Chapter 92: Yin Mountain Meets Wolves
Guo Song went all the way to the east, at dusk, the Yellow River suddenly became several miles wide, he found a lot of horseshoe prints by the river, here should be a shallow water beach, he picked up a pebble, far into the river, from the splash, the river is not deep.
Guo Song took off his clothes, put his clothes, weapons and horse bag on his head, and led the horse slowly towards the Yellow River.
The river was gentle, gradually submerging to his chest, and this was the deepest part, Guo Song simply put the items on the saddle and helped the war horse to walk.
At this time, Mengzi fell from the sky, landed on the back of the war horse, tilted his head to look at Guo Song, Guo Song said angrily: "What is there to see, it's not the first time we met, hurry up and find something to eat." ”
The fierce man spread his wings and flew over the water, and caught a big fish two feet long in his claws, and flew towards the opposite shore.......
At night, in the hinterland of the Hetao Plain, in a desolate wilderness where no one lives, a fire is burning, Guo Song holds a thick branch, and a big fish is worn on the branch, and the smell of roasted fish comes to his nose.
The charcoal horse stood quietly aside, eating grass on the grass by the river, and on a towering tree not far away, the fierce son lay comfortably in a large bird's nest, and the poor original owner did not know where he had been driven by it.
After staying in Lingzhou for nearly a month, Guo Song regained the familiar life he had before, and this feeling made him happy.
Guo Song used a dagger to cut off pieces of fish meat and put it in his mouth, the fish meat was delicate and roasted very sweetly, the only regret was that there was no salt.
All his provisions were on another horse, and he forgot about it as he went.
The place where Guo Song is currently located is the Hetao Plain, that is, Fengzhou, with an area of at least 25,000 square kilometers, convenient irrigation, fertile land, Fengzhou had three county seats in the Tang Dynasty, namely Yongfeng County in the west, Jiuyuan County in the middle and Feng'an County in the east, with a population of more than 100,000 people at its peak.
Like Lingzhou, due to the ravages of Xue Yantuo's cavalry and the pacification of the Anshi Rebellion in the interior in recent years, most of the people have migrated back to the interior, and only more than 10,000 people live near Jiuyuan County.
Guo Song had no contact with Fengzhou, and the only contact was when the Leng family from Fengzhou broke out and entered the top four of the martial arts, but unfortunately the enemy attacked, and they rushed back to Jiuyuan County, Fengzhou overnight.
As soon as the morning dawned, Guo Song turned over and continued to gallop north, running a few miles away, only to see the fierce man flying up from the big tree, circling a few times and chasing after him.
At noon, Guo Song had reached the north of the Hetao Plain, and he was galloping along an abandoned official road, when suddenly a town appeared in front of him, which surprised and delighted him, and he urged his horse to run into the town.
In front of the town, a stone monument was erected, engraved with three faded characters of 'Fengbei Town', and the stone monument was surrounded by three-foot-high weeds, and it was barren.
He walked slowly into the town, only to find that it was a town that had been abandoned for an unknown number of years, with broken doors and windows, collapsed roofs, broken eaves, and barren grass on both sides of the road.
Guo Song turned over and dismounted, and looked for more than a dozen shops in a row, all of them came out disappointed, he wanted to find a little salt, but except for dust and rubble, there was nothing in all the buildings, and even the moldy wheat was eaten clean by wild mice.
At this time, there seemed to be green smoke rising above a thatched hut at the entrance of the front town, and Guo Song was overjoyed and hurriedly urged the horse to gallop.
At first glance, you can tell that this is an inhabited house, and the surrounding area is neatly tidy, and vegetables and radishes are grown.
"Anyone?"
Guo Song shouted twice, but no one answered, he pushed the door open, and the room was empty, with a table and a shabby bed with a few futons on it.
There was still no one in the room, he walked quickly to the stove, there was half a pot of salt in a clay pot, Guo Song was overjoyed, he took out the bamboo tube and filled half of the salt, and took out a silver ingot weighing about three taels and put it on the stove, then turned around and left the house, turned over and got on the horse, clamped his legs, and galloped away to the north.
Not long after Guo Song left, an old man with white hair trembled and touched back to the house, the old man had lived in the town all his life, his wife and young son were buried behind the house, he was reluctant to leave, only the eldest son who lived in Jiuyuan County came to visit him every one or two months, leaving him some food and other daily necessities.
When Guo Song entered the town, the old man saw it, and he was so frightened that he quickly hid, at this time the old man entered the room, and saw that there was no shortage of things, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and walked to the stove again, but found that half a jar of salt was missing, which was fifty wen a pound of salt! He was so angry that he was about to scold, when he suddenly saw a silver ingot next to him, and the old man was stunned for a moment.
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A few days later, Guo Song entered the Wolf Mountain, which already belongs to the Yin Mountain, the endless Yinshan Mountain Range is like a giant dragon lying on the vast grassland, the sky is firm, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass low but there are no cattle and sheep, and there are no people in a radius of hundreds of miles.
Yin Mountain covers a vast area, it takes at least ten days to cross Yin Mountain, Guo Song walked in Yin Mountain for three days, and he was still spinning on the edge of Yin Mountain, he was really annoyed in his heart, he was actually lost, and after walking for two days, he actually walked back to his original place.
Even Mengzi couldn't help him, although Mengzi could find the direction, but there was a cliff in front of him, and he couldn't get over it at all.
In the second half of the night, Guo Song was suddenly awakened by a low scream, he stretched out his hand to draw his knife, his eyes narrowed slightly, and there was no other abnormal movement within thirty steps around him except for the war horse and the fierce son behind him.
He was in a cave, the cave was not deep, only more than twenty steps, located on the top of the mountain, just enough to accommodate him and the war horse.
Look at the glimmer outside the sky, the fifth watch has already passed, about five o'clock, not far from dawn.
He lost his sleepiness and walked out of the cave with his knife, when a low scream sounded in the distance.
It's a wolf, Guo Song finally confirmed, along the way, he could feel the presence of wolves, but he didn't encounter them, listening to the sound, they should not be far from him.
At this time, Guo Song suddenly found a small fire point, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night, and the fire point was about two miles away at the foot of the mountain.
Guo Song's mind turned, and he immediately realized that it was very likely that someone was surrounded by wolves.
Guo Song quickly returned to the cave, took a bow and arrows and carried them on his back, and instructed Mengzi to say a few words to let him take care of the horses.
Guo Song ran out of the cave, climbed the rocks and quickly rushed down the cliff.
Turning over a low hill, he unexpectedly found that there was a long canyon under the low hill, the canyon was winding, leading to the north, Guo Song secretly scolded himself for being stupid, and the canyon road out of Yin Mountain was beside him, and he was still looking for it everywhere.
He did not go down the valley, but walked along the ridge, and within a mile of it, a dozen wolves appeared in front of him, all a few feet away from his feet, staring intently at the bottom of the valley, and did not notice a person above his head.
Guo Song successfully avoided the wolves guarding on the periphery, and carefully moved forward more than a hundred steps, he found the wolf king, the huge wolf king stood on an abrupt boulder, staring coldly at the bottom of the valley, and there were more than a dozen wolves behind it, all of which were obviously one size smaller than the wolf king.
At this time, Guo Song also saw the situation under the valley, it was a very large caravan, dozens of swordsmen gathered together, guarding a carriage, there were several merchants next to the carriage, and the horsemen were also gathered together, holding torches in their hands, and the torches gathered together, and what he saw just now was this fire.
In the firelight, the faces of the grooms were full of fear, and there was even a kind of despair, and it was obvious that they were all Han Chinese.
Around them, more than two hundred wolves surrounded them, staring at them with cruel eyes, baring their sharp teeth and letting out a low roar.
This caravan encountered the largest pack of wolves in Yin Mountain, four or five hundred of them, and the ferocious wolves were enough to tear them to pieces.
Guo Song is a little big, he doesn't know much about wolf nature, he only knows that shooting the wolf queen will have an impact on the wolves, but how big the impact is, he doesn't know.
But in any case, he had to give it a try and do what he could to save this caravan!
Guo Song leaned against a big rock, slowly pulled out an arrow, and stared at the wolf king thirty steps away below without blinking, the wolf king was on the left of the cliff, and there was a little open space on the right, if the wolf king dodged, he must jump away to the right.
His palms were a little sweaty, and he had shot an unknown number of people, and for the first time he felt a sense of tension.
At this moment, Guo Song made a risky decision.
He mounted the wolf's fangs and arrows, drew his bow like a full moon, and aimed at the wolf's head, but the arrow was slightly off an inch to the right.
'Collapse! ’
The bowstring sounded, and the wolf's fangs shot out like lightning.
The wolf king is extremely keen, the moment it hears the sound of the bowstring, it realizes that the danger is above its head, it instinctively jumps to the right, if Guo Song is aiming at the wolf's head, then the arrow wolf king dodges, but Guo Song made a bet, and the arrow will deviate half a foot to the right when it hits the target.
At the moment when the wolf king's four feet landed, the arrow had already arrived, and the wolf king turned his head upward, 'Poof! The arrow came in from the left eye, and it was so powerful that the tip of the arrow peeked through the back of the head.
The wolf king let out a low howl and fell to the ground to die.
The wolf king died, the wolves were suddenly in chaos, running back from all directions, Guo Song squatted on a large stone one zhang high, and countless wolves fled from under the boulder.
In just a few moments, hundreds of wolves fled cleanly.