BXBX NOVEL Chapter 116: The North Prince is Going to Rebel !_1
Seeing the black figures in the distance, Li Feng frowned and shouted again, “All troops, to arms!”
The cavalry that had just passed by were from the North Prince, so surely these weren’t his men, right?
Therefore, Lin Xiuming believed that there was a high probability that the Barbarian Tribe’s army had come for revenge.
However, just as the soldiers braced themselves for an imminent battle, Li Feng spoke up, “General Lin, no need to panic, these are also the Prince’s cavalry!” Upon hearing this, Lin Xiuming and Zhou Yu were taken aback.
How could that be?
North City was such a poor place that it was already unbelievable that they could maintain five thousand Heavy Cavalry, and now Li Feng was actually telling them that the North Prince had another cavalry force!
Just as Lin Xiuming felt his entire worldview being overturned, the cavalry led by Wenren Lie had already arrived before them.
This time the cavalry formation led by Wenren Lie was even more astonishing because this time it wasn’t just five thousand cavalrymen.
Seeing such a vast number of Heavy Cavalry, Lin Xiuming, Zhou Yu, and the seventy thousand imperial soldiers stood frozen in place.
By the time this force, consisting of tens of thousands of Heavy Cavalry, drew closer, the imperial soldiers could not help but grip their weapons tighter.
How intimidating could a force of Heavy Cavalry be?
To put it this way, in the history of Great Sum, there had been an instance where three thousand Heavy Cavalry defeated a hundred thousand peasant soldiers, and they did so by chasing them down.
The soldiers’ fear of Heavy Cavalry was ingrained in their very bones, especially on such open ground.
If it were a siege, even the mightiest Heavy Cavalry would have a hard time being effective, but once it came to open battle, that was a different matter altogether.
The charge of Heavy Cavalry could quickly break the infantry formations. Once the infantry lines were disordered, their morale would plummet.
In battle between two armies, morale is very important, especially during hand-to-hand combat where the braver force wins when encountering the enemy in a narrow path.
Lin Xiuming watched the ten thousand Heavy Cavalry before him, dumbfounded. As a general, he could roughly estimate the number of soldiers in a formation.
Even without Li Feng telling him how many men made up this force of Heavy Cavalry, Lin Xiuming suspected that there were at least twenty thousand men.
If one included the Heavy Cavalry that had previously departed, North City would have nearly thirty thousand Heavy Cavalrymen!
This…
How did North City sustain thirty thousand Heavy Cavalry?
How much silver would that require?
Lin Xiuming also knew about the North Prince Mansion’s soap sales, the perfume business, and he understood these were lucrative, but even so, how could so many Heavy Cavalrymen have been raised so quickly?
The entire imperial court of Great Sum had only slightly over twenty thousand Heavy Cavalrymen!
Yet now, just North City alone had nearly thirty thousand Heavy Cavalrymen! Could anyone really believe that the North Prince harbored no other intentions? Probably as soon as news of North City reached the court, the court would station troops in Qi Prince’s domain overnight to prevent the North Prince from moving south, or they would immediately bring the North Prince’s wives and children from Anping City to the capital city as hostages to keep them under surveillance.
The North Prince’s Heavy Cavalry were much more intimidating than the Barbarian Tribe’s three hundred thousand warriors.
With the Barbarian Tribe’s three hundred thousand moving southward, for now, it seemed that, at most, they would occupy North City. Perhaps in private, they even struck some deals with certain Aristocratic Families or Princes, and they wouldn’t directly attack Great Sum’s heartland.
But if the North Prince’s tens of thousands of Heavy Cavalry moved south, their goal would likely not be just a single county, but the entirety of Great Sum!
Zhou Yu, as Prince Lu Shuyun, felt cold sweat streaming down. He felt as though he had walked into a dangerous place.
Having discovered the North Prince’s secret today, he wondered if he would be able to leave North City.
At that moment, one of Lin Xiuming’s soldiers stammered, “Gener… General, look…look over there! There’s…there’s so many Barbarian Tribe soldiers!”
Lin Xiuming quickly raised his eyes toward the distance.
That was when they noticed the hands of the Barbarian Tribe soldiers, bound as they were being escorted in groups by the soldiers of North City toward them.
At a glance, it seemed endless.
People once again recalled the battle reports they had heard from the Messenger Soldier in Yan County.
Twenty thousand Barbarian Tribe members slain…
Ten thousand Barbarian Tribe soldiers captured…
This…
Could this be…
True?
Good heavens!
What kind of victory is this!
North City is going to turn upside down!
No, it should be said that the North Prince is going to turn everything upside down!
Since the establishment of Great Sum, there has never been such a victory in foreign wars. When they exterminated the Chen Nation, and in the largest battle against Chen Nation, the Chen Nation’s soldiers only totaled two hundred thousand!
And the Barbarian Tribe is not the same as the Chen Nation’s soldiers!
The fighting power of the Barbarian Tribe is even more ferocious!
In the wars against the Barbarian Tribe, it was almost always the Barbarians who were the aggressors, while Great Sum was the defender, and each time, Great Sum suffered heavy losses.
Heavy losses aside, at the end of each war, just when Great Sum was about to counterattack, the Barbarian Tribe would take their troops and leave without a trace, never giving Great Sum’s army any opportunity to counterattack.
Now, not only has North City defeated the Barbarian Tribe’s army of three hundred thousand, they have even captured a hundred thousand of their soldiers!
Once this news is sent back to the court, I’m afraid the Capital city will see a change of heaven!
At this moment, the seventy thousand soldiers of the court hardly dared to breathe, all watching those captured Barbarian prisoners being escorted.
Ten thousand Barbarian prisoners took half an hour just to walk past them, of course, mainly because the soldiers from North City, fearing they would cause trouble, had separated them, and this wasted some time.
Watching the soldiers finally finish passing by after half an hour, Lin Xiuming and the seventy thousand soldiers from the court understood that the outcome they had heard in the city was true!
As citizens of Great Sum, they should feel joyful.
After all, this was the greatest victory in the history of wars against the Barbarian Tribe.
But from general to colonel, down to the soldiers below, no one showed a smile.
While Lin Xiuming and the court’s soldiers were still dazed, urgent hoofbeats could be heard again in the distance.
They saw yet another line of dark shadows approaching.
Lin Xiuming felt completely numbed.
Another several tens of thousands of Heavy Cavalry!!!
Where did North City get so many Heavy Cavalry!
What is the North Prince trying to do!
Is he trying to rebel???
After a rough estimate by Lin Xiuming, North City must have at least close to fifty thousand Heavy Cavalry. With this fifty thousand Heavy Cavalry, plus the hundred thousand Slave Soldiers from North City, and then recruiting some regular soldiers, North City would have the strength to attack any dynasty.
As of now, the most a dynasty could mobilize is about one million soldiers, but a considerable number of them are not combat-ready.
Those that can actually fight would definitely not reach one million, whereas North City’s soldiers are all genuine, especially these Barbarian Slave Soldiers, who are practically perfect cannon fodder.
The only thought in Lin Xiuming’s mind at this moment was three words
— “Write a petition!”
He had to write a petition and report it tonight!
The power of North City is too immense, there is a risk of losing control, and the court must be informed of what happened in North City as soon as possible. Of course, the victory won by North City must also be made known to the court. So Lin Xiuming will use the opportunity to convey the victory to send the news of what happened in North City to the court using the Red Ribbon Messenger.
As for whether the North Prince would allow the Red Ribbon Messenger to return to the court, that’s another matter.
The North Prince had always pretended to be useless, but now he suddenly revealed his true capabilities and stopped pretending.
What does this indicate?
It means that his wings are fully grown and he no longer needs to pretend. Intercepting the court’s Red Ribbon Messenger would be a piece of cake for him.
Lin Xiuming even suspects whether the North Prince would take this opportunity to collude with the Chu Family and directly usurp power.