Chapter Twenty-Four: Wolf Smoke
Ayigo asked and answered himself, Song Yang, Luo Guan and others had already flashed out of the door, only to see the villagers looking panicked, helping the old and the young, pulling the only livestock that could be called 'belongings', and fled to the south in a chaotic manner, when a well-wisher passed by the door, he did not forget to shout to Song Yang 'Run', said, stretched out his hand and pointed behind him.
Due north, more than ten miles away, black smoke billowed into the sky...... Wolf smoke rises, but it doesn't come from the Beacon Tower.
In every village near the frontier, dung and firewood are piled up at ordinary times, and as soon as they find out that the dogs and wolves are attacking, they will light beacons, notify neighboring villages to take refuge, and more importantly, send the border army to rescue. This is also a warning to the barbarians, signaling my military horses to stop in the blink of an eye.
According to the commonly known rule, as soon as they see the wolf smoke ahead, everyone will retreat south. But as far as the village where Song Yang is now is concerned, the other party is still at least ten miles away, and it is impossible to kill him in a moment.
The village was in chaos, but Song Yang soon discovered that there was still a little doll who was not in a hurry, with no panic on his face, and looked at his fellow villagers with a smile on his hands.
Qi Shang was very curious, stretched out his foot and gently kicked the little baby's buttocks: "Why don't you run?" ”
Xiaowa shrugged her shoulders: "The village in front of you is in front, there is a sentry, when you see the grassland people, you will report back to the village in front, and the village in front will light a fire to notify the border army, and when the grassland people see the smoke, they know that the village in front of them knows that they are coming, they will not come, and they will come in vain, and everyone will run away early." ”
This doll is not slurred, but too clear, what is in front of the front, came to Bailai, and muttered clearly in his mouth, it is really rare, and Qi Shang is amused.
And the doll's words are not finished: "The sentry is good, and the village in front of it can be notified immediately if there is any wind and grass, so the village in front is always on fire, but throughout the year, there may not be one or two grassland soldiers who really come, not even the village in front, they will not come here, there is no need to escape." Xiaowa is like Gu Zhaojun sixty years ago, and in the middle of a tirade, her hands have been in her sleeves.
The border people have been harassed by the war, so they have become more and more cautious and cautious, saying that they don't care whether they are bows and snakes, or soldiers and trees, they don't care, they are at least alive if they flee a thousand times more, and they may die if they escape one less time.
When the little baby who was there was still about to say something, his father ran over and sandwiched him under his armpit, and said, "You talk a lot of nonsense!" While scolding, he fled with his son in his arms.
In order to prevent accidents, Song Yang and his entourage also withdrew from the village, but they did not flee as far away as the villagers, but lurked in the wilderness not far from the village.
Qi Shang looked at the sky and said to Song Yang: "It's almost, let's go." The group cleaned up a little, Song Yang carried the porcelain doll on his back, and the great master took up the right prime minister, and set off for the north...... But they had only just traveled more than ten miles, and they all stood in unison, and everyone frowned and looked at each other.
According to the 'trumpet Gu Zhaojun', the outpost notified the front village, and the front village lit a fire and spread it to the Quartet, and the dog soldiers would retreat with interest... This time the doll guessed wrong, and the dog Rong didn't know what to do, avoiding the front sentry.
An entire village was slaughtered, and there were corpses and streams of blood...... The difference is that when the soldiers are hand-to-hand, the desert warriors like to use scimitars, while the steppe wolves use short spears, so the corpses in front of them are left with huge blood holes, and many of the dolls' fatal wounds are on the top of the head.
The doll was short, and when she ran for her life, the Dog Rong cavalry galloped past her, and the short spear pierced from top to bottom, piercing through the little baby's heavenly spirit cover.
There was a mess in the eyes; There was a thick blood in the air, and there was an unusually strange smell, which Song Yang often smelled when he was a servant in the town...... When a person dies, his body will emit a special smell, which ordinary people can't smell, but Song Yang's five senses are sharp, so he can detect it.
The smell didn't stink, it's hard to describe what it looked like, and after a while, the smell of corpses came out, and the smell was gone.
Song Yang called it a dead taste.
At that time, it is not difficult to imagine the situation: at dusk, after a hard day's work, the smoke rises from the cooking in the village, the women are busy in front of the pot, the men take out the choking soju, and the dolls hurry up and want to try to end the game that is halfway through the game before being called home for dinner by their parents, but no one thought that in the next moment, the wolf pawn fell from the sky.
The people in the village were in time to light the dung and firewood and release the beacon smoke, but they didn't have time to flee for their lives, let alone wait for their own soldiers and horses to come to the rescue.
More than 100 surnames are just half a meal.
The wolf smoke is difficult to extinguish together, and the dog cavalry 'fights the grass and startles the snake' did not go deeper, I don't know whether they will be satisfied with the triumphant division after this slaughter, or they will still return in a huff.
The porcelain doll pressed his shoulder, and Song Yang came back from his thoughts. Anyone standing in the center of a bloody corpse would not be happy, Song Yang sighed: "Keep walking." ”
Set off again and continued to the north, but this time, from the Great Grandmaster Luo Guan to the seven and eight subordinates, they all unconsciously accelerated their pace. Purely instinctively, they didn't even notice that they were running harder than before.
In the village, most of them have paid attention to one detail, among the corpses everywhere, there are old people, men and dolls, but there are no young women...... The tragedy in front of them has nothing to do with them, and no one will take the initiative to say 'hunt down the murderer'. But what if you catch up without knowing it? The guys wouldn't mind slashing over a few brutes to see if their necks were made of meat.
There are no absolute villains in this world, even real liars and villains will hide even a little bit of kindness in their hearts. No one thinks about it: why should I hurry? But it's this little kindness that makes them run fast.
It was about more than ten miles of galloping, and Luo Guan, who was leading the team at the front, suddenly stopped, waved his hand to his companions, signaled everyone to dodge, and was obviously excited, and each touched it from his waist and pulled out the dagger he carried.
Soon the sound of horses' hooves in front came, I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or be disappointed, the opposite galloping came not a wolf pawn, but a Yan soldier, as if drunk, his body shook badly, before he got close he could no longer hold on, a grunt from the horse's back planted to the ground, until then everyone saw clearly, this person had an arrow stuck in his back, and the blood had long stained his armor red.
Luo Guan's figure swayed slightly, as fast as a puff of green smoke grabbed his side, and he didn't support the other party, but put his hands behind his back, stretched out his foot and gently kicked Yan Zu's heavenly spirit. The strength was used just right, and the body of the Yan pawn, who had already fainted, trembled suddenly, and then he woke up, barely opened his eyes, and saw that there were Han people dressed as civilians in front of him, and the Yan pawn came to some spirits, and said with difficulty: "There is a border camp of my Yan army for seventy miles to the west, and I bother a few people to spread the news, just say that Shenwei was attacked and the whole team was destroyed, they will understand...... The camp has its own reward, and you will not be allowed to run in vain. ”
Luo Guan frowned: "You make it clear first, what's going on." ”
But when the problem landed, the other party was silent, Song Yang stretched out his hand to probe, and Yan Zu had died of anger. The arrow behind him hit the point, and he can still ride a horse and gallop for a while, and persist until now, he is already full of vitality.
The old man seemed to have discovered something, walked a few steps, neither cared about the dead nor was afraid of desecrating the corpse, and stretched out his hand to pull out the arrow behind the swallow, but the old man was weak, and he couldn't succeed in pumping a few times, Qi Shang stepped forward to help, and pulled out the arrow and handed it to him: "What's suspicious?" ”
The arrow had barbs, and there were a few pieces of minced meat hooked on it, the old man didn't care at all, he carefully looked at the body of the arrow by the moonlight, and then asked Song Yang: "Do you want to deliver a letter?" ”
Song Yang shook his head, if he went to the barracks to deliver a letter, he would definitely encounter an identity check, they would not see the light now, not to mention that Song Yang would not help Jingtai's army.
The expected answer, Master Ban nodded: "Then let's talk as we go." ”
That arrow is not too special, but the body of the arrow is special, it is easier to break armor than ordinary arrows, and the cost is relatively expensive, and among the dog soldiers, only the 'star cluster' is qualified to use it. The so-called 'star cluster' refers to the 'marksman'.
The 'marksman' in this kind of army can't be compared with Chen Hui and Luo Guan, it's not too valuable, but it's not just any squad that can be 'equipped'.
The dog army was organized into three, with 30 people in the small army, 300 people in the middle army, 3,000 people in the big army, and then it was assembled into a battalion.
When the right prime minister was in power, he visited the grassland several times, and had a detailed investigation of the dog Rong government, military system, and folk customs, and knew a lot of things. ”
There are 3,000 soldiers, and in terms of cross-border plundering alone, the number of people is inevitably too much, not to mention that 3,000 people running out at once will also delay the defense of their home camp.
Ayigo was not good at Chinese, so he frowned when he heard it: "The grassland barbarian is not clear-headed, he is obviously 'Wu', but he is thirty, three hundred, three thousand, stupid poke and poke, and he is not afraid of confusion." ”
The grassland people definitely can't get it together, and it's not easy to say that Heikouyao is not very good. Qi Shang took up another topic: "Listen to what that Yan pawn means, the nearest camp of the Yan army is still seventy miles away... Isn't that? It was so far away that even if the village lit the wolf smoke into the sky, they would not be able to rush to the rescue. ”
After speaking, he thought about it, and wondered again: "There are also dog soldiers, are they too bold, they don't dare to go further when they go to the first village, Yan soldiers are still seventy miles away, what are they afraid of?" ”
No one could answer his question, and in the darkness of the night, the group hurried away.
Because he was running wildly, Song Yang also freed up a spirit, and carefully checked himself while running his internal strength, the last time he had an inexplicable nosebleed in the backyard of the restaurant, he always felt a little uneasy, and every time he looked inside before, the meridians were unhindered, the five were good, and there was no problem at all...... Two hours passed quickly, the moon was in the middle of the sky, the night was thick, Luo Guan, who was in the front, slowed down again, and when Song Yang came up, he said softly: "Catch up." ”
The Grand Master smiled.
(To be continued)