Adventures of a young warrior

I don't own DW/ROTK or its characters

A/N thanks for the reviews they meant a lot, I am bringing in another OC character, and also so you know I plan to at least somewhat go by the ROTK time line, meaning things like the Bei, Jian, and Cao, won't be around when say J.Wei is alive.

Lu Tan rode sat high upon his horse and looked over what he was sure was a battle, and in that battle was the Turbans that had burned the town where he had been found by the Wu forces. He had heard about three weeks before that Zhang Jiao had died of illness, and since then most of the battles had been going totally for the Han forces. Also from the reports he heard during the officer meeting, the Turbans they were fighting were already had lost a battle to the Han forces aided by some volunteer forces, under the command of some peasant. Now the Turbans were isolated in the a old walled town, and it was pretty much assumed that they wouldn't give up without a fight, and from what he could tell, they weren't.

Tan thought back to the two months that had come before, and all the preparations, and the work that he had to do as a member of the army, and all the learn he had to pull of as well. He almost laughed to himself thinking how much he didn't know about really everything. He did understand military movement, he did understand formations, he did understated logistics at all.

He was lucky there though, as a second in command of a unit he was put with a old veteran warrior named Zi Xan, he had been a warrior on the southern border fighting barbarians for around 10 years of his life, then he moved back to his families traditions lands. It is at this time he became a friend to Jian's father, and also helped Jian when he could. So when Jian went off to fight against the Turbans, he was the first person to help. Now Xan was an older man in his late 50's, he had a short hair cut, and finely trimmed beard, he was a man who if you looked at once, would know was a veteran of war. His face looked like that of a highly determined man who had seen much, and oddly he was not that big, but as he put it, the strongest is not always the winner.

Tan also found out that Xei was his daughter, and when he came into camp, Cheng Pu had asked her to take care of him, and this was way he did wake up in the medical tent. Xan helped train Tan in the areas of military strategy as well as the areas of hand to hand combat, which Tan had yet to even get close to beating the older warrior. That being said he was much better then he was when he had started. Xan had given him a second shorter sword which he could use in tandem with his other sword. He was still learning the style, but he could already tell the benefits of it.

Tan was awoken from his thoughts by the loud sound of the gong that was back at the camp, which meant that he had to return and finish the last preparations for the battle. Tan turned his horse around and rode back wondering how this battle his first real one would work out. Ridding into camp he could see the units gathering themselves waiting for their leaders to move out, the only one of thee tents left standing was the main one which was between the large groups of men. Tan rode up to the tent and got off his horse and tied him up before walking into the tent. When he was inside we could see the other officers sitting around waiting for the battle plan. Tan quickly took his spot next to Xan.

"Well kid, you want to look at the battlefield didn't you, worried about it any," Xan said with a small smirk.

"Well sir, yes, a bit, I mean have not been in one of these battles before," Tan replied in a small voice so none others would hear.

"Well, don't worry this army we are about to fight, is not ready for battle, I could not think of a battle that would be better for a first one," Xan replied with a laugh.

Tan was going to say something else, but at that moment Jian walked into the room with a confident look in his eyes. "Men this battle is going to be simple, the enemy is in that town and they are being attacked from two sides, it seems that the normal Han forces or that peasant volunteer forces actually came up with a good plan for this one. What will happen is, they enemy being hit from two sides will run, now this is where we come in, I think this this the only direction they can run if they get past the normal forces, and that is when we will finish off these rebels. That is all men, I have faith that you will do what you need to do, dismissed."

With the last words the officers all cleared out of the tent and began to walk and Tan began to walk to his unit, thinking still of the battle to come. He felt a hand grab his arm.

"Hey kid, you may be brave, and all, and this may be a weak enemy, but still I think you may um need your armor," Xan said shaking his head at his young second in command.

"Oh yeah, wow, I just so nervous, and well excited," Tan said walking before he remember that he forgot where his armor was.

"Xei has it, go get it put on, and I mean now, and I will forget that you told me you forgot it understood," Xan said in a almost fatherly way.

Tan did wait a second before quickly and quietly made his way to one of the other tent where he saw that Xei was already waiting for him. "It sure took you long enough to remember that you forgot your armor, you can be so dense sometimes. Come here I am sure you have no idea how to put this on."

"Thank you, it would be a big help," Xan said with a weak smile on his face."

She handed him the legs plates which he tied on as fast as he could then the arm armor which also put in, and then she gave him the chest armor which he could just find away to get it into the right place. So she walked over hand helped him adjusting it into the right place, his face almost went all red when she got so close to him, and he felt even a bit more nervous then before.

"Well there, I knew you would be able to put it all on, now get going, and be careful out there," she said slapping him on the back.

A bit later he was back to his unit, looking at Xan who had a evil little smirk on his face.

"Nothing better of happened between you and my daughter got it," he said still with that grin.

"Um nothing did, nothing at all, I promise," when he said it, it didn't look like he, or any of the men believed him at all, but it was true.

"Alright, men time to move out," Xan ordered out.

"Your really something else, Tan, I mean it," a tall warrior said almost laughing to himself as he went by.

Tan had to refocus himself, he could be thinking anything but battle, and he soon regained his control. "Well it is time, isn't it."

"Yeah, sure is, I can smell the battle already," Xan said as he and tan began to follow the infantry unit on foot as well.

They fell into line with the other units with in a couple of seconds, and they were on there way to . When they were in sight of the town he saw the mass of panicked men running right at them, looking as insane has he had feared. He took a took at good gulp to let go of his fear, and put his hand on his sword. He looked at the way which they were running at them, it was totally unorganized, and they looked to be in chaos. At the moment he measured the speed of the warriors and the best way to act the group, he put his other hand on his smaller sword. He charged forward believing he found the solution to the right attack. He cut down one warrior by a slash from his right then blocked a slash with his small sword and then cut him down with his his other sword. He then cut backwards and then charged at a third and forth victim who were both unprepared. He the noticed a fifth warrior charge at him and side stepped his attack and killed him, he then turned in 90 degrees and blocked another sword attack with his small sword, breaking a long wooden spear, and went for a killing blow before he saw the fear on the young boy's face and just knocked him out. When he turned back around he could see his men had advanced the line past him, and the turbans were giving up.

"Now I see why Pu, wanted you as a officer, that was good, really good, but don't think you will pass me up any time soon."

It turned out that after a brief fight the turbans all gave up, and as it was to be the last great battle of the rebellion.