Even in the middle of summer, except for two or three hours of heat in the afternoon, the grassland is very comfortable and pleasant, and it can even feel a little cold at night.

Twelve middle-aged guides, with Higg, led a hundred paladins disguised as nomadic cavalry, all the way through the open grassland under the blue sky and white clouds, and occasionally saw herds of cattle and sheep, but they were just some embellishments on this vast grassland. Riding a horse on the grassland for four days without hurry, this kind of open-minded, unobstructed scenery, Higg and others can't always see enough, especially the little white cloud under his seat is even more excited, it has been in a small place like Swan Lake for a long time, and gradually adapted to the grassland life, and the jungle days are no longer its only choice.

The distance on the grassland is not measured in meters or kilometers, but in days, and the normal horseback riding from the Harlandor tribe base camp to the Gonaya tribe base camp is five days, that is, five days. If the direction is correct, they will now have one day to reach the Gonaya base camp, and now they are basically on the edge of the sphere of influence of the Gonaya base camp, and the patrol cavalry sent out on the steppe is usually a one-day horse journey, so far, they have not encountered any nomadic cavalry forces, let alone Zartai.

On the march on the grassland, if it is a large army operation, the general military food is cattle and sheep, and at most it is equipped with some beef jerky and the most dry food to deal with emergencies. Cattle and sheep will march with the army, compared to the agricultural civilization like in Erathia, where transporting grain and grass has become the most troublesome problem for the army's operations, the military rations here are all legged, and it is not effortless to move with the army! War horses can eat grass, people can slaughter cattle and sheep at any time, and the steppe provides everything for the nomads. There are also captured slaves, most of the time they will also become military rations for the barbaric steppe army, in their own words, slaves, in fact, are "two-legged cattle and sheep", the men in the slaves can not only be used as labor, but also as military food, women can be used as objects of entertainment and venting, and finally will become military food!

But the hundred people of Hig do not need to drive cattle and sheep, when passing through some tribes, they can be purchased from those tribes, most of the time, gold coins are not very useful in the grassland, but if you use a porcelain bowl, or use a kitchen knife, you can exchange it for a sheep, if it is an iron pot, it is estimated that you can exchange it for a cow. The low social production capacity on the grassland is still in the most primitive stage, even worse than that of the witch tribe. Even the barbarians themselves looked down on such a backward place as the steppe tribes in the west of their country.

"It seems that it is necessary to change the way the materials are settled with Gnada and Zartai!" Higg smiled secretly in his heart, "It is better to use gold coins to pay them as payment, it is better to use ironware, porcelain, and cloth, gold coins are indeed not as valuable as these things on the grassland, no wonder doing business with Genada, things do not feel cheap at all, it turns out that people on the grassland do not recognize gold coins as wealth!" ”

"My lord, we will soon enter the military control of the Gonaya tribe, do you want to move on?" At dusk, the lead guide came to ask Higg.

Higg himself hesitated, and for the first time, he had no opinion about his actions, so he asked the guide, "If you were me and wanted to find the Patriarch of Zartai as soon as possible, what would I do?" ”

The leader of the guide said: "The biggest possibility is that the adults are looking for a place that is easy to identify, and all the guides will be sent out to search, whether the search can not be found, after three days, they must meet in this place and report the clues found along the way, so that finding people is much more convenient than so many people moving, and the possibility of finding them is much greater!" My lord, I'm just saying that the probability is higher, but the probability of not finding it is even higher! ”

"What if I give not three days, but indefinitely?" Higg asked, he now knew why the elders of the Harandor clan had given him so many guides.

"Indefinitely? This will almost certainly be found, and in ten days at most, the army of the patriarch will definitely be found! The leader of the guide was puzzled and asked, "But is it true that your lordship should stay in one place forever?" It's dangerous! ”

"Of course it's dangerous, except for you who stayed, the other eleven people, all sent out, when they find it, they will meet at the base camp of Gonaya, do you dare?"

"What?" The leader of the guide widened his eyes and opened his mouth wide before he said, "Your Excellency, you want to put the meeting place in the Gonaya base camp?" ”

Higg asked again, "I just ask if you dare to go there to meet me?" ”

"If you dare, why don't we?" The leader of the guide gritted his teeth and said.

"Actually, you don't have to worry, because you can't find the patriarch's army, you don't have to go there to converge, until you find the patriarch, it is possible to trigger the possibility of convergence!" Hig said, "Find your patriarch and tell him that I will help him disrupt the base camp of the Gonaya tribe, and then break out, and Gonaya will definitely send troops to retaliate against us, at that time, I will help him contain the army of Gonaya, and you let the army of Zaltai directly capture the base camp of the Gonaya tribe!" ”

It was simply crazy, the chin of the leader of the guide was almost touching the ground, and it took a long time to react and ask: "Your Excellency, with these hundred cavalry, attack the base camp of Gonaya?" There are at least 20,000 nomadic cavalry there, and the surrounding tribes that can respond can arrive for reinforcements in half a day. ”

"This is not a problem you are worried about, as long as you dare to lead the way, I will dare to fight!" Higg laughed.

The leader of the guide was almost suppressed by Higg's arrogance, and he was even more arrogant, and said: "My lord, this guide is none other than me!" ”

"Okay, you go and arrange the other guides and set off overnight!" Higg said.

After Higg finished speaking, he turned his horse's head, faced the hundred paladins behind him, and said loudly: "You are the most elite and brave warriors of my Fifth Legion, I have spent nearly two years to train you, spent countless painstaking money, the best equipment, the best war horses, and the Silver Warrior Medal!" You told me that you can fight a hundred with one, and now I want to hear you tell me again, can you really fight one against a hundred? ”

"One against a hundred, one against a hundred!" The knights shouted loudly, accompanied by the neighing of their horses.

"Okay, plus me, there are a total of one hundred and one people, with one enemy and one hundred, we are ten thousand enemies!" "But what should we do when the Gonaya base camp is guarded by 20,000 nomadic cavalry, and they look down on us?" ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill—"

"You all train at Swan Lake, and in terms of training, you are all excellent, I am very satisfied! But there are two things missing from you! "Can any of you tell me what is missing in you?" ”

The knights looked at each other, not knowing what Higg was referring to, and one of the leading ten-captains asked, "Please make it clear to the marshal!" ”

"There are no marshals here, only comrades-in-arms, only brothers!" Higg said, "If you find it inconvenient to scream, you can call me Centurion, or Captain!" I'll tell you right now, there are two things missing from you, one is murderous, and the other is pride! The enemies ahead are despising our cowardice, and we need to prove to them what is the pride of the Paladin's Legion, and crush them with our murderous energy! I will be the first to rush to the front, and you must be within a hundred paces behind me, for my back will be handed over to you! ”

"Destroy everything, crush everything!"

"If you survive, I will admit that you are paladins, and the dead, along with his pride, will be taken back, and will become a shameful laughing stock for the whole regiment and even the whole army!" Higg continued, "Your true commander, General Thomas, is fighting a bloody battle against your enemies! Tomorrow's battle, you have to prove to him that each and every one of you is a qualified paladin, the proudest paladin! ”

"Paladin...... Paladin......! The shouts of pride and pride resounded in the grassland sky, startling the birds that were foraging on the grassland to fly wildly, away from this group of perverts who were almost crazy.

"Camp on the spot, rest tonight, set off early tomorrow morning, and attack according to the situation after dark tomorrow night!" Higg ordered.

A group of crazy perverts - in the shocked eyes of the twelve guides who had not yet left, they came to such a conclusion, admiring their courage while inevitably having some ridicule in it.

……

Without too much language, under the leadership of the only remaining guide leader, early in the morning, we set off for the east towards the rising sun.

Everyone is not in a hurry to go, wasting their strength, even if this hundred people are discovered by the enemy, they will not attract much attention! The army marched at a normal pace before the enemy found itself, and it was not until late afternoon, when the first patrol appeared in the distance to spot the hundred-strong army, that Higg ordered the army to speed up its march and deviate southward, intending to attack again to the southeast of the base camp, believing that the main defensive direction of the Gonaya base camp, which was fighting against the tribal alliance of Zartai, must be in the direction of Harando, that is, to the west of his own base camp. The purpose of Higg's detour is to make it difficult for the enemy to detect his intentions, and second, to avoid the enemy's edge and attack from behind the enemy, so that he can get twice the result with half the effort.

Although it deviated from the route and detoured, due to the accelerated march, the time to reach the designated position of the predetermined battlefield must be the night hour carefully calculated by the guide leader.

The sky is beautiful, the sky is clear, there is no moon, the sky is full of stars, but it is not so bright, maybe it is really the Valley of Flowers that has captured part of the power of the stars. In short, such a dark night and high wind are suitable for home travel, and it is also the best time to kill people and set fires......