Chapter 51: Spoils of War

The Tian family led the three merchant groups to break through the horse bandits, and turned back to charge before the horse bandits could react.

Horse warfare relies on speed and charge, and the horse bandits had no time to organize their team to fight the merchant group's attack again.

Hua Kai saw the cruelty of cavalry combat for the first time. The horse bandits who had just stabilized their bodies were overwhelmed by countless merchant cavalry before they could react. Even such masters in the Qi training realm had to fall down in hatred in the cavalry charge.

When the merchant cavalry broke through the horse bandit formation again, they continued to gather outside the valley entrance. The entire horse bandit group was in chaos. At this time, it was difficult for them to escape even if they wanted to.

"System prompt: The family battle victory gained 68 points of luck!"

Hearing the system prompt, Hua Kai knew that the battle was over. The system settlement at this time indicated that the horse bandits had lost their combat effectiveness, but 68 points of family luck at a time was the first time Hua Kai encountered it.

Turning his mind back to the battlefield, Hua Kai observed carefully that the first wave of the merchant group's charge caused about 200 to 300 casualties to the horse bandits, but the second wave of horse bandits lost more than 500 people. From this, we can see the power of the large-scale cavalry charge.

When the merchant group organized the third wave of charge, a large number of horse bandits behind the horse bandits had already turned around and fled. When the third charge was completed, all the horse bandits began to flee in all directions. Everyone had no time to find their own team and began to run for their lives. However, the Tian family continued to organize the fourth charge. After breaking up another group of more than 500 horse bandits, all the merchant groups and caravans began to attack separately to chase those fleeing horse bandits!

Hua Kai felt relieved when he saw this. From his perspective, the loss of the merchant group would not be great this time. Their weapons were much better than those of the horse bandits. Everyone started to capture prisoners at this time. Grandpa Hua Xing led the Hua family members to chase a group of about 100 horse bandits. Those horse bandits were caught up before they escaped far. After the Hua family captured more than ten prisoners, they left a few people to look after the prisoners, and the main force continued to chase and kill the horse bandits.

The Tian family of the Linzi City Merchant Group left some caravans with serious casualties to clean up the battlefield, and other merchant groups continued to organize the charge. This time they wanted to wipe out the whole group of horse bandits.

Hua Kai saw that the crisis of the merchant group was completely resolved, so he asked Wei Baotou to take the slaves to the battlefield to collect prisoners and war horses. Although the spoils of war needed to be uniformly distributed by the Tian family after the war, it would always be more meritorious to work harder at this time.

Until noon, Wei Baotou collected 4 lightly injured prisoners and 6 war horses. Many caravans from the three major merchant groups have returned. Everyone is happily discussing today's battle. However, the Tian family's cavalry has not returned yet, and the Hua family has not returned either.

Hua Kai ordered the slaves to start cooking. After a morning of fighting, everyone must be hungry. After lunch, the sun was setting. At this time, Hua Kai finally saw his grandfather and the Hua family coming back.

"Haha! I'm just hungry! Lao Wu, take good care of all the captives. Let's see how the Tian family will deal with them later." Hua Xing came back and saw that everything was fine with the caravan, and jumped off the flames happily.

The members of the Hua family were also very excited. Most of them participated in this kind of cavalry battle for the first time. This kind of scene is difficult for ordinary people to encounter in their lifetime.

Uncle Wu and his family members escorted more than 30 horse thief captives. Hua Kai saw that there were not only 6 Qidong realm captives among these captives, but also one Qi training realm with 5 levels of cultivation. No wonder Grandpa was so happy.

"It's a pity for my old friend. This time he is really leaving me!" Hua Xing said, looking at the red sandalwood dragon wood spear in his hand. It was an old friend who had been with him for decades. Now the whole spear body has cracked. He just exerted too much force and the tip of the red sandalwood dragon wood spear is about to fall off.

A good weapon can exert 200% of a person's combat power. The red sandalwood dragon wood spear is only made of fourth-level red sandalwood dragon wood, which is difficult to withstand the injection of true qi in the Qi training realm. Grandpa has been very careful to use the red sandalwood dragon wood spear since he broke through the Qi training realm. I didn't expect that it was finally completely damaged today!

"Grandpa, don't worry. I will give you a better weapon in a while. You should have changed a weapon when you broke through the Qi training realm. It's just that the family's financial constraints have been delayed until now."

Hua Xing knew that his grandson was hiding a big secret, so he didn't ask much. He really needed a handy weapon, but a weapon used in the Qi training realm generally requires special metals, and it must be made by a special refiner, which generally costs more than a thousand gold.

In the evening, the Han family counted all the spoils of the Hua family and sent them to the Tian family camp. Soon Hua Kai received a notice from the Tian family caravan, asking him to go to the Han family tent.

All the credits of the Hua family were counted on the Han family, which was natural to Hua Kai, after all, the Han family was the owner of the entire Guang County.

However, when distributing the spoils, the Han family did not deduct a single bit from all the caravans. The Hua family caravan killed 3 people in the Qi training realm, 14 people in the Qi dynamic realm, and 41 people in the Kaiyuan realm. It was the family that killed the most enemies in the entire Guang County merchant group, and they also helped the Tian family break through the enemy formation at the most critical moment, and finally collected a large amount of spoils.

"All captives will be redeemed by the tribes in the grassland according to the regulations. As for how much money they can get in the end, we will know when the caravan returns home. Now all the horses and supplies have been counted. Your Hua family can get 19 intact horses, 6 strong horses, 33 injured horses, 20 strong horses, 56 taels of gold, 2,300 taels of silver, 113,000 bone coins, and 80,000 kilograms of dead horse meat. This is the merit list. You can take a look."

The person in charge of the Han family wanted to show the merit list to Hua Kai directly, but Hua Kai would not take it. How much spoils he got depended entirely on how the Han family distributed them. This time, the Hua family's harvest had exceeded his imagination.

After Hua Kai asked Yu Jun to return to the caravan to transfer people over, they transported the spoils that belonged to them this time from the Han family.

The Hua family took the most spoils of this war among all the caravans in Guang County. Hua Kai saw that some caravans only got some old tents and a small amount of bone coins, while the Han family got less, but they were all intact horses and gold. They paid more and of course they would get the best return.

After returning to the caravan, Grandpa led people to count the spoils. Except for more than 100,000 bone coins that required half a car to pull, everyone was very satisfied with the other spoils. These good horses and strong horses are worth at least more than 100 gold. Together with money and materials, the Hua family harvested more than 200 gold this time, which made other caravans in Guang County envious.

There were 78 more horses. The total number of horses of the Hua family caravan exceeded 160, excluding the two horses lost today, which made the entire caravan look much larger. Compared with the spoils of this battle, the Hua family certainly did not suffer no losses. One death and seven injuries were already the best results of the Hua family in so many years.

At night, Hua Kai waited for everyone to go to bed and entered the [Family Secret Space]. He came to the weapon shop but found that he could not refine any weapons.

[Yanling Spear] The family's luck value is enough, and the meteorite iron is enough, but there is no Fengwu wood, and he does not have enough silver.

[Mingyue Spear] requires 200 taels of gold, and he only has 65 taels of gold now. Hua Kai was overjoyed to see 365 points of luck value, but he found that there was no weapon to refine. He wanted to upgrade his whole body space now, but after thinking for a long time, he felt that upgrading now would not be very useful, so he had to wait until the Huhan tribe to see if there were any suitable strange stones to make weapons.

The next day, the two injured trophy horses of the Hua family died of serious injuries. The Hua family tried their best to take care of the horses that were still seriously injured. Each of them was money for the family!

The Hua family ate more than 200 kilograms of horse meat in one morning, and 80,000 kilograms of horse meat was enough for the merchant group to eat freely.

The merchant group was not in a hurry to leave when they arrived here. Everyone was resting and reorganizing their caravans. Now they have arrived at different tribes where the three major merchant groups of the Xiongnu Kingdom went, and they will be separated later.

Hua Xing sold 20,000 catties of horse meat to the Hua family at a very low price. Selling this horse meat to the caravans with less harvest can help the Hua family recover some losses. 20,000 catties of horse meat only sold for more than 5 gold. The remaining 60,000 catties of horse meat can only be eaten with good meat. With 72 people in the Hua family caravan, it will take more than three months to eat it.

"Kai'er, a caravan borrowed horses from us today. Now we have so many horses, which is useless. Why don't we lend some to other caravans in the caravan! When they go home, they have to return healthy horses to us." Hua Xing came back from other caravans and said to Hua Kai. This is the first time that the Hua family has borrowed horses from other caravans in so many years, which makes him very proud.

It is normal for caravans to borrow horses from the grassland. There is no danger in entering the Xiongnu Kingdom. Some caravans have to go a long way to find tribes to trade with them. If their horses are not strong enough, it will be difficult for them to meet up with the big caravan at the specified time.

Although there is no interest for borrowing horses, you must take good care of the horses. This is a tacit agreement between the caravans, otherwise no one will help you in the future.

Hua Kai also felt that it was useless to bring so many horses now. They only had 18 carriages and 36 horses were enough, so he agreed to his grandfather's suggestion. Except for 12 seriously injured horses with difficulty walking, the Hua family only kept 2 BMWs and 26 horses that Hua Kai valued. All other horses, including those with minor injuries, were borrowed.

In fact, many caravans took the Hua family's horses at this time just to establish a relationship with the Hua family. After these caravan crises, they have seen the strength of the Hua family. They said that borrowing horses is actually helping the Hua family. If Hua Kai hadn't stopped it, the 12 seriously injured horses might have been borrowed.

After a morning of rest, the Linzi City Caravan began to set sail for the western part of the Xiongnu Kingdom, while the Huhan tribe that the Guangxian Caravan went to was in the central part of the Xiongnu Kingdom, and they had to go all the way north after leaving the valley.

After lunch in the afternoon, the two major caravans in Linzi City could no longer be seen. The Han family caravan then raised the flag and drove the carriage northward. Hua Xing urged everyone to get on the carriage quickly. Now the 10 carts of the Hua family were full of horse meat. If they met a small tribe earlier and sold some, the Hua family could make more money.

The 10 carriages were loaded with 50,000 kilograms of horse meat. The Hua family caravan was still driving fast on the grassland. Everyone sincerely admired the shock-absorbing effect of the carriages. The shock-absorbing carriages were very different from those without shock-absorbing carriages. When the caravan stopped to rest at night, everyone finally saw a small tribe.

This small tribe was obviously very familiar with the caravan from the South. When they saw the Guangxian caravan, they sent a team of about 30 horsemen to negotiate. The Guangxian caravan camped outside this small tribe at night.

In the evening, a representative of a small tribe came to the caravan. They came to ask about the price of the caravan's goods, but the population of this small tribe was only more than 1,000 people, and they could only eat a small amount of ordinary goods. The caravans were too lazy to trade with them. When they arrived at the Huhan tribe, these goods could be sold quickly. For that little money, they were unwilling to unload their caravan goods.

The Hua family was very enthusiastic, and Hua Xing even personally introduced their own goods to the other party.

In the end, this tribe only bought hundreds of kilograms of coarse salt and dozens of pieces of coarse cloth. The Hua family only sold goods worth about 5 gold, but Hua Xing insisted on selling thousands of kilograms of horse meat.

"Do you buy animal bones? Our tribe has some animal bones and animal skins that can be traded with you." The representative of the small tribe said to Wei Baotou after selecting the goods to be bought.

Many tribes in the Xiongnu Kingdom speak local languages. Although they also speak mainland languages, they have heavy accents. Only a few people in the Hua family can understand what the other party is saying.

"As long as the animal bones are from intermediate or higher level wild beasts, the quality of the fur depends on the quality."

Wei Baotou knows more than ten languages ​​in the grassland, so this time he is responsible for negotiating with the other party.

Low-level wild beast bones can only be boiled into ten taels of silver and more than one hundred bone coins for every hundred kilograms of animal bones. A full cart of up to 4,000 kilograms is worth less than 4 gold. The transportation value is not great. Only intermediate and higher level wild beasts are the common currency of caravans in the grassland.

There are few trees in the grassland, and tribes that can boil animal bones are very rare, so small tribes usually collect animal bones and wait for caravans to come to trade with them.

"Ask them if they have spiritual medicines and strange stones, and we can also trade with them." Hua Kai said to Wei Baotou beside him.

What did Wei Baotou say to the other party? The representative of the small tribe just blushed and shook his head. If their tribe had spiritual medicines, they would have gone to the big tribe to exchange for supplies. It is also very difficult for small tribes to live in the grassland.

As the transaction was about to end, Hua Xing forced Wei Baotou to complete the transaction of 2,000 kilograms of horse meat with this small tribe, while they only got hundreds of kilograms of wild animal bones and more than 160 cow and sheep skins, which could be sold for more than 20 gold in Guangxian City, and the cost of the goods sold by the Hua family was less than 2 gold.

The next morning, they continued to set off. It was about 700 miles away from the Huhan tribe. They met some small tribes on the way, and the Hua family sold thousands of kilograms of horse meat. Today is May 18th, and it is about 6 days away from the Huhan tribe. According to the plan, the merchant group will arrive at the Huhan tribe 6 days ahead of schedule, which is good news for everyone.

The longer they stay in the Huhan tribe, the more things they can exchange. This year, it was mainly because the Guangxian merchant group was at the forefront of all the Qi merchant groups, and the Tian family in Linzi City led the way. There was no heavy rain blocking the road, so everyone was so successful.

Sitting in the carriage, Hua Kai watched the merchant group enter another small tribe. Now these small tribes have not aroused much interest for him.

These small tribes with a population of less than 2,000 people have the most cattle and sheep. The merchant group will definitely not transport cattle and sheep back after traveling so far. Most of their war horses are only a few hundred or a thousand, and most of them are poor or strong horses. They keep the good horses for the warriors of the tribe, so the general merchant caravans are rarely willing to stay here. Hua Xing happily sold 2,000 kilograms of horse meat. Now he only sells one kilogram of horse meat for 2 bone coins, which is much cheaper than mutton.