Chapter 46: The Wolf Plague

Many of the settlements in the center of the Khovumon tribe are large settlements with dozens or hundreds of families.

In this once-in-a-20-year snowstorm, cattle and sheep were swept away, tents collapsed, and there was no food stockpile, making it difficult for them to survive. Most of these large settlements were established in high and flat areas, where there were many people, the facilities were complete and high-quality, and the food and hay were well stocked, so the cattle and sheep were well protected, and even the snow in the settlements was cleared in time.

The only factor that can threaten the survival and safety of these large settlements is the wolf plague that accompanies the heavy snowstorm.

The snow closed the forest, and the hungry wolves had nowhere to feed, so they made a desperate move out of the forest, biting their sharp teeth at the shepherd's cattle and sheep.

The wolf family that has walked out of the mountains and forests one after another, because there is no restriction on the field, in order to cope with the new environment together, and in order to protect themselves - the weak wolf family that is alone may be attacked by the powerful wolf family, they often temporarily form an alliance of wolf families, forming a larger wolf group, and then select the head wolf of the most powerful wolf family as the commander-in-chief to decide the specific actions of the wolf group.

The first pack of wolves that Amogan encountered was about two dozen wolves attacking a settlement of twenty herdsmen.

As soon as it got dark, the wolves jumped into the fence and pounced on the sheep. The barking of the dogs called out more than a dozen strong shepherds, more than twenty big wolves pounced together, and a dozen people were no match at all in the guardpen of the dark and narrow flock. Several vicious and sturdy male wolves pounced directly on a shepherd, and a wolf bit off his neck after a few screams from the downed shepherd.

Amukam heard the cries of the shepherds who had been bitten to death and rushed over. He dragged a lame leg into the guardrail of the flock, and stuned three strong wolves who pounced on a shepherd with three palms in succession. Then he jumped behind the other two big wolves who were about to attack the shepherd, and hit the back of the big wolf's neck with both palms at the same time, and the two big wolves were knocked to the ground at once.

In a few breaths, Amugan defeated five big wolves, and several shepherds suddenly gained great courage and launched an attack on the wolves.

Amogan alone knocked out fourteen wolves, and several shepherds killed three wolves, and the remaining wolves ran away.

The blizzard had stopped, but it left the Kakatslan steppe with one of the biggest snowstorms in more than 30 years.

The continuous low temperature of more than minus 30 degrees Celsius sealed the entire Kakatslan grassland with a thick layer of snow, and the wolves on the Daqula Mountain in the north of the grassland and the south bank of the Luerdian River in the south of the grassland were far away from the mountains and forests, rushing to the herdsmen's settlements, and cattle and sheep became the only food for the wolves to survive.

The heavy snow disaster froze to death countless cattle and sheep, but most of the frozen cattle and sheep were sealed in the depressions and ravines by the heavy snow, and the smell of cattle and sheep was completely sealed in the heavy snow, and it was difficult for wolves to find it, so the wolves who went down to the mountains and forests came to the living cattle and sheep in various large settlements.

Many settlements in the Khoo Woomon tribe were attacked by different wolf packs in broad daylight, many cattle and sheep were bitten to death, and in some settlements, the ground was stained with blood, and piles of sheep bones were scattered in all corners, as well as the internal organs of the sheep that had been bitten and broken.

Many of the patriarchs of the families who had been attacked by the wolves sought help from the leader of the Khovumon tribe, the steppe king, Chijin Bo Khan, who was furious and mobilized 20,000 troops to slaughter the wolves around the Khovumon tribe.

Due to the thick snow, the soldiers could not ride horses and had to fight on foot. The soldier marched across the steppe with a scimitar on his back and a longbow in his hand.

The soldiers of the steppe are accurate marksmen, and when the wolves of all sizes meet the assembled army, they meet the Grim Reaper.

Packs of wolves were shot and hacked to death, and the dwindling wolves did not dare to come out in the daytime.

The wolves changed the time of the attack on the settlement to the second half of the night when the soldiers and shepherds were asleep, and the wolves no longer gathered in small groups and scattered to attack the settlement, as was the case, but all gathered into a large pack of more than 100 wolves to attack the settlement.

After the big wolf pack is assembled, let one wolf enter the settlement to reconnoitre, and when he finds that the settlement with a large number of soldiers lives, he gives up the attack.

The sneak attacks of the big wolves on the settlements at night are no longer mainly aimed at cattle and sheep, they often tear open tents, take the initiative to bite the shepherds to death, and when they see soldiers, they will be the first to pounce. The wolves resisted the hunger of the snowstorm and began to take revenge on the steppe people.

There were too many settlements, and 20,000 soldiers were scattered to guard all the settlements, and there was a serious shortage of manpower, which gave the wolves an opportunity to take advantage of, and in a few days, several large groups of wolves effectively attacked several settlements, biting to death more than 150 soldiers and more than 300 herdsmen.

The shadow of the large-scale attack on the shepherds by wolves enveloped the entire Howumeng tribe like a dark cloud in the sky.

Enraged, he mobilized another 30,000 troops and fought a war against the wolves.

The wolves were once again devastated, and the wasteland around the Khovumun tribe of the Kakatslan steppe was littered with the corpses of steppe eagles, goshawks, and vultures.

Wolves no longer attack settlements, and for 10 days there has not been a single attack by wolves.

In the dead of night, the occasional wolf wail can be heard in the moor.

The shepherd's heart was relieved, and the large group of wolves was exterminated, and the remaining small group of family wolves, the steppe people would not go to encircle and suppress them.

The grassland people hate wolves and love wolves, respect wolves when they are afraid of wolves, and protect wolves when they fight wolves.

With wolves, marmots, weasels, voles, hares with strong fecundity cannot eat up the grass on the grassland, and with grass there is grassland, and there are cattle, sheep and shepherds, so the wolf is the master of the grassland, the totem worshiped by the grassland people, and the god of fear, and the wolves that bite and kill a lot of cattle, sheep and shepherds are just wolves that are temporarily put on the body by the hungry ghost and the revenge ghost.

The shepherds far underestimated the wisdom of these wolves, who had been attacked by the vengeful ghosts of the hungry ghosts, and a well-planned operation to demand the lives of the herdsmen with both life and revenge was unfolding step by step.

On the eighth day after the end of the second large-scale wolf slaughter, Chijin Bo Khan ordered 3,000 soldiers to be left behind for night patrols, and the remaining 40,000 or so soldiers were withdrawn to three barracks outside the herdsmen's settlements, in the upper and lower reaches of the Luerdian River and at the foot of the Daqula Mountain.

There were not many living facilities for the soldiers in the shepherds' settlements, and in temperatures of minus 30 degrees, the soldiers all suffered from chilblains, and some of them were suppurated and infected, and if they worsened, their lives would be in danger.

It had been five days since most of the troops had withdrawn, and there had still been no wolves attacking the settlements, and this time, all the people of the Huo Woomeng tribe were completely relieved.

In the second half of the night on the sixth day of the withdrawal of the army, the wolf's wail suddenly increased, and the 800 soldiers guarding near the largest settlement of the Howmun tribe, that is, the residence of the Chijin Bo Khan's family, at first, did not pay much attention to the howling of the wolf, which was much more than before, but the wolf's wail did not go away for a long time, and the sound became louder and louder.

The soldiers were all vigilant, they were responsible for the safety of Chijin Bo Khan, one of the seven military commanders of the Xurui Dynasty, the king of the steppe, and they must not be lost in the slightest.

The wolf's howl was mainly concentrated on the east and west sides of the Chijin Bo Khan's settlement, it was a dark night, the soldiers were hiding in makeshift tents, and the wolf howl outside made them more and more restless, they had never heard such a loud and long-lasting wolf howl.

After a while, a few soldiers who were running from the east and west came to the residence of the Chijin Bo Khan, and reported to the Khan that two large packs of more than 200 wolves were attacking the settlement, and the 2,000 soldiers scattered around could not be gathered together for a while, and several soldiers asked the Khan to send soldiers outside his settlement to deal with the wolves.

Without hesitation, the Red Jin Bo Khan divided the eight hundred into two teams and went to the east and west to kill the wolves.

The leader of the soldiers begged the Chijin Bo Khan to leave two hundred soldiers to protect the residence of the Chijin Bo Khan, and the Khan said impatiently: "Only one hundred soldiers can be left!"

Chijin Bo Khan personally led 350 soldiers to deal with the big wolf pack in the east, and 350 soldiers to deal with the big wolf pack in the west.

When more than 300 soldiers led by Chijin Bo Khan rushed into the settlement, most of the old men, children, and women in the tent were bitten to death and bitten, and there were more than a dozen soldiers and more than 100 strong shepherds fighting with wolves outside the tent. The soldiers slashed with knives, but when several wolves attacked together, the soldier's back was first scratched by the wolf's claws, and then the hind legs were also bitten by the wolf, and the soldier fell, and in a burst of screams, the soldier's neck was bitten off, and his stomach was bitten.

In the dark, the wolf's bite action is fast and accurate, while the person's vision is greatly restricted, and he falls to the wind everywhere.

As soon as more than 300 soldiers joined the battle, dozens of wolves left behind a dozen wolf corpses and fled to the mountains and forests.

More than 300 soldiers looked at the shepherds and soldiers who had died tragically in the settlement, and chased after the fleeing wolves with red eyes and panting.

He organized more than 20 soldiers who stayed with him to clean up the bodies of the shepherds in the settlement, and arranged for two soldiers to go back to his residence to find a doctor to treat the herdsman who had been bitten by a wolf.

On the other hand, when the more than 300 soldiers arrived at the western settlement, which had been attacked by wolves, the wolves that had killed and wounded many herdsmen saw that so many soldiers had arrived, and they immediately fled to the wasteland, and the angry soldiers fought to chase after them.

There were more than 3,000 soldiers in total, scattered in different settlements, and now the most concentrated 800 soldiers were led to the wasteland by two wolf packs.

This is the wisdom of the wolves, and the purpose of two packs of wolves attacking a settlement is to attract the largest concentration of soldiers, and to allow a larger group of wolves to attack the settlement without much hindrance.

One of these two wolves is from the mountains and forests south of the Luerdian River, and the other is from the Daqula Mountain in the north.

Most of the wolves in the two packs are old wolves and young wolves and sick and weak wolves that are about to starve to death, and only the first wolf is a very strong wolf.

Those big wolves formed a large pack of three hundred or dozens of wolves to attack the largest settlement, and the wolves knew that the largest settlement was inhabited by the leader of the shepherds, who ordered the gathering of soldiers to encircle and slaughter a large number of wolf families.

It is also the wisdom of wolves to take revenge on the shepherds by biting their leaders and their families to death, and the wisdom of wolves is everywhere in this long-planned attack on settlements: Under the powerful offensive of tens of thousands of troops, they fled far away from the wilderness mountains and forests, endured hunger for more than ten days and waited for the army to withdraw, and every night there were cunning wolves who spied on the movements of the army near the army's settlement; after the army withdrew, they endured for a few days so that the shepherds had no sense of defense at all; the attack on the settlement was carried out on a dark night when the stars and moons were dim; all the wolves that were called out gathered outside the two small settlements on either side of the residence of Chijin Bo Khan, the target of their attack, howled, and the terrifying sound was specially created for the more than 800 soldiers; after the oversized wolf pack learned that the soldiers had left, closed his mouth and quickly ran to the residence of the Red Jin Bo Khan.

There was a convoy of 200 sturdy young men in the residence of the Khan of Chijinbo, who was specially responsible for protecting the Khan.

The wolf's wail woke the convoys, who lit torches in their settlements and divided into five groups to protect the tents where Chijin Bo Khan and his family lived.

The 100 remaining soldiers also patrolled around the settlement.

The oversized pack of three hundred or so wolves was very disciplined, and none of the wolves made a bark, and they ran excitedly to the residence where the Red Jin Bo Khan was.

Instead of pounced on the cattle and sheep, or at the tents on the outskirts of the settlement, the wolves rushed directly into the settlement. When the leaders of several large wolf families who rushed ahead found the largest tent in the entire settlement, several leaders shouted together, which was a signal for attack, and the leader's cry sounded, and the wolf pack became a cry.

The wolves scattered and pounced on the tent in front of them, and the wolves bared their sharp teeth at the same time to tear at the tent.

The tent of the Red Jin Bo Khan was the strongest, but in a short time it was bitten by several wolves, but they were so excited that they roared wildly, and when they got into the tent, when they showed their sword teeth, ten soldiers with knives standing in the tent lit by oil lamps slashed at several wolves.

In the tents around the tent of the Red Jin Bo Khan, three soldiers or guards slashed at the wolves that came in.