Chapter 777: Wind from the steppes of South Russia
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A horse-riding team marched in a slightly desolate forest. There were more than fifty of them, but there were more than one hundred and sixty horses.
They came from the more distant East, from the Volga River basin, and even the generation from Volgograd to Astrakhan today.
The headed young man has a beautiful black moustache. He is low in height. At first glance, his appearance is unattractive. However, he is dressed in iron armor with a jeweled scimitar hanging from his waist. One Takeshi.
The Turkic horses they ride have strong endurance and assault capabilities. Each rider has a suitcase hanging from the saddle with dry food and sleeping bags inside. The saddle also has leather pockets with compound recurve bows with relaxed strings inserted, and fifty goose feather arrows inserted into the leather pockets.
They were a gust of wind from the grasslands of Central Asia. Because of the blow from the Tang Empire, the entire tribal alliance migrated westward on a large scale under pressure.
Part of the personnel and the main body completed a historic separation, and they bypassed the northern shore of the Caspian Sea and entered the Inner Caucasus in a set of unsafe routes and no obstacles from strong local forces.
They finally encountered a difficult enemy-the Khanate.
The two sides fought fiercely in the Donbass Basin, and in the end they fought equally. So the Khazanite Khanate had to admit a new trouble from the East after East Rome.
The entire Crimea and the Odessa region are firmly under the control of the Romans and the Roman fleet. The five-paddle warship may have fallen behind the times. For Rome, this type of ship is used to transport infantry or cavalry. It is an excellent platform.
Two nomadic groups appeared in the north and fought. This is something that Eastern Rome is very happy to see, especially if the Khazanite Khanate suffers a severe setback, then the strategic pressure on the northeastern border of the empire (the Thracian region of Greece) will drop sharply. . But Rome is not stupid enough to fund a new group of nomads.
The newcomer is no one else, it is the Pecheneg people. They have separated from the Western Turks and from the Ugus League. They are ferocious westward beings in the entire huge ethnic group.
They have no strategic purpose, but instinctively drive cattle and sheep to find the most suitable pasture. If the Fengmei pasture is occupied by others, they will kill the local people and replace it.
However, they are not simply reckless men, and they know the importance of seeking help from outside forces.
It is beneficial to trade with the Slavs in the forest area. Horses, dairy products, and leather are exchanged for a large amount of Slavs' cloth and long-storable wheat.
In 836, a Slavic caravan came again uninvited! They crossed the forest of Chernigov region into the steppe area and met the Pecheneg herders. They came with precious salt and a large amount of cloth, and to the surprise of the leader of the Pechenegg Union, this time it was the Slavs' turn to sell salt.
The leader of the Slavic caravan was no one else. It was the Kyiv Maksakyi who had finished wintering in Russia. He took the guys back to his hometown in Kiev to explain to his hometown elders the successful pioneering of the Varyangros trade and take a break. It's been all the way east for a while.
A land trade route from the Kiev section of the Dnieper River to the Volga River has already existed. There are a large number of grassland areas in it, which is actually a smooth trade route. In the gap between the Bolgar Khanate and the Khazan Khanate, the Pecheneg Khanate used a fast-horse scimitar to create a trade corridor and successfully contacted Krivicslav in the forest.
Maksakyi came back to the Pecheneg camp not far north of today's Volgograd. In the tent, they described to the Khan the location of a wonderful Duchy of Rus.
"The Ross people have good iron, big boats, wine gems, and a lot of crystal vessels. Ross needs a lot of horses. Only you can provide horses, and the Ross people are willing to pay a big price."
It is good to be able to develop a distant trading partner in exchange for good things, but a forest Slav will speak for Ross of the northern Varanga. Is this good for him?
At least for Sakyi and his guys, there is indeed a great reward for the work of buying a horse for Prince Ross. Under the reward, this group of adventurers would rather live like Cossacks in the land of Eastern Europe.
Why do Slavic merchants have salt? It turns out that these were made by the Ross people.
Ashamed, the Pecheneg khanate, which clearly occupied the mouth of the Volga River (Caspian Sea), did not know how to separate salt from the bitter-like Caspian Sea. They obviously could not lack salt, but they had to deal with it. Eastern Roman merchants traded. Those treacherous Roman merchants could not do business with their conscience, the Pecheneg people had to come up with more horses in exchange for salt, and even there were restrictions on purchases here.
Roman merchants also have their own words: "We are doing a decapitating business. If the Governor of Crimea finds out, we will kill the whole family. You have no right to complain."
Khan moved his heart, and a young man was entrusted with an important task.
"Kagan, you are not young anymore. If you want to inherit my Khan position, you must prove yourself to other tribes with a series of accomplishments. You go to Ross as Ben Khan season and take our steed to exchange them as much as possible. Baby!” Khan commanded his son like this. Although the young prince Kagan had a little doubt, after all, this was a meritorious service. If he brought back a lot of salt from his trip, wouldn’t he become the hero of the entire alliance?
If they can live a good life, the Pecheneg people are unwilling to gallop on the grassland to fight for the living space. However, the grassland says that the big is big, and the small is also small. At least there are four forces competing for the huge South Russia-Inner Caucasus grassland, Pechene If Ge is showing weakness, the ending will be annihilation.
Kagan, with a horoscope, took his personal guards and commercial horses, and arrived at Kiev where forests and rivers were intertwined for the first time following the guidance of Slavic merchants.
It was the summer solstice when Kagan and his party arrived. The people of Kiev were at their riverside altar, each wearing a beautiful flower crown, dancing and dancing around the sacred wood matrix of the altar. The Slavs are priests of their sun and sects, hoping that the crops will thrive and get a good harvest.
Kagan and his party are all spectators. He respects the faith of these Slavs, and he thinks about going north as soon as possible.
Prince Pecheneg arrived in Kiev personally, and a small part of the cowhide, sheepskin and wool carried by the horse team was sold on the spot in exchange for a batch of wheat for the people and horses of the northward team.
They stayed in Kiev until the end of July in the Julian calendar, when the long road northward journey officially began.
Compared with last year's expedition in Sakyi, the size of this Pechenegma team is too big, and it is impossible to take a convenient waterway.
A terrible moat lies in front of us-the Pripyat swamp.
It is a huge country of Ze, and it is said to be the residence of the chaos **** Cherniberg. Those who enter rashly must leave quickly, otherwise they are likely to die of a sudden illness.
It is impossible for the horse team to advance in the thick silt, where the rotting breath can be tolerated. If a large number of horses breathe stalemate and die, it will lose a lot of cost to the Ross trade, right?
If you can't just make a detour, the mixed caravan rode horses along the border between the forest and the grassland. They walked northeastward as they fumbled. They spent a lot of time sparing a big circle and plunged into the forest of the present-day Bryansk region. , And successfully found the upper reaches of the Dnieper River.
Compared to the disgusting and terrifying Pripet Marsh, the Valdezer Land is much milder.
It's a pity that an autumn rain brought no small trouble to the horse team.
However, Kagan and his cronies are a true nomadic army. Even if the horse enters the forest, the cavalry can still exert a certain strength.
A small forest village appeared in front of him. Kagan didn't care about Sakyi's "Don't attack" warning, and led his subordinates to rush over, easily solve the entire defenseless village, and slaughter the villagers vigorously. When Sakyi arrived at the scene, all he saw were the dead bodies and the women who were being played with by the nomads.
"Don't you want to be happy?" Kagan, who was riding a horse, pointed at his jovial subordinates and the village girl struggling to survive without hesitation.
"Fortunately you still understand our language. You attacked the Smolensk village. Once we are exposed, they will retaliate against us!"
"Then fight a battle. These people are obviously weak, I have no fear."
Sakyi didn’t want to say any more, and bluntly warned: "The attack ends here. We must not stay alive and we must not expose the traces. I warn you, you are not allowed to kill any Ross people until Rose, otherwise you will annoy the north. Powerful."
"This? You don't have to say, I still know the news about the Varangians. I will not stupidly attack a group of strong men like us."
Indeed, the Rus are part of the Varanges, armed merchants from Northern Europe have long appeared on the Dnieper and Volga, but their tracks are too mysterious. Because more often, armed Varyag merchants from Denmark and Sweden like to enter the hinterland of Europe from the West Dvina River. From the perspective of the people of Kiev, these Varyags come from the north, and they bring In addition to trade products, there is also a legend of kidnapping and kidnapping. In short, it is a very entangled existence with the local Slavs.
At least the Russ among the Varangians have never done evil to the people of Kiev. They must be a powerful force with its own principles.
Kagan held a short spear in front of his subordinates who were stubbornly doing things, and stabbed the woman with a single stabbing.
"Boss, what are you doing?!"
"Fool! Get out! Move the bodies away. We stay in this village until the weather clears. Go and search and find both the food and the cloth." Kagan ordered.
For the entire horse team, a long forest march will wear out horsepower, not to mention the lack of high-quality pasture in the forest area. They came just right. The wheat in the so-called Smolensk region was harvested, and the warehouses in the villages looted by the Kagan group were also full of wheat.
The nomadic warriors wanted to take away all the wheat. They did their best, so that in the rainy weather, everyone hurriedly made linen bags, and then hung the oats on the backs of a large number of horses.
All the horses also got the chance to eat and eat. During the rest period of a few days, even with the rides of Sakyi and the group, a total of nearly two hundred horses chewed on delicious oats. With people and horses, a huge appetite quickly consumes the grain stocks of this small village. Compared with European rush grass as the representative pasture, the calorific value of oat grains is naturally much higher than it.
Oats are indeed the most cost-effective concentrate feed for horses in Europe. Feeding horses with oats is extremely luxurious in Kagan's view, but it can also help you get to Ross smoothly.
During the rest period, Sakyi panicked, he even felt that Kagan had executed the peasant women prematurely.
It's all Slavs. Does Sakyi have no empathy for the dead?
He did not.
After all, once he was detained by the Smolensks, he would be beaten or even executed. The reason here was very simple. Anyone who tried to do business with Mrs. Ilmenslav was regarded as an enemy by the Smolensks. This is like the Pecheneg and Khazarians who speak the same language and don't fight each other.
Taking advantage of the leisurely opportunity, Sakyi pointed out the follow-up path to Kagan.
"We went straight through the swamp area (Valdeze Land), which would perfectly avoid the attention of the Smolensk people. We will find the course of the second great river, which is called the Lovati River, and we will continue north along the river. As long as we see a strong castle, we enter the territory of the Principality of Rus through there. The prince of Rus has a high status. Thinking of your khan, I have a very good relationship with the prince. When he learned that you were going to sell a hundred horses in one go , You will become the most distinguished guest! You will also enjoy the invigorating enjoyment you have never had in your life."
What is "indulgence"? Sakyi said that it is beyond the joy of men and women.
For example, the whole person is soaked in a large warm wooden barrel and soaked all over, placed in a warm white misty material, lying on a wooden board, being rubbed with linen cloth to remove the dirt on the body, and washing hair and hair with strangely scented soap The whole body, let the smell of sweat and mutton disappear. On the grassland, it’s not easy to take a bath, and it’s easy to catch wind and cold when taking a bath rashly, so that the people of Pecheneg adhere to the habit of their home in Central Asia. Although they are keen on cleaning their own hygiene, they subjectively reject bathing.
The Ross people have a kind of wine that is on fire. When you drink it, you will feel a fire in your stomach. People who are trembling with cold will immediately regain the firepower.
The Ross people have barbecues and big breads, barbecues pay attention to heavy salt because they do not lack salt, and breads are big and soft because they have wheat.
…
All this Kagan heard mesmerized, wishing to enjoy it immediately.
The nomads and horses continued to move north. After they left, they left the burning village and the corpses that gradually turned to ashes...
The autumn wind on the Lovati River is bleak, and the sky is hazy and it seems that there is rain. Not far from the city of Nova Aostara on the southern border of the Duchy of Ross, Kagan and Sakyi almost saw the end of the journey, but the snowfall began.
They would rather advance in the snow. Fortunately everyone was prepared, and these Turkic horses have physiologically changed into long manes. The southern Russian grasslands are not much milder than the winter of Novgorod. These naturally hardy Turkic horses are fearless here. The cold wind and snow in the country mean that a large number of horses do not have iron horseshoes, and they cannot be expected to move fast in the snow.
Success is ahead. The wind and snow have just stopped, and a wooden fort lies at the mouth of the Lovati River into the Ilmen Lake!
The Orion of the Ostarans has noticed a group of aliens on horseback, but the female leader Carlotta took her young son to train in Novgorod, north of the lake.
The people came forward spontaneously. Many people suspected that the visitor was last year's marquee, but just in case, they still took self-defense activities!
As it is said that there are three shots without dates, New Ostara has been fortified, the crossbowmen on the wooden walls deterrent archery, and the fixed-position torsion slingshots also fired javelins to deter them.
The sudden attack surprised Kagan, and even the horses were in a commotion.
Kagan really took a note of Mawei, he was not a naive idiot, he knew that the Ruth defenders deliberately missed the javelin. The so-called as long as they want to, they will be shot with horses and men.
Sure enough, someone from the wall asked loudly: "Who are you? Enemies! Or merchants!? Put down your arms and accept our cross-examination!"
Kagan couldn't understand Norse until the opponent shouted again in a strangely accented Slavic.
At this time, Mak Sakyi hurriedly dismounted and opened his arms to indicate that he had no intention of fighting. He stood within the precise shooting range of the torsion slingshot, greeted the people at the top of the city and blew himself up. UU reading www. uukanshu.com
He explained a reason for approval that the Ostras could not refuse.
The so-called Kyiv Maksakyi, at the order of Prince Rus, once again brought horses, and a large number of horses will be sold to the prince.
As for a group of black-haired exotic knights, they are the best horse breeders. They are the Pecheneg people of the East, who demanded an audience with the prince as an envoy.
The Ostarans let go of the border, but the Ostara army was also dispatched. They guarded Nanguan and hadn't taken care of everyone to let them go. Since they were a large-scale mission, they should be escorted by soldiers. Said it is an escort, but it is actually surveillance.
A larger team began to walk northward along Lake Ilmen by land. The reason was that there were too many people and horses. The plan to travel by water was meaningless. At least Kagan has seen a large number of Russian ships, although this is only the city of Nanguan in the Rus Principality, the strength of the navy can be seen. Without him, the Pecheneg khanate has only a few flat boats, and they clearly control the lower Volga River. The whole clan does not understand shipbuilding as a tragedy like guarding a mountain without knowing how to mine and smelt.
However, there was a ship that led a large army to the north quickly, and they had to report good news to the prince-the return of horsemen, or there might be a hundred good horses for sale.
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A horse-riding team marched in a slightly desolate forest. There were more than fifty of them, but there were more than one hundred and sixty horses.
They came from the more distant East, from the Volga River basin, and even the generation from Volgograd to Astrakhan today.
The headed young man has a beautiful black moustache. He is low in height. At first glance, his appearance is unattractive. However, he is dressed in iron armor with a jeweled scimitar hanging from his waist. One Takeshi.
The Turkic horses they ride have strong endurance and assault capabilities. Each rider has a suitcase hanging from the saddle with dry food and sleeping bags inside. The saddle also has leather pockets with compound recurve bows with relaxed strings inserted, and fifty goose feather arrows inserted into the leather pockets.
They were a gust of wind from the grasslands of Central Asia. Because of the blow from the Tang Empire, the entire tribal alliance migrated westward on a large scale under pressure.
Part of the personnel and the main body completed a historic separation, and they bypassed the northern shore of the Caspian Sea and entered the Inner Caucasus in a set of unsafe routes and no obstacles from strong local forces.
They finally encountered a difficult enemy-the Khanate.
The two sides fought fiercely in the Donbass Basin, and in the end they fought equally. So the Khazanite Khanate had to admit a new trouble from the East after East Rome.
The entire Crimea and the Odessa region are firmly under the control of the Romans and the Roman fleet. The five-paddle warship may have fallen behind the times. For Rome, this type of ship is used to transport infantry or cavalry. It is an excellent platform.
Two nomadic groups appeared in the north and fought. This is something that Eastern Rome is very happy to see, especially if the Khazanite Khanate suffers a severe setback, then the strategic pressure on the northeastern border of the empire (the Thracian region of Greece) will drop sharply. . But Rome is not stupid enough to fund a new group of nomads.
The newcomer is no one else, it is the Pecheneg people. They have separated from the Western Turks and from the Ugus League. They are ferocious westward beings in the entire huge ethnic group.
They have no strategic purpose, but instinctively drive cattle and sheep to find the most suitable pasture. If the Fengmei pasture is occupied by others, they will kill the local people and replace it.
However, they are not simply reckless men, and they know the importance of seeking help from outside forces.
It is beneficial to trade with the Slavs in the forest area. Horses, dairy products, and leather are exchanged for a large amount of Slavs' cloth and long-storable wheat.
In 836, a Slavic caravan came again uninvited! They crossed the forest of Chernigov region into the steppe area and met the Pecheneg herders. They came with precious salt and a large amount of cloth, and to the surprise of the leader of the Pechenegg Union, this time it was the Slavs' turn to sell salt.
The leader of the Slavic caravan was no one else. It was the Kyiv Maksakyi who had finished wintering in Russia. He took the guys back to his hometown in Kiev to explain to his hometown elders the successful pioneering of the Varyangros trade and take a break. It's been all the way east for a while.
A land trade route from the Kiev section of the Dnieper River to the Volga River has already existed. There are a large number of grassland areas in it, which is actually a smooth trade route. In the gap between the Bolgar Khanate and the Khazan Khanate, the Pecheneg Khanate used a fast-horse scimitar to create a trade corridor and successfully contacted Krivicslav in the forest.
Maksakyi came back to the Pecheneg camp not far north of today's Volgograd. In the tent, they described to the Khan the location of a wonderful Duchy of Rus.
"The Ross people have good iron, big boats, wine gems, and a lot of crystal vessels. Ross needs a lot of horses. Only you can provide horses, and the Ross people are willing to pay a big price."
It is good to be able to develop a distant trading partner in exchange for good things, but a forest Slav will speak for Ross of the northern Varanga. Is this good for him?
At least for Sakyi and his guys, there is indeed a great reward for the work of buying a horse for Prince Ross. Under the reward, this group of adventurers would rather live like Cossacks in the land of Eastern Europe.
Why do Slavic merchants have salt? It turns out that these were made by the Ross people.
Ashamed, the Pecheneg khanate, which clearly occupied the mouth of the Volga River (Caspian Sea), did not know how to separate salt from the bitter-like Caspian Sea. They obviously could not lack salt, but they had to deal with it. Eastern Roman merchants traded. Those treacherous Roman merchants could not do business with their conscience, the Pecheneg people had to come up with more horses in exchange for salt, and even there were restrictions on purchases here.
Roman merchants also have their own words: "We are doing a decapitating business. If the Governor of Crimea finds out, we will kill the whole family. You have no right to complain."
Khan moved his heart, and a young man was entrusted with an important task.
"Kagan, you are not young anymore. If you want to inherit my Khan position, you must prove yourself to other tribes with a series of accomplishments. You go to Ross as Ben Khan season and take our steed to exchange them as much as possible. Baby!” Khan commanded his son like this. Although the young prince Kagan had a little doubt, after all, this was a meritorious service. If he brought back a lot of salt from his trip, wouldn’t he become the hero of the entire alliance?
If they can live a good life, the Pecheneg people are unwilling to gallop on the grassland to fight for the living space. However, the grassland says that the big is big, and the small is also small. At least there are four forces competing for the huge South Russia-Inner Caucasus grassland, Pechene If Ge is showing weakness, the ending will be annihilation.
Kagan, with a horoscope, took his personal guards and commercial horses, and arrived at Kiev where forests and rivers were intertwined for the first time following the guidance of Slavic merchants.
It was the summer solstice when Kagan and his party arrived. The people of Kiev were at their riverside altar, each wearing a beautiful flower crown, dancing and dancing around the sacred wood matrix of the altar. The Slavs are priests of their sun and sects, hoping that the crops will thrive and get a good harvest.
Kagan and his party are all spectators. He respects the faith of these Slavs, and he thinks about going north as soon as possible.
Prince Pecheneg arrived in Kiev personally, and a small part of the cowhide, sheepskin and wool carried by the horse team was sold on the spot in exchange for a batch of wheat for the people and horses of the northward team.
They stayed in Kiev until the end of July in the Julian calendar, when the long road northward journey officially began.
Compared with last year's expedition in Sakyi, the size of this Pechenegma team is too big, and it is impossible to take a convenient waterway.
A terrible moat lies in front of us-the Pripyat swamp.
It is a huge country of Ze, and it is said to be the residence of the chaos **** Cherniberg. Those who enter rashly must leave quickly, otherwise they are likely to die of a sudden illness.
It is impossible for the horse team to advance in the thick silt, where the rotting breath can be tolerated. If a large number of horses breathe stalemate and die, it will lose a lot of cost to the Ross trade, right?
If you can't just make a detour, the mixed caravan rode horses along the border between the forest and the grassland. They walked northeastward as they fumbled. They spent a lot of time sparing a big circle and plunged into the forest of the present-day Bryansk region. , And successfully found the upper reaches of the Dnieper River.
Compared to the disgusting and terrifying Pripet Marsh, the Valdezer Land is much milder.
It's a pity that an autumn rain brought no small trouble to the horse team.
However, Kagan and his cronies are a true nomadic army. Even if the horse enters the forest, the cavalry can still exert a certain strength.
A small forest village appeared in front of him. Kagan didn't care about Sakyi's "Don't attack" warning, and led his subordinates to rush over, easily solve the entire defenseless village, and slaughter the villagers vigorously. When Sakyi arrived at the scene, all he saw were the dead bodies and the women who were being played with by the nomads.
"Don't you want to be happy?" Kagan, who was riding a horse, pointed at his jovial subordinates and the village girl struggling to survive without hesitation.
"Fortunately you still understand our language. You attacked the Smolensk village. Once we are exposed, they will retaliate against us!"
"Then fight a battle. These people are obviously weak, I have no fear."
Sakyi didn’t want to say any more, and bluntly warned: "The attack ends here. We must not stay alive and we must not expose the traces. I warn you, you are not allowed to kill any Ross people until Rose, otherwise you will annoy the north. Powerful."
"This? You don't have to say, I still know the news about the Varangians. I will not stupidly attack a group of strong men like us."
Indeed, the Rus are part of the Varanges, armed merchants from Northern Europe have long appeared on the Dnieper and Volga, but their tracks are too mysterious. Because more often, armed Varyag merchants from Denmark and Sweden like to enter the hinterland of Europe from the West Dvina River. From the perspective of the people of Kiev, these Varyags come from the north, and they bring In addition to trade products, there is also a legend of kidnapping and kidnapping. In short, it is a very entangled existence with the local Slavs.
At least the Russ among the Varangians have never done evil to the people of Kiev. They must be a powerful force with its own principles.
Kagan held a short spear in front of his subordinates who were stubbornly doing things, and stabbed the woman with a single stabbing.
"Boss, what are you doing?!"
"Fool! Get out! Move the bodies away. We stay in this village until the weather clears. Go and search and find both the food and the cloth." Kagan ordered.
For the entire horse team, a long forest march will wear out horsepower, not to mention the lack of high-quality pasture in the forest area. They came just right. The wheat in the so-called Smolensk region was harvested, and the warehouses in the villages looted by the Kagan group were also full of wheat.
The nomadic warriors wanted to take away all the wheat. They did their best, so that in the rainy weather, everyone hurriedly made linen bags, and then hung the oats on the backs of a large number of horses.
All the horses also got the chance to eat and eat. During the rest period of a few days, even with the rides of Sakyi and the group, a total of nearly two hundred horses chewed on delicious oats. With people and horses, a huge appetite quickly consumes the grain stocks of this small village. Compared with European rush grass as the representative pasture, the calorific value of oat grains is naturally much higher than it.
Oats are indeed the most cost-effective concentrate feed for horses in Europe. Feeding horses with oats is extremely luxurious in Kagan's view, but it can also help you get to Ross smoothly.
During the rest period, Sakyi panicked, he even felt that Kagan had executed the peasant women prematurely.
It's all Slavs. Does Sakyi have no empathy for the dead?
He did not.
After all, once he was detained by the Smolensks, he would be beaten or even executed. The reason here was very simple. Anyone who tried to do business with Mrs. Ilmenslav was regarded as an enemy by the Smolensks. This is like the Pecheneg and Khazarians who speak the same language and don't fight each other.
Taking advantage of the leisurely opportunity, Sakyi pointed out the follow-up path to Kagan.
"We went straight through the swamp area (Valdeze Land), which would perfectly avoid the attention of the Smolensk people. We will find the course of the second great river, which is called the Lovati River, and we will continue north along the river. As long as we see a strong castle, we enter the territory of the Principality of Rus through there. The prince of Rus has a high status. Thinking of your khan, I have a very good relationship with the prince. When he learned that you were going to sell a hundred horses in one go , You will become the most distinguished guest! You will also enjoy the invigorating enjoyment you have never had in your life."
What is "indulgence"? Sakyi said that it is beyond the joy of men and women.
For example, the whole person is soaked in a large warm wooden barrel and soaked all over, placed in a warm white misty material, lying on a wooden board, being rubbed with linen cloth to remove the dirt on the body, and washing hair and hair with strangely scented soap The whole body, let the smell of sweat and mutton disappear. On the grassland, it’s not easy to take a bath, and it’s easy to catch wind and cold when taking a bath rashly, so that the people of Pecheneg adhere to the habit of their home in Central Asia. Although they are keen on cleaning their own hygiene, they subjectively reject bathing.
The Ross people have a kind of wine that is on fire. When you drink it, you will feel a fire in your stomach. People who are trembling with cold will immediately regain the firepower.
The Ross people have barbecues and big breads, barbecues pay attention to heavy salt because they do not lack salt, and breads are big and soft because they have wheat.
…
All this Kagan heard mesmerized, wishing to enjoy it immediately.
The nomads and horses continued to move north. After they left, they left the burning village and the corpses that gradually turned to ashes...
The autumn wind on the Lovati River is bleak, and the sky is hazy and it seems that there is rain. Not far from the city of Nova Aostara on the southern border of the Duchy of Ross, Kagan and Sakyi almost saw the end of the journey, but the snowfall began.
They would rather advance in the snow. Fortunately everyone was prepared, and these Turkic horses have physiologically changed into long manes. The southern Russian grasslands are not much milder than the winter of Novgorod. These naturally hardy Turkic horses are fearless here. The cold wind and snow in the country mean that a large number of horses do not have iron horseshoes, and they cannot be expected to move fast in the snow.
Success is ahead. The wind and snow have just stopped, and a wooden fort lies at the mouth of the Lovati River into the Ilmen Lake!
The Orion of the Ostarans has noticed a group of aliens on horseback, but the female leader Carlotta took her young son to train in Novgorod, north of the lake.
The people came forward spontaneously. Many people suspected that the visitor was last year's marquee, but just in case, they still took self-defense activities!
As it is said that there are three shots without dates, New Ostara has been fortified, the crossbowmen on the wooden walls deterrent archery, and the fixed-position torsion slingshots also fired javelins to deter them.
The sudden attack surprised Kagan, and even the horses were in a commotion.
Kagan really took a note of Mawei, he was not a naive idiot, he knew that the Ruth defenders deliberately missed the javelin. The so-called as long as they want to, they will be shot with horses and men.
Sure enough, someone from the wall asked loudly: "Who are you? Enemies! Or merchants!? Put down your arms and accept our cross-examination!"
Kagan couldn't understand Norse until the opponent shouted again in a strangely accented Slavic.
At this time, Mak Sakyi hurriedly dismounted and opened his arms to indicate that he had no intention of fighting. He stood within the precise shooting range of the torsion slingshot, greeted the people at the top of the city and blew himself up. UU reading www. uukanshu.com
He explained a reason for approval that the Ostras could not refuse.
The so-called Kyiv Maksakyi, at the order of Prince Rus, once again brought horses, and a large number of horses will be sold to the prince.
As for a group of black-haired exotic knights, they are the best horse breeders. They are the Pecheneg people of the East, who demanded an audience with the prince as an envoy.
The Ostarans let go of the border, but the Ostara army was also dispatched. They guarded Nanguan and hadn't taken care of everyone to let them go. Since they were a large-scale mission, they should be escorted by soldiers. Said it is an escort, but it is actually surveillance.
A larger team began to walk northward along Lake Ilmen by land. The reason was that there were too many people and horses. The plan to travel by water was meaningless. At least Kagan has seen a large number of Russian ships, although this is only the city of Nanguan in the Rus Principality, the strength of the navy can be seen. Without him, the Pecheneg khanate has only a few flat boats, and they clearly control the lower Volga River. The whole clan does not understand shipbuilding as a tragedy like guarding a mountain without knowing how to mine and smelt.
However, there was a ship that led a large army to the north quickly, and they had to report good news to the prince-the return of horsemen, or there might be a hundred good horses for sale.
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You can search for the latest chapters by searching for "The Rise of Rurik" in Baidu!A horse-riding team marched in a slightly desolate forest. There were more than fifty of them, but there were more than one hundred and sixty horses.They came from the more distant East, from the Volga River basin, and even the generation from Volgograd to Astrakhan today.The headed young man has a beautiful black moustache. He is low in height. At first glance, his appearance is unattractive. However, he is dressed in iron armor with a jeweled scimitar hanging from his waist. One Takeshi.The Turkic horses they ride have strong endurance and assault capabilities. Each rider has a suitcase hanging from the saddle with dry food and sleeping bags inside. The saddle also has leather pockets with compound recurve bows with relaxed strings inserted, and fifty goose feather arrows inserted into the leather pockets.They were a gust of wind from the grasslands of Central Asia. Because of the blow from the Tang Empire, the entire tribal alliance migrated westward on a large scale under pressure.Part of the personnel and the main body completed a historic separation, and they bypassed the northern shore of the Caspian Sea and entered the Inner Caucasus in a set of unsafe routes and no obstacles from strong local forces.They finally encountered a difficult enemy-the Khanate.The two sides fought fiercely in the Donbass Basin, and in the end they fought equally. So the Khazanite Khanate had to admit a new trouble from the East after East Rome.The entire Crimea and the Odessa region are firmly under the control of the Romans and the Roman fleet. The five-paddle warship may have fallen behind the times. For Rome, this type of ship is used to transport infantry or cavalry. It is an excellent platform.Two nomadic groups appeared in the north and fought. This is something that Eastern Rome is very happy to see, especially if the Khazanite Khanate suffers a severe setback, then the strategic pressure on the northeastern border of the empire the Thracian region of Greece will drop sharply. . But Rome is not stupid enough to fund a new group of nomads.The newcomer is no one else, it is the Pecheneg people. They have separated from the Western Turks and from the Ugus League. They are ferocious westward beings in the entire huge ethnic group.They have no strategic purpose, but instinctively drive cattle and sheep to find the most suitable pasture. If the Fengmei pasture is occupied by others, they will kill the local people and replace it.However, they are not simply reckless men, and they know the importance of seeking help from outside forces.It is beneficial to trade with the Slavs in the forest area. Horses, dairy products, and leather are exchanged for a large amount of Slavs' cloth and long-storable wheat.In 836, a Slavic caravan came again uninvited! They crossed the forest of Chernigov region into the steppe area and met the Pecheneg herders. They came with precious salt and a large amount of cloth, and to the surprise of the leader of the Pechenegg Union, this time it was the Slavs' turn to sell salt.The leader of the Slavic caravan was no one else. It was the Kyiv Maksakyi who had finished wintering in Russia. He took the guys back to his hometown in Kiev to explain to his hometown elders the successful pioneering of the Varyangros trade and take a break. It's been all the way east for a while.A land trade route from the Kiev section of the Dnieper River to the Volga River has already existed. There are a large number of grassland areas in it, which is actually a smooth trade route. In the gap between the Bolgar Khanate and the Khazan Khanate, the Pecheneg Khanate used a fast-horse scimitar to create a trade corridor and successfully contacted Krivicslav in the forest.Maksakyi came back to the Pecheneg camp not far north of today's Volgograd. In the tent, they described to the Khan the location of a wonderful Duchy of Rus."The Ross people have good iron, big boats, wine gems, and a lot of crystal vessels. Ross needs a lot of horses. Only you can provide horses, and the Ross people are willing to pay a big price."It is good to be able to develop a distant trading partner in exchange for good things, but a forest Slav will speak for Ross of the northern Varanga. Is this good for him?At least for Sakyi and his guys, there is indeed a great reward for the work of buying a horse for Prince Ross. Under the reward, this group of adventurers would rather live like Cossacks in the land of Eastern Europe.Why do Slavic merchants have salt? It turns out that these were made by the Ross people.Ashamed, the Pecheneg khanate, which clearly occupied the mouth of the Volga River Caspian Sea, did not know how to separate salt from the bitter-like Caspian Sea. They obviously could not lack salt, but they had to deal with it. Eastern Roman merchants traded. Those treacherous Roman merchants could not do business with their conscience, the Pecheneg people had to come up with more horses in exchange for salt, and even there were restrictions on purchases here.Roman merchants also have their own words: "We are doing a decapitating business. If the Governor of Crimea finds out, we will kill the whole family. You have no right to complain."Khan moved his heart, and a young man was entrusted with an important task."Kagan, you are not young anymore. If you want to inherit my Khan position, you must prove yourself to other tribes with a series of accomplishments. You go to Ross as Ben Khan season and take our steed to exchange them as much as possible. Baby! Khan commanded his son like this. Although the young prince Kagan had a little doubt, after all, this was a meritorious service. If he brought back a lot of salt from his trip, wouldn't he become the hero of the entire alliance?If they can live a good life, the Pecheneg people are unwilling to gallop on the grassland to fight for the living space. However, the grassland says that the big is big, and the small is also small. At least there are four forces competing for the huge South Russia-Inner Caucasus grassland, Pechene If Ge is showing weakness, the ending will be annihilation.Kagan, with a horoscope, took his personal guards and commercial horses, and arrived at Kiev where forests and rivers were intertwined for the first time following the guidance of Slavic merchants.It was the summer solstice when Kagan and his party arrived. The people of Kiev were at their riverside altar, each wearing a beautiful flower crown, dancing and dancing around the sacred wood matrix of the altar. The Slavs are priests of their sun and sects, hoping that the crops will thrive and get a good harvest.Kagan and his party are all spectators. He respects the faith of these Slavs, and he thinks about going north as soon as possible.Prince Pecheneg arrived in Kiev personally, and a small part of the cowhide, sheepskin and wool carried by the horse team was sold on the spot in exchange for a batch of wheat for the people and horses of the northward team.They stayed in Kiev until the end of July in the Julian calendar, when the long road northward journey officially began.Compared with last year's expedition in Sakyi, the size of this Pechenegma team is too big, and it is impossible to take a convenient waterway.A terrible moat lies in front of us-the Pripyat swamp.It is a huge country of Ze, and it is said to be the residence of the chaos **** Cherniberg. Those who enter rashly must leave quickly, otherwise they are likely to die of a sudden illness.It is impossible for the horse team to advance in the thick silt, where the rotting breath can be tolerated. If a large number of horses breathe stalemate and die, it will lose a lot of cost to the Ross trade, right?If you can't just make a detour, the mixed caravan rode horses along the border between the forest and the grassland. They walked northeastward as they fumbled. They spent a lot of time sparing a big circle and plunged into the forest of the present-day Bryansk region. , And successfully found the upper reaches of the Dnieper River.Compared to the disgusting and terrifying Pripet Marsh, the Valdezer Land is much milder.It's a pity that an autumn rain brought no small trouble to the horse team.However, Kagan and his cronies are a true nomadic army. Even if the horse enters the forest, the cavalry can still exert a certain strength.A small forest village appeared in front of him. Kagan didn't care about Sakyi's "Don't attack" warning, and led his subordinates to rush over, easily solve the entire defenseless village, and slaughter the villagers vigorously. When Sakyi arrived at the scene, all he saw were the dead bodies and the women who were being played with by the nomads."Don't you want to be happy?" Kagan, who was riding a horse, pointed at his jovial subordinates and the village girl struggling to survive without hesitation."Fortunately you still understand our language. You attacked the Smolensk village. Once we are exposed, they will retaliate against us!""Then fight a battle. These people are obviously weak, I have no fear."Sakyi didn't want to say any more, and bluntly warned: "The attack ends here. We must not stay alive and we must not expose the traces. I warn you, you are not allowed to kill any Ross people until Rose, otherwise you will annoy the north. Powerful.""This? You don't have to say, I still know the news about the Varangians. I will not stupidly attack a group of strong men like us."Indeed, the Rus are part of the Varanges, armed merchants from Northern Europe have long appeared on the Dnieper and Volga, but their tracks are too mysterious. Because more often, armed Varyag merchants from Denmark and Sweden like to enter the hinterland of Europe from the West Dvina River. From the perspective of the people of Kiev, these Varyags come from the north, and they bring In addition to trade products, there is also a legend of kidnapping and kidnapping. In short, it is a very entangled existence with the local Slavs.At least the Russ among the Varangians have never done evil to the people of Kiev. They must be a powerful force with its own principles.Kagan held a short spear in front of his subordinates who were stubbornly doing things, and stabbed the woman with a single stabbing."Boss, what are you doing?!""Fool! Get out! Move the bodies away. We stay in this village until the weather clears. Go and search and find both the food and the cloth." Kagan ordered.For the entire horse team, a long forest march will wear out horsepower, not to mention the lack of high-quality pasture in the forest area. They came just right. The wheat in the so-called Smolensk region was harvested, and the warehouses in the villages looted by the Kagan group were also full of wheat.The nomadic warriors wanted to take away all the wheat. They did their best, so that in the rainy weather, everyone hurriedly made linen bags, and then hung the oats on the backs of a large number of horses.All the horses also got the chance to eat and eat. During the rest period of a few days, even with the rides of Sakyi and the group, a total of nearly two hundred horses chewed on delicious oats. With people and horses, a huge appetite quickly consumes the grain stocks of this small village. Compared with European rush grass as the representative pasture, the calorific value of oat grains is naturally much higher than it.Oats are indeed the most cost-effective concentrate feed for horses in Europe. Feeding horses with oats is extremely luxurious in Kagan's view, but it can also help you get to Ross smoothly.During the rest period, Sakyi panicked, he even felt that Kagan had executed the peasant women prematurely.It's all Slavs. Does Sakyi have no empathy for the dead?He did not.After all, once he was detained by the Smolensks, he would be beaten or even executed. The reason here was very simple. Anyone who tried to do business with Mrs. Ilmenslav was regarded as an enemy by the Smolensks. This is like the Pecheneg and Khazarians who speak the same language and don't fight each other.Taking advantage of the leisurely opportunity, Sakyi pointed out the follow-up path to Kagan."We went straight through the swamp area Valdeze Land, which would perfectly avoid the attention of the Smolensk people. We will find the course of the second great river, which is called the Lovati River, and we will continue north along the river. As long as we see a strong castle, we enter the territory of the Principality of Rus through there. The prince of Rus has a high status. Thinking of your khan, I have a very good relationship with the prince. When he learned that you were going to sell a hundred horses in one go , You will become the most distinguished guest! You will also enjoy the invigorating enjoyment you have never had in your life."What is "indulgence"? Sakyi said that it is beyond the joy of men and women.For example, the whole person is soaked in a large warm wooden barrel and soaked all over, placed in a warm white misty material, lying on a wooden board, being rubbed with linen cloth to remove the dirt on the body, and washing hair and hair with strangely scented soap The whole body, let the smell of sweat and mutton disappear. On the grassland, it's not easy to take a bath, and it's easy to catch wind and cold when taking a bath rashly, so that the people of Pecheneg adhere to the habit of their home in Central Asia. Although they are keen on cleaning their own hygiene, they subjectively reject bathing.The Ross people have a kind of wine that is on fire. When you drink it, you will feel a fire in your stomach. People who are trembling with cold will immediately regain the firepower.The Ross people have barbecues and big breads, barbecues pay attention to heavy salt because they do not lack salt, and breads are big and soft because they have wheat.All this Kagan heard mesmerized, wishing to enjoy it immediately.The nomads and horses continued to move north. After they left, they left the burning village and the corpses that gradually turned to ashes...The autumn wind on the Lovati River is bleak, and the sky is hazy and it seems that there is rain. Not far from the city of Nova Aostara on the southern border of the Duchy of Ross, Kagan and Sakyi almost saw the end of the journey, but the snowfall began.They would rather advance in the snow. Fortunately everyone was prepared, and these Turkic horses have physiologically changed into long manes. The southern Russian grasslands are not much milder than the winter of Novgorod. These naturally hardy Turkic horses are fearless here. The cold wind and snow in the country mean that a large number of horses do not have iron horseshoes, and they cannot be expected to move fast in the snow.Success is ahead. The wind and snow have just stopped, and a wooden fort lies at the mouth of the Lovati River into the Ilmen Lake!The Orion of the Ostarans has noticed a group of aliens on horseback, but the female leader Carlotta took her young son to train in Novgorod, north of the lake.The people came forward spontaneously. Many people suspected that the visitor was last year's marquee, but just in case, they still took self-defense activities!As it is said that there are three shots without dates, New Ostara has been fortified, the crossbowmen on the wooden walls deterrent archery, and the fixed-position torsion slingshots also fired javelins to deter them.The sudden attack surprised Kagan, and even the horses were in a commotion.Kagan really took a note of Mawei, he was not a naive idiot, he knew that the Ruth defenders deliberately missed the javelin. The so-called as long as they want to, they will be shot with horses and men.Sure enough, someone from the wall asked loudly: "Who are you? Enemies! Or merchants!? Put down your arms and accept our cross-examination!"Kagan couldn't understand Norse until the opponent shouted again in a strangely accented Slavic.At this time, Mak Sakyi hurriedly dismounted and opened his arms to indicate that he had no intention of fighting. He stood within the precise shooting range of the torsion slingshot, greeted the people at the top of the city and blew himself up. UU reading www. uukanshu.comHe explained a reason for approval that the Ostras could not refuse.The so-called Kyiv Maksakyi, at the order of Prince Rus, once again brought horses, and a large number of horses will be sold to the prince.As for a group of black-haired exotic knights, they are the best horse breeders. They are the Pecheneg people of the East, who demanded an audience with the prince as an envoy.The Ostarans let go of the border, but the Ostara army was also dispatched. They guarded Nanguan and hadn't taken care of everyone to let them go. Since they were a large-scale mission, they should be escorted by soldiers. Said it is an escort, but it is actually surveillance.A larger team began to walk northward along Lake Ilmen by land. The reason was that there were too many people and horses. The plan to travel by water was meaningless. At least Kagan has seen a large number of Russian ships, although this is only the city of Nanguan in the Rus Principality, the strength of the navy can be seen. Without him, the Pecheneg khanate has only a few flat boats, and they clearly control the lower Volga River. The whole clan does not understand shipbuilding as a tragedy like guarding a mountain without knowing how to mine and smelt.However, there was a ship that led a large army to the north quickly, and they had to report good news to the prince-the return of horsemen, or there might be a hundred good horses for sale.The address of the latest chapter of the Rise of Rurik: https://The full text of the Rise of Rurik read the address: https://Rise of Rurik txt download address: https://The Rise of Rurik Mobile Reading: https://For the convenience of reading next time, you can click "Favorites" below to record the reading record of this time Chapter 776 Wind from the Southern Russian Prairie, and you can see it next time you open the bookshelf!If you like "The Rise of Rurik", please recommend this book to your friends QQ, blog, WeChat, etc., thank you for your support!
