The sky was getting dark, and Xiao Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly. Looking at the sun during the day, I can barely tell the direction. At night, I can only rely on the compass I carry with me.
Fortunately, the compass was already very close to the modern version in the Song Dynasty, and it was greatly improved in the Yuan Dynasty. When Zheng He sailed to the West, a very exquisite compass was inlaid on the rudder.
Xiao Feng took out the compass on his body, looked at the general direction by the starlight, and continued walking forward. He had to take advantage of the night to walk more. When it gets hot during the day, it becomes even harder to walk.
After that team of cavalry returns with Anda Khan's body, the Mongolian tribes will definitely be in chaos and leaderless. With Qi Jiguang's ability, it will not be a problem to control the situation.
It's just that it's hard to say whether the men and horses sent by Qi Jiguang can find him in this vast grassland, so he can't just sit there and wait for rescue, he must continue walking in the direction of Datong.
What's more, if what the cavalry said was true and there were really wild wolves in this place, it would be best for him to stay as far away from An Dahan and his two dead horses as possible.
The bloody smell of dead horses will attract wild wolves, and if the wild wolf pack is as big as the cavalry said, then the two horses may not be enough to eat, and they will be the dessert.
As Xiao Feng walked, he heard a swishing sound coming from the grass far behind him. It was particularly loud and creepy among the sound of the wind blowing the grass leaves.
Xiao Feng didn't dare to move. He lay down in the grass, picked up the telescope, and looked back from a distance.
A group of gray prairie wolves rushed over a row of pastures like a mudslide, and first stopped beside the dead horse of An Dahan in the distance.
How many wolves? Xiao Feng couldn't count them, but he felt that there were at least three hundred. No wonder the cavalry were so scared.
Such a wolf pack, not to mention a hundred cavalry, even three hundred, might not be able to win one on one. Because this is on a grassland half a man's height, the wolf is almost invisible.
When wolves deal with cavalry, they actually ignore the riders on the horses. Their fighting experience is directed at the horses. Wild wolves and wild horses have been natural enemies in ancient times.
Young horses in wild horses, that is, adult stallions, have almost no natural enemies in nature. In one-on-one situations, not to mention wild wolves, even leopards are no match.
Tigers should be able to defeat horses, but the problem is that wild horses are animals on the grassland and never appear in places where tigers are present, so this assumption does not make much sense.
But wolves will attack the ponies and mares in the wild horse herd. Some of them will be trampled to death, but before they are trampled to death, they will use their steel teeth and claws to open the wild horse's belly, which is also the most vulnerable part of the wild horse. .
Once their bellies are cut open, wild horses are dead. They will crush their own internal organs while running and become delicacies for wild wolves.
Therefore, every time a pack of wild wolves hunts a herd of wild horses, it will be a brutal fight. If the wolves have a better choice, they will definitely choose cattle and sheep instead of wild horses.
But the memory of this kind of fighting has been passed down from generation to generation by the wolves, and it can still come in handy when dealing with human cavalry.
The wolves had already wiped out Andahan's horse, not even the finer bones were left, only a few leg bones and skulls were left. Then they smelled the smell of blood and found Xiao Feng's white horse.
Many wild wolves were injured while eating the white horses. Because the white horse was shot like a hedgehog, to the wolves, it was like a fish with many spines, and it would be stung if not careful.
But the wild wolves still overcame the difficulties and ate the white horse cleanly. Several wolves whose throats were stabbed by broken arrows each grabbed a large piece of meat and choked on the broken arrows. This is what the old wolves The method of teaching may not be correct.
The unfed wolves continued to sniff and search, hoping to find another horse that had fallen down for unknown reasons. But they smell different.
More fragrant, more tender, whiter, and more exciting to the wolves. So there is a reason why some criminals are called perverts.
Xiao Feng was lying in the grass, watching the wolves sniffing the ground, gradually approaching, and secretly groaned in his heart. He touched the ammunition in his arms and found that there were only about ten bullets left.
In order to act more like him, I threw away all the bullet bags and put the remaining bullets in my arms, preparing to assassinate An Dahan. At most, I was prepared to fight with the cavalry, but I was really not prepared to deal with the wolf. What a group...
The wolves were getting closer and closer, and the leading wolf king suddenly stopped, raised his head, and sniffed the air vigorously with his nose.
Xiao Feng slowly picked up the gun. Postmodern wolves are very afraid of the smell of gunpowder and the sound of explosions. Sometimes a single shot can scare away a group of wolves.
But Xiao Feng doubted whether the wolves of the Ming Dynasty had such awareness of gunpowder. After all, the postmodern wolves had their grandfather to teach them.
Humans have a kind of stick that can make a huge noise. It is very powerful and can beat you to death. So when you hear that noise and smell that smell, run away!
But the wolves in the Ming Dynasty may not have had the opportunity to receive this kind of quality education. Their grandfathers only saw bows and arrows and big sticks, so they are ignorant and fearless.
But regardless of the education level of this ancient wolf pack, Xiao Feng could not delay any longer, because the leading wolf had already discovered him.
Across the grass, the Wolf King's small green eyes glowed with lust, staring straight at Xiao Feng, sticking out his tongue and drooling, he was indeed no different from a gangster.
boom! Before the Wolf King could howl in excitement, Xiao Feng's gun fired first. The Wolf King seemed to have been punched head-on. His huge gray body flew into the air and hit the ground hard.
The loud noise and the pungent smell of gunpowder sent the wolves into a brief panic. However, the wolves were uneducated and had no basic respect for gunpowder. When they found out that the wolf king died unexpectedly and suddenly, they were angered.
Several wolves came forward, but the wolves were more cunning and cautious. They did not pounce on him all at once, which also gave Xiao Feng time to change his ammunition.
Then Xiao Feng took his gun, pointed it at the guy who was most ready to make a move, and fired again.
One wolf fell. The wolves learned quickly. They immediately stared at the musket in Xiao Feng's hand. The wolf would dodge whenever Xiao Feng's muzzle was pointed at it.
But in just a moment, the wolves had surrounded Xiao Feng. Xiao Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly while loading ammunition.
Unexpectedly, this life that I traveled back in time would be full of ups and downs, magnificent, and defeat countless powerful enemies. In the end, I was eaten by wolves on the grassland!
I don’t know how many times I have died, but no matter how many times it is, trying to resurrect after turning into wolf dung is probably as difficult as ascending to heaven.
The wolves finally couldn't hold it any longer and pounced on them. Xiao Feng knocked down a wolf with one shot. Then he didn't have time to reload the ammunition. He turned the gun sideways with his left hand and blocked a big drooling mouth.
The hard and sharp wolf teeth made the barrel of the gun rattle. Xiao Feng waved his right hand and cut off the wolf's head with the Xiuchun knife in the air. The wolf's body rolled on the ground, and the wolf's head bit on the barrel of the gun unconvincingly.
Xiao Feng used his musket as a shield and his Xiuchun knife to chop horizontally and vertically, causing blood to rain in the air. The wolves pounced on Xiao Feng like gray turbid waves, and Xiao Feng was like a small boat in the whirlpool, which could be submerged at any time.
Xiao Feng's body contains the domineering internal force that is suspected to be the Divine Art of Bliss and Yu Dayou. His reaction is extremely fast, his power is large and lasting, so he can barely hold on.
But despite this, Xiao Feng was already covered in sweat less than half an hour later, and his strength was gradually declining.
Because the wolves are so cunning, their coordination is extremely subtle and strange, no less than the formations laid down by martial arts masters.
Xiao Feng's movements are getting slower and slower, and there are more and more scars on his body. Although he has not been bitten yet, the sharp claws of the wild wolf have already scratched the green clothes on his body, just like Liu Ruyun's disciple's knife. coir raincoat cucumber.
There was a faint sound of horse hooves in the distance, not one horse, but a group, but there was no noise in the sound of horse hooves.
There was no sound of flags waving in the wind, no sound of boots and stirrups rubbing, no saddle creaking, and no shouts.
This is a herd of wild horses, and they are also attracted to this piece of grass where the growth is the best. We knew there might be wild wolves here, but the dry grassland forced them to take risks.
At this time, the wolves were already red-eyed and ignored the wild horses in the distance. They probably only have one thought: hundreds of wolves can't kill one person, so they don't have to hang out on this grassland in the future!
There were wolf corpses lying around Xiao Feng, and the wolves went completely crazy. They had never encountered such a terrifying human being, single-handedly challenging the entire wolf pack!
Xiao Feng was blinded by the wolf blood splashing in the air, and his arms were so weak that he could hardly lift them up. He raised his head, looked at the stars in the sky, resignedly stopped swinging the knife, and let out a long roar.
This long howl suppressed the howling of the wolves and shocked the group of wolves, but it only paused for a moment, and then rushed forward even more ferociously!
Like an arrow from a string, a black shadow shot out from the front of the wild horses and headed straight for Xiao Feng and the wolves. Naturally, the wild horses in the herd ran wildly after the leader without hesitation.
Although the wolves did not intend to hunt the wild horses, they never expected that the wild horses would dare to approach. After all, you eat grass and I eat meat! This is simply rebellion against Tiangang!
The wolves that were caught off guard were kicked and crushed by the galloping iron hooves of the wild horses. However, wild wolves are the most agile and cunning killers after all. They immediately dispersed to both sides, not daring to block the charge of the horses head-on.
Xiao Feng opened his eyes wide and looked at the herd of wild horses that were running wildly. The leading horse was leading the way. It had a thick frame. Although it was not fat, it was tall and mighty with a strong iron frame. Its yellow hair was flying in the wind under the starlight.
"Old Huang? Did you get into the wild horses? Did you become the top horse?"
Before Xiao Feng could think about it, the yellow gelding had already rushed in front of him. He didn't even slow down, but turned his head to look at Xiao Feng. Xiao Feng understood and used his last strength to jump up.
The yellow gelding carried Xiao Feng and galloped away. The wild horses roared past behind them, their iron hooves flying. Several tall and strong horses followed at the back of the team to prevent the wolves from raiding them. They blew across the grassland like a gust of wind, flying far away quickly. went.
The wolves that suffered heavy losses gradually calmed down after a burst of angry and sad howling. They didn't chase wild horses because they didn't have to.
The purpose of hunting wild horses is to fill their stomachs. Now this problem has been solved. The wolf carcasses on the ground are enough for them to eat. Yes, although wolves will not hunt their mates in the same pack, they will not waste them when their mates die in battle or from illness.
After eating and drinking, the wolves began an analysis and summary meeting. The meeting centered around the death of the Wolf King, and the strangely hard stick that the man dropped on the ground.
Finally, the seven most respected old wolves in the wolf pack expressed their opinions.
From now on, whenever you encounter a guy with a big stick that makes loud noises, emit thick smoke, and emits a pungent smell, everyone should stay away.
Such humans are very scary. One person can kill many of our wolves. Therefore, this knowledge must be spread to other wolves and passed down from generation to generation.
From then on, the terrifying legend about a man with a musket began to spread among the wolves, and it was passed down from generation to generation.
Ignorant humans in later generations foolishly thought that wolves were afraid of muskets, but actually...
Xiao Feng lay on the back of the yellow gelding. Since there was no saddle or stirrups, he had to hold on to its mane to prevent himself from sliding off.
The herd of wild horses kept running wildly. Xiao Feng wiped the wolf blood on his face and found that he had lost his compass and didn't know which direction he was running in.
The wild horses stopped several times in the middle of the herd to rest, graze, and then kept running.
This is the lifestyle of prairie wild horses. They spend their whole life running freely, and no predator can stop them from running until they die.
The adult wild horses turned a blind eye to the fact that there was an extra person on the horse's back. Although people are not allowed to ride on wild horses, they do not look down upon similar people who are willing to carry people on their backs and do not think they are operating illegally.
But some ponies were surprised. They ran to the side of the yellow gelding and tilted their heads to look at the human on the boss's back. They didn't know why the boss who was the strongest in fighting and the fastest would be willing to carry such a thing.
One of the pony has unruly yellow hair, a thick frame, runs very fast, and has the same iron bones on its back.
Resting and running continued all night. When the sky brightened, a majestic city wall appeared on the horizon in the distance. Datong City is in sight.
The herd of wild horses stopped at the end of the grassland. Xiao Feng tentatively patted the yellow gelding's neck. The yellow gelding rubbed its head against Xiao Feng's hand affectionately, but refused to go any further.
Xiao Feng understood. He turned over and dismounted, and gently stroked the yellow gelding's long mane, but could not say a word.
The yellow gelding stuck out its tongue and licked Xiao Feng's hand, turned its head and galloped away into the depths of the grassland. The wild horses followed behind it, galloping away on the grassland like waves, like an ancient legend gradually disappearing into the time. middle.
"Old Huang, you were born to be a wild horse! You want to live freely, marry more wives, and have more children!"
When Xiao Feng appeared at the foot of Datong City, Qiu Luan on the city wall almost fell off the city wall. He rushed down the tower on the ground, fearing that if he was too slow, Xiao Feng would be in trouble.
I don’t blame Qiu Luan for being scared, it’s just that Xiao Feng’s appearance is too scary. The white robe he usually wore was gone, and his green clothes were torn into strands, and were stuck to his body with layers of dark red blood.
He wiped the blood on his face twice with his sleeves, and Qiu Luan barely recognized his appearance. The only thing that is relatively complete about the whole body is a belt, with an Xiuchun knife without a scabbard inserted diagonally on the belt.
This look is completely different from Xiao Feng's usual suave, chic and fairy-like appearance. If Qiu Luan hadn't been so familiar with him, no one else would have dared to open the door for him.
"Master Xiao, are you...are you...defeated? Where is Qi Jiguang? He can't be..."
Seeing Qiu Luan's worried look, Xiao Feng waved his hand to stop his thoughts.
"Qi Jiguang won the battle, and I made a bet with Anda Khan and won. From now on, there will be no sweat on the grassland, because there will be sweat everywhere."
Qiu Luan breathed a sigh of relief, but Xiao Feng's appearance was really far from what he said, so Qiu Luan had to ask one more question.
"Ada Khan agreed? Is he willing to be one of the great khans on the grassland? This is very rare..."
Xiao Feng nodded: "He's dead. Let's go to the city first. I'll take a shower. Qi Jiguang should be bringing all the Khans to Datong soon."
If they can't find me on the grassland, they will definitely go to Datong City to see what happens. I'll make a show on the city wall, and I'll leave the rest to you. "
As expected by Xiao Feng, Qi Jiguang and the leaders of various tribes arrived at Datong City that night.
The tribal leaders quarreled fiercely along the way. Some people think that since Anda Khan is dead, the bet will naturally be lost.
The other group believes that winning or losing in the bet only involves Xiao Feng's life and death, and has nothing to do with whether An Dahan dies or not.
"If Xiao Feng dies, he will naturally lose because he failed to return to Datong. It has nothing to do with whether Anda Khan dies or not. If Xiao Feng loses, then the Ming Dynasty will no longer be able to interfere in the grassland affairs!"
"You don't want Daming to take care of the grassland affairs. What about the food? Also, do you have bad intentions towards our tribe and want to become the second Great Khan of the grassland?"
"Just because the Ming Dynasty can't interfere with grassland matters doesn't mean it can't sell us food! How can this be confused?"
"You have beautiful thoughts. If you don't let others take care of you, why should they sell you food? Do you think you are beautiful?"
"Although I look beautiful, it has nothing to do with whether or not I can sell food!"
All the quarrels stopped the moment Xiao Feng climbed onto the wall of Datong. Xiao Feng is dressed in green clothes and white robes, fluttering in the wind, and his grace is stunning.
Because the distance was far away, the tribal leaders below the city who did not have telescopes could not see the fatigue on Xiao Feng's face and could only hear his calm voice.
"Dear Khans, I win! Everyone has sworn to the Changshengtian. If anyone dares to violate the oath, the Changshengtian will definitely punish him!
When the time comes, don’t blame Ming Dynasty for acting on behalf of Heaven, please ask Changsheng Heaven to bear witness for us! "
A piece of talisman paper held in Xiao Feng's hand was lightly waved behind him, and it was instantly burned to ashes. His face was also much paler.
A thunderbolt suddenly sounded in the sky, like a response from the Everlasting Sky. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were okay, after all they had heard a lot about Xiao Feng.
The leaders of the tribes in the grassland have never seen such a formation. When they saw that Xiao Feng had won the bet, most of them had already decided to admit defeat. A handful of the more stubborn ones were also frightened by the thunder.
The God of Immortality cannot be deceived. Even if the Immortal God can be bullied, it seems that Ming's way of acting on behalf of Heaven is even more terrifying, so let's forget it.
"Master Xiao Tian, we are willing to abide by our oath, coexist peacefully, and respect the Ming Dynasty! If anyone tries to dominate the grassland, we will fight with the Ming Dynasty!"
