POV4 Twilight 04
In the past few days, Wei Heda has been holding a hard bow in his arms, and what he usually uses is the kind of iron-tired hard bow that can shoot through the skin of a man and a bear, and the people who can open this kind of bow should not exceed 10 people in the entire Zhanghu Pagoda.
By the evening of the fifth day, he was a little overwhelmed.
"The big bear shouldn't dare to come to seek revenge, after all, the Zhanghu Tower is not the kind of small tribe with dozens of people. No matter how powerful the man and bear are, they don't dare to provoke easily......
While the weather is not too cold now, let's go to the thatch bushes by the Toad River with Izumi......"
Under the hazy moonlight, the toad river, which has not yet been frozen, makes a crisp sound. Vehda crept out of the cantonment, goose-feather snow flakes falling from the sky one after another, and in a short time a layer of not thin or thick accumulated on the ground, and the skin squeaked when stepped on it.
From the tips of his toes to the roots of his ears, the exuberant desire ran through Vehda's body, making his heart tingle and itchy......
Finally, by the moonlight on the snow, he vaguely saw Quan's graceful back leaning against a birch tree by the river, and Vehda ran forward in a few steps, and hugged Quan's arms from behind. The large, calloused hand couldn't wait to tear Izumi's leather jacket.
At the moment when he held her twin peaks, Vehda noticed something strange, why was the skin that used to be soft and plump, so cold and hard now?
He hurriedly turned her body, and in an instant, he was stunned by the image he saw—the pretty face that was usually full of charm was gone, replaced by a blurred hollow of flesh and blood—Izumi's face, torn alive by something......
Vehdar jumped to his feet, and Izumi, who had been reduced to a corpse, fell from his arms and fell to the snow.
He wanted to shout loudly, but his throat was tightly blocked by a pair of large invisible hands, and he could only make a hissing and dry sound. At this moment, it was as if the blood of his whole body rushed into his mind, boiling like a pot of porridge. And the limb that lost the blood flowed was stiff and unable to move......
I'm going to pull out my sword!
Vehda closed her eyes tightly, trying to extract a trace of composure from her churning mind, and then used the only trace of calm to support herself and raised her right hand and touched the knife at her waist.
Where's the handle? Why can't I find the handle? Don't panic, take your time, Wei Heda, you are the youngest Baturu in Ninggongte, as long as you hold the handle of the knife, everything in this mountain forest is not your opponent!
Yes, I finally found it, and this is the handle......
The familiar grip of the counterweight ball on the handle and the soft non-slip leather rope on the handle lifted Weheda's spirits, and he pulled out the knife inch by inch, holding the horizontal knife in front of him with both hands, leaning back against the thick birch tree, scanning the unknown in the darkness. In a few breaths, he felt his strength gather again.
Heavy footsteps came from the night behind him.
Veheda took a deep breath, closed his eyes and leaned against the white birch and slowly turned around, and after exhaling the long breath just now, he slowly opened his eyes......
Wherever the tip of the knife pointed, a large figure was approaching him step by step.
The long brown-red hair, the increasingly thick fishy cheek, the heavy breathing...... Come to think of it, this is the legendary fierce adult bear......
Vehda was condensed and unmoving......
The man-bear lowered his head and approached him a little, stopping seven or eight paces away from him.
"Ho-ho........" The man-bear let out a series of desolate and eerie laughs, and then raised his head slightly.
Vehda saw that on the face of the man-bear, there was a miserable white human face, which was ...... Izumi's face, which he had kissed countless times......
Laughing, the man-bear pulled Quan's face in all directions with his big hand to cover his big face, and then slowly crouched down and moved closer to Veheda...... In front of Quan's twisted and distorted face, the courage that Vehda had just gathered dissipated in an instant.
His palm hung limply, allowing the knife he was still holding on to fall into the fresh snow......
The snowflakes drifted silently to the earth, covering the knife layer by layer, until a pair of large hands picked it up from the thick snow.
"It's ...... Veheda's knife ......," Qinghua said tremblingly.
At this time, in addition to Quan's faceless corpse and this sword, two huge footprints could be seen by the Toad River, extending back and forth to the depths of the distant mountains......
"Vehda was carried by a bear!" This news shocked the men of the Zhanghu Pagoda Department.
"Save people!" Everyone quickly put on the bows, arrows, sabers and other ordnance, and pulled out the fastest hunting horse from the stable.
"Two horses! Ride two horses! Twilight Amma shouted loudly from the crowd. Legend has it that the man-bear can run faster than a horse, so if you want to catch up with the man-bear and save Weheda, you must chase one man and two riders all the time while the footprints on the snow are not yet covered by new snow.
Half a month ago, one-third of the men in the tunluo set off with Hai Dongqing to Beiqin Sea 400 miles away to catch whooper swans, and they could not return until a month later.
The remaining more than 200 men in armor of the Zhanghu Pagoda were assembled, and there was a clamor in the open space in front of the tunluo, and the hounds walked back and forth between the legs of the horses to find their masters, and led the horses to dig the snow excitedly, and kept turning back and forth in circles.
The first to set off was a scout team of more than 10 people riding with hounds, and then the main formation in the shape of geese. Finally, there is a small group of elite horsemen behind the palace.
The elders said that only an iron-tired bow could shoot through the fur of a man and bear. There are only a few people in the tribe who can shoot this kind of bow, among them, two hard archers are hunting on the shore of the Beiqin Sea, one hard archer happens to be Veheda, whose fate is unknown at the moment, and the remaining five hard archers are scattered among the teams by Dusk Ama - one scout, three Chinese soldiers, and one guard.
Once the scouts have tracked down the Human-Bear, they will close the Human-Bear, and finally the hard archers will take their lives with heavy arrows at close range.
Among the Su Tatar people, the Xianzhou tribes were proud of the hoplites, and the Yehe tribes were dominated by the iron cavalry. Ning Gongte was in between, with no obvious strengths in cavalry and infantry, and no obvious weaknesses.
Twilight Rain was wearing chain mail, standing on the wall and watching the men go all the way. The healthy women of the Zhanghu Pagoda have all put on iron armor at this time, and when the men go out on the expedition, they will lead the armed Aha to guard the safety of the settlement.
A burst of laughter drew Twilight's gaze away from the hunting party. Several healthy women were pointing and laughing, and following their gaze, Twilight soon found the point of their laughter - her newly caught Ahha, the Great Bear, was half-kneeling on the ground, pouring black-brown powder into an old three-eyed gun...... Seeing this scene, Twilight Rain couldn't help but crook her mouth. Everyone in the tunluo knows that the black-brown powder injected into the mouth of the gun is actually ......
According to the usual practice, Aha who goes out of the tun for farming, fishing and hunting must also be equipped with ordnance, and in the reckless mountains outside the tun, there are too many fierce beasts that can kill people, although Ahha's life is not valuable, but it is also a life......
However, after rummaging through the arsenal for a long time, the Great Bear did not choose such a common combination as a bow and arrow and a waist knife, but picked up a rusty three-eyed gun. This three-eyed gun should be the trophy brought back by Zhang Huta and Shu Mulu when they went to Gaoxian to loot together many years ago.
The gun pipe is installed on a wooden stick with hoop iron, and the three gun pipes are juxtaposed in the structure of the word "product", which is more than a foot long. Each tube also has a protruding iron ridge that can be used as a mace for combat immediately after being fired. The heavy barrels and sharp iron edges are enough to smash through the enemy's heavy armor.
Twilight vaguely remembers when she was a child when the adults tried to shoot the three-eyed gun. The fire rope soaked in nitrate water is inserted into the fire door for firing, and then the black gunpowder is poured into the gun tube and tamped, and then the lead projectile is inserted. Finally, the fire rope was lit, and after three loud bangs, three hideous bullet holes appeared in the half-cut of the stump twenty paces away.
"It's not a small power, but if you shoot too close, it's troublesome to reload...... Not as good as a bow and arrow! "Everyone took advantage of the freshness and fired it a few times before throwing it in the arsenal.
For years, the three-eyed gun had been lying in the corner of its own pocket and letting the dust fall all over its body. There were still a lot of lead bullets seized with the guns, but the gunpowder used for firing them had long been hard to find.
"I really can't see that I, Ahha, turned out to be a reckless man who likes to use brute force!" Seeing that the big bear chose such a weapon, it can only be used as a mace weapon now. At first, Twilight Rain's heart swelled with a hint of pride.
In the hearts of the Su Ya people, the "recklessness" wrapped in shrewdness is an indispensable excellent quality for a good man. However, Da Xiong's next move has become a joke in the eyes of Zhang Hu's Tabu.
In between the daily ploughing, people will see the strong body of the big bear lying on the ground catching something. Someone with good deeds came up to see it, and laughed: "Isn't this Ahmo stupid by the twilight rain?" The things he worked so hard to catch turned out to be some shells! ”
Amid the laughter of the crowd, the big bear continued to go around catching the shell, and a few days later, he successfully caught a sika deer in the mountains.
"Master, can you give the slave a scoop of deer blood?" After carrying the deer home, Bear makes a request to Twilight. With permission, he walked back to Aha Shed with the blood of the deer......
"Master, the big bear is so disgusting, he soaked the shells he caught in the blood of the deer you rewarded them for a night, and now he puts those shells in the sun!" Ningren Aha whispered to Twilight.
"Big Bear, what are you going to do here?" Twilight asked unhappily, "Don't lose my face if you get these disgusting things!" ”
"Back to the master, the slaves are making weapons, and after these shells soaked in deer blood are dried, they are finely ground into powder and stuffed into three-eyed guns to shoot lead bullets instead of gunpowder! If the master doesn't believe it, wait for the slave to get it and then show it to the master! ”