Upon learning this news, Heshima flew into a rage. The officers he had sent to oversee the troops were among his trusted subordinates, and the soldiers in the supervisory units were all elites. Yet they had suffered such heavy losses. He could not contain his fury.
Heshima once again dispatched his Dire Wolf Guard and specifically named a Commander of Ten Thousand, ordering him to lead his own troops to intercept the Barbarian slaves and herders fleeing back.
Heshima gave them a death order: show no mercy. As long as those herders continued fleeing back, it did not matter if they killed them all. They had to drive them back beneath the city walls.
"Those people are already as good as dead. I will not allow them to return alive to our Main Camp.
Remember, they can only die beneath the enemy's walls!"
And so, these Barbarian troops carried out Heshima's orders.
The fleeing Barbarian herders and slaves were immediately subjected to brutal treatment. Barbarian Cavalry charged into their ranks and began slaughtering them.
This time, the Dire Wolf Guard did not even bother stringing their bows to intimidate them. They simply swung their sabers to their hearts' content.
Countless Barbarian herders and slaves fell along the road back to the Main Camp. The slaughter continued for at least a quarter of an hour.
The Barbarian herders and slaves who had mutinied were nearly all dead. Through this slaughter, the Iron Bone Tribe's army regained control over the herders and slaves, though the entire force had been reduced from seventy or eighty thousand before the battle to half that number.
The Commander of Ten Thousand reorganized the scattered supervisory troops. This time, the supervisory soldiers no longer shouted orders at the herders and slaves. Anyone who disobeyed would be executed