Soldiers huddled in groups of threes and fives, lying together; they simply took off their saddles to lay them on the ground, either sitting or lying down.
Campfires burned in clusters, cooking at soup in iron pots.
There was no lack of firewood here; just chopping a few trees was enough for their use, nor was there a shortage of water, with an unnad small river not far away.
They still had plenty of horse at, and a lot of ga too, as the snowy plains teed with wild animals.
Such as tigers, bears, wolves, wild boars, and so on.
Nevertheless, with so many people and horses, they had ravaged the surrounding area for more than ten miles quite severely.
By the ti dawn broke, the jungles within the ten-mile radius had beco a complete ss, fortunately, this world had no environntal protection laws, nor were there environntalists to condemn them.
Just as the sky began to lighten, Yang Zhenshan led the army towards the small tribe they had scouted yesterday.
The tribe Yang Minghao scouted yesterday wasn’t large, totaling barely over a thousand people.
Such a small tribe is likely not part of the Hu Clan; they should be a tribe that is independent between the Hu Clan and the snowy wildlands.
How could a small tribe withstand the military might of tens of thousands of soldiers?
With the army’s advance, the battle was over in less than half an hour.
n, won, old and young, all perished under the slaughtering blade, perhaps only so wailing infants were spared, but Yang Zhenshan would not care for those infants.
Those infants, in such an environnt, wouldn’t survive long anyway.
Once they left, it wouldn’t take long for packs of wild animals to be attracted here, and they too would feast.
This small tribe didn’t provide much in the way of supplies, mainly dried at and wild vegetables, with over two thousand head of cattle and sheep, and more than three hundred horses, only managing to scrape together about ten pounds of salt.
It was evident that this was an extrely poor tribe.
Yang Minghao also found so wild mushrooms and stewed a pot of soup with dried wild vegetables and mushrooms.
"Dad, try this, it’s tastier than at!"
Yang Zhenshan took the clay bowl, slowly sipping it.
Hmm, indeed tastier than dried at.
Just ordinary wild vegetables and mushrooms, aside from salt, no other seasonings were added; how good could it be?
But in the eyes of the soldiers now, it was a rare delicacy.
A bowl of bland vegetable soup tasted better than the mutton pot.
Yang Zhenshan, watching the setting sun slowly disappear, said, "Now we should still be north of the Chi Ci Tribe, and next, we have to continue traveling nearly two thousand miles westward to enter the territory of the Wuliang Tribe!"
The Wuliang Tribe is the Royal Tribe of the Wuliang Royal Court, simply put, the tribe directly under the Wuliang Royal Court, including tribes belonging to the Wuliang Clan as well as dium and small tribes dependent on the Wuliang Clan.
"These two thousand miles should be much easier to travel, all flat grasslands!" said Yang Minghao.
Yang Chengxu said, "But we still need to replenish supplies, the supplies we got today are too little, and there’s no grain, only so dried at!"
Yang Zhenshan nodded slightly, "Before we reach the territory of the Wuliang Tribe, we must not expose our whereabouts; every ti we attack a tribe, we must ensure not a single survivor is left!"
The reason they circumvented nghe Mountain from the north was not just to cross nghe Mountain. If it was just for crossing nghe Mountain, they could have taken the treacherous paths through the mountains with Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze; there was no need to venture so far into the snowy wildlands.
Yang Zhenshan intended to take Yemi City by surprise.
Only if Yemi City was completely unguarded, could he take the city in one fell swoop; otherwise, even with his troops at the foot of Yemi City, it would be difficult to capture it quickly.
After all, Yemi City is the King City of the Wuliang Royal Court; its walls are certainly no shorter than those of Chongshan Pass.
After resting for another night, the army began moving towards Yemi City along the edge of the snowy wildlands.
And it was at this ti that Wu Tuo outside Linyuan City finally received the news that enemy forces had penetrated deep into the territory of the Royal Court.
By now, the Hu Shan River outside Linyuan City had been filled in, and Wu Tuo had ordered the army to attack the city for five days, yet even after five days, they had not once reached the city walls of Linyuan City.
The task of siege had already been troubleso enough for Wu Tuo, and now he was even more annoyed to suddenly receive news of enemy forces causing chaos in the heartland of the Royal Court.
"How did those enemy forces enter the heartland of the Royal Court?"
In the tent, Wu Tuo asked darkly.
The officials and generals of the Wuliang Royal Court inside the tent were all perplexed; they knew nothing of this matter.
At this mont, Wu Tuo’s trusted general Agoucher said, "Great King, the enemy forces might have co over nghe Mountain!"
"Isn’t Tang Wuxi guarding nghe Mountain?" Wu Tuo asked coldly.
"Tang Wuxi is only holding nghe Mountain Pass; there may be other small paths over nghe Mountain, or maybe they could round the mountain from the south or north!" Agoucher said.
Wu Tuo’s face grew dark, "The north of nghe Mountain is the snowy wildlands. Even if they wanted to bypass from there, they could not do so quickly. And as for the south, that territory belongs to the Tatar Tribe; if they bypassed from the south, the Tatar Tribe would surely know it!"
Agoucher said, "Then they must have taken a small path!"
Wu Tuo said, "A small path, even Tang Wuxi, that fool, claid there’s only one way through nghe Mountain, the mountain pass. Now the army from Chongshan Town has crossed over a small path!"
Tang Wuxi suspected that Yang Mingzhen and his group had gone through Beiyuan Town, but Wu Tuo was quite certain that not a single army from Beiyuan Town could have made it.
Because at this mont, the soldiers of Beiyuan Town were retreating step by step, the Northern barbarian cavalry was conquering fortresses all along the way. Though the fighting was hard, they had indeed breached many garrison forts and stations.
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