About ten miles northeast of Cavite, there is a tribe. General Ji and Song Kuili went to inquire about the news at night. They came back and told me that the place is called Makati. The vegetation there is now full of soldiers, and there is a steady stream of people from the Song Dynasty heading there.
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"How many people are there?" I asked them
"We came back at noon. When we came back, there were thousands of people gathered there, but there were also reinforcements coming from the north of Makati," General Ji said.
"We have to take the initiative, otherwise, when they are ready, these thousands of people will really be enough for us." I asked General Ji: "How are their equipment?"
"Although there are many of them, they all came from all over the place temporarily. Their attires are all different, and the weapons in their hands are also different. But there are still six or seven hundred of them. They seem to be well-trained. They should be theirs."
"Elite"
Song Kui also interjected, "However, I think their military leaders are all temporarily selected, and their prestige is not too high. It is often not them who play an important role among them."
"Who could that be?"
"There are a few people in their ranks who speak arrogantly. There are one or two such people in every batch of troops who come to report. And in my opinion, even their military leaders have to take orders from these people."
"That's the priest!" I said
Priests are usually the smartest people in a tribe. After people get rid of the problem of food, especially after agricultural production gradually replaces fruit picking and hunting as the main source of food, and there is a surplus of food, some smart people will consider
No longer participate in manual labor, some also use certain supernatural phenomena, or simply use people's incomprehension of certain purely natural phenomena to control the minds of ordinary people. They often have large tracts of land and many people serve them.
"Catch the thief first and capture the king first. If we don't make these priests surrender first, we will not have a good start, and we will never have peace."
"What do you think we should do?" General Ji asked
"I want to cross Makati and go north to see clearly where the other party is coming from, and then make plans," I said
At first Hua disagreed, and then several of the wives objected. Now they all look at Hua's look and act, and they often come together to deal with me. This time, their reason was, "Your leg injury hasn't healed yet, so you run again and again."
Not happy, are you trying to get Lvsong’s people to arrest you? I heard that Lvsong’s women are very interesting, right?”
I neither cried nor laughed, "Are we just sitting here, waiting for the Donkey Song people to hit us? There are only a few of us, and there are thousands of people on the other side?"
But they just refused and had no choice. I invited Tian Wang. Tian Wang looked at them and only said, "If Tian Zong doesn't go, why should I go?" So, my action plan was easily confirmed.
Come down
Tian Wang is more supportive of my plan. Only by knowing the enemy can we have a chance of winning. In fact, my leg injury is almost healed, mainly due to the herbs prepared by Tian Wang. The effect is not bad. Now I take a step, but my legs feel a little heavy.
, but it doesn’t hurt anymore
But I accepted their wishes. Because of this, I had the courage to take the risk. After dinner, I left Cavite. I took Song Kui and Qi Xue with me, just the three of us.
Qi Xue is safe in case of trouble and has good physical strength. We also have a cover when we travel together, and Song Kui is indispensable. Otherwise, I can't understand anything, so why bother to pry?
Liu Xue is very excited today. She didn’t expect that I would take her with me today. In the past, such novel things had to be left to those who were younger. In fact, it is best to bring Liujiao when traveling today. In case of a fight, Liujiao is better than Qi Xue.
It makes me feel more at ease, but I weighed it again and again and chose her. This is what I learned from studying the I Ching in the past two days.
We robbed three donkey singers on the way and hung them on a big tree with ropes. When we walked out of the woods, we were dressed like donkey singers.
An hour later, we appeared in Makati. To our surprise, it turned out to be like a small town. It was crowded with people everywhere, as if it was going to burst.
But if you look carefully, you can still see a dividing line that is not very obvious in the crowded crowd. A quick look can tell that there is a strangeness between them. There is no doubt that these are two different tribes.
The news from General Ji and others was very accurate. Now, no less than 5,000 people have gathered here. Song Kui suddenly said to us, "Are we still going north?"
"That's the plan. Don't you want to go again?"
"No, because I just heard the people here muttering, it seems that these are the only ones they have. The team assembly has been completed, and they are taking the oath now, maybe"
"Oh, you might as well go and see how they swore an oath, and whether they would make a blood alliance or something like that." I pulled Qi Xue, Song Kui and I into the crowd.
Because we were dressed like locals, there were no people at all. The closer we got to the center of the town, the more people there were. There were three floors inside and three floors outside. Song Kui asked a person in the crowd in local dialect, "What are you doing?"
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"Beauty pageant! Beauty pageant! Choose the most beautiful woman, and we will protect her!" A young man carrying a gun said excitedly to Song Kui.
Damn, what kind of bullshit swearing is this! I thought they chose beautiful women to attack us. We have a whole boatload of bachelors now. If that happens, we don’t want to fight this war. We just hand over our guns and recognize our relatives.
We pushed through the crowd and came to the beauty pageant of Donkey Sung Man. There were more people there. There was a large space in the middle, more than three feet in diameter. There was a circle of seats, and it was filled with people, tall, short and fat.
Different people are different, but Song Kui told me quietly, "The people sitting here are all priests from various tribes."
I thought to myself that they should be called judges. People say that carnivores are despicable, so they are not much better. Qi Xue stared straight at a place, which should be the registration office for the beauty pageant. The two women were dressed fairly well.
The naked women are doing the preliminary selection for the participating women there. Only after getting their approval can they go to the center of the venue.
"Honey, listen to me, you, go over and try." I said to Qi Xue, she agreed without hesitation, but said to me, "Don't leave me too far, you have to keep looking at me before going."
I pulled Qi Xue and walked over. Song Kui and the two women expressed our intentions. They raised their heads and glanced at Qi Xue. Without any hesitation, they waved to her.
Qi Xue successfully passed the preliminary election and stood in the center of the field. The priests' "judges" immediately focused their attention on her.
There were already more than a dozen women entering the venue. After Qi Xue entered, a priest immediately stood up from his seat, cleared his throat, and preached:
"Well, well, well, I said, Cavite has fallen, our best port has fallen into the hands of the enemy, we can no longer remain indifferent! We will fight to the end - one soldier, one soldier, absolutely
Don’t retreat! So, today, we are going to elect a woman recognized by all tribes, and I want our soldiers to know who we want to protect!”
"Who is it - who is it - who is it -" Countless people around were excited and shouting, and Song Kui quietly asked the person next to him, "Who is speaking?"
The man said to Song Kui in surprise, "I don't even know him. He is the chief priest of each of our tribes. His name is Akinu! How did you do it? You don't even know him."