The two horses screamed, fell forward and fell heavily on the field, making two muffled sounds, while the front hooves, severed by the standard saber, flew in the air according to inertia, bringing out two miserable lines of blood.

The blade struck, following a curved and deadly cold trajectory, if it was replaced by an ordinary person, it might not be possible to avoid such a strange slash at all, but Xu Chen was too familiar with the horse thieves and the scimitars used by the horse thieves, so familiar that even if he closed his eyes, he could easily not be touched by the other party.

The night was deep, and there was not much difference between having your eyes open and your eyes closed.

So he easily lowered his head and turned diagonally, avoiding several scimitar blades from above, and then with a tightening of his hands, the slender standard saber tore through several terrifying gaps in the night sky, cutting off several horses' hooves, splitting the horse thief's chest and abdomen, bringing off a few thin horse's mane, and then plunging heavily into the slightly hard field mud.

In the blink of an eye, he had rushed to the other end of the pack of horse thieves, killing two horse thieves and five horses under his knife, and the scimitars in the hands of the horse thieves did not leave any mark on him.

At this time, the winter clouds in the sky occasionally dispersed, leaking a little starlight, although the face was still not clear to see, but the figure could be seen clearly. The horse thieves turned their heads and looked at Xu Chen, who was standing in the field with a knife, his body stiffened, and his hand holding the scimitar kept trembling, but he still felt extremely cold.

The horse thieves used their fastest speed to rescue their companions who were still breathing on the ground, and rode together for a distance to the periphery, looking at Xu Chen nervously and vigilantly, but they did not have the courage to draw their bows and aim at him.

Xu Chen walked over, listening to the miserable howls of the broken-hoofed horses in the night field around him, and the standard saber in his hand cut through the air, slowly and steadily cutting the throats of the horses, making them die as quickly as possible.

Then he looked at the horse thieves not far away, stretched out his finger and shook it in the night wind, and he didn't know if the other party could see his movements clearly, whether they could understand the meaning of his actions.

"Why don't you kill all these horse thieves?"

Duanmu Rong looked at the horse thieves who were fleeing into the distance in the night, and asked puzzledly.

"Horse thieves can't be killed. ”

Xu Chen said: "At least this group of horse thieves, I can't kill them alone." ”

Duanmu Rong looked back at him, his expression was very focused, but his eyes were still a little drifting, and he seemed very unfocused.

Xu Chen looked at her beautiful little round face, and after a moment of silence, he said, "The reason why I killed people tonight is that I hope they can bring back accurate information. ”

"What's the message?"

"I'm going to tell them that in addition to you, the talisman, there is also a man who is good at killing horse thieves. If this group of horse thieves wants to eat us, they will have to pay a greater price, and if the benefits of the harvest are not proportionate to the risks to be taken, perhaps they will withdraw on their own. ”

Duanmu Rong said: "Although I have never met horse thieves, I have heard many legends of grassland horse thieves, they are known for their coldness and blood-devouring cruelty, how can they retreat because of some small setbacks?"

"The more ruthless and easy to kill, the more afraid of death...... I probably know more about death than you do. ”

He continued: "I came to kill the horse thieves tonight, in addition to asking them to return with a clear message, and I wanted to teach you something. ”

Duanmu Rong's ink-like condensed but refreshing eyebrows frowned: "Teach me to kill?"

"Killing, or how not to be killed. ”

Xu Chen looked at her and said seriously: "You are the strongest person in this team, the horse thieves are coming, I can save my life, but the lives of those ordinary soldiers and people still depend on you in the end." But a few days ago, you wasted your mental energy to set up a rune array outside the camp, which seems to me to be a wasteful practice. ”

He said: "You are our big killer, then you should not use it for defense, but for offense." ”

Duanmu Rong was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then she said: "I have been practicing runes since I was a child, and in my cognition, only true runes can take the initiative to attack. ”

Xu Chen remembered what his master Lu Yin taught him in the capital, and couldn't help laughing. He looked at her steamed bun face, which had no expression, but always had a bit of natural joy, and said, "Who said that if you can't reach the Six Realms, the Fu Master can't attack?" As long as it is used properly, even if the steamed bun freezes hard, it can be stoned to death." ”

Although they have a clear enough understanding of the grassland horse thieves and have dealt with them for many years, the trend of the situation is not exactly as Xu Chen expected, and on the second day, those horse thieves were a little farther away from the grain delivery team, but they did not disperse, but reunited as a team far away, and still reluctantly followed them.

Distance produces beauty can also produce a sense of security, the distance between the horse thieves and the food delivery team is shortened, although there is no substantive significance to safety, but it can be clearly felt that the military and civilian husbands in the team have a lot less mental pressure, and even the girls of the Western Jin Dynasty can occasionally see smiles on their faces.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted to a corner, Duanmu Rong looked at Xu Chen on the black horse next to the car, looked at his cheeks that were mostly covered by a hat, and suddenly asked, "You are very familiar with the wasteland?"

Xu Chen nodded and shook his head again.

Duanmu Rong looked at the shadow cast by the hat on his face and said, "The wasteland is windy, and ordinary people shouldn't wear hats, but why do you and many horse thieves wear hats." ”

Xu Chen hooked the frenulum on his chin with his little finger and said, "There is a strap, so I'm not afraid of being blown away by the wind." As for why we are used to wearing hats...... The sun is too strong in the wasteland, this thing can shade the sun, and the most important thing is that it can cover the face. ”

The purpose of covering his face is naturally not to see people without a face, but not to let others see his face, whether it is a horse thief or him, he always protects his identity very thoroughly.

Yaxiu looked at the group of horse thieves in the northeast who were almost parallel to the grain delivery team, frowned and asked, "Senior brother, where did these horse thieves come from? This place should not be far from the royal court, is there no one to care?"

"I seem to have answered that question the other day. ”

Xu Chen pressed the hat lower, and said: "Many of the most powerful horse thieves on the grassland have masters, and the group of horse thieves who are following us now obviously also have masters. ”

Yaxiu asked curiously, "How did you see that?"

Xu Chen looked at the group of horse thieves in the distance, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Because these horse thieves are too disciplined. ”

"And who is their master?"

"I don't know. ”

Xu Chen shook his head, thinking that there were not many forces on the grassland that could afford to raise such a large group of horse thieves, but as analyzed a few days ago, there was no reason for those forces to instigate horse thieves to rob this grain delivery team.

The Central Plains countries and the Beiqiang royal court peace talks, this grain delivery team represents the attitude, the grain transported is mainly a symbolic meaning, the quantity is not too much, if this group of horse thieves come to the grain and grass, then when they find that this grain delivery team is very difficult to gnaw, they should withdraw immediately. Unless the thieves are not killing the food for the purpose of breaking the agreement, or targeting someone in the food team, then this can be very tricky.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously glanced at the window next to him with his spare eyes. A winter wind blew, blowing up the corner of the curtain, revealing Duanmurong's calm and indifferent face that was not disgusted or disliked.

In his opinion, the target of the grain delivery team that is qualified to attract so many horse thieves can only be the girl in white in the carriage. Of course, when thinking about this question, he eliminated himself in advance, because he believed that no one knew that he was disguised as a male disciple of the Jade Xuanmen Xuanyuan and mixed in the food delivery team.

The situation gradually deteriorated as Xu Chen thought, and the atmosphere in the grain delivery team was only relaxed for a day, and then quickly became more tense, and even panicked, because in the next two or three days, the horse thieves who followed the food delivery team not only did not leave, but also continued to appear new small groups of horse thieves, merging into the group of horse thieves in the distance.

This place is not too far from the royal court, the elite cavalry to help, it only takes about two and a half days to arrive, the food delivery team can not break through lightly, so they have to hope for reinforcements, that night there are two fireworks in the camp to rise into the night sky, the deep night shines brightly, but also shines out of the distance like a mountain of horse thieves ride.

Fireworks bloomed all the way, horse thieves flowed in all the way, and the number of horse thieves who followed the grain team became more and more, and gradually turned into a sea of black and oppressive people.

Xu Chen became more and more silent, he looked at the group of horse thieves who had more than six hundred horses in the distance, and the doubts in his heart became more and more intense: What do these horse thieves want to do?

A simple quantitative analysis can lead to relatively accurate conclusions: for example, a middle-aged man with seventeen concubines must be very rich.

Therefore, when the number of horse thieves who silently followed the grain team exceeded 600 horses, the suspected object of the forces behind the horse thieves quickly surfaced - either the Western Jin Dynasty or the royal court. Because in this wasteland, only the Western Jin Dynasty and the Northern Qiang Royal Court can afford to raise so many horse thieves, but Xu Chen has never been able to understand the purpose of this group of horse thieves, because whether it is the Western Jin Dynasty or the Northern Qiang Royal Court, they should be very welcome to negotiate peace now.

Xu Chen became silent, indicating that he was also starting to get nervous.

There were two hundred Western Jin Dynasty horsemen in the food delivery team, more than 100 people, and more than a dozen cultivation girls from the Western Jin Dynasty Jade Xuanmen Xuanyuan, at the beginning, the strength of the two sides on paper was not much different, he thought that it would deter the other party, and according to the usual way of horse thieves, the other party might withdraw. However, seeing more and more horse thieves gathered in the wasteland, he finally confirmed that the other party's purpose was not simply robbery, but other intentions.

Now the horse thieves who appeared around the grain delivery team have more than six hundred horses, and their strength is completely dominant, even if he gallops away with Duanmu Rong and kills more than ten horses on the other side, it will have no effect on the overall situation.

There were no new horse thieves joining the team, and the six hundred horse thieves followed the grain delivery team slowly northward in silence, and for some reason, the horse thieves never attacked, and seemed to be a little hesitant, as if waiting for some order.

But whether they attack or not, these horse thieves are there, wandering in the surrounding fields, and the people in the food delivery team are under tremendous psychological pressure, feeling that there is a dark cloud above their heads that can never be blown away by the wind, but the pressure is getting lower and lower, and the atmosphere is depressed and panicked and even despaired.

An invisible rope is getting tighter and tighter between the grain delivery team and the horse thief group, although it has not yet revealed a hideous face, but Xu Chen knows that as the distance between him and the royal court gets closer and closer, the horse thief will lose all opportunities if he does not attack, so this rope will always break at a moment.

The wasteland is not entirely frost grass and black soil, there are also abandoned earth cities and undulating hills, around a withered poplar forest, the food delivery team temporarily stopped to rest, the military generals looked at the horse thieves on the periphery in panic, or sent scouts to travel sentinels, although there is no meaning, but it can always make people feel at ease.

"Without reinforcements, there is no way for the food team to hold on. Now that we are not far from the royal court, the Khan's cavalry may touch us, and my problem is that even if they can't see the fireworks, since you are such a powerful talisman, there should always be a way to inform them. ”

Xu Chen's gaze moved away from the map, looked at Duanmu Rong beside him and asked, his tone was a little solemn and serious, Duanmu Rong was as calm or indifferent as usual, as if he couldn't see the horse thieves on the periphery in his eyes at all.