Chapter 45: The Bear and the Wolf
After arranging the affairs of Yongzhou, Guo Qi took Tang Bi and Li Wu plus more than 100 cavalry to leave Yongcheng, first went north to Purun City to rest for a night, and then went west into the mountains, although the snow is now much smaller, but the snow on the ground is still very thick, the horse runs at all, after entering the mountain, Guo Qi and others can only lead the horse to walk forward on foot.
"Lord, at our current speed, it will take at least two days to reach Erlong Mountain." Tang Bi said to Guo Qi as he walked.
"Let's go to Chengjiazhai first! This place is not very far from Chengjiazhai, and it will almost be there tomorrow, so find a place to rest for the night tonight. Guo Qi stopped, took out the map, looked at it and said.
Guo Qi led everyone to walk forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot, found a small col with a leeward and stopped, and everyone started to set up camp together, and soon more than a dozen small tents were set up, these tents were all felt tents, which were very warm.
The next step is to eat, although this action is relatively hasty, but Guo Qi has made full preparations, each person brought two catties of jerky, in addition to flatbread, pot helmets, salt and other things, as for pots and pans, you can directly use a war helmet instead.
"Tang Bi took people to guard the camp, and Wuzi took a few brothers with good archery skills to go around the nearby woods with me to see if there were any roe deer, rabbits and the like, and brought them back to improve the food." Guo Qi said with a smile.
"No! Commanded by humility. Li Wu happily took the military order.
Li Wu selected ten brothers who were good at archery, each carrying a pot of arrows and a war knife, all wearing leather armor, and followed Guo Qi to the mountains and forests not far away; It's not just them, the people who traveled this time wrapped Guo Qi and pinched everyone wearing leather armor, the reason why they didn't wear leather armor was because it was too cold this day, and it was even colder to wear iron armor, and secondly, the iron armor was too heavy and inconvenient to move; Wearing leather armor is not only easy to move around, but also keeps you warm.
"Lord Wang, footprints have been found here." A close guard reported.
Guo Qi immediately ran over and found that there were indeed footprints, and the footprints were not very big, Guo Qi asked everyone, "Do any of you know this footprint." ”
"Lord, this should be a robe, but it should be small, about a year old." One of the guards said as he looked at the footprints.
"This king didn't find out before! You still know this. Guo Qi said with a smile.
"When I was young, I used to go hunting with my father in the mountains, and these were all given to me by my father when I was a child." The guard said with some embarrassment.
"Good! Then it's up to you whether the brothers can eat fresh meat today; What do you say we should do? ”
"My lord, I think we should follow the footprints, and it shouldn't be long before I see that the footprints have passed." The guard said.
"Listen to you, brothers follow the footprints." Guo Qi ordered.
Twelve men began to follow the footprints of the robe, and after about two quarters of an hour, sure enough, the robes were found in the distance, and not one, but a group; There were about thirty or forty robes in this group, and all but three were watching for food in the snow.
"It's such a good almost, you can't let it go in vain, Tang Bi and Wuzi, the three of us will shoot the three sentry, and the rest of you will choose from the ten." Guo Qi ordered very calmly.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......" twelve sharp arrows crossed the woods with the wind, and went straight to the robes not far away, and seven or eight robes were overturned on the spot, and the blood was already dyed red by the snow on the ground, and four robes were killed on the spot with two arrows, and several others were also hit by arrows, but they had more air and less air in; As for the rest of the robes, they have long since scattered and fled.
"Brothers, take your robe back and eat meat." Guo Qi said loudly.
"Oh, oh, oh, eat meat...... "The guard shouted happily.
Several people walked to the robe, pulled out the sharp arrow inserted in the robe, carried it on their shoulders and prepared to walk back; Suddenly, I heard a shout of "Ang, Ang, Ang......"; All the guards instinctively reacted and threw the dead roe deer down, protecting Guo Qi in the middle.
"My lord, this is the cry of a black blind man." The guard said to Guo Qi.
Guo Qi frowned and asked, "Brother, what's your name?" ”
"My lord, just let me have a son; Lord, let's hurry up! Listening to this cry, the black blind man is not far from us, if we do, we are twelve people, I am afraid that we are not the opponent of the black blind man. Shengzi persuaded Guo Qi.
Guo Qi was just about to give the order when he suddenly heard a shout of "woo, woo, woo......".
"It's a wolf." Shengzi exclaimed.
Then I heard the sound of a fight, accompanied by the sound of a 'click' of trees breaking.
"It seems that the black blind man and the wolf should have fought." Guo Qi said: "Let's go, let's go over and have a look." ”
"The lord is too dangerous, let's go back to the camp!" Li Wu immediately admonished.
"Yes, my lord, it is very dangerous for beasts to fight."
"You don't need to persuade you, this king has made up his mind." Guo Qi said with a tough attitude: "This place is too close to our camp, if we don't understand the situation, what if the camp is attacked by wild beasts at night?" ”
At Guo Qi's insistence, everyone threw their robes in place, and then walked not far ahead, not long before Guo Qi stopped with everyone, and saw a black blind bear from a distance, who was confronting a sturdy wolf, and the bear blind man was missing several pieces of meat on his arm, and the blood kept dripping onto the snow, staining the snow red.
"This wolf is so big, it's almost catching up with a foal." Guo Qi looked at the white wolf in the distance and sighed.
"Lord, this is a snow wolf, very fierce." Shengzi explained.
"But wolves live in packs, why is there only one here!" Li Wuyan said; "Could there be any other wolves around here?"
"Probably not, if it had any companions, it would have come a long time ago; It is likely that the wolf was separated from the pack, or was expelled from the pack. Shengzi whispered.
"Don't talk, watch seriously; This bear-wolf battle is a rare encounter in a hundred years! Guo Qi said.
As soon as Guo Qi's words fell, the snow wolf pounced towards the black blind man, aiming directly at the black blind man's chest, and the black blind man did not dodge, but directly stretched out his big bear paw and slapped it at the snow wolf that pounced, only to hear 'Bang!' With a bang, the snow wolf was hit by the black blind man, flew out for two or three zhangyuan, and hit a big tree directly, and then fell on the snow under the tree, and after being covered by the snow falling from the tree, he roared in pain "Woo, woo......
The black blind man was not lightly wounded, and did not pursue the victory, but rested under the tree; Taking advantage of the fact that the black blind man was not paying attention, the snow wolf struggled to get up, quietly went around to the side, opened his bloody mouth and flew towards the neck of the black blind man, and it was too late when the black blind man found out; A bear and a wolf were caught in the entanglement, the snow wolf bit the neck of the black blind man and did not let go, and the black blind man desperately beat the snow wolf's body with his fists.