Cut off my army's food supplies? I'll open a portal between the two worlds and max out my

Li Wen was not in a hurry.

According to observations by Anxi scouts using drones, the army led by the Cangying tribe was still thirty miles away from Anxi Town.

After their failed pursuit of White Wolf and his men, they quickly regrouped.

The herdsmen's most proficient fighting method is mounted archery.

This is also one of the advantages of cavalry warfare.

However, their equipment was rudimentary in the past, and the bows and arrows they carried were of poor quality, passed down through countless generations or captured from other sources.

It's different now.

The equipment of more than a thousand people was replaced with brand-new, standard weapons.

The herdsmen clearly did not have the capability to manufacture such a weapon.

Moreover, there were more than two hundred people wearing leather armor behind the army. Judging from their appearance, they did not belong to the herdsmen and should be knights from the Kingdom of Kucha.

Li Wen listened to the report through his earpiece and already understood the outcome of the battle.

Before the Kingdom of Kucha took the initiative to contact the Azure Eagle Herdsmen, Li Wen had already made similar preparations in his heart.

Because greed is in the nature of these barbarian tribes, those like Black Stone White Wolf who can see the reality are actually a minority.

Their actions this time are a good thing for Anxi Town.

After the battle, it can serve as a good example to deter others.

Things will be much quieter in the Kingdom of Kucha for a while. But once this period is over, it's hard to say who will cause trouble for whom.

"Soon."

The white wolf standing behind Li Wen suddenly heard Li Wen say this.

Soon? What's soon?

White Wolf looked at Li Wen in confusion. As he hesitated whether to ask, he suddenly saw dust rising from the Gobi Desert to the northeast.

White Wolf immediately recognized that the dust was kicked up by a large number of cavalry. At that moment, White Wolf felt a surge of fear. He looked at Li Wen in disbelief, then at the distance.

White Wolf recalled a legend from the Gobi Desert: in the legend, the God could see all things in the world! Could it be that this general was truly a messenger of the God?

Thinking back to the talking stone he had seen before, White Wolf became increasingly convinced that this was a real possibility.

I was incredibly glad I made that choice... That damned Black Stone must have known about this all along. That guy was secretly following the Heavenly Messenger without telling me!

White Wolf began to complain about Black Stone in his heart.

The dust cloud in the distance grew thicker and thicker, and if you pressed your ear to the ground, you could hear the vibrations of horses galloping wildly.

The two hundred Anxi soldiers at the front obeyed their squad leader's orders, and each of them equipped themselves with crossbows.

Each person carried a quiver filled with dozens of crossbow bolts.

The technology of modern composite crossbows allows them to reload quickly after firing an arrow. Two hundred men can be divided into three attack squads to fire in batches, enabling them to achieve brief coverage fire.

That's enough to deal with a thousand people.

If the enemy has more than two thousand men, then Li Wen's prepared tactics will have to change.

"Everyone get ready. When the enemy is within 200 meters, one squad will fire first."

As the smoke and dust approached, the Anxi soldiers who were lying in ambush in the poplar forest took the initiative to come out of their bunkers.

They hid there, afraid to come out for fear of being discovered by the enemy first.

The enemy is now within 300 meters.

"Three hundred meters!"

"Two hundred and fifty meters!"

At this moment, the white wolf on the tower no longer wondered why the Anxi army had taken the initiative to leave their shelters; he believed that the messenger of the gods must have made a reason for this arrangement.

Just clear your mind and feel the awe brought by the divine messenger.

"Two hundred meters! One small team fires!"

"Squadron one, firing complete!"

"Second squad, fire! First squad, begin loading."

"Second squad, firing complete..."

Under Li Wen's training, the Anxi army is now able to quickly implement this modern tactical coordination.

The main reason is that in the soldiers' eyes, their general is like a god descended from heaven.

They had seen too many amazing things and were numb with awe, so they chose the simplest method.

They simply do whatever the general says without hesitation.

It doesn't matter if they don't understand; in their own view, it's normal for them not to understand the general's arrangements.

After all, how can mortals comprehend the divine calculations of immortals?

It was this mindset that allowed the Anxi Army to better integrate modern elements.

"Whoosh!"

This specially designed composite crossbow achieves maximum power through assembly.

The lethality at 200 meters is terrifying, not to mention the assistance of an optical sight.

"ah!!!"

"Huh..."

Most of the herdsman cavalry were shot through the heart immediately, and had no chance to struggle before falling to the ground and being mercilessly trampled by the horses that followed.

A few unlucky ones were shot through the limbs and pinned to the ground, howling in agony, before being mercilessly trampled by the horses that followed.

"Enemy attack!!!"

"Arrows! Watch out for arrows!!!"

The cavalry commander took out his small leather shield and held it in front of him, crouching low.

However, their defensive methods were designed to counter the archery techniques of the past, as archery designs typically utilize downward-firing to cover the enemy.

Modern crossbows are not like that.

Their crossbow bolts were incredibly accurate, especially since the herdsmen's alliance made a very foolish decision after being ambushed: they stopped to try and retaliate.

This made them even more of a target.

Previously, Anxi soldiers had to calculate lead time when firing, but now the enemy can stand still and let them shoot.

The herdsman alliance also made an empirical error.

They believed that there would be gaps in the continuous firing of arrows, and they wanted to take advantage of these gaps to shoot back, because these herdsmen knights who had grown up with horses were quite confident in their archery skills.

As a result, they were bombarded with countless crossbow bolts.

Whoosh whoosh!

The sound of crossbow bolts filled the air.

The sound was as terrifying as the Grim Reaper's scythe swinging in your ear; a moment of bad luck could mean being taken away by an arrow.

The Anxi soldiers executed their tactics very well. Unless the captain told them to stop, they continued to fire, reload, and fire in sequence.

Only after the crossbow bolts in the quiver were reduced to half did Li Wen order a halt to firing.

The report from the drone reconnaissance unit indicated that the enemy had suffered over 70% casualties, with the remaining men hiding behind horses.

Another reason why the herdsmen's alliance was shot so badly was that drones were constantly reporting enemy positions.

Li Wen considered these horses as recyclable resources and did not want to harm them. In addition, the enemy had lost its fighting ability without even touching the Anxi army. Therefore, Li Wen issued an order to capture the prisoners.

"Listen up, everyone! Lay down your weapons and you'll live! Anyone who disobeys will be executed immediately!"

A drone in the sky, carrying a microphone, repeated the sentence.

The sound from the sky became the final straw that broke the camel's back for the herdsmen knights, who were so frightened that they prostrated themselves and cried out in surrender.

"Let's go take a look."

As Li Wen spoke, the white wolf behind him couldn't close its mouth in astonishment.