Chapter 404: The Giant Wolf and the Black Long Line
The thick fog not only enveloped the camp where Prime Minister Li was located, but also enveloped Anding County.
The soldiers outside the city were on alert. The Xiliang army paid great attention to details and set up camp in the wild. They had to set up a lot of traps.
After the heavy fog rose, the soldiers heard shrill screams around the camp from time to time.
The sound was not a sound that humans could make, but more like the scream of some kind of beast after falling into a trap.
After the soldiers heard the screams, they did not rush to the place where the sound came from because they did not know whether it was a beast screaming or someone imitating the screams of a beast.
It wasn't until the fog faded that the soldiers followed the sound and came to the traps.
They put hairs from hedgehogs from the dark world under the traps around the camp.
The fur of those hedgehogs carries a kind of venom that can make people more painful. Coupled with the sharp long hair, they are very suitable for the bottom of traps.
Soon, Xiliang soldiers fished out huge wolf carcasses from the line. Some of these giant wolves were about to become monsters.
There was already demonic energy appearing on their bodies, but it was a pity that they were allowed to touch Xiliang's trap first, and were trapped by the runes in the trap, plus the sharp long hair.
These giant wolves stayed in the pit for most of the night, and the blood on their wounds was never healed. When the Xiliang army fished them out, they were already dying.
"This is a giant wolf unique to Anding County!" said a person who was following the Xiliang headquarters: "These actually only appear when heavy fog appears. Their nest is on the grassland, but they will appear anytime.
Heading south in the fog!"
"How long will it take for the fog to dissipate?" Bu Yi, the guard responsible for guarding the outside, asked.
The man said: "It will take about ten days, or when the big fish stop filling in, the water will dissipate two or three days after the rain stops. However, if the rain continues, the fog will continue to exist along with the rain."
Bu Yi frowned as he listened: "It also means that if the rain continues for more than ten days, then the fog on the grassland will last for more than ten days.
Why didn't you tell us this before!"
The Xiliang headquarters army was fully prepared before attacking, but they never expected that they would fall due to the rain problem that they did not notice.
Their information did say that heavy fog would rise in Anding County due to rain, but they did not expect that the fog would be so huge.
The entire grassland is shrouded in this mist, and the giant wolves that appear along with the fog are also a danger.
Some of these giant wolves caught in the Xiliang trap are about to become monsters. It will take some time or some natural resources to become a monster.
So there must be monster-level wolves in this wolf pack, and maybe their wolf king is a top-level monster.
It is a danger to the soldiers of Xiliang headquarters. If these giant wolves rush into the military formation, there will not be much danger.
What they were most afraid of were the soldiers who were responsible for delivering orders. The soldiers were riding back and forth alone, and those giant wolves would definitely not give up on the lone soldier.
These soldiers are not weak, but they are still very dangerous.
"Sir, we thought you would know." The man said with some grievance: "This is a well-known thing throughout Anding County, but those giant wolves will only appear when they smell the blood of killing."
"Whenever war comes, the strong smell of blood will cause these giant wolves to appear, and they are thirsty for blood.
This is related to the Han family's purge of the grassland tribes in Anding County. It is said that the Han family carried out massacres against the grassland tribes, killing all the men in the grassland tribes, even the children.
The strong smell of blood spread throughout the grassland, and these giant wolves had a feast in the heavy fog. So every year when the fog rises, as long as there is a smell of blood, these giant wolves will appear.
The previous conflict between the army and the Han family's troops may have been because of the smell of blood that attracted these giant wolves!"
The man on the side explained: "These giant wolves are very lethal. General, please be more careful. There must be more than five soldiers going out, otherwise the blood wolves will think that you are easy to bully, and they will start to attack you."
Hunting."
"Hunting my Xiliang headquarters soldiers?" Bu Yi's honest and honest face showed a fierce look.
"It's time to let them understand who is the real hunter!" Bu Yiyi said to the soldiers behind him: "Gather the scout troops immediately and prevent them from going out to inquire for information. From today on, we will eat wolf meat!"
The soldiers of Xiliang headquarters are ruthless people who are not even afraid of the ferocious beasts. Will they be afraid of these monsters that have not even turned into giant wolves?
Since these are actually threats hiding in the dark, wouldn't it be better to destroy them all?
"You just said they would be attracted to blood, right!" Bu Yi confirmed again.
"Yes."
"That'll be easy!"
The scout troops in the Xiliang army were assembled by the guard general Bu Yi. The scouts were the most elite troops in the army besides Prime Minister Li's personal guards.
Each scout was carefully selected, and finally trained with various spiritual treasures from heaven and earth, and was trained by the sect master from Qianji Sect, making these scouts not only proficient in combat, but also proficient in all kinds of heresy.
After training to a certain level, they will be thrown into the battlefield for training. Only in the battlefield can they quickly become veterans and qualified scouts.
It can be said that every scout has experienced hundreds of battles, because before the war even started, they had already gone deep behind the enemy.
Under the enemy's pursuit and interception, they had to quickly send the news back to the army.
There were 800 scouts in the camp, and Bu Yi gathered them all in order to get rid of the giant wolves around the camp.
"You all already know your mission, right?" Bu Yi asked loudly.
"Got it!" the scouts responded loudly in the rain.
"Then let's go!"
The scouts rode their horses forward in the rain, carrying a lot of things on their backs. After the rain penetrated, they left bright red blood.
These are some of the beasts they just killed. Aren't those giant wolves very sensitive to blood?
Then they let the blood attract the giant wolves. Soon, the scouts arrived at their destination, a relatively low-lying place.
Throwing the flesh and blood on his back to the ground, he split the wrapping cloth with a long knife. The flesh and blood inside the steps was exposed to the rain, and soon the smell of blood spread.
The Xiliang scouts were divided into teams of five, holding long bows. The visibility of the fog was now less than 5 meters, and they could not see clearly from 5 meters away.
They can't see beyond 5 meters, but they can use their true energy perception.
They retreated 50 meters away from the flesh. There were many iron needles hidden in the flesh. If the giant wolves gnawed, they would definitely be pricked by the needles hidden in the flesh.
The meat in the mouth is very sensitive and very fragile. If one of those giant wolves bites it, it will scream.
Ouch!
Feeling the smell of blood, the wolves pursued the smell of blood all the way to the place where the Xiliang soldiers dropped their flesh and blood, but did not immediately rush towards the flesh and blood.
You can feel that there is another kind of breath in the air. Their sensitivity to danger is much higher than that of humans.
They could feel another kind of breath on the flesh and blood. The breath was very terrifying and made them feel the smell of death.
a bit dangerious!
The visibility of wolves in heavy fog is about the same as that of humans. They rely more on their keen noses to feel the smell in the air.
More and more giant wolves are gathering in this low-lying area. Some of them are looking at the flesh and blood, their green eyes revealing longing.
That was their desire for flesh and blood. They felt the smell of blood above them and rushed all the way from the grassland to Anding County. When they arrived at the battlefield, they did not see the corpse.
Just licking the land with blood, they were fascinated by the power contained in the blood.
Their clan has been following the human army since a long time ago. The battle on the grassland is fierce and fast. After the fierce battle between the two sides, there is basically not much time for them to clean up the battlefield.
Even if someone stayed to clean up the battlefield, they would just pack up some things or dig a hole anywhere to bury the corpses underground.
The burial place is very shallow, which gives the giant wolf clan an opportunity to easily dig out the corpse buried in the ground, and then the entire clan has a feast.
The corpses of those strong men will be eaten by the strong men of the wolf tribe. Eating the corpses of strong human beings can speed up their transformation into monsters.
Those weaker wolves can only lick the soil with blood, making them too weak.
If you are lucky, you can get some internal organs. If you are not angry, you can only chew the bones and lick the dirt.
Soon, several hungry wolves rushed towards the low-lying areas. They didn't care about danger. They were already starving and would probably starve to death if they didn't eat.
Ouch~~
A giant wolf rushed to the beast and bit it with its mouth wide open. Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in the mouth. The giant wolf's mouth was full of blood and it let out a shrill scream.
The Xiliang scouts who were waiting in the distance, after throwing down the animal meat, started using their skills to cover up their auras, so the giant wolves did not notice them.
"coming!"
Hearing the screams from the giant wolves, the Xiliang scouts immediately picked up their long bows. They were not afraid of those giant wolves attacking their war horses. The war horses ridden by their Xiliang headquarters soldiers were not weak in combat effectiveness.
Whoosh whoosh!
Long arrows cut through the thick fog, accurately hitting the giant wolves who were watching from the side. The long arrows shot into the bodies of those giant wolves, and the infuriating energy attached to the arrows destroyed the power in the giant wolves' bodies.
The giant wolves let out shrill screams one after another, and Xiliang scouts rushed toward this area from all directions. They held long bows and shot arrows from time to time.
A large number of giant wolf carcasses were soon left on the low-lying land. The soldiers hooked these wolf carcasses with hooks and dragged them back towards the camp.
Hunting such giant wolves is easy for them, and there are many wolves around.
However, if you want to attract attention to the opponent again, you may have to change some prey, such as using enemy corpses.
What these giant wolves like most is the corpse of a strong human being.
After the Xiliang scouts successfully hunted the giant wolves, Buyi sent more troops to make various traps to lure the giant wolves into their own traps.
Li Xiang led the Xiliang cavalry to stay put. The thick fog made it difficult for him to move. He did not want to lead his army into the thick fog and reduce his number.
The Han family's 70,000 cavalrymen walked in the thick sewage for three or four days, and the thing that the Han family commander least expected to see happened happened.
The rear-cut troops following the army lost contact with the troops in front. The thick fog made it impossible for both sides to see me and I couldn't see you.
They thought of various ways, such as using the sound of horns to guide the troops in the rear to follow. At first, the two sides did use the sound of horns to communicate.
But as time passed, the distance between the two sides seemed to get farther and farther, and in the end, the sound of the horns from both sides was too far away to be heard clearly.
Reluctantly, the commander-in-chief of the Han family continued to move forward with his army, leaving behind the 5,000 people who could only wait for the thick fog to come up to see if they could keep up with the large group.
There was really no other way but to continue moving forward and use the heavy fog to avoid the sniper attacks of the Xiliang cavalry.
Bang bang bang....
Li Xiang's ears suddenly moved a few times. He heard the sound of rain mixed with other sounds, and something was moving on the grass.
There were so many of them, and as the sound got closer and closer, he felt that it was the sound of cavalry, the hoofs of war horses trampling on the water-filled grass.
This was the sound he made when he was riding Xing Liao on the grass.
These sounds are very numerous and noisy. This is a large army.
"Send my order, the whole army is on alert!"
Li Xiang is a great master, and his perception is countless times stronger than that of ordinary people. He can feel other sounds coming from the sound of rain, but other soldiers do not have such ability.
The direction the sound came from was quite far away, about 800 steps away from them.
After receiving the order from Prime Minister Li, the Xiliang cavalry quickly gathered together, and their whole bodies were filled with true energy.
But if you look across from the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, you will see darkness ahead, as if there is a copper wall and iron bars in front.
Bang... Bang... Bang...
The horse's hooves stepped on the water-filled grass, causing splashes of water.
The cavalry commander in charge of cutting off the rear felt very speechless. He just went to the rear to check the situation at the rear. He did not expect that the soldiers responsible for linking up with the front actually lost contact with the front.
As a result, their rear troops lost contact with the main force of the Chinese army. With these 5,000 people moving forward in this vast mist, he could only determine the general direction of travel, but could not locate his position.
In order to prevent the same situation from happening again, he personally led his troops to the front.
"Sir, the situation ahead is not right." Due to the fog, no scouts were sent. If we send scouts at this time, we will never return.
