Chapter 97 This Year’s Winter Hunt
"Just now I saw you hurrying along, is there some task at hand?" Mu Can recalled Nie Bufan’s previous marching and asked.
"The northern barbarians are attacking the Nanyuan Empire." Nie Bufan thought for a moment and said, although this news belonged to military secrets, it was nothing major.
Mu Can’s expression grew serious. In the northern part of the Nanyuan Empire was a vast grassland inhabited by a group of nomadic tribes, known as barbarians.
The barbarians were strong and good at fighting. Every adult barbarian possessed strength enough to contend with a Great Martial Master, and the priests among the barbarians were even more mysterious.
Every winter, the barbarians would launch a large-scale invasion into the Nanyuan Empire to seize resources for overwintering. This annual conflict was called ’winter hunt’ by the barbarians and ’winter resistance’ by the Nanyuan Empire.
"So early this year?" As a native of the Nanyuan Empire, Mu Can, of course, knew about this annual battle. The Empire would not only mobilize a vast army to resist the barbarian invasion, which served as the best opportunity for military training, but also many experts from within the Empire would volunteer to defend against the invasion on the front lines.
Nie Bufan nodded, "This year, there appeared a powerful leader among the barbarians who unified all the barbarian forces on the grassland, so even this year’s ’winter resistance’ has started early."
"Oh? No wonder the strongest Giant Statue Heavy Cavalry of the Empire needs to go there." Mu Can was now curious about that leader, who could unite the entire barbarians.
You see, the main reason why the Nanyuan Empire could prevent the barbarians from gaining the upper hand in the ’winter resistance’ each year was due to the disunity among the grassland barbarians. Now there appeared a leader who could unify the entire grassland, and it was uncertain how much loss the Nanyuan Empire would suffer in this year’s ’winter resistance’.