Chapter 12: The Wolf and the Sheep
Buzz –
…… Whoosh ...... The bowstring tightened, the sound of arrows slicing through the air, rows of wooden stakes vibrating in a continuous thump, and feathered arrows stayed on them and trembled
"Change!" Someone shouted.
More than 20 bows and arrows were raised, the strings were tight, the fingers pulling the strings maintained their movements, their arms trembled hard, and the person who shouted the password on the side remained still and shouted: "Steady... Don't shake your hands. ”
The next second.
"Put-"
Whoosh whoosh ...... Bang bang bang ..... arrow shoots flat, crosses the small pool, and nails it to the wooden stake standing opposite, and some fly off into the waterhole, or nail it to someone else's wooden stake. An angry horse thief punched and kicked the guy who missed the shot, shouting, "Four times overboard... Did you do it on purpose? Say it!! Wait a minute, you go down and take the arrow back!! ”
"I don't have the strength... The man held his head a little aggrieved.
In exchange for the laughter of the people who performed better around, there were more than ten people sitting around in the forest on the other side of the waterhole, and a sour Confucian in a shabby faded robe was telling some truth, about the fierceness of the Huns, it was not easy for everyone to live, and the leader of Gongsun did this..... and the like, in order to eliminate the rejection of Gongsun Zhi by these people, of course, in the morning, they were practicing archery, and they exchanged with this group of people after noon.
On the dirt slope of the woods not far from here, the sound of rustling footsteps came, Zhang Liao pulled down the branch that blocked his vision, and glanced at the young man who was gathered in a circle over there. After a few words of advice from a horse thief, Gongsun Zhi came over and walked side by side with him.
"After all, these people have never been to the battlefield, and some of them have not even been stained with blood..."Zhang Liao let go of his hand, the branch bounced back, and looked at the people who came over, "...... You're sending them to death. ”
"These are all ruined families, and if you go back, you will only be worse than dead." Gongsun Zhi walked over the crowd with his hands behind his back.
Zhang Liao followed silently, laughter came from the waterhole in the distance, and after a while, he spoke, and his tone was not as questioning as before, "Gongsun Chief, Liao understands a little, but what about the other young people?" There won't be just that number of people here. And some women, they don't want to be horse thieves, right? ”
"Hmm... I went outside to ride a horse, how could I not ride a horse when I was a horse thief, and as for those women, they had already become the family members of the horse thief. Gongsun Zhi glanced back at Zhang Liao, who had a stunned expression on his face, and turned his head to look in the direction of the cave in the forest, as if he saw the figure of a woman walking in the forest, "Some people don't want to go back, you understand what the Huns did to them, some people who have children and husbands at home have been killed by the Huns, and they have been ruined, and they can't go back for half a month, and they won't live long, so it's better to stay here and have a home again." ”
Although the ancients got married early, Zhang Liao was still a young man in his twenties after all, and he had not experienced strong winds and waves, so his thoughts were naturally not as far as he thought, and of course, he also had the insight of respecting women in his time.
Zhang Liao nodded silently and continued.
The two of them walked and talked as if they were close friends, and the atmosphere gradually became harmonious, and after walking for a while, they were about to go outside, when a man of about forty ran over, panting, and a little afraid handed over a piece of wood carved out, "Chief, I have carved a few, you can try to see if you can use it." ”
"What is this?" Zhang Liao looked at the thing curiously.
Here, Gongsun Zhi put the wood carving wolf throat to his mouth and blew it, a low whine sounded, the tone was a little strange, he shook his head: "It's still a little close, this can barely be used, you make a few more similar, go down to Dongfang Sheng to receive the reward." ”
"It's... Be.. Thank you, Chief, for the reward. The carpenter wiped the sweat from his head, bowed his hands with joy, and ran away.
Gongsun Zhi threw the wolf's throat in his hand, "Wen Yuan, what do you think it looks like?" ”
"It's kind of like a wolf's howl, and I don't know the rest." Over there, the figure shook its head.
"It's used when you're fighting."
He put the wolf's throat in his mouth and blewed, and the sound of whimpering floated above the hills, Zhang Liao frowned, and suddenly stretched out again, as if he understood its function.
"Don't need a flag?"
"No, you don't! The battlefield is chaotic and may not be visible to all, but this sound is unique and can play a role in the formation in time. Gongsun Zhi put away the wolf's throat, "Let's go, I'll send you out, there are many wolves here, be careful of being taken away." ”
Zhang Liao didn't care about this joke. The wind gusted, blowing the clothes of the two people on the mountain, and when they were about to get outside, he stopped, "Leader Gongsun, do you really want to go with Liao to serve in the army?" ”
The mountain was full of withered yellow, and there was a loud noise, Gongsun stopped looking at it for a moment, and then said: "Don't go, Yanmen County is too small to accommodate me." ”
Zhang Liao looked at him, stopped talking, and then raised his hand and clenched his fist: "Then Liao will take his leave and go back to resume his life, if he passes by Yanmen County, the leader of Gongsun can enter the city and sit." ”
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the bottom of the hill.
"Wait!" Behind him, a voice rang out.
Gongsun stopped and arched his hand: "I still have something to ask for, after Wen Yuan goes back, can you let the blacksmith in the city beat a pair of scimitars for me." He made a general gesture of shape, and if anyone who came after him saw it, he would be amazed that it was the shape of the Mongolian scimitar.
"Okay, Liao has written it down, take your leave."
Zhang Liao took the hook and sickle handed over by the soldier, turned over and got on the horse, and after giving it over, he slowly left here with the people who were replaced, he didn't think much about building weapons, after walking far away, he raised his head, the direction of Yanmen, Hongxia had already shone over, he looked back at the hills over there, the tall figure seemed to be standing there, but there was a white shadow around him.
Wow –
The wolf's howl came desolate in the sunset, as if to bid them farewell. Zhang Liao rode on horseback and looked over there with a serious gaze, repeatedly thinking about what he saw in the White Wolf Plain today, and what Gongsun Zhi said, which made him quite concerned in his heart.
"Master Zhang, what are you looking at?" One of the guards stopped to look at him.
The gentle wind swept across the banner and the figure of the sword-carrying horse, and he half-squinted, pointing to the undulating hills over there, "You...... It didn't look like a wolf. ”
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In 188, in the autumn of the northern grasslands, the Marquis of Subu Gudu launched a raid on the border of the Han Dynasty, but a few days later, a group of more than 200 horse thieves, under the general trend, made a crazy move and swept the barbarians.
The desolate horn sounded in the middle of this hill that no one cared about, and one by one figures came out of the woods and climbed onto the horse's back vigorously.
At this time, the sky is overcast and cloudy, and it is about to rain.
A scimitar slashed through everyone's sight, lightning swam away on the clouds, crackling and exploding, the figure holding the blade turned around, and behind him, more than two hundred horsemen excitedly slapped the scabbard on the saddle.
"Robbed those sheep ......"
The horses rushed out of the hills, and the rumbling hooves of the horses shook the earth and stretched farther north.
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