This should have been an unmanned land, but now some people have broken the silence here...

More than a hundred light cavalry gathered into a small queue, slowly heading westward. Every time they traveled, they carefully gained their foothold, looked around, and confirmed that there was no enemy in the world, and then continued to move forward.

This man came from Longyou.

This light cavalry never used the banner, and the generals and soldiers did not seem to have different colors. They were all wearing leather armor and did not wear heavy iron armor. After all, it was winter now, and at the same time, the iron armor was heavier than leather armor when traveling a long distance.

In the queue, Meng Hua was wearing leather armor like ordinary soldiers and was looking around vigilantly.

Not Liao Hua.

It is the Montessoriization of Montessori.

Menghua fought against the Qiang people under Zhang Liao's command, and later moved to Longyou. Now he has been promoted to the army's Sima and lead a team alone. It has been a while since he has accumulated some merits, the commander will be just around the corner.

『Find a place to camp!』

Meng Hua looked up at the sky, "Damn it, I'm afraid it's going to snow!"

Menghua has always been able to form a group of soldiers, and it is also a famous generous person in the Longyou Army. When he paid military salaries, he often paid for some money to buy some wine and meat to share with his subordinates, so he was very motivated by the army. With his order, some soldiers answered and began to find a suitable camping place.

Walking along the remains of Cheshi Kingdom has some convenient benefits, at least drinking water and covering places are more labor-saving.

The precipitation here is scarce all year round. If you don’t go along the direction of the water source, it’s almost like seeking death. Therefore, whether it’s a soldier or a caravan, you can’t live without the water source, and you can only take one or two fixed routes. The rest of the roads are not that you can’t walk, but that the risk is too high, and you may not be able to walk out if you go in.

"Boss, can't we go faster? How many days will we go so hard?" a soldier asked loudly.

Meng Hua waved his hand, "No, we must be careful! These horse thieves... are cruel and ruthless, it's better to be careful. I don't want to take your pension to find your mother!"

After hearing Meng Hua say this, the soldiers also let go of some resentment, and at the same time joked with each other, talking about some topics about girls and aunts, laughing and mediating some fatigue on the road.

When Meng Hua heard the soldiers under his command laughing and scolding each other, he just smiled and did not participate. He had to have a limit when talking to the soldiers under his command. After a while, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, I'm just talking nonsense, it's even more broken than my mother's mouth! It's not like sending troops to release horses and licking blood on the knife? Be more alert, check it out and don't miss anything. Then the horse thief will touch you and stab you in the back ditch!"

Meng Hua spoke, and the light cavalry under his command also responded with a smile.

"It's better to meet it! I'm afraid I won't meet it. Although a horse thief is cheaper, it's still worth hundreds of cents! I'm going to get more than a dozen, but it's still a thousand? I still owed the debt to fight...'

『This is...』

"If these horse thieves are so polite, we will accept it with a smile, but you should be careful, don't give the horse thieves a head instead..."

『Fart! Thinking about back then...』

『…』

Unlike the chattering soldiers, Meng Hua had a smile on his face, but he felt a little uneasy.

Although horse thieves often appear in the Western Regions, or even in Longyou, like bandits in the inland Central Plains, most of them are not of any kind.

Although the slogans of bandits are so bold that I can drive this road, and there are also big pieces of meat and silver, but in fact, most bandits live in poverty, even more painful than being a farmer.

Although farmers have to pay taxes or something, they are stable and can basically have some food to eat. But if the bandits are full and hungry, they have to be careful of when they lose their heads. Basically, if they are not forced to do so, most people would not choose bandits as their profession.

Horse thieves are also similar, generally so.

There are many horse thieves in the Western Regions, like flies. They are hard to beat, and they are disgusting.

Most of these horse thieves are inadequately equipped, such as jackals on the grassland, who only dare to bully some lonely caravans, and even slightly larger caravans cannot beat them.

But now it seems a little different...

Something strange is true.

In addition to the sudden increase in the number of people, the season is also not right.

After all, it’s winter now, and the caravans have been reduced a lot. Why are there so many horse thieves suddenly coming?

You should know that a few days ago, a group of soldiers returned from the Western Regions, and they were still some veterans and retired soldiers. However, when these retired soldiers returned from the Western Regions, there was no news of horse thieves.

So, it’s really inexplicable that this group of horse thieves came!

While Meng Hua was thinking in a mess, he heard a sharp whistle coming from the distance from the hillside on one side. Meng Hua looked up suddenly and saw a whistle in the distance waving his arm hard on the hillside.

"Head, something seems to be wrong..."

The soldiers beside Meng Hua looked at that direction and their faces changed slightly.

Meng Hua tightly held the sword and said, "Get on the horse! Go ahead and take a look! The whole army is on guard!"

With a military order, the light cavalry, who had originally looked a little lazy and idle, suddenly became tense, and they turned over and rode on horses, drew their swords and held their bows, and galloped forward.

Half of these light cavalry and whistle detectives were originally from Longyou, and the other half were recruits from Yinshan. They were not bad in terms of riding skills and combat quality. When they saw that the situation changed, they immediately unsheathed their swords and arrows were placed on the bow, headed by Menghua, and headed towards the hillside like a whirlwind.

Not long after, they arrived at the hillside and saw the scene that stunned everyone!

In the distance in front of them, under a broken eaves and walls that sheltered from the wind, more than a dozen corpses lay down on the ground in a row. Many of the corpses' robes and armor were taken away, and their exposed bodies were torn to pieces by some rotten beasts or vultures, and their rotten intestines were dragged to a long time by wild dogs...

There are also some horses and camels whose flesh were obviously killed and then cut off the bones...

Some messy and broken cargo boxes were discarded and scattered.

"Head, this is a caravan..."
Chapter completed!