11. There will always be some troubles on the way (4)
Although Wei Yue's words made all the officers and soldiers feel excited, just as Rome was not built in a day, the mentality of a strong army could not be cultivated in a day. So when he woke up the next morning, Li Shushi could still
I saw a large number of soldiers in the team standing there with exaggerated dark circles and listless spirits.
But the only thing that makes Li Shushi happy is that the number of depressed soldiers today is slightly less than yesterday. Although the number is only a few, it is still a welcome improvement. Of course, it is precisely because of this that Li Shushi
There is only a little happiness, a little bit. The rest is still the uneasiness and anxiety lingering in my heart.
"My lord, there is no need to worry. As long as this trend continues, those beasts hiding in the shadows will inevitably be unable to restrain themselves, because they can also feel that if they continue, they will not be able to gain more benefits, so they will naturally take action."
If the opponent is seen as a real enemy army led by an outstanding general instead of just a beast, then the opponent's actions become easier to understand. Although an outstanding general acts like an antelope hanging its horns and cannot be traced, in reality
Ten thousand variations remain true to the same principle, which is to look for weaknesses, find weaknesses, and then exploit them to attack and build up momentum until victory.
What's more, the opponent is a beast after all, so how can the complexity of his thoughts exceed that of humans, and his cunningness exceeds that of humans. Therefore, Wei Yue, who changes his mind quickly, can clearly analyze the opponent's purpose and general action trajectory.
"What a powerful, powerful beast. I despair of this world where the beasts are smarter and more cunning than me."
"Brother Zi Chuan, you know what kind of beast is so smart. It's really amazing that people can't help but admire it."
Ignoring Li Shushi who was playing tricks over there, Zhao Yun was a little curious about who this cunning opponent was hiding in the dark.
"If we didn't make any mistakes in our detection, I'm afraid it should be a pack of wolves. But they were going in circles with us in such lush vegetation, and finally took advantage of the complex terrain to wait for an opportunity to escape. This is probably only a species as smart as the wolf can have such wisdom.
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This time the answer was from Cao Xing, a veteran hunter. Compared to Wei Yue, this man from Hedong did not have rich battlefield experience, but he had considerable experience in survival ability in the wild and judging the habits of wild animals.
"Then do you know the number of the other party?" Zhao Yun looked at Li Shushi, who also looked interested, and then asked.
"I'm afraid the number is indispensable. It snowed very thickly last year, and food was scarce. Moreover, the mating season has passed, and all the wolf pups have been born, so there is an extreme lack of food. Although there are usually no more than ten beasts like wolves.
However, if there is a lack of food, they will often join forces, so I am afraid we have to prepare for the worst."
"That's right, I heard that wolves are accustomed to hiding during the day and coming out at night? How could you encounter them?"
Finally unable to hold himself back, Li Shushi raised his doubts. The other party had dealt with the suspected wolf, so it obviously didn't happen at night, otherwise he would probably have been overwhelmed by the wolves before he saw the wolf's shadow.
"I'm not sure about this, but it should still be a food problem. There was too much noise when we passed through this area, and the small animals were either hit or scared away by us. And judging from what we have harvested in the past few days, even if there are small animals here,
The animals are definitely not full, and there are at least a dozen new wolf pups in the pack. It is not surprising that the hungry wolves will not let go of even wild fruits, and they forage during the day."
"Wolves, I didn't expect that we had just defeated the Xianbei people who worshiped wolves and taught another Huns who worshiped wolves. Now we have to face the totem they worship. Is there really a wolf god underground who wants to compete with us?
Are you making gestures?"
Regarding Li Shushi's concluding remarks, others were full of black lines but could not find anything to say to refute.
"Well, in ancient times, there were always one or two lucky guys who were spotted by the overly curious gods, but those guys were not that powerful. They were just a group of guys who thought they were smart and were very arrogant."
A certain Su Xiaololi seems to be very irritable for some reason. Although the loli saying "I'm so annoyed, I'm so annoyed, I'm so annoyed" is indeed very cute, but considering Su Xiaololi's origin,
What I said just now is very suspicious.
"Are you Tamako-chan one of the guys who was taken in by Mr. Xuanwu (a certain royal sister nodded: What a good, obedient boy) out of curiosity? Or is it that someone who was taken in took your place?"
Quietly approaching Su Xiaololi's ear, Li Shushi breathed into Su Xiaololi's ear with a smirk on his face.
"Ah... the bite is bleeding, it is really bleeding!" However, someone's frivolous behavior was quickly retaliated by the messenger of justice Su Xiaololi, and a neat row of small tooth marks were left on the palms and backs of the hands.
, and the tooth marks in the two sections of the tooth marks are obviously much deeper than the other teeth marks, and they have pierced the skin, leaving four small blood holes, and the blood is slowly seeping out.
Fortunately, Li Shushi also possesses a very practical self-healing spell. Although he cannot cast it for others, if he uses it himself, the effect is better than all restorative spells. But seeing Su Xiaololi's angry look, Li Shushi still needs to cast it first.
After you have calmed her down, you can worry about the injury on your hand. After all, it can be regarded as a "scar of love," Li Shushi thought with a guilty look on his face.
After knowing the opponent, the tension that originally spread in the team was obviously relieved. Although the wolves are not easy to mess with, compared to the unknown things and being rumored by the panicked crowd, they became more and more terrifying. In the end, they themselves
It was scary to say that no matter how ferocious the known wolves were, there was a limit, and everyone's mentality stabilized a lot.
And this situation is also reflected in the fact that more and more soldiers become indifferent every morning, and after a few days, whether they are senior people like Wei Yue, Cao Xing, or rookies like Li Shushi, they can all see it.
, if the wolves don't take action, Li Shushi's troops, who have fully restored their morale, will arrive in Kucha County. By then, the wolves may not only gain nothing, but also be used by the horsemen in Kucha County to show off their bravery.
prey.
Maybe it’s because Li Shushi and his party are the only ones in this area that can keep the wolves full. Maybe it’s because the arrival of Li Shushi’s troops has wiped out all the prey they could have survived. Maybe it’s because with the birth of young animals, the wolves
The pack has lost the ability to migrate large distances. So no matter what the reason, with a wolf howl that echoed through the night, Li Shushi and his troops, who had been waiting for a long time, finally launched an attack out of desperation.
This is a group of relatively large prairie wolves. Although I don’t know why they wandered here from the grassland area, the number of them according to Li Shushi’s visual inspection is more than 30, and because of the darkness, there are still many hiding under the natural protective umbrella of the night.
The wolf was not discovered until the opponent attacked.
It has to be admitted that due to the lack of food, the attacks of the wolves were extremely fierce, and because of the darkness of the night, the horse archers were basically in a semi-invalid state. Although they could rely on the guidance of the fire to attack some wolves that were relatively close to the fire.
, but the overall low efficiency is also appalling. Perhaps only a powerful hunter like Cao Xing can hit the target accurately in the dark. Although the situation of melee personnel is slightly better, it is still quite hard to resist.
Li Shushi believed that without the support of Su Xiaoluoli, an experienced and skillful nanny, Li Shushi's army today would have suffered considerable losses even if it had not been completely wiped out. You must know that Zhang Hui no longer dares to poison.
I don’t dare to play the flute anymore. Because not only will the former not let the wolves
Retreating will stimulate the ferocity of the wolves. As for the latter, in Cao Xing's words, "It's already chaotic enough. You must not attract any more strange enemies." As for the special reduction that the Taoist priests are good at
All debuffs of the enemy's various attributes are useless in front of Li Shushi's corpse energy.
Finally, with a long and permeating roar, a giant wolf whose size was obviously different from the other wolves in the pack broke through the night and appeared at the edge of the firelight at the outermost edge of the camp. It followed closely behind the giant wolf.
Judging from the situation of other wolves that were smaller than their size, these apparently oversized giant wolves should be the alpha wolves of this wolf pack that was temporarily formed for food.
When the alpha wolf appeared, he saw Dian Wei disemboweling a wild wolf with a halberd, causing it to completely lose its life. In the eyes of the alpha wolf, this behavior immediately became Dian Wei's provocation. The alpha wolf said nothing.
, immediately ran to Dianwei.
The alpha wolf was very fast and covered the ten-meter distance between Dian Wei and Dian Wei in almost an instant. However, Li Shushi, who was not far from Dian Wei, could not even finish shouting the word "be careful".
The wolf's big mouth had already targeted Dian Wei's carotid artery.
As a top warrior with potential, Dian Wei has experienced dozens of life-and-death battles and climbed the line several times. He also possesses terrifying battlefield intuition that is not inferior to that of wild beasts.
Just when the wolf was running towards him, Dian Wei had already felt the threat of the wolf. When the wolf then ran at high speed and leaped high to aim directly at Dian Wei's neck, although he still didn't know where his opponent was, he still didn't know where his opponent was.
Following the guidance given by his body, he followed his instinct and lowered himself, while the iron halberd in his left hand lightly crossed the sky.
Although it looks like a halberd casually waved by Dian Wei when he was short, this halberd happens to be in the path of the jumping wolf. If the wolf does not make changes, it will definitely be Dian Wei's halberd.
After being blessed with Li Shushi's unique magic "Ruijin", Wei Na's iron halberd became even sharper and cut open his belly.
However, Dian Wei's iron halberd still cut through the air in the end, no, it should be said that it still took away a few rather beautiful wolf hairs.
At the critical moment, the alpha wolf violated the laws of physics and moved his body a certain distance out of thin air, just in time to avoid the deadly iron halberd inadvertently swung by Dian Wei. However, the alpha wolf did not expect that the iron halberd that passed by at high speed was still attached to the deadly iron halberd.
The strong wind of man.
Apparently aware of Dian Wei's strength, the alpha wolf after landing did not bypass Dian Wei to attack Li Shushi and Su Xiaoluoli, who were not too far away from him. Instead, he concentrated on confronting Dian Wei.
With the confrontation between one wolf and one man, the originally fierce human-wolf battle gradually subsided. The wolves that survived by chance slowly returned to the place where the Wolf King appeared. Li Shushi's men were also under the command of Wei Yue and others.
Slowly separated from the pack of wolves, but also vaguely formed a semicircle with Dian Wei and the first wolf as the center, as if this wolf was engaged in a sacred duel alone.
The humans, who were like ferocious beasts, and the alpha wolf, who looked nothing like ordinary wolves, now had an unusually tacit understanding of each other, engaging in a one-on-one duel that was rare even on the human battlefield. Even Li Shushi felt that this was a rare scene.
