Chapter 540: Finding the Way
The low wall was burned black, and a leg that had been gnawed by wild wolves was only broken bones was exposed from the broken adobe rubble, and I didn't know what the people under the rubble looked like, at that time, Ruan Tengyuan ordered all the mountain people to enter the city with him, and without waiting for any reaction from the villagers, he let the soldiers burn the village with a fire, and most of the people didn't have time to bring anything, only clothes, and were driven into Anzi Mountain with their bare hands.
In the distance, there were a few wild wolves that did not want to leave, standing on the high slope and looking down this way.
Shen Leng walked around the village, and he didn't expect to find anything in the village, what Ruan Tengyuan took away was people, and talent was the focus.
"There is a path into the mountains outside the village, have you ever been there?"
Shen Leng asked Hong Zhao.
The scout team is Hongzhao nodded: "I have entered, the path should be the villager hunter walked out, the road into the mountain is less than five miles away, from a distance, this mountain and Anzi Mountain Chengguan Mountain are not connected, the humble leader led the team up a distance, there are many tigers and leopards in the mountain, and a fierce tiger was shot that day, but there are no footprints, it seems that even the villager hunter has never entered such a deep place." ”
Shen Leng snorted and lowered his head in thought.
If these villagers didn't know that there was a path leading to Anzi Mountain, then Ruan Tengyuan took them away just to prevent trouble, he was just worried that those villagers would know, but this was enough to prove that the road existed.
He didn't need so many slaves at all, the granary in the mountains was limited, the grain and grass were limited, and there were hundreds of more people, and Ruan Tengyuan had to distribute a small half of the rations of tens of thousands of troops.
"Chase the wolf."
Shen Leng said suddenly.
Everyone was stunned.
"Chasing wolves?"
Chen Ran looked at Shen Leng: "The general wants to hunt at this time?" ”
Shen Leng didn't say anything, took off the black line knife from the side of the war horse and hung it on his back, and then brought the repeating crossbow, hard bow, rope, and everything that could be brought, although the soldiers didn't know what the general's intentions were, but they had already brought all the equipment that could be used at the same time.
"Wang Kuohai, you take fifty people to stay here and wait."
Shen Leng beckoned: "The others will go up with me." ”
This time they are all the elite among the scouts, to put it simply and bluntly, if measured by ordinary strong men, ordinary Daning soldiers, it is not a fantasy for one person to overturn six or seven or even eight or nine villagers, one punch will bring down one person, and the scouts are the selected excellent ones among the various armies, and one person is not a fantasy for seven or eight soldiers.
The group of wild wolves stood on the high slope and stared at Shen Leng them, where did they think that those people would come directly to this side, at first they just roared low and threatened, but later found that those people had no fear at all, and they were afraid, after all, they also knew that the other party was numerous, so they turned around and ran.
The speed of the wild wolf in the mountains is extremely fast, if it weren't for Shen Leng, they are all the elite of the elite afraid that they can't keep up for so long, and run into the mountains in one breath, in order to make those wild wolves more afraid, Shen Leng shot over two of them with a bow, and chopped off the wolf's head, smeared the leather armor on his body with wolf blood, and waved the wolf's head in pursuit, where did the remaining wolves dare to think of any counterattack, the wolf escaped with his tail between his tail and the dog escaped with his tail between his tail.
Shen Leng and they chased for more than half an hour, the mountain has become more and more precipitous, those wild wolves began to run to the top of the mountain, suddenly there was a tiger roar on it, those wolves immediately ran in the other direction, Shen Leng They were tired enough, but the perennial running and practice, so that they did not have much worry about physical strength.
For another half an hour, the wild wolves seemed to have no way out, burrowing into the grass in the distance, Shen Leng chased them to them, the grass was as high as a waist, in order to prevent the wild wolves from being forced to counterattack, five people in a team guarded each other.
But the strange thing is that the wild wolves have disappeared without a trace.
I walked back and forth in the grass several times, but found nothing.
Hong Zhao squatted down and looked at it carefully for a while, then shook his head: "I didn't even leave a paw print, could it really have disappeared out of thin air?" ”
"The wolf didn't become an immortal."
Chen Ran looked around: "It is impossible to disappear out of thin air. ”
At this time, a wild wolf suddenly appeared in the distance, it seemed to turn back to see if the person chasing it was still there, Chen Ran subconsciously picked up the crossbow and shot a burst of shots, the crossbow arrow crackled over, the wolf screamed and turned around and ran, and when Chen Ran chased them closer, they found that the wolf was gone.
"What the fuck fuck."
Chen Ran shot a few more crossbow arrows into the other grass, it was better to throw the stone into the sea, at least there was a wave, and the crossbow arrows hit the grass without even making a decent sound.
"There was blood."
Shen Leng looked down, there were some dark places on the moss on the edge of the cliff, and he couldn't find it if he didn't pay attention to it, he squatted down and wiped it with his fingers, got up and pulled out the black line knife, and the knife slashed at the vines that were hanging on the cliff, and after a few knives, the vines were cut off a lot, Shen Leng used the knife to pull it away, and there was a crack behind it.
The entrance to the crack is not big, so it is reluctant to let a person squeeze into it sideways, Shen Leng let people light the torch and throw it into the crack, the light lit up in the dark, and there was a wild wolf curled up there in the corner and whined, rubbing the stone wall and squeezing it in, but it had half a crossbow arrow inserted in its body, and it couldn't squeeze into the narrower mountain crack inside.
Shen Leng raised his hand, shot the wild wolf with a few points of the crossbow, and asked Chen Ran and the others to come over to help, and cut off a large piece of the vine with a random knife, and this crack was completely exposed, but it was too narrow, and when the wild wolf entered, he was afraid that he would have to line up one by one.
"It's narrower on the inside."
Chen Ran volunteered: "I'll go in and have a look." ”
Leaned forward, then came back: "Change to a skinny one." ”
Shen Leng looked at Chen Ran's belly with disgust, and Chen Ran smiled: "What can I do, the same training, people are full of tendon meat, and I can't lose weight in this belly." ”
Shen Leng: "Others have three meals a day, but you have eight meals a day." ”
Chen Ran: "Three days a day is okay, but eight days a day is a little tired." ”
Shen Leng: "Can you blow it even more evilly?" ”
Chen Ran: "The general misunderstood, in fact, three meals a day is not the quantity, but the length of time, what is said is that I eat three meals a day, and I eat eight meals a day." ”
Shen Leng glared at him, took off all the equipment on his body, and only brought a short knife into it, the crack was too narrow, and the black line knife was useless.
After squeezing in, the smell of blood became strong, and the wolf was not dead for a while, and its belly was still slightly agitated.
Shen Leng pulled the wolf corpse aside, looked at the crack in the depth, and just turned his eyes over, a wolf head suddenly appeared, and the fangs were already in front of him.
Shen Leng raised his head violently, the short knife in his right hand stabbed into the wolf's jaw from below, his left hand raised and grabbed the wolf's upper mouth and pulled it out, pulling the wolf out of the crack directly, stepping on the wolf's body with one foot, the short knife was quickly inserted back into the skin pouch on his waist, and the two hands grabbed the wolf's mouth up and down, and broke the wolf's mouth with a click, and squeezed out a few wails from the wolf's mouth, Shen Leng kicked it aside, picked up the torch that was thrown in before and threw it into the crack in front, and the place where the light shone was not small.
"I need to go in."
Shen Leng shouted outside, took a breath, forced his stomach to squeeze into the small place, Hong Zhao entered the crack the second, and when he came in, Shen Leng had already gone deeper.
At the same time, Anzishan Chengguan.
Ruan Tengyuan sat there and looked at the group of people kneeling in front of him, his face cold.
"You hunters know best about Anzi Mountain, and you guys were all there when I ordered the construction of the granary."
None of these hunters were too young, the elders were in their fifties and sixties, and the younger ones were in their forties.
One of them hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, when the granary was built, I was also called into the army as a guide. ”
"Then I ask you, how many places in this mountain can be used for granaries?"
"It shouldn't be much."
Orion lowered his head and said: "Back then, this place was chosen as a granary because this natural cave was too big, if it weren't for a coincidence, who would have thought that there were so many cracks in this mountain, and this granary is the largest crack, but why it is hollow is unknown, or there was an earthquake a long time ago The mountain cracked, and this part of the fragmentation has slid down a lot." ”
"It's just that Your Majesty doesn't need to worry, although there are many cracks in the mountain, but they don't necessarily lead to this side, the cracks are criss-crossed, if you are not careful, you will be trapped in the mountain forever, and the gods can't get out, even if Ning Ren finds some cracks, it may only be half-cut, and it will be gone halfway, even if there are other cracks connected, and then turn in, it may not be connected to this side, Your Majesty only needs to order all the cracks to be blocked with big stones."
His eyes flickered as he said this, as if he was hiding something.
In fact, there was indeed a crack that could lead to the outside of the mountain, and he and several villagers knew that they had taken risks and sneaked in from here many times to steal grain, which was safer than hunting to face jackals, tigers and leopards, and the most important thing was the salt stored in this granary.
Salt, in their opinion, is more important than grain.
But where did he dare to say it?
"I've decreed it sealed."
Ruan Tengyuan breathed a sigh of relief: "You guys know Anzi Mountain best, how hard it has been these days, take my subordinates to block all suspicious places, try to find them, if you do a good job, I will be rewarded." ”
Those few hunters hurriedly kowtowed, where did they dare to say anything.
An hour later.
Yamanaka.
Shen Leng came out of the cracks, covered in dust.
"It doesn't seem to make sense."
Shen Leng shook his head: "The crack is about a few dozen zhang away, and there is no way to enter it, but I don't see those wild wolves, and there are other cracks, I can't search them one by one." ”
As he walked, he commanded, "Gather more scouts and explore the rift." ”
As he was talking, he suddenly saw a person in the distance flickering, Shen Leng reacted very quickly, and the crossbow was raised and aimed over there: "Come out!" ”