Chapter 534: The Pearl of Immortal Heaven
At the foot of Yinshan Mountain, in the middle of the endless yurts that can not be seen at a glance, is a huge grassland with a radius of more than ten miles. This pasture is obviously specially vacated.
Every year, the Great Khan of Mongolia sacrifices to the Immortal Heaven, which is the most important prosperous age for all Mongolian tribes, no matter how far apart, as long as the whole tribe is not dead, the tribes on the steppe will come from thousands of miles and thousands of miles to participate, and they will not be able to come, but they will also send people to come, just to be able to please a good omen this year.
Faith, although sometimes a little inexplicable, is so heavy.
Countless tribes on the prairie rushed to Yinshan to participate in the Immortal Heaven Sacrifice, of course, it is impossible for all tribes to be close to Yinshan, and it is impossible for all tribes to camp close to the Great Khan's Golden Horde in Ogedai. Only the most powerful tribes in the steppe and the tribes of several Mongolian princes can have a place on the Yin Mountain.
The rest of the tribes, large and small, set up camp tents around the huge grassland that was deliberately vacated, according to the strength of the tribe. The stronger the clan, the more string controllers there are, and the better it will be able to occupy a good position.
The deliberately vacated grassland is not only used to worship the immortal heaven, spring is the season when all things sprout, the cattle and sheep are in heat, and it is naturally the time for countless young men and women on the grassland to show their charm and figure to each other. This year is a little different, after the sacrifice of the Immortal Heaven, it will be the "Great Khuli Getai" meeting of all the Mongolians in the entire steppe.
"Great Khuli Getai" is Genghis Khan's first initiative, before it was started in July and August every year, this year because of some special reasons, Wokotai in the last year has issued an edict to all the tribes on the steppe, the sacrifice of "Eternal Heaven" and "Da Khuli Getai" will be held at the same time.
The "Great Khuligetai" is also the Naadam Conference of the later generations.
At the "Great Kullige Terrace", each tribe will send its bravest warriors to hold events such as mounted archery, wrestling, and bonfire competitions. Archery and wrestling don't need to be considered, naturally it is also to show the strength of each tribe, occasionally there are small tribes of warriors who are extremely good, if they can show their prominence on the "Great Khuli Getai", and get the favor of those big tribes and even the Great Khan, his people and even the small tribes behind him, they will not be able to ascend to the sky in one step.
The bonfire festival is to give Mongolian warriors and Mongolian girls who have been accumulating a winter an opportunity to vent their excess energy openly.
At this moment, the Mongolians, to be able to give birth, no matter which tribe is the greatest contribution, the more births and breeding, the more young and strong the tribe, the more people who can wear armor and control the strings, the tribe will be able to seize more fat pasture to feed more cattle and sheep, feed more people, so a virtuous circle, the strength of the tribe is naturally thriving.
The men and women on the prairie don't have so many men and women defenses, and there are too many things to do with the sky and the earth for the bed.
Therefore, after each sacrifice to the Immortal Heaven, after October, each tribe will usher in a large wave of crying babies, and the patriarchs and elders of each tribe and even the Great Khan of Mongolia are happy to see it.
At this moment, on the wide grassland, there are more than ten horsemen galloping, from time to time on the horseback to make a variety of dazzling movements, sometimes rolling, sometimes suddenly hiding on the horse's back, and even relying on the superb riding skills in the gallop jumping and changing horses and running, in this dazzling action, from time to time there are sharp arrows from these more than ten riders to the arrow target standing on the edge of the grassland.
At least nine of the ten were hit by the bull's eye, but never a sharp arrow missed the target, and every time it hit the red heart, it would provoke countless onlookers from various tribes and herdsmen to tear their throats and shout.
Among the more than ten horsemen, the middle was a petite woman wearing silver leather armor, which was particularly eye-catching compared to the more than ten strong Mongolian men around her. If you look closely, you will find that wherever the woman gallops, there will be several knights around, not a siege, but more like an arch guard.
This woman is slender, riding skills compared with those Mongolian men around, but it is not much to let it go, more than ten riding, this woman has been galloping in the front, never fell below the top three, the woman moves very little, occasionally also mostly from the horse's belly through the crossing, from the other side of the wear, whenever the woman moves, there will always be a tsunami of cheers from the herdsmen of countless tribes around.
"Jade Princess! Jade Princess! ”
"The Pearl of Immortality!"
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The Jade Princess is not only a superb horseman, but also does not stop with the longbow in her hand while galloping, and every sharp arrow is the bull's-eye, and every time it hits, it will cause countless cheers in the surrounding crowd.
More than ten rides soon reached the end of the grassland, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the two horses that were still in front of the jade princess invariably slowed down, and the jade princess, who was still in the third place, was already the first after reaching the end. Seeing that the Jade Princess suppressed a group of herdsmen who were said to be the most brave and warlike men of the various tribes on the grassland, they cheered desperately.
The Jade Princess turned over and dismounted, and more than ten knights standing around her surrounded her, clustering around her, looking at that face, who was the Nalan Yu that Jia Yidao had seen before?
More than a dozen warriors in the big tribe who are famous for being good at shooting and riding don't seem to have the slightest psychological barrier to losing in the hands of Nalan Yu, and their triumphant appearance is more like they have received some kind of reward. In addition, everyone looked at Nalan Yu's eyes, and the heat in those eyes seemed to be able to melt the snow on Yin Mountain.
Nalan Yu's pretty face was tense, maybe she had just moved around, and she had a few wisps of blush on her face, she was a little more delicate and beautiful.
Of the dozen or so knights surrounding her, a few of them quietly swallowed their spit when they saw Nalan Yu's appearance.
At this moment, Nalan Yu was obviously not in a very good mood, and he didn't take care of the knights around him at all, shook the golden silk horsewhip in his hand, made a crisp whip sound, and went straight to the grassland without looking back, and the servants who were waiting around the grassland hurriedly brought the big sword to Nalan Yu and put it on.
Nalan Yu is not stupid, and naturally knows that he can get the first place in the cavalry and archery competition with the dozen or so most famous warriors of various tribes. These five big and three rough warriors are too rough, except for the simple-minded shepherds who are watching the excitement around the pasture, who doesn't see that these people are deliberately giving her the princess face, deliberately letting her?
Nalan Yu is competitive, but he despises these people extremely much. Not to mention, these people are so diligent, what they want to do, she knows even more tightly.
Ignoring the more than a dozen warriors of various tribes who seemed to be following behind him, Nalan Yu strode away, and before he took two steps, he saw a familiar face in the crowd, and his pretty face was suddenly happy.
(End of chapter)