This morning, when Bai Qi heard the news that the fleet of the Chosen Warriors had left Leoni City and was heading downstream, he knew that the other party was planning to rely on the mobility of the ships and the lack of water power of the orcs to fight guerrilla attacks in the rear of the orc army.

Bai Qi was not surprised by this.

At this point, there is only one mission left in the character bar of all Space Soldiers' character panels.

Challenge Mission "Dawn": In order to survive, the orc tribes in the northern grasslands, who have suffered from the severe drought of zhòng, unite with the troll tribes in the dark forests of the south, who have suffered great changes, and are about to invade human territory. The powerful orc tribe, after receiving the aid of the troll tribe, has completely surpassed the human in terms of overall lì quantity. Whether the embryonic human civilization ushers in the darkness of enslavement or ushers in the dawn of victory and freedom depends on your efforts.

This mission is actually a large series of missions, and the previous eradication of the Blackwater Water Bandits, the assassination of Captain Sasen, and even Adrian's advanced missions are all part of this mission.

Bai Qi felt that after the trolls withdrew from the war, this task should be considered to be half completed.

However, it seems that the difficulty of this task as a challenge task is a bit low.

Bai Qi quickly put this doubt behind him, and now, for the space soldiers, the most important thing should be to help the human race hold the defense line of the Arare River Valley.

To do this is by no means an easy task, and the first question facing the space soldiers is how to help the human alliance?

Go to the front line and get directly involved?

I'm afraid that as long as people with a little brain, they will not choose this one, and in the war of tens of thousands of people, once they get involved. It's hard to live and die.

The other space soldiers' option is to take advantage of the water advantage and fight guerrilla attacks behind the orc army. In order to achieve the purpose of containment.

Bai Qi made the same choice as them, but Bai Qi went further than others. He wanted to build a highly mobile ranger to fight guerrillas.

The people who can become the chosen warriors are undoubtedly veteran warriors, and they all have good riding skills and horse fighting abilities.

The three of Bai Qi had already strengthened their riding skills to the highest level they could currently reach, LV10, through the Guò Spatial Skill Enhancer.

After three days of running-in, the Chosen Warriors were familiar with their respective war horses, and more importantly, the three of Bai Qi had basically digested the riding skills obtained from the skill enhancer.

In the early morning of the fourth day, five large merchant ships leased by Bai Qi arrived at the port of Monroe Town and joined Bai Qi's fleet.

More than 100 war horses were sent to these five large merchant ships. Escorted by twelve search warships, they slowly sailed away from the port of Monroe.

The steep Arare Mountains are in the lower reaches of the Arare Valley, and the lower reaches of the eastern exit of the Arare Valley become a gentle mountain beam that can be climbed on horseback.

The ridge completely disappeared three hundred kilometers from the mouth of the valley.

Dry cold snaps, which often move south from the north, make the climate in the north of the Arare Mountains completely different from that in the south.

The dry and cold climate has formed a vast grassland in the northern part of the Arare Mountains, and even the orcs who live in it can't tell how big the grassland is.

In the lower reaches of the Sara River, where the protection of the Arare Mountains has been lost.

When the perennial north wind from the north blows to the bank of the Suluo River, it is already the end of the strong crossbow. The wide and deep Suo Luo River moistens this dry and cold wind, and when it enters the forest on the south bank of the Suo Luo River, it sends rain.

So here, the two banks of the Sara River have developed a completely different climate. The north shore is temperate forest, while the south shore has a subtropical forest climate.

Further north from the north bank of the Sara River, as the rainfall drops. The temperate forest is also gradually getting smaller, about two hundred kilometers later. The forest disappeared completely, replaced by endless green grasslands.

This vast desert grassland is the homeland of the orcs.

Humans and orcs are at war though. But not much is known about this enemy, after all, the two are different races, with completely different appearances, and the gap between them is far deeper than the gap between the ancient farming and nomadic peoples on the earth.

Humans only know that the orcs are a nomadic race that lives on tribes, and they gather together in tribes to live in pursuit of water and grass.

There was a loose alliance between tribes and tribes, but there was no consensual state. In the vast desert steppe, there are many tribal alliances, and they also attack each other.

These orcs, who often attack humans, are only part of many tribal alliances, and they live in the vast grasslands of about 1,000 kilometers on the north bank of the Arare River Valley, which can be regarded as one of the more powerful orc tribal alliances.

Generally speaking, the vast and fertile grasslands are enough to feed the orc tribes, but every dozen years, the cold snaps blowing from the northern part of the grasslands are particularly strong, cold and dry, and the air that barely contains a trace of moisture will plunge the wastelands further north into a terrible drought.

This drought not only starved the orc tribes of the northern steppes, but also sent the creatures of the wilder and more ferocious than the orcs to the south.

At this time, the Khan of the Orc Tribal Alliance in this steppe would organize the starving tribes of the north to go south and settle down along the lower banks of the Arare River Valley.

They would organize the light and strong tribes to attack the human defenses, while the old and weak would scatter along the banks of the Sara River to hunt and fish.

If they can conquer human territory, these orc tribes will scatter into human territory and plunder, if the climate turns better next spring, they will return to the northern grasslands, if the climate does not change the next year, they will stay in human territory and continue to raid.

If the human territory cannot be conquered, a large number of young people are consumed, and after the population declines, the coastal forests on the north bank of the Sora River can barely support the remaining women and children, and after the northern steppes are restored, the orc khan will break up some overpopulated tribes, let them swallow the women and children left by the previous northern tribes, and then go north to reoccupy the northern steppes.

Therefore, for these northern tribes, whether they can conquer the human border is also a matter related to the continuation of the tribe, so they will be particularly brave in battle.

Bai Qi led his fleet and escorted the cargo ships carrying horses down the Suluo River, and in order to sympathize with the oarsman's body, Bai Qi ordered to slow down, and it took nearly two days to cross the valley of the Arare River.

This time at the sight of their fleet, the orcs were not as excited as the first time, only a small number of orcs let out an angry howl at them and chased them for some distance.

As the fleet moved east, the hillside where a large number of orc warriors were stationed was left behind by the fleet.

In addition to the warriors in charge of combat, the orc tribes going south are not too concentrated, and they will occupy a large and small forest and river bank as a territory according to their numbers, hunting and fishing to support themselves.

On the one hand, when the orc tribe went south, it brought a part of the livestock, which would not be left to the women and children, but all of them would be used as military rations and left on the front line, and the other part of the military rations came from a particularly cruel source, that is, human soldiers who died in battle and were given corpses by them.

Orcs are undoubtedly an ignorant and cruel creature.

The fleet continued to flow downstream, and along the way they saw a number of small groups of orcs heading east along the riverbank, and these orcs would let out an extraordinarily angry roar when they saw Bai Qi's fleet, and some would attack them with stones.

After descending dozens of kilometers, the fleet saw a gathering place of orc tribes not far from the river bank, which was burning with flames.

Hundreds of orc corpses were scattered around the gathering place, apparently many of them old people and children.

Looking at this scene, there was no trace of pity and unbearability on the faces of everyone on the battleship, and many even showed happiness and excitement, even Bai Qi, Adrian and Barrian from civilized society did not have any pity in their hearts.

No one should have any mercy for a man-eating creature.

The fleet continued to move south, and Bai Qi and the others came across several fleets of space soldiers one after another.

Of course, the orc settlement, which only has the old, weak, women and children, does not have much combat effectiveness, and there is naturally no need for the space soldiers to continue to pack groups.

It seems that the actions of these space soldiers have already paid off, and along the way, Bai Qi and they have seen many orc young warriors being sent to the rear to protect women and children, which undoubtedly greatly weakens the strength of the orc army attacking the city in front.

The balance of war seems to have tilted in favor of the human side, and victory seems to be in sight, but Bai Qi looked at this qiē, but his brows tightened, and he couldn't help but think in his heart: "Is the challenge task of this world really so simple?" ”

Such a situation and worries made Bai Qi give up the same plan as the other space soldier fleets, and he ordered the fleet to go all the way down.

The fleet overtook all the fleets of space soldiers who were fighting guerrillas, and it was not until it was 300 kilometers away from the mouth of the valley of the Arare River that it anchored in a bay with a natural harbor.

This distance was far beyond the temporary territory of the orc tribe heading south.

Bai Qi ordered the cargo ships to unload their horses on the shore of the bay, and the knights of the Chosen Warrior chosen by him also went ashore in small boats.

Bai Qi left his most trusted Roundup and Gunde, plus the sailors led by Duncan to guard the fleet, it should not be a problem to defend the back road for them.

Bai Qi gave an order, and more than fifty knights, one man and two horses, ran towards the forest.

The Plateau Scaled Horse is a type of horse-like monster that lives on the northwestern plateau of human territory, and also survives in small numbers in the Arare Mountains.

This monster is one-third larger than a normal horse, with thick limbs and strong hooves and wrists, and can even adapt to mountain life like a goat.

Although the batch of mixed-breed war horses purchased by Bai Qi is far inferior to the purebred plateau scale horses, they also have many advantages of scale horses, such as thick and strong hooves and wrists, which make them far more adaptable to the forest environment than ordinary horses, and are not afraid of complex environments that can break horses' legs.

Temperate forests are nowhere near as dense as subtropical forests, and sparse mixed broadleaf and coniferous woodlands are ideal for horses to traverse. (To be continued......)