In the middle of the night, the wind and snow stopped slightly, the reckless jungle of Daxianbei Mountain (Daxing'an Mountains) sounded a sharp wolf howl, the night is the time of hunting beasts, the hungry jungle gray wolf haunts wantonly, and occasionally encounters Xiong Zhen (brown bear), big wild boar, jungle leopard, fox and the king of Daxianbei Mountain, Xianbei Tiger. ←

Beasts in the distance scream a lot, but the sparsely wooded snow is quiet, and the beasts don't waste their energy in the thick snow, especially in some parts of the deep mountain forest.

The seasonal warm period of BC led to frequent rainy and flood disasters in summer, and sea storms, tsunamis and seawater inflow were very frequent in coastal areas, and the corresponding northern winter was snowstormy, and the winter along the Yellow River was snowing for at least a month, and the snowfall in the Daxianbei Mountain area in the northeast was even more amazing, and the precipitation for most of the year was concentrated in winter.

The Xianbei hunters trudged through the snow and they were hunting.

The night vision ability of animals is better than that of hunters, experienced Xianbei hunters try to avoid night action, even if they must act at night, they will move forward in groups of three or five with swords and bows on their backs, there are too many dangers in the jungle, the most common danger is the jungle wolf, the cunning beasts are very good at attacking from behind the hunter, they can stand up and put their front legs on the hunter's shoulder, and bite the hunter's throat at the moment when the hunter turns back.

Ordinary beasts are scared away with torches, and they are helpless when they encounter fierce bears and big boars, so they can only pray that they are lucky not to encounter fierce beasts in estrus, and the Xianbei tiger with cubs is also very terrifying.

Yu Li Surgu crept close to the edge of the forest, and behind him he was thirty young and strong Xianbei hunters, who were targeting the herd of elk that roothed in the forest. The elk's alertness is alarmed if they are not careful, and only the best hunters can approach it silently. Hunting requires not only great skill, but also care and patience.

There was a whistle from several directions in the dense forest, and the vigilant male elk immediately stood up. Unfortunately, it was killed by an arrow before it could give a warning, and then the awakened elk let out a cry, but it was too late.

The Xianbei hunters attacked from all sides, holding strong bows and sharp blades, and within a while, the poor elk herd was killed, leaving only the little elk born less than one year old last spring standing tremblingly in place, and the little elk who were scared by the Xianbei people roared and fled in many ways, they just stood in place and watched the little elk escape coldly.

The huntress muttered to herself, "We didn't want to do it, but we're sorry to kill it in order to survive." Hopefully they will survive this winter. ”

"Don't lose it! We are running out of time, take the prey as soon as possible and get out of here before dawn, and the Hun patrols will appear again at dawn. Yu Li Surgu carried the two hundred pounds of the buck, and walked out with his left hand holding the neck of the other buck, the strong Xianbei male hunter carried the stag, and the petite Xianbei female huntress carried the doe.

Bessanlan turned around: "We must clean up the blood stains and footprints, there will be no more snow before dawn, the bloody gas will attract wild beasts and Huns, and the footprints will reveal our whereabouts." ”

Yu Li Surgu nodded: "Everyone clean up the blood stains and footprints on the snow, and don't let the Hun cubs find any traces." ”

The Xianbei hunter broke off the Masson Pine and carefully swept away the traces, his pale face was expressionless, and his brown eyes looked around vigilantly, living in the jungle all year round, and mastering various enemy escape skills. They are natural hunters in the jungle.

The hunt took three days to plan, tracking the elk's habitat several times to determine the general range of movement, and sneaking into the dense forest before the sun set. Touching the back of the elk herd, he suddenly attacked, and successfully killed more than 200 elk. It will not solve the food crisis, but it will at least alleviate the difficult situation.

The life of the Xianbei people is very hard. It was extremely difficult to live in the mountains and forests to fight with the bears, last year's heavy snowstorm hit made the days very poor, the house leak happened to hit the Huns overnight and bumped into the Huns to find their stubble, the Xianbei people really poured eight lifetimes of bad luck, in order to survive the tribe worked together to grit their teeth and insist, in the tribe up to the seventy-year-old old, down to the seven or eight-year-old children must work, the young and strong to hunt in the mountains and forests or to the front line to resist the enemy, the old and weak women and children from the fire to cook to cut wood for arrows are all wrapped.

Xianbei women also have to carry swords to hunt, there is no blue sky and white clouds under the beautiful prairie and herds of cattle and sheep, Xianbei people must fight with the beasts in the Xianbei Mountain, but also always beware of the hateful Huns pumping cold attacks and harassment, the more to the moment of heavy snowfall, the more frequent the Huns dispatch, simply chase the Xianbei people into the deep mountains and old forests without forcing people to die.

"You let the little elk go? Darn! The snow-white beard of the Xianbei elder curled up: "Do you know how many people are starving, and it is a shameful act to let go of prey, and you want to watch your own people starve to death and be eaten?" ”

"I know ......"

"Yu Li Surgu! It's not shameful for you to lose to the Huns, it's really shameful to lose to the Huns and be discouraged, do you want to be a coward? ”

Don't lose Lan hurriedly said: "Abba, don't blame Surgu, I let the little elk go." ”

Another elder scolded in a low voice, "Shut up! He is the leader of the hunters, and he is responsible for releasing the prey. ”

"No, I don't agree!" Tuoba Yili stood up and retorted: "Our Baibu Xianbei has suffered a lot of losses, we have no power to fight back against the iron tools that the Huns got out of nowhere, and Yu Li Surgu is still injured, you can't punish such a warrior." ”

The Xianbei leaders glanced at each other: "We support Tuoba!" ”

"The shameful failure was all due to my command mistakes, and I deserve to be punished." Yuli Surgu knelt down and bowed his head, waiting for the guards to capture him and pull him out and behead him.

The young Xianbei man jumped up anxiously: "Elder stop, the great enemy must not destroy his arms at present, Yu Li Surgu is dead, and the warriors of our ancestors will lose confidence." ”

The scene fell into an awkward silence.

"Forget it, Yu Li Surgu is a warrior of my clan, and the sins of this battle will be recorded in the cast for the time being, waiting for one day to make up for it!"

The Xianbei King spoke out, and the elders were silent one after another, and the fault for the failure was not suitable for Yu Li Surgu alone.

Xianbei people never expected to lose to the incompetent Huns at the foot of the Great Xianbei Mountain, Xianbei people are tall, strong, fierce and fierce, the Huns are slightly shorter and the strength is slightly inferior, the self-proclaimed ancestors of the various Rong Di to some strong tribes, but they and the Huns are also not good at winter combat, especially not good at fighting in the dense forest of ice and snow, it stands to reason that the Xianbei people should kill the Huns like killing chickens and sheep.

But this is not the case, the scene is one-sided to the Huns who should be at a disadvantage, suddenly there are more compound bows and a large number of iron knives to defeat the arrogant Xianbei people, the Xianbei people who are strong but only have short knives and daggers can not defeat the more armed Hun invaders, the war from the beginning fell to the direction of the Huns' dominance, Xianbei warriors continue to die, 20,000 Xianbei cavalry actually killed more than 6,000 people in a battle!

The overwhelming superiority of the Xianbei cavalry had no power to fight back, more than thirty percent of the battle losses were amazing, for the Huns suffered such high losses eighty percent will collapse, but the tenacious Xianbei people did not collapse, and the battle and retreat dragged the Hun cavalry into the dense forest, relying on the advantage of the terrain to snipe the advancing Hun cavalry, the overall disadvantage of the situation a little bit back, forcing the Huns to retreat to the distance to clean up the battlefield, the defeated Xianbei cavalry was able to walk back.

The defeat of this war is so miserable, so that the Xianbei people are unwilling to accept the painful losses, the Xianbei tribe with a population of 300,000 died more than 6,000 young and strong elites in a war, accounting for two percent of the total population, accounting for eight percent of the young and strong population, about one-twelfth, and then a few more war losses of the same level are not far from the extinction of the clan, the Xianbei tribe that lost its youth and strength can not be competitive, even if it recaptures the pasture, it can not be held, and the herds of cattle and sheep raised are just for the Huns to make wedding dresses.

Xianbei people hate to death, but what can they do?

No matter how much you hate, you have to endure it, it is really a knockout of teeth and blood swallowing.

The sky is slightly bright, hundreds of miles away from Daze next to the temporary single court, last night a heavy snowstorm hit, the cold air froze thousands of miles of land, Daze's water surface was completely frozen, and it was particularly laborious to chisel through the ice with an iron knife.

The Huns got up early, ate some hot food and hurriedly set off as a team, rushing into the dense forest at dawn to search for the most results, because this time is the peak time for the Xianbei hunting team to return to the cave, the Xianbei people were forced by the Hun cavalry to become night owls, just because it is too easy to be found in the dense forest during the day, the slightest movement in the silent dense forest will spread far away, and the cold Huns will bring a disaster if they are heard by the wandering Huns.

Since the Xianbei people's habits of action, the Huns' results are more and more abundant, the bold Hun cavalry went deep into the Xianbei Mountains for hundreds of miles, once intercepted the Xianbei hunting team composed of more than 200 people, and finally because of the lack of numbers to shoot more than a dozen people calmly retreated, the Xianbei hunters could not beat and did not dare to chase, so they had to watch the Hun cavalry withdraw.

"Sir, I want to go hunting."

Zhao Shi bowed his head in the king's tent to draw a map, he could not remember whether this was the sixteenth or seventeenth edition of the map, every time he drew a new map, he would find that there were details that needed to be modified, a map was changed beyond recognition, and he was forced to take out a new piece of parchment to redraw, not counting the scrapped parchment used purely as a draft.

"Sir!"

After drawing the last stroke, Zhao Shi calmly put away his pen, picked up the map and looked at the morning light carefully for a long time before turning around and saying: "The prince's requirements are too high, and he can't help him." ”

"You are the only one in the entire royal court who can convince my father, there is really no way to find you, can you help me?" Yu Dan's eyes were full of anticipation. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)

ps: Che Ju Gui is a kind of transliteration, Yi Luo Gui, Che Lu Hui, Yi Liu, Cheng Lu Gui, He Liuhun are different transliterations of cognate words, Xianbei language is the meaning of "hero" and "warrior".