Chapter 477 The Great Xia People's Conspiracy
“General Somov, these Daxia people are not ordinary Daxia Imperial Guards, but the private army of a Daxia nobleman. I think I see the banner of a Daxia prince.”
"Yakufu, I don't need to know who he is. I just want to know how strong they are. Why didn't you fight them just now? Were you afraid of their armor?"
"...General Somov, we have not lost our courage, but I think that continuing to engage with them will result in heavy casualties, which is not our original intention. After all, I was only responsible for probing their strength."
Yakup felt immense pressure during his brief encounter with the Da Yuan cavalry. The Da Yuan cavalry's steel armor looked light, but its protective power was astonishing.
Two thousand Hu cavalrymen each fired several volleys of arrows, but only a handful of the Da Yuan army fell from their horses. Moreover, their formation was very tight and dense, making their impact very strong. If Yakpu did not lead his troops to retreat, the Hu cavalry would lose their maneuvering space. He did not believe that without speed, the Hu cavalry could defeat the Da Yuan army, which was covered in steel armor.
"Yakufu, do you think this is a tough nut to crack?"
"Yes, General, they are very tough to take on. If we want to devour them, we will lose at least three times our manpower, unless you use the Legion of the Dead!"
General Somov frowned and glanced at a corner at the rear of the column, where hundreds of fully armored cavalrymen occupied a large area, and no one around dared to approach them.
"Forget it, let's send a reconnaissance team to follow them and see what their purpose is before we decide."
In the end, Somov chose to wait and see. His search team had approached the Daxia Northern Route Army camp at the former site of the Dayuan Protectorate, and only after losing hundreds of men was he able to roughly estimate the number of Daxia soldiers.
The nearly 300,000-strong Northern Route Army of the Great Xia was a major headache for Somov, but the Great Xia army did not have many cavalry. Somov felt that his 100,000 cavalry, plus the strongmen of the Legion of the Dead, could still hold their own against them.
However, Somov felt it wasn't worth losing tens of thousands of his own men just to devour the large army in front of him. The Legion of the Dead was indeed strong, but they weren't so easy to command.
The army finally entered the designated battlefield. To the left was the swollen Qirchik River in summer, and to the right was the Kumara Mountains, with a narrow corridor about 30 miles long and less than 20 miles wide sandwiched in between.
"Hurry, hurry, set up camp fifteen miles ahead! Supply train, quickly throw out the bait!"
The army quickened its pace again, and then several horses in the supply train sprang into fright, pulling three wagons out of the column and charging straight toward the Hu people.
The Hu people had been herding horses since childhood, and their skill in lassoing horses was top-notch. They quickly stopped the carriage.
"It's silk...this whole cart is full of silk..."
"This vehicle is... armored, no, no, no... it's actually steel armor... ouch... ah...!"
The Hu cavalrymen in the reconnaissance team went mad. A group of poor people couldn't even exchange all their possessions for a single piece of silk, while a set of fine steel armor was a family fortune that could be passed down to their descendants.
"What...is in this car?"
A local chieftain stared blankly at the sugar, glass mirrors, rattan-carved wooden chairs, and other miscellaneous goods on the cart in front of him, not knowing what to do.
Somov's military tactics were quite shrewd. At this moment, he couldn't openly rob the Hu people of their spoils and let them take the silk and armor first. But when he saw the cartload of mirrors and other miscellaneous items, he couldn't help but order, "Bring them over here so I can take a look!"
Somov had never seen white sugar before. After tasting it, he was very satisfied. The exquisite glass mirror made him exclaim in amazement. When the Hu chieftain who had seized the carriage saw Somov's expression, he couldn't help but feel sad and prepared to give it up.
"What's this?"
Somov's personal guards brought out an exquisitely carved mahogany box, but when they opened it, it didn't contain the expected jewels, but rather several pages and a silk scroll.
As a Russian nobleman, Somov had to learn the Great Xia language. He opened the scroll and read it through, his eyes gradually becoming sharp.
"Bring that booklet over here so I can take a look!"
Somov took a few pages from the box and saw that it was indeed a valuable gift list.
"Yakufu, do you know why they ventured so far into enemy territory alone?"
"General Somov, I think you already know the result, right?"
Somov handed the scroll and gift list to Yakup, telling him to look at them himself.
"General Somov...they were...there to persuade them to surrender?"
"They're here to sow discord. These barbarians from the Western Regions are all opportunists; there are plenty of them who are greedy for money."
"General, they will not succeed. No tribe dares to challenge us Rakshasa people now. We will kill all those who are disloyal to us in advance."
“Yakfu, they don’t need to openly resist us. They only need to secretly sabotage the Great Xia army when it is fighting us, and that will be the end of us.”
“The schemes and tricks of the Xia people are always hard to guard against,” Somov continued with a grim expression. “For example, now that these Hu people know that the opposing group is a fat sheep, should we devour them or let them go?”
Yakup fell into deep thought. He suddenly felt that he was in a dilemma. If he let the army go, the Hu people would definitely be unhappy. Since you Russians have become the big brother, you should help your little brothers get rich!
However, if they were to take down the formidable army of Daiyuan, after suffering heavy losses, they would have to consider how to divide the spoils. The Russians and the Hu people would share the spoils together... Unequal distribution of spoils was normal; fair distribution of spoils had never existed.
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