Chapter Ninety-Three: The Long Way Home (3)

After cleaning up these miscellaneous Tuliao cavalry and cleaning the battlefield as fast as possible, Li Deyi hurriedly mounted a horse and quickly galloped away into the distance. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info did not do this to prepare for the next wave of Tuliao cavalry who came to intercept it. It's to avoid the large wolves that smell blood. After fighting here for so long, the smell of blood has long been spread. The hungry wolves of winter, smelling the thick smell of blood, will surely rush here at all costs.

Li Deyi didn't want to be like he boasted to Zahe, facing thousands of wolves alone. That's purely looking for death, even if Wang Zhuangbiao comes, he will choose to avoid it first.

According to the calendar of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, it is now the first month. At this time, the grassland was covered with heavy snow everywhere, and no matter how far or near it was, at a glance, it was all a white expanse, and there was nothing else. And at this time, the climate of the grassland is also changeable, just now it was a sunny day, and in the blink of an eye, a cold wind blew, and a blizzard would fall in an instant. One moment it was a blizzard, but the next it will be suddenly sunny. In this case, identifying the direction becomes a big problem. There is a white expanse everywhere, there is no reference at all, and the sun is mostly obscured by dark clouds, which cannot be used as a reference.

In this case, Rao is now on this road, Li Deyi has already walked in advance, or two more detours before he found the unknown frozen ditch. Walking all the way along the ditch and finding the mark he had made before, Li Deyi rested here for a long time, dug out the buried jerky, and then continued on his way.

In this severe cold, I drove for ten days in the wind and snow, and the Tuliao horses I carried gradually began to be unable to support them. There wasn't much food in Li De's area, and even if you scavenged from the twenty-six Tuliao cavalry, you could eat almost enough these days. Seeing that if any horse couldn't support it, Li Deyi couldn't care about feeling sorry for these good Tuliao horses, so he directly gave it a good stab. Then they cut off large pieces of horse meat, and even horse intestines, and brought them with them, so that they could feed their hunger. In such bad weather, you have to make sure that you have something in your stomach to carry it. If you are hungry, it will not be long before your body loses its heat, and you will be further frozen by the raging cold wind, and the whole person will be frozen to death.

Since he hit Tongwan City, Li Deyi used a knife to carve a knife mark on the wooden coffin every day, and up to now, he has carved thirty-three knives, but the surrounding environment is still covered with snow everywhere, and there is no change in the slightest. Until now, he has not seen the mountains he is familiar with, the familiar Jinshui River, Li Deyi confirmed at this time that he has fallen and is completely confused. I went out this time, and walked a total of fifty-one days when I went to Tongwan City, and if I didn't go wrong when I came back, I should be able to see the mountains in the south at this time, and then dare to go five or six days, and turn over a few mountains, and Dingbei County was in front of me.

However, now, Li Deyi has completely lost his direction, in order not to let the blacksmith panic, he doesn't dare to say this, so he can only try his best to identify the direction every day and go back according to the route in his memory. As I walked, I hoped that the bad weather would end soon, and that the sun would be exposed as soon as possible, so that I could find my way home.

By the time of the forty-first knife mark, the jerky brought by Li Deyi had basically been eaten, and he hadn't eaten jerky for more than ten days. In order to take care of the blacksmiths, they were given all the jerky to eat, and they only ate raw horse flesh to feed their stomachs. "Hummer" also does not eat horse meat, in fact, most of the jerky goes into his stomach.

Up to now, five of the eighteen Tuliao horses that had been seized before had been eaten, and the horse meat was almost eaten, and Li Deyi began to eat horse intestines. Simply wipe the horse intestines in the snow, and eat them raw, regardless of the strong smell of horse manure on them. There are always people who say that the large intestine sashimi can be regarded as having eaten enough at one time, no, it will be eaten and vomited directly. Li Deyi now feels that his mouth is full of horse manure.

At this point, Li Deyi still wanted to try his best to keep these Tuliao horses, so that he could go back to be the war horses of the Weibei camp to raise. However, after eating horse intestines for several days, Li Deyi finally couldn't stand it anymore, and killed another horse and cut off a lot of horse meat. Li Deyi is not a professional butcher after all, and he can only remove large pieces of horse meat from the horse, and the horse meat between the ribs, Li Deyi is too hard. Later, he simply cut a piece of meat and ribs directly, and Li Deyi gnawed it as raw ribs.

By the forty-third day, the jerky had been eaten completely, and the blacksmith began to eat raw horse meat. However, Li Deyi didn't want to starve the "Humvee", so he gritted his teeth, and Li Deyi decided not to hurry up today, but to go around and see if he could meet a small grassland tribe and come back with some food.

Fortunately, the endless road really allowed Li Deyi to find a small tribe. Li Deyi also kept an eye on it, in this wilderness, he is alone, and the so-called wealth is not exposed. Li De hid the rest of the horses, and asked the "four eyes" to protect the blacksmith so as not to encounter wild wolves or anything else. He took three horses and rode a "Humvee" towards this small tribe.

This tribe is really small enough, and there are only about 20 tents in total. When they saw a stranger coming, they immediately became alarmed. Li Deyi approached on a "Humvee" and began to shout in the Tuliao dialect he had learned, to the effect that he was on his way and had no food, and wanted to exchange the three horses for some food.

Since it was exchanged for food with horses, these Yiren were naturally welcome, and a bold strong man walked over, broke the teeth of the three horses with his hand and looked at it, raised the horse's hooves to look at it, and then nodded to the Yiren behind him. Li Deyi stood there quietly and waited, and after a while, another strong man came out of the small tribe, but he only took a bag of dried meat.

Looking at this bag of jerky, Li Deyi was also a little dumbfounded. He had been calculating the value of the Tuliao horse according to the Weibei camp, but he forgot that he was now in the grassland. In the Ping Zhou Dynasty, no matter when, the best Tuliao horses were worth a lot of money. You can exchange as much food as you want for food. However, in the grassland, the situation is different, there are horses on the grassland, and what is most lacking in winter is precisely food and food. In winter, the use of horses on the grassland does not even want to exchange for food, but can exchange for a generation of jerky, which is already the result of the hospitality of this tribe.

Thinking of this, Li Deyi slapped his head sharply, and reached out to take out half a tea brick from his arms. This half of the tea brick was prepared for him by Doctor Liu before he went out, and the others were all used in Tongwan City, so there was only this half left. Sure enough, as soon as this half of the tea brick was taken out, the strong man's eyes immediately lit up. At this time, tea bricks are hard currency, which can be exchanged for a large amount of jerky. The strong man glanced at the half of the tea brick, looked at Li Deyi carefully for a while, and then turned his head and walked back.

Li Deyi felt that this strong man's eyes were a little fierce, but he didn't care, the Yi people on the grassland had to fight for their lives every moment, and it was normal to have a fierce aura in their eyes. After a while, the strong man came out with three young people, each carrying a bag of food. Take these four bags of food to Li Deyi, and when he opens them, there are three bags of jerky and a small bag of grain. Li Deyi didn't bring a pot now, and he couldn't eat the grain if he wanted it, so he pointed to the small bag of grain with his hand, and made them change it to two bags of jerky.

In the end, Li Deyi let the "Humvee" carry six bags of jerky and left the small tribe. These jerky are all air-dried beef and mutton, only one bag is horse meat, and each bag is not heavy, at most seven or eight catties. Li Deyi made a distinction, eating horse meat himself, and leaving beef and mutton for the "Hummer" and the blacksmith. In exchange for food, Li Deyi rushed to the road immediately, and he is really at home now.

However, a day later, Li Deyi was blocked again, and this time it was the half of the tea brick that caused him trouble. Those Yiren looked at Li De's clothes at that time, although they were dirty, they were obviously only worn by nobles, and they saw that he took out half a tea brick casually, and only regarded him as a fat sheep. When the strong man saw the wealth, he moved his mind to plunder. The strong man took the three young men of his tribe and didn't tell the elders of the tribe, so he ran out secretly. Therefore, young people who don't listen to old people will suffer in the end.

At the beginning, the twenty-six Tuliao cavalry were easily picked up by Li De's three strikes and five divisions. The four of them were in front of Li Deyi, and it was not enough to see at all. Li Deyi didn't even let the "Hummer" exert his power, and just cleaned up the four of them with a scimitar and a small hammer in his hand. Well, man, the flames of greed will eventually burn itself out.

casually picked up these four who wanted to make a cameo appearance as a robber, but met the unlucky man of the robber's grandfather, and then Li Deyi counted the remaining bit of jerky on his back, turned his head and glanced at the remaining Tuliao war horses behind him. I knew that if I didn't see the mountains for another 20 days, I would really be hungry. After knowing that he was going in the wrong direction, Li Deyi spent at least an hour every day re-identifying the direction, gritted his teeth, and turned around and walked south from memory.

Walking all the way to the south, the wind and snow gradually decreased, and without the wind and snow blocking the view, the dark clouds finally released the sun. Leaning on the sun, Li Deyi finally discerned the direction clearly. But there are also problems, the south has less wind and snow, and the climate is warmer, so it is very likely to encounter the grassland Yi tribe that spends the winter here. At this moment, Li De is alone and lacking, and if he encounters a big grassland tribe with bad intentions, he will be in big trouble.

After five days of driving south, the wind and snow around him were obviously much smaller, and the mountains in the south could be vaguely seen in his eyes. As for the three blacksmiths, Li Deyi didn't let them go hungry at all, and they ate enough every day. This place is much smaller than the wind and snow in the north, Li Deyi feels that although he has eaten a piece of dried meat, he can still hold on, not to mention that since he has seen the mountains in the south, he doesn't have to go south, he can turn around and go straight to the west. Walking along this mountain, it is time to see Shuanggu in a few days, and when you see Shuanggu, you will enter the territory of Weibei Ying.

Under Li Deyi's deliberate evasion, he finally did not encounter the Yiren tribe these days, and successfully came to the foot of the mountains in the south.

At this moment, Li Deyi couldn't look at it all over his body, wearing a torn felt and clothes pulled from others, in order to keep out the cold, he could wear a few pieces. Dressed like this, his body has directly gained a lot of weight, and he has caught up with the thickness of half of Wang Da Fat. Not only that, but the cold wind in winter on the grassland was like a knife, fast and ruthless, and all the clothes on Li De's body were smashed.

After walking for another seven days, even the last dried meat was eaten, so I could only grit my teeth and continue to kill the horse. In the end, when Li Deyi finally saw the symbol of Dingbei County, Shuanggu, tears flowed out of his eyes.

As soon as his knees were weak, Li Deyi knelt on the ground directly, and even couldn't help lowering his head, putting his face on the ground, and then pulling the dirt on the ground with his hands to bury his face, and sniffed deeply a few times. After resting for a long time, Li Deyi gathered enough strength, stood up again, and took the same tired "Humvee" and "Four Eyes" to pull the harvest of this trip, and the blacksmith began to rush home with staggering steps.

After entering Shuanggu, I didn't go far, and a team of people came to meet me, and seeing that there were about 100 people, I rushed over to meet Li Deyi.