Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1879 Rescue
"what!"

"Auntie!"

The scream of the little boy sounded above everyone's heads, and the herdsmen who were running towards the city raised their heads and looked at the black shadow in the sky in horror.

I saw the huge black eagle grabbing the little boy with its claws and soaring into the air, flying higher and higher.

There was a mournful cry from the crowd, seeing her son being taken away by the black eagle, Su Ya almost fainted on the ground.

"Changshengtian! What a crime!"

There was an old man in the crowd staring blankly at the sky, his cloudy old eyes filled with fear.

What Hei Diao took away this time was not a lamb, but a living shepherd boy!
"Suya's son?"

Murong Heng suddenly turned his head to look at the side, Uzhina's arms were empty, she was looking up at the sculpture in the air, her eyes were a little dazed, as if she didn't expect that the raptor who was so tame to her just now would suddenly go crazy .

"Master Yan, human life is at stake, please hurry up and call your eagle back!"

"Oh, good," Uzhina reacted, whistled hastily, and shouted to the sky.

"Boriged, come down!"

However, the black eagle just grabbed the child and hovered in the sky, turning a blind eye to the call of the "master".

"How, how could this be?"

There was an imperceptible panic in Uzhina's eyes. Seeing that the herdsmen around her were looking at her and praying, she calmed down, took out the bamboo whistle from her bosom, and blew it desperately.

The eagle whistle echoed over Suiye City, but the black eagle hovering in the sky still ignored it, flapping its wings and even planning to fly into the distance.

"Oops!"

Murong Heng clenched his fist tightly, if this eagle really flies away, it will be over, Su Ya's son's life will never be saved.

He looked at the cavalry and sorcerers gathered around him. Among the sorcerers, there was a wind man. If the black eagle really let go of its claws and threw the boy down, the wind man might be able to use the wind to save him, but The black eagle just clung to Garu, circling above Suiye City as if showing off.

"How about it?"

"Can it be saved?"

Murong Heng asked a white-haired old man with the highest realm beside him.

There is no sky rank in Suiye City, and the one with the highest level is this old man, who is the fourth-rank Wind Sorcerer and the leader of the witches in the city.

The old man stretched out his wrinkled hands to the sky, and a gust of wind rushed towards the eagle in the sky, but the black eagle glanced down and flapped its wings up twice.

The wind blew past it lightly.

"No way, big pawnbroker, it's too high."

Cold sweat dripped from the white-haired old man's forehead, "Unless you can make it fly a little lower, the old wind won't be able to reach it!"

Murong Heng gritted his teeth, and glanced at Uzhina who was standing blankly at the side, and saw that she was holding the bamboo whistle tightly in her hand, and her white teeth bit her lips until she became pale.

He let out a sharp breath, desperately suppressing the anger in his heart.

It is impossible to expect Uzhina to control this eagle, and the situation has obviously deviated from the girl's expectations.

It can't be said that Uzhina caused such a thing to happen on purpose. It can only be said that this pampered noble lady is too entrusted with her own ability.

Whether it is a vulture or a wolf on the grassland, they are all beasts that are not well-raised, not only because they are wild and difficult to tame, but also because these two kinds of beasts are very smart and cunning.

Murong Heng remembered the eyes of the black vulture he had just glimpsed just now. When he and the vulture met their eyes, Uzhina was taunting the herdsmen, and she didn't pay attention to the vulture. Untamed wildness.

But when Uzhina turned her head the next moment, the black eagle's eyes instantly became docile again, and Murong Heng thought he was wrong.

Because he was not good at taming animals, he didn't think about it for a while, but now that he thought about it, the danger had already been ambushed.

This black eagle didn't regard Uzhina as its master at all, it just pretended to tame it for some unknown purpose!
The stench he smelled before Galu was in danger was exactly the smell of the saliva flowing from the black eagle's mouth.

Thinking back to the eyes of this black vulture, Murong Heng felt a chill run down his back. This vulture doesn't like to eat sheep at all, it aimed at human flesh at first.

Murong Heng has heard before that once the beasts on the grassland have tasted human flesh, they will keep wanting to eat it again.

After thinking about all this clearly, Murong Heng didn't hesitate anymore. He looked at the cavalry who had already gathered around him, and shouted sharply, "Scatter the people, pick up your bows, and shoot at me!"

Xirong is a country of hundreds of barbarians, everyone is a master of strings, riding and archery is as common as eating and drinking for Xirong people.

Hearing Murong Heng's order, the cavalry of Suiye City responded in unison, and immediately dispersed on horseback. Some cavalry drove the people who had not yet returned to the city back to the city, and the other part of the strong and strong soldiers immediately set their bows. Pulled like a full moon.

"Murong Heng, you..."

At this time, Uzhina, who had been sluggish, came to her senses and looked at him stiffly, "You want to..."

Murong Heng pursed his thin lips into a line, "Master Yan, I'm afraid the villain will offend you. You have to kill that eagle."

Although in the eyes of the nobles of Xirong, the life of a lowly child is probably not as good as their pet, but as long as he holds the power of the city lord for one day, he will always have the most life in his territory.

"I……"

Uzhina's mind was in a mess, and she didn't know what to say when she stood there.

Murong Heng was originally prepared to ignore the beast even if she wanted to keep it, but he didn't expect him to be so willful.

"This beast that betrays its master, I should take care of it!"

Gritting her teeth, Uzhina took down a small and exquisite sleeve arrow from her waist, lifted it up and shot it into the sky.

Of course her arrow didn't fly very high before falling down.

"Yan Shi, this bow of yours probably won't come in handy."

Murong Heng said indifferently.

He could tell at a glance that Uzhina's bow was used by the noble family to hunt rabbits for the ladies. If you want to shoot birds in the sky, you must at least use the long-tipped bow commonly used by Xirong cavalry, and the bow strength must be more than three stones.

Most of the cavalry in the Central Plains used a one-stone bow, while in Xirong, ordinary cavalry generally used two-stone or three-stone bows, and only the general or the first warrior in the tribe could draw a four- or five-stone bow.

At this time, the cavalrymen who are the best at archery in Broken Stone City are ready. All the cavalrymen are on horseback and lined up to draw their bows. Murong Heng took the four-stone bow handed to him by the elder beside him, and pulled it away from the shadow in the sky. .

From the corner of his sight, he saw Heli standing beside Ying Baoyue standing on the ground like a tree stump, and he also drew his bow.

The bow Heli used was the heaviest in Suiye City, with five stones.

The black shadow in the sky was still hovering arrogantly, Murong Heng shouted loudly, "Listen up, everyone! Don't hurt the child!"

"Shoot me!"

Murong Heng gave an order, and countless arrows shot towards the black eagle in the sky like rain.

As if aware of the danger, the black eagle in the sky uttered a scream that frightened the sky, flapped its wings and rushed to the sky.

The feather arrows pierced straight up into the clouds, but some of the feather arrows exhausted and fell down midway. In the end, only two arrows pierced through the clouds. Murong Heng recognized that they were his and Heli's arrows.

His arrow reached the black eagle's feet, but he had no strength, and fell off after rubbing it.

Heli's arrow was sharper, piercing the black eagle's wings with a bang!

But at the next moment, the black eagle spun violently to the left, and the last feathered arrow fell against the black eagle's wings.

"hateful!"

Harry fell to his knees and slammed his fists on the ground.

He has tried his best.

Even in Xirong, where there are millions of string-controllers, there are only a handful of warriors who can shoot eagles.

Condor Archer, this is the title given by the Xirong people to the warrior who is best at archery in the tribe.

"It would be great if His Highness King Zhai was here..."

Heli has only seen one eagle shooter since he was a child, and that is the lord whom he and Murong Heng serve, the Twelve Zhai King Chunyu Ye.

Although they knew from the beginning that there was little hope, seeing that all the feathered arrows had failed, the cavalrymen of Broken Leaf City showed painful and distorted expressions on their faces.

A low groan came from not far away, and Su Ya, who had fainted before, slowly woke up. Seeing the feathered arrows all over the ground and the dejected faces of the cavalrymen in the city, she immediately understood everything.

The black eagle in the sky rolled its eyes, glanced at the ground triumphantly, grabbed Galu and flapped its wings and flew into the distance.

Su Ya let out a cry and completely collapsed on the ground.

Hearing her sister's cry, Harry trembled all over, looking at his powerless hands in despair.

He thought he had grown up enough to protect his relatives, but today he found that he still couldn't do anything.

Hurry beat his chest in self-reproach, and stretched out his hand to dig at his neck. At this moment, a soft sigh sounded from beside him.

"Is there no way?"

A hand stretched out in front of his eyes and picked up the bow on the ground.

　The customs of Xirong I mainly borrowed from the Xiongnu (Rong Di was the ancestor of the Huns), but because there are too few Xiongnu words left in the history books, the names of the people are mainly borrowed Mongolian.

　　For example, "Boriged" means "carving" in Mongolian, and "Uzhina" means "clever girl" in Mongolian.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)