king of ros

Chapter 65 Ancestor Bones
"Yang, why are you so flustered, some nobles should look like that."

Rostislav couldn't help frowning when he saw the flag bearer panting and roughly falling off the panting horse with bulging veins, almost falling off the horse directly.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, don't worry about it so much, you should take a look at this first."

Yang put his hands together, and at this moment Prince Ross noticed that the little soldier was holding an item wrapped in silk, and it was also because Yang could only get off his horse in such embarrassment while holding it.

Rostislav turned it over, and saw a piece of bone inside, with gold inlaid on the edge. Looking at this thing, for some reason, a chill came to his heart. This feeling came from the bottom of his heart, a Rostislav I can't explain the feeling of not knowing.

"……what is this?"

Prince Ross looked at the banner officer, but the banner officer just asked his subordinates to drag up a prisoner. It was a gorgeously dressed servant, but the gorgeous clothes were already extremely dirty due to the rough treatment of the Ross people. Terrified, seeing Rostislav in luxurious armor immediately knelt down to him.

"I caught this guy from the Khan's camp."

Yang kicked the guy disdainfully, and the guy became even more nervous, trembling, as if his head was going to be buried in the soil.

"This item is also from the Khan's camp, let him tell you what it is."

Prince Ross looked at the kneeling servant, who was also very sensible, and immediately told everything he knew.

"My lord Rose... this... this is the skull of Sviatoslav Igorevich."

"what!"

Prince Ross's eyes suddenly widened. He thought about many possibilities, but he never thought that this belonged to the ancestor with the same name as his second uncle, and it was also his skull.

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Svyatoslav Igorevich, this Rurik was the ancestor of Prince Rus four generations ago and the grandfather of the current Grand Duke of Kyiv.

This grand duke was the last war champion of Kievan Rus who was full of tribal heritage. He spent his whole life in the army, living the life of a soldier, and he was either marching or fighting every day.

His war experience is also extremely brilliant. In the past, those who dared to be rebellious on the land of Ross were suppressed. The former master of the Eastern Slavs and the overlord of the steppe for hundreds of years, the Khazar Khanate was destroyed under his series of offensives, and even At the invitation of the imperial capital, he went to the south to destroy Bulgaria, and fought north and south without losing a single defeat.

But the war against the Eastern Empire broke the myth of invincibility. He led an army composed of Rus, Bulgarians and Pechenegs, but even if he gathered the strength of Rus, Bulgaria and Pechenegs, he could not compete with the powerful The imperial capital contended, and the wrong strategy accelerated the failure.

After being surrounded by the imperial army and experiencing a tragic siege, Svyatoslav had to bow his head to the emperor, and rowed to the emperor's side to sign an agreement with him in exchange for the remaining soldiers to leave peacefully.

But on the way back to Ross, the Grand Duke's allies, the Pechenegs, brazenly betrayed the covenant and attacked the Ross army who was crossing the river. The Chenegs inlaid it with gold and made it into the khan's cup.

For years, the Rurik family had wanted to take back this object of family disgrace, but they had never been able to get this ancestral bone back from the Pechenegs, either by purchase or war.

After the Pechenegs were defeated by the steppe upstarts and moved further west, the Rurik family had no possibility of retaking this item, but they did not expect to find it today, and it was still in Polovets Khan found in the tent.

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"Are you sure this is the skull of my ancestor?"

Rostislav finally suppressed the excitement of seizing an important item, and questioned Yang. In any case, this item was of great significance, so he had to be cautious. If it was fake, it would be a big joke.

"I found this in the Khan's camp. There wasn't even a single guard there. It seemed that the people here ran away when the news of the defeat ahead came. I stopped a group of rout soldiers from looting the camp, and then I went in. Seeing that it was placed in the most conspicuous place, surrounded by all kinds of gold, silver and jewels, I brought them all back, as for how I knew that this thing was the skull of Grand Duke Svyatoslav."

Jan kicked the kneeling servant like kicking a dog, causing the man to shiver again, and lower his head that had just been raised.

"This guy told me to save his life. At that time, I robbed the Khan's camp and planned to retreat. After all, we were too small. If not, I would have killed him. He also said that he knew the Grand Duke and could guarantee the skull in front of the Grand Duke. I saw the authenticity of it, so I brought him back."

"My lord, my lord, I once went to Kyiv as an envoy, Grand Duke Yaroslav knew me, I can testify, in the name of Tengger, I can testify that there is absolutely no falsehood."

In order to save his life, this servant did not hesitate to swear an oath that no prairie citizen would easily swear, and made the oath in the name of Tengger.

"Then let him live, and tell grandfather all this later."

Rostislav's words made the servant finally heave a sigh of relief, and his life was finally saved.

Asking his subordinates to take the captives away, Rostislav looked at the battlefield. On the battlefield at this moment, the Polovian sub-army has collapsed and fled everywhere, while the Ross people are following them to catch slaves. Now they are making a fortune. At the moment, if you catch it, you earn it, that is, the nomads are basically cavalry, and only a few unlucky ones who lost their horses and ran too slowly were caught.

"After this battle is over, if you want to come to the south, you can be stable for a while. Bruce is dead, and the scuffle on the grassland will soon begin."

Seeing Rurik's banner advance victoriously, and watching the nomads who could not escape being captured one after another, Rostisla lamented that the whole situation changed suddenly in a big battle. The fathers of the losers passed away on the battlefield, leaving behind Future generations struggle, but the victor's children and grandchildren are spared the same.

"And that day is coming soon, I really don't know where it will go."

This year is 1053, and Rostislav knows that next year, the wise man who ruled Rus will pass away, the land of Rus will be distributed among his descendants, and power will usher in a huge reshuffle.

And this is not a secret, everyone is constantly preparing for this moment, Rostislav is the same, he only hopes that when that moment comes, he already has the ability to meet the madness vortex, and struggle to get out of it A piece of heaven and earth.

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(End of this chapter)