Chapter 61: Tracking the Herd
But at this moment, something made our mood even worse. As we were slowly moving forward, a falcon suddenly retracted its wings and swooped down towards us.
Zhang Hanwen squinted and looked at it, and suddenly raised his right forearm, the falcon suddenly had two wings, and the powerful air flow supported the falcon eagle, so that its speed quickly decreased, and landed on Zhang Hanwen's right arm very smoothly, Zhang Hanwen untied a letter tube from the falcon eagle's leg and handed the letter tube to me.
I pulled out the text message from the letter tube, and after just one glance, a nameless fire came out of my chest: "TM, we didn't come to trouble you, you came to provoke us first!
"What's wrong?" Zhang Hanwen looked at me suspiciously, and I handed him the note.
He unfolded the note and read softly: "Feiteng regards your department as a competitor, please confirm in the group log, and the guild will send you a task of competition in real time." ”
"Isn't that great? We can't think of how to entertain them, but we didn't expect them to send them to the door by themselves, what else do we have to be polite?" Zhang Hanwen said with a smile.
My hand was wiped on the regimental badge, the regimental log had appeared on my hand, I turned the first page, there was an entry on it that I needed to confirm, it was the confirmation that the Feiteng mercenary group added the eye of the storm as a competitor, and there was no option to refuse, this was an irreversible choice, this Feiteng was going to fight with me endlessly!
Since I didn't have a choice, I didn't choose, so I nodded fiercely on the confirmation: "I still don't believe it, what confidence does this Yan Shifan have to argue with me." ”
"He really has the ability to argue with you now, you are just a D-class mercenary, their D-class mercenaries are two squads, you have only been established for less than two weeks, they have been established for more than ten years, do you think he has the confidence?" Zhang Hanwen squinted at me, combed the feathers of the falcon eagle, and fed two pieces of dried meat, and then released the falcon eagle out, and the falcon quickly rushed into the sky, turned around above our heads, and flew in the direction of Yecheng.
"Let's finish this task as soon as possible, and go back to find Feiteng's bad luck!" I shouted, and then urged my horse forward, and the speed of the ten-man squad immediately increased.
Galloping like this for an afternoon, in the evening, Cui Jian suddenly stopped, we saw from a distance, I immediately raised my hand, we immediately slowed down the horse, Zhang Hanwen and I drove the horse slowly forward, Zhang Shuo took the others to guard in the periphery, and the Hou brothers stood in front of our left and right, also vigilant.
"How is Cui Jian?" I had just jumped off my horse and asked Cui Jian, who was squatting on the ground.
"We've caught up!" Cui Jian pointed to the messy footprints on the ground and horse manure everywhere and continued: "This is a large herd of horses, the number should be more than a hundred, this group has stayed in this place for at least three days, judging from the traces left behind, they left three days ago, we can catch up in two more days!"
"Okay, then we'll camp here today, Cui Jian, you can look for more clues, Zhang Shuo, you are responsible for camping!" As soon as I finished giving the order, the two miscellaneous servants had already driven the cart, found a relatively flat place, and set up the marching tents, there were five tents in total, and the largest was naturally mine.
Soon, the tent was set up. At this time, except for the waiter who stood guard, everyone else was in my tent, and Cui Jian gestured on the map: "If my prediction is correct, this group of wind chasing horses is on the way back to Moon Lake, and they have now deviated from the straight line route to Moon Lake, so the horses should be inserted diagonally towards Moon Lake in an arc migration route, and we now have two plans, one, take a straight line and insert it in front of the horses! If we use this plan, we may be able to go around to the front of the horses tomorrow evening." "He started by drawing an arc to Moon Lake from where we are now.
Then a straight line was drawn at our site to the north-west, and about a hundred and fifty kilometres from this location intersected the arc.
"Can you guarantee that the horses will follow this arc?" I asked.
"Otherwise, it's just my calculation!" Cui Jian said.
"What about the other option?" I asked.
Cui Jian pushed all the way up on that arc, and said: "Let's chase down according to this arc, the traces left by the horses are very obvious, and if you don't lose them, you have to take some time to catch up, this plan is safer." ”
I discussed it with Zhang Hanwen in a low voice, and finally said: "We use a safe plan, this is our first task, and we can't afford to lose!"
Cui Jian nodded and said, "Yes!"
"Rest well tonight, we will speed up from tomorrow onwards, we will not camp like this from tomorrow onwards, we will camp at eight o'clock tomorrow night!" I ordered.
"Wow!" all stood up and saluted me, when a handyman came in and said, "Sir, dinner is ready, may we eat?"
"Okay, let's eat!" I said.
Everyone is in a good mood, I have already left the noon thing behind, and now I want to sleep well tonight, and I will start to do a big job tomorrow, this time I don't want to sleep well in three days, although I said that I will camp at eight o'clock tomorrow night, but if there is any emergency, it may be possible to travel overnight.
After the meal, arrange the sentry, everyone lay down early to rest, in the center of the big tent, I Zhang Hanwen discussed the matter at noon again, this matter can not wait for us to go back and deal with it, we must deal with it immediately, otherwise there may be some unnecessary losses, I hung Ma Li on the deputy head of the regiment, as for Ma Li in the cabin in Yecheng What is the reaction, it is not my business.
Zhang Hanwen wrote an urgent letter, took a falcon eagle with him, stuffed the urgent letter into the letterbox, and released the falcon eagle, these days can only rely on Ma Li's experience, and now some newcomers and students in the group are managed by Ma Li, and she comes forward to take on some small tasks.
Now that Feiteng has hung us up as a competitor, it will definitely give us some small tasks, if we are not prepared, then our newly established regiment, the morale will inevitably be hit, this is not what we want to see.
After letting the falcon eagle go, Zhang Hanwen turned to me and said, "Commander, then you rest early, and I will go to the camp to inspect again." ”
"Okay, Lao Zhang has worked hard, you should go to bed early. "For me, going to bed early and going to bed late is the same, it's just a habit of being a person, and it doesn't affect me much, I sat behind the table in the tent, looked up at the tent, and actually remembered that the head of the Regent's spy called Daddy, there was such a good thing in that tent, but it's a pity that I want to use that to make a game for the regent, otherwise the beads are really good.