In early June, Cao Su led three thousand elite cavalry and arrived at Guangyang City.

Guangyang City was the original "Piaoxue City". Now it was "forcibly" renamed by Cao Su. The purpose was not to see how nice "Guangyang" sounds, but to make the original "Piaoxue" gradually fade out of people's sight.

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Cao Su did not show up, but asked Shi Yong and Ma Chao from the team to come forward to negotiate with Luo Wu, the lord of Guangyang City.

Luo Wu is now in a semi-puppet state. Being the city lord here is not what he wants, and he is really helpless.

After Cao Su's three thousand elite cavalry were resupplied here for two days, they continued northward and crossed a longer distance.

June and July are considered to be relatively mild months of the year in Youzhou. When the sunshine is strong, you can even feel a bit of heat.

Of course, most of the time, Youzhou is still very cool.

The "Special Operations Team" led by Cao Su set off directly from Guangyang City, crossed the vast snow-capped mountains, and entered the northern border of Youzhou. After stepping out, they entered the even wider grassland of Youzhou.

The endless grassland is suitable for galloping horses.

This is the frontier of Qianyuan, and the people living on the grassland cannot be regarded as Qianyuan people.

Cao Su led the army, and under the guidance of Gong Wu, the young leader of the Red Wolf tribe, he gained some basic understanding of the distribution of ethnic groups and tribes on the grassland.

Generally speaking, there are not many tribes living in the vast grassland, because in winter, the living environment of the barren grassland is too harsh, making it difficult to survive here easily.

Generally, the number of larger tribes is only over 10,000 people, most tribes have only a few thousand people, and smaller tribes have only a few hundred people.

The number of these large and small tribes was smaller than Cao Su imagined. Every once in a while, they would move tribes.

Of course, although the Red Wolf tribe can also move, the range of movement is regular. Basically, they can still return to the same place after a circle, which means that this area belongs to their Red Wolf tribe.

It is also the legendary "horse racing enclosure" that is relatively rough and straightforward.

Therefore, the grassland is vast and sparsely populated. Cao Su leads three thousand fine cavalry and has the power to sweep through any tribe he encounters.

We didn't encounter any large tribes along the way. The largest tribe had a total population of only 8,000 people. Seeing Cao Suhao's mighty fine cavalry appear, the leader of that tribe was blinded.

He immediately knelt down on the grassland and wanted to kiss Cao Su's boots.

Facing such resistance, it was difficult for Cao Su to get a chance to take action, and his army had never fought a single battle, but his reputation gradually spread on the grassland.

Cao Su clearly felt that the grassland population was too small for training, so he changed direction and led his elite cavalry eastward.

Keep going east and you will enter the Liaozhou area, where Li Xingxi is currently active.

As a result, before officially setting foot in Liaozhou, I received news from Youzhou Prefecture.

"An evil dragon appeared in Funiu Daze, southeast of Youzhou Prefecture."

"The evil dragon has been successful in cultivation. For some reason, it suddenly went crazy a few days ago and swallowed up several caravans from Youzhou Prefecture. Some caravans passed through Funiu Ze, but all of them had no bones left, and they died tragically."

Evil dragon?

Cao Su did not expect such a bad situation to occur under his rule.

Although there are some monsters in the wild today, most of them have the instinct to "ward off evil and evil". They know that in this world, warriors are revered as heroes, so they do not dare to cause harm easily.

Especially in Youzhou Mansion, where Cao Su's first-grade martial artist is in charge, no evil beast without eyes dares to provoke him.

As a result, an evil dragon suddenly appeared, which made Cao Su feel a little strange.

"Order Wang Qing to investigate this matter without making any mistakes."

The evil dragon attacked the caravan. Cao Su used commerce to promote the development of the city. Naturally, he did not want to see problems with the situation he had carefully created. Wang Qing was a rare second-grade warrior under his command, and his combat power could be ranked among the top five. Wang Qing

Qing investigated the matter, which was relatively more prudent.

After Cao Su replied to the letter, he determined to continue to lead his fine cavalry to patrol the border.

Especially for Li Xingxi's troops, he also wanted to further compress their living space in order to achieve the long-term strategic goal of gradually encroaching and controlling Liaozhou.

Therefore, after receiving this information, Cao Su immediately accelerated the progress of the elite cavalry patrol.

Within a few days, they ran hundreds of miles and entered the border of Liaozhou to start a new round of patrol.

In Liaozhou, Cao Su's troops encountered the bandits under Li Xingxi.

It has been more than half a year since I last saw Li Xingxi's army. Today, Li Xingxi's army has completely turned into a group of "bandit soldiers". Not only are the warriors in the team low-level, but most of them are just barbaric in burning, killing and looting.

Last year's Li Xingxi army was at least able to carry out orders and prohibitions, and had a little bit of the demeanor of a strong army.

Cao Su quickly defeated Li Xingxi's two small troops at the northern border of Liaozhou, and then divided his army into three. He personally led the main force of 2,000 people and advanced towards the largest city in northern Liaozhou, Mihe Ancient City, while Shi

Yong and Ma Chao each led five hundred elite cavalry, relying on the army's vanguard and left and right vanguards, and released jamming signals towards Li Xingxi on both sides.

Cao Su himself was monitoring the sky at all times to see if Li Xingxi would take the initiative to investigate if he reacted.

Li Xingxi did not come, and his army reacted very stiffly after being attacked, allowing Cao Su to march straight in.

Cao Suyi, an expert in art, was brave and not afraid of Li Xingxi setting up an ambush, so he quickly arrived at Mihe Ancient City.

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"Lord, something seems wrong."

Shi Yong and Ma Chao stopped outside Mihe Ancient City.

The two of them looked at the city in surprise and waited until Cao Su arrived.

Cao Su also immediately noticed something strange about the ancient city.

This most famous ancient city in Liaozhou is very quiet at noon now.

The city gates were closed, there was no sound, and there was no Sergeant Li Xingxi guarding the city.

Next to Cao Su, Anyang, who was wearing silver-white armor, stared intently.

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Nonsense, of course there is a problem.

Ma Chao was furious and glared at the little masked guard.

The little guard really has no eyesight. What kind of identity does he have to dare to talk to you casually here?

Anyang is taller than an ordinary man. She is standing there in a battle armor. Her gender cannot be seen. But if you listen carefully to her words, there are still obvious differences. But at this moment, a rough guy like Ma Chao has no such observation skills. He is just staring.

Already.

Cao Su frowned. He smelled a trace of blood outside Mihe Ancient City.

"Two days ago, the survivor we captured said that Li Xingxi was in this city. Could it be that he has escaped?"

Shi Yong was also very puzzled. If it weren't for the soldiers under his command, he would have entered the ancient city to explore first.

But now, even General Zhenbei believes that there is something wrong with the ancient city, and no one dares to act rashly.

Isn't it an empty city strategy?

Cao Su looked at the empty city wall and ordered in a deep voice: "Everyone, please stay here and don't move. I'll go in and take a look first."

"No, the general is the cornerstone of Youzhou, how can you take risks easily? My subordinates come first."

As soon as Cao Su finished speaking, there were some dog-legged generals below who immediately tried to persuade him. They all looked very anxious, worried that Cao Su would really rush in.

Although Cao Su was the general of Zhenbei, he was also the most powerful among them all.

He was worried that there was something unclean in this ancient city that would ruin the young and experienced knights like him.

The group of people under my command have gained a lot of experience during this training. Under the temper of war and fire, many of them have achieved breakthroughs in strength.

"I go."

Next to Cao Su, Anyang, who lowered his voice, took the initiative to ask for help.

The little guard was not afraid of the unknown and actually took the initiative to go to the ancient city to find out.

This sudden self-awakening made Ma Chao, who was originally a little dissatisfied, look at him with admiration.

"Nonsense!" Cao Su frowned: "What do you want here?"

Although Anyang has an obvious win-win relationship with him, the long-term hard training has also led to some fetters and feelings between the two, but neither of them is willing to admit it, and Cao Su refused on the spot.

I am willing to let Anyang intervene in this matter.

"Why?"

Ma Chao was about to say that you can go, but he was rejected by Cao Su.

"I feel that this ancient city is a bit weird. I'm afraid there is danger in the city." Cao Su's eyes gradually lit up with two rays of red and purple. Looking around, the entire ancient city of Mihe was enveloped in a rich blood-evil aura.

The blood evil energy is barely visible, and normal people can only feel that this place is too cold. Only Cao Su, who has such magical powers, can see more clearly.

"Could it be that Li Xingxi buried himself and carried out some kind of sacrifice in the city?"

Cao Su was so whimsical that he had encountered similar situations when he was in contact with some monks.

It's a pity that he didn't bring his monks with him on this patrol. Forget about the two brothers Jin Mu, Jin Kun, and Weng Xiao was also busy with business.

If Weng Xiao were here, he should be able to make a more complete judgment about the city.

Cao Su withdrew his magical power, looked at it for a long time, and said in a deep voice: "Historically, the ancient city of Mihe was the birthplace of the Eastern Liao Dynasty. Unfortunately, the Eastern Liao Dynasty was too short-lived and was destroyed not long after the founding of the country.
To be continued...