The Record of Swordsmen in the Late Sui and Early Tang Dynasties

Chapter 168 Chapter 150

This caravan was heading south all the way under the leadership of Tie Niu. The horses traveled south very fast, and they were seventy or eighty miles away in an hour. Everyone knew that staying in this Turkic country was very dangerous, and everyone couldn't stop Drive the horses to go south.

When they were hungry, people took out the cold meat they brought and gnawed a few mouthfuls, and when they were thirsty, they picked up a few mouthfuls of snow from the ground to eat.

When the sun was westward, the caravan traveled more than 100 miles. Duan Wuji kept urging everyone to go south quickly. When the sun went down, the caravan had already traveled more than [-] miles.

At this time, the iron bull came running over on horseback, and looked at Duan Wuji and asked, "Brother, it's going to be dark soon, why don't we just rest on this wasteland tonight."

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Brother Tieniu, it's not dark yet, let's go quickly! The closer we go to the border, the safer we will be.

Why should we camp in the depths of this Turkic country!
Tonight, let's take his midnight road. Let's rest at the border between the two countries. Look, it's not completely dark yet. Let's speed up and try to get closer to the border before resting. "

Tie Niu listened and nodded.

"Brother, you are too careful, well, I know about it."

After finishing speaking, Tie Niu beat his horse and ran to the front again.

Tieniu stood in front and shouted loudly: "Brothers, let's speed up and try to reach the border as soon as possible, this place is not very safe!"

The caravan drove the horses and continued to run quickly to the southwest. It was dark, and the horses followed the lead horse and continued to run forward. Until midnight, all the people were tired and the horses became exhausted, and the speed of the horses was obviously slow. down.

Duan Wuji found a leeward mountain col and shouted: "The team stop, we will camp at this place tonight. This place is more or less back from the wind."

Duan Tianjiu said loudly to Tieniu: "Brother Tieniu, let's rest here for a while tonight.

Let's leave after dawn. You divide these personnel into two groups, and we all take turns to rest.

Each shift is on duty for one and a half hours, and we leave immediately after dawn. "

Tie Niu listened and nodded.

Tieniu roughly gathered all the personnel together, roughly divided the people into groups, one group was on duty, and the other group sat and rested.People gnawed on the cold beef they carried, and fell asleep in a daze after a while.

Duan Changqing was the team leader of the two groups, and Duan Changhong and Duan Changhao were in charge of the other team.

After entering the middle of the night, the caravan was completely quiet, and the horses gathered together and did not move much.

The whistling north wind became stronger and stronger, and the blowing snowflakes mercilessly blew on people's faces, and people had to hide their faces in their clothes.

The sky has become pitch black, and it can be said that you can't see your fingers.

At this moment, there were wolves howling all around, Duan Wuji immediately stood up when he heard it, Duan Wuji stood up and took a look, only to see a pair of small shaking lights lit up around the group of horses, Duan Wuji knew that those were the eyes of the prairie wolf.

Duan Wuji roughly counted, and Duan Wuji couldn't help being startled. There were at least two or three hundred wolves in this pack. This pack of prairie wolves is gradually shrinking the encirclement carefully, ready to attack the besieged people at any time. Men and horses attack.

Duan Wuji knew that if the wolves approached wantonly, he would suffer a big loss sooner or later. The wolves were preparing to attack at any time.

Duan Wuji walked up to Tie Niu and pulled gently, and Tie Niu stood up abruptly.Tieniu rubbed his eyes and asked, "Brother, what's the matter?"

Duan Wuji pointed lightly with his hand.

"Brother Tieniu, you see, the pack of wolves has already surrounded us. If we don't take precautions, sooner or later the pack of wolves will attack, and we will be passive."

Tieniu looked at it, and saw that the wolves were shrinking the encirclement.

When Tie Niu saw it, he was very anxious, and when he saw it, Tie Niu shouted anxiously: "Don't sleep, if you sleep again, you will become the prey of these wolves."

At this sound, the people stood up in panic, seeing the small lights flickering around, and the distance from the people was only about a hundred feet away. When everyone saw the sword drawn, the bow bow.

Duan Wuji saw it and shouted loudly: "All personnel stand outside the horse herd, and swear to protect our horse herd to the death."

All the guards knew that it would be impossible if they didn't show their strength tonight. Who is to earn money from others? They surrounded the horses in groups every two or three feet.

At this moment, the restless horse herd calmed down a little, Tieniu looked at Duan Wuji and said, "Brother, why don't we shoot a few more wolves, so we don't have to watch them howl all around.

Wolves are extremely cunning animals. When they are not fully sure, they are always cautiously probing, which is really annoying. "

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Okay, let's show them our ability to slaughter wolves again tonight."

Duan Wuji shouted loudly: "Brother Changhong, Brother Changhao, come here."

The two of them rushed over after hearing this.

"Brother, what's the matter?"

"You pass arrows to your brother Tieniu, brother Changhong, pass arrows to me. This fucking pack of wolves is really hateful, let's shoot a few more of them tonight."

After hearing this, the two of them immediately took out the arrows and handed them over.Duan Wuji was the first to bend his bow and set up an arrow, aiming at the frontmost wolf between the eyes and shooting it first.

There was only a light snap of the bowstring, and an arrow with carved feathers shot out first.The wolf on the opposite side fell to the ground without even barking.

When Tie Niu saw the arrow, he said, "Brother, your arrows are too accurate, just look at my arrow."

There was a snap, and another wolf fell to the ground and stopped moving.The two kept shooting in a circle, and at the sound of the bowstring, "crack, slap, slap, squeak, squeak," wolves kept falling to the ground in response.After a circle, the surrounding wolves lost more than a dozen pairs of eyes.

The guards all around clapped their hands and applauded when they saw it, and said in their hearts: This is really a sharpshooter!Comparing our archery skills with others, alas, there is really no way to compare!

The two shot faster and faster, and the number of wolves decreased significantly. After that, the wolves still had no intention of evacuating.

Obviously, the wolves still had too many self-sufficient numbers, and they didn't take this loss to heart.

Duan Wuji laughed secretly in his heart when he saw it, I don't believe that I can't shoot you all tonight, where Duan Wuji's bowstring sounds, there will always be wolves falling to the ground and dying.

Of course, Tie Niu was not idle either. After two rounds of shooting, the surrounding pack of wolves gradually decreased, and the east was already slightly bright.The surrounding wolves had quietly retreated a hundred feet away.

When Tie Niu saw it, he said to Duan Wuji: "Brother, you see that the pack of wolves has retreated a hundred feet away. I think we should chase them with our swords now. Let's kill them to our heart's content. How do you think?"

Duan Wuji shook his head.

"Brother Tieniu, please don't do that, look at this black light, I am not afraid of how many wolves rush out, if we fall into the trick of the wolves attacking each other, then it will be over, right?
You know, the eyesight of these wolves is much better than ours, so let's not touch that bad luck, let's just spend time with them, and when the sky is bright, they can no longer fall crookedly.

At that time, if the five of us attack together, I believe they will only scatter and run away. This time I don't believe that we can't kill them all. "

Tie Niu listened and nodded.

"Brother, your trick is better! Okay, let's do it this way. This time I don't believe in killing them. You see, the east is turning red. It will be bright in a while. Let's see when the time comes." Let's kill them and run away."

Everyone held their weapons like this, and no one dared to let go. Half an hour later, the sky was bright and bright, and things in the distance could be seen clearly.

Not far away were all the dead wolves, probably at least forty or fifty. The reason why the wolves stopped attacking inside just now was probably because they were frightened by the number of casualties of their accomplices. The ambition to attack has been frightened away.

Duan Wuji saw it and said with a smile: "I wonder what this pack of wolves are doing here, so they are here to bring us food, knowing that we have very little money left this time, so I found a way to send some wolf meat to help. Help us."

Everyone laughed secretly when they heard this, and said to themselves: Can this pack of wolves be so kind?They came here to eat meat, but now they have become the prey of others.

Duan Wuji said loudly to the crowd: "The weather is bright and bright now, you must protect our horses well!

Brother Changqing, you are in a group of three, and I am in a group with your brother Tieniu. Let's hunt down this pack of wolves separately, the more we kill, the better.

Pay attention to find the head wolf, be sure to kill it. "

After finishing speaking, Duan Wuji pulled out the sword from behind, Tie Niu also pulled out the sword from his waist when he saw it, and Duan Changqing and the three of them also pulled out the sword from his body one after another.

Duan Wuji glanced at Tieniu and shouted loudly: "Brother Tieniu, pay attention, let's take action now."

After finishing speaking, Duan Wuji rushed towards the wolves not far away like an arrow from the string, and Tie Niu rushed over after him. The wolves were still crawling on the ground, as if they would charge and attack at any time.

With a distance of one hundred feet, the two of them rushed over in an instant.I saw Duan Wuji raised his sword and fell, a wolf was chopped down by Duan Wuji in an instant, Duan Wuji's sword followed the people, and rushed to another wolf with a swipe, only to see a flash of cold light, and the wolf died instantly. Died by the sword.

The wolves reacted and ran away desperately, but Duan Wuji's speed was too fast, Duan Wuji rushed to the front of the wolves in a few jumps, and the wolves ran back as soon as they saw the knot, just in time to be chased Tie Niu raised his sword and cut them down one by one.

Duan Wuji also killed more and more vigorously, and after a while, more than 20 wolves were killed by his sword.

The panicked wolves fled in all directions, completely out of control.

Duan Wuji saw that it was almost the same, Duan Wuji said to Tieniu: "Brother Tieniu, let me forget it, let them run for their lives."

Tie Niu was also red-eyed now, and Tie Niu beheaded three more wolves before stopping.

At this time, the remaining wolves had long since fled without a trace.

Duan Wuji said to the staff beside the horse herd: "Come here, eight or nine people, and pick up the dead wolves on the ground, and we'll be on our way right away."

When everyone saw that the wolves had dispersed, their hearts were completely relieved.

As soon as they heard that Duan Wuji asked them to pick up dead wolves on the ground, more than a dozen people immediately searched for the corpses of wolves, and half an hour later, all the dead wolves were found.

Everyone looked at the ground and saw dozens of dead wolves. Duan Wuji looked at these dead wolves and said: "There are so many dead wolves, how many do you have?"

A person who was looking at the dead wolves raised his head and said, "Mr. Duan, I counted them just now, and there are 89 dead wolves in total."

"Really? After spending so much time, there are not even ninety wolves? Sigh, it's better to kill another one just now, so we can make up the whole number."

Tieniu looked at the dead wolves on the ground and said, "Brother! There are so many dead wolves, how can we get them back?"

Duan Wuji thought for a while and said: "Isn't this simple? Tie the hind legs of the two wolves with a rope, and after the tie is tight, the two wolves will hang on the horse's back, won't it be enough? We have so many horses, this little thing Can't we take it?"

Tie Niu laughed and said, "But the key is that we don't have a rope? Isn't it hard to do if there is a rope?"

Duan Wuji thought for a while and said: "Don't we have a bag to wrap money? Let's cut that bag into strips with a sword, isn't it just a rope?"

Tie Niu slapped his head. "That's right! Doesn't this solve the problem of the rope?"

Tieniu shouted loudly: "Changqing, bring us our bag of money, let's try it first."

After hearing this, Duan Changqing immediately ran over with a bundle.

Tie Niu raised his sword and cut the bundle into dozens of pieces. Tie Niu picked up a piece of cloth and was about to tie the hind legs of the two wolf corpses together.

Duan Wuji saw it and said with a smile: "Brother Tieniu, it's not that way of binding."

"Oh? Brother, how do you tie it up?"

Duan Wuji walked over, pierced the middle of the wolf's hind leg, and pierced a big hole in the wolf's hind leg, and then, Duan Wuji pierced another wolf's hind leg with a hole.

Duan Wuji passed the strip of cloth through the two holes, and then tied the hind legs of the two wolves.

Everyone nodded their heads and praised Duan Wuji's method.

One of the guards saw it and said with a smile: "Boss Duan, you are so smart, I can't blame you for being our leader. Follow you to make as much money as possible, at least your life is not in danger."

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Okay, okay, you should stop praising me, if you blow the bottom of it, wouldn't it be over?"

All the guards were sword wielders, and when they saw Duan Wuji's method, they immediately learned it. After a short while, more than 80 wolves were finished, and everyone carried the wolves' bodies to their horses one after another. On the next day, Duan Wuji handed over the remaining wolf body to Duan Changqing.

"Brother Changqing, put this dead wolf on your horse, let's eat it first."

When Duan Wuji saw that everyone had packed up, Duan Wuji shouted loudly: "Brothers, it's getting late, let's set off now, and try to get us through the customs as soon as possible."

　Today is the birthday of the Republic, I wish you all a happy holiday.

　　
　
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