Homians 13. By Hardie, Hardiewh@aol.com The Barbarian soldiers are slaughtered by the Amazon girls. This story contains explicit sexual material and should be read by adults only. (So far...The Amazons have been invited by the Homian women to help defend Homia against an imminent Barbarian invasion. The women took several Barabarians prisoner and tried out their archery against the Barbarian protective shields used so effectively by the male soldiers. The arrows penetrated the shields up to a distance of about 90 yards. Princess Lida, the Amazon commander, also discovered a way of fighting men who used the shields in combat.) "That's good!" Princess Lida smiled with satisfaction as she watched her girl warriors train in their new tactics. Every Amazon girl was taught from an early age to use her weapons with either hand, in case one limb was hurt, and this was now paying off. She had divided her forces into two, one attacking, the other defending. The attackers had pieces of wood strapped to their left forearms to represent the Barbarian targes (small shields), while the defenders worked on Lida's tactics. Instead of taking on the attacker immediately in front of them, the defending girls struck at the attacker on her right. Because the shield were strapped to their left arms, the right side of the attackers' bodies were completely open, and, provided the girls' discipline held, made the targe carriers extremely vulnerable to a sword thrust from that side. So far, the discipline was holding. But would it hold in the heat of battle? The girls would soon find out! .................. ".I estimate about eight thousand of them. They should reach the river some time tomorrow, if they keep moving at their present pace." Lida thanked her scout leader and set her plans in motion. The Amazon army of two thousand girl warriors moved up to defend the river crossing. Another thousand Homian women, hastily trained in their role, and under Amazon commanders, moved into the hills and camped in a gorge about half a mile upstream from the ford. Here, hidden from the ford by the intervening hills, the women had built a dam which had allowed them to cross secretly into Barbarian territory without using the well-watched ford. The female warriors were ready. Now all they had to do was defeat a male army which outnumbered them by about four to one! "Good odds," said Lida, " encouraging her troops. They're only men!" .................... Lida watched the Barbarians pour out of the narrow valley which led to the ford across the wide river. She knew she could have defended the steep bank of the ford and stopped the invasion by so doing. However, it was never the Amazon way to merely win a battle against their male enemies. The Amazons had learnt from grim experience that the only way to prevent incessant attacks on their territory was to completely annihilate every male army which came against them. This was what Lida intended to do, but she knew she was taking a huge risk, and that the outcome of the ensuing battle would depend almost entirely on her own judgement. Instead of defending the Homian bank of the river, the female army was drawn up some eighty yards beyond the bank. They were inviting the men to do battle, and the Barbarian commander could hardly believe he was so lucky as to be attacking such a bunch of stupid women. The Barbarians formed into ranks of five hundred men per rank on the far bank of the river. They were going to cross on a wide front to face the female army. Gingerly, the first rank scrambled down the steep river bank and started to cross. The girls did not move. Other ranks followed. The first rank clambered up the steep bank on the Homian side of the river and formed up. Other ranks followed. Rank after rank of Barbarian warriors moved across the river. Carefully Lida counted the formations. When about half the male army was across, and the bulk of the other half was still in the river, the young Amazon Princess sprung her trap. The signal was sent via a relay of trumpeters. When it reached the ears of the women by the dam, a thousand arms pulled on the thick ropes which had been attached to the dam supports. The timbers strained, then fell, and the two million gallons of waters held at bay by the makeshift dam, gushed down the gorge in a maelstrom of tossing timber and surging waves. Half a mile downstream, the raging flood sprang from the narrow confines of the gorge. The men in the crowded river never stood a chance. One minute they were wading peacefully across a waist high ford, the next they were engulfed! Solid timbers, riding like manic surfboards on a tidal wave of surging water, smashed into the close packed ranks of the Barbarian warriors, mowing men down, smashing them beneath the surface, to be carried away by the furious flood. In less than a minute, over three thousand men were swept from the ford into the gorges below, never to be seen again. The Barbarians on either bank were astounded, and stood numb with shock. Lida couldn't believe her luck. Batar, the Barbarian leader had sent his swordsmen over first. His complete corps of archers was in mid stream when the flood struck. Every one of them was drowned. Not that Batar was in a position to worry, because he, and the rest of the Barbarian High Command was also carried away by the devastating deluge. Now the Amazon Princess unleashed her own archers on the demoralised male warriors. As usual, the archers occupied the front rank of the Amazon army. This time there was only one rank of five hundred archers. As the command rang out, five hundred arrows flew into the air. Even while they were still airborne, the girl archers fired again. And, as the first arrows plunged into the Barbarian ranks, yet another flight was released by the highly trained young women. Like a plague of locusts in a wheat field, the Amazons' arrows cut down the Barbarian men. Even those who managed to defend themselves with their targes died as the arrows tore through the shields and sank into male flesh. Each archer had twelve arrows, and, in less than five minutes, six thousand arrows plunged into the massed ranks of the male army. Over a thousand men died where they stood. Some, who could swim, tried to get back across the swollen river, others took cover behind dead companions, and most just stood in shock, waiting for orders that never came. Obadin, a veteran commander of a regiment of swordsmen, took command, sending runners along the Barbarian front, urging the surviving troops to form their ranks and face the enemy who were advancing towards them with grim purpose in every stride. Lida waited for the men to form up on purpose. Her girls were still vastly outnumbered, despite the carnage in the male ranks, and a free-for-all could end up in favour of the male army. But, when they formed up, behind their wall of shields, then they were just where she wanted them, provided the girls' discipline held. It did. As the front ranks of the armies met, the men raised their swords to strike down the frail looking females who opposed them. Then the girls struck. Slender female swords sank into the bodies of the men on their right - bodies made open targets by the raising of the males' sword arm and the angle from which the girls struck. The male soldiers went down in droves as the skilful young girls slaughtered them with calculated ferocity, and moved onto the second rank of men before the Barbarians knew what was happening. The bewildered male warriors simply had no answer to the Amazon tactics. Huge, muscular men were mercilessly cut down by the shapely young girl fighters. Massive male muscles counted for nothing against the disciplined assault of the slender, nubile girls. Man faced woman in combat, male strength against female skill, and the men were slain in their hundreds. Nimble, young, pre-teen Homian girls darted about the battlefield, collecting arrows and taking them to the Amazon archers. As soon as each archer had a few arrows, they moved forward. Princess Lida was informed. The trumpet sounded. The Amazon swordswomen disengaged from the Barbarians and retreated at speed for ten yards or so towards their own lines. There, they threw themselves down. The Barbarians momentarily thought they'd been reprieved. Then they stood in horror as they saw the line of five hundred female archers facing them with drawn bows at a range of about thirty yards. The girls couldn't miss. Arrows ripped through targes and sank into male bodies. The Barbarian ranks were decimated by the female archers. Men fell with arrows protruding from their barrel-like chests. Arrows fired by girls half their size, pretty girls in short tunics, showing beautifully tanned legs and curvaceous young female bodies to the massive men they slaughtered with calculated female ferocity. As the Amazon arrows once more ran out and the swordswomen advanced on them again, the remaining male soldiers gave up. One by one they threw down their weapons and begged for mercy from the victorious girl warriors. Triumphantly, the Amazons rounded up their defeated male adversaries, over a thousand survivors from the four thousand or so who had so confidently crossed the river. The rest had perished at the hands of the girl fighters of Amazonia. .................. On the far bank of the river, the remains of the once magnificent, all powerful Barbarian army watched in horror as they saw their comrades being massacred by the female fighters. This was the rear guard, the last rank of five hundred men, left behind to secure the ford when the male soldiers defeated the ridiculous women who were trying to stop them. Now, they could only watch with a mixture of frustration at not being able to fight, and relief at being spared the slaughter, while 'the ridiculous women' rounded up the surviving male warriors, and disarmed them. While they watched the humiliation of their comrades, the men of the rear guard were completely unaware of the danger they were in themselves. As soon as they had released the waters of the dam, the Homian women, led by experienced Amazon warriors, set off on their second assignment. Moving swiftly along a track which traversed the high rim of the gorge, then wound down through woodland to the valley below, the girls came out behind the Barbarian rear guard, cutting off their retreat. Once in position, an Amazon archer lit the cloth soaked in pitch which was attached to the end of her arrow, and sent it high into the air, streaming smoke as it went. The Amazon in Princess Lida's command group who's only duty was to watch for this signal, hurried to Lida with the news. Immediately, a dozen of the most voluptuous Amazons were sent to the river bank. There, the girls slowly and seductively started to peel off their accoutrements, then their tunics. As five hundred unsuspecting men strained to watch the performance of the sensuous young Amazons, a thousand Homian women moved silently up the valley. Then, when they were only a few yards from their victims, they let out an ear-piercing scream of feminine ferocity, and fell on the Barbarians from the rear. Taken completely by surprise, the men had no chance. Tough male warriors who had fought their way successfully through numerous battles against the best male fighters in the known world, were cut down and butchered by shapely young girls who had never been in combat before. The female fighters, armed with only long, thin bladed knives which were ideal for close combat, swarmed all over the unsuspecting men. Paralysed by the blood curdling female screams, bewildered and demoralised by the events of the battle, and lulled into a false sense of well being by the naked performers on the other bank of the river, the men put up little resistance. Magnificently muscled swordsmen, veterans of a dozen campaigns, were borne to the ground by sheer weight of numbers and straddled by their petite executioners. Knives flashed and men died. No quarter was given. Men who tried to surrender to the slender young female fighters were disdainfully despatched by girls who showed no mercy. Every man perished at the hands of the Homian girl guerrillas. The bodies of the once all-powerful Barbarian men lay scattered along the river bank, while the jubilant young girls who had slaughtered them yelled their excitement as they raised their arms in triumph. Lida smiled as she watched the action from the opposite bank. Once again the Amazon forces had defeated their male adversaries. Not a single male warrior had escaped. Every man who had marched against her had either been killed or captured. She would have liked to have killed the lot, but the Homian women needed slaves. And what better fate for a defeated male fighter than to become the slave of a woman! ................... "There are some magnificent specimens," said Myra, the Homian leader. The male captives, who had been brought back from the battle by Princess Lyda's Amazons, were being paraded naked in the Homian arena. Myra flicked the huge cock of a well endowed prisoner with her fly switch. "They're all yours, my dear," said Lida. "You will need slaves to cultivate your lands, while your women are trained to become fully competent warriors. Many of these men will be only too willing to become the slaves of women. The others ...well, we shall see. Come, let's carry out the selection process!" The two leaders watched as the men were put through the process. In batches of fifty, the defeated Barbarians were paraded in the arena. The mens' hands were tied behind their backs. Each prisoner had a female handler and a selector. The men were ordered to kneel and kiss the feet of their girl handlers. Reactions were noted. Those who went down quickly and evidently enjoyed their task were told to stand. If they had erections they were selected immediately. Those were the men who enjoyed being dominated by women. They would become willing slaves. The men who were more hesitant were immediately whipped by their handlers. Once again, erections betrayed desires. Those who enjoyed being punished by women were selected. The rest were forced to lie on their backs. Each man was straddled by an Amazon girl who held him by his cock. A second girl deftly tied a thin leather thong round the man's ball sac, pulling the thong as tight as she could. "These men are no use as slaves at the moment," explained Lida. "However, in a few weeks time their balls will simply rot away as they're denied the flow of blood by the thong. Then, you will have eunochs, and they will obey!" Myra shook her head in wonder. She and the Homian women had a hard task ahead of them if they were to govern their lands and defend them against male aggression. However, with the help of the girl soldiers of Amazonia, she was sure they'd eventually succeed! Lida watched, deep in thought. The Amazons had never sought to conquer other lands. All they'd ever wanted was to be left to live in peace in their own way. Now, without meaning to, they'd acquired sovereignty over another domain and added several thousand potential female warriors to their ranks. 'Perhaps,' she thought, 'it may be time to go on the offensive: time for women to become the aggressors: time for women to subjugate all men: time for women to rule the world!'