“Ha ha ha, we won!” Elliott Sun cheered, hugging Edward Zhao.
“Incredible, truly amazing,” Declan Li said, still shaken as he looked at Oliver Sheng and the heavy cavalry.
The heavy cavalry was overwhelmingly powerful, a nightmare for light cavalry and infantry alike when they charged.
Unable to continue their charge, Felix Wu led ten thousand light cavalry to pursue the fleeing enemy, mercilessly striking them down.
Oliver Sheng glanced up at the sky, where Calvin Yang was still engaged in a fierce battle with a Huns Grandmaster.
As the Huns’ army retreated, three of their Grandmasters attempted to flee, but Calvin Yang intercepted one of them.
“Stay here! You think you can run without asking your Grandpa Yang?” Calvin Yang blocked the Grandmaster, launching a ferocious attack.
The Grandmaster, seeing his two companions fleeing, turned pale. Facing Calvin Yang alone, he feared he wouldn’t survive the day.
Watching the two Huns Grandmasters fleeing through the sky, Oliver Sheng reached out and summoned two long spears from the ground.
Infusing them with True Essence, the spears instantly glowed with a brilliant golden light.
Oliver Sheng hurled the spears at the fleeing Grandmasters.
The golden spears shot through the air like meteors, heading straight for the Grandmasters.
Feeling a deadly fear envelop them, the Grandmasters turned to look back, their faces filled with terror. They quickly gathered all their True Essence and blood energy to form protective barriers.
“Shhh!”
But it was all in vain. The spears, carrying Oliver Sheng’s terrifying power, easily pierced through their protective barriers and their chests.
Blood splattered across the sky as their bodies fell from the heights.
Seeing that capturing Peace Pass was hopeless, Seth Helan had no choice but to retreat. Finding the killer of his grandson seemed impossible now.
Seth Helan retreated without obstruction from the veteran, who knew he couldn’t kill him in a short time and blocking him would be futile.
Oliver Sheng, however, watched Seth Helan retreat like a shooting star with some regret. If the veteran had held him off a bit longer, they could have joined forces to kill him.
Soon, Calvin Yang pierced the last Grandmaster’s head with a spear, killing him.
Thus, none of the five Huns Grandmasters who came survived. Oliver Sheng alone had killed four of them.
Of the 150,000-strong Huns army that came with great momentum, only about 30,000 managed to flee, leaving behind a trail of chaos and defeat.
Felix Wu led ten thousand light cavalry to pursue, leaving nearly ten thousand Huns cavalry heads behind.
“Victory!”
“Glory!”
The River West Army cheered excitedly, having slain so many enemies and earning significant military merit.
Calvin Yang approached Oliver Sheng, his face full of joy. “Good lad, I knew I wasn’t wrong about you. You’re probably stronger than me now. I must thank you for saving Peace Pass; otherwise, it would have been destroyed.”
“General, you’re too kind. There’s no need for thanks. You were the one who promoted me in the first place. Our River West Army came from the Peace Army; we’re all one family,” Oliver Sheng said with a smile.
“Ha ha, well said. We are indeed one family,” Calvin Yang laughed, overjoyed.
Oliver Sheng was now stronger than him and already a military leader, yet he still showed respect. Calvin Yang knew he had made the right choice back then.
“With so many enemies slain, you deserve the highest merit,” Calvin Yang said, looking at the blood-soaked battlefield filled with corpses and severed limbs.
This was the work of the heavy cavalry in front of him.
His eyes gleamed as he looked at the heavy cavalry. Such a formidable force was rare in all of Great Wei.
The heavy armor, shining with a metallic luster, was imposing and majestic.
Each soldier was at least a Martial Artist.
To be honest, Calvin Yang was envious, drooling at the sight.
If he had such a powerful force under his command, he wouldn’t fear the Huns cavalry.
“Elite, all elite. You’re impressive, to have built such a formidable heavy cavalry in such a short time,” Calvin Yang couldn’t help but praise.
“Heh, they’re alright, but they still need to grow stronger,” Oliver Sheng said with a smile.
“You brat, you’re doing this on purpose,” Calvin Yang almost wanted to snatch the army.
The veteran also descended from the sky, looking at Oliver Sheng.
“Uncle, long time no see,” Oliver Sheng said with a smile.
“Strange, you’re strange. I can’t see through you,” the veteran said curiously, looking at Oliver Sheng.
Oliver Sheng’s current aura was that of Innate Great Perfection, but they couldn’t believe it.
An Innate Great Perfection who could kill two Grandmasters with one spear? They had never seen such a thing.
They knew Oliver Sheng was hiding his true strength, but the veteran couldn’t see through his current level.
“I’m just Innate Great Perfection. What’s so hard to see through?” Oliver Sheng said innocently.
“Are you mocking me?” The veteran wanted to slap Oliver Sheng for his innocent look.
Did he think he was a fool? Who could kill two Grandmasters with Innate Great Perfection?
“I wouldn’t dare, Uncle. I really am Innate Great Perfection,” Oliver Sheng stubbornly denied, sticking to his story.
He displayed Innate Great Perfection, and whether others believed it or not was their problem. Those stronger than him could see through it, and those weaker had to accept it.
A perfect self-deception technique!
What? You can’t beat me, Grandmaster? Then you’re just too weak.
“Forget it, I’m going back,” the veteran said, leaping back into the city.
Looking at the battlefield littered with broken armor and riderless horses, they needed to gather everything.
The Huns’ corpses also needed to be buried to prevent an outbreak of disease.
“These horses are mine,” Calvin Yang said, looking at the horses.
“General, you’re too greedy! These are our spoils,” Oliver Sheng said, exasperated.
These were tens of thousands of horses, a valuable fortune.
“Oliver, our Peace Army is poor!” Calvin Yang said pitifully.
“You don’t know, the soldiers are starving and freezing, with no energy to train.”
“Stop, stop!” Oliver Sheng broke into a sweat.
What nonsense was this? Starving and freezing?
The imperial court’s military pay ensured every army had enough food and supplies.
“General, can you afford to keep so many horses?” Oliver Sheng asked, exasperated.
Feeding tens of thousands of horses was as costly as maintaining an army.
Warhorses ate high-quality grain and needed careful attention.
“Of course, I can. I’ll sell… I mean, I can keep them. I want to build a cavalry to fight the Huns properly,” Calvin Yang quickly corrected himself, almost revealing his plan.
He intended to sell half the horses to the General Who Guards the North for gold and silver to support his army.
Oliver Sheng: …
Rumble!!
The war ended, and three thousand auxiliary troops brought over twenty thousand warhorses.
“General, should we gather these horses?” the auxiliary leader asked.
Calvin Yang looked at the horses, too envious to speak. The ten thousand light cavalry had ten thousand horses.
Colonel Wesley Hu and Xiao Chuyi had come with ten thousand horses. Did Oliver Sheng have so many horses?
He was too wealthy!
With so many elite soldiers and horses, Oliver Sheng’s River West Army was far stronger than his Peace Army.
In such a short time, Oliver Sheng had developed his army to this extent, making Calvin Yang envious.
If he had known Oliver Sheng had such potential, he wouldn’t have agreed to let him stay in River West County and form his own army.
Now it was too late. Soon, Oliver Sheng might be his equal or even surpass him in rank.
“You have so many horses, yet you still want to take mine? No way, these horses are mine,” Calvin Yang said.
“No way, half and half,” Oliver Sheng shook his head.
The battlefield had tens of thousands of horses, at least thirty to forty thousand good ones.
“Fine, half and half,” Calvin Yang agreed.
Half meant at least twenty thousand horses. The Peace Army couldn’t keep so many, so he planned to sell half for resources and money.
Oliver Sheng ordered his men to gather the horses, while Calvin Yang had people clean up the Huns’ corpses. The dead and injured horses would be used for meat, not wasted.
Felix Wu returned with his troops, bringing over ten thousand horses.
With so many horses, plus those in the River West County barracks, Oliver Sheng now had seventy to eighty thousand horses.
If they were all turned into cavalry, Oliver Sheng couldn’t imagine how strong they would be.
Having defeated the Huns, Peace Pass was in a frenzy. Oliver Sheng’s troops were welcomed like heroes.
Martial Colonel Harrison Zhou, Colonel Zhou, Colonel Lin, and others looked at Oliver Sheng, the young general, full of spirit and brilliance.
They felt a sense of melancholy. Compared to Oliver Sheng, they were like fireflies to the moon, incomparable.
The entire River West Army received a grand welcome.
“Ha ha, let’s welcome our hero. This lad, we’ll have to salute him and call him General soon,” Elliott Sun laughed, full of joy.
“Indeed, a nineteen-year-old Imperial General of the Conquest against the Barbarians, the only one in all of Great Wei!”
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