Chapter Thirty-One: Transformed into Cavalry

  "Guo Fei!" Over a sand dune, a cavalry team was hiding behind, and the two in front were Zhao Xue and Zhao Ba.

  Zhao Xue and Zhao Ba have been deep in the Sunset Desert for almost half a month, and still haven't returned. The captain of the Imperial Guard cavalry regiment responsible for Zhao Xue's safety is getting anxious, and doesn't dare report to the lord. He dispatches several cavalry teams into the Sunset Desert to search for them. This team happens to find the two of them.

  At this time, Zhao Xue was wearing a fiery red fox fur coat outside her body, and Zhao Ba was also wearing a white cloak. The two were eating dried meat and drinking milk wine, surrounded by a group of cavalrymen. When Zhao Xue saw Guo Fei's face, she suddenly showed joy, waving her hand and saying...

  "Here!" Zhao Ba watched as Guo Fei walked in and with a flick of his wrist, tossed the bottle of milk wine to Guo Fei.

  Guo Fei took it with a wave of his hand, glanced at Zhao Ba, and he was no longer in a pitiful state. Although still a bit wolf-like, the arrogance of being an "official second generation" burst out from his eyes. At this moment, the gaze towards Guo Fei was half showing off and half revengeful charity.

  His eyes seemed to say: Once you leave the barren forest, you are just a small soldier, and I, Zhao Ba, am still the deputy commander of the cavalry regiment. I can decide your life and death at any time.

  Looking at Zhao Xue, Guo Fei was taken aback. This girl is much more clever than Zhao Ba. At this time, she still had a calm and peaceful expression, especially towards Guo Fei, as if she was extremely grateful.

  Guo Fei smiled slightly, without a hint of inferiority in his heart. This world is one where strength speaks for itself, and he had gained a lot from this trip. If he could digest all of it, at the very least, he would be able to stand firm in this world. Moreover, Guo Fei sensed a discord between Zhao Xue and Zhao Ba, and if he utilized it well, he might be able to eliminate Zhao Ba's malicious intentions towards him, and perhaps even gain some benefits from it.

  "What exactly is Zhao Xue's intention?" Guo Fei pondered, this was his most pressing concern at the moment. In the dead wood forest, his overbearing behavior must have left a shadow in her heart. Would this shadow make her hostile towards him, or would she be hiding a knife behind her smile, with ulterior motives? Guo Fei couldn't guess.

  "Good wine!" He lightly pressed the mouth of the milk wine bag with his hand and took a sip. Guo Fei couldn't help but loudly praised it, having been in this world for almost a year now, this one sip of wine was the best food he had ever tasted.

  Rich milk flavor mixed with fiery liquor aroma, refreshing, thirst-quenching and hunger-relieving. It made Guo Fei close his eyes and take a deep breath, savoring the sweetness at the entrance.

  "Grandma's, the nobles really know how to enjoy themselves! I'll become a rich man in the future and live a good life too." Guo Fei said fiercely in his heart.

  "Brother Guo, according to the cavalrymen, not many of your infantry battalion made it back alive this time. It's likely that they'll be disbanded and reorganized. With your skills, Brother Guo, you don't need to go back to the infantry battalion. Why not come with me to Wusong Town? I'll report your merits to Father and we'll reward you accordingly, then arrange a position for you?" Zhao Xue said with a smile.

  "Thank you, County Master! The County Master is wise and discerning, and knows how to appreciate people. I'm sure the County Master won't treat me unfairly. To receive the County Master's favor is my greatest honor. From now on, I'll follow the County Master." Guo Fei changed his attitude from a few days ago, flattering the County Master with a fawning smile.

  As a former gangster, Guo Fei wouldn't suffer for the sake of dignity. Given the current situation, climbing up to become close with the county princess is a wise choice. The main purpose is to enter the county princess's mansion to examine the knowledge of the repairmen, and in the long run, it's to enter the palace to learn advanced martial arts skills.

  "Sister, it's getting late, shouldn't we hurry back?" Zhao Ba saw Guo Fei and Zhao Xue chatting happily, completely ignoring him, especially looking at Guo Fei with a "shameless" expression. Originally wanted to take the opportunity to humiliate this evil tyrant who bullied himself in the dead wood forest. But Guo Fei didn't take the bait at all, as if he had suddenly punched out a fist, but hit nothing, and suddenly became a bit angry, turning to County Princess Zhao Xue beside him.

  "Hmm. Give this brother a horse!" Zhao Xue ordered one of his knights with a wave of his hand.

  "Yes!" The knight promptly gave up a horse and rode double with another knight.

  Kuo Fei walked over and grasped the reins, then turned around and mounted the horse.

  "Neigh!" The horse suddenly raised its front hooves, throwing Guo Fei off, but fortunately, Guo Fei transformed into a ninja, his body extremely light and agile. He spun around without falling over, but still stumbled backwards for three steps before regaining his balance.

  All the knights looked at each other, revealing their natural expressions. The horses of the cavalry were all "positioned", and each horse was with its owner day and night, not just anyone could ride on them.

  Moreover, the cavalry is the highest-ranking branch among all troops, always looking down on infantry. Guo Fei was wearing the uniform of an infantry battalion, which was very tattered and even lost its hat, but it could still be seen that he came from a third-rate infantry battalion, belonging to a motley crew.

  The cavalry is not only a regular army, but also the ace of the regular army. This cavalry team is especially the vanguard of the lord's manor, with extremely good treatment. Every single one of them is a carefully selected warrior, and their riding skills are all very impressive.

  They are not ordinary horses used by civilians for farming and transportation, but the "Blood Stallions" of the Northern Plains. The skin of these horses is red in color, regardless of their coat color, with strong bodies, fast as the wind, traveling thousands of miles during the day and 800 miles at night is normal; Moreover, they are fierce and fearless, even when facing wolves, tigers, leopards and other ferocious beasts, they dare to charge forward. Although not comparable to the warhorses of the demon beasts, they excel in their fearlessness on the battlefield. In the human world, they are widely bred as warhorses by various kingdoms and empires.

  Its price is not cheap, each one is over a thousand gold coins. For ordinary people, a thousand gold coins are enough to live a life without worrying about food and clothing for ten years.

  Of course, using such a horse is also a necessity of war. Otherwise, ordinary horses will lose their combat effectiveness when facing ghost tribe and demon tribe cultivators, just because they are timid.

  Although such a horse is extraordinary in combat, it is difficult to ride for those who are not skilled in horsemanship. Guo Fei had heard about this in the infantry camp, where many soldiers were eager to enter the cavalry camp, but horsemanship was the biggest obstacle.

  It's not that you can ride a horse just because your martial arts skills are good, of course, using brute force to suppress it is also possible, but in battle it won't work. Horsemanship emphasizes the unity of man and horse, complementing each other.

  Such a horse is easy to say, once riding on the flying and escaping demon beast mount, it also requires exquisite riding skills, combat power will increase exponentially, war horses are not only tools for walking, but also auxiliary and superimposed combat power.

  "Let's see how you get on!" Zhao Ba's mouth curled up into a smile that seemed to be enjoying the show.

  Zhao Xue smiled slightly and didn't say much. She also wanted to see how Guo Fei would handle this awkward situation, letting Guo Fei lose face, she secretly felt extremely pleased. In the past, she had often been bullied by Guo Fei in the Ghost Valley. Although she had a mind to recruit Guo Fei, venting her anger was also a delightful thing.

  Guo Fei smiled slightly, withdrew the ninja from his body, and absorbed the axe shadow of the Axe Rider into his body, transforming into an Axe Rider. He flipped onto the horse, and in the instant he sat on the horse's back, the horse's virtual shadow in the soldier symbol space flashed, entering the horse's body. The horse's body suddenly trembled, as if its aura had increased greatly, and its senses became extremely sharp.

  "It turned out to be like this!" Guo Fei thought to himself. At this time, after the axe shadow entered his body, he felt a flow of energy similar to the sword shadow's heat flow entering his body, only much weaker, equivalent to the heat flow of a first-class sword soldier. Meanwhile, a strange feeling rose in his heart, and he strongly desired to possess a suitable weapon for battle on horseback.

  Guo Fei knew that he had transformed into an axe cavalryman, and the hilt reappeared. In his mind, a strange image of this weapon appeared: it was one zhang two chi long, with a double-edged axe blade on the front, similar to a guandao, and a long spearhead protruding from the front of the axe blade. This was exactly what the axe cavalryman's axe shadow looked like in the Cavalry Hall.

  "It's a halberd!" Guo Fei suddenly thought of the pictures of halberds he had seen in his previous life, and realized that after transforming into a cavalryman, the most suitable weapon for him would be a halberd. However, this world seemed to not have such a weapon, if he were to transform into a cavalryman or even recruit one in the future, he might have to make it himself.

  At the same time, Guo Fei also found that when the shadow of the horse entered this "Blood Horse" treasure horse, it obviously strengthened it, making its body stronger and more powerful, whether in terms of hearing or vision, both were greatly enhanced.

  It's just like the flow of a soldier's blade entering the body, it's the same with horses.

  What surprised Guo Fei even more was that at this moment, he actually had a feeling of being connected with the horse. It seemed that through the virtual shadow of the horse in the military symbol space, he had communicated with the horse and reached a certain tacit understanding with it instantly.

  After Guo Fei fell off, he got back on again. The crowd waiting to see the commotion was stunned because they found that this horse had become extremely gentle and no longer showed any temper towards this stranger.

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