The next day, before dawn, Xiao Yunhe was awakened by a rapid whistle.

When he opened his eyes in a daze, Xiao Yunhe saw that the people in the entire room had already gotten up, not at all like he was still lying under the covers.

Shocked, Xiao Yunhe hurriedly got up and dressed.

Nearly a month of military life has greatly improved Xiao Yunhe's speed. quickly got dressed, and Xiao Yunhe followed the crowd that hurriedly ran out and went out.

Sure enough, just as Xiao Yunhe thought, the sky outside was still pitch black, and he hadn't seen any sunrise at all.

But there were already quite a few people outside, clusters of torches had already been lit, and the hurried crowd was busy in an orderly manner.

Xiao Yunhe followed behind the others, walking cluelessly, and first walked into the cafeteria, where a large group of people were munching.

"Yunhe! this way! Come on!" Xiao Yunhe was looking around blankly to find a place, when he heard someone shouting behind him.

Xiao Yunhe turned his head to look, and saw that in the row of people behind, Xie Datou poked out his big head and beckoned to him.

Xiao Yunhe walked over, and Xie Datou moved his butt to make room for Xiao Yunhe.

"Come on, I knew you wouldn't get up early, I'll even cook for you!" Xie Datou brought a bowl of gruel and a steamed bun from the side and handed them to Xiao Yunhe.

"Thank you, big brother!" Xiao Yunhe was not polite, said thank you, and sat down to eat it.

"Hurry up and eat! we're about to leave!" Xie Datou swallowed the last bite of steamed buns and said to Xiao Yunhe.

After coming to the barracks for such a period of time, Xiao Yunhe's eating speed also has the "demeanor" of a soldier. In one bite, Xiao Yunhe had already eaten half a steamed bun.

"So fast?" Xiao Yunhe swallowed the steamed bun and said with some surprise.

"What's fast? Isn't it always like this? Soldiers are so fast!"

"Eat slowly!Don't be in such a hurry!" Seeing Xiao Yunhe's gobbling up, Da Niu smiled innocently on the side.

'Brother Niu, do you know what kind of mission we are going to perform?' Xiao Yunhe nodded but did not slow down, and just asked.

"I don't know the specifics, Brother Lu should know! But I know that today, we have horses to ride!" Da Niu smiled, a little excited.

"Horseback riding?" the steamed bun in Xiao Yunhe's hand slowed down.

"Brother Yunhe, you haven't even ridden a horse, have you?" Xie Datou leaned over again.

"How come, horse, of course I will ride!" Xiao Yunhe continued to bury his head in eating.

All the way, Xiao Yunhe finished eating as fast as he could, and as soon as he looked up, he found that Xie Datou and Da Niu around him were all gone.

"Brother Yunhe, hurry up!" Xie Datou and Da Niu had already arrived at the door.

Xiao Yunhe didn't expect their speed to be so fast, he didn't have time to complain about anything, so he quickly jumped out of the table and trotted all the way to chase them.

The group hurried forward, and as soon as they turned near their barracks, Xiao Yunhe found that the small team he was in had already begun to line up.

Several people hurried up to find their own team, and there was a dense sound of footsteps, and this group of people stood up.

Lu Sang, dressed in military uniform, stood at the front of the team, his always easy-going face, full of sternness, and was looking at everyone one by one.

"Are you all here?" Lusan asked again.

"Yes!" replied in unison.

"All right, take off your clothes!" exclaimed Lussan.

"What?" everyone was confused by this strange order.

"Don't you understand, do you need me to repeat it?, take off your clothes!" said Lusan with a glare.

No one dared to say anything more, and though they were still puzzled by the strange order, everyone did not hesitate any longer, and began to undress themselves and untie their belts, much faster than they were to get dressed.

"Just take off the one on the outside! Don't pick it up on the inside!" Seeing that someone was about to take off his underwear, Lusan hurriedly stopped.

A group of soldiers stripped down to their underwear and shorts, one by one half-naked, and looked at Lusan dumbfounded, bewildered.

And Lusan himself actually took off his coat. He was dressed like the soldiers, but he wasn't as overwhelmed as the soldiers.

"What are you looking at me for? let me in, pick out a suitable garment and put it on, and in three minutes, gather outside!" Lusan waved his hand and walked in first.

Everyone walked in in a noisy, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw a neatly stacked stack of clothes, placed on the table in the middle.

"Don't be stunned! put it on for me, it's only three minutes!" Lu Sang walked over first, picked up the top clothes, and began to put them on.

"Brother Lu, how are they barbarian clothes?" Someone exclaimed as he watched Lu Sang put a brightly colored dress on his body.

"What's all the fuss about? put it on for me, and I'll explain it to you later!" Lusan kept moving his hand and put his arm inside.

The group didn't dare to say more, so they quickly rushed up to pick up the clothes and put them on.

Although they had never worn the barbarians' clothes before, in fact, the clothes of these barbarians were much simpler than the clothes and jackets in the interior of Daqi, and everyone hurriedly put them on, and when they went out to assemble and line up, the time had only just finished two minutes.

"Do you know why we're wearing barbarian clothes?" asked Lusan as he glanced at the crowd.

Of course, no one knew that Lusan was faced with a pair of blinking and curious eyes.

"Because our mission this time is to reconnoiter the enemy's situation! We have to go deep into the hinterland of the barbarians, so we must disguise our identity! Once the operation begins, everyone must obey my orders! Those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law!" Lu San said in a deep voice, his face extremely stern.

"Yes!" everyone replied in unison.

"Okay, take the horse, go!" Lusan ordered, and the soldiers in a straight line marched forward and galloped forward.

Finding the horses that had been prepared in the horse area in front, Lusan rode in front, and the more than thirty people behind him stepped out of the back camp and marched towards the desert that was still dark.

As soon as he set out, Lusan kept giving various orders to the people around him, and several people, riding horses, accelerated their speed and ran out in several directions, and after a while, they ran back again, but then the next wave of knights galloped out again.

I don't know how many people Lusan arranged to go out, but I could only hear the sound of horses' hooves, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going, and it seemed very lively in the darkness.

But Xiao Yunhe never received any orders, although he kept following Lu Sang.

Seeing that Xie Datou had disappeared into the night, Xiao Yunhe finally couldn't help it.

He moved forward a little closer, and whispered to Lu Sang, "Brother Lu, you let me go too!

Lu Sang glanced back at Xiao Yunhe, but shook his head: "No! Yunhe, it's not that I look down on you, but now you can't carry out the task alone! Especially at this time, the barbarians may be somewhere! If you encounter them alone, it will be very dangerous!"

"Then the other brothers, aren't they dangerous?" Xiao Yunhe said disagreed.

"They are different from you, they are not the first time they have faced barbarians! And you have no experience at all!" Lusan left no room for nothing.

"I'm no worse than them!" Xiao Yunhe argued.

"I know, your martial arts are very good, but on the battlefield, martial arts are not the only standard! I ask you, do you know what you should do when you encounter a barbarian?" asked Lussan.

"I ......" Xiao Yunhe was dumbfounded.

"Do you know how to tell their subordinates by their attire? Do you know how many of them are from the sound of their horses' hooves? Do you know how far away you can escape from the range of the barbarians? Do you know what route you should take when reporting on the way back? How do you know how to hide your whereabouts? How much do you know about these?" Lu Sang's series of questions were asked by Xiao Yunhe, who was speechless.

"Okay, don't be too discouraged! Take your time, follow me first, I will explain to you slowly along the way, and wait for the next time, you can carry out the task alone!" Lu Sang patted Xiao Yunhe on the shoulder, and began to give orders to the people around him again.

And Xiao Yunhe could only sit on the horse dejectedly, watching the soldiers coming and going, walking like a shuttle.

Just walked slowly all the way, the soldiers came and went in an endless stream, and the morning sun on the horizon had slowly risen.

The morning sun was born, and the soft light swayed down from the sky, reflecting in the desert, adding a touch of golden brilliance.

All the way to this point, even though the soldiers have undergone hard training, they are all tired at this time.

Lusan watched the surroundings for a long time, and finally settled under a small sand dune to let everyone rest for the time being.

Everyone sat down in a circle, but Lusan still sent a number of soldiers to patrol around, while the others were resting, but he sat alone, took out a map from his bosom, and wrote and drew on it with a frown.

Xiao Yunhe's body is very strong, and this fatigue is nothing to him. Seeing that Lu San didn't know what he was busy with, he was a little curious, so he leaned over.

"Brother Lu, what are you busy with?" Xiao Yunhe stretched out his head to look at the map and asked.

"We've been out for more than ten miles now, and I've got to mark the route of this way!" said Lusan without raising his head, a pen in his hand, drawing one symbol after another on the map.

Xiao Yunhe looked down carefully, and saw a few arrows drawn on it, as well as symbols such as circles and triangles, and he was confused.

Mountains and rivers and the like, Xiao Yunhe can still see it. But he couldn't understand the symbols drawn by Lusan at all.

"Brother Lu, what does this mean?" Xiao Yunhe couldn't help but ask.

"This arrow is the route we are walking all the way. These small circles mean that the scope of our search is still very safe, and no trace of the enemy has been found. These triangles are the last time we fought the enemy. Lusan took the trouble to explain, but his hands were still busy.

"Then how far are we going to search this time? Shouldn't we search all the way to this sea?" Xiao Yunhe stretched out his finger and pointed to the top of the sea.

"That's not true! Our predetermined range is one hundred and twenty miles before the army, and if we find no trace of the enemy at the Dasha River, we will go back!" Lusan pointed to one of the rivers above.

"It seems that there is still some distance!" Xiao Yunhe saw that starting from the barracks, the arrow was now drawn less than a quarter of the way.

"It's already very good! I haven't encountered a single enemy on this way! The previous few times I have already started fighting!" said Lussan.

"Do the barbarian armies have such a large range of activities? I heard that their total population, including the elderly, weak, women and children, is only a few hundred thousand, why do we have to search such a long distance?" Xiao Yunhe couldn't help but ask when he saw that the range of the barbarians on the map was quite large.

"That's because you don't know what kind of people the barbarians are, their army is different from ours!" At this time, Lu San had already marked the map, put away the map, and he began to explain to Xiao Yunhe slowly.

"The barbarians are completely different from us, we are selected from the common people to serve as soldiers, and an army like ours, twelve months a year, is always trained in the barracks and on standby, and is always in a state of combat readiness. But the barbarians are different, they do not have a standing army, and their armies are only temporarily formed in wartime. ”

"The barbarians are not a country like our Great Qi, and their leader is not called an emperor, but a khan. They do not have a clear division of states and counties like us, but are divided into hundreds of tribal groups, large and small, which are usually scattered in all corners of the desert, living in water and grass, and their locations are not fixed. Most of the people were herders, and only when war came, they were organized into an army under the command of their khans. And now, we have to find out if they have troops deployed in this area, how many people still have a specific range, and bring this information back, that is our task!" Lusan explained.

"Can such an army be formed improvised?" Xiao Yunhe doubted.

He didn't doubt the authenticity of Lu Sang's words, because on the way here, he and Yu Wenxuan killed the barbarians all the way, and the outfits and weapons of those barbarian soldiers were all strange, and there was no unified standard. He was strange at first, but now he finally figured out what was going on.

But then, he had new questions.

"Of course there is combat effectiveness! If this was a rabble, so many of our Left Guards would not have been defending the northern frontier for so many years!" Lu San laughed, pulled out a water bladder from his waist, and poured several sips.

After drinking the water, Lu Sang handed the water bladder to Xiao Yunhe.

Xiao Yunhe didn't take it: "Thank you, Brother Lu! I'm not thirsty yet, no need!"

"Let's take two sips!" Lu Sang forced Xiao Yunhe, "It's still morning, wait a little longer, as soon as the sun rises, this desert will become a big steamer." When the time comes, you will sweat like taking a bath, and when you don't feel thirsty, you will already faint! Take two more sips, and it will be even more unbearable for a while!"

Speaking of which, Xiao Yunhe, Lu Sang's kindness, could only accept it, took the water bladder, and drank several sips.

Seeing that Xiao Yunhe drank the water and handed it back to himself, Lu San put the water bladder away, and then continued.

"In this desert, those who can survive are not ordinary people. No other animal can survive here, and the most of them are the ferocious wolves! And the only ones who can survive here are the barbarians who are even more ferocious than the wolves!"

"They are grazing here, and they have to be on the lookout for wild wolves that may pounce at any moment, and their riding and archery skills have become an instinct for them to use almost every day. Moreover, there were frequent wars between their tribes, and they fought with each other, not only young people, but also gray-haired old men, down to children of seven or eight years old, and each of them was not as weak as he appeared on the outside. Just give them a chance, and they will definitely not hesitate to stick the scimitar in their hand into your heart. They are not weakling, but ferocious wolves. Therefore, if you see them in the future, do not think of them as old and weak women and children. Don't hesitate when it's time to start. In this desert, blood flows every day. Benevolence, righteousness and morality are unreliable, and the law of wolves is the only law of survival here! If you want to live, you have to be more ruthless than them!" Lu San looked at Xiao Yunhe and said coldly.

"Hmm!" Xiao Yunhe nodded, but in his heart, he didn't agree with Lu Sang's words.

It's not that he hasn't fought with barbarians, when he was walking with Yu Wenxuan all the way, he had killed more than a dozen barbarian warriors with his own hands. To him, these barbarian warriors, though brutal and outrageous, did not bother him too much.

Their strength is like that, they are still young adults among the barbarians. How capable can a group of old and weak women and children be?

Maybe Yun Yao, who competed with Xiao Yunhe last time, should be regarded as a powerful woman and child, but Xiao Yunhe didn't think that there would be many people like Yun Yao.

Rare things are expensive, masters, and they are always rare animals. In the young and middle-aged, it is rare to see how powerful the masters, in that group of old and weak women and children, how powerful can they be?

Therefore, Xiao Yunhe didn't pay too much attention to Lu Sang's solemn warning. Just feeling Lu Sang's concern, Xiao Yunhe still didn't refute out loud, but nodded and coped with it.