Chapter 433： Sing the sacred war on the summer solstice

Since the announcement was made in advance, when the grand sacrifice came, the vast number of Rus people were not surprised at all. On the contrary, they sang and danced and often yelled.

Just because everyone is looking forward to a huge war!

It is true that war can be launched easily and easily. If you want to end it, perhaps you can only end it by defeating the opposing side.

In the past few decades, everyone in the Ross family has been attacked by the Gotland people while fishing at sea. Although that was just a special form of people coming and going on the sea at the beginning, the situation has gradually expanded, and the two groups who are good at sea fishing have become more and more fierce.

At that time, everyone at least belonged to the "Svearan Tribal Alliance" and did not openly tear their faces.

As the big families on the Gotland Island finished their meetings, leaving the alliance was only an instant.

The Gotlanders have quit, do the Ross people also quit?

A long time ago, the Russ, who were also squeezed out by the tribal alliance, moved north, and the relationship between the tribe and the alliance almost only existed in mutual civil trade.

It wasn't until the official Union League and a king's war in 831 that the Russ were brought back.

In fact, in the hearts of Rurik and Otto, the two of them have never appreciated the title of duke granted by Olegen, who proclaimed himself king. They are all businessmen, some want face and some want lee, that's all.

At least the Ross people did not withdraw from the alliance, so they did not truly isolate themselves from the southern world.

This time, conquering Gotland, completely conquering and annexing those guys, the Ross crowd is excited! When Rurik had not announced his war mobilization in the altar, the men who had returned from fishing had carefully polished their harpoons and axes in their homes, and the women stepped up to smoke the dried fish.

Did the Ross people ever have an all-out war with their opponents? It seems that there are records on the wooden boards with ancient stories inscribed.

The war is in August, and everything must give way to war.

The elderly father encouraged the young children to fight for the glory of their ancestors and take out the weapons of the family,

The elderly mother kissed the child's face to encourage him to fight for the Rus, and even hung an amber pendant engraved with a villain (lucky elf) on her neck.

Some families have three or four children. The old father doesn't even think about losing all his sons in the war, because this is an all-out war against the Gotland people. The entire family, such as the entire tribe, will do their best.

The warriors recruited by the Lurik plan are not less than sixteen years old. In fact, this is very scientific. As an authentic Nordic man, sixteen-year-old men have generally thick beards, and at first glance they are strong and powerful.

Before the sacrifice, Otto did not have the slightest leisure. As the Duke of Ross, with his own appeal, he easily summoned the elite and sub-combat forces of the Ross tribe.

He counted, and the total number of men from 16 to 50 years old who lived in Roseburg, who were of pure Rose tribe descent, was as many as six hundred and fifty.

Of course, the Rus tribe still has a large male population, but they are generally too young and really fought, how useful are young fighters? Otto didn't want the boys who didn't even have a beard to fight the enemy, at least they had to grow a beard first.

He took this opportunity to actually complete the statistics of the males of the pure-blooded Rus tribe. In this way, the five hundred people gathered on Tombstone Island, as well as thirty adult fishermen who settled in the northern Elronburg, settled in the eastern New Ross. There are about two hundred adult men in the fort.

There are as many as 1,400 male Russian males, and this is also the result of the loss of a group of soldiers in the past few wars.

If the scope of the statistics starts from the age of twelve, including those who are too old to be able to pick up an axe as soldiers, Ross should have two thousand males.

However, the elite males of the Ross people are always only 700 people.

From the perspective of military strength alone, Otto clearly realized that he faced the Mälaren tribe and indeed had an extremely obvious weakness. However, if those servants could be trained to form an army under the command of the Duke of Ross, The situation is very different.

Trust outsiders completely? The outsiders that Otto trusts most now are those mercenaries like Jeflo and his like, who have proved loyalty with the blood of the enemy on multiple battlefields.

Finally, the others are always suspicious, unless they kill the enemy Enatus.

The son asked for at least a thousand elite Russ troops to be recruited. Well, this work has been completed. However, the other tribes were really eager to fight, and their hospitality was hard to come by, so Lurik had to accept their application and simply arranged all of them in the team.

Just out of tradition, any expedition, the expeditioners should actively prepare food spontaneously. Of course, the Duke will prepare food himself, but any soldier cannot count on the Duke’s alms during the march.

Just when Rülik had no time to take care of it, Otto just pulled out a team of as many as seven hundred people. In fact, there are many children who are only fourteen to fifteen years old. They worship the legendary hero Arik and the sacred Rurik. They use this war as a great opportunity to prove that they are a man. It can be said that this opportunity of measures will not be available for many years next time.

At any time, how can the Rus pull out an army of three thousand people?

Otto had never dreamed that his son would plan to join boys and girls who were only ten years old to fight the enemy.

The assembly of the army is still one of the top tasks to be done in the future, but not now.

The grand sacrifice is tonight!

Oh, the sun tonight will not set, but will be fixed on the western sea level. The afterglow of the setting sun will last forever, until it rises slightly lazily at a certain moment.

The fishing boats working on the Gulf of Bothnia returned to the port one after another, and even many people who settled in Elronburg had already drifted back at sea long ago in order to catch up with this sacrifice.

Originally, the summer solstice ritual was not so grand, but the leader was about to fight, and the news had spread throughout the bay for the first time. Everyone is looking forward to the war. Everyone is looking forward to a grand sacrifice to pray to the Lord Odin for the victory of the Ross. Everyone also hopes that the leader can say something inspiring.

Roseburg is crowded with people. Compared to the past, although there are only a few foreign merchants here (the male merchants come in large numbers after the autumn harvest), a large number of Slavic women and their children have been married, and there are also servants, slaves, and a large number of Mercenary.

All kinds of people have increased the population of Roseburg by more than 5,000 people, and these 5,000 people can be dispatched by the leader's family. The tribal traditions of the past have been inadvertently faded to the edge, and the power of the Duchy of Rus has been concentrated in the hands of Otto and Liurik to a great extent.

The first Slavic women to marry, some of them have already given birth to a second child, and even more extreme is that some of them not only gave birth to a second child, but filled their stomachs with new happiness. Nowadays, parents who dare to kill a baby are a serious crime, and people's living standards have been greatly improved, so they can no longer do this kind of thing.

In the past, Rose's parents did not deliberately kill their daughters, but only provided extremely limited resources to support one or two boys in order to grow to a certain age and do heavy work. At the moment, ordinary families cherish all labor.

The food shortage problem greatly improved as the tribe as a whole became wealthy, the days to eat more and more, with more wealth, a large number of mixed Rose-Slavic descendants fell to the ground. Their father is a Roth, so they are also "pure Roths." Otto doesn't worry about these things. He only hopes that the descendants of his tribe will thrive. Obviously, this hope has been implemented quickly.

No, the population of the married Slavic women has reached 400, and new women are brought over every year. The old problem of the marriage of the Russian males has long been solved by the married Novgorod women and the women captives from previous battles. Even a few people have many wives and more children.

The baby boom in Roseburg has arrived. Although some children died unexpectedly, the miracle is real, and the death rate is incredibly low (soap has contributed to the improvement of sanitary conditions).

Now the entire tribe has more than 200 children who have just reached their first birthday. The mothers of the children come from different estates in Novgorod, whether they want to or not. Now they are all Roth women. Smart women know that they need to give birth to Roth. People prove their worth, and more children will consolidate their family status as mothers in the future.

The whole world was bright. When the sun was frozen in the sky, the Ross people wore comfortable clothes and walked towards the altar on a large scale. Those Slavic women also followed their husbands closely. They wore their dowry, so-called exquisite blouses, and covered their hair with colorful headscarves. They held their children tightly, and many of them were quite pretty. Belly.

At this moment, Rurik had already put on a plain white gown that looked plain, but was actually studded with gold and lakes, and a cowhide belt wrapped with gold threads around his waist.

The priests are all here, they are also gorgeously dressed, and some blue tones are deliberately added to the white robes.

They wear flower crowns, and only Lumia wears a crown of antlers.

The real high priest Veria was sitting on the short dumplings, and she was carried to the sacrifice site by the lower priestess. She has done all the things that should be explained, and Rumia will take care of the rest.

It's her again! A little girl appeared to have officially taken over the job of high priest.

At this moment, there are still people who questioned the identity of the deer breeder in Lumia district and deserved to be the high priest of Rose, but more people refuted this view. She is indeed a deer breeder, that's all in the past, and now the antler helmet on her head is Odin's gift and command.

People whispered to each other, and the whole venue flew like ten thousand buzzing bees.

The sun, which had not risen, went down slightly, until it stopped completely.

There are a lot of stars in the sky, and their starlight is extremely dim.

look! Some light green streamers flickered in the sky.

The time for the sacrifice has come. Standing in the stone ship altar with a circle of oil lamps, Lumia raised a small horn and used the melodious horn to alert the noisy crowd. It was also announcing the beginning of the sacrifice.

All the priestesses began to sing ancient prayers with their singing. They prayed for the gods who guarded the tribe to continue to send blessings, pray for the calm of the sea, and pray for the safety of the people.

Every year during the summer solstice ceremonies, they would sing the same prayers in traditional tunes. Only this year, people who kept quiet and listened to the ethereal singing heard strange lyrics.

They were using their voices to report a war to the great **** Odin and begging for God's support.

At this moment, Rurik was on his knees, his right fist pressed against his chest and his head was hooked. Put on a pious and strange posture with a strong sense of ritual.

The war itself is man-made, and the biggest role of sacrifice is to stabilize and unite people's hearts. In this way, Rurik doesn't mind adding a sense of sacredness to it.

Many people joined the occasion to sing, especially a group of girls who were raised by Rülik. They are bound to participate in the next battle, but now, they are all dressed in plain clothes with wreaths on their heads, standing beside the altar to join the chorus.

If only chanting uninspired prayers, would there be any benefit besides making ears of the people who knelt down spontaneously?

They began to sing some new catchy and strange rhymes. This is the melody that Rurik taught them, and the lyrics have to be revised to keep pace with the times.

No matter what song it is, there is only one song that the Ross people must learn.

"Holy War", this song must always be the war song of the Ross people! At first, Rurik did have a bit of nasty taste, forcing his men to learn the song quickly, but in the current scene, this song is really suitable.

So, these priestesses and girls sang the lyrics:

Get up, glorious Rose. Do a desperate battle! To eliminate the Gotland traitors. To defeat all enemies.

We are completely different from the enemy, we want to defeat them, we want light and victory, and the enemy only wants to suppress us.

Stupid enemy, beware of your fate. We want to crusade you! Get the coffin ready!

Everyone took up arms and fought the enemy for the glory of our ancestors, for wives and children.

We support "War Chief" Ruriek and contribute all our strength to defend our Ross. Victory belongs to Ross!

Those girls from the Valkyrie army, who played the role of a priest in a guest role, sang this song publicly for the first time.

The tribesmen patronized and listened to their ethereal singing, and they were soon infected by the very exciting lyrics.

Otto's eyes widened. What he noticed was that the brothers around him were praising the song for its greatness. They were gearing up, as if they were infected by the song.

He had to admit the appeal of this song while being moved, that is, this song clearly means that it belongs to his Otto era, and he is afraid that it will be declared over with this war.

"Oh, build your power with the help of songs? Maybe that's fine. You must grow up early. If you win this war, you will surely get the highest power that no one doubts."

Otto, who is very old, gave all his love to Rurik, but fortunately, his son is really magical, and the future can be expected.

When the singing calmed down, the catchy rhythm had been "brainwashed" the Ross people present in the girls' multiple cycles, and even when the girls were singing, someone had already hummed to them.

As as many as five thousand people gathered in the woods where the altar was located, in the era without tweeters, the girl's singing could not be transmitted too far.

The tribe can hear the melody, and the exciting lyrics are only heard by a few people for the time being. Even so, the tribe has raised their hands and cheered and jumped, and a large number of people who don’t know are infected by this fierce emotion, vying for Viking roar .

Seeing their enthusiasm, Rurik's face cracked very exaggeratedly.

"It seems that mine was not in vain. I knew I had taught them a few more songs. It's not too late to talk about it after the war."

As the ten reindeer as sacrifices were led into the altar, Rurik, armed with a dagger, stabbed all the deer to death in public. His decisive decisiveness also amazed the nearby onlookers.

Lumia personally took out the heart of the strongest stag, held it up to the people, and then used her fingers full of deer blood to write marks on Rurik's face.

That's not a big deal, Rurik endured the anger and drank a bowl of deer blood in public from a small bowl made of sterling silver.

Lumia opened the deer liver again, lifted the severed liver high, and announced auspicious signs in public.

"Odin has already stated his position. He supports our war. He supports Rurik as our war chief. He will bestow us victory. All the people of Ross who participated in this war, whether they died in battle or were at home when they were old. After a peaceful death, his soul will be selected by the Valkyrie. Odin is watching his warriors. God will not ignore anyone who is brave, and the brave will enter Valhalla!"

She is already the high priest, who can not support the high priest?

Lumia has already spoken well in Gnostic nowadays. She is actually over thirteen years old. In addition to having the beauty that a woman should have, she also has some necessary physical foundations as a mother.

Of course, any deer breeder must have a good voice to call the deer or cattle and sheep that run away in the open.

Her high-pitched voice is quite penetrating, and the good news of "God Blessing" really stimulates the eardrums of the Rus people, and for this reason the sacrifice has reached its boiling climax.

When the excitement of the people gradually became tired because of the constant shouting Rulik stood on some logs that were moved into the altar, and once again promoted his great promise to support the war.

He understands very well that spiritual inspiration is very necessary, but giving clear material rewards is even more important.

He wants to mobilize all the men, women, children of the tribe, and even all those who are willing to serve the Ross tribe. All participants will enjoy the "war dividend", of course this war division is famous. The protracted friction and fierce fighting must have an end, because its existence threatens and affects the development of the Rus people.

This battle is to end the war in the Gotland.

As for the way to end, it is to defeat the enemy and destroy the vital power of the Gotland.

In this matter, Rurik no longer cares about affection and kindness. He is full of mobilization of the power of the tribe, making the best weapons and armor, and becoming a madman for his tribe.

The majority of the tribe is even more fanatical!

They celebrated wildly on a night without night, and ushered in a tense and ambitious preparation.