Heading all the way to the southwest, the team's goal was to the west of Yinshan Mountain. It's too cold in the north, and it's impossible for the wolf clan to move too far north.

When he walked to the Gobi Mountains on the east side of Hangai Mountain, Lin Ji finally found traces of the wolf people.

Lin Ji's conjecture that the wolf people were gathering the population was basically correct. Along the way, the tribes on the steppe have been reduced on a larger scale, and near the Gobi, not a single living person can be seen.

And here, someone saw the activities of the wolf people.

According to the accounts of some surviving tribes before entering the Gobi, the wolf people did appear in this area on a large scale, taking a large number of people captive. And from their mouths, Lin Ji also knew that these wolf people were crazy about taming horses, elephants, camels and other beasts.

At least half of the wolf people left with livestock, and the population size was estimated to be in the tens of thousands, and the direction was southwest, two months ago.

Lin Ji took out the map he had drawn and marked these points, and soon found that he had taken the road north from here a few hundred kilometers east of the city just over a month ago.

That's where it gets interesting.

In other words, the wolf people's actions two months ago just avoided the tracking of the forest trail in terms of route and time, and they also led the forest trail to the north more cleverly.

Lin Ji felt that this might be because Blazing Zhong had achieved a very high leadership position within the wolf clan.

Because only he knew the marching speed and style of the forest trail better, so that he could avoid the forest trail team so perfectly. The act of mad horse taming and elephant taming is also almost before the perfect replication of the forest trail.

If Chizhong still planned to lure Lin Ji to the north, Lin Ji felt that he really underestimated this traitor.

After the news was conveyed among the ten centurions, everyone's mood inevitably seemed a little low: "So, we are facing five thousand cavalry?" And maybe a massive elephant ride? ”

The advantage of horse cavalry is speed, but if it is a face cavalry, it is actually not an advantage. If the wolf people now have 5,000 cattle and can tame a thousand elephant cavalry, their 1,000 horse cavalry will have almost no advantage.

Horse cavalry and elephant cavalry drills were carried out more than once in the winter, and in a one-on-one situation, the horse cavalry really had no chance of winning. To have a chance of winning, at least the horse cavalry must be three to one.

Lin Ji said confidently: "We don't have to be pessimistic, we have to be happy at this time." ”

"They will not be able to walk fast with tens of thousands of people and thousands of untamed animals, and I guess they will not be able to travel a thousand kilometers in two months, which means that we will definitely be able to find them in another month."

"In terms of combat power, don't think too much about them. The war elephants that I have practiced with you before are at least elephants that have been trained for more than three years. Even if they had livestock, they could form an organized cavalry in such a short time? Don't forget how long it took us to tame so many horses and elephants to get you to where you are today. ”

"Moreover, their livestock is mainly for food, which is constantly consumed. The earth won't let them take much away. As he spoke, Lin Ji looked at the desolate Gobi in the distance.

The southwest of Hangai Mountain is a large area of Gobi and desert, and the wolf people choose to avoid the pursuit of forest traces through the Gobi. Because they themselves will lose a lot of people and animals in it.

Lin Ji's team prepared for three days outside the Gobi Desert before entering the Gobi. Although the small town of the forest site can supply food and water, the forest site has prepared enough water and forage outside. At this time, almost everyone had two horses, and spare horses were used to carry these.

After entering the deserted Gobi, there was no one to guide them, and it was very difficult to find the traces of the wolf people, but with the help of the ghost eagle, they found the whereabouts of the wolf people the next day.

They found the remains of man and beast in a linear display on the Gobi Desert, less than a hundred kilometers into the Gobi.

The wolf examined the bones and judged, "These things will only be dead here for two months at most." Moreover, it is not like it was deliberately scattered here. ”

Some of the bones were broken, apparently left behind by slaughter. However, some of the bones were quite intact, but scattered, apparently from starvation and thirst after being straggled.

Seeing this, the previously depressed leaders rekindled their hopes. The wolf tribe only entered the Gobi at such a distance before there were casualties, and there should really not be many people and animals who could get out of the Gobi alive.

These bones have become signposts to guide everyone along the way.

It was found that the deeper you went into the Gobi, the more these bones were, especially those of the elephants. Elephants consume a lot of energy, and there is little way to survive in the Gobi, where there is little water and food. Everyone counted all the way, and in a few days, they saw hundreds of elephant skeletons. This completely relieved the centurions who had previously worried about the elephant cavalry.

However, following the corpses, Lin Rui discovered something more dangerous about the wolf clan: they were growing.

Lin Ji found that when entering the Gobi, most of the beast's corpses were incomplete, and everyone could naturally see at a glance that this was the trace left after being skinned and eaten.

In other words, at this time, whether it is a man or a beast, it is still the ration of the wolf people.

After walking in the Gobi for a few days, the animal bones were still incomplete, but the human bones began to become complete. This shows that these people no longer eat people. Although the reason is not known that the number of people has decreased, and you can live without eating people, or the change of faith has begun to stop cannibalism.

When they approached the exit on the other side of the Gobi, they found that only animal bones were left on the ground, and there were no more human bones. Lin Rui led people to dig up some of the turned rocks, only to find that there were incomplete corpses buried under the rocks, and there were even some broken pottery as burial objects.

This is a relatively complete funeral etiquette. The forest trails can also be determined, which is a sign that the wolf people are growing.

Before Homo sapiens entered civilization, the phenomenon of cannibalism had always existed, but most tribes were actually very repulsive. Because in the cognition of Homo sapiens, the survival and life and death of companions are generally combined with faith, giving more meaning. Not eating companions has naturally become a relatively common cognition.

As a minority cannibalistic tribe, the wolf clan is changing its behavior pattern after absorbing more people, and it is obvious that it can better unite those new tribes.

They are naturally growing, and they are growing very quickly.

Forest traces do not know how this process was formed. But the importance of the wolf clan has invisibly reached a new level. The tribe that can progress so quickly cannot be overstated. Lin Ji didn't want this enemy to grow like this anymore.

It took seven or eight days to chase the Gobi, and after resting for a day, he ordered to walk 60 kilometers a day. He had to speed up and catch up with the werewolves, so as not to make them bigger.

After a winter of training and months of marching, the 1,000 men that Lin Ji carried with him became more and more elite. Both men and horses have long been accustomed to daily marching battles. The night watchman can really catch up on sleep on horseback. Sometimes some teams have to travel hundreds of kilometers a day without complaint.

After seeing more terrain and battles, the level of these people may no longer be below the level of the Chinese army.

For this order to add 10 kilometers a day, everyone only made a slight mistake in the first day or two, and then carried out as usual.

After coming out of the Gobi, there are oases and continuous deserts, and there are also staggered mountains in the distance, and the terrain becomes complex. There were even fewer surviving tribes in these places, but the crowd still found some and inquired about the whereabouts of the werewolves. The wolf people still take the southwest.

After chasing for nearly ten days, everyone unexpectedly found that a large amount of smoke appeared in the east behind them, as if someone was burning a large area of grassland.

After receiving the report, everyone was a little stunned, but soon turned around in ecstasy and went straight to the fireworks. As a result, it turns out that the courier from their own tribe set the fire was an embarrassed messenger.

"Report to the king, there is a big chaos in the Mao tribe, please go back and decide!"

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