Chapter 100: Into the Prairie

Bai Qi led the knights to gallop in the forest, gradually adapting to the environment here, and gradually increasing his speed.

After more than four hours, the forest in front of him suddenly became more and more sparse, and the density of the forest grassland increased suddenly, and Bai Qi knew that it was not far from the edge of the forest.

He looked at the sky, it was already afternoon, and he thought that he would spend the night in the forest today.

Bai Qi led everyone to gallop for a while, and a forest meadow of hundreds of acres and a pond of several acres appeared in front of them.

Bai Qi waved his hand, and everyone restrained their war horses by the pond.

Bai Qi turned around and waved his hand at Barrian, asking him to check if the water in the pond was safe first.

In general, water sources in temperate forests are mostly clean and safe, but you should not be careless.

Barian examines the pond with a toxin detection and signals to him that the water is safe.

Bai Qi waved his hand and ordered everyone to dismount and set up camp, and many of the Chosen Warriors couldn't help but let out a soft cheer.

After nearly five hours of galloping, not only the horses were tired, but even the horse's riding skills were a little unsupportable.

This is also fortunate that it is one person and two horses, otherwise such a long run, even if it is a high-grade war horse with the bloodline of Warcraft, I am afraid it will be expensive.

After dismounting, under Bai Qi's arrangement, some of the horses were gathered, some of them went to mow the grass and feed the horses, and some of them made a fire and prepared to cook.

Unlike the exhaustion of the others, Ushtu and his four followers of the Mountain Barbarians had been particularly excited since entering the forest.

For others, riding a horse through the forest is a hard job. But for these mountain savages, the forest is simply their home.

Ushtu did not dismount. He proposed to Bai Qi that he would go hunting. Get some fresh meat.

During this period of time, Bai Qi gradually got to know this mountain barbarian great warrior, and knew that this was a very capable person, both in force and intelligence, who was a line higher than the other great warrior under his command.

Therefore, Bai Qi nodded reassuringly and agreed to his request.

Under Bai Qi's command, the Chosen Warriors lit bonfires, set up iron pots, and boiled dried meat and wild vegetables and mushrooms picked nearby.

With a mage here, you don't have to worry about eating poisonous things by mistake.

The Chosen Warriors settled their horses. They all gathered around a few bonfires and a few iron pots, looking at the gradually boiling wild mushroom soup, smelling the fragrance gradually drifting, and couldn't help but sigh.

Just a moment before the last light of the evening was in the sky, Ushtu returned to the camp with his men, carrying a few wild deer, wild sheep and other game, causing a burst of cheers.

Ushtu and his men laughed and peeled the game by the pond. Large pieces of meat were cut off, threaded with sticks, set up on a bonfire, and the bones with the meat were thrown into the mushroom soup in an iron pot.

Barrian secretly pulled out the condiments from the storage space. It was sprinkled on the barbecue, and the fragrance that instantly filled the air made the Chosen Warriors, who had been hungry for a long time, swallow their saliva.

That night, the natives under Bai Qi's command ate the best barbecue in their lives.

Early the next morning. The small group of Rangers headed north again.

Humans and orcs cannot send spies to each other due to their different appearances. But the two sides have been entangled for a hundred years, and they will not be ignorant of each other.

Bai Qi had a simple map of the nearby grassland in his hand. and the approximate range of activities of some tribes.

He had only obtained this map as a precaution, in case the return route was cut off, so that he could make a detour on the grassland without being in the dark.

But now he plans to rely on this map to go deep into the grasslands.

For some reason, Bai Qi always felt that this challenge task was not so simple.

One hour, when the war horse rushed out of a sparse woodland, Bai Qi's eyes suddenly emptied, and an endless meadow appeared in front of him.

In the vast grassland in front of him, Bai Qi felt empty for a moment.

Bai Qi had never been to the grassland in reality, but he bet that there was definitely no such perfect grassland on the earth in reality.

The grassland in front of them was not flat, and the terrain was also undulating, and Bai Qi was on a hillside about two or three hundred meters above the ground.

In the endless grassland ahead, the grass more than a meter deep undulates like waves in the breeze.

As far as the eye can see, there are also gently undulating hillsides, most of which have small forests on the southern slopes.

These dark green forests dot the grasslands like dark green flowers embroidered on an emerald green carpet.

Bai Qi watched silently for a moment, took a deep breath, lightly clamped the horse's belly, and galloped down the hillside.

Like Bai Qi, the Chosen Warriors, who were shocked by the vast grassland, were stunned for a moment before they reacted, and they also rode their horses and followed behind Bai Qi.

The small group of rangers galloped through the prairie for most of the day to the northwest, and in the afternoon reached a slightly higher hillside.

Bai Qi rode a horse and stood at the top of the slope, looking at the grassland in the northwest direction, frowning and pondering.

To the north of this hillside, the grassland topography is somewhat different from that in the south, which is affected by the remnants of the Arare Mountains, and the terrain is always a little undulating, but from here to the north, it becomes completely flat.

From here, to the north, is the most fertile grassland.

On the way north, Bai Qi and the others met many orc tribes.

Under Bai Qi's orders, no matter how big or small the tribes, they avoided them far away, and only captured a few lone herding orcs to ask for information.

Orcs are stupid and hard-working, and torture is basically useless to them, but it is very easy to get the information they want by using the method of provoking the generals.

From the mouths of these orc shepherds, Bai Qi did not find much useful information, only that there seemed to be a fight between several princes of the orc khan recently.

This hillside was already the northernmost place that Bai Qi could reach in his plan, and further north, their safety could not be guaranteed.

Orcs also have cavalry, wolf cavalry.

In the orc steppes lives a giant wolf, a giant carnivore larger than an ordinary horse, and this giant beast was once a natural predator of the orcs.

In the long struggle against this giant beast, the orcs gradually mastered the method of domesticating this giant wolf. The orcs used the domesticated wolves as mounts and companions for herding and hunting.

This giant wolf is also gradually called "the wolf" by the orcs.

The wolf eats quite a lot, and these small tribes in the south, near the forest, can't afford to keep that kind of carnivorous beast.

Only the big tribes of the fertile steppes of the north can afford to raise a wolf.

An orc tribe of 1,000 people can only raise more than a dozen wolf cavalry, and only orc warriors at the level of the Chosen Warrior are eligible to become wolf cavalry, generally speaking, the wolf cavalry is synonymous with the Chosen Warrior among the orcs.

Don't look at the fifty Chosen Warriors under Bai Qi's command, but if you encounter a dozen wolf cavalry, winning or losing is really not certain.

Orcs are far stronger than humans, and in general, one orc warrior can even play against four human soldiers.

At the Chosen Warrior level, this gap will be greatly narrowed, but an orc wolf cavalry can also deal with two human Chosen Warriors of the same level, and this gap will be further narrowed at the Great Samurai level.

In addition, the mount of the wolf cavalry "Seat Wolf" is not an ordinary horse can fight against, this giant beast itself is equivalent to the combat effectiveness of a God's chosen warrior, and the war horse will be frightened in front of this giant beast, paralyzed to the ground, and slaughtered.

Therefore, a dozen orc wolf cavalry can completely confront thirty or forty human chosen warriors.

After hesitating for a moment, Bai Qi still felt that it was too risky to continue to advance north, because the price was too great to put so many people in danger with a little doubt of his own.

There was also a large forest on the southern slope of this hillside, and it was getting late today, so he decided to set up camp here first, and then continue his march west along the southern edge of the northern savannah tomorrow.

If he couldn't find a clue tomorrow, he would lead people south to hunt the women and children of the northern orc tribes in the forests along the river.

A sentry post was arranged at the top of the mountain, and Bai Qi led the people to find a relatively flat place in the sparse woods of the male slope, settled the horses, and sent people down the mountain to cut the grass.

The sparse woods could not stop the fire, so Bai Qi had a few simple huts built, and when it got dark, bonfires were lit in the huts...... (To be continued......)