Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty-Three The Gospel of Lindisfarne Is Honored in Gold and Silver

Those defending warriors who were almost mentally collapsed resisted more and more intruders in vain, and they soon lost their garrison on the city wall, allowing subsequent Viking warriors to climb ladders and climb more smoothly.

These Balmerk Vikings fought their first real siege battle, and victory was already in their hands.

The most common warriors also had the urge to take possession of the golden mountain and kick the gold into their arms.

The once very brave centurion of the defending army also lost his fighting spirit after the stone wall was broken by the enemy.

The officers are already soldiers, and the resistance of comrades-in-arms is ineffective!

In the end, more than 20 people survived, and the priests fled into the monastery, and the thick solid wood gate was tightly closed.

The Archbishop looked mournfully at the towering cross in the room, knelt on the burlap mat, and prayed mournfully with the parchment he took out from the golden box.

The monastery is like a ball cage, and the entire Tidal Island is a ball cage.

Priests and soldiers, more than 50 people gathered together, they prayed for God's salvation in tragic moments, but in the eyes of the Vikings, these guys were just a group of cowardly rabbits hiding in a cave, or fat in a sheepfold. sheep.

All buildings outside the monastery were scoured by invading Vikings, and anyone who hid was slashed, leaving only tyrannical, bloodthirsty savages in the open air.

Biyonny's heart was beating wildly, and he was very annoyed that he was already standing inside the stone wall, but he didn't get the gold and silver in the first place.

However, the brothers have already seized a batch of iron tools and cloth, and it is still very valuable to bring these materials back to their hometown.

"Brothers! Come with me! Smash the wooden door!" he roared, leading the charge with a crossbow.

More than 50 soldiers under Biyongni responded immediately, and among them, the strong man with a heavy axe began to smash the wooden door.

Sawdust was flying everywhere, but the situation became more and more abnormal.

After a while, Geiger and his men also participated in the final fierce battle. Seeing that his brother was so dawdling, the urgent man yelled directly: "Your people are starving? Why don't you have the strength to smash the door open?"

"Don't speak rude words! This door is extremely hard,

Let your people smash together. "

"Okay. Hey! We smashed them open, how will the contents be divided?"

Biyongni smiled wantonly: "Of course the brothers grabbed it according to their ability. Listen, whoever grabs it belongs to whom, we brothers can't fight infighting."

Geiger nodded, raised his small hand axe high and shouted at his brothers behind him: "Men of Washerby, smash the door for me! Whoever grabs the property will own it."

More than 20 soldiers with two-handed logging axes began to smash the door, but they did not know that the wooden door of Lindisfarne Abbey was its last line of defense. A rare wooden door in Northumbria is made of hardened oak that has been dried for an unknown period of time, and the back of the door is also inserted with multiple latches.

The strong men sweated like rain, but the destruction of this door could be called scraping.

"Are we going to knock down the sunset?" Guyger frowned and looked helpless.

Biyongni thought of a countermeasure: "Brother, let your people come with me."

"You? Have a plan?"

"Come with me."

A group of soldiers who besieged the monastery ran into the stone wall city gate. They already knew the reason why the siege rushing vehicle could not rush the gate, it was because a lot of stones and other debris were piled up in the gate hole.

Biyonny was already carrying the stones, and he shouted to the men: "Only Rurik's weapon can knock down that wooden door. Brothers, remove the debris and let the siege rush in!"

Everyone roared, and all kinds of debris were also cleaned up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the end, due to the excellent effect of climbing the ladder to break the city, the stone wall door that had been directly smashed by the idle siege car.

At the same time, Rurik, who was waiting for the good news in the back, saw this moment keenly.

"They are finally done!" Yevluo pointed at the sword sharply, "Sir, we should go in."

Rurik nodded and dragged Paul, who was in melee, frightened, and very guilty, to his side.

What did the captured grain officer think? Rurik had already speculated that it was close to ten.

In the concept of people of this era, the kingdom of Northumbria was only the kingdom of the king, and there was almost only a relationship of taxation and military protection with ordinary subjects. Subjects felt that life was unsustainable, or they did not want to live as serfs, so they dared to flee.

However, it is difficult for them to give up their beliefs, and it is difficult for them to deny the three views that they have been shaped since birth. Of course, they are even more afraid of falling into hell.

Rurik couldn't care less, he ordered solemnly: "Now! I want to enter the monastery! You have to show me the way."

"Ah! I'm not familiar with this place..."

"It doesn't matter. I want you to help me find the relic! Listen, I'm not very interested in gold and silver in general, the relic is what matters. For example, some parchment books, or other things, I want to bring them all. Walk."

Paul could hear it all, and it was really shocking to hear that the young barbarian leader had a pursuit of the "Parchment Book".

Paul thought about it carefully, and said hurriedly and stumblingly: "The monastery, there is a sacred book, which is known to the whole kingdom."

"Oh? What book?"

"The Gospels by Lindisfarne"

"Is it one?"

Hearing this word, Paul was shocked, and he hurriedly shouted: "Even if I have a low status, I know that it is indeed a treasure. I heard that it was written in Latin and is a sacred relic of the kingdom."

"That's my holy relic! It will be kept by me in the future." Rurik was very ambitious. Compared with ordinary gold and silver utensils, a """ written in Latin, which is the original version of the Bible, is really huge. cultural value.

Rurik itself is not interested in the beliefs described in the scriptures, but it is necessary for the Rus to learn from its culture and artistry. Since it is written in Classical Latin, it should be owned even more, because Classical Latin is still an important diplomatic language in southern Europe. The most important thing is that the Latin vocabulary in this book will greatly expand the vocabulary of the Rus people and become the cornerstone of the language and writing of the rise of the Rus Principality.

Rurik excitedly rushed to the open gate with his cronies, and he saw that the siege ram had already rushed in.

On the other hand, more than 40 people crowded the rushing car, and Biyonni became the commander of the group.

The rushing car aimed at the tight wooden door full of axe marks. The corpses and debris in front were cleaned up, leaving a fairly flat stone road with only bloodstains left.

"Brothers! Go ahead!"

Under the order of Biyonni, hundreds of Viking warriors roared one after another, and the people who controlled the rushing car seemed to gain endless power. They pushed the car faster and faster, and when they were about to hit, everyone let go.

The heavy rushing car was heavy, and it didn't really knock open the thick and hard oak door, but smashed the door frame cleanly. The wooden door with the door frame and some stones collapsed as a whole.

The people in the monastery began to scream, and some people still kept kneeling in despair, waiting for death with the cross on their chests.

The Vikings who rushed in didn’t talk nonsense. They saw any black-clothed cultivator wantonly slashing and slaying, rage and greed controlling their minds, and they became mad during the killing, and no one even thought about capturing the captives and taking them back to be slaves.

At one point they were slashing for slashing's sake, and the sacred monastery was drenched in blood.

The Gospel of Lindisfarne, which Rurik was eager to find at the first time, was held in his arms by the bishop himself. How could such a sacred object be defiled by the barbarians at sea?

However, the bishop showed a solemn temperament in his neat clothes. He was targeted by Biyonni, and the two warriors did not kill him, but controlled him.

The Gospel fell to the ground, a sharp iron sword stuck to the neck of the bishop who had closed his eyes and waited to be killed.

Biyonni woke him up with a punch, and then asked in the Norse dialect of the port of Narvik: "Gold! Silver! Warehouses! Where are they all?!"

The bishop did not want to cooperate at all, nor did he want to make any resistance.

A warrior built the golden box that contained the Gospels and smugly presented it to Biyonni. The warrior knew very well that he had a great reputation than Mr. Yoonni, and to please him. In the future, if he became the leader, he would definitely benefit from it.

Biyongni was overjoyed at the result of the gold box: "I don't know what kind of treasure this precious gold box is going to hold."

He winked, and his subordinates directly pressed the bishop against the wall.

Biyonni kept pressing, but the bishop himself couldn't understand Biyonni's shouting, and he just wanted to die quickly.

"It's a tough mouth, I'll ask you again! Where is the most precious treasure?!"

The bishop's eyes occasionally caught sight of the Gospel that had fallen on the ground, and the holy relic was trampled by the barbarian warriors at will (actually, the dark room made it difficult to see the book).

Biyongni was so embarrassed that he randomly ordered his subordinates to execute corporal punishment.

The bishop had his hands and feet amputated and was then bound with twine to the wooden pillars of the monastery.

Biyonni himself carried a hand axe and approached the poor man, "Tell me the most precious treasure, or I will cut off your kneecap right now."

Seeing that the other party was still clenching his teeth and not making a statement, Biyongni had to suffer corporal punishment.

A middle-aged man screamed in pain, and Rurik, who had entered the monastery, saw what his brother Biyonni was doing.

The holy monastery became hell, and Paul, who accompanied him, was almost faint. The only thing he was glad was that he was wearing a cloak with blue stripes on a white background. But in this situation, he felt that he was a great sinner, and he might as well be killed.

Rurik approached Biyonni and saw that this brother was doing a senseless and disgusting thing, and couldn't help but rage: "Give them a happy death without any torture."

"But this man refuses to bring out the holy treasure! Brothers, we are here to find the treasure!"

Biyonny gave Rurik a big reminder, and then look at this poor man who is dying, with his wonderful Mediterranean hairstyle, his identity is already clear.

"The Gospel of Lindisfarne! Where is it!"

"I want one! Give it to me!"

Rurik repeated these two sentences aloud, and finally the bishop opened his eyes. The bishop's eyes were fixed on Paul who had just picked up a book in the confusion.

This look was a curse for Paul, "You traitor must go to hell", and the book he was holding fell directly to the ground.

"Paul?" Rurik turned his head abruptly, and when he saw something similar to a book under his feet, his hair trembled in shock.

Paul hurriedly picked up the book again. He could not read Latin himself, but felt that this strangely dropped book had a very beautiful pattern. He thought that there should be many books in the monastery. Although this one was not sacred, the owner must have New love.

He offered it up, and at this time, the dying bishop was swearing piercingly.

The person who was supposed to be elegant and easy-going is now insulting the gentleman, and his unprecedented abuse fully explains one thing.

Rurik noticed the gorgeously painted pattern on the cover, which was a Celtic style! He could not have imagined that the most precious holy book in this monastery was so simple except for the pattern on the cover. He opened the book, and pages after pages of parchment were densely written with the content of a certain artistic style that was extremely neat. There are also some paintings in the book, which are really abstract.

Rurik noticed everything that was clearly a title, and even if it was a strange art form, he still recognized certain key words.

that's it! Correct!

Rurik excitedly closed the book and hugged it to his chest, and then asked Paul to speak on his behalf.

Paul stumbled in extreme nervousness: "My master, Rurik of Ross, will keep this sacred book forever."

Hearing that, the bishop who had fallen into the last madness instantly fell silent. He stared at Rurik's face in disbelief, and he really didn't know what to say.

And Rurik also pretended to draw a cross on his chest and bowed slightly, not wanting to talk to the tied man again.

After all, it was Rurik himself who commanded the army to kill here, and the Northumbria Kingdom was a real villain, and what he said was superfluous.

Rurik turned his head to look at Biyone and showed the tree in his arms: "Enough is enough, in fact, this Biblo is the most important treasure."

Nai He Biyongni shook his head blankly: "What? Brother, only gold, silver and precious stones are precious!" Then he continued to press the bishop to ask where the gold was.

Rurik couldn't stand it anymore, and the ignorant spy of Biyonni ordered Yevlo seriously: "Enough is enough, grant that trapped person a quick death."

Yevluo understood, and completed the final blow with the sword, and the bishop died...

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"What are you doing!" Biyonni stomped his feet in anger, "Brother, I haven't found out the whereabouts of the warehouse."

"Enough is enough. Take a good look at it!" Rurik casually pointed at the people who were running around in the monastery. They had indeed gotten more or less gold and silver.

At this moment, the brothers Geiger and Esbjorn, and even the older brother Floki, who was ignored by Biyonni, got out from a side door. Then five suitcases were taken out, and the bronze locks were broken open with the axe. Inside were shiny silver coins, each with the portrait of Charlemagne printed on it.

"Brother! We've made a fortune!" Geiger exclaimed excitedly.

Seeing this, Biyonny's anger disappeared instantly, and then he happily hugged the silver coins, swiping the silver coins in the suitcase and laughing to the crisp sound.

Rurik couldn't help laughing, as if the looting of gold and silver really had nothing to do with him. As the so-called rogue pirates are addicted to gold and silver, the real powerhouse knows books and the huge amount of information they carry, which is the key to the rise of power.

He casually ordered Yevluo and other close mercenaries: "Don't worry about any gold and silver jewelry, find me books, look through the entire monastery, and don't let any books go. Find books and hand them over to me, there is a great reward!"