Chapter 37 - Casualties of the Cao Army (2) (1/2)

Chapter 37 - Casualties of the Cao Army (2)

Original by Bro Got a Gun, Translated by James

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“Cao Chun! Humph!” Lu Bu suddenly started charging toward Cao Chun. On the White Gate Tower, he failed to kill both Cao Cao and Xiahou Yuan and had since been in a very bad mood. “Cao Mende took my Xu Province and uprooted my foundation! Today, I shall have you taste the pain of losing your loved general!”

Lu Bu didn’t know who Cao Chun was. However, he knew that the Ferocious Cavalry was Old Cao’s precious treasure - only these few thousands of them in the whole Yan Province. For this Cao Chun to be the commander of the Ferocious Cavalry, he is most definitely one of Cao Cao’s great general!

What Lu Bu wanted was to slay this Cao Chun to give Cao Cao heartaches.

“Die for me!” Lu Bu’s entire murderous aura was fixed onto Cao Chun. On the battlefield, anyone that Lu Bu wants to kill will certainly die. No one could stop him, not even gods!

“This cannot be! How can I die?! I cannot die!” Cao Chun did not knew of the prowess that Lu Bu possess before, he even dared to belittle him earlier. He had viewed Lu Bu to be just a brute, the slave of three surnames, a traitor who put petty personal love affairs over everything else, a person who cannot possibly accomplish much. Cao Chun had always viewed of slaying Lu Bu as a stepping stone in his meritorious contributions.

When his Ferocious Cavalry was called to the front of the battlefield, Cao Chun was immensely happy. He had viewed Lu Bu as a fish on the chopping block. He wanted to kill Lu Bu and prove to the world that he, Cao Chun, was the greatest general; that he, Cao Chun, was the real God of War.

However now Cao Chun was in a panic. He was a general. Thus, his sensitivity toward dangers was much stronger compared to regular people!

He had only heard from others of Lu Bu’s frightening prowess before. And now, he genuinely experienced it. He genuinely experienced the frightening man known who was known as the God of War, this man who was the Wolf God of the Prairie!

“Fast! Too fast!” Cao Chun saw the golden trident’s shadow. Before he was able to react, he already felt a cold wind. This was the feeling of trident about to penetrate his body. “Abominable!” Cao Chun wanted to evade but he found out that there’s nowhere for him to evade to. The trident had already block all leeways.

Forward! Only going forward using the horse’s galloping strength would he be able to escape!

Worthy of being one of Cao Cao’s great general, a general that Cao Cao had faith in, Cao Chun firmly decided to cut loss quickly and not to guard against Lu Bu. Instead, he took out his long blade and slashed his war horse’s buttocks.

“Poof!” Piping hot blood was spraying from the war horse’s buttocks. Under the immense pain, the war horse immediately started accelerating. In a blink’s time, it had flew past Lu Bu and a several horses distance away.

[TL: horse distance…. imagine placing a couple horses between Lu Bu’s horse and Cao Chun’s horse? Blame the author for making up length...]

“Cutting loose via self injury?!” Lu Bu didn’t expect that Cao Chun would’ve injure his horse. For a general, a good war horse was a comrade in arms, one’s second life. Generally, cavalries would treat their horses as a companion. They would love them dearly. Should their horse fall ill, they would be grow very anxious. And now, Cao Chun actually injured his horse to escape. Although his blade had caused the war horse to quickly accelerate, it cannot persist for a long period of time. This battle, no…. perhaps in a moment’s time the war horse would fall and die.

Lu Bu could also tell that Cao Chun’s war horse wasn’t some ordinary horse. Although it could not compare to some famous horses like the Red Hare that he once had, it was still a rare and good horse.

“You want to compare horse strength?!” Lu Bu sneered. If he still had the Red Hare, he would’ve already reached Cao Chun and killed him with his trident. However he doesn’t have the Red Hare now. It wasn’t that his current horse was bad. Rather, it was that he wasn’t familiar with the horse that he have now. Nevertheless, this didn’t obstruct Lu Bu’s pursuit.

“Let’s see if my Ferghana horse is faster or if your war horse is faster!” Lu Bu slapped his war horse and his already fast war horse suddenly accelerated. It was accelerating like it was sprinting. Lu Bu felt as if that the wind that past by him had turned a bit prickling.

[TL: Lu Bu’s mistakened the type of horse Liu Mang brought back? Blood-sweating horse was used to refer to Ferghana horse. It is also what Lu Bu literally called it. Apparently Ferghana horse was heavenly horses back in Han dynasty. They sweat blood when worked because of parasites.]