Vol 5 Chapter 25: Vast sea of sand

For Amy, his first real leadership was not smooth ... at least it was a bad start. At this point, he even envied Chi Aotian's expeditionary army. In that army, the system of the small mercenary regiment will absolutely obey Chi Aotian ’s orders, and the Black Dragon Knights are simply equivalent to the Chi family ’s private army. For hundreds of years, there is no discount for the orders from the Chi family. I even hit the point where I only knew that there was a Chi family, but not His Majesty the King. After Chi Hanfeng died in the battle, Chi Aotian and Da Yi shook their arms with private enemies, and they would definitely get unreserved cooperation from the Black Dragon Knights.
Where does it look like, although Amy has absolute authority in the small mercenary regiment, but what about the large number of officers? These officers are from the trump card of the Empire troop army. The four knights of the empire and the imperial imperial guards randomly pulled out a squadron, followed by a lot of glorious history behind the buttocks, 500 years of empire history, and 63 years when there was no war. Of the officers above the squadron leader, which one does not have the title of nobility? Count Chi Hanfeng, the 2nd son of Marshal Chi Datong, the first and most famous master of the Imperial Army, has just taken over as General Gyeonggi, and there are three captains fighting under the eyes of the military? Amy can be suppressed by a head of mercenary regiment? ! joke!
In order to assimilate imperial officers as much as possible and avoid unnecessary internal friction in future wars, Amy can only pull them into combat meetings, and must learn to mediate from them and eventually achieve her goals. People who have never experienced this kind of suffering will never understand it.
When Amy envyed Chi Aotian in the snowfield, he didn't know that Chi Aotian's expeditionary army had already fallen into death and death!
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In the known world, the most unsuitable place for human life is not rugged mountainous areas, icy snowfields, or swamps that can kill people at any time! Although these places are terrible, humans can still come up with a way. Even in the bottomless swamp, humans can save themselves and be rescued.
The desert, the boundless desert is the real forbidden place for mankind! Even for races that lived in the desert for life, once they left their oasis and left the area they were familiar with, there was a look of fear on each of them. If you fall into a desert area, you will definitely not be able to escape because there are many people ... The more people, the faster the death may come.
Without water, it is difficult to last five days in the desert. Even with plenty of water, the surface temperature of the desert is as high as 60 ° in the hot sun at noon, enough to make everyone collapse and even lose their minds. At night, the surface temperature of the desert may be only minus 20 °, this sudden cold and hot, is the most efficient killer in the desert except for lack of water!
Death in the desert is more than that!
The desert, it seems, is a Jedi without any life. However, in fact, there are various creatures here. Living in this extremely harsh environment, they are individually strong, evil, and even vicious! They find it difficult to find food, so they treat all living creatures who dare to invade their territory as their food. When they encounter caravans, they are excited to drive from all corners like an celestial party, waiting to get their own opportunities The one you got! They are much more terrible than their siblings in other environments. They are also rattlesnakes. A small rattlesnake with eggshells in the desert is enough to tip a giant elephant. Adult rattlesnakes in the plains often become food for dogs. .
Of course, these stories are told to people who have not entered the desert hinterland, and most people will not believe it. Only those who have actually entered the desert hinterland will talk about the change of sand color-those who talk about the change of sand color will all fall into the desert.
In order to avoid the annihilation of the whole army, in order to avoid the air scouts of the Knights of the Fanos Dragon, the remaining parts of the Chi Aotian Legion have stayed hard for nearly ten days in this place where the sand color changes!
After the twisted battle, Chi Aotian's expeditionary army was not only seriously injured, but also said to have suffered heavy losses! During the heyday of the expeditionary force, the total strength of troops had exceeded the 20,000 mark! After that war, the total number of soldiers who escaped luckily was only 5139. Among them, 3721 soldiers originally belonged to the Black Dragon Knights, 456 former soldiers of the small mercenary regiment, 17 soldiers of the former Xueyue regiment, and the rest were expeditionary troops. Allied forces.
Never before did the Dragon Knight try to launch a dragon breath against the big river. Of course, no one could think that the dragon breath of the two giant dragons engulfed nearly 10,000 soldiers in an instant with the power of the river.
Of course, Chi Aotian didn't know, otherwise ... Chi Aotian would definitely not give the Iron Duke the opportunity of the Grand Duke. If there is one thing that is gratifying, the loss of the high-ranking officers of the Expeditionary Force did not reach that of the legionnaires. Even so, one big captain, two squadron captains, and five squad captains were erased from the expeditionary army's roster this night ... but there were several officers who were trained by the Black Dragon Knights.
Chi Aotian in the rage is going crazy. Fortunately, two elders with enough weight in the expeditionary force stopped Chi Aotian's revenge, leaving black lightning and 20 forest elf searchers still surviving soldiers, Ta Yang, Su Wen commanded more than 5,000 survivors to shake off and march towards the north, plunging into the Qilian Mountains covered by trees.
The two middle-aged people are not comparable to young people such as Chi Aotian and Qu Jianhong. Ta Yang and Su Wen agree quite well-they only rested for less than two hours in Qilian Mountain. As soon as it fell, the expeditionary troops advanced towards the desert hinterland.
In this world, many times are full of coincidences.
On this day, it was the autumn solstice of the 6th year of the magic calendar. Soon after the remaining parts of Chi Aotian entered the desert hinterland, the annual monsoon wind blew up-this wind landed on the northernmost side of the Eminor mainland, following Qilian The northern foot of the mountain range has been scraped to the southeast. Aoao scraped all night. 5000 soldiers left those traces, which were smoothed out by wind and sand after dawn.
In fact, in the early morning of the next day, Han Han and several other Dragon Knights who came to the starry night for reinforcements searched against the ground. Coincidentally, because the monsoon was blocked by the mountain range and did not enter the southern foot, this caused the expeditionary forces to leave all traces on the south side of the mountain range, and the north side did not.
This precisely gave several dragon knights a unified answer-Chi Aotian's expeditionary army was still hiding in Qilian Mountain. This judgment is of course very normal, even if it is an elite army, there is no camel team supply, and it is a nine-death life to enter the desert. If you must avoid the pursuit, there is a dense forest that stretches for thousands of miles in Qilian Mountain. ?
After setting fire to Qilian Mountain, the dragon knights of Fanos have also searched the desert area, but human eyes cannot compare with the elves after all.
In order to prevent being tracked by the Fanos Legion, the Expeditionary Force completely adopted the day and night system. In the daytime, the soldiers laid the formed tent on the bottom of the valley on the north side of the dune, drilled in with their mounts, and piled sand on the tent. If you do n’t walk to the front, it is difficult to see that people will be hiding in this sand. . The forest elves are changing classes to monitor the movement of the sky, especially the Dragon Knight! In fact, the four dragon knights of Long and Lingyun have also searched for this generation. However, the Expeditionary Army did not know that His Majesty Red Rock had successfully sealed the dragon. Although the eyes of the elves were sharp, they could not penetrate the dragon like X-rays. Seeing the Dragon Knight, therefore, when they saw Long and Ling Yun riding the dragon, the expeditionary troops did not cheer, but pressed the tent tighter.
With Chi Aotian's temper, of course, he was unwilling to do so. The two old guys Su Wen and Ta Yang joined forces to put pressure on them. The reason for the old guy is very simple-although the Expeditionary Army is not afraid of death, it can never look at the copper wall and iron wall like a two pole but hit it with one end. The old guy's statement is exactly the same: use the desert and the enemy to circulate, and when the enemy relaxes their vigilance and even starts to mobilize the army to other battlefields, then insert it like a knife! Not only to achieve Chi Aotian ’s pitiful goal at the beginning, burning Ulu, but also to completely disrupt the enemy ’s layout, so that the major theaters of the empire could wait for the opportunity to eat part of the enemy.
Such an abacus cracked, and it really sounded the same. Chi Aotian ’s good qualities of being good at being good again are reflected again-this is probably the only advantage of Chi Aotian ’s character system.
Unfortunately, people are not as good as the sky.
Under the sky, how many people understand the desert? How many officers of the empire were born and died in the desert? Su Wen, who has served in the northern federation for nearly 20 years, has a flamboyant soldier. In the ice and snow, the number of times he can hear his companions talk about the desert is no more than 10 times a year! Tayang, for the desert, is more pitiful.
As excellent commanders, they can find out how to evade reconnaissance in the desert in the shortest time, but all this cannot cover up the mistakes of commanding the entire army due to their ignorance.
There is no way, a person who has never entered the desert, in any case, it is impossible to really understand the hidden death in the desert! This is like saying "acid, acid, acid ..." to a foreigner who doesn't speak Chinese at all. Even if the person's teeth are down, there will never be any reaction in his mouth. .
Originally, Qingluo had some understanding of the desert. Unfortunately, he used to enter the desert with the caravan. He followed the ancient road. Every few days, there was an oasis to supplement food and water. I don't understand.
Enter the seventh day of the desert area! The Expeditionary Force has begun to feel the pressure! The water has been fully exhausted. At the beginning, in the middle of the night, the elf knights could go back and fetch some water with water bladders. , You can barely moisturize your lips.
This is just the beginning. As the four dragon knights of the Fanos Dragon Knights and the Little Mercenary Corps further expanded their search scope, the expeditionary forces had to advance step by step into the deep desert at a speed of 20-30 kilometers every night ... The eagle knights can bring back less and less water.
The first one that can't stand it is the warhorse-this herbivore can't run out of water, and how much can that little forage carry for a few days? At the beginning, there are desert plants such as Salix in the sand snails. After entering the desert for 100 kilometers, there is only one yellow sand that can't be seen!
The war horse fell down!
The command of the senior officers of the Expeditionary Army is to pull open the arteries of these war horses that are still twitching to receive blood with a water bladder in case of surprise.
what! Is his grandma's order? !
The Allies are better. Most of the light knights of the Black Dragon Knights are young trainee knights. They watched their black horses stumble and fall to the ground. No one who does not cry! These war horses are specially allocated by the Imperial Army for the Black Dragon Knights every year. The dark four-hoofed snow is black clouds and the snow is covered. The black head is covered with white hair from the moonlight. This was purchased from nomadic tribes at high prices by the Imperial Army. As trainee knights, they were assigned to a horse just one year old from the day they entered the army. Taking care of their horses is the first lesson of their knighthood. At Tongyun Pass, the warhorse became ill, and most apprentice knights carried their quilts in the stable to accompany their four-legged partners overnight. During the war, it is possible that his robe will betray himself, but this partner who cannot speak will never give up loyalty unless he dies.
Soldiers' feelings about war horses are definitely not understandable by ordinary herdsmen and ordinary farmers. In the army, the old war horses cannot be killed. The dead horses will be sent to the special black mound burial of the Black Dragon Knights as long as there are conditions. Many people have stopped eating a bite of horse meat in this life since they became knights!
After receiving such an order, some of the young knights have forgotten their noble identity and jumped up and scolded their mother. At the beginning, there were only a few people. As more and more war horses fell under the scorching sun, the teenagers who blatantly resisted the order The more they came, no matter what was hidden or not, they climbed out of the bunker with sand on their faces and yelled at Tayan who issued the order! Of course, some people directly and nakedly began to greet Tayang's immediate elders.
The so-called sacred priest did not take these eyes at the young men at all. He took the warhammer from the sheephead around him and smashed it twice in his hands.
Wherever the teenagers in the rage were afraid of this threat, Hula rushed up and was ready to teach this evil old priest in front of him.
Two icy eyes came over. The surface temperature of the desert surface at noon was as high as 50 °. In this high temperature of 50 °, the invisible cold air was enough to make all the teenagers inexplicably shudder. Chi Aotian walked over step by step, the dry sand spreading under his feet.
"What are you doing?" The cold words quickly lowered the temperature.
"Don't you wait for a knight, am I?" Is there anyone in the Chimen family who is not a knight? "Don't I understand what a war horse is for a knight? Do I still tell you that the capital of the capital, Cambrai, has been captured? Don't you see the defeated soldiers retired from the mercenary empire?
The tone is calmer than the sentence, but the pressure increases from word to word.
"A young boy as an imperial trainee knight, do you forget what you are eating in the sun? I tell you a sentence, 400 years ago, the Black Dragon Knights fought the battle of 400 years of Longwei, That ’s right here! Everyone asks yourself, what did your ancestors do? You can really make a long face for your ancestors! Hu Luoping Pingyang can be bullied by dogs, can the world ’s proudest dragon be bullied by dogs? Chi Aotian did not repeat the order and turned away.
This is not a loud voice. In the open desert, all the soldiers of the Black Dragon Knights heard it without a word.
Ms. Ikeda Meng was in this acre of three points to kill the hundred dragons of the Black Dragon Knights. At that time, the army of 5,000 people here not only killed mounts but also ate mounts and even ate people! Without the supplement of these exotic foods, the Black Dragon Knights would not have the prestige of today.
The teenagers didn't speak anymore, wiped their eyes one by one covering their mouths ~ EbookFREE.me ~ turned around and choked back while walking, someone walked and walked with a sour nose, squatting on the ground and crying with tears Punched out with dry eyes ... The sharp scimitar was pulled out, radiating a ray of light in the desert, touching the mane of the war horse, the teenagers were crying, the young horses ... also crying No war horse is psychic, tears of the size of beans rolled out of the once beautiful eyes of the war horse. In the parting of life and death, the war horse struggled to lick the hands of the young knights with his rough tongue ... The teenagers certainly know these get along The meaning of the non-speaking partners for two or three years-they did not hesitate to leave the chance of life to the knight ...
In a crying cry, Xueliang's scimitar became red, and red liquid came out of the horse's neck! The bright red blood sprayed on the faces of the teenagers. No one reached out to wipe it. The teenagers cried while receiving blood ...
A faint smell of air filled the air ... The horses didn't utter any sorrow until they died.
After the blood is drained, the soul of the non-speaking partner has completely left the body that was once extremely healthy. Perhaps, the war horse also has their own paradise ... The teenagers use the scimitar to dismantle the war horse's limbs and throw large pieces of horse meat to the ground Dragon Knights-None of these knights with an average age of 28 dared to pick them up, and let the flesh fall to the ground, torn and eaten by the starving dragon. The Dragon Knights of course understand the emotions of these teenagers, and no one comforts them-that is tantamount to talking coldly. Now, the best and only means of comfort is to accompany the young brothers without saying anything. Tear your tears, and the most heart-wrenching tears that the knight had left for his mount partner ...
At this time, in this pain, no one can know that greater difficulty, more danger, still grinning grimly in front ...