"I seem to have seen Luo Mangzi, can't I be dazzled?"

In the patrol, a black man with a long waist tag put on a crooked hat and helmet with the hilt of his waist sword, looked at the backs of the two knights in the distance in surprise, and muttered to himself.

"I also said that I saw that school girl named Duan Qinglan. Another big-headed soldier with a waist of Wu Changmu said angrily, "Don't think about it so much, Luo Mangzi is not the Qingdai disciple who was beaten by Jiang Feng and vomited blood before, even Zhong Yan, the four major generals of the Dragon and Tiger Society, can't beat him, and sooner or later he will become a warrior." How could such a fragrant dumpling appear in this border city where soldiers are in danger?"

If Luo Xiao stood in front of them, it was estimated that it would take an old nose to see that they were old acquaintances: Liu Heida and Huang Qi, who were originally disciples of Xiuwutang, were conscripted to the border in advance, and chose to enlist in the army.

After a round of intensive training, they each became a small team officer, and their daily task was to take this patrol team of more than 20 people to take turns to patrol the border within a radius of 100 miles to prevent the Tur people.

"Alright, everyone, be quiet. The leader of the team will be a bearded officer in his thirties, with a face that has been blown into orange peel by the wind and sand all the year round, indicating his identity as an old army, and at this time he is saying loudly in a thick voice as if rubbing into the sand, "According to the time, it is our turn to patrol the 'barren hills' again this time." Everyone cheered up, and there were 80 miles to go. It's two o'clock in the afternoon, and we have to rush to the ground at the beginning of Shen Shichu to have enough time to set up camp and start the group......"

The soldiers below complained noisily: "Why is it our turn again so soon?" I remember if we patrolled five or six days ago......

This place, more than 100 miles away from Baicao City, is the closest to the border, and the terrain is open, which is most conducive to the assault of large groups of cavalry, and the small patrols encounter grassland rangers in such terrain, and they have nowhere to run, and it has always been the place where the patrol team is most reluctant to patrol.

"Shut up Lao Tzu!" the team general roared, and Ji Wei suddenly shocked the miscellaneous soldiers, "The Xiuyan Xiuwutang reconnaissance team has sent a message that there are Turist cavalry figures two hundred miles to the southwest. Lord City Guard urgently dispatched five additional teams to strengthen patrols, there are more people over there, and we have fewer parts, so the patrol rotation time is naturally tight, understand?"

Although the general's words made the patrol team understand why it was their turn so soon, the information revealed also made the soldiers even more uneasy.

"It's okay, don't worry about it, you think, since the Tul people have appeared in the southwest, it means that our area is much safer. Huang Qi said with a smile, looking indifferent.

Not to mention, hearing Huang Qi say this, the soldiers' hearts couldn't help but relax a lot.

Liu Heida hehehe: "It's really this reason, I can't see that Lao Qi, your kid's head is still quite smart." It's just that he didn't notice that Huang Qi had a smile on his face, but there was a gloom in his eyes.

"Cheer up Lao Tzu. Assemble – go!"

In the roar of the team general, this patrol cavalry squad drove the war horses one after another, and assembled into a "human" formation in the roar, guarding the front and the left and right sides respectively, and plunged into the canyon.

......

At the time of the application, a little half a minute later than the expected time, the patrol team finally arrived at the barren hill.

As the name suggests, the barren hills are full of red ochre, high and low sand dunes, and the view is desolate, almost without grass.

The terrain here is open, as long as you stand on the top of the sand dune and look at it, you can see it for more than ten miles. Scouting is very advantageous, but in other words, if the cavalry of the Thurians does appear here, they will have nowhere to run. Fortunately, the news of the appearance of the Thurites to the southwest was somewhat reassuring.

Another reassuring thing is a circle of earthen enclosures, which are a square earthen enclosure made of sand, gravel and clay for the patrol officers over the years in order to facilitate the camping, which can accommodate fifty or sixty people and horses, and also has a sentry post and a row of barracks. It's just that it was destroyed by the Tul people who crossed the border from time to time, leaving only a ruined wall.

The patrols of Whitegrass City have also been repaired several times, but as soon as they are repaired, they will be destroyed by the Tur attack. Such border skirmishes are the norm and are much easier to destroy than to build. In the end, the border army of Baicao City had no choice but to give up the repair and let it be abandoned.

Although the camp is deserted and the barracks are gone, no matter how dilapidated the earthen fence is, it will always have an extra layer of security than the unobstructed camping on the desolate Gobi.

Although it was only a squad of more than 20 people, in the special state of battle, the team general still ordered to be divided into two teams, one team went to the high place to detect the sentry, and the other team was responsible for drinking horses and cooking food and cleaning up the camp.

Huang Qi was assigned the task of fetching water and drinking horses, and took a few soldiers to carry a stack of deflated water bladders on their backs and walked towards a deep well several miles away.

When the camp was first established, a few wells were dug, but over the years, the place became more and more arid, and the wells dried up early, and then they could only dig wells in low-lying places not far away - as for why the camp was not built here, this is simple military common sense, military defense facilities, naturally to be built on high ground. Anyway, this is just a makeshift patrol camp, and there is no such thing as being besieged. If the Tul people really come, they will defend if they can, run if they can't defend it, and run if they can't run...... Resigned.

When Huang Qi and the others were about to reach the deep well, they heard Liu Heida laughing not far away: "You guys take water and go low, and we patrol the sentry to the high, does this indicate that we are going to open high this year, and you are going to go low?"

The several patrol soldiers who followed Liu Heida also burst into laughter when they heard this, and Huang Qi naturally shouted and scolded "fart" endlessly.

In the laughter and scolding, Huang Qi was not idle, forcefully moved the slate manhole cover to get a bucket of water, looked at the turbid water and shook his head, but shook it, his eyes opened wider and wider - the ripples on the turbid water surface did not dissipate with the stillness, but stirred up a more obvious water circle.

This—this is ...... Huang Qi suddenly felt a lot of excitement, remembering the experience of the chief teacher Professor Xi during the training, he suddenly kicked over the bucket, and the noisy scene was suddenly quiet, under the stunned gaze of the soldiers, Huang Qi tore open his throat and screamed: "Run-"

Liu Heida looked at Huang Qi's back running wildly: "This kid, what kind of crazy ...... you smoke?"

He didn't finish his sentence, because all the soldiers who came to their senses, including him, were equally "crazy".

A thin black line appeared in the far sky, and as it continued to advance, the "black line" became thicker and thicker, and finally formed a large black oppressive cloud. Behind the black clouds, billowing smoke and dust rose from a height that almost touched the sky clouds.

"At least 3,000 riders!

Any experienced frontier officer can judge how many cavalry there are by "looking at the dust" and by the height of the smoke and dust. With the shouting of an old soldier, Liu Heida, Huang Qi and the others felt cold and heavy.

"Don't, don't run...... It's useless, we can't outrun the horse......" Huang Qi, who was the first to take the road and escape, stopped and gasped, "The Tule people are playing the sound of the east and the west, and their breakthrough point is not in the southwest at all, but here!"

Liu Heida's black face full of oil was full of horror: "I, we can hide behind the sand dunes, they won't, won't notice......"

Liu Heida's voice became weaker and weaker, and his face swelled purple, and he also knew that this idea was really naïve.

"Xiao Qi is right, he can't run. Another Wu Chang, who was full of vicissitudes of life, sat on the ground of the moraine with a panting breath, his eyes were desperate, "There are too many people and horses, even if you run to Tuweizi, it is a dead end." ”

"What then? Surrender?"

"Let's just count people like this, people are hundreds of times more than us, and there is no shame in surrendering. ”

"That's right, that's it, Xiao Qi, hurry up and pull some cloth and play the white flag. ”

In this team, Liu Heida has the highest military rank, and he immediately ignored the order.

When he was struggling for his life, no one dared to be slow, and soon, he cut off a strip of cloth from his clothes, wrapped it around the spear, and chose the strongest Liu Heida to hold it high. At this time, the ground was already shaking, the sand and rocks were beating all over the ground, and the earthquake was like a roar and tremor, even a deaf person could feel it.

Thousands of horses rushed, what a speed. But in a few moments, the black cloud approached in front of him.

Large and small flags of all colors are dense like a forest, and the black and clear helmets, leather armor and round shields on their backs form a large gray and cold light curtain, and sometimes there are copper-colored spurs shining, dazzling people's eyes, giving people a strong visual impact. The dense clanging of the nail leaves mixed with the loud sound of iron hooves knocking on the ground seemed to dominate all the sounds in the world. Billowing smoke and dust rose to the clouds, obscuring the sky and the sun, and darkening the sky.

Liu Heida, Huang Qi and more than a dozen other sergeants fought in two battles, and they stood still with the support of their will to survive.

Seeing that countless iron hooves were approaching closer and closer, but there was no intention of slowing down at all, Huang Qi and the other soldiers wanted to scream, but found that their throats were already dry and dry, and they couldn't make a sound at all. It wasn't until countless towering horse heads and dark iron helmets approached him that he heard Liu Heidana's roar squeezed out of his lungs: "I-we-cast-"

Boom –

Countless iron hooves rumbled and swept by, without stagnation, and more than a dozen people were drowned in the torrent of iron hooves, without the slightest wave. When the thousand horsemen roared past, only patches of blood remained on the ground, and a lump of blood that could not be distinguished......