Chapter 56 - Urban Army Division First Battle (1) (1/2)

Chapter 56 – Urban Army Division First Battle (1) (MTL, not proofread or edited yet)

Translated by Bloodfalcon

“Motherf.u.c.ker! Chen Old d.i.c.khead, you deceive me!” Liu Mang almost want to cry. On war council, Chen Gong said, your role will not have to fight, no need to slaughter, just need to confuse the enemy.

But now, there are cavalry soldiers moving toward him and trying to bust out his a.s.s. If this is not to fight, then what is?

“All troops, engage with the enemy!” Liu Mang roared. At mountain foot, there are only his Urban Army Division and supply troops, and that’s it. But from the peak, there are cavalry soldier moving downward from the forest above. Their numbers should be no less than 2,000! At Kaiyang, Liu Mang saw by himself the power of Ferocious Cavalry and if compared now, their power should be quite similar.

At that time only 2,000 troops of Ferocious Cavalry deadlocked Boss Lu’s 10,000 troops in Kaiyang, letting them to be in despair.

But now, it is f.u.c.ked up completely. In Liu Mang’s hand, there are only 1,000 troops of Urban Army. While supply troops have 5,000, but he cannot rely on these old supply troops. Therefore his potential only 1,000 troops.

“Kill all Lu Bu Army division in front of us. Kill them and we live!” Lei Bo roar again. His fortune today is extremely bad. That is quite understandable for Lei Bo to act like that. His den lost, his possession lost, his family lost. In conclusion, everything lost.

So, now Lei Bo vented all his anger at Liu Mang.

“Destroy Them!” Screamed Lei Bo. Now, we see at the geography first, Huainan is in southern area. This region is full with lakes and mountains, basically not ideal to raise horses with good quality. Therefore, to obtain a good horse, one must “import” them from north and their price is very expensive and only having warhorse can one warlord create a cavalry unit. Due to this constraints, only a few warlords can have cavalry division, Old Yuan is one of those warlords.

If Liu Mang carefully observe them, he will discover that these cavalry soldiers come from same roots which is the imperial guard of Old Yuan in Shouchun. Before Old Yuan was defeated by Cao Cao, he also have 8,000 cavalry troops.

And these 2,000 troops are Chen Lan and Lei Bo’s subordinates. When Chen Lan leaves Yuan Shu, he also brought these 2,000 cavalry troops with him. After Old Yuan was defeated by Cao Cao, his Yu Province cavalry soldiers only numbered less than 1,000. And those also was added into Chen Lan and Lei Bo’s hand,

“General we withdraw first!” f.u.c.k, the enemy in front are heavy cavalry troops led by bandit leader Lei Bo. All of Urban Army troops are fresh recruit who not yet fight a battle, they are really afraid now. Every single of them are looking at Liu Mang searching for orders, and hopefully Liu Mang will order withdraw. Once Liu Mang said withdraw, they will scatter like a wind.

“Withdraw? Where we can withdraw?!” Although Liu Mang has never directed an army, he watched many war show on TV. Infantry cannot fight cavalry. If engage, infantry will die, withdrew also die, how can two legs fight four legs? In any situation, infantry will always be oppressed by cavalry.

And you know what? The reason of Song Dynasty defeated by Jin Dynasty and finally annihilated by Yuan Dynasty is because Song Dynasty is confident with their numbers, but they are all infantry!!! Idiot, all of them. And finally, Southern Song become a sitting duck by Yuan Dynasty waiting for annihilation. Why don’t they learn from history?

TL: Song Dynasty was defeated twice, Northern Song by Jin Dynasty, Southern Song by Yuan Dynasty (please refer to Wikipedia, for more further information)

“All army, without order, n.o.body move!” Shout Liu Mang summoned the last of his courage.

Urban Army fresh recruit cannot wait for Liu Mang order already for they are already afraid and even more the frontline, they already do not have unified direction because these people are not veterans, just recruits who was picked among Liu Mang’s troops. So when they hear cavalry is coming, they are already scattered everywhere.

So now, the soldiers who is able to fight under Liu Mang is less than 3,000 troops.

“Sha, Sha, Sha, SHAAAAA!” Screams Zhang Kai. Zhang Kai is Chen Lan and Lei Bo’s subordinate. This Zhang Kai do not have any military training prior, and joined Chen Lan and Lei Bo as bandit. Plundering, raping, and looting are his way of life. So his bloodthirsty can be extreme. Because of this apt.i.tude of his, Chen Lan like him more and made him lead Yu Province Cavalry.

TL: It is possible that this Zhang Kai is the one who killed Cao Cao’s father Cao Song. He was a subordinate of Tao Qian, previous Governor of Xu Province before Liu Bei took over. For further information: the3kingdoms.wikia.com/wiki/Zhang_Kai , if it is real, then Lu Bu Army have done a favor to Cao Cao without knowing what he has done before.

The following cavalry soldiers also have an extreme bloodthirsty aura around them.

Zhang Kai’s troops now have caught up with supply troops. Their ma.s.sacre begin almost instantaneously, in not more than a flash, tens of people already fallen to their blade. Blood flower formed everywhere.

Zhang Kai licked the blood at his mouth corner, a salty and irony taste. Zhang Kai gets more excited again.

“Sha, Sha, SHAAAAA!” They want to run, but horse are more faster.

“Ha, Kill them all!” Zhang Kai and his soldiers are very ruthless in this battle, supply troops suffer great damage suddenly.