Chapter 16: Temptation
The sun is slanting in the west, the yellow and yellow round large plates hang on the top of the west mountain, and the hump pass is already filled with the smell of meat.
The emperor did not send hungry soldiers, and even more so in war.
When Huo Dingzhi went out, he saw the soldiers squatting at the base of the barracks in a unit, gulping the food in the bowl. Maybe there will be a fierce battle at night, and I don't know if I will see the sun tomorrow. No one spoke, and the atmosphere was as dull as a frozen lake, looking flat and smooth, and no one could see how the undercurrent was raging under the ice.
The grain and grass sent by Zhen'an Road have been loaded into the cart, and the people are leading the mules and horses, and they have already stood on both sides of the pass. The wrestlers carrying the flag were bare-chested, constantly adjusting the position of the battle flag behind them, and the victory drums on all sides were erected on the tower, and every half quarter they made a passionate drum sound, and the war supervisor loudly reprimanded the cavalry, spearmen, archers, swordsmen, and shield soldiers in line, and the stone throwers and crossbow carts on the carts were trapped tightly, and everything was ready, just waiting for a general order after the sun set.
Qin Kangyi stood in front of the armor frame, and with the help of his own soldiers, he put on the parts of the armor layer by layer. A personal soldier came forward from outside and whispered a few times, Qin Kangyi stopped the personal soldier who had riveted his armor, walked quickly to the side door, and beckoned to Dai Fangqing, the scout guard waiting outside.
The scout guard Dai Fangqing was covered in dust, and he could barely see his original appearance, he should have just returned from the front line reconnaissance. The army was about to set off, regardless of etiquette, Dai Fangqing picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a full cup of tea and drank it all, the dust on his beard was moistened by the tea, and he was rubbed by Dai Fangqing's hand and pulled out the old mark on his face.
"How's it going?" Qin Kangyi looked at Dai Fangqing.
"It's not good, after the Daye Army took the Giant Elephant Mountain, they condescendingly attacked the Black Tiger Pass, and the Black Tiger Pass was in danger." Dai Fangqing just said a word, only to hear that the victory drum on the city tower has changed from slow to urgent, and the time to set off has arrived.
"Go back to the team first, say on the way." Qin Kangyi tightened his armor and stepped out of the door, and the captain of the personal soldiers had been waiting outside the door for a long time.
The last bit of the sun's afterglow fell into the darkness, and the Hump Pass was instantly lit up by countless torches, Qin Kangyi drove the horse to the forefront of the queue, turned his head to look at the Hump Pass, turned the horse around, and stabbed the long lance in his hand straight into the sky, shouting loudly, "Enter the Black Tiger Pass!" ”
The drummers beat the drum with both hands and beat the drum in rhythm, and all the sergeants shouted in unison with their fist armor: "Victory!" Winning! Winning! ”
A long dragon of torches, winding along.
Huo Dingzhi held the twisted chieftain in his hand, and galloped with the fire dragon back, going to Pingliang, the capital of Fengguo.
Daye King's military tent.
The horse oil lamp emits the burnt smell of animal fat, but it must have been added to the incense from the grassland, and it does not smell very pungent. The whole military tent was full of a strong grassland style, and the king of Daye was full of thick and thin braids, thick eyes and beards, with a bone necklace around his neck, wearing a bear fur, and half-lying on a long felt covered with a whole white tiger skin. On the felt carpet were silver wine jugs and boiled beef and mutton, a gem-encrusted scimitar was played with in the hands of the Daye King, and a black-robed man wearing a Kinara mask knelt in front of the table.
"The eagles of the steppe never associate themselves with insects, you have proven to me that you are capable of being a friend of Tubarku, come, mysterious guest, let us raise a glass together and celebrate the harvest to come." Daye Wang Yaoyao raised the wine jug and poured it down.
"It's not my ability, Your Majesty King Daye, I'm just a humble servant of our Lord, and I carry out the Lord's will." The Kinnara Masked Man raised his glass and quietly corrected the words of the Daye King.
"Bang", the silver wine jug fell to the ground, and the wine in the jug spilled out, and the aroma of wine overflowed. The scimitar of the Daye King flashed with silver light, pointing at the black-robed man from afar, "What? Are you just a slave? Then why make a covenant with the eagle and let your master come, the king of the steppe cannot tolerate such an insult. ”
"I have heard a saying in the steppe that a dog in the Ernazis pasture is more valuable than the life of a small tribal leader. Your Majesty King Daye, although I am the servant of the Lord, without me as a servant, Daye can still only salivate on the grassland against the thousands of miles of fertile fields of Fengguo. And now, the mountain of giant elephants is at your feet, and food, women, and gold are within reach. You are an eagle, but a hungry eagle cannot fly. I don't want to anger you, with all due respect, my Lord is a being you need to look up to, and you are nothing more than a wild bird with a little fluttering wings to my Lord. If you still want to bite off a piece of meat on Fengguo's body, you'd better put away your insignificant pride, otherwise our cooperation will be terminated at any time, and Giant Elephant Mountain will be the cemetery of Daye Army. If you're skeptical, give it a try. The black-robed man didn't care about the anger of King Daye, and slowly cut the meat in front of him with a knife, "By the way, let me remind you, don't provoke a Great Nian Master, I don't think the knife in your hand is stronger than a dinner knife." As for the wolf guard outside, it may not be faster than mine. Looks like I'm going to have to teach you how to maintain the reverence you deserve for the Great Nian. ”
Seeing any movement from the black-robed man, the scimitar in the hand of King Daye suddenly shattered into pieces, from the tip to the handle, and even the hard gems inlaid on it were shattered, and the felt carpet was full of shiny fragments.
"Your Excellency, please forgive Tubalku for his impulsiveness, I take back what I just said, please raise my glass again, and may we be as harmonious as mare's milk and honey in the future." King Daye called for someone to clean up the felt that sat down.
"We have painstakingly mediated the war between your harmonious countries, opened up trade and trade between the two states at the junction, and exchanged what you have, so that the production of your steppe can be exchanged for the food, iron, wine, and medicine you really need. In order to seize the Giant Elephant Mountain, we sacrificed a full twenty Qi Realm peak masters, hoping that Your Majesty will remember our agreement and not test our bottom line. All you need to do is let the Battle of Giant Elephant Mountain become the fuse for the destruction of Fengguo. I'm full, thank you for the hospitality, and take my leave. The black-robed man no longer paid attention to the King of Daye, and as if no one was around, King Daye stared at the back of the black-robed man, as if he was looking at a poisonous snake hiding in the dark with fangs.
When the black-robed people came to the door, Daye and the United States were fighting on the border, and the two sides had been fighting for decades in order to compete for land suitable for growing food. The steppe warriors were exhausted by years of campaigning, but none of them were Tubarku's sons. In the grassland, nothing is eternal, whoever has more livestock, more warriors, and more weapons is the most useful person in the grassland. The history of Tubarku tribes' rule over the grasslands dates back more than a thousand years, and the Wolf Cavalry Regiment of Tubarku is a formidable presence in the grasslands. Since the rise of the Tubarku tribe, desperately suppressing the development of other tribes, the tribes that threaten Tubarku a little bit have been constantly conscripted and sent to the battlefield to consume their strength, and some tribes have no way to live, secretly colluding with each other to move, trying to wait for the opportunity to pull the Tubarku tribe who rule the steppe down from the throne.
The black-robed man said that he wanted Daye and Damu to cease war, but the king of Daye didn't believe it, and within a few days, Daye sent the cease-state letter and Huang Chengcheng's gold. The black-robed man said that there was only one voice in the grassland, and King Daye didn't believe it, but now the heads of the tribal leaders who secretly colluded against Tubarku had been made into a bone chain and hung around King Daye's neck. The black-robed man drew a horizontal line on the map, and the cavalry of the grassland magically crossed the Giant Elephant Mountain and stepped on the coveted land of Fengguo, even if it was not far away from the Black Tiger Pass, the Daye King felt that he was living in a dream.
Listen carefully, the wind of this rich country carries the roar of conquest and slavery. Behold, I, Turbaku Lebad, will be the first king to go out of the steppe and conquer the wilderness. King Daye roared in his heart, he was only separated from success by a black-robed man.
The Giant Elephant Mountain is already a dead place, and the corpses of the Fengguo border army are covered with thick white ash by the subordinates of the black-robed people, so the military tent is set up in the open space near the Black Tiger Pass, besieging but not attacking, which is the request of the black-robed people. The black-robed man said that no one was allowed to drink the mountain spring water, but the grassland people were accustomed to drinking raw water, and when the evil wolf guard marched, he saw that the mountain pool was clear and clear, and there were unusually beautiful small flowers growing on the water's edge, so he secretly bowed a handful of pond water and drank it, and in less than two hours, the bones of the whole body seemed to be extracted, and the death was like the dough made by the inland people.
In the eyes of the steppe warriors, the black-robed man is the embodiment of death, and only the god of death can open a tunnel through the mountain for cavalry to pass through in three days, and only the god of death can wipe out the 30,000 defenders of Giant Elephant Mountain overnight.
But who made the steppe people poor and afraid? Even if the black-robed man was a poison dipped in honey, the Daye King did not hesitate to swallow it in one gulp, as long as it was valuable, what if it was sold to the god of death.
About 300,000 cavalry of Daye's army had already bypassed the Black Tiger Pass and advanced along the foot of the Giant Elephant Mountain towards the inland land of Feng. According to the deployment of the black-robed people, the Daye army will give full play to the advantages of cavalry, loot in the hinterland of Fengguo, and feed the war with war, and finally break through the remnants of the giant elephant mountain back to the grassland. The secret passage through the mountains has long been hidden, this time it is just a temptation, in the years to come, the Daye army will treat Fengguo as a pasture of the grassland, harvesting stubble by stubble, until the giant-like Fengguo is drained and bled down.
King Daye wanted to really rule the land of Fengguo, the grassland people were fed up with the pain of migration, and if they could take root in this land, what a desirable life it would be. The sons and daughters of the grassland, if they turn the Fengguo people into slaves, they can be like the inland people, lightly clothed, boiled wine and tea, drove and lay on the couch, and forever drew a line with the word "barbarian".
The black-robed man only said that the time had not yet come, and the Daye King had already tried many times, and tonight was just another temptation.
The black-robed people brought the news of the Fengguo reinforcements, although there were less than 200,000 grassland soldiers stationed here to contain the Fengguo reinforcements, but all of them were the most ferocious wolf cubs in the grassland, since the Fengguo people dared to come, then let the Fengguo people feel the sharpness of the grassland scimitar.