It was getting late, and it was the time when the sun was about to set, and the whole grassland was like gilding, shining with dazzling brilliance, looking low-key luxury. The gently undulating hills in the distance, quietly maintaining a sleeping posture, like a flock of sheep grazing on the grassland, enjoying this side of their own dreams. The clouds on the horizon are as white as milk, as brilliant as colorful clothes, as unrestrained as fireworks, and as deep as deep blue......

There was no one to be seen in the distance, only grass, grass of various colors, goose yellow, light green, dark green, and black like the middle of the night, dotted on the vast earth, like a jade belt inlaid with precious diamonds, and the faint starlight in the sky, competing for this brilliance.

After a day's journey, they were almost silent, and the whole procession—if this scattered appearance counts as a procession—could no longer be heard except for the sound of "rubbing" on the grass, and the sound of the horses wheezing tiredly, only slightly farther away.

At this time, the direction they were facing was due east, and according to Geerlong, at this time they had entered the Wokuo tribe - the Wokuo tribe was one of the twelve tribes that guarded the royal court, and according to the structure of "arch three guards and four guards", there would be three defense rings around the royal court, and there were four tribal guards in each circle, and this Wokuo tribe was located in the outermost circle of the west-facing tribe.

Hua Hate Liu has never had a clear and comprehensive understanding of the strength of the Wokuo tribe - or even the strength of the entire grassland tribe, but Niu Wangqiu knows better, but considering that he has been away from Beidi's inner circle for decades, he thinks that there will be some changes compared to before, so he still needs to rely on Ge Long in this regard - this is another reason why he is sure that Hua Hate Liu will not drive him away halfway.

"The Wokuo tribe is only a thin line behind our previous strength - of course, this 'first line' is one line higher than theirs." When he said this, Gerlong's face did not hide his pride in the slightest, but this pride only stayed for less than a breath, and the sadness in his eyes when he spoke again was indescribable, but he still played the role of a qualified "guide" and gave a concise introduction to the situation of the Wokuo tribe.

It is said that the biological mother of the Emperor of the Woyun was out of this Wokuo tribe, and it turned out that his biological mother was alive in order to prevent the Wokuo tribe from taking the opportunity to seize power, and the prince of the clouds intentionally or unintentionally ignored the love of the Wokuo tribe, until his mother died 20 years ago, and he began to focus on supporting, and in less than three years, the Wokuo tribe was steadily promoted from a third-rate tribe to the ranks of the second-rate top tribes. Come to think of it, this may be a way for the Lord of the Clouds to express his guilt towards him.

However, if it is said that there is a "seedling pulling" in the first three years of promotion, after more than ten years of consolidation and development, today's Wokuo tribe has steadily become a veritable first-class powerful tribe, and because of more than ten years of loyalty to the Lord of the clouds, in recent years, the tribe has been allowed by the Lord of the clouds to replace the other tribes that have begun to decline, to act as an important chess piece of the royal court.

"Speaking of which, Chaketai, the leader of the Wokuo tribe, is still the Tabu bag of the Lord of the Clouds!" Gron said.

"What cloth bag? What's in it? She Qing heard the stalk that could be interjected, and hurriedly asked before Ge Erlong could say the next sentence. In fact, he didn't say a lot along the way, but because he was born to like to talk, and now that he is tired, others are too lazy to move his mouth, and moving his mouth is also a kind of rest for She Qing, but he can't always go against the trend, so he has been holding back, and he will certainly not miss the opportunity at this time.

"Tabu sac, it means a horse, not a cloth bag and water bladder that you Central Plains people say, and it can't hold things." Gron corrected.

"Who says you can't hold things? Sometimes when you are hungry, you can put it in to eat to satisfy your hunger, sometimes when you are thirsty, you can drink spring water to quench your thirst, sometimes you can pretend to be noble and you can pretend to be five or six, and sometimes you have a snobbish eye and see someone more powerful than yourself...... Hehe, isn't it also possible to pretend to be a grandson......" She Qing can see that Ge Erlong is actually the kind of person who is unwilling to speak, which makes him more interested in this person, and now people don't want to deal with him, he has to find some crooked reasons to compete with others, purely because there is nothing to do.

"Flutter-" An uncontrollable chuckle made Hua Hateliu, who was originally going to scold She Qing, shut up honestly. Where has Princess Yuqing heard this kind of argument, the first time I heard it, I especially thought it was funny, although I felt that it was inappropriate to joke about other people's culture, but I couldn't help it, but I couldn't help it, and since I couldn't help it, I had to laugh out, so as not to suffocate my body.

"I found out that you can't say it like that......" Yang Jian understood what Hua hated Liu, but since Princess Yuqing was smiling first, she couldn't directly say that She Qing was not, so she had to remind She Qing in a roundabout way.

"Well, that's not the case." As soon as Yang Jian spoke, She Qing immediately understood what he meant, and hurriedly cleaned up his face and replied with a serious look.

However, his teasing and solemn change for a while made more people laugh, except for Yang Jian's black face, She Qing's own white face, and Ge Erlong's red face, everyone else laughed or smiled, and for a while, the originally dull atmosphere was disturbed by him.

"Oh, don't laugh!" The more everyone laughed, the darker She Qing saw Yang Jian's face, and he swore in his conscience that it was definitely not because the sun was sinking and the sky was darkening, but a kind of ...... How to say, black ...... from the psyche Yes, black-bellied......

"Get down to business, get down to business!" Seeing that everyone couldn't stop, he had no choice but to buy a good one and said to Geerlong: "I'm sorry, I originally wanted to liven up the atmosphere, and I didn't mean to criticize your culture, so you better keep talking, keep talking!" ”

Although Ge Erlong didn't start to regret following Hua Hate Liu and his party to the royal court, he also began to regret that he had just taken care of She Qing, if he pretended not to hear anything, or let She Qing ridicule and not refute that sentence, there would be no follow-up. At this time, the other party says "continue" like a nobody, but where is it so easy to continue?

"This nest is wide...... And what is the strength of their leader, Chaktai? Hua Hate Liu originally wanted to figure out Guò and ask Ge Long to guide him to continue, but when he first opened his mouth to ask, he suddenly remembered that Ge Long seemed to have introduced the strength of the Wokuo tribe just now, and the only way to bring the "Chaktai" was to let Ge Long say something, so as not to continue laughing and cause embarrassment on both sides.

"Well, what I just said about Wokuo's strength is too vague, and the people here don't know much about the previous strength of our Sweat Removal Department except for Mr. Niu and me, so they won't have a particularly clear understanding...... Let's put it this way, in the past, when our tribe was strong, when there was a conscription order launched because of the war, there was no problem for the entire tribe to gather a thousand soldiers and horses, and the conditions were relaxed, and five hundred more people could be added. ”

"So much?" After listening to Geerlong's words, the first person to exclaim was She Qing, who was still laughing. He was born in the army, and he has dealt with the army of the Beidi people to some extent, and the tribe that can gather thousands of people in a short period of time will have at least three or four thousand people, but this number may not be much, after all, now there is a random force on the land of the Central Plains, and I dare not say how many there are, at least there will be a number of 100,000. However, one thing must not be forgotten, the grassland people are tribal, and they are only a tribe at the moment, even if they are second-rate top tribes, there is still a big gap between them and first-class tribes in the final analysis. If it is one of those first-class tribes, it is not difficult to say less than 5,000 people, but more than 10,000 people and horses.

The more important point Ge Long did not say, but Heizi, a Western Vietnamese who was also good at cavalry combat, knew it clearly, and the "1,000 soldiers and horses" he said were genuine cavalry, not comparable to those urgently recruited recruits, or the long-trained cavalry of the Central Plains, even if they were two enemies and one in front of this group of people, they could only flee for their lives.

The steppe people are cavalry by nature, and their main combat force is also cavalry.

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but sink down, and what they thought in their hearts was either envy or worry.

Seeing that everyone had such a reaction, Geerlong's unwillingness to be ridiculed was alleviated, and he enlightened: "But don't worry, although our combat strength is strong, we will definitely not do it with all our strength unless we have to, after all, the population on the grassland is not as large as the Central Plains, once there is damage, it is difficult to make up for it in a short time, it can be said that everyone's life is very important...... Well, of course, I didn't say that the lives of the Central Plains people are not important...... In other words...... That is, we can't afford to lose. Speaking of which, although I don't want to admit it, this is also a point that everyone knows: the grassland people can't afford to lose, and if they lose lightly, they won't be able to slow down for more than ten years, Yan zhòng's words...... In this way, a tribe and a regime will slowly be eroded and decayed, and in the end, they will either choose to belong to other powerful tribes, or they will only perish.

"Well, this is Wokuo's strength, what about Chaktai? What level has he reached? Hua Hate Liu nodded, he currently has no intention of being an enemy of the grassland people, first of all, his strength is not enough-joke, now he is still the commander of the light pole, where will there be any power to compete with a country, he has only one purpose for coming to the grassland again, that is, to bring the lantern back, if the others are smooth, then it is okay to say, if it is not smooth...... Anyway, I have already killed two of the so-called "ten-person black team", so what if we continue to kill some more?

It's not that you can't run away......

"The strength of this Chaktai is very high, higher than me." Ge Erlong said solemnly, but his words were really nonsense for Hua Hate Liu and the others-don't we know what strength you have? She Qing is alone, it's easy! What is the comparison?

"Anyway, it's very strong......" Perhaps realizing that what he said was too much to coax himself, Gerlong blushed and sneered: "If you have a chance in the future, you can ......"

"Why wait later, can't you do it now......" Ge Erlong didn't finish speaking, only to hear a crucible laughter suddenly sound in everyone's ears, and when they were caught off guard, they scared Princess Yuqing and Wen Gu into a soft "ah".

"Who? Come out! Kuroko's face was grim and he asked in a deep voice.