Chapter Seventy-Three: Fighting the Wolves (I)
In Li Yanzhao's impression in his previous life, wolves only exist in novels, movies, and documentaries in the Central Ten Sets. He had always believed that these fierce, terrifying, and united carnivores were far away from him. I never thought about what it would be like if one day I faced the wolves.
However, the assumptions that were never thought of have now become a living reality. He and his men were already under siege by wolves.
Li Yanzhao made a lot of calculations, but he missed a problem: since Chen An recruited a large number of Qiang tribes, assembled here, and camped and repaired. The cattle and sheep of their tribe are undoubtedly the best delicacy in the mouths of the wolves.
However, the scale of the battalion for more than ten miles makes the wolves more than capable of doing so, so they can only watch dryly, but they have no way to eat. Therefore, Li Yanzhao and his party, who entered this place on a sentry mission, as well as their military horses, became a new delicacy in the eyes of these wandering wolves.
Li Yanzhao held the ring-headed knife in his right hand, and in his left hand, he also picked up the shield hanging on the horse's back. The sweat in his palms almost made him unable to hold the knife in his hand.
Holding his sword and shield, he led the remaining eight men of his men and slowly approached the horses tethered to the trunk of a tree on one side. Then the eight men stood still, faintly forming a circle, protecting the horses in the middle.
When the horses saw that their masters had gathered around to protect themselves, they also settled down a little, and stopped raising their hooves and kicking them around. It's just that there is still a loud scream.
Li Yanzhao was still nervously holding the sword and shield in his hand, and whispered to the subordinates beside him: "Lower your body, the iron armor can't protect your legs." Hold down the point and protect it with a shield! Cao Jian, try shooting a few arrows at those green dots with a bow and arrow! ”
Cao Jian inserted the knife back into its sheath as he said, and then took two steps back. The vacant seat he left was quickly filled by Qin Dayong and Liu Jiwu beside him. In the long-term cruel and strict training, those of them who are crawling and rolling together have honed a natural tacit understanding.
Cao Jian put down his shield, took his big bow, stretched out his arms and pulled the bowstring vigorously. Although bows and arrows had been issued in the army before, Cao Jian still liked to use this old bow that he was used to hunting when he was young. This bow is also powerful enough to have one stone, and it can be called a rare excellent strong bow.
Cao Jian opened the bow, tested the strength of the bow, and then found a slightly higher stone and stood on it. The robes around the horses were all holding swords and shields, and they all stabilized the formation under the command of Li Yanzhao, and did not dare to relax in the slightest.
Li Yanzhao knows that the wolf is not only cruel, but also extremely fast. He didn't dare to risk letting his horsemen attack with bows and arrows first. As far as he could see, the eyes of the wolves in the woods glowing with a faint green light were not very far from where they were. If a wave of bows and arrows passes and the wolves attack, it is likely that their side will not even have time to draw their swords.
Therefore, he just asked the veteran hunter Cao Jian to use a bow and arrow to shoot some wolves first, in order to reduce the number of wolves, and when the wolves attacked, the reduction of their numbers could also reduce the pressure on his side of defense.
Li Yanzhao squatted down and carefully used a medallion to protect his legs, which were not protected by iron armor. As he waited, he heard a bowstring behind him. Then there was a barely audible sound of arrows breaking through the air. In a few moments, the eyes of the waves in the forest, which glowed with green and faint light, were already two points missing.
Li Yanzhao snorted: "Okay! To cheer up Cao Jian behind him. However, Cao Jian's face was still solemn and cold, and in the blink of an eye, he took the arrow in his hand again, and opened the bow like a cloud. With a "boom", the arrow in Cao Jian's hand left the string again.
One after another wolves fell among the wolves. The wolves lurking in the forest finally couldn't hold back. Li Yanzhao saw that the eyes of those wolves glowing with green light shook one after another, and after a while, they were getting closer and closer to his side.
Cao Jian still stood calmly on the boulder, firing his bow and arrows smoothly. The sound of bowstrings continued to sound, and arrows broke through the air with a roar, drawing beautiful arcs one after another, wantonly harvesting the lives of wolves in the forest.
"W-wh Accompanied by a high-pitched howl. Those wolves who were approaching step by step suddenly became extremely agile. They formed a semi-circular arc and rushed towards the small group of cavalry who were trapped in a corner.
Li Yanzhao felt as if he was dazzled, only to see these green points of light in front of him shaking rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, two or three wolves had already rushed in front of him.
Li Yanzhao's heart is horizontal, and there is no way to avoid it. His eyes outside the shield nervously caught the location of the green dots. Then he saw a pair of green spots of light in mid-air that were rapidly approaching him.
Without thinking about it, Li Yanzhao knew that a wolf had already jumped towards him and pounced straight at him. At that moment, he only felt the rush of adrenaline, bringing a kind of excitement mixed with fear, trembling throughout his body. He forcibly suppressed the inexplicable fear in his heart, and roared in a low voice to cheer himself up, and at the same time, his half-squatting body began to quickly stand up, and the green light was already close in front of him. Li Yanzhao didn't have time to think about it, the round card he was holding in his left hand was already slapping hard in the direction of the green dot!
With a muffled sound, followed by a tom. Even if he couldn't see anything in this dark night, Li Yanzhao clearly knew that the wolf that flew towards him just now had been slapped away by him with a fierce shield blow and fell to the ground.
slapped a wolf away, Li Yanzhao didn't dare to carelessly collect the shield and squat. In the darkness, he couldn't gauge the number of wolves, and he couldn't see the results of his own battle clearly. Moreover, this place is already very close to the Diqiang army camp recruited by Chen An, and raising a fire here will inevitably be discovered by the people in the camp. This will not be conducive to their own reconnaissance and monitoring of the movements of this large army.
In the darkness, two pairs of green light surrounded Li Yanzhao. Li Yanzhao was half-squatting, his eyes staring motionlessly at the two pairs of green dots in front of him. In the blink of a few breaths, his heart beat three times faster than usual, and the air exhaled by the two wolves seemed to lap straight into his face, and a blood-smelling turbid breath desperately drilled into his nose, making him nauseous.
A wolf slowly moved sideways, approaching the side where Li Yanzhao was holding the knife. Li Yanzhao was slightly shocked. The beast seemed to see the weak point in the shield's defenses, which was the side on which he was holding the sword. So he moved to this side on his own, and it seemed that he was ready to attack the side that his shield could not defend at any moment. Li Yanzhao could even hear a low roar coming from its throat.
Li Yanzhao didn't dare to make a mistake, so he hurriedly pointed the tip of the ring head knife in his hand upwards and gradually lowered it. He knew that the wolf's means of attacking was to pounce. When it was in the air, and before its teeth had bitten into its neck, he lowered himself to a low position, and the ring knife with the tip of the knife pointed upwards into its body was his only chance.
Li Yanzhao stared closely at the pair of green points of light. Even though it was nighttime, Li Yanzhao could see in the faint moonlight that the wolf was restlessly digging the soil with its front paws. There were even two shallow pits dug out under the front paws. He looks like he's ready to strike with all his might.
Li Yanzhao looked at this wolf that made him feel extremely dangerous. At the same time, he caught a glimpse of another wolf on the front of his shield. However, the wolf saw Li Yanzhao glancing at it, as if it knew that it could not break through Li Yanzhao's shield defense, and silently took two steps back.
Seeing this, Li Yanzhao finally turned around and began to concentrate on dealing with the wolf that made him feel extremely dangerous. He knew that even if he was well-equipped, in the face of this kind of carnivore, which had survived for thousands of years under the selection of the fittest by nature, any slackness would be to send himself to their teeth and become their full stomach.
The wolf on Li Yanzhao's right seemed to be shocked by his momentum, and he stayed where he was and didn't move, but there was still a frightening roar in his throat.
The wait is undoubtedly long. The few breaths of confrontation between Li Yanzhao and this cunning wolf, Li Yanzhao felt as if it was as long as one day. However, the beast threatened the weakest point of his defense, and there was another wolf in front of the shield, which made it impossible for him to attack rashly.
If he were to step forward and pull out the wolf that threatened him, he would inevitably leave an opportunity for the wolf on the front of the shield to take advantage of. And stepping forward to attack the front of the shield will undoubtedly expose the empty door of the right half of his body with a knife and weak protection. For a while, Li Yanzhao was in a dilemma.
After all, the stalemate did not last. The wolf moved first, and it was the wolf on the front of the shield who moved first! Seeing the wolf rushing towards him, cold sweat continued to break out on Li Yanzhao's head. This is exactly the worst-case situation - the strongest side of the defense, it was attacked first, and Li Yanzhao didn't understand, did he really show any flaws that caused this wolf to attack, or was this wolf's attack just a feint, the purpose was to make himself concentrate on dealing with it, so as to create an opportunity for the wolf on the right?
In this momentary hesitation, the wolf in front of him had already rushed a few steps in front of Li Yanzhao, jumped forward, and pounced straight towards Li Yanzhao's head and face.
Li Yanzhao saw the wolf pounce, and he didn't dare to slack off, and slapped his left hand forward again. But this time, because he took into account the cunning wolf on the right side, for fear of revealing flaws, Li Yanzhao's shot was much gentler than the previous time when he slapped another wolf away.
Seeing this, the wolf did not stupidly hit the shield in Li Yanzhao's hand with its head. It raised its head lightly, its front paws touched the outer edge of the shield in Li Yanzhao's hand a little, and its hind paws were already kicked the shield card that Li Yanzhao raised and patted, and actually completed a borrowing on Li Yanzhao's shield, and then went straight behind Li Yanzhao.
Broken! Li Yanzhao secretly complained in his heart. Behind him is Cao Jian! Cao Jian was still holding a bow and arrow at this time, facing that cunning wolf with a single blow, how could it be good?
Li Yanzhao, who was already desperate, hurriedly turned around and wanted to help Cao Jian deal with the wolf that jumped over him. However, just as he was half-turning, the wolf on his right also kicked the ground hard, and rushed towards him who was exposed to the empty door.
The wolf, who had feinted to contain Li Yanzhao for a long time, rushed over with triumph at this time. It opened its mouth, revealing four long, pointed canines, faintly shining in the moonlight......
When Li Yanzhao remembered the cunning wolf on his right, it was too late, and he waved the ring-headed knife in his right hand in vain, trying to cut the wolf that pounced in mid-air in two. However, his sword swung out, but nothing touched it.
This was followed by a sharp pain in the forearm of the right hand. Li Yanzhao looked at the cunning wolf, opened its big mouth, and the inch-long canine teeth all sank into his forearm.
"Ahh