Chapter 52: The King of Horses
The wolf pack gradually expanded from three or two to seven or eight, and then gradually expanded to a dozen or dozens of wolves. Chen Chao counted carefully, and there were eighty-six, much more than the group of black wolves that attacked the Tianyuan tribe before.
A trace of doubt also rose in his heart, knowing that the wolves had an extremely strict hierarchy. The number of wolves in a pack is normally around 7, that is, the so-called seven wolves, and some wolves have reached more than 30 wolves.
Usually a family unit is led by a dominant pair, while a group of siblings is led by the strongest wolf. And the number of wolves encountered in these two encounters is above sixty, could it be that the wolf's natural enemies have not yet recovered?
It's just that he can't think about it now, once the wolves start attacking the horses, he has to see the opportunity to run to the side of the horse king.
Although the wild horses are very strong, they are now facing a large group of wolves, and there are only 17 wild horses, including three cubs.
As the wolves grew, the wild horses began to neigh uneasily, and the ponies leaned against the mares in fear.
The wild horses consciously began to move inward, the three ponies were surrounded in the innermost, and Chen Chao, a weak two-legged beast, was also consciously protected in the innermost by the wild horses.
If this two-legged beast hangs up, and wants to lick salt in the future, it will have to run far away, and it will be strange to run back and forth all day...
The wolves gradually gathered around, carrying some other medium-sized animals in the pasture, such as alpacas and sheep...
"Hissβ" One of the horses on the periphery was bitten by a wolf and retreated, letting out a miserable scream, and all the horses began to move. At this moment, a high-pitched neighing of horses sounded, which gradually quieted down the horses that had begun to be restless. The brown-red horse king, who had already hung the hitch of the horse, rushed towards the wolves like lightning, raised two huge hooves and stomped on the murderer's body, and the other stallions also attacked the wolves.
The wolves were clearly too light, and watched as the three wolves turned into pulp under the iron hooves. But the whole pack did not begin to panic, and continued to encircle in an orderly manner, biting the prey in the enclosure from time to time.
It was only deliberately avoided that the king of horses, except for some old, weak, sick and disabled prey that were eaten, and the wolves did not provoke those who seemed to be young and strong and strong in battle.
The prey in the encirclement began to move under the bite and intimidation of the wolves, and the gap between the three wolves that were bitten to death before was not filled, which seemed to give the animals life.
The wild horses were restlessly stepping on their hooves, and the outermost part of the encirclement sounded one after another wolf howls, and the entire wild horse herd, under the coercion of the animals in the encirclement, began to break through to the gap.
Chen Chao also found an opportunity to run to the side of the horse king, and at first tried to run with the horses, but soon he found that according to people's physical strength, it was simply whimsical to want to keep up with a group of wild horses that were galloping!
He tried several times to jump on horseback, but without the help of the stirrup, and the horse was on the move, it was almost impossible.
At this moment, a giant wolf rushed over and bit a mare behind the king of horses, and the king of horses was furious when he saw the wailing of his companions, and turned around and raised his front hooves to stomp hard.
As soon as the culprit was eliminated, the five giant wolves next to him took advantage of the fact that the king of horses exposed their most vulnerable abdomen, and they came up and began to bite. And the marching rhythm of the wild horse herd was also temporarily disrupted.
It's just that next to the king of horses, in addition to a mare who was injured and fell to the ground, there was only one Chen Chao left with a rattan basket on his back.
Chen Chao glanced at the surrounding situation, and the other horses in the wild horse herd stood on the periphery of the five giant wolves, forming a larger encirclement against the five giant wolves. And he and the king of horses were surrounded in the innermost.
As if they were waiting for the king of horses to give an order, they raised their iron hooves and trampled these dog-day giant wolves to death.
Chen Chao also pulled the stone axe fixed on his waist downwards with his backhand, and pulled it out directly.
When the king saw him raise the stone axe, he let out a long "ββββ hiss", and between the people and the horse, they seemed to understand what the other party was going to do.
An axe slashed at a giant wolf with a bloody mouth, Chen Chao and the horse king were horns at each other, and after eliminating the third wolf, the remaining two wolves also turned into pulp under the iron hooves of the wild horses on the periphery.
He raised his hand to wipe the blood from his face, and the moonlight was exceptionally bright today, like the white sun. Chen Chao was about to raise his feet and follow the herd of wild horses when he saw the king of horses bowing down slightly.
He looked at the big black and shiny eyes of the King of Horses, and he was a little distracted. I just felt that the eyes were full of humanized charm, as if to say, two-legged beast, you see that you are running so slowly, what if you will fall behind and be eaten by a giant wolf? King Benma saw that you helped me just now, and barely gave you a ride.
The horse king hissed again, and arched Chen Chao with his huge horse's head. Only then did he realize that he hadn't climbed on the back of the horse after trying so many times before, and this was it?
Chen Chao is not hypocritical, and now is not the time to be hypocritical, although 8 giant wolves have died under the horse's hooves and stone axes, but there are more than 70 giant wolves behind him, and there is no chance of hypocrisy at all. So he saw the right moment and jumped on the horse.
Chen Chao, who jumped on the horse's back, didn't have time to grab the straw rope (reins part) on the horse's halter, so he was thrown by the horse king, so frightened that he quickly bent down and hugged the horse king's neck, although he knew that the horse king didn't mean to, this was just a precursor to him starting to run, but Chen Chao almost flew out.
The legs tightly clamped the horse's belly, so that Kan Kan did not fall off the horse directly. Fortunately, the rattan cushion tied to Ma Wang's back before played a big role, playing a cushioning role between Chen Chao and the horse's back, and also greatly reducing Chen Chao's leg pain when he sat on the horse's back.
But it's still very painful!
At this time, Chen Chao missed his pants and all kinds of trousers...
This made the little stone in his arms bitter, but he also understood that the situation was very critical at the moment, and he curled up tightly in Chen Chao's arms and didn't dare to make any sound.
However, it is precisely because of this posture that Chen Chao can hold the axe in a low position and mend the knife to the giant wolf that approaches from time to time. Let the king of horses have no worries for the time being.
And the horse king who was running was also very satisfied with his newly acquired two-legged beast brother, although it looked weak, but it was still very strong!
Chen Chao, who is still holding the horse's neck, doesn't dare to control the horse king by relying on the horse's halter for the time being, and the wolves are still chasing after him, which also makes the horse king temporarily unable to take care of the two-legged beast that is still holding on his back.
It's not that Chen Chao didn't think about standing up and swinging a stone axe, but without equipping a stirrup, this is basically something that he refuses to do. Without the help of stirrups, one can sit firmly on the horse's back, and rely on his feet to clamp the horse's belly.
Therefore, it is basically impossible to stand up, and even if you stand up reluctantly, you can't swing a stone axe at all.
The wolves drive regularly, sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly, giving some hope from time to time, so that the prey feels a glimmer of life. Sometimes they chase after each other, so that the prey has no chance to stop and catch their breath!
The purpose is already obvious, this is also the usual trick of the wolves, don't they know that the wild horse herd with the horse king is powerful? Under normal circumstances, with the wild horses of the King of Horses, the wolves will not be easily provoked.
But now that you can run with them, and you outnumber each other, why not walk them tired and have a full meal?
You must know that the horse cannot always maintain a long-distance running posture before nailing the horseshoe, and it will cause great damage to the horseshoe if it has been rubbing the ground and stones with high intensity.
The wolves clearly understand this very well, and what is really terrible is not that they will die immediately, but that they have been waiting for death in fear and exhaustion.
Relying on that false glimmer of life to constantly consume the physical strength of this group of prey, when the time comes, you will be able to pocket all of them effortlessly, and you can have a good meal.
The sky was faintly bright, the sun was slowly rising, and the wild horses, which had been running all night, were tired and thirsty, their nostrils were wide open, and their nostrils were spewing hot air with a strong smell of grass.