Chapter 510: A Trip to the Imperial Capital
Everyone who watched the battle only saw a black shadow flying out, and they all mistook it for Long Leiyan who was knocked away by a galloping horse. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 After seeing it clearly, I found that both of them were gone, and only one horse was left lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth and not surviving.
The people searched everywhere, only to find the general and the elder on top of the city. The two walked slowly on the city like friends for many years swimming together. Attentive people will notice that the smile on General Curis's face is like a flattery. No one knows how the two got on the city wall, and what they said on it, but after the two came down from the city wall, Mr. Long became a distinguished guest in the general's mansion, and a group of his entourage was also placed in the only school field in the city, training desperately every day.
Soon after, the warriors of the Northwest Province were selected, and Mr. Long, a small tribe from the Northwest Frontier Sand Ridge, became the champion of the sub-competition, representing the Northwest Province to the imperial capital to participate in the finals.
The more than 20 young men of the Sand Ridge tribe were released and returned home, and when they left, they took a few pieces of letter paper given by the Elder Fire Dragon, and they were to hand them over to Elder Battle when they returned.
When Long Leiyan and his party of more than 300 people set off again, they had all mounted tall horses, like a majestic army.
Don't ask if these horses are the general's sycophants. During the two days in the main city, the Governor, even the father of the gentleman, also came to visit him personally, but Long Dashao did not bird him.
From the Northwest Province to the imperial capital, to cross a huge desert, legend has it that there are countless bandits and robbers in the desert, in addition to many terrifying animals, the most terrible thing is that the climate is dry and there is no drop of precipitation all year round,
The caravan must remain calm and ruthless when crossing such a battered desert, otherwise one careless person may be wiped out. On the road, everyone was cautious, for fear that the robbers would rob them of their silver and goods.
The wind rises, the sand and dust rise, and the desert Gobi yellow sand dances wildly. The wind stopped, the sand and dust fell, and a team of camel carts traveling westward appeared in the dead grass of the wilderness.
The tall horses are as black as ink, the majestic camels are white like clouds, the silver armor and red tassels are guarded by knights, the light gauze curtain is covered, and the gold dot emerald inlay body is extremely luxurious, among which there is a pink curtain chariot driven by eight fiery red horses, which is even more elegant and luxurious to the extreme. Such a team of vehicles was supposed to walk on the white marble streets of the imperial capital, but the contrast with the desolate desert was extremely incongruous.
Not far away, in the grass of the knoll, a hideous face leaked out, this face was full of wrinkles carved by the wind and sand, and one eye with a brown leather blindfold, this man looked at it for a moment and said, "Second master! This! This is the fucking royal convoy, right?"
A deep voice came from a cluster of sage grass next to him and replied: "Look at the badge on the front of the car, well, it should belong to the royal family of the Oriental Aoki Kingdom!"
"What about more than 300 guards, where, let's do it?"
A sneer came, and the woman dressed in sackcloth and leather armor said: "Don't you dare, second and third? If you don't go to the old lady and take people down, such fat meat is not available every day! Three hundred guards are afraid of a bird, and our thousands of men and horses are three hundred iron men who have also stepped on him!"
"Who doesn't dare, who is raised by the stepmother!" "The one-eyed monster shouted: "Fourth, don't rob me, it's a waste for a woman to fall into your hands!"
A sudden voice came out in the bushes next to him: "Second brother, third brother and fourth sister, let's rush straight up and lose in every ten cases, it's better to ...... like this."
Da Da Da, Da, crisp horse hooves came from a distance, 19 horses actually had the momentum of thousands of horses, like wolves and tigers galloping like smoke, and came to the middle of the convoy in an instant, and the brushes stopped, and the movements were neat and one. The leader rode to the front of the chariot and turned over and dismounted, flicked his robe and knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "Your Royal Highness Princess, there is an oasis eight miles ahead, and you can camp at night!"
"General Tiger Ben has worked hard!" "The elegant and calm girl's voice with a hint of greenness added a bit of spring to the wilderness through the pink gauze tent, "General, how far is the holy land of the Wolf Clan outside the Saiwai?"
General Huben was shocked when he heard this, it was a great honor for a soldier to be able to escort Her Royal Highness the Imperial Princess to the Jedi, although it was only a sentence of hard work, it was a supreme honor for him, "Your Highness, my subordinates have heard from a few shepherds that fifteen miles away is the Holy Mountain, but!"
"But what?" asked the princess anxiously.
"Within ten miles around the holy mountain is the forbidden land of the wolf clan, and the wolf kings of the past dynasties have set up a monument, and the book is written 'so far, the offender will be killed'" General Hu Ben had just spoken, and suddenly there was a burst of arrows in the sky, and the general suddenly got up and got on his horse and looked behind. I saw that people and horses were constantly rushing out of the sand dunes, grasses, and ravines in the distance, and they were overwhelming and overwhelming, and I couldn't tell how many people and horses there were.
The general raised his gun in his hand and shouted: "Enemy attack! Get on your horse, carry the dragon scroll team to resist the enemy, the Eagle Yang team will move forward to sneak attack the enemy's flank, and the flower team will escort the princess to the west!"
A military order was heard everywhere, and the brigade of chariots and horses hurried forward. The back army of less than 100 people is just like thousands of tigers coming down the mountain to meet the enemy, the horses neighing like dragons, and the people roaring like tigers.
The Beiwei squad consisted of less than 100 people, with bright silver armor and steel short knives in hand, forming a formation on the spot, like a wall made of stainless steel, blocking the westward road.
The dark cloud formed by the horse thief gradually approached, and suddenly "Shoot the arrow!" the Mai woman shouted.
Falling like rain, covering the sky and the sun, 'whoosh' countless sharp arrows fell to the position of the back team, "Dismount! Stand up for the shield!" The captain shouted wildly, and dozens of shields instantly appeared in front of the formation. The rain of arrows covered the sky and the sun, and through the gaps in the shield, blood splashed for a while, and there were bursts of muffled humming.
After each round of arrow rain, several brothers fell around him, and the squad leader's heart was like a knife, and he hit the shield with a knife in one hand and shouted: "The sky can fall, the ground can fall!"
The Beiwei squad roared in unison: "The sky can collapse, the ground can fall, the back is here, the formation cannot be broken!" The soldiers roared like muffled thunder, the sound of swords and shields striking each other shook the sky, and the impermeable rain of arrows seemed to be diluted by this roar.
In an instant, the two sides were in close proximity, and the Beiwei squad was the elite of the Praetorian Guard, and had always been the emperor's personal guard, although there were only fifty or sixty people left, and the wasteland bandits and horse thieves were their opponents. The captain calmly and unhurriedly, and shouted at the right time: "Thorn!" A short iron knife with snowflake moire pattern stabbed out from the gap in the shield like a poisonous snake spitting letters, and the screams of the white blade entering the body were endless.
"Cover!" With the captain's roar, the shield was raised, and the enemy's blades were blocked.
"Advance!" The entire formation took three steps forward, the enemy's newly formed encirclement was broken, and more horse thieves fell to the ground with swords wailing.
The corpses fell in a circle next to the position, and the enemy was still like moths to the fire.