Chapter 82: The Crime of Gender 82
The barbarians who escaped from the tent were not safe because outside the tent stood Qin Shuangshuang, like an Asura descended upon the world, with her bow drawn and long knife unsheathed, waiting to harvest their heads.
The reason Qin Shuangshuang set the fire was to prevent the barbarians from taking up weapons. Now these barbarians, frightened by the fire, ran out barefoot and weaponless, falling right into Qin Shuangshuang’s trap.
Among the densely packed barbarians, Qin Shuangshuang swung her long knife in a circle, cutting down at least ten of them. Some barbarians, terrified by Qin Shuangshuang, tried to escape on horseback, only to find that their horses had already been set free by Qin Shuangshuang.
Although Hu Ma were very valuable, releasing them was equivalent to losing a significant amount of Silver, but to Qin Shuangshuang, Silver was far less important than killing these despicable barbarians!
This was a one-sided massacre; the unarmed barbarians were as powerless before Qin Shuangshuang as the defenseless Da Ran people once were before the barbarians. But the barbarians were somewhat Lucky, as Qin Shuangshuang would not torture them for amusement!
After the slaughter ended, Qin Shuangshuang counted the heads and found that Huyan Babur had underestimated the number of barbarians. There were at least two hundred and sixty when combined. Including the barbarians killed beforehand, this barbarian squad had nearly three hundred members!
After killing the barbarians, it should have been time to claim the spoils of war. Unfortunately, the Hu Ma had been set free, but the grain that the barbarians had looted from the Da Ran was still there. The horses used to pull the grain were not kept with the warhorses, so they had not been released by Qin Shuangshuang.
When Qin Shuangshuang started the fire earlier, her intention was only to force the barbarians out of the tents, so the fire was not large. Additionally, there was some distance between where the barbarians stored the grain and their lodging, so it was not affected.