The battle is won, and now comes the victor's feast!
In the stone room, someone began to roughly pull the hair of the two women. This move frightened the women into wailing, and the protected children also screamed.
Arik couldn't stand the noise, and what was even worse was that after his brothers saw gold, silver and women, they obviously became a group of disorderly savages.
He yelled: "You all should be quiet. All the prisoners and all the gold are our spoils of war! Everyone has a share. Don't grab it until it is distributed fairly!"
Perhaps in the beginning, Arik only gained a reputation in tribal fighting games, but now, his most heroic performance is in normal combat, especially when he personally kills the enemy general. The young man from Rus who worshiped heroes now obeyed Arik's orders from the bottom of his heart.
The hand holding the woman's hair loosened, as did the hand trying to grab the gold coins.
Arik ordered his men to retreat slightly, and then he personally walked into the two women who were in fear, looked down and asked: "Women, surrender to us, and you and your children will be safe. I can guarantee that we will not kill the slaves." .Tell me, how many gold and silver coins are there in the box?!"
As soon as they heard that their lives were guaranteed, the two women instantly changed their attitudes and began to cooperate actively.
One person replied with a trembling voice: "One hundred thousand. At least one hundred thousand..."
The Viking tribe’s ancestors knew some of the Roman culture and the Roman number system since ancient times. So in their concept, "one thousand" is already a huge number.
When doing business, sometimes larger numbers are used. They don't have a word to describe "ten thousand", but they do have a word to describe one million.
The so-called "one hundred thousand" means one hundred thousand.
"So many silver coins?! You didn't lie?" Arik asked in surprise.
"Yes, sir." The woman replied respectfully: "Each box contains ten thousand silver coins. There is also a box full of gold. They are all yours. Sir, you will...will guarantee our lives, right? ?”
Arik smiled and pointed at the woman's children: "You are all women, and I can guarantee your lives. However, if you try to escape, you will be killed."
"We understand! We dare not escape, my master."
Viking women generally just want to live a stable life. There seems to be no real peace in this sea area, and wars never stop. The special environment makes them generally not feel that it is shameful to compromise after the war.
Although some women will commit suicide to pursue their husbands who died in battle.
More women will attach themselves to the new strong men in order to survive, and the victor will immediately accept the captured women as wives and concubines.
Arik and Harozolson are very clear-headed now. This battle is both revenge and robbery. Even so far, the price paid by the Russians has really exceeded their expectations.
The Rus did indeed defeat an armed enemy roughly equal in number to themselves. The enemy was completely defeated, and a rough estimate was that fifty of our own troops were killed. Some people were seriously injured and might not be able to hold on for long.
The tribe's strength has been weakened to a certain extent. If all the captured people are brought back, the strength will be replenished to a certain extent.
Especially if you capture a group of young women and take them back, will they give birth to many boys to the Ross people in a year? In this way, at least fifteen years later, the strength lost in this battle will be completely replenished.
However, those who can think of this level can be said to be the elite of the tribe.
Ordinary surviving warriors, they just want gold and silver to become rich, and they want a wife to have a group of children, so as to realize a man's basic pursuit of life.
Arik was shocked by the amount of silver coins, which amounted to one hundred thousand.
Because according to the discussions before departure, leader Otto fully recognized the arrangement that almost all the spoils would be divided among the participants. Obviously, everyone realizes that what the big leader means is that future spoils arrangements must also adhere to the new principle of who participates and who shares.
The world has indeed changed a lot. This arrangement obviously prevents those who get something for nothing in the tribe, and also stimulates more crazy plundering by careerists.
There was nothing wrong with Otto's determination.
Since in 829 AD, the Russian people decided to end their dormant state forever and bravely step out, can the former tribal culture not change? Without enough wealth stimulation, who would be happy to explore the outside world? Since it is for external exploration, who would be willing to share the treasures found with the tribe’s free-goers?
There were 450 people participating in the southward crusade. Arik tentatively believed that fifty brothers died in the battle, and all the money captured was still shared by everyone.
In fact, many people had already stuffed a bunch of silver coins and other valuables into their own leather bags made from seal stomach pouches during the initial melee, and everyone had become rich.
Think about it, it is really unrealistic to ask everyone to hand over their personal seizures and distribute them equally.
Then, the gold and silver in all the boxes in the stone room must be equally distributed.
Is it true, as the woman said, that there are one hundred thousand silver coins in all the boxes? ! What kind of concept is that?
The high-quality silver coins currently circulating in the market have different stamps and are minted according to the casting standard of one hundred Roman pounds of white coins.
Therefore, ten thousand silver coins are equivalent to nearly forty kilograms. Plus the huge, sturdy solid wood boxes that carry them. The box, together with the full load of silver coins, totaled seventy kilograms, which is very normal.
A strong Russian warrior is fully capable of carrying a 70 kilogram stone.
After everyone fought hard, after all the enemies were eliminated, everyone slacked off. Once bursting with adrenaline, their hormone levels dropped, and the soreness and bruises in their arms began to bother everyone. No one can lift the entire cash box without a lot of effort.
Just when Arik was thinking about how to deal with so much gold and silver, Haro Zuosen coughed twice and reminded loudly: "Arik, you and your brothers move all the boxes. We must retreat immediately. We don't have time and people who may come Enemy reinforcements are engaged.”
"Yes!" Arik stamped his feet to stop his thoughts about wealth and called on his brothers to take action immediately.
When distributing gold and silver, of course the pile of gold and silver must be distributed evenly. This is what everyone has agreed upon. Those brothers who died in battle will still be distributed to their relatives, and not a single silver coin will be lost.
If there are another 100,000 silver coins, each person will have 220 on average. This amount of money is enough to order three magical steel swords!
When he thought of this, Arik felt very relieved. The great reputation he gained from this battle was largely due to the shuriken. Look at this sword. I have killed at least twenty people with it, and also cut off many iron swords. Now look at its blade, there is still no break!
Could it be that each of the Russians received more than 200 silver coins? of course not!
Twenty boxes were found from multiple stone chambers, and the two captured women volunteered to reveal where the keys were hidden.
In fact, these two women were just slaves of the dead Oxen. Due to the position of his eldest son, he did not give the slaves formal status as wives and concubines. In this way, the children of slaves had no right to ask for even a single silver coin from their eldest son in Jutland.
It was precisely because he had no status that Oxon promised to give him a status only if he gave birth to a son. However, among the children born to the two women, only one girl from each is still alive.
In this special era, the fertility rate of women and the survival rate of children are extremely low. Even the future Kingdom of Sweden had a large land, and its population only reached 500,000 in the 16th century.
Both women were from Denmark. They had lived with Oxen for many years, and it was impossible to say they were in love.
However, at the most critical moment, Oxon, who decided to live quietly, actually used his wife and daughter as bargaining chips to be sold. Now, the two women just want to depend on their new master to survive.
Handing over the hidden key and revealing all of Oxon's secrets and where his wealth is buried is a surrender.
Things suddenly develop in incredible directions!
In fact, all the wealthy Viking merchants who lived on Gotland had the habit of burying their money. Death's Oxen is no exception.
He had a small cellar with ten large boxes, each containing ten thousand silver coins. Other valuable things were also thrown here, including some rubies, sapphires, and high-grade amber.
However, despite providing such a "letter of surrender", the two women and their daughter were still tied up with hemp rope by the Russians.
All the prisoners were tied with ropes and began marching to the boats on the beach.
The Russians really gained amazing wealth from this battle!
They carried as many as thirty seized wooden boxes to the beach, opened the bronze locks with keys, and what everyone saw was full of coins.
How many coins are there? It still needs to be shipped back to Roseburg for inventory before distribution.
Everyone saw a large number of silver coins and copper coins. In a small wooden box, there are actually gold coins piled up!
"Wow! We've made a fortune!" Arik, who had already retreated to the beach, couldn't help but feel his heart beating wildly when he saw the gold and silver at such a young age. He lamented in his heart that Gould, a great businessman, had nothing to do with Gotland. People’s reviews are real. Gotlanders are really rich! .
The warriors who came around had just washed their faces with sea water. When they saw so much money, they were all shocked with sweat on their faces, and some were so happy that they laughed.
Because many people already had twenty or thirty silver coins in their pockets, as well as many axes captured from the enemy.
How much money was in the box seized by the Russians?
Twenty boxes of silver coins, ten boxes of copper coins, and gold coins in a small box. The number of silver coins alone is 210,000! There are also two thousand gold coins!
The wealthy merchants of Gotland love to hoard gold and silver, and it is not surprising that they are able to hoard 200,000 silver coins.
The Russians did not foolishly attack the northern part of the island. Many families there could hoard silver to a huge number of 300,000 pieces, and the mercenaries of the gold masters could also surge to 200 or more. Moreover, ordinary people in the area are relatively wealthy, so men can generally afford chain armor to arm themselves.
It was not because the Russians listened to Gould's intelligence that they did not dare to fight the enemies in the north of the island.
Everyone is tired of fighting now, and it is definitely not a good idea to continue to expand the results.
The Russians robbed so much money and burned the entire Sikkenborg to the ground. After a great battle, at least 800 locals died, and the entire settlement collapsed. Oxon Oakens' business collapsed, and most of his money was kept in the safety of the castle, which eventually became the wealth of others.
Oxen's eldest son also brought some funds to develop in Jutland, the core area of the Danes.
As guard captain Okenstein said before his death, the actions of the Russians were provoking a war, a real war!
The Russians still didn't think about whether the Danes would avenge the Gotlanders. They were cheering for grabbing a large amount of gold and silver. In contrast, they saw the pitiful appearance of nearly eighty prisoners sobbing and the sixty-five dead bodies. The restrained Rus became cold corpses.
"That's it." After inspecting the trophies, Harozov shouted to his men who were trying to share the trophies immediately: "We have taken revenge and are leaving now. Take everything we can! Let's go!"
Everyone woke up. They knew that they could not stay here for long. They immediately dragged their tired bodies and pushed the boats that washed up on the beach back.
A large amount of booty was carried aboard the ships, especially the captured women. In order to prevent them from committing suicide, the Russians may act aggressively. All the prisoners had their hands and feet tied, and almost all of them were carried and put on. Many poor people had sackcloth balls stuffed into their mouths, and their mouths were tied with a circle of hemp rope.
Taking into account the long voyage, all the boxes filled with gold and silver were deliberately divided into ships for installation. After all, one box weighs nearly one person, and if they are all put together, the boat will be overweight and even capsize.
The boxes must be separated, so that even if there is a storm and some damage on the return voyage, most of the ships will be able to survive the storm and there will still be a large amount of gold and silver transported to their hometown.
Prisoners and gold and silver, these were carefully guarded trophies.
Others that needed to be closely guarded were the bodies of brothers who died in battle. Unlike the prisoners who were thrown away randomly, the bodies of the fallen were laid neatly and stacked in the captured ships. The corpses were accompanied by their shields and axes, and were covered with captured linen cloth.
At this moment, the captured wooden boat carrying their bodies may be their future coffins. People would string such boats decorated with dragon heads on the back of the main ships with hemp ropes and drag them along the way.
The various metal objects, various pickled meats, various wheat kernels packed in sacks, some dried peas, leather, tableware, and even the various daily necessities of the Lord of Death Castle were seized, as long as they were not burned. Abducted by the Rus.
In particular, a sealed wooden barrel was found from the castle owner's house. A warrior imitated a puppy and used his nose to smell the smell of grapes - it turned out to be a barrel of wine.
When it was still late at night, the Russians launched a strong attack and twenty ships washed up on the beach.
Now that the sun has risen high, the sunlight has actually fallen into the thick smoke that is constantly rising, turning into a dim and shaking image.
One of the main purposes of the Russians in this battle was revenge. They were completely in a state of venting their anger and set all the houses on fire. The thatched roofs of the Sikenberg people were built, and soon the entire fishing village was engulfed in a fire that reached into the sky. The scale was like a volcanic eruption, and the smoke was like a lighthouse!
The island of Gotland seems small in size, but when you are in it, you have to feel that the island is not small.
Thick smoke is a very clear warning sign, whether it's a volcanic eruption or something else. But how can the main Gotlander forces living in the north of the island sit idly by and watch!
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Chapter 132 The Victor’s Feast
