77. Sweeping the Plains
On the slightly undulating plains, on the mountains that could be seen in the distance, two towering ridges suddenly appeared, as if a great force had split the mountains in the middle.
"My lord, there is the Korniko Pass in front of us, and we have explored the plain in front of the pass, and there are no tribes." After Neal investigates, he returns to Rand and reports to Rand.
Today is November 27th, and it has been 8 days since the rand set out to the south, and in the first 7 days, the rand has traveled an average of less than 30 kilometers a day, except for a fixed march, more for the whole cavalry formation and charge training.
Every day before the camp, Rand would take the knights for 1-2 parades and charges.
After about 10 days of training, the knights of the salt mine have recovered their riding skills, at least now they are on par with the barbarian riders in line and charge, and even the big stones that once despised the knights are now very respectful when they see the knights.
After the noon start, Neil will tell Rand if there are any tribes or targets nearby that he can attack.
Rand swept through all the barbarian camps along the way in 7 or 8 days, and the biggest gain was to directly capture 4 medium-sized tribes, and two medium-sized tribes and eight small tribes took the initiative to join in, allowing Rand to obtain 70 barbarian cavalry (man + horse), and an additional 120 black-scaled horses and more than 30 Terran demon supporters.
The addition of 200 Blackscale Horses allowed Rand to greatly expand his ranks, and now each of the main squadrons of knights has doubled in size, with 10 Demon Champions and 25 Barbarian Cavalry.
The two cavalry teams were supplemented with 10 cavalry, and the teams of Neil and Greyhound were supplemented with 30 demon charmers and cavalry each.
This round of expansion has basically added all the new Blackscale Horses to the team, and Rant's entire strength has reached 400 horsemen, and now the team from Big Stone to Rohr, no one will doubt that Rand can win against the Grey Goose.
Every afternoon, when Rand and his party march to a new camping site, the detachments spread out to hunt, just as Rand had set traps on the rivers, and the demon enthusiasts would hunt for swordfish, mudflow crocodiles, and even ordinary beasts on the plains.
The army has doubled, and the consumption of logistics has doubled, so it is necessary for the demon supporters to hunt and replenish the monster meat on their own, and of course, each team that captures the monster will leave some monster meat for the rand who is busy supervising the placement of the camp and burying the pot to cook in the camp.
The good news about grain and grass is that due to the slow movement of the Rand troops, the position of the large army behind them is getting closer and closer, and the distance of the rand every day is actually within the detection range of the mage's eye on the mast of the luxury carriage, and there is no need to worry about the problems of the team that delivers the grain and grass in the morning.
Therefore, the daily movement trajectory of the two camps is that in the morning Neil reconnoiters forward, Rand trains with his troops, and the rear camp transports grain and grass to Rand; At noon, Neil returned the target, and Rand pulled out the camp, and the rear camp at the same time pulled out the camp and advanced to the site of the camp where Rand left; In the afternoon, Rand set up a new camp, released the various teams to hunt, and set up camp in the rear camp to begin the second morning transport of grain, grass and supplies.
The near-synchronization of the two camps ensures that Rand's camp always has plenty of food, and the main camp in the rear can be supported by the Rand's army at any time, and Rand can also use the supplies of the main camp at noon to understand the problems that Lanya and Gandalf encounter in the management of the camp.
During the march through the camp, Lannia once again showed her excellent management skills, and the entire camp moved in an orderly manner, and it only took 2 days to convince all the demon supporters in the camp.
The day before, at noon on November 26, Neil had come running and saying that he had found an excellent camp with natural level ground and even a few small tribes to supply.
Neil is talking about the ruins of the Night Qi City, that is, the place where the Gray Goose Tribe meets every time, from the highest point of the Night Qi City Ruins, you can already see the Kol Nico Pass, from the ruins to the mountain pass, it will take a day at most.
On the afternoon of the 26th, Rand led his troops to enter under the western wall of the ruins of Night Qi City, under which there was a large open space, and the two small tribes that originally lived surrendered to Rand without any resistance.
Here, Rand also met the latest group of emissaries sent by the head goose, and when the envoy first met Rand, he thought it was reinforcements organized by the grassland to reinforce the gray geese, and while happily hugging Rand, he laughed and scolded them for arriving so late.
Rand didn't reveal himself, but asked about the battle.
"The Viscount Roth who has been blocking us all year round is long gone, I guess you know it.
Ten days ago, we had a great battle with the maned wolf earl, and the old maned wolf hid in his stone castle in ashes, and never came out. ”
"We won the old maned wolf?" Rand could finally say his Earl's nickname without scruples, and Rohr on the side couldn't stop him.
"Yes, it was a few adult priests who showed their magical powers, and the head goose said that he had cursed the old maned wolf." The messenger was very pleased to show off.
"Then since the old maned wolf doesn't dare to nest, does the leader still need our support?"
"Of course we need it, now we don't have much food, in the past two days, Touyan has sent several teams to the small territory of the human race to get food, but I didn't expect to be attacked by the knights of the maned wolf, and we have to lose dozens of people.
The head goose was very annoyed when he found out, didn't he ask me to bring a few brothers over to urge reinforcements on the grassland. ”
"Doesn't that mean that there are less than 200 people in front of us now?"
"That's not true, but don't we still occupy Rot's Castle, where we still have to have some people stationed to watch the slaves we looted before."
"Oh, in this way, thank you so much, don't worry, I will definitely take the soldiers to find the head goose immediately" Lanter sorted out the information he wanted to know most, and handed over a few messengers to his subordinates to solve.
That night, Albert rode directly to Rand's camp, he saw the ruins of Night Qicheng through the mage's eye during the day, and at night Albert could no longer rest in peace, so he simply rode a horse and ran 30 kilometers to Rand's camp.
In Rand's opinion, Albert should have come for the pilgrimage, and he touched the magnificent western gate of Night Qicheng with a reverent attitude.
"This trace should have been left by the orcs, almost 300 years ago, it is still so clear, if it is repaired in the future, should it be left as a warning to future generations?"
Albert muttered to himself as he stroked the walls, leaving Rand, Gandalf, and Wendy speechless for a while.
"You haven't won the lottery yet, have you figured out how to spend it?" Rand complained silently in his heart.