Chapter 580: The Seventh Princess Transfers Troops
The second prince Sa Man and the seventh princess led 3,000 men and horses, a rapid march, and arrived at the place where Yu Du and his party camped within half an hour. In front of their eyes, the scene looked like a puppet house.
Everyone was stunned by the sight in front of them, and they were all confused.
What's going on? The unseen, the unheard.
"Hey, what's going on here?" One of the Seven Princesses' attendants asked, grabbing a living dead who appeared to be on patrol.
The living dead didn't say a word, but the preoccupied expression on his face didn't change in the slightest.
"They...... What's wrong with them? ”
"White Lotus Sect, I am inseparable from you." The Seventh Princess raised her head to the sky and shouted, and then two lines of tears rolled down.
"White Lotus Sect? What does this have to do with the White Lotus Sect? What the hell happened to them? Saman's reaction speed was a little slow in his mind, and he still didn't understand what was in front of him.
These people all seemed to be frozen, as if they had been locked up by someone with a fixation method.
Of course they've heard of immobilization, but isn't that a myth or legend? At least no one has really seen it, and it is impossible for anyone to have this kind of magical power in reality, just like there is no Sun Dasheng in reality.
But the scene in front of me is very similar, as if everyone has been locked by someone with a fixed method, unable to speak, unable to move, unable to even make expressions, can only be pestle there like statues.
The Seventh Princess's head was buzzing, and Sa Man didn't listen to what he said, and she didn't have time to study what happened to these people. She hurried to Yudu's tent, and when she saw what was inside, she screamed in tears and fainted.
She really can't accept the reality in front of her, her favorite brother is actually dead, and he is still dying so miserably, not to mention that there is no dignity, not even the least decency is gone, who did this?
The maids hugged the Seventh Princess and called her like a soul, lest she be like these people, and her soul was detained.
Some of the more intelligent maids followed the thinking of the Seventh Princess, thinking that these people were all detained by the demons of the White Lotus Sect, which was really terrifying.
I have to say that this idea is very close to the truth, that creature does first suck out everyone's soul when it devours the soul, and then swallows it into the stomach, if its body can also be called the stomach.
"White Lotus Sect, demon girl, I don't share the sky with you." The second prince Sa Man only reacted at this time.
This is not to say that the creature deliberately planted the White Lotus Sect and the Holy Maiden, but this method is too similar to the White Lotus Sect's Soul Deterrence and Soul Detention Dafa, nor does it mean that other sects do not have this method, for example, there are also people in the Heavenly Master Sect who are proficient in these exercises, but there is only one White Lotus Sect that dares to perform this extinction-like technique on a large scale on the grassland, and there is no other branch.
Seeing the miserable appearance of his younger brother Yu Du, Sa Man did not react as violently as the Seventh Princess, although he was also very sad in his heart, but a trace of joy flashed through his thoughts, and then he felt ashamed and blamed himself for this thought.
Yu Du died, he was the youngest son, and after the death of the Khan, he would naturally be the one who kept the stove.
Originally, his position was very embarrassing, the eldest prince had a strong headquarters of soldiers and horses, and the territory was not small, all of which were fought by himself over the years.
The third prince Yu Du did not have to work at all, and waited for his father Khan to inherit his inheritance after his death.
As the second eldest, it seems a little ridiculous to be sandwiched between the two, in terms of territory and people, he is much worse than the eldest prince, and in terms of power, he is not as good as the eldest brother and the third brother.
So he often feels sorry for himself, saying that he is an abandoned person who is not loved by his grandmother and uncle, in fact, anyone in his position will be in this situation, not that God does not want to see him.
"Is the princess alright?" He was very concerned about the Seventh Princess and asked the maid.
Yu Du is dead when he dies, and it is better to be dead than alive, but the seventh princess has no conflict of interest with him, and she usually helps him talk, and the relationship between the two is also very good.
The seventh princess only has pity and sympathy for this second brother, and her favorite is still her younger brother Yu Du, who has a motherly feeling. It is common sense that women generally treat their younger brothers more closely than their older brothers.
"I'm fine." The Seven Princesses woke up.
She saw the maids and attendants around her, and saw Yu Du, who no one cared about inside, and her anger came up again.
"What are you all doing around me, why don't you hurry up and dress the third prince."
Only then did the maids come to their senses and hurriedly went over to dress Yu Du and a few maids. Fortunately, although they have no soul, their bodies are still alive, the temperature and softness of their bodies are still the same, and it is not difficult to put on clothes, if they are really dead, after such a long time, the corpse will have already stiffened, and wearing clothes will become a very difficult job.
"What's wrong with these people, what are we going to do?" Sa Man was a little at a loss.
"What to do? Of course, they are settling accounts with the demon girls of the White Lotus Sect and those demons, if they don't return the souls of the third brother and these people, then wait for destruction. "The Seventh Princess was ruthless.
"You mean the third brother, they're still alive?" Sa Man felt a disappointment in his heart, as if God had played a bleak joke on him.
"Of course they're still alive, don't you see that these people's bodies are the same as usual?"
The Seventh Princess also wanted Yu Du to come back to life too much, so she wishfully thought that as long as the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus Sect returned the detained souls, the lives of these people would be restored to their original state.
Logically speaking, it is true, if that creature is willing to release all the souls in its belly, these souls will automatically return to their own shells, and people will really come back to life.
But the Seventh Princess found the wrong object, and this matter was not done by the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus Sect at all. Of course, no one can find the right object, except for a few people such as Murong Yanran, no one knows that there is such a living reaper in this world that specializes in devouring people's souls.
"Second brother, you hurry back and report the matter here to your father Khan, and ask your father Khan to send another 10,000 soldiers, I will go to the demon girl first, and go with her to ask for the soul of the third brother." The Seventh Princess commanded.
"Another 10,000 soldiers?" Sa Man shook his head.
This number is a bit large, the standing army of each clan is actually not much, the Praetorian Guard is generally 40,000, and each prince also has some soldiers and horses, but the number is not much, mainly because the standing army is too expensive and cannot afford to raise more.
The cost of one cavalry is comparable to that of ten infantrymen, especially the Praetorian Guard, all of whom are heavy cavalry, also known as the Iron Float. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Dajin's Tiefutu once swept the invincible opponents of the Song army, and was not restrained until he met a general like Yue Fei.
Heavy cavalry had to be two-horseed, and both horses and men were heavily armoured, and bows, arrows, and knives could not be harmed at all. This kind of cavalry is like a heavy tank, and without proper restraint tactics, it is indeed impossible to resist, and no matter how many infantry there are, they will be smashed to pieces.
In the past, wars were fought in open formations, and once the formation was rushed into chaos, the soldiers could only fight on their own, and the combat power could not be condensed, so naturally there was only one way to lose.
There are not many heavy cavalry of the various tribes outside the Saiwai, mainly as the vanguard of the battle, breaking the enemy's formation, so that the enemy is crushed, and then the light cavalry behind can quickly follow the harvest of people's heads.
At that time, fighting cavalry with infantry, just like fighting with infantry and tank corps in later generations, there was naturally an asymmetrical disadvantage, Qi Jiguang invented various military formations, mainly to deal with cavalry tactics, the imperial court transferred Qi Jiguang to Jizhen as a general soldier, that is, he hoped that his tactics could be carried forward in the battle with the cavalry of various ethnic groups outside the Saiwai.
"10,000 is too much, isn't the 10,000 horses led by General Diemurhua there, and General Wumeng of Wara is also there with 10,000 horses, there are enough people." Saban reminded.
In addition to the 10,000 people in Diemurhua, there were also 1,000 people sent at the beginning, which is actually not a small number, not to mention the 11,000 friendly troops of the Warat tribe.
They also know the situation of the White Lotus Sect, that is, the Holy Maiden is there with a few elders, but Hassan's 6,000 men and horses must be counted in it, and the Tatars and the White Lotus Sect wear a pair of pants.
In this way, it seems that 22,000 men and horses fought against 6,000, and the advantage was obvious, but as for the 10,000 horses, they did not count. Da Ming Qincha originally came to negotiate, and it was unlikely that he would command the team to participate in the power disputes on the grassland, so he was not so stupid.
"The people and horses of the Warat tribe can't be counted, they are just grass on the wall, if it weren't for that slut, the third brother wouldn't have fallen into such a field." The seventh princess looked at her little brother Yu Du, who was carried into the carriage and still had a lifelike face, and couldn't help crying.
"That's enough, we have three thousand. With two against one, there are plenty of odds to win. Sa Man said.
He didn't want to go back and move troops, mainly because of such a big matter, even his father Khan couldn't settle it in a word, and he needed to discuss it with some elders in the clan, and it might lead to a full-scale war between the Tatars and the Uliangha.
According to Sa Man's idea, with the existing people and horses to ask the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus Sect for the soul of the victim, the strength should be enough, if the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus Sect insists on not returning it, the subsequent affairs are not at all for their brothers and sisters to decide, and they must wait for their father Khan to make a decision.
"Second brother, I said how did you mother-in-law, mother-in-law, are you still thinking about that slut of Tiemu Yuhua? She has harmed her third brother like this, and I think you have to be careful. The Seventh Princess snorted coldly.
"This ...... What does this have to do with the Jade Princess? Saman shrugged.
"It doesn't matter, if she hadn't provoked the trouble, would the third brother have offended that Da Ming Qincha? The rest of the story was all because of this. ”
"It's still to blame that Daming dog Qincha, he doesn't follow the crowd, how did things develop to this point?!" Sa Man said loudly.
"Second brother, how did my father Khan explain before leaving?"
“……”
"Father Khan has said, this time to the Ming Qin mission must not let people find fault with the number of etiquette, Father Khan is still waiting to go to the negotiation table, if you mess things up because of one or two gossip, you just wait to be dealt with by the clan rules." The Seventh Princess said solemnly.
Sa Man endured his anger and nodded, but he absolutely did not admit that Yu Du's matter had anything to do with the most beautiful person in his heart.