Chapter 81: Argali
The next day's feast was grand but simple, with no feathered peacocks or narwhal brains, or twenty-four singing birds hidden in a huge pie, a wine glass and bowls of broth and vegetable soup had to be shared by several people because there were too few of them, only Berdwin and the elves had plates of roasted meat, and the others had to use hard dry bread, only an absent-minded bard, no harlequin, and no mage willing to perform a trick or two, and the former undead had the usual caustic disposition to name it the Feast of the Goblins' Bonfire。
"Even the orcs dance around the campfire and get into fights or something. He said.
The soul of the other world had no choice but to bow his head, taking the opportunity to sip honey wine and use the wine glass to hide his funny and helpless strange expression.
Thankfully, the Lich didn't say anything more, and he still had a lot of information and intel about Thundercastle to sort out, as well as a meditation and rest that was important for the spellcaster.
The third day of the hunt had begun silently while the galaxy was still dazzling across the sky, and the hunters, with a fur hat and a brightly colored blue feather more than two feet long stuck on one side of the fur hat, had set out about two hours before, and had surveyed the Thunder Castle for hundreds of miles in the days before, carefully examining the animals' dung, footprints, food remains, as well as their hair on the gravel and tree trunks, broken horns and teeth, hooves and so on to determine the species, size, age, height and number of potential prey, to look for their tracks, to estimate their range of movement - today's exploration is the last and most crucial.
The three hundred knights led by Birdwin and the one hundred elves led by Kerriben waited under an empty bare rock, eating bread for breakfast and drinking water, they were going to hunt argali, their sense of smell was very sensitive, and they were suspicious by nature, so they could not drink, and the knights also bathed in the moat a day in advance, to get rid of the smell of wine and barbecue that is unique to human beings.
A knight picked up a piece of cracked dung and showed it to his companion, "Grassroots." He said that the crushed manure revealed some solid knots that even argali's could not digest: "They have eaten up the grass here and have begun to dig up their roots." ”
The people of Castle Thunder have no affection for argali, they are wild creatures that cannot be domesticated, except for the grass of bare rock and gravel, they are also interested in human wheat and other crops, and the strong rams among them are extremely aggressive, and if there are humans grazing on their territory, the rams will rush into the flock or herd, and use their thickness, bending in a spiral to the side, and the sharp horns protruding forward to pick open the intruder's abdomen, or trample with their hooves as hard as steel. Each argali, which can easily jump eight or nine feet, can imagine how strong their legs are.
And they multiply very quickly, when humans have not yet occupied the dragon's back, it is the giant wolf that controls their number, after the humans arrive here, in order to ensure their own safety, they expel the giant wolf, correspondingly, they have to take on the responsibility of the giant wolf, so in the annual hunting activity, argali, the argali, is the first and best choice of the residents of Thundercastle.
They were ready, and when the prospector's horn sounded in the distance, the elves and humans immediately turned on their horses.
The first to greet them was the blue peregrine falcon of the prospectors, different from the falcons used by the nobles to hunt, the petite size, almost only an adult man's fist-sized blue peregrine falcon is basically used as a bird of exploration and letter birds, they are very smart, even if they do not have a bamboo tube on their feet to transmit messages, they can also use the position of flying, the number of laps and the way of chirping and knocking to convey some relatively simple information.
It hovered over the human's head, calling out loudly, and after receiving a response from the Silver Piccolo, it began to circle around the hunting procession, and the scout knight at the head kept looking up intently at how it flew, and then he gestured to the people.
"A big flock. "More than three hundred strong rams." ”
The howling of the hounds turned from thin to clear and loud, and Kremar could feel the ground shaking under the horse's hooves shaken by another great force, and Baldwin raised a hand, and the human knights slowed their progress, and the line changed from vertical to horizontal, and with this change, the second source became more distinct and intense, and the elves could already see the gray torrent rushing down from the bare rocks in the heights.
It was a herd of argali, usually a small flock of a dozen or so ewes led by a few young rams, and it was only in winter that they formed such large flocks, foraging for food, fighting for territory and resisting predators during the day, and snuggling up and sleeping together at night.
Running and furious, a pair of young rams with coiled horns gathered the ewes and their cubs in between, the old and wounded rams followed, and it was only a matter of breath for them to change from small jumping dots to large monsters that could stand side by side with a teenage child, and hundreds of hounds ran around them, and when the ram tried to lead its family to escape from the side, they surrounded it and barked and bit feverishly, forcing them back to the path of death that the seeker had predetermined - But the sheep were not prepared to sit still, and a ram with its body upright almost flush with the horse's head rushed towards the hounds that threatened his wife and children with his teeth and claws, and before they could scatter, he raised a large black dog with his horns and trampled on one of the dogs that had not had time to escape with his pointed hooves.
The big black dog was thrown into the air, dragging its bloody belly with it, and was dead before it could reach the ground, while the other hound was swept under the hard hooves of the flock, and he didn't even have time to scream.
The owner of the hound, a prospector with a flail in his hand, shouted loudly, waved the flail in his hand, and whipped the sheep that tried to escape through the gap in the hound's encirclement—he was armed with a crossbow, and he could kill the ram, but then the rest of the flock would immediately scatter and run everywhere, which would be an unforgivable mistake for a dutiful prospector, so he simply struck the ram by the horns with the flail's barbed iron balls with great skill, and forced it to carry the flock on- Ahead was a gentle barren valley and the human knights, who had turned to gallop at a rapid pace, met the furious sheep without hesitation, their horses dressed in shining armor not inferior to that of their masters, the front of the breastplate was trimmed with spikes, and the knights held tightly the short pikes of steel—the battle between sheep and men was as swift and short as thunder, and some knights were knocked down by rams, and more often were human pikes pierced into their throats and eyes.
Suddenly the sheep that had lost their head were thrown into a state of confusion, and they rushed to the right and right in a haphazard manner, bleating, and the knights rushed into the flock, dividing them, and then joined their companions in small circles, and the first to be shot were the old rams, and if they were not killed, they would turn into the second sheep leading the flock to escape, and they were more difficult to deal with than the young rams with experience and memory, and then the smaller rams and ewes, the lambs.
The elves were mixed among the human knights, and the knights who fell into the flock and were almost trampled to death by the horns and hooves of the argali, were pulled up by them - only elves of great strength and agility could do this, and Kremar not only pulled up a knight who weighed two hundred pounds even if he was not wearing full armor, but also lifted up a horse that weighed three times the weight of his master, for which he connected several heavy rams that had thrown out.
The pregnant ewes and the suckling lambs will be left behind, and the old rams will have to be left behind, or the flock will be killed or injured because they can't find water, pasture, and rock salt.
"There are about a thousand sheep. ”
Berdwin said with satisfaction, taking off his helmet and flicking his hair violently like a big honest dog, his hair soaked with hot sweat, and the cold and damp droplets blown by the wind all over his place—and when he saw Cremar, he immediately smiled pleasantly, and his white teeth gleamed in his dark gray beard: "You are the toughest mage I have ever met—I mean, your body," he praised. If your service in Grey Ridge is complete, I'd welcome you to Castle Thunder - even if not as a mage, you'll be a good heavy knight. ”
Today, instead of wearing his white robes, Kremar wore a tight-fitting robe made of the silk of the silver-bellied spider like the elves, and then put on the Mithril chain mail on the outside, and then wore shoulder armor and breastplate armor, this way of wearing part of the whole body armor and chain mail can not only ensure that important parts are not fatally injured, but also ensure the lightness and agility of the rider itself.
The lich was examining his shoulder armor, and the ram's horns still pierced them, but they did nothing but a few noticeable scratches, but the steel armor worn by the human knights and horses had many distinct pits, and some of the horses were wounded, but fortunately they only needed a few days of rest to heal, and the same was true of the knights, the most seriously injured man was only when he lost his helmet when he fell off his horse, and was trampled by a fat ewe, and half of his cheeks were horribly shattered, but he was still safe after the priest's treatment, but he could not chew the hard or tough food for a few daysOtherwise, his teeth would grow crooked in the tender gums and bones, and he would not be a handsome young man.
"If you had waited sixty years. Carey Ben said.
Baldwin grimaced in utter disproportion to who he was, "Elf ......," he grumbled.
Author's words, this is yesterday, that, fell asleep, forgot to post, as a result of today's work has been busy until now I entered the office, and there is a chapter in the evening......
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