More than a dozen fast horses were galloping on the grassland. Behind them, hundreds of light cavalry were chasing after them. A few strong men with bows in the front were about to take up their bows. A woman waved her hand and said: "Big
Khan said, catch them all alive."
After hearing this, several people put down their bows and arrows.
A mile away, among more than ten people, a young general urged his horse forward, looked at Xiao Jue, and said: "General, you go first, we stay to break up the rear..."
"After the break, how many breaths can you stop them with just the few of you?" Xiao Jue stuck to the horse and said: "Run separately, count as many as you can run..."
"General!"
"This is an order!"
…
The young general looked at Xiao Jue with a solemn expression, and turned around and said: "The general has an order, let's run away separately!"
As the pursuers from behind approached, more than a dozen cavalrymen turned their horses' heads and fled in different directions upon hearing this.
Half a day ago, their team of 500 people happened to encounter a large group of prairie cavalry. Except for a dozen of them who broke out, all 500 people were captured alive.
Although they managed to escape by chance, they were about to be overtaken.
In the rear, among the pursuers, one person shouted loudly: "They escaped separately, let's chase them separately!"
Seeing this, the woman carrying the bow took off the bow and arrow from her back, put it on and shot an arrow.
call out!
The horse under Xiao Jue neighed and fell to the ground. Xiao Jue fell from the horse and rolled to the grass. When he looked up, there was already a figure in front of him.
The woman pointed an arrow at him and said in less than standard Chinese: "Surrender."
Xiao Jue got up from the ground, and several people had already rushed forward and captured him.
Although more than a dozen knights escaped separately, they did not escape the fate of being captured alive. Not long after, they were captured alive, all tied up and sitting on their horses. The team of hundreds of people slowly moved deeper into the grassland.
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A grassland man said: "The Han people have killed so many of us, and these people have captured our compatriots, so let's just kill them..."
The bow-backed woman looked at him and asked, "Do you want to disobey the fourth princess's order?"
The man looked troubled, lowered his head and clasped his fists, saying, "I don't dare."
After a while, he raised his head and asked again: "The fourth princess wants the Han people to coexist peacefully with us. How is this possible? The eldest prince will not agree, the third prince will not agree, and the Khan will not agree. If this continues,
The Khan will take back her tribe..."
"You don't have to worry about these things. It's not our turn to teach the Fourth Princess how to do things." The woman with a bow said lightly, and the man said nothing again.
The group continued to go deeper, and not long after, the ground beneath their feet suddenly shook slightly.
They raised their heads and saw a black line appearing in front of them, and a cavalry team of thousands of people was galloping towards them.
The man looked at the flag at the front and said, "They belong to the eldest prince!"
The cavalry stopped dozens of feet away from them. A man with bulging muscles drove his horse forward and laughed: "It turns out to be Commander A Yue. Did you capture the Han general?"
The woman with a bow on her back said: "Yes, Butai, you are late. He is now our prisoner."
The man named Butai waved his hand and said: "We have been looking for them for three whole days, how come they became your prisoners?"
The woman with an arched back said: "Whoever catches it belongs to him, this is the rule."
"The rules must also be first-come, first-served." The man looked at her and said: "The eldest prince said that this man has arrested too many of our compatriots and ordered me to capture him and send him to the Khan's commander's tent for public execution.
To increase the morale of our army, then cut off his head and send it to Chen State to show them... Do you dare to disobey the eldest prince's order?"
The woman with a bow on her back said neither humble nor arrogantly: "Capturing them alive is also the order of the fourth princess. Do you dare to disobey?"
The man looked at him and said, "This is the order of the eldest prince. Commander Ah Yue, it is better not to make things difficult for us."
After he finished speaking, the thousands of cavalrymen behind him took a few steps forward, and the expressions of everyone behind the arched woman suddenly changed.
Five hundred versus thousands, they had no chance of winning.
The woman with an arched back looked at him, and after a moment, she gritted her teeth and said, "Give them the man."
The person behind him breathed a sigh of relief and immediately pushed Xiao Jue out.
"Thank you." The man opposite him bowed his hand and said with a smile, "Come on, let's go back!"
Seeing those cavalrymen taking the person and turning back, a man next to the woman with a bow said angrily: "The eldest prince's people are too bullying, we obviously caught the person!"
The arched woman glanced at him and asked, "Why didn't you say anything just now?"
The man retracted his head and asked: "Commander, what should we do next?"
The woman with a bowed back shook the reins of her horse and said, "Go back and return to the princess."
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Deep in the grassland, in a tent on a grassland in Wanyan tribe.
Wanyanyan looked at the woman with a bowed back and asked, "Where is the person?"
The bow-backed woman shook her head and said: "We captured five hundred people and some generals, and their generals were taken away by the eldest prince's people."
Wanyanyan frowned and said, "The eldest prince?"
"Butai personally led people and took the man away." The woman with a bow on her back said: "He said that the eldest prince wanted to publicly execute the general of Chen State to boost the morale of our army, and then send his head to Chen State for them to
Look..."
Wanyanyan's face changed slightly and she said, "In this way, the hatred between us and Chen Guo will only deepen, and won't there be no possibility of peace?"
The woman with an arched back looked at her and said, "Should we go and have a look?"
Wan Yanyan nodded and said, "Let's go and have a look. If we can stop them, we must stop them..."
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Chen Guo, Shengzhou.
Fengzhou and Shengzhou are very close to the grassland and are the first line of defense laid by Chen State in the northwest. There are 300,000 troops stationed in these two states alone, and they are also the front line of the northwest's fight against the grassland.
A flying cavalry galloped from the post road and went straight into the military camp. The knight on horseback stopped in front of a large tent, dismounted, ran into the commander's tent, and shouted: "General, urgent report from the front!"
A middle-aged man wearing armor and with a calm expression sat firmly in the tent, glanced at him, and said, "Say."
The knight said: "Reporting to the general, the soldiers and horses of the main Wanyan tribe suddenly appeared north of Yinshan Mountain. General Xiao and the five hundred soldiers under his command were unfortunately captured alive by them. News came from the front that the Wanyan tribe was going to attack Xiao.
The general carried out a public execution..."
"What!" After hearing this, the middle-aged man could no longer keep his expression calm. He slammed the table and said loudly: "Say it again!"
The knight gritted his teeth and said: "Wanyan Department, Wanyan Department will conduct a public execution of General Xiao, and invite Cao Sushen and other tribes to watch the execution. The time, the time is three days later..."
The middle-aged man sat down again and murmured: "Three days, it's too late..."
A general stood up and said anxiously: "General, please send an army into the grassland immediately to rescue General Xiao..."
"Shut up!" The middle-aged man looked at him and said sternly: "Are you going to let all the soldiers in the army die in order to rescue General Xiao?"
The ginseng general's body trembled and he could only sit down honestly.
The middle-aged man thought for a while, looked at the other person, and said: "Send the envoy to Wanyan tribe quickly to negotiate with them. We are willing to use twice the number of prisoners of war in exchange for the lives of General Xiao and five hundred soldiers..."
The man said: "General, Wanyan Department never negotiates with us..."
"Now that things have come to a point, we can only give it a try first." The middle-aged man sighed and said: "In addition, we have to hurry up and send this matter to the capital as soon as possible..."
