Chapter 152
Can't stand it!
Can't even sleep well.
In the early hours of the morning, a group of Wise Masters and Great Masters, like frightened chickens, got up from the bed and hurried to the Grand Wise Master Pyramid.
"How is this possible?! Last night we were talking to her about redemption of captives, when there were fifty thousand people in the entire camp, even if dragons could fly, even if... alas, from Yunkai to Meereen, 250 kilometers, there are so many manors and merchants along the way, they are all blind? Moreover, how can a fifty thousand army run 250 kilometers in three days? They have already marched 600 kilometers before."
Grand Wise Master slumped on the wooden chair cushioned with blankets, looking desperately towards the surrounding generals, hoping that a wise man would come out and help him answer all his questions.
There are many veterans and famous generals at the scene. Tattered Prince has 30 years of military experience; Grazdan graduated from the famous "military school" and has been the Yunkai God of War for ten years; the ship Captain traverses the world and fights countless... .. Even the youngest Zidan has served in Braavos Legion for five years, three of them as Great Captain of the Cavalry Regiment.
But they can't figure out the simplest question: how did we lose?
"Let's take a swipe..." It was Yezzan, the think tank, who finally spoke.
Well, Yezzan used to be Yunkai's wisest person, and he was called "Yunkai's Two Heroes" with Grazdan, the god of war.
It's just that Grazdan has better luck, developing steadily and steadily along the established trajectory, and has boundless prospects.
Yezzan's thinking was more detached when he was young, and because he was too smart, he has been trying his best to explore the unknown world and find the truth between Heaven and Earth... Well, Yezzan went to Sothoryos opposite Essos to explore , As a result, he was infected with a strange disease, and he changed from a promising hero to a paralyzed shit man whose lower body could not be controlled.
But even if his body is disabled, he still earns countless wealth with the wisdom of oneself and becomes the richest man in Yunkai.
"There were 50,000 people in the Mother of Dragons camp during the negotiations last night?" Yezzan looked towards Zidan.
"Yes." Zidan nodded.
"Counting chimneys?" Yezzan asked with a frown.
"Not only the number of bonfires, but also the number of tents and soldiers in the camp area, the size of the entire camp, and several different estimation methods, and the conclusion is all the same - 50,000 people ,” Zidan explained.
Yezzan looked towards Denzo again and asked: "Are you sure oneself saw Mother of Dragons himself?"
"Is this still fake? Silver hair, purple eyes, very beautiful , more importantly temperament, looks like a Queen." Denzo frowned.
He is a lot of age, experienced and knowledgeable, still a poet, and has a very high level of education, so he basically won't make mistakes in judgment.
Yezzan looked thoughtful and said, "Maybe dragon can..."
"Wait-"
Grazdan stood up and stared Denzo, surprised: "Did you see that woman's face?"
"I'm not blind, of course I can see the face." Denzo unfathomable mystery.
"She's not wearing the great helmet?" Grazdan asked again.
"There's something wrong, it's a oneself camp again at night, why is she wearing a giant helmet?" Denzo couldn't understand the meaning of the other party.
"Who's around her?"
"The red-haired Lyra of the Company of the Rose, a few Unsullied."
"Ai, last time she When negotiating with us, you can wear face armor, Kingsguard and Bloodrider are there, you may have met a brilliant acting actor." A Meereen Great Masters next to me lamented.
He was one of the ten-man leadership team last time, and was just as lucky as Grazdan in escaping back to Yunkai.
"This..." Yezzan, the shit man, was stunned, "Good cunning Mother of Dragons."
Tattered Prince rubbed his forehead wearily and asked: " What's the matter with the extra fifty thousand people?"
Mother of Dragons was so skillful that even Meereen was defeated at once, and it seemed that the day when she took control of the entire Slaver's Bay was not far away.
I'm afraid oneself will never be able to wait for the expected yellow silk cloak.
To get the Pentos, you have to deal with the cunning Illyrio... but how to convince the fat spice merchant?
Trouble!
The Shit Man did not immediately answer the question from the head of Windblown, but instead read the letters from Meereen one by one.
Everyone was waiting for the analysis of the think tank with heavy expressions. The palace was completely silent, only the sound of Yezzan flipping the paper and the intermittent "puchi-guji" sound under his butt.
"45 Great Masters, 78 great nobles, great merchants, all solemnly vowed to declare that the army of Mother of Dragons brought to Meereen was fifty thousand, and all of them were elites, not slave disguise."
Yezzan put down the stationery, his carrot-thick fingers rubbing against Sweets' thigh, Sweets shy but silently endured.
"In the evening, when the Mother of Dragons army entered the city, many people even counted the torches one by one, and a total of forty-five thousand people entered the Great Pyramid.
Well, Mother of The Dragons took the three dragons personally, and have already knocked down the Meereen Great Pyramid and obtained countless grains, gold and silver."
From the habit of the Old Ghis Empire, Meereen, Yunkai and Astapor have three cities One of the largest pyramids, called the "Great Pyramid", was the administrative and military center of a city.
Like Mureno, who became the first of all, the Grand Wise Master, because House Dhazak controlled the Yunkai Great Pyramid.
In terms of wealth alone, Mureno Dhazak can't even make the top three, and is not as rich as Grazdan, the god of war.
"Since Meereen has determined that there are at least 45,000 people, then we are outside the city..." Grazdan's thin face flushed suddenly, as if he had been greatly humiliated, yelled: "bully intolerably , we don't have many people outside the city at all, the camp is empty!"
"What kind of densely packed crowd did the spies see?" Zidan wondered.
"The camp is fake, Mother of Dragons is also fake, and the soldiers inside may also be fake. This is a subtle scam."
Yezzan's eyes flashed. bright light, it seemed that all the mysteries had been clearly understood by him, and he said with great certainty: "I'm sure that only the rear battalion 13 kilometers away is real among the front, middle, and rear battalions of Mother of Dragons. Possibly hidden siege weapons and thousands of guards built by the Minbi."
"Why do you say that?" Grazdan wondered.
"You think Mother of Dragons is just content to take Meereen?" Yezzan said indifferently.
"His..." Everyone was horrified.
Grazdan clenched his teeth and said bitterly: "So, she knows that after taking Meereen, we will definitely receive news from the Great Masters, knowing that we will know about her today. The reality of the camp.
Knowing that there is no way to hide the trick, we simply shrink the force and transfer all the power and siege equipment to the rear camp.
In this way, even if we find that we have a plan, But if we have to send troops to attack the rear battalion, we will not be able to take it down in a short time. When that woman brings the food from Meereen, Yunkai will be finished."
"What should we do now? That woman too terrifying, almost everything is calculated," a chubby young Wise Masters adult, who was about to cry out of grievance, "there are obviously three dragons, and there are obviously more soldiers than us, why not follow us according to tradition meet force with force, let's have a Legendary siege?
The force is stronger than us, so smart, and too bullying, how does this make us play?"
"Ai, when the war in Slaver's Bay this month spreads, Daenerys will become Legendary. And we, the idiots who set off Legendary heroes.
When the story of Dragon Queen is passed down through the ages, among us Some of the people in this world may be ridiculed countless times by the child at the bedside listening to the old nurse talking about ancient times...a thousand years, ten thousand years, oh!" Yezzan said in frustration.
“bang!”
Grazdan, destined to be one of the “some people”, slammed the table and roared with a distorted face: “No, I don’t want to be a legend The laughing stock, what do we have to do.”
“What else can we do now? Wait for the Dragon Queen to besiege the city with 100,000 troops. With her appeal, it’s not too much to recruit 50,000 slave soldiers in Meereen. Simple." Yezzan said frustratedly.
"I'm going to vent, I'm going to take out the thousands of soldiers in her back battalion, and I'm going to pull out the nails she left in Yunkai." Grazdan said, standing up and walking out.
"Wait a minute, it's too late now, don't fall for that woman's ambush." The Grand Wise Master yelled.
Grazdan glanced back at the Wise Masters, Great Masters and mercenaries in the palace where Gods were panicking, indifferently said: "If you fall in an ambush, then die in an ambush!"
"You—"
Grazdan raised his hand to interrupt the Grand Wise Master's words and said directly: "I will only take people from House Eraz out of town."
After he finished speaking, he said Take big steps and leave proudly.
Tattered Prince looked at his straight spine, muttered: "This is a warrior."
"No, he is the Yunkai War God!" The Grand Wise Master said sadly .
"...Although this god of war was ill-fated, he met the Dragon Queen who was born out of world shacking." Yezzan, the shit man, murmured.
He couldn't help but think of oneself, back then, how majestic "Yunkai's Two Heroes" was, with a long rainbow... Now one has become a paralyzed man who can't help himself, and the other has been defeated after repeated battles. The ever-defeating god of war.
Misery...
Could it be that Heaven is jealous of heroic genius?
Yezzan thought self-pity.
Everyone didn't even want to go home and sleep, so they stayed in the Grand Wise Master's palace, preparing to send the God of War Grazdan for the last ride.
"Report—"
About three hours later, around two in the morning, a blood-soaked yellow silk cloak stumbled into the hall, panting heavily, emotionally excitedly. said: "Report...report...Grand Wise Master, Grazdan...General him..."
"Ai, needless to say , I understand." Mureno at the oval conference table waved his hand and interrupted the other party: "Help the general organize his appearance, I will go to see the last of him tomorrow morning."
"Uh... .." The yellow silk cloak lifted the head, and said stunned: "Your Excellency Grand Wise Master, what are you talking about?"
"What?" The Grand Wise Master was also stunned.
“Grazdan led a total annihilation of 500 cavalry, set fire to the company for more than ten miles, killed countless enemies, burned countless enemy grain and supplies, and rescued 500 prisoners. Your Excellency Grand Wise Master, we Great victory!"
"..."
"..."
Everyone was dumbfounded, A ghostly expression.
After a while, the Tattered Prince came back to his senses and asked, "The enemy didn't set up an ambush?"
"Hey, the opponent is understaffed and unable to set up an ambush. Listen to Miss Meris, Dragon Queen deliberately used 'empty city strategy' to scare us." The yellow silk cloak laughted.
"Meris came back too?" Denzo asked in surprise.
The soldier said: "The prisoners were blocked at the mouth and tied to the front battalion as a target soldier for the 'empty city strategy'. Not only were the mercenaries rescued, but also the hundreds of brothers we had lost before were among them. ."
"empty city strategy? What an empty city strategy, tens of thousands of army forcibly were frightened for three days, three days of life!" Yezzan smiled bitterly.
Although he still couldn't figure out how the other party ran 250 kilometers in three days with a tired army of 50,000, he almost wanted to understand how oneself and the others lost the war.
"How does Meris know about Mother of Dragons' 'empty city strategy'?" Tattered Prince wondered.
"That Lyra...Knight under Mother of Dragons told her that the other party thought there was no need to hide this kind of thing from the captives. Because she knew that Mother of Dragons would win, there were more than a dozen servants. The soldiers switched to the Mother of Dragons on the spot!"
"so that's how it is." The Grand Wise Master nods, and he understands what mercenaries are all about - always on the side of the winner .
Mother of Dragons was clever enough to take prisoners of war this way.
“What else did Meris say?” Denzo asked.
"Ms. Meris said that the empty city strategy is very brilliant. If we are smart enough, we will definitely get caught and dare not act rashly, but the 'empty city strategy' is completely ineffective for the rude and stupid." Yellow silk cloak tone said proudly.
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