At dawn, several people gathered on the beach of the Wild Duck River. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A dragon pointed to a few drag marks by the river and said, "This is the mark of the raft, it should be two sheepskin rafts." ”

A messy trail of footprints stretched from the sheepskin raft into the meadow in the riverside wetlands and vanished.

Judging by the number of footprints, it will definitely not be just two people, at least five or six, maybe more.

Yang Liulang gasped, I don't know if these people are friends or foes, if they rush out of the camp last night, a scuffle is inevitable.

A dragon looked at the imprint carefully and said, "There are only traces of the raft coming ashore, and there is no trace of going into the water again." It should have been carried away on a raft. ”

Yang Liulang swallowed and asked, "Who could it be?" ”

A dragon analysis, "Even if they came on a raft, they either came down from the upper reaches or crossed from the other side of the river." ”

Sun Yi looked across the Shennong River, where there was a large reed field with occasional ditches, apparently a wetland formed by the old course of the Shennong River.

Yilong continued: "It is estimated that the waterway was blocked by our camp, and these two rafts did not dare to float down the river rashly. In any case, they either bypassed our camp by land, or turned back upstream and re-launched from the other side. ”

Yang Liulang looked at the reeds on the opposite bank and said, "The road on the other side is not so easy to walk. It would be nice if Ga Li Guang was here, he was born in Orion and would see these traces. ”

The stuffy asks impatiently; "You've said so much, is the person who came a good guy or a bad guy?"

Yilong said slowly, "In the past few years, there has been a shortage of soldiers and horses on the grassland, and the prince of Chahar has merged the Tumut tribe outside Datong Town and the Ordos tribe outside Yansui Town. ”

The sullen asked, "If it's a refugee, why don't you come to the door generously?" ”

A dragon replied, "We are a camp and a banner, how dare refugees come to the door easily!" After a pause, he said, "But we didn't meet cattle or sheep on the way here." A few years ago, I drifted here on a raft, and there were strongmen in the past, and if a strongman nearby heard the sound of a bell last evening, he would have come over to see it. ”

The sullen man was anxious, "You are a refugee for a while and a strongman for a while, do you have a good idea?" ”

One dragon happily replied, "No!" ”

Sun Yi spoke: "No matter what, anyway, we have to explore this terrain today, so we might as well go upstream along the Shennong River in a while, everyone should be more careful today." ”

Everyone said yes and divided up to go.

Because it was a short-distance expedition and he was not going to camp outside, Yang Liulang prepared a horse and ordered a few soldiers who were good at riding and shooting. Sun Yi barely rode a horse in his later life, five hundred yuan each time, ran a few laps in the racecourse, and picked a mare with a docile temper. A dragon and a few robes had to ride mules.

Sun Yi helped Yang Liulang cut off the electric three-eyed gun. At Yang Liu's request, only the tail and front of the wooden stick were cut off, and the body of the fire-breathing coiling dragon was specially retained. Tin was removed from the foil of the condom and the circuit was re-soldered. Wrap the new stick head with gypsum gauze, try to still firmly jam the insurance, and then hand it over to Yang Liu.

Yang Liu tied the head of the pole with wild duck feathers that were naturally curled, and then tied it back and forth with a thick leather rope to carry the gun diagonally behind him. According to Yang Liu, each adult male mallard has only a few of these special feathers.

Stuffy only rode pigs when he was a child, so he had to stay in the camp today, looking at Yang Liulang's high spirits, Stuffy said angrily: "Stinky beauty! That is, no one cares about the wilderness outside here, you kid dare to use a coiling dragon stick! ”

Sun Yi suddenly realized: "How many claws are the coiling dragon on that stick?" ”

Yang Liu said proudly, "I've already counted, four claws!" ”。

The sullen muttered, "I'll make a ten-paw one tomorrow." ”

Yang Liu: "That's called a centipede!" ”

Everyone beat their horses out of the camp, and Sun Yi realized how inferior his riding skills were to Yang Liulang's border army. Yang Liulang was like a fish in water on the horse, and from time to time his feet were off the saddle and looked into the distance. Sun Yi could only be careful not to fall off the horse.

Because of the surveying and mapping data, the people and horses walked and stopped along the Shennong River, and the river soon turned to flow east-west.

The Shennong River branched out here and headed south, Yang Liulang's eyes were sharp, and he shouted, "Look, is that the trace of that group last night?" ”

A series of chaotic footprints descended the river to the south, and there were traces of rafts dragging on the water's edge.

"Yes! I didn't expect them to turn back so far down the tributary. One dragon replied in the affirmative.

"Chase down and see!" Sun Yi commanded.

The crowd beat their horses down the river, and after a while, the river turned east-west.

Sun Yi felt that the scenery in front of him was becoming more and more familiar, and wondered, "Could this be the river that the mule refused to cross yesterday?" ”

At noon, Yang Liulang, who was in the lead, reined in the horse suddenly, and pointed at the whip in his hand, "Look! ”

On the other side of the river, there are apparently people resting here. A fire that had been extinguished, a large dead animal beside it, and a few eagles hovering in the sky.

A dragon volunteered to swim across the river to check, and after only one look, he shouted angrily, "Damn, it's our mule!" ”

"Look carefully, don't be a wild mule." Yang Liulang shouted across the river.

"Your kid's skull was smashed with a stick, there are wild horses and wild asses, where did the wild mules come from!" A dragon roared.

Sun Yi also went into the water and swam over. But seeing that the scars on the mule's back that were beaten by Yang Liulang were still there, the two hind legs were neatly cut off with a knife, and the mule's stomach was cut open by the eagle, and the intestines flowed to the ground. Apparently he was killed first, and then picked up by the eagles.

"Could it be that the group last night thought it was an ownerless animal?" Sun Yi asked a dragon.

"No!" A dragon replied in the affirmative. "Our mules were fastened with hoof buckles and reins, and we knew at a glance that they were free-ranged by their owners. There are grassland rules in this grassland, not their own livestock, and they can't even pick them up. I'm afraid these people are not good people! ”

Yang Liulang shouted angrily on the other side, "Catch up, ask for an explanation!" ”

A dragon stared at the fire, "The mule thieves have just walked for an hour or two, and this river looks like it is heading to Hongliu Bay, maybe they can catch up before they enter the bay!" ”

The two swam back to the opposite bank, turned over on the mules and horses, and the group went down the river.

chased down the twenty-mile road in one go, but found that the traces of the gang landed on the shore and headed north.

The men and horses followed and turned north, and only after running three or four miles, a large river crossed in front of them.

After a big circle, everyone returned to the Shennong River! It turned out that the Shennong River and its tributaries formed a gourd and enclosed this land, which is the gourd mouth.

In the upper reaches of the Shennong River, as far as the eye can see, two sheepskin rafts are being pushed into the water by several people.

Yang Liulang roared, "The thief is gone!" The horses galloped away, and a few soldiers were only a few horses behind, and they followed closely behind.

The people upstream also spotted Sun Yi's men and horses, and climbed up the raft in a panic. There were nine people, two big pockets, and a mule leg!

Rokuro crouched on horseback, already mentioning full speed.

The people on the raft took off their bows and arrows and gestured in the direction of Yang Liulang.

Yang Liulang and the soldiers "swooped" to the ground, hid on the side of the horse's belly, and began to prepare bows and arrows.

The raft left the shore and flickered into the water.

Yang Liulang stretched his bow and set up an arrow, a beautiful hanging shot, the arrow drew a parabola with horsepower, and suddenly stuck in the center of a raft behind, so frightened that the people on the raft hurriedly climbed down, and saw a sheepskin fetus deflated.

Yang Liulang's horse came to the shore, raised his hand and another arrow, perhaps without the speed of the horse, or the raft drifted out of a distance, and the arrow fell into the river behind the raft.

Seeing this, the people on the raft stood up again and yelled at Yang Liulang.

Several soldiers arrived on horseback, and several arrows were fired, but unfortunately none of them could reach the raft.

The people on the raft laughed insolently, and one of them took off his pants and writhed his big white ass at Yang Liulang.

Yang Liulang angrily scolded the mule thief across the water.

A dragon that fell behind Yang Liulang said to Sun Yi, "Master, take the intercom artifact and give the stuffy man an order, let him put our raft down the river!" ”