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Over two hours later, the Xia Province troops who had gone in pursuit finally trickled back.
Hong Chenglue had slipped away again. The man was slicker than an eel in oil. Still, He Chunhua had brought down another thirty to forty of Xun Province’s roving cavalry.
After subtracting the losses Hong Chenglue had taken in his raid on the camp, he now had barely over two hundred men left under his command.
After a night of rushing back and forth, either riding at full speed or leading men into battle, even He Chunhua no longer bothered to hide his exhaustion. He turned to He Lingchuan and asked, “How are the grain wagons?”
“Thirty-four were burned, but we managed to salvage quite a lot of grain. They’re sorting it now,” He Lingchuan reported. He had not been running around all night for nothing. “From some rough estimates, counting last night and tonight together, we’ve lost about a hundred thousand kilograms in total.”
The rock wolf Lu Xin had mauled a good number of Xun Province soldiers in the fighting, but the price was two arrows buried in its body and a gash on its right paw. At the moment, the medicine ape Ling Guang was wrapping it up in bandages.
He Chunhua let out a long, heavy breath. “Acceptable.”
There were still close to 650,000 kilograms left. He would not be showing...
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