The purge of the mounted bandits did not end until sunset.
With two thousand elite Imperial Forest Guards joining the battle, fewer than one in ten of the mounted bandits managed to escape the battlefield. Countless corpses lay scattered across a radius of more than ten li, and the flowing blood dyed vast stretches of grassland red.
The battle had undoubtedly been a glorious one. After the count, more than ten thousand mounted bandits led by the White Wolf Bandits had been slain, while the Imperial Forest Guard had suffered fewer than a hundred casualties.
Many mounted bandits had knelt and surrendered during the battle, only to be mercilessly executed by the Imperial Forest Guard.
In the end, only a few survivors were left alive.
Every one of these mounted bandits had blood of common folk on their hands. They deserved their deaths, and the Imperial Forest Guard's mission was to escort Princess Qingyun to Great Yan; they could not possibly travel with a large number of captives.
Sending them on their way was naturally the best choice!
When the marriage alliance delegation made camp once more, Sun Zhengheng brought people to deliver three heads to Wang Chen.
Three heads whose eyes remained wide open in death!
Wang Chen understood at a glance. "Bandit leaders?"
"This is the White Wolf Leader."
Sun Zhengheng pointed to one of the heads, a white-haired head with one eye, and said, "The combined bounty on him exceeded a million taels."
The White Wolf Bandits had plagued the West Sea Great Grassland for decades, robbing an unknown number of merchants and travelers. The local authorities and major merchant guilds naturally hated them to the bone, so their accumulated bounty was extremely high.
But the White Wolf Leader was vicious and cunning. High-tier Martial Artists had