【078】Tracking

After Ye Jishi's diagnosis and treatment, Chen Shufen's complexion really improved a lot the next day. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Lian'er cooked the minced meat soup early in the morning, and the fresh horse meat and chopped pickles were boiled together, so that everyone except Yuan Xiaoguan could eat it. During the meal, Yuan Xiaoguan said his plan.

"Uncle Zhou, after dinner, I want to go back to Jianmen Pass and buy a few horses. ”

Zhou Jinfeng wanted to say that military horses are not cheap, but after looking at Yuan Xiaoguan's expression, he didn't say anything, just nodded.

"Wait a minute, let Angkor or Brother Liu go with me, bring the horse back, and leave another one for Sister Chen......"

Chen Shufen didn't even say no.

Yuan Xiaoguan waved his hand and continued: "Then you go first, I want to go to Guanwai, and when I come back, I will go to the dart game to meet you." ”

Zhou Jinfeng asked, "Do you want to find ......?"

Yuan Xiaoguan motioned to Zhou Jinfeng with his eyes not to say it, and then nodded. He didn't want to give Chen Shufen hope when he was unsure, and he didn't want her to be heartbroken again.

Zhou Jinfeng asked to go together, but Yuan Xiaoguan refused, on the grounds that it was convenient for him to come and go alone, and Lian'er and Ye Jishi needed the protection of someone with martial arts. The two argued again and again, and finally decided to let Liu Fuju, who has the art of tracking and domestication, go with him, so that he can help find someone not to say, at least there is a response, and there are many reports when encountering things. Yuan Xiaoguan agreed.

Because war horses are scarce in China, there are regulations in military regulations prohibiting the sale, slaughter, and consumption of war horses. It is okay for officers to buy and sell people, but it is a capital offense to buy and sell war horses.

But in the end, the military regulations still couldn't stand Yuan Xiaoguan's money. He used a thousand taels of silver tickets given by Gesang to buy two horses, one of which was lame. The lame horse was ready to be left for Chen Shufen as food, of course, this could never be said.

I asked the officer who was watching the horses about gathering the hunters a month ago, but found out that it was also related to horses.

It turned out that two months ago, outside the Jianmen Pass, suddenly came a peculiar foal, this foal is golden, but the mane and tail are white, according to the veterans of the army who will meet the horses, the little golden horse is the northern Tianshan Mountains down the divine horse, the name is "elephant dragon horse", is the Jade Emperor's mount golden dragon and white elephant mated and gave birth to offspring, the Jade Emperor thought it was a different species, so he degraded the mortal world. This horse can travel 4,400 miles a day, treading water and waves like walking on the ground.

Liang Wuyi, the guard of the Sword Gate, immediately moved his mind and wanted to seize it and give it to Wen Guangdao, the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu. This Wen Guangdao and Hexi Jiedu made Gao Zhan familiar with each other, and he has always been in possession of a big Wanliang horse, so he always asked his subordinates to help him find a good horse on weekdays. Liang Wuyi has been on the border in this difficult place for several years, and he has never been given the opportunity to be promoted, so this time he wants to use this divine horse to curry favor with Shangguan and make a fortune.

However, Liang Wuyi sent an army to round up the golden horse several times, but it escaped, and finally the golden horse did not know what happened. Liang Wuyi was unwilling, so he summoned a lot of hunters out of the customs to help him hunt down. Unexpectedly, after this exit, the war broke out, and Liang Wuyi and the horse hunting team have not returned so far.

That Liang Wuyi is a wonderful person, and he wants to bribe the official and explain it clearly to his subordinates, listening to the tone of the officer Ma, he also admires this border guard general, what kind of soldier will he bring, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked.

After asking the reason for the incident, and also asking the direction of Liang Wuyi's last exit, Yuan Xiaoguan and Liu Fuju immediately left. Zhou Jinfeng sent Yuan Xiaoguan and the others directly to the Jianmen Pass. Looking at Yuan Xiaoguan's back, Lian'er said: "The little master is really the best person I have ever seen. ”

Ye Jishi nodded.

Zhou Jinfeng said in his heart: "Could it be that I blamed him wrongly before?"

Half a day later, Yuan Xiaoguan and the others came to Black Bear Ridge, which is said to be the place where Liang Wuyi found the foal for the last time, but the two went around in a circle, but they found nothing. Because a snowfall covered the traces a few days ago, Liu Fuju's tracking skills were not good.

Yuan Xiaoguan thought that if the horse really came from the Tianshan Mountain, those people caught the horse with great fanfare, and the horse should run home after being frightened, so he decided to go north to try his luck. This time, it didn't take long for Liu Fuju to find a clue, which was a horse trap made of ropes. After finding the clues, it was easy to do, Liu Fuju followed all the way, and found more and more clues: footprints, horseshoe prints, camping traces, arrows with anesthetic, damaged horse poles......

Yuan Xiaoguan saw that this tracking technique was very interesting, so he proposed to learn from Liu Fuju, and Liu Fuju did not hide his secrets, and tracked all the way to explain. This tracking technique is actually two things, experience and carefulness. Because of his high level of understanding, Yuan Xiaoguan learned knowledge such as experience very quickly, and practiced while learning, and after half a day, he added another skill to his knowledge and miscellaneous studies: the tracking technique "rough skin" (56).

Liu Fuju's best skill is not tracking, but domestication. His father was a horse herder on a horse farm, so he grew up on a horse farm and knew the habits of horses and other livestock, walking, feeding, treating and delivering horses...... These are very good, in addition to being a dart master in the Tianya Dart Bureau, his side job is to take care of the horses. His father gave him this name because he wanted him to become a wealthy man by raising horses.

That night, Yuan Xiaoguan set up a snow nest to spend the night, which was a method he learned from the Blood Knife Ancestor.

The next day, the two continued to track, and after walking for a while, there was a smell of blood in the wind, and there was a faint shout of killing behind the hill ahead. The two hurriedly dismounted and secretly climbed to the hill, only to see a battlefield in front of them, and they saw that the Tubo cavalry and the Huaguo cavalry were fighting. There were already several corpses on the ground, and the number of Tubo soldiers in the field was superior, about 40 people, and there were only a dozen Chinese soldiers, among which a few were people wearing cloth clothes, but looking at the skillful bows and arrows of those people, they should be hunters who use bows and arrows all year round. Now the Tibetan soldiers are chasing the Chinese to fight, and the Chinese are running while fighting, and an officer wearing armor and holding a horse chopping knife is extremely brave, and his head is broken behind.

"It should be them, Liang Wuyi and the people of the horse hunting team. Liu Fuju said, "What should I do now?

Although Liu Fuju is older than Yuan Xiaoguan, from the beginning of Riwuguan to the present, he has been accustomed to Yuan Xiaoguan being in charge along the way, so he asked his opinion for the first time.

Yuan Xiaoguan observed for a while and said: "This Tubo cavalry has very strong combat effectiveness, and the two of us are estimated to be unfavorable! I have a plan, wait for you to be so ...... like this."

After Yuan Xiaoguan finished speaking, he pulled out the blood knife from the package, and then found a narrow ramp to hide in the snow, covering his whole body with the snow, leaving only his eyes and two nostrils.

Seeing that Yuan Xiaoguan was disguised, Liu Fuju immediately stood up and shouted at the Chinese soldiers in front of him: "Hey, run this way!" After shouting, he got on his horse and ran backwards with a puff of smoke.

The group of Chinese soldiers was Liang Wuyi and his horse hunting team, and they chased the horse all the way to the north, but unexpectedly encountered the Tibetan army that was pursuing the Chinese army. When the Tibetan army saw Liang Wuyi's team, they thought it was the Chinese army in Wuguan, and killed them without saying a word. Liang Wuyi is also capable, and he actually rushed out of the army and fled with his men and horses to this day.

Now Liang Wuyi and his subordinates have long been sleepy and tired, and when they heard someone shouting on the snow hill, they saw that it was a Chinese, thinking that reinforcements were coming, and hurriedly fled to Liu Fuju's side.

At first, the Tubo soldiers also thought that they had encountered reinforcements from Huaguo, but when they saw that Liu Fuju was just a person, he turned around and ran away after shouting, so he concluded that there would not be too many reinforcements, maybe it was a scout, so they chased after him closely.

Yuan Xiaoguan hid in the snow, and when he saw the Chinese soldiers riding over, he immediately raised the blood knife gently, and the Tubo cavalry who followed closely behind did not expect that there were people hiding in the snow, and the horse team passed by, and the horse's legs were broken one after another.

The terrain chosen by Yuan Xiaoguan is a narrow slope, only allowing one person and one horse to pass, the horse in front of him broke his leg and fell and rolled straight down the hill, the cavalry behind could not retract the momentum, and continued to run forward, as a result, only the last seven or eight of the more than 40 horsemen escaped the misfortune of breaking the leg, and the rest were all turned on their backs and rolled down the hillside.

Liang Wuyi was overjoyed when he saw such a change, and waved his army back to kill him, and none of the Tubo soldiers who fell off his horse were spared, all of them were killed at the bottom of the hillside, and the seven or eight horsemen on the hillside escaped by luck, and ran away without looking back.

Yuan Xiaoguan chased after him for a while with his knife, and found that with his current level of light skills, he couldn't catch up with the galloping horse at all, so he could only give up.

"I am Liang Wuyi, the guard of the Sword Gate, dare to ask the young man's surname?" Seeing Yuan Xiaoguan coming back, Liang Wu got off his horse and hugged his fists and asked. He was thin, his armor was full of scratches and tears, and he was covered in blood at this time, with blood on the outside and clotted black blood clots inside, obviously after a long and bitter battle.

Yuan Xiaoguan ignored him and said to the soldiers and hunters behind him, "May I ask if any of you are named Wang Tianfu?"

A middle-aged man dressed as a hunter replied, "I am." ”

"Eagle Head Village, Orion King Tianfu?"

"Exactly!"

Yuan Xiaoguan's heart was determined, and when he looked closely, this Wang Tianfu was born tall and big, only 30 years old, but his face was full of wind and frost, and he looked afraid of being in his 40s.

Yuan Xiaoguan expressed his intention, and as soon as Wang Tianfu heard his wife's name, a seven-foot man knelt on the ground and cried.

Seeing this, Liang Wuyi stepped forward to help Wang Tianfu and said: "Brother Wang, my sister-in-law has a deep affection for you, which is really rare, and thanks to my sister-in-law, otherwise I would have died without a place to bury me this time." After speaking, he led everyone to thank Yuan Xiaoguan and Liu Fuju, Liu Fuju was born as a civilian, and he was very afraid of the officer, and hurriedly dismounted and returned the salute when he saw this.

Yuan Xiaoguan was originally very disgusted with this guard who worked hard and lost money for promotion, but at this time, when he saw his style, his impression of him in his heart changed a lot, and he waved his hand and said: "No need to thank you, just raise your hands." In fact, he just hid in the snow and raised his hand.

Liang Wuyi saw that Yuan Xiaoguan ignored him, and he didn't care, but he didn't care about Yuan Xiaoguan anymore according to the number of rivers and lakes. turned around and ordered his subordinates to clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, and then said to Yuan Xiaoguan and Liu Fuju: "Those few escaped Tubo soldiers will definitely bring a large group of people to come after they go back, and it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time." Two strong men, please follow me back to Jianmen Pass, and let me reward you two. ”

"You don't have to be rewarded. Yuan Xiaoguan saw that Liang Wuyi's momentum suddenly changed, showing the style of an officer, and couldn't help but want to stab him a few words, and said with a smile, "Let's go back? General Liang doesn't catch the divine horse? Then what can you get promoted to make a fortune?"