Chapter 128

  As they spoke, Tang Yin's palm ignited with black flames. The barbarian general didn't even have time to react before he was engulfed by the dark fire and reduced to nothing but a wisp of spiritual mist drifting in the air.

  Tang Yin raised his head, opened his mouth wide, and the spiritual mist entered his body through his nose and mouth without a single leak.

  In an instant, the spiritual armor on his body seemed to be infused with life, and all the cracks quickly grew and merged, finally becoming perfect again. Seeing this, the surrounding barbarian soldiers retreated even faster.

  Actually, the Tang Yin from just now was only a last resort of a strong crossbow, it can be said that he was in a state of utter chaos. The damage caused by Feng to him was unprecedented, and his ability to stand up and fight was entirely due to his superhuman willpower and desire for survival. He knew very well that if he fell to the ground, the surrounding barbarian soldiers would quickly tear him apart. Fortunately, his bluff had an effect, intimidating many of the barbarian soldiers, allowing him to smoothly suck away the barbarian general's vitality and recover his own life force.

  Of course, a single barbarian general was not enough to fully recover from the injuries he had received, and he needed more spiritual energy. At this time, the surrounding barbarian soldiers were no longer a threat to him, but food, energy, and things that could fill his emptiness.

  Tang Yin would not show mercy because of their previous retreat, his eyes gleaming with greedy and cold glint, like a wolf seeing a lamb, he charged towards the barbarian army with his sword, the dark fire was used to the extreme by him, not only was the blade attached with flames, even his spiritual armor began to burn with black fire, making him surrounded by the dark fire.

  He walked through the crowd, and the barbarian soldiers around him were affected by the dark fire. None of them escaped, their faces starting to burn first, then the black flames spreading throughout their bodies. The cries of agony filled the air as wisps of spirit mist rose from the crowd, condensed in mid-air, and finally re-entered his body.

  Tang Yin could no longer remember how many people he had devoured, his mind only left with a burning thought, the knife in his hand was burning, and he himself was also burning, as if to incinerate all life in the world.

  When he came to his senses, there was not a single barbarian soldier in the center of the town. There were only helmets and weapons scattered all over the ground.

  Ah! Tang Yin slowly let out a breath, under his armor, his whole body was covered in sweat, soaking through his clothes. Just as he thought of sitting down to catch his breath, he suddenly heard a noise coming from the row of houses on his left side. Tang Yin's nerves, which had just relaxed, immediately tensed up again. He took a deep breath, grasped his scythe, and walked towards the row of houses.

  When he reached the door, Tang Yin kicked it open with one foot and rushed into the house.

  The house was empty, except for the long mats on the floor. At this time, there were over a hundred barbarians dressed in plain clothes huddled at the inner end of the house, including men and women, old and young. They should be workers, merchants or family members of the barbarian soldiers in the Beast King Town.

  Tang Yin suddenly came in, causing a burst of screams from the crowd. People gathered together, shrinking into a ball, with pair after pair of terrified eyes staring at him.

  He stared blankly for a moment, then tilted his head and smiled, asking: "What kind of people are you?" He had just learned the Besa language and wasn't very proficient in it, and his tone was also quite strange.

  "We... we are civilians, not soldiers. We have never been to the Wind Country and have never killed anyone from the Wind Country..." A young barbarian explained hastily.

  Tang Yin was already unfamiliar with the Besa language, and the other party spoke quickly. Due to tension, his tone also changed. Tang Yin listened without understanding, and coldly said: "Shut up!"

  His tone was icy cold, and the young man became even more tense, stuttering and explaining non-stop.

  His clamor annoyed Tang Yin, who suddenly raised his hand and swung a sickle.

  Plop!

  This knife, stabbed right into the young man's temple, the tip of the knife entered from the left and came out from the right, directly piercing the young man's brain. With one slash, the young man's voice stopped abruptly, and the room finally became quiet. Tang Yin let out a comfortable sigh and withdrew his knife.

  Thud! The corpse fell straight down, splashing fresh blood and brain matter all over the faces and bodies of the surrounding crowd. The silence inside the house lasted only for a few seconds before screams erupted, people went mad with frantic wailing, shouting, and pleading...

  Tang Yin tilted his head, and the killing intent that had not yet dissipated on the battlefield rose again. He raised his arm, and with a fierce swing, he sent out a wave of spiritual energy, followed by a chorus of mournful cries.

  Ordinary civilians can't withstand the killing of spiritual waves. Tang Yin only released three spiritual waves, and there was no sound in the room. The broken corpses, severed limbs scattered all over the floor, and fresh blood stained the walls and ground dark red.

  Taking a glance around and confirming there was no one alive, Tang Yin's mouth twitched slightly as he casually flung down his scythe and turned to walk away.

  Tang Yin was born with a bloodthirsty nature, and in his eyes, the civilians of Besa and the barbarian soldiers were no different, all being enemies of his own.

  As he walked out of the house, a cavalry team rushed towards him. Tang Yin was about to raise his knife to fight back, but when he took a closer look, it turned out that they were their own soldiers. The leader was none other than Shangguan Yuanwu, one of his bodyguards.

  "General, I didn't know you were here!" Shang Guan Yuwu rode his horse to Tang Yin's side, then dismounted and examined him anxiously. Seeing that he was covered in blood but his armor was intact, he breathed a sigh of relief and exclaimed: "General, the barbarian troops inside the town have been defeated by us! Except for a small number who escaped, most of them were killed by our swords, and some were captured!"

  As he spoke, he was also sizing up the surroundings, looking at the scattered weapons and armor, clothes, and his heart secretly cursed. Having followed Tang Yin for so long, he didn't need to ask to know that these were all left behind by the barbarian soldiers who had been killed by the Dark Fire. So many weapons and armor, it was unknown how many people Tang Yin had killed here. His eyes glanced at the house behind Tang Yin again, seeing the bloody and blurry corpses wearing civilian clothes on the ground, he was shocked and asked: "Sir, who are they..."

  "Barbarians! Civilians of a barbarian state." Tang Yin said in a cold tone, "Barbarians are also enemies, kill them all without pardon!"

  "Sir, if we kill them, it would be a waste. Why not take them back to Heng City instead?"

  Tang Yan furrowed his brow and asked in return, "What's the use of bringing them back?"

  "We can sell them as slaves!" Shang Guan Yuanwu said: "The barbarian soldiers capture our people and make them slaves, we should also capture their people and make them slaves. The barbarians are strong and rare, selling them will definitely fetch a good price!"

  After hearing Shang Guan Yuanwu's words, Tang Yin stomped his foot and secretly blamed himself for being too impulsive. Why hadn't he thought of this before? If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have killed those people. He nodded and said: "Let's do it your way, take all the barbarians back to Heng City, and deal with the barbarian prisoners on the spot!"

  "Yes! Sir!" Shangguan Yuanwu responded with a loud voice and called over several soldiers to have them pass down Tang Yin's orders.

  Tang Yin's one sentence decided the life and death of hundreds of captured barbarian soldiers.

  Upon receiving Tang Yin's order, the Wind Troops dragged the captured barbarian soldiers to the empty space in the center of the town. First, they were beaten to their knees, and then the Wind Troops drew out their sabers and mercilessly chopped off the barbarian soldiers' heads.

  In an instant, the town of Beast King was filled with rivers of blood and corpses scattered all over, just like a human hell.

  There is also Feng Jun in charge of loading the barbarian soldiers' heads, and the barbarian soldiers' brains are also useful. They can be transported back to Yanjing to report their merits to Wang Ting, and at the same time show that Tang Yin, this county guard, has brilliant military achievements.

  The battle in front of and behind the Beast King Town lasted only half a time, and three thousand barbarian soldiers were caught off guard without any defense. The main general was killed by Tang Yin, and except for more than 500 barbarian soldiers who escaped, the rest were all killed in the town.

  The Feng Jun side also had more than 400 casualties in the battle, but this loss was much smaller compared to that of the barbarian army.

  While Tang Yin was inspecting the battlefield, Cheng Jin and others who stayed outside the city to block and kill the barbarian soldiers returned. These dozen or so Dark Arrow members were all covered in blood, apparently also reaping a rich harvest outside the city.

  Seeing Tang Yan, Cheng Jin stepped forward and saluted, saying in a serious tone: "Sir, the hidden arrows have killed over 200 barbarian soldiers who escaped to the outskirts of the town. More than 300 others fled northwest. Sir, do we need to pursue them?"

  Tang Yin heard this and smiled leisurely, the barbarian soldiers were indeed fleeing northwest. Fortunately, he had made arrangements earlier, and Xiao Muzheng's thousand cavalry was enough to finish off these three hundred fugitive soldiers.

  He nodded and said: "No need to chase anymore, General Cheng has worked hard!"

  "How polite you are!"

  The victorious Feng Jun army searched tirelessly throughout the town for the barbarian army's supplies, and soon found several military warehouses in Shouwang Town. The stored materials were diverse, including large quantities of barbarian armor and weapons, as well as cloud ladders, thunder cars and other siege equipment. There were also huge amounts of grain and fodder, as well as silver and copper coins from the Besa city-state.

  So many spoils of war, Tang Yin was overjoyed, he immediately ordered the helmets, weapons, grain, silver coins and copper coins in the barbarian army's arsenal to be packed up and taken away, as for the cloud ladders and thunderbolt carts, they were burned on the spot.

  The armor of the barbarian soldiers was made of crude iron, rough and heavy. Although the Wind Army couldn't wear it, they could use it to refine steel and make weapons. As for silver and copper coins, although they weren't in circulation in the Wind Country, silver is still silver and copper is still copper. After melting them down, they could still be made into silver ingots and copper coins of the Wind Country.

  The amount of military supplies stored in Beast King Town was much more than Tang Yin had expected. Even if they loaded up all the horses, it's estimated that 8,000 horses wouldn't be enough to carry everything. Tang Yin could only order them to discard the heavy items like grain and armor. Looking at the bags of food scattered all over the ground, Tang Yin felt a pang in his heart. If he had known earlier, he would have brought 500 fewer brothers and 500 more empty horses instead.

  The barbarian army's supplies had already exhausted the warhorses, and as for the several hundred Besa civilians captured in Beast King Town, they couldn't even be taken away.

  Tang Yin was very decisive and directly ordered the execution of all.

  The soldiers were too lazy to go and kill them one by one, so they locked all the civilians in the armory, piled up straw outside, poured on oil, and set it on fire.

  The Feng army led by Tang Yin was even more terrifying than the barbarian soldiers, not only killing everyone and looting everything, but also burning down cities and towns, leaving nothing behind. The large city of Zhen Wang was engulfed in a sea of flames in an instant.