Chapter 831: Captive, Four Turkic Princes?!
Chapter 831
"It's terrible, Master Hou, do you remember that we caught a group of captives yesterday?"
Xu Keyi's face turned red and said excitedly.
"Got it, what's wrong?"
Wang Chong was a little puzzled. After yesterday's battle, he remembered that someone had reported to him that a group of prisoners had been captured, but Wang Chong didn't understand anything special about it.
"Master Hou, we really caught a big fish this time! Among those captives, there was actually a prince of the Western Turkic Khanate, and he was also the fourth prince of Shabaluo Khan's favorite, and he was born from Kedun of the Western Turkic Khanate. Agu Dulan was supposed to take him to get military merit this time, so that Shabaluo Khan could justifiably give him an official, but he didn't expect to be caught by us. ”
Xu Keyi said hurriedly, his voice out of breath.
"Huh?!"
Wang Chong was startled and stood up from his seat suddenly.
In the Eastern and Western Turkic Khanates, the status of princes was higher than that of Middle-earth, for the simple reason that the two Turkic Khanates did not have three palaces and six courts, so there were far fewer princes and princesses in the Turkic Khanate. A prince born to a Turkic Khatun, and the kind favored by the Shabala Khan, his status in the Western Turkic Khanate is simply unimaginable.
Wang Chong didn't expect that he would actually capture a bloodline prince of the Western Turkic Khanate this time against Agudulan.
"Master Hou, in the morning, we brought out all the captives from last night and prepared to interrogate them all to see if we could dig up anything useful to the Western Turks. But that's when we noticed that there was a person who didn't look right. He was dressed very gorgeously, not like an ordinary soldier, and his temperament was not the same, he looked like he had a very high status, and he didn't look like a person who would appear in the army, mixed with a group of captives, out of place. ”
Although the news was informed to Wang Chong by Xu Keyi, the Turkic prince was discovered by Chen Bin. In the underground dungeon of the Steel City, Li Siye, Huang Botian, Cheng Sanyuan, Su Shixuan, including Fang Lao, Du Lao and others were all there, and a group of people gathered around and listened to Chen Bin explain beside him:
"I thought there was something wrong with him at the time, so I found someone who could speak Turkic, but I didn't expect that he would be a Turkic prince. I didn't dare to confirm it, so I thought about it at the time and called Khulu Yege. He is good at dancing in Turkic long sleeves, up and down, and he should be familiar with all the Turkic royal families. Later, after Khulu Yege came over, he actually recognized him at a glance as the fourth prince of the Turks!"
"Hmm. ”
Wang Chong nodded, looking through a small, more than six-foot-high iron window in the prison. The Fourth Prince of the Turks was a young man who looked to be twenty-one or twelve years old, and although his clothes had been stained from the battle last night, he could still make out that he was wearing a very ornate Turkic costume when he looked closely.
"It is indeed a royal family among the Turks!"
Wang Chong looked at the burning sun on the clothes of the Turkic young man, and the lone wolf pattern with his neck raised and roaring at the sun, and a thought flashed through his mind. Although Wang Chong had very little contact with the Turkic royal family, he also knew that the sacred mountain of the Turks was the Sun Mountain, and in addition to the wolves, they also worshipped the burning sun in the sky, which was a symbol that could only be used by the royal families of the Eastern and Western Turkic Khanates, representing noble blood.
"Boom!"
The next moment, without the slightest hesitation, Wang Chong opened the cell door and walked in.
"No, don't kill me...... , I am the prince of the Turks, I can give you a lot of money, don't kill me!"
Hearing the movement, the young Turkic prince seemed to be greatly frightened, his hands and feet shrunk together, and his whole body trembled. If you look closely, you will find that this Turkic prince is the Turkic young man who followed the side of the green wolf Ye Hua Gudulan.
"Huh?"
Seeing that the Turkic prince looked frightened and didn't even dare to raise his head, Wang Chong frowned slightly.
"Master Hou, this guy looks like a soft-footed shrimp, it should have scared him by last night's killing. ”
Xu Keyi came over at this time and whispered in Wang Chong's ear.
Wang Chong was silent for a moment, thoughtful, and nodded in his heart. In the battle last night, the black wounded iron cavalry dealt with these Turkic elites, and it was completely like chopping melons and vegetables, and it was like a bamboo. Although the Turks are naturally brave and fierce in battle, after all, this Turkic prince has lived in Sanmi Mountain, the Turkic Khan's court, and has seen only a handful of real battles, and even if he has experienced it, it is all in the rear, and it is still when the Turks are dominant.
For the first time in his life, four or five thousand Turkic warriors were slaughtered like pigs and sheep like last night. From now on, for a long time to come, I am afraid this will become a deep nightmare for him.
"You just said you could give me a lot of money?"
Wang Chong squatted down and suddenly spoke.
"Yes, yes, no matter how much you want, I will give it to you. Pearls, agate, gold...... My father and mother will definitely agree. ”
The young Turkic prince was stunned at first, then reacted and said eagerly. Because he found that this young leader of the Han people did not speak the language of the Han people, but the Turkic language that he was most familiar with.
"Hahaha, pearls, agate, I don't need this, as for gold, how much can you Turks have, how much will there be, are your father and mother willing to give it to you?"
Wang Chong laughed.
The young Turkic prince froze for a moment. The Turks were different from other empires, and commerce was far less developed and they were not so rich in materials, which meant that even if they had a lot of wealth in the Turks, it was difficult to buy a lot of things anytime and anywhere like in the Central Plains.
In other words, the wealth of the Turks was only valuable when it was traded with other empires. Therefore, the Turks were not very keen on accumulating wealth, and people like Khuluyeg were a minority in the entire Eastern and Western Turkic Khanates. In addition, the Turkic steppes did not produce gold, and even if the gold of the two Turkic khanates were collected together, I am afraid that there would not be much.
From this point of view, it is really difficult to say how much gold Shabalo Khan is willing to pay for him for the sake of a prince. After all, the gold of the Eastern and Western Turkic Khanates was used to buy those magnificent things for the nobility and royalty to enjoy.
"Hahaha......"
Wang Chong looked at the Turkic prince's stunned appearance, laughed and stood up. Hearing the laughter, the Turkic prince was terrified, and his whole body trembled like chaff.
"Wait! Wait...... We in the Western Turkic Khanate have the best horses in the entire steppe, and I can give you as many ...... as you want."
The Turkic prince suddenly shouted.
But this time, Wang Chong didn't hear it, shook his head and smiled, turned around, and left the prison under the frightened gaze of the prince. Behind him, the door of the cell slammed shut, and the Turkic prince sat down on the ground as if struck by lightning, his face turned pale.
......
"Eh, my lord, why didn't you agree to him just now? The four princes have a very high status in the Western Turkic Khanate, although the Western Turkic Khanate does not have much gold, but if you want a war horse, Shabala Khan will definitely agree. The rules of the steppe, if the nobles are captured, they must pay a large sum of money to redeem them. What's more, he's still a prince!"
Wang Chong had just come out of the prison, and in the corner, a slightly chubby figure, with a cat, rushed over, looking sneaky, as if he was hiding from something.
"I know. ”
Wang Chong said lightly, without even glancing at Hulu Yege next to him.
"You know?"
Khuluyege looked surprised and froze. Based on his understanding of Wang Chong, he should need war horses very much now, and a considerable part of Wang Chong's promise to help him should be because of the 300,000 war horses. But he didn't expect that Wang Chong would give up such a good opportunity in front of him. This made him extremely puzzling:
"But why?"
"Because I've already thought about it, I'll leave this matter to you. ”
Wang Chong smiled, patted him on the shoulder in the stunned gaze of Hulu Yege, and quickly left. Leaving Kuluyege standing in place, his lips trembling, he wanted to say something, but he was at a loss, and he stopped talking. I don't know how long it took, it seemed that he had figured out something, Kulu Yege's eyes were bright, his face was surprised, he screamed violently, and jumped up excitedly:
"Great!"
......
Not to mention the movement of Wang Chong's side, from the northeast of the moraine to the northeast, all the way through the vast, grassy Turkic steppe, just close to the far north, thousands of miles away from the moraine, a huge, majestic mountain, like a prehistoric beast, between heaven and earth, enough to make anyone who sees it, admired, and give birth to a sense of insignificance.
Sanmi Mountain!
If you look closely, you will find that this majestic, magnificent mountain is actually composed of three mountains, two low and one high. And the highest place is the place where the current Great Khan of the Western Turks, Shabala Khan, lives.
The Turkic steppes have always been endless, flat and flat, and have never been mountainous and watery.
The entire Western Turkic steppe, from the west of the moraine all the way to the small Arctic in the north, does not even have a little raised hills, let alone larger mountains. Therefore, it can be imagined that when this Sanmi Mountain descended like a giant beast and appeared on this steppe, it symbolized for all the Turkic people.
The Turkic khans would go to various places and tribes every year to make rounds, so the tooth tent representing the Great Khan was always in constant flux. But in the Khan Court of the Western Turks, there is only one place recognized by everyone, and that is Sanmi Mountain.
"What?!Agu Dulan was killed, and the four princes were arrested?
At the top of Sanmi Mountain, in the huge golden tooth tent more than ten zhang high, a lion-like roar burst out, rolling like thunder, resounding throughout the entire Sanmi Mountain. The wind howled, bursting out of the golden tent of the mountain, sweeping in all directions. And outside the tooth tent, thousands of Turkic warriors who were leading giant wolves all over the mountains and patrolling everywhere couldn't help but tremble when they heard this angry voice, revealing a look of deep fear.