Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 93: Grey Wolf Knights and Centaurs
The sky is clear and blue, with occasional white clouds, the grassland is vast, and wild animals are running in all directions.

A giant white dragon spread its wings and flew across the sky. The strong wind controlled by its wings smashed the clouds in the sky. The dragon's huge body cast a speeding shadow on the ground.

The Centaur warrior Chiron led the Centaur cavalry and galloped across the grassland, as if chasing the shadow of a giant dragon cast from the sky.

Each of these strong Centaur warriors is a elite warrior selected from the tribe. They have an average height of three meters, with bulging limbs and strong muscles that demonstrate their powerful strength.

Led by the dragon-born centaurs, these warriors trampled the grassland with their four hooves, and their wild and ferocious momentum made all the beasts on the grassland flee in all directions.

Even the fierce and violent species had to stay away from the large number of centaurs. These fierce species, which were beginning to gain wisdom, knew that the centaurs in front of them, wearing fine armor and holding sharp weapons, could trample them into bloody mud with just one charge.

Around the sturdy centaur warriors running like the wind there were more than a hundred kobold warriors riding prairie gray wolves and green-skinned goblin warriors.

These relatively strong warriors carefully selected from their respective tribes rode the captured and domesticated prairie gray wolves and followed the Centaur cavalry along the way.

Although these prairie gray wolves are not as fast as the Centaur warriors, they have long endurance and can keep up with the Centaur warrior team.

However, these kobold warriors and green-skinned goblins were only wearing leather armor and tough animal skins, and the weapons in their hands were just a short bow made of a tough wood in the forest and a few short-handled shotguns.

"Hah, stop," Chiron, the Centaur warrior in the front whose body was covered with a layer of fine red scales, shouted. He held the fine iron spear high in his strong right hand, and the movement of his four hooves gradually slowed down.

All the Centaurs also slowed down along with Chiron's rhythm and stopped in place after a few steps. These Centaurs were still in the process of coordinating discipline exercises, but they reacted quickly.

This alone is enough to keep those elite human cavalry training for a long time, and this is when these centaur warriors need to be familiar with the commander's orders.

Chiron walked forward and saw the corpse of a huge beast lying on the grassland. It was the corpse of a prairie elephant, and its long tusks were almost two meters long.

The skeleton that had been gnawed clean was nearly eleven meters long from head to tail, and the scattered flesh and bones exuded a ferocious aura. This was a ferocious species and the leader of the elephant herd.

"Woof, woof, chirp, gurgle,"

As the Centaur Cavalry stopped, the Gray Wolf Knights following behind also surrounded them. The kobold who was appointed by Chiron as the captain of the Gray Wolf Knights grabbed the hair of the gray wolf under his seat and walked forward, communicating in Dragon language and kobold language to Chiron who was squatting on the ground to check the situation.

"Speak the common language," the centaur Chiron said with a serious expression, "You kobolds are scouts and cavalry, so you won't just communicate with the dragonborn. Lord Charon's subordinates will not only have followers of these races in the future."

"There will be more and more other races loyal to the dragon. Each of you scouts needs to learn the common language. Those who can't learn it will have to go back to the dark caves and mine."

"Yes, Lord Chichiron," the scout captain, the kobold, stuttered in the common language and asked the centaur, "What should we do next?"

"Take these Gray Wolf Knights and spread out in teams of three or five to investigate the surrounding situation," said the Centaur warrior Chiron solemnly. "We have found many corpses of giant elephants along the way, and now we have found a powerful and ferocious giant elephant. This is the leader of the elephant group. There must be creatures or tribes nearby that are more dangerous than this giant elephant."

"Come back and report immediately if you find any danger. If you encounter any danger, fire a whistle arrow and I will rush over immediately."

The current area is already at the edge of the dragon territory, surrounded by low and undulating hills. This is the first time Chiron has brought these Centaur warriors out for training, and no mistakes can be made, so he chooses to let the Centaur cavalry, who have been running all the way, stay where they are to rest and recover their strength in order to deal with any danger that may arise at any time.

"Yes, Lord Chiron." The kobold captain received the order and rode the gray wolf under him to pass the order among the gray wolf knights. With the barking of the gray wolf mixed with the common language, these gray wolf knights quickly dispersed in groups of three or five to the front and around.

Chiron and other Centaur warriors stayed where they were to rest. He looked up at the sky and saw the huge body of a white dragon appearing above the distant clouds, which made him feel relieved.

"Captain, these gnolls and green-skinned goblins may not be reliable. Do you want us to send some more warriors out to investigate the situation?" asked Kali, the leader of the Centaur tribe.

The elite warriors selected this time are the strongest warriors in the Centaur tribe, so the Centaur leader Kali and her spouse, the male Centaur Drogo, are also among them.

Except for the centaur girl Sonia who was unable to get away as the town sheriff, almost all the elite warriors were here.

In order to facilitate management and command, Chiron appointed these outstanding warriors as squad leaders, each of whom was in charge of 20 knights. Kali, Drogo and the chief centaur warrior Oni each had 20 knights. But in fact, this was equivalent to dividing the power of the Centaur tribe. In the long run, Chiron's position would inevitably replace the original Centaur leader Kali.

But Kali didn't seem to have any objection to this. On the one hand, these loyal centaur warriors had always regarded the will of the red dragon as their guiding principle and had no intention of resisting.

On the other hand, Chiron is also a Centaur, and as the young king of the orthodox Centaur tribe, he is the direct descendant of Chiron, once the most powerful hero of the Centaurs. His blood is nobler than that of ordinary Centaur warriors. He also brought the missing heritage to the Centaur tribe here, so he was not resisted, but very popular.

"No, as the strongest warriors, our mission is to maintain our energy and fight with all our strength," Chiron shook his head and said, "We must learn to use and trust our companions, so that we can exert our greatest strength."

After years of war with the Carthaginian Empire, Chiron now has some experience of his own. He began to learn some training and combat methods of humans and is no longer as simple and chaotic as his original tribe.

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A whistle arrow shot high into the sky from behind a distant hill. The sharp sound immediately startled the Centaurs who were resting there. Without Chiron's reminder, these elite warriors stood up one after another, gripping their weapons tightly.

"Let's go and take a look." Chiron, the most powerful Centaur warrior, was still at the front of the cavalry column. Under his command, two hundred Centaur cavalrymen spread out in formation, with two cavalrymen in a group, forming an offensive triangular wedge formation and galloping towards the place where the whistle arrow was sent.

After a short rest, the Centaur cavalry recovered some of their strength, so they moved at an extremely fast speed, and quickly rushed across the hills under the trampling of their four hooves.

Chiron saw the kobold scouts riding gray wolves and fleeing back desperately. Originally there were three or five scouts in a group, but now there were only two lucky gray wolf cavalry scouts left, and following behind them was a group of coyotes.

This hyena-like creature is not very tall and is even smaller than a gray wolf, but it is extremely ferocious and cruel.

Driven by the Wolf King, this group of more than fifty wolves bit the Gray Wolf Knight's buttocks tightly, trying to tear the two scout cavalry into pieces.

Chiron waved his strong arm, and under his command, the rest of the Centaur cavalry changed from a triangular wedge formation to a straight line formation. Then they took out the longbows hanging on their backs and aimed at the pack of hyenas that were still chasing them.

"Shoot," Chiron gave the order, and these elite archers, comparable to elves, released the bowstrings in their hands, and whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, countless sharp arrows fell like rain of arrows.

These iron arrows cut through the obstruction of the air and easily pierced into the still-running coyotes with a strong sound of breaking wind. None of them missed the target. Each coyote was pierced by at least two sharp arrows. Some lucky coyotes would be rewarded with five or six arrow feathers.

Most of these coyotes had their eyes or ears pierced by sharp arrows and fell to the ground without even a scream. Only the powerful leader who was hiding behind the coyote pack was lying among the coyotes' corpses, emitting a low howl.

Kali rushed out of the team, picked up the hyena leader who was still breathing, and threw him at Chiron's feet.

Bang! The sharp arrow on the coyote leader's head hit the ground and pierced his ears. The low wailing sound stopped, and he kicked his limbs and died.

But the collar made of rope around the coyote leader's neck caught Chiron's attention. He bent down and broke the collar around the coyote's neck. He looked at it carefully and sniffed it. A peculiar stench rushed into his nose, making Chiron frown.

"These coyotes are enslaved by other creatures. Judging from the collars on their necks, they should be a humanoid race," Kaili also came to the conclusion.

Chiron nodded and said, "This rotten smell must come from either trolls and gnolls, or orcs and ogres. Judging from the marks on this hyena, there should be a spellcaster among this race. We have to be careful."

"Why don't we find their lair now and launch an attack directly?" The strong Centaur warrior Drogo stepped forward. These Centaur warriors were all warmongers who aimed at bloody battles and pleasure.

Chiron looked up at the setting sun, which was gradually slanting, shook his head and said, "Night is about to fall, which is not good for us Centaurs. The dark night will make the powerful Centaurs stumble, and our bows and arrows will not be able to play their greatest advantage."

"Come back tomorrow. We can go straight here, but we can leave some Grey Wolf scouts to monitor from a distance."

Drogo nodded. These warriors were accustomed to obeying the orders of their leader. This was a necessary rule for survival in the wilderness.

"By the way, take these coyotes' bodies back. Their fur can be peeled off to make winter clothes, or sold to the people in the town. Their bodies can also be used as food. Although we don't like to eat such dirty creatures, those green-skinned goblins don't care about that."

The Centaur warrior Chiron ordered his cavalry to take away all the hyena corpses. The Centaurs, who once commanded the dragon's followers, knew how to cherish food. Although they loved pleasure and indulgence, they never wasted anything.

(End of this chapter)