Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 349

2021-10-16

Chapter 349 Hunting (4)

[Dusk, somewhere on the west bank of the Netherworld River]
Repeatedly confirming that no one was following, Pierre asked hesitantly, "Are you sure this is the place?"

Winters looked around on his horse, trying to recall the route of retreat after the attack on Camp Teltown. But the barren mountains and wild ridges looked similar, and he was a little unsure.

I don't want to think clearly, Winters laughed: "It should be this... don't care, let's dig a few shovels first!"

After the long journey, the Tiefeng County Mission has already Arrive in the depths of wasteland - also the heart of the Red River Department - the Confluence River Basin.

The entire group even camped outside Pengli City last night.

Revisit an old haunt, people who have experienced the [Great Wasteland Battle] can't help feeling emotional.

Washika seized the opportunity, half proudly and half regretfully, to tell the recruits about the Battle of Bianli, but bragged about the blood wolf to fiercely, and bragged about herself.

Bian Li has been rebuilt as the palace of the white lion and the symbol of the Chihe Department.

The triangular fort on the east side, which was blown up by Winters himself, was restored, and only the striking color difference between the old and new walls was a silent reminder of how cruel the siege was.

According to the little lion, the white lion spends half of the time adjudicating affairs and meeting messengers in Bianli.

If there is no delay, Winters should also meet the White Lion in Bien Lai.

But right now the White Lion is not in the city. The little lion only found out after asking - it turned out that the big tent had left Bianli three days ago and went to the hunting ground.

Learning that the tent had been pulled out, the little lion was so anxious that he was about to cry, and complained to Winters again: "The departure of the tent means that the hunting ground is about to be encircled.

Winters fully expressed understanding for the anxiety of the little lion.

The next day, he took a detour.

It wasn't that Winters deliberately played tricks on the little lion, he just wanted to confirm the location of the gold burial.

In the evening, while the others were busy unloading their trucks and setting up camp, Winters took only Pierre and Charles away from the station, citing hunting.

The three of them went upstream, first finding the ruins of the bridgehead, and then continuing their search along the retreat route that night, and finally found this "suspicious" place
Down to the bottom of the valley , Charles couldn't help stunned: "Such a big piece of wasteland, you, me and Pierre alone will not be able to dig it until tomorrow! Why don't I go back and call some people?"

Winters dismounted and took the shovel out of the saddle bag: "Marked."

"Marked?" Charles startled: "Lieutenant Colonel Jessica didn't say that the mark would be found, so he didn't leave it. Mark?"

Winters intersects with Pierre's four eyes, the latter shrugged.

Inspecting the entrance and exit of the valley, Winters roughly deduced the route the carriage had taken: "The markings on the surface may have been exposed, so Captain Mason and I thought of a way. Three wooden stakes were buried...it should be half a foot below the soil layer."

So the three of them lined up in the flat valley where the carriage could pass, and they kept turning up the soil with a shovel.

"I don't know how Hai Lan is doing now." Xia Er hummed, "I don't know how Iron Peak County is doing now."

Winters asked casually: "How long have we been away from Tiefeng County?"

"About two and a half months?" Ciel calculated in a low voice, "Brother, how long do we have to go?"

"Come on, we should be able to catch up with the white lion in a few days."

"Actually... a lot of people don't understand it now." Charles said hesitantly, "Why do we have to travel thousands of miles? Came all the way to join the hunting of the Hurds?"

Winters thought for a while, but instead of answering directly, he asked another person beside him: "What do you think? Pierre."

Pierre is recovering from a serious illness, sweating after waving the shovel for a while. He wiped his sweat and asked, "Would you like to hear the truth or a lie?"

"Where did you learn this?" Winters laughed angrily.

Pierre also smiled and replied frankly: "Last time we met the Chihe Department, it was a life-and-death situation, but this time we became their guests. To be honest, I can't accept it. "

Winters stopped what he was doing. "Does everyone else think the same way?"

"A lot of my comrades think the same way." Pierre said solemnly: "Especially the subordinates you just brought out from Jiangbei Province who have not experienced the establishment of an army in Wolf Town, they don't understand."

Winters looked at the sunset and fell into silence.

Each member of the embassy is hand-picked by Winters, and in a way, they are Winters' most trusted and valued subordinates.

If the members of the mission think so, let alone the attitudes of others.

"Your Excellency." Pierre took the initiative to break the silence: "Although I don't trust the Hurds, I believe in you. I believe you have good reasons for choosing to shake hands with Chihebu. I I'm sure other people think the same way. So you don't need to worry."

Winters sighed: "I should explain..."

"If you don't feel the need to explain ." Pierre said heavily: "Then there is no need to explain."

After thinking for a while, Winters had thought.

Winters exhales one breath saying, solemnly promises Pierre and Charles: "When the time is right, I will explain it to everyone...everyone has the right to know what they are fighting for. "

Pierre wanted to say more, but swallowed it all. In the end, he just said: "You just need to give an order."

"Okay." Winters' mouth curled slightly: "I have an order now."

"What order?" Charles asked suspiciously.

"Continue to dig the soil!"

Shovel after shovel, the three of them plowed the soil in the valley until the bright moon hung high.

Just as Winters began to question his memory uncontrollably, he heard Ciel exclaim again: "Here!"

Because Ciel had already had several The first time the stone was regarded as a stake, so Winters and Pierre had a flat response: "A stone again?"

"No!" "

"Let me see!"

I'm not mistaken this time, it is indeed a stake.

Winters placed one foot on the stake and drew a circle with his step span as the radius and the stake as the center: "Turn over! There must be two other stakes in the circle."

Encouraged by the good news, Charles and Pierre moved quickly and efficiently found the other two stakes.

At this moment, Winters was finally able to confirm that he was not only stepping on dirt and rocks, but also two tons of gold.

Charle shouted excitedly: "I'll go back and find someone!"

Pierre couldn't hide his joy.

Now that the gold has been found, Winters' heartbeat is soothed.

"no!" Winters stopped Ciel, and gave the order thoughtfully: "Fill the soil back."

Ciel's eyes widened in astonishment: "Why? I brought it, isn't it just to dig out the golden man?"

Pierre was also a little puzzled: "Most of the elites from the Chihe Department have gone to participate in the hunting. If you don't want to attract people There should be no better time than now to dig out the gold man with attention."

"You guys." Winters laughed dumbly and reluctantly taught the two of them: "Just think about how to dig it out! Don't think about it. Thinking about how to bring it back?"

"Didn't we also bring a furnace and a bellows?" Charles answered confidently: "Dig it out! Melt it down! Load it in a truck and take it away!"

"It's just gold when it melts." Winters explained with a smile: "Until I negotiate the terms with the White Lion, the golden man is worth more than the gold."

 …

...

[wasteland, hunting ground]
Even onlookers like Winters couldn't help but be excited about the grand finale of the three-month-long hunt.

The tens of thousands of hunters scattered all over the world are now reunited, and the sparsely populated wilderness suddenly becomes noisy.

All hunting parties are doing the same thing - driving their prey into the final hunting grounds.

The closer you get to the last minute, the more difficult it will be to exorcise the beasts.

The hunting parties were originally separated from each other, but now they have entered each other's visual range.

The hunters of the Bad Earth will be wary whenever other hunting parties are observed nearby.

It's too close!

The hunter needs to move the prey without frightening it.

Some hunting teams' prey are cattle and sheep, and some hunting teams' prey are wild beasts. As long as they encounter it, it will be a disaster.

The panic of the prey is also contagious, and if the hunting parties get too close together, it is likely to cause a chain breakout.

So the Koshkhach would rather stand still than go with other hunting parties.

Perhaps it was a premonition that the catastrophe was coming, and the antelopes wailed and wandered, unwilling to move forward.

Bad Earth hunters had to resort to more drastic measures. They went out in full force, pulled up ropes to surround their prey from three sides, continuously roared, banged iron weapons, and even forced the herd to move by whipping.

It wasn't until after witnessing the end of the hunting by the Chihe Department that Winters really understood what the little lion said before - "the final hunting ground has been set up from the beginning".

The final stage chosen by the white lion is a high place named [Qingqiu].

Standing on Qingqiu, looking out at the four fields, as far as the eye can see is the empty plains. Within several dozen li, only Qingqiu stood alone.

Above the green hill, the white lion gold and jade in the glorious splendor's palace tent, the azure horsetail fluttering in the wind.

The hunters moved towards Qingqiu as if walking on thin ice, until they could finally stop until the golden light of the red river palace tent came into view.

The last section of the road is over!

The hunters nailed stakes in their respective positions, pulled ropes between the stakes, and hung felt and feathers from the ropes.

The stakes, ropes and felt are like a wall, preventing the wild beast from escaping; the flying feathers screeching in the wind, scaring the wild beast away.

Felt walls built by hundreds of hunting parties are connected to each other.

In the end, a giant hunting ring with Qingqiu as the center and a radius of one eye away rose up in the wilderness.

[Note: One eye is about five kilometers away, which is the farthest distance the eye can see]
East to Netherworld River, west to Aral Sea, south to Ember River, north to Yinshan , the wild beast is driven from all directions to the west into the final hunting ground.

The density of wild beasts in the hunting ring has reached an unimaginable level, with the whining of herbivores and the roar of predators one after another.

It really is as the shaman of Hed sings: "Hunt the cunning beast, I forerunner of the sweat; let the wild beast of the wilderness, thigh to thigh; let the wild beast of the cliff, belly to belly ".

"Look!" Winters pointed at Qingqiu, with rays of light in his eyes: "The stage has been set up, and now, we have to see if the performance is strong enough!"

Anna smiled sweetly and asked, "Then... who is the actor?"

"It's not me anyway." Winters laughed: "I'm here to be the audience."

The people who followed Winters' mission to the Chihe Department were also eye-opening. Even the old Sergey, who looked down on Heard Barbarians the most, was shocked at this moment.

"My dear!" The old Sergey was shocked with a fierce look on his face: "Is the barbarian a great character again?! How did you come up with this boss battle!"

Witnessing the grand final hunt of the Chihe Department, the older generation was shocked, but the new generation felt a sour sense of humiliation for no reason - I can't blame them, it is the nature of youngsters to be competitive.

"What can you do with a big battle? Didn't you almost get slashed by a blood wolf?" Wasika was at the age when she liked to talk back to Lao Tzu, so he immediately raised a big flag and deliberately shouted loudly He shouted: "Hundred-Men Commander, when we return to Tiefeng County, we will also engage in hunting! Let's make a bigger one!"

After hearing this, a message of approval came from the mission team. 's response.

Old Sergey subconsciously scolded his son. However, the flag Vasya raised was too big, and old fogey swallowed the swear words, but Fiercely glared at his son.

Winters looked around at his subordinates and saw that many of them were nodded and eager to have a try.

"Okay." Winters said to Vashka, "When the time comes, I'll put you in charge of catching the wild beast."

"Okay!" Vashka didn't notice The trap in this sentence is like being commended and holding your head high, red light across the whole face.

Pierre was lightly sighed.

"Don't you like hunting?" Anna asked in a low voice.

"Yeah." Winters smiled and bit his ear and replied, "I lied to him."

The Bad Earth was the last group to arrive at the hunting grounds. When they could see Qingqiu, the hunting ring had been completed.

So Koshhaqi only had to temporarily open a gap in the felt wall so that his men and horses could drive the prey into the hunting pen, which saved some effort in building the felt wall.

Winters can clearly see it: the moment the prey enters the ring, the tense cheeks of the hunters of the Badlands all relax.

"Are you guys just waiting for the hunting to start?" Winters asked Koshkach with a smile.

"No." Kuoshhaqi shook his head: "We have to guard the felt wall and not let the prey break the circle."

However, this stout Heard man finally showed a sense of relief. Tired smile: "But, the harvest is not far away."

A marvelous purplish red horse galloped, and the little lion on the horse was far away and shouted excitedly: "Montagne! You've finally caught up!"

Three days ago, the little lion was angry, but Winters deliberately took a detour, and went to the hunting ground in a rage. The two are now reunited.

"Goodbye." Winters looked towards Koshhaqi and held out his hand.

Koshihachi froze for a moment, then extended his hand.

The two looked at each other and held and released their palms.

......

"If anyone asks, just say that you are a caravan of Prato." The little lion led the way, and kept turning his head to explain: "It's down. It's not that the Chihe Department can't protect you... it's that there are too many miscellaneous tribes, and I'm afraid that some people will be wrong..."

Not only hunters from various tribes, but also Ordinary members of the Chihe tribe, as well as leaders and messengers of other tribes.

There are felt tents of the Heards all around the hunting grounds, and Winters and the others are very out of place to walk in them.

So the white lion and the little lion specially prepared a separate camp for Winters.

"...In addition, it's best not to let your people come out and walk around." The little lion said sorry: "You can tell me anything you need, and the Chihe Department will provide you as much as possible."

"Don't be sorry, safety comes first, the Chihe Department has arranged it well enough." Winters touched the little lion's shoulder: "But... water, we have to get it ourselves, it is inevitable that we have to Go in and out of the camp a few times."

The little lion laughed: "I have asked me to arrange a camp for you next to the water source. Well, right ahead. ”

Looking in the direction indicated by the little lion: twelve small felt tents surrounded by a large felt tent, a total of thirteen felt tents are neatly located on a small soil slope near the stream. On.

Even by Winters' standards, the location of this camp has no obvious shortcomings. It is close to the stream for easy access to water, and the terrain is high to prevent outsiders from prying.

As for the lack of terrain Dangerous...Qingqiu is surrounded by plains, and there is no danger to defend.

Moreover, Winters and his party are surrounded by tens of thousands of Hurds.

Looking at the thirteen felt tents, Winters' heart trembled uncontrollably, and he pulled the little lion: "That..."

The little lion didn't know why, Confused, he asked, "What? What do you want to ask? "

Winters was silent for a long time, and finally called the head, smiled and said, "Nothing... When can I see the white lion?" "

"You can do it now." The little lion shrugged: "But you don't need to rest first?" "

"No need. "Winters took a deep breath: "The sooner we see the white lion, the better." ”

……

[Camp of the Tiefeng County Mission]
Since the host has thoughtfully provided accommodation, there is no need for the guests to set up tents. The spacious felt tent is much more comfortable than the marching tent.

While the others were unloading the truck and lighting the fire, Anna curiously walked into the largest felt tent in the center of the camp.

Felt The floor of the tent is covered with soft suede leather, and the gauze curtain divides the spacious interior space into left, center and right.

In the center of the felt tent is a half-person-height iron stove, on which stands a In a stew pot, the light "beeping" of wood burning is constantly coming out of the hearth.

Because of this iron stove exuding heat, the inside and outside of the felt tent are two worlds.

Outside is the cold wind whistling wilderness, and inside is the warm hidden land of peace and prosperity.

Feeling the fur on the ground, Anna quickly took off her heavy boots and was naked. Her feet, cautiously, went up.

The soft touch from the tip of her toes made her unconsciously exhales one breath saying.

The saucepan was making a "gumbling" sound. , Anna cautiously lifted the lid of the pot, and the aroma of mutton rose up on the steam, filling all around.

Because of the high-temperature steam assaults the senses, Anna subconsciously retreated and turned her head.

Next moment, Anna couldn't believe her eyes.

Because she saw a bathtub.

A wooden bathtub big enough for an adult.

Anna took a deep breath, breathed, breathed in, and after adjusting her mind, she prayed to the bathtub.

Heavenly God seemed to hear her prayers—the bathtub had been thoughtfully filled with water.

Ana reaches out and touches the water—and it's still warm.

Ana's bliss floods her like never before, and she can barely control her urge to cheering excitedly.

Cautiously holding up a handful of warm water, Anna sat for a while, and for some reason, she suddenly sobbed softly.

But she quickly stopped sobbing, wiped away her tears, and returned to her normal appearance.

She sat beside the bathtub, propped up her cheeks and stared at the water, as if thinking about how to use the precious warm water.

After thinking for a moment, Anna's cheeks were reddish. shook the head, finally felt the temperature of the water, stood up, ready to see the felt What else is on the other side of the account.

As she was leaving, Anna inadvertently caught a glimpse of a suit of neat and tidy on the square table next to the bathtub.

Ana picked up her clothes—a brand new hunting suit.

……

[the palace tents in the center of Qingqiu, Chihe Department]
Standing in the distance, there is only a gold and jade in the Qingqiu The palace tent of the glorious splendor.

The actual palace tent is more than one tent, but a temporary building complex composed of more than ten felt tents.

Accompanied by the little lion, Winters walked into the palace tents of the Chihe Department without any interrogation.

The members of the Chihe tribe are making final preparations for tomorrow's hunt, checking horses, testing bows, sharpening arrows... Armored Soldiers of various feathers are running around, and from time to time servants run out in a panic In a blink of an eye, one felt tent penetrated into another.

Winters watched the busy scene of the Chihe tribe with great interest, while following the little lion to the most gorgeous and largest palace tent.

Suddenly, Winters stopped without warning.

He turned his head and looked towards behind him, but there was nothing; he looked all around again, still nothing.

He kept walking.

In an unremarkable felt tent ten steps away, Ellen's heart almost jumped out of her chest.

The old woman beside Erlun asked hoarsely, "Is [Herde] him?"

The old woman is too old to tell her age, her teeth are almost It fell completely, and the wrinkles on his face were like ravines etched by the wind. Her hair and clothes are tied with the bones of all kinds of animals, including birds and beasts.

The most chilling thing is the old woman's eye sockets - what originally existed there was dug out alive, leaving two empty, black holes, like bottomless abyss.

"[Hede] is him." Ellen hugged the old woman and wept bitterly: "[Hede] what should I do? The old mother..."

The old woman also hugged Eerlun, her dry hands gently patted Eerlun's back.

Under the comfort of the old woman, Erlun gradually stopped crying.

Across the thick felt tent, the old woman stared straight at Winters' back.

There was nothing in her eye sockets, but she straightened her back with difficulty, gasping for breath, and staring at Winters until the latter walked away.

"[Herde] I once saw the future of the white lion through the fog, and because of that future, I returned the name of the white lion to the white lion." The old woman muttered hoarsely to herself : "[Herde] But I can't see the future of that man, I can't see anything...I can only smell fire, blood and tears...they're all on him..."

On the other side, the little lion raised a curtain decorated with gold and silver, and Winters stepped into the palace tent of the Chihe Department.

The white lion stood up and nodded in greeting.

[Repay (false)! ! ! ]
[About the hunting of the Chihe Department, it is not made up or "original" by me, but based on the contents of the "World Conqueror History" about hunting, hunting, and winter hunting]
[...They spend a couple of dollars For a month or three months, a hunting circle is formed, slowly and gradually driving away the wild beast in front, cautiously, lest one wild beast escape the circle... In these two or three months, they drove like this day and night The wild beast is like driving a flock of sheep, and then sends a message to Khan, reporting to him the condition of the prey, how many it is, where it has gone, where the wild beast has been awakened, and so on. Finally, when the hunting ring shrunk to a diameter of only two or three Palessan (11-17 kilometers), they connected the ropes and covered them with felt; the army stopped in a circle and stood shoulder to shoulder...]
[Yelü Chu Cai's "Winter Hunting of Hu Cong" can also provide some references: "Heavenly Sovereign winter hunting is like a marching army, and Bai Yi is surrounded by a long circle. The long circle is not known for thousands of miles, and the dragon is shocked by the mountains. The long circle is arranged like a circle. Thousands of wild horses and goats, red bears and white deer rush to green deer.

The strong men bend their bows to kill strange beasts, and even drive tigers and leopards to chase greedy wolves. , put down the felt curtain and recite the Book of Changes.]
[In addition to hunting in winter, there is also flying (falconry) in spring. For nomadic tribes, hunting is both a production activity and a military exercise]
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