Dark times. The ringing of a veche bell

The ringing of a veche bell pours along Novgorod, convening their sons to decide the fate of the city. The voice of the people calls and drives the princes, being a formidable force in Rus'. The ringing of this bell knows and remembers every resident of the city of Rurik, whether it is a prince or a simple layman. It seems a little more - and the veche will be brought together, and the people of Rus' will rise to collapse on the invaders! But the constant swaras of specific princes interfere with the unification against the common enemy. What turns out to be stronger: ambitions of small rulers or spontaneous, from the "bottom", the thrust of the Russian people to freedom?