Li Yan rode the shadow, carrying the sika deer still warm on horseback, and returned along the winding path in the forest.

At this moment, Li Yan's heart was extremely excited, and Li Yan on horseback wanted to shout loudly to vent the joy in his heart.

As if he knew the way he came, he walked along the winding mountain stream for less than half an hour before he came to the place where he found the leopard, but the mutilated half of the boar carcass on the ground was gone.

At this time, it is less than half the distance from going down the mountain, and it is estimated that it will be half an hour before you can go down the mountain and meet Linghu Dezhao.

Li Yan was thinking about the yellow sheep hidden in the mountain basin at this time, and he could go down the mountain after taking the yellow sheep.

Li Yan thought that now he didn't know how many prey Brother Han had hit, and later Zhu Yuanhu and them, he had seen Lei Ming alone in the mountains, and none of the others had found it.

It is said that there are more than 20 children of the Hexi family this time, and there are nearly 30 lieutenants and lieutenants in the army, could it be that they did not enter Beishan from the direction they came?

Li Yan was thinking wildly in his heart, and the Absolute Shadow suddenly screamed vigilantly, no matter how Li Yan urged, he refused to take a step forward again, and was anxiously turning in circles, hissing with fear from time to time.

This place is less than half a mile away from the place where Li Yan hid the yellow sheep, but the absolute shadow is dead and unwilling to take a step forward.

This can make Li Yan worried, although it is okay to carry the yellow sheep over half a mile by himself, but it is not as convenient as putting the horse on the back and going back on the same place.

Could it be that what lies ahead? Otherwise, it wouldn't be like this. When Li Yan thought of this, he immediately took the arrow and put it on the string, clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and urged the Absolute Shadow to walk forward.

Under Li Yan's repeated urging, Jueying could only walk forward slowly step by step. It went all the way and stopped, and it took a long time for half a mile.

At this time, it was less than a hundred steps away from the mountain stream basin, and it was only a matter of crossing the small hill in front of you.

Li Yan on horseback could feel that Jueying was already extremely restless at this moment.

"Oh my God! Tiger! Li Yan's heart was instantly suffocated. In the basin in front of him, a tiger with brown and yellow fur, a round head, short ears, and black horizontal stripes between them is lying on the ground and tearing the flesh of the yellow sheep, and most of the yellow sheep's hind legs have been gnawed by the flesh and blood.

"Dog guts for a long time! You're going to pick it up. Li Yan scolded in his heart.

The tiger on the basin seemed to sense Li Yan's arrival, suddenly stood up, turned to look at Li Yan, and let out a low tiger roar, Li Yan suddenly felt his scalp tingle.

With a tiger roar, the birds flapped their wings and fled quickly. Li Yan could hear a wild boar in the mountain stream in the distance let out an exclamation and then rushed towards the deep mountain and old forest, making a sound like a dead branch breaking from time to time.

The shadow under Li Yan had slowly begun to retreat, and under the tiger power of the king of beasts, he was not so frightened that he trembled, and he was worthy of sweat and blood.

The bow and arrow in Li Yan's hand had already been drawn to the bowstring, and the arrow was aimed at the tiger. In fact, Li Yan himself didn't know the bottom in his heart, saying that he was not afraid that it would be false. You can only shoot one arrow, if you can't shoot the tiger and want to shoot a second arrow, you have to ask the tiger on the other side if you agree.

The arrow shot at the tiger's head in an instant, and the tiger also felt the danger, and jumped to the side, but the arrow failed to hit the tiger's head, but the tiger's ass was firmly hit by an arrow.

"Damn it." Li Yan's heart was galloping.

After eating the pain, the tiger suddenly let out a deafening roar, this kind of sound Li Yan had never heard before, the angry tiger glared at Li Yan angrily, with an arrow stuck in his buttocks, and the long tiger tail was shaking back and forth.

After another roar, the tiger in the basin quickly pounced towards Li Yan.

Li Yan hurriedly threw away the longbow in his hand, and quickly took out the general's stab from his calf, which was the only way at this moment.

In the blink of an eye, the tiger came to the front of him and jumped towards Li Yan on horseback. The Shadow was so frightened that he wanted to turn around and run

Seeing that the tiger was about to pounce on himself, Li Yan was in a hurry, roared, grabbed the carcass of the stag on horseback with both arms, and smashed it into the tiger fiercely.

The tiger that pounced in mid-air could not dodge and was slammed to the ground by the carcass of the stag.

Li Yan took the opportunity to dismount, slapped Jueying's buttocks, and urged it to leave, the mountains and dense forests couldn't outrun the tiger no matter what.

After Li Yan dismounted, he quickly ran towards the big tree ten steps away. His own military spurs are too short, and there is no chance to seriously injure the tiger at all.

Going up the tree is the first thought that Li Yan thought of, and the tiger can't do anything after going up the tree.

Li Yan threw down the antlers behind his back, quickly ran towards the big tree, jumped up, grabbed the trunk of the tree, turned over and jumped on the trunk about two meters above the ground.

The tiger on the ground let out a roaring tiger roar and pounced on Li Yan in the tree again.

"Tigers can climb trees?" Li Yan said suspiciously.

At this moment, no one could answer Li Yan's question, because the tiger pounced on the trunk, grabbed the trunk tightly with its four paws and climbed up, and pounced on itself with its mouth wide open.

Li Yan hurriedly climbed towards Gao, and at the moment when Li Yan raised his legs, the tiger opened his mouth to bite, and the entire boot was torn off by the tiger.

Suddenly, the branch grabbed by Li Yan's right hand "clicked", and the entire trunk broke, obviously the entire trunk had already withered.

"Ah" Li Yan fell heavily to the ground, and suddenly felt dizzy.

But now is a life-and-death situation, Li Yan can only fight his spirit, turn over and prepare.

At this moment, the tiger on the trunk of the tree, which was about two meters above the ground, roared angrily, and pounced on Li Yan on the ground with its teeth and claws.

"My life is at stake!" Seeing that the tiger was pounced on him from the top of his head, Li Yan felt a burst of despair in his heart. His hands clenched the military thorns in his hands, facing the tiger that pounced.

"Ahh Li Yan's body was heavily pressed under the tiger, and with a huge impact, Li Yan felt that the bones in his whole body were broken. There seemed to be a salty hot current in his throat.

The tiger that pounced down from the tree was stabbed in the heart by the military thorn in Li Yan's hand, and after lying on Li Yan's body for a while convulsions, he stopped moving.

"It's dangerous. God forbid! Almost lost his life. Li Yan secretly rejoiced in his heart. But at the moment, he didn't have any strength at all, and the tiger with two or three hundred catties on his body had no way to get up.

Fortunately, he held the military thorn with both hands and unloaded most of his strength at the moment when the tiger pounced, otherwise the tiger of several hundred catties was pressed down from a height of nearly two meters, and he would be crippled if he did not die.

Li Yan gasped for breath, because the tiger pressed himself and was almost out of breath.

Suddenly, Li Yan heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves. As the sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, a smile appeared on the corner of Li Yan's mouth. Finally, I was hoping that someone was coming.

"Childe, how are you?" It was Han Qian, who asked anxiously.

Han Qiance stepped forward immediately, followed by Li Yan's sweaty and bloody horse. Han Qian watched Li Yan being pressed under the tiger and was about to raise his lance to stab at the tiger.

"Brother Han, be merciful." Li Yan, who was pressed by the tiger, heard that it was Han Qian, and wanted to see Han Qian's horse lance stabbing at the tiger, and hurriedly said.

This is a complete tiger skin, Li Yan doesn't want a good tiger skin to be poked into a few big holes by Han Qian.

Han Qian hurriedly dismounted and moved the tiger that was pressing on Li Yan's body away, and helped Li Yan up.

"Childe, are you alright?" Han Qian looked at Li Yan and asked with concern.

"I'm fine. It's good that you're here, otherwise you'll be in trouble. Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief and said to Han Qian.

"On the way back, I heard the roar of the tiger, and I decided that it was Childe's side, so I rushed over, and when I saw your shadow halfway, I brought it with me. Fortunately, the son was safe and sound, otherwise Han Qian wouldn't know what to do. Han Qian looked at the tiger on the ground and said with palpitations.

"It's okay, Brother Han can help me put the tiger on horseback. By the way, there is also a yellow sheep over there, which was eaten by the tiger and brought back to share the food with the sergeants in the battalion. Li Yan clutched his chest and turned to Han Qian and said.

After packing up the prey, Li Yan did not forget to throw the antlers on the ground.

In this way, Li Yan's shadow carried the tiger, and Han Qian's horse carried the yellow sheep and the stag on his horse, and slowly walked down the mountain.

Halfway through, Han Qian also put the prey he threw on the side of the road to rescue Li Yan on horseback. Two yellow sheep and a wild boar. In order to be able to bring the prey back, Li Yan and Han Qian could only dismount and lead the horse down the mountain on foot, with the prey tied to the horse's back.

"Childe, I met people from the Suo family and the Yin family on the way, and they didn't seem to have much to gain, just a few pheasants and two wild boars. I don't know what happened, they were all discouraged, and they looked at me with extremely unkind eyes. However, I have seen a few children of the family in the mountains, and it seems that they have gained a lot, which is also a strange thing. On the way, Han Qian said to Li Yan.

"Haha! The second uncle's number one general is nothing more than that. Go back and the sun will set. Li Yan said with a hearty laugh.

At this time, at the foot of the mountain on the other side of the North Mountain, seven or eight children of the Suo family and the Yin family were gathering together in despair.

Several of them had red and swollen faces and were moaning in pain.

"Big brother, I don't know which one killed a thousand knives and followed us all the way, all to obstruct our hunting, you see me and the fourth brother, we were going to shoot the yellow sheep, but the huge hornet's nest above our heads was suddenly shot through by an arrow, you look at the faces of me and the fourth brother." A sturdy young man from the Yin family stroked his red and swollen cheeks and said to the man on the horse with a crying voice.

The children of the Suo family, who were standing aside, looked at the red and swollen faces of the Yin family brothers, forced a smile, and their faces were flushed.

The man on horseback is Yin Shiji, the sister-in-law of Yin Xinjian, the current head of the Yin family, who is twenty-five or sixteen years old this year, with long eyebrows and clear eyes, and a resolute and calm appearance.

Yin Shiji had two yellow sheep and a young deer hanging on his horse, and he looked at his third and fourth brothers covering their cheeks, and he didn't get angry.

"That's it! Don't be ashamed. Yin Shiji reprimanded.

"Brother Suo, for many years, you and I have been advancing and retreating together, and now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants Zhu Yuanhu to take charge of the new army, you and I should work together." Yin Shiji said and looked at the prey that the Suo family leader was hanging immediately.

"That's natural, Brother Yin didn't say it, Suo Mou also had this intention." After glancing at Yin Shiji, the leading man of the Suo family said proudly.

This person is Suo Ming, the grandson of Shi Suoxian, the left chief of the palace, and the four people behind him are all children of the Suo family. As a wealthy family in Hexi, the Suo family gave great help to Li Wei when he started his family, and now the Suo family is a force that cannot be ignored in the court of Liangguo.

In addition to Suo Xian as the left chief of the palace, Suo Chengming, who is also the Suo family, is the right Sima of the Liangzhou Pastoral Mansion, Suo Xun is the Taishou of Xiping, and the general of Weiyuan is crowned, Suo Ci is the Taishou of Guangwu, and Suo Shu is the Taishou of Wuxing. The Suo family was involved in the civil and military official positions in the court of Liangguo.

Of course, like this, Xiping Taishou, Guangwu Taishou and Wuxing Taishou are all in name only, because these counties are all in the land of Nanliang established by the Xianbei people in Hexi.

There are many such nominal Taishou, such as Xijun Taishou, Xi'an Taishou, etc., which are in the Beiliang land established by the Huns. After all, Xiliang controls several counties such as Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Gaochang, and Xihai, and there are only so many official positions. Although the Suo family is in name only, it also shows that the Liang Wangfu is favored and relied on by the Suo family.

"Calculating the time, Zhu Yuanhu should also go down the mountain. Let's wait a little longer. Yin Shiji looked at Beishan, frowned and turned back to Suo Ming and said.