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

Chapter 941 930: Everyone hunts in a giant pit

Duan Wuji and the others have already made preparations for hunting. As night fell, the temperature dropped rapidly. It wasn't too long before people felt the cold weather when gusts of cold wind blew.

Just when people gradually fell asleep, Duan Wuji stood up abruptly, only to see Duan Wuji suddenly drew his bow, and shot out a carved feather arrow.

With the sound of bowstrings, Li Jing and Tieniu stood up first.

"Brother, if you see something, shoot your bow and shoot your arrow!"

Duan Wuji said with a smile: "I didn't see too clearly what kind of animal it was, but this arrow has already caught it.

Don't you know when you go and have a look! "

After hearing this, Li Jing rushed over with his sword!
"Brother, your arrow skills are really accurate! It turns out that you shot a gazelle.

Um!This gazelle is quite fat. "

After speaking, Li Jing brought back the gazelle, threw the gazelle on the ground, and said to the soldiers, "Give me energy, skin the gazelle, and roast some mutton." Eat, let's satisfy our hunger!

For so many days, we ate that dry food every day, so much so that I don't even want to eat now. "

When the soldiers saw that they had caught their prey, they immediately cheered up.

These people skinned the gazelle in the third, fifth, and second grades of junior high school, and then picked it up with branches and roasted it.

These soldiers muttered in a low voice: "It's just such a gazelle, who can eat it! It's not enough to fit between the teeth!
Just the four of them who are officials can almost eat it up. "

Duan Wuji laughed and said, "All of you, give me some energy. Once these herbivores move, there will be more prey in a short while. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. The prey we hunt tonight will not be edible." clear!

If you don't want to starve in the future, then act for me. "

After hearing what Duan Wuji said, these people also felt that his words had some truth.

After only half a meal, Li Jing said excitedly: "Brother, your words are so accurate! Don't you see a group of dark shadows walking around there?
What kind of animal that is, really can't see clearly. "

When the soldiers heard this, they immediately became excited.

These people grabbed their bows and arrows and stood up.

People followed Li Jing's fingers, and there was indeed a group of dark shadows walking not far away.

Duan Wuji said with a smile: "I think it's a group of gazelles, where are they eating grass?
If they get any closer, let's shoot them with a volley of arrows and kill ten or eight of them, and that's enough for us to eat. "

Seeing the bright light here, the animals slowly moved towards the bright light.

Duan Wuji said in a low voice: "Everyone pay attention, don't shoot arrows randomly, we won't be too late to shoot arrows when they get closer, if they are too far away, the lethality is not enough."

After hearing this, the soldiers drew their bows and set up arrows one after another, ready to shoot arrows at all times.

This group of black shadows got closer and closer, Duan Wuji and the others could see clearly after a while, it really was a group of gazelles, there must have been forty or fifty in total.

This group of gazelles gnawed the grass leisurely, not knowing the danger coming. "

Duan Wuji said in a low voice: "Everyone pay attention, for a while we will only pick the big gazelles to shoot, let's let the small gazelles go!"

Just as the group of gazelles entered the shooting range, Duan Wuji gave an order.

"Start shooting arrows now!"

Immediately, arrows rained down and shot at the group of gazelles one after another, and those gazelles fell to the ground one after another, losing as many as a dozen of them in one fell swoop.

The rest of the gazelles panicked and fled into the distance one after another.

Duan Wuji laughed out loud.

"Brothers, hurry up and drag those gazelles back, we can't figure it out now!"

After hearing this, the soldiers put down their bows and arrows one after another, and ran towards the place where the gazelle fell to the ground.

In a short time, the gazelles that were shot to death were dragged back.

Duan Wuji asked the soldiers, "How many gazelles did we shoot to death just now?"

A soldier replied loudly: "Lord Duan, we shot eighteen gazelles to death just now."

Duan Wuji listened and nodded.

"Hurry up and peel the skins of these gazelles, and immediately start roasting the lamb.

Tonight, let's eat as much as we can, let's wrap up the mutton that we can't finish, and save it for the road. "

These soldiers were very excited now. Seeing that there were so many yellow sheep, it was certain that they would not be able to eat all the mutton tonight.

The bonfire burned hotter and hotter, and the soldiers set up a dozen wooden racks to roast a freshly peeled mutton. The time was not too long, and the smell of roasted mutton wafted far away.

The soldiers hummed the tunes of their hometown, not to mention the joy.

Duan Wuji said with a smile: "Everyone hurry up to grill, and eat quickly when it's cooked!
I can tell you that if the aroma of roasted lamb attracts carnivores, you may not be able to eat it. "

"I said Prince Duan, what kind of carnivores are there in this area?

Can you tell us about it? "

Tie Niu laughed and said, "Wolf packs are the most numerous on this vast plateau.

There are less than a dozen wolves here, or hundreds of them. These wolves chase herbivores, and generally they will ambush their prey in places where the aquatic plants are relatively lush.

We are barbecued here, and we are very likely to become the target of their attacks!

Fortunately, we have a lot of people, and each of us is good at martial arts.

Even if some carnivores come, I believe everyone will not be afraid of them.

In addition, there is a ferocious carnivore on this plateau, which is called snow leopard.

This snow leopard is a kind of big cat, not only ferocious, but also very cunning.

Our brother and I killed a few of them before. "

Li Jing and Zhang Gongjin laughed out loud.

"I said, two brothers, neither of you brothers are afraid of these animals, and we two brothers are not idiots, and the four of us work together, what carnivores are we afraid of.

If they don't come, it's their life span.

If they dare to come, it's nothing more than adding a few barbecues to us.

Brothers, what do you say? "

The soldiers laughed when they heard this.

"I said General Li, you are right, if you can kill some other animals, then our food will be more abundant.

All of us are good at martial arts, if they come, they must be bringing us meat. "

It took only half an hour for the mutton to be roasted. These people haven't eaten delicious food for many days. Today, when they touched the roast mutton, it was a desperate burst of eating!

Just when people were more than half full, suddenly the sound of howling wolves came from all around.

Duan Wuji said loudly: "Everyone, don't eat, this pack of wolves is coming soon, listen to the sound of howling wolves, these packs of wolves must be indispensable!

Everyone, cheer me up. On the one hand, let's protect our mounts, and on the other hand, we will eliminate these wolves. If the wolves disturb our horses, it will be bad. Hurry up and bring the horses to our fire. Come near the heap. "

Following Duan Wuji's order, these soldiers immediately moved into action, and these people led the horses to a position near the fire.

The horses let out a restless cry, and their hoofs slapped the ground, as if some danger was coming.

The soldiers settled the horses and looked around.

I saw a hundred feet away, small oily lights flickering, no need to ask, those were the eyes of a wolf.

When the wolves saw a fire here, they didn't dare to approach easily.

The neighing of the horses evoked the wildness of these wolves, and the wolves howled while compressing the encirclement.

According to a rough count, there are at least a hundred of these wolves.

Duan Wuji and Tie Niu quickly drew out their swords, and said loudly: "Brothers! Hurry up and copy the guy, otherwise, we will suffer a lot later.

We are also divided into four directions, and when they get closer, we will attack together.

Brother Li, Brother Zhang, in order to ensure the safety of the brothers, we stand in the same direction.

These wolves are cruel animals, if they don't give them a fatal blow, they won't retreat easily at first sight.

When we kill wolves later, we will only choose those big wolves to kill, so that they have more meat. "

The pack of wolves gradually compressed the encirclement, getting closer and closer to the fire. While moving forward, the pack of wolves observed the movements of the people around the fire.

These people are all long-time enemies, and they really didn't take these wolves seriously.

The encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, but these people remained motionless, as if they were all fine.

The horses near the fire became even more uneasy, wagging their tails and pricking up their ears one by one, as if they were about to fight the pack of wolves.

Now the distance between the two sides is only ten or twenty feet away.

Now the air was tense to the extreme, and those wolves squatted on their hind legs, always ready to launch that fatal blow.

Duan Wuji shouted loudly: "Brothers! Let's attack immediately."

Duan Wuji waved the sword in his hand and rushed towards the wolves first.

Duan Wuji raised his sword and slashed at the neck of a wolf. Duan Wuji turned around and beheaded another nearby wolf.

A wolf attacked from behind Duan Wuji, trying to bite Duan Wuji's neck.

Duan Wuji leaned forward, kicked one leg backward, this kick hit the wolf's stomach, the wolf fell to the ground after howling.

Duan Wuji didn't wait too long, and rushed directly to a wolf not far in front. The wolf was just about to escape, but Duan Wuji pierced its stomach with a sword.

In just the blink of an eye, seven or eight wolves died under Duan Wuji's sword.

The other people were not idle either, and those people swung their swords and started fighting with the wolves.

Tieniu killed six or seven wolves in one go, and a faint smell of blood wafted out.

Li Jing and Zhang Gongjin also slaughtered a lot of wolves, and each of them rarely killed five or six wolves.

In just the blink of an eye, these people killed half of the wolves, and the remaining wolves howled and fled to the outside.

It is said that wolves are cunning creatures, and once they find invincible power, they will quickly run away!
Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Pick up all these dead wolves, skin them and let's continue to roast the wolves and eat them. Let's count them up and see how many wolves we killed this time!"

Before long, Zhang Gongjin said excitedly: "I said brother, there are so many wolves killed this time!

A total of 54 wolves were killed, so many dead wolves, this is enough for us to eat for several days.

With these things, I don't think we can bear it in the next few days.

brothers!Don't do it yet?
Peel the wolf skin and roast the wolf meat quickly!

Wrap up all that lamb and let's change our appetites!
Most people have eaten this mutton meat, and not once, but not many people have eaten this wolf meat, so everyone wants to change the taste. "

Duan Wuji said with a smile: "Don't peel these dead wolves, you just need to take out the intestines and roast them together with the wolf skins. It's much less troublesome. It's even more delicious to eat the two wolf skins together. Some."

"I said Prince Duan, is that wolf hair edible?"

Li Jing kicked him hard after hearing this.

"You idiot, if you roast it together with wolf fur, those wolf hairs will have to be roasted by the fire!

You still ask such a simple question! "

The soldier grinned.

"Oh! So that's what happened! Since it's so simple, it will save a lot of trouble!"

The time is not too long, more than 20 racks for roasting wolf meat have been set up, and the time is not too long, and a smell of barbecue floats out again. After this one is cooked, it is replaced with another one to continue roasting. People gnawed on the wolf meat, not to mention the excitement.

By the time the last batch of wolf meat was cooked, it was already dawn.

Duan Wuji looked at the pile of charcoal fires on the ground, and said to everyone: "Let's wrap up the wolf meat. The meat is enough for us to eat for three or four days. After you wrap up the wolf meat, hurry up and lie down." Let's rest for a while, the day will be clear soon.

After dawn, we will hurry on our way. These horses have eaten the green grass all night, and it is estimated that each of them is full. "

After hearing Duan Wuji's words, these fed soldiers laid down after wrapping up the wolf meat.

An hour later, a round of red sun rose from the east, the sun shone outside the pit, and the earth was brightly lit.

Duan Wuji stood up and said to the people: "Okay, we've had enough food and drink for the night, it's already bright and bright, I think we'd better hurry up and get on the road!"

After hearing this, everyone packed up their things one after another, and then led their horses up from the huge pit.

Duan Wuji said with a smile: "In about two days, we will be able to see the vast snow-capped mountains, everyone should open their eyes and see what the snow-capped mountains look like!

Brothers, get on your horses quickly, let's set off immediately.

This area is desolate and uninhabited. If we stay for a long time, it will not do us any good! "

Under the leadership of Duan Wuji and Tieniu, the team immediately ran all the way to the southwest.

(End of this chapter)