Chapter 394 Khans Weakness (2/2)

'Annoying. So annoying! I should have known about this, but peasants are fucking selfish!'

Fortunately, Liu Yang solved most of the uprising issues and reinforced the city order. She even advised him to leave everything to her and continue to cultivate, so Khan could brainwash all of his citizens, city-by-city.

Still, Khan refused to follow her suggestion. As he felt threatened by Tong's rapid expansion and Cao Cao's conquest, Khan wanted to dominate more regions so that his military power would be on par with them.

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Gan Zhou County, west of Wuwei.

This county did not have a city wall like the others in China mainland. Instead, most populations resided in caves or clay houses as this region landscapes consist of a desert, steep colorful mountains, sandstones, oases, and wetlands.

This county was a part of Silk Road, which located west of Wuwei County of Vida.

A supply convoy from the west arrived at the mountain county, but they were stopped by the local guard that blockaded the valley passage to the east.

The caravan leader was a Xiongnu commander, a subordinate of Khan. He roared in frustration that they should have passed through here without getting an inspection.

”Scram! I'm the 5,000-man commander of Khan's provision department. Don't waste my time!”

The supply caravan consisted of wagons of dried food, spice, and cargo from the west that they could trade with the local Han citizens. Since they were within Xiongnu's territory, only five thousand soldiers escorted this group.

However, 20,000 riders surrounded them on the valley hills. The leader of the check-point was a tall man in red steel plate armor and a red muscular warhorse.

Lu Bu glared at the Xiongnu commander with a sneer behind his knight helmet. He waved his hand and gave his signal.

All heavy knights with red hares galloped down slopes, rushing at the Xiongnu.

The Xiongnu commander bellowed in anger, ”Blasphemy! You petty thieves dare to rob the great me!?”

Lu Bu mumbled as he also rushed at the Xiongnu commander, ”Meh, another pushover.”

Steel crescent halberd cut the head of the commander in one swing.

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While Khan was busy in Liang Province, Lu Bu and his Red Hare Legion traveled deep west, detoured around Wuwei to Gan Zhou, presently known as Zhangye in modern days.

All 50,000 soldiers rested in Gan Zhou, fortifying their new constructed check-point.

Ju Shou and Gao Shun were also assisting Lu Bu in this task.

Gao Shun acted as Lu Bu's right-hand man since he had been working with Lu Bu for decades.

Meanwhile, Tong assigned Ju Shou here to keep Lu Bu from making a rash decision. As Ju Shou's personality was conservation and reserved, he always advised Lu Bu about the matters that this god of war overlooked.

The combination worked well since Lu Bu listened to his subordinates. With his strength and Ju Shou's brain, no local forces could stop this legion.

Gao Shun and Ju Shou regrouped with Lu Bu after they had sorted their loots.

Ju Shou reported, ”We got 1,000 wagons of food, 100 wagons of spice, and 500 of silk. No gold found.”

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Gao Shun laughed, ”Our food issue is solved now. Even if his majesty doesn't send us food, we can still manage on our own.”

Ju Shou nodded, ”Correct. This also confirmed his majesty's theory about Khan's abilities and the Xiongnu's limit.”

Before Tong sent Lu Bu here, Tong had obtained the Intel from Diaochan that Khan possessed a mimic ability that could copy all skills from all otherworlders. However, it had many backlashes.

First, Khan had to pay for all the expensive upkeeps each year. It became more expensive after Lilim raised the limitation of all cheat skills.

Secondly, all copied skills consumed ten times of lifespans that the original skill user had. For example, Tong's [Create food] cost one year per usage, but Khan had to pay ten years for the same skill and effect. It also multiplied to 100 years when Khan bypassed the once-per-day limit by using his soul to cast the ability.

And third, Khan was the only wing powers in his force, which limited his lifespan acquisition. As it took time to gather lifespans from the surrounding essence as an angel, Khan lost the majority of his time with his daily cultivation.

These three limits were the advantages that Tong had over Khan, and Tong wanted to sabotage the latter's armies further by withering Khan's food supplies.

Their legion's goal was to cut the supply line that connected the Xiongnu Capital to Liang Province. Once they regained the Silk Road and Wuwei County, these barbarians would be weakened because they would not be able to self-sustain inside Han's territories.

After that, Khan and his men would face a deficit in food harvest like Tong had been experiencing.

Lu Bu opened his face mask and turned to Ju Shou.

”What's the next move, strategist?”

”We hold our fort here and continue to expand our army size. Our goal is 100,000 manpower.”

”We don't have enough gold, and this county doesn't provide taxes or food, can we make it?”

”No problem. Actually, I'm afraid of the opposite. We'll gather enough men in no time.”

Gao Shun and Lu Bu were confused, ”How?”

Ju Shou smiled, ”Khan ignores his internal affair in his home country for years. Sooner or later, there will be ambitious young chieftains that want Khan's position during his absence. We'll find these people while we protect this check-point. Once we found them, we'll get that manpower.”