The north wind was blowing, and on the newly built Celestial Wolf Valley City Fortress, Murphy Boone stood on the highest stone rampage on the city wall, holding his sword on his armor, silently looking at the surrounding white mountains and rivers, the whistling wind swept over the battle robes behind him, and under the city wall, a team of black and solemn imperial cavalry was galloping over,

In the midst of the desert silver and white, the black armor of the empire looked extremely cold,

Looking down from the condescending fortress, a large and small ring fortress has formed a perfect defense system, and the entrance to the bottom of the valley, which is the most important from the north to the east of the river, is tightly jammed, and it is a solid stone dug from the nearby mountains, and it is difficult to shake it even with a heavy trebuchet, with such a device, the Sky Wolf Valley, which was once killed by Rui Tang Tingna, is really called a strong bridgehead that is enough to support the advance of the army, and will not be like the previous battle of the Sky Wolf Mansion, which was easily broken through by cavalry from the valley mouth,

On the left side of the fortress is a large area of grassland tents, grazing cattle and sheep are looking down for grass roots, on the right side of the fortress there is a town with a large gathering scale, the flow of people is surging, the sound of the blacksmith shop is clear and melodious, and a large market is shown in the morning fog, the tent on the left is those grassland tribes that originally belonged to the Dongting people, after Zamuhebi was beheaded by the empire, the Dongting forces withdrew from this wilderness, and these grassland tribes consciously relied on the area with the Heavenly Wolf Valley as the core.

Although they are all tribes that escaped from the grassland war, the combined population is seventy or eighty thousand, and there are more than 10,000 grassland light cavalry who can fight and control the strings.

In the past six months or so, this infantry army of the western wilderness of the empire has conquered and exterminated other forces entrenched in the wilderness, and most of those small forces are the remnants of the army that fled from the battlefield of Central Beia. Like the Yue Valley, relying on the terrain to entrench in one place as the emperor of the soil, being able to draw out 5,000 stragglers is already a very remarkable force, how can it be the opponent of the empire's 40,000 troops, some of the scattered small forces chose to submit, and some ran to the border to become plundering horse bandits.

Horses laden with goods crowded the bazaar, and many merchants from Central and the Empire stopped here to replenish their supplies, and no matter what the size of the people and horses was, they did not dare to be arrogant in the slightest. Cease all activities. Even the blades were put away, because in the past six months, the Heavenly Wolf Valley had used its own strength to establish its actual control in this area, and even the powerful Dongting people were very conscious not to appear where the cavalry of the Heavenly Wolf Valley appeared

In the eyes of the merchants, war and peace were divided between this city in the wilderness

The caravan heading in the direction of the empire can unload the tension in their hearts here, and through here, it is the territory of the Falcon Empire. The entire powerful empire may have a reputation for being brutal, but it is rare to treat merchants well, and caravans heading towards the Eastern Courtyard Grassland will buy weapons in large quantities here. There is never a shortage of horse thieves on the grassland, although the imperial cavalry in the Sky Wolf Valley has advanced two hundred miles, and there is nothing to be done about the steppe horse thieves who disappear on the border.

Central Beya. The people of Dongting, the people of the empire, can be seen here. No matter how everyone fights to the death outside, but when they arrive in the Sky Wolf Valley, they will be very tacitly patient, and there will never be a person who dares to fight with weapons without authorization, because at this time, the Sky Wolf Valley has officially changed its name to the Falcon Empire Sky Wolf Mansion Province, and the Eastern Province of the Empire, the Imperial Yue Valley Province, is one of the three newly established provinces of the Empire, and is the base camp of the Wilderness Legion in the western part of the Empire. The incoming and outgoing teams hurriedly avoided the road, and those who couldn't avoid it hurriedly dismounted and waited with bated breath for the imperial army to pass through.

"My lord, it's from the long wall!" An adjutant general hurriedly walked up from behind, holding a letter that had just been delivered, his face was a little eager to look, there was finally movement in the direction of the long wall, tens of thousands of troops were always doing things like bandits, what was going on?" "Clear the border?" Murphy Oone opened the letter, looked at it, and did not have too many surprised expressions, for the current Murphy Oone Boone, it doesn't matter whether the empire has ambitions for the East Courtyard Grassland, but the Murphy Dragonarmored Cavalry, who has devoted his whole body and blood, can no longer be buried like this,

More than 20,000 loyal old subordinates, without complaint and no regrets, followed him to the thousands of miles of wilderness, the cold wind and cold were hungry and cold, and the time of the first arrival was also the hardest, in order to reduce the consumption of food, how many rigid Murphy dragon armored cavalry endured the pain and killed their war horses, now looking back, even I don't know how I spent that time,

Now it's finally better, the war horse resources are available, and the food is not worried, but the imperial army has always been a place that pays attention to military merit as the first place, and how many military merits can these small forces that they have exterminated in the wilderness?

More than 20,000 men who had left their hometowns were not tearful when they mentioned their families, and what was the matter of burying themselves in this bullshit wilderness? I saw that the empire had been constantly transporting materials beyond the long wall for more than half a year, and I heard that the granaries in the Yue Valley had already accounted for most of the grain, and even if it was 100,000 people, it was enough to eat for three or four months. Rui Tang Tingna of the Eastern Court drove 50,000 steppe cavalry out of the north wall, and tens of thousands of imperial central armies frequently moved in the long wall area, nominally to strengthen the defense of the frontiers, how could it not let the army adapt to the wilderness environment quickly, and be ready to attack like raising a bow.

At this time, Murphy Oone didn't know that the Emperor was going to make a big move on the East Courtyard Grassland.

In winter, the vast steppe is a silvery season, a group of cavalry wearing felt thick leather armor slowly entered the camp built along the curved water, the howling wind carried the cold on the face, the faces of the frozen dark red steppe people, the snow had just stopped last night, the air was filled with a fresh smell, and the horses' hooves stepped on the soft snow and mud, making a squeaking sound.

The leader of the cavalry squad, Bo Guo Zhuoying, jumped down from his horse and leisurely swept the situation in the camp with his four-cornered eyes. The earth is white, the wind blows, like a pair of invisible hands gently brushing through the pieces of snow and rice, neatly rolling forward, the earth is boundless, what a beautiful place, the vast land that makes people forget their own deposits, "I am also a respected centurion, why should I be a horse thief?"

Bogo Zhuoying sighed secretly as he removed the tribal mark from his armor. In the third month of becoming a horse thief, horse thieves are no strangers to the steppe people, in fact, there have never been horse thieves on the grassland, only those cowardly southerners will call those tribal cavalry who are temporarily willing to plunder as horse thieves, the steppe people generally welcome the caravan, can bring weapons and food, and take away the surplus cattle and sheep caravans, has always been the most popular store, so the grassland tribe will generally protect the caravan within the scope of its control. Otherwise, if the caravan is destroyed by the enemy, or if it does not come next time, no one knows how many years it will be before a caravan arrives, but the order from above is so. The elites of the border army were dispatched to pretend to be horse thieves and keep an eye on the movements of the Falcon Imperial army on the opposite side

The strength of the Imperial army now hangs like a dark cloud over the sky, a vast land with a large number of powerful cavalry like raging wolves. It represents brutality and strength, so much so that even the Lord Zamu Hebi in the Eighth Army of the Eastern Court died at the hands of the Empire. It is said that there is a quarrel on the side of the grassland royal court, and the dignitaries of all clans are clamoring for revenge, but until now, I have not seen any cavalry of any clan coming, and Bo Guo Zhuoying is not clear about this doubt, but the order above is that the patrol range must be expanded to 50 miles every day, and it seems that the above seems to have detected something,

Bo Guo Zhuo Ying came to the camp on the edge of a river beach that had not yet frozen, and the clear river water let the water gush out from the snow-white ground, just when Bo Guo Zhuo Ying was pouring water into the skin bag that the water carried with him by the river, a cavalryman who bent down and washed his face suddenly pointed to the distance to the west, and shouted with a frightened face, "Look, what is that?" Bo Guo Zhuo Ying quickly turned around, only glanced at it, and shouted with a big change in his face, "Get on the horse." It's the Imperial Cavalry!" The steppe people who were resting in the camp hurriedly ran in a panic, and put their saddles on their war horses from the new, and some even looked around for war horses that ran to graze in the distance, which can be described as quite chaotic

In the direction of the ice field to the west, the swift black line was wrapped in something like a white mist, and the momentum rushed towards this side, and the sun had just just revealed half of its face from the clouds, and the light dark clouds were like a black veil, and the low-hanging morning fog had dispersed. In the hazy morning light, black lines emerged from the edge of the grass, dim and messy a large stretch of the road infinitely far away, a team of cavalry began to rush down like a huge arc, the air was suffocated and solidified at this moment, the brilliance of the metal flashed with the breath of killing, the black sky was also bright at this moment, a layer of golden light appeared in the east, dozens of narrow black dots began to move forward slowly, a team of elite cavalry wearing light chain mail appeared on the frozen grass knoll in the distance, under the horse's hooves was the fog that had not completely dissipated, the cavalry bayonet in the hand formed a cold light flickering forest in the fog, and several huge queues were like a sea of war horses。

Murphy Boone rode on a meadow hill, the cold wind blowing his thick short hair, and the cross-collared helmet on his head, looking into the distance with solemnity and ruthlessness,

"Order the squadrons to move forward and level the lair of those horse bandits one by one!" Murphy Boone raised his hand with an indifferent face, the horse thieves here chose a good camp, it is not easy to find a place with grass roots and water sources in the frozen wilderness, in the distant horizon, some messy grassland tents are distributed there, from a distance it looks like a large white sheep, in the early morning air as thin as smoke and dust, there is also white cooking smoke for breakfast, Bo Guo Zhuoying, the most fierce one among the horse thieves,

Murphy Boone, the fierce general of the battlefield who has been silent since the death of the southwest, naturally knows very well what is going on with those horse bandits who appear and disappear on the border, if it is really a horse thief who plunders the caravan, he has long been strangled by the cavalry of the East Court on the opposite side, and there will be more and more fights, the largest one is like Bo Guo Zhuo Ying in front of him, which has increased to five hundred horses, many of which are fast horses and light horses who are good at bow shooting, and their archery skills are exquisite, which is simply a copy of the elite cavalry of the East Court, and the regular army of the East Court people chose to retreat, and it is normal to use horse thieves as eyeliner, in the face of the empire's upcoming big moves, how can they tolerate the existence of these jumping clowns,

The nest of the horse bandits has long been discovered, just fifty miles beyond the border of the East Garden, the long wall asks to clear the border, which basically means that you can start a war with the people of the East Court on a certain distance, this will be the last chance for the Murphy Dragon Armor Cavalry to show its sharpness, if you can't enter the eyes of the Falcon Emperor again, the elite on this battlefield will be completely destroyed by yourself, so this time, you will go all out, if you can provoke the regular army of the East Court on the opposite side to make a move, it will be a better situation,

The smoke-billowing grassland, hundreds of tents smoked, red flames licked through the felt roof of the tent like a greedy cat, a section of burning tent support, crackling and exploding in the flames, the sparks were blown apart by the wind, and in the burning camp of flames, thousands of corpses lay in the muddy blood, surrounded by scattered supplies, broken scimitars, and the corpses of war horses lying in clusters, and the sheepfold still had the sound of the sheep screaming, but their owners had become cold corpses on the ground,

The searching Murphy Dragonarmored cavalry galloped by, and every time the horse's hooves stepped on the bright red human blood on the ground, it was thick and terrifying, splashing on the curly hair of the sheep, which looked so shocking,

Half of Bo Guo Zhuoying's corpse was lying in the curved water, and the bones on his body were almost crushed by the heavy horse's hooves, he couldn't figure it out until he died, he was such a camp of no more than a thousand, was it worth the imperial army on the opposite side to send tens of thousands of people to encircle and suppress it?

On February 4, the Northwest Wilderness Legion of the Empire, Murphy Oboone, personally led 20,000 Murphy dragon cavalry into the territory of Dongting, and strangled more than 3,000 people of the Dongting border army in the name of encircling and suppressing horse thieves, opening the prelude to the second war between the empire and the Dongting grassland (to be continued......