The cute pet of the empire

Royce calendar 455, summer, August, three o'clock in the morning.

On a cloudy day, the moon and stars are covered by dark clouds, and the night sky is so dark that nothing can be seen.

Under the darkness, there is the vast Gamila Plain. At both ends of the plain, pots of bonfires gather, clearly outlining the outlines of the two camps.

The Royce camp on the west, because it occupies a high ground, has a circular shape, and the closer it is to the center of the circle, the more light there is. It is where Luo Huan's camp is located, and the most heavily guarded place.

The Shah camp in the east, because it did not get the geographical advantage, showed a completely different shape.

They occupy the semi-hilly area in the east of the plain, so the entire camp can only meander like a long snake, entrenched on the only road leading to Shah's heart.

The tail of the long snake was the brightest, which was the residence of General Shah Ruth.

At first glance, between the two camps, there is an empty wilderness, with some wheels, broken weapons, and corpses of soldiers scattered on it.

But if you get closer and observe carefully, you will find that there is a strange group of soldiers running fast in this wilderness.

It was a team of grayish-yellow dots, green eyes, silent claws, and a swift figure, making it difficult for people to spot them.

And in the front of this team, there is a small white dot, the speed of that dot is too fast, especially at night without moonlight and stars, it is difficult to see clearly.

About two hours later, the speed of this team slowed down, they changed direction slightly, chose a downwind position to move forward, and spread out appropriately to avoid the Shah Rangers who came out to patrol in the middle of the night.

Another hour passed, and the team finally stopped. The grayish-yellow figure disappeared into the hills and wild grass, completely invisible in the darkness.

At the moment when they rushed into the wild grass, if someone saw them, they would find that the seemingly unified and well-trained team was actually composed of leopards.

And the white dot leading the way turned out to be an extremely rare white leopard.

After walking slowly in the wild grass for half an hour, the leopards came to the other end of the plain, the top of the snake-like Shah Camp.

The white leopard stopped its footsteps, and the nearly two thousand leopards behind it also stopped their footsteps at the same time, waiting quietly.

The white leopard shook its ears, moved its limbs and paws, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a young man with black hair and blue eyes. The young man quickly climbed up the tree beside him and looked towards the Shah camp not far away.

Although Mao Xiaohua had already seen the layout of the Shah camp from Luo Huan before coming here, but now, when he saw it with his own eyes, he was still very shocked.

The winding torches and bonfires hover between the valleys, like a giant dragon, with no end in sight.

Among them, the patrolling soldiers are fully armed, the horses are not yet asleep, the camels are wearing armor, and the wolfhounds are looking around vigilantly and turning their ears.

The number of Shah's army is more than three times that of Royce, which makes their camp very large.

It is not an easy task to sneak into such a big camp quietly.

After watching for a while, the young man jumped off the tree and returned to the team of leopards.

Before they came, they already had a general battle plan, but after observing the enemy's camp at close range, the battle plan had to be temporarily changed.

Amidst the low growls of the white leopards, the other leopards did not rush in and bite after arriving at the enemy camp as they had planned.They continued to move forward, or ran or sneaked, until they chose their own position, and then quietly lurked.

This kind of lurking took about half an hour, and three thousand leopards were scattered all around the Shah camp, like a big net, quietly spreading around the boa constrictor.

Mao Xiaohua, who was quietly lurking, sniffed the air with her nose.

The smell of yellow sand and green grass, without the peculiar fishy smell of carnivores, is very good, just as I expected.

All leopards were cleaned before departure, not even their teeth and tongues were spared.Three thousand leopards, Mao Xiaohua checked each one.

When the wind blew again, almost all the lurking leopards stood up, looking for a suitable wind direction, and approaching their targets.

Every leopard is very clear about this mission.

They just lurk patiently, get as close to the target as possible, and wait for orders.

The leopards advanced cautiously, and when the guards turned around, they jumped into the fence of the enemy camp against the wind, and then lay in ambush in the shadows.

When the wind blows next time, or when the patrol turns around, the leopard will be more careful, sneaking into the target's tent as silently as a cat.

Mao Xiaohua didn't act like the other leopards. He climbed up the tree at the top of the hill, behind the leaves, calmly watched the actions of his leopards, and counted the time in his mind.

When almost all the leopards had sneaked into the enemy camp and arrived at the desired location, the black-haired young man suddenly let out a long howl under the night sky.

When the howling sound filled the valley, Ruth, who was thinking hard about the battle plan, suddenly got up, and only had time to say "No!"

Matt is a 22-year-old officer of Shah. He was born as a civilian and joined the army at the age of 16. He has plundered many places with Ruth and has quite a lot of combat experience.

This time against Royce's army, the cavalry captain felt very tired.

Ten days ago, he was one of the members who witnessed the chaos in the Royce Leopard Army and Luo Huan blatantly leaving the battlefield.At that time, he thought that victory was just around the corner, and he was excited about it for a while, and often laughed at Luo Huan's irresponsibility.

But then he realized that his ridicule was wrong. Even without Luo Huan, Royce's army was still not easy to chew on. The ten days of fighting made him feel a faint fear in his heart.

This afternoon, he only showed this kind of fear a little, and was severely taught by the officer.

Matt's chief is a Shah nobleman who owns more than 100 slaves. A commoner himself dare not provoke him, and he can't afford to provoke him, so this kind of resentment can only be vented in his stomach and dreams.

In the dream, Matt was invincible on the battlefield. He rushed to Luo Huan with his soldiers, chopped off Luo Huan's head, and took away the white leopard.

The white leopard turned into a weak boy in his dream, looking at him tremblingly, screaming in terror.

But Matt was very happy. He approached the boy step by step, and even stretched out his hand, tearing the boy's clothes.

But then, he frowned, the boy's skin should be smooth, but why, the tentacles were a hairy thing.

Matt opened his eyes vigorously, and he found that there was darkness around him, but in the darkness, a pair of gray-green eyes looked at him.

"Ah? This is..." Matt, who just woke up from a dream, was still in a daze. He couldn't understand why there was a leopard beside him?Is it a dream or is it real?

He wanted to rub his eyes, but the next second, he found a sharp pain in his neck.

"Ah!~!!" The officer let out a scream, and before he could figure out what was going on, he died.

And an unknown leopard that suddenly appeared beside him had no trace of murder in its cold gray-blue eyes. After killing its target, it immediately rushed out of the camp without any reason.

The speed was so fast that the soldiers who slept in the same tent with Matt didn't realize that their chief had been killed until the leopard ran out.

"There are leopards! There are leopards!" The terrified cries came from the mouths of those Shah soldiers.

Todd is 35 years old this year, with a scar on his face. He is the captain of the Shah Camel Cavalry. He doesn't have too many hobbies and ideals. The empty money bag was filled with gold, so that he could buy a few more slaves when he returned to Mulang.

He has been in the army for 20 years, he is used to being domineering and domineering, and he will not tolerate any disobedience from his subordinates.

During the day, he kicked and broke the back of a recruit who didn't salute him, and at this moment he was sleeping soundly in his dream.

Maybe it's the sixth sense that's been honed over the years in the army, or maybe it's because the atmosphere tonight is not normal.

He woke up from the dream for no reason, always feeling like something was staring at him in the dark.

So he rolled out of the bed, kicked away a camel cavalry who was also sleeping next to him and was of a lower rank than himself, intending to get his bow and dagger.

But before he took two steps, he suddenly smelled a bloody smell in the air.

In the darkness, Todd suddenly turned his head and found a leopard with gray-green eyes lying on the body of his immediate boss who was sleeping in the same room with him. The leopard's face was covered with blood and looked ferocious.

Todd was startled, he didn't know when the beast came in, he subconsciously pulled out the sword at his waist, and when he was about to kill the leopard, a furry palm suddenly landed on his chest shoulders.

Todd turned his head suddenly, another pair of gray-green eyes were looking at him in the dark.

The moment his neck was bitten off, Todd let out a scream, and this scream woke up the other soldiers who were sleeping.

"There are leopards! There are leopards!" The terrified cries came from the mouths of those Shah soldiers.

Soon, this kind of cry came and went, and the entire Shah barracks was full of this kind of scream.

Immediately afterwards, there was chaos and noise, and the soldiers picked up their weapons one after another, trying to kill the leopards, or to resist the attack of the leopards.

But what surprised them was that after killing a person, those leopards had no intention of continuing to bite at all. They ran away at the fastest speed, avoided human attacks and arrows, jumped out of the fence in the chaos, and disappeared. In the forest outside the camp.

When Ruth heard the familiar whistling sound, he had an intuitive feeling that something was wrong.

When he stepped out of his big tent, he had seen chaos.

The chaotic soldiers picked up their weapons in a panic in their sleep, hacking and shooting aimlessly everywhere, while some yellow leopards were as swift as lightning, scurrying around.

Ruth jumped up from the ground, several ups and downs like flying, and jumped onto the watchtower in the camp.

Sure enough, on the hill in the distance, the gray-blue eyes were calmly hidden behind the leaves.

"So... so fast?! Impossible, how could Luo Huan still believe him? Impossible!" Ruth's first reaction was to transform into a black panther, bite the white leopard by the back of the neck, and drag him back. own camp.

But in the next moment, when Ruth's eyes fell on his camp, he understood that the most urgent thing at noon was to quickly gather his team and get rid of those leopards who lurked into his camp and caused chaos. kill them all.

Arrows were flying, torches were beating, the sound of armor rubbing, the sound of horseshoes, and yelling came one after another. It took half an hour for the riot in the Shah barracks to calm down.

Ruth frowned, he didn't understand the meaning of Mao Xiaohua's attack, was it just to create some confusion for himself?

However, when he heard the death toll reported below and the names of the people killed, the expression of the always confident, lazy and arrogant coach Ruth finally changed for the first time.

The leopards' raid did not take long, only 10 minutes before and after.

And the lethality is not great, but about [-] Shah people were lost.

For Ruth, who has an army of 30, 800 people are nothing.

But... When the names of the two thousand and eight hundred people were reported, Ruth felt the fear in his heart for the first time.

Among the two thousand and 800 people, 500 were ordinary soldiers, two were powerful generals under Ruth, and twenty were senior officers of the army.

The remaining more than 600 people are all middle and low-level generals or officers in the Shah's army.

It only takes a few months to train a soldier, and even some slaves who have never been on the battlefield can be used to make up their numbers.

But... It is impossible to train an officer without a year or a half.

More than 2000 mid-level officers were killed at the same time, which means that the Shah Army completely lost its ability to organize in a short period of time.

Ruth's hands couldn't help shaking, he pursed his lips tightly, looked at the pair of blue eyes still in the distance, opened the bow in his hand, and nocked the arrow.

Whoosh!The arrow flew out, but the blue eyes disappeared behind the leaves at the same moment.

The faint sound of horseshoes began to be heard. Ruth, who hadn't finished dealing with the chaos of the camp, heard the sound of Royce's army marching out without any surprise.

As the day dawned, the revived Royce army came crushing with its ground-shaking footsteps and the iron wheels of the chariot.

At the same time, the leopards who had fled into the forest had already completed their inventory and reorganization.

In this raid and beheading operation, [-] leopards went, and nearly [-] did not return.

But every leopard that came back growled at the white leopard, and brought back the epaulettes of the person it killed.

The leopards let out low growls, lying on the ground panting with blood all over their faces, while the white leopard walked back and forth among these leopards and helped them lick the blood on their faces.

Soon, the leopards regained their strength again. They stood up, turned their ears, and formed a new team.

"Roar!" Mao Xiaohua let out a low growl, leading the leopards towards the direction where the ground trembled faintly.

I have cleaned up the backbone of Shah's army for Luo Huan, and the rest is harvested.

When the day was completely bright, the leopards joined their own army, and those leopards tacitly rushed into the neat square formation and stood beside their partners.

And the soldiers who partnered with the leopards took out the armor specially designed for the leopards from their backpacks, put them on, and fed the leopards food and water.

After getting food and water, the leopards continued to walk backwards, reached the rear of the entire team, and began to rest.

Their job is done, after a night of running around, it's time for a good night's sleep.

As for the white leopard, it galloped in the wilderness like a flash of lightning. When he ran to the red figure, he jumped up flat and threw himself into the familiar embrace.

When he landed, he was already sitting firmly on a black horse beside Luo Huan. The young man with black hair and blue eyes hadn't had time to put on his clothes yet.

And King Royce beside him, at this moment, unabashedly helped him put on the armor.

"Two thousand mid-level officers have been killed, and the Shah people are now in a mess." Mao Xiaohua's tone was filled with excitement, and as soon as the news was announced, it was immediately drowned out by cheers.

Luo Huan didn't cheer like the generals around him. He just carefully straightened Mao Xiaohua's hair under the helmet and asked in a low voice, "Are you okay? Are you injured?"

"Very good! No injuries."

A smile appeared on Luo Huan's face, and he patted Mao Xiaohua's shoulder: "That's good! Your mission has been completed, stay here now, and watch me win the real victory."

Mao Xiaohua shook her head, and he pulled the rein of the horse: "I have never charged with you on the battlefield. My mission as a leopard has been completed. Then this time, let me follow you and fight like your friend , until victory."

Luo Huan looked deeply at Mao Xiaohua, and after a while, he gave him a hug, a hug between a friend and a comrade-in-arms.

"Okay! By my side, with me, win this victory!"