Chapter 634: Reunion of the Yanhu Tribe

Luo no longer cared whether the captives believed him or not; he had already made his words clear. If they could stay calm and follow along all the way to Huaxia, then their good days would be coming. If they dared to pull any tricks on the road, then their good days would be at an end.

Fortunately, no one caused any trouble that night. After all, many heads were still displayed beside the camp, which served as a deterrent to the captives. By the next day, they would naturally find some place to dig a pit and bury them, or simply throw them a bit further away; the beasts would naturally clean them up. After all, digging a pit was time-consuming and laborious, and over a hundred corpses were not easy to handle.

When the next day arrived, Luo still decisively chose the second option, which was to feed the beasts. They had to hurry on their way; they would set off as soon as the sky brightened and could not waste half a day digging a pit.

The captives were actually quite surprised, especially the women, because the Huaxia Soldiers had kept half the men on guard and half asleep all night, and no one had gone to find the women of their tribe to do anything else in between. This was too rare.

In order to ensure there were no problems and to return smoothly, Luo also wanted to verify the marching speed of the Cavalry. As it stood, because they were still carrying ox carts, Artisans, and baggage, their marching speed was not much different from walking; the true speed of the Cavalry had not been brought into play.

Therefore, he sent out four Cavalrymen early in the morning to advance at maximum speed and deliver the news to Lema City. Their normal marching speed was currently about six to seven days, and he also wanted to see if the Cavalry could cover this distance in two days.

The four chosen men set off on horseback without a word. If it had been at the beginning, and they were told to gallop all day without dismounting, they would definitely have despaired, because riding a horse was torture for the crotch and thighs; after one day, the skin and flesh might be ruined. But they already had saddles, and although there were no stirrups yet, they already provided them with more protection and support. Moreover, their bodies had been trained, and with a thick layer of calluses on their thighs, they could still hold on.

For the sake of speed and reducing the burden on the horses, they chose to travel light. Four men carried one Tent, their Weapons were only bows and Knives, they had enough food and water for two days, and they carried nothing else.

Then they took the official document stamped with Luo's great seal—or rather, the military intelligence—and advanced rapidly toward Lema City to seek support, while also reporting to Huaxia City so that they could make arrangements for settlement before this large group of captives arrived.

The horse troop set off, and the remaining people also formed a formation to escort these captives forward. The controlled captives stood at the front, back, and sides of the formation, while those who were not bound were in the middle. At the front of the formation were infantry clearing the way, at the rear were the baggage ox carts, and the Cavalry were scattered, roaming everywhere to provide support and deterrence.

They had not expected the journey to be smooth sailing, but they also did not expect to encounter a situation so soon after leaving.

Because the four Cavalrymen were fast and there was only the sound of horse hooves, which was completely different from the sounds made by humans, they did not attract the attention of Yinyang and the others in the mountain forest, so the two sides did not encounter each other.

However, when Luo and his men were moving along the main road, they ran head-on into Yinyang and the others, who were carrying prey back. The group of more than thirty people was carrying the butchered prey with wooden poles or directly on their shoulders. The moment they saw the Huaxia infantry, Yinyang was first shocked, then terrified, and immediately made a judgment: they could not win, they had to escape quickly. Moreover, he also saw the vast, mighty formation behind them; these people were definitely unlucky to have run into the operation of some large tribe.

Thus, Yinyang reacted; he didn't even want the prey anymore, throwing it directly on the ground, and then began to turn and run wildly. The others followed suit, immediately dropping their prey and starting to flee for their lives. If they didn't run now, they would become the prey.

The infantry were just about to go in pursuit, but Luo quickly rode his horse forward: "Watch the captives, tell them to squat on the spot and not move. Our Cavalry unit will go in pursuit."

The infantry also reacted quickly, turning back and shouting: "Everyone squat down, hold your heads and squat down, don't move!"

The captives, who had just begun to riot, were startled by this roar and hurriedly held their heads and squatted down. Although what they feared most was the Cavalry, as long as these infantrymen weren't fools, anyone could see they had no way to resist.

What's more, there were over a dozen huge and equally obedient oxen guarding them. They had seen these before; these oxen could also be ridden. In their view, the oxen were even bigger than horses, and with those two large horns, they were probably even more formidable than the Soldiers who rode the mountain winds.

They had all seen horses. In the northwest region, wild horses were as common as cattle and sheep, and horses were also one of the hunting targets of their Jiangshui Tribe, but they had never been domesticated, and they didn't even know that horses could be ridden.

Luo and his men whipped their horses and quickly arrived behind Yinyang and the others. Seeing that the situation was bad, Yinyang immediately chose to leave the flat main road, preparing to climb over the road barrier made of wood and enter the mountain forest.

But their ideas were not yet unified, and there were still many people running blindly forward.

The fence was very low; it was actually just a symbolic thing, simply laying down a giant tree. The height was such that a normal person could pass it by taking a slightly higher step. Because too many trees were cut down during construction and couldn't be used up, they were just used like this.

Being able to separate the road from the mountain forest also served a very good purpose.

Yinyang crossed the fence, and Luo did not hesitate; he urged his horse to jump, and similarly crossed it smoothly. Yinyang was still thinking of using the dense forest to restrict Luo's movements, but he did not expect Luo to quickly close in on him and slash hard with his curved Knife. The branches behind Yinyang were immediately severed, and Yinyang also felt the chill of the blade, stumbled, and fell directly to the ground.

Luo controlled his warhorse to jump over Yinyang's body without stepping on him. Luo also hurriedly turned his horse's head and pointed his curved Knife downward at the terrified Yinyang: "This is the territory of our Huaxia. Who are you, and why did you break in?"

After Luo said this, Yinyang thought to himself that it was bad; the Yanhu Tribe was likely in grave danger.

But facing such a terrifying enemy, he had no chance or possibility of resistance, so he had to answer truthfully: "I am from the Yanhu Tribe. I did not know this was the territory of Huaxia."

Luo gave an "oh" upon hearing this; so it was the Yanhu Tribe, which meant they hadn't been captured completely. He then withdrew his Knife a little: "Then it's fine. Get up and walk; your tribesmen are all behind."