Iron Palm's Destruction
Luda and the reconnaissance team, who had been observing the entire battle from a distance during the day, used the night to gather all the intelligence and then sent it back to the main force by carrier pigeon the next morning.
Luda was also surprised by the performance of the Iron Palm Tribe. As expected of an important branch of the Iron Bone Tribe, they were able to show such fighting spirit even under obvious disadvantages. It should be noted that the army of the Blazing Fire Tribe was no ordinary force.
Although the Blazing Fire Tribe seemed to have suffered heavy losses during the day, the majority of the casualties came from the two reserve Thousand-man squad. The main force of three Thousand-man squad only suffered a little over 10% casualties. These main force barbarian cavalry were also well-equipped, with everyone wearing leather armor and some elites even wearing bronze armor.
During the battle to breach the Iron Palm Tribe's walls, these elite warriors clad in bronze armor demonstrated excellent infantry combat skills, inflicting heavy casualties on the Iron Palm Tribe. Their retreat was swift and efficient, with minimal losses.
Luda and his companions recorded all this intelligence, hoping it would be helpful in the subsequent battles in the Two Rivers Territory.
The next morning, the Blazing Fire Tribe immediately set up their formation, intending to continue their attack.
The entire Iron Palm camp began to buzz with excitement. Having just experienced yesterday's brutal battle, the fact that the enemy remained so tenacious undoubtedly gave the Iron Palm Tribe tribe a great shock.
At this moment, the army of the Blazing Fire Tribe was also somewhat uneasy. After all, they had not achieved much success in yesterday's battle. Although the rest last night had relieved everyone's fatigue, they were still somewhat afraid of the Iron Palm Tribe's resolute resistance.
However, Chief Volcano of the Volcano Fire Tribe appeared confident, while the chief of the Blazing Fire Tribe keenly sensed this and devised a plan to set a trap using the upcoming third wave of attacks.
The cunning chieftain understood that if he could successfully lure Xita to lead his troops to the aid of the Iron Palm Tribe, he could concentrate his forces and wipe out this detestable group in one fell swoop.
Even if the Blazing Fire Tribe lacks siege equipment, the Iron Palm Tribe's wooden walls will still be unable to stop the Blazing Fire Tribe's army from attacking.
The horns of the Blazing Fire Tribe sounded, and Chief Volcano personally led the attack. Billowing dust obscured the view as the large Cavalry moved.
Su He was completely unaware that the broken wooden arrow had pierced his palm—the banner of the Blazing Fire Tribe had appeared atop a sand dune three hundred paces outside the camp wall, and more than three thousand seven hundred Blazing Fire warriors could be vaguely seen in the billowing dust behind them; the Blazing Fire Tribe had launched a full-scale attack.
The bronze bell on the wall rang nine times in a row, signifying that the Iron Palm Tribe was in its most critical moment. Every tribesman had to be mobilized to participate in the battle. Xisa and his Personal Guard also came to the wall. As the chief, he was determined to hold this place firmly and fight to the death.
Under his leadership, the remaining 7,000 people in the Iron Palm Tribe camp, including the elderly, women and children, also came to the wall. As Barbarians, they knew that if the tribe were to fall, everyone would suffer and no one would be spared.
When the Blazing Fire Tribe's army approached to within a hundred paces of the wall, they all dismounted, and the Volcano planned to launch an attack on foot.
The Volcano brandished its battle-axe inlaid with human teeth, and two thousand fiery vanguards pounced on the crumbling wooden wall like hungry wolves. They deliberately avoided the horse-trapping pits, using the corpses of their fallen comrades from the previous day to fill the last three trenches.
Su He drew his horn bow to its fullest extent, and a poisoned arrow pierced the throats of three wall climbers. However, he discovered that the Fire Warriors had actually jumped off the wall. Undeterred by injury or death, they landed directly on the crowd inside the Iron Palm Tribe's walls. These suicide warriors were there to create a safe zone for the Fire Army to deploy their forces.
Just as some Barbarians women were about to pour scalding hot excrement, rockets suddenly pierced through the wooden barrels, and the burning excrement poured onto the heads of the defenders instead.
In an instant, the soldiers who were splashed with water let out shrill screams, causing the entire garrison to waver, since there were too many elderly, weak, women and children among them.
Just as the Iron Palm Tribe's defenses were about to fall, seven hundred Light Cavalry from the Xita raised a dust column in the southeast and began their attack on the rear guard of the Blazing Fire Tribe.
Xita anxiously directed his troops to attack the enemy, but due to the disparity in strength, all they could do was harass them.
However, after two rounds of fierce attack and defense battles yesterday, the Iron Palm Tribe was exhausted.
Xita knew that if the Iron Palm Tribe were to withstand another round of such a fierce attack, they would probably not be able to hold on any longer. He had to do everything in his power to stop the Blazing Fire Tribe, even if it meant being shattered to pieces.
Xita's Cavalry cut directly into the Blazing Fire Tribe, using lassoes to entangle the necks of twelve archers, throwing the Blazing Fire Tribe's rear into chaos.
However, at that moment, Chief Volcano's wolf-head banner suddenly turned, and eight hundred soldiers hidden under the horses leaped out and mounted. It turned out that when the Blazing Fire Tribe's army dismounted, Volcano had Huo Qing's Thousand-man squad use the smoke and dust to hide among the horses, concealed under their bellies.
The moment Xita's troops clashed with the rear guard of the Blazing Fire Tribe, they launched an immediate attack under Huo Qing's leadership, mounting their warhorses and charging towards Xita's forces.
The sudden ambush caught Xita and his troops completely off guard. Huo Qing scimitars instantly severed the arm of a Cavalry, who screamed in agony. At that moment, the main force of the Fiery Army abandoned their siege of the camp, abandoning the assassins who had already entered the Iron Palm Tribe camp, and, led by Chief Volcano, launched a joint attack on Xita's troops.
More than three thousand scimitars swirled around the remnants of Xita's forces like a vortex. "Tear open a gap!" Xita brandished his longsword, trying to fight his way out and break through the encirclement with his troops, but the ever-increasing number of the Blazing Fire Tribe soldiers around him completely ended his efforts. In the end, he only managed to break out of the encirclement with a little over a hundred men.
His right eye was also targeted by Huo Qing, and under the protection of his guards, he fled to the northwest.
Inside the Iron Palm Tribe's camp, everyone watched helplessly as Xita's forces were annihilated. The entire tribe's morale collapsed instantly, and when the Blazing Fire Tribe turned around and launched another attack, they easily stormed the camp.
Chief Caesar of the Iron Palm Tribe Xisa his wife Sala into a secret passage beneath the main tent. As he turned, three arrows were already embedded in her chest. Sala screamed and pierced the eye socket of a Fire Warrior with her hairpin. She then picked up her husband's cooling body and leaped into the fire, the burning flesh emitting an eerie, sweet fragrance.
Su He dragged his ravaged body toward the well, his arms gripping a soldier who had scaled the wall, until he breathed his last.
More than three thousand bloodthirsty beasts poured into the camp and began the slaughter. The old man was bound and used as a human shield and pushed toward the Iron Fist soldiers who were still resisting.
Huo Qing grinned maliciously and shouted, "Leave the young women to fill the water bags, and chop up the rest to feed the dogs."