With the arrival of the people and horses, the originally clear sky instantly turned black, the sunlight was blocked behind the dense black clouds, and the entire horseback plain seemed to fall into hell, and the wind was blowing, leaving only the raging fire in the horseback city shining.

Not far away, scattered centaur soldiers leaped out of every path in the valley and converged in front of Horseback City, forming a huge phalanx formation. Centaurs are not some ignorant dark beasts, you must know that when Qi Luoma did not unify the Lingren Kingdom, the Centaurs had already lived in the harsh and cold north of the continent, they advocated war and bloody life, every centaur was a fierce soldier, and the combat power of a centaur tribe was equivalent to the hoplite infantry regiments of the two Centaur Kingdoms, and no one dared to be an enemy of the Centaurs. Later, the Spirit Kingdom expelled this group of butchers at a heavy price, and these butchers were desperate and took refuge in Hodianna, becoming dark creatures.

"So they're a group of professional soldiers?" Qin Qi asked the veteran beside him unhurriedly.

After a short summoning, the remaining more than seventy warriors in Horseback City lined up in a line, forming a human wall, blocking between the women and children who had evacuated Horseback Town and the Wolf's Tooth Valley, and Qin Qi and Dashu were also in the ranks. The nearby city of horseback had been engulfed in flames, and the centuries-old wooden buildings had been reduced to ashes in an instant, and the sound of wood crackling was incessant, and the fleeing people threw away all their packages and fled to the forest under the command of the light cavalry. Given that Di Da was seriously wounded, Qin Qi had his close guards flee with the civilians with him, while he chose to stay here and serve as the commander of this last line of defense.

"No, Lord Qin Qi," the old soldier had a frightened expression on his face, "they are all beasts. ”

Seeing the fear on the veteran's face, Qin Qi firmly tugged on the reins, walked out of the queue, and rushed to the front of the line.

"Everybody, hold on! Focus your attention on the front! See your enemies! ”

Obviously, a few short words had no practical effect on these young warriors, and their young faces invariably showed fear and despair. The use of weak troops against fierce men and horses, this alone makes morale unfounded. The lack of training and actual combat made it extremely difficult for these young men to even lift their sabers, let alone what it would be like to fight with strong men and horses later.

Thinking that the collision in the future would put the team in a passive state, Qin Qi glanced at the team, counted the few archers, and then pointed to the city on horseback and shouted to the big tree: "Big tree, you take the remaining few archers to the city wall and snipe the people there." ”

"Huh?" Da Shu tilted his head and glanced at Horseback City in confusion, obviously he didn't understand what Qin Qi meant by wanting him to occupy the commanding heights, of course, he might not even know what the commanding heights were.

"It's okay, I can see it clearly here, I don't have to climb so high." He waved his hand at Qin Qi.

"It's an order, go!" Qin Qi even omitted an explanation this time. The big tree had no choice but to run to the top of the city wall with a few people.

At this moment, the people and horses in the distance were becoming clearer and clearer, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the entire horseback plain. The centaurs, who were on the verge of madness, wielded their axes, neighed, roared, and galloped forward with all their might, clad in armor made of black iron, their cylindrical helmets showing only two rectangular eye holes, their long curly hair flowing around the edges of their helmets, and even their most fragile bellies obscured by a thick sheet of black iron emblazoned with giant scorpions. With such airtight equipment, it's almost impossible to find a place to start.

Looking at the crowd of people and horses pressed by the black, Qin Qi pulled out his long sword and gave an order to the cavalry behind him:

"Ready!"

Dozens of sabers were raised in front of them, like shaking waves.

"Steady! Everyone, hold on! Qin Qi kept emphasizing this to the others. He doesn't want his teams to fall apart before they collide, and maintaining formation can greatly enhance their combat effectiveness.

The wind became more and more urgent, as if someone was spurring the wind forward, driving it to speed up, making it difficult to open its eyes. Qin Qi simply closed his eyes and relied on his sensitive hearing to judge the distance of the enemy. The messiness of his ears didn't affect his judgment, and in this tense moment, he caught a strange and familiar frequency. On these days, thanks to the presence of the Lion-Face, he could hear even the grinding of geckos crawling against the walls, and the frequency was so familiar.

That's definitely the sound of the engine.

A silver-white shuttle-shaped flying machine swept over their heads, throwing two round balls accurately into the crowd of centaurs, and in less than a second, two flashes of white light burst out of the fiery magma, like gushing spring water in the crowd of centaurs, the centaurs who touched the magma instantly turned into black rocks together with the magma, the high temperature caused a grassland fire, and the panicked centaurs looked like they were dancing on the flames, desperately fleeing in all directions.

In just a moment's effort, almost half of the menacing centaurs just now were wiped out, and all that was left was disabled. All the knights of Horseback City were dumbfounded, they had not yet realized what was going on, and by this time the flying machine had already disappeared without a trace.

There was no time to investigate the origin of the aircraft, and hesitation would only be bad in the war, so Qin Qi immediately seized this opportunity and led the cavalry to rush over to harvest the remnants of the enemy. Even if the centaurs were injured, they were still fierce, and it was hard to imagine what the battle would have been like without the explosion just now. But they were outnumbered, and most of the men and horses were killed in the grassland under the siege of Qin Qi's young cavalry. Qin Qi alone cut off the heads of four centaurs, he couldn't help but relax when he saw that the team was about to end the war, but he didn't expect a horse to suddenly get up from the ground and knock him off the horse with a fist.

Qin Qi was thrown away by a distance of three or four meters. He clutched his aching chest, and all he heard was a "whoosh", his horse was thrown into the air, and a huge figure appeared in front of him.

The one who knocked Qin Qi down was an extremely sturdy centaur soldier, wearing a blue cloak, and he knew at a glance that his rank was not low. With a height of nearly two meters and huge arms, it can be seen how painful the fist Qin Qi was suffering just now. He was not wearing a helmet, his hair was half burned, and he could still make out the dark blue skin on his face, and a scarred face with blue eyes, like a zombie that had just crawled out of a cemetery.

His face was expressionless, his eyes staring at the sign in front of Qin Qi's uniform, approaching step by step. Qin Qi glanced at his strange eyes, looked down at his uniform, and picked up the long sword unhurriedly.

He hadn't intended to duel with this centaur. He looked at the place where the centaur had just gone, and there were three cavalry fighting around him, and he decided to extend an olive branch to the centaurs.

"Surrender, your men are dead, stop making this senseless resistance."

Surrender is indeed a good option at this time. However, Qin Qi did not make this suggestion to find a chance to fight back, but he wanted to wait for more information from this centaur that he wanted. Because Qin Qi could see that the attack of this horse was not accidental, in such a chaotic battlefield, he could have tortured and killed other cavalry in the melee, but he didn't, but lay in place and waited for Qin Qi's arrival.

The only plausible explanation was that he had been ordered to kill a man dressed like Qin Qi.

"Qin Qi!" The sound of a large tree could be heard in the distance.

Qin Qi turned his head and made a stop movement towards the big tree, but unfortunately this nerd didn't understand Qin Qi's meaning at all, he thought that Qin Qi was calling for help from him, so he immediately pulled his bow and arrow, aiming at the Tianling Gai of the centaurs.

In this way, the skull of the centaur was shattered by the arrows of the big tree, and those blue liquids splashed Qin Qi's face.

"Big tree!" Qin Qi looked helpless, watching the big tree run over happily, but he couldn't say anything harsh, after all, the big tree was also kind.

"Qin Qi, are you okay?" Da Shu completely ignored Qin Qi's feelings, and checked his whole body, or rather, touched it.

"That's enough, Big Tree," Qin Qi stopped Big Tree, "You go and search that centaur's body and see what you can find." ”

"Search him?" Da Shu looked puzzled, he lowered his head and whispered in Qin Qi's ear: "I guess he probably doesn't have anything of value on him, let's sell those axes, the axes made by centaurs are quite valuable." ”

Qin Qi shook his head, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said calmly, "I'm not looking for something valuable. I wanted you to see if there was anything like a letter on that centaur. ”

"Oh~" The big tree nodded as if he didn't understand.

After a round of harvesting, at the cost of losing more than 20 people, Qin Qi's cavalry basically wiped out all the men and horses, they are moving closer to Qin Qi, the blocking task is basically completed, and the current thing to do is to leave the horseback plain and join the people of the horseback city to go to Changhu Town. At this time, the team was marching slowly through the forest, enjoying its first comfortable rest since the war.

Qin Qi rode at the forefront of the procession, holding a small piece of oak board with some strange symbols carved on it. This is a relic that Dashu searched from the people and horses, but unfortunately Dashu is illiterate, and he himself has been looking at it for a long time, but he doesn't see a meaning. He glanced around and asked the other soldiers next to him, most of whom shook their heads with a wry smile and replied with the same sentence: "Sorry, sir, I don't understand." ”

Qin Qi had no choice but to put the plank away temporarily. He said to himself, "It would be nice if Lingyue was here, she would definitely be able to read such a simple plank." ”

"Who is Lingyue?" Big Tree asked.

"A female mage," Qin Qi smiled, "I met in Changhu Town." ”

"Are you two friends?"

"Sort of."

"Just friends?" The big tree suddenly became serious, Qin Qi stared at his troubled expression, feeling a little ridiculous, and couldn't tell what it felt. In his opinion, the big tree is honest and a little stupid, not quite like a person who understands the relationship between men and women.

"What's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly become interested in this? ”

"Is the Lingyue you talking about a girl wearing a long white dress with long hair and holding a red treasure-colored staff?" Da Shu described to Qin Qi very seriously.

"Yes, that's what she looks like, oh my God!" Qin Qi couldn't help but exclaim, "Do you know her?" ”

"I'm guessing you owe her a lot of money."

"Huh?" Qin Qi was a little confused by Da Shu's words, "What does this mean?" ”

"Because that Lingyue stood on the tree in front of me and watched and stared at you for a long time."

Listening to the big tree's words, Qin Qi raised his head suddenly, and he saw a figure flashing on a tree in the distance. It can be said that it is relatively hidden, but it is not difficult for Qin Qi's keen eyesight, there is indeed a girl standing on the tree who looks very similar to Lingyue, but there are two people who he doesn't know standing next to her for some reason. He immediately raised a hand to signal a stop.

"Shall we go over and say hello?"

"No, no, no," Qin Qi looked thoughtful, he was already a little scared given the ghost he had encountered in the woods the night before, and now there was a spirit moon appearing, and there was another person he didn't know next to him.

He slowly drew his sword and said to the tree, "We need to defend ourselves and keep everyone on our guard." ”