Chapter 52 The Black Tiger of the Beast Country
The road from the ghost city to the prison cloud pass is quite easy, although it is still a refuge, but there is no threat, there is less pressure, and there is a lot less gloom and gloom along the way.
Walking on the road, looking at the pedestrians coming and going, Zhang Hui felt the joy after the rain, and all his troubles were left behind by him. It's just that there are still many fleeing people on the road, and they are staring at the venison in Zhang Qi's hand, which makes Zhang Qi very unhappy.
Zhang Qi couldn't do anything, he could only protect the venison in his hand, and gnawed on the meat quickly with those little teeth.
There are also villains among the refugees, and when they see that Zhang Hui and the three of them have all the utensils and food, they will naturally have bad intentions. It's just that seeing that Zhang Hui and Zhang Wu are in the prime of life, and they have weapons by their side, no one dares to provoke.
When he was young, Zhang Hui would give them some food when he saw that it was difficult to see the people, but when the refugees at that time saw Zhang Hui distributing food, they would rush to the people, and occasionally cause some dirty trouble. Later, when he grew up, Zhang Hui stopped paying attention to these refugees.
"It would be nice if there was a horse, and at most ten days would be able to reach the Prison Cloud Pass. Zhang Hui walked step by step, with a hint of irritability in his heart. I've walked this trail several times before, but I've always been on horseback.
"After all, there is a shortage of soldiers and horses, and the war horses kept in the hidden city are also for emergencies. It's you, why don't you dislike the ugly donkey of Tong Guan's family? Isn't it good to use these things to transport them?" Zhang Wu said dissatisfiedly, in addition to carrying his back, he also had to take so many things, which made him unhappy.
"Just his donkey, is it shedding hair, it's going to lose a handful of hair, and it looks like that temperament is also wild and hateful, and it's not good to hurt Qi'er. Zhang Huicai ignored Zhang Wu's displeasure, he was born with amazing strength, and it was just right to take more things.
Zhang Wu glanced at Zhang Hui and no longer entangled with him.
The sun slowly set, and Zhang Hui and the others walked boringly. Zhang Wu, who was thinking about what prey to hunt tonight, saw a hundred birds in the distance startled, as if something was haunting, so he pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
"There seems to be a tiger, let's drink tiger soup again tonight. The weather is slowly getting colder, and it is time to make up for it. ”
"No, it's a cavalry?" Zhang Wu's eyebrows furrowed, "No, there's a tiger, and a cavalry is chasing a tiger?"
"Impossible?" Zhang Hui pinched his nose and thought for a moment, "The front must be the reinforcements of the Qin State, and it must be the front army that is rushing to the rescue." Did they get the news that the enemy was retreating, so they were bored and went hunting?"
Slowly, Zhang Hui also heard the voice, and the sound of the cavalry advancing quickly was still so shocking, especially the occasional tiger roar, which made people feel even more strange.
In fact, there is no need to guess, the tiger will soon come to the front.
A tiger with a black body, even its eyes are black, with only a little white in the kernel of the eye. It has a thin body, no fat on its body, and is unusually agile. At the same time, it is very large, more than twice the size of the usual tiger, and can be called a giant beast.
"This black tiger is not a black tiger in the ordinary mountains and forests, it should be a variant of the beast country in the western part of the Qin Kingdom. Zhang Wu said with a pouting that he had heard a lot of legends about the beast kingdom before, but this was the first time he had seen a real beast.
"The black tiger on his back should be Yang Zongbao, the son of Yang Ye, and it is rumored that Yang Ye got a black tiger from the west for his son, which should be this one. I just didn't expect this black tiger to be so majestic. Zhang Hui looked at the general on the back of the tiger and said.
The man was older than Zhang Hui, wearing obsidian armor, and the weapon in his hand was the same as Yang Ye's long knife. His face has a lot of lines, giving people a sense of perseverance, which is three or four points similar to Yang Ye, and it should be Yang Zongbao.
Behind that black tiger was a troop of cavalry, about a thousand people. Most of them are soldiers under the Yang family, and they are also the soldiers of Yang Ye's hands, and they are the most relied on by Yang Zongbao on this expedition.
"Xiao Hei, stop!" Yang Zongbao stopped drinking, and the black tiger's slender body folded up to the middle, eliminating most of the inertia, and quickly stopped the speed. The soldiers behind him also quickly reined in their horses and stopped.
"Under Yang Zongbao, dare to ask how far you can reach the ghost city?" Yang Zongbao stopped and asked Zhang Hui, saying that it was a coincidence, but it was actually a coincidence, anyway, Zhang Hui didn't want to encounter this kind of coincidence, but at this time, he could only point to the aspect of the ghost city and say: "With the speed you just now, along this road, you should arrive at the ghost city in less than an hour." ”
"Thank you. After speaking, Yang Zongbao no longer paid attention to Zhang Hui, urging the black tiger to lead the soldiers forward with all their might.
At the beginning, the defense line of the northern land was broken, and Yang Ye rushed to the central court for 800 miles, and Zhao Zhen asked Pan Mei to bring 40,000 soldiers to Yang Zongbao, Chongshi Dao, and Zhe Kexing as partial generals to come to support.
Pan Meinai is a veteran with great achievements, so it is naturally impossible to carry 40,000 soldiers to gallop through the hidden city. The two of them are the key training offspring of the two major military families, and this time they came mainly to contact the battlefield, not to really fight.
Yang Zongbao is different, the war in the Northland is related to his father no matter what, and this is a moment of life and death for the Yang family. When he got the news that Youcheng was besieged by the prince of Sang Kingdom, he rushed out with his headquarters cavalry. During this galloping time, more than 1,000 cavalrymen only took a short rest, except for eating, drinking, and Lazar on horseback.
In the first few days, when he met refugees, he would also ask about the situation of the ghost city, but some people said that the ghost city was broken, some people said that the prince was captured, and all kinds of rumors were difficult to distinguish between true and false. Therefore, he now only asks about distance, not about right and wrong. He had prepared for the worst, he was determined to die, but he was afraid that nothing would change.
When the last war horse galloped past Zhang Wu, Zhang Wu looked at the departing cavalry team and sighed: "If there is such a team of men and horses that day, maybe General Yang's plan will be successful, but it's a pity, it's a pity." ”
"It's even more exciting in the Northland. Zhang Hui sneered and continued, "The northern land is very important, it is absolutely impossible for the Qin State to send only one Yang Zongbao, these people must be only the pioneers, and there must be many people behind." At this time, when these soldiers re-enter the Northland, there will definitely be new changes. ”
"Will the prince come back to fight, or will that fat general?" said inconsequential words as Zhang Wu and Zhang Hui walked.
"Whatever, let's go to our prison cloud pass, away from this place of right and wrong. ”