Chapter 775: Escape from Danger
They travel more than 100 miles a day, and the speed of travel is still relatively fast, but the further they go, the more difficult it is to walk. Because these tribal kingdoms near the border of the Great Song Dynasty were relatively prosperous, and the deeper they went, the more sparsely populated and desolate the land became, and sometimes they couldn't see a single family for a day or two.
Fortunately, they carry all the daily necessities with them, and the princess has not made a pilgrimage to Qinghai Lake once or twice, but she has experience.
After walking for more than ten days, I finally came to a majestic snow-capped mountain. This snow-capped mountain towers into the sky, stretching for thousands of miles, and lies in front of them. They had to climb over snowy mountains to keep going. And there is no gap between the peaks. The mountain is so long that you can only climb it by climbing it first, and you can't go around it from the ravine below.
In order to make it easier to climb the mountain, they brought all horses and no carriages, so climbing the mountain was not a problem. Although the peaks of Tibet are very majestic, they are not too steep, the slope is relatively gentle, and when you reach the middle of the mountain, the whole mountain peak has already entered the wind and snow.
At this time, Yang Xianmao protected the princess, not to worry about robbers, but to prevent the terrible blizzard. The wind and snow were raging, making it difficult for them to walk. Before it was dark, a sudden snowstorm broke down, making it difficult for them to walk.
Although such a climate was not a problem for Yang Xianmao, it was difficult for Princess Zhuoma and others who had no martial arts to walk, so they immediately ordered to camp and rest in a col in the leeward quarter, and wait for the snowstorm to pass before setting off.
The elite soldiers immediately began to set up camp. The first to tie up was of course the princess's big tent, Yang Xianmao also participated, his strong martial arts skills showed strong ability, and soon helped them set up the huge princess's tent in the leeward of the col to shelter from the wind and rain, please freeze a little shivering princess quickly enter the big tent to rest, and then began to set up other people's tents.
Yang Xianmao set up a tent next to the princess's tent as a guard all the way, and this time when he was about to set up his own tent, the princess poked her head out and beckoned him to come over, Yang Xianmao didn't know what she was going to do, when she walked over, she had already grabbed Yang Xianmao's arm, pulled him into the big tent, and said to him: "The col here is very small, you don't need to install another tent, leave a place for others to set up tents, you live here with me, anyway, there are a few maids in my tent, and I won't gossip about people." ”
Yang Xianmao also knew that men and women often lived together in Tubo's tents these days, but if it was an ordinary person, it would be fine, and now he was the princess, he really didn't dare to be so presumptuous. So he smiled and said: "Don't worry, princess, my tent is not for me to live alone, I can ask them to come together, everyone lives together, so that the number of tents can be reduced, and it doesn't take up too much space." ”
When the princess heard him say this, she couldn't help but show a hint of resentment on her face, but she still said indifferently: "Since that's the case, then you can go out." ”
The snowstorm was getting heavier and heavier that night, and by the middle of the night, it was already overshadowing. The whining wind and snow are raging, like countless ghosts flying through the air, which makes people listen to the creepy.
At this moment, Yang Xianmao suddenly felt a powerful coercion, falling from the sky. And this kind of coercion came very quickly, just in an instant, he felt the shock of his heart.
Yang Xianmao immediately stood up, and before a few people in the tent had time to react, he rushed out of the tent first, standing outside the princess's tent to guard, and at the same time looked up at the sky.
Although his eyes were already extraordinary, in this dark night, he could not see what was causing him so much pressure in the black fog of snow.
But Yang Xianmao soon had a familiar feeling, and that feeling was almost a tremor of the heart. He immediately drew the iron sword he had strapped to his back.
And just then, a huge figure suddenly appeared above their heads. It was a huge claw, this claw was several feet long, and with one claw it came down and grabbed the tent next to it, and countless soldiers inside screamed and were caught in the air, and only screams could be heard in the night. Many of the screams came to an abrupt end, presumably being bitten to death and eaten by the monsters that suddenly descended in the air.
At this time, the princess rushed out in horror, saw Yang Xianmao holding a sword at the door, and immediately threw herself into his arms desperately.
Yang Xianmao hugged the princess tightly and stared intently into the air, but she couldn't see anything in the dark night, except for the raging blizzard.
Suddenly, a huge claw silently reached out from the air, and actually grabbed him and the princess under the giant claw.
The princess's screams rang in my ears. Before Yang Xianmao could react, the two of them were already firmly grasped by this huge claw and took off into the night sky. He saw a number of soldiers on the other paw as well. He felt the powerful currents created by the violent flapping of his huge wings that made him almost breathless.
At this moment, a huge bird's head peeked out of the darkness. The bird, the size of a yak, poked out of the darkness and pecked at the soldier on the other foot with its spiky beak. As soon as he grabbed it, he pecked off a person's head, and then threw the whole thing up and swallowed it into his stomach, as easily as a bird eating a small worm.
This is a Dapeng bird!
Yang Xianmao, who was in mid-air, had already seen that this monster was the Dapeng Bird, and saw his huge body and wings stretched out and could not see the edge.
The princess's heart was broken, and the screams resounded throughout the sky, and the Shang Fang sword in Yang Xianmao's hand slid through a fine light, aimed at the thick leg of the Dapeng bird, and slashed down with a sword. With a click, the sword cut the giant leg in half, but it was stuck in the bones and could not move forward.
It was also Yang Xianmao's Shangfang sword that sharpened iron like clay, and if it was replaced with other sharp blades, it would not be able to cut into the thick leg bones of this terrible Dapeng bird.
The Dapeng bird suffered such a heavy blow, a terrifying earth-shaking hiss, its wings violently incited, and a whirlwind blew up. Blowing the heavens and the earth up and down.
Immediately after, the sharp beak on the huge head of the Dapeng bird drew an arc in the air and pecked down towards Yang Xianmao. Yang Xianmao was in danger, the long sword in his hand pulled a sword flower, and slashed at the giant mouth that pecked over. Now I cut off a large piece of the sharp mouth.
The Dapeng bird let out a terrible cry in pain, and threw Yang Xianmao and Princess Zhuoma, who were holding under the giant claws, out violently, and fanned them with their huge wings, trying to knock the two into meat cakes.
At the moment when the wings were about to hit them, Yang Xianmao had already turned over in the air, blocking in front of the princess, holding her tightly in his arms with his left hand, and the Shang Fang sword in his right hand slashed at the wings that slapped over, and he heard a click, and actually cut off the huge bone at the tip of the wing.
The Dapeng bird, which had broken its wings, suddenly lost its balance, like a falling meteorite, screaming and falling towards the abyss.
And the moment it fell, Yang Xianmao had already hooked the root of its unfolded wings with her feet and locked them firmly, so that their bodies were wrapped under the broken wings of the Dapeng bird.
The princess's scream of surprise swept through the air with a long tail note, and followed the Dapeng bird down the snowy mountain.
Yang Xianmao immediately backhanded, inserted the Shang Fang sword in his hand back into the scabbard on his back, and at the same time tightly hugged the frightened princess with his left hand, and grabbed the root of the Dapeng bird's wings with his right hand.
He knew that if he wanted to let go of the wings, the two of them would definitely fall into the air from such a high point in the air, and if he used the huge body of the Roc Bird as a buffer, there would be a chance of survival.
He thought very smartly, and he was also very correct, after the Dapeng bird broke its wings, it was powerless to fly and fell down, but the other wing was still inciting to slow down the speed and force of the fall, making their fall much slower than the free fall, Rao is so, and Yang Xianmao and the princess who fell were dizzy and almost fainted. Fortunately, the body of the Dapeng bird slammed diagonally into the smooth ice peak, and some of the momentum was cut off itself, and it slashed down along the smooth ice surface for hundreds of zhang, rushing into the soft and heavy snow, splashing snowflakes several feet high.
Yang Xianmao was frightened for a moment, and quickly grabbed the princess in her arms and asked softly: "Niangniang, how are you?" ”
"I, I seem to have broken bones, am I dead......?" said the princess in a difficult voice.
Yang Xianmao suddenly covered her mouth and said in a low voice: "Shh——! don't speak." ”
Because he heard a terrible roar, this sound made the princess in his arms even more distracted. Living in a snowy region, she knew it was the sound of an avalanche.
The huge Roc bird crashed on top of the snow peak, and then rushed down the ice peak and hit the snow, causing the entire mountain to tremble. The perennial snow on the mountain peaks shook and finally collapsed under gravity, and the avalanche crashed down on them.
In such an environment, Yang Xianmao had nowhere to escape, he couldn't throw the princess down, he fled alone, he could only hope for the injured Dapeng bird, he knew that it had a way, so he still firmly hugged the wings of the Dapeng bird.
The Dapeng Bird had just suffered a heavy blow and fell from mid-air, and when it was gasping for breath, it suddenly heard the sound of a huge roaring landslide and ground cracking, and immediately sensed the arrival of great danger.
Although his wings were tens of feet wide, he was still very small in front of the avalanche. He had to leave the avalanche coverage, otherwise the Roc Bird, which was dozens of feet long, would also be buried under the avalanche.
Therefore, it struggled out of the snowdrift and stomped on the ground with its uninjured other foot, sending its whole body into the air.
Its wings kept flapping, one wing was injured, only one wing could still stir it, it could not make it soar into the air, only a few feet above the ground, it felt a huge snowdrift rushing down towards it, this terrible danger was imminent, it immediately rose into the air again in desperation, turned its body in mid-air, spread its wings, and glided down the mountain.
The injured wings of the Roc bird are only cut off at the tip, and it cannot flap its wings to fly, but it is possible to glide after unfolding. It endured the sharp pain of breaking the tip of one of its wings, kept its balance, and slid down from a high place to the snowy peak.