Feng Da was in his late thirties. His skin was dark and rough and his apperaance was unimpressive, and he was not tall. He nodded to Liu Yan and said, "Yes, my lord, Xiaoren I saw them with my own eyes."

"Didn't you get a good look at how many people they are?"

Feng Da pondered for a moment and replied, "Xioaren I estimate that they must be about 60 or 70 of them. These barbarian soldiers are all taking swords, some of them wearing armors, and some even wearing animal skins!"

Recalling the appearance of those barbarians, Feng Da couldn't help but give a cold shiver.

Liu Yan smiled calmly and said with relief:" Don't worry. We are here to protect you. With us, we can make sure those barbarians will never come back!"

"If my Lord you say so, xiaoren I am relieved."

Under the guidance of Feng Da, Liu Yan started to move towards Mountain Bai.

They marched overnight, and the early next morning before dawn, they had reached the territory of Mountain Bai.

With Feng Da, the local leading the way, it was a great convenience for them. They were stationed in a very concealed mountain depression. Fearing that they would be found by those barbarians, Liu Yan issued a order that no fire should be built and no camp should be set up, and all of them just took a break here temporarily.

It was damp and cold in the early morning in the mountain forests, and many of the volunteer soldiers were sitting on the ground in their single clothes and trembling in the cold.

Li Tong and Li Yi were also turing to a pale face with cold, rubbing their hands together incessantly. Upon seeing this, Liu Xiu took off his armor and handed it to Li Tong, saying, "Ci Yuan, please put it on!"

The Yepianjia in the army was not single-layered, but double-layered. With the iron sheets on the outside, leather on the inside, and cotton padding in the middle, making it very warm to wear.

Li Tong waved his hands in succession and said, "No, no, I am ok. Brother Wen Shu, you might as well wear it..."

Without waiting for him to finish his words, Liu Xiu had already helped Li Tong and putted the armor over his body. He said with a smile:" When I am at home on weekdays, I often do a lot of farm work, and I am physically stronger than you."

Liu Xiu was also telling the truth. Although he was appeared as a thin body, he was indeed much stronger than the ordinary people. At this moment, even if he did not wear a suit of armor, he would not feel too cold.

Long Yuan took off his armor and handed it to Liu Xiu, saying, "Lord...Brother Wen Shu, you wear mine!"

Liu Xiu smiled gratefully to Long Yuan, shook his head again, handed the armor to Li Yi, and said, "Brother Ji Wen, you wear this."

Li Yi hurriedly thanked to Liu Xiu, and no matter how Long Yuan glared at him, he just took the armor and quickly put it on himself. After that, he took a long breath and couldn't help but sigh:"I did not expect it to be so cold in Hanzhong Prefecture, but now it is finally warmer."

Liu Xiu smiled and said to Li Tong and Li Yi:" Just get some sleep now. I reckon that as soon as it is dawn, we will have to go to war."

Sure enough, as Liu Xiu said, when the horrizon was turning bright in the east and the sky was getting brighter, Liu Yan started to set up ten chiefs of Tun under him for missions.

The ten chiefs of Tun led their respective teams to spread out and surround the barbarian's stations. Liu Yan wanted to wipe out the Barbarian Army of sixty or seventy soldiers.

A thousand men to fight with sixty or seventy men, there was definitely no suspense. Only by annihilating the enemy, could barely be considered as a feat.

Liu Xiu, Long Yuan, Li Tong, and Li Yi, the four of them were all arranged by Liu Yan to Zhu Yun's team. And that the two teams of Zhu Yun and Zhang Ping were both led by Liu Yan himself.

After laying out the tactics, Liu Yan ordered the whole army to act.

Then the army of 1,000 people was scattered, and then clumped towards the location of the Barbarian Army in accordance with the planned route.

This Tun led by Zhu Yun actually had no chance of participating in the war. Although they had received the mission that to reinforce any other teams that was in trouble, the fact was that they thousands of soldiers were besieging the sixty or seventy barbarian soldiers, so how could there be a situation of trouble?

Seeing that the soldiers of the other Tun had already started their actions, and even the Tun led by Zhang Ping were in front of them, Zhu Yun, who fell at the end, sighed in a whisper, with his mouth was also muttering incoherently.

Liu Xiu understood that it was because he was in this Tun led by Brother Yun, so his eldest brother gave them a special 'care', not even allowing them to move forward in such a small battle where there was a huge difference in strength between the two sides.

When the appointed time was reached, all the soldiers of each Tun were all in place, and then, Liu Yan ordered Zhang Ping to release his arrow.

Zhang Ping twirled his bow and took an arrow, aimed his arrow at the sky, then shot it neatly.

The tail of the ringing arrow was dug out of the hole. As the arrow fly through the air, it was capable of making a sharp cry and spreading far away. In ancient armies, the ringing arrows were usually used to send signals.

In the Tun led by Zhang Ping, he was the only one who could use bows and arrows.

In the army, not every soldier could use bows and arrows, and the ordinary soldier, could not even pull a bow, and it was nearly impossible for them to be a qualified archer without at least three years of hard training.

The status of the archer in the ancient army was equivalent to that of the special forces in the modern army.

Along with the loud sound of the arrow, the volunteer soldiers, who had already gathered around the barbarian's camp, all rushed out from the forest with a loud roar.

The sudden appearance of Liu Yan's army really caught the barbarian soldiers hiding in the mountain forest by surprise. With a long sword in his hand, Liu Yan took the lead and rushed into the barbarian's camp at once.

As soon as he came in, two barbarian soldiers running into his face.

These two soldiers, both weraing a armor, which was made of Teng, holding the shield which was also made of Teng in one hand and the machete in the other hand. Looked to their faces, black and white, painted with oil paint, and could not see clearly what they actually looked like, what was more, their appearance resembled that of a vicious ghost.

After the two sides met, Liu Yan didn't say anything, lifted his long sword, and slashed at one of the barbarian soldiers.

The barbarian soldier also reacted quickly and hurriedly fought back with his Teng Shield.

The Teng Dun was indeed blocked the long sword of Liu Yan, but the barbarian soldier could not resist Liu Yan's strong force. The barbarian soldier was cut down by Liu Yan's attack and fell two meters away.

Another barbarian soldier roared and tried to slash Liu Yan with his machete. He had just raised his machete, but he couldn't use it anymore. Zhang Ping, who was behind Liu Yan, shot an arrow into the barbarian soldier's eye socket, and the iron head of the arrow protruded out the back of his head.

That barbarian soldier did not even say a word, and then fell to the ground on his backs.

Liu Yan didn't even look at the fallen corpse, but with his long sword in hand, and rushed to the barbarian soldier who was cut down by him just now. Before the man could climb up from the ground, Liu Yan raised his sword and cut the opponent's neck in two.

Puff! The head of the barbarian soldier fell and a bloody arrow spurted out. Liu Yan stared at the bloodshot eyes and roared sharply and loudly:"Kill them! Not one stay out of this world!"

Liu Yan's bravery had stimulated all the volunteer brothers present. They all suppressed their fear of the barbarian soldiers, swung up their weapons, and fought with the barbarian soldiers into a mess.

There were a dozen or so barbarian soldiers gathered together and broke out into a group, but they were surround by the volunteer soldiers, three layers inside and three layers outside, before anyone could move. Where could they break through?

A soldier of the Volunteer Army, with an axe in his hand, sneaked up behind a barbarian soldier and swung it down with one blow. Puff! The axe fell down, then slashing right into the back of the barbaria soldier, and half of the axe was not in the barbarian soldier's back.

The barbarian soldier screamed and returned with a slash. Buzz! The blade swept before the neck of the volunteer soldier, and the blade tore at his throat, the scarlet blood gurgling out.

His eyes were wide open and he fell backwards with his whole body straight.

The barbarian soldier, who had been hit by an axe, was shouting in a scream. No one could understand what he was shouting, but there was an axe hanging behind his back, nevertheless, he was still alive and full of vigor and energy, and his appearance was frightening enough.

The surrounding volunteer soldiers looked at their companions who had fallen to his death on the ground, and then looked at the barbarian soldiers who were like wild beasts, and were so frightened that they fell back one after another.

That barbarian soldier rushed towards the volunteer soldiers with his machete, swinging it one after another, and just in the blink of an eye, three more soldiers were hit by his machete, either of them falling to the ground or retreating backwards with a scream.

The volunteer soldiers were a group of ordinary populaces. They did not receive any formal trainings or practical experience, so even if a group of them surround a barbarian soldier alone and to fight with him, the scene was also very difficult.

When the red-eyed barbarian soldier rushed towards another volunteer soldier, the latter was so frightened that he took several steps back, and at the same time, he instinctively swung out the hoe in his hand.

Pa! The hoe he swung out in a panic was hitting right into the barbarian soldier in his forehead, which made him staggering to the side. Upon seeing this, the surrounding volunteer soldiers finally realized that they had a chance to take advantage of the situation. They surrounded themselves up like a honeycomb, and one of them raised and swung his hoe behind the barbarian soldier and smashed it hard on the back of his head.

This time that barbarian soldier could not hold out any more, and fell forward on his head, holding his bloody head in his hands and ricketed into a ball on the ground.

At this moment, all the surrounding volunteer soldiers came in spirit, and people swarmed up and rushed to fight the barbarian soldiers with their sticks, axes, and hoes.

In a blink of an eye, this barbarian soldier turned into a bloody puddle of flesh and blood, with all his five viscera and six bowels flowing out and spreading all over the ground. There were some volunteer soldiers who could bear to come close, holding their hands to the tree, kneeling on the ground and vomiting.

This was just a tip of the battlefield. The nine Tuns of the Volunteer Army, was a total of more than 900 soldiers, surrounded dozens of barbaric regiments and divided them into several parts, and wiped them out one by one.

Zhu Yun, who was left behind as a backup, stretched his neck from time to time, and looked towards the battlefield in front of them, trying to see what kind of fight in front of him, but as far as he could see, there were either a tree or a peripheral volunteer soldier, and he could not even see any shadows of the barbarian soldiers.

He stomped his feet, sighed again, and muttered, "I am following Bosheng to fight, not here to watch the scene of bustle!"

Liu Xiu, who was right next to Zhu Yun, naturally heard his muttering and said apologetically:" Sorry, Brother Yun, you are being dragged into this by me."

Liu Xiu's heart was like a mirror. If he was not in this Tun led by Zhu Yun, Zhu Yun would not have been left behind by his eldest brother as a backup team, and would not have had that need at all.

Zhu Yun looked at Liu Xiu helplessly and sighed heartily, "A'xiu', there is really nothing bad to say about how nice Bosheng is to you!"

As the saying went, the elder brother had the responsibility to educate and nurture his younger siblings like a father. Liu Yan was eleven years older than Liu Xiu. And Liu Yan really cared and loved Liu Xiu the same as like a father to his son.

Liu Xiu nodded, and his eldest brother's kindness to himself was something he kept in mind, so whatever his eldest brother was going to do, he must be stand on his brother's side unconditionally and fully support him.

Just as the two of them were talking, the hunter Feng Da ran over hurriedly, and came close to Zhu Yun, looking so panicked and stammering, "Zhu...Lord Zhu, no...not good..."

With irritable voice and ungracious manner, Zhu Yun glanced at him and asked, "What are you panicking for? Is the sky falling?"

Notes:

1 xiaoren 小人: a self address (little), the insignificant (usually male)