Bianshanhan [farming]

Jiang Liping and others followed the officers and soldiers for nearly [-] days, almost broke their legs, and finally saw the endless forest ahead.

Officers and soldiers on fast horses went to the forest to investigate, and when they found traces of wild animals, they immediately returned to report, and the exiles divided into two teams and entered the forest with sticks.It was as if a drop of water splashed into a hot oil pan, and the birds in the forest started up, and the little animals ran away in panic.

At this time, a group of soldiers led by General Lin opened their bows and shot arrows, and a strong smell of blood spread in all directions.

After stopping, the exiles stepped forward to pick up the prey, and then put it on the sledge that followed.

This is the edge of the forest, and there are little things like foxes and pheasants.

Gao Yubao chased a wounded pheasant for a long time, until he was covered in blood before he caught it. He quickly carried it back and put it on the sledge.He pulled out the arrowhead from the pheasant without any effort, and the pierce was so shallow, no wonder the pheasant can flop for so long.

After picking them up and continuing to walk into the forest, you can see the figures of roe deer and deer. The exile drove the deer away with sticks, and then there was another rain of arrows.

An arrow grazed Jiang Cong's cheek and pierced the neck of the deer in front of him. The deer whimpered and writhed on the ground in pain.

Jiang Cong turned his head and saw Lu Gang retracting his bow and arrow, squinting at him, "I heard that your arrow technique is very accurate."

"It's not half as good as an adult." Jiang Cong stepped forward to end the deer's pain with a dagger, and walked back carrying the prey.

Lu Gang looked at his back, a glint of coldness flashed in his eyes.

Because the snow was not heavy before, many wild animals in the forest were still looking for food. Hundreds of them broke in with bows and arrows in their hands, hunting and killing them, and they gained a lot every day.

Seeing the piles of prey, General Lin Tan was in a good mood, and ordered people to kill them quickly, otherwise it would be bad if the blood soaked into the leather.

Everyone responded in unison, the voices were loud, and most of the people who worked in the end were exiles.

Sun Changfu squatted on the ground with a knife in his hand, looking at the dead fox in front of him but couldn't do anything, his face was pale, and he was muttering something.

Sun Yonghao's hands were covered with blood, and he asked Jiang Liping anxiously, "We are making too much noise here, so it won't cause anything serious."

"Probably not." Jiang Liping said while cutting the velvet antlers, "Even lions and tigers are afraid of so many people, but don't leave alone, the smell of blood is so strong, who knows what beasts will be attracted..."

Before he finished speaking, there were several screams not far away, and then a roar of a tiger shaking the mountains and forests.

Everyone's heart went numb, Jiang Liping and Jiang Cong hurriedly looked around, taking a rough look, seeing that everyone was there, but they couldn't breathe a sigh of relief.

Just when everyone raised their bows and arrows, there was no movement in the distance. After waiting for a long time, everyone was very puzzled and still did not dare to move.

Lu Gang turned his head to look at Jiang Cong, "You, go over there and check."

Everyone heard the sound just now. If the tiger was lying in the grass, those who went to explore the way would never return.

Lin Tan also knew the advantages and disadvantages, but he didn't speak to stop him. He just told everyone to keep their eyes wide open and shoot the tiger immediately as soon as it appeared.

Tiger bones and tiger skins are among the tributes issued by the imperial court, so if they encountered them this time, they would not return empty-handed.

Jiang Cong walked in the direction of the screams with a stick in his hand. Jiang Liping and the others watched with clenched teeth, their palms sweating profusely.

After the roar of the tiger, the surrounding was quiet. Jiang Cong probed the grass with a wooden stick, and disappeared in the forest under the gaze of the crowd.

This year it's suddenly cold, and many leaves in the forest are green. As soon as you touch them, they fall and fall silently on the snow.

Jiang Cong stepped on the fallen leaves, inevitably making small noises, and stopped when he saw the blood red in front of him.

The ground was in a mess, with several corpses lying horizontally, all staring wide-eyed, as if the fear inside hadn't dissipated.

They were from the Qian family. They didn't want to do the dirty work of peeling skins. They took over the job of picking firewood, but they didn't want to fall into the jaws of a tiger.

Jiang Cong turned back and reported the situation inside. The soldiers were relieved. It would be better if the tiger ran away. If it really pounced, they didn't know who would be in trouble.

Lin Tan was a little disappointed. Tigers are not easy to meet. This time they ran away, and they don't know when they will meet next time.

At this time Lu Gang said: "General, I am willing to lead people to track down the tiger, and I will definitely bring back the whole tiger."

When he opened his mouth, Jiang Liping felt that it didn't take a second. Sure enough, when Lin Tan nodded, Lu Gang looked at them, raised his finger, and said, "You all follow me!"

No matter how much they wanted to kill Lu Gang, Jiang Liping and the others had no choice but to stand up. They sent ten people plus ten officers and soldiers to follow Lu Gang's horse's buttocks to find the tiger.

After killing several people, the imprint left by the tiger was still very obvious. They chased and ran for more than ten miles, but there was no trace of the tiger on the grass in front of them, as if it disappeared out of thin air.

Jiang Cong found tiger paw prints on the nearby tree, and saw a few broken twigs. The tiger should have jumped here and left.

They turned around the tree, not knowing which direction the tiger had gone.

Originally thought that they would go back after losing the tiger, but Lu Gang was not in a hurry, he drove the horse and continued to move forward, "I sent you out to hunt bears before, but you returned empty-handed every time, and other prey were happy to hunt. Don't think that with Zhou Fengnian watching, I can't do anything to you, if you can't catch the bear this time, no one can go back."

Didn't you come out to fight tigers? Why did you turn into catching bears again? !

Moreover, the bear that slapped him was in the wilderness in another direction. This forest is far away from there. If it was revenge, it should go there.

Jiang Liping couldn't figure out what Lu Gang was thinking at all, just listening to his unhurried words, he felt a little nervous for no reason.

If a normal person is injured by a wild animal, he would be scared away, but this person was slapped by a bear and went crazy. He went around hunting the bear like a bewilderment. I don't know what terrible things he will do.

At this time, they were far away from the hunting team, and before dark, Lu Gang ordered someone to stop and light a fire where they were.

After the fire was set up, Jiang Cong saw that Lu Gang seemed to have sprinkled something on the fire. Looking carefully, the flames did not change much, but a faint and inexplicable fragrance gradually increased.

Sensing Jiang Cong's gaze, Lu Gang gave him a weird smile, "This is a good thing. It took a long time for that woman to call it out. It will definitely be very lively tonight."

Jiang Cong frowned. Sure enough, there was something strange about that thing.

When turning around, Jiang Cong whispered something to Jiang Liping, Jiang Liping looked at Lu Gang from a distance, wishing to bite his steel teeth.

However, their identities could not resist this person, so they had to try their best to save the brother who came out, and he hurried to tell others.

However, as soon as it got dark, something happened.

The two officers and soldiers went to the side to relieve themselves, and when they lowered their heads, they met a pair of tiger eyes shining coldly. They were so frightened that they couldn't move when they stood still. Pierced another man's neck.

After killing two people, the tiger went into hiding again.

Someone noticed that the two officers and soldiers had been gone for too long, so they yelled twice, but no one responded, so they came out to look for them, and only then did they find the bodies of the two men.

In addition to the corpse, there are tiger paw prints.

At this time, everyone suddenly realized that they might have been spotted chasing the tiger before. The tiger did not lose its track, but turned to the back and hunted them back.

The officers and soldiers were so frightened that there were only a dozen of them left, and the tiger might be hiding nearby, so could they still get away?

Lu Gang didn't care about the deaths of the officers and soldiers at all. He even prevented people from burying the bodies of the two men and asked them to carry them not far from the fire to use as ready-made bait.

After moving the soldiers' bodies, Ma Yongjiang vomited. He was so scared that he didn't dare to leave Jiang Liping and Jiang Cong for fear that he would be dragged away by the tiger if he didn't pay attention.

Jiang Liping sighed, now it's not just the tiger that's scary, but also Lu Gang, a lunatic.

Holding the bow and arrow in his hand, Jiang Cong looked around, his shin hairs were slightly erected, and there were dark shadows around him, and he didn't know how many dangers were lurking.

Jiang Liping hurriedly put the meat on the fire and shared it with everyone regardless of whether it was hot or not.It seems that there will be no rest tonight, and we must hurry up to fill our stomachs.

After dark, the wind picked up, and the blowing snow nearly blew the fire away.

It is very scary to have no fire in the wild. Everyone is adding firewood while protecting the flames.

When the flames flickered on and off, a black shadow suddenly appeared on Ma Yongjiang's face, and then a violent wind hit his face.

"Get out of the way!"

Following Jiang Cong's roar, Jiang Liping threw Ma Yongjiang down violently, and rolled away with him in his arms. The black shadow leaped up and fell to the ground, and the already precarious fire was extinguished immediately.

With the help of the crumbling fire nearby, the black figure revealed its real body, which was a half-human-tall tiger, its brown fur shining in the fire.

In a few breaths, before everyone could react, Jiang Cong had already drawn his bow, his pupils shrunk, and a pair of arrows shot out through the wind, hitting the left and right eyes of the tiger.

With a heavy smell, the tiger wailed in pain. It couldn't see it, but its ears were still sensitive, and it turned its head and fled with the arrow.

"Shoot it to death!" Lu Gang was startled, he and the soldiers shot more than a dozen arrows, but they fell on the snow, and the tiger disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye.

Just as everyone was clutching their chests and filled with joy, Lu Gang strode over and kicked Jiang Cong, "How dare you play tricks on me!"

Jiang Cong dodged his kick and said coldly, "I don't know what your lord means?"

"You can shoot that tiger to death, but you let it go on purpose!" Lu Gang roared, the injured half of his face twisted abnormally, like a ghost.

Jiang Cong handed the broken bowstring in front of him, Lu Gang was still angry, but he laughed, "You lowly person still dares to put on a show in front of the master, now it is easier to crush you than to kill a pheasant. "

Jiang Cong just lowered his head and looked down, and said, "Yes."

Jiang Liping's eyes were filled with anger. Although these people are exiles, they have never provoked Lu Gang. They beat and punished them at will. This bastard doesn't treat them as human beings at all!

After staring at Jiang Cong for a long time, Lu Gang took out a medicine bottle, sternly told Jiang Cong not to move, sprinkled the medicine powder in the bottle on his head, and said, "This time we will see how you can deceive him."

It was not a good thing at first sight, Jiang Liping and others stepped forward and said: "Your Excellency, hold your hand high, we will hunt with our heart!"

"Go away!" Lu Gang didn't even look at them, and walked a few steps along the fire, looking at the dark place with hot and frantic eyes.

The medicine powder was stained in the hair, and it couldn't be cleaned for a while. Jiang Cong smelled the same fragrance as before, and quickly stopped Jiang Liping, "Don't rub it, this thing is weird."

Jiang Liping and the others cursed angrily in their hearts, not daring to delay, and immediately set up the fire again, preparing to burn the snow.

But it was too late, the wind was strong, the moon was covered by dark clouds, and the forest was rustling.

There was a sudden "click" sound, and a fist-thick tree next to it suddenly broke and fell down.

The people by the fire were startled and ran away quickly, the wind and snow hit their faces, and the beating people couldn't open their eyes. At this time, a huge monster rushed over.

It was taller and stronger than the tiger just now, with rough and thick brown fur, four legs on the ground, and swift movements. It was a brown bear.

"It's coming, it's coming, it's finally coming!" Lu Gang laughed loudly, and shot with his bow, the arrow stuck in the brown-black fur. The bear didn't seem to be hurt at all, and the speed didn't slow down.

The officers and soldiers screamed and rolled aside, and Jiang Liping and the others were also tightly gripping their wooden sticks.

Surprisingly, the brown bear didn't bite Lu Gang who was attacking him, but went straight to Jiang Cong. In the blink of an eye, he reached him, raised his front paws, and bit Jiang Cong's head with his bloody mouth.

Jiang Cong rubbed the bear's paws and rolled to the side. Before he could stand up, the brown bear turned around nimbly, and its thick front paws grabbed it with the wind.

Jiang Liping and others yelled at the side, trying to attract the brown bear to look at it, but it didn't work at all.

At this time, Lu Gang drew the bow again, but missed the bear, he clicked tut, and drew the arrow again.

Seeing that Jiang Cong was about to be crushed to death by the brown bear below, he suddenly jumped up, turned in the air, and was about to fall behind the brown bear, but an arrow shot him in the arm.

Jiang Cong froze slightly, and immediately stepped back.

Watching Lu Gang's arrow hit Jiang Cong helplessly, Jiang Liping's eyes turned red.

"Oh, I missed the shot!" Lu Gang didn't feel at all that he had done something he shouldn't have done. He looked regretful, but his tone was light and mad.

"You bastard!" Jiang Liping couldn't bear it anymore, and ran towards Lu Gang with a wooden stick.

"Jiang Liping!" It was Jiang Cong who shouted, panting slightly, and said, "Deal with the bear first."

Gritting his teeth, Jiang Liping swung the stick in his hand at the brown bear, yelling loudly.

But the bear chased Jiang Cong as if he was being lured by something.

Gritting his teeth, Jiang Cong pulled out the wooden arrow in his arm and threw it on the ground. Blood gushed out and ticked on the snow along the cuff.

While hiding, Jiang Cong picked up an iron awl from the ground, which was used to punch holes when setting up camp, and was brought by officers and soldiers, and fell to the ground in fright.

After only stopping for a moment, the brown bear approached again. This time Jiang Cong didn't hide, but went up to meet him. He tilted his head back, and when the bear's claw scraped his jaw, the iron awl also penetrated into the black bear's chest.

At this time, Jiang Liping and others who surrounded him trapped the struggling brown bear with hemp rope nets, and then stabbed desperately with the weapons in their hands.

Lu Gang finally put down his bow and arrow, he drew out his saber, walked over, and slammed it into the open mouth of the black bear.

This stabbing pain drove the brown bear completely crazy. It moved vigorously, tore up the rope net, slapped the snow on the ground, and still bit Jiang Cong with the iron awl and steel knife on its body.

"Hahaha, a beast is a beast, and it will go crazy just smelling the smell of medicine!" Lu Gang shouted excitedly, "Quick, rush over and bite him to death!"

Jiang Cong dodged in embarrassment, bleeding from his scratched jaw.

Jiang Liping and others snatched the bows and arrows from the officers and soldiers and started shooting arrows at the brown bear.

The shot was right, and soon there were more than a dozen arrows piercing the brown bear's back, but its skin is rough and fleshy, and the damage it can do to it is really limited.

Ma Yongjiang cried and threw a torch on the brown bear, but it caught fire, but when the brown bear rolled on the ground, the fire went out immediately.

But with this movement, the iron awl on its chest pierced deeper, and the brown bear's huge body shook violently.

Jiang Cong turned around at this moment, quickly grabbed the steel knife in the brown bear's mouth with one hand, twisted it hard, and then rolled to the other side.

Turbulent blood spurted from its mouth, and the badly wounded bear finally fell down.

But it wasn't dead yet, Jiang Cong was about to give it a final blow, but was stopped by Lu Gang.

"It can't be killed yet." Lu Gang stepped forward, took the steel knife from the trembling officers and soldiers, nailed the bear's paw to the ground with the knife viciously, and said with a grinning grin: "You may not know that this beast is being provoked. When you are angry, your guts will grow bigger, and if you finally catch one, you have to treat it well."

As he spoke, he took another knife and cut off the other fore paw of the brown bear.

Then he picked up a branch, pointed at the bear's eyes, and inserted it into the bear's eyes under the terrified eyes of everyone.

The brown bear roared angrily, but couldn't get up.

Just out of danger, he thought he would be able to breathe a sigh of relief if he killed it, but he saw Lu Gang torture the brown bear like a lunatic. Ma Yongjiang didn't dare to look at it and turned his head away.

Jiang Liping shook his hands, found the hemostatic medicine from Jiang Cong's bag, and bandaged him.

Jiang Cong let him move, but kept looking at Lu Gang.

"He's even more beast than a bear!" Jiang Liping bit his blood, "I can tell, he wants your life!"

Jiang Cong didn't speak. After the wound was tied up, he stood up, walked up to the dying brown bear, and said, "My lord, there may be another bear looking for it. We need to make plans early."

Lu Gang finally moved his eyes away from the brown bear, and said with a sneer, "Of course they will come. As long as the smell on your body doesn't dissipate, these beasts will rush over one after another. They just don't know if your life is big enough."

One of the officers and soldiers was so scared that he peed his pants on the spot, looking at Lu Gang as if he was looking at an evil spirit.

Although these bears only chased Jiang Cong, it was so vicious that if they were accidentally slapped, half their lives would be taken away!

Jiang Cong said calmly: "We lack a few weapons that are handy."

Perhaps it was because of venting the resentment in his heart, Lu Gang was not as hysterical as before, he just lifted his chin and said: "Take whatever you want here, kill all these beasts early, and we will go back. You are good at it, sir In the past, when you were promoted, you didn't know good and bad, and you had to push yourself to this point before you were willing to work hard, but you are really a cheap bone."

As if Jiang Cong had never heard of it, he raised his hand and pulled out the steel knife and iron awl stuck in the brown bear's body.

Lu Gang was taken aback, and said angrily, "Who told you to do this..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Cong had already removed all the weapons from the brown bear, including the branch stuck in the bear's eye.

The brown bear, who had only one breath left, struggled violently. Jiang Cong was startled, slipped, fell to the ground, and quickly rolled to the side.

But this time the brown bear didn't chase Jiang Cong anymore, but rushed towards Lu Gang covered in blood.

Lu Gang was so close that he didn't dodge it. He was bitten on the shoulder by the brown bear. The sound of the shoulder bone breaking was very piercing. He struggled and screamed: "Come, come..."

The officers and soldiers were so frightened that they couldn't move.

Jiang Liping and the others did come up, but they all stared at Jiang Cong and shouted, "Get out of the way!"

Not only did Jiang Cong not dodge, he rushed forward and grabbed Lu Gang's body, trying to rescue him from the bear's mouth.

When everyone was terrified, the brown bear claws that popped out of the slanted stabs suddenly shook, Lu Gang stared, a red line first appeared on his neck, and then a cloud of blood suddenly burst out, his body froze, and he fell to the ground.

The brown bear also swallowed its last breath and collapsed on Lu Gang's body. Jiang Cong narrowly escaped and lay on the ground, panting heavily.

Regardless of Lu Gang and Xiong, Jiang Liping and the others quickly carried Jiang Cong to the farthest fire.

As soon as he stood still, Jiang Cong chopped off his hair with a dagger, and threw it into the fire, and the flames exploded.

"It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's go now." Jiang Cong said, and Jiang Liping and the others immediately packed their things.

The officers and soldiers stared blankly at the tragic situation on the ground, not daring to step forward, for fear that the bear would rise up and hurt people again.

There were only two piles left in the corner of the fire, and the surrounding was dark. Everyone only saw the bear getting up and biting Lu Gang. They didn't know how serious the injury was. Jiang Liping wanted to chew Lu Gang alive, let alone go to see him, just thinking Shed more blood, shed the beast.

The people and bears on the ground did not move. Seeing that Jiang Cong and the others were about to leave, the remaining officers and soldiers were also anxious. They boldly went over to look, only to find that one person and one bear were dead.

Afraid of being left behind, the officers and soldiers endured their fear and dragged Lu Gang's body out and put it on the sledge, "Wait, let's go, let's go too..."

They heard just now that Lu Gang used medicine to lure the bears, if he stays there, if a few more bears come, they will probably be too cold.

They were so terrified that they didn't even take the bear's body, and a group of people hurried away with torches.

Their legs were weak, and they fell down countless times along the way, but the officers and soldiers did not dare to stop. They followed closely behind Jiang Liping and the others, and did not dare to stop until dawn. Feeling saved, I slumped to the ground.

Lin Tan was just happy when he had just killed the tiger, but he heard that Lu Gang and two officers and soldiers were dead. He frowned and drove his horse to the back.

The surviving officers and soldiers knelt on the ground, trembling, and told what happened last night. Lin Tan got off his horse, looked at Lu Gang's tattered body, waved his face sullenly, and said, "Wrap it up first."

After the officers and soldiers carried the body away, Lin Tan looked at Jiang Cong, "You also shot the tiger?"

Jiang Cong nodded and said in a hoarse voice, "If you go back to the general, it's just luck."

Lin Tan looked at him deeply, said nothing, and got on his horse.

I don't know whether it was because of enough prey or Lu Gang's tragic death. The [-]-day hunt ended early, and a group of people left the forest with a lot of prey.