Chapter 65: The Siege of Novgorod
When Gao Yang Yajun and his party were looking left and right in Anping County, Marshal Yi Yu of Qiuluo, Mengshixin, the general of Zhengdong, and Luo Qi, the general of Anxin, led an army of 85,000 men to the river bank of Novgorod, the capital of the Rurik Dynasty, along the waterway.
I have to say that this Novgorod was not vigilant at all, and Marshal Yi Yu led the 85,000-strong army to land without the slightest hindrance, and they landed on the Novgorod river bank very smoothly.
Yi Yu cautiously looked around, there was nothing to hide, indicating that there was no ambush. So why is there no one here? Yi Yu frowned and squinted at this.
"Two generals, do you think we should go directly to Novgorod Castle or send someone to investigate first?"
When General Luo Qi and General Mengshixin heard Yi Yu's question, the two squinted at each other, nodded confidently to each other, and said with their fists in their fists:
"Marshal, the last general thinks that it is enough for us to run directly to the Novgorod castle and surround him. We have an army of 85,000 men, and the Novgorod garrison is certainly not as large as ours, we only need to firmly surround the castle, and in a month or so they will be starved of food and lose their combat effectiveness. And our supplies will be continuously supplied, so we just need to wait for the Luo army. ”
"Hahaha, the two generals think the same thing as Ben Shuai. The whole army of the Luo army is attacking!! Yi Yu laughed after listening to the opinions of the two generals, the opinions of the two generals were similar to his thoughts. Yi Yu rode on his horse and led his army towards Novgorod!!
And the Grand Duke Rurik, who lived in the Novgorod Castle, did not know that the army of the Tyros was galloping towards them, and that the Grand Duke Rurik was preparing for the great festival and invited guests from all over the territory to come.
The guests have arrived, and the festival is ready to begin! Grand Duke Rurik and the others gathered outside the temple and offered animals to the gods, pouring their blood on the idols of Odin, Thor, Freya, and the other gods and on the bodies of the sacrificers. The meat of those animals will be used as an ingredient for the banquet.
Next, it was time for human sacrifice, and Odin had already prepared his rope. Grand Duke Rurik selected prisoners from the dungeon suitable for sacrifice, and Grand Duke Rurik ordered his men to take them to the oak tree outside the temple, and after a while, the bodies of the prisoners hung crookedly from the branches of the tree, and these prisoners had been sacrificed to the Norse gods by Grand Duke Rurik.
This is the end of the sacrifice, and the feast begins. Plates of meat that had been prepared long ago were brought to the slaves, and of course it was a grand feast, so Grand Duke Rurik also prepared a lot of treasured mead.
Grand Duke Rurik came to the banquet hall, looked at the guests who had come to the banquet and said:
"Let's start celebrating! Everybody!! ”
"Wow!!"
The guests shouted happily.
While the Grand Duke Rurik was happily eating at the banquet, Marshal Yi Yu led his army of 85,000 to the outside of Novgorod Castle.
"Siege!!"
As Yi Yu gave the order, 85,000 people surrounded the castle.
In the banquet hall of the Novgorod Castle, everyone was full of food and drink and retired. But when they walked out of the banquet hall, they saw the army of Tyra surrounding the Novgorod castle.
Frightened and panicked, they hurried back to the banquet hall and ran towards Grand Duke Rurik.
"My dear guests, why have you come back again? Haven't eaten enough? Hahaha" Grand Duke Rurik said with humor when he saw the guests hurrying back again.
"Great, Grand Duke, it's not good, it's not good!!"
"Outside, outside the Novgorod Castle, it's all the army outside!!"
"Bang Dang"
The bowl that Grand Duke Rurik was carrying in his hand fell to the ground, and Grand Duke Rurik looked at the man in disbelief and asked, "What you said is true?" ”
"Grand Duke, what I said is true! Let's go out and see what's going on!! ”
Grand Duke Rurik hurriedly picked up his sword, put on his animal skin, and strode outside.
"W-What? How can it be? How can it be? When did they come? ”
Grand Duke Rurik was amazed to see the water outside the castle surrounded by the army of Saurus!!
Yi Yu saw a man standing on top of the castle who was obviously better dressed than others, this should be the Grand Duke of Rurik.
"Listen to the people above, you have been surrounded by our army, surrender quickly!! Otherwise, it would not be so easy to talk when my army attacked!! ”
Luo Qi, the reassuring general beside Yi Yu, shouted loudly at the people above in Rus.
"Who are you, you dare to come to the territory of the Grand Duke of Rurik to be presumptuous, are you not afraid that the Grand Duke will kill you?"
A thin, brown-haired man who looked like a thief with a thief's eyebrows yelled at Yi Yu and the others, and at first glance he looked like a villain.
"Brush!"
"Eh, you, how dare you?!"
This obscene brown-haired man was hit by an arrow in the chest, and the general of Zhengdong, Meng Lionheart, couldn't see this kind of villain, so he took out his bow and shot it towards the villain's heart.
"Brush!"
"Brush!"
"Brush!"
Dream Lionheart then shot three more arrows at the villain's position, two of which hit the chest, and the last one hit the villain's eyes, and the arrow shot directly through the head.
"Let you Grand Duke Rurik come and talk back, a villain like you is not qualified to shout in front of us."
General Zhengdong Meng Lion looked at the people above proudly.
Grand Duke Rurik looked left and right, and saw the guests trembling and hiding behind him, and Grand Duke Rurik was so angry that he wanted to draw his sword and kill him. But now is not the time, now the outside of the castle is still surrounded by troops from nowhere, and Grand Duke Rurik can only swallow this breath stubbornly.
"Where did you people come from? Don't you know that this is my territory? I, Rurik, remember that I have not offended any tribe or country at all in the past two years, why are you besieging my Novgorod castle? ”
Yi Yu smiled when he heard Grand Duke Rurik ask this, in fact, the army of Luo was a disaster for Grand Duke Rurik and other great chiefdoms. After all, this was decided by Gao Yang Yajun on a whim, and no one was notified at all.
And to tell the truth, the Rus have not offended the Huaxia Kingdom at all, and the Rus' people who have offended the Huaxia Kingdom have all been conquered.
Yi Yu looked at the castle trembling Grand Duke Rurik and the Grand Duke guests and shook his head, the weak are like that. The big countries will fight if they want to, and they don't need any reason at all, and they won't think of a specific reason.
"We are the army of Huaxia Kingdom, my king ordered me to wait for the crusade against the Rus region, you better surrender quickly!"
"Huaxia Kingdom? This, isn't this the newly formed country in the West? We have never crossed paths, and we have never clashed, so why are you sending troops against us? Grand Duke Rurik thought about the location of Huaxia for a while, and then thought about whether there had been a conflict with Huaxia, and he didn't find that his Rurik family had a conflict with Huaxia.
The Iyu army, in this way, surrounded the Novgorod castle.