sbdcsierra Chapter 799: State Of Rituals
Chapter 799: State Of Rituals
In the handsome tent, the third prince didn't sleep all night. After writing the battle report on the paper, he quickly tore it up and left. There was already a pile of paper balls on the ground.
No matter how he added fuel and vinegar to it, he felt that this battle report was very absurd!
When Father Khan attacked Chu, he was the one who took the initiative to attack at night. Even if he was attacked by the Chu people, he retreated decisively, but only damaged the forward.
What he faced this time was the Zhou army who had just assembled firearms and was even unskilled in using them, but they suffered heavy casualties.
Father Khan gave half of his troops to him because he trusted him, but he made his army look like this by self-defeating.
If it wasn't for his stupid Little Brother, he wouldn't have rushed to attack!
But I have to say that it was also my Little Brother who spoke to his heart. At that time, he already thought that the Zhou State pass was within reach, so he ordered the attack. It's kerosene, and I don't know how they knew how to use firearms for the first time.
When the fire broke out on the battlefield, many people were not actually killed by firearms, and there were also large-scale stampedes in panic.
But no matter how he explained it, it was difficult to conceal his dereliction of duty as the chief general.
At this moment, the curtain of the handsome tent was lifted suddenly, and the fourth prince walked in. He looked at the third prince tremblingly and said, "Third...Third brother..."
The third prince snorted coldly and said: "The reason for the defeat against the enemy this time is because I believed your nonsense! Now you still dare to appear in front of this general?! Go and get thirty army sticks!"
The fourth prince immediately said, "Third brother calm down, third brother calm down."
The third prince said coldly: "Calm your anger? It's all because of your reckless behavior that the army has become like this! How else do you want me to calm my anger?!"
The fourth prince said: "There are people from Zhou Guo..."
As soon as these words came out, the third prince couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat: "Zhou Guo chased him?!"
The fourth prince immediately shook his head and said: "No, third brother, Zhou Guo sent an envoy."
The third prince immediately darkened his face when he heard that the messenger was sent: "Chop it up! Now Zhou Guo sent an envoy here to see my grassland jokes?!"
The fourth prince immediately said: "Third brother must not, he said that he has a business to discuss with third brother, and I guarantee that third brother will be satisfied."
The third prince snorted coldly and said, "The two countries are still at war, so what business can we talk about?"
The fourth prince said: "He said that the third brother will be satisfied after listening to his words. If the third brother does not want to do this business after listening to his words, it will not be too late to kill him."
The third prince's eyes moved, and finally said: "Let him come over."
When Song Ning walked in from the outside, hot tea had been prepared on the long table in the handsome tent, and the third prince was sitting on the other side, and there was another seat opposite him, which was naturally prepared for Song Ning.
Song Ning first bowed politely and said, "This is the third prince of Wanyan Department."
The third prince said expressionlessly, "I'm a guest from afar, sit down."
As soon as Song Ning sat down, the third prince asked, "I don't know what the messenger is doing here."
Song Ning said: "Your army has lost a lot of people this time, right?"
After the third prince heard Song Ning's words, veins twitched in his forehead: "Messenger, my patience is limited."
His third prince has long heard that the Central Plains is a country of etiquette, why does this Central Plains man poke other people's hearts as soon as he comes up?
Is this how Chinese people talk about etiquette?
Song Ning said: "Third Prince calm down, please listen to my envoy's words."
The third prince took a sip of tea, calmed down the anger that had just rolled over, and squeezed out a word between his teeth: "Say."
Song Ning said with a smile: "That's right. This is the first time our army has used firearms, and they are not proficient, so many people in your army were not killed in battle. They were only injured and captured by our army."
The third prince wondered, "Injured?"
Song Ning said, "That's right, it's just a slight injury that's all, it won't affect eating and sleeping."
The third prince was surprised; "Is this really true?!"
Song Ning immediately said, "I guarantee the reputation of the Central Plains, and I guarantee that these captives will eat well and sleep soundly after they go back!"
The third prince said: "So the envoy intends to return these captives to our grassland?"
Song Ning sighed and said: "There is no way, the prisoners in your country really don't regard themselves as outsiders at all, they are too hungry and too lazy, they lie in the prisoner-of-war camp one by one and don't want to move, the key is that one is more stubborn than the other. You have to be fed for meals! Our country of Zhou can't serve these uncles."
Hearing Song Ning's words, the third prince couldn't help but proudly said: "That's natural. All the soldiers in my grassland have backbone. They are born from our grassland, and they are our grassland ghosts when they die! Even if they are captured, each one has more backbone than one!" "
Having said that, the third prince also understands that there is no free lunch in the world, and if he wants to take these captives back, he must pay a high price.
But no matter what the price is, they have to pay in the grassland!
To be exact, he, the third prince, has to pay!
There is no way, the loss this time is really too big, no matter how you try to cover it up, you can't cover it up, close to half of the casualties!
Now the people of Zhou State said that most of them didn’t die when they used firearms for the first time, but suffered some minor injuries.
If these captives are exchanged, re-arming to fill the vacancy can cover it up.
At that time, the actual reported casualties can be normal combat casualties, and Father Khan will not doubt it when he sees it.
Even if a large amount of ordnance was lost, it could be blamed on Zhou Guo, saying that Zhou Guo had firearms, and the attack was sudden, and the supplies of the camp were too late to be withdrawn, and Zhou Guo occupied all of them.
As long as the news is sealed well, the head of his third prince will not be separated from him.
At the same time, the third prince had to sigh, the Central Plains is really a country of etiquette, for these disobedient prisoners, they even take care of the food, and even feed them if they don't eat.
Tsk tsk, this is really very polite, even captives can live with such dignity in the barracks of the Central Plains.
If it were him, he would definitely not treat the captives so favorably.
He admitted that he was wrong when he felt that the Central Plains was sorry for being called the State of Etiquette.
This is simply too polite!
Much stronger than their grasslands.
Thinking of this, the third prince's expression softened a lot, and he asked, "I don't know what the messenger wants?"
Song Ning said: "Actually, we have no choice but to return these captives to you, because our state of Zhou is running out of food and we can't afford to feed so many captives who eat and sleep all day long, so we want to use your country's What is the third prince's opinion on exchanging the captives with your country for some cattle, sheep and war horses?"