Early spring, the best time for everything to sprout, although it is still cold in the north, is already a vibrant scene in the southern provinces of the empire. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Dense broadleaf forests cover everything as far as the eye can see, and only one trade road that has been trampled by caravans for many years is barely passable.

On this narrow trade route to the three southern provinces, a team was ushered in. The first to lead the way was a strong man holding a giant sword, and the huge two-handed sword was afraid that a person with a little less strength would not even be able to hold it, but in the hands of this strong man, it was as easy as a finger in his arm.

The trees on both sides of the road that stretched out their branches and leaves in a delusional attempt to join their companions on the opposite side were killed, and the branches and leaves were cut off one after another, saving the pedestrians behind them from bowing their heads to avoid the trouble. I saw that the strong man kept changing his moves, chopping, chopping, teasing, and stabbing in turn, and even cut off the tree when he rose. If the trees had spirits, they would have cried and cursed the man who used them to practice swords.

This strong man who is crazy about practicing swords and opening the way by the way is none other than Gleeman, don't look at him usually always looks unruly, but as long as Feng Xifan is here, Gleman is more obedient than a kitten. In order to show the results of his recent sword training, Griman patted his chest and took the lead as a guide and pathfinder.

It's a pity that Gleeman's performance was embroidered for the blind man, Feng Xifan followed Leo with listless and sleepy eyes, and didn't glance at Gleeman at all, but the middle-aged squire behind Raymond paid attention to Gleeman's sword style with interest, and nodded slightly from time to time.

When the group turned around the foot of a mountain along the trade route, Griman, who was opening the road in front of them, suddenly stopped what he was doing, slowly put away the giant sword in his hand, and waved his hand behind him at the same time, signaling that there was a situation in front of Leo and the others.

As the group slowly approached Griman, they saw a small checkpoint set up by the Southern rebels through the gap in the lush trees at the corner of the trade road. The checkpoint cut off the trade road, and several thick tree trunks were sharpened and tied into the middle of the road, and there were still traces of horse traps on the ground near the horse. Behind the horse, you can faintly see Southern rebel soldiers in gray uniforms patrolling back and forth.

Griman crept up and quietly came back a moment later.

"It is estimated that the rebels know that the imperial side is preparing for war, so they set up a guard on the main road, this is just a small sentry post, and it is estimated that there is a squad of ten soldiers stationed there. There are six soldiers patrolling behind the horse, and four soldiers guarding the fireworks, it is easy to kill them, but it is more difficult to prevent them from sounding the fireworks!" Griman drew a simple map of the layout of the checkpoint on the ground, and briefly explained the information about the checkpoint.

Raymond glanced at the picture on the ground, and then made eye contact with the deep middle-aged squire, and then said: "My escort Cahill is good at raiding, and it is not a problem to solve the six soldiers after the rejection. But the key is those four soldiers, and it is more difficult to deal with them at the same time. ”

Seeing that Lei Meng took the initiative to let his guards go into battle, Li Ao naturally couldn't show weakness here, Feng Xifan put his hands in his sleeves, and the old dragon Zhong stepped forward and said to Li Ao: "Young master, the old slave can try!"

Because Feng Xifan is practicing internal strength, there is no way to see the depth of his skills from the outside, except for Leo, Feng Xifan and others who know that this old man is terrible, in the eyes of Raymond and Cahill, this is an ordinary old servant, who has no fighting ability at all, I am afraid that a slightly stronger ordinary person can knock him to the ground with one punch.

Seeing Leo nodding slowly, agreeing to be fought by this old man who seemed to be about to be blown down by a gust of wind, Raymond's eyes showed a look of surprise, but seeing that Leo's Gleman, Olix and others did not object, Raymond held back his doubts and persuaded himself to believe in Leo's choice.

Seeing that Leo and Raymond had no objections, the middle-aged attendant Cahill dodged into the woods and approached the sentry post from the dense forest on the side of the trade road. After watching Cahill disappear into the dense forest, Raymond turned to look at Feng Xifan, only to find that Feng Xifan's figure had long since disappeared, and he didn't know when he had left.

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Elvis stretched and rolled his eyes as he looked boredly at the ends of the trade road that stretched far into the mountain. Ever since he accidentally won the logistics officer's money in a military gamble a month ago, Elvis has felt like he has been abandoned by the whole world, repeatedly and twice reprimanded by the superiors for no reason, never received enough ordnance supplies, and even recently been assigned to guard the sentry post in a place where this bird doesn't.

Every time he thought about it, Elvis regretted that he was still too young and impulsive. At that time, I watched the veterans lose money and flatter the logistics officer, and despised them for being too low, plus I really couldn't get used to the face of the logistics officer, and he looked like a gambling master who was obviously not good at gambling.

Elvis still remembers his exuberance at that time, and remembers the logistics officer's face as if he was a dead child, by the way, he still remembers that the logistics officer pointed at himself and said a threatening word, what exactly did he say? Eat the bear's heart and leopard gall? Will it not end well? Forget it, if you can't think of it, you don't want to, anyway, I have been relegated here to be a squad leader at the sentry post.

Alas, if you stay in this barren mountain for a long time, your head will rust. In the past, there was an endless stream of caravans coming and going on this trade route connecting the southern provinces, and since the Grand Duke of Wagner, the Grand Duke of the South, declared independence, not to mention the caravans, not even a single figure could be seen.

As soon as he thought of the figure, Elvis felt a flower in front of him, and it seemed that a figure flashed from the dense forest next to him, and rushed towards the sentry post.

"Enemy, enemy, enemy attack!" Elvis had just shouted twice, when he saw the figure leap over his horse and draw two short swords from behind him. As the dagger was drawn, the two soldiers on the left and right fell down in two cold rays of light, covering their necks, and this person was so quick that Elvis felt a chill to see.

He had never experienced a war since joining the army, and he had never seen a killing, and the impact of this scene in front of him was too great for Elvis. A strong sense of fear instantly occupied Elvis's whole body, except for his brain and eyes, Elvis seemed to have lost all control of his body, and his hands and feet could not do anything except tremble. Everything seemed to Elvis as incoherent as a picture. First, the man crossed the rejection horse, drew his short sword and killed two soldiers, the soldiers near the rejection horse rushed forward, and it seemed that another soldier turned around and shouted something to himself, and then there was the picture of several soldiers falling down with their necks clutched.

Then the man walked past him, as if waving his hand at himself, without even looking at him. The moment Elvis fell, there was darkness in front of him, and only a cold sword light occupied all his sight, until he was completely unconscious.

From the beginning of rushing to the sentry post, Cahill counted his breath, and eliminated six soldiers within eight breaths, including a captain, it seemed that his fast sword had not regressed, and when Cahill smiled with his performance and looked at the fireworks, he was stunned to find that the four soldiers by the fireworks had fallen to the ground, and the old man with a strange name was still holding his hands, just standing by the fireworks, as leisurely as an afternoon walk, and he didn't look like he had killed four soldiers at all.

With a grim smile on his face, Cahill walked quickly to the pyre, and when he looked closely at the four soldiers who had fallen to the ground, his face was undulating, although his face showed nothing. The four soldiers had no wounds except for a small red dot in their throats, and Cahill's eyesight and experience made it impossible to discern the cause of death of the four soldiers, as if all four soldiers were dying at the same time.

In front of him, the old man who looked like a wind candle had such terrifying strength, Cahill glanced at Feng Xifan in surprise. But Feng Xifan didn't care as if he had done something insignificant, ignored Cahill, walked along the trade road to Leo and the others, and went to Leo to return to him.

At this moment, Feng Xifan's slender figure was indescribably mysterious and terrifying in Cahill's eyes.

After Raymond knew what had happened from Cahill, he couldn't resist his curiosity, and also stepped forward to check the bodies of the four soldiers. And looking at the appearance of Leo and Griman, it seems that they are not surprised by the result of Feng Xifan's shot, and they obviously know it. This also made Raymond very curious about the power under Leo's command, the second son of an imperial viscount had so many masters, and the old servant, the former thief leader, the elite soldier and other unrelated figures gathered around Leo and were willing to obey orders, how did Leo subdue these people? Leo gradually became mysterious in Raymond's heart.