Chapter 44: The Man with the Surname Jerod

With a wolf on his side, Xu Qing and his party didn't dare to rest anymore. The veteran said that Xu Qing and the others were still in the downwind direction for the time being, and they could take the opportunity to escape. As long as you get to the Turkic tribes, you can get safe. Just in case, Xu Qing quietly took out his gun and loaded it with a shotgun, which proved to be more effective than the kind of an iron pellet.

After walking for four or five miles, the horses of Xu Qing and his party gradually showed uneasiness. Just as he was about to investigate, the figure in the distance moved, and when he looked closely, he saw two or three riders running over. Again, fifty or sixty wolves chased and bit after the riders.

"Damn it!" Xu Qing scolded secretly because the rider led the wolves towards them.

At the moment when Xu Qing was thinking, a fleeing horse lacked strength and was bitten by a wolf, and in an instant, it was torn into rotten flesh, and the remaining wolves continued to pursue the rider.

"Everyone dismounted, the cart was pushed forward and separated into a wall, and the people formed a circle, and the cattle were surrounded in the middle, and crossbows were erected!"

He knew that in front of the wolves, the horses were as useless as rabbits, and the cavalry could not be used. As the so-called narrow road meets, the brave wins, Xu Qing finally decided to give it a go, after all, Xu Qing still has thirty guards. If you don't fight, but run away, it will stimulate the wildness of the wolves, and it will inevitably catch up with a few. It is better to sacrifice your companions in vain, and it is better to greet them with a bow and crossbow, so that the wolves can retreat by relying on the power of deterrence.

"Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows!" The two people who were fleeing shouted loudly, for fear that Xu Qing and the others would shoot them by mistake. Xu Qing ignored it, his face sank like water, and he drank:

"Put!"

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

The crossbow bolt broke through the air with Xu Qing's shout. Taking advantage of the moonlight, Xu Qing's guards still aimed at the wolf as much as possible, and did not let the two of them become hedgehogs. But the wolves were not spared, and a row of crossbow arrows went down, and seven or eight wolves were overturned. It's just that the death of these seven or eight wolves has inspired the wolves to rage, and a terrifying wolf howl, as if a gust of wind has been rolled up, roared.

"Put!" Xu Qing ordered again.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

The wolves got closer, and Xu Qing's side aimed more accurately, and a row of crossbow arrows went down, and more than a dozen wolves shot to the ground. The two people who fled and the two horses were half a foot tall, and they crossed into the low wall surrounded by Xu Qing's carriage, and Xu Qing secretly said, "Good horse!" Then it was time to deal with the wolves that came with the horses.

This time, he only brought a horizontal knife* and no spear and horse, so after the wolves approached, he could only fight in close combat. More than a dozen people stepped forward to cut the wolf, and more than a dozen people stayed with Xu Qing and Huang Shimei, and saw the opportunity to release crossbow arrows in the back. Seeing that there were more and more wolves, Xu Qing saw that his brother was bitten by wolves, and rushed up with his subordinates to help. Huang Shimei is not a sister Lin-style woman, and she was suddenly heroic, and followed Xu Qing to cut the wolf.

There is a saying that wild things are afraid of human voices, Xu Qing and the others were angry, and they took out a deadly momentum, slashing and screaming at the same time, and the wolves gradually became weaker. The wolves retreated slightly, and under the confrontation between the two sides, Xu Qing asked people to put the crossbow arrows on the rack and put them in a row. I don't know if I hurt the wolf, but I heard the wolves howl again, and they buried their heads and ran away. However, they were obviously not convinced, because in the distance, Xu Qing could still see the eyes of the wolf shining in the dark.

The smell of wolf blood spread, and in order to avoid provoking more wolves to chase after him, Xu Qing asked people to run wildly with his subordinates, and it took almost ten miles to stop.

I don't know where I went, so I let people look around, and after making sure that there was no obstacle for the time being, Xu Qing asked everyone to take a rest. Xu Qing suddenly remembered that the two of them, when they saw it, they were still in their team. So he asked someone to "invite" him and asked:

"Who are you?"

"Quack, gala, gala, he touches him, and he cries......," the two pointed and said for a while in bird language that Xu Qing couldn't understand.

Xu Qing sneered: "Don't pretend to be garlic, when you were chased by wolves just now, didn't you just speak Chinese?" ”

"This ......," said the younger man slowly, "I am the son of the Khan of Rachu, and the ...... of Yelubai."

"Son of the Khan? Then why are you being chased by wolves? "For this person who brought the troubled water, Xu Qing has no good anger.

"Alas, it's a long story......" Yelubai glanced back at the only remaining partner, not only was he sad, but he was about to cry, Xu Qing was afraid that the wolves would follow, so he hurriedly stopped him, and suddenly his heart moved again:

"Huh? What do you say your name is? ”

"Yelu Bai ......" The man smiled bitterly, thinking that Xu Qing was still doubting his identity: "I am the illegitimate son of the Khan of Luo, and my mother is the Dahe clan in the east. ”

"Yelu~ This surname is not much......" Xu Qing also wanted to confirm the one in his heart, and deliberately pretended to be full of suspicion.

Yelubai shook his head: "Not much? Hehe, I'm the only one in the world, right? ”

Xu Qing laughed: "Hahaha...... This surname will definitely be carried forward in the future! ”

Yelu clan, that is a powerful group of people in Asia and Europe, Xu Qing is still planning whether to exterminate this group, after all, the Central Plains in later generations was captured by this group of people.

But after thinking about it, there will inevitably be conflicts and blends between the two races, and existence is reasonable, without Yelu, there will still be coconut fruits, coconuts and so on in the future. From the perspective of the overall situation, it has a role in promoting the evolution of both races.

Conflict is the fastest time to learn from each other's strengths, although it is somewhat barbaric and bloody. You see, in ancient and modern times, there has never been a pure-blooded person who has done anything like a half-blood. Regarding those ethnic conflicts in history, Xu Qing still has a relatively rational attitude.

Of course, if you start from the perspective of loyalty, you should have a different attitude. Besides, the current Central Plains, but there is Xu Qing in the town, even if there will be people. The intermingling of clans will also be peaceful, not bloody.

Yelubai didn't understand Xu Qing's words, but just lamented to himself: "I am wandering everywhere now, and there are no tribes, where will there be any descendants?" ”

"You are the son of the Khan, and the Turks do not have this distinction between concubines, why did you fall here?" Xu Qing asked.

"Ordinary people don't have a distinction between concubines and concubines, and the bad thing is that I am the son of the Khan......"

"Oh~" Xu Qing suddenly said, another poor person born in the emperor's house: "I see that you speak Chinese well, why don't you go to Guannai and mix up as a general?" ”

"Don't go, I'm the man who aspires to be the Khan King!" Yelubai suddenly became ambitious, but unfortunately there was no good knife at his waist, and there was no good general around him, and he even looked a little funny.

"Okay, you and I are fated to meet, I will count a hexagram for you, and it will be of great use to your mother's tribe! Here are some cattle and sheep, I will give them all to you to be tangled! ”

Yelubai was dumbfounded and couldn't believe it: "You ......"

"Take it, if I am in trouble in the future, I hope you can help me one or two......"

"I don't know who your ...... are"

"Daimyo Xu Qing ......"

Plant good causes, get good results, Xu Qing didn't know, he used some cattle and sheep in his hands to plant this good cause, at some point in the future, it will bring Xu Qing a big opportunity to get him out of danger.

Yelubai was a native of the grassland, so he naturally knew the direction, and when he left, he pointed to Xu Qing, saying that one hour to the east and two hours to the north, he could reach a prosperous market.

Accidentally, saved a prince. Xu Qing just shouted pity, why is his luck so bad, how good would it be if he was just a grassland princess? It's good to sow seeds in this vast grassland......

Resting alternately, as soon as the morning dawned, he followed the route of Jerubai's finger, and walked east for an hour, and north for another two hours. After it is over, it is still deserted, is it that Yelubai is blind? No, just because the steppe horses ran faster than Xu Qing's horses, Yelubai used their speed to calculate.

After a few circles, Xu Qing found the bazaar. At first glance, it is indeed a lot more prosperous, not only are the tents much more neatly erected, all kinds of goods are also in excellent condition, and there are scattered Turkic warriors patrolling on horseback to maintain law and order. When I went in for the first time, I heard a lot of people talking about the fact that a caravan was attacked by wolves last night, and even many tribes suffered wolf plagues and suffered great losses.

In this bazaar, all kinds of goods are placed in categories, not as chaotic as the previous one, this time it is impossible for Xu Qing to "make something out of nothing", so he has to bargain honestly. Xu Qing's 100 catties of white salt in his hand were almost robbed out of the frenzy, and the beef and mutton milk were bought, but the good horse that Xu Qing had always wanted to buy was detained by the Turks and was not allowed to sell.

"Go back to the customs~~Come if you want to have a partner~" A male voice sounded in the market, and many Han businessmen hurriedly stretched out their heads to look. Recently, there are many wolves, and it is safer to form a brigade, Xu Qing also wanted to ask, but he heard the man say: "Those who join the group have to pay five yuan for one person, three yuan for one livestock, and ten yuan for pulling a cart, and those who are interested should come ......quickly."

The so-called group is that several large caravans come together, support each other, and then attract the remaining small caravans to come over so as to collect some extra money. Xu Qing has more than 30 horses here, more than 20 friends of cattle and sheep, and seven or eight cars.

After this calculation, half a tael of silver is gone. This is just an unprofessional caravan like Xu Qing, with few cars and few livestock, and some other caravans are different, and it takes more than one or two silver to enter the group. Naturally, some people were dissatisfied, and said: "If you don't go, why don't you grab so much silver!" ”

"Yes, yes, we'll make a group by ourselves, it's no worse than going there!"

The man who began to recruit people said sarcastically: "You iron roosters, you really want money and don't want to die, just a few of you, it's not enough for wolves to stuff their teeth!" ”

As soon as these words came out, some people hesitated. A small life is the biggest capital, if you don't have a small life, how much money you earn is in vain, and it is indeed safer to join the big group, some people endure the pain of cutting their flesh and enter the big group. However, businessmen are profit-seeking, and some people also choose to take risks and pull a few small businessmen to join a group.

Xu Qing is so entangled, where is it more fun?