Chapter 617 - Arrangements (1/2)
Chapter 617: Arrangements
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When Yan Liqiang led his troops back to the Wind Border Stockade, their path was paved by dead bodies of Shatuthe pursuit earlier
The soldiers following Yan Liqiang were all in high spirits as they were bursting with morale They rounded up the nonerless rhinodrake steeds along the way as spoils of war With the reins of another extra steed in hand, they followed Yan Liqiang back to the Wind Border Stockade
Along the way, the soldiers fro’s five hundred soldiers with awe in their eyes Initially, they thought that Yan Liqiang’s guards were too young so they couldn’t predict their capability on battlefields After this battle, the White Stone Pass cavalry was astonished by their performance
Frouards had put on theperfor any casualties by the end of the battle Only a few of the of the battle when they engaged the Shatu cavalry archers The injuries weren’t that serious as they could still ride on their steeds
After the Shatu archers were all killed after a few rounds of coordinated attacks, no one aain because the other Shatu soldiers couldn’t even come close to them, let alone harm them
When the Shatu cavalry was surrounded, one of the Shatu soldiers actually ed to come as close as thirty meters away from the cavalry archers However, he was instantly turned into a hedgehog
It was simply a miracle to have experienced such a battle without any casualties
wang Naiwu looked at Yan Liqiang’s five hundred cavalry archers with his burning gaze As a barrack general, he was naturallyNaiwu never thought cavalry archers would be this powerful when united on a battlefield Yan Liqiang’s troops were very organized in everything they did They operated as a single unit and adopted coies than a nor Naiwu
If only he could also lead a troop like that…
The thought flashed through wang Naiwu’s ht was instantly shattered when he looked at all the luxurious bows hanging on the saddle of the five hundred cavalry archers’ steeds wang Naiwu sighed inwardly In his opinion, Yan Liqiang was probably the only person in the entire northwestern region who could afford such extravagant and expensive equip aside the challenge in training a qualified archer, just the five hundred rhinodrake steeds that those cavalryh to ion was quite famous for its rhinodrake steeds, it was still possible to acquire them as a ht next to the Gulang Plains
However, a decent war bow had always been the most scarce of the most expensive weapons in the Great Han Empire Even all the weaponsmith quarters under the jurisdiction of the Gan Provincial Military Governor’s Office were only able to produce about a thousand of them per year After these war boere distributed, each aret their hands on very few of theht also be daed by the time they were distributed to the army No matter hoell one could take care of their war bow, the lifespan of one war boas only two to five years at s, as well as the natural expansion and contraction, gradually wore these war bows out until they would eventually be discarded Hence, it wasn’t like troops could actually accumulate many of them over time
Of course, there were cheap bows too In fact, those made out of bamboo were extremely cheap so it wasn’t hard to bulk purchase them However, bows like that were jokes on the battlefield as they couldn’t even penetrate leather armor from fifty steps away Not only that, but they would be out of shape after a few months of use Aside from the White Lotus Society ould use the the southern mountains used this kind of bow
By the ti arrived at the Wind Border Stockade with his troops, the battle there had also ended The ground outside of the stockade village was littered with mostly Shatu corpses
The Shatu soldiers who stayed here earlier didn’t expect the ongoing battle in the distance to end so quickly As soon as the Shatu cavalry over there started to escape, the morale of those ere here instantly hit rock-bottom as well They wanted to escape too, but they were stopped by the Han Chinese in the Wind Border Stockade By the time Tie Yunshan arrived with his men, they inevitably lost the battle as they had been trapped by their enemies at the front and back Apart froed to escape, the rest were all reduced to corpses
As soon as Yan Liqiang’s foot touched the ground, Tie Yunshan brought a ed man in his forties or fifties over He had a square face, a pair of thick eyebrows, and was dressed in regular civilian clothes