Chocobos are a bit faster than alpacas but have less stamina.

In order to save the physical strength of the chocobo during the general march, the cavalry often led the chocobo on foot; On a fast march, they will ride thirty cubs and walk thirty cubies, alternating between advances; And tonight, Lydia's team ran wildly, and it was a hurried march. It's just that chocobos don't have very good stamina, and their rest must be taken care of.

At night, the desert is windy and sandy, and the temperature is low. Most of the people of the Wild Sand Empire carried a roll of thick felt on their alpacas to protect them from the cold in the desert. But Lydia, chocobo knights, have an easier solution.

They first sat down on the chocobo in the sand, sat cross-legged against the chocobo's belly, and covered most of its body with a warm wing, so that they could simply take a nap.

They had been running in the desert for a long time, and now they were tired and hungry. Axy and Nick huddled in the wagon wrapped in felt, relying on the charcoal stove and a pot of soju that Lydia had given them before they set out.

"Sir, those cavalrymen shouldn't freeze to death, right?" Nick shuddered. He had been fighting in the Sand Empire, and had never used a horse like the Chocobo.

Aksai's body was already weak, and although he was holding the charcoal stove, he was still shivering, and he couldn't speak at all.

Suddenly a dark figure walked under their cart, and dropped a bamboo tube in front of each of the cavalrymen, and finally he walked back in a circle, and threw two more bamboo tubes into Aksai's car.

"What is this?" Nick was about to ask, but the dark figure had already walked to the distant sand dunes, as if looking at something.

Kiss.

Several nearby cavalrymen had already skillfully opened the bamboo tube.

There are four sections in this bamboo tube, one with water, one with cold fried noodles, one with potato chunks mixed with sauce, and the last with a few stones.

"What are they doing?" Axe's teeth trembled.

Nick looked at the cavalrymen carefully and poured half of the water into the stone tube, and the remaining half into the fried noodles. Then the bamboo tube filled with water was used as a lid, and the four bamboo tubes were put together again. After a while, hot air erupted from the cracks in the bamboo tubes of those people.

Axy reached out and carefully touched the stone in the bamboo tube, "This seems to be lime?" ”

It dawned on him that "they were using water and lime to generate heat, and they were cooking meals. ”

The two hurriedly concocted the same method, and after a while, their bamboo tubes also began to get hot. The two of them were even reluctant to bear the heat around the bamboo tube, and while greedily covering their hands to feel the warmth, they sighed at the wisdom of the Red Pavilion.

After tasting the hot potato meat sauce noodles, both Nick and Axie felt warm again. Nick even thinks that if he had invented such a military artifact earlier, he would have led his army to level the Demon Realm and cut off the heads of the Demon Lord and the Demon King.

The two of them didn't know about this so-called artifact at all, but the gluttonous Lydia suddenly remembered the self-hilarious pot one day.

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Lydia took a nap under the chocobo's wings, and didn't open her eyes until she heard footsteps in the sand.

On such a cold night, the only thing that can walk around outside at will is not smiling.

Seeing him walking towards her, Lydia shifted to make room in her wings. But he just shook his hand, "I'm not going to be cold." ”

Lydia glanced at him, and indeed this guy shouldn't be cold. Now this desert is only more than ten degrees below zero, looking at his eyes and tone, I am afraid it is already minus 500 degrees - she doesn't care about "absolute zero", she thinks it is definitely minus 500 degrees.

Buxiao sat down beside her, who in Lydia's opinion should be an all-powerful person, with a rare worried look on her face at the moment.

"Are you worried about Heather?" Lydia couldn't bear to continue laughing at his stupid pact.

Looking at the stars in the sky without smiling, "Heather Fort is not difficult." ”

Lydia looked at it in disbelief and didn't smile, thinking that this guy didn't suffer the loss of the siege battle?

"How much do you know?" Don't smile and ask suddenly.

Lydia shook her head, as if trying to stir up her long-precipitated memories, "Just remember being someone who can take on the form of anyone." I heard that it is very beautiful, more beautiful than black snow. ”

After speaking, she remembered that she hadn't seen Hei Ningxue at all if she didn't smile, "It's useless to be pretty, you don't have a chance anyway." She is now the empress of the Wild Sand Empire, and if I remember correctly, the emperor is eighty or ninety years old. ”

"As a queen, she went to the front line to supervise the war." Without smiling, he asked, "Why?" ”

Lydia's eyes widened, and she put on a "how could I possibly know" expression.

Bu smiled and sighed, "It seems that it is very important for the demons there." ”

Lydia suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem, originally thinking that it was just a tribal dispute at the tribal level of the Wild Sand Empire, and the most serious thing was just a factional battle between the Thousand-Faced Enchantress and the former general. But she never expected that behind this battle, it might be the confrontation between the demons and the Red Pavilion.

How could the Red Pavilion, which now only has two thousand troops, be the opponent of the Demon Race?

"Don't worry, the Thousand-Faced Enchantress's Overseer team only has five hundred people." When he said this without laughing, he seemed to forget that the cavalry they brought with them this time was only seventy.

Lydia's mind was in turmoil again, so she threw out the summary question again and again: "Then what do you say we should do?" ”

"Perhaps," Bu smiled and pondered, "we'll be invited in." ”

All the military ideas that Lydia had accumulated in this world collapsed at this moment.

"The defender and the besieging party agreed not to attack the city within ten days" is no longer a strange thing, the man in front of him actually delusionally thought that the other party occupied the fortress but did not defend it, but invited him to visit the city.

Did he think that the other party was a tourism company that wanted to develop Shinanbao into a playground or resort?

Seeing that she was not smiling and expressionless, Lydia knew that her mind was probably full of intrigues.

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Interestingly, since that break, I haven't spoken without laughing. Even every order to rest was replaced by a bell.

Fortunately, Lydia has been with Buxiao for a long time, and has long since become accustomed to his quiet temper. But Harold was nervous and nervous, thinking why the place was offended by taboos.

The cavalry marched for another day and a night, and at dawn the next day, they finally saw the outline of the earthen fort, and the barracks outside the earthen fort, which still hung its banner.

As if seeing the smoke and dust of the cavalry, five alpacas ran out of the barracks and ran straight towards the cavalry. As they got closer, Lydia saw the banner in their hands, which read "Star of the Sands".

Is there really anyone in this world who would invite enemy troops into the city? Lydia couldn't help but fall into deep thought.