Chapter Seventy-Six: Heavy Riding
Boom –
Thunder rolled across the sky, and blue and white lightning streaked across the clouds. The sound of horses' hooves clattered across the grassland, and several horseback figures came from the north towards the place called White Wolf Plain, where they were stopped by a group of dozens of scouts on the way before the first rain of summer fell.
The arrows flew and swooped on the turf not far from the horse's hooves, the brown and yellow war horses slowly stopped at a certain distance, and the scout on horseback was called Li Heizi, who was now the small leader of these dozens of people, and he also had more than ten lives on his hands, so he had some momentum. After forcing the other party to stop, he lowered his bow slightly, turned his head to look over, and he would also say a little Xianbei: "Xianbei people? What are you doing in White Wolf Plain. ”
"I am the messenger of Kebineng, and I have come to see the leader of Gongsun." The man learned the etiquette of the Han people on horseback and arched his hands.
Li Heizi was a pawn earlier, and after falling into a horse thief, his mind changed from low to alert, stretched out his hand to summon a subordinate, and lowered his voice: "Take a few people around to see if there is a 'tail', and go farther." ”
The wolf rider nodded and led the people away, he pulled the reins and waved to the Xianbei people: "Come with me." ”
Soon, a drop of rain fell from the sky.
……
White Wolf Plain.
The sound of the rain washed over the leaves, and the water pool rippled in circles, and in the humid air, there were occasionally one or two figures walking through the rain curtains, and most of the rest gathered in the shacks to laugh or work, and the women gathered in a few circles, sewing leather jackets, chatting about family life, and sometimes a few words of meat would come out to provoke the younger women to cover their mouths and snicker.
After a while, the rain became more rapid, the wind blew in, and the raindrops crackled on the treetops. Words came out of the wolf's den, and the beautiful female voice read word by word, and the stone hall was full of people, and there were doubts and excitement between the eyebrows, and of course there were other things to talk about.
It's like a school.
In the black-pressed crowd, several figures with golden hair had extremely serious expressions. They came to the East in a hurry before, even though they thought about the language barrier, but they didn't think deeply, and now after experiencing the war, they also know that if they don't understand the language, it will be difficult to move an inch in the East, and they won't even find the holy city in the East.
As for the others, most of them saw that the Gentiles were literate, and those who had a heart also quietly slipped over to follow the literacy, this process lasted for a while, and more and more people came over, and then Gongsun Zhi simply asked Dongfang Sheng, who had not yet completely recovered, to go over to help teach.
Of course, on the one hand, the literacy rate of these horse thieves, wolf riders, and even the low-level people is already low in this era, and if they can read some words, some of them may stand in a higher position. On the other hand, there are also selfish ones, after Cai Yan sobered up the next day, she would blush and avoid him when she saw him, presumably she knew it herself if she was drunk that day, and now there are more and more people who come to read and write every day, Gongsun Zhi asked Dongfang Sheng to help teach, just because he didn't want the girl to be tired.
Because there was no blackboard or anything like that, Gongsun Zhi thought of using a sand table instead, and Cai Yan wrote a word on it, and asked the 'students' behind him to stand up and read the font on the sand table. After listening to the entrance of the cave for a while, Gongsun Zhi retracted his gaze, walked out of the wolf's den with Dongfang Sheng, someone held up a paper umbrella beside him, and the two walked towards the mountain.
"There's always a bad feeling about it...... That Kebi can come to us for trouble......" Under the paper umbrella, Dongfang Sheng, who was walking on the side, whispered.
When he was about to reach the top of the hill, Gongsun Zhi glanced at the tree in front of him, turned to the pale scholar next to him, and said as he walked with his hands in his hands: "Those officials from Yanmen County and Dai County will not let us horse thieves enter the city to hide." ”
“…… Just know. ”
Dongfang Sheng sighed, looking at the gray sky, the rain line occasionally broke off and floated on his face, cold and cold, "They are also afraid of setting fire to the body, the leader might as well move east, go to the right Beiping to temporarily shelter under the wings of General Baima, this is our only way out, while Kebineng has not noticed here, leave first, and protect the women and children of the White Wolf Plains is the best policy." ”
He turned his head and looked at the figure that had already stood on the top, an empty sleeve was churning in the wind, the sky was rumbling with thunder, the figure under the tree was not afraid of the electric light that shone the heavens and the earth, and when the branches of lightning in his cold eyes crossed the sky, he spoke: "Before leaving, if Kebi can come, just take him to open it." ”
Boom –
Another thunder rolled over the clouds, and in the gray rain, a group of figures rode through the horses, and then entered the hills, and after a while, the two who were talking heard the sound of people running on the mountain road, and Li Ke stumbled over, covered in mud and water, thinking that he had fallen halfway.
He ran over and said in a low voice: "Uncle Heizi brought back a few Xianbei people, it seems that they are Ke... What can be a messenger. Will the princes see them, and will they not see ...... I will send them away. ”
"Let them come." Gongsun Zhi didn't think much about it and nodded.
The pony thief ran down, and the scholar frowned: "Kebi can let people come over at this time, do you want to recruit us?" He should know that the leader is the eldest son of General White Horse, I'm afraid it's not that simple. ”
After Dongfang Sheng's reminder, Gongsun stopped sinking his thoughts, sat on the stone under the tree, opened the phantom map, and the overlapping line of sight increased as he pulled the height, the map became larger and larger, probably overlooking the surrounding range of dozens of miles before stopping, when he first came to this era, he also did such a thing, obviously there is no such range, can this map be upgraded?
Thoughts flashed, and on the map, several small flags were swimming in a range of tens of miles centered on the White Wolf Plain, but the place name or how many people the small flags were composed of were not indicated, but Gongsun Zhi was sure that the number would not be too small.
When he was checking, the envoy sent by Kebineng had already walked up the hills, and several Xianbei guards came over under the supervision of Li Heizi and others, this envoy spoke fluent Chinese, but what was the name, Gongsun Zhi was not in the mood to listen.
“…… Before coming, we only heard that the leader was fierce and resolute, and the cavalry in his hands was also heroic, and when we came, we specially instructed that we must invite the leader to my Xianbei to see, the so-called good birds choose ......"
Over there, the map was put away, his palm slapped on his knee with a snap, his eyes turned to Xianbeiren, his finger nodded his head, and he said flatly: "I still have brains, not stupid......"
The Xianbei envoy's face was filled with joy, and he arched his hand: "The leader means to submit to my Xianbei Dashan Yu Ke......"
Before he finished speaking, Da Yu raised his head, Gongsun Zhi stood up and interrupted the other party, waved his hand, as if driving away flies, turned around and strode away, and his voice sounded at the same time: "Throw them down from here." ”
"What-"
The envoy naturally understood the Chinese dialect and was the first to react, but Li Heizi next to him directly drew his knife and slashed over, the blood splashed in the rain, and before the person was dead, he was kicked off the cliff by a kick in the chest, and the figure let out a miserable scream and floated for a distance, that is, with a bang, it smashed on a big rock, and fell to pieces.
The remaining Xianbei guards probably resisted a few times with some blood, fought a few times, and finally one person died, and the rest were forced to fall down the hills by a group of wolves.
Subsequently, the people of the White Wolf Yuan received the news that they were about to transfer.
In the wolf's den, Cai Yan, who was teaching, quickly ran out of the cave with the wolf riding after receiving the transfer news, the cries outside had become one, the old and weak were running to pack their bags, and the woman tied the crying child to her back, carrying the dry food and bedding eaten on the road. The old men also carried iron pots, dry firewood, and some leather jackets that they could not make in time.
In the most spacious open space, Hua Xiong, Gao Sheng, Cao Chun, Li Ke, Li Heizi and others gathered with wolf horses, and even a hundred Gentiles who had been a little guarded in the past also came over, and they all turned over and got on their horses, and there was a bang among the hills.
When Cai Yan ran over with a woolen blanket and the bridal dress at the beginning, over there, Hua Xiong put on a cuirass made of a large piece of iron, in addition to the iron armor on the chest, the shoulders, arms, crotch guards, and legs were all made of iron sheets, and the abdomen was made of small iron sheets, which was convenient for movement, and was put on with the help of others.
"It's a bit of a stretch to put it on...... But if you hit the gun, you won't be afraid. "It's not the first time Huaxiong has worn it, although the image of the armor is not good-looking, but for the craftsmanship of the Black Mountain Army, it can be created like this, and Gongsun Zhi doesn't have too many complaints.
Hua Xiong slashed his foot on the ground, and the iron piece shook and made a sound.
In the rear, the equally carefully selected strong wolf riders were also dressed in such iron armor, and each of them had two war horses beside them, one of which had an iron shield fixed to its neck, with a long iron cone on it, and on both sides of the saddle were iron plates hanging down to protect the ribs, and there were grooves on the top, and the wolf riders assisting by the side were helping to insert the special handles of the two wide scimitars with a click.
“…… Once such a heavy cavalry crashes into the pawn phalanx...... The consequences are unimaginable. Not far away, Cao Chun on horseback looked at the war horse wearing heavy armor and scimitars on both sides, and couldn't help but sigh.
Soon after, Gongsun Zhi waved his hand, and a voice sounded above everyone's heads: "The old and weak women and children set out to the east, and the rest of the people will follow me to the north, so that they can open their eyes......"
Boom –
It was the sound of weapons smashing against iron armor, full of slaughter.