"Longbow, you sleep, I'll keep vigil. ”

Wash away the filth and change into new clothes, and Takagaki changes places to light a bonfire.

"Longbow, this is the real trust in Lao Tzu!" Li Longbow noticed the change in title, and sat by the fire with a grunt.

"Do you know, why didn't the master take the opportunity to hack you to death? Tell me, the feeling of breakthrough. ”

Spring dreams without a trace, the embarrassing scene can't be mentioned, Gao Yuan thought for a while, and summed up the experience uncertainly: "Usually insist on cultivation, the right is self-cultivation, don't think about when you can break through, and when you feel the signs, first completely relax your body and mind, and let it be." ”

Li Changgong secretly remembered it in his heart, and he was still unforgiving: "Cultivate in the future, and tell me in time if you have the experience, the master started late and can't stand the risk, the old rules, you are exploring the way ahead." ”

It was late at night, the sky was full of stars, the bonfire on the ground was gradually extinguished, the joy of the breakthrough faded, and Takagaki looked out into the infinite darkness to the west.

After six days of walking, we should reach the junction of the two countries, and we must make a decision tonight whether we should explore the way forward or turn back to the camp.

"Third, no matter how vast the territory is, why doesn't the empire move forward and include this land in the territory? ”

Change direction at will, in order to explore the route of travel, to guard against the Assassins, firmly believe that Wen Qingwen will not betray the Empire, where will the Assassins chase and kill!

"The three empires are willing to give up and do not intervene directly, but they send elites to compete secretly, no matter if this war is like a hunt, who will judge whether they win or lose?"

Takagaki was puzzled and shook his head back to reality.

"Jicuicheng plotted that the senior brother was a Cuihua witch soldier, and immediately withdrew when he saw that the opportunity was wrong, and the assassination of Mei Ying was a dead soldier, it should be sent by the Sunset Empire, and both countries have moved, who is the main opponent?"

Where is the risk of the senior brother small, it is difficult for an assassin to approach in the military camp, his skills and feet can protect himself, and the dead soldier who secretly snooped on Mei Ying should not be taken lightly, and he cannot be found? Blind passive protection is not a way, no matter how tightly the defense is armed, there are loopholes.

At dawn, the two horses continued to gallop westward, and the idea of Gao Yuan's in-depth exploration won the support of Li Longbow, and victory or defeat ultimately depended on the battle decision, and there was no disadvantage in reconnoitering the terrain in advance.

On the way, they met several caravans, and the two did not want to do much, so they made a detour on their horses, and they were all horses under them, and they had already gone away without waiting for the guards to be on guard.

Five days later, there was more brown and yellow in the greenery in front of me, and when we reached the junction of the grassland and the desert, and beyond that was the Ula Desert, the home of the Sunset Iron Rider.

Dozens of horsemen roared from the side front, horseback riders screamed endlessly, and the long knives that were raised seemed to be deliberately showing off their identities, and they unexpectedly encountered a small group of horse bandits.

"Put down your bow and arrows, and wait for them to come around before you do it, and don't let go of any of them. ”

The bandits scattered and surrounded them, and the riders did not show their bows and arrows, as if they wanted to snatch the horses, but Takagaki put down his bow and arrows and told Li Longbow to do the same.

Twenty-one bandits reined in the horses and slowed down, more than a dozen feet around the two of them, their faces were full of banter, today luck is good, these two boys are wearing brand-new samurai uniforms, and the war horses under the seat are one out of a hundred, probably the children of the nobles who don't know whether they are alive or dead, and they use this grassland desert as a testing ground.

Gao Yuan held the handle of the knife in his right hand, hid his left hand behind the saddle bridge, his face was forced to be calm, his eyes were looking for the leader of the bandits, Li Longbow and horizontal knife to protect his chest, his wrist trembled slightly, and secretly scolded Gao Yuan for being too bold.

The encirclement of the horse bandits continued to shrink, and the horse stopped three feet away, and a horse bandit who looked less than thirty years old was facing the two of them, with fierce lights shining on his maroon face.

"Boy—"

"Kill!"

The shouting of the leader of the horse bandits and the shouting of Takagaki sounded almost at the same time, and the dark clouds raised the horse's hooves, and it took time to cushion the charge, but the short crossbow in Takagaki's left hand shot out a flash of black light.

The crossbow bolts shot by the machine were three feet away in the blink of an eye, and the leader of the horse bandits did not even let out a scream, the three crossbow arrows were all nailed to his chest, and his body fell backwards, and the frightened war horse raised its front hooves and threw the master's body to the ground.

The leader stepped forward to ask, and the bandits waited to see the show, and it could be seen from the nervous look that these two boys had no experience in fighting, and their spirits were lax and their vigilance was relaxed, and many of them had their long knives in their sheaths.

Gao Yuan burst into trouble, the dark arrow was as fast as a meteor, the leader died at the moment, and the horse bandits were stunned, although it was only a few breaths, it was enough for Li Longbow to shoot a crossbow arrow, raise his sword and charge.

Another companion planted the horse's back, and the experience of fighting for a long time made the horse bandit instinctively draw his knife and rush forward, but as soon as Takagaki lifted the reins, the dark clouds hissed and rushed out of the encirclement from a bandit.

The long knife rose and fell, and the bandits fell on the back of the horse one after another, without the protection of iron armor, the flesh and bones of the person were not much harder than the stakes of the knife, and the sword was even more vigorous, and a charge penetrated, and the six horse bandits became twelve corpses.

Takagaki went all out in battle, the long knives of the two sides touched, and the long knives of the horse bandits flew out of their hands, the difference in strength was huge, and the speed was even more difficult to compare.

It doesn't look very old, how can it be so strong? Lightning-like sword light, rock-like power, the two are combined, and resistance is futile.

Li longbow stabbed a horse bandit to death, rushed out of the encirclement and turned back, just to see Gao Yuan like a tiger into the flock, the long knife invincible, after a short shock, the competitive heart rose, put away the long knife and opened the bow and arrows. Gao Yuan turned back again, and the awakened horse bandit howled and fled, and a bow and two arrows shot like wind and lightning, shooting from the back into the front chest to expose the arrow, and the fleeing horse bandit fell in response.

"Stay alive!"

Takagaki slapped his horse to intercept him, and slashed the leading bandit's long knife with a knife, and the two horses staggered, slapping the back of the knife on the bandit's back, and throwing him away from the horse's back with a backhand.

The encounter was more like a small massacre, all twenty-one horse bandits fell to the ground, Li Longbow put away his bow and arrows, and went to chase the fleeing horses, Takagaki jumped off his horse, picked up the bandit who knocked him unconscious, and threw it down in the distance of the terrible corpse.

With a deliberate calculation or unintentional, he shot the leader in a violent outburst, and the ensuing battle was expected by him, and the two warriors who had been painstakingly trained by the Ling Bo Biao Battalion for more than four years, if they couldn't gather and destroy the horse bandits after mastering the initiative, he would have no face to say it.

Unexpectedly, the strength and speed were far beyond the usual level, and the corpse that should be turned into two pieces was by no means cruel, and the killing machine shot with all its might, the strength and speed were unexpected, and he could not use it freely, and as a result, the confrontation turned into a brutal slaughter.

"Could it be that this is the change after the breakthrough? The strength is more than twice as strong as before!"

The samurai uniform on his body was stained with shredded flesh and blood, Gao Yuan looked disgusted, pulled it down a few times, turned out a new dress from his military bag, and was busy putting it on his body, the strong wind behind him entered his ears, and he was busy flying sideways to dodge, after all, he was a little slower, and his arms hurt and the clothes in his hands fell to the ground.

The conspiracy came from the bandit who woke up, took advantage of Gao Yuan's change of clothes and lost his defense, pulled out the dagger from the boot and used it as a flying knife, and the person immediately pulled out his legs and rushed towards the war horse, first hurting people and then fleeing for his life, and the bandit made a judgment in an instant.

The dagger pierced into his right arm, the blood flowed more than the pain, and Takagaki filled his chest with anger, looking coldly at the fleeing bandits, standing motionless.

The bandit ran to the side of the dark cloud, reached out to grab the reins of the horse, as long as he jumped on the war horse, he had the certainty of survival, but he underestimated the temper of the dark cloud, raised his left front hoof in a long neigh, and stepped on his front chest impartially.

The fleeing bandits were agile, and they were not surprised to dodge in a wrong step, and they actually dodged the dark cloud horseshoe, and Gao Yuan, who watched coldly, scolded in a low voice, pulled out the dagger on his arm and shot out of his hand, and his body was like a flying swallow volley, and he rushed straight towards the bandits, and the dark clouds jumped forward and raised their hind hooves.

The bandit dodged the hind hooves of the dark clouds, but he couldn't avoid the dagger, his left leg was about to fall as soon as he was weak, and the five fingers of Gao Yuan's left hand were clasped around his neck like a claw, and the bandit felt weak all over his body after a little force, and there was no room for resistance.

Gao Yuan grabbed the bandit and kicked it down, the bandit couldn't help but snort miserably, staring at the opponent with round eyes, crying and begging for mercy as expected, to let Gao Yuan look at him a few points, and when he let go, he raised his foot and kicked him away.

"You try to run away again, and see which of us is faster!"

Before the threatening words were finished, the bandits sprinted on the ground, making Takagaki angry and funny, chasing after him in a few steps, but the fight was only one move, unloading one of his arm joints, and kicking him away.

"Keep running!"

The game of cat and mouse continued for two more rounds, and the bandits' arms hung limply, and a short knife stuck in his other thigh, and he lay on the ground silent, his eyes unabated with anger.

Pulling out the dagger, Takagaki let his blood flow, first bandaged the wound on his arm, changed into clothes, and squatted beside the bandit, holding the dagger and gesturing.

"Say, who are you? The horse bandits don't have this skill, let alone the courage. ”

"Dark arrows hurt people, you Qinghui Xuebing is despicable enough. "If you can't fight and can't escape, your limbs are restrained and there is no life, and the bandits have no choice but to accept their fate, lying on the ground and mocking.

"If you hadn't tried to snatch this war horse, a random arrow would have killed you long ago. Lao Tzu relented for a while, but he didn't expect it to fall into the hands of you, a shameless villain. ”

Gao Yuan put away the dagger, took out the wound medicine from the military bag, and helped him stop the bleeding and bandage without saying a word, so that the bandit was embarrassed to make any more sarcastic remarks, and shut his mouth to see what the hell he had to do.

After wrapping up the wounds on the bandit's legs, he pulled out a rope and tied it up, and then he took his dislocated arm and tied his hands and feet together, like a wild boar that he had hunted when he was a child.

"You don't need to ask your identity, it's either a mercenary at sunset, or a witch soldier from Cuihua, pretending to be a horse bandit to attack the march, and the three kingdoms are all killed. ”

"Bah, mercenaries, witch soldiers, and your Qinghui scholars, Lao Tzu has killed a lot, pretending? ”

"What's the name?"

"Phew. ”

Dodging the spitting star, Takagaki smiled and didn't care, loosened the belt of the belly for the dark cloud, took out the horse material and watched it eat it with relish.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it, I won't torture you, I guess you're not afraid of torture to extract a confession. Take you to the Sunset Empire and capture a famous bandit leader, who may not bother to delve into me, a man of unknown origin, as soon as they are happy. ”

"Dream, go to the sunset to receive the reward, you must be able to escape from this hundreds of miles alive, let you be. ”

The bandits mocked disdainfully, Gao Yuan went up to help Li Longbow collect the horses, the harvest was not small, and he chased back more than a dozen horses, this gang of bandits was not simple, the war horses did not flee after the master was killed, they should have been strictly trained.

Li Changgong saw that he had caught a live mouth, and he grabbed the horsewhip and was about to whip and question, but Gao Yuan stopped him, and after briefly recounting the situation, the two went to the side and muttered in a low voice.