Chapter 6: The Wolf Tower Expedition

"Virtuous brother, there are still some wood needed in the valley, why do you need to look for it again", "The family teacher once said: A good horse with a good saddle, of course, a sweaty BMW must have a matching harness". "Oh, that's the case, that virtuous brother along the Hutu River into the wolf tower pastoral road, in the wolf tower under the river there are some thousand-year-old hardwood, the foolish brother can send someone to move here for the virtuous brother", "the younger brother is also trying to go to the wolf tower to have a look", "okay, I'll send people, tomorrow morning, it will take 4 days to ride back and forth", since Wei Zheng arranged manpower, he also saved so much equipment to carry so much.

I found a sheepskin, and a carbon bar, went to the stable to find my own horse, touched and measured, and drew the texture of the back of the saddle and the width of the saddle, the radius of the depression, the inclination and other parameters on the sheepskin. A visual drawing of a saddle on sheepskin that is not easy to make is now close to finding wood. returned to the tent, took out all the things that he hadn't used in the past few days, and asked Wei Zheng for a sheepskin bag to put all the things he didn't need to bring in. The rest of the time was boring admiring the beauty of the valley, and in the evening before dinner I checked the white wolf and Zalando, and now it was convenient, and the two wounded were in a tent and seemed to be very intimate.

Early the next morning, I entrusted the sheepskin bag to Wei Zheng for safekeeping, put away the tent, put on the backpack, and felt a lot lighter, just like not carrying anything, and now the weight is at least 40 catties. The medicine was only enough for five people, the first aid kit was still brought, and the beasts were infested in this era, so I still brought insurance, shovels, short knives, and mountaineering picks. This time it was a military camouflage uniform. Before leaving, he changed the medicine for Zalando and the white wolf, and when he knelt to change the medicine for the white wolf, the big head was crooked, and he licked Ouyang Xuan.

The eleven people in the group are the prime of the Hutu tribe and that Wei Meng, they have been grazing near the wolf tower for many years, so they are very familiar with everything there, and they brought a total of sixteen horses, this time Ouyang Xuan does not need his own backpack, he uses a horse to carry it, he is either riding a horse or walking, Ouyang Xuan does not want to ride a bareback horse on such a rugged mountain road. Borrowed a five-needle pine bow and 50 arrows. Starting from the valley, out of the North Valley Pass, from the place where the last battle was fought into the Hutu River Valley, followed the Hutu people behind, and after walking all morning, Ouyang Xuan found that they were walking on the wolf tower B route that he had walked before, but it was reversed, while walking a head of the Hutu tribe named Mulan Buik, he kept explaining the names and characteristics of the places he visited, just like a tour guide kept talking. Ouyang Xuan didn't listen to him much, he braided a rope with reeds along the way, fixed a small stone at each end, and sharpened two hooks with tree branches, which were fixed on the outside of the stone, which could ensure that the hook could hook the rope when the rope was pulled back when it was wrapped around the object, ensuring safety. With this kind of sling, Ouyang Xuan can accurately mix sheep or horses 200 meters away. This is also used when throwing a rope across the river without any tools, when the special forces serve, there is special training, and there is a special slingling for outdoor exploration, the principle and structure are the same, if you use this method to throw a rope can only cross a river or valley within 150 meters. During the day's trip, Ouyang Xuan caught seven or eight yellow sheep with a sling, and also caught an argali, of course, not with a sling, this is useless against argali, so that others worship as heavenly beings.

With horses, this section of the road is much easier, and when the sun is about to set, they arrive at the place where Kumud Kaizengdaban, and the group is encamped. Someone slaughtered three yellow sheep, roasted them on the fire, and finished dinner. Mulan Buik arranged for a sentry, and Ouyang Xuan asked them to get some artemisia grass while it was not completely dark, mash it, and sprinkle it on the camp and the surrounding area. The leftover mutton and sheep bones were buried by the river, and piles of gray artemisia grass were placed directly around the place where the sheep were tethered. After arranging all this, Ouyang Xuan got into the tent.

At ten points in the middle of the night, there were bursts of wolf howls, which was terrifying, except for Ouyang Xuan, everyone else didn't sleep well, and there was a sentry who watched a snow leopard walk over from the edge of the camp, as if he didn't see the camp. When I got up in the morning, after washing, I looked at them all with red eyes and listlessness, especially that Wei Meng seemed to have not slept all night, yawning all day, and getting confused from time to time, it seems that survival in the wild in this era is so difficult and cruel. While Ouyang Xuan was packing up his things, he asked them to sleep for a while, and then went down the mountain at noon, and the destination was under the west side of Daban, so he was not in a hurry. Ouyang Xuan put on his dress, put on a mountaineering pickaxe, put on a short knife, and planned to walk around. After explaining some precautions, he came to the southwest side where the wolf howled the loudest at night, although it was sunny below, but there was a cedar forest, and he did not rush in, because Ouyang Xuan felt the danger at this time, and there was something on his left front side to look at himself, and he quickly hung the left hand of the mountaineering pickaxe on his waist, pulled out the short knife, held it back, and put his weight on his right leg, He was waiting, it was obvious that the tiger was not a leopard, and he didn't mean to bite in the air at all, so he ran straight to Ouyang Xuan, seeing that this posture was to pounce on his prey on the spot, seeing this, Ouyang Xuan judged the tiger's attack route, his body was tilted on the right side, and he reflexively waved the mountaineering pickaxe from behind, and slashed towards the attack route of the tiger's head, with the center of gravity still on his right foot. In less than a second, the tip of the pickaxe sturdy into the tiger's forehead, with the inertia of the tiger rushing forward to drive the mountaineering pickaxe, Ouyang Xuan took the pickaxe, borrowed the force to do a side flip, turned up when he let go, overturned the other side of the tiger, at the moment when the foot landed, with the right leg as the oblique axis, the center of gravity was placed on the left side, he threw himself sideways, smashed directly at the tiger, the short knife held back, the tip of the knife was fiercely inserted into the tiger's ribs, and the tiger basically hung up without much struggle. This set of movements was barely completed because it was on a hillside, and the right ankle joint was a little sprained. For the first time, Ouyang Xuan knew that this era in the Tianshan Mountains was made of tigers, so he got up and retrieved the mountaineering pickaxe, looking at this tiger, it was bigger than the Siberian tiger, with a body length of about 3 meters, and the height of the forelimbs when standing up was at least about one meter, three or four. Now a huge hole in the head, a deep wound in the ribs of the chest is bleeding. After observing the surroundings again, there was no other danger, and dragged the tiger carcass back to the camp.

When he returned to the camp, the camp was already boiling, and he didn't sleep anymore, he got up to see the tiger, Mulan Buick still kept talking, because the speed of excited speech was too fast, Ouyang Xuan didn't fully understand, probably meaning that in this Tianshan Mountain, in a hundred years, only Tie Fan killed the tiger once, and was scratched by the tiger, and then it was a bunch of sycophants, Ouyang Xuan didn't pay attention to it, let them let go of the tiger's blood, dismember the tiger, and not a single bone could be lost, they had to clean the meat and put it in the sun to dry, gave the tiger whip to a Hutu man who looked older, and told him the effect, after this guy finished bowing, he came to Ouyang Xuan and knelt down on one leg and kissed Ouyang Xuan's shoes, damn, this is a bit too much, this is the ceremony of complete surrender of the people of the Western Regions in ancient times, and quickly helped up the guy who was still a little swinging, he has always been a lone ranger, and he is not very used to running around with people. He also asked Mulan Buick to cut a lot of broom grass on the sunny hillside, and weaved two straw bags full of small holes as quickly as possible. Put the tiger bones that have been picked and dried a little dry, and the other bag will contain the removed meat. Before he could finish his work, a sentry man shouted, "Ha Xiong, there is a Ha Xiong coming from the south." The wild in this era is really full of dangers, and just now I forgot to get some gray artemisia grass to cover up the smell, but I still attracted the behemoth of brown bears. Since it is here, it has to be killed, and under the formation of so many people, it can be seen that the brown bear is really hungry, and the hungry brown bear will sometimes be very persistent, and when he came to the sentry's position, he saw a huge brown bear running up at the foot of the mountain. The others didn't seem to have any sense of fear at all, and they all looked at Ouyang Xuan in a daze.

This can't be helped, it seems to outsiders that Ouyang Xuan can kill a Central Asian tiger unscathed, then the brown bear should be even more fine, in fact, where do you know, Ouyang Xuan has already twisted his foot, Ouyang Xuan also quickly thought about the way, it is not good to make a noise to scare, this is a lone brown bear who is extremely hungry, it is not enough to scare alone, hunger can sometimes overcome fear. It seems that the only way to kill it is to do it, thinking of this, let Mulan Buick find a big stone, and pushed it down the hillside in the direction of the brown bear, the bear seemed to be very flexible, and actually dodged it, and had no choice but to make a desperate bet, and found the slingling rope made on the road, the bear was still more than 300 meters away, and the forelimbs and hindlimbs climbed up rhythmically, and let Mulan Buick find a bigger stone, ready in the direction of the bear, and began to shake the sling, waiting for the bear to run to the distance of 200 meters where Ouyang Xuan was most sure of hitting the target, Throw it to the brown bear's leg along the tangent direction of the sling's rotation, although there is a slope, but it is not a problem for Ouyang Xuan, who has received professional training in this area, and practiced many times along the way, Ouyang Xuan has absolute certainty, tripping the guy who is moving at high speed, the slinging just threw out, shouting "push the stone", the slinging really lived up to expectations, the slinging line was accurately wrapped around the hind limbs and calves of the brown bear at 180 meters, and then it was a forward crawl and fell to the ground, just climbed down, the bear has not reacted, The huge stone also smashed down the mountain on the bear's head, then bounced up, fell on the bear's waist, smashed the bear, and continued to roll down and disappear at the foot of the mountain. When the stone rolled down, Ouyang Xuan had already held the tip of the knife with his left hand to protect his chest, and ran behind the stone with a pickaxe in his right hand, when the stone fell on the bear, Ouyang Xuan had already run to the bear's head, a sudden stop, by inertia, the pickaxe reflexively rounded and planed, the pickaxe head was inserted straight into the back of the brown bear's head, and then with the help of the inertia of turning around, the short knife was directly pounced on the bear from the position of the bear's shoulder, and the short knife held in the reverse grip was also inserted into the back of the brown bear under the weight of the body, leaving only the handle outside, by feeling, Ouyang Xuan knew that the knife was passing through his spine. One rolled sideways, leaving the brown bear carcass, and also along the mountain, sliding down for a while, afraid that this guy is not dead and then give himself a look, it is not worth it, at this time the right foot is also a pain in the heart, it may be that he ran violently, the sprain may be more serious, and there is a faint pain in the chest, which should be the handle of the knife.

It was difficult to get up, the grass was all green, fortunately, the camouflage uniform was of good quality, and it was not scratched by stones. The brown bear had long since stopped moving, and came out of the back of its head with a pickaxe, which, like the tiger, had a round mouth, and when the pickaxe was taken, the reverse serration enclosed the hole into an ellipse. It took a lot of effort to take the short knife on the chest and back, and it took a lot of effort to pull out the knife with both hands and left foot.

Seven or eight people came down from the mountain, dragged the carcass of the brown bear to the camp, and Ouyang Xuan also limped to the camp with the support of Mulan Buick, and sat down at the camp, at this time the position of the sun was 10 o'clock. "Is Childe's injury serious?" It was Wei Meng who spoke, "It's okay to break your foot, it's okay to rest for a while", and then shouted in Kazakh: "Mulan Bek, let your people dispose of the bear, that thing is too heavy, the meat is not delicious, just leave four paws", "Noble messenger of the Kunlun God, we will take this bear and tiger skin to the bottom of the mountain, and we will let the whole Wusun people see your bravery", there is no way to follow them, they are all people with straight intestines. These Hutu people are all good hands, but in less than half an hour, the bear was drained of blood. This time, Ouyang Xuan didn't dare to hold it up, so he let them get a lot of gray artemisia grass, light a fire, and burn it on the fire, making the smell of artemisia grass choke on the nose. After more than an hour, the twisted ankle joint actually felt no pain at all, as if it was not injured at all, and when I looked at my fingers, the cut made the day before yesterday was gone. It seems that the potential energy difference in the five-dimensional space still plays a role, interfering with some of the timing control and compensatory functions of the body's stem cells.

The Hutu people roasted some tiger meat and mutton, and after eating it briefly, everyone began to pack their bags, and the bear was tied up by them on a wooden shelf, and six people carried it. Fortunately, the destination is not far away, or it is really troublesome, when he waited for the descent of the mountain at noon, Ouyang Xuan counted the number of people, and there was one less person, and when he asked, he found out that he was sent by Mulan Buick to inform the clan and pick up the camels, and from another road to the original target round.

There was nothing to say all the way, carrying a bear, with a tiger skin, driving the yellow sheep to get down Daban in an afternoon, and walked along the river to the southwest for a while, and arrived at the place where the two rivers meet, the terrain here is relatively flat, forming a small lake, surrounded by lush forests, here Ouyang Xuan is sure that he has not come, because he is not on any of the routes that cross the wolf tower in the future, Mulan Buick is worthy of being a good guide, and before Ouyang Xuan asked, he directly began to guide the guide, "The river in the west flows down from the wolf tower Taipu Shikma River, The river to the east is a confluence of two rivers, and a short walk along the river to the west is Kura Akten Aso Osaka, where the glacial water of the lake cures the neck of a disease. Every time the moon is full, we come to this glacial lake to get water to drink." Speaking of these names, Ouyang Xuan knew where this was, the current location is between the east fold of the C line and the B line of the wolf tower in later generations, here from a distance, the mountain peaks are steep, you can see the snow-covered wolf tower in the distance, and the forest line is very obvious. (The glacial lake has been gone since the 80s, and due to the special texture of the trees, it has basically been cut down, and these people who have the opportunity to go to the Wolf Tower described by the local elders can go and see there, although the trees are scarce, it is really beautiful.) )

In a position far away from the glacial lake, I found a place between the cliffs on both sides and set up camp, this time I don't need Ouyang Xuan to say, those few Hutu people finished building the suggested yurt, and directly went to find the gray artemisia grass and got some other grass with a strong smell, which is smoked and scattered, and can only smell the strong smell of artemisia grass far away, and the other smells are covered, this time Ouyang Xuan asked them to dig a safety ditch to surround the camp, there are many people to do things, the sun has not set, a safety ditch 50 cm deep and 1 meter wide has been excavated, connecting the cliffs on both sides, Two meters away from the camp, some gray artemisia grass was sprinkled in the ditch, and branches and dead leaves were spread, Ouyang Xuan braided a long straw rope and tied three copper bells to hang in the ditch, as long as there was a little collapse, the three bells would ring at the same time. After completing all this, he started to barbecue and eat dinner, and after the sun set, Ouyang Xuan did not let them arrange a sentry and let them all sleep. The night was really not peaceful, the brass bell rang five or six times, and it was wolves, and it was tigers and leopards, fortunately they were all passing by. When the sun came down in the morning, it was finally calm again. Everyone hurried up, except for Ouyang Xuan and Wei Meng, everyone else had no habit of washing. Ready to stop, Ouyang Xuan took the Hutu people to check the safety ditch, several places have collapsed, Ouyang Xuan used a long wooden stick with a fork on the top to provoke the dead branches, without his hands, this is the common sense of life in the wild, without him, he is afraid of animals such as snakes and centipede spiders, not to mention, there is really a * snake crawling in the ditch, with a bulging belly, it should be after foraging, run here to digest food. The head is triangular, spitting out the letter, straightening up and confronting Ouyang Xuan 2 meters away, I don't know what kind of snake it is, in short, kill it, take out the bow and arrow, although this is the first time Ouyang Xuan has used it in this time and space, such a close distance, Ouyang Xuan felt that he was sure that he could fix the snake's head to the ground, pull the bow and arrow, as soon as he let go, the arrow went out, he didn't run according to the predetermined route, he was far away, and he rubbed the snake's body, by the way, this tall face was lost, the snake seemed to feel the danger, and attacked directly, Ouyang Xuan hurriedly jumped back, Dodging the attack, and maintaining a confrontation posture, it seems that this archery still has to be practiced, modern bows are not like the bows and crossbows used in their service, there is no arrow stock and position, now you have to rely on your hand to make the arrow stock, the arrow feather is not easy to control. Pulled out an arrow, directly as a flying knife to the top of the snake's head thrown out, this is their own strength, the distance of more than two meters is still absolutely certain, the arrow went out when the snake also attacked, the arrow directly from the mouth into the head, inertia brought it back, quickly pulled out the short knife, a step, directly cut off the snake's head. Picking up the arrow with the snake's head inserted, the fangs were clearly visible, and he said to himself, "Damn, this archery still needs to be practiced, and this good bow is blind." After speaking, let the Hutu people clean up the snake body, dig a pit and bury it. The snake head was thrown into the fire that had just been lit by Ouyang Xuan, this thing was still handled well by himself, and the snake head could still bite people without a body, and found Mulan Buick, "Who under the command of Nanwang is good at archery, help me recommend one, I will go to learn the art of apprenticeship", Ouyang Xuan said Yayan, Mulan Buick didn't fully understand, but he also knew that Ouyang Xuan wanted to find someone to learn archery, "Honorable Kunlun God's messenger, your bravery, you don't need a master, and no one is worthy of being your master", alas, it seems that he didn't understand, and said it again in popular words, Only then did Mulan Buick understand, and said, "The best archery in Southern Yuzili is the general of the Southern King, Maltaken", Ouyang Xuan remembered, it was the guy who wore a copper helmet and carried a big sword. Go back to him and learn this ancient method of archery. When the Hutu people were barbecuing, Ouyang Xuan practiced a few more times with a bow and arrow, but he still didn't feel good, no way, he found a thick branch with a bowl mouth, made a simple arrow butt tied to the bow, and tried firing it a few times, this time I found the feeling, although it can't be said that it is a hundred shots, but it is also ** not far from ten, after all, the tension between the bow and the bowstring cannot be compared with that of later generations, and the speed of shooting arrows is much worse, due to gravity, there will be deviations in judgment, and it takes a bow to go through tens of thousands of exercises to reach the standard of a qualified shooter, At the same time, the feeling of archery in ancient times and in modern times is also different. After practicing archery for a while, several archers of the Hutu people were also instructed by Mulan Bekla to guide Ouyang Xuan in archery, and after shooting more than 100 times, Ouyang Xuan had some understanding, and he could also hit seven or eight out of ten from a hundred meters away. After a brief meal of mutton, he led the four tribesmen to the icy lake, where various hoof prints were intertwined, and a few antelopes and goats were drinking. Ouyang Xuan has not yet arrived at the lake, the sheep is gone, now the lake is not big, equivalent to the area of two football fields, is the intersection of two rivers to impact, you can see a few obvious lake shore water traces, it seems that when the water is big or the lake area is not small, the river flowing out of the lake is the Hutu River, in the middle of the lake not far from Ouyang Xuan is scattered lodging * trees, this is the flood or the ice receding period brought down from the mountain, here up are more redwood, if you can get a sedimentary redwood, Then you can send it yourself, if this is the next generation, it will be at least more than 10 million. Meaning i* finished, pulled up the trouser legs, took off the shoes and socks into the lake, the lake is not deep, clear and transparent, but very cool, it is the kind of cold that penetrates the bone marrow, gritted his teeth and insisted on walking to the dead wood, the lake has reached the root of the thigh, wet the pants, found a look very * and moved, did not move, quickly return to the shore, otherwise in a while, the leg will cramp. When he got to the shore to warm up, he pinned his pickaxe to his waist and chopped off a wrist-thick pine wood to make a crowbar. He rubbed his legs and feet vigorously and went down to the lake again.

This time, it was a crowbar and a pickaxe, and finally dragged the sunken log ashore, and measured the size, the thickness was not enough, and the wood should not be an ancient wood. After rubbing his legs and feet again, he went down to the lake, and kept stirring the stones at the bottom of the lake with a crowbar, and the Hutu people also came down to help, and the wood dragged up twice was not ideal. This time, I didn't rush down, and after the water was completely clear, I walked around the lake repeatedly to observe, and finally saw that at the bottom of the lake where the rocks had just been turned over, a small branch was exposed in the soil below, and it was too small to find if you didn't look closely. I rubbed the water again, went straight to the exposed branch, used a crowbar and a pickaxe to pull the stones and silt to the side, dug 50 centimeters deep, and the water was almost to my chest, only to see a very * huge tree buried underneath. Hurry ashore, bask in the sun, wait for the lake to be clear, and observe the piece of wood, which is very *, it should be enough, and it is also very long. This time, I took off my clothes and pants and swam over directly with a crowbar and a mountaineering pickaxe, using both sticks and pickaxes, plus the help of the Hutu people, finally pried the piece of wood out of the lake bed and dragged it to the shore, all of them were swinging under the high sun, Ouyang Xuan hurriedly took them to a high-intensity running and push-ups, and when the cold was driven away, they put on their clothes and pants. Look at the piece of wood, which is about two meters in diameter and about fifteen or sixteen meters in length. The whole is dark and translucent, and a piece is planed on the main section with a pickaxe, and the inside is brown and black, and the hardness is very high. Ouyang Xuan danced excitedly as if he had picked up a treasure, and the Hutu people were very puzzled. After being happy, he put together the other sunken logs that had been dragged up, let the sun shine, and prepared to move to the camp, and find a way to get it back to the valley tomorrow. (This sunken wood is real in history, the excavation site is also there, but the time I gave a thousand years in advance, the history of the wood was discovered and excavated by the Wusun people of the Guishun Turks during the Tang Gaozu period, donated to the Qiuzi monks, made dozens of Buddha statues, placed in the Kizil Thousand Buddha Cave, after the 11th century was destroyed by the Muslims, there is a reclining Buddha made of that piece of sunken wood is now in a museum in the United Kingdom, the data comes from the archaeology of the Kizil Thousand Buddha Caves.) )

The four people seemed to be unable to move, so they went back and called five people over, and dragged them to the camp in a hurry. Almost exhausted, Ouyang Xuan asked them to roast the yellow sheep and argali, and then took the short knife and the mountaineering pickaxe, went to the woods to make two traps and place them, and when they came back, they were stunned at the wooden hair. The Hutu also sent a man on horseback to inform Wei Zhengjia to send someone to carry wood and brown bears.

After about 20 minutes, I went back to get the parchment, found a position on the sunken wood that matched my design and measured it to a considerable length, and finally intercepted it with a pickaxe and a short knife, leaving one section 10 meters long and another section more than two meters. When the sun had gone west, and when he had returned to the woods, he had violated both mechanisms, one with an antelope hanging from a branch, and the other with only the head and skeleton of the deer. Destroy the mechanism, carry the antelope back to the camp, and hand it over to the Hutu people to deal with. After a full meal of mutton, he practiced his bow and arrow for a while under the guidance of the Hutu people before he entered the tent. The Hutu people are now very clever, and before going to bed, they made a lot of gray artemisia grass, some of which were smoked on the ashes, and some of which were scattered everywhere, and placed the copper bells in the safety ditch. They got together and talked, and then went to sleep.