From the second day, Xia Qi began to think about the expeditionary force.

Since an expeditionary force is to be sent to absorb the barbarian natives, then a general with sufficient ability is definitely needed.

The generals guarding the border must not move, and on the other side of the grassland, Hawke and Kereh need to manage their respective tribes while monitoring the grassland.

It's that guy Silan, who leads his light cavalry troops to gallop on the grassland all day long, saying that he is training, but in fact he is spreading joy.

He could be an alternative, but his whereabouts are a question.

Xia Qi decided to let Xiaobai look for it, if he could find the best, if he couldn't, forget it.

However, cavalry alone will not do, after all, they are going to capture the natives this time, and they will inevitably enter the mountains and conquer the city.

In both of these areas, cavalry is not good at.

Siege and movement in the mountains and forests, the orcs are undoubtedly the best at it.

However, the targets of Xia Qi this time were mainly those humans, so the orcs were a little inappropriate.

Because the orcs used to capture the indigenous humans, but the consequence of this is that the loyalty of those humans will become very low.

If it is said that these indigenous humans are captured by the human army, these people have a minimum loyalty of more than 60 after surrendering.

And if it is an orc, their loyalty will not exceed 60 at most, and there will even be a situation where some people would rather die than surrender.

Therefore, the orc army was just passed by Xia Qi in his mind, and he passed it.

Li Chuan's words need to guard the northeast region of Great Xia.

Xiong's words, as his first team and first warrior, his loyalty and force value needless to say.

But this guy is a little reckless, and once some things come to the fore, except for Xia Qi, even his mother-in-law Qingyang can't persuade him.

Suddenly, Xia Qi thought of someone.

This person, whose strength is no less than Xiong, is also one of the people who joined Great Xia in the early days, and he is also the elder brother of one of the only two women in Xia Qi now, and his loyalty is definitely leveraged.

This person is the white wolf.

Since a long time ago, the white wolf has begun to lead an army alone, and its ability to lead the army is not much to say.

Moreover, he has a modest, low-key personality, and listens to persuasion.

How low-key is the white wolf?

If it weren't for Xia Qi thinking about how many generals there were in Great Xia, he hadn't thought of him for a long time.

Where are the white wolves now?

He was sitting in Qingyan City, not far from Great Xia City.

But at the beginning, Qingyan City was the border, so naturally it needed a general with outstanding strength and Xia Qi's trust.

But now, there is a new city further north of Qingyan City, and Qingyan City is no longer a frontier, and Xia Qi is completely able to transfer him back to carry out a new mission.

After the generals of the Southern Expedition were determined, Xia Qi wrote an order to Silan and the White Wolf respectively.

The white wolf's words are easy to say, just let the herald send them over.

As for Silan, Xia Qi could only let Xiaobai try his luck.

Xiaobai flies high and fast, and has no natural enemies, which is the most suitable for this task.

Xia Qi came to a huge building, which was made of wood splicing, round in shape, and without a roof, it opened like a huge bird's nest.

In fact, it's a bird's nest.

Here, it's Xiaobai's nest.

Xiaobai was napping in the nest, and compared to other eagles, it was much happier.

Don't worry about food, and don't be afraid of other eagles coming to grab the land.

Every day is to eat, sleep, and occasionally go out to play and fly around.

Seeing Xia Qi coming, Xiaobai was happy, and opened his wings that were enough to cover the sky and the sun.

The resulting wind directly blew Xia Qi's hair into chaos, and his clothes were also blown hunting.

This is not bad, some thin female officers have been blown to the ground.

"Stop, stop!"

Xiaobai also found out that he was in trouble at this time, and immediately stopped flapping his wings, lowering his head and not daring to look at Xia Qi.

"Okay~"

Xia Qi stretched out his hand and touched Xiao Bai's lowered head, then took out a letter from his arms and tied it to his leg, and ordered: "Give this letter to Silan, that is, the guy who looks very burnt on a golden war horse and has blonde hair." ”

Xiaobai nodded his head, indicating that he had understood, and then walked out of the bird's nest, and after a period of running in the open field outside, he finally flew into the sky leisurely.

Hu flapped his wings and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

Three days later, the white wolf came to Great Xia City, and after reporting to Xia Qi, he stayed in his residence in Great Xia City and rarely went out.

On the other side, Xiaobai flew and stopped in the grassland, and five days passed.

In the past five days, Xiaobai has flown thousands of kilometers in total, and finally found Silan.

When Xiaobai found Silan, Silan was leading the light cavalry under his command and teasing a horse thief.

On the light cavalry side, there were two thousand people, while the horse thieves on the opposite side were only about six hundred, and the strength of the two sides could be said to be very different.

He could easily catch up with the horse thief, but he just didn't do it, so he fell behind the horse thief, driving them fast and slowly, and making them tired.

Duride was about to cry, and he received the task of Schwaka to go to the outskirts of the steppe to see how the situation was in Great Xia, and whether it had been affected by the drought and locust plague of last year.

At present, Schwagka has led the Morhan tribe to annex several large tribes, as well as several small and medium-sized tribes, and has grown tremendously.

However, he still has a longing for the Great Xia in the south.

In other words, it was because he was worried about being retaliated against by Great Xia last year, and fled to the depths of the grassland in a hurry.

If there was news from Duride that Great Xia had suffered heavy losses, Schwarka would immediately move south and stay in Great Xia.

On the contrary, he continued to lead the Morhan tribe to stay in the depths of the steppe and develop silently.

However, he didn't know that as soon as Duride came to the outskirts of the grassland, he was targeted.

This grassland has just undergone cleaning, not to mention horse thieves, even the herdsmen who graze their herds, all from the two tribes of Kereh and Blue Wolf.

Their group of outsiders is too conspicuous.

In the face of the light cavalry led by Silan, Duride didn't even have the idea of resisting, and led his subordinates to turn around and run.

But he underestimated the speed of the light cavalry, if it weren't for Silan wanting to play a little longer, they would have died under the iron hooves of the light cavalry.

"Chirp—"

At this moment, a loud eagle cry came, and Silan couldn't help but look up at the sky, only to see a huge white eagle hovering in the sky.

Silan recognized it at a glance, isn't this His Majesty's eagle?

He realized that His Majesty must have something to find him, and immediately ordered: "Take them down!" ”

The light cavalry was worthy of being light cavalry, and these horse thieves were surrounded at once, and at this time it was too late for the horse thieves to resist, and the battle was over in less than half an hour.

All of the horse thieves died, none of the light cavalry died, and only a dozen or so men were slightly wounded.

Silan beckoned to Xiao Bai in the sky, and when Xiao Bai saw this, he immediately swooped down towards the ground.

Xiaobai's movement when he landed was very great, rolling up a large area of sandstone and grass clippings, and scraping towards Silan's head.

"Phew, phew!"

Si Lan spit out the sand in his mouth, but his eyes when he looked at Xiaobai were full of love.

For a prairie man, there is nothing that does not like eagles.

Xiao Bai didn't care about Si Lan's eyes, lowered his head and pointed to the animal skin bag tied to his left leg, and after Si Lan took it off, he spread his dual grip and flew in the direction where Great Xia City was located.

And Si Lan, after reading Xia Qi's warrant in the animal skin bag, immediately handed over the command to the deputy general, and he took five hundred light cavalry and ran in the direction of Great Xia City.

It took less than two days for Xiaobai to return to Daxia City, and after eating two sheep, he lay down in the bird's nest and fell asleep.

And on the fourth day after Xiaobai returned to Great Xia City, Si Lancai finally led a thousand light cavalry under his command to arrive in Great Xia City.

Since the two of them had arrived, Xia Qi summoned them to the Council Hall and told the two of them about the Southern Expedition again.

Then, with the white wolf as the main general and Silan as the deputy general, he led a thousand infantry and five hundred cavalry to form a southern expeditionary army to carry out the southern expedition, requiring them to incorporate all the indigenous tribes found along the road.

After a week of preparations, the Southern Expeditionary Army officially set off.

Half a month later, the Southern Expeditionary Army sent the first batch of more than 500 natives.

Under the military peak of Great Xia, those natives were not the enemies of Great Xia at all.

From this day on, every half month, the Southern Expeditionary Army will send a group of natives.

The most is two thousand, and the least is six or seven hundred.

With the intake of these people, the shortage of people in Great Xia has been alleviated.

Every time a group of people arrives, Xia Qi will take the lead in selecting a group of young people who are suitable for being soldiers and put them into the barracks.

The rest of the people were also distributed to various places to contribute to the prosperity of Great Xia.

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The howling north wind carried a little wind and snow, which made everyone can't help but shrink their necks.

In the bitter cold land, the ice and snow do not melt all year round.

Rowling looked at the map in her hand and shouted at everyone, "Let's work hard and get the camp up before it gets dark!" ”

Unlike before, on the previous trip, they went directly into the bitter cold land and went straight to the resource point.

And this time, according to His Majesty the Emperor's wishes, they had to carry out a carpet search, and draw a more complete map while exploring geology and looking for mineral resources.

Their location is now in the outermost part of the bitter cold lands, but there are still large areas that have not been explored in the east and west directions, except for the north.

It is estimated that it will not be possible to carry out a detailed geological survey of these areas, confirm the mineral deposits, and draw a map in less than a month, or even two months.

Therefore, it is necessary to set up a temporary camp first.

One tent after another was quickly erected, and then a circle of ice and snow was placed around the perimeter, and the melted water was poured on, and within an hour, a solid wall of ice and snow appeared.

Such a simple makeshift camp can be completed in just one day.

The next morning, after leaving the logisticians in the camp and leaving some kobold spearmen and northern warriors to garrison, the members of the exploration team took the rest of the group to start a new day of exploration.

The composition of the entire exploration team is actually very complicated.

There are capable scouts, skilled draftsmen, and skilled goblin geologists, goblin miners, and miners.

Of course, there is also a need for locals like Rowling and Alola who are familiar with the environment and terrain.

Add to that the logisticians and escorts who stayed in the camp, and there were even more of them, confirming the route, drawing maps, and carrying out their work step by step.

After nearly a month of such days, the work of the exploration team finally paid off.

"Look at this, everybody."

As he spoke, one of the team members raised the fist-sized stone in his hand.

"There seems to be metal ore in this stone."

Hearing this, the two goblins in cotton jackets in the team hurriedly ran up, and after taking the ore and looking at it for a while, the goblin, who was an orerist, immediately rubbed his chin.

"Based on my personal experience, this should be a piece of copper ore, of course, the specific situation will have to wait until I return to the camp for further testing before we can get the results."

In this regard, everyone was excited, no matter what, there must be a vein in this vicinity!

As the leader of the exploration team, Rowling showed a relieved look at this time.

According to the rules and regulations made before the expedition team set off, she, the captain, had to send a regular report back every month.

Last month's regular report, except for the map drawn, can be said to have found nothing, which made her, the captain, very stressful.

But looking at the current situation, this month, she was finally able to come up with some results.

And, in addition to these, Rowling finally saw Xia Qi's hope of fulfilling his promise and building a city in a bitter cold land.