Chapter 60: Wuya Village Breached

“Fortress Lord Li!”

“The Great King has an order!”

“Order your division to prepare immediately and, together with the left and right divisions, capture Wuya Village before sunset.”

As soon as Li Xiao arrived outside Wuya Village with his men, before he could catch his breath, he received Xiao Simo’s order.

“Fuck!”

After the messenger left, Li Xiao cursed fiercely.

“Damn Xiao Simo, simply inhumane.”

Undoubtedly, the Han army under Li Xiao was treated as cannon fodder.

Capture Wuya Village before sunset? Xiao Simo made it sound easy.

When the Moman tribe attacked Wuya Village, they besieged it for several days, and many people died.

“What should we do? Da Long? The Khitans clearly want us to die.” Li Dashan said worriedly.

Qin Kaishan and the others shook their heads; they were indeed just cannon fodder.

Otherwise, why did they bring you here?

Who told them not to be Xiao Simo’s direct line troops?

If Han people and other nomadic tribes didn’t go, would Xiao Simo consume his own Six Divisions troops?

Anyway, Qin Kaishan and the others had fought wars with the Khitans all their lives. Having experienced this kind of thing many times, they were no longer angry.

Stepchildren were treated like this.

The Khitans had always used these miscellaneous troops as cannon fodder.

However, Li Xiao didn’t want his subordinates to die in vain, and snorted lightly.

“If Xiao Simo is inhumane, I, Li Xiao, won’t be humane either.”

“Pass the order, let the Čarlan people go first.”

Just using cannon fodder!

Li Xiao had some too.

This expedition brought those three hundred-plus Čarlan people, just to be used in this situation.

“Tell those Čarlan people.”

“Whoever attacks into Wuya Village first will be exempted from slave status and rewarded with fifty sheep.” Li Xiao ordered in a deep voice.

Then, looking at Erhu, he said: “You organize a supervising team to follow behind the Čarlan people.”

“Anyone who dares to shrink from battle or desert before the battle, shoot them dead directly.”

“Yes, sir!” Erhu nodded heavily and turned to leave.

Woooooo!

Woooo!

Low bugle sounds rang out on the earth, and the Eastern Capital Army’s attack began.

Tribes like Woliejian, Halatu, and Hechila were ready to go, riding warhorses toward Wuya Village.

The first time was definitely a probe. When approaching the moat, these cavalrymen immediately shot a rain of arrows.

Then they turned their horses around, advancing to both sides, galloping around the moat, and shooting from a distance.

On the other side, more than three hundred Čarlan slaves, coerced by the bows and arrows of the Hexi cavalry, also rushed toward Wuya Village.

However, as the local Han people of Jin Prefecture, they ultimately had certain advantages.

When Li Xiao came, he brought more than a dozen horse carts, which came in handy at this time.

Fitting a wooden board in front of the cart made a simple mantlet wagon.

The Čarlan people used horse carts to push rubble and soil, braving the arrows of the Moman tribe, trying to fill the moat bit by bit.

“Ahhh!”

Outside Wuya Village, screams were continuous.

As the attacking side, they ultimately suffered losses. The number of casualties in the Eastern Capital Army was far higher than the Moman tribe.

But fortunately, the Eastern Capital Army had a large number of people, still forming a great suppression on the Moman tribe.

“Which division is this, actually so brave?”

On a high slope in the distance, Xiao Simo surveyed the battlefield. When his gaze fell on the Čarlan people, he couldn’t help asking curiously.

“This? Seems to be the Čarlan people!”

A Khitan general said somewhat uncertainly.

Another person wondered: “Weren’t the Čarlan people surrounded and annihilated by the Han people?”

Everyone suddenly realized that the Han people were acting as middlemen, using the Čarlan people as cannon fodder.

“Great King, the Čarlan tribe is a tribe of our Yin Mountain. Being captured by Han people and used as slaves is outrageous.”

Xiao Tuolatu said: “We should make the Han people release these Čarlan people immediately.”

“Forget it.” Xiao Simo shook his head gently.

“Such are the rules of the grassland. The Čarlan tribe was defeated, so they are slaves of the Han people. If we snatch them, it would be breaking the rules.”

“Besides, it’s just a few hundred Čarlan people, not worth making the Han people hold a grudge.”

What Xiao Simo cared about was whose utility value was higher. The subsequent battles still needed the support of the Han people.

Not to mention the distant future, once the battle with the Naimans reached a stalemate, and the jerky and grain carried by the army were exhausted…

Without the opportunity to rob the Naimans, they would need the Han people of Jin Prefecture to provide cattle, sheep, and grain for the army.

“Go tell Li Xiao, before sunset, I want to see him appear inside Wuya Village.” Xiao Simo ordered his personal guard.

Don’t think that just because the Čarlan people were used as cannon fodder, the Han people could slack off.

Xiao Simo was not easily fooled.

And in this battle, he also wanted to see Li Xiao’s ability.

Whether he was truly qualified to be promoted as his right-hand man.

Outside Wuya Village, Li Xiao shook his head gently listening to Xiao Simo’s order.

Ultimately couldn’t avoid it!

“The feeling of working for others is just different,” Li Xiao sighed.

When raiding Sanhe Fortress at night before, it was to protect the safety of Hexi Fortress, so naturally, everyone risked their lives.

But now, with the Khitans as the boss overhead, Li Xiao thought instead about how to preserve his own strength and avoid excessive losses.

Glancing at the sky, the sun had already begun to set in the west, golden light sprinkling on the earth.

At most half an hour (one hour) left, and it would be completely dark.

“Let’s go, it’s our turn.”

Li Xiao, wearing armor, shouted loudly to the seven-fortress Han army behind him.

“Kill!”

At this time, the offensive of the Čarlan people had already achieved certain results.

One section of the moat was about to be filled.

With Li Xiao’s order, more than a dozen fully armored Han soldiers, divided into three groups, each pushed a horse cart.

Loaded on the horse carts were huge logs.

Simple battering rams!

More than a dozen iron-armored Han soldiers pushed these battering rams, braving the Karluk arrows, quickly pushing across the moat filled by the Čarlan people, utilizing the impact of inertia.

The huge logs crashed into the battlements of Wuya Village.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Accompanied by three loud noises, this section of battlements of Wuya Village collapsed with a crash.

If it were city walls in the Central Plains, such an effect certainly couldn’t be achieved.

But the battlements of Wuya Village were built of rubble and mud, only over a meter high.

Unable to withstand the impact of battering rams at all.

“Brothers, the battlements are broken!”

“Follow me to charge in.”

Li Xiao held a horse lance and shouted loudly to the cavalry behind him.

“Kill!”

More than a thousand cavalrymen of the seven fortresses surged out instantly and began to charge. Warhorses roared, rolling up waves of wild sand; metal weapons neighed, constantly stained with Karluk blood.

Li Xiao charged at the front. Within a short time, he rushed into Wuya Village.

The horse lance in his hand waved frantically; any Karluk appearing within two meters around him was instantly pierced through.

Erhu and others followed closely behind, harvesting Karluk lives with spears and war sabers.

“Uncle Nielun!”

“Uncle Nielun!”

The Karluk boy named Luoga cried and shook the old herdsman’s body, but his chest was hit by a Han arrow; his hearty smile could no longer be seen.

“Ah!”

Before Luoga could cry out a few more times, a man’s scream rang out again not far away.

“Brother Wuguli!”

The Karluk boy watched in terror as Wuguli, who was lecturing him not long ago, threatening to gallop across the Northern Border, now had his chest pierced by a Han horse lance.

Blood gushed all over his body, and he fell heavily from his horse.

Pfft!

Li Xiao pulled out the horse lance nimbly, glancing sideways at this Karluk boy with hateful eyes.

The warhorse charged forward again. In just a few breaths, the horse lance instantly beheaded this boy.

Luoga’s world spun, slowly darkening.

Li Xiao’s figure remained in his eyes; that was an excessively young face, about the same age as Luoga.

But why was his heart so vicious, why did he slaughter our tribesmen unscrupulously?

Is he a devil?

Luoga screamed in grief in his heart.

“Report!”

“Great King, the Jin Prefecture Han Division has already broken into Wuya Village.”

A messenger rode a warhorse and ran quickly to Xiao Simo to report this news.

In fact, Xiao Simo stood on the high slope, also constantly watching the Han situation.

Not only did he see the Han people break into Wuya Village, but he also saw Li Xiao, fully armored, rushing among the Karluks as if entering an uninhabited land.

The scene of the horse lance dancing wildly, constantly harvesting Karluk lives.

Looking up at the sky again, the sun was still showing its head; golden light fell on Xiao Simo’s face, warm and comfortable.

“This kid, not bad.”

“Not in vain did A-Man value him so much and always speak well of him in front of me.”

“Hehe!”

Xiao Simo nodded with satisfaction.

At this time, other tribes hadn’t even approached the edge of Wuya Village, but Li Xiao had already led people to breach the village.

Not only was his own martial prowess formidable, brave and skilled in battle, but the Han cavalry under his command also had strong combat power.

Xiao Simo’s regard for Li Xiao quietly rose a level in his heart.

(End of this chapter)