"Yang, why are you so panicked? Some nobles should be like this."
Rostislav could not help but frown when he saw the flag officer panting and roughly falling off the war horse, which was constantly panting and with bulging veins. He almost fell off the horse directly.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, don't worry about so much, just take a look at this first."
Yang held it up with both hands. At this moment, Prince Ross noticed that the little soldier was holding an object wrapped in silk. It was also because Yang could only dismount in such embarrassment while holding it.
Rostislav opened it and saw a bone fragment inside, with gold inlaid on the edge. Looking at this thing, a chill came to his heart for some reason. This feeling came from his bones, it was a kind of Rostislav
I can't explain the feeling.
"……What's this?"
Prince Ross looked at the flag officer, and the flag officer just asked his subordinates to drag up a prisoner. He was a servant in gorgeous clothes, but the gorgeous clothes were extremely dirty because of the rough treatment of the Ross people. The man's face was full of
He was horrified and immediately knelt down to Rostislav when he saw his rich clothes and armor.
"I caught this guy from the Khan's camp."
Yang kicked the guy disdainfully, and the guy became even more nervous, his whole body trembling, and his head felt like it was going to be buried in the soil.
"This item also comes from the Khan's camp. Let him tell you what it is."
Prince Ross looked at the kneeling servant. This man was also very knowledgeable and immediately told everything he knew.
"My Lord Rus...this...this is the skull of Svyatoslav 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 that it was his skull.
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Svyatoslav Igorevich, this Rurik was the ancestor of the Russian prince four generations ago and the grandfather of the current Grand Duke of Kiev.
This Grand Duke was the last war champion of Kievan Rus with tribal heritage. He spent his whole life in the military and lived the life of a warrior. He was either marching or fighting every day.
His war history is also extremely brilliant. In the past, those who dared to be unruly on the land of Rus were suppressed. The Khazar Khanate, the former master of the East Slavs and the overlord of the steppes for hundreds of years, was destroyed by his series of offensives, and even
At the invitation of the emperor of the imperial capital, he went to the south to destroy Bulgaria, and fought in both the south and the north without losing a single victory.
But the war against the Eastern Empire broke the myth of invincibility. He brought a large army composed of Russians, Bulgarians and Pechenegs, but even with the strength of Rus, Bulgarians and Pechenegs, he could not compete with the powerful
The imperial capital resisted, and the wrong strategy accelerated the failure.
After being surrounded by the imperial army and experiencing a brutal siege, Sviatoslav had to bow to the emperor of the imperial capital and rowed alone to the emperor's side to sign an agreement with him in exchange for the remaining soldiers leaving peacefully.
But on the way back to Russia, the Pechenegs, the Grand Duke's allies, betrayed the alliance and attacked the Russian army crossing the river. The Russian army was defeated, and the head of the war-loving Grand Duke was cut off and his skull was pierced.
The Chenegs inlaid it with gold and made it into the khan's wine cup.
For many years, the Rurik family has been trying to take back this item that represents the shame of the family, but whether through purchase or war, they have never been able to get back this ancestral relic from the Pechenegs.
As the Pechenegs were defeated by the upstarts of the steppes and moved further west, the Rurik family had no hope of regaining this item. As a result, they unexpectedly found it today, and it was still in Polovets Khan.
Found inside his tent.
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"Are you sure this is my ancestor's skull?"
Rostislav finally suppressed the excitement of seizing an important item and asked Yang a question. No matter what, 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 was not even a single guard there. It seemed that everyone here ran away when the news of the defeat at the front came. I stopped a group of broken soldiers from looting the camp, and then went in.
Seeing that it was placed in the most conspicuous place, surrounded by all kinds of gold and silver jewelry, I brought them all back. As for how I knew that this thing was the skull of Grand Duke Svyatoslav."
Yang kicked the kneeling servant, like kicking a dog, causing the man to tremble again, and the head that he raised just now lowered again.
"This guy told me to save his life. At that time, I plundered the Khan's camp and planned to retreat. After all, there were too few of us. If not, I would have killed him long ago. He also said that he knew the Grand Duke and could guarantee the skull in front of the Grand Duke.
He was genuine and I saw that he was not a fake, so I brought him back."
"My lord, your lord, I have been to Kiev as an envoy. Grand Duke Yaroslav knows 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 make an oath that no grassland people would take lightly, and he made an oath in the name of Tengger.
"Then let him live and tell his grandfather all this later."
Rostislav's words made the servant finally breathe a sigh of relief, and his life was finally saved.
Asking his men to take away the prisoners, Rostislav looked at the battlefield. At this moment, the Polovtsian army had collapsed and fled everywhere, while the Russians followed them to catch slaves. Now they are getting rich.
At this time, if you catch them, you will earn money, 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, I think the south will be stable for a while. Bruce is dead, and the grassland melee will soon begin."
Seeing Rurik's flag advancing victoriously, and seeing the nomads who were unable to escape being captured one after another, Rostisla sighed. In a great battle, the entire situation suddenly changed. The loser's father died on the battlefield, leaving behind
Future generations struggle, but the children and grandchildren of the victor are spared from such an impact.
"And that day is coming soon. I really don't know where it will go then."
This year is 1053, and Rostislav knows that next year, the wise man who rules Russia will pass away, the territory of Russia will be distributed among his descendants, and power will undergo a huge reshuffle.
And this is no secret. Everyone is constantly preparing for this moment, including Rostislav. He only hopes that when that moment comes, he will be able to welcome the crazy whirlpool and fight out of it.