Chapter 275: Snow Wolves
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From January to November, the weather is cold and dripping into ice. The north wind was blowing, and the beasts on the grassland hibernated, hiding, hiding. The wolves have fewer prey, and the wolves need a lot of meat to resist the cold, and this is the time when the wolves attack the livestock and people most often.
However, this year's days of wolves are even more sad, the walls and fences of the villages and tribes have been renovated, and it is difficult for the wolves to enter. The wolves that attack the village often suffer heavy losses, often stealing sheep and losing their lives, and later the wolves are frightened to flee with their tails between their legs when they see the one holding the knife, so there is a wolf afraid of the big knife.
On this day, Lu Fang took 200 people and took more than 50 sleds out to patrol to see if there were any large groups of wolves. It didn't take long to spot a large herd of reindeer, apparently more than 200 of them.
Several local soldiers were very excited and came over and said, "Lu Tou, this is a wild reindeer, not a domestic one." β
Lu Fang was also a little greedy, after all, there were more than two hundred reindeer, even if he hit dozens of them, it was enough for a big guy to eat for a winter. In autumn, when there are many reindeer, there used to be a large herd of thousands of reindeer, and the tribe that made a living by hunting has been hunting some of them.
Lu Fang said: "Can you be sure that it is wild, not domestic." β
The soldier said, "That's for sure, the domestic ones are in the enclosure in this winter, and even if the weather is good, someone has to follow them, and besides, there is no mark on the head of the reindeer, and it looks wild." β
Each tribe that herds reindeer will make marks on their heads to prevent the reindeer from being mixed up and causing disputes.
When everyone looked closely, they didn't notice that there were marks on the heads of the reindeer. Yan Kuohai said: "Such a large group of reindeer is also rare, it must have been chased by wolves, or it may have been targeted by other tribes." β
As he spoke, the sharp-eyed soldier noticed dozens of sleds and a dozen hounds barking incessantly.
The reindeer is very clever, look at Lu Fang's side, and then look at the north, the reindeer in the lead let out a vigilant cry, leading the reindeer team to run to the east. Reindeer are faster than sleds on the snowfield, and it's not easy to catch up.
The group of people from the north soon came, and it seemed that it was not their own people, but the old rivals Tunu people. The leader is none other than Tunuhu.
Tunuhu was very unhappy and said loudly: "We discovered this group of reindeer first, and we have been following them for more than a hundred miles. Don't beat their minds. β
Yan Kuohai said: "The rules on the grassland pay attention to those who see, not to mention that you saw it but didn't hunt." How many can you hit with your skills? β
The reindeer are alert and fast, so it's really hard to hit. But Tunuhu didn't care about this, and said, "You guys can't hunt even more." β
Lu Fang said: "Then let's compare and see, give you an hour's time, and you can hunt as much as you can." β
Tunuhu said, "Okay, look at ours." β
The Tunu Tiger responded and set out, with thirty sleds and about a hundred people. The Tuunu people still have a lot of experience in hunting, and sent more than 30 people with hunting bows to go around to the front of the reindeer herd, and then other people shouted behind with hunting dogs, and the reindeer instinctively ran forward, and then the Tuunu people who were ambushed on both sides fired bows and arrows together, and hit the reindeer by surprise, but the reindeer is a big prey after all, and the hunting bow of the Tuunu people is not a strong bow, only a dozen or so heads were knocked down, and a reindeer weighed five or six hundred catties, which can be regarded as a big harvest.
Tunuhu pulled the hunting reindeer over, and was very proud, and said to Lu Fang: "Why, I hunted more than a dozen in less than an hour." β
Lu Fang didn't argue, waved his hand, and said, "Look at ours." β
Just now, the reindeer was frightened and had already run away more than ten miles away. Tunuhu also led the team to follow Lu Fang to see how Lu Fang hunted reindeer.
The reindeer were tired of running, and they were looking for a place with little snow and were gnawing on the artemisia grass on the ground. Lu Fang didn't bring many people, just fifty people, and walked over slowly, Tunuhu behind him sneered, and a group of humans: "Look at their group of stupid people, can they hunt reindeer like this?" β
Reindeer wild reindeer are very shrewd, they are very wary of people, don't look at them grazing there, in fact, they see six ways and ears listen to all directions, as long as they are close to the reindeer more than 100 meters away from the reindeer, the reinιΉΏ will flee, even if the horse gallops on the snow field, it may not be able to catch up with the speed of the reindeer fleeing.
Sure enough, Lu Fang took people over to the reindeer and found that none of them were eating grass, and quietly watched Lu Fang and the others approach, as if they were estimating the distance.
"Stop." At a distance of two hundred meters, Lu Fang waved his hand, asked everyone to stop the team, and then said, "Divine arm crossbow, fire." β
The soldiers prepared their crossbow arrows, and one by one they half-knelt on the ground, and aimed at the reindeer herd in the distance, and the crossbow arrows swished like locusts, and fifty arrows puffed into the reindeer. The cost of the single-soldier god arm crossbow is high and the launch interval is long, so Chao Gai has not been arranged for mass production, but only a small amount of pro-soldier team is equipped. The fifty cavalrymen left for Lu Fang were equipped with a very complete range of weapons, and the Divine Arm Crossbow was one of them.
The fifty crossbow arrows were not very accurate, but they could not withstand the reindeer crowd, and at least more than twenty of them were shot, but some escaped with minor injuries. There were twenty reindeer that fell to the ground, and Lu Fang did not chase them, so he asked people to pull the reindeer back from hunting.
The people of the Tunu tribe were dumbfounded, the distance just now was at least more than two hundred meters, and they were all people who could use bows and arrows, and such a distance was completely beyond the range of the lethality of bows and arrows.
"This, how is this possible, you must be using witchcraft." Tunu Tiger Road.
Lu Fang didn't explain, everyone had already put the Divine Arm Crossbow in their bags and put it on their backs, "Demon magic is also a kind of skill, you also use demon magic." β
Tunuhu was speechless, and went to check the reindeer, and found that all the reindeer had been shot through, and the power of this arrow was big enough. The earth crossbow tiger secretly said that it was lucky, fortunately there was no war, otherwise others would have released arrows at 200 meters, and the arrows on their own side could not reach the enemy at all, how could this battle be fought?
"Okay, if you win, let's go back." Tunuhu said.
Lu Fang said: "Slow down. β
"What else?"
"We can't eat so many reindeer, you tribe has a lot of people, let's give you ten." Lu Fang said that he asked the soldiers to send ten reindeer that had just been shot to the Tunu people, and of course, the crossbow arrows on them had been pulled out.
Tunuhu had a trace of gratitude, but he still looked at Lu Fang vigilantly and said, "Why did you send us." β
"There are many people in your tribe, and the consumption is naturally large. What's more, this herd of reindeer has also suffered a lot of losses, so we don't need to hunt anymore. This year's hunting is clean, what will be hunted next year. Lu Fang said.
Tunuhu said: "I understand the rules of the grassland, thank you reindeer, let's go." β
The people of the Tunu tribe returned with the reindeer they had hunted and pulled the sleigh.
Looking at the back of the Tunu people, Yan Kuohai said: "I understand, this is to let the Tunu people take a good look at the wounds caused by our crossbow arrows to the reindeer, and scare them, amazing, I really admire Lu Dutou." β
Lu Fang said: "You are good at shooting horses, take someone to load the reindeer into a sleigh and transport it back." β
Just as he was about to leave, he saw the Tunu people coming back again, and they all looked frightened.
What could frighten the Tunu people of more than a hundred people, Yan Kuohai asked Tunuhu: "What's the situation?" β
"Wolves, super big pack."
The eye-sighted soldier looked to the north and was also startled, a large group of gray wolves were pressing over unhurriedly, and it seemed that there were at least four or five hundred heads. This group of wolves is indeed enough, to say that it is still very easy to kill the two hundred people led by Lu Fang and destroy his four or five hundred wolves, the problem is that there is no need to play this kind of unintelligent battle with livestock.
"Formation." Following LΓΌ Fang's order, the soldiers formed a large circle with fifty sleds, and between the sleds and the sleigh pulled up the rope king sword and shield hand and squatted on the ground, followed by the spearmen and archers. In the middle was Lu Fang and fifty cavalrymen.
The snow is too big in this ghost weather, otherwise you can ride out on horseback, and as soon as the cavalry charges, many wolves will also disperse.
Tunu and other tribes also followed suit, gathering a circular defensive formation on the west side of Yuncheng Tuanlian, but their weapons were single, mainly weapons such as hunting bows, long knives, and hardwood clubs.
Lu Fang took out his bow and arrow, aimed at the wolf in the distance, the arrow looked like a meteor, and with a pop hit the neck of a wolf, the wolf fell down.
Wolf Qing was enraged, looking up to the sky trombone, ahhhh
The voice was penetrating, and there was fear from a timid soldier. Lu Fang was overjoyed and said, "The wolf is singing with us." Come, beat me, sing. β
"Yanhuangdi, many heroes, with one enemy and a hundred people are not afraid. People are not cowardly, Qiu Bixue, look at my Chinese man's blood. The blood of a boy is self-heroic, and his pride runs through his chest like iron...... And the horse crossed the Tianshan Mountains as fast as possible, and swept the library page with a longbow. β
The singing voice of the two hundred men roaring out is not good, but it is full of heroic feelings, the singing overpower the wolf howl, and the people led by Tunuhu next to him are also infected, and they always feel that it is good to sing together, but they can't.
The wolf howled and the song stopped.
Tunuhu shouted from the side: "Wolves have always been cunning, and they rarely take the initiative to attack people, but once they attack, they will definitely have a backhand, and if they don't get it, there will be wolves in ambush." There is no firewood here, and if we can't light a bonfire, we won't have an advantage at night, so let's work together, break through the wolves in front of us, and go back to the tribe. β
Lu Fang nodded: "At the moment of the great enemy, we should cooperate." Let's fight the arrogance of the wolves first, and then let's rush together. β
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