Chapter 261: The Net
Wan Yankang thought that with Xiao Hei's speed, he should be able to calmly shake off the pursuers, wait for the opportunity to return east, and return to White Horse City.
Mu Huali didn't give him this chance.
In a new encounter, the soldiers of the Qiyan Division aimed their arrows at Xiao Hei.
In this season of dripping water into ice, because of the severe cold, the bowstring is too easy to break, and the warriors of the beggar tribe rarely use bows and arrows. Moreover, Xiao Hei was originally the war horse of Wokotai, which was well known among the soldiers of the Qiyan Department. If it weren't necessary, no one would have wanted to hurt the horse.
But in the face of Wan Yankang, who came and went like the wind, the pursuers finally chose to shoot people and horses first.
In the face of the sudden rain of arrows, even if Yan Kang's marksmanship was good, it was difficult to stop them all, and Xiao Hei was hit by several arrows.
Wan Yankang was distressed, and he didn't dare to engage in the battle again, so he turned around and ran. After running out of the land of a stone's throw, he immediately jumped off the horse to carry the light gong and hurried, taking the initiative to reduce the burden for Xiao Hei.
The chasing soldiers of the Beggar Department, of course, were in hot pursuit.
After Xiao Hei was injured, because the blood flowed non-stop, the speed of running gradually slowed down.
Fortunately, a snowstorm came, covering the horseshoe prints and bloodstains, temporarily blocking the pursuers and giving Wan Yankang a chance to breathe.
Wan Yankang found a tribal settlement and felt inside a tent.
A mother was coaxing her three children to fall asleep when a cold wind blew and made her feel excited. She subconsciously looked in the direction where the wind was coming from, thinking that some of the tent stones had been swept up by the blizzard.
A big man in black appeared in front of her.
This woman opened her mouth to exclaim. Wan Yankang covered her mouth, glanced at the children in the tent, and whispered, "Scream, die!" ”
The woman discovered that the strange man was not wearing black clothes, but only because the clothes were soaked in blood and turned black.
A strong smell of blood hit her nose, almost suffocating.
Wan Yankang felt the woman's trembling and squeezed out a smile: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." ”
He thought that his smile was soft, but in the eyes of this woman, it was extremely hideous, and her body was weak in shock, and there was no strength under her feet.
Wan Yan Kang held the woman, shook his head helplessly, clicked her dumb, let her collapse to the ground, and then lit the sleeping holes of the three children to prevent any accidents.
The woman fell to the ground, and when she saw Yan Kang moving on the three children, she didn't know where she got the strength, she crawled over and hugged his legs, and she wanted to say something, but she couldn't say it.
Wan Yankang looked at this woman's eyes and said slowly: "I'm just letting them sleep peacefully, if you really want to do it, you will all be dead." ”
When the woman heard this, she believed it and kowtowed to him in a hurry.
After Yan Kang didn't say anything more, he turned around and walked out of the tent, and after a while, he brought Xiao Hei in.
"My horse is wounded, and I brought it to heal!"
As soon as Xiao Hei entered the tent, his huge body occupied almost a quarter of the area in the tent. This woman grew up in the grassland, and she had never seen such a divine horse, she looked at the arrows on Xiao Hei's body, and seemed to understand something. In addition, when she went out after Yankang, she tried the breathing of the three children without abnormality, and she gradually calmed down at this time.
"Knives, wound medicine!"
When the woman heard this, she immediately rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the tent and took what Yan Kang wanted.
Wan Yankang first wiped the knife carefully, then baked and disinfected it on the fire, and after inserting it into the snow to cool, he baked it again, and then he was ready to draw arrows for Xiao Hei.
"Bear with me, don't scream." Wan Yankang patted Xiao Hei's neck and motioned for it to relax.
Xiao Hei blinked his somewhat godless eyes, snorted lightly in his nose, and then took the initiative to kneel on the ground.
Xiao Hei was hit by five arrows, two of which landed on both sides of his chest, two inches deep into the flesh, three of which were arrows when he fled, and the last three arrows fell on his hips and legs, and the injuries were slightly lighter.
Wan Yankang first removed Xiao Hei's reins and saddle, and then slapped Xiao Hei's hips near the middle arrow to relax his muscles. After a short while, he quickly cut open the wound, pulled out the arrow, and applied the wound medicine.
After applying the wound medicine, Xiao Hei's blood continued to flow out, Wan Yankang looked distressed, and ordered the woman to bring a few pieces of cotton cloth and cover Xiao Hei's wound.
Xiao Hei's two arrow wounds on the front chest are more troublesome. Because the meat was too deep, and one of the arrows was next to the main artery, Wan Yankang had to operate it cautiously and did not dare to use the knife. He used his internal strength, widened the muscles and flesh of the little black wound, and squeezed out the arrows little by little.
As the last arrow was taken out, Wan Yankang sat down on the ground, feeling more tired than a big battle.
This woman didn't wait for Yan Kang's orders, and took the initiative to apply wound medicine to Xiao Hei and cover Xiao Hei's wound.
"Thank you!" Wan Yankang felt gratitude from the bottom of his heart.
The woman turned her head and her mouth opened, but she couldn't say anything.
Wan Yankang stretched out his hand a little and relieved her of the dumb hole.
The woman was pleasantly surprised to find that she had regained her ability to speak, and she looked at Yan Kang: "Hero, your horse, you can't run these days." ”
Wan Yankang knew that with Xiao Hei's injury, he couldn't run for at least ten days, otherwise the wound would definitely collapse, and it would only add to injury. He nodded: "I'll leave tomorrow, you help me take care of the horses, I will thank you very much!" ”
The woman waved her hand: "This is the dragon horse in the sky, I can take care of it, it is a blessing from the previous life." ”
Wan Yankang saw that her eyes were thorough, and she didn't seem to be half-fake, so she finally put down a big stone in her heart. After the blizzard, most of the pursuers will pursue here, if Xiao Hei is not settled, Wan Yankang will really feel uneasy.
"Where's your stable?"
"The cows, sheep, and horses are all in the fence next to it."
"Take me to see it."
The fence of this house is not large, and there are about 30 cows, sheep and two horses, which are almost full of fences.
Wan Yankang frowned slightly when he saw this, with Xiao Hei's temper, he would definitely not squeeze together with so many cattle and sheep. What's more, this fence is set up in the open air, and putting Xiao Hei in it is tantamount to standing out from the crowd, and it is completely impossible to hide.
After seeing Yan Kang, the woman frowned and said silently, and couldn't help but say: "Hero, if you don't ......, Ryoma will live in a tent." ”
Wan Yankang thought that it was also a solution, but immediately shook his head and said, "No!" ”
He had some confidence in the woman, the problem was, there were three small children in the tent. For a child of this age, how can the tent at home live in a big horse, how can he not talk about it.
And once Xiao Hei's news is known to the outside world, not only will his life be difficult to protect, but the family will also suffer.
The woman seemed to understand, she pursed her lips, pointed to a lonely tent in the distance, and said, "Hero, see if you can live there." ”
Wan Yankang hurriedly asked what kind of place it was, it turned out that the tent was the residence of a madman in the tribe, and after the man went crazy, the tribe moved his tent far away and left him to fend for himself. The original owner didn't survive this winter. The only old and weak women and children left in the tribe also disliked the unlucky place of this place, and no one approached it on weekdays.
Wan Yankang swept to the tent, cleared the body of the madman who had already frozen into an ice mound, and then resisted Xiao Hei into the tent.
The woman looked at the moment when Yan Kang resisted Xiao Hei, and was about to scream in shock, but then she covered her mouth by herself, then knelt on the ground, clasped her hands together and said: "Immortal Heaven is above, Immortal Heaven is above!" ”
Wan Yankang took a little forage from each family in the entire settlement, and filled half of the tent where Xiao Hei was located to meet his rations for at least a month in the future, and also let Xiao Hei lie alone to be warmer. Then he told the woman to take care of Xiao Hei, and to look for opportunities to come and take care of him every day, and he will be rewarded in the future.
After finishing everything, Wan Yankang sat down next to Xiao Hei and meditated silently. After two weeks of practice, he heard the wind outside gradually stopping, stood up and rubbed Xiao Hei's neck for a while, and then walked to leave.
Xiao Hei bit his shirt with a mouthful, and his eyes showed reluctance.
Wan Yankang patted its head: "Take care of your injuries and come to me again." With that, he strode out the door and ran to where he had come from last night.
The chasing soldiers encountered by the Qiyan Department and Wan Yankang a few days ago continued on the road without waiting for the wind and snow to completely stop, following the faintly visible horseshoe prints and blood stains, all the way, only ten miles away from where Xiao Hei was.
Suddenly, a scream came from the back of the group.
The people in front immediately turned around to check, but saw that at the back of the team, there were inexplicably more than a dozen empty horses.
A man dressed in black, standing in the snow.
"It's a real failure to be discovered so quickly." Wan Yankang shook his head, extremely dissatisfied with the result that he had only attacked more than ten people and was exposed.
Then, he jumped on the horse beside him, and with a slight effort on his legs, he began to ride the horse and launch a strong attack.
With five hundred enemies, a seemingly unequal battle, the results were extremely contrasting. As the formation was killed and broken, the commander who led the team was picked out by Wan Yankang with a shot, and the pursuers were completely frightened and began to flee in all directions.
Wan Yankang gathered up the ownerless war horse, picked three good horses, and searched for some dry food, forage, and fire-starters, and galloped south.
The soldiers who were killed and dispersed by the beggar department did not run far, and someone had already blown the contact whistle.
Seeing Wan Yankang leave the battlefield, a few centurions grew up with courage, and with the rest of their men, they fell far behind Wan Yankang.
An hour later, two teams pursued, one from the south and the other from the east, intercepting Wan Yankang's way, vaguely forming an encirclement.
Wan Yankang estimated that if it was just these thousand people, he should be sure to kill through the enemy formation. Judging from the reaction speed of the other party, I am afraid that it will not be long before the third and fourth teams will come.
So, Wan Yankang turned his horse's head, did not engage the two groups of pursuers, and galloped north.
The net drawn by Mu Huali was extremely fine, and in the following day, Wan Yankang encountered the enemy six times, and on two occasions he was surrounded on three sides and was forced to fight before he was able to escape.
Wan Yan Kang felt from the arrangement of the chasing soldiers that Mu Huali had laid a net of heaven and earth, and the east, south, and north sides were tightly encircled, cutting off all possibilities for Wan Yan Kang to return to White Horse City.
After another encounter, Wan Yankang looked at the east and sighed, turned his horse's head, and without a trace of hesitation, galloped towards the west.