Chapter Thirty-Eight

When the sun completely dispelled the darkness, the cold began to slowly recede with the night.

The col, where the battle took place last night, was now completely quiet.

It's just that this silence carries with it a chilling sense of death.

There was not even the sound of insects and birds chirping, as if these creatures were deliberately avoiding the place.

There is no living creature left on the battlefield.

With the addition of the Night Wolf Battalion, the resistance of the Dart Masters became as fragile as paper, and their lives were quickly harvested by the Night Wolf Battalion.

And now their bodies are all lying on the ground.

The cold weather turned the corpses pale in a very short period of time.

Some of the blood was frozen into red before it could seep into the ground, and the ice blended with the black ground to create a tragic picture.

The convoy they were escorting was now all gone, and even the ruts outside the col had been deliberately cleared.

But there was only one thing left in the entire convoy, and that was the small flag that symbolized the Dayu Dynasty.

The original yellow flag was now covered with black dirt and red blood, and the original yellow was basically invisible.

A deep rut crushed through the middle of the flag, pressing it deep into the dirt.

The corpses of all of the Night Wolf Camp were taken from the scene, as if they had never been here.

Although these dart masters are all dead, they should have no regrets in the end.

Because in the end they used their lives to tell the Night Wolf Camp that they were fearless men and that death could not frighten them.

Just looking at the pale faces that have been frozen, they should still be reluctant in the end.

They don't give up this wonderful world, and they don't give up the family members who stand at the door and wait for them to return.

But the dust has settled, and everything is irretrievable.

More than ten miles away, the convoy of the Yang Family Commercial Bank was hurrying quickly, and they wanted to take advantage of the fact that the ice on the ground had not melted in the morning.

By noon, the ice has completely melted, and the land is muddy.

When the wheels of the carriage are very tolerant, they will sink into the dirt.

At this time, Li Yi was leading the horse on foot, not that he didn't want to ride the horse, but that the horse's hooves were a little slippery on the frozen hard land.

Jing Zizheng and Qi Ning Qi Chao were sitting in a car chatting.

To say that the sisters and brothers of the Qi family are also familiar with the books of sages, so the three of them are very unhappy to chat about the scriptures.

On the other carriage, Ansu had woken up, and he originally planned to take advantage of everyone's inattention, but considering his physical condition, he finally gave up this plan.

However, what made him a little relieved was that after he washed his face, Qi Ning and Qi Chao didn't recognize him as the big boss of Huangfeng Village.

The reason why this is so is entirely because these two people have a preconceived idea that he is a mysterious master who saves them both.

They didn't think about it in the direction of the big boss of Huangfeng Village, after all, no matter how much they wanted to break through the sky, they couldn't have thought that the people of Huangfeng Village would make a move on their boss.

But Ansu may not have thought of another point, maybe the two siblings are face blind.

Whatever the reason, though, he's safe now.

And the injuries on his body are no longer serious, I have to say that he is lucky this time, there are no penetrating injuries on the injuries on his body, so as long as the gold sore medicine given by the doctor of the medical hall is not messy, it is basically no problem.

However, although the Qi family sisters and brothers did not recognize him, he still did not dare to get out of the carriage easily.

Because the kid who made him so jealous was also in this convoy, he had to pick the kid when he didn't pay attention every time he got out of the carriage.

And the scholar who made him hate was in front of him, but he didn't dare to take revenge, which made him feel very aggrieved.

However, Ansu felt that it was not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and sooner or later he would slaughter this kid with his own hands to avenge himself.

Sitting in the swaying carriage, Ansu, who was very bored, could only recall his eventful years as a bandit.

It's just that those carefree days are gone.

When the sun rises, the temperature begins to rise slowly, and the ice on the ground begins to melt rapidly.

Li Yi, who was walking, had a lot of mud stuck to the bottom of his boots.

"Let's hold on a little longer, let's go to the front col and rest for a while, and wait until the ground is dry before walking."

Yang Ping's voice came from the front of the convoy.

So the convoy accelerated again, and everyone hurried towards the col not far away.

Just as the people of the Yang convoy were moving quickly towards the mountain col, a figure on a hill in the distance was sitting on a tree watching the convoy moving down the mountain.

He leaned his back against the trunk of the tree, chewing on a piece of dried meat in his mouth, and a satisfied smile on his face.

"I didn't expect to just do a ticket last night, and before I had time to leave, I found a bigger fat sheep."

So saying, he jumped down from the branch, and then ran quickly into the hill in three steps and two steps.

An Su heard Yang Ping say that he wanted to go to the mountain col in front of him to rest, so he opened the curtain and prepared to observe to see if he could get out of the car while Li Yi and the others were not paying attention to it.

But when he lifted the corner of the curtain to look around, his brow furrowed.

As a professional bandit, he has a much more keen observation of the environment than ordinary people.

When he saw the surrounding mountains and the condition of the col, he immediately felt that this was a relatively dangerous terrain.

If you look down from above, the shape of this col resembles the shape of a gourd, and the area inside looks large, but the exit is very small.

From the eyes of a bandit, Ansu is simply an excellent place for robbery.

At the same time, he also sensed that something was not quite right in the atmosphere here, and there was something quiet around him that there was no bird calling.

And as the convoy got closer and closer to the mountain pass, An Su could vaguely ask, and there was a hint of blood in the air.

An Su's face began to turn bad, and he was instantly sure that there must have been a robbery here not long ago, and he had killed a lot of people.

Sure enough, when the carriage at the front of the convoy had just entered the mountain pass, Yang Ping and the others found the body of the dart master who had died in the battle last night.

The convoy also stopped instantly, and Li Yi, who was behind, couldn't help but be curious when he saw the convoy stop, so he stepped forward to check.

When he saw dozens of corpses lying in the col, Li Yi's brows condensed into Sichuan characters.

"Turn the convoy around. Let's get out of here. ”

Yang Ping immediately ordered, and everyone in the convoy immediately began to turn around, but due to the large number of convoys, it would take some time to exit this col one by one.

Taking advantage of this time, Li Yi and Yang Ping cautiously stepped forward to examine the corpses.

Jing Zizheng and Qi Chao in the carriage also jumped out of the carriage to inspect when they heard that a large number of corpses had been found in front of them.

Although Qi Ning was a little scared, he couldn't resist his curiosity, and followed them hesitantly.

"There are at least forty people here."

Yang Ping roughly counted.

"They look like they're dart masters in some game."

Yang Qi, the head of the cauldron, turned over a corpse with his long sword.

As the head of the Yang caravan, he has been dealing with the Dart Bureau Trading House all the year round, and he still knows a little about the dart master and the caravan's guards.

"Judging from the situation at the scene, there should be a lot of materials they escorted."

Xiao Derong, the head of the second pot, looked at the rut marks on the ground and said.

Although the Night Wolf Camp had disposed of the rut marks on the outside of the col, the marks on the col had not been cleaned up.

The reason why they didn't get rid of all the rut marks together was because the col was full of corpses and blood, and it was very dirty when it was cleaned up, and secondly, because it was almost dawn and the Night Wolf Camp didn't want to delay time.

It's just that Xiao Derong, as a member of the Wei clan, is more skilled in tracking and judging than the Dayu people.

"How do you know?" Qi Chao followed behind Jingzi and asked curiously.

"You look at the two intermittent lines on the ground, are they two circles!"

Xiao Derong pointed to the marks on the ground and explained.

"These two circles are the circles of the carriages, which they use as shields against the enemy's attacks."

Xiao Derong walked before walking those traces and explained to everyone.

"This is also the most common defensive formation of the grassland tribes, and the convoys and caravans of the Great Yu Dynasty later learned this defensive formation."

"Erguotou, can you roughly judge how many people are on the attacking side?"

Yang Ping is most concerned about how many people are there now, and he has to assess whether his side can resist if the other party comes to attack his caravan.

Xiao Derong began to carefully inspect the col, and he carefully examined the various traces left on the ground.

Then he carefully calculated what was going on from the traces.

After a while, he stood up and pointed to the various footprints on the ground to explain to everyone.

"Judging from the traces left at the scene, the number of people on the attacking side should not be less than two hundred, of which there are about fifty or sixty cavalry."

"Cavalry!?" Everyone couldn't help but be surprised.

"Yes, the other side has cavalry, and these cavalry should not have made a charge."

"They didn't charge, did they just watch from the sidelines?" Qi Chao continued to ask curiously.

"According to my inference, they should have participated in the battle, but they didn't fight on horseback."

Xiao Derong pointed to the shallow footprints on the side of the horse mark and continued.

"They must have jumped off their horses and rushed forward to fight the dart masters, and more than a hundred others also took part in the battle.

"Erguotou, does it mean that they are fighting fiercely with so many footprints left on the scene?"

Li Yi looked at the many footprints on the ground and asked.

"It seems to me that the fight may not be as motivating as you think, and they may have attacked many times."

Xiao Derong thought for a moment and said.

"How so?"

Li Yi didn't understand why Xiao Derong would say this.

"I wonder if you've ever seen how wolves hunt on the prairie?"

Everyone shook their heads, they didn't understand what the wolf hunt on the steppe had to do with the battle on the spot.

"In the grasslands, wolves repeatedly test their prey when hunting, and they will attack the prey many times, so that the prey is in a nervous state until finally the prey is exhausted and collapses."

"You mean these people really learn the way wolves hunt, and then keep attacking these dart masters until they are brought down?"

Li Yi was the first to understand what he meant.

"Yes, you see that these footprints go back and forth repeatedly, and the opponent attacks and then retreats frequently to stimulate these dart masters, and finally give them the final blow when they are exhausted."

"If I'm not mistaken, the man who commanded this battle should be a man from the Prairie Tribe."

Xiao Derong said with a worried face.

In fact, he wanted to directly say that it might be the Night Wolf Battalion who commanded the attack this time, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say that the other party might be the Night Wolf Battalion, just that the other party might be someone from the grassland tribe.

However, everyone present heard Xiao Derong's words.

They were analyzing last night's battle, and a man was reporting to Cao Jiangyun in a huge cave a few miles away.

The person who reported was the guy who had observed the Yang caravan from the tree before.

"Night wolf, another convoy has just entered that col."

"Looks like they're going to find the bodies from last night."

Cao Jiangyun said indifferently while carefully inspecting the supplies in the carriage.

"If only I had told the Hopeless to dispose of the corpses of those fellows, so that this new caravan would definitely be repaired in this col, so that we could grab another wave."

The Night Wolf Battalion soldier who had come to pay his respects lamented.

"It doesn't matter, as long as we let the lambs run, they will lose their strength quickly, and we can easily send them to Hades."

The corners of Cao Jiangyun's mouth showed an evil smile.

"Lord Night Wolf, we believe in the Wolf King God, we should say that we sent them to see the Wolf King God!"

A soldier from the Night Wolf Battalion on the side cautioned.

"You know a fart, we believe in the wolf king god so we can return to the arms of the wolf king god after death, and these cowardly and cowardly Dayu people believe in Hades, so of course we sent him to see Hades."

Cao Jiangyun kicked this guy's ass.

In his opinion, a big old man picks a thorn in himself as an authentic reader, which is fundamentally provocative to him.

"That's right, the docile sheep can't bear the glory of the wolf king god."

The guy who was kicked was holding his ass and hehe, hey, silly.

"Your Excellency, do you mean to let them escape for a while before we do it?"

The guy who came to report the situation earlier asked.

"Yes, you have been following them from afar, and it is estimated that they will run for their lives when they find the bodies, and we will wait for the opportunity to act in the evening when they are exhausted."

Cao Jiangyun sat on the wheel of the carriage, drew his saber, and carefully wiped it.

"You go and inform the Hopeless that there is one more operation tonight, so that they can hurry up and rest for a while, and get ready for battle before dark."

Cao Jiangyun said to a Night Wolf Battalion soldier beside him.

The man nodded to inform the hopeless.

"There are not many hopeless people in this group of adults, is it possible that our Night Wolf Camp will also act together tonight?"

The Night Wolf Battalion soldier who reported the situation asked.

"They did lose a lot last night, so I won't tease that caravan tonight, count them as good luck today, and I will be merciful and send them directly to Hades."