Author notes: Thank you for reading. I don't own kingdom or any of the work.
Okay moving on. There will be no crazy historical accuracy, not really good with Chinese history more into the European. So I have done more then one warfare fantasy type such as this. But for this one I had to dumb down the realism of the battle, because we all know kingdom is filled with giant generals who can slaughter hundreds of people in one setting. And we also know that is completely false it is quite hard to kill one person with a sword let alone a dozen.
I might go into detail of the sword fighting. The reason being I spar and train with weapons and I love how one second can change the fate of winning to losing your bloody head. So enjoy the battle, and blood as the Shili unit goes across China. Drop a review if you so wish my friends.
Chapter one
Beginning
The screams, curses and war cries were thick in the air. The smell of shit, piss, guts and blood was thick as two forces clashed with one another. Men scrambled over their comrades corpses to get to the enemy just to be hacked to pits just like the person who went before them.
A Chu force of 5,000 was forcing a Qin army of 3,000 back as they slaughtered them. They had the upper hand with manpower as well as training. Many of the Qin's men were conscripts in this area only assigned to torment the Chu border.
"Move to the right flank," the commander of the Chu forces shouted, "we can't let them retreat to the hill in front of us and gain the advantage!"
"Sir," an officer said riding beside his commander, "the right flank just broke two-hundred cavalry is cutting our line in half."
"Make a gap between the lines and enclose them in a circle."
"Yes—,"
The soldier was cut off as an arrow struck him in the side of the head. He dropped from his horse without uttering a final sound.
The commander saw a unit of cavalry in a spear-formation crash through the last line of defense to his location. At the head of this unit was the face of a young man who had to be no more than sixteen. The commander couldn't guess his exact age, because of the helm that was on the young man's head.
The soldiers that surrounded him suddenly got all struck by arrows that the cavalry unit wielded. They used them so fluently that anyone would guess that they came from the steppes far above china. This however didn't discourage the 5,000 man commander. He drew his glaive and charged at the unit's commander.
He swung his glaive, the speed and strength of the blow sent the young man jerking back and off balance. However the steed under him kept him in place as he regained fast to counterstrike.
The commander went back for another strike only to see the point of the young man's sword thrusting up at his right eye socket. He moved to the left, the blade scrapped against his helm as it passed by.
He pulled his mount back regaining the distance between him and his opponent. He had the advantage of reach he couldn't allow the kid to get into close quarters fighting.
The soldier charged the commander who swung his glaive. The razor sharp blade tore through the air as it slashed at its opponent.
The kid parried the blow and went to slash at the commanders head.
The Chu commander raised the back of his glaive going to block the strike. However, before the blade met wood it stopped and stabbed straight through the throat of the Chu commander.
He looked in the young man's eyes with horror. How could someone like him take down a trained soldier of his caliber with a simple false strike and stab. He didn't have time to think about it as he fell into darkness.
Zisha Lia cut the commanders head off of his body and tied it to his horse. He was glad that he still drew breath. The commander he just fought had the strength of five men, with one good strike he would have lopped off Lia's head with one blow.
"Chien," Lia shouted, "draw up the men we are pushing straight out the front!"
"You got it," said a giant of a man, "you heard him let's go Shili Unit!"
The unit responded with a loud, "HOOAH!," before following their commander into the depths of the Chu ranks.
Thanks to the Shili unit the entire right flank of the Chu forces were in confusion. Without their commander and with an enemy ravaging inside of their ranks it was impossible to surround and swallow up the Qin forces. Due to this the Qin were granted breathing room to retreat to the hill behind them and set up a standing battle line.
Lia and the rest of his men busted out of the front ranks of the Chu and ran straight into their own lines. The Chu quickly buckled under, with no commander they fell back. The Qin let them go. They had no will left to fight a pointless slaughter.
Lia didn't bother even going back to the commander of the Qin forces he didn't like the guy. He was nothing to Lia but another soldier who loved to take whatever was in front of them, be it gold or women. Lia hated that way of thinking, he wished he had a chance to end the commander's life but it would send him to the afterlife before he could even raise his sword a second time.
The Shili unit met up with the rest of their comrades. Lia split them up into two groups one being commanded by his second in command Sin who took a hundred cavalry to strike the left flank of the Chu while he struck the right.
Sin was a mother to him. She taught him everything he knew about warfare. It was only natural that he would make her his second in command of the Shili unit. She was more than capable of commanding an entire unit on her own but she insisted on letting Lia keep command.
"We have orders to go to Shia," Sin stated as they watered their horses at a nearby stream.
"I don't like when we are on the defending side of a siege battle," Lia said bitterly.
"All Qin soldiers in the entire region are heading to Shia," Lau one of Lia's officers spoke up, "General Jung Gen has sixty-thousand soldiers marching to that city. We can't have it fall. If it does they have complete access to southern Qin."
Lia snorted. "Like I care that just means more warfare in this area. I really don't give a shit about the Qin, if they fall will just go back to Chu."
"That's a bit cold," Chien stated, "what about all those innocence civilians in Shia? You know that Gen is renowned for slaughtering and raping noncombatant."
"Just shows his men and he are just weak. Whoever attacks civilians for the hell of it aren't worthy of being called warriors."
"Don't you want his head?"
Lia glared at Sin. She knew exactly how he thought. One of the only reasons Lia fought on the battlefield was to show who was a true warrior and who wasn't, the ones he didn't think were true warriors deserved no mercy from him.
"You might have a point," Lia finally said, "I have been itching to take a generals head."
They were riding within the hour. As they headed to Shia other units traveled to the city as well. They spotted more than one on the road. Not one of them caught Lia's eye but for one unit. A unit that was commanded by an ex-slave, he was a commander that was part of the coup just a little while ago. Lia got information that he even saved the King's child, someone like that would likely draw quite a bit of attention.
The Hi Shin unit was something to look at. They had an aura about them that just spoke of skill and experience of the battlefield. Lia didn't have a doubt in his mind that he would enjoy seeing them on the battlefield.
Shin himself had an entire different feel about him. He didn't feel like a soldier, he had the aura of a general about him. When Lia spotted him he couldn't help but smile, he wanted so much to cross swords with someone like that.
Shili unit followed the Hi Shin unit to the city that they reached at nightfall. The city was fairly large a place. The governor was a military man called Jun Ao a man that had very strong experience in siege battle. Lia hopped that he was strong enough for this siege; they had half of the soldiers of the enemy and had no way for reinforcements to get to them for many weeks.
When they headed into the city Lia came face to face with Shin. They didn't speak but when Shin looked his way he gave Shin the best smile he could muster. The commander didn't really ichnology the smile and rode on.
"I hope you remember we're here to take Jung Gen's head not Shin's." Sin whispered to him as he kept his gaze on Shin as he rode away.
"Hard to decide," Lia replied, "this guy has something else about him. Let's go I want to set up camp to a close well."
