Seeing this, Geralt couldn't help but sigh to his subordinates: "This is the shortest time I know that can make the captured flag soldiers consciously serve, Second Lieutenant Zhao Hu really has a set." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

His subordinates were a little unimpressed: "It's a simple matter, just choose the officers from among them." ”

"Hey, that's easy? Have you ever heard of someone who would let a captured flag herder command his own? If it were you, even if you knew that they would be loyal and would not betray at will, would you dare to pick all the officers from among these flag herders? ”

Speechless.

So subordinates can only be subordinates.

"Sir, there is a gathering place twenty kilometers ahead, and there are thousands of huge flag packs alone, and the small flag bags are even more innumerable!"

The scouts who sent out reconnaissance brought the news to Zhao Hu.

Dio immediately said happily: "Okay, we can go there and buy a batch of arrows, it is better to get a map, even if we can't get it, we must inquire about the direction, otherwise the map issued by the army will be blank, and we will very likely go around the prairie for a few years." ”

This was immediately agreed by everyone, it is not fun to get lost in this huge prairie, Zhao Hu has not yet made a decision, and since there is no task to follow Zhao Hu, Geralt immediately spoke up.

"Thousands of giant flag packs? This is the scale of the Banner Master's Station! Sir, although their banner master has taken away a large number of troops, the gathering place will not be less than twenty or thirty thousand people, even if they are all women, children, old and young, but how can there be thousands of strong guards, let's bypass them, right? ”

A squad leader who followed Zhao Hu for the same reason as Geralt immediately retorted.

"Don't be an idiot, we're a caravan now, and when we see the gathering place, we're not afraid of other people's suspicions?"

Geralt immediately scolded, "You're an idiot! I don't want to think that our mounts are either branded with the imprint of the Imperial Army or branded with the imprint of the wooden banner! Don't think about not letting them see it, those herdsmen are all masters of raising horses, and it's strange not to see so many of our war horses! Let them see, wouldn't that be a goof?

"It's better to make them suspicious now than to go into a settlement and get hacked to death immediately, right? I'm the lesser of two evils! ”

Now the team leaders are dumbfounded, yes, these war horses are all branded, and at a glance, they know the details of their people, so they can only take a detour, alas, I thought I could go to the gathering place Lele.

Looking at the dejected team leaders, Zhou Wen chuckled. "Don't forget, the horses we bought in the bazaar, and the horses that pulled the carts, are not branded."

The team leaders who were confused by Zhou Wen's appearance became happy again.

That's right, why didn't you expect it, it's really worthy of Zhou Wen's personal guard.

Sun Jie, who had a normal sexual orientation, couldn't stand the gaze of those team leaders, and immediately hid aside with cold hairs standing up all over his body.

These soldiers, they haven't encountered the bazaar for a few months, and the sows have become sables, and now seeing Zhou Wen full of femininity, they have long forgotten that Zhou Wen is a fake woman, and they are all fascinated, if it weren't for the fact that Zhou Wen is Zhao Hu's personal guard, I'm afraid it would have been a night attack a long time ago.

Geralt asked with a frown, dodging a few of his colleagues who were swallowing saliva beside him. "There are only two or three hundred horses without a brand, but we have more than a thousand people here, and it will be very strange to have a hundred or so people in and one person outside."

"It's not weird, we're a caravan, of course we have to send someone to see it before doing business, it's very normal.

"However, most of the people who enter must be servant soldiers, otherwise they will still attract attention, because there are no merchant groups of all foreigners who dare to mix in the prairie."

Everyone agreed with Dio's statement, and all of them looked at Zhao Hu, after all, it was useless for these people to say more, and it was still Zhao Hu, the chief, to say a word about whether to go or not.

Zhao Hu, who had not spoken, of course would not go against the public's opinion, and nodded in agreement.

Needless to say, Zhao Hu's personal guards must have followed Zhao Hu, the servant soldiers, all the officers above the commander of ten masters went, and they also chose a team of 100 people.

On the Imperial Army's side, ten squad leaders, twenty captains, and all the logistics soldiers were selected, and the remaining officers were left behind.

Why can all the officers of the servant soldiers go? Simple, although Zhao Hu was very relieved of them, the other officers were not so assured, for fear that these promoted officers would incite the servant soldiers to rebel and take away the leaders, and those servant soldiers who had no self would be as obedient as sheep.

Geralt, who knew the details, still didn't alert anyone.

Zhou Wenxing's rushing rama was suddenly pulled to the side by Diora.

"What's the matter, uncle? In a hurry. ”

"Zhou Wen, you'd better not follow the chief to the gathering place."

"Why?"

"Alas, the reason is your appearance, whether you are a man or a woman, but your appearance will indeed fascinate people, and if you let a strong person see your appearance, you will definitely cause trouble for the chief."

Zhou Wen was speechless and nodded for a long time. "Understood, I'm not going to follow."

Seeing that Zhou Wen was reasonable, Dio smiled: "That's good." When you first followed the chief before, you just looked a little like a woman at most, I don't know what's going on, but now you have become amorous, beautiful and charming, it's really strange, will your appearance change when you are an adult?

"It's a good thing that's the case, otherwise you would have caused trouble when you were in the imperial capital."

Zhou Wen touched his face a little puzzled, he hadn't looked in the mirror for a long time, and he didn't know how his current appearance had changed from before.

Seeing Zhou Wen's puzzled look, Dio shook his head with a wry smile, and he didn't know if this guy was born in the wrong car, but he actually had a style in every move, God really has no eyes.

When it was ready, Zhou Wen suddenly said that he would not go, Zhao Hu glanced at Zhou Wen, smiled and nodded.

Zhao Hu is not stupid, he knows very well the reason why Zhou Wen, who was originally excited, suddenly changed his mind. It seems that a guard is a guard, and he thinks about the chief.

Changing into a war horse without a brand, Zhao Hu and his entourage left the convoy and quickly ran towards the gathering place in front.

When they were ten kilometers away from the gathering place, the scouts of the gathering place stopped Zhao Hu's group.

"Who are you?"

Ten archers drew their bows and stood guard, and when they saw the banner behind the scout ten, Gerat, an overly knowledgeable fellow of the steppe, stepped forward and saluted.

"Respected warriors under the command of the Crystal Banner of the Crystal Word, we are a free caravan, and we are going to the gathering place of your banner to pay respects, hoping to be welcomed by the warriors."

Hearing this, Sun Jie's young heart pulled over a centurion and asked in a low voice. "Old knife, what's that word on the flag?"

Zhao Hu once asked the names of the eight centurions who had won the lottery among the servants, but unfortunately they were either numerically tattered names, or they didn't even have names, only a nickname.

Zhao Hu, who didn't know how to take names, named them knives, swords, guns, bows, shields, iron, horses, and soldiers, and originally Zhao Hu wanted to give them his surname Zhao, but he didn't expect that everyone was against it, not only his own personal guards, imperial soldiers, but also the eight centurions strongly objected, and in the end they had to do it.

However, just one name made the eight centurions cry with gratitude, and also made the eyes of the other servant soldiers red with envy.

This incident made Zhao Hu understand that in this continent, a surname is really very important, because now he has discovered that none of the imperial soldiers under his command have a surname.

The old knife was a little nervous and shook his head. "I, I don't know, I only know the wooden flag and a few pastoral flags around the wooden flag."

He, a person who has rushed up from the bottom, is really not used to expressing his meaning, and just such a sentence has made him sweat.

Seeing this, Sun Jie patted him on the shoulder in understanding.

The other scouts didn't react, only the ten-captain carefully looked at Zhao Hu and the others.

"You're a free caravan, where are your goods?"

Geralt replied with a smile, "It's just ten kilometers behind, and we're afraid of going in vain, so we stop there." ”

The ten-master glanced at a scout, and the scout immediately rode his horse and galloped in the direction where Zhao Hu came, Zhao Hu and the others were shocked, and it was bad to be branded by the scout, but when they saw that Geralt continued to have a relationship with the ten-master unexpectedly, he temporarily stabilized his mood.

Soon, the scout returned, and looking at the time it had taken to go back and forth, everyone knew that he had just looked at it from a distance, and they all settled down.

Knowing that the other party had brought nearly a hundred carriages, the ten-captain saluted Zhao Hu and the others very friendly.

"Jingzi Muqi welcomes you, you are really lucky, today is the third day of the market, and there are still four days to ask you to trade."

Zhao Hu and the others were let go after having a conversation with him.

Dio touched Sun Jie and pointed at Geralt with his chin, Sun Jie immediately asked loudly with curiosity on his face. "Brother Geralt, you are so powerful, you are so familiar with this grassland, you can know what kind of pastoral flag it is by looking at the other party's flag."

Geralt couldn't help but smile when he saw that everyone was looking at him. "I'm a native of Wenbei Province, and I followed my father into the grassland to do business when I was young, so I know a little bit about them."

"Then how did you come to be a soldier? Businessmen are very promising. ”

"The business failed, the family failed, and I had no ability but to become a soldier."

"By the way, he didn't give a gift to the ten-captain just now, why didn't he find fault with us?"

Geralt thought it was Zhao Hu's instructions, so he still explained with a smile. "We have brought nearly a hundred big wagons, how dare they, the petty officers, embarrass the caravan? Maybe we'll do business with their upper echelons, and we'll be able to knock them down in a word.

"If we only have a dozen wagons, we won't be allowed to go in without giving benefits."