Chapter 58 Part-time_4

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Asko heard a scream, and then he was surrounded by a group of women.

The women and children asked about the news with a flurry of questions:

"Is my son safe?"

"What about my father?"

"How are the men doing?"

"Why is the village on fire?"

Asko was so annoyed by the noise that he shouted, "Quiet down!"

No one paid him any attention.

Determined, Asko lightly spurred the flank of his horse, squeezed through the crowd, and after dropping the words "Pack up, and wait for orders to change the camp," he hurried off.

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On the other end of the forest, the battle did not last long.

The bows, fast horses, and scimitars upon which the Terdun people relied could not show their strength in the forest, where the melee depended on numbers and a tenacious spirit.

The overzealous thirty or so light cavalry were quickly annihilated, and the following seventy or more cavalry were repelled by the militia.