At this moment, Lao Lu felt that this matter was even more strange. He was a horse lover, so he had a clear understanding of the horses' habits. He wanted to ask this unconfused person whether he was on or off the horse in the caravan. Although he is young, he looks like an old man.
Even the allusions about horses were covered very deeply. For example, the discussion about war horses and horse slaughter in ancient countries was all given by Lao Lu, and everyone in the caravan was fascinated by it.
"Sun boy, please don't complain so much. You should inform Han Xi and the master of this matter first, and ask the people in front to stop and slow down for a while. I'll dismount and take a look at the situation before making a decision." Lao Lu shouted at the lean young man beside him, "By the way, call for a few more people, and ask the men who are hiding in the carriage to come down and help. If the wheels get stuck in the mud, the cargo will be soaked in the rain. Hurry."
In the second half of the sentence, Lao Lu almost opened the door and shouted, because the wind and rain were very strong, and the thunder in the sky was almost piercing the ears.
The lean young man surnamed Sun nodded, then broke the horse and ran forward.
Lao Lu turned over and dismounted, ignoring the pea-sized rain that kicked up countless mud, rolled up his sleeves and looked around the horse. This move is quite risky. If you are not careful, with the horse's strong legs, it is easy to kick an ordinary person's ribs to pieces and crack his skull. Not to mention that the horse is frightened now. If it were kicked, 90% of the time it would be able to kill him. Lao Lu was kicked and half of his life was left.
However, Lao Lu had no time to care. He just used a bamboo hat to shield himself from the heavy rain, and then looked very carefully at what was wrong with the horse. The autumn rain was like splashing ink, gradually chilling the man's whole body, and even his teeth were chattering up and down.
In less than a minute of tea, the man had already looked through the horse's belly, mouth, tail, and lasso. He found nothing unusual, so he had to wrap himself up in clothes that were soaked by the rain and turn around. Hold one of the horse's hind hoofs between your knees and touch one of the horse's hind legs.
This was really a helpless move. Under normal circumstances, veterans like Lao Lu who were very familiar with horse diseases would not dare to move the horse's legs easily. However, he was worried that the goods in the carriage would get wet, but he still held the horse's legs forcibly. , to explore the situation through the rain and grout.
"It's true as Lieutenant Liang said, the heavy rain fell just in time. Traveling on a rainy night is indeed much more convenient than on a cloudy day."
There is a small pavilion on Wuling Slope, which has always been used as a lookout by the defenders in Yizhang. It can also be used by pedestrians to rest when not in use, which is quite convenient. Normally when night falls, someone from the Yizhang garrison would come here to light the lights, so as to give some light to people coming and going so as not to stumble, but today there were no lights and they were covered in shadows.
Two people were sitting in the pavilion. The speaker's face was covered with white wood, and his voice was very faint in the rain.
"How many percent?" Captain Liang Quan didn't listen to the compliments of the masked man, and still sat upright with his back straight.
The masked man smiled and said, "Ten percent."
Lieutenant Liang raised his eyebrows with a playful expression. In his opinion, the opponent is not weak, not to mention that there is a capable person among them who has probably crossed the Dragon Gate. Counting the thirty or so armors borrowed from the masked man today, they are probably only capable of fighting with him. Six out of four, he was also very curious about what the masked man's backhand was.
So he said, "What if I only send out ten people?"
The purple thunder outside the pavilion touched the ground, illuminating the mountains as bright as day in an instant.
The white wooden mask of the masked man was as pale as paper.
"It's still 100%." The man smiled, and the laughter was very strangely suppressed in the mask. "Actually, even if you don't send a single soldier, I still have a 100% certainty. It's just that you have a hand. Chess, the situation is a little different again."
The masked man didn't seem to be in any hurry to take action against the enemy. Instead, he stood up and looked at the rain outside the pavilion. "To be honest, that capable person who can turn the chance of victory to 100% has a close relationship with that gentleman." , if you give me your full help, it will be enough to win that man's favor without much loss of armor. It is not difficult to move up a few ranks in the military."
"With such a high official position, if there is no accident, it may be a once-in-a-hundred-year chance to provide help in times of need. However, it is a wonderful thing to add icing on the cake. Why not raise your hand to do it? If one day in the future, you can rise to the top, step into the capital and enter Jinluan, you will really achieve a great success. The mighty General Liang, I am afraid that all the people in Qiling will feel hot in their eyes. If you want to thank me then, I really don’t dare to accept it."
"I have sacrificed my life in exchange for a high position. I can't bear to go around." Regarding the words of the masked man, Lieutenant Liang did not comment, but said quietly, with a gloomy expression.
Hearing this, the masked man smiled even more in his tone, which made the whole white wooden mask tremble a little, and said loudly, "I have heard that Captain Liang is very good at doing business with others. At first, I just thought that the report was wrong, but this time But I believed it eight or nine times. I heard from the spies that you only asked your superiors to be transferred here in the past year. It only lasted for one year, and it was called the love of Paoze. I'm afraid it's not enough years, right? But don't worry, it will be done. After that, I will put in a few kind words for you."
The captain stood up and clasped his fists at the man in front of him, "Wulingpo garrison captain Liang Xiao, I'm at your disposal."
"General, why are you doing this?" The masked man held Liang Ze's hands up. "In ancient times, it was said that people were killed on rainy nights. After the showers stopped, the sky would be filled with red clouds. If the two armies faced each other and suffered heavy casualties, then The clouds are like steam steaming across the vast swamp, extremely prosperous. A mere thirty or forty people can probably only produce a little bit of red thread, which is really disappointing."
Liang Ze listened to this man speak slowly, his tone of voice was calm, as if a mere thirty people had died, which was not enough to arouse this weird man's appetite.
Under the continuous autumn rain, Lao Lu touched the horse's leg, but his whole body trembled suddenly.
At the ankle where the horse's legs and hooves meet, there are two very thin wooden stalks. It is easy to ignore them when you touch them at first. They think these two thin soft wood stalks are the horse's hoof bristles, but Lao Lu is very careful. , holding these two grass stems in his hands, he did not dare to move them for a while.
The two wooden stems have another name in the world, called Yiluosuo. They are made by picking pliable grass stems and roasting them over a slow fire, adding a few percent more flexibility. Although it is trembling in the palm of the hand and cannot stand upright, it seems useless, but in the world, the reputation of Yiluosuo is even greater than that of a bandit's cave.
This is not a magical thing. After all, it only traps the legs and feet of the horse, making it unable to move and is extremely difficult to detect. Other than that, it is just two tough wooden stems, together with the magic weapon. The word has nothing to do with it.
The most intriguing thing is that along the way, Lao Lu Hanxi and even the young man surnamed Sun were not far away from the two horses. Through a group of hands, they penetrated the wooden stems into the ankles of the horses and locked the horses firmly. What a capability.
On a gloomy and rainy night, Lao Lu unconsciously felt that the blood all over his body had gone cold.
