Chapter 11: The First Battle
Cheng Zhong sat at the window of the janitorial room of the three major teams, and it was impossible for anyone who came in or out to escape his eyes.
It wasn't until about twelve o'clock in the afternoon that the man and woman who had been following Cheng Zhong for two days appeared at the gate.
After a night's rest, they seemed a little refreshed.
The man wore a light blue cotton shirt and pants, and the woman also changed into a new cotton jacket with a red background and a new pink headscarf wrapped around her head.
Cheng Zhong gave an explanation to Grandpa Ren, and ran to the tent restaurant when he went out.
"Little brother, you're here, lunch will be ready soon. Zhang Xiaoning greeted him warmly.
"Sister Zhang, I don't have time to eat now, let's eat when I get back!"
Cheng Zhong said, turned his head and looked at Zhao Ying with a pleading gaze and said:
"Uncle Zhao, I have something very important, can you give me a ride on a motorcycle?"
"Ho ho, brother, don't be so polite! you wait, I'll start the car. Zhao Ying said with a smile.
He had already drunk a lot of milk tea on the oil cake in front of him, and the wine was completely awake.
In fact, just now, Cheng Zhong made his own little abacus in his heart:
With a motorcycle, he can catch up with the other party in a car or on a horse, and he will not be thrown off.
With Zhao Ying, who has been a soldier and is familiar with the situation here, his personal safety is also guaranteed.
Zhao Ying's car is a semi-new military motorcycle, with a neatly folded green military blanket in the pocket.
When you go out in winter, it is very cold to ride a bicycle and ride a car, and military blankets are specially prepared for people who sit in the pocket of the car.
When Zhao Ying came out of the cart, he had already wrapped himself tightly in a big fur hat and sheepskin coat.
He motioned for Cheng Zhong to sit in the pocket.
In the sound of "sudden", pale cyan smoke and water mist came out of the butt of the motorcycle.
When the two of them came to the side street, Cheng Zhong pointed to the front and told Zhao Ying:
"The goal of the two of us is the pair of men and women in the distance, let's drive slowly first, just follow them from a distance. ”
So, the motorcycle grinds forward, stop-and-go.
In this way, after about an hour of running, the man and woman in front left the road and turned southwest into the grassland.
Unexpectedly, after entering the grassland, it becomes very difficult for the motorcycle to run, and it is good to be fast, but if the speed is slow, it is easy to break down and stall.
Every time the engine was turned off, Zhao Ying smiled and repeatedly stepped on the starting arm with his foot to start the car again.
It was Cheng Zhong, and after the motorcycle turned off the fire three times, he finally lost his patience.
He reluctantly jumped out of the car pocket, pointed to the bottom of a gentle slope, and said to Zhao Ying:
"Uncle Zhao, it's really hard for you! If you continue to run like this, I'm afraid you'll break the car."
Now, let me follow them on foot.
You go over there and take shelter from the wind and wait for me.
After an hour, if I haven't come back, you'll go home by yourself.
When I'm done, I'll return to your tent hotel as soon as I'm done. ”
"I'm really embarrassed, on the grassland, the motorcycle is not as good as the horse, you see being bumped by this bush of grass roots, it is too uncomfortable.
It seems that we have to break up first.
Be careful yourself, I'll be waiting for you here, and I'll be back soon......!"
Zhao Ying shook his head apologetically, drove the motorcycle to the bottom of the slope, and waved goodbye to Cheng Zhong with a smile.
He is a big man, and he doesn't ask about Cheng Zhong, because it has nothing to do with him.
After saying goodbye to Zhao Ying, Cheng Zhong walked forward unhurriedly, hanging far behind the man and woman.
After walking for more than half an hour, a dustpan-shaped hillside appeared in front of me, and the man and woman turned into the hillside and disappeared.
Cheng Zhong became vigilant in his heart.
According to his knowledge, this kind of terrain is the most suitable for ambush and concealment, and there is often some kind of danger.
He did not dare to follow the route in which the two men had entered, but ran quickly, and went around a great circle of two or three miles from a distance, and climbed from the other side of the hill to the commanding heights in the shape of a dustpan.
There is a house-sized outcrop of rock here.
He found the best place to hide, first concealed his body, and then poked his head out to watch.
This hillside is not large, from the dustpan mouth at the bottom of the slope to the boulder where Cheng Zhong is hidden, but the distance is only five or six hundred meters.
At a glance, there were about 20 people, gathered at the bottom of the slope.
There were people in Tibetan robes, sheepskin jackets, and even a red-clothed lama.
Among them, there were four or five people carrying old fork guns.
Several Tibetan mastiffs with large heads and long hairs are running around.
More than twenty horses, fully saddled, were scattered around the perimeter of the group.
The man and woman were standing across from the crowd.
An old man dressed in black, dressed as a Han man, was greeted by the red-clothed lama.
They seem to be going to perform a simple ceremony......
"Baa
A sheep bleating sound suddenly came into Cheng Zhong's ears.
Cheng Zhong turned his head suddenly.
A new rifle, with its bayonet shining with a terrifying light, stabbed at him swiftly two or three paces from behind.
Cheng Zhong was shocked, and didn't think much about it, he shrank back and slid against the turf to the other side of the rock.
The bayonet and the barrel of the spear rubbed against the stone, making a tooth-aching sound.
Suddenly, a piercing and terrifying scream came from behind him, followed by the sound of a body falling to the ground.
Cheng Zhong looked up in terror, and the snow red appeared on the top of the rock.
At this moment, it stood there on only three legs, its head was high, its buttocks were upturned, and its thin waist was like a bow, forming a majestic silhouette in the sun.
It licked the blood from the corners of its mouth with its long tongue, and its amber eyes stared at Cheng Zhong with concern.
Cheng Zhong returned to his original position and saw that the big man who tried to sneak up on him was missing a piece of meat the size of a bowl on his neck, and his body was lying on the ground, and he was already dead of anger.
"Brother Xue, you really came, thanks to your reminder just now, otherwise, my brother's life would have been lost. Cheng Zhong hurriedly said.
He held back his heart and looked excitedly at the snow that he thought about day and night.
"Ngawang, this is not the time to talk, can this brother be used?" Xue Lihong said in wolf language, pointing to the new steel gun on the ground.
"It shouldn't be difficult, I'll fiddle with it. Cheng Zhong replied confidently.
"That's very good, my brother is waiting here, and when he sees someone coming, he will kill him!" After speaking, he disappeared in place like the wind.
Cheng Zhong took the steel gun to study.
He had seen this kind of gun, and it was this kind of gun that Ma Er used.
He picked up his gun and squatted on the side of the boulder, looked down, and suddenly trembled.
At the bottom of the hill, four or five men with guns were climbing up to where he was.
Maybe the movement just now was too big and had already attracted the attention of those people.
The person who rushed to the front was less than a hundred meters away from him.
Cheng Zhong trembled all over, his upper and lower teeth fought, and he was drenched in cold sweat.
He bit his lower lip hard until blood oozed out, forcing himself to calm down.
"Although I am still young, I have such an adventure, and with a brother like Xue Lihong, I want to achieve an earth-shattering career.
At such a critical time, how can I be afraid, how can I be as cowardly as a mouse.
If you are even scared to death of such a small battle formation, how can you be a brother in the snow......"
Cheng Zhong was talking to himself as if he were chanting a scripture, fiddling with the rifle, and soon figured out the doorway.
"Bah", a bullet burst out of the muzzle of his gun, and the strong recoil pushed him to his back to the sky.
Resisting the pain from the butt of the rifle in his right shoulder, he crawled back to his place as quickly as he could.
The man who rushed to the front fell halfway down the slope, squeaking in his mouth, rolling on the ground with his hands on his stomach.
Cheng Zhong's shot just now should have hit him in the stomach and caused him a lot of pain.
"Woo-"
At this moment, a long wolf howl echoed across the grassland.
"Woo-woo", "Woo-woo......
Countless wolf howls echoed each other.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of wolves appeared around the hillside.
The shadows of the wolves that swept by, like clusters of arrows, shot towards the center of Dustpan Bay.
Dozens of wolves appeared on the slopes on either side of Cheng Zhong's location and pounced on the few men with guns who were still climbing upwards.
"Boom-knock", "Boom-knock", the men stopped their advance, flicked the fuse in a panic, and fired their fork guns indiscriminately in all directions.
The speed of this primitive firearm was still too slow, and everyone only had a chance to fire a shot, and the wolves had pounced on them from all angles.
Screams of despair continued.
Right in front of Cheng Zhong's eyes, the swarming wolves quickly tore their flesh apart with their canine teeth like short daggers.
Even the one who had been wounded by Cheng Zhong earlier was bitten to death in a howl of pain.
Each carcass is surrounded by about ten steppe wolves, which have begun to devour and feed.
Cheng Zhong stood up in horror and looked at the bottom of the slope.
The figure with red spots on a red and white background in the snow is particularly striking among the dark brown wolves.
When he saw clearly, he ran down the hillside towards the valley.
At this time, the battle at the bottom of the slope was also over.
It's a completely unequal battle.
Four or five hundred vicious wolves, against about twenty humans, can be said to be a one-sided brutal killing.
At this time, Xue Lihong and a black mane like thorns squatted together, and at his feet lay a dying old man of the Han nationality.
Ma's second wife is still alive.
She lay on her stomach on the ground, her face was as white as earth, and she was clearly completely frightened again, but she was not injured.
Cheng Zhong's gaze swept over the battlefield.
Tibetans, Han Chinese, red-clothed lamas, including Wang Jinren and others present have all been reduced to bloody corpses.
Several of them were not killed, and they did not dare to escape, and they shone on their knees and shivered in the ground.
Although the horses stood in place, they were all trembling with fear, as if they were about to fall down at any moment.
Cheng Zhong walked up to Xue Lihong, the black mane like a thorny wolf raised his neck and sniffed his chin in a friendly way, and Cheng Zhong also reached out and touched its face.
All the plateau wolves looked at Cheng Zhong with respectful eyes.
Xue Lihong pointed to the old Han man lying on the side with her mouth, and said to Cheng Zhong in a wolf voice:
"The virtuous brother can interrogate this person and know what happened. ”
Cheng Zhong turned to the old man.
I saw that his abdomen was broken, his intestines were exposed, one leg was broken from the root, only a little flesh was left, his teeth were cracked, and his eyes were cold.
"Please...... Tell me the truth, and I will spare your life, and I will call someone to save you. Cheng Zhong's voice trembled, and he looked down at the old man with some pity and said.
"You...... You kid knows what a fart, since ancient times, the three-legged thin-waisted wolf can't let me go, and I don't want to live!"
The old man's face was as pale as paper, he gritted his teeth and endured the pain, looked at Cheng Zhong with disdain, and said.
"That'...... What do you want?" asked Cheng Zhong.
"If you can convince the wolf to give me a happy death, I can tell one or two. ”
"Say it, I'll convince it. ”
The old man hesitated for a moment, his eyes flashed with a look of determination, and he said to Cheng Zhong word by word:
"The entrance to the 'Wolf Domain' of Tiemu Mountain is rare in the world, and it is rumored that entering the 'Wolf Domain' can make people transcendent and holy, and it is a place where the major forces of the past dynasties sacrificed their lives to fight.
Originated in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it integrates the advantages of major religions such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Yeyi, and is the supreme doctrine in the world.
Wudao has been operating in the northwest for decades, and one of the important goals is to get the entrance to the 'wolf domain'.
I am one of the four great avenue chiefs, Chang Wuwei, and this time I am ordered by the master of the sect to guide that woman to the entrance in order to explore the secret of the 'wolf domain'.
Now I have lost my hand, and I just want to die. ”
"Oh, I see. What's your sect leader's name, and where do you live now?" Cheng Zhong asked.
"There are some things that I can't tell you. Chang Wuwei closed his eyes and said.
Cheng Zhong sighed, turned his head to look at Xue Lihong and said:
"Brother Xue, I already know. Look at my thin face, and give this man a happy death!"
Xue Lihong looked at the black-maned wolf, who nodded to another huge wolf nearby.
The giant wolf quickly stepped forward, only to hear a "click", Chang Wuwei had separated his head, and his head rolled to the side.