For Amy, his first real rise to the lead did not go well...... At the very least, it was a bad start. At this point, he was even a little envious of Chi Aotian's expeditionary army. In that army, the small mercenary group system will definitely obey Chi Aotian's orders one hundred percent, while the Black Dragon Knights are simply equivalent to the Chi family's private army, and they have not discounted orders from the Chi family at all for hundreds of years, even to the point where they only know that there is the Chi family but do not know that there is His Majesty the King. After Chi Hanfeng died in battle, Chi Aotian raised his arms with righteousness and personal enmity, and he would definitely get the unreserved cooperation of the Black Dragon Knights.

As in front of her, Amy had absolute authority in the small mercenary group, but what about the large number of officers? These officers were all from the aces of the Imperial ace army. The four major knights of the empire and the imperial guard, pull out a squadron at random, and there is a lot of glorious history behind the buttocks, 500 years of imperial history, and only 63 years without war, which army is not tempered into steel? Officers above the squadron leader, which one does not have the title of nobility? As soon as the second son, Earl Chi Hanfeng, the second son of Marshal Chi Datong, the head of the first famous family in the imperial army, took office as general of Gyeonggi, there were three captains working against each other under the nose of the military department? Amy can suppress it as the head of a mercenary regiment?

In order to assimilate the Imperial officers as much as possible and avoid unnecessary internal friction in future wars, Amy can only pull them into the battle council, and must learn to mediate between them, and finally achieve her own goals. This kind of suffering, people who have not experienced it, will never understand.

Just when Amy was envying Chi Aotian in the snowfield, he didn't know that the remnants of Chi Aotian's expeditionary force at this time were about to fall into a desperate situation of life and death!

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In the known world, the most unsuitable places for human life are not rugged mountains, not icy snowfields, nor swamps that can kill people at any time! Although these places are terrible, human beings can still come up with a way, even if they are bottomless swamps, human beings can save themselves and be rescued.

Desert, the boundless desert is the real forbidden land for human beings! Even the races that have lived in the desert area all their lives, once they leave their oasis, leave the area they are familiar with, every one of them will have a look of fear on their faces. If you fall into a desert area, you will never be able to escape because of the overwhelming number of people...... The more people there are, the faster death is likely to come.

Without water, it is difficult to survive five days in the desert, even with enough water, under the scorching sun at noon, the surface temperature of the desert is as high as 60 °, which is enough to make everyone prostrate or even lose consciousness, and at night, the surface temperature of the desert may only be minus 20 °, which is the most efficient killer in the desert except for the lack of water!

Death in the desert is more than that!

The desert, as it seems, is a lifeless Jedi. However, in reality, it is infested with all kinds of creatures. Living in this extremely harsh environment, they are trained to be strong, evil, and even vicious to the extreme! It is difficult for them to find food, so they take all the foreign creatures that dare to invade their territory as their food, and when they encounter a caravan, they rush over from all corners with excitement like a celestial party, waiting for the opportunity to get their share from it! They are much more terrifying than their siblings in other environments, the same rattlesnakes, a small rattlesnake with an eggshell still hanging from the desert is enough to bring down a giant elephant, and adult rattlesnakes in the plains are often food for dogs.

Of course, these stories are told to people who have never been to the heart of the desert, and most people will not believe them. Only those who have actually entered the heart of the desert will talk about the discoloration of the sand - those who talk about the discoloration of the sand have all fallen in the desert.

In order to avoid the annihilation of the entire army, in order to avoid the aerial scouts of the Panoth Dragon Knights, the remnants of the Chi Aotian Legion have been staying in this place where the sand color changes for nearly ten days!

In the heyday of the expeditionary force, the total number of troops had exceeded the 20,000 mark! After that battle, the total number of soldiers who escaped was only 5,139, of which 3,721 were originally subordinate to the Black Dragon Knights, 456 were mercenaries of the original small mercenary group, 17 were former soldiers of the Xueyue Legion, and the rest were allies of the expeditionary force.

No dragon knight had ever tried to shoot dragon breath at the river, and of course, no one could have imagined that the dragon breath of the two giant dragons would engulf nearly 10,000 soldiers in an instant with the power of the river.

Of course, Chi Aotian didn't know, otherwise...... Chi Aotian would never give the Grand Duke of the Iron Hand such a chance. If there is also one consolation that the proportion of losses of the senior officers of the expeditionary force did not reach the proportion of the losses of the legionnaires. Even so, one group leader and two squadron leaders, as well as five squad leaders, were erased from the expeditionary force's roster that night...... Among them, there are several officers who are the key training officers of the Black Dragon Knights.

Chi Aotian in a rage was going crazy, but fortunately, the two elders in the expeditionary force with enough weight stopped Chi Aotian's revenge, leaving black lightning and 20 forest elves to search for surviving soldiers, Tayang and Su Wen commanded more than 5,000 survivors to stride away and march northward, plunging headlong into the forest-covered Qilian Mountain Range.

The two middle-aged people were not comparable to young people like Chi Aotian and Qu Jianhong in terms of detail, and Ta Yang and Su Wen had the same opinion - they had only rested for less than two hours in the Qilian Mountains, and as soon as night fell, the expeditionary force advanced towards the hinterland of the desert.

In this world, many times it is full of coincidences.

On this day, it was the autumn solstice of the 6th year of the magic calendar, and not long after the remnants of Chi Aotian entered the hinterland of the desert, the annual monsoon wind blew - this wind landed in the northernmost part of the Eminole continent, and blew southeast along the northern foot of the Qilian Mountain Range, and blew all night, and the traces left by the 5,000 soldiers were long since dawn smoothed out by the wind and sand.

In fact, early the next morning, Han Han and several other dragon knights who came to reinforce in the starry night searched the ground. Coincidentally, because the monsoon winds were blocked by the mountains and did not enter the southern foothills, this resulted in the fact that all the traces left by the expeditionary force on the south side of the mountain range were there, but there was nothing on the north side.

This just gave several dragon knights a unified answer - the Chi Aotian Expeditionary Force was still hiding in the Qilian Mountains. Of course, this judgment is also normal, even if it is an elite army, without camel team supplies, entering the desert is a life of death, if you must avoid the pursuit, let the dense forest that stretches for thousands of miles in the Qilian Mountains not hide, will there still be people in the desert to die?

After setting fire to Mount Giren, the dragon knights of Fanos also searched the desert area, but after all, the human eye could not compare to the elves.

In order to prevent the detection of traces by the Phanotic legions, the expeditionary force was completely day and night. During the day, the soldiers spread their tents on the bottom of the valley on the north side of the dunes, and took their mounts into them, and piled up sand on top of the tents. The forest elves are changing shifts to monitor the movement in the sky, especially the dragon knights!In fact, the four dragon knights of Long and Lingyun have also searched for this generation, but the expeditionary force does not know that His Majesty Redstone has successfully sealed the dragon, and although the elves' eyes are sharp, they cannot penetrate the dragon like X-rays to see the dragon knights, so when they see the dragon of Long and Lingyun's mounts, the expeditionary force did not cheer, but pressed the tent tighter.

With Chi Aotian's temper, of course he didn't want to do this. Su Wen and Ta Yang joined forces to exert pressure, and the old guy's reason was very simple-although the expeditionary force was not afraid of death, it was absolutely impossible to look at the iron wall and crash into it like a two-pole, and the two old guys said exactly the same: use the desert to deal with the enemy, and when the enemy has relaxed his vigilance or even begun to move the army to other battlefields, he will insert it like a knife! Not only to achieve Chi Aotian's pitiful purpose at the beginning- The burning of Ulu is to completely disrupt the enemy's arrangement, so that the empire's major theaters can wait for the opportunity to eat part of the enemy.

Such an abacus crackled, and it sounded like that. Chi Aotian's good quality of being good is once again reflected - this is probably the only merit in Chi Aotian's personality system.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven.

How many people in the world know about the desert? How many officers in the empire have been born and died in the desert? Su Wen, who has served in the Northern Federation for nearly 20 years, is a firehead, and in the ice and snow, he can definitely listen to his companions talk about the desert no more than 10 times a year! Ta Yang is even more pitiful for the desert.

As good commanders, they were able to discover how to evade detection in the desert in the shortest possible time, but none of this could hide the mistakes of command of the entire legion due to their ignorance.

There is no way, a person who has never been in the desert will never really understand the hidden death and killing mechanism in the desert under any circumstances! This is like saying "sour, sour, sour, sour Chinese...... to a foreigner who does not move at all", even if the person's teeth are falling, there will never be any reaction in his mouth.

Originally, Qingluo still had some understanding of the desert, but unfortunately, he had entered the desert with caravans before, and he had taken ancient roads, and there would be oases every few days to replenish food and water, so he didn't know much about the other side of the desert.

On the seventh day of entering the desert area, the expeditionary force had already begun to feel the pressure! The water had been completely exhausted. At first, in the middle of the night, the elven knights were able to go back with water bladders to fetch some water, but there were too many people, not only people, but also about twice as many war horses and earthly dragons, and the water brought back by more than 200 water bladders could barely moisten the lips.

This is just the beginning, as the Phanos Dragon Knight and the four Dragon Knights of the Little Mercenary Regiment further expanded the search area, the expeditionary force had to advance step by step into the depths of the desert at a speed of 20~30 kilometers every night...... The vulture knights were able to bring back less and less water.

The first thing I couldn't stand was the war horse -- this herbivore couldn't lack water at all, and the little forage that I carried with me could last a few days? At first, there were desert plants such as sand willow in the sand hole, and after 100 kilometers into the desert, there was only yellow sand left in front of me!

The war horse fell head-on!

The order of the senior officers of the expeditionary force was to open the arteries of these convulsive horses and receive blood with water bladders in case of emergency.

What! Is this grandma's order from a man?!

The allies are better, most of the light knights of the Black Dragon Knights are still young trainee knights, watching their black war horses staggering and falling to the ground, there are no people who don't cry at all! These war horses are specially allocated by the Imperial Military Department for the Black Dragon Knights every year, and the dark and snow-white hooves are dark clouds and snow, the white hair on the top of the head is the moonlight, and the white hair on the chest is the cloud, which are all purchased by the Imperial Military Department from the nomadic tribes at a high price. As trainee knights, they were assigned to a one-year-old horse from the day they entered the army, and taking care of their horses was the first lesson in their knightly career. At Tongyun Pass, the horses were sick, and most of the apprentice knights spent the night in the stables with their four-legged companions in their quilts. In war, it is possible for one's robe to betray oneself, but this non-speaking partner will never give up his loyalty until he dies.

The feelings of soldiers for war horses are definitely not something that ordinary herdsmen and ordinary farmers can understand. In the army, old war horses cannot be killed, and the war horses that die in battle will be sent to the special horse mounds of the Black Dragon Knights for burial as long as they have the conditions. Many people have never eaten a bite of horse meat since they became knights in this life!

After receiving such an order, some of the young knights had long forgotten their aristocratic status and jumped up and scolded their mothers, at first it was only a few people, but as more and more war horses fell under the scorching sun, more and more teenagers openly resisted the order, and they climbed out of the sand pit with a face of sand on their heads, and yelled at Ta Yang who came out to issue an order!

The so-called holy priest didn't even take the boys with his eyes, but casually took the war hammer from the sheep-headed man beside him and smashed it twice on his hand.

The furious teenagers were afraid of this threat, and Hula rushed forward, ready to teach the evil old priest in front of him a lesson.

Two cold eyes shot over, the surface temperature of the desert at noon was as high as 50 °, and in this 50 ° high temperature, the invisible cold air was enough to make all the teenagers shiver inexplicably. Chi Aotian walked over step by step, and the dry sand scattered under his feet.

"What are you doing here?" the cold words quickly lowered the temperature.

"Isn't it true that if you are a knight, am I not?" Is there anyone in the Chimen family who is not a knight?" "Don't I know what a war horse is for a knight? Do you still need me to tell you that the imperial capital of Scambrai has been conquered?

The tone is calmer than the other, but the pressure increases word by word.

"As a young man who is a trainee knight of the empire, is it true that you have forgotten what you are doing when you are basked by this sun? Let me tell you, 400 years ago, the battle of the Black Dragon Knights fought for 400 years of dragon power is here! Everyone asks themselves, what did your ancestors do? You really have a long face for your ancestors! A tiger can be bullied by dogs when it falls in Pingyang, and can the most arrogant black dragon in the world be bullied by dogs if he is down?" Chi Aotian did not repeat the order and turned to leave.

The voice of these words was not loud, and in the extremely empty desert, all the soldiers of the Black Dragon Knights could hear it without a word.

It was in this acre that Miss Moe Ikeda fought the majesty of the Black Dragon Knights. Back then, that army of 5,000 people not only killed mounts here, but also ate mounts and even ...... If it weren't for the supplementation of these exotic foods, the Black Dragon Knights would not have the prestige they have today.

The teenagers stopped talking, covering their mouths and wiping their eyes one by one, turning their heads and walking back, choking as they walked, some of them walked with a sore nose, squatted on the ground and cried loudly, tears rushing out of their dry eyes...... The bright scimitar was pulled out, and it emitted a light in the desert, touching the mane of the war horse, the boys were crying, and the young horses were ...... is also crying, there is no war horse that is not psychic, tears the size of beans roll out of the once handsome eyes of the war horse, life and death, the war horse struggles to lick the hands of the young knights with its rough tongue...... Of course, the teenagers knew the meaning of these non-speaking companions who had been with each other for two or three years - they did not hesitate to leave the chance of life to the knights......

As he howled and wept bitterly, the scimitar turned red, and the red liquid rushed out along the horse's neck! Bright red blood sprayed on the faces of the teenagers, and no one reached out to wipe it, and the teenagers cried and received the blood......

A faint fishy smell filled the air...... The horses did not make any screams until they died.

The blood is drained, and the soul of the non-speaking partner has completely left the once vigorous body, perhaps, the war horse also has their own paradise...... The boys dismembered their horses with scimitars and threw large chunks of horse meat at the dragon knights—none of these knights, with an average age of 28, dared to take it by hand, and let the bloody flesh fall to the ground, tore and eaten by the hungry dragons. Of course, the Earth Dragon Knights understood the emotions of these teenagers, and no one comforted them - that was tantamount to talking cool words, and now, the best and only means of comfort was to accompany the young brothers silently to shed tears, the most heart-wrenching tears of fellow knights for the departure of their mount companions......

At this time, in the midst of this pain, no one can know that the greater difficulties, the more dangers, are still smiling hideously ahead......