Chapter 129: Not a negotiation, but a notification.
The faces of the grassland people changed slightly, and then they all showed a little contempt.
Hu Chikuo said arrogantly: "You captured Hu Chiyou alive, didn't you just want to use him as a condition for peace talks with our grassland tribes? There are barbarians in the north of your country of Yun and Xiongnu in the south. Now we have grassland tribes attacking your western region. You
Besides negotiating peace with our grassland people, is there any other way out?"
"Yes."
Du Ning looked firmly and said: "Plant the flag of the Yun Kingdom on the territory of the Prairie Tribe."
"Arrogant, who do you think the Yun Kingdom is? You dare to dream of occupying the grassland!"
"It's ridiculous! How can you defeat our prairie tribe's cavalry with just the troops and horses of your Yun Kingdom?"
"Boy, you are too arrogant!"
The grassland masters scolded each other, and then they laughed unscrupulously as if they had heard the funniest joke.
Hu Chikuo looked at Du Ning again and said curiously: "You are not old, but your tone is not young. No wonder King Yan dares to ask you to negotiate with me. What is your name?"
"My name is Du Ning, just an ordinary scholar."
"Du Ning? I seem to have heard of it somewhere..."
Hu Chikuo thought about it carefully, and his face changed in surprise the next moment: "Is this the Du Ning who wrote "The Thousand Character Essay" and became famous in all countries?"
"Oh? You prairie people have also read "The Thousand Character Essay"?" Du Ning said in surprise.
"We have heard that some of the most famous scholars in the human race are able to write the Thousand-Character Essay, but they can barely exchange a few words with His Highness."
Hu Chikuo lowered his posture a little, but he was still domineering and not angry.
"As long as you release Hu Chiyou, our grassland people will stop attacking your Yun country and turn the hostility into friendship. Let this matter be over!"
Hu Chikuo's tone was arrogant, as if he had given Yun Guo great benefits.
Du Ning's face remained unchanged and he said slowly: "You plundered our Yun Kingdom's cities, killed my Yun Kingdom soldiers, and massacred my Yun Kingdom's people. How could you turn the war into friendship just because of your words? My emperor once determined that even if it means spending all the power of a country,
Even if we use our own strength, we will also destroy your grassland people, so we have no possibility of peace talks."
"What a joke!"
Hu Chikuo almost laughed out loud when he heard this: "The soldiers and horses of your Yun Kingdom are just a bunch of rabble. With your national strength, you can only compete with the barbarians and the Huns. It is impossible to have the strength to defeat our grassland people. It's ridiculous for you."
You are a small person who overestimates your ability and dares to speak nonsense in front of His Highness."
"Haha..."
The other prairie princes and prairie people laughed loudly.
Du Ning said disapprovingly: "At that time, Hu Chiyou also looked down on the soldiers and horses of our Yun Kingdom very much. He said that he wanted to capture the eighth city. In the end, not only did he lose his troops, but he was also captured alive by our soldiers and horses of the Yun Kingdom. From this point of view, you grassland tribe
It’s nothing extraordinary.”
"Haha...that's a big statement!"
"Your Yun Kingdom has lost seven cities. I really don't know where you got the confidence to dare to say such things to us."
"What qualifications do you have to look down on the grassland people? Who are you!"
Most prairie people have disdain on their faces.
Du Ning was too lazy to pay attention to those people and said to Hu Chikuo: "If you grassland people want our Yun Kingdom to release Hu Chiyou, just give us the five cities of our Yun Kingdom in exchange."
"Five cities?"
"What a guy! How dare you speak out!"
"Bah! Don't even think about it!"
The grassland people looked at Duning as if they were looking at a fool. They believed that being able to agree to peace talks with the Yun Kingdom and not continue to occupy the Yun Kingdom's cities was already a great gift to the Yun Kingdom.
Unexpectedly, Yun Guo was so shameless that he asked for five cities. It was just a slap in the face.
Hu Chikuo showed an angry look on his face and said slowly: "You are so loud, and you are not afraid of the wind blowing your tongue. Why does your Yun country ask for cities from my grassland tribe? Those cities are our grassland.
The clan’s cavalry fought hard to defeat them. You just said that you want so many soldiers from our prairie clan to die in vain? Ridiculous!”
"That was originally the city of Yun State. If you want to negotiate peace with Yun State, even if you return all the cities of Yun State, it is not too much, let alone five cities?"
"Don't think that by capturing Hu Chiyou, you will be qualified to challenge His Highness. You should know how serious the situation of your Yun country is now. Your Yun country has no other way but to negotiate peace with the grassland people. With Hu Chiyou,
If Chiyou, the grassland clan, stops fighting against your Yun Kingdom, your Yun Kingdom will already make a lot of money." Hu Chikuo said confidently.
"Your Majesty, King Yan, sent me here not to bargain with you, but to formally inform you."
Du Ning looked calm and did not take Hu Chikuo's attitude seriously.
"Give us five cities, and we will return them to Huchiyou immediately. If you don't agree, we will Huchiyou Lingchi, and then you will be next, and your entire army will be wiped out!"
Du Ning's words were unequivocal. He came here not to negotiate, but to issue a declaration to the grassland tribe.
Either return the city and exchange for Hu Chiyou.
Or, let Hu Chiyou die without a burial place.
The lost city of Yun Kingdom was taken back by force.
This attitude does not seem to care whether Hu Chikuo agrees or not.
Because regardless of whether Hu Chikuotong agreed or not, Du Ning could command the artillery battalion to blast open the city gate in an instant, and the prairie tribe's cavalry simply couldn't resist it.
In Du Ning's eyes, it is not a question of whether there is a city or not, but a question of whether the gunpowder of the mysterious cannon is wasted.
Even if the city is taken back by force, the city will be dilapidated and will require a lot of money to repair.
Duning just wants to minimize the cost of retaking the city. Even if the negotiation fails, it doesn't matter.
It's nothing more than using more gunpowder and deploying more batches of shells.
"Crazy guy!"
"Presumptuous!"
The strong man from the grassland tribe shouted angrily, and looked at Du Ning with a strong murderous intent. He even couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to kill Du Ning.
The proud prairie tribe couldn't bear the fact that the Yun people actually acted as if they were higher than them. It was not only a provocation to them, but also an insult to them.
The great bachelors behind Du Ning opened their mouths one after another, and the sound of swords sounded, as if they were about to be unsheathed at any time.
They sensed the murderous intention of the prairie people, and as long as someone dared to strike first, their Wen Gong ancient sword would kill them first.
The grassland people felt a coldness on their necks, as if an invisible sword was pressing there, making them shudder.
In close combat, the advantage of a scholar will not be lost to that of a martial arts master.
The air is full of gunpowder, and if you are not careful, a war is about to break out.
Hu Chikuo raised his hand to signal everyone not to act rashly.
Their goal is to exchange for Hu Chiyou. Once they take action, Hu Chiyou will definitely die.
If the Yun people don't kill Hu Chiyou, it will prove that they will have room for maneuver.
Du Ning's eyes were glaring and he said: "It seems that what you call a peace talk is not a peace talk at all, but the strong arguments of barbarians. If I try to reason with you, it is like playing the harp to an ox."
"We grassland people are not scholars. We don't talk about reason, we only talk about fists. Whoever has the bigger fist will be the truth." Hu Chikuo said arrogantly.
"Oh, since you don't want to talk about reason and like to talk about fists, then I will let you see the 'fist' of our Yun Kingdom and see whose 'fist' is bigger."
The corner of Du Ning's mouth raised slightly, revealing a playful look. He had long expected that the grassland people would be unreasonable due to their martial arts cultivation.
Therefore, Du Ning came prepared this time.
"What? Do you still want to fight with us?"
Hu Chikuo's expression changed and he subconsciously took a step back.
This subconscious move made his face turn slightly red.
As a prince, he actually felt timid before fighting.
In the eyes of others, doesn't this mean that he is afraid of Yun Guo?
Ridiculous! Ridiculous!
Hu Chikuo blamed himself a little. He shouldn't have subconsciously retreated and put himself in a very embarrassing situation.
Du Ning took the opportunity to take a step forward, while the bachelors and officials behind him took two steps forward in one breath.
A powerful momentum pressed against the grassland people like an overwhelming mountain.
The grassland people were on guard, and when they saw Hu Chikuo taking a step back, they were a little annoyed.
Now the Yun people are approaching the grassland people, as if they want to take action directly, which makes them even more worried.
Is it a scam?
The other prairie people also took two steps back involuntarily, just keeping a safe distance between the two sides.
But even so, the grassland people also realized in an instant that their momentum had weakened.
"Presumptuous!"
Hu Chikuo shouted loudly and looked at Du Ning angrily, filled with murderous intent.
"Du Ning, do you think that His Highness will be afraid of you as a judge? If you have the guts to try it further, believe it or not, I will kill you!" Hu Chikuo said loudly.
"You do have the guts to kill me, but you may not have the ability."
Du Ning took another step forward, directly crushing Hu Chikuo's warning, and even trampled his dignity under his feet and ravaged him.
"You..."
Hu Chikuo gritted his teeth. As a prince of the prairie tribe, how could he endure such humiliation?
Therefore, Hu Chikuo also took a step forward and planned to take action against Du Ning.
But at this moment, Du Ning gently raised his hand and pointed at the grassland tribe's army.
"Look over there." Du Ning said with a smile.
"Oh?"
Hu Chikuo looked in that direction, but nothing happened.
"What do you want to say?" Hu Chikuo asked curiously.
"Let you see the power of Yun Guo's mysterious cannon." Du Ning's voice fell.
"Mystery Cannon!"
Hu Chikuo and others were stunned for a moment because this was the first time they had heard of such a word.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Just when they were confused, several deafening sounds came from the sky.
More than a dozen streams of light were like comets striking the moon, directly hitting the prairie tribe's army.
"No! It's the kind of weapon from the Yun Kingdom!"
"Everyone, don't force the connection, retreat quickly!"
"Run away!"
Voices of extreme fear rang out from the grassland tribe's army. They were all Hu Chiyou's subordinates. After seeing the power of the Xuanji Cannon, they were already extremely frightened.
"Insolent! As a grassland man, how can you be afraid of the weapons of the Yun Kingdom!"
"What kind of mysterious cannon is just a few iron stones!"
"Wait until I kill him!"
A prairie master had a look of disdain on his face. He jumped up and slashed at one of the cannonballs with his sword.
"Boom!"
As an explosion came, the huge lethality directly blew up half of the prairie master's body.
Before he died, his face still had an extremely arrogant and confident expression, and he was completely unaware that he was facing a huge crisis.
In other words, this guy doesn’t even know how he was killed.
"Impossible! What kind of weapon is this? It's so powerful!"
"How could there be such a ridiculous thing!"
"If something bad happens, hide quickly!"
The grassland people suddenly panicked.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
A series of explosions continued, and many soldiers of the grassland tribe were killed on the spot. Even those holding shields would be killed by the aftermath of the mysterious cannon after the shields shattered.
It was like a thunderous sound. When the grassland tribe's war horses heard it, they were frightened to a great extent. They neighed and ran away in order to avoid danger.
"Beast! Stop running around!"
"Hold on! Hold on, everyone!"
"Don't panic, everyone!"
There was a panic among the grassland tribe. Just a dozen or so artillery shells not only killed nearly a hundred grassland people, but also caused chaos in the grassland tribe's army.
This scene shocked Hu Chikuo and others.
Some people opened their mouths wide and looked in disbelief.
"Mystery...cannon..."
"This...this..."
At this moment, Hu Chikuo and others were speechless.
The Yun Kingdom actually created such a powerful weapon? This thing is simply the nemesis of the iron cavalry.
Once the mysterious cannon explodes among the cavalry, it will be enough to panic countless war horses, causing the grassland tribe to lose their advantage in fighting.
No wonder Huchi Youhui was defeated, no wonder Huchi Youhui was captured alive by Yun Guo.
The pride and self-confidence of Hu Chikuo and others suffered an unprecedented blow at this moment.
The cavalry of their prairie tribe encountered more powerful weapons.
Not to mention one hundred thousand cavalry, even four or five hundred thousand cavalry, as long as Yun Guo has a mysterious cannon in hand, he can easily penetrate the cavalry lineup.
Once the cavalry is in chaos, there is no need for the Yun Kingdom army to take action. Your own war horse will be beaten to a bloody head in panic.
Hu Chikuo's fingers shook slightly. No matter how calm he tried, he could not hide the panic in his heart.
"We in the Yun State have mysterious cannons that can blast open the city gates in an instant. Your prairie tribe's cavalry cannot resist it at all, so we are here on behalf of the Yun State not to negotiate with you, but to inform you."<
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Du Ning raised his head slightly, as if in a condescending manner, "Even if you defend the city, it will only consume dozens of more artillery shells for us. Your prairie tribe's cavalry no longer poses any threat to us. We, Yun Guoneng, can
Pushing all the way with the Mysterious Cannon, we can hit the palace of your Prairie Tribe in one go, so your opinion is not important to us. We give you the right to choose, but we still have the strength to flatten the Prairie Tribe."