In the wilderness, the sound of horse hooves seemed to be there and there were no sound. More than a dozen knights spread out in the wilderness for a long distance, climbing up to explore the forest, and staggering. On the surface, these dozen people were different in postures and speeds, but it seemed that there was an invisible net connecting them. Each of them acted as a node in the net, and if one was missing, it seemed inconsistent enough.

A qualified scout is not just about knowing how to ride a horse and travel quickly. Scouts are not just the eyes of the army, but also fingers. Their role is not reflected in the search for enemy tracks, but also requires outstanding identification of astronomy, geography, hydrology and other aspects.

And even if it is just a seemingly simple ride, it is full of technical details. Because scouts often have to run to extremely long distances, and the route is complex to discover valuable clues to the greatest extent. Horses are their most important means of transportation, which requires a sufficient understanding of horse nature.

This understanding is not only reflected in the exquisiteness of riding skills, but rather in horse control than riding a horse. They not only need good speed, but also always ensure that the horse has sufficient physical strength and explosive power, and they can leave as soon as possible when danger comes.

Therefore, truly excellent scouts are definitely the most elite choice among thousands of people, the most high-end and scarce talents in the army. For example, the dozen people in front of them seem lazy and wandering aimlessly, but in the eyes of those who truly understand the profession, they are fierce and alert wolves. Whether it is to avoid their tracking or round them up, it is extremely difficult.

Of course, even in the Jiehu army, such excellent scouts are quite scarce.

After passing through a dense vegetation slope, the scattered formation gradually contracted and gathered in a low-lying grass below the slope. Four horsemen still wandered outside. The remaining knights got off the horse and drank water and had a meal. Others loosened the saddle belt and slapped the slightly stiff muscles on the horse's body in a regular manner to perform relaxation and recovery force.

The scout's work is boring and heavy, but important and irreplaceable. And it is always wandering in a crisis-ridden environment. Once variables occur, it often means a catastrophe, such as the present.

Everyone on the grass was talking in a low voice to summarize their search results. Suddenly, a few unobtrusive noises were made in one direction, and ordinary people often ignore them. However, for these scouts who wandered on the edge of life and death all day long, these strange noises were nothing more than thunder.

Within a few breaths, everyone turned over the horses, and the bows, swords and arrows that had previously concentrated on the backs of several horses to save horsepower were also passed to everyone's hands. Then, looking in the direction of the abnormal sound, the scout in that direction was no longer seen, and only one horse was left lying softly on the grass.

Seeing this scene, everyone felt even more crisis. Being able to deal with a scout so quickly shows that the other party must have rich experience and premeditated ambush.

"withdraw!"

The scout leader roared, and then dozens of war horses rushed towards the direction of their companions' death. They were not for revenge, but for any ambush of the size, the place where they attacked must be the weakest place, and hoped to break through from this direction is the greatest hope.

Sure enough, when these scouts began to charge, the other parties had already heard the neighing and horse hooves, and more than twenty cavalry rushed out of the grass and pierced from left and right.

The two sides were still more than ten feet apart, but the ambush's arrows had already broken through the air. The battle between the two sides changed from extreme quiet to extreme movement. Even if it was just a stream of arrows, it would be penetrated once it hit.

And at such critical moments, it is not suitable to swing a knife and chop the slit. Once the knight's movement is too large, the horse's charge will be greatly affected. Once the speed is gone, he will surely die!

So the dozen knights were lying on the back of the horse at the first time, and at the same time, they pulled the bow and pulled the strings. Within a moment, they rushed out several feet away. The three people in front were shooting towards their charge. The horse's speed also soared to an extremely terrifying speed for a moment, almost following the arrow!

However, the ambushers on the other side were also very experienced. There were two people in front of him, and they seemed to be unable to resist the impact of the scouts. However, these two people had a strong sense of courage. Instead of retreating, they slapped the horse's buttocks with the back of their hands, controlled the reins with one hand, and hit them head-on!

The distance between the two sides was quickly closer, and two ambushers took advantage of the galloping force of the war horse and suddenly flew out from the horse's back. At such a high-speed fall, the tendons and bones would be broken, and the worst would be dead.

However, these two people were as light as nothing. With the brief stagnation of the air, their limbs suddenly contracted. At the moment of landing, they suddenly pulled the grass and pulled it hard, and then rolled back and rolled it several feet away. They were just in a densely growing grass, and their bodies swayed and quickly submerged it.

It turns out that from the start of the attack, they have undergone rigorous calculations of every action and effect, and they are not destroyed by the surrounding environment! You should know that those scouts of the Jiehu are also experienced and will never be discovered once they leave any traces of attention.

The speed of the two unowned war horses has reached the extreme, and it is impossible to change direction in such a short time, and the dozen scouts' team were full of eyes when they saw this scene.

Especially in the top few people, they were able to avoid the two galloping horses in the shortest time, but the comrades who were charging behind would subconsciously follow them, and that was the direction the ambush rushed.

The more critical it is, the more powerful it can show the elite soldiers. At this moment when it is not enough, the team behind suddenly shot out two feather arrows and directly pierced into the neck of the galloping horse in front. The huge momentum directly suppressed the speed of the crazy galloping horse, and then the horse was thrown out horizontally.

"rise!"

The scouts roared, and the war horses flying under their crotch suddenly rose into the air, like flying dragons coming out of water and directly crossed the two horses. The knight clamped the horse's belly with both knees, and the reins in his hand suddenly lifted. After the war horse landed on the ground, the great impact force slowed down, and the speed was almost unaffected and galloped forward.

It would be better if only one or two people completed this amazing operation, but the entire team, especially the knights in the rear, had no reference to their vision, and could only rely on their judgment on their companions' behavior, which shows the elite of this scout team.

But this exquisite skill is destined to be no one applauded. After all, the ambush has the first-mover advantage. The greatest significance of the sacrifice of the two war horses is to buy them time for the second arrow. Another wave of arrows broke through the air. At this time, the scout team still did not fire a single arrow in order to avoid the oncoming war horses, and even gave up the previous preparation for drawing the bow.

A small group of elite cavalry confronted each other in a narrow road. One side had already fired two arrows, but the other side had not fired one. There was no need to guess the result. The second wave of arrows directly shot down seven or eight scouts, and the fall of these seven or eight scouts and war horses dragged down the tacit understanding of the entire team and was soon attacked by the ambushers.

Both sides maintained high speed and made various difficult moves in this confined space on the horse. Even in such an extremely unfavorable situation, the Jiehu scouts still killed four or five ambushers and fell off the horse.

The battle lasted only a hundred breaths from the end, but the final battle ended more than a mile away. This shows how fast the pace of the battle and how intense the process!

The final result of the battle was that the Jiehu scout team was completely wiped out. The ambushers also paid the price of three lives, so curses frequently rang in this bloody environment.

"Don't gossip, quickly cut and evacuate!"

The ambush leader roared and interrupted everyone's curse and complained, and ordered in a low voice.

So the crowd accelerated their movements, flipped up the bodies of the Jiehu scouts from the pool of blood, and immediately stripped them of all kinds of valuable items. Then they cut off the fingers of the scouts' fingers that were grinding out thick calluses because of the reins. Then they gathered various spoils and quickly evacuated them, leaving only a cruel and bloody killing scene.

Similar scenes are not isolated cases, especially in recent days, they have been frequently staged in the fields between Yecheng and Fangtou. Those hunters and those who are hunted may not be clear about, but Ma Qiu, the leader who guards Yecheng in Jie Kingdom, was in pain in his heart.

"In just four or five days, more than 400 scouts were expelled and killed! Tell me why this is the case?"

In the still simple military camp tent in Yecheng, Ma Qiu's face turned pale, his eyes were covered with blood, and he looked like a vicious expression of choosing someone to eat. The scouts were scattered outside, and it was normal to be intercepted and hunted, but in such a short period of time, he lost so many elite scouts, which was even more unbearable than losing a battle!

Although there are many elite soldiers in Jie who control horses and strings, because of this, the elites among the elites can be selected as scouts, and each of them can be used as ten. Even among these hunted scouts, there are two Jie Hu Xiaoshuai among them. They are in Jie Zhong, and even Ma Qiu, the confidant of Shi Hu, is afraid.

Moreover, in addition to personnel losses, more importantly, the Jie Kingdom has no advantage in monitoring the various situations in the south. In other words, Ma Qiu has no way of understanding what actions the South is currently planning.

You should know that before this, due to its strong advantage in cavalry, although Jie Kingdom was in a weak defense, he was able to understand the dynamics of all the troops of the Southern Thieves. In terms of confrontation and investigation of the enemy situation, the Southern Thieves were no match for Jie Kingdom at all!

So in the face of such a situation, Ma Qiu was both heartbroken and panic, and his anger was indifferent to his superiors.

And those generals were all wronged: "If we really face the battle, the weak cavalry of the Southern thieves will definitely not be our opponents! But now the Southern thieves are colluding with the bandits around them, and the giants buy the lives of scouts. Those bandits are all wandering ghosts, and they are not inferior to our army in all their possessions. Really, really..."

"What a joke! I have tens of thousands of troops. Should I be pinned by these thieves and ants? No matter what method you use, you must find out what the Southern thief is trying to do!"

Ma Qiu roared violently. Although he was slandering the bandits in his words, he actually knew the difficulty of these bandits, because even before he was a disciple of Shi Hu, he was reused because he was wandering around in Hebei as a bandit and searching for Shi Hu for wealth.
Chapter completed!