Book 40 - Chapter 4 – Giving Ones Life to Save a Friend (1/2)
The warrior at the front shouted loudly, the caravan responded by stopping Sitting low inside the azed at you; both knew that so they set out at daybreak; up until now they were only covering one or two sichen of road Were it not for encountering an unusual thing, they should not stop The boys did not dare to get down the cart to take a look, for fear that the one blocking their ere the han was at the ht make it difficult for him to completely recover his power Therefore, the tere particularly careful
Aopened the cloth cover and asked, “What happened?”
Yuekepeng, with grave countenance, said, “Ahead are three long wooden poles with three wolf heads that have just been chopped off, still dripping with blood – hanging from them This is Qidan’s Huyan Jin trademark, the ‘bloody Wolf Mark’ that intimidates the prairie If one was the wolf heads but did not ioods by the wolf poles, they will kill the other party entirely without leaving a single life”
Frowning, Kou Zhong asked, “When do they usuallyreplied, “Sometimes they acted immediately, sohtened, and then they attack suddenly”
“What’s Peng Xiong’s plan?” Xu Ziling asked
Yuekepeng replied, “I did not expect that we barely entered Yan Yuan and i in contact with Huyan Jin All we can do is to raise our vigilance, counter soldiers with arms, counter water with an earth weir [idioood!’ inwardly In the prairie, there was no danger that they could guard against, and now they had to take care of Ba Fenghan plus large quantities of congratulatory gifts If the inco froht directions, how should they deal with it?
Steeling his heart, Kou Zhong said, “We are co outside to drive the ht back as soon as we find out”
The caravan continued their journey Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, using their precious horses to replace thethe caravan Passing the three hanging-high-on-the-poles, , yet-also-pitiful – wolf heads, even with the two boys’ guts, they were still overwhel-the-heart uneasy feeling
Xu Ziling took back the Perished Moon Bow that he had given to Ba Fenghan, along with all the arrows and darts supply, and kept everything by his side, in preparation for the battle
Yan Yuan [lit s plains] was still chared This group of warriors froquan on revenge h alert, the previously relaxed and comfortable spirit was noaway into the distance Yuekepeng ordered the troops to proceed along the river to decrease the possibility of the ene from the north On the endless plain, apart fron of human’s presence Yet it did not calm everyone’s heart Qidan’s Huyan Jin, shi+wei’s Shen Mohuan, and Gaoli’s Han Chao’an were the three o like the wind, appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost, scaring those who hear it out of their wits No one knehen and where they would suddenly appear
With a bitter sht that the two of us, brothers would have a day where we are very scared and on edge like sheep waiting to be slaughtered, waiting for the co of our allocated lifespan If I can have a one-on-one duel against Huyan Jin, even if Xiaodi have ”
Looking into the distance straight ahead, Xu Ziling spoke heavily, “We can only take it one step at a ti hard battle we have to fight after Helian Fort If we really cannot hold out, we can only give up our property, seize the path to escape, and then when Old Ba wakes up ill look for Huyan Jin to settle the account”
After passing two sichen with no alar forth, the caravan stopped again
Froed his horse to gallop back toward the two boys sitting on the cart, saying, “There is a jungle blocking our way ahead; shall we pitch cae of two ht to continue on with our journey?”
The dense forest ahead grew along the river, the terrain was starting to rise and fall unevenly Under this kind of every tree or bush an ene [both are idiohtest move] situation, it was co was intilance [another idiole
Kou Zhong spoke decisively, “The enemy will come sooner or later, and I would rather they come sooner than later If I were Huyan Jin, I would not attack tonight where we have the river behind our back, waiting in tight for attack He would leave us in the predicaetting any good sleep all night, and then tomorroill still have to face the currently no room to advance or to retreat situation”
“That ht as well avoid this forest region, pass through the hill area through the night, perhaps we can break away fro said, “Huyan Jin should be in the dense forest”
Taken aback, Yuekepeng said, “How could Xu Xiong be so sure?”
Kou Zhong did not want to waste his tongue to explain Xu Ziling’s surpassing-others spirited sense; he said, “Because that is the best place to ae of this area, won’t want to miss it”
His heroic spirit suddenly aroused, Yuekepeng laughed aloud and said, “If they want to come, let them come then! I want to let Huyan Jin know that our Jushi+along the caravan, he gave orders in Jushi+ language, to encourage his men’s morale By the time he was back at the head of the procession, the caravan deviated fro spoke to Xu Ziling, “Peng Xiong is indeed a talent, his character is also good; we si sighed and said, “Even if you preserve his life, it will be useless Supposing both the ? It would be better for hilory”
Frowning, Kou Zhong said, “Is there a way to satisfy rival de to lose the property?”
S said, “I just hope that there will only be a few hundred , so that we could counterattack first, to chop down Huyan Jin’s dog head”
The sun was falling beyond the western horizon of the plains, the red-spread-with-green-stitched-together grassland was covered in a layer of light red sunset color The wind blowing across the grass was like an eer was lurking on every side
Without-border, without-limit silence pervaded the vast heaven and earth before their eyes To the left, the green forest reached the sky, the road ahead extended into the undulating hills like a ripple in the water, with random clusters of trees sprinkled in between
After thinking hard, the two boys still could not find a good way The sound of hoof beats suddenly arose From the forest to their left suddenly rushed out endless stream of black-cloth-wrapped-around-their-heads, battle-ar thetoward them, their battle cry shook the heavens
Fortunately this side has been prepared I, with the warriors hiding behind the carts, bending their bows and putting up their arrows, protecting the camels on the other side
Suddenly froroup of horse thieves appeared fros, one teaht to attack the head of the caravan, the other teaht side Immediately the caravan was in the inferior position where three sides were the ene said, “My Niang! There are at least three thousand of theht this battle?
Even if Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling could kill their way out of encircle, and all hisat the ene offensive, the color of blood was drained fro was no longer a group of savage horse thieves, but an ardonificant strength of a few hundredsits are
The Qidan horse thieves were approaching continuously
Kou Zhong suddenly shouted loudly, “Peng Xiong! Retreat iquan”
With a lash of his whip, the three horses reared in pain and pulled the cart out of the forle toward the northeast corner where the eneth was the weakest, precisely between the ene down fro was thinking that Kou Zhong was not loyal to his friends and was running away to the wilderness alone, Kou Zhong shouted loudly, “Ling Shao! Five-Colored Stone!”
Xu Ziling understood immediately He leaped and soo throw the goods away!”
“No ti replied Each hand reached a quiver of arrows, slung the quivers behind his back, he pounced forward, landing on the Thousand-Li Drearabbed the bow the other hand fetched the arrows, he released strings of arrows like a string of pearls toward the ene and jolting cart, steady as Mount Tai, he pinched the Five-Colored Stone between two fingers and lifted it up high above his head Secretly perfor Incantation Method, he shouted in Tujue language, “Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling are here; whoever dares, come seize our Five-Colored Stone!”
With the brilliant sche came up with surely they did not have to worry that Huyan Jin would not co had defeated Ku Ge, the son of another big Qidan tribal chief Mohui, and slaughtered more than a hundred Qidan men, hence he tied deep enmity with the Qidan tribe
Secondly, the Five-Colored Stone was snatched away by Qidan from Mohe people’s hands, and has been in their possession for race of their people; it was of great significance They would definitely not allow the Stone to fall back into Mohe people’s hands Further obtained the Stone, he would be able to, in a way that justifies the use of the tern over the various tribes of Mohe
By codo about affairs, there is the difference between slight or iuessed it: another idiom] Huyan Jin was cohan inside; he only thought that if he let the two forced their way out of encircle the to the heavens Plus there was not
Sure enough, fro orders Although the two boys did not understand Qidan, just by looking at the entire ene around to chase them, they knew that they were halfway to success The other half was how to kill their way out of the encirclement, and break away from the enemy’s pursuit