When Oran tried to contact Mercia, another fire broke out in the backyard.
Scotland cited insufficient food as an excuse to send people across the border again.
It's almost January now, when the weather is at its coldest. They do this partly as a test, partly because they are really under pressure to survive.
In November and December, thousands of Wessex residents who fled north came to Northumbria and asked for asylum.
They were robbed when passing through Mercia, but the local nobles deliberately made way for them to come to Oran territory, increasing Oran's burden.
If many people hadn't frozen to death along the way, there would have been many more refugees.
A large number of bodies fell on the road.
During the day, the smoke from burning corpses was everywhere, mixed with the winter fog, and entered people's mouths and noses everywhere.
If this is still the case in summer, diseases such as plague may spread.
When war breaks out, human life is worth less than grass.
One wave has not subsided, and another wave has arisen.
A huge sea of people, a violent storm.
This is Olan's current situation. If there is any consolation, it is that in January, his first child will be born.
This child is lucky that his brother died young, otherwise...
Oran stood at the top of King's Landing, looking at the smoke in the distance. Maybe it was burning smoke, or maybe the enemy was lighting a fire for cooking?
"Nanamp, arrange the few people I selected."
"Sir, God will protect us."
"You have to rely on yourself. If you can't win, let them all go. The south is not safe now, so you can only go further. If you go to Frank or Italy, you can talk to the guild leaders privately."
After saying that, Oran asked Nanamp to step back and called Sals.
After the latter arrived, the two of them were on the tower, feeling the winter snow.
The flag of the white eagle is on the top of the city, its face is covered by snow, and its eyes are obscured.
Olan looked at it as an eyesore and waved it to the snow shoveler below to deal with it.
After the cleaning was completed, Oran nodded with satisfaction, "If the lord's eyes are covered, he can't do anything. I gave up my troops last time, what do you think I will give up this time?"
"Now you are the king, and all the pieces on the chessboard are yours. You can do whatever you want."
"Sars, it's annoying to play a game of chess back and forth, making dozens of moves, sometimes just a small victory, waiting for the opponent to reply, and then challenging again."
"Your Excellency, the situation in Wessex is worth learning from."
"I know that these Vikings cooperate but also fight, even if they are brothers and sons, but who do you think you should choose?"
Sals suggested choosing Yin Val.
After all, there is no actual conflict between the two, and Heystein and Yin Val, whom Oran killed last time, are not at odds with each other.
"We pay tribute, but only to Yinvar. He separated from Ragnar and his brothers for many years, brought dozens of people to Dublin, and became king in more than ten years. If he comes to the Battle of Repton, , according to the military strength at that time, we would not be able to turn over.
The 'Boneless Ones' have many daughters and sons. We can betroth your children to you. We can even send out the three princesses, women with titles. These Viking barbarians will be fooled. "
"It's too far... I want to choose his brother Uba. I heard that he sleeps with a woman every day. He has so many illegitimate children that they can fill all the ports in Ireland. You can find a good-looking, run-down noble woman and buy her back."
"Thunder Rider? I have never seen it, but I heard that he was blessed by Thor's hammer. When riding a war horse, he galloped across the Irish land like thunder. He is the most passionate about riding among the Viking leaders. Get him some more horses. ?”
"Thor's Hammer? You go and help me make a hammer, write the New Testament scriptures on it, use my own new words and characters, the hammer head is made of gold and silver, the hammer handle is made of iron and copper, the name is 'Holy War' hammer'."
"Is it also a gift?"
"No."
Olan only said no, but did not indicate what he wanted to do.
Salz suddenly remembered that in October this year, the Vikings landed off the coast of Durham, dug up the graves of Oran's grandfather and father, and destroyed the bones.
Those who guarded the cemetery were all killed by Blood Eagle!
Hammer, bone?
Regarding the dark side, he always thinks about Oran.
One of the torture methods of King Angsa was to use an extremely heavy hammer to hammer down the hardest part of the human body like a nail.
But the nails will penetrate deep into the target.
When the human body is knocked, the bones and flesh will fall apart, and finally the flesh and blood will be completely stuck together. It is extremely terrifying and is a legendary punishment.
But for Oran,
Forgiving others through good deeds is what God does;
Destroying the enemy with violence is the King of Heroes!
The Immortal Sword, the Hammer of the Holy War.
In this way, the second of the three White Eagle artifacts was born.
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In East Anglia, the Vikings had a temporary stronghold.
Excluding the soldiers on duty, dozens of Viking warriors closest to the leaders Halfdan and Uba spread the fluffy furs they had snatched on the ground or on the stone steps. They drank wine and insulted them with their eyes and words. Ansa woman.
“What grows first, then becomes shorter, and then becomes longer again?”
One person asked the question to the Ansa woman, but the man next to him answered first, "It's a man's..."
"Fool, it's a shadow. I've heard sailors in the south ask this question!"
"I didn't ask you."
Then someone asked, what is it that can attract people no matter how old they are or how young they are when they pass by in a hurry?"
"Jewelry, swords, armor...?"
There were many guesses, and the person who finally came up with the puzzle said, "It's a dance, dance for me."
The man forced the female captive to entertain them.
As the body twisted, the air filled with joy.
But this was only to them. One of the female prisoners, when she was free to dance, hit a heavy stone next to her and broke her body.
"Delightful."
"I'm still a little angry, so I pulled out the sacrifice."
Some people are carefully taking care of the long swords they snatched, thinking of going back and asking the priest to write the rune script on them.
Some people closed their eyes and meditated, thinking about their children and wives in their homes and the ancestral land.
Others are eating. The food in England is much richer than at home.
This person lives near the extreme north and has almost never eaten fruits and vegetables.
When the envoys sent by this group of people came back, they divided into two sides, one side went to see Halfdan in the white shirt, and the other side went to see Uba.
Inside the robe tent, Uba was performing a mysterious ceremony.
He asked the priest to give him a new tattoo.
Blood flowed from his chest to his lower body bit by bit, but he didn't cry out in pain and bit his food.
The priest was tattooing and calling Odin.
"His Majesty."
The returning envoy paid tribute to the "King of Northern Ireland".
As Yinvar's brother, he came this time to support the war of conquest of England, while his brother stayed in Ireland, preparing to eliminate the descendants of the Celts on the island.
Invar claimed to be king to the outside world and established the Kingdom of Dublin, so Uba was honored as king by the Vikings on the island of Ireland.
There is a chain of contempt for the King of Britain.
The king of England is now headed by Mercia, Northumbria, Wessex, and East Anglia.
These four countries are the most precious.
Cornwall and Wales were mostly regarded by the Vikings as great aristocrats.
King of Scotland, known only to the Vikings as the Pictish Albion dynasty. The Briton dynasty of Galloway was a small tribe that didn't even have enough to eat.
There are no fewer than eight Catholic nobles on Love Island who call themselves kings. Counting the Vikings, there are now more than a dozen kings on the island.
Uba didn't react at all to his men's worthless title of king.
"What do you say to that bastard Olan?"
When the priest sprayed out a mouthful of wine to disinfect, Uba twisted his neck and endured the pain and asked.
"The bastard says that the great god Odin is the father of all men."
Hahaha!
This answer made Uba very happy.
He dug his family's grave, but there was no reaction at all.
The great victory in the south frightened the Ansa nobles in the north.
The Great Viking Age is coming!
