Young Writers Society

One day in the yuan dynasty the mongol patrol was walking back to their outpost just over the hill next to a Mongol controlled farming village, which grew food for soldiers posted there in exchange for the villagers own safety. Right when they got over the hill they saw some smoke rising from the village just at the bottom of the hill, so they decided to check it out and make sure there is nothing wrong. They asked some of the soldiers from the outpost to come with them so they can take care of whatever is there. They took a water buffalo so they could carry a good amount of wter incase there was a fire. When they got to the village they saw it was a just a fire on the dirt ground with nobody by it. They were very suspicious of the fire a couple of soldiers went to grab the buckets of water from the yoke on the water buffalo. All of the sudden they heard a loud scream coming from behind them. It was a group of rebels coming at them with daos. The mongol patrol screamed at one of their soldiers, who happened to be named Chow khan, to run to the outpost and ask for cannons to bombard the rebel soldiers. The other mongol soldiers went to hold back the rebels from getting to the blacksmith because that will have more weapons for the rebels to use. Kublai Khan (the mongol general) went to the nearby establishments and told the residents to hide and stay out of the streets. Then Kublai Khan went back outside with a fire lance, lit it, then threw it at a group of rebels. The firelance stuck into a rebel and exploded with metal shrapnel flying everywhere and hitting nearby rebels. They heard a loud !BOOM! and saw one of the houses next to the rebels splinter into little tiny wood pieces. Ching Xia( the rebel general) came out of his cover and rushed a mongol soldier, and the last thing that mongol soldier felt was the icy cold metal of Ching Xia’s blade slice through his chest. When he heard the cannon fire he knew they were firing their bronze cannons. He went back into cover to write a message on a slip of paper and ran to the back of the town to give it to one of his rebel soldiers to take back to their outpost. the note the mongol general Kublai Khan is here, requesting reinforcements. Kublai Khan saw Ching Xia slay one of his soldiers, so he called for one of his soldiers to go to the outpost and tell them that Ching Xia was there. Kublai ran at a rebel and dodged his swinging blade by jumping to the side the blade just missed his body but cut through his green caftan. Kublai swung his dao and caught him right in the neck. Back at the outpost they were making some fire lances for a group of reinforcements heading to support Kublai, first they put some metal in the bamboo shoot, Second they put the gunpowder in the bamboo shoot then they put a piece of paper in the top of the barrel to light it. Scouts in the outpost saw a group of rebel reinforcements coming over the hill so they redirected the cannon fire at the group of reinforcements. BOOM BOOM BOOM, where the group originally was there was just dust there now. Ching Xia hopped out of cover , drew his sword, and rushed kublai khan but Kublai Khan dodged the blade and turned around and attempted to strike Ching but Ching blocked it. Some mongol reinforcements (including Chow Khan) had just turned the the corner in time because they saw Kublai get kicked down by Ching so Chow Khan grabbed a firelance and threw it as hard as he could ,BOOM, he had hit Ching. The mongol soldiers ran to Kublai to make sure he was ok but while one was running to Kublai Ching's sword came down from the explosion and went straight through one of the soldier's head. After the attack the farmhouse that got destroyed by the cannon fire was repaired, and the the village went back to farming.