Chapter 87: Wolves in the Wilderness (2)
Li Deyi told Zahe that he could go out alone to find the wolves, and then he could find a way to try to catch a female green giant wolf. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info was about to be desperate when he heard this, and he was naturally overjoyed. When Li Deyi said that he needed three horses and enough dried meat for half a month, Zahe immediately called his subordinates and quickly prepared everything for Li Deyi.
Horses and food were nothing more than a matter of words to Zahe, and before leaving, Zahe even mysteriously stuffed a small silver flask to Li.
In the ardent anticipation, Li Deyi rode a "Humvee" with "four eyes", followed by three horses, carrying enough food, and walked alone into the heavy snow outside the city again. At this time, the weather on the grassland outside Tongwan City was even worse than when Li Deyi came. The snow was all over the sky, and the cold north wind blew on people like knives, scraping on their faces and causing pain, and blowing on their bodies, blowing Li Deyi's sheepskin jacket outside.
Li Deyi touched a handful of snowflakes that were the size of goose feathers on his eyes, clamped his legs, signaled to the "Hummer", and walked into the heavy snow, and after a while, his back was blurred by the heavy snow.
In fact, Li Deyi knew in his heart, braving the heavy snow to come out, he could only see a few steps in front of him, let alone looking for wolves, if he didn't get lost, don't fall into the snow hole and be buried alive by the snow, even if his life is big. After leaving the city, Li Deyi walked north for a while, turned his head to look, and could no longer see the outline of Tongwan City at all, so he turned around and walked to the northwest. Li Deyi did not look for the wolves, but walked cautiously along the retreat route he had calculated in the past few days, and began to investigate along the way.
Silently counting the time, after walking for half a day, Li Deyi looked up and wanted to look around, but found that his eyelashes were frozen into an inch-long ice cube. Li Deyi didn't dare to reach out to touch it, at this time, the eyelashes had to fall out, and he could only wait for when he went back and slowly melted away. Li Deyi stretched out his hand to hold the neck of the "Humvee", slowly stood up on the back of the mule, and looked around carefully.
After observing for a while, Li Deyi was frustrated to find that the wind and snow were too big, the heavy snow completely blocked his vision, and completely covered the ground, and the four white fields were full of snow, and he really couldn't find anything that could be used as a marker. For the time being, I didn't find a road sign that could be used as a marker, and Li Deyi was not discouraged, it was almost noon, and no matter how big it was, I had to finish the dinner first. Li Deyi got off the "Humvee" and let the three horses stand side by side to the north of him, while he squatted under the belly of the horse to resist the wind. "Four Eyes" also wanted to learn from Li Deyi to squat under the horse's belly, but as soon as he got close to the war horse, the war horse kicked and jumped, screaming loudly, and finally had no choice but to squat outside. "Hummer" has dragon blood, so he is naturally not afraid of the cold, and he doesn't feel cold at all. took out the frozen hard jerky from his arms, Li had to give a piece to "Hummer" and "Four Eyes", and took a piece himself, and he had to put the jerky in his mouth first to soften it, so that he could bite it.
Nibbling on the hard jerky in his mouth, Li Deyi began to think about retreating in the future. In the end, if it really didn't work, he simply tied it up. According to the observation of the past few days, his Anda should have a very high status among the Tuliao people, if he is caught, there should be no problem in exchanging him with the Tuliao people for three blacksmiths. It's not that Li Deyi doesn't want to ask a few more blacksmiths to go back, but Tongwancheng is almost thousands of miles away from Dingbei County, and what's even worse is that now the grassland is full of snow, and the climate is extremely harsh. Besides, when the time comes, the Tuliao people will definitely have a large army to pursue them, and if they bring more people, it is a question of whether they can escape.
This heavy snow covers the ground, and people step on it, and fall directly into the snow beyond their knees, if they only rely on two legs, they can't walk fast if they are tired. The blacksmith Li Deyi estimated that he was so strictly guarded by the Tuliao people that his body must be weak, and he would have to make a snow plow to pull them when the time came. Thinking of this snow climbing plow, Li Deyi didn't know whether to be grateful or angry, this thing is rumored to be made by Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty when he conquered the grassland barbarians, for the convenience of the army in winter operations, with this learning to climb the plow, the army can march smoothly on the snow field. Hundreds of years have passed, and the people of the Ping Zhou Dynasty may have long forgotten about this thing, but now the Yi people on the grassland, every family has this snow plow, which greatly facilitates the winter movement of the Yi people.
Not only is it difficult to get back, but the food you eat along the way is also a big problem. Walking back with the three blacksmiths, the food had to be prepared in advance. After all, it must be much slower to walk back in such bad weather than when you came, and it is estimated that you will have to walk for more than a month. If you are hungry on the road, it is easy to freeze to death on the way because of hunger, which leads to low temperatures. Touching the big burden of jerky on the horse behind him, Li Deyi had an idea.
Walking and stopping along the way, Li Deyi encountered obvious markings along the way, such as piles of rocks and dirt slopes, so he went over to leave a mark. It was like this until the third day, when the snow finally stopped, and Li Deyi could see the distant scene clearly. Spotting a small mound in front of him, Li Deyi rode a "Humvee" in that direction. Wangshan ran away from the dead horse, and it was not until it was dark that he finally reached the bottom of the mound.
Li Deyi looked around, discerned the direction, found a leeward place, and then buried his head in the snow pit and began to dig a snow pit. After the snow pit was dug, Li had to untie the burden on his back, leaving only two meals of dried meat for himself, and burying the rest in the snow pit. After filling it with snow, Li Deyi took the black cloth that was used as a burden and covered it on top of the snow pit, then covered it with snow and left a little bit on the outside as a mark.
stepped on the snow with his feet, Li Deyi was still not at ease, and finally simply unbuttoned his trousers and sprinkled a soak of urine on the top of the snow pit. As soon as the hot urine hit the ground, the snow melted away, but then it froze firmly and became a piece of yellow ice, which became a very conspicuous mark. Just in case, Li Deyi piled up two tall pointed snow pillars not far from the side, and in such weather, these two snow pillars could remain unchanged for a whole winter. Moreover, this place is located on the south side of the mound, and there is a mound blocking it on the north side, and the snow will not pile up very thickly, and even if it covers the furoshiki, it will not completely cover the two of them who are more than one person tall and hold a thick snow pillar.
I buried my food and made a mark. Li Deyi squatted on the ground and began to rest, calculating that this trip would come out, and it would be okay to come here, and then he should think of a way to go back and deal with Zahe. Li Deyi frowned and was thinking about it when he heard a wolf howl in the distance. "There's wolves nearby!" Li Deyi immediately stood up from the ground, "I'm worried about how to go back and deal with Zahe, this group of wolves is coming, haha!" "Li Deyi is so happy, someone gave him a pillow when he was sleepy!" No, it's better to be careful, in case this is a big wolf pack, you won't be able to handle it on your own. ”
Thinking of this, Li Deyi turned around and drew his saber, then pulled out one of the three horses, mounted the "Humvee", went around to the north of the mound, and walked two miles north, seeing that it was far enough away from the mound, and with a wave of his hand, cut off the horse's head. Just let the warm horse blood spill on the ground, and gradually became cold, Li Deyi cut off a large piece of horse meat, leaving the horse bones and internal organs in place. In the winter grasslands, not only people can't find food, but wolves are also hungry. The warm smell of horse blood can spread out for dozens of miles in an instant along the cold wind raging everywhere. The wolf's nose is the smartest, and the hungry wolf's nose is even smarter, and it won't be long before the hungry wolves will follow the smell of blood.
In order to attract wolves, Zahe didn't use this trick less, but unfortunately he was too close to Tongwan City. If the wolves on the grassland are not extremely hungry, they generally do not approach densely populated places, let alone a large city with millions of people such as Tongwancheng, the strong human smell will scare off all the wolves. The wolves on the steppe will at most besiege the sheep of the small tribes, and will never take the initiative to provoke the densely populated large tribes. It is said that wolves are terrible beasts, and when it comes to wolves, people always think of cold-blooded, cruel hunting, and so on. But when it comes to killing, where is the wolf the opponent of people, and the Tuliao people on the grassland, which adult man kills more than the wolves, and kills even more ruthlessly. The blood qi that kills and kills too much in the Tuliao people can scare off the most vicious wolves from afar. Therefore, although Zahe used this trick, he could not attract wolves near Tongwan City, even if he was attracted by the smell of blood, the wolves would soon be frightened away by the murderous aura of Tongwan City.
Standing there and waiting for a while, Li Deyi frowned, it was too cold, and it didn't take long for the horse's blood to be completely frozen. This is not good, and it is still pointing to that bloody breath to attract wolves. After thinking about it, Li Deyi decided to start a fire. Cutting through the thick layer of snow above, and below is the withered yellow hay, which can be used to start a fire. The snow outside the plug is not as good as that in the Kannai, the weather is too cold, and it will freeze when it lands, and it will not melt at all, so the dead grass below is still dry in winter, just enough to be used to make a fire.
After picking up some hay and lighting the fire, Li Deyi picked up a piece of horse meat and roasted it on the fire. The wind was too strong, and in order to keep the fire, Li Deyi had to stand on the north side to block the fire until the aroma of barbecue came out. After the aroma of barbecue came out, Li Deyi extinguished the fire. Wolves are naturally afraid of fire, and if this fire is not extinguished, I am afraid that it will get in the way when the time comes. After all this was done, Li Deyi immediately rode the "Humvee" back to the back of the small mound, lay on the top of the mound, and waited quietly.
After a while, night fell, under the starry sky of the grassland, the sky after the wind and snow was exceptionally clear, and the second month of tonight was especially bright, and the snow reflected the moonlight, as bright as day.
Li Deyi took out the small pot of wine given by Zha He, took a sip, warmed his body, lay on the top of the mound, quietly rubbed his hands back and forth, and waited for the arrival of the wolves. There was a cold wind whistling overhead, and Li Deyi carefully controlled his breathing, so that in such a quiet night, any slight sound would be transmitted far away, and the wolf's ears were very sharp, and the wolves nearby would definitely hear it. "Hummer" was bored, and when he approached Li Deyi, he also wanted to taste a sip of wine, but Li De couldn't twist him, so he had to pour a little into his hand and lick and drink it with his tongue for "Hummer".
"Four Eyes" was happily munching on horse meat under the mound, and as a giant green wolf, he loved the cold and unusual weather on the grassland, which was where his ancestors had lived for generations. Suddenly, "Four Eyes" stopped, swallowed half of the horse meat in his mouth, and then pricked up his ears, and the stiff hairs on his body stood on end. "Four Eyes" pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the movement in the wind, sniffed carefully with his nose, and then turned his head and wagged his tail at Li Deyi, who understood what he meant, and listened carefully with him. The second month sprinkles the white moonlight in the sky, imprinting on the snow-covered grassland, which looks mysterious and peaceful.
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