Chapter 10: The Massacre

Although Tang Ji repelled the steppe wolf, he realized that it was not advisable to stay here for long, so he extinguished the flames and helped Alyssa out of the forest.

In the misty night, there are a few faint clouds of color in the sky above the east, in a silence, there is hidden vitality, so quiet and quiet, everything is still in a dream, looking at the past, the sky is gradually dawning, the earth is hazy, like shrouded in silver-gray light veil. At this time, Wan Lai was afraid of silence, and suddenly a bird's cry broke the silence. After a while, a fish-belly white floated in the eastern sky, the sky had sprinkled the first rays of sunlight, and the earth gradually brightened, and the sky dawned.

Tang Ji and Alyssa, who had been tossing all night, also fell asleep on the ground at the moment, heard the birdsong, Alyssa was the first to open her eyes, she was so tired in the last two days, she fell asleep unconsciously, I didn't expect to sleep so dead, Don Ji has not woken up at the moment.

Alyssa's injuries were healed a lot, and she was able to stand up on her own, and after she stood up, she looked around, and they walked a long way out of the forest, and finally came to this hill bag to spend this night without danger, Alyssa wanted to return to the clan at once, and teach this thing to the elders, but she couldn't rest assured that Tang Ji sighed, sat down and took out the fruit from the bag, and chewed it slowly.

Tang Ji also opened his eyes, saw that Alyssa had already woken up, and said hello to her.

After a simple breakfast, Alyssa said her thoughts, she wanted to go back to the clan now, after all, she had something important hidden in her, and Tang Ji also agreed with her idea, their relationship is now a little vague, saying that lovers have been a little too much, but saying that friends seem to be closer than friends.

Tang Ji volunteered to send Elisa back to the elf tribe, and Alyssa did not refuse, after all, now Tang Ji knows magic, and escorting Elisa back is not a big deal, and Tang Ji has already hugged the beauty, and it doesn't make sense to go to the golden tent of the Prairie King.

So they went on the road, walked for a long time, and met a steppe tribe, but when they saw the scene in front of them, they were both shocked.

The whole tribe was burned, and the smoke and screams, screams, and fires came with the wind, and the tribe was no longer there, and there was scorched earth everywhere, and some tents were burning and crackling at the moment.

There were cattle, sheep and livestock that fell to the ground, as well as a large number of herdsmen.

Some of the surviving old people stared blankly at the dead relatives on the ground, the children who had lost their mothers were crying at the moment, and the woman who had lost her husband was now lying on her man's body and howling in grief, and there were some unclaimed heads scattered on the ground, and the blood on the ground was like a river, and now it had dried up and turned black, and the tribe was completely in ruins, a hellish scene.

A young girl, stripped naked, to see that she had been humiliated before she died, was now with her eyes wide open and her face horrible as if she were silently accusing the murderers of their crimes.

A child of a few months old had been impaled on the wooden fence around the tent, several small children had been trampled by horses' hooves, and some young people had bloody holes in their chests that seemed to be caused by spears.

Others were covered with arrows, like hedgehogs, and the smell of blood filled the air, which was terrifying.

There are also people who have not died with several knives in their bodies, only to see that his body has been cut by the knife, and he is struggling painfully on the ground at the moment, waiting for his breath.

Tang Ji was shocked by the hellish scene in front of him, what kind of person was so cruel that he didn't even spare his children?

Then Tang Ji vomited out, and the sour water in his stomach vomited out.

A steppe woman saw Tang Ji and them walking slowly, the anger in her eyes was instantly ignited, and she came straight to Tang Ji, saying something loudly, seeing that the posture seemed to be desperate with Tang Ji, the woman rushed over, grabbed Tang Ji by the neck, and said something in her mouth, this time she said in Ottoman: "Damn Ottomans! I fought with you! You brutes! brutes!!"

Alyssa saw her come over and choke Don Guy and quickly separated them with all her might.

After parting, Don Ji rubbed his neck, gasping for air.

At this time, the surviving people around them all looked at them, their eyes were full of hatred and hatred, and those eyes wanted to tear Tang Ji apart immediately, but unfortunately most of these survivors were old, weak, sick and disabled, and none of them were young and strong.

Tang Ji didn't dare to go any further, so he pulled Alyssa out of the tribe quickly, and then dragged Alyssa away for a long time.

"Don Guy, who do you think did it?" asked Alyssa softly.

After running for a long time, they can sit down and rest for a while while thinking about this problem.

Tang Ji sat on the ground and touched his chin and said: "It shouldn't be done by other tribes, although the grassland people are like robbers, they not only rob the pasture, but also rob cattle and sheep, horses, and women, but they will not do it so desperately." And even if the steppe people did it themselves, after killing people, they would stick a pole into the ground and hang the corpse on it, with their faces facing the holy mountain, as a sign of repentance to the gods. ”

"How do you know so much?" asked Alyssa curiously.

"Hahaha, I had a good reading of the general history of the mainland before I came out to practice. Tang Ji looked a little proud, and he didn't blame Alyssa, after all, humans and elves had not interacted for thousands of years, how could she possibly know about these customs on the grassland.

Alyssa gave him a blank look: "Go on!"

"First of all, make sure that the culprit who slaughtered this grassland tribe will not be the cavalry of the grassland king or those wandering tribes, because there is a shortage of materials on the grassland, if it is done by the grassland king or the wandering tribe, they will put away tents, take away cattle and sheep and even women, and will not burn these things at all, it can be seen from this that the culprit of this tragedy is definitely not the grassland people themselves. Secondly, the cause of death of some herdsmen was pierced by spears, and the weapons used by the steppe people were generally scimitars, sabers and the like. And things like spears, only the Ottoman Empire had! The spears here should be cavalry guns, standard cavalry equipment. And just now I looked at the bows and arrows on those dead people, each arrow cluster is made of stainless steel, the steppe is so lacking in iron ore, it will not be the steppe people, on the other hand, the Ottoman side is already famous for iron tools. And the blood here has turned black, which takes some time, and at the same time, the huge tribe has also been burned to the ground, and it also takes some time, indicating that the tragedy happened at least last night. The other thing the woman just said seemed to mean that the Ottomans had slaughtered the tribes. At present, there are only three imperial cavalry near the grassland, one is the Northwest Independent Knights in the northwest of the Empire, but there are more than a dozen mountains from here, and it is impossible for the cavalry to cross the mountains and mountains, and if they take a detour, it will definitely attract attention. The second cavalry is the Duke of Tranta's personal cavalry regiment, although Tran City is not too far from here, but don't forget, there are many imperial garrisons around Tran City, if the army of Tran City wants to come to the grassland to kill, then there will definitely be movement. The third cavalry is the Wyvern Legion!" Don Ji said like Detective Conan, and if he was to dress him in a little blue dress with big-rimmed glasses and music now, it would really not be a disobedience at all.

Don Ji didn't want to think about the Ottoman Empire either, but all the evidence pointed to that man at the moment, and he remembered the young general with blond hair, who had made himself want to become stronger.

"Could it be him?"

Tang Ji and they passed by several small tribes and large tribes one after another, without exception, all of them were slaughtered, and the evidence is obviously pointed to the Ottomans, this is a big problem, if these are really done by the Ottoman Empire, then what are they going to do? Stir up trouble for no reason, but the soldiers are taboo, but if it is not done by the Ottoman Empire, then the matter is even bigger, this is to provoke a war between the Ottomans and the steppe people, and their hearts can be punished!

The golden tent of the grassland royal court is extremely luxurious, the whole big tent is the size of a football field, there are countless tents of different sizes around, several teams of elite grassland soldiers are patrolling closely, the tent is surrounded by a huge grassland, the grassland is fertile, the water source is sufficient, countless cattle and sheep, and a large number of horses, like the first tribe on the grassland, the tent is surrounded by several silk threads made of gold, the sun is shining, the golden light is shining. The fire inside the big tent was vigorous, and the golden skulls outside the big tent were hunting by the wind, but inside the big tent was as warm as spring.

The Sarmatians are a tough steppe tribe and are the masters of the Golden Skull Banner and the steppes. The tribes of the steppe were forced by their great strength to look to them. The Sarmatians were originally a northern nomadic people, and at their heyday, their tribes were even spread across the Viswana and Onyx rivers in the northeastern part of the present-day Ottoman Empire. It stretches north to the mysterious and cold barren lands and south to the foggy swamps. They used to be the great enemies of the empire, but then the empire produced a Duke of Tranda, this Ottoman became a nightmare for the steppe people, about 800 years ago, the Sarmatians were still grazing in the territory of the empire, they were extremely arrogant, at that time the Ottoman Empire was at war against other countries, there was no time to take care of the steppe people in the northwest of the empire, so they took the opportunity to invade a large number of territories in the northwest of the Ottoman Empire, expelled the subjects living in the northwest of the empire, and occupied their sphere of influence. The Sarmatian cavalry was extremely mobile and raided the Ottoman cities with impunity, capturing countless Ottoman women and wealth. The Ottoman Empire couldn't sit still, but at that time the empire was mired in a war with its neighbors and couldn't extricate itself, and the steppe people also saw this before they dared to wantonly encroach on the Ottoman territory, and then the legendary Grand Duke was ordered to be in danger, speaking of which the Grand Duke of Tran is also a legendary figure, his real name is Nelson Green, his family Green family, is a middle nobleman in the empire, and is also a very famous nobleman, he is the eldest son of the family, but he is very unpopular with his father, because I heard that he can't speak at all before the age of five, people say that he is an idiot, and there is nothing special about it before the age of ten, he has not awakened into a hunting spirit, and he can't magic, the body bones are also very weak, not suitable for practicing martial arts and fighting spirit. So when he was fifteen years old, he was driven back to his hometown fiefdom by his father to manage the family property, but by mistake, he actually met a prince of the Ottoman Empire at that time, and the prince was not treated by his father, and he was sympathetic to him, plus the two had similar personalities and similar interests, so they soon became good friends, good brothers, and later in the process of seizing the heir, Nelson showed his might to help the prince successfully ascend to the throne and become the emperor of the Ottoman Empire, but the Green family supported another prince at that time, and the whole family almost became a victim of political struggles, and finally Nelson exchanged his glorious and wealthy future for the preservation of his family, The emperor was furious at the time, deposed him to the desolate land in the northwest, he didn't care at all, after a few years of operation in the northwest, he built a particularly large city, the local people called it a legendary city, at that time when the empire was in internal and external troubles, the steppe people took the opportunity to encroach on the land of the empire, so His Majesty the emperor remembered Nelson and ordered him to be the general of the expedition to the west, so that he could clean up the steppe people. The Sarmatians didn't care about him at all, they thought they were a people on horseback, and there were hundreds of thousands of people on the steppe, so they didn't take Nelson in their eyes at all, but they were very wrong, they didn't expect this Nelson to be ruthless, and he killed the steppe people when he met them, regardless of men, women, old and young, whether cattle, sheep and livestock, without exception, all of them were killed, which shocked all the departments of the steppe, Nelson's own cavalry, fierce and abnormal, the horses were carefully selected, the killing time was left, and the equipment was also excellent, although the number was not much, only tens of thousands of horsemen, but without exception they were all heavy cavalry, every charge was like a torrent of steel, where have the steppe people seen this, so the steppe people were beaten out of the land of the empire by Nelson, and a few years later, the eagles on the steppe, The most powerful tribe in the steppe, the Sarmatians, were forced to migrate, and the tribe was also divided, so they moved to today's desert steppe, the most barren place in the entire steppe, Nelson made outstanding achievements, and the emperor was happy, and gave him the northwest land as a territory, gave him the surname Tran, and was named a hereditary first-class grand duke, so the city he built in the northwest was justifiably renamed and became the city of Tran, he was the Duke of Nelson-Tranta, and his descendants also guarded the northwest for the empire for generations, and the absence of war in the northwest has been passed down as a good story since then。