Chapter 809 You Are Not Allowed to Escape

The brief battle was over, and when Swinder returned to his island, he saw that the bodies of the soldiers who had been shot had begun to be carried away by the Rus.

He looked anxious and didn't know what Prince Ross was really thinking.

But the mass landing of the Rus army had already begun.

A huge fishing village is in front of you, and those who have been defeated are fleeing with all their strength.

Rurik finished the landing with the hilt in his hand, and he still couldn't laugh because it wasn't what he wanted to see.

The body of the deceased is being dragged and appears to be thrown directly into the sea.

Unhindered, he met on the battlefield with those who had landed earlier.

Arik panted heavily, his eyes full of longing: "A large group of cowards escaped, what are you going to do? This fishing village is now ours."

"What else can we do? We entered the fishing village to loot. The army needs a stable place to live. The Burnholm people provided us with it, and our army must laugh at it."

"But a large number of people escaped. Our army is in pursuit."

"No need." Rurik shook his head. "I understand this island better. Let them escape! There is no way for them to escape. How can they survive without even fishing boats? , those who run away will surrender voluntarily."

"Isn't this too tedious?" After saying that, Arik pointed to the stone hill in the center of the island, "Maybe they can rely on the hill to resist."

"Are you planning to attack? You don't have to." Rurik thought for a while, "We can send this guy Swinder to persuade him to surrender."

"As you please." Arik shrugged, and left with his sword in hand.

Can Burnholm's fishing village have a lot of treasure? When things got to this point, Rurik was too lazy to restrain his subordinates. The Rus army was ordered to sack the fishing village, and everyone got what they needed according to their ability.

War was not Rurik's intention, plunder was.

According to his plan, even Bernholm, who surrendered peacefully, had to pay a large tribute to pay for the occupation of the Rus army. Now the army is burdened and has to get its own funds.

The soldiers all felt that this was a good opportunity to make a fortune. When they really entered the fishing village, their longing gradually turned into disappointment.

What's in the Fisherman's House? tattered wood,

Some tattered leather, sackcloth, and some jerky, nothing seemed to be left.

What about silver coins? What about copper coins? Almost impossible to find.

Disappointed people had to take the dried fish and the salt they found, at least to fill their stomachs first.

There are also plenty of people expecting to take captives, and like silver coins that don't exist, captives don't exist either.

The entire fishing village is almost empty!

But three distinctly big families are desperately resisting.

The mansion protected by a wooden wall was surrounded by the Rus army. The armored warriors ignored the trapped beasts and the fighting people, tied the wooden wall with ropes, and everyone pulled it down.

The patriarch of the big family, along with his family members and private soldiers, rose up to resist, and even the fostered slaves were fighting desperately to protect themselves.

They tried to kill some of the Rus invaders, even if they died in battle, it was not a big loss.

However, the Ross Army was well prepared.

Fisker is young and strong, and the boys of his Sixth Banner have grown up. He was instructed to take the capable people in the flag team to participate in the action. Every boy is eager to make a contribution and make a career, and he is actually a super combat force in the army.

Half-kneeling warriors lined up in three rows with crossbows. When the wooden wall was pulled down, the defenders who decided to fight to the death were shot into hedgehogs by the crossbow. So far, one round of salvo has broken the resistance, and the rest is the sword and shield hand swarming up to chop melons and vegetables.

The female relatives of the defenders were pulled out and tied their hands and feet, and the rest were killed.

Soldiers flocked to the mansion in search of treasure, and then pulled out valuables such as silver coins and leather. But the big fortune everyone was looking for did not appear, and people quickly reached a consensus that the island was poor.

The Russ army captured nearly a hundred female prisoners in the fishing village. They were stripped of their clothes and thrown to the bonfire, where they were toyed with by the conquerors.

The fleet stopped at the fishing village port, and all the ships parked here were captured.

Why should some boats be kept? Immediately scuttled. Large traditional longboats are also collected for their own use.

Only after Rurik personally supervised and completed the collection of the ship did he really enter the fishing village, and only then did he see the women being toyed with by the bonfire.

The capable mercenaries around him couldn't help but say vulgar words, and bluntly said that they were eager to try.

But the situation made Svetlana speechless, and as a woman, she could not see other women living like animals.

"Ridiculous!" Rurik was furious: "I also want to control the people here and transport them to the East. These stinky boys treat them as animals? Grund!"

"Ah! Yes!"

"Shut up whoever restrains you, stop being paranoid, and get those women under control. Listen, only I can decide where they all end up."

"But the brothers seem to be having a good time," Grund muttered casually.

"Don't talk nonsense, go quickly."

"As ordered."

Now Rurik had to issue another order prohibiting the torture of prisoners, and he was relieved that all those captured by Ragnar's troops were properly guarded. He also noticed that Ragnar's actions were not good. He had a strong subjective choice, and the captives he could control were all young women.

What is the status of the downcast Stonewall tribe? There are too few women and children, and too many strong men. Ragnar is trying to arrest people to revive the tribe.

The farce soon died down, and the bonfires in the fishing village were bright.

Rurik had an order that the army should set up a bonfire of deceit, not a bonfire of ten people, but everyone should light a bonfire.

This is the case on the shore, and the Ross boats moored at sea should also light fishing fires.

The former is an order that has to be completed, and the latter behavior is pure night fishing.

As many as 2,500 people in the fleet arrived in Burnholm, and a considerable number of people were joining in the fun to get benefits. They participated in the looting of the fishing village, that is, they had no choice but to plunder the local fishery resources.

Such a number is disadvantageous to the entire Burnholm Islander. If the entire island is united in desperate resistance, it may not be really hard, and it may cause serious harm to the Rus.

However, they have never had a real leader. Swinder is a little convincing. His person is now in the Ross Army, so the Burnholm Islanders have no one to talk to.

The last courage of the islanders without a commander has collapsed, and they have become a mob, instinctively rushing to the stone hill, because there are certain defensive measures there.

The fleeing people gathered at the hill. They saw that the bonfire in the fishing village was bright like the stars in the sky, and rumors spread all over for a while.

Some people say that the Rus people are crazy this time, they are going to hack the whole island and everyone will die.

It has also been claimed that there are also small fishing villages on the island where boats can be escaped.

This initiative was opposed because there were too many refugees and too few boats available.

The patriarchs of the big families gathered together to discuss the next chapter.

"The Russ wanted to kill us all, and Swinder was cut down by them."

Someone muttered sarcastically: "Maybe it was Swinder who brought the Rus people this time, otherwise how would they know how to block our fishing village? Now everyone can't escape."

"We can't be stuck here forever?"

"You guys think of a way? Why don't we send someone to talk to the Rus, maybe we can make peace?"

"Make peace? Easier said than done? They clearly want to kill us all. We still have to find a way to escape."

"Escape? Where? To Denmark in the west? That Horlick is notorious as much as the Rus. The Pomeranians in the south don't welcome us, maybe only to Silver Castle in the north."

The so-called Silver Fort, this seaside trading town in the Gotaland region, once fought a war, and the Swedish king Olegin died here. The Burnholm Islanders also sent troops to fight in that war, and now the locals at least do not reject the islanders.

The families who escaped have very limited treasures, but they have been tossed by the Rus over the years,” or by the new king of Denmark, Horrick, or even the landlord’s family lacks surplus food.

There are many people in the big family, and there is no need to care about the life of the free fishermen's family.

The bad news that night spread throughout the hill camp. The free fishermen no longer wanted to resist. They did not trust the big family, and only feared the Rus army. Despair spreads in Camp Mai, and that night someone hangs himself with ropes.

Naturally, some people thought of running away. Some trees were chopped down under the twilight of the bright moon. The families who lost their fishing boats decided to build their own rafts to forcibly cross the sea.

They want it, and the big family wants it even more.

However, those big families have decided to use the most violent means to get the boats, which is to fight the small fishing villages under the stone hills.

At such a moment of life and death, people who are eager to escape can't care too much.

On the other side of the Ross camp, it is well known that the escaped islanders camped on the stone hill, as evidenced by the fact that there were many bonfires there.

Swinder's nibbling on salted fish is tasteless, and he even worries that his head will be chopped off by the Rus. And his family has all escaped, and now his life and death are uncertain.

Rurik ate and drank, and made a bonfire to preach his policy to the terrified Swinder.

"The battle is completely avoidable. It was your people who started it first. I had to fight back with all my strength. I didn't expect your people to withdraw so easily."

How hypocritical! Such a sigh, Swinder really can't say it.

He asked tentatively, "I still have a role in this matter? What else can I do for you?"

"Oh? Don't you think you're useless? I'll cut your head off? I don't mean it."

"What will I do? What are you... going to do with the fleeing people."

Rurik shrugged. "They can't escape, can they?"

"So, Burnholm is so small that if they can't finish fishing, they'll starve to death very quickly."

"Then they will take the initiative to surrender to me in order to avoid starvation, right? As I said, I didn't want to fight, I planned to take them in as my subjects. Are they all on the stone hill? Give them a chance."

Swinder was startled suddenly: "You asked me to persuade me to surrender?"

"certainly."

"tomorrow?"

"No, wait." Rurik felt that this matter should not be rushed, and asked: "Is it important to be able to camp on the stone hill? Why do they do it?"

Swinder had to answer: "There are some of our defense facilities there, and some supplies are also placed."

"There are still provisions? A lot?"

"If you want to feed thousands of people, it won't last for a few days. Moreover, it was built by a big family. I don't think anyone is willing to give that group of free fishermen."

Rurik nodded, and the people on the same bonfire also heard clues.

"This is the capital of the hills camping? It's really stupid, they are trapping the Jedi. However, this kind of thing can also drive people to the end." Following this line of thought, Rurik ordered the elites of his subordinates to take it easy.

"You think highly of them." Arik said fearlessly.

"I don't want to underestimate the enemy."

Ragnar added: "These islanders may be stronger, but now they are clearly tortured by you. Prince Rurik, in my opinion, it is better for your army to rush directly to Denmark. You can directly kill the king of Denmark. Head. You are too strong."

"The time is not yet ripe." Rurik sighed. "I plan to besiege them and take the opportunity to plunder the local fish directly. We also have to let them find a small boat and forcibly escape, and sink the boats that do not fly our flag! Kill all the people above! I will To force them to surrender with such strong means."

Having said this, Liuric said suddenly: "At that moment, they who are hungry and dare not escape will definitely easily accept surrender."

Swinder could only respond with an embarrassed smile to the look Rurik threw at him.

Those islanders began to build rafts, and a large number of people were watching.

Even some magical scenes happened.

Some women who lost their husbands took the initiative to commit themselves to the big family as slaves, and some parents sold their children. Even desperate families hang themselves after killing their own children.

The big family that is also in a desperate situation seems to have a way to survive, but in fact, they are also busy sharpening their knives, intending to exchange the lives of other islanders for the survival of their own family.

Early morning light shone across the island, and the Rus navy left the port on Rurik's orders.

Except for the flagship of Avroola, which continued to moor, the other fifteen large ships began to cruise around the island and take into account the fishing.

There were also a large number of rowing longboats doing the same thing, and a large number of people floated on the sea, making Rurik's current camp extremely empty.

Rurik also sent the group of fellows out of the mountain as soon as the tigers came down the mountain, which also left himself a retreat route to take a boat to avoid the edge.

But the islanders can't afford to have it, because most of the boats in the fishing village have been pulled away.

The cruising Rus ship has long been prepared, and the Rus people generally feel that the cowards decided to flee, even if the boat is lacking, they will continue to escape.

In the northern part of the island, some boats appeared in the sea.

This is the big family who fled. They evacuated at full speed with their old, weak, women, children and slaves. The land that rushed to the ground was victory.

The price of this miserable voyage to Scandinavia was paid by others, the fugitives snatching other people's boats and killing small fishing villages.

However, Ross's terrifying "jib" suddenly appeared, rushing like a sea monster. The big ship galloped along the south wind to complete the interception, and then said simple killing, and finally the bronze ramming angle smashed the oared long ship directly in the middle.

There was no rescue for those who fell overboard, and now from the standpoint of Ross's ship, they were doing what seemed like a fun hunt.

They laughed and shot arrows into the water, or stabbed with extremely long spears, enjoying the fun of killing.

Similar scenes happened one after another, and those who were the first to flee into the sea were killed one after another.

Those who were planning to evacuate by raft saw the situation and fled in a hurry, and those gathered on the northern beaches retreated, leaving a rudimentary raft behind.

They actually returned to the Shiqiu camp.

Another group of people who entered the stone hills, because the fishing people in the small fishing villages were also brutally attacked by the Rus, even those who didn't know where they were, now knew that they were facing extinction. The helpless people can only join the group to keep warm. They start to envy the smart people who have left the island in the past, and how stupid they are who are greedy for local fish resources.

What else can I do?

After a whole day of "ocean hunting", the Ross army killed the islanders' urge to escape with their strength. The number of surviving islanders is still extremely amazing, and almost all of them gathered with Shiqiu.

And all this is what Rurik wanted to see.