisk looked gloomy and struggled to separate, Kanuf smiled unkindly: "Haha! Fisk, you are like a fish caught in a fishing net now. You lose!"

After another struggle, Fisk finally realized that he had absolutely no hope of escaping. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, and threw the wooden sword to the ground to give up.

"It's all over!" Rurik gave an order, and the children who had surrounded Fisk three full circles giggled and dispersed.

The bet had an obvious result, Fisk's failure also represented an attempt to break through the human wall with brute force, and was finally completely contained by the highly disciplined human wall. Not only that, but the brute force rushers were surrounded by human walls.

They are children but not fools, and their daily game is to practice fighting.

At this moment, all children realize the benefits of human walls and will remember them for a lifetime.

They know that if everyone is an adult, and the enemy is a master combatant. Even if the person is very powerful, he will eventually be resisted by dozens of shields, and then killed by the stabs of a dozen sharp swords.