Frontier town (31)
Translated by Jev Kaez
Edited by Jev Kaez
After Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize led the barbarians to run wildly in the desert for more than 20 minutes, they completely ran out of sight. In the jungle at the edge of the battlefield, the Daxia cavalry hidden suddenly came out.
Within their sight, there was no barbarian army at all. Those who stayed at the barbarian camp, were only a few barbarians responsible for logistics, and they were driving a large number of slaves to prepare breakfast for the army.
The barbarian leader in charge of logistics had a headache. He really didn’t know how much breakfast should be prepared.
The granary was burned the night before, and even though they tried to rescue it, only less than one-seventh of the food was rescued. It stands to reason that this morning’s breakfast should be sparse, and it might even skip it at all to save food.
But early in the morning, the barbarian army was engaged in a fierce pursuit. When the army returned from victory, the consumption from the leader to the ordinary barbarian must be quite large. They must eat to fill the stomach. In this way, the grain and grass reserves were not enough!
Alas, all the important barbarians were gone. There was no senior barbarian in the camp who could decide this matter. He was just a big boss who couldn’t bear the responsibility of making chaotic decisions, so he had headache.
The barbarian logistics officer, who was suffering from a headache, couldn’t help but look far to the south. There was Daxia’s Bianlu City. Being optimistic, the army would be able to reach Daxia’s Bianlu City and rob and replenish food and grass in time. Then there was no problem with making more for breakfast, right?
Imagination was beautiful, and reality was terrifying. The eyes of the Barbarian logistics officer could not see Bianlu City, but instead reflected the rushing Daxia cavalry.
The captain rushed into the barbarian camp with five cavalrymen. As an elite unit, they dare to fight head-on when facing an equal number of barbarian warriors, not to mention that they were now facing only the barbarian logistic soldiers.
Several cavalrymen controlled the horse with one hand, wielded a spear or a broad knife in the other, and quickly killed a few back and forth among the barbarians staying in the camp, and quickly killed all the logistic barbarians who had not escaped.
As for the driven slaves, most of them were from Daxia. Seeing this, they knelt and cried for help.
“You take the barbarians’ food, and then run quickly. How far you can run and where you can run depends on yourselves”
The tall captain pointed a long spear at the granary and shouted loudly at the surviving slaves.
Most of the slaves of the barbarians were civilians who were looted during the invasion of Daxia. They were used like consumables. They didn’t care about their life or death. They forced the slaves to pay for their labor, and even drove them to act as human shields at the forefront during the war.
In previous battles, Daxia’s army encountered slaves enslaved by the barbarians, and if they could be rescued, they would be rescued. Unfortunately, now they were really short of manpower and could only let the rescued Daxia people escape by themselves.
It was very easy to distinguish who the slaves were. Except for the lack of barbarian-like horns on their heads, all the slaves had yellowish muscles, skinny and weathered faces. At first glance, they had a hard life, and they were distinct from the tall barbarians. So, there was no fear that people from the barbarians would mix into the slaves and escape together.
With the permission of the tall captain, more than one hundred slaves rushed to the remaining granary in ecstasy, all of them robbed a large amount of grain, wrapped them on their backs, and took them from the barbarian camp. With weapons, bacon, milk wine, and even the last three horses in the stables that did not fight because of their injuries, all was taken away.
Although the injured horse could not be ridden, if it is brought back to Daxia and cured, it can still be sold for some money.
In addition to sweeping the barbarian camp, the slaves also identified the barbarian leaders’ camps and important areas in the camp to the cavalry.
The slaves ransacked wildly, and the six cavalrymen carried the barrels handed over to them by the commander, and dumped sesame oil around the barbarian camp, especially the camps of the barbarian leaders. They searched for valuable documents and other items. They then poured sesame oil on the camp.
The cavalry patiently dumped all ten barrels of sesame oil and urged the rescued Daxia citizens to leave the camp. The fire that had been ignited for breakfast before was used to ignite the entire camp.
After the flames ignited, it spread out from camp to camp. It didn’t take long for the barbarian camps to fall into a sea of flames, and huge black smoke rose into the sky. It’s a pity that the barbarian army had run too far, not even noticing that their camp no longer exists.
The barbarian camp burned into ashes and ruins, the flames gradually extinguished because there was no combustible material, and the six cavalrymen left, catching up with the people of Daxia who left first, and leading them to bypass the trap set the night before. After watching them leave, the other captain took the lead and continued to dig pits and set traps in accordance with the commander’s requirements and guidance.
At this time, the two cavalrymen who drove a large number of war horses back to Bianlu City the night before finally arrived at Bianlu City. Amidst the dumbfounded faces of their comrades, they drove more than two hundred barbarian war horses into the city.
The horse was driven straight to Captain Ma. The cavalry told the officer in detail what happened the previous night. Of course, they didn’t personally participate in the task. No matter how detailed they were, it was only what they saw.
The experience of the night was extraordinary enough. After telling the great achievements of the two officers, the cavalry emphatically mentioned Cheng Huaiqian’s request: more soldiers!
Captain Ma and the generals looked at the large number of war horses that covered the main streets of Bianlu City, and fell into a long period of speechlessness and trance.
The cavalry was a very precious unit, because the horse itself was a very precious strategic resource.
The training cost of the cavalry was so high that the captain of the horse had been training hard for many years, and his subordinates had accumulated more than a hundred cavalry. Previously, he divided 20 cavalrymen into Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize.
If it hadn’t been for the citizens of Bianlu City to praise the two strong men and protect them, Captain Ma saw the fighting situation in Bianlu City with his own eyes, and really wanted to recruit the two strong men, but would not dare to give them a chance to perform so boldly.
The result was far beyond his expectation. Well, the two young men fed back nearly two hundred horses in the Barbarian Riding Camp in just one night. It was really, really amazing! Good job! It was worthy of being a hero who defended Bianlu City with just two people!
Captain Ma was so excited that he even thought about how to take credit for the two new subordinates.
After a long period of silence, the generals finally reacted and first praised vigorously:
“Congratulations, Captain Ma! Your eyes are like a torch, and the talents are eclectic. The two warriors will be grateful for your support, and they will do their best to help you solve your problems. It is all because of Captain Ma”
“Hahaha, this old man really didn’t read the wrong person, the two of them are good, good!”
Captain Ma burst out laughing, and the surrounding subordinates quickly cooperated to boast, and for a while, the scene was very lively.
However, under the harmonious superficial atmosphere, some generals couldn’t help but feel jealous. They thought it was just two vigorous young men. They didn’t expect to really hit it. It was really displeasing to the eye.
The happy Captain Ma finally decided to assign another twenty cavalrymen to Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize, hoping that they would achieve even more pleasing results.
At the same time, the twenty cavalrymen were ordered to go south with the horses, and meet with the infantry soldiers who were still on the way.
With war horses, they have the transportation capacity. If the infantry could be transported to Bianlu City in time, relying on the walls of Bianlu City, they dare to fight the barbarians freely, and the imperial court’s order to defend Bianlu City could be fulfilled.
The sorrow on his face turned into smug, and Captain Ma was happy.
How happy Captain Ma was, how unhappy the barbarian army was.
After running for another full hour, the barbarian chief finally reined his horse to stop, and gave a merciful order to allow his barbarian warriors to rest in place. For no other reason, the young leaders could not support it.
They didn’t have a good rest last night. They didn’t even eat a mouthful of food or drink water this morning, they were full of anger.
In this pursuit, the small chief was threatened by bows and arrows from the front from time to time. After his anger reached the extreme, the small chief didn’t feel so angry. At this time, the other party had already gained the upper hand, so it was better to stop and rest.
As soon as the order to rest on the spot was given, the more than one thousand barbarians who ran after the leader’s horse for nearly an hour and a half couldn’t hold on anymore, laid down on the ground like a dead dog, and didn’t want to move their fingers.
This was not because the barbarian warriors had poor physical fitness, but because they had been tossed hard, running at extreme speed for more than an hour, and the horses were tired, let alone them?
After the initial anger was concealed by exhaustion, the physical pain caused by running at high speed became more and more intense. The barbarians didn´t understand the need about continuing the pursue, but they didn´t dare to disobey the order, nor did they dare to fall behind, so they had to drag it desperately. With both legs, ran to the point of breathlessness.
It was finally time to rest, and the barbarian warriors could only wait to grow up on the ground and never stand up again.
However, if the barbarians wanted to rest, they had to ask Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize whether they agree.
Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize, who were running ahead, saw that the barbarians stopped pursuing them, and were unhappy in their hearts. How could this be possible? It was said that the chase must have a beginning and an end, how could it be abandoned halfway?
The two of them simply turned their horses and returned with their cavalry to the barbarian’s surroundings. They stopped the horse, draw the bow at a distance of less than 50 meters from the barbarian army and shot arrows at the barbarians.
How could the barbarians tolerate the provocative behavior of the Daxia cavalry?
Seeing this, the anger of the sober barbarians rushed to the top of their heads again, but looking around, there were very few barbarians who could stand up and resist.
Even if the eight barbarian leaders with better physical strength put down their bodies to help them block arrows, they couldn’t stop the dozen or so arrows shot at the same time.
As for the barbarians who have collapsed on the ground, they were too lazy to even move their bodies to avoid them. At most they only shrank behind their comrades and continued to rest. Anyway, there were only a dozen cavalry in Daxia, and they may not kill themselves.
Especially in the previous chase, ordinary barbarian warriors had discovered that the main target of the Daxia cavalry was the high-level barbarians above the small boss. Compared with the ordinary barbarians, the security was higher, so the ordinary barbarians simply didn’t resist.
The barbarians did not have the energy to fight back, and the Daxia cavalry was not polite.
Frontier town (31)
Translated by Jev Kaez
Edited by Jev Kaez
After Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize led the barbarians to run wildly in the desert for more than 20 minutes, they completely ran out of sight. In the jungle at the edge of the battlefield, the Daxia cavalry hidden suddenly came out.
Within their sight, there was no barbarian army at all. Those who stayed at the barbarian camp, were only a few barbarians responsible for logistics, and they were driving a large number of slaves to prepare breakfast for the army.
The barbarian leader in charge of logistics had a headache. He really didn’t know how much breakfast should be prepared.
The granary was burned the night before, and even though they tried to rescue it, only less than one-seventh of the food was rescued. It stands to reason that this morning’s breakfast should be sparse, and it might even skip it at all to save food.
But early in the morning, the barbarian army was engaged in a fierce pursuit. When the army returned from victory, the consumption from the leader to the ordinary barbarian must be quite large. They must eat to fill the stomach. In this way, the grain and grass reserves were not enough!
Alas, all the important barbarians were gone. There was no senior barbarian in the camp who could decide this matter. He was just a big boss who couldn’t bear the responsibility of making chaotic decisions, so he had headache.
The barbarian logistics officer, who was suffering from a headache, couldn’t help but look far to the south. There was Daxia’s Bianlu City. Being optimistic, the army would be able to reach Daxia’s Bianlu City and rob and replenish food and grass in time. Then there was no problem with making more for breakfast, right?
Imagination was beautiful, and reality was terrifying. The eyes of the Barbarian logistics officer could not see Bianlu City, but instead reflected the rushing Daxia cavalry.
The captain rushed into the barbarian camp with five cavalrymen. As an elite unit, they dare to fight head-on when facing an equal number of barbarian warriors, not to mention that they were now facing only the barbarian logistic soldiers.
Several cavalrymen controlled the horse with one hand, wielded a spear or a broad knife in the other, and quickly killed a few back and forth among the barbarians staying in the camp, and quickly killed all the logistic barbarians who had not escaped.
As for the driven slaves, most of them were from Daxia. Seeing this, they knelt and cried for help.
“You take the barbarians’ food, and then run quickly. How far you can run and where you can run depends on yourselves”
The tall captain pointed a long spear at the granary and shouted loudly at the surviving slaves.
Most of the slaves of the barbarians were civilians who were looted during the invasion of Daxia. They were used like consumables. They didn’t care about their life or death. They forced the slaves to pay for their labor, and even drove them to act as human shields at the forefront during the war.
In previous battles, Daxia’s army encountered slaves enslaved by the barbarians, and if they could be rescued, they would be rescued. Unfortunately, now they were really short of manpower and could only let the rescued Daxia people escape by themselves.
It was very easy to distinguish who the slaves were. Except for the lack of barbarian-like horns on their heads, all the slaves had yellowish muscles, skinny and weathered faces. At first glance, they had a hard life, and they were distinct from the tall barbarians. So, there was no fear that people from the barbarians would mix into the slaves and escape together.
With the permission of the tall captain, more than one hundred slaves rushed to the remaining granary in ecstasy, all of them robbed a large amount of grain, wrapped them on their backs, and took them from the barbarian camp. With weapons, bacon, milk wine, and even the last three horses in the stables that did not fight because of their injuries, all was taken away.
Although the injured horse could not be ridden, if it is brought back to Daxia and cured, it can still be sold for some money.
In addition to sweeping the barbarian camp, the slaves also identified the barbarian leaders’ camps and important areas in the camp to the cavalry.
The slaves ransacked wildly, and the six cavalrymen carried the barrels handed over to them by the commander, and dumped sesame oil around the barbarian camp, especially the camps of the barbarian leaders. They searched for valuable documents and other items. They then poured sesame oil on the camp.
The cavalry patiently dumped all ten barrels of sesame oil and urged the rescued Daxia citizens to leave the camp. The fire that had been ignited for breakfast before was used to ignite the entire camp.
After the flames ignited, it spread out from camp to camp. It didn’t take long for the barbarian camps to fall into a sea of flames, and huge black smoke rose into the sky. It’s a pity that the barbarian army had run too far, not even noticing that their camp no longer exists.
The barbarian camp burned into ashes and ruins, the flames gradually extinguished because there was no combustible material, and the six cavalrymen left, catching up with the people of Daxia who left first, and leading them to bypass the trap set the night before. After watching them leave, the other captain took the lead and continued to dig pits and set traps in accordance with the commander’s requirements and guidance.
At this time, the two cavalrymen who drove a large number of war horses back to Bianlu City the night before finally arrived at Bianlu City. Amidst the dumbfounded faces of their comrades, they drove more than two hundred barbarian war horses into the city.
The horse was driven straight to Captain Ma. The cavalry told the officer in detail what happened the previous night. Of course, they didn’t personally participate in the task. No matter how detailed they were, it was only what they saw.
The experience of the night was extraordinary enough. After telling the great achievements of the two officers, the cavalry emphatically mentioned Cheng Huaiqian’s request: more soldiers!
Captain Ma and the generals looked at the large number of war horses that covered the main streets of Bianlu City, and fell into a long period of speechlessness and trance.
The cavalry was a very precious unit, because the horse itself was a very precious strategic resource.
The training cost of the cavalry was so high that the captain of the horse had been training hard for many years, and his subordinates had accumulated more than a hundred cavalry. Previously, he divided 20 cavalrymen into Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize.
If it hadn’t been for the citizens of Bianlu City to praise the two strong men and protect them, Captain Ma saw the fighting situation in Bianlu City with his own eyes, and really wanted to recruit the two strong men, but would not dare to give them a chance to perform so boldly.
The result was far beyond his expectation. Well, the two young men fed back nearly two hundred horses in the Barbarian Riding Camp in just one night. It was really, really amazing! Good job! It was worthy of being a hero who defended Bianlu City with just two people!
Captain Ma was so excited that he even thought about how to take credit for the two new subordinates.
After a long period of silence, the generals finally reacted and first praised vigorously:
“Congratulations, Captain Ma! Your eyes are like a torch, and the talents are eclectic. The two warriors will be grateful for your support, and they will do their best to help you solve your problems. It is all because of Captain Ma”
“Hahaha, this old man really didn’t read the wrong person, the two of them are good, good!”
Captain Ma burst out laughing, and the surrounding subordinates quickly cooperated to boast, and for a while, the scene was very lively.
However, under the harmonious superficial atmosphere, some generals couldn’t help but feel jealous. They thought it was just two vigorous young men. They didn’t expect to really hit it. It was really displeasing to the eye.
The happy Captain Ma finally decided to assign another twenty cavalrymen to Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize, hoping that they would achieve even more pleasing results.
At the same time, the twenty cavalrymen were ordered to go south with the horses, and meet with the infantry soldiers who were still on the way.
With war horses, they have the transportation capacity. If the infantry could be transported to Bianlu City in time, relying on the walls of Bianlu City, they dare to fight the barbarians freely, and the imperial court’s order to defend Bianlu City could be fulfilled.
The sorrow on his face turned into smug, and Captain Ma was happy.
How happy Captain Ma was, how unhappy the barbarian army was.
After running for another full hour, the barbarian chief finally reined his horse to stop, and gave a merciful order to allow his barbarian warriors to rest in place. For no other reason, the young leaders could not support it.
They didn’t have a good rest last night. They didn’t even eat a mouthful of food or drink water this morning, they were full of anger.
In this pursuit, the small chief was threatened by bows and arrows from the front from time to time. After his anger reached the extreme, the small chief didn’t feel so angry. At this time, the other party had already gained the upper hand, so it was better to stop and rest.
As soon as the order to rest on the spot was given, the more than one thousand barbarians who ran after the leader’s horse for nearly an hour and a half couldn’t hold on anymore, laid down on the ground like a dead dog, and didn’t want to move their fingers.
This was not because the barbarian warriors had poor physical fitness, but because they had been tossed hard, running at extreme speed for more than an hour, and the horses were tired, let alone them?
After the initial anger was concealed by exhaustion, the physical pain caused by running at high speed became more and more intense. The barbarians didn´t understand the need about continuing the pursue, but they didn´t dare to disobey the order, nor did they dare to fall behind, so they had to drag it desperately. With both legs, ran to the point of breathlessness.
It was finally time to rest, and the barbarian warriors could only wait to grow up on the ground and never stand up again.
However, if the barbarians wanted to rest, they had to ask Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize whether they agree.
Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize, who were running ahead, saw that the barbarians stopped pursuing them, and were unhappy in their hearts. How could this be possible? It was said that the chase must have a beginning and an end, how could it be abandoned halfway?
The two of them simply turned their horses and returned with their cavalry to the barbarian’s surroundings. They stopped the horse, draw the bow at a distance of less than 50 meters from the barbarian army and shot arrows at the barbarians.
How could the barbarians tolerate the provocative behavior of the Daxia cavalry?
Seeing this, the anger of the sober barbarians rushed to the top of their heads again, but looking around, there were very few barbarians who could stand up and resist.
Even if the eight barbarian leaders with better physical strength put down their bodies to help them block arrows, they couldn’t stop the dozen or so arrows shot at the same time.
As for the barbarians who have collapsed on the ground, they were too lazy to even move their bodies to avoid them. At most they only shrank behind their comrades and continued to rest. Anyway, there were only a dozen cavalry in Daxia, and they may not kill themselves.
Especially in the previous chase, ordinary barbarian warriors had discovered that the main target of the Daxia cavalry was the high-level barbarians above the small boss. Compared with the ordinary barbarians, the security was higher, so the ordinary barbarians simply didn’t resist.
The barbarians did not have the energy to fight back, and the Daxia cavalry was not polite.
