The cavalry enjoyed the snowy scene in Lingbo City, and the group trudged through the snowstorm in the far southwestern border.

The snow is deep, Rao is a good horse, but the sky is not beautiful, the whip keeps whipping, the war horse neighs and roars, and the speed is still more than half slower than usual.

"Brother, hold on, it's almost time to Wulatun. ”

The leading knight was a pair of horses, galloping with a bridle in his left hand, and protecting the man in front of the saddle bridge with his right hand, his face was covered with a white veil, and he couldn't see his expression, and his voice revealed anxiety and panic.

"Don't be willful, hide me, you go first. ”

The chest was stained with blood, Qin Rufeng's handsome face was paler than Feixue, and when he opened his mouth to speak, blood beads rolled down from the corners of his mouth, and the bright red color was shocking.

"If you talk again, you'll die if you don't reach the fortress, shut up!"

Hua Yue was angry, hateful, and heartbroken.

The actual combat training of this trip started smoothly, Qin Rufeng people came and went like the wind as his name, and he went rampant in the three areas, and in more than half a year, he eliminated dozens of horse bandits, and severely damaged the opponents of Sunset and Cuihua, and he used a long knife to cut out a loud title, and he rode in the wind.

The clever shopkeeper of the caravan hoisted the banner of the wind in front of the wagon, which saved a lot of money to buy roads from the mountain, and the small bandits even rumored to each other that they would not move these caravans, so as not to attract the wind and iron cavalry without information. To survive in the three areas, the speed of the bandit leader is faster than the sabre, anyway, this gang of evil stars will stay for less than a year, and they will leave after training, and after that, this desert is still the world of horse bandits, and they can't work hard, no one pays money to buy their lives, so why bother to die in vain.

The New Year is approaching, and Hua Yue plans to leave the sensitive area quietly, so that the horse bandits can be suspicious and prevent the masters of the Sunset Empire from targeting. Qin Rufeng agreed very happily, and immediately arranged for the cavalry team to evacuate, Hua Yue thought that he was going to take over the task of breaking off the war again, and lead people to take the first step to dispose of the loot.

The conflict of interests between empires is intricate, the good horses of the sunset, the iron tools of Qinghui, and the elixir of Cuihua are coveting each other, no major war has broken out on the border for decades, business in the three areas is extremely prosperous, and the elite of various countries are fighting openly and secretly behind the deformed prosperity.

If you are brave enough and lucky, buy or steal or rob, as long as you get a good breed mare, ten times the net profit is a trivial matter, and the extra reward from the Imperial Military Department is eye-catching, and you may get a knighthood after a few more trips, so as to get rid of the civilian status and become an imperial nobleman.

Qinghui is like this, Sunset and Cuihua are no exception, who can steal the essence of Qinghui's steelmaking, reward thousands of horses, cattle and sheep, and inherit the position of captain of ten thousand husbands. Steelmaking is too difficult to steal, so go and smuggle weapons and armor, and kidnap a clever blacksmith by the way, one price and one goods, and the empire's thousand-year-old reputation is undoubted.

Huge profits make businessmen take risks, horse bandits came into being, robbing caravans is a million profits, three regardless of the zone is too sensitive, countries dare not send a large army to station, accidental conflicts are easy to cause a big war, but also let the horse bandits rampant, the caravan is bitter, the interests of the empire are damaged, the face of the powerful is also dull, several intrigues down, the three regardless of the zone has the default rules between the empire.

The regular armies of various countries are not allowed to enter, otherwise it will be regarded as a war provocation, so the mercenaries of the setting sun, the witch soldiers of Cuihua and the scholars of Qinghui will take the three bandits as a stage for fighting, and will not show mercy to the horse bandits.

Ulabun, the fortress where the stone mark was fought in a bloody battle, is still stationed in the standard team, and decades of peace have made the death gamble less bloody. The merchants gathered on all sides, but also built a chamber of commerce outside the fortress wall one after another, the wealth came easily, and it was not heart-wrenching to spend it to build, and a lot of silver was smashed down, and there was a faint town weather outside the wall, and the garrison of Wulabiao was less than 700 people, but the permanent population of Wulatun had already exceeded 10,000.

Hua Yue sold the surplus horses and belongings in the town, arranged for the students to leave one after another, leaving only the female soldiers of the sentry by his side, waiting for Qin Rufeng to come back, who knew that when the expected return date came, the sentinel team behind the palace did not return, and he didn't even send a message back. The inexplicable premonition made her restless, this cousin has always been bold and does not follow the rules, five people dared to explore the black har bandits' nest, but one dead and two injured were lucky enough to jump into the river to survive, and afterwards everyone thought that he was going to take revenge, and the result made everyone cry and laugh.

"The little junior brother is about to start the actual combat training, I haven't given him a decent gift in the years I have been an elder brother, this credit should be compensated, and our brothers agreed in advance. ”

The three surviving people of this post nodded again and again, looking as a matter of course, no matter what the sentry commander went out on, he always did the most dangerous work, but the battle merits were shared equally with everyone, and this credit was not comparable to half of what he gave to everyone. The attitude of the parties is firm, and what else can others say.

Qin Rufeng's cavalry team has made outstanding achievements, but in the records of the Lingbo standard battalion in recent years, it is also the actual combat training with the largest casualties, 25 people left the standard battalion, and fought continuously for half a year, three were killed in battle, and four were disabled and left the team. On the one hand, the standard battalion supplemented him with men and horses, and on the other hand, he strictly ordered Hua Yue to rush over to converge, and the two teams were under the control of Qin Rufeng, but Hua Yue secretly checked and balanced, and several were injured in this small half a year, but fortunately, no more students were killed.

Hua Yue couldn't wait any longer, and took the female sentry to leave the town at night and rushed to pick up Qin Rufeng, the town was mixed with secret agents from all sides, she didn't dare to let the bandits and opponents know their whereabouts, or the grudge for more than half a year would have to settle the general ledger in an instant, and Hua Yue never took risks without the certainty of victory.

I don't know Qin Rufeng's whereabouts, it is snowing again, I have been looking for a few days in the snow field aimlessly, and I haven't even seen a single figure, Hua Yue is anxious and helpless, so he has to take someone to hide in the place where he was separated that day, maybe my cousin will expect that I will definitely bring someone back to answer, and the location of this breakup is the only clue.

After waiting in place for two days, Hua Yue was impatient, and he heard the sound of rolling horses' hooves in the distance, and looked up at the flowers. The five horsemen running in front were Qin Rufeng, who had been missing for a long time, and they were running away on horseback one by one, and the shadows of people in the snow in the distance were pupils, and countless war horses trampled on the snow, raising a cloud of white shadows.

"Close to a platoon. Hua Yue estimated the number of chasing soldiers, but the battle was as calm as water, five people intercepted it was absolutely impossible, plus Qin Rufeng and them, ten people fought five hundred, with one as fifty, the martial artist led the team also had to lie down, and there was a decision in an instant: "Get off the horse, change mounts with them, quickly!"

Waiting for Qin Rufeng to lead people to the breakup point, the five war horses were saddle bridled, and the five female soldiers held the reins of the horses in one hand and the short crossbow in the other.

"Change horses! Run away!" Qin Rufeng jumped off the horse, took the reins handed over by Hua Yue, put the horse on the saddle and raised the horsewhip, and said a total of four words, changing horses is an order to this post, but fleeing quickly is to remind the female sentinel.

Ten people galloped on horseback, the pursuers were in hot pursuit, the distance between the two sides began to be a little closer, but with the passage of time, the gap in horsepower was exposed, Huayue's five-person war horse was to wait for work, Qin Rufeng and the chasing horses were tired from a long distance, and now they were transferred to the female student soldiers who were light and not wearing armor, and they fled and chased for a long time, and the sound of the chasing horses' hooves gradually weakened, and finally the sound of chasing life could not be heard when it was dark.

It is easy to lose the way of the horse at night on a snowy day, Hua Yue expected that the pursuers knew the direction of escape and planned to get rid of it in a different direction, but Qin Rufeng waved his hand again and again, and reluctantly spoke: "Go to Wulatun, someone stole the crossbow machine map, let me grab it back, we must send it back as soon as possible, even if we die." ”

The corners of his mouth were bleeding when he spoke, and Hua Yue realized that he had been holding on, and hurriedly helped him sit down to check, and his voice was crying: "What kind of hero are you, why are you injured like this?!" While blaming, he hurriedly helped him wrap his wounds and take medicine, and arranged for the female whistle to check the injuries of others, and if he didn't find out his physical condition, he would have to run on horseback for two days, and he would exhaust the injury to death.

"Hua Yue, don't blame your brother, we were going to steal a good horse as a birthday present for you. Qin Rufeng spoke with difficulty, and a student soldier at this post couldn't help but explain: "Who knew that the horse was too violent, and as soon as the living people approached, they kicked and bitten, alarming the patrol sentry, and it was also our bad luck, we were targeting the mount of a martial arts school, if it weren't for the sentry commander to take his hand and force him to palm, let us take the opportunity to release the cold arrow, this will make the five corpses of the brother cold." ”

"Brother!" Hua Yue's tears dripped down, and he couldn't hold back and didn't cry. That day, he lurked into the Sunset Fortress to inspect the terrain, and when he saw the horse, he muttered casually: "I heard that there are dark clouds and snow in Gaoyuan, and I am not as good as his horse." "Unexpectedly, my brother took it to heart, the border fortress, you actually sneaked in to steal horses, even if you want to die, don't be so thrilling.

"Don't cry, the horse wasn't stolen, I accidentally found a caravan hiding a crossbow machine diagram, grab it back and change it for you a good horse, put it away quickly." ”

The crossbow is the killer weapon of the Qinghui Empire to deal with the iron cavalry, each of which has a number, and the military department would rather put a mark on the beacon tower to send more than 600 people to death, rather than be reluctant to issue a machine crossbow, that is, it is afraid that the Sunset Empire will imitate it after it is captured. Someone actually brought the crossbow machine diagram over, Hua Yue was scared when he thought about it, and hurriedly put away a stack of drawings close to him, and never mentioned the topic of detour, as long as he arrived at Ula Biao, there was the support of the defenders, and the pursuers did not dare to approach, and everyone was safe.

Qin Rufeng originally wanted Hua Yue to leave first with the drawings, but he was unexpectedly let his sister faint with a palm. With tears in his eyes, he led people to build a snow wall, let his brother lie down comfortably on the leather mattress, and the pursuers did not dare to make a fire behind, Hua Yue covered the two of them with a marching quilt for him, and silently looked at the pale and handsome face.

"Sentry Chief, why don't they burn the drawings, wouldn't that be less dangerous?" a female student soldier Lahuayue sat down, and the two shared a marching quilt and draped it over their bodies to protect them from the cold.

"The status of the person who can contact the crossbow machine diagram is not low, there are no drawings as evidence, who would believe that any of them were bought, even if they reluctantly accept the facts, the most important clues will be missing in the investigation, such as Brother Feng desperately protecting the drawings, just to dig out the traitor. ”

Hua Yue explained the reason and asked the student soldiers who had not yet fallen asleep: "How did you escape from the martial arts school?"