Avi rode on the "king", the horse's weight bag was filled with a golden enchanted shield, the quenched knight's sword hung from his waist, he was wearing a brown soft leather armor, no helmet or mask, and his curly yellow hair fluttered in the wind, quite a bit of a ranger. Luca, the leader of the squad with thick eyebrows and big eyes, wore thin chain mail and, like other mercenary cavalrymen, wore a knight's sword and an inverted triangular iris shield. The horses that Big-Nose Fan rode were the thinnest, and all the mercenary cavalry deliberately slowed down in order for his horses to follow the cavalry squadron.

After leaving the land of Emmy, according to the map, after a day and a half of horseback movement in the direction of south-east, you will be able to enter the rear of the defense line of Yiwang City. This line of defense had been set up before the arrival of the Potato Mercenary Regiment, and the head of the Knights of the Church, Satnam, had come to the Potato Mercenary Regiment to tell the people that if this line of defense was lost, then the Theoguna Empire would have no way to retreat, and it would have to defend the city of Doret with all its might. However, the news released to the outside world is that this line of defense is the last line of defense of the Western Guna Empire, and all the soldiers who can participate in the war have been thrown into it.

Because of this, the reconnaissance team led by Avi encountered refugees who were still fleeing to the north along the way, but there were also some regular troops of the Western Goguna Empire who came from the north on the road. These people had already vacated the towns near Yiwang City for the defenders to defend them. Moreover, these civilians passing by also informed the Avi cavalry team of some news - I heard that the vanguard of the invasion army of the East Oguna Empire has entered the forest area south of Yiwang City, where there are many tall trees and many rivers, although the terrain is not high, but the terrain is complicated, and the defenders of the defense line of Yiwang City do not dare to enter there.

Avi and Lukka had already discussed before they set off, and according to the map given to them by Satnam, they decided not to go in the direction of the Righteous King City first, but to go to the city of Bacheng to the west of the Righteous King City to reconnoitre. The map shows that this medium-sized city is surrounded by many small towns, but there are not a single well-fortified fortress or fortress. Squad Leader Luca believes that if the invading forces of the East Oguna Empire notice this, they will definitely choose this side as a breakthrough. Avi has lived in Golden Hoof City since he was a child and has never left, so Luca thought that Avi, as an imperial person, should know about this area, but he didn't expect Avi to ask three questions.

Just as they were approaching the first town, a group of cavalry was entering the town outside the town, and the number of cavalry in this group was about the same as Avi's cavalry squadron, but the equipment on it was obviously not as good as the mercenary cavalry of the potato mercenary group.

"Are those guys friend or foe?" Lukka was wary, and since he left Amy Country, he had kept his eyes on the distance, keeping an eye on his surroundings. And these light cavalry that appeared in front of him were neither like the enemy nor like the allies, and if they were enemy spies or spies, they would not be able to swagger so much.

"Even the enemy can't beat us, right? They don't even have decent armor, maybe they're just fleeing civilians. Fan glanced at it and said disdainfully.

"How many horses are there for the fleeing civilians?"

"Or the fleeing groom," Fan said casually.

As soon as the big-nosed fan said this, Avi was immediately reminded that maybe his mother and Miranda's family would also choose to flee from Golden Hoof City? But he thought about it again, his mother has never asked about politics, and she shouldn't leave Golden Hoof City, where she has always lived, right? The horse farm there is all the work of his mother, and those war horses are also her hard work, even if it is forced by war... The more Avi thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he immediately let his men enter the town with him.

Avi and his men dismounted and headed for the town. There were quite a few civilians in the streets of the town who were busy transporting some things, most of them young and able, and it was estimated that those who were a little older could not afford to leave their homes.

"The cavalry has entered the town's inn, shall we follow?" Lukka asked Avi.

"Our troops are divided into two routes, you and some of your subordinates go down to collect intelligence, and Fan and I will go to see what the origin of those people is. ”

"Okay, then I'll go. With that, Lukka left Avi with a dozen of his men, who had his horses tied up in one place while the others followed him to the hotel.

The hotel was already packed, and most of them had used this place as a base to see what was going on at the front before deciding whether to continue their escape to the north. Avi and Fan were at the front, and everyone sitting in the hotel lobby immediately noticed the mercenaries who had come in.

Avi noticed that many of the cavalry of about thirty people were already sitting here, buying some dry food and water to take away. One of the horsemen immediately stepped forward and said to Avi, "Are you mercenaries? We are the envoys of the regent Shumo, please do not interfere with us." ”

Before Avi could speak, the other party hoped that they would not get in their way, which was a bit strange. "We were just passing through, without malice. ”

"Hopefully. The man in civilian clothes said that and left. The cavalry, who claimed to be the regent's envoys, quickly bought supplies and left the inn without stopping for a moment. Avi looked at it, and there were no women, all of them were sturdy men, perhaps as they said, troops sent by the regent. Since they are from the regular army, it is inconvenient for Avi to ask more.

After lunch, Lukka and his men in charge of gathering intelligence returned, "We've probably learned about the situation, how are you guys doing?"

"It's nothing, those people seem to be friendly soldiers..."Just as Avi responded to Luca, an old man with a basket slowly walked over to Avi's table.

The old man stuffed the last butter bread in the basket into Avi's hand, and said, "Only one is left, so I'll give it to you." Before Avi could say thank you, the old man had already left the hotel. When Fan saw that there was free food, he didn't care about his stomach that was already full just now, so he took the butter bread and ate it.

"Well, the information I've gathered shows that the area around Bacheng is still very safe, and there are occasional nobles from the Theoguna Empire in the area, who will provide some assistance to civilians who want to continue to flee north. And according to the information provided by the civilians who fled from the south, the invasion of the Eastern Oguna Empire was very slow, not even as fast as the escape of the civilians. “

"In other words, the defense line did not meet the onslaught of attack, did you?" asked Fan, munching on his bread.

"That's right, the people of the East Oguna Empire have just taken over a lot of territory, and they have stayed in the towns to the south. They were obliged to put away their hands to take the spoils of war because of the order to prohibit plunder, and because there were no rewards, their morale and mobility dropped considerably. ”

Avi thought that the invading army of the East Oguna Empire would be menacing, but he didn't expect it to be stagnant now.

"Shall we continue to reconfront south, then?"

"Let's feed back the information we have gathered to Marcus seniors first, and you send two people back to pass on the information. Avi said.

At this time, Fan, who was about to finish eating the butter bread, suddenly spit out something on the table, along with saliva and unchewed bread, "Ahem, ahem, what is this! ”

A small copper ball rolled onto the table, and Avi immediately looked around, trying to find the old man who had just given him the bread. Lukka reached for the copper ball and broke it open, revealing a note inside.

"Is it?" said Avi subconsciously, he immediately snatched the note from Luca's hand, "I'll take a look first!"

There was only one sentence written on the note: Meet tonight in the forest south of Bacheng, I am Carrie.

As soon as Avi finished reading it, he immediately closed the note without Luca seeing it. "What's that?" Luca asked at the same time as Fan after taking a few sips of water.

"There's nothing written in it. Avi stuffed the note into his trouser pocket and lied directly in front of the two of them, his expression unchanged. Of course, Luca and Fan didn't believe it, but Avi refused to take out the note again, and instead made an excuse and ran in the direction of the toilet.