After a long time.

Zhao Que walked out of the tent, he did not punish the ninth shi, but sat with these soldiers and ate a hot pot happily.

It's just that when I was leaving, I took the pot away......

Although the people of the ninth Shi were exempted from a punishment, they also lost the hot pot because of it, and they whimpered and mourned.

Nothing happened overnight.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Que led the White Horse Battalion and continued to advance north.

Hurry up all the way.

By the fourth day, this 100-man vanguard force had penetrated more than 400 miles into the grassland, and the vast grassland was covered with snow, and there was no life in sight.

Zhao Que took out a map from his arms.

This map, provided by the priest of the Moon Worship Division, shows the terrain of the steppe and the location of some of the Injung tribes.

Along the way, he had found seven of the Dog Rong tribes.

All of them were exterminated, and none of them were spared.

Looking at the eighth exterminated dog tribe in front of him, his face was ugly.

This exterminated Inurong tribe did not leave a single human corpse. Only the carcasses of cattle, sheep and livestock, and all the carcasses of people were gone.

It's so weird!

Every time he saw these empty dog camps, Zhao Que would have a feeling of chilling all over his body.

According to the currently known information, the northern ghost country that disappeared in ancient times and only existed in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is likely to reappear in the world.

Sixteen countries of ghosts, thirty-three demons.

According to the description in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, there are sixteen small countries in the ghost country, and there are thirty-three kinds of demons and monsters living in it.

The main force of the Inujon was wiped out by a one-eyed giant from the country of Ichimoku.

Although the cyclops like to eat people, they only eat the living, and the corpses of the disappeared dogs should not have been done by the one-eyed giants......

"Could it be that it's not just the one-eyed giant that appears on the grassland, but also other ghost country demons?"

After some deliberation by Zhao Que, his face changed in horror.

The military sent a large number of scouts to the grassland, and although they did not find the true body of the cyclops, they found some huge humanoid footprints, which should have been left by the cyclops.

The existence of the cyclops has basically been confirmed.

The White Horse Battalion and other forward troops, this grassland operation is mainly to find out the whereabouts of the cyclops.

I didn't expect it.

The whereabouts of the one-eyed giant were not discovered, but Zhao Que was aware of the existence of another demon.

But.

These are just speculations, and he doesn't have any evidence.

"Keep going!"

Zhao Que suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, led everyone, and continued all the way north.

A few hours later.

They finally encountered their first enemy, a pack of giant ice wolves, numbering more than thirty, each as tall and majestic as a cow.

Especially the head wolf.

It is almost twice the size of a normal ice wolf, and its fur is not white, but exudes a faint silver color.

"Woohoo!"

The head wolf led the wolves and confronted each other from the White Horse Battalion led by Zhao Que from a distance of several hundred meters.

Apparently.

This group of ice giant wolves knew that the group of people in front of them was not easy to mess with, so they did not attack at the first time, but secretly observed and waited for the opportunity to move.

"Dismount and prepare for battle!"

Zhao Que waved his hand and ordered.

Hundreds of soldiers quickly dismounted and lined up to meet the battle.

These specially trained and well-trained war horses all stayed in place and did not run around, but they were a little restless because of the aura emitted by the giant wolf in the ice field.

"Attack!"

Zhao Que did not issue specific combat orders, but ordered the whole army to charge, on a per-tithe basis, and play freely.

"Kill!"

Hundreds of soldiers roared, only to pounce on the giant wolf of the ice field on the opposite side.

“……”

The head wolf and his friends were stunned.

This group of two-legged beasts, seeing that they not only did not flee, but took the initiative to attack, this ...... Something is wrong.

Shout! Shout! Shout!

A rain of arrows fell from the sky and shot at the wolves.

The first to shoot is the second Shi of the White Horse Battalion, which is composed of archers, everyone is a master of archery, especially Shi Changchun Yuxin, who has practiced archery for 18 years, and is perfect in archery.

Zhao Que said before that he had a unique archer under him, and asked Zhang Qi to worship him as a teacher, which was what he was talking about.

The wolves were rushed by this wave of arrows and screamed.

There were three giant wolves in the ice field, unable to move, and they were all shot into their heads by arrows from their eye sockets, killing them instantly.

"Sure enough, it's a master!"

Zhang Qi, who was charging with a tiger's head double-section gun, glanced at Chun Yuxin not far away, just now this person shot three arrows in a row, and the arrows were killed!

To know.

Ice wolves move extremely fast and have a strong sense of danger, making it difficult to hit their bodies.

Not to mention shooting them in the eye sockets.

Zhang Qi thinks he can't do it.

"I must ask for advice in the future."

With such a thought, Zhang Qi and the soldiers roared into the wolves.

Didn't hold up for a single round.

These thirty ice giant wolves were directly defeated by a wave, leaving seven or eight corpses, and the remaining ice giant wolves all fled to the north with their tails between their legs.

The speed of these wolves was so fast that they escaped a few miles away in just such a short time.

The people behind couldn't catch up at all.

"I want to run!"

Zhao Que stared at the head wolf running at the front, and kicked the white horse under his crotch with his foot, "Chase!" ”

"Boom!"

After the white horse snorted, the four hooves of the horse trampled the ground.

In the next second, the white horse sprinted out violently, and its huge body burst out at an unimaginable speed, getting faster and faster, until in the end, there was almost only an afterimage left.

But for a moment.

Zhao Que rode a white horse to catch up with the head wolf who had run more than ten miles away.

The two are getting closer.

The head wolf turned his head suddenly, opened his huge mouth, and spewed out a light blue freezing cold current towards Zhao Que.

Everywhere the cold snap went, everything froze.

Zhao Que waved his hand, and a stream of red true qi swept out, melting this cold current.

Not only that, the snow in a radius of 100 meters melted in an instant, and the withered grass buried under the snow burned instantly, like a number of firewood, when it encountered a raging fire, turning into flames......

"Die!"

Zhao Que rode a white horse, rushed out of the flames, and cut off the head of the wolf with a sword.

The head wolf, who had lost his head, ran forward for more than ten meters before he fell to the ground with a bang.

Until half an hour later.

The soldiers who were left behind rode horses, took the corpses of eight ice giant wolves, and found the main general Zhao Que.

But see.

The general squatted on the ground, holding a dagger in one hand and a piece of meat cut from the head wolf in the other, skillfully cutting the wolf meat rolls, piece by piece.

Everyone looked at each other.

Zhang Qi hid in the crowd and sighed: It's over, I can't get my hot pot back.

Then.

Zhao Que stood up suddenly, his eyes locked on Zhang Qi precisely.

"Zhang Sanlang, out of the ranks."

"Here."

"Bring water to a boil and cook a hot pot for Ben."

“……”