Chapter 12: The Eagle's Lackeys
A col is surrounded by dense woods, and a mottled path of unknown age passes through the woods and passes through the col into the other side of the mountain, which is a way into the mountains from the outside, although there are other roads to follow, but this road is best taken and the closest.
On the eastern slope of the hill, more than 20 men hid in the bushes, each armed with crossbow arrows, and more than 20 people with bows and arrows, scattered around, and behind them was a cave in the grass, and the cave was twisted and turned, and it was not known where it led.
On the mountain road ahead, there were faint figures appearing, and those people were divided into several groups and cautiously walked forward in turn, seeing such a scene, the men in ambush became more and more cautious, and all of them stood still and held their breath, for fear of startling away the 'prey'.
They are hunting, and the goal is the so-called officials and soldiers who enter the mountains to harm the mountain people, and those who have no conscience, those bastards who are supposed to help their own people, but help outsiders for a little sweetness.
They are the soldiers of the Black Mist Village, the second time the Zhou army entered the mountain menacing, but the owner of the village has led the people to retreat, defecting to the allied cottage, if the other party comes to chase will only chase farther and farther, and then there will be a chance to ambush, bite by bite to eat these Zhou troops.
Now the group in front of them looks like there are more than twenty people, but they must be in front of them to explore the way, and there will be some behind, if they can successfully ambush them, they will have made a great achievement.
Just like last time, the arrogant Zhou army was brought in, and the other party was constantly deliberately defeated, so that the other party was like a tiger smelling blood, desperately pounced, and finally successfully set up an ambush in a valley, killing none of these people.
This time, the Zhou army seems to have learned a lesson, and adopted a step-by-step strategy, slowly advancing into the mountains, and the owner of the Black Mist Village sent several groups of people to attack and harass, but they failed to come back, and the culprits were those who fought for the tigers.
It doesn't matter, they also have friends in the Black Mist Village, and there are already a few big villages that have sent people to support, and they will continue to harass the Zhou army along the way, drive away these bastards who covet the mountains, and then teach those village owners who eat inside and out.
Seeing that the other party was about to enter the ambush circle, suddenly a black shadow swept over, and someone looked up and saw that it was a harrier eagle, which was hovering over their heads for some reason, and made a chirping sound from time to time.
"It's their harrier eagle, this broken bird has found us!!" Someone scolded in a low voice, and the hunters in the mountains also domesticated harrier eagles, which are usually used to catch hares, and those who have good skills can train harrier eagles that can find large prey.
They are in a dilemma at this time, the other party should have found themselves, but they haven't approached yet, if they release arrows and crossbows, they are basically not lethal, but there is no point in waiting.
Another chirp sounded, and I saw a harrier eagle rising from the mountain, which was bigger than the previous one, it was a harrier eagle raised by the master of Heiyun Village, and rushed straight towards the enemy's harrier eagle.
"Do it!!" Someone shouted, they rushed towards the dodging figures in front of them, that is, to rush to the range and release the arrows, and the crossbowmen were the first to shoot the crossbow arrows, although the distance was a little farther, but the crossbow arrows could at least hit, and it didn't matter if they could shoot or not.
The ambush location chosen by the Black Mist Zhai soldiers is very good, the hillside is not too steep and there is a person-high thatch as a cover, if the opponent wants to attack from the back, the speed cannot be improved, they can attack tentatively, and then escape from the cave if the situation is not good.
However, not only did they move, but the people who were ambushed on the opposite side also moved, countless roars sounded, and many figures burrowed into the grass, only to see the thatch swaying and many traces rushing towards the ambushers.
"It's the dog, they let the dog go!!"
"Run, get into the cave!!"
The screams rang out, and someone was knocked to the ground by the hounds that came rushing by, these hounds were extremely fast, unaffected by the undulating slopes, and there was thatch everywhere to block the view, so the soldiers of Heiyun Village could not aim at the hounds that were approaching quickly.
They didn't expect that the other party would bring a hunting dog with them, and under normal circumstances, the hunting dog would bark a few times from time to time, but the hunting dog brought by the other party didn't make a sound before, so the people of Heiyun Village were caught off guard.
The crossbowman who was winding up behind, seeing his companion screaming at the bottom of the slope, turned around and ran into the cave in a hurry, in this case to fight with the nimble hound is to find death, and only by escaping to the cave and guarding the entrance of the cave can he have a chance to escape.
They ran as fast as the hounds ran, and the grey-haired hounds quickly caught up with them, first biting their ankles and tearing them down, and then they pounced on them and bit them indiscriminately, and some of them picked up their crossbows and knocked one hound away, and then kicked the other hound with all their might, and saw that the hole was in front of them, but before they could run a few steps, they were shot in the back shoulder by an arrow.
One staggered and barely stood still, but there was a sharp pain in his right ankle, and then his thigh was also bitten by a hunting dog, and he was pulled to the ground and struggled, and his whole body was bitten to the flesh, and he couldn't stop wailing.
With the raid of the hounds, the ambushed people turned against the guests, and beat the ambushers to the ground, the ground was bloody, and the sky was not deserted, two harrier eagles, one large and one small, were circling and fighting.
Although the smaller Harrier Eagle was bloodstained and at a disadvantage, it was still not afraid of death and tore each other, and the two eagles would tear off some feathers every time they clashed.
In the midst of the struggle between life and death, a harrier eagle suddenly rushed down from above, rushing towards the big harrier eagle with lightning speed, and the blood splashed and hit with a blow, swinging a number of feathers.
The situation suddenly changed, and the big harrier eagle flapped its wings and wanted to flee elsewhere, but it was chased by two small harrier eagles, and it screamed several times without parrying a few rounds, and fell to the ground like a stone.
Falling into the air, it suddenly turned and flew towards the north, it exchanged its death for a chance to survive, but then two small harrier eagles rushed to block the way, and after some tearing, the big harrier eagle fell to the ground covered in blood.
Two sharp whistles sounded one after another, and the little harrier eagle flew in the same direction at the same time, and on a small hill, two young people surrounded by more than ten people stretched out their left hands wearing leather holsters, allowing the two harrier eagles to fall steadily respectively.
"Aaron, you harrier is ruthless enough, you have to fight if you can't beat it, you really look like a master." A young man laughed, he spoke in the local dialect, and his appearance was ordinary, but the two eyebrows were a little close, which looked like straight eyebrows, and he picked up the piece of meat and fed it to the harrier eagle on his left hand.
Tian Yilong smiled and didn't say anything, just looked at his scarred harrier eagle, and could see that he was a little distressed, and when he saw this, he released the harrier eagle again, and said with concern: "This one's injury can still be treated, don't let it go until the injury is healed, it will really be useless to fly again." ”
"I'll get another one from you." Tian Yilong said duplicitously, also speaking in the local dialect, after feeding a few pieces of meat, he blindfolded the eagle eye and turned it to the eagle bar, and put on the foot bolt for others to hold.
"Aren't you afraid that Uncle Guang will say that you are a plaything?" Yizi said after a dry cough.
"Now he has time to take care of me." Tian Yilong didn't care.
"That's right, when I came to your house to drink at the beginning of the year, Uncle Guang hugged his little nephew and laughed so much that he couldn't close his mouth." Yizimei was a little helpless, "After the old man in my family went back, he shouted to find a matchmaker to say goodbye!" ”
"Don't you have a good match?"
"The old man can't look down on it! said that the owner of the village had a daughter," Yimei said with a bitter face, "I sneaked into the village to explore once, ho! Fight more fiercely than men! ”
While the two were talking, several people ran up the hill, and reported that most of the ambushers were not dead, but some slipped away, and found a cave on the hillside.
Yizi Mei opened his mouth and said: "Look at the harrier eagle in the sky, if it flies around the vicinity, then there is still one, you take someone to catch it." ”
Tian Yilong ordered his entourage to take back the hounds, he turned to the side, and said to several generals in armor that the road was cleared, but there was a cave over there, and the leader nodded and immediately ordered his subordinates to march: "Hurry up, set up the stockade in the mountain pass, there is a hole over there, you send someone to plug it!" ”
A group of armoured soldiers drove out, and in the opposite direction were a dozen men with hounds, who came to a stop by the hill and fed the bloody creatures from their baskets.
"These hounds are willing to use them so much, and you have also spent a lot of money." Yizimei sighed with emotion, "According to this usage, the Black Mist Village has been suppressed, how many of the dozen are left?" ”
"It's better than a dead man, Tian Yunshan is an old fox, and he can't catch it without blood." Tian Yilong, "I said, why didn't you wear armor, didn't you get a lot of collars?" Why don't you wear them all? ”
"This thing is uncomfortable to wear, and it's easy to suffocate, the most important thing is to prevent your hands and feet from being bitten by mosquitoes and snakes, and it's easy to be hung by branches in this mountain.
"Ringlock armor is suffocating? You haven't worn the sleeve armor, this thing is anti-dark arrows, and if you are bitten by a snake, you deserve it! Tian Yilong tore open his robe, revealing a ring lock armor he was wearing inside, and the armor was composed of iron rings, which looked like an iron chain coat.
"It's humid in the mountains, and it's easy to get sweaty when you wear it, so I'm afraid this thing will rust after a while, right? Each iron ring is a small hole, how to remove rust then? Don't tell me to burn with fire. ”
"Just shake it from time to time, if it's rusty, you can wash it with sand to remove the rust, I've tried."
"Wash with sand? It's really strange that the government has come up with something, and if you take out all your belongings to help them this time, you're not afraid of losing money? Yizimei asked again, "Every time you go out in battle, you fly eagles and lackeys, where do you go to get so many, it's not easy to train one." ”
Tian Yilong said that it is only used to fight in the mountains, if it is on the flat ground and the enemy army is in a battle formation, these eagle dogs are naturally not used, and the smell of people in the barracks is mixed, causing the hounds to be at a loss, and they are easily frightened, even if they are on guard at night, they are not easy to use.
As for the harrier eagle, not to mention, the traces of the march of the brigade of soldiers and horses can be detected by the sentry, and there is no shortage of strong bows in the army, and they will be shot down if they are not careful, and this time it comes in handy because the terrain in the mountains is complex and the situation is special.
"The official army is in Lizhai, it seems that they are going to be stationed here for a while, and I don't know if those old ghosts in Tian Yunshan will send people to make trouble." Yizimei fiddled with a dagger, "Sima Yang sent us to hunt, and it would be boring without prey." ”
"Don't worry, hunt and hunt, don't hunt Yuwen envoy has time to deal with them."
"If you wait in place, the prey won't come to the door." Yizimei grinned, "Whether they come or not, let's go find them first, how about it?"
"This is their land, but be careful." Tian Yilong was a little cautious, although everyone was used to crossing mountains and mountains, but Tian Yunshan's gang was an old resident here after all, and their understanding of the terrain was better than theirs.
"The tiger also thinks that the mountains are its territory, and it is not the same as killing the hunters, they think that we are cowering, and we will be unscrupulous, and it will be even more rampant at night."
"At night? Do you want to raid at night? What do you think about beware of wild beasts and poisonous snakes? ”
"There are a lot of rats at night, so we just need to guard the granary, hehe." Yizimei smiled, he pointed to the cage next to him, "With it, no matter how many rats come, they can't escape." ”
Tian Yilong looked at the cage that was tightly covered by the cloth, first wondered, and then exclaimed after a moment: "No, you even domesticate this kind of thing?" ”
"Ah Long, you will fly eagles and lackeys, and I will not fall behind!" (To be continued.) )