Chapter Seventy-Five: The Captive
Seeing the opposing cavalry stalking. It's hard to win for a while. And behind him there were pursuers, like maggots on tarsal bones, chasing after them. After a while, the centaur lord Printhia gritted her teeth. It was decided to abandon some of the centaur soldiers again and break through again. At this moment, two more troops with torches rushed from the north and south directions. Printhia knew that most of them were the opposing cavalry, so she no longer hesitated, and said: "Break through!" and took more than ten centaur soldiers around her to bypass the main battlefield, but did not flee to the east, but to the south.
The Centaur Lord probably knew about it for a while. The other party is afraid that he has set a net on the way back to the east. I'm just waiting to hit it. It's a good idea to take a slight detour and walk some distance from the other direction to get around the ambush circle.
At this moment, most of the other party has already encountered the first batch of ambushes. Thus they will change direction, flee to the south, or to the north - of course, don't worry, the hussars have been patrolled in both directions at the same time. Be sure to catch it. ”
At this very moment, Joan of Arc was writing to Egil. Claiming to be a subordinate because she felt that her identity was a Norman general at this time. So it's not good to be too close to Egil.
In this way, Principia, who thought she had a plan and left most of the centaur soldiers, was again confronted by a hussar hundred-man team at dawn. After a day and a night of fighting and fleeing, all the centaur soldiers were too tired to fight. In the process of fleeing, their weapons were also largely lost—now, with the exception of Printhia alone with her two-handed greatsword, the other fifteen centaurs had only two scimitars and a bow. Three arrows only. Naturally, such an armament could not be an opponent for the hussars. After only a moment's resistance, the fifteen centaurs were either dead or captured. The army was annihilated - Printhia was the only one left still resisting.
The great sword in her hand had been slashed down an unknown number of times, and her originally agile and powerful skills had now become sluggish and clumsy. It was frightening that the outstanding swordsmanship she was proud of was now that no one could kill her. And the roar that originally accompanied every swing of the sword has now disappeared. Sweat, blood, filth and dust made her look dirty, and her shiny blonde hair was dulled. Because of hunger and lack of water, bleeding, tiredness of the body. There was a blackness in front of my eyes. The dizziness also grew—and though the Norman soldiers tried their best to capture her alive, as she resisted fiercely, the scars continued to appear where she was naked and unprotected by half of her light armor.
"Really. Is...... Am I going to die here like this?!" Printhia thought. Finally used the last bit of her strength. Leaping out of the encirclement of the Norman soldiers--after. He fell to the ground and fainted amid the exclamations of the Norman soldiers.
"We've got her!" the Norman hussars immediately ran over and checked on her. When they found out that the creature was not dead, they cheered - however, the soldiers were a little embarrassed as to how to get the creature back - if it was an ordinary human prisoner of war, take a bundle of ropes, put it on the horse's buttocks, and then take a little care not to let her fall. But centaurs are heavy creatures. It is impossible to put another one on horseback. And look at the current state of this guy. I'm afraid I won't be able to walk on my own. And the health is also deteriorating. Let the soldiers fear that this guy will die - in this case, their merit will become a sin.
"Otherwise...... We usually hunt deer. How did you bring it all back?" and suddenly someone said something like this.
"Tie four hooves together, hang them upside down and carry them with sticks. Someone next to him replied, "Oh, what do you mean...... Let's do the same?!"
But soon, a new problem arose - because centaurs were much taller than humans. So when you carry a stick on your shoulder, the upper body of the Centaur hanging upside down will touch the ground - there are so many stones and so many things along the way, it would be terrible if you bumped into it. ...,
"Ride a horse, get on a horse!"
So someone came up with this idea again. The Norman hussars mounted their horses, and the height increased quite a bit, so that the guy's head would not hit the ground.
In this way, the centaur lord entered Krakow, the capital of the Norman Empire. Not a conqueror as she imagined, but a prisoner of war. On that day, a celebratory banquet and ceremony were held in Krakow, and the citizens were empty. scrambling to watch the centaur lord from the side of the road, pointing at her. The Norman hussars who carried her beckoned to the people like heroes. And at this moment, the centaur county lord who was brain congested because of the big head rushed down was a little more sober - after seeing this scene, he suddenly knew that he was captured. So he immediately fainted again......
In this way, the centaur lord was sent to the military camp in the city, in the tent of General Joan of Arc. When General Joan of Arc saw this centaur lord, General Rao was well-informed and mentally tough, and he couldn't help but be stunned - he only saw that the centaur lord had four hooves empty, tied together, and a wooden stick passed through the middle. They were brought by several Norman soldiers on horseback.
It's good to be able to catch this guy, but looking at Prosia's current state. Joan of Arc also knew that if she didn't receive treatment, she would probably be sent to Egil with a corpse.
“...... Send it to the military doctor...... Well, send a few more grooms to see what. Because he didn't know much about the structure of the centaurs, Joan of Arc added the next half of the sentence after he finished speaking.
"Also, put her down and get a car. Seeing that several hussars were still trying to carry her there, Joan of Arc added.
In this way, the life of Príthia, the lord of the centaur county, began as a prisoner of war - and in the end, the military doctor only bandaged her wounds, and did not dare to use medicine. It wasn't until Joan of Arc sent someone to interrogate the centaur prisoners of war, and asked the captured prisoners to prescribe their own medicine, that Procia gradually recovered.
However, although the physical wounds began to heal, the psychological wounds caused by the defeat could not be healed. The fear of being captured by the Normans made the Centaur Lord want to kill herself several times - of course, thanks to the lack of knowledge in the savannah, and her well-informed father would not have taught her how to kill herself. So after hitting the wall twice, and not dying because of her lack of strength, Joan of Arc sent someone to watch over her. At the same time, her hands were tied, and special wooden shackles were added to her legs to restrict her movement. If you feed or defecate or something, you have to be fed or defecated......
This is simply the greatest humiliation for the arrogant centaur lord. Every time she heard the maids complaining about things like cleaning her body, changing urinals, etc., Printhia felt the urge to die. And the hatred for Joan of Arc became stronger and stronger. Of course, more feelings are helplessness, confusion and extreme fear. Sometimes, the maids, and the soldiers, would point at her as if they were visiting some rare animal. A series of presumptuous laughs, that gaze, that sound, like a knife, kept cutting the centaur lord's heart.
So the next day, Joan of Arc got the news that "she's on a hunger strike!"
"Oh. Then break your chin and pour it in. Joan of Arc said indifferently, "In short, let her be alive until she meets His Majesty." ”
As a result, the Centaur Lord suffered more in this way - the Norman spies produced by the system were quite knowledgeable about how to disassemble human joints - Gaba dislocated her jaw and then pressed it again, this kind of thing was easy to catch - the intense pain directly caused the Centaur Lord to faint - and then, after forcibly feeding the dough porridge and choking on it, she woke up again. After that, because of the pain of being jaw-soldered, he fainted again......
After half a month of recovery treatment, Joan of Arc was sure that Printhia was ready to go through the bumps of a long journey.
Printhia finally knew what it meant to survive and not to die. During the two or three months from Krakow to Moscow, she was subjected to such treatment. The brain is basically numb, and it is at the mercy of others like the walking dead.
And so, it was July 1005. In Moscow, the battle with the centaurs has reached a critical point. For the third time, the Norman emperor postponed the date of the battle with the centaurs. made Ayujie Khan begin to wonder if he was plotting with the tiger...... Of course, Khan is now prepared for the worst. The centaur soldiers had assembled next to the swamp on the south side. The Khan planned that if there was the slightest mistake, he would lead part of the elite Praetorian Guard to break off and let the main force evacuate first.
And Egil was also a little distressed at this time, although he said that he had captured the crucial centaur lord. But whether she can rely on her to achieve her strategic goals. Or the tenacious centaur Khan, like Wu Qi back then, doesn't care about the life or death of his children. Or will the other party forcibly break through after learning the news, causing variables......
So, in recent times, before Printhia arrived, Egil was stalling for time while constantly appeasing Ayujie Khan. Condolences were sent twice in three days, and in order not to irritate them, the construction of the fortifications was stopped. In addition, he repeatedly promised that he would treat the centaur tribe differently from the Cumans, and even sent diplomats tentatively in disguise to negotiate with the other party, etc...... This series of actions can be regarded as stabilizing Ayujie Khan and making him not take risks
Until July 22. Printhia, Lord of the Centaurs, was sent to Egil's barracks......