Elena Wei's Silent Vigil and Shadows Over the Border Chapter 277

After leaving the oasis, the army galloped all the way to the desert.

They encountered a sudden sandstorm during the march and the scouts were unable to find out the situation in time. After the wind stopped, they unexpectedly met the same group of barbarian soldiers coming from the north.

These barbarians were all tall, with high noses, deep eyes, and protruding foreheads. Their cheeks and arms were painted with strange totems, and their hair was tied into messy long braids with bones of various shapes tied to the ends of the braids, most of which were crushed deer and cattle bones, and a few of which looked like human finger bones.

There were five hundred barbarians in total, led by a middle-aged man wearing a leather robe and with red totems covering his face.

When they encountered the Han army, they had just intercepted two caravans that were taking shelter in a rocky valley. They wrapped the stolen silk around their bodies, killed all the camels, drank their blood, and ate their raw meat, looking increasingly hideous.