Chapter 847： Swinned of Uppsala

The main force of the fleet completely entered Lake Mälaren, and there were fluttering blue flags on a white background. The fishermen onlookers knew that the Russ were coming!

A large number of fishermen evaded spontaneously. Together with the soldiers at the Merlaren post on the outlying island of the lake, they nervously witnessed the Ross Fleet entering the Great Lake.

Instinctive fear reminded them that this army is likely to be bad people, maybe the nobles of the Rus decided to start a war.

In the intense observation, things quickly took a very strange turn.

The fishermen who fled saw the huge fleet unexpectedly start to line up a snake formation, dashing into a wider river that poured water into the lake from north to south. The Ferrys River is now in the rainy season, but the wide surface of the river slows down the flow of water, and its almost pure north-south direction allows the Ross Fleet to make perfect use of the south wind to go north.

This is the last journey. Seven consecutive days of almost uninterrupted sea voyages have tossed everyone into trouble, and now people are finally excited.

Because going is the destination-Uppsala tribe.

The paddling boats passing by the fleet are not from other tribes either. The personnel are from Uppsala. The people were staring at the large Russian fleet going northward against the current. They found it unbelievable, so they drew on the shore, numb their faces, and simply watched the mountain-like ships drifting north, as if they were peers.

On weekdays, King Bjorn, who has not yet abdicated at this time, is unwilling to come here with his face licking his face. He knows that the Uppsalas are only showing surrender in name. Whenever one is asked, their attitude must be: Bjorn Not the real king.

Since Karl's assassination, there is only one formal king in Sweden. The so-called Bjorn lives more like the mayor of Birka Fair.

However, the Uppsala's attitude towards the Rus is equally complicated.

Swinned, Duke of Uppsala, sent a messenger to the eastern part of Ross to find out. It has been more than half a year since the messenger has set off, but there is still no news.

The people continue to live their lives, especially in a small lake under their control. After spring ploughing, they start the traditional work of fishing in the inner lake.

Because of the big temple, the ancient Uppsala people used a large number of giant trees to build this complex of multiple wooden buildings, which made a large area of ​​trees cut clean and live on the lakeside to create Out of a grassland.

They opened oat fields along the lakeside area nourished by the mud, and the inland areas turned into simple wasteland. A small number of domesticated sheep and cattle slosh on the grassland, and most of the area is pure wasteland without much development.

Because of the past wars, the Uppsala people followed the Swedish king Olekin at the time to expedition to the Danish-controlled Silver Fort. The war was really bad for eight lives. Their population is not large, and the deaths of hundreds of middle-aged males have greatly injured the vitality of the Uppsala people!

The rest of the people tried their best to give birth to children, although there are many children running around, but the death rate of children is also very high.

The entire Uppsala has reached a population size of four thousand people. The internal population structure is not healthy. Men from twelve to forty years old who exhaust the entire tribe, the so-called warriors who can take up hand axes and shields to fight are also talented. Five or six hundred people were assembled. Even if the female soldiers are mobilized, a maximum of 1,000 soldiers can be mobilized.

They can no longer withstand a defeat. They are by no means cowards, but they don't want to vomit blood for the ambition of a fool.

Now the Ross people and their huge fleet are here!

The fleet entered the small inner lake of the Uppsala people. Geographically, this is the unit of the huge icy lake of Lake Mälaren, but because it is geographically further north, the small lake is composed of the Felice River and the Great Lake. Connect to form a relatively independent section.

People’s fishing boats have suspended their fishing operations and have rushed to shore.

A large number of people don’t know why the huge Russian fleet is here. They don’t even know that several aristocrats in Sweden and the messengers of various tribes have signed a new agreement in the capital of Rose, and they don’t know that there is no malicious intent here.

What they saw was a group of huge fleets lined up in a large wall in the inner lake, rushing towards the Great Temple with coercive force.

A large number of men and women walked out of the densely packed houses on the shore. They dragged their families and ran to the forest area to try to take refuge.

A group of people fled first, and suddenly more and more people followed.

The residential area of ​​Uppsala began to mess up, and rumors began to spread. It is said that when someone thinks that the Russians are not good at coming, they think of war. If they have such an association, they will shout loudly, and those who hear it will add fuel and jealousy. It turns out that the Russian army has launched a war.

Duke Swinned is in his prime and is busy training his private soldiers in his mansion. It is true that the Uppsala people do not want to go to war, as a nobleman, he must keep a small but strong private soldier in order to encounter the scene of the incident.

The noise outside the wall became more and more serious. Just as Svenned felt something strange, soldiers broke into the training ground.

"Master! They are here!" The soldier's panic made his speech stunned.

"Who?"

"Ro...Ross."

"Ross? What happened outside?"

"The people are running away. Because..."

"What the **** is going on." The Duke approached aggressively with his iron sword.

The horror on the soldier's face still persists: "Ros's army is here. Like a huge ocean tide pouring into our lake, and like a big wall, they..."

Duke Swinned shook his head and felt that things were too strange, "Weird. According to you, does it mean that the Ross people are going to attack us?"

The soldiers froze again.

The Duke twisted his sturdy neck and motioned to his subordinates: "Brothers, let's go see what the Ross people want to do. Then control those who run wild."

He still didn’t know what was happening on the lake. When he took his fifty-odd private soldiers out of the training ground, through the residential area and tried his best to control a group of scurrying people, he finally saw something shocking near the lake. One scene.

"Ah! Odin! Could this be an army from Asgard?!"

Swinned was dumbfounded, he was shocked to see what else the Ross Fleet had to do.

Inner Lake is not large, and the depth of this icy lake is only four or five meters, so the ships dropped their iron spears and quickly bottomed out. The anchor head was shoveled obliquely like mud on the bottom of the lake, and the ship was firmly fixed on the lake.

Lurik and Otto didn't know Swinned, they only remembered the former Duke of Uppsala. People in this era do not live long. Only a few people who have enough material conditions and are lucky enough can live to a long life. And those brave fighters always ignore their old age pension issues, they would rather die on the battlefield. Therefore, from the standpoint of the Uppsalas, some veterans would choose to hang themselves under the sacred tree. After death, the priest would perform bloodletting to nourish the tree with blood, and the remaining corpses would be buried in the cemetery.

The previous duke has quietly ended his life in this way, to pursue the great glory of their faith.

No one thinks this is absurd. Even though the previous war lost a lot of people, everyone regrets the massive loss of soldiers, but does not regret the ending. They died on the battlefield, they died for Odin.

Thanks to the Swedish nobles who stayed on the flagship, they pointed out to Rurik that the group of armed men who are now expelling the array on the shore, the leader is Swinned.

Otto’s mind was still in the past, he asked casually: "I remember their leader is an old guy."

The same aging Duke of Angriffe of Unclass sighed with a trace of reminiscence of the past: "It's a new one."

"Is that Swinned?" Rurik shrugged, just thinking that the man could be a warrior, nothing more.

The entire Uppsala tribe is in sight. Although Rurik has come here for the first time, he can see the Great Temple complex at a glance!

It seems that several independent long houses are assembled twice, forming a circular arc as a whole. Surrounded by this large circular arc is a giant tree with obvious width.

The thick trunk of the giant tree can be seen very clearly even from a distance. If you touch it at close range, how thick is the big tree?

What kind of tree is it?

Compared to Swinned, who was standing by the lake with big eyes, Rurik cared more about the tree and the temple.

He even imagined that he had planed the tree roots and transported it to Silla Fort to plant it in order to demonstrate the sacredness of the Rose Temple. He was really jealous.

The sailing ship began to release the boat. The uniformed Ross soldiers put on the glass strings one after another, and some prepared people put the feathers of the wild goose on their white bear fur. Carrying linen pockets, bucklers and a leather helmet, they paddled to the riverside.

As for the iconic cargo ships, Rurik’s order to these ships was to wash the beach directly.

This small lake owned by the Uppsala people is full of silt, or that the entire Lake Mälaren area lacks stones. It is not a bad thing for boats to flush the beach unscrupulously. Besides, all the customers who ordered ships are here, especially the Swinned. Swinned had absolutely no idea that his plenipotentiary had already ordered a large ship for Uppsala.

It’s time to show the real Party A the power of the product!

From the standpoint of Swinned, I saw a large ship with a slender hull. It did not rely on any oars at all. With the wind of the south, it rushed to the beach fiercely and quickly.

The hard oak keel nibbled the mud deeply, and the bows of the boat rushed into the mud with a small amount of grass, but most of the hull was still soaking in the water. The ship was deliberately ran aground, and many people appeared on the deck.

That is the Ross sailor wearing a linen headscarf. He belongs to the professional team that controls the ship and is also a non-combatant.

Swinned felt that the visitor was not malicious, so he tried to control his emotions and tried to stop the trembling of his legs by willpower.

He yelled with his neck held high, "Why are you Ross people here?!"

He asked three times, but the sailors in the turban were busy with their affairs.

Then, something very strange happened.

I saw strange deer heads protruding from the deck of the ship. At first, Swinned thought it was a ceremonial specimen. As the deer heads spontaneously twisted, he realized that it was a head. Live deer.

Some standard cargo ships were used to transport soldiers. They walked out of the cabin and dropped the rope ladder from the bow of the ship. The Ross soldiers with all kinds of equipment and uniforms disembarked one after another.

The people in the paddling boats landed one after another when they came, and finally Swinned saw some familiar faces.

He recognized the King Bjorn of Sweden who had landed ashore at a glance. Seeing this man, all his worries turned into nothingness, but he also added a wave of anger.

He walked hurriedly, and it was obvious that Bjorn was struggling.

"Bjorn, you should know that you shouldn't send such a fleet to my territory. Your behavior is unruly!"

Bjorn himself was wronged, especially this time when he was criticized by Swinned when he first arrived in Uppsala, he pointed directly at one big ship after another, and said very bluntly: "Open your Take a look, don’t you recognize these flags?"

"I know. You are the king of Sweden, and the Ross people listen to you. You! You are the king supported by the Ross people."

This is already very rude. Swinned is actually not malicious to the Duchy of Ross. He simply doesn't like this Bjorn who has no military exploits but is very happy. A king-killer assassin became the king and named the market after his own name. His success was only supported by the Ruths, and the latter was already an open secret.

Bjorn was so angry that his beard trembled, and he said with an aggrieved face: "Forget it! I am no longer the king. The Ross people have decided to be king by themselves, Swinned, are you satisfied now?"

"What? The Ross people come to be king?"

"The Lord Rurik of Rose will be here soon, as well as the old Otto who you have met a few times, and you can talk to them! And I, just Duke Mellaren, you don't want to ridicule me again."

Swinned rubbed his head in a daze: "What are you talking about? So... the Ross people sent the fleet to my inner lake, just to be king in my temple?"

"Exactly. You are really smart enough."

"It's weird, I just sent a messenger to buy their ship, why..."

"Are you really smart or stupid?!" With a mocking and bitter smile, Bjorn pointed to the big boats that washed up on the beach: "Look, the boat you want to buy is here. Your messenger has already helped you. It’s settled, all you have to do is take out the wheat to pay."

"Wait a minute, you are the planner to buy a boat, and I saw you do it before I followed it. How many boats did you buy?"

Bjorn unceremoniously opened his right hand, and grew his unrooted fingers extremely large. "Five. We from Mellaren bought five. You may not like me, but we from Mellaren are still strong in Sweden."

"Perhaps." Swinned shook his head disdainfully: "The Ross people don't want to pretend, they are going to be the king themselves. Well, at least that Rurik is a real man, but it is a pity that we are fighting against the new king of Denmark. The Uppsala army did not join in personally. It was a loss of honor."

Soon, Swinned saw Rurik himself.

This was actually the first time he met Rurik himself, and it was the meeting. The deep sense of inferiority hurts my heart.

Actually, he had seen Rurik and Otto a few years ago. Although Otto was very old at that time, he was full of spirits. At that time, Swinned was just a follower by his father's side. Although he was not young, he was still a little insufficient to inherit the title of Uppsala.

Today's Otto is very old, his aging appearance is really worrying.

What's the matter with Liurik? A beautiful little boy back then, with a golden ponytail hung behind his head like a little girl. Now he is a strong man with a beard?

Swinned's inferiority complex is that this Rurik is really young, with a stature that is almost a head taller than himself. He is young or young, with a chain armor inside and a bear leather jacket.

Rurik’s entourage guards are extraordinary. They are well-dressed with a lot of gems (in fact, glass beads), and they wear huge iron helmets with nose guards, and each helmet is additionally covered with white bear fangs. The upper jaw.

The two generations of Prince Ross were guarded by a group of Ursa warriors, all of them tall and strong, unstoppable.

Looking at it again, there are a large number of women and some children standing beside the Duke of Rose. These young, beautiful and gorgeously dressed women must be Rurik's wife?

Lurik walked straight to Swinned with a calm face, and then, under the emphatically introduced by the messenger of Uppsala, he approached him for the first time by the lake.

"You? Rose's Rurik?"

"Exactly. I know you, Swinned, the new Duke of Uppsala."

"Ah! I also know you, the hero who killed the old Danish king. You almost killed the new Danish king last year. You are our Swedish hero. I heard that you want to... be the king. ."

"Where did you get the news?" After all, Rurik glanced at Bjorn, who deliberately turned his face sideways, and said: "You have seen my large fleet. This fleet attacked Denmark last year. I commanded the killing. At least three thousand soldiers of the new king of Denmark died, and they burned their capital. This is my magnificent feat. I used this victory to sacrifice to Odin. You say! I have such a feat, am I the king? ?"

"You should be king." Swinned said without hesitation.

"I must be the King of Sweden. I must be enthroned in your Uppsala Temple, so I am here. I can guess that you will worry about a lot of things. I can assure you. Our Russian army is in Uppsala and will not cause you to suffer losses. We will be responsible for all problems with meals and accommodation, and we will leave on my own when I finish the ceremony of reigning the king."

Indeed, if this is the case, the Roth nobles’ measures of not disturbing the people will indeed not cause trouble to Uppsala, and even the people can get some benefits through supporting labor during the ceremony of Rurik’s rule of the king. If Rurik is really so, this is a major difference from the actions of the highest rulers of Sweden in the past. A king who never commits an offence, supporting him is absolutely beneficial to Uppsala.

Even though Lurik is very young, the old Otto is here. Immediately acknowledging that Rurik was king, Swinned had no worries in his heart.

Suddenly, Swinned chanted grandiosely: "Then! Please come to our Uppsala Temple, the new King of Sweden, Rurik! You will be here! Ascend to the throne under the sacred tree. King!"