Chapter 253: The Down-and-Out Prince (II)

At the end of the year, the grassland coalition army, which was not good at attacking the city, threw down nearly half of the corpses under the Lanshan Pass, and the generals completely woke up.

As they tried to retreat, Agoura stepped up again. He analyzed the respective advantages of the Grassland Army and the Xiliang Army, believing that the advantage was still on his side, and tried to persuade the hasty generals to retreat in batches, using the army that retreated first to ambush in the rear, and the retreating army as bait, to fight a surprise ambush battle against the Xiliang army that was bound to pursue, and turned defeat into victory.

Once again, his suggestion was rejected by the coalition generals, who had lost the will to fight, and they only wanted to return to the steppe as quickly as possible with the speed of the cavalry.

Not long after the retreat of the grassland coalition army, the gate of Lanshan Pass suddenly opened, and the pursuers of Xiliang Kingdom, who had already prepared for Lu, slowly drove out of the city gate.

What made the Prairie Coalition Army feel like they were killed was that the pursuers were not the infantry they imagined, but all light cavalry. Only Agoura sighed unsurprisingly.

At this critical moment, Agoura once again stepped forward and took the initiative to lead his cronies to block Xiliang's pursuers. The generals of the coalition army, who were already in a hurry like a lost dog, naturally couldn't ask for it.

Before Agoura set out, he told the generals that on the way back, they must scatter reconnaissance horses. They had been delayed for too long under Lanshan Pass, enough for the ambush troops of the Western Liang Kingdom to bypass them and arrange them in their rear.

Once again, his words fell on deaf ears. Agoura, who had traded his own blood and the lives of his cronies, had lost the opportunity to retreat when he was completely destroyed by an ambush that should never have happened.

In the end, under the desperate efforts of his cronies, Agoura broke through and fled back to the royal court alone. But he was greeted by his own uncle's butcher's knife.

At that time, Wu Rihan, who was already the Great Elder of the Temple, had watched Agora grow up since he was a child, and he had already regarded this heroic prince as the hope for the prosperity of the Usud tribe and the Orian royal family, and naturally he could not allow the Khan of Has-ullah to harm him.

The guardian monk of the Great Snow Mountain Temple, representing the Great Snow Mountain faction, is like the Taishang Khan of the tribe, even the Great Khan of the tribe does not dare to disobey easily.

The Great Khan of the tribe wielded the most powerful secular power in the tribe and was the veritable number two in the tribe.

If someone asks who the third person in the grassland tribe is, I am afraid that seventy percent of the grassland people will answer that you are the Great Elder of the Temple.

In the case of most guardian monks who do not care about mundane matters, the Grand Elder of the Temple can be said to be the plenipotentiary of the temple.

Not only does he act as the spiritual leader of the entire clan in place of the Guardian Monk, but he also wields a temple armed known as the White Guard.

This armed force is only responsible for guarding the safety of the temple on weekdays, and there are not many people, about a thousand people, and the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and its members are all carefully selected, and they are boiling their bodies with the elixir refined by the temple, so that these guards have the skills of third-rate warriors.

This army, which only has a thousand people, can win even in the face of ten times the elite of the grassland.

This is only the strength of the Temple Great Elder on the surface.

In addition to serving as the spiritual temple of the tribe, the temple is also the largest and only martial arts sect in the grassland, in addition to cultivating low-level monks, it will also train strong generals for the tribe, and the temple elder, as the supreme person in charge of the temple's daily affairs, has undoubted influence among these generals from the temple.

After Agoura was taken by his own uncle, the newly enthroned Has-ullah Khan, for the crime of disadvantage in battle, Uzhhan, who was already very dissatisfied with Has'ullah's seizure of the Khan's throne, immediately stepped forward and vigorously opposed it.

Agoura's performance in this war is obvious to all, because of Agoura's precautions and advance arrangements, the losses of the Usud tribe are actually the lowest, only less than half, while the losses of the other two tribes are more than seventy percent.

Under Uzhhan's leadership, opposition to Agoura's punishment grew among the tribes, and even many of Has'ullah's allies opposed Agoura's execution.

Eventually, Has'ullah had to compromise and release Agoura.

After Agoura was released, Urihan was afraid that Hasullah would secretly attack, so he took Agoura to the temple, and half a year later, after making all preparations, he arranged for Agoura to leave the royal court and live in seclusion on the barren grassland where Xiao Ziyang had visited that day.

Hasullah is a scheming and vicious master. After releasing Agoura, he did not send assassins to assassinate him, but adopted the strategy of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, and spent more than ten years to weaken the influence of Urihan and Agoura little by little.

The generals and tribal nobles who supported Agoura were slowly replaced by him one by one.

As for Wu Rihan, Has-Ullah supported another more shrewd and capable elder Hu Helu who was no less than him in cultivation to fight him.

After more than a decade of slow erosion, Agoura's influence has been weakened to the extreme, and many young generals and tribal nobles no longer even know who Agoura is.

Wu Rihan was also suppressed by Hu Helu and had no power to fight back.

Hasullah seems to have plans to end up in recent days. Agoura could already feel the killing aura of the impending rain in the mountains. Hu and Lu are also pressing day by day.

I think this is also the reason why Xiao Ziyang saw Aguda Mu Mian with a sad face that day.

Wu Rihan came to meet Xiao Ziyang today, and he had no choice but to explain the matter and the situation. He heard that Haswullah would come to see Xiao Ziyang tomorrow. If I don't say it today, I'm afraid I won't even have a chance to speak in the future.

He had served three guardian monks before and after, and he knew a little about these foundation building monks who were dedicated to cultivation.

The foundation building monks of the Great Snow Mountain Sect generally only come out to serve as guardian monks in two situations. First, the cultivation has already reached the foundation of Wangdan, if you do not complete this task, it is considered to be a violation of the door rules, and the second, after many years of cultivation, you have not made an inch, and you are disheartened and leave the mountain gate. Therefore, most of the guardian monks are over 100 years old.

But compared to people like Wu Rihan who are wallowing in the political whirlpool, these monks who are over 100 years old are relatively simple.

The best way to deal with simple people is to move them with affection.

What happened to Agoura was already indignant. In desperation, Wu Rihan used a dead horse as a living horse to heal.

Looking at Xiao Ziyang's gradually focused expression, Wu Rihan's worried heart couldn't help but be a little surprised.

After listening to Wu Rihan's story, Xiao Ziyang pondered for a moment, and suddenly spoke: "What happened to Agoura is indeed indignant, but now that you have been defeated, even with my help, it will be difficult to win by ordinary means, unless I go on a killing spree." What's in it for me? Hmph! Not only will it not do me any good, but I'm afraid I'll be punished by the sect! So with all due respect, I can't help you. Please come back!"

When Wu Rihan heard this, his intuition was like a basin of cold water poured down, and the glimmer of hope that had just risen in his heart was extinguished in an instant. In an instant, he seemed to be ten years older. In despair, he even forgot the etiquette and got up to leave.