Chapter 352: Hunting in the Wilderness
After Yang Guang returned from Baidaozhou and merged with the state, he waited for many days, neither waiting for an edict from his father Yang Jian to allow him to lead an army to reinforce the northwest, nor did he look forward to the news that the Turkic Khan persuaded the Turkic Great Khan to withdraw from the northwest, but because of a dispute with his sixth uncle Yang Shuang about recruiting troops on the spot, the joy brought to him by recovering Baidaozhou became worse. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
For the sake of unifying the military order, although Yang Shuang reluctantly agreed to be funded and supported by Yang Guang, and kept 20,000 Hebei New Army stationed outside the city of Bingzhou, he assigned a new general to the new army, requiring the new army to be consistent with other government troops, and to advance and retreat only to obey his own unified general's orders.
As a result, in addition to going to the council hall every day to listen to the two servants on the stage to deal with government affairs, Yang Guang went to Jinyang Palace to watch Yu Juluo and others train the hussar battalion sergeants, and his life was very boring. Fortunately, there are close people such as An Ruoxi, Xiao Xiao, and Cerse to accompany him and talk to him to relieve his boredom, otherwise, Yang Guang has obviously felt that he has now become a dispensable idler in Bingzhou City.
On this day, Yang Guang had nothing to do, and suddenly remembered that since he brought the "black general" to Bingzhou out of the town, he had never taken it to the wild to hunt, so he discussed with Li Che to take the "black general" to the outskirts of Bingzhou to hunt.
Li Che heard from Wang Shao about the fierce dispute between Yang Guang and Yang Shuang's uncle and nephew, and knew that Yang Guang had been depressed for several days, so he agreed to Yang Guang's request, and personally led Zhang Xutuo, Xian Yuluo and other brave men of the hussar battalion to accompany Yang Guang out of the city to hunt. An Ruoxi couldn't rest assured, and insisted on following Yang Guang out of the city together, but Yang Guang couldn't help her, so he had to agree to ask her to pretend to be a hussar battalion sergeant mixed with Zhang Xutuo, Xian Yuluo and others, and take her out of the city together.
At that time, it was the end of February and the beginning of March, and Bingzhou was located in the north, which was still the season of spring breeze and cold at first warm. Yang Guang carried a falcon on his shoulders, and dozens of hussar battalion soldiers surrounded him out of the south gate of Bingzhou City, and according to the guidance of local guides, he turned to a wilderness to the east and rode his horse.
"Lord Wang, at this time outside the city of Bingzhou, it is impossible to hunt fierce beasts such as tigers, leopards, wolves and bears, but it is not difficult to hunt some prey such as hares, pheasants, and even wild boars." The guide led the "Iron Hoof Dragon", walked forward with Yang Guang, and explained to him flatteringly.
"But how did I hear that early spring is the best season for bear hunting? But I wonder if there is a place to hunt bears near Bingzhou? Yang Guang sat on horseback and looked at it, but when he saw the south of the city, there were fields that could not be seen at a glance, and he could faintly smell the smell of winter fertilizer in the fields, and asked the guide casually.
Li Che and Yang Guang walked side by side, and when he heard that he actually asked the guide about the bear hunting, he hurriedly glanced at the guide, deliberately diverted Yang Guang's attention, and reminded him with a smile: "Lord Wang, this Hai Dongqing has never helped Lord Wang catch prey once since he arrived in Bingzhou with Lord Wang, right?" Now that we're outside the city, the prince might as well let it out and see if it can catch a prey for you. ”
"Yes, yes." Yang Guangchong nodded to Li Che again and again in agreement, and then turned his head to the "Black General" on his shoulder and said, "Xiao Hei, I have locked you up for almost a winter, and today it is time to let you go out to have fun." ”
As he spoke, he took off the blindfold for the "Black General", raised his hand and pointed to the wilderness in the distance ahead, and said, "Go." ”
Li Che and the others saw that the "Black General" had a steep foot force, rose from Yang Guang's shoulder, spread his wings, and flew towards the wilderness in front of him like a black cloud, and in the blink of an eye, it shrank into a black dot in everyone's sight.
"Does Qi Angong know the methods of eagle painting, eagle training, and eagle release?" Yang Guangmu sent the "Black General" away to hunt, and asked Li Che with great interest.
"Back to the prince, although the last general has never trained a falcon with his own hands, he is also familiar with the method of the eagle, the prince's 'black general' is actually the top grade 'black robe' in Haidong Qingzhong, I am not mistaken?" Li Che deliberately made Yang Guang happy, and asked him with a smile.
"Qi Angong has good eyesight. Lo and behold, it has caught its prey and is flying back. Yang Guang pointed his hand forward and exclaimed in surprise.
Sure enough, in less than half a cup of tea, the "Black General" flew back with a pair of sharp claws tightly grasping a fat hare, throwing the frightened half-dead hare in front of Yang Guang's horse, flying and hovering above Yang Guang's head, waiting for the master's next command.
The fact that the "Black General" captured his prey so quickly greatly aroused Yang Guang's competitive spirit. He raised his horsewhip and whipped it at the back crotch of the "Iron Hoof Dragon", and shouted at the guides and sergeants in front of the horse: "Get out of the way, I will also practice archery, and compete with Xiao Hei to see who catches more prey." ”
Without waiting for Li Che to stop him, the "Iron Hoof Dragon" carried Yang Guang up with four hooves and ran out of the wilderness like a smoke. The "Black General" also seemed to understand the meaning of the little master's desire to compete with it, and flapped his wings and flew over after him.
When the "Iron Hoof Dragon" ran out of the queue for a short time, Yang Guang found a frightened hare in the field, picked up a bow and arrows on horseback, and was about to aim at the hare and hunt it, when he suddenly saw a red thing appear in the place where the hare ran not far ahead, and ran quickly in another direction.
"Fox, red fox!" Yang Guang's eyes were sharp, and at a glance he saw that the red thing was a fox with fiery red fur, frightened by the hare fleeing, and galloped away.
An even more tempting prey appeared in front of him, the fox, which made Yang Guang immediately give up shooting the hare, and ordered the "black general" who flew over his head: "You go and catch the hare, and this red fox will be left to me." The horse followed the red fox and chased after him.
Foxes do have a much higher IQ than other animals. As soon as the red fox saw that a hunter was chasing after him, he immediately turned around and sprang away into a field, and galloped all the way without forgetting to make a detour to find a place where the artemisia grass was thick. It is probably in its clever mind that the field is a place where people grow crops, and ordinary hunters will not trample on the field, but drill into the dense place of artemisia grass, which can not only hide their body shape and avoid the hunter's shooting, but also startle other animals in the artemisia grass to cover themselves.
Yang Guang didn't pay attention to the red fox's careful thinking at this time, and when he saw an opportunity, he shot an arrow with a "whoosh". He followed Changsun Sheng to practice riding and archery for many days, although the archery technique was not exquisite, but it was not ordinary, and the arrow flew over the head of the red fox in front of him. The red fox was so frightened that he rolled forward on the spot, and rolled into the grass in front of him.