Chapter 946 – Seizing Three Cities (Part 4)
【Xingyue Tianyun】: Who was the genius that gave a high-energy warning just now? Why wasn’t it explained properly—ugh—no way, I need to go throw up for a bit. Is this live stream always this gory and violent? Seriously—chopping people and horses in half left and right?
【My Streamer, My Wife】: Why hasn’t this bloody, violent live stream been taken down yet?
【Wind’s Remembrance】: Makes it sound like the previous streamer promoting a certain color live stream got harmonized.
【Cao the Great】: Watching this sort of stream late at night is downright spine-tingling—
Why can’t cross-dimensional live streams be a bit more harmonious?
It’s either something lewd or violent, too much of this mess is bad for the physical and mental health of young boys and girls!
This was the content from the blue comments, while the red-comment audience remained much cooler.
Seeing things as they are.
【Dance of the Leaves】: The streamer isn’t always this violent; she usually talks reason first and only uses her fists when necessary. Those guys from the Northern Frontier really need a beating; my streamer is just too handsome! So when are you coming to marry me, streamer?
【Bells Under the Stars】: The streamer is a practitioner of violent aesthetics, getting more brutal each time.
She used to chop people with an axe, and now she directly cuts both man and horse in half!
That close-up just now deserves all the points!
Jiang Pengji personally led the soldiers from Sang Mo Granary, and as both sides engaged in battle, she even joined the Horse-Chopping Unit.
The Horse-Chopping Unit is her special forces trained specifically to deal with the Northern Frontier Cavalry.
They wield specially forged weapons, and the polearm in their hands is incredibly sharp, hefty, and broad.
Compared to the cavalry’s speed, the Horse-Chopping Unit focuses on stability and brutality.
They don’t need lightning speed; they only need to support other units and reduce pressure from all sides.
The soldiers of the Horse-Chopping Unit are meticulously selected from various camps, earning twice the pay of standard soldiers and enduring a heavier daily training regimen. Because the armor and weapons they use are quite heavy, they require even greater physical strength and endurance.
Without a strong physique, they can’t sustain long battles.
To enhance their operational endurance, Jiang Pengji also instructed the Horse-Chopping Unit to adopt a modified three-stage crossbow strategy.
Alternating turns to lighten the load.
In addition to various high-intensity training sessions, military drills are regularly held between the camps.
Different units scatter and cooperate, battling against each other.
Although the military drills are fake, Jiang Pengji ensures veterans train newcomers, striving for a realistic combat environment.
Most of her soldiers have never seen blood, but their combat discipline and obedience to orders are comparable to seasoned troops.
The live stream remains constantly broadcasting, with viewers moving along with Jiang Pengji’s perspective.
Having given up her swift approach, she switched her weapon from a long spear to the heavy Horse-Chopping Blade.
With every swing, viewers can clearly see the blade cleaving through flesh in its entirety.
She didn’t hold back her strength; the heavy Horse-Chopping Blade felt weightless in her grip.
Swing, chop!
Blood sprayed, entrails shifted, and in an instant, she was drenched in blood.
The Northern Frontier’s war horses, robust in build with large hooves, still couldn’t withstand her blade’s edge.
The live stream audience witnessed Jiang Pengji bring the blade down, slicing through a Northern Frontier soldier’s skull like a watermelon, splitting his body while also horizontally cutting his war horse in half beneath him. Neither man nor horse had the chance to let out a cry before meeting their end.
The majority of the Northern Frontier cavalry are light cavalry, adhering to a “if you can’t fight, run” policy that’s been a huge headache for the Dongqing military.
However, these fools were blocked by the supply carts they brought, and Jiang Pengji took this opportunity to arrange her Horse-Chopping Unit into a curved formation to block their potential escape, essentially wrapping them up like dumplings. She planned to wipe out the enemy completely; she wouldn’t let such a juicy piece of meat slip away!
In contrast to the brutal battles at Sang Mo and Li Jiang, the Chao Wu Granary was nothing short of a rat paradise.
“What kind of soldiers does Liu Xi have under her command? Central Plains soldiers truly are a bunch of useless rabble; not a single one can fight!”
The Second Prince successfully broke through the Chao Wu Granary’s camp defenses, which were extremely weak. They were hastily preparing for battle, and soon fell apart into chaos, scattering in all directions. The Second Prince looked at the Chao Wu Granary that became so easy to access, feeling triumphant.
“Stop chasing; hurry and haul the grains!”
The Second Prince sliced off the heads of the slain, tying their hair together in a knot to hang from his saddle.
These were his trophies, powerful evidence of his martial prowess.
Breaking open the granary’s doors, he found it packed full of grain.
To be cautious, the Second Prince used his dagger to cut open several bags of grain, and the golden grains flowed out like a waterfall.
“Looks like Liu Xi is indeed wealthy… all top-quality grains!”
Confirming it wasn’t a false alarm, the Second Prince ordered his men to transport the grain.
The advisor trailed beside the Second Prince, feeling like something wasn’t quite right, but he couldn’t put his finger on it.
After a while, he said, “Your Highness, with so much grain at Chao Wu Granary, why didn’t Liu Xi send heavy troops to guard it?”
The Second Prince replied, “Heavy troops to guard? Didn’t you see those fleeing soldiers just now? At least five to six thousand, right?”
Based on combat experience, the garrison of the granary should roughly match that figure.
However, the advisor didn’t know that the actual defenders of Chao Wu Granary were fewer than two thousand; the five to six thousand figure was dramatically inflated. The soldiers appeared to flee disorganized, yet were strategically escaping in a coordinated manner, creating an illusion of thousands fleeing.
“This, this… I heard Liu Xi trained her troops for three to five years, and yet this is the quality of the elite she produced…”
The advisor awkwardly tried to reassure himself to avoid provoking the Second Prince’s anger again.
The Second Prince laughed heartily, saying, “Sheep are sheep; no matter how trained, how can they compare to the wolves of the grasslands?”
The impression he had of men from the Central Plains was nothing more than weak bamboo sticks, easily blown away by the wind.
Such men couldn’t even satisfy the women of the Han, let alone fight against the fierce warriors of the Northern Frontier.
The entire Chao Wu Granary stored a total of 1.4 million stones of grain, and even though the Second Prince brought 12,000 troops, they wouldn’t be able to load everything onto the supply carts quickly. Moreover, they didn’t have that many supply carts to begin with—
“If I’d known there was so much grain here and the guarding troops were this weak, I should’ve brought ten times the supply carts.”
To avoid wasting anything, every supply cart was filled to the brim with grain, its wheels deeply embedding in the mud.
Not only were the supply carts full of grain, those brave cavalrymen were now also carrying two bags of grain on their saddles.
Seeing this, the advisor’s scalp felt pricked with fear.
The advantage of cavalry lies in their mobility; carrying heavy bags of grain on horseback, how were they supposed to escape if danger struck?
“Your Highness, this doesn’t seem right—”
Before he could finish, the Second Prince had already shot him a look that silenced him.
