"I seem to see Luo Mangzi, maybe I'm dazzled, right?"

In the patrol, a black man with a long waisted sign was wearing a crooked hat and helmet with a squinted waist knife handle. He looked at the backs of the two knights in the distance in surprise and muttered to himself.

"I also said I saw that junior named Duan Qinglan." Another big-headed soldier with a waist-length squad leader's wooden sign said angrily, "Don't think so much. Luo Mangzi is not the Qinghai disciple who was beaten to the point of vomiting blood by Jiang Feng. Even Zhong Yan, the four generals of the Longhu Association, could not beat him, and sooner or later he would become a warrior. How could such a popular commodity appear in this border town with fierce soldiers and swords?"

If Luo Xiao stood in front of them, he would probably have to find out that he was an old acquaintance: the former disciple of Xiuwu Temple, who had graduated early and applied to the border, and chose to join the army.

Two people are a third-level and a second-level. They are also good at ordinary soldiers. After a round of training, they each became a small team officer. The daily task is to take this patrol team of more than 20 people to take turns to patrol the border within a radius of hundreds of miles to prevent Turkish people.

"Okay, everyone is quiet." The team led by the team will be a bearded officer in his thirties. A face that has been blown into orange peels by the wind and sand all year round, indicating his identity as an old army. At this time, he was shouting loudly in a thick voice as if he had rubbed into sand, "Based on time, it's our turn to patrol the 'waste hills' this time. Everyone should cheer up and have eighty miles to rush. Now it's 2 noon. We have to arrive at the ground at Shen Shichu to have enough time to camp..."

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

The deserted hill is more than 100 miles away from Baicao City, closest to the border, and the terrain is open, which is the most conducive to the large cavalry assault. A small patrol team encounters grassland cavalry on such terrain and has nowhere to run. It has always been the place where the patrol team is most reluctant to patrol.

"Everyone can stop me!" The team general roared, and Jiwei immediately shocked the soldiers. "The Xiuyan Xiuwu Hall reconnaissance team sent a message, and Tule cavalry appeared two hundred miles southwest. The city guard urgently transferred five teams to strengthen patrols. If there were more people there, we would have fewer people. The patrol rotation time would naturally be tight. I understand?"

Although the team 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. Think about it. Since Tula people appeared in the southwest, it means that our area is much safer." Huang Qi smiled, looking indifferent.

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

Liu Heida laughed: "It's true that this is true. I can't tell that Lao Qi, you are quite smart." But he didn't notice that Huang Qi had a smile on his face, but a gloom flashed through his eyes.

"Everyone cheers me up. Gather - set off!"

Amid the roar of the generals, the patrol cavalry team drove the horses one after another, gathered into a "man" formation with a rumbling sound, alerting the front and left and right sides, and plunging into the canyon.

...

When the card was declared, it was a little half a minute later than the team's expected time, and the patrol team finally arrived at the deserted hill.

As its name suggests, the deserted hills are full of red ochre and high and low sand dunes. They look desolate and almost no grass grows.

The terrain here is open, and as long as you stand on the top of the sand dunes and look around, you can see it within ten miles. Reconnaissance is very advantageous, but in other words, if the Tula cavalry really appears here, there will be no place to run. Fortunately, the news that the Tula appears in the southwest is somewhat reassuring.

Another thing that makes people feel at ease is a circle of earth enclosures. This is a square earth enclosure made of sand, stone and clay for easy camping and making use of materials for the patrol officers over the years. It can accommodate fifty or sixty people, and also has sentry posts and rows of barracks. However, it was destroyed by the Tula people who crossed the border from time to time, leaving only a ruined wall.

The patrol soldiers in Baicao City have also repaired it many times, but soon after it is repaired, they will be attacked and destroyed by Tula people. Such small border conflicts occur from time to time, and it is normal, and destruction is much easier than construction. In the end, the border troops 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 broken the earthen enclosure is, it still has a sense of security than the unrestrained camping in the desolate Gobi.

Although it was only a team of more than 20 people, in the special state of the battle, the team will still order two teams, one team will go to a high place to detect the post, and the other team will be responsible for drinking horses and cooking food and cleaning the camp.

Huang Qi was assigned to the task of getting water and drinking horses. He took several soldiers with a stack of shrunken water bags on his back and walked towards a deep well several miles away.

When the camp was first established, several wells were dug, but over the years, the place became more and more drought, and the wells had long dried up. Later, 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 were naturally built on high ground. Anyway, this is just a temporary patrol camp, and there is no such thing as being besieged. If Tula people really come, they can guard them, and if they can't guard them, they can run away, and if they can't run away... they leave it to fate.

When Huang Qi and his men were about to reach the deep well, they heard Liu Heida laughing from not far away: "You guys who fetched water will go to the lower place, and we guys who were patrolling will go to the higher place. Does this mean that we will open higher this year and you will go to the lower place?"

Several patrol soldiers following Liu Heida laughed loudly when they heard this. Naturally, Huang Qi shouted and shouted "farted" incessantly.

Amid the laughter and scolding, Huang Qi was not idle either. He moved the stone manhole cover hard and pulled up a bucket of water. He shook his head while watching the turbid water, but as he shook his eyes widened, the turbid ripples on the water did not dissipate with the stillness, but instead stirred up a more obvious water circle.

This is... Huang Qi suddenly felt excited all over. Thinking of the experience of the chief professor during the training camp, he suddenly kicked over the bucket. The noisy scene suddenly became quiet. Under the shock of the soldiers, Huang Qi pulled his throat and broke his voice and shouted: "Run quickly-"

Liu Heida stared at Huang Qifa's back with his feet running wildly: "This kid, why are you crazy about slapping..."

He didn't finish his words because, including him, all the soldiers who woke up were also "crazy".

There was a thin black line in the distant sky line. As the continuous advancement, the "black line" became thicker and thicker, and finally formed a large group of black clouds. Behind the black clouds, rolling smoke and dust rose, and the height of the smoke and dust raised was almost in contact with the sky clouds.

"At least three thousand riders! Run!"

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

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

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

Liu Heida's voice became weaker and weaker, and his face swollen into purple. He also knew that this idea was really naive.

"Xiao Qi is right, he can't run away." Another sergeant with a vicissitudes was panting and sitting on the sand dunes with a desperate look, "There are too many people and even if you run to the earthen circumference, it will be a dead end."

"What should I do? Surrender?"

"We are just a few people, and they are hundreds of times that of ours, so it's not embarrassing to surrender."

"Yes! Just do that, Xiaoqi, hurry up and pull some cloth to beat the white flag."

In this team, Liu Heida had the highest military position and immediately ignored the order.

When he was struggling for life, no one dared to slow down. Soon, he cut off a strip of cloth from his military uniform, wrapped it onto a spear, and picked the strongest Liu Heida, who was the strongest, and raised it high. At this time, the ground was already shaking constantly, and the sand and stones were pounding. The earthquake rumbled like a huge shock, even a deaf person could feel it.

Thousands of riders rushed forward, how fast? In a flash, the black clouds approached their eyes.

The flags of all kinds of colors are densely recognized as forests. The black-light helmets, leather armor and round shields are carried, forming a large gray and cold light curtain. Sometimes there are copper spurs shining brightly, shaking the eyes of people, giving people a strong visual impact. The dense armor leaves are mixed with the loud noises formed by iron hooves knocking on the ground, as if they dominate all the sounds in the world. The rolling smoke and dust rise to the clouds, covering the sky and making the sky darken.

Liu Heida, Huang Qi and more than a dozen other soldiers fought, and they were all supported by their survival will to stand still.

Seeing countless iron hooves getting closer and closer, but they had no intention of slowing down at all, Huang Qi and other soldiers wanted to neigh and shout, but found that their throats had already been dry and they could not make any sound. It was not until countless thrustling horse heads and dark iron helmets approached in front of them that they heard Liu Heida's roar squeezed out of his lung cavity: "We - we - throw -"

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Chapter completed!