Chapter 415: Cleaning the Battlefield

By the time everyone returned, Huangpin had already adapted to his new status and began to earnestly enjoy the pleasure that power brought him; as the only remaining high-ranking Leader here, he naturally possessed his own independent large Tent, inside which there were beauties he had never dared to imagine waiting on him, and he also ate meat.

It was just that other perks had not been prepared for him by Shengan because the time was too rushed, but the Tribal Chief had also said that as long as he could conquer Huaxia, then in the future, there would be rich rewards waiting for him.

The other Soldiers summoned by Huangpin, seeing Huangpin in such a state now, were all incredibly envious; they did not know why the Tribal Chief had only called him over for a moment, yet such a huge change occurred when he came out—if the Tribal Chief had called them at that time, then...

However, their fantasies had not yet begun before they were interrupted by Huangpin; Huangpin issued orders to the crowd, assigning those who were to supervise the tree-felling and those who were to be responsible for making wooden boards to block Arrows, and Huangpin also made it very clear that they were to supervise and arrange, not do the manual labor themselves, so everyone's favorability toward Huangpin rose sharply.

When everyone dispersed to work, Huangpin was in no mood to enjoy himself; he was not blinded by sudden wealth, and after briefly feeling the pleasure of power, he returned to a state of contemplation; after all, his power stemmed from the Tribal Chief's recognition of the strategy he had proposed, and if he did not succeed, he would be instantly returned to his original form, or perhaps even worse.

Therefore, Huangpin also understood that while he appeared to have ascended to the sky in one step, in reality, what he was stepping on was only a thin layer of ice.

Now what he needed to consider was how to transport those logs across the river; he had roughly estimated that the Huaxia city wall was about four or five people high, and if they wanted to lean them against the Huaxia city wall, the trees would need to be at least six or seven people high; such tall trees, which also had to be thick enough, would not be an easy thing to bring across the river.

They had no opportunity to fell trees on the opposite bank, because the entire area outside the city was now bare, and not a single tree could be seen; however, the tree stumps on the ground showed that they should have been cut down not long ago, which meant that Huaxia had long been guarding against them.

Then, could it be that Huaxia had already thought of a way to counter their idea of climbing the wall? Huangpin suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, but if he were a Huaxia Soldier, he could not think of a useful method, so he could only comfort himself that cutting down the trees must be Huaxia's countermeasure; as long as they did not let the Suiren tribe have trees to use, they naturally would not need to consider how to counter them.

The Suiren tribe did not have everything ready that day, especially the wooden boards used to block Arrows, which were too slow to make; when a Soldier reported to Huangpin that only a few hundred had been made, Huangpin was furious on the spot—only a few hundred, who was that for!

However, he only flared up for a moment before calming down; half a day ago, he was also doing this kind of hard labor, and he knew very well that with their tools, it was too difficult to make a wooden board of suitable thickness, weight, and size.

So he sighed and offered a suggestion: "You can use branches, bamboo, or whatever, tie them together with vines, and weave them into a board; that will work too."

After hearing this, the Soldier was overjoyed and knelt to thank him, saying that there was finally a solution; if their progress was too slow, even if Huangpin spared them, the Tribal Chief would not let them off.

Huangpin told him to go do it immediately, even if they had to work through the night, they had to finish it; they had to go attack the city tomorrow, as they could not delay any longer—if they dragged it out, the Tribal Chief would definitely be enraged.

The sky was late, and Huangpin had another full meal, then looked at the sturdy beauty waiting on him and pulled her over with his greasy hands.

After experiencing one attack in the morning, Huaxia had been waiting, but they did not see any movement from the Suiren tribe; the Soldiers who had rotated up, intending to show off their skills, were now sighing repeatedly.

When the people of the whole nation learned that they had killed three thousand enemies without suffering any losses, they all cheered and celebrated throughout the country; of course, there was no celebration ceremony, nor was there Wine or meat served, everyone was just celebrating in words.

In the evening, seeing that the Suiren tribe had no intention of attacking and no signs of retreating, Baifeng guessed that they might be thinking about how to deal with them; soldiers come, generals block; water comes, earth covers; Baifeng knew that it was impossible for them to build siege ladders or the like now, even if they were given another hundred years, it probably wouldn't work.

Now that it was very safe outside the city, Baifeng ordered people to open the city gates and go out to deal with the corpses, because if they burned them, the smell would be unpleasant and it would be too time-consuming and laborious, so they simply threw them directly into the river to feed the fish and shrimp.

Anyway, the water downstream did not affect them, so Baifeng had no scruples, and if the corpses were left at their city gate for a long time, it would instead cause various epidemics, so it was better to deal with them early.

As for cleaning up the spoils of war, that was a joke; their Huaxia was not short of those few stones, a few pieces of wood, or the rags and skins on the dead.

However, after sending people out to clean up, the Soldier in charge below felt it was necessary to pick up those Spears, because they could be used on their Giant Crossbows, and they could also be used to attack with Spear Throwers, which could save them some Weapons; after all, their own Weapons took time to make and were quite troublesome.

After hearing this, Baifeng said to pick them up if they wanted to, as long as they were useful; Baifeng was not very concerned about this matter, so he left it to those Soldiers.