Chapter 103
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Chapter 103: Demonstration
A chilling wind blew gently, carrying a faint hint of cold in the howling gusts of early spring.
A team emanating a murderous aura brazenly charged towards the Barbarian Bear Tribe, located on the other side of the plains!
They openly displayed their strength and dominance!
The Barbarian Bear Tribe, caught off guard by the attack, descended into chaos within their camp.
Soon after, a group of barbarians, also armed, quickly surged out and formed a defensive line outside the tribal camp to resist the invasion.
Standing on a high ground not far away, Luo Ji’s eyes gleamed with a cold light as he observed the Barbarian Bear Tribe’s outer defense line.
This time, although he had brought the archer squad, he didn’t intend to use all of them.
He was here to demonstrate his power and to use the Barbarian Bear Tribe as a whetstone, to test the strength of his shield-axe soldiers!
Excluding the two warriors guarding the Black Rock Tribe, fifteen shield-axe soldiers, with Liu Zheng at the vanguard, faced the Barbarian Bear Tribe’s resistance without fear.
Each of them was ready, awaiting Luo Ji’s command.
“Move out!”
Luo Ji activated the ‘Inspire Morale’ skill without hesitation, further boosting their combat power through morale.
Instantly, the shield-axe soldiers, upon receiving the command, seized the initiative.
“Kill!!”
They roared, their figures charged directly into the Barbarian Bear Tribe’s defensive line.
Their overwhelming momentum was startling, making even the habitually arrogant Barbarian Bear Tribe feel suppressed.
With no time to think, they quickly retrieved the powerful weapon they had unexpectedly acquired some time ago.
The sling!
Behind the defensive line, the slings in the hands of the Barbarian Bear Tribe’s slingers began to spin rapidly.
At first glance, they looked quite proficient.
However, as soon as they released their shots, the five archers behind Luo Ji chuckled.
Their accuracy was terrible.
These five archers had also transitioned from slingers, so they naturally knew how difficult it was to train accuracy with a sling.
Like them, they had undergone high intensity training every day for over half a month before they felt somewhat confident in their accuracy.
The Barbarian Bear Tribe clearly didn’t have those resources.
However, no matter how bad the accuracy, with enough attempts, a few hits were bound to land occasionally.
Facing the stone projectiles flying almost directly at them, the shield-axe soldiers showed no panic, their face was calm and composed.
Previously, to help them skillfully use their round leather shields, Luo Ji had specially devised a series of training plans.
Besides simple offense and defense drills, he also specifically found a team to simulate sling attacks, vigorously throwing stones at them and requiring them to block each incoming stone with their round leather shields.
Due to the relatively limited training time, it couldn’t be said that they were incredibly skilled, but they had certainly developed the sense and awareness for parrying ranged attacks!
A shield-axe soldier quickly raised the round leather shield in his left hand to block.
Immediately, as the stone projectile struck the shield’s surface, all eyes watched the projectile bounce off the round shield.
In that moment, it was as if it declared the era dominated by ranged units had completely passed!
The two groups instantly clashed.
The well trained shield-axe soldiers moved cleanly and decisively.
While blocking attacks with their round leather shields, the stone axes gripped tightly in their right hands mercilessly struck the enemy’s vulnerable necks!
The scene of flying flesh and blood created a one sided slaughter!
This new military unit, upon its emergence, displayed its formidable dominance on the battlefield, as if proclaiming the rise of a new king of the battlefield.
Just as Luo Ji had always said, his biggest challenge against the Barbarian Bear Tribe was never whether he could win, but whether he could devour them.
Luo Jin, who had made that judgment, probably never imagined that their Chief could assemble such a powerful shield-axe troop in such a short time!
Watching his tribal warriors fall one after another, Savage Bear, the leader of the Barbarian Bear Tribe, was both shocked and enraged.
He wanted to do something, but the man wielding a strange weapon in front of him relentlessly entangled him, preventing him from moving freely.
“Get lost!”
Savage Bear roared furiously.
At this moment, his attacks were fierce, truly living up to his name.
He was a living, breathing human savage bear!
Facing such power, Liu Zheng naturally dared not be careless.
Wielding his battle-axe, after a few exchanges, he secretly marveled at Savage Bear’s immense strength.
In a one-on-one duel, within one hundred rounds, it would likely be impossible to determine a winner.
All Liu Zheng could do now was probably tie down this human savage bear!
“A man who has hunted black bears? It seems he’s not falsely named…”
Luo Ji squinted his eyes.
People of this era had a habit of decorating themselves with their spoils of war to display their strength and intimidate other barbarians.
Thus, Savage Bear, dressed in a black bearskin, was quite conspicuous.
Incidentally, although Luo Ji was wearing a leather armor at this time, he still wore a greatcoat made of saber-toothed tiger fur over it, and a pair of saber-toothed daggers were tucked into his waist as self defense weapons, making him appear quite imposing as a ruler.
Luo Ji was in no hurry now.
He acknowledged Savage Bear’s strength. He truly was worthy of being the strongest dominant tribe in the original area.
If he hadn’t appeared, in this barbaric primitive society, Savage Bear’s strength would likely have allowed him to rule this entire nearby area for a much longer time.
Unfortunately, he had met him…
This was a war!
Not a one-on-one duel where victory or defeat could be decided by the strength of a single person.
Apart from the exceptionally strong Savage Bear, the defeat of the rest of the Barbarian Bear Tribe was already a foregone conclusion.
Facing the fiercely advancing shield-axe soldiers, they were utterly powerless to resist.
After three waves of attacks, they were directly pushed back into their tribal camp.
Savage Bear saw that his subordinates had all retreated.
If he continued to fight Liu Zheng, he would eventually be surrounded by the opposing shield-axe soldiers and would surely die.
Realizing this, Savage Bear wouldn’t just accept death!
He immediately burst forth, and after a forced, head-on clash with Liu Zheng, he seized an opportunity and quickly retreated into the camp.
After the enemy’s retreat, Liu Zheng and the shield-axe soldiers did not pursue further.
This was something Luo Ji had instructed them beforehand.
If they pursued further inside, the enemy would have no escape route and would have to fight to the death.
Luo Ji had no intention of engaging his elite troops in a war of attrition with the enemy’s cannon fodders. Furthermore, at this point, there was less than a week left until the effect of the truce token expired.
Therefore, his purpose for this trip was to demonstrate the strength of their tribe, to give the Barbarian Bear Tribe a severe warning.
While letting them know the consequences of offending them, it would also ensure they behaved themselves and dared not provoke them in the near future.
This way, Luo Ji could focus on dealing with any players who might invade later.
