Chapter 381 (1/2)

The bloody Battle of Pedro (1)

Here's the third release of the week! Sorry for the delay! It completely slipped my mind!

People and horses rolled down the slope The first wave of attacking barbarians, around two thousand riders, were crushed before they even scaled half of the slope Of the riders flung off their mounts, the fortunate ones were still not beyond salvation, while those less fortunate broke their necks and suffocated to death The second and third waves of barbarian riders following tightly behind thean to rescue the rest After a lot of effort, they turned tail and ran The cheering barbarians all seeer uttered a sound They made no further movements on the city

Chieftain Korinubi's expression was rather sour He felt like he lost a lot of face for stopping his attack halfway

”Go, get Halikai, Lunigigi, and Mori their attack”

The barbarian guards soon returned with the two of the three

”Revered Chief Korinubi, your hureet you”

”Where is Lunigigi?” hmphed the chief

”Revered Chief Korinubi, Lunigigi has returned to the embrace of the wolf God,” replied Morimod, the elder of the two, respectfully

”What did you say?!” the chief exclaimed, stunned, ”He's dead? Nonsense How could he die? He drank a large jar of oats! Wasn't he looking hen he was sent out?”

”It's true, Revered Chief Korinubi Your hui rode at the front as per your instructions However, the cowardly flatlanders dug lots of horse pit traps on the slope His steed stepped into one of the off forward He broke his neck and returned to the wolf God's embrace,” described Morimod in detail

”What? The slope was fraught with pit traps?”

”Yes, Revered Chief Your hui took with him, more than 1300 lost their horses to the pits More than a thousand are injured Over a hundred returned to the wolf God's e pit traps, they also dug a lot of other ditches and traps ooden stakes inside There was no e could rush up the slope with our horses We decided to retreat first,” explained Morimod hurriedly

He wanted to ht They simply had no way to

”Hmm, I hope you speak the truth,” said Korinubi as he swept Halikai and Moriaze

Seeing the two of the in the world, he reasoned that they couldn't have been lying, so he turned to Duke Fisablen

”Haha, no problem, my friend”

As Duke Fisablen also heard the conversation, he took the initiative to speak first

”I will leave the shi+eld carts we brought with you I'm sure you know better than anyone how to use them With the shi+eld carts, you can fill up the ditches quickly enough while protecting your riders as they approach the city walls I think it's obvious froh troops to defend the castle They had no choice but to use such underhanded tactics to delay our brave warriors' attack”

Even though Korinubi had hoped the duke would send Frontier to use the shi+eld carts and protect his men as they made their approach, the duke had spoken out first and stated his intentions

You can have all the shi+eld carts you want but don't even think of laying your hands on my men

Hatefully cursing the old fox under his breath, Korinubi nodded and thanked him He instructed Morimod and Halikai to collect the shi+eld carts He also had sorab some tools to fill the traps, ditches, and holes up and down the slope

Duke Fisablen gave the order to set up ca the shi+eld carts up the slope would take who kne long, and filling up the traps and ditches would require lots of manpower and time, there was no way they'd let the 100 thousand barbarian cavalrymen wait like idiots on their mounts Korinubi postponed the attack by a day and stuck with establishi+ng a method for the attack for what's left of the current day

At four in the ed to push the shi+eld carts 300 meters up the slope As the people in Pedro didn't see barbarians dropped their guard and focused their attention on filling up the traps and ditches Korinubi had given the order for one route of attack to be established by the end of the day As not one of the barbarian soldiers wanted to be punished, they only thought of co their work as soon as possible so they could rest when they returned

Without anyone noticing, the 23rd local defense brigade, led by Eidelwoke, forh the rear gate and circled thewhere the barbarians were When they were less than ten meters away, they leaped and rushed into the crowd of busy soldiers

It was a completeup the ditches were caught coic ends When their eneot where they put their weapons The tools in their hands were broken by a single slash before they felt a cold glint and lost consciousness, seeing nothing but darkness

The 100 thousand soldiers who'd settled down in the camp stared wide-eyed at thebarbarians were slaughtered easily like chickens Only a fortunate fewfor their parents However, they were not so lucky in the sense of having left the shi+eld carts behind Due to the inactivity of Pedro's defenders, they didn't feel the need to push the heavy shi+eld carts up the slope, so they proceeded without them

Currently, the carts were obstacles to their escape The groups weren't able to squeeze between thean to let out pained cries The local defense brigade soldiers that caught up were able to pierce three enemies' chests with only one thrust of their spears