At the natural salt mine, the light cavalries were rushing back at top speed.
In the white and alkali soil behind them, a long line of footmen was forming a slightly curved formation as they walked towards the dune in the south. Their speed was neither fast nor slow, as if they were calm and steady.
This was a marching pattern that only elite troops had.
While ensuring the marching speed, they also able to ensure that they had sufficient stamina. This was something that normal troops not able to do.
This required a high degree of discipline.
The 10 desert bandits sped up their horses and their return journey.
This was because they all knew that this was the expedition army of the Kingdom of Grey Mane from the Mannheim Coast in the northern part of the Nahrin Desert. They wanted to occupy their homeland and enslave them to become colonial army!