Since the destination damen is ahead, there are still some dying wounded and dead people in the riverside area.

As King Ross, Rurik could not sit idly by these people.

"Brody!"

"exist."

With a calm face, Rurik continued to order: "Take the cavalry and set off urgently. This time show our flag and bring back all the living people."

"As ordered."

The Ross cavalry rushed straight to the upstream area, and the sky was already very dark at this moment, even though the Ross flag was still clearly visible under the setting sun.

The wounded had just experienced an "attack", and they didn't know why the rider was not killing the killer but capturing the captive. Maybe those guys just think that everyone is useless. Even without the effort of the rider, by nightfall the Timberwolves would be infested, and no one survived to the next day.

But the cavalry appeared again.

The wounded did not resist, their injuries were different, and those who had lost their fighting spirit and strength looked like they were being slaughtered, and they saw the very familiar flag in the sunset without thinking.

Everything is like a miracle!

Brody spoke the Ross dialect of the Norse language, and they really felt as if they had a dream when they could hear the local accent.

There are more than 20 members of the Carold expedition team, all of them, men, women, old and young, went to battle just to make a fortune in the new world of the Great Lakes in the South.

Now, the wreckage of the longship that hit the giant and broke the keel was also washed to the shore. The mast that tied the sails was tilted and stuck in the crevices of the rocks, and the overturned delivery was just at the rocks, and the river washed over it. .

At the beginning, the wounded who were still able to climb to the shore to rest by virtue of their ability, they were using their last strength to endure the serious damage to their internal organs to get a seemingly safe rest. From the break of the ship to the sunset now, half of the people have died one after another.

Children are the worst. Even if the mother is protecting the child, the child's resistance to disaster is too low.

The children were all dead, and there was nothing the dying mother could do.

Either they were seriously injured and kept burning out the fire of life, or they died of excessive blood loss due to severe skin trauma.

A hungry person is powerless to do anything. This kind of person seems to be intact, and his family and friends die in front of him. The major blow makes people stunned.

When Brody's cavalry came to the rescue, there were only three women who should not have been seriously injured. Naturally, bruises were inevitable, but the children they brought to explore the world were all dead. The women's eyes were dull, holding The child who died by himself refused to let go.

Brody didn't know what to do for a while.

He took his brothers half-kneeling down to inspect all the dead, even those seriously injured who were still alive but destined to die.

He tried to appease the woman, ordering her to temporarily abandon the dead child.

"Don't worry, the king has come to explore this dangerous river himself. The king has already known what happened to you. The king wants to save all the living people. Put down the dead body and follow me."

After all, Brody is also a ruthless man who fought in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood on a large-scale battlefield. He has a strong psychological resistance to witnessing corpses, so he has less empathy.

May I ask which mother would abandon her child who had just died?

In desperation, Brody had no choice but to mount all the wounded. Fortunately, those mothers who were reluctant to die their children were allowed to go to the king with their corpses in their arms.

Brody looked serious, and the brothers of the Second Cavalry were in the same bad mood.

The arduous expeditions have been killing everyone's fighting spirit, and now they have witnessed the tragedy directly.

"Brother!" A brother was serious with a little fear, and cautiously discussed with Brody: "This place is terrifying! The Slavs said that there is a swamp monster named Cherno, which came out of the mud and destroyed ships. Dead mortals. Could it be..."

"Impossible, our king is not a mortal, but a saint who is favored by the gods. King Rurik is here, and any evil will be brought to justice."

The person who asked the question was also smart, and he suddenly realized: "So, those who have not been protected by the king for a while... have really been persecuted by the Slavic evil god?"

"I don't know!" Brody burst out, "Shut up! Let's go back to the camp and report to the king! May everyone who survives be safe."

Many corpses were left at the scene of the incident, and the time left for Brody was very limited, so he had no choice but to leave hastily.

A handful of wounded were sent back to camp, including Carold's young second wife. It is a pity that the old man's first wife has died, and what is worse is that his youngest son, born to his young wife, has become a limp corpse in the arms of his wife with dull eyes.

Seeing such a tragedy for the youngest son, the old man's legs went limp, and his knees hit the mud hard. The corpse of the child he held in his arms was weeping, and he kept muttering: "You were still alive just now! Why... you died?!"

In this situation, even though Rurik, who is used to killing on the battlefield, can barely "watch on the sidelines", his heart seems to be pressed by a huge stone and cannot be calmed down for a long time.

Beyahir was standing beside him, pulling Rurik's arm lightly, and hiding behind his stalwart figure, some tears could not help but flow from the corners of his eyes. They are all mothers. How painful is it for a mother to lose her true love?

She can empathize with her. After all, her son Hasal is being forcibly stayed in Novgorod "in the name of love". The son grew up and received education with his half-brothers. Unopened may be of great benefit. But being a mother is actually equivalent to losing a child, and what's even worse is that I can't show the corresponding loss.

Rurik didn't intend to disturb the old man's crying. Looking at the mental state of the wounded, it seemed impossible to ask them for any valuable information. He had already learned a lot from old man Carold, and now he only needed to get an overview of the scene from Brody after some investigation.

The sky was completely dark, and the whole environment was just as worried as the cavalry returning with the woundedit was terribly lonely.

The environment here is not good. After all, it is a real five-person area. If it weren't for the large scale of the expedition team and the small number of people who started the expedition, they would definitely not sleep well at night when camping here.

The summer night temperature in northeastern Europe is not high. Lighting a bonfire is not only necessary to have a hot meal, but also to dispel the cold on the surface and dispel the fear in the heart.

The bonfires of Rose's camp gathered into a fire dragon, and any beast who saw it had to turn around and flee.

Rurik sat cross-legged by the campfire, and now Brody was beside him.

He cut to the chase: "What have you seen?"

"Corpses. The bodies of the wounded lying twisted by the river, as if they had just suffered a defeat."

Rurik shook his head: "That's not what I asked. What about the stones? Are there really a lot of stones in the river?"

"Exactly. Even though the setting sun was dim, I still noticed that there were large and small stones in the river as far as I could see with my naked eyes, and some stones were even quite huge. Its texture..."

"What kind of stone is it?"

"It should be granite, probably accompanied by quartz."

"Can you see clearly? You can't see clearly under the setting sun."

Brody raised his chest: "Of course I can't see clearly, but I can touch it with my hands. I can feel that the stone has an obvious rough texture, and the exposed part of the stone in the setting sun is also slightly reflective. It must have quartz. Besides, I am Bring a sample."

Rurik was startled suddenly, watching the kid pull out a small stone from the cloth bag.

"You boy!" Rurik punched him with a smile: "Why didn't you pay tribute early with the samples?"

"It's not too late now. Please take a look, Your Majesty."

Rurik took the stone and recognized it as a kind of granite at a glance.

Granite is a general term for a large group of rock types. It has even been refined into more than 20 types. This is a very common rock in the formation. When the rock is squeezed due to mountain drilling and breaks through the surface, the granite begins to invade and The process of weathering.

Although Rurik's understanding of geology is very limited, granite, basalt, shale, sandstone, and even pure mica quartz can still be easily distinguished. After all, there are huge differences visible to the naked eye.

Compared with other rocks, granite is very hard because it contains a lot of metal and quartz, and it is really an excellent material for building houses and fortresses. However, after experiencing weathering and water intrusion, it gradually turned into sandstone, and finally ushered in the fate of disintegration.

The time required for weathering is destined to be very long, but the entire Valdai Heights has only formed the current environment for more than 10,000 years.

During the last glacial period 10,000 years ago, even Yinermen Lake not far away was covered by huge glaciers. Under the ice layer was rock-hard frozen soil. The lakes here are all ice-eroded lakes, and the largest The glacial lake in the lake is nothing but the Baltic Sea itself. However, due to the great earthquake in ancient times, the sea water from the Atlantic Ocean poured in continuously after the earth was torn open, and it finally turned into an ocean. Of course, its history as an ocean is also extremely short.

Brody is not an ordinary person. He has not only received some basic cultural knowledge education, but he has become a hero with the heroic act of capturing the king of the enemy country, so he is qualified enough to receive special training from Rurik himself.

Brody was educated in some strange knowledge, especially the "Ross version of the Periodic Table of Elements". He has made great progress in his understanding of the entire Misgard, that is, the human world. As a learning result, His attitude towards even the most common stone changed.

For stone is a metallurgical ore, a building material, a possible gemstone for jewelry, and a weapon that can be launched by a torsion trebuchet.

Clenching the rock specimen tightly in his hand, Rurik, unable to calm down, strengthened his belief even more.

He stood up and looked down at the unknown Brody: "Everything is true. I dare say that the land under our feet can dig a lot of rocks just by swinging a shovel down. It may not be just rocks. If we can dig It would be even better to go to iron mines and copper mines.

What could Brody say, the firelight shone on the king's smiling face, and he had no choice but to laugh along with him.

They rested for a short night in the riverside camp in Rurik, and it was on this night that all the wounded were treated as much as possible.

After all, expeditions may be troubled by wounded soldiers. The Kingdom of Ross has certain methods for wound treatment, especially after ordinary ale is continuously distilled and turned into a bottle of pure alcohol. As long as it participates in wound healing, death due to wound infection Almost never happens.

It is not a panacea, and Rurik's expedition team cannot help with internal injuries caused by strong collisions.

By sunrise on a new day, Carold's expedition was nearly wiped out. The old man Carlotar's young wife was slightly injured, but suffered a severe mental trauma.

When Rurik ordered the wounded who died peacefully at night to be buried on the spot, the young woman couldn't just sit back and watch her dead child be "snatched" and buried in the ground. She took advantage of the unsuspecting soldiers and rushed towards the Hafen River with the body in her arms. .

At present, the water flow in the river section is relatively turbulent, and she was swallowed by the river water as she wanted to die.

This was unexpected by Rurik, and he was also helpless.

"Let's go!" Rurik, who had already mounted his horse, ordered the people who had been standing by the river for a long time and couldn't let go: "Everything is fate. Don't look, let's go."

At this moment, Beja Hill was a little surprised by his man's heartlessness. She also rode a horse and followed Rurik. "Don't you try to save me?"

"No need, that's her own decision. Any expedition is full of dangers, and you should have encountered more dangerous things in the grasslands! For example, even in the face of a snowstorm, the shepherd sisters have to find their way The lost sheep. The dangerous ones are really dangerous, but worth the risk."

Rurik deliberately took the story of "Little Sisters of the Prairie" that he knew as an example.

"The flock is an important asset. Herdsmen rely on their cattle and sheep to survive, and they must protect them at all times. However, we are exploring." She retorted softly, "It is completely possible not to explore."

"Hehe, this is a completely different way of life between northerners and grassland people. The purpose of the expedition is to obtain leather and gold, or other valuables. But this king has a strong purpose, Beya Hill !" Rurik deliberately raised his voice.

"I understand! You've been talking about stones all the way. I don't understand why stones are so special? Unless you can find an iron mine from here."

"Maybe there are iron mines. Only God knows! But I can be sure that there are indeed stone mines in Demyansk given to you. In the future, your country will continue to provide stones to Ross, which will be enough for you to make a fortune. Dear , you have to adapt to a new way of life as soon as possible."

"Oh, I know you. You..." she chirped.

"What?" Rurik turned his head slightly.

"I can't think of it. You talk more than my brother."

She was so displeased that she opened her mouth, but Rurik didn't smile too much, and continued to look forward.

First Rurik leads the way with all the cavalry, here Gorm, Haffin and Carold are on horseback.

The pain of losing his family made Carold regret this adventure, and he was extremely envious of Haven who passed the river section of the scary rock without any risk. Even the nameless river was named after this old guy.

I'm afraid this is the difference of fate...

Carold was not extinct. His eldest grandson joined the Seventh Banner Team and participated in the Ross Expeditionary Army. His eldest son took some goods to the capital after the busy farming season, so-called direct sale of a batch of leather goods in order to make more money.

After the cavalry came the mighty fleet, with only a few people on the boats manipulating one blade as the rudder, while the rest of the people were pulling the ropes on the shore, and the soldiers became the trackers on the Haven River.

Rurik finally stood at the scene of the incident, and he saw corpses, shipwrecks, and even traces of wolf activity.

The corpse was obviously bitten, and it seemed that the wolves sensed the danger and fled.

"Dismount! Take the shovel and bury the body on the spot," he ordered.

Forget it, Rurik was standing on the bank of the fast-flowing water, and looking around, it was just as the intelligence saidthis river section was full of rocks.

There are even small pebbles that have been washed ashore by my feet. The ground where I step on is not pure mud. If you look closely, there are a lot of sand and stones here.

River sand is also an extremely important construction resource.

Secrets about cement The Kingdom of Ross has not only mastered its principles, but the method of preparing general cement has become more and more mature, but the biggest problem is that it is not easy for the kingdom to find suitable river sand. Do you want to use salty sea sand? Or is it artificially knocking quartz ore into quartz sand? With skill, a large amount of quartz sand is used to make glass and make a lot of money.

Granite and river sand are treasures, and the environment here is worthy of the name "Dmyansk" bestowed on it.

The personnel arrived here one after another, and Rurik ingeniously cut down a small pine tree on the spot, and used a hand ax to chisel the thin trunk into a cone shape. He dug the pit himself with a shovel, and hugged the conical wooden stake into the pit rich in river sand and seeped water.

This is like laying a stake for a new town and laying the foundation for it.

Facing the dense crowd, Rurik rode on a horse and stood in front of a stake: "I declare! Demyansk will be built here! It is a town given to the princess of the grassland, and it will be the core of the new kingdom in the future. !"

As he said, Beja Hill needs a title and a fief.

The Principality of Demyansk is her fiefdom. In Rurik's vision, the entire Hafen River (Yavin River) basin belongs to the fiefdom. But this is obviously not a very honorable reward. What Beyahir got is a large forest, rivers, swamps, and stone mines that should be found. There are no permanent settlements here, and Demyansk will be the first one.

Rurik himself will not stay here for a long time. He laid wooden piles to lay the foundation for the town, and asked Gorm to paint the local environment so that the town can be officially built in the future.

As for the local quarry, do we really need to look for it?

Obviously, the forest vegetation in this area is extremely dense. It is precisely this east-west river course, and the area on the south bank (actually belonging to the left bank) is surprisingly sparsely populated.

Trees don't grow in swamps, but the terrain there is obviously higher, and swamps don't seem to exist at all.

Since it's not a swamp, what exactly is preventing the forest from thriving? Could it be...

Rurik himself floated to the opposite bank in a boat. Of course, this kind of move to cross the river in the rapids is very risky. He finally felt the danger that the Halfen expedition experienced. This time, he and his brothers only wore single clothes and rowed across barefoot.

He had a hunch that it must be the rocky areas exposed to the sun that prevented the forest from growing.

He didn't go far, and all the truth came outthe quarry was here, quietly facing the sun's exposure.

Because the end of the glacial period is not long, maybe only thousands of years of wind and sun are enough to completely weather the granite? The answer is obviously a part of the weathering, and only the surface area has been weathered.

The ancient Valdai Highland was originally a large shallow sea, and the Ural Mountains were a masterpiece extruded from the plates. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is not particularly far from it. The Valdai Highland is the ripples produced by this extrusion, a mere "ripple" "It cannot be elevated into mountains with an altitude of thousands of meters, but an average altitude of less than two meters is enough to become a water tower in a huge plain.

The superficial stones are thus lifted up, and the stones in some areas face the Yangguan directly. Only the strongest trees can take root in a little weathered soil. As long as it takes time, when the weathering is severe enough, the forest can completely bury the phantom of the stone mine under the dense layer of pine needle humus.

Now Rurik is stepping on rocks, and it seems that as long as he continues to dig, he will find a shield here-a huge rock.

It's all settled! The Kingdom of Ross successfully found stone mines in the forest, and the stone mines in the north of the capital New Roseburg are no longer the only ones.

The Demyansk quarry meant that it was no longer only possible to supply the entire densely populated Lake Ilmen with stone from the far north. Provide lower cost stone.

The strategic value of the quarry here is extremely high! Perhaps there are other rarities in the minerals here, which need to be paid attention to when the quarry is officially excavated.