Text: Chapter 187, etc
Blood wolves are cruel, murderous, and cunning, but their strength is not very strong, they are relatively low-level demon beasts in the Demon Beast Domain, the only advantage is their number, relying on the team, they can be unscrupulous in the periphery of the Demon Beast Domain.
It's a pity that this time their numbers also hurt them, making them the first target of the "Beast Taming Master" Meng Shu.
Coming to the scout's so-called small hill, although this place is not big, but in the Demon Beast Domain, being able to occupy such a place is enough to prove the strength of the blood wolf pack.
"Are all the anesthetic arrows ready?" Meng Shu asked in a low voice.
"It's all ready, just wait for the general's order. ”
Meng Shu glared, "You little rabbit cubs are waiting here for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will lead the team to outflank their back roads, and after Lao Tzu issues the order, you will rush up together!"
"General, we 20,000 people are dispatched together, only 200 blood wolves, on average, a hundred soldiers against one, can still make them run away. ”
Meng Shu ignored him and directly led a large number of soldiers around in a large circle to outflank the back of the hill.
"His grandmother's, I don't think these wolf cubs will wait for death, it turns out that the back of the hill is like this, and by the time we rush up from the front, these guys will have run out of them. ”
The north side of the hill is much deeper than the one seen from the front, with the hill from the front and almost a small cliff from the back.
Blood wolves can jump down from above, and the grass and trees below can be used as mats to prevent them from falling, and then they can quickly stay in the bushes not far away and run all the way into the dense forest.
That's why the blood wolves live on this small hill, they are predators, but they are much more powerful than them, and they also need to be kept alive at all times.
"Hehe, Lao Tzu is waiting for you from below to throw yourself into the net, trying to escape from the palm of my Meng Shu, too tender!"
Meng Shu sneered, ready to make a plan, and ambushed himself here.
At this time, a scout suddenly stepped forward and asked, "General, are we a little too close to the blood wolves, they may become more cautious after biting the scouts, I am afraid that we have been discovered." ”
"So what, now that I've sandwiched them in front and back, the left and right sides should be in place, and they can still run under my ambush on all sides. ”
Meng Shu didn't think so, his own strength was a hundred times that of the blood wolf, as the so-called art of war is cloudy: "multiple is divided, five is attacked, and ten is surrounded", his own soldiers are a hundred times that of the blood wolf, how can it not be easy to take them all.
Meng Shu did not rush forward, but waited patiently, the scout found two hundred blood wolves, but it does not mean that the number of blood wolves is only these, maybe there are other blood wolves out to hunt, you must know that the largest record of the blood wolf pack is thousands, these two hundred can only be regarded as a small blood wolf pack.
Occasionally, blood wolves leave and come back on the small hills, most of the blood wolves are lazily basking in the sun, the biggest difference between them and wild beasts is the feeding aspect, with the support of demon elements, they are more resistant to hunger, for hunting. Far less often than the average wolf pack.
There are also a few little blood wolves playing on the side, and the hair that has not yet fully opened is not like an adult blood wolf, scarlet like a steel needle, and the fur of the little blood wolf looks soft and fluffy.
When the sun began to sink, Meng Xu knew that he couldn't wait any longer, the night was very unfavorable to humans, and for a guy like the blood wolf who was used to nightlife, it was like a fish in water.
Meng Shu turned to one of the soldiers and ordered, "Tell them to attack from the front." ”
The soldier immediately took out three sentry arrows and shot them one after the other, leaving yellow, red, and blue in the air.
In addition to the sound of the whistle arrow, it is also tied with a small bag with paint, and due to the high speed in the air, the rope will be loosened, and then the powder of different colors will be revealed, which is very eye-catching.
A shrill whistle can travel very far, and the colors are different commands that have been agreed in advance.
Soon the horn of the charge was heard from the front of the hill, and the soldiers lay in ambush for miles to hide their shape and smell, which was not the range of ordinary archers, and they had to charge forward for a long distance.
The blood wolves were also alarmed, hundreds of blood wolves howled loudly, and other blood wolves either stood in front of the little blood wolves, or paced back and forth, patrolling the entire territory.
"Shoot the arrows!"
I don't know who gave the order, and countless tranquilizer arrows flew out at once.
The blood wolf was very flexible, and when he saw the arrows flying, he hurriedly dodged left and right, but many of them were still hit, but the blood wolf skin was not defenseless, and some of the soft arrows did not penetrate the skin.
Thirty or forty blood wolves staggered as if they were drunk, and then fell to the ground.
"Whew......"
A loud voice came from one of the largest, brightest-haired blood wolves, and the sound resounded through the heavens and the earth.
Then, there were suddenly countless howls of blood wolves in the distance, one after another, endlessly.
This made the soldiers stunned for a moment, what happened? Why did there be a lot of blood wolf voices coming from behind them, could it be that the nearby blood wolves were summoned by this blood wolf king.
The roar of a blood wolf also came from behind Meng Shu, which made his heart sink from the bottom of his heart.
Although there is a lot of food in the Demon Beast Domain, this area alone can't support so many blood wolves, and it is impossible for them to live nearby.
Meng Huo suspected that they had ventured into the "big assembly" of the blood wolf pack.
However, Meng Shu guessed wrong, the blood wolves do come into contact with other blood wolves every time they come into estrus, but they don't have the energy and IQ to do things like "gatherings".
The reason why they gather is because they have found large-scale prey, and the blood wolf king on the hill cannot eat it alone, so he will summon the help of other blood wolves.
Here I have to mention the habits of the blood wolves, they eat a meal for a long time, and this meal is usually a big meal, which is why the blood wolf pack often attacks villages and towns, and even the post stations where soldiers are stationed.
When Meng Shu used the blood wolf pack as a target to capture, didn't the blood wolf take the human soldiers as prey.
Unfortunately, when the soldiers attacked the blood wolves on the hill, the nearby blood wolves also gathered.
Meng Xu's brows furrowed tightly, and he commanded the soldiers behind him: "Hurry, send out scouts quickly, I want to know the exact number of blood wolves." ”
A few scouts sped out.
A wolf howl could be heard from one direction, and there could also be a large group of thousands of blood wolves, of course, this probability is almost impossible.
Soon a scout reported back: "General, there are wolf howls coming from seven directions now, and I am close to one to observe, there are less than a hundred of them, but they are all adult blood wolves, and there is no juvenile stage. ”
The number is not much, but it is still a big problem that they are all adult blood wolves, if there are a hundred in each of the seven directions, then there are a total of eight hundred adult blood wolves, although the number of soldiers is still more than ten times less, but ordinary demon beasts are also much more powerful than soldiers, and it is difficult to make an advantage conclusion.
"His grandmother is a bear, Lao Tzu is really a disadvantage, the last time he had to help the lord, this time in a small demon beast domain periphery, he was even a headache by the blood wolf. ”
Meng Shu held the big wooden stick, and no longer hid his body, he stood up directly, brandished the big wooden stick and shouted loudly: "Little ones, now the demon beast pets you want are here, as long as we are these blood wolves, we can establish a blood wolf demon beast army that is more magnificent than the Xinguo Blood Wolf Legion, now, I order you, set up a tranquilizer arrow, take a big net, and catch these blood wolves for me." ”
At this time, the original encirclement network became a counter-encirclement, and Meng was given the order to directly launch a general attack, and the brave won when they met on a narrow road, but he wanted to see if the human soldiers were more powerful, or a group of blood wolves were stronger.
The blood wolf on the hill fell a lot, and immediately became the main target of attack, facing dozens of times the enemy, as well as their tranquilizer arrows, even the blood wolf king was covered by several large nets after struggling to support it for a while, and the soldiers swarmed up and subdued it.
But those soldiers outside were not so lucky, they were suddenly attacked from behind, and the soldiers who were not too mentally prepared immediately received news of casualties.
Even if a soldier was killed by a blood wolf, the soldier did not retaliate against the blood wolf, but only used tranquilizer arrows and large nets to anesthetize and trap them, which is the purpose of their visit.
After getting close, the soldier also attacked the blood wolf's thigh with a weapon so as not to kill them.
After a short contact battle, the soldiers relied on their numerical superiority to finally stabilize the situation and began to suppress the blood wolf in turn.
Meng Huo also performed brilliantly in this battle, and the blood wolf, who was vulnerable in front of the Black Water Knights, met the two-star Meng Huo, it was simply delivering food.
Meng Yu rushed into the group of blood wolves alone, waving a big wooden stick, and a blood wolf fell to the ground with one stick, if it wasn't for the blood wolf to avoid him flexibly, he would be able to deal with all the blood wolves alone.
After fighting for a stick of incense, most of the blood wolves were captured, and only one or two hundred blood wolves saw that the situation was not good and slipped away, which made Meng Shu a little regretful.
"Haha!
Meng Shu wiped a handful of blood from his body, although the big wooden stick was a blunt weapon, and he was very light, but he still beat the blood wolf to vomit blood, these are the physical evidence left by Meng Shu's atrocities against the blood wolf.
At this time, a soldier came up and reported the data obtained after clearing the battlefield:
"General, this time we have captured six hundred and twelve adult blood wolves, as well as fifty-one small blood wolves, and fifty-seven blood wolves that died in time. ”
"Okay, well done!" Meng was overjoyed.
The soldier slurped: "General......"
Meng Shu asked, "If there is anything else, don't worry, just say it." ”
"Yes, General!" said the soldier, "we have lost one hundred and twenty-five men, and more than three hundred have been wounded of varying severity, and more than 80 percent of the tranquilizer arrows have been used, and the net has been broken by 50 ......percent."
The soldier reported a series of bad news to Meng Huo, which made Meng Huo's face more and more ugly.
Remembering the last time Chu Jing and Zirui were there, twenty-six black-backed white bears, fifteen Tanan tigers, plus ninety-six barbarian demon cows, the harvest could be said to be about the same, but that time there were no casualties, even if the petrified soldiers were saved by Qin Yue with potion when they returned to Renjin City.
However, this time, Meng Huo brought 20,000 soldiers alone and brought a lot of preparations, but he was still on the periphery, but he suffered heavy losses, which really made Meng Huo lose face.
"Damn, why are monsters so cunning? ”
Meng Shu had to vent his anger on the blood wolves, if it weren't for their cunning to counter-encircle, they wouldn't have caused such a big loss to Meng Huo.
That night, Meng Shu didn't sleep, and spent the whole night chanting spells, casting spells to make the blood wolf tame.
When Chu Jing and Zirui came back from the inside of the Demon Beast Domain and saw Meng Shu, Meng Shu almost collapsed, with two panda eyes on his head, and his listless appearance jumped Chu Jing.
"How did you become like this? Even if you have a good harvest, you won't abuse yourself like this. Chu Jing said.
When Meng Shu saw Chu Jing, he immediately knelt on the ground, and said with a sad face: "Lord, his subordinates are incompetent, and they are willing to be punished?"
“???”
Chu Jing looked around with a greeting face, and wondered, "What happened, why did I punish you?"
Meng Shu told Chu Jing all about the hunting of blood wolves.
Chu Jing pulled Meng Shu up and said: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, not to mention that you have too little contact with demon beasts, you don't understand their habits, it is normal to make mistakes, next time you have to accept a lesson, demon beasts are also very smart existences, it is not okay to treat them as beasts without brains." ”
Chu Jing did not punish Meng Shou for this loss, in his opinion, it is normal to die in battle, even if it is a big victory, there will be a situation where he falls to his death, and there seems to be no foolproof battle in history.
Meng was thanked: "Yes, lord." ”
At this point, Chu Jing and his party's demon beast journey ended successfully, although some other demon beasts were captured, but the number was far from being comparable to the blood wolf.
Chu Jing's harvest was those herbs and spiritual springs, Zirui's harvest was that she saw demon beasts older than her and knew a lot of things that she didn't know before, and Meng Shu got a blood wolf regiment that could be called formed.
All in all, that's enough.
At the same time, in another corner on the periphery of the Demon Beast Domain, Shang Youren, Zhu Tong, and Yi Qiu were leading a large group of minions to hunt.
Their food has long been left with the destruction of the cottage, and whether they have mustard seed bags or not, the problem of eating more than two hundred can only be solved by hunting demon beasts.
"Boss, how did you say those soldiers got here, and they don't have my secret method. ”
When Yi Qiu was looking for prey, he found Meng Huo's army, but he hid it well and was not discovered.
"Nonsense, we have 20,000 well-equipped soldiers, and we can also use the outer periphery of the Demon Beast Domain as our own backyard. Zhu Tong sneered disdainfully.
"It's not. The relationship between Yi Qiu and Zhu Dong was not good, and he ignored Zhu Dong's ridicule, but continued: "I mean, why didn't there be a powerful demon beast attacking them, you know, in the past, as long as a large army entered the demon beast domain, it was collectively resisted by the demon beasts." ”
Shang Youren thought for a moment and said, "Chu Jing is a disciple of the Demon Beast Butcher, and it is not for nothing that his subordinates can not be attacked by demon beasts in the Demon Beast Domain. ”
"Are you saying he also knows the secret method?" asked Yi Qiu.
Shang Youren shook his head and just said, "He's very strong, don't forget who I'm here because of who." ”
Zhu Tong interjected: "Because of Sand Hill, don't tell me that you don't know who the person who sold you the fake news is now." ”
"Of course I know, but at that time, we almost died at the hands of Chu Jing, you won't forget how Yu Lao Er and the Lower Mountain Shuanghu died, we were just lucky. ”
"Hehe, it's not so much luck as strength, the two of us who were killed are strong, and Chu Jing is stronger than us, I don't think I'm his opponent, if you want to take revenge, you can go yourself." Zhu Tong said.
Shang Youren sneered: "I see that you are practicing hard after falling into the grass, what's the matter, now you are suddenly afraid?"
"The speed of the young man's strength progress is something we can catch up with, and he is now the lord of a city, and it is 20,000 people to send at will, what are you going to do against him?"
Shang Youren snorted coldly, he knew that he was going through the most embarrassing period now, and Chu Jing had already begun to reach the peak of his life, there was no comparison between the two, but this is the case now, it does not mean that it will be the same in the future.
Shang Youren quickly left here with everyone and went around to the other side.
He wasn't prepared to take these people out of the Demon Beast Domain, not to mention that the six doors had laid countless eyeliners near the Demon Beast Domain, even if he managed to escape, the lives of more than two hundred people would become a big problem.
Helpless, they could only continue to wait for news from the Xiao family, and could only pray that Xiao Qianfan would be reliable and not let them wait too long.
However, the current situation of the Xiao family is not as calm as imagined, because the surrounding cities have chosen to belong one after another, and they have to make a decision.
Xiao Jing, Xiao Qianfan, and Xiao Yuning got together and began to discuss the next move.
Xiao Qianfan got up and said, "Father, recently, when several city lords have been in private contact, they have asked about our Xiao family's intentions, and they seem to have the intention of supporting us. ”
Xiao Jing immediately said the names of several city lords, and said: "They are testing you, how do you know that they are really willing to help us, maybe they will sell us to those princes backhandedly." ”
Xiao Qianfan broke out in a cold sweat in fear, and hurriedly added, "I didn't say anything." ”
"Didn't say anything, then tell me what you saw in private about those two barefoot cloaks?" Xiao Jing asked lightly.
Xiao Qianfan trembled, but he didn't expect his every move to be under the surveillance of his father, and hurriedly said: "Those two are fugitives from the six gates, who once fell into the grass and accumulated a lot of strength......
"Shang Youren, Zhu Tong?" Xiao Jing said with a smile, "These guys are also sick and rushed to the doctor, and they even thought of finding our Xiao family, although they have good guts, and even dare to kill the gods of the six doors, but don't they know that this is digging their own grave, and now the six doors will definitely not let them go." ”
"That'...... Shall we arrest them?"
"Do you think that if you catch two fugitives, six doors will face you?" Xiao Jing hated this son for iron and steel, and he didn't have any good ideas at all, just bad ideas.
Xiao Yuning said at this time: "Although these two people are average in strength, they are still quite famous among bandits, and they may have the opportunity to use them in the future." ”
Xiao Jing nodded, Xiao Yuning is much stronger than Xiao Qianfan in all aspects, but it's a pity that she is a girl, this is fate.
However, if it is really successfully restored in the future, Xiao Qianfan will have Xiao Yuning's help, and he will be able to relax after a hundred years.
Xiao Jing didn't discuss these little things anymore, and the most important thing now was how their Xiao family would choose at this critical moment.
"Say it, say what you think, and it's better to think it through and say it. ”
Xiao Qianfan glanced at Xiao Yuning, and took the lead in speaking: "Father, the second prince is far away in the northwest, we don't have to think about it, the eldest prince is barely orthodox, but he has dismissed many old ministers, and he is not popular with the people, the third prince has the help of Gao Song, the general of Zhenxi, and his military strength is strong, and the seventh prince has not collided with other princes so far, and his strength is the most complete, but in fact he is not strong." ”
"Although there is Shen Yunhe, who can be said to be the new number one master of Xinguo, is in the territory of the Seven Princes, the Seven Princes will definitely not please him, and Chu Jing, who has made great contributions to the Seven Princes' defense of Renjin City, is ......"
Saying that, Xiao Qianfan glanced at Xiao Yuning again before continuing: "My father should also know about the conflict between the two of them, and the other city lords are also extremely perfunctory towards the Seventh Prince, so I think it's a good choice for us to lean on the Seventh Prince." ”
Xiao Jing nodded, agreeing with Xiao Qianfan's point of view.
Xiao Qianfan smiled at Xiao Yuning, he had been envious and jealous of Xiao Yuning since he was a child, this was true in all aspects, he himself had no freedom, he could not get praise from his father, his father always asked him to learn from Xiao Yuning, he was a little driven crazy.
Xiao Jing also looked at Xiao Yuning, wanting to hear her opinion.
Xiao Yuning said expressionlessly: "We don't have to show loyalty to anyone, the Xiao family has been loyal to the court for generations, and we can only be loyal to the court. ”
"But......" Xiao Qianfan said, "the surrounding cities have all made a choice, if we don't move, I'm afraid we will become the target of the princes!"
"Target? Our Xiao family is different from other city lords, and we are used to standing out from the crowd, and now the princes are still entangled with each other, who will come to trouble us? Let them come if you want to, just give me a reasonable excuse to start an army." ”
"What...... Just start the army?" Xiao Qianfan couldn't understand what this sister was thinking at all, it was completely beyond his comprehension.
"Of course, when the time comes, we can even stand at the height of the prince and form an alliance with one of them, don't forget the identity of our Xiao family, we are the king, the king of Anping. ”
Xiao Yuning thought very clearly, the status of the Xiao family is special, and there is every reason to act in a special way.
After listening to Xiao Yuning's words, Xiao Jing suddenly realized and said: "I see, I was too anxious, the actions of the three princes completely disrupted my plan, and made me confused for a while, but fortunately, Yuning woke me up." ”
Xiao Qianfan's face was gloomy next to him, and he seemed to have lost again, and he lost very badly.
He asked, "What now?"
And so on. ”
After Xiao Jing said this word, he dispersed the meeting, people will win the sky, and sometimes they will need a little help from God.