Chapter 38: Chaos and chaos
"What are we going to do? The Tatars have already set up camp outside! Hell, I feel like I'm being cursed by a demon! ”
"Say no more! It's horrible..... That night, I watched with my own eyes as Art was beheaded by the Tatars, woo-woo-woo......"
"I heard that 200 years ago, the Mongol Yellow Peril struck from the east! Don't...... Are they the return of the Yellow Peril? ”
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The soldier's whisper instantly ignited the atmosphere of the entire camp!
"Vig! What are you talking about? ”
"Huang ...... Yellow peril? Tatars? ”
Everyone gathered around and howled at the little young fellow as if what he had said was not the slightest fake. The old man shrank in the corner and shuddered with his head in his hands; The young man trembled and pretended to be calm.
They were all waiting for Vig's answer.
"Yes...... Yes...... I hid behind the gentlemen's regiment and was lucky enough to escape the massacre of the Tatars! The gentlemen died, but I survived. I saw them! I see it...... It was a group of people with very peculiar faces...... They are covered in dull yellow, black and yellow, and their eyes are black like devils!! From hair to beard, there is nothing that is not black! I've never seen such a strange person! It has to be them! It's those yellow perils that are back! ”
Vig probably doesn't look like he's sixteen years old. He held his head and looked at the low tent roof with a broken face. The kid seemed to be stupid and kept muttering the name of the Yellow Peril.
Yellow peril!
This term that can stop European children's night cries is still not unfamiliar to this day! Because the Golden Horde was divided not long ago, until now, the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate, the Kazan Khanate, the Siberian Khanate, and the Astrakhan Khanate have been co-existed, and the Golden Horde has completely collapsed. Even the name of the Golden Horde has been stripped away, leaving only the name of the Great Horde.
Despite this, however, the Tatars of this period had not yet degenerated to the point where they were gradually annexed by Moscow, which rose to the north decades later. Even the Crimean Khanate launched a grand campaign to besiege Moscow! It is recorded that in 1571 and 1572, the Crimean Khan led an army of 120,000 troops to attack Moscow twice. Corpses filled the moat of Moscow.
Eastern Europe and the Balkans, which have suffered from the Yellow Peril, are full of terrifying rumors of the Yellow Peril! Of course the Genoese who have spent so much time in Kaffa do!
Little Vig suddenly seemed to collapse! He jumped up and ran around like a madman!
As he ran, he shouted, "The devil has come!" The Yellow Peril is back! ”
And the routs in the same camp as him set the powder packs called fear on fire like gunpowder that had ignited an arquebus! After a reluctant dispatch of troops, a long march, a sudden call at night to organize a raid on the Tatars, the destruction of the First World War, and an embarrassed escape back to the camp, all their emotions finally exploded in the "rumors" of the Yellow Peril of Little Vig's walk!
More than a dozen soldiers grabbed their weapons and suddenly rushed out of the camp! They are hungry and cold! They haven't even eaten a meal until now!
The camp is roaring!
There were only two or three hundred soldiers left in the chaos, and the camp of five or six hundred peasant laborers was in chaos in an instant! Little Vig's shouting became the last open flame to ignite the gasoline can! The ignorant peasants prayed in a panic for God's help, longing for the arrival of the Archangel Mikhail to help them out of their predicament, and sometimes praying to Our Lady to protect their children from their lives; And the panicked soldiers seemed to be cut off directly!
These ruffians cut the ropes from the cows and horses, and took them into their hands. Then they plundered the little barley and wheat in the granary, and the rarer wine and a little spice. They even robbed the venerable Governor of Kaffa, Conrado del Otto, of two precious cotton garments!
When Conrador and his few gendarmes arrived at the scene of the incident, he found that the soldiers and the farmer had run halfway through! All that remained was the old, weak, sick and disabled, who could not snatch the waste of other soldiers. They looked at Conrador as if they were looking at a moving granary.
Conrador had just woken up from his fainting, but at this moment he passed out again!
"Your Excellency the Governor!"
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When Conrador woke up, it was already the early hours of the next morning.
"Ahem..... Cough...... Hell, God! "Conrador suddenly wakes up from a nightmare!
How he wished everything that had happened was fake! Cromodo hasn't been killed yet; His army remained intact; The army had not mutinied, and even the Tatars had not pursued them and stationed them outside the tents.
But it's all gone!
Gone......
"No!"
Conrador suddenly clenched his fists!
A hint of fortitude and bravery suddenly appeared on his already wrinkled face.
Conrador reminisced about his past. When he was an illegitimate child, every time he went to see his father, his brothers would pee on him; When he finally survived his father's sequel at the age of eleven, and returned to the gloomy compound, no one looked at him; When he appeared in Sardinia, he was greeted by a desperate suffocating air, with the local merchants ostracizing him and the foreign merchants looking down on him; When he left Sardinia and returned to Genoa, he was rejected by his brothers, and finally his father's will was secretly given to him by a servant.
"What was going on for me when I took all my possessions and traded this Governor position with those filthy bugs?"
Conrado del Otto began to reflect at this moment.
I saw their old wrinkles that could trap flies, and the greedy gaze in their narrow eyes! I know what they want, that's why I keep going!
Conrado del Otto suddenly jumped out of bed with great energy.
"Squire!"
Conrado went out and found that there was only one squire left.
"What are you doing? Why are you the only one here! "Conrado was undoubtedly very angry!
The attendant cringed a little and said, "The others...... The others went to eat. ”
Dine?
Conrador sneered in his heart, hehe, these cubs, I'm afraid it's not just as simple as eating......
"Well, I've got an important task for you. Once you've done that, you'll be able to claim 30 Gold Hipperon coins from the Kafa Chamber of Commerce! Conrador looked like, "Young man, I'm very optimistic about you," patted the squire on the shoulder, and said with a smile.
"Yes..... What is it? The squire swallowed with a gulp.
"Ride a horse and go outside the camp of the Tatars and give them this letter. Or you can throw it far away. Just let them know that I sent it. Conrador said, a gleam in his eyes!