Chapter 90 Banquet
When the time comes, heaven and earth shall join forces, it seems today is the day Zhongshan Gong meets his end.
Not only were the tribute sentries and guards within the camp distracted by Qiao Fa’s loud singing, allowing the four to sneak in through the last five-mile passageway,
but also Tie Dan and his companions encountered four miscellaneous soldiers squatting outside the camp, defecating in the grass...
As the sword light flashed, four heads rolled off their necks, falling with thuds into the cesspool.
The four quickly stripped the bodies, changing into their military armor, and threw the corpses into the trench latrine. They smeared their faces with mud, poured horse urine over themselves, and filthy and stinking, marched confidently into the military camp.
It wasn’t difficult to disguise themselves as Kan soldiers; after all, the Kan army wasn’t as distinct as the Gen Kingdom’s Royal Army, which was clear with flags and had uniform military attire.
Kan country was impoverished and cold, and most of their military equipment had to be imported. Most of the armor was a family heirloom from the Emperor Wu era, left by the old Cavalry Army, while the undergarments were mainly fur and felt of various animals, lacking any uniform standard. In fact, at first glance, seeing these dirty, bandit-like soldiers with patchy fur, one would immediately recognize them as Kan soldiers.
If one must differentiate between Kan’s army and bandits, it would probably depend on which side had a higher rate of wearing armor.
After all, elite soldiers like Ao Bing were armored from head to toe like iron towers, with faces concealed behind iron plates, masks, and helmets. In contrast, Kan country lacked iron, and ordinary soldiers merely had armor on their chest and limbs, and having a helmet was already considered fortunate.
Yet, given the Kan’s army consisted of miscellaneous captives from various tribes, exiled prisoners from all over the world, and even demons and monsters with huge differences in build, everyone cobbled together armor from the arsenal and battlefield, with no one caring how you look.