Zhuang Yi's eyes lit up, of course he knew about pheasants, and he secretly slandered in his heart: Shagu's coarse goods are really shit luck, he will only waste this beautiful thing. I couldn't help but urge the horse to run over and smiled: "Shagu! Show me! ”

"No...... If you show it, you won't pay me back! Sha Gu stuffed the pheasant into the coat on horseback, and now he finally knew Zhuang Yi's character.

"You can't stuff it in a bag, the feathers are broken, and there's a fart!" When Zhuang Yi saw it, he almost cried out in a hurry, he wanted this pheasant too much.

Looking at his anxious appearance, no matter how rough Sha Gu is, he has a bottom in his heart, and his face is becoming more and more proud, and he estimates that he can knock a stroke hard, and laughs at the moment: "Hehe...... If you want to, you can do it! Give me the crossbow you got from Sodi, and the pheasant will be given to you!" ”

"What? Your mother's courage is getting bigger and bigger, and she actually wants to blackmail me! All right...... Deal! Zhuang Yi reluctantly took off the crossbow from his waist, and the two exchanged the crossbow with one hand and the pheasant with the other.

Zhuang Yixi took the pheasant with a smile, took it in his hand and looked at it over and over again, the place where the arrow was hit was under the pheasant's neck, fortunately, this can harvest a lot of gorgeous feathers. He was afraid that Shagu would regret it, so he immediately carefully bent the pheasant's tail feathers, put a separate hitch, and hung it on the horse's back. In the summer grassland, the grass is too lush, and there are many mosquitoes, flies and wild insects, as long as there are people or animals standing still, they will buzz with ecstasy and swarm to besiege them. Zhuang Yi was very tired of this kind of thing, waved his hand and kept driving away, and seven or eight wild dogs appeared one hundred and ten steps away, and they trotted away.

This kind of filthy guy who loves to eat rotten and stinky meat, the grassland people don't like it, and they don't want to hunt it, Zhuang Yi knows this disgusting animal too well, so he naturally doesn't bother to pay attention to it. In the dangerous grassland, there are stories of hunting each other every day, and the corpses left behind will deteriorate and breed pathogens and plagues. But there is also a natural predator that they fear to the bone, and that is the leopard.

Yes, leopard! And it was a black panther like a calf, and after the pack of wild dogs, it leaped out and rushed away. Zhuang Yi saw it, and the soldiers behind him also saw the sturdy black figure. This panther is too unintelligent, and its fate is not destined to be good.

"Good fellows! Chasing ......" Zhuang Yi was stunned for a moment, shouted excitedly, kicked the war horse fiercely, and chased away. He fixed his eyes on the panther for fear of getting lost, and at the same time controlled the horse with his legs, took off his bow and arrow from his back, and entered a waiting state.

Bian Wu and Sha Gu also followed with horses, and the soldiers chased wildly, and Bao En of the rear team saw this, thinking that the second round of hunting had begun, so he sent an order to echo the bone slave and Shuli, and also brought the soldiers under his command to follow.

Running a short distance, the speed of the black panther was really fast as the wind, Zhuang Yi's war horse was a little unable to keep up, and in a short period of time, it was pulled away from a hundred steps to one hundred and eighty steps, this distance, Zhuang Yi was not sure of an arrow at all. However, he is not worried, the leopard needs to be fast, but its endurance is not as good as that of a war horse, and there will always be times when it is tired of running.

Soon, the black panther got into the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, Zhuang Yi urged the horse to follow closely, fortunately, there were no thorns in the forest, only artemisia grass less than two feet high, the black panther could not hide its tracks, Zhuang Yi always hung it from a distance. But the panther was not stupid, and it naturally saw that there were people on the other side of the dense forest, so it quietly changed the direction of its run and went up the mountain.

Although the distance was more than two hundred steps, Zhuang Yi still did not intend to let go, continued to follow and chase, seeing that the speed of the black panther began to slow down, it rushed through a mountain mouth, out of the range of dense forests, and went up the hill towards the top of the mountain, where the trees were sparse and the grass was lush, it seemed that the black panther's physical strength was not as good as before, and he wanted to find a place to hide.

Zhuang Yi was overjoyed in his heart, and once again accelerated his horse speed and rushed up the hill, vaguely seeing the black panther appear in the depression grass under the hill, and then escaped into another dense forest, this chase is more than ten miles, and finally out of the dense forest, the figure of the black panther appeared and disappeared in the grass, and his footsteps began to stumble a little, and his physical strength was consumed to the limit. Zhuang Yi was ecstatic in his heart, and the distance between him and the black panther gradually narrowed.

Until a hundred steps, Zhuang Yi opened his bow to lock on to the target, but he was not in a hurry to shoot out, it took so much effort, just for the fur of this black panther, if he shot in the belly, it would be a waste. Eighty steps! He finally saw the opportunity, and at the moment when the black panther roared in horror and looked back, intending to change direction and flee, he shot an arrow without hesitation, and hit the black panther's green eyes with a "pounce".

The panther wailed and rolled his head to the ground, rolled a few times, and tried to get up, but in the end it was useless, and fell down weakly like a drunken strong man, leaving only his belly still rising and falling, but he was out of breath and less in breath.

Zhuang Yi breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the fine beads of sweat on his forehead, stepped forward slowly, took off the spear on the horse's back, and gently patted the panther, seeing that it was no longer able to move, he was about to dismount with a happy face and dragged the panther back. Suddenly, I heard the neighing of war horses, mixed with the roars of people, and the sound of weapons clashing, faintly heard in the wind.

Zhuang Yi closed his eyes and listened carefully, and gradually realized that this was not the voice from the side of the road he came from, but directly in front of him, where there was an undulating green field, and there was no half a figure. Could it be the Khitan Ranger...... It reminded him of what he had said in the operation. After thinking about it, he dismounted and fell to the ground again, put his ear to the ground and listened carefully, and sure enough, there was a slight vibration that was difficult to perceive, which showed that the battlefield was at least four or five miles away.

This distance is still safe for the time being, he simply sat on the ground to rest and rest, let the war horse gnaw the grass on the ground by itself, and decided to wait for Sha Gu and Bian Wu to bring people to arrive.

Soon, Sha Gu and Bian Wu arrived, at this time the wind stopped, the two obviously didn't hear any sound, happily stepped forward to inspect the black panther, Zhuang Yi called them, simply explained what happened, let Sha Gu look at the black panther, let Bian Wu go to inform Shuli and the bone slave, then turned over and rode on the big black horse that had recovered his strength, and followed the direction from which the voice came.

On the open grassland, a little sound can be heard far away, he trotted five or six miles on horseback, and finally saw the battlefield two miles away, immediately stationed on a hill and looked into the distance, only to see nearly a thousand cavalry dressed in black clothes and leather armor, holding scimitars, and more than 200 soldiers who were besieging a high ground and fighting in a chariot formation, this is by no means a mockery.

Those black-clothed cavalrymen were obviously Khitans, and the blue banners were all black wolf head patterns; On the other side of the heights, there was no flag, and it was impossible to see who it was, and the soldiers were uniformly dressed in blue robes and iron armor, and they were quite well-equipped. Although their number is small, they rely on the large carts connected by the periphery end to end in a circle, lined up into a solid circular defensive position, and can barely support and resist bravely, and there is no sign of abandoning the battle and fleeing for the time being, but the situation is already precarious.

Although I can't see who is besieged, but the Khitan people are the great enemies of the Xi people, and for a long time in the future, they will also be the enemies that Zhuang Yi guarded against, there is no need to hesitate, Zhuang Yi has already distinguished the enemy from me, but his own manpower has not yet arrived, is it appropriate for him to intervene at this time?

But the situation is getting more and more critical, and those blue-clothed soldiers are still too few after all, and they have to fight against five times the enemy, and they may collapse and flee at any time. Since I have met a friend, I will help them first, alleviate the crisis, and when Shuli and the bone slave bring people to arrive, it should be possible to expel the Khitans.

"Capture the dragon spear! Today is the time for you to drink blood and go ahead! Zhuang Yi muttered, he didn't have anything to be afraid of, these Khitans, sooner or later, they would have to face them, and it would be good to see their combat strength.

Thinking of acting, Zhuang Yi turned around and went down the hill from the other side, he had already seen the wolf head of the Khitans, that was the position of the commander, and decided to make a surprise attack, play a thief and capture the king, whether it succeeds or not is another matter, as long as they disrupt their command, the goal will be achieved.

Interestingly, neither side of the war has deployed sentry posts outside the battlefield, and this is certainly not a narrow encounter, but an ambush battle. Zhuang Yi also smoothly approached the slope outside the wolf's head, he checked the equipment, opened his bow and arched the arrow, and said another one in his mouth, only then his legs slammed the horse's belly, and rushed down the small hill along the direction of the wind, and the horse's speed instantly increased to the extreme.

Quickly approaching the Khitan periphery one hundred and ten steps away, Zhuang Yi only had time to shoot two arrows, shooting two enemy horsemen, there was only seventy or eighty steps left, and also ushered in the shocked Khitan soldiers A rain of arrows, he crouched on the horse, the spear in his hand was pulled left and right, and there was no danger of rushing through thirty steps, a round of arrow rain.

Facing more than 30 cavalry to meet the battle, this group of Khitan soldiers was quite well equipped, all wearing green and faint iron armor, holding iron rods, maces, copper hammers and other heavy weapons, this is obviously the officer's personal guard, because this kind of heavy weapons requires a large amount of fine iron, skilled blacksmiths can only make it, and ordinary herdsmen are absolutely unequipped.

The resources on the grassland are scarce, and iron ore is even rarer, even if there is iron ore, the Khitan people do not know how to open the mine at all, and basically adopt the primitive trade method of bartering to obtain it from the Central Plains. It can be seen that their way of living is extremely backward, and it is simply a primitive tribal alliance, let alone any tribal civilization. Even if there was later, it was after Abaoji, and gradually learned from the Central Plains, and used all means to recruit talents from the Central Plains, which established the feudal civilization regime and upgraded to the imperial era.