25. Encounter a patrol

There is no cow by the river. They have returned to the cowshed in the village.

The sky darkened, and the earth and the sky looked hazy. At this time, a bonfire ignited in the camp of the Song army patrol outside the village.

Mu Yunhan sat next to him in a cloak, facing the firelight, and unfolded a letter. The general content of Zhang Zai said that the grain and straw and cotton-padded clothes allocated by the court will be delivered quickly, so that he will be patient for a few more days. There is also a patrol that must not be taken lightly. Once you encounter a strong enemy, you can quickly return to the city and you can't fight. Expand the search tomorrow. The range, advancing ten miles to the north, still returning to Chaoshui Village at night, Yunyun.

The letter was delivered after dusk. At that time, Mu Yunhan was leading 200 cavalry to run wildly in the snow 30 miles southwest of Rong County. He ran to the foot of the mountain and rested for a while. At this time, the messenger from Dengzhou camp also caught up with them, handed over the letter on the spot, conveyed Zhao Ze's advice, and then pressed Go back the same way.

During the day, Mu Yunhan just glanced at the letter and didn't pay much attention to the details. At night, he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be something important in the letter, so he read it again by fire.

"So that's it!"

Mu Yunhan sat there quietly, staring at the hot flame on the wood, and was silent for a while, thinking about what to do if the other party did not.

For a long time,

"What else can I do? It's really stupid." Mu Yunhan laughed at himself. "Why bother yourself? If you don't do it, just kill him. Don't care."

At this moment, a sergeant sentry on the north side of the camp shouted into the night: "Who is it?"

"Good people, good people" The people rushing in the night shouted as they ran.

"What a good man, explain it plainly, or you will shoot an arrow." The Song army quickly pulled out a knife from his waist and stared at several figures in the dark. At the same time, another sentry sergeant reached out and took an arrow from the arrow pot and put it on the bow and aimed at one of the shadows.

After a while, the rustling footsteps were much closer, and the shouting was clear, but the people in the night shouted, "Run, the wolf is coming"

"Wolf?" The two Song soldiers on the sentry were shocked, "What wolf?"

In the blink of an eye, they saw clearly that there were dozens of gray shadows chasing the people in front of them. Although the moonlight was unknown, the reflection of the snow reflected a hundred steps clearly. There was nothing to hide, not to mention that it was a flat wilderness.

"It's a wolf" Song Jun, who held a knife in one hand, stared at it. There were dozens of wolves in the dark. No, hundreds of wolves rushed over and got closer and closer. He was shocked and shouted, "Run, the wolf is coming"

At that time, the two Song soldiers turned around and ran, flying towards the Song army camp fifty steps away.

As he ran, he shouted, "Everyone, get up, the wolf is coming, the fucking wolf is coming, get up!"

Deep in the middle of the night, a little movement will be very harsh, not to mention the warning of 'the wolf is coming'. Song soldiers who had not yet fallen asleep in the camp quickly got up and dressed. Some of them didn't care about dressing at all, so they rushed out of the tent with knives and guns, came outside and ran to places with many people.

Mu Yunhan stood up from the bonfire in a cloak and waved his own soldiers and asked, "What's the matter?"

The soldier replied, "Your Excellency, it seems that someone is calling the wolf!"

"What?" Mu Yunhan frowned and said where the wolf came from, but he could not be careless about foreign affairs. He quickly took a long gun and rushed to the north with two soldiers, intending to see what was going on.

After a ray of incense, the hungry wolves and frightened crowd bumped into one place, and a bloody massacre began.

Under the moonlight, screams kept echoing over the camp. Many Song soldiers were torn to pieces by the hungry wolves. However, more hungry wolves were cut off, and the land was dyed red with blood. People and wolves wrestled into a ball, which was difficult to solve. Sometimes two or three wolves besieged one person crazily, sometimes five or six people chased and killed a hungry wolf, and there were also those who fought alone, and they lost their weapons and were chased by hungry wolves.

Mu Yunhan waved the long gun in his palm and shouted, "Don't panic, don't panic, tie the array, hurry up!"

However, it is night. The wolves have rushed into the camp, and the battle is imminent. People and beasts are fighting together, and the surroundings are in a mess. Unless all one side is slaughtered, it is difficult to separate, and it is impossible to form a formation.

"Damn it, take the torch." Mu Yunhan punched down, smashed the wolf's head that bit his left arm, and then the iron gun swept the three wolves on the opposite side to the ground.

Soon, soldiers kept rushing to the fire in the camp and reaching out to draw the red wood inside, but the wolves were crazy and were not afraid of life and death at all, and still rushed to the prey beside them one after another.

The chaos lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour. During this period, I don't know how many people fell down, and I don't know how many wolves they killed. After the boiling blood coagulated, everyone was injured, light or heavy, deep or shallow. Many people fell to the ground tiredly. The blood aroused by the previous battle was still surging in the blood vessels, and it was difficult to calm down for a long time.

Until they are thirsty, they will grab the snow around them and swallow it. After a long time,

After half a sound, there were several large bonfires in the camp.

Mu Yunhan ordered people to reorganize the people and horses. After counting 200 people, the team lost 30 people, 10 people disappeared, 20 people were killed, and four strangers were arrested. Finally, the number of hungry wolves slaughtered, more than 100. Some of them have been dismembered. It is difficult to count whether it is a wolf or several wolves.

Just after a big war, everyone was already sleepy. While making people shrink the defense line, Mu Yunhan sent troops around to guard it. The rest of the people skinned the wolf, lived and cooked, and prepared to go back to the city after a full meal.

And he took the opportunity to interrogate the four strangers.

In a large tent next to the bonfire, Mu Yunhan sat on a wolf skin. On the opposite side, there were four people who were scared to be weak, two strong men, a man and a woman.

"Who the hell are you?" The man dressed as a scholar on the side of Mu Yunhan's finger asked, that is, Jia Yan.

"General Hui, we are from Xichuan" Jia An replied in embarrassment.

"Xichuan, it seems to be in Shunyang. What are you doing here?"

"Come back, general, I'm here to report the news," Jia An said with one hand, touching his chest, which was still banging around.

"What kind of letter did you report? It actually attracted the wolves and almost killed us. If I kill you now, no one will object!" Mu Yun said angrily.

"Really, I'm really sorry, my lord." Jia An said nervously and stammered. Didn't wait for him to finish, his Hun family's Sun quickly said, "This general, we are indeed here to report the news. Shunyang was taken by the thief. We waited for the four of us to escape desperately. If the adult doesn't You can send someone to inquire, and there is no lie."

"..." Mu Yunhan frowned and looked at the woman beside Jia An. Seeing that she was covered in blood and compared with the two big men next to her, he suddenly smiled. "You are bold. Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"

"My lord, if the daughter of the people is afraid of death, she will not come, and she will not be chased and killed by the wolves. If the adult really kills me like this, even if we are unlucky." After Sun answered fearlessly, she bowed to Mu Yunhan and stopped talking.

"Good!" Mu Yunhan nodded, then turned to the two big men on the left and pointed out: "Who are you?"

"Lord Hui, the grassman's name is Chen Shun. This is my second brother Teng Xiong. We are hunters from Baiting Town and go to Xichuan to sell some beast furs. Unexpectedly, the thief occupied it, so we ran out and wanted to report it!" Chen Shun replied.

"So that's it!" Mu Yunhan thought for a moment and felt that the matter needed to be thoroughly investigated, but their expressions and words and deeds were not fake, so he believed it seven or eight points, clapped his hands, asked the soldiers beside them to untie the ropes on them, then comforted them, invited them to dinner together, and went back to the city together after dawn, and then planned.

Chen Shun didn't care about the four people. At present, he thanked Mu Yunhan, and then sat around the bonfire with the group of wounded soldiers. He chewed the wolf meat and gnawed the wolf bones. After eating and drinking, he was tired and leaned against a roasted hot stone and fell asleep. He didn't know how long he had slept. A horn sounded, and they were dizzy. When he woke up, Mu Yunhan's own soldiers told them to prepare for the road. It was dawn.