Chapter 106 Evil Forbidden Technique
Just when Qin Mo thought Ulan-Ude was about to become a meat grinder, Zhao Qirui suddenly ordered the Great Xia army to break camp overnight and retreat a hundred miles.
Among all the armies of the Great Xia Dynasty, the Da Yuan Army had the most belongings. Although the Da Yuan Army had plenty of money and enough mules and horses, they were still in a state of chaos in the emergency. After Qin Mo had gone to great lengths to lead the Da Yuan Army more than a hundred miles away, he received news that Kogar, the high shaman of the Twilight Hammer clan of the orcs, had finally arrived in Ulan-Ude.
Qin Mo now fully understands the combat philosophies of the orcs and the Great Xia. Their top experts are stationed on both sides, while their subordinates fight amongst themselves, much like two chess players playing a game of chess. If a Great Witch or a Realm expert were to attack ordinary soldiers, the soldiers would scatter and flee, and the fighting would never end.
If one side's top expert gains the upper hand, the other side will inevitably have to temporarily avoid their sharp edge. If the strength is evenly matched, then the battle will become a stalemate until the last side is unable to maintain the situation and withdraws from the struggle for this territory. After all, governing and managing a place requires manpower and military force, and a force without manpower cannot possess a fertile land.
Qin Mo felt that this was somewhat similar to the wars in her previous life. The United States had a strong navy and air force, but in the end, it was the infantry that resolved the war, whether it was Vietnam in the 1970s or Iraq, which was still ongoing. The Great Witch and the Border were like the navy and air force, and Qin Mo and the other pawns were like the unfortunate infantry, who seized control of cities and land with the support of the navy and air force.
Perhaps they had killed too many orcs, because Kogar and Blackhan joined forces and attacked the Great Xia temporary camp. Qin Mo finally witnessed the Great Xia Empire's battle tactics.
The Great Xia army remained constantly on the move, splitting and regrouping repeatedly. Zhao Qirui, on the other hand, focused all his efforts on containing the two Great Shamans. The two Great Shamans were unable to find an opportunity to completely crush the Great Xia army, and no matter how the Great Xia army moved, it never strayed more than a hundred miles from Ulan-Ude, maintaining constant pressure on the orcs.
Qin Mo led his large army on a long march, until the orcish high shaman, exhausted from the fight, gave up and retreated to Ulan-Ude. Only then did the Great Xia army set up camp again to rest and recuperate.
The seven or eight soldiers of the Great Xia Army only rested for two or three hours each. Qin Mo looked at his subordinates who were almost exhausted from running around and angrily cursed, "It's better to rely on yourself than on others. That free spirit Zhou Yuan is really unreliable. If my father were alive... he wouldn't have to suffer like this."
"If the old prince were still alive, he could have killed Blackham all by himself. Would it have taken until now?" Wu Shengze said quietly, then sighed deeply.
Perhaps because so many people were talking about Zhou Yuan, he miraculously reappeared. The Great Xia army surrounded Ulan-Ude again, and the war returned to square one, with the fierce battle for the city walls beginning once more.
Qin Mo did not participate in the siege again. Instead, he went to Zhao Qirui and asked for an easy job: clearing out the orc harassing forces around Wulan City, as well as those annoying Cossack cavalry.
The cavalry of the Da Yuan army finally mounted their horses again. For months, Qin Mo had been using them as infantry, and their horsemanship had begun to deteriorate. After the spring, Huba, that barbarian from the grasslands, sent him a batch of fine horses and two hundred real cavalrymen. Qin Mo planned to take this opportunity to build a strong and elite cavalry force.
Qin Mo rode a prized horse presented by Huba, the legendary "Black Cloud Treading Snow," its body jet black and glossy, with only its four hooves white. Although it couldn't run as fast as Qin Mo riding the wind, it fulfilled his dream of commanding cavalry and being able to take on a thousand men single-handedly.
Qin Mo and his henchmen began sweeping around the area near Ulan-Ude, searching for the orcs and Cossacks. Of course, they wouldn't miss the various villages and settlements of the orcs. He had hunted orcs here a few months ago, so this time he knew the way well.
However, the Rakshasa people seemed to really like these strange Xia people. They would come to the village and "raid" it, taking whatever good things they saw and leaving some things behind. Maybe it was a big bag of salt, or maybe it was a piece of silver.
Once, a Xia official took a fancy to a Rakshasa girl. He tentatively gave the trembling old man a bottle of strong liquor. As the strong aroma of the liquor wafted over the village, a large group of Rakshasa girls were pushed in front of these Xia officials.
Unfortunately, few of the Great Xia people liked the Rakshasa girls; it was the barbarians, reeking of sheep's stench, who were quite fond of them. They traded large quantities of salt and fine cotton cloth for the girls, but the strong liquor was gone. Later, they learned that only the Great Xia's officials possessed that kind of liquor.
"Are those barbarians from the grasslands trafficking people?" Qin Mo asked Liu Renguang.
"Reporting to the young master, I don't know who started this, but now they've all gone mad. Their own brothers don't even have wives yet, and each of them has already exchanged several Rakshasa girls, and that's not all. They even asked me for strong liquor. The most beautiful Rakshasa girl can only be obtained by exchanging strong liquor." Liu Renguang replied to Qin Mo with his head down.
"It's only natural for them to like Rakshasa women. As long as it's consensual and not a case of abduction, I don't care. But you'd better put up with it! How long have you been married to Tomoko? Are you already thinking of having an affair?"
"Young Master, I didn't mean that at all. The Rakshasa girl is pretty, but she has a smell. Only those barbarians from the grasslands who are covered in 'foul' smells wouldn't mind!" Liu Renguang quickly protested. Kaihime next to him was already giving him an unfriendly look. He had to clear himself of the situation.
“That’s true. If a Rakshasa woman doesn’t bathe, she’ll smell like onions. And how many women can actually take a bath?” Qin Mo agreed wholeheartedly. This world wasn’t like her previous life, where every household had running water and a water heater.
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