Chapter 385 - Facing Off (1/2)

Chapter 385: Facing Off

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Gu Shenaited for threethe three days, the 3,000 soldiers of the shi+li family’ army, who had come to the city with only their weapons, horses and dry food, plundered the city’s treasure and thus accumulated lots of money and slaves Now, every soldier in the army owned some slaves and several parcels of valuable items

The slaves in the city were still loyal to their masters, but the nobles declined to trust the when the thousands of slave men had been coan to take their revenge on the slaves in the city before the war

This situation made soldiers of the Great Snowmountain somewhat anxious, as they always considered the wealth and slaves of the city as their spoils Although the Dragon King forbade the these spoils of war, they still could not re their loot and slaves fall into the hands of the ene one after another, deht now

The shi+li faer to take their loot away, and the Great Snowmountain troops were in a hurry to obtain the loot back As such, both of these two belligerent parties wished to fight to see as the stronger as soon as possible This was the backdrop for the battle

The shi+li family, who enjoyed numerical superiority in tere The sons of shi+li Molo were confident, since they ell aware that there were only 1,500-1,600 professional soldiers in the Great Snowmountain troops and all the nobles in the city had promised them that the slave soldiers of the Great Snow their masters’ orders

Gu Shenwei felt the same way about the slave soldiers as the nobles did Given that, he decided to leave the slaves soldiers behind and assigned a small troop of veterans to supervise theement obediently and then calmly waited for the outcome of the war They did not care much about the outcome All they needed to do was to wait for their master to return with victory, as the winner of the ould surely belong to their master

The site of the battle was also decided by the shi+li family

This place was not far away from the capital and used to be covered by a Flower Soul Forest, which had already been burnt to the ground by Tuo Nengya As now there were no plants or trees hindering the soldiers’ ht a battle

This place was a piece of low-lying land, and there were slopes on both its eastern and the western sides As such, these slopes becoht

The nobles had never intended to fight against the Great Snowmountain troops by themselves They had spent a lot to hire their reinforcements and now they only wanted to observe the battle at a safe distance from the slope on the eastern side of the battlefield

The 1,000 or so noble ht for a reason that only themselves could understand These nobles caroup of slaves, who stayed by their side and held parasols open for theon King froures they had provided were incorrect Every noble fa slaves, and now they finally could let all of theround, neither of them had dispatched all of its soldiers to take part in the battle

The ya had been divided into two parts One part of it stayed behind to supervise their slave soldiers, and the other part went to lie in a

Yesterday, a small troop of swordsmen had launched a surprise attack on the tribal troops’ military camp They killed no one but snatched some valuable items from the caon King was coveting their wealth They got nervous and decided to leave one third of their ainst the Dragon King’s army

Under such circu the fight and enjoyed numerical superiority over the Great Snowmountain troops who had only 1,300 soldiers

Upon seeing that, the nobles of the Land of Fragrance were extre to be the first battle that happened in their nation after more than a century None of the noblemen had seen a real battle, but they had read a lot about wars in the ancient books Now they all began to show off their knowledge in front of their wives and children, and some of theraphs about wars from the books

They firmly believed that it would be an easy victory for theon King’s warriors Besides, according to their ancient books, the Land of Fragrance had won every war that had happened here before They were sure that this as no exception

They hated the Dragon King, for he had violated the greatest taboo in their culture They would never accept slaves as their equals

Before the war, the nobles had held a writing co writers to join Every participant of this co battle and sub of tribal chiefs and some other elders

The winner of this coe to write an epic In this work, which the author had spent two days and two nights to coon who led nurance, and the 7 sons of the shi+li fa ainst the evil dragon He also described the fighting scenes in detail through a greatthis story out loud and passionately to his fellow country rapturous applause from his audience

When he carance were moved by the 7 sons of the shi+lli family and about to send troops froon, the real battle in the low-lying land began

The shi+li family’s army launched an attack first

Their army consisted of troops borrowed frorance, who did business with the shi+li fareed to join the sons of shi+li Molo after being promised ample rewards

The eldest son of shi+li Molo, as venerated as commander-in-chief of this army, did not kno to handle et involved in a battle, so he simply let the tribal troops stand in a line and allow thee and how fast they would charge toward the enemies As a result, the shi+li family’s army was just a loose coalition of forces

As for the aron King, personally led the soldiers to the battlefield, and the soldiers were neatly aligned into three sections: the swordsmen from the Great Snowmountain were placed on the flanks of the battle line, and the 300 conscripted savages who served as bowmen stood in a line in front of the swordsood at fighting on horseback, no cavalryht on horseback, but their performance could hardly compete with that of professional cavalrymen In addition, their heavy swords were not suitable for this type of fighting