Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1662: Chapter 1601: Other People’s Young and Strong Never Die Out

This was one of the ultimate formation changes taught to Hua Xiong by Li Youu. Back when the Xiliang Iron Cavalry had not yet risen to the Military Spirit Legion level, Hua Xiong used this move to withstand the Vanguard Death Squad and achieved remarkable results.

Although, due to Hua Xiong’s limited intelligence, he still hasn’t been able to comprehend its deeper mysteries, this top-level military formation, even when fragmented, still possesses tremendous power. Even at the Military Spirit level, this formation can continue to be used.

Over two thousand illusory knights charged with the force of each soldier, and compared to the less formidable attacks before their promotion, these shadows were now deadly to even slightly careless elite soldiers.

The sweep of two thousand shadows cleared a large area in front, Hua Xiong roared, leading over a thousand from the Military Spirit Legion and more than three thousand Miscellaneous Hun Elite Cavalry into the Northern Huns Camp, effortlessly slaughtering all enemies in his path.

Quickly, the entire rear camp of the Northern Huns burst into scattered flames, even before they could organize a cavalry resistance against Hua Xiong.

Under the silver moon, flames spread continuously, within the fire field, the warhorses galloped, rampaging freely, unleashing their destructive power. The entire tribal camp was being destroyed rapidly, the magnificence of the fire illuminating tens of miles away.

Tens of miles away, an army stationed there clearly saw the towering flames. Despite the distance, upon seeing the fire, they felt the heat as if it were near.

”Notify the Right Virtuous King immediately!” The patrolling Northern Huns shouted in shock upon seeing the rising flames.

This cavalry was the last main force of the Northern Huns, with a strength of twenty thousand. Chen Xi and Jia Xu’s estimate wasn’t wrong; the Northern Huns’ main force indeed had between seventy to ninety thousand men. Unluckily, it wasn’t the lower limit of seventy thousand but more than eighty thousand near the upper limit.

Of course, this was partly because Chen Xi and Jia Xu calculated based on the total population of the Northern Huns. They even considered the Northern Huns enslaving Northern Barbarians, hoarding cattle, and warhorses, increasing the non-productive population of the Northern Huns. However, Jia Xu and Chen Xi didn’t have a deep understanding of the Northern Huns’ population structure.

This was unavoidable; without seeing it firsthand, no one could confirm the population structure. Chen Xi and Jia Xu even overestimated the number of young and strong Northern Huns.

Yet ultimately, they underestimated a bit; the Northern Huns, after successive defeats, returned to the ancient system, meaning older Huns had to fend for themselves.

Thus, although the Northern Hun tribe was less than a million in number, it had practically no elderly; only women and children without combat power. If they pulled out all fighting-capable soldiers, gathering over one hundred thousand would still be possible.

However, this was impossible; merely extracting eighty-six thousand fighting-capable soldiers, even after enslaving countless Hun people, still caused internal upheaval within the Northern Huns. Further extraction might face a fatal backlash from the Hun people at the rear.

After all, Northern Huns had gathered all the cattle, sheep, and warhorses from all the Hun people they encountered, and the entire Northern Hun tribe ceased production, sustaining so many non-productive young and strong men. As for other young and strong not on the battlefield, they were meant to prevent rebellion by miscellaneous Huns.

Although a higher proportion of miscellaneous young and strong were drawn by Northern Huns Elite Cavalry, the remaining young and strong were still several times that of the Northern Hun tribe. Even if there were not many young and strong among them, if the Northern Hun tribe truly didn’t leave enough young and strong population, once the miscellaneous Huns had any thoughts, it would be over.

This is why, when Hua Xiong decimated the Northern Huns Camp, Northern Huns Elite Cavalry intermittently charged out to block Hua Xiong, because the young men in the Northern Huns Camp were also non-productive warriors, meant to guard against miscellaneous Huns, not expecting the opponents to be the Han Army.

Upon seeing the fire in the southeastern direction, the patrolling soldiers, guessing what had happened, did not dare delay, quickly rushing to inform Kun Wan, the Right Virtuous King of the Northern Huns. Kun Wan was greatly shocked upon hearing the news, immediately jumping up and observing outside the camp.

”Damn it!” Kun Wan cursed angrily, as one of the three major tribal camps of the Northern Huns ignited in flames.

At the same time, further in the southeastern direction, flames also began to rise. All Hun people present felt a chill; seeing the flames separated by tens of miles, they knew it was over; two of the three Northern Hun Camps were done for.

”Prepare the troops!” Upon seeing the flames of the second camp, Kun Wan, rather than his previous rage, turned gloomy, ”Prepare to rescue the camp.”

[Uloran Clan, you idiot, with ten thousand elite cavalry and a thousand guards, how could you let the camp be breached? Have you fed your brain to the dogs?] Kun Wan cursed internally.

The Uloran Clan’s more than ten thousand plus one thousand Northern Huns Guards were left by Huyan Chu to protect the families of the Northern Huns in the camp. While the Northern Huns still had twenty thousand elite cavalry, to be honest, the Northern Huns didn’t deploy them against the Han or for camp defense.

Honestly, if Kun Wan had deployed those twenty thousand elite cavalry for camp defense, the outcome of this battle would have been Chen Xi and Zhou Yu retreating.

Unfortunately, Kun Wan was tasked with an important mission; Huyan Chu ordered him to conscript young and strong Hu people, adhering to Huyan Chu’s principle that others’ young and strong could die endlessly, and even if all died, it wouldn’t concern the Huns, so conscription of miscellaneous young and strong continued.

After Huyan Chu moved south, this task was entirely handed to Kun Wan, who diligently completed it, recently conscripting two hundred thousand young and strong from the Fuyu, Dii People, Jie Clan, and Xianbei, proving others’ young and strong couldn’t be killed off.

Of course, like Huyan Chu, Kun Wan not only conscripted young and strong but also sent people to confiscate all cattle and horses of tribes previously having their young and strong conscripted.

As for the life and death of these tribes, it had nothing to do with the Northern Huns; similarly, this was why miscellaneous Huns were willing to follow the Northern Huns. Huyan Chu was generous after all, there was no lack of food, and how it was sourced was none of anyone’s business...

Likewise, this was why, after the frontline miscellaneous Huns were defeated, they would retreat with the Northern Huns, because miscellaneous Huns had no food, only the Northern Huns had endless supplies, and kept driving cattle and sheep in from the rear, seemingly infinite.

Just this strategy meant that retreating miscellaneous Huns, if they didn’t return to the Northern Huns, would have to eat grass. As for the life and death of these miscellaneous young and strong in the rear, the old saying goes, it’s none of their concern, Huyan Chu only brought people to die, even if ninety percent of grassland Huns died, it wouldn’t concern Huyan Chu.