The monk did not stop until he was almost dead from exhaustion.
"Damn, sewer feces, like shit...Hail to God."
At the stronghold just now, the distinguished Viking leader touched and played with the gifts sent by the Oran monks.
"Your Majesty Halfdan, you can see that these people are really weak."
Uba's men were very satisfied with the result.
But other leaders were dissatisfied. A soldier with a disfigured face who followed Halfdan said, "Only your names are mentioned here. Is that an equal distribution?"
Ordinarily this should be the case, but when Oran came into contact with the Viking envoys, he always secretly conveyed a concept.
The Crusaders are afraid that Ragnar and Yinvar have nothing to do with "Halfdan". Once the tribute is paid, it must be given to the Uba camp first.
Although these words were not written down in writing, they had already spread.
If the Halfdan camp does not fight for it, it will only get 20%.
We fight together on the battlefield, bear the casualties together, but when it comes to dividing the spoils, we can only take this little.
Unless God Odin comes, no one will give you face!
People from both parties come and go, exposing each other's scars.
Originally, Uba was considering giving face to his brother, but the words spoken by his subordinates were too unpleasant!
After the quarrel was fruitless, everyone looked at the two kings. Halfdan spoke first, "We dug out the tombs of the Oran family and developed hatred with the Crusaders. Do you really believe that he paid tribute, what if it was a trap?"
In that case, we will not be buried in the sea, but we may be buried in the enemy's banquet. "
He did not express his dissatisfaction with the distribution of tribute, but emphasized that what if this was God's conspiracy?
"Despicable foreigners cannot be trusted, Your Majesty Uba."
"You are too worried. That man even killed his own relatives and father-in-law. He will not be angry over the cemetery of the dead."
"No, they were life-and-death enemies a few months ago, but now they are as docile as goats. Anyone with a brain can see that!"
The two parties quarreled again, and the last words made Uba angry.
He regarded it as Halfdan's indulgence of his subordinates' insult to him.
His father, Ragnar, was the most famous Viking king, but before middle age, he also experienced many failures and was destroyed several times.
As children of different mothers, Uba and his brother Yinvar hid in the village controlled by Halfdan's mother for protection when their father was attacked by enemies from other tribes.
Although there is food to eat, it is not a very warm memory.
As soon as he reached adulthood, his brother joined the dragon boat team alone and headed to a new and unknown sea.
He also followed his brother away the next year.
The two eventually moved away from Scandinavia to establish their own land in Ireland.
But Ireland was too small, and other Viking chieftains arrived first.
A king is no different than a count.
Now new opportunities have arrived.
England!
Millions of Ansa people are millions of tribute animals.
Warm land, lush wheat fields, herds of cattle and sheep, and wide plains.
If Halfdan wants to break up, he can be polite, but this attitude is dissatisfying...
Halfdan saw Uba thinking, thinking that his men's words were effective, but he didn't know that Uba was recalling past grudges.
This debate came to an end in endless chatter.
In the next three days, Oran's caravans arrived one after another, bringing horses, furs and wine to Uba.
Don’t worry about having too few and too little.
I tolerated you once or twice and waved in front of us three or four times. The other Vikings had an idea and finally intercepted you.
They thought it should be distributed fairly, why should Uba's warriors take it all?
During the fight, one of Halfdan's men shouted anxiously that Uba Fang was conspiring with Oran to betray his own interests.
From Oran's concession, Yinvar's song, the tribute sent, to the conflicts between the two parties, cracks began to appear in this seemingly stable camp.
But after all, they are brothers whose blood dissolves in water. As long as their father is still alive, the two of them will not use swords on themselves.
With the two men stepping in to stop them, they suppressed the dissatisfaction of their respective camps.
Then Halfdan asked Uba to see him, but the reply he got was to ask Halfdan to come by himself.
For the sake of the overall situation, Halfdan went to Uba's camp in person.
When he saw Oran's war horse, the looming body of the Ansa woman, and several cases of wine, he advised, "These things are like poison and will turn you into a sheep, my dear brother."
"Aren't we here just to grab these?"
"Yes, so we don't have to talk to them, just drive the army over and find out where their defenses are weak, attack like a wolf and bite off the enemy's neck.
Although they built garrison and wooden forts everywhere, there are too many rivers and swamps in England. We can use the old method of finding unguarded river channels and attack them from unexpected places. "
"Are you still in command? My brother."
"I am the commander-in-chief appointed by my father, and you are my deputy." When Halfdan spoke, he picked up a ball of sand on the ground and let it flow from his fingers. "No matter what, even this dirt, we It’s half for each person.”
Uba was silent.
Unity is strength, he understands this.
He asked tentatively, "Father, Bjorn, and Sigurd won a great victory in the south, and I heard that they were going to divide Wessex into three parts.
One piece will be given to the participating lords, and two pieces will be given to Bjorn and Sigurd. You and Sigurd will have Denmark. I will recruit five hundred people from Ireland and other Viking regions.
I need a piece of land to house them and their family members.
What do you think, give me the north of Yorkshire as far as Edinburgh?
In return, I will not touch the land of Mercia. "
Halfdan is smiling but not smiling.
Uba's appetite was too great, which meant that 90% of Northumbria's territory was given to him. In the future, Yinvar came to threaten Galloway and Scotland, and the two brothers could open up their territories and completely control North Britain.
As for giving Mercia to yourself?
This is a joke.
Once my father goes north, there will be another group of lords to share Mercia.
During this expedition, more than a thousand tribal warriors came to Sweden and Finland, and they were recruited on a mercenary basis.
No property was given first, but part of all the loot was taken first.
The victory over Wessex seemed like a great victory, but hundreds of thousands of Englishmen fled and fled, and rebellions, large and small, continued.
After a year or so, I couldn't settle down.
There are too many changes in agreeing to Uba's conditions now.
Moreover, Uba came with hundreds of people, and with a loud voice, he dared to claim the territory of hundreds of thousands of people!
"Gold and silver shine, but they destroy, Uba."
"Then when you became the leader of the Danes, why did you ask them to hand over a large amount of silver? Halfdan."
The two broke up unhappy.
Then, a servant saw the two men leaving the meeting and came in to whisper to Uba.
Uba immediately rode his horse and headed for a God's stronghold that had just been occupied.
