The long wind rolls the spring grass, and the horse's hooves gallop urgently.

In the warm and bright sunshine of spring, a dazzling black-cloaked cavalry galloped across the grassland.

This is a light cavalry of more than 100 people, most of them have no armor, very few long weapons, almost everyone has a narrow steel knife with a soft arc, many long knives are also wrapped in bright satin, giving people a sense of slaughter and charm.

This cavalry obviously had more horses than men, but it could not be called a man and two horses that elite cavalry could control with ease, and most of the ownerless horses were driven by a dozen people and followed behind the group.

Yang Xiongji looked at the military appearance of the Fourth Banner soldier behind him, turned his head and muttered dissatisfiedly to Liu Tugou: "Yu Xiaoniang'er will send the knife if she sends the knife, why don't you even send the silk wrapped in the knife, flashy things, where is there still a bit of strong force?"

Liu Tugou laughed: "It's not, how many people have fallen from horses these days and have bruised noses and swollen faces, I don't even bother to count." ”

Dong Dilang also came up and said lazily: "They are all masters who don't shed tears when they don't see the coffin, and the adults are rushing to give them a biography, what a blessing this is, there are still people who are afraid of death and pain, and only half of them have begun to build the foundation in the past seven or eight days, right?"

This guy is wearing a delicate fish scale armor under the black cloak, hanging in front of him, except for a jade cutting knife with a heavy weight on his back, iron guns and hard bows and arrows are readily available, fortunately, the crotch is also a rare good horse, otherwise he really can't carry the net worth of the son of the captain.

Liu Tugou ignored him, but glanced back at himself, his gaze swept over everyone's faces.

Half of the people have an extra red knife mark on their foreheads, these people are like Ah Da Cao Chunfu, one after another to accept the second master's divine flower award, the number of times and the amount of sword qi received are different, limited to qualifications, more than fifty people all stayed in the foundation building realm, none of them entered the realm of refining qi.

It's just that even with Liu Tugou's support, there are still eleven people who have died one after another due to incompatible physique and broken meridians. The Fourth Banner, which had grown stronger and stronger because of the joining of the fourth child and others, has regained the scale of 100 people.

These eleven people died miserably, and countless blood holes were opened by the sword qi around them, and a few even had their heads exploded, leaving no corpses.

The number of soldiers who volunteered to be awarded was immediately reduced, for fear of following in the footsteps of the eleven unlucky ones.

Liu Tugou's gaze stopped on Xu Dongjiang's body, this thin young man from the broken Shi clan in the south of the Yangtze River was still not satisfied after building a foundation with the heart root of spring grass, for fear that Cao Chunfu and other people who had comprehended the heart root of the higher blood begonia would come to the top, and volunteered to practice the art of slaughtering and forging soldiers, and gritted his teeth and asked Liu Tugou to directly give himself the empowerment of the slaughter heart knife.

This is a painful pain that even Yang Xiongji and Dong Dilang can't stand anymore, Liu Tugou is cautious, and presses a wisp of pure knife qi containing the divine intent of the slaughtering heart knife into the young man's forehead, just this wisp, which is comparable to ten blood begonia knife flowers.

The young man, who didn't need to be punished by the knife, immediately bled from his knots, and his forehead cracked on its own, and blood flowed all over his face and chest.

At a critical juncture, the spring grass heart root that was not favored by others suddenly appeared on the top of the young man's head, and the bright green shimmer fell, entangled the young man's heart and the sea of knowledge, and protected Xu Dongjiang, who was already showing a large area of terrifying blood spots on his skin, for a moment, and gave Liu Tugou a few breaths to recover the knife qi.

After this heavy blow, Rao is body has become stronger and stronger after Xu Dongjiang has built the foundation, and he is still described as withered and has a great loss of qi and blood.

The pale-faced young man noticed Liu Tugou's gaze, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and showed a warm smile from the bottom of his heart to Mr. Qi.

Liu Tugou also smiled happily, because he already felt that under the decadent appearance of this young man, there was a tenacious and vigorous vitality.

In this vitality, there was still a trace of the sharp knife qi that seemed to be silent and slaughtering, and this feeling was somewhat similar to the blood-colored tiger stripes on the slaughtering knife that were mixed with the divine intent of the purple thunder.

Liu Tugou retracted his gaze and said loudly: "Sang Shichang, how far is it?"

Sang Yuan, who was acting as a guide at the front, hurriedly slowed down, waited for Liu Tugou to catch up, and replied respectfully: "Lord Hui, we are still about ten miles away from the Pi City of the Heron Department. ”

There are 100,000 ripe Di inhabited at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain, 19 large and small tribes, half farming and half nomadic, and the Nanyuan Di people at the northern foot of Yinshan have the same voice, and there are often alliances or fights.

In order to take care of the Fourth Banner, which was still short in the army, Liu Tugou was assigned to the lightest route.

Although this route is not the closest to Yinshan, and it has to make a clear arc, there are only four more obedient small tribes along the way, which is not too dangerous, and can also allow the crappy recruits of the Fourth Banner to practice their equestrian skills.

After seven or eight days of grinding and walking all the way, before the dry rations were exhausted, it was finally possible to ensure that everyone could smoothly follow the brigade and not fall behind, and the Fourth Banner finally began to perform its duties of patrolling the border in earnest.

The Heron Department is the first stop, this small tribe has a population of about five or six thousand, the combat power is so-so, in the nineteen departments are not up or down, in addition to grazing and farming, it is famous for making and selling exquisite leather goods, and the leather market set up three miles away from the camp has attracted many Shudi herdsmen and merchants from the north, which is considered to be deeply influenced by the Zhou people.

As we got closer to our destination, we could already see some felt tents and shepherds scattered along the way.

Dressed in animal robes, their hair was combed into countless tiny braids, and they wore white animal bone necklaces around their necks, they knelt on the ground to show their obedience when they saw the big black cloak flying in the wind.

Liu Tugou waved his hand to a tall man not far away, and the man who was passing by was stunned for a moment, got up a little reluctantly, and led the horse over.

The second master smiled at him, and then turned back and beckoned to Xu Dongjiang: "Get off the horse and come here." ”

When the young man, who was also unknown, got off his horse and walked closer, Liu Tugou suddenly said, "Xu Dongjiang, kill him!"

The young man was stunned, but the familiar man who led the horse changed his face greatly, and he suddenly reached out and took out a Xueliang scimitar from his leather robe, and slashed it at Xu Dongjiang's head and face.

Xu Dongjiang finally reacted, but unfortunately it was too late to fight back, so he hurriedly subconsciously retreated, but he made a mistake in his left foot and stumbled on his right foot, and his body twisted and fell to the ground.

The young man heard a helpless sigh in his ears, and then he saw a dazzling sword light illuminate, and the extremely gorgeous long knife of Lord Qi swept across the sky above his head, severing the fierce Xueliang scimitar along with the palm, arm, and neck of the knife bearer.

Blood splattered onto Xu Dongjiang's face, which made his face a little hot, as if he was having a fever.

The young man didn't bother to wipe the bloodstains, got up as soon as he got up, and listened to the general Qi: "You can smell the bloody gas from a few miles away, and I'm afraid something has happened to Heron." Wait a while, come out with a little ruthlessness, whoever dares to fight, this hundred cavalry commanders will take care of him first!"

The bowstring in Dong Dilang's hand sounded, and a swift feather arrow shot down a Di man who suddenly got on his horse and fled a hundred paces away.

Xu Dongjiang felt a surge of enthusiasm suddenly surging into his heart, hurriedly ran two steps, and hurriedly stepped onto the horse.

He noticed that his breathing was much heavier than usual, and then he saw the ghostly adult wave his hand and say categorically: "Go!"