Chapter 34, a chance encounter with Jiming Village
With the arrival of the Huangtian family at Shiguantun, the sergeants' firearms drill at the training ground was obviously much more low-key, and a group of small flags that went out to patrol only began to shoot three rounds of live ammunition each time five miles away from Shishan, and the effect was to speak with the prey hit.
"Peng, Peng," the intermittent sound in the distance made a team of guards who had already entered the ravines of the West Mountain once again speed up their pace, and it was Zuo Shi Xiaoqi who led the team; The personal guard team was secretly divided into two small flags, with Xiao Liuzi leading ten people and Zuo Shi leading ten people.
Zuoshi's marksmanship is not very good, but the melee hand-to-hand combat ability is a must in the guard, and the Ximen family knife technique was used by him on the triangular army/stab, and he practiced with a wooden knife on weekdays, and he also killed the opponent whoa.
Helpless, the position of Zuo Shi's attack was vicious, and the speed was fast, and he was quick to pick up people's key points, and he was soon promoted to a small flag by Xiao Liuzi, but it was also under the jurisdiction of the captain.
Zuo Shi, who was carrying a fire gun, walked at the front of the team, and beside him was the sergeant Qin Dazui, a boy who was good at raising cattle, and it took a lot of effort to ask to see a hundred households before he was recruited into the personal guard.
You can see the footprints of the animal at a glance, and you can also see the time interval that has passed, coupled with the shooting talent revealed, two days after entering the pro-guard, the shotgun in Zuo Shi's hand was carried on Qin Dazui's shoulder.
"I said big mouth, do you see it, what wolf footprints, I can't even see the hair now, if I turn into a hare in the end, go back to play in the coal pit for a few days, we won't be able to run," Zuo Shi, who was sweating profusely, stayed with everyone for a long time, and the cold expression before gradually faded, but he was ruthless in training, and Qin Dazui remembered that he was too tired.
"That's right, Xiaoqi, it's definitely the mark of the wolf, my uncle was bitten by a wolf in the ground before, and I will never forget the footprints in the mud for the rest of my life," Qin Dazui, who was full of confidence, floated around the terrain left and right, and suddenly saw a few hairs in the bushes.
A group of animal footprints were found at the foot of Shiguantun Mountain, and after not taking them back at night to report, the cautious Xiao Ye sent a personal guard, and after checking, he learned that it was a group of passing wild wolves; At this time, the military households in the tun were shocked, and they asked the hundred households to send troops to suppress the wolves.
In autumn and winter, especially in winter, the steppe wolves roam in all directions, and for lone pedestrians, they are even better than robbers and horse bandits.
Miss Hetian was secretly hot, and with Brother Huang, Young Master Huang, Xiao Baihu, who chatted and drank every day, sent a personal guard team to make sure they found the wolves and strangled them.
After running out of the mountains to the west for nearly thirty miles, Zuo Shi really couldn't stand Qin Dazui's verbosity, "You said it was wolf hair, wolf, you saw the hair, go back and dig charcoal for you first," Qin Dazui, who was climbing on a high place to lookout, finally closed his mouth in frustration, causing the other sergeants to laugh.
The wolves moved very tightly, but they could not be found, and he had nothing to say.
It was also getting dark, and the team stopped advancing on a hill. In late autumn in the northwest, the sky gets dark quickly, and the night is cold.
Can't go into the forest, stay on the ridge, the mountain road back is rugged, I really can't go anymore, Zuo Shi was helpless and was about to order camping, the sharp-eyed Qin Dazui, suddenly shouted, "Wolves, wolves, right there,"
His voice made the already lax team immediately nervous, Zuo Shi followed Qin's big mouth gaze, climbed up to the high place a few times, took out the skin bag in his waist, and carefully took out the telescope.
Although it was dark, in the telescope, Zuo Shi still saw that under a few poplar trees in a field of artemisia grass at the bottom of the mountain, there were more than a dozen wild wolves circling back and forth, and a few of them ran into the distance, lying on the ground and not moving.
If it weren't for the sharpness of the telescope, he wouldn't have been able to find out that there were still a few wolves hiding in the half-human-tall artemisia grass.
Looking at the poplar tree that was not very tall, the branches and leaves were sparse, and the left stone could clearly see the figures swaying between the treetops, it turned out that the wolf had found a target for feeding.
"The squad is on alert, ready to attack," Following Zuo Shi's order, the sergeants who put down their backpacks sorted out their weapons and projectiles, pulled out the formation, and began to slowly touch down the mountain; With Xiaoqi's signal, Qin Dazui was already carrying his shotgun, lowered his body and jumped back a few times, and disappeared into the grass in the mountains.
Led by Zuo Shi, the group quickly descended to the foot of the mountain, on the Artemisia meadow, two hundred paces away from the wolves, nine sergeants lined up, "loaded," and after a low cheer, "Whoa," a row of shiny barrels of guns was raised; Zuoshi, who was on the far right, held his breath and narrowed his eyes.
"Peng," a dull firebolt sounded far from the hillside behind him; Qin Dazui's shotgun was tightly wrapped in burlap by him, and when it fired, the sound of the projectile firing was a little quieter.
A wild wolf lying on the ground, under the thick fur, a ball of blood suddenly burst out from its sturdy back, and it was about to get up with a scream, "Peng," and there was another distant sound, and a pointed bullet pierced its abdomen, making a bloody hole as thick as a thumb.
The unhurried sound of gunfire knocked down three of the wild wolves closest to the team one after another, and the wolves finally noticed that the restless wild wolves who were stimulated by the smell of blood looked around and soon found a row of humans in the distance.
"Peng," another wolf howled, knocked to the ground by a shotgun, and dragged its broken hind leg to wail, which also angered the wolves; "Woohoo," the wolves let go of their targets in the trees with a low roar, and gathered in formation and ran towards them.
The sound of the fire gun that kept ringing knocked the oncoming wolf to the ground, and also urged the wolves to run faster and faster, and the tall wolf in the lead had already entered the range of the Shiguan fire gun, and Bai Sensen's sharp teeth were clearly visible.
When the pack of wolves was all in range, the strong head wolf was almost fifty paces away, "From left to right, shoot," Zuo Shi gave the order, and pulled the trigger first.
"Peng, Peng, Peng," the cannon that sounded almost simultaneously not only shattered the head of the first wolf, but also knocked down the five or six fastest wolves, but the dozen or so wild wolves that followed closely behind had already bared their teeth and rushed up, their claws whipping up large patches of mud in the grass.
"On the crossbow," it was too late to reload again, Zuo Shi roared and dropped the firearm in his hand, and together with everyone, took off the crossbow in his waist, clicked the lever, and pressed his fingers on the bracket.
In less than two breaths, "shooting," the wild wolf that had already jumped up head-on, was quickly swept by a rain of arrows, and fell to the ground again, wailing.
"Out of the knife, in a group of two, on," the left hand stabbed, the left stone of the right hand waist knife, there was no need to step forward, the sergeants of the four groups rushed forward with a strange scream, and slashed the wounded wolves on the ground, and all of them were slashed and killed.
The wolf's wail soon fell silent.
Zuo Shi's eyes are not very standard squad tactics, but they stunned the two people in the trees in the distance, and they hid in the trees for most of the day.
Packing up his weapons, Zuo Shi shook his head at one of the sergeants, who thoughtfully ran towards the poplars.
Behind Zuo Shi, Qin Dazui, who was hiding in the distance, ran over with a shotgun, and before he had time to call his subordinates to show mercy, he saw these guys, and some of them actually peeled off the wolf skin on the spot.
This is not only evidence, but in winter, a wolf skin is put on the kang with nitrate, not to mention the warmth.
Anyway, this kind of wolf skin that was beaten full of holes, Baihu would definitely not want it.
The sergeant ran under the tree, and after asking a few words, he brought two young men dressed as hunters to Zuo Shi, "Report Xiaoqi, these two people said that they were hunters, and let the wolves surround them,"
"Uh, Orion? Are you a nearby Orion? Putting the fire gun on his shoulder, Zuo Shi asked strangely as he watched the sergeant clean up the battlefield; He's been in Shiguan for a few months, and he's never seen a village nearby.
"Yes, Master Jun, we are the Orion Hunters in the vicinity, just behind that mountain beam, called Jiming Village," replied the tall man, who was obviously a little malnourished, with a shrunken hand, and behind him stood a small young man, with a pale face with a look of obvious alarm.
"Jiming Village? Which county is in charge, I haven't heard of it," Zuo Shi shook his head, he was not interested in these, "Since it is fate, we can't eat these wolf meats, and it's troublesome to take them, you two can take them,"
"Ah, thank you, thank you, thank you," the tall and thin man was surprised, and the little man was not so nervous, and the two of them carried simple bows and arrows on their backs, and went to clean up the wolf meat with the sergeants.
The tall and thin man had his arm scratched by a wolf, and the kind sergeant gave him a small tube of ale, and a medicine belt, which had the powder of the skin of the vine grass fruit ground on it; "Wash the wound with wine, tie the medicine belt, and it will be fine soon,"
was saved his life, and he kindly gave him a medicine belt, and the two hunters, who were embarrassed to leave, volunteered to give Zuo Shi and them, and roasted wolf meat; However, the green salt that Zuo Shi took out made the two hunters salivate.
Twelve people, roasted two wolves, the sergeant ate averagely, and the two hunters ate, which was earth-shattering, and Zuo Shi grinned vigorously, "I said, don't let you two die, take it back and eat it slowly, you two can take as much wolf meat as you want, whatever you two,"
"It's delicious, it's delicious, I haven't eaten salt for a long time," the little young man muttered as he chewed on the tendons in his mouth, still clutching a piece of roast meat in his hand.
Staying overnight in the meadow, Zuo Shi had nothing to do, arranged the night patrol sentry, pulled the two hunters who were still eating meat, and chatted sentence by sentence.
It turned out that these two brothers, named Shangwen and Shangwu, ran out of the village to hunt, but they didn't expect the prey to be missed, and they were almost taken as prey by the wolves that wandered here.
As for Jiming Village, there are less than 20 households, there is little arable land in the mountains, and most of the families also rely on hunting to survive, deep in the mountains and wilderness, they have never seen the official army here; Only the tall and thin ones sometimes go out to the fort city a hundred miles to the south to change some daily necessities.
"Then you go out to hunt, the family is still waiting, let's go back," the straw sandals on the feet of the two people, the ragged coarse cloth clothes, Zuo Shi knew that he couldn't ask anything more, and didn't say anything more, and called the sergeant.
Pick up the fleshy thigh meat on the wolf's body, bring as much as possible to the two of them, and give half of the green salt, and in the gratitude of the two hunters, Zuo Shi let them go; If he stayed, the tall and thin man would be even more panicked, and the sergeants in other places were not as easy to talk as Zuo Shi.
"If there is anything, you can come to Shiguantun to find us, and our Ximen Baihu will help you," Zuo Shi said lightly when parting.
With a homemade simple bow and arrow, and two large bags of wolf meat on their backs, Orion went home overnight, and they rested for one night, and after remembering the nearby terrain, they returned to Shiguantun the next day.
Back in Tunli, after Zuo Shi's order, he took the sergeants to show off under the big tree, and after everyone was amazed by the wolf skin full of holes, he was handed over to the craftsman to nitrate.
Huang Changzu, who heard the sound, had inspected the bloody wolf skin, and was full of expectations for the fire gun in Xiao Ye's hand.
Five days later, the Tianjia shop opened, which was also a grocery store, selling everything every day; Xiao Ye came to congratulate him, and reluctantly sent Miss Tian to leave Shiguantun, and his eldest brother Huang Changzu was also leaving with the goods.
Xiao Ye was good to Huang Changzu, and gave away five new revolver fires/guns for nothing, and ten long fires/guns were charged for money; After all, the old and young in Shiguan Tun have to eat and drink.
Rao is like this, Huang Changzu, who consciously has face, happily asked Huang Deshan to make a receipt, and he will use the goods to offset it in the future; Inside and out, his shops have made money.
The night before parting, Xiao Ye handed over a revolver to Tian Xiuxiu, "This gun is quite powerful, fifty steps can kill people instantly, use it carefully,"
"I know, the Huang family has another business," Tian Xiuxiu lay in the thin quilt, said lazily, and her white lotus-like arms grabbed Xiao Ye, "I'm leaving tomorrow, you have to accompany me,"
"Okay, you're too ruthless," Xiao Ye casually put the handcuff on the wooden box on the edge of the kang, stripped off his clothes on the kang, and picked up the hot woman again; As for going to the mill this morning, don't think about it.
In the past few days, I have been putting the vine grass kernel into the stone mill, but I have not seen any new patterns appear, but the careful Xiao Ye found that the rapidly rotating lower plate of the stone mill is also faintly thickened.
"I don't know, what will become of the stone mill," the woman who hugged the woman who was as soft as water, Xiao Ye had a faint smell in her nose, which was different from the fragrance on Tian Xiuxiu's body.
On the double-layer gauze that fell off the edge of the kang, in the cotton silk bandeau top, there was a small sachet, and the musk in the sac exuded a faint medicinal fragrance.