In this era, strong men are the foundation for the successful survival of a regime. There are three major tribes in Karelia. Among them, the Isotarva tribe of the Great Horde has the largest population and is able to dominate the family.
The Dazhang tribe is arrogant because of its large number of people, and because of its large number of people, it has to take the initiative to expand and find reindeer grazing pastures with the richest water and grass in the forest, sea and snow fields.
The past glory was suddenly lost with a tragic defeat. Although more than 10,000 people still managed to escape from the large camp by the lake, the military capabilities of the tribe have been fatally hit. Nearly 4,000 Many men died in the battle and the tribe was almost destroyed.
Are they about to collapse?
The young women fled with their children. They had to take care of a large herd of deer, and their escape was too hasty. This group of people did not escape too far. Fortunately, they were covered by the forest, and their existence had not yet been detected. The Russian army detected.
If Rurik seizes the time and orders the army to pursue and kill regardless of priority, the Russian army can probably catch the fugitives and obtain sufficient results.
He did not do this because he would not risk the entire army at a time when the enemy's situation was unclear and the geographical situation was unclear.
The invaders did not continue to advance, and the fleeing Karelian women did not know whether they were already at war or what the situation would be like.
Finally, hundreds of defeated men crossed the forest in despair. On a dark cloudy night, they saw the bonfire formation under the mound in the distance.
Could that be the enemy? The frightened men were so frightened that they would rather wait until daytime. When they saw clearly the brown-grey shadows of winter, they concluded that they were huge deer herds, and then they walked away confidently and boldly.
The new camp of the Karelian women is thirty kilometers away from the destroyed Isotalva camp. This does not seem to be far, but in the absence of roads, they are leading They fled with their children and belongings all the way. According to the plan, they would go straight to the winter pastures in the north.
Even if the Rus’ army does not start a war, the Karelian Great Horde tribe will still begin to migrate. Winter is not far away, and winter grazing related to next year's reindeer herd breeding must start early in the autumn. Even for domesticated reindeer, migration is an instinct engraved in their genes. The spontaneous migration of reindeer has been broken by human domestication. Are they actually migrating under the leadership of their Karelian masters? But looking back, the Karelia people, who rely heavily on reindeer breeding, are also forced to migrate with their domesticated livestock every year.
Unless they have a stable supply of high-energy feed, winter grazing becomes redundant.
Animal husbandry is a kind of alienated agriculture, and the reindeer herd is like a "walkable field."
Ross needs to control large numbers of livestock to supplement his burgeoning plantation agriculture, and Ross's demand for furs of all colors will only grow every year. So the Karelians, who control an astonishing number of reindeer, must either surrender their humans and animals or die.
Rurik did not engrave such a strategy on the wooden board, but he did launch a war with a large army to achieve this goal.
The Karelian women who evacuated with their deer were not stupid. When the defeated people of their tribe suddenly appeared, the heartbreaking news spread throughout the camp in an instant, and there was a burst of wailing...
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What to do next? What do the intruders want to do?
They use themselves to save others and also know the enemy's purpose: kill the men, kidnap the women and children, and kill all the deer.
The Karelian Tribe Alliance used this strategy to deal with the Tavastians. They were the source of a group of slaves who evacuated with the women.
Isoltalwa has collapsed, and what’s worse is that an autumn rain finally fell.
In the desolate environment, more than 10,000 people from the Dazhang tribe drove a total of as many as 200,000 large and small reindeer and dragged wooden carts towards the winter pasture. A large amount of tent materials were lost, and thousands of people could only rely on the dense pine needles of the red pine forest to protect themselves from the rain. The rain protection effect was negligible. The woods were full of shivering shelters, and the plague also began to appear.
Some people catch a cold and cough desperately, while others die directly from hypothermia.
The rain has been going on for three days. In these short three days, more than a hundred infant children died, adding another sorrow to this tribe that had suffered a great disaster.
Even the elderly priests were in critical condition due to weakness and illness. Finally, even the priests died on a rainy night...
People dug pits in the mud and buried them. These dead people, big and small, pray that their souls can smoothly enter the sea of ancestral souls and no longer suffer in this mortal world.
Some women lost their husbands and children and had to run to the northern winter pastures in the cold and damp conditions. Their own situation was also precarious and they were so weak that they were about to die. More than fifty women looked for vines, strips of cloth, and even tendons to bind supplies, using them as ropes to tie their necks and end their lives quietly.
The rain lasted for eight full days! When the sun finally emerged again, the once-mighty Great Horde tribe had lost as many as a thousand men during the rains.
The bow drill, the only fire-making tool that could be used in the muddy environment, could not complete the ignition. When the dried meat they carried was eaten, they could only kill the deer, eat the fresh deer meat and drink the deer blood.
The young children can only eat raw meat like adults. They complain that the meat is not delicious, and the mother thinks that all this is because of the intruders.
Some children ignorantly asked when their father would come back and would he return to the camp next year?
The more the child asked this question, the more the mother cried.
The mother can only pinch the child's face and order him to take revenge when he grows up...
This fleeing team did not simply rush to the winter pasture. When material problems encountered In big trouble, they took the initiative to rush to the small tent tribe, hoping to get help from their traditional allies.
Even if the situation is tragic,A miracle actually happened!
A team came from the distance, and the frightened people gathered around the reindeer herd. The men dragged their tired bodies, holding spears, and looked warily at the group of people coming from the west.
The alert was soon lifted, and the person who came was not an enemy, but our chief Valheba!
A thousand of the strongest warriors of the Karelian Great Tribe were walking on the smoothest road back, and the entanglement with the Suomi people delayed the chief Warkhba for some time. They left the lakes in the west again. They were a group of people carrying more than a hundred canoes and walked overland through the flat forest area, and then found streams in the damn rain and ran towards their hometown.
They moved forward in the twists and turns of the waterway, drifting in the heavy rain. Not only did people have to struggle to control the boat to prevent it from being overturned by the turbulence, but they also had to fight against the cold. They were very surprised to see a crowd not far away, and after a little exploration, everyone was shocked.
The family was finally reunited, but this reunion caused the soldiers fighting on the front line to almost collapse psychologically.
Valkhba is the chief of the tribe and the leader of the entire Karelia.
He is also a man, the husband of his wife, the father of his children, and the brother of his relatives.
My younger brothers and nephews both sacrificed their lives for the tribe. The entire tribe has lost all its strong and young men. Now there are less than 2,000 men who can hold weapons.
The big camp by the lake collapsed, his wife and concubines were missing, and his younger sons were either massacred or died on the muddy road of escape.
Walkhba looked up at the sun and cursed loudly, then hugged his head and cried. Suddenly, his head buzzed and he fell to the ground.
What a cruel blow is this?
Thousands of people have been running around in sorrow for so many days. The appearance of the great chief is a miracle. The low morale has just improved. Now the great chief has fallen. There are rumors that the chief died in grief. .
This is not the case, but the situation is not much better.
Walkhba was suffering from a high fever. Lying in the temporary tent, he completely broke his original plan of returning to the lakeside camp to defend against the enemy.
The original plan was completely meaningless. The Great Tribe was finished. At least he personally felt that he had no hope of making an offer.
What he needed most was the truth, so when he was dying, his eldest son sat next to him, and he invited several escaped men who had personally participated in the battle to enter the tent to explain the situation.
Five people came, and when they saw the great chief suppressing his blushes, he fell to the ground crying because of shame or sadness.
"You...don't cry. Tell me, what happened to Isotalva? What exactly was the attack...Why did you lose...so miserably!"
The last word was actually accented, and everyone saw the chief spit out a mouthful of old blood.
Yes, why did it fail so miserably? It is impossible to understand Valkhba's three views.
Even if they were involved in the battle, those who fled did not quite understand how they were defeated.have to.
Some people explained: "Azailas sent people to guard the mouth of the river, but the enemy's ships were as big as mounds, and their masts were as high as the pine trees here. Those ships fired deadly javelins, but our arrows could not shoot They killed our men easily. A large group of iron giants jumped from the armor, but the enemy could not be killed. Spears and arrows could kill deer, but they had no effect on them."
Such rhetoric is too ridiculous. In fact, this is what the Karelian warriors think of the Russian Viking army.
But in the eyes of the Suomi people, this is what the Rus army looks like. When the Ross fleet suddenly appeared, their tentative attack was easily crushed. The leader Uko, who knew the current situation, immediately surrendered. Only by playing the role of a submissive hound and the magical "internal aid" of Jevro did Su win the battle. Peace among the Omi people under Rus.
Then someone else said: "I saw Tavastia people. There were many of them, and they followed the iron giants to kill us."
"Tavastia?! "Walkh Bachchan, who was squinting, worked up his energy to sit up. Just as he was about to say something, he felt another mouthful of old blood.
"Father." His son immediately helped him up.
"Don't help me, let him continue."
"Yes." The man continued: "They must be Tavastians. They must be asking the mysterious iron The giants traded their souls. We all know that only Tavastia hates us the most. Maybe this is their plan to sell their souls in exchange for the army of the evil god. How can we defeat the army of the bear altar? Everyone was killed, and our Isotalwa camp was full of murdered tribesmen."
Someone quickly followed this statement and explained: "Lord Aisailas must have noticed this. This situation caused the women to flee with the deer. We fought until the end, no matter how we were the opponents of the magic weapon, we successfully found the others. Please forgive us, the great leader."
The Tavastians. He sold his soul and signed a contract with the evil god in exchange for the "Iron Giant" to destroy the Great Tribe.
Walkhba thinks this is believable, and even thinks it is the only reasonable explanation.
But his son Caskuwe thought this was ridiculous.
"The army of the evil god defeated us? The Tavastians do not have this ability yet. Father, this world must be very huge, maybe a powerful enemy from outside the territory is eyeing us..."
"We didn't see the Tavastians at all in the west. They disappeared! Many people must have sacrificed their souls." Valkhba ordered his son to shut up first, and then sighed.
The tent fell into deathly silence. Finally, as the chief, Valheba spoke. He had thought a lot.
"If it is a new enemy from outside the territory, we may kill them. If it is the army of the evil god, when the Tavastians have no more sacrifices, the evil god will not I will continue to help them." He didn't know the truth, but this dialectical speculation really found the heart of the confused and frightened Dazhang tribe people.The comfort of reason.
"We may not be able to defeat the evil god's army, so let's evacuate first. If it is actually a new enemy, we can still win by recharging our strength. Son!"
"Father." Caskuwe quickly turned his head.
"I'm going to die... Now I hand over the entire tribe to you. You are not afraid of evil gods or any enemies. This is why everyone recognizes you as the next leader. Now that the tribe has suffered such a disaster, But there are only more than a thousand men left to fight. We still have 10,000 women and children to protect, and more than 100,000 reindeer... You must not recklessly seek revenge on the enemy."
"I will."
Seeing that his son's attitude was not firm, Valherba suddenly raised his arm, gripped his son's elbow, and said while spitting blood: "At least a few No revenge during the year! We can’t take back the bear altar until we know the enemy’s situation.”
Kasikuwei’s eyes were wide with fear as his hands were covered in blood. I dare not disobey."
"You are the leader now. Take my sword and lead all the tribesmen to the Xiaozhang tribe. You must unite all the tribes to marry the leader's daughter. Karelian people! This is a disaster for all of us, you have to lead the others to fight to the end!" After saying that, Valkhba passed out...
That night, the chief of the Karelian alliance fell into a coma due to high fever. His vomiting of blood was actually stomach bleeding. This was a secret he hid from his tribe. Now he suffered a series of blows. Gastric bleeding combined with severe fever finally led to death. His life. The blood blocked the trachea, and Valkhba, who was in a coma, died of suffocation.
The chief died of illness, and the people who were talking a lot early in the morning heard the bad news.
Those people whose tears have dried up are now left with howls. They are not only sad for the death of the chief, but also sad for themselves and their tribe’s tragic fate.
Such a cruel sight did not frighten Kaskuwe. He stood tall and wore a gold-decorated antler crown that symbolized the leader's status. He held up the big leader's head left by his father. Blade Iron Sword declared that he would succeed immediately.
“People! My father’s soul has gone to the ancestral spirit! I am now your leader, and the leader of all Karelia people. We are going to build a new camp in the winter pasture! Woman Let's give birth! Men! Guard our women and let them give birth safely! We will recover in ten years. I will lead you to a closer alliance with the Xiaozhang tribe, and I will marry their women. I will still be recognized as the leader of all tribes, and I will definitely lead you to regain your brothers and regain our lost glory!"
What they need most is hope, and Caskuwei gives them hope. He is not a naturally brave leader. Times create people. After the catastrophe, he must lead his people to rebound immediately.
He was not the bravest warrior on the battlefield;Now he must be the first warrior of the Great Tribe, even if he is still acting.
Valkhba ended his life. He was already suffering from an old disease. He carved out a large piece of fertile land from the lakes in the west to become the new paradise of Karelia. This was the biggest challenge in the rest of his life. Hope. He died and his dream was gone.
There was no glorious funeral, a muddy pit was his grave, and there was no tomb, no tombstone, and no markers of any kind. This was Valheba's last wish for his successor. If the tribe suffered a devastating blow during his tenure, he would not deserve a funeral and should be hastily buried as a guilty person.
The reindeer trampled the earth flat, and the whole tribe began to run towards the north in the new rain, enduring the cold and shedding tears.
History followed the general trend at this moment. Rurik basically expelled the Karelia people a generation ahead of schedule and essentially occupied the entire lakeside area of Lake Ladoga.
This is not an escape for the Karelia people, but a strategic contraction that they have to make for future counterattacks.
Kaskuwei became the new chief. He categorically did not believe what those people said. The "evil god's iron giant" was the nonsense of those who were frightened into thinking. It was an excuse for those who fled the battlefield. , that must be a new enemy! The so-called conclusive statements are ridiculous, because Suomi prisoners captured in the West are saying that the Tavastians were completely killed by the Russian army.
Ross? The enemy should be Ross!
The more he thought about it, the more reliable it seemed to Kaskuwe, and finally he began to preach the results of his "investigation" to the people who were migrating.
Those are not the "apostles of the evil god", they are the Rus, a group of bandits who came from a distant place, the bandits who made the Suomi people surrender, and the ones who killed the entire Tavastia clan. robber.
The enemy is human! Even people can be killed. As long as everyone cultivates their martial virtues again, victory will belong to Karelia.
Kaskuwei has already guessed the truth very closely, but the entire immigrant group is still struggling with the fact that they were defeated by the evil god's army.
It wasn't until the priest who spread the news about the "evil god" was directly killed by Kaskuwei, and threatened to kill anyone who dared to tell lies again, that everyone was forced to shut up.
Finally, they braved the new rain and arrived at the winter pasture, the traditional winter pasture of the Dazhang tribe, not far from the White Sea. This is already an extremely remote area, and the cold weather always accompanies it. After losing half of its people and 20% of its reindeer, the Dazhang tribe finally fled here to start a new life.
Many people believe that they finally escaped from the land of right and wrong...