Among the hundreds of people in Xiaguan Village, including the elderly, children, women and men, there is no one who cannot ride a horse or fight. Of course, the only ones who are truly capable of fighting are those men who are less than two hundred men!
Most of the villagers are now dead, and the remaining villagers are fleeing. They have lost their homes, pastures, cattle and sheep, and they still don’t know what will be waiting for them in the future!
The most important thing is that the horse bandits have no intention of letting them go. A horse team of 500 people is following them in hot pursuit!
While Shi Bao was galloping on his horse, he still tried his best to stay behind the two women. One was his sister Wu Ya, and the other was his crush Lihua. They were both famous beauties on the grassland. It is conceivable that if
What will happen if you are caught by horse bandits?
He is eighteen years old this year. In Dafengyuan, at such an age, he is already a competent warrior and the backbone of his family, and that is exactly what he does!
His parents had long since died in the war, and he was the only pillar of the family. Situations like his were not uncommon in Xiaguan Village. Every disaster was an elimination, eliminating the old, weak, sick and disabled, leaving the most elite force behind!
In Dafengyuan, there is no such thing as elite young men fighting to death for the sake of the elderly. They will do it, but they will limit such behavior to a certain extent. Otherwise, according to the popular etiquette and law views in the mainland, there will be no such thing on the grassland.
There may be surviving tribes.
Survival of the fittest is particularly cruel here. There is no warmth to speak of, because warmth will bring disaster to the tribe!
During the gallop, more than a dozen old people slowly reined in the horse. The bandit was too close and needed to be stopped. Such a task could only be undertaken by the elderly, and they placed their hopes on
On young people!
In this way, they persisted for several days under the pursuit of the horse bandits, until the people in the tribe who stayed to stop the enemy became younger and younger. When all the sixty-year-olds died, the fifty-year-olds came up, and then
Forty years old, and so on!
Seeing dozens of old men from the clan riding their horses and charging back with swords, Shi Bao felt like a knife was cutting through his heart. These were his relatives, uncles who had followed him since childhood, but now he could only look at them.
Go to death!
He can't look back. This is the strict order of the clan! It is something that has been followed for hundreds of thousands of years. It is precisely because of such cruelty that they have survived the countless turbulences in Gale Plains. This is the principle of survival.
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Then he felt that the tribe's fleeing direction began to change, from heading north to the northwest!
This is something that can only be decided by the tribal leaders. A hundred miles further north is Stone City, a small border town in the Yanzhao Kingdom. There is a chance that they can hide in. This depends on the mood of the generals guarding the city. Under normal circumstances, these so-called barbarians
Foreigners are not allowed to enter the customs easily, but if there are horse bandits later and they offer some property, they may have a chance.
But running to the northwest, where are they going? And there is a mountain in the way, so how can they use their riding abilities?
He urged the horse a few steps, caught up with the two women in front, and shouted loudly: "Where is the patriarch taking everyone? There are mountains blocking the road for dozens of miles in front. This is because you have lost your head while running, and you want to go to the Miaofeng Peak to farm.
Going?"
Yuanhua's clear voice said, "We are about to go to the Miao Peak! The clan leader said that we can't go to Stone City. We have almost lost all our belongings, and the horse thieves are chasing us too closely. Those useless soldiers in Stone City don't dare to
You can easily open the door and let people go!"
Shi Bao was puzzled. Even if he didn't go to Stone City, there were many directions. Why did he have to go to Chongshan?
People in the grassland have lived on horseback since childhood. They don’t even know how to live without horses! Of course, they can’t be willing to climb mountains! They would rather run to death on horseback than climb up the mountain to escape disaster!
Moreover, the peaks on the grassland are just a few hills compared to the inland area. They are not high mountains, let alone hidden!
I heard that in several valleys in Miaodaofeng there are people who have been exiled from the interior and are farming there. This is not something prairie men like them are willing to do. Their bodies are good at riding horses, dancing with knives and shooting arrows, but they cannot hold a hoe!
Yuanhua actually didn’t quite understand, “The clan leader said, Miaofeng Peak is a legendary forbidden land where killing is prohibited, and it is protected by the mountain gods! We can’t go to Jingang Village, and we can’t get to Stone City, so we can only go to Miaofeng Peak to gamble.
Bet on luck!"
Shi Bao was dissatisfied and said, "The patriarch is crazy! He actually regards the legend as truth. He will kill us all!"
In Dafengyuan, even in the Yanzhao Kingdom, and a few more countries beyond, there are actually legends about the Miao Peak. In such a world that does not believe in ghosts and gods, it is also a very strange thing.
There is a Taoist temple on Miaofeng Peak, and Shi Bao has also been there. It has several shabby houses. To describe it as a temple is a bit too high!
There are a few feeble Taoist priests who are hungry and full, but their faces are full of food!
People on the grasslands herd cows and sheep, but they tend to raise pigs! It’s just because it’s easier to raise pigs because they don’t have to go out to graze! But those things are dirty, but they can still be eaten?
Then there is a vegetable garden...
But such a Taoist temple has existed for who knows how long? It seems that in the records of the grassland, no matter how long the history, this Taoist temple exists!
It seems to be older than the Yanzhao Kingdom! It is also older than the dynasties before the Yanzhao Kingdom! It is older than all the legends in the grassland! It is so old that all the historical records seem to mention this humble Taoist temple, which does not even have a name!
There are constant wars on the mainland! This is not a land of alienation, but wars are burning more frequently! The Taoist temple seems to have been burned and destroyed countless times, but after a period of time after each time it was destroyed, it was always rebuilt tenaciously.
Get up, even if the construction is getting more and more messy and corners are cut more and more!
Strange Taoist temples, strange persistence, and I don’t know how those half-dead Taoists were passed down from generation to generation in the long river of history?
Although he was sick and crooked, he always stood up and never fell down! So I don’t know where or when there was such a legend, saying that Miaofeng Mountain was protected by the mountain god, and other similar nonsense!
Everyone knows that there is no God in this world! No one pins their hope of survival on such illusory legends. That is irresponsible for life!
But now their clan leader, the wisest person in the clan, puts the hope of survival of the clan in Miaofeng Mountain, which makes many young people like Shi Bao disapproval!
They would rather die fighting on horseback than climb a mountain! To be honest, people who are used to holding horses are not suitable for mountain climbing!
There is no way, everyone is running in that direction, and it is impossible to just go our separate ways?
