Volume 1 The Breaking Mountains and Rivers of the Country Chapter 17 The Road Back to the Customs

Without saying a word, he took out the sword from his body, and with the sound of the "Cang Lang Lang" sword unsheathed, those breaths turned into a low roar. Although he couldn't see it, he seemed to see a group of Sumeru wolves cracking their mouths at him and roaring, because he could remember the appearance of Sumeru wolves every night for the past few months.

Strangely, he waited for a moment, and those Sumeru wolves did not attack him. Li Ji beside him also said softly.

Li Ji called softly: "Where is Liu Shichang?" ”

"Chief Li Shi, I'm here."

Lu Lihua and Li Ji heard at the same time that Liu He was behind the Sumeru wolves. Zhu Lihua hurriedly took out the fire fold from his waist and lit it.

With the light coming out of the dark cave, Lu Lihua and Li Ji saw the incredible scene in front of them at the same time.

As guessed, Liu He was standing on the other side of the wolves, and his face was as usual and there were no signs of injury. He waved his hand to Zhu Lihua and Li Ji, indicating that he was not in danger. The two were a little surprised, could it be that these Sumeru wolves have changed their temper? But when they looked at the Sumeru wolf, they immediately understood why Liu He was fine.

I saw that there were six Sumeru wolves here, and five of them had more than one arrow stuck in their bodies, and from the arrows, it seemed that they were wounded by Qin soldiers during the attack on the stone fort in the morning.

The wolves lay on the ground and roared lowly, less than a step between them and the three of them, but the two of them knew at a glance that the five wolves had no strength to stand up at all, and they could not hurt anyone. The wolf in the middle is slightly larger, and unlike the other five black and gray coats, this wolf has a lot of white hairs mixed with it, and it looks a bit like the blind white wolf king.

There was no arrow wound on its body, but at the moment it was lying on the ground motionless, just raised its head and looked coldly at Lihua and Li Ji, and its eyes were full of vigilance.

Liu He slowly moved along the wall of the cave to the two of them, and when they moved closer, they were already sweating profusely. He said to Lihua with some gloom: "This road is not passable. ”

It turned out that after Liu He found that the wolves in this cave were not a threat to him, he hurriedly went to find the passage to the outside of the valley, and hurriedly retreated after finding that they were all dead ends, and met Li Lihua and Li Ji here.

Zhu Lihua said: "Tang Yuan has found the exit, the brothers have all gone out, I heard your scream and Brother Li came to save you." ”

"Fang just returned to the cave room, and accidentally stepped on the wolf's tail and was startled, so he ......" Speaking of this, Liu He was a little embarrassed.

Li Ji smiled and listened to Li Ji say to Li Lihua, "The valley has already burned, and the smoke and dust have poured into these caves, so I will leave as soon as possible." ”

Zhu Lihua nodded, and was about to turn around and burrow into the cave, but Liu He said anxiously: "Lord Baijiang, what to do with these wolves." ”

Zhu Lihua turned his head to look at the six wolves, and said, "These wolves tortured and killed our sergeants first, and we designed to burn their caves later, if there are no Rong people to attack, these wolves will also escape from the caves." One cause and one effect, all are providential, not to mention that they will not live long, so let them go. After finishing speaking, Zhu Lihua was about to leave again. Suddenly, Liu He shouted again: "Look." ”

Lihua turned his head and found that the wolf in the middle was struggling to stand up, but Lihua was the closest to the wolf at the moment, and in a hurry, he quickly pulled out the sword that had just been withdrawn.

The sword was unsheathed, but it was not swung out, for he saw the wolf fall again. He let out a sigh of relief, and then looked at the wolf again, and he noticed that something was moving under the wolf.

He folded the fire in front of the wolf and probed it, "Huh", and found that the wolf in the middle turned out to be a she-wolf, and two palm-sized little white wolves were lying under the belly of the she-wolf. The she-wolf looked at herself, turned her head and licked her tongue at the cub, and suddenly, she bit one of the little white wolves. "Don't." When Lu Lihua saw this, he was involuntarily startled and blurted out.

But the she-wolf did not bite the cub to death, but gently threw it at the feet of the cub, and then threw the other cub in the same way.

It immediately became clear to him that the she-wolf wanted to save his child. How did the two cubs know about this festival, they just ran to their mother with a "chirp", and the she-wolf instantly turned hideous, bared her teeth and roared at the cub.

The two cubs were a little frightened, and stood at the feet of the wolf and watched the she-wolf tremble like a sieve.

At this time, the smoke and dust outside began to pour into the cave room, and Li Ji and Liu He shouted at the same time: "My lord! She looked at the she-wolf who was staring at her, nodded, picked up the two cubs and climbed into the hole.

Standing at the exit of the wolf cave, holding two white wolves in his arms, he looked at Liu He who was crying bitterly.

Like Tang Yuan, Liu He also blamed himself for not finding the exit earlier, and he couldn't help but cry bitterly when he looked at less than half of the brothers.

He looked at the raging fire in the valley below, but he thought of the she-wolf who died in the valley and the wolf's den.

"Look, sir!" At this moment, a soldier shouted as he pointed to a cave a hundred paces to the east. Everyone looked fixedly, only to see a white wolf running out of the cave with a variegated wolf on his back, just out of the wolf's den, it also found Lihua and others, so he stood in the wolf's den and looked at Lihua, Lihua found that the white wolf was blind in one eye, and then saw that the she-wolf on his back was the one he had just met in the cave.

The White Wolf King was obviously burned by the fire, and the fluff that was originally as white as jade had been burned to spots, and there were four or five arrows stuck in his stingers, and those arrows were unique to the Rong people.

Lihua understood the reason why the White Wolf King stopped there and looked at him, and he gently placed the two cubs in his hand on the ground. How can there be parents in the world who are reluctant to have children, even if they are intimate and benevolent.

But after waiting for a while, he found that the White Wolf King had no intention of coming to pick up the cubs, and Zhu Lihua thought that the White Wolf King was afraid of his own people, so he took the soldiers and prepared to leave. But the strange thing was that when they were about to leave, the White Wolf King actually took a few steps back.

Yu Lihua looked around, and then looked at the White Wolf King, and suddenly realized that it was really the White Wolf King who was reluctant to have children, but he just wanted to see them.

From the arrows on its body, it can be guessed that perhaps the White Wolf King escaped the mountain fire with the wolves, but after all, he did not escape the bow and arrows of the Rong army. For some reason, the White Wolf King escaped from the Rong army, but instead of fleeing away, he burrowed into the valley from another wolf's den and braved the fire to run into the she-wolf's den to rescue his wife.

Perhaps it also understands that it may not be able to protect its two cubs.

Zhu Lihua thought about the joints clearly, he actually gave a deep salute to the white wolf king, and said loudly: "The battle between you and me was originally endless, you killed my robe first, and I also set fire to your cave, but after all, we still used your valley to defend against the enemy, and borrowed your cave to escape, in the end, we brought the Rong people here, and I lost the battle between you and me." Today, I swear to heaven that even if your husband and wife run for their lives, if I can escape from the predicament, I will raise them and return them when he meets you again in the future, which can be regarded as a thank you for saving your life. If this oath is violated, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed. With that, he walked up to the cub and took it into his arms.

The White Wolf King turned and left, running faster and faster, and in a blink of an eye, he disappeared into the mountains and forests, and there were no more hundred wolves behind him, only the pair of white afterimages and memories remained.

Lihua and the others didn't have time to continue to sigh, and it was only a moment from crawling out of the hole to the White Wolf King leaving, and Lihua hurriedly ordered to go to Jinniu Pass quickly. A group of fifteen people didn't care about repairing, and went to Jinniu Pass under the leadership of Li Ji, who was familiar with the road.

The wolf's den to the Golden Bull Pass is only fifty miles away, at this time the sky is getting dark, the group goes east, and it will not take long to arrive at the main road to the Golden Bull Pass. When they arrived here, the hearts of the others finally let go, because they saw that the Rong people's attacking army was climbing up the mountain behind them. The reason why it is climbing is completely because the Jinniu Pass is the most dangerous terrain in the Yuxiao Pass, and there is no way to walk on this heavenly road, so you can only go to the Jinniu Pass like climbing the ladder.

It is precisely because of this that it is extremely difficult for the Rong army that is close at hand to catch up with Lihua and his party, but Lihua does not dare to be careless, and still orders to rush to Jinniu Pass.

In fact, what they didn't know was that these Rong people were the Rong army that fought with them outside the Wolf Valley, and they thought that Zhu Lihua and others were the defenders of the Jinniu Pass to investigate, so their commander immediately ordered the whole army to assault and be sure to annihilate these Qin people.

It wasn't until the mountain fire burned into the valley that they retreated, and when they were about to drive to the Golden Bull Pass, they suddenly found that the Sumeru wolves in the woods on both sides had spent a lot of time and lost more than 100 warriors, and only after a dense military formation and bows and arrows had they annihilated the Sumeru wolves, but the most courageous white wolf king escaped.

After a chance encounter with the Qin people and an encounter with the Sumeru wolf, the Rong army was also exhausted. When Lihua and the others crawled out of the wolf's den, they were rectifying and cooking and preparing to climb the mountain to attack Jinniu Pass after dawn the next day, but they didn't know that this move just gave Lihua and others a way out, and the soldiers who climbed the mountain that Lihua saw were just scouts sent to explore the way.

If the fifty-mile journey is on flat land, it may be three or four hours. But today's road to the Golden Bull Pass is different, and the others were exhausted after two major wars, so they arrived at the Golden Bull Pass in the early morning of the second day.

The road within a mile of Jinniu Pass is only less than five steps wide, and there are cliffs on both sides. This mile of road is commonly known as ghost sorrow, it is completely a rugged passage carved out on the top of the mountain, the top of the mountain is a whole boulder, and the top of the boulder becomes the road, connecting the Jinniu Pass to the west.

This place is extremely high, and the clouds and mist on both sides are shrouded in clouds and mist at all, and the bottom of the mountain can not be seen at all. Those who have been here will sigh that it is only the power of heaven and earth that can open up this road, because it is beyond the reach of human beings. From the wolf's den to the ghost before the road is a desperate way to climb the rock, to the ghost to see the sorrow of this mile can definitely be called a miracle, do not say to send troops to attack, is to stand on this road to look at both sides will make people dizzy, legs are weak, and where will there be combat power to attack the city.

In fact, just on the ghost to see the sorrow, the Golden Bull Pass on someone found the Lu Lihua and others, when a group of people walked through this mile, fifty steps away from the Golden Bull Pass, suddenly heard someone on the pass shouting "release the arrow". Zhu Lihua was taken aback, and immediately understood that the people in Guancheng regarded themselves as Rong people, and immediately shouted: "Don't let go of arrows, your own people." ”

After shouting, he felt the cold sweat behind him, and after seeing that no arrows were fired from Guan Cheng, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. In yesterday's battle, Lihua and others suffered heavy losses, their Xuanwu military banner had already been burned by the flames, and everyone's faces were like black charcoal, so it was no wonder that the defenders on the city admitted their mistakes.

"You guys wait here first," Lihua ordered, and walked towards Guancheng alone. Standing ten steps away from the Golden Bull Pass, Zhu Lihua looked up, and there were half a hundred soldiers with bows and arrows on the upper floor, and if he shouted for a while, where would his fifteen people still have a way to live.

"Who's here?" Someone in the city shouted.

"Jibai will be in the city tower, and the wooden hedgehog guard will be here." Zhu Lihua replied.

Hearing this, there were several voices of discussion above the Guan Tower, and after a while, one person replied: "Hundred generals in the building? Why are you outside the Taurus Pass? ”

Hearing this, Zhu Lihua understood that the person who closed the gate had recognized him, and he replied with a wry smile: "General Ji Bai, it's a long story, please let me enter the customs quickly." With that, he took out the deer talisman from his clothes and shook it at the man who was speaking.

The hanging basket was put down on the gate, and a soldier ran to the front of the city to verify the authenticity of the deer talisman and nodded to the gate, and then the door of the Golden Bull Pass slowly opened.