Chapter 16: The Mountain Man's Knife

In this war, more than 20 tents were burned on the Maoren side, more than a dozen yaks, more than 50 goats were missing, and one Maoren was killed in the battle, which can be described as a heavy loss. Wang Xika and Lang Naduo are fine, but the two horses are gone. Although Qiuqiu was hit by many arrows, his skin and flesh were tight, and the arrows were not inserted deeply, and they were basically skin injuries, but his beautiful fur was burned by the fire, and everywhere he went, there was a smell of burning.

The losses of the Fur People were much heavier than those of the Mao People, but more than 20 corpses were left in the camp, and many of them were killed by iron balls and stones on the hillside, so the casualties should have exceeded 100. This sneak attack carefully prepared and launched by them failed due to the heroic resistance of the Mao people, and it can be said that stealing chickens and rice is not a recipe for rice, and it seems that the ancient war was also very arbitrary. Qiuqiu didn't care about the injuries on his body, and rushed down the mountain to find the cows and sheep that he couldn't see. Lang Nado said, "I'm going to look for our horse too." After that, he turned into a wolf and went down the mountain.

After a while, Lang Naduo returned, followed by two horses and a yak, and when he saw Wang Xika, he said, "The other animals ran too far, and I couldn't track them, so they probably ran upwind." ”

The ball didn't come up for a long time, and it was almost evening when he returned to camp with the iron ball that had rolled down the hill - he found the ball without finding any animals.

The Mao people dragged the Mao man who died in battle to the top of the mountain and let the birds eat it, which was considered a sky burial. He also stripped off all the skins of the skinned men, and threw their bodies down the valley.

"Who are these?" asked Wang Xika, pointing to the enemy who had been thrown into the valley.

"These are craftsmen who come and steal our cattle and our wine to drink. It's okay to always fight with us, but we can't win the war. Zach said. The name "craftsman" is the first time Wang Xijia has heard it, perhaps this is a kind of name for primitive people by the Maoists, just like modern people call primitive people "capable people" and "Homo sapiens".

"You have killed so many people in such a battle, do the officers and soldiers care?"

"What is an officer?"

"Is it the person who governs the land, such as a king or an emperor?"

"What are kings and emperors? Do you mean the chief? Whoever of us has the most strength is the leader, Qiuqiu is our leader, and we all listen to him. ”

Wang Xijia understands that this is still a primitive tribal state. In the upper estuary, the lower estuary and Taohua Town, it seems that agricultural civilization has entered, but on the mountain where the Mao people live, it seems that it is still in a primitive society. This is also normal, even in the 21st century, there are still some places on the earth where people live in primitive societies.

"So what are you going to do? just wait for these craftsmen to come and steal something?"

"No, we're going to hit them too. It is estimated that Qiuqiu is about to call someone to take revenge, just in the past few days. ”

Qiuqiu came over to comfort Wang Xika and Lang Naduo, and said, "I'm sorry to frighten you." ”

This was the first time Wang Xijia had seen a dead person since he had crossed over, in fact, he had never seen it before he crossed. But instead of feeling frightened, he had a deep sense of unreality: the hairy giant, the primitive man in animal skin, all this seemed to be a dream, as if he were making a movie.

But this is really reality, and if it's a dream, the injury or the feeling of falling can wake you up from the dream - this is well illustrated in the movie "Inception". And at the beginning of the crossing, he confirmed that this was not a dream, and in the two battles with Peng Lianhu at that time, he felt real pain, and he had fallen countless times, and if it was a dream, he would have woken up a long time ago.

"What, scared silly?" Zach saw that Wang Xika didn't speak for a long time and patted him on the shoulder. Zack used the strength of greeting each other with hairy people, if it weren't for Wang Xijia's practice of iron cloth shirts in his previous life, he would have almost been shot apart by Zack.

"No, I'm thinking about revenge. ”

"This is a matter between our mountain people and craftsmen, and it has nothing to do with you" It turns out that this group of hairy people call themselves mountain people.

"We've drunk and danced together, we're already friends, and my friend's business is my business, so why doesn't it matter? Besides, they burned the tent I slept in, and I was very angry!" Wang Xika's temper came up for his friend's ribs, and he was filled with righteous indignation for a while.

Lang Nado also expressed his willingness to contribute to revenge.

The Mao people were also moved by the righteousness of these two buddies, and Qiuqiu killed another cow on the spot, this time releasing the blood, and the cow's blood dripped into the wine. Everyone drank ox blood wine together and officially became brothers with different surnames.

After drinking, Qiuqiu suddenly looked into Wang Xika's eyes and said: "Brother, I don't mean to offend, but I think this wolf is still a little useful in a fight, and your combat power is estimated to be not enough for a craftsman." You better go down the mountain, I heard Zach say that you still have two friends in Peach Blossom Town? You better go and do your own business, we will solve our own affairs. ”

The words are all said for this part, as if Wang Xika doesn't leave, he won't give Qiuqiu face. Wang Xijia didn't know what Peng Lianhu and Meng Jianniang were doing, and they didn't have a mobile phone this year, so they respectfully obeyed their fate and went down the mountain.

Going down the mountain was the same as going up the mountain, Zack was carrying Wang Xika and carrying two horses, and Lang Naduo trotted all the way. Wang Xika felt that it was undignified to be held, and insisted on going by herself, and Zach agreed. Zack's stride was relatively large, and he took two steps to reach Wang Xika, and Wang Xika had to find some topics to talk to Zack about and slow down his march.

"You just said that Qiuqiu is going to call people, where are you going to call people? I see that there are a lot of people in Peach Blossom Town who have the same hair as you, but the color is different from yours, will they help you?"

"You're talking about the Golden Retriever, right? Although the Golden Retriever is also a hairy person, he is not very close to our white hair, so it's good not to fight us, what else can we help? We are a family with the Black Hair, and Qiuqiu still has a certain amount of black hairy blood, you can see his color. ”

Wang Xijia thought that "hairy man" was an insulting word, but he didn't expect Zach himself to call other long-haired giants "hairy man". Maybe it's like "Nalgae," and the black people themselves can call it, but others can't. Or is "Hairy Man" just a nickname for these giants, not insulting at all?

In order to solve this question, Wang Xika specially asked Zack for advice: "Outsiders call you hairy people, will you be unhappy?"

"We're called Maoren, why are we unhappy?" Zach looked surprised.

It seems that the title "Maoren" is a kind of nickname, just as "beard" refers to bandits, and Maoren refers specifically to these long-haired giants.

"I feel that those craftsmen have average combat effectiveness, it should be easy for you to take revenge, maybe you don't need to call someone?"

"No, it is true that one or two craftsmen cannot defeat us, but there are many craftsmen, and they have iron tools, and they can ride horses, and we are not easy to defeat them on the plains. If you want to destroy the craftsman in one fell swoop, it is estimated that you still have to call it black hair. ”

"Can Kurofur ride a horse?"

"We can't ride, we're too heavy for us to run on the horses. But there are a lot of elephants in Kuromo, and we can ride them. ”

Wang Xijia knew that there were elephant soldiers in ancient Burma, India, and Thailand when they were fighting, but he had not seen them with his own eyes. I made up the scene of elephant soldiers and cavalry hedging, and the picture was not too beautiful. He was eager to see what the tactics of this ancient cavalry were, whether it was like the Mongol cavalry, the Jurchen cavalry, or the heavy charge like the European cavalry? He looked at the bows and arrows used by the Maoists, whether they used horned bows like the nomads of Northeast Asia, or English longbows like Europe.

"Do you ride on elephants and shoot arrows, or do you charge with spears, can you see your bows and arrows?" asked Wang Xika.

"We don't use bows and arrows, we just throw stones. We throw stones farther than artisans shoot arrows. Zach replied.

Wang Xijia has no doubt that the Maoists can throw stones farther than others to shoot arrows, the strength of this group of people is too great.

"And what about the close-quarters, are there any knives or something?"

"Well, this is our knife. Zach said as he stretched out his hand, and with a pop, his sharp claws popped out like a Wolverine.