The Queen of the Prairie and I

Chapter 18 The Battle of the Horse Market

"Today's affairs should be carried out quickly without delay."

When I came to the big tent, I found that Dronatia had gathered a group of generals to hold a military meeting.It seems very special, even if I use the jade pendant, I can't enter the big tent.

As soon as the generals got out of the big tent, they mounted their horses one after another and dispatched troops and generals.Seeing countless cavalry in the camp ready to go, or assembled on horseback.

So I turned around and rushed to the Khan's tent, and finally intercepted Dronatia who was returning to the tent to rest.

"Is it your order to arrest Fuko?" The two of them met on horseback, and I started to question.

"Fuko was also arrested? I didn't order her to be arrested, it's just that her own clan committed a crime." She didn't care at all.

"Then at least let Fukou go? Not to mention that she is not guilty at all, but she should also think that she was once Shanying's personal maid."

"Don't talk about it, don't talk about Shan Ying's maid, she is my nanny and I have to lock her up. This is my country's law." She was firm.

"You're always like this, so you can't blame Shan Ying for not being nice to you."

"..."

I don't know if it's because the relationship between the two is getting closer, and I can also know that my words are becoming more and more straightforward, and it is really "not big or small".She seemed to be getting used to it more and more.

"Anyway, Fuko can't die, don't mention this matter again, there will be no result." She said, got off the horse and handed the reins to the servant before entering the tent.Suddenly a soldier came and knelt down and shouted, "Report to Your Majesty, General Bull's [-] Iron Chariots have assembled." This made Dronatia stop.

"There must be no mistake in setting off immediately," she said, and the soldier replied and went down.

Immediately, dust filled the camp in the distance, and with the sound of orders, countless heavy cavalry marched south with long lances and armor.

"What is this going to do, the Hexi army is catching up?" I haven't encountered any war for more than a month, so I am very curious about this situation.

"Where can the Hexi army come after them? They are going to fight Huguan."

"Daguihuguan? What does Daguihuguan do?" The name is very familiar, not only because it is the place where the horse market was opened in the Central Plains, and it is well known in the grasslands.It was also because it was heard not long ago that the Guijier clan committed crimes because they had an affair with Da Lu in the horse market at the Huohu Pass.

"The guillotine pass is now wide open, and spies report that a Guigil caravan of 500 people was allowed to drive through with [-] horses. That is a good opportunity to catch it by surprise."

"...Are you crazy?" This kind of words made Zhuonatia frown, but I still want to say, "The horse market is a peaceful place. If there is a war, it will be closed, and if there is peace, it will be open. Throughout the ages When the horse market opens in autumn, there is no crime. This is a truth that even people like me understand. If you do this, you are completely betraying your own principles on the grassland." In the ten years of my life as a slave, I only followed a The hostess has been to the horse market in Shuanghengguan, which is also the place where I first tried to escape.For me, it is the port of hope where the Central Plains connects the grasslands and the homeland connects with foreign lands.It's really hard for me to accept that Dronatia is going to attack Guahu Pass.

"You're not a prairie person, so you follow the pedantic prairie principles even more than I do?" Donatia's expression was not so rich. Although she was still smiling, she could see that she was angry.

"What do you think, persuade me not to attack Dalu's city, and take back the order to attack Guihu Pass?"

"Yes" is a threat to people with a smile, but I also understand that I cannot be subdued.If he compromised with her this time, he might not be qualified to speak again in the future.

"You want Queen Dronatia to change her national policy order? Well, it's easy, it's not difficult." She continued, no longer calling herself, and still smiling angrily. "As long as you make Dronatia a naked queen with no soldiers to adjust, then grab her by the hair and slap her hard, and if she is not convinced, slap her face, and tidy her up until she is submissive and burst into tears." .At that time, not to mention changing the order, you can even ask her to take off your boots." She said with a smile, and then slammed the door into her yurt, leaving me and a few frightened servants and guards behind. stayed outside.

Dronatia has always been strangely persistent in some places.Although I am not a person who understands state affairs, I can still feel that she did not make these decisions in consideration of state affairs, but because of some other things.And this chilling and terrible behavior is not like something a wise lord would do.

At least the White Eagle Queen I knew before was not insane.It may be because I didn't know her well before, but I always feel that she will cause me a lot of disaster.

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Dalu attached great importance to horse administration, so he bought horses widely from the desert grassland.Therefore, every time the prairie lord brought Malay tribute, he was rewarded heavily every time.However, 13 years after Hong Ning, all parts of the Nine Borders were on guard against Bugud, and the horse market was closed all year round.

Bugude was about to unify the north, and the pressure on Dalu was increasing, so the Dalu court decided to use countermeasures. It was expected that some lords would be distressed because Bugude and the Central Plains could not pay tribute, so they sent secret envoys to deal with them. Every contact, secretly open the horse market to divide Bu Gude.Sure enough, in order to solve the livelihood problem of the tribe, the leader of the Jiguer clan decided to engage in a private horse market with Dalu on a large scale.

In the early autumn of 13 in Hongning, Guahu Guanma City reopened after being closed for 11 years, and the outer city was full of people and extremely lively.Seven days after the horse market opened again, thousands of thieves rushed to Guahu Pass, all of whom were elite riders.The number of officers and soldiers at Huguan Pass was small, and the reaction was too late. The outer city was destroyed in half a day, and the bandit army slaughtered it.Seven days later, when the reinforcements arrived at Qianhu Pass, they saw that the horses had been taken away by bandits, and the corpses at the outer city pass were piled up in a mess.Such a tragic event, known as the battle of the horse market, the thieves were brutal and inhumane, and the opening of the horse market to slaughter the pass has never been heard of in ancient and modern times.

The news of the battle of Mashi spread to the capital, and the court was shaken up and down.The emperor Longyan was furious, smashed the dragon chair, and reprimanded Zhuonatia for killing his father first and seizing the power of Kaiyuanwei. I can't bear it anymore.Therefore, he ordered to stop all actions to appease the northerners, and ordered the nine sides to gather troops.

General Wang Zhan recommended a strange woman, surnamed Wen, surnamed Liangyu, from Shandong, who was Wang Zhan's concubine.Wen Liangyu was originally the female leader of a cottage outside Jeju Prefecture. She is good at wielding double swords and has high martial arts skills. Ten years ago, Wang Zhan led an army to challenge him, so she surrendered.

The emperor ordered Wang Zhan, the general who conquered Yi, to be the vanguard. He led Gao Hong, the tiger general with "Meteor Hammer", and Wen Liangyu, the Hongying general with "Double Swords", as the left and right generals, and Li Weiyi, the young general, to accompany the army.

The war between Bugude, which is emerging under the banner of the White Eagle on the grassland, and the Dalu Empire, a dynasty of the Central Plains, is about to break out.

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