The howling wind rushed unscrupulously, rolling up countless wind and sand and smashing on the withered yellow trees, making a crackling sound. The sun in the sky seemed to have consumed too much light in the past summer, exuding a faint yellow halo and shedding a little brilliance.

It's a withered and yellow world.

Yellow grasslands, yellow deserts, yellow bare soil.

This is outside the northern border of Great Qin, outside Longxi County.

This is the territory of the Qiang people who have been entrenched outside Longxi County and have followed the Yue clan to invade Longxi County of Great Qin several times.

Here, in the past hundreds of years, few Qin people were willing to set foot here.

Because, as this vast but barren land behaves today. Although it is already September at this moment, in the land of Guanzhong, you can still feel the residual heat of summer, you can still see the green trees, and you can smell the fragrance of different flowers. And in the southern land of Great Qin, it is still scorching at this moment. This season, in the eyes of the Qin people, is the season of harvest.

However, in the desert outside the fortress, there are no other colors and things except for the withered yellow that seems to cover the heavens and the earth, and the wind and sand that cover the sky for several days when it blows.

However, today, for the first time, there are traces of the Qin people in areas that are rarely or never set foot by the Qin people. And the appearance of the Qin people also brought different colors and things to this vast land where there was nothing but dry yellow and wind and sand.

That was the bright red of blood, and the merciless killing.

It is a small oasis on the edge of the desert, a small oasis no more than a mile in circumference, inhabited by one of the countless Qiang tribes living in this vast and barren land.

This tribe is called Yu, and it is not a small branch of the countless tribes of the Qiang people. I don't know how many years ago, the ancestors of the Yu tribe snatched this rich oasis from the leaders of the other tribes. So the Yu tribe began to multiply in this oasis and continue to this day.

This oasis, with its water sources and shrubs, is the richest piece of land in the vicinity for dozens of miles. Especially on the edge of the desert, especially now that it's almost September, this oasis of water and shrubs is one of the few treasures in this vast land.

The number of the Yu tribe was 10,000, and nearly 3,000 of the 10,000 people were strong. The tribe of 10,000 people may not even rank in the middle of the Qiang tribe in the whole Qiang tribe, but within this radius of 100 miles, it is definitely the largest tribe second to none, and with nearly 3,000 strength, it has made the tribe become a hegemon-level tribe within a radius of 100 miles in just a few years.

Thirty percent of the strength is also an extremely terrifying proportion among the countless tribes of the Qiang people, large and small.

Being strong means being able to ride a horse and control the strings, which means being able to have more strength to defend against foreign places, whether it is tribal hunting or foreign warfare, it plays a vital role in a tribe.

It's noon.

Curling smoke rose from the oasis where the Yu tribe was located. This oasis is in a hollow area, surrounded by low hills, so the raging wind and sand have very little effect on the Yu tribe.

In the distance, you can see a large number of cattle and sheep leisurely eating the grass that has a slight green and yellow color. Children are running and laughing carefree.

In the desert outside the Saiwai, the rare green, with these leisurely grazing cattle and sheep and worry-free children, the fairyland-like beauty of the world.

Suddenly!

On a small sand slope a few miles away from the oasis where the Yu tribe was located, a black shadow appeared without warning on the high ground composed entirely of golden sand, and a golden light flashed in the reflection of the sun.

A moment later, the shadow of the rider disappeared again above the high ground. It never seems to have appeared.

Several cattle and sheep grazing seemed to be alarmed by the light reflected from afar. Alertly looking up at the place where the high ground was, and when he found nothing, he chirped a few times and began to bury his head in the grass on the ground again.

Winter is coming, and if you don't eat it now, you will only be able to eat dry grass without a little moisture for the next few months.

In the depression not far from the high ground where several black shadows had just appeared, countless cavalry dressed in black armor and with a murderous aura all over their bodies gathered in the leeward hollow.

The flickering gaze and the inadvertently revealing a thick murderous aura made these knights in black armor look like a group of demons coming out of hell. All the horses were sealed, and all the knights gathered together silently, silently swallowing the hard, cold dry food that was hard to swallow on the water they carried.

In the center of this group of black-armored knights was a tall man with a long scar on his face.

The black-armored cavalry gathered around him, whenever they looked at this big man, their originally eagle-like eyes couldn't help but shrink slightly, and then hurriedly dodged aside.

It was a complicated look of reverence and fear.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the sound was rapidly approaching the hollow.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, the thousands of black-armored knights gathered in the col stood still, eating dry food and drinking water. In the center of the black-armored knights, the big man who seemed to be the leader swept towards the two black-armored knights who had been squatting at the mountain pass with sharp eyes that seemed to have a loud voice.

The two black-armored knights didn't seem to feel the leader's eyes at all, listening intently. Even the dry food that had not been chewed in his mouth stopped chewing.

After a moment, a black-armored knight on the left nodded cautiously to the other person beside him. The black-armored knight received the signal from his brother next to him, quickly got up, glanced outside, and then quickly crouched down.

"General! It's your own people! A hoarse voice came from the mouth of one of the black-armored knights.

As soon as the words fell, several black-armored knights who had just appeared around the green land of the Yu tribe had already rushed into the col with a body full of wind and sand.

There are five people in total.

After entering the mountain col, the five black-armored knights with black cloth covering their faces and only revealing their faint eyes pulled the reins together, and the war horses under the crotches of the five people stood up one after another, and the raised hooves of the horses did not fall, and the five knights on the horses had landed together.

The war horses of the five people were also sealed!

After landing, the four black-armored knights led their horses to the side, where there were prepared dry food and drinking water. Only the black-armored knight, who carried a long package on his back, untied the cloth on his face as he walked towards the leader standing in the center.

"Brother Dragon! How?"

Seeing this black-armored knight coming, the black-armored leader, who had been expressionless all the time, took two steps forward and asked in a deep voice.

"General Jing, there are many barbarians in that tribe, and there will definitely not be too few people who control the strings. Now that we have less than 3,000 men under our command, we will think that we will wait for the 2,000 armor soldiers who are escorting the goods to converge before we fight! ”

The black-armored knight said as he unfolded the cloth on his face, revealing an ordinary face that could not be more ordinary.

"Brother Long, I have been wandering around this desert for a few days, if we don't replenish it, I'm afraid that the brothers won't be able to hold on for long, those 2,000 people escorted the more than 10,000 captured barbarians, cattle and sheep, and then left for seven days, and now we have gone deep into this Qiang land for three hundred miles. These few days of wind and sand are too big, even if there are marks left by us, they have long been damaged by the wind and sand, I'm afraid I can't wait for them! ”

The general surnamed Jing flashed hesitation in his eyes, and then spoke.

The identity of the person in front of him is too sensitive, even with his current status, he doesn't dare to have the slightest disrespect for him. In the entire team, only the five of them dared not be offended, even he, the nominal leader.

Because, they are all the personal guards of His Majesty the Emperor today, the people of the Longwei Mansion!

And this group of black-armored knights was the Jingyun Department who set out from Xianyang and rushed to Longxi to plunder. These black-armored knights are all composed of rangers or doormen from various families and nobles in Xianyang.

After Jing Yun and the others broke up with the Tiger Ben Army, they marched west along the north bank of the Weishui Gorge until they reached Lintao County in Longxi County. The route they took was actually the Weishui Road.

When Jing Yun came out of Xianyang, the nobles of the major families gathered a total of 5,000 people, led by Jing Yun, and went out of the country to plunder the Qiang barbarians. In addition to Jing Yun, a group of brothers who had previously followed Jing Yun to help Li Si secretly do things all followed Jing Yun out of Xianyang.

At the same time, there are five dragon guards!

These five dragon guards have two tasks. The first is to monitor the looting of Jing Yun and others, lest these people go crazy and rob Daqin's own people, and of course, assess how much they have gained from looting. The second task was to draw a topographic map of the territory outside Longxi that belonged to the Qiang people. The appropriate marching route is marked, and the grasslands, oases, deserts, and water sources are marked.

All this, naturally, was to prepare for the march after the day.

Now in Xianyang, the Fan family, the Su family, the Fang family and other nobles of the old Qin family have gathered the second batch of people who went out to plunder. Just wait for Jing Yun and the others to return with a full load, and then set off again.

Jing Yun led 5,000 miscellaneous cards, and after arriving at Lintao, he crossed the Zhidi Road of Longxi County along the county road and went westward into the territory of the Qiang people.

By now, they have entered the territory of the Qiang tribe for twenty days!

In the twentieth day, under the leadership of Jing Yun, these 5,000 stragglers have gone from fighting separately at the beginning to now gradually growing into elite iron-blooded people who are forbidden by order, and their transformation and progress are not unpleasant.

However, this transformation and progress are based on the blood of tens of thousands of Qiang barbarians in the western part of Longxi. Jing Yun and the others were like ghosts, wandering in the land within a radius of hundreds of miles, and more than a dozen Qiang tribes ranging from hundreds of people to tens of thousands of people were slaughtered by this group of family disciples who came out of the territory of Great Qin and wanted to plunder wealth.

These more than 10 large and small tribes brought nearly 100,000 cattle, sheep and horses, more than 20,000 Qiang slaves, and there were more than 1,000 Qiang people among the 20,000 people.

The harvest is not small!

However, behind the capture of more than 20,000 people, there were nearly 10,000 Qiang deaths!

(To be continued)