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The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 281: Knocked out teeth and swallowed with blood

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    When the wind and snow stopped in the middle of the night, sharp wolf howls sounded in the vast jungles of the Daxianbei Mountains (Daxingan Mountains). Night is the time for wild beasts to hunt. Hungry jungle gray wolves roam freely, and occasionally encounter bears (brown bears).  ), giant wild boars, jungle leopards, foxes and the king of the Xianbei Mountains, the Xianbei tiger.  ¡û There are many screams of beasts in the distance, but the snow with sparse trees is very quiet. The beasts will not waste their energy in the thick snow, especially in the deep mountains and dense forests where the snow reaches the knees in some areas.  The seasonal warm period in BC led to frequent rains and floods in summer. Sea storms, tsunamis and seawater intrusion occurred frequently in coastal areas. Correspondingly, there were many snowstorms in winter in the north. Snow fell for at least a month along the Yellow River in winter, while in the Northeast  The snowfall in the Daxianbei Mountains is even more astonishing. Most of the year's precipitation is concentrated in winter.  Xianbei hunters trekked hard in the snow, they were hunting.  The night vision of animals is better than that of hunters. Experienced Xianbei hunters try to avoid moving at night. Even if they must move at night, they will move forward in small groups with swords and bows on their backs and fully armed. There are too many dangers in the jungle. The most common danger is the jungle wolf.  , the cunning beasts are very good at suddenly attacking the hunter from behind. They can stand up and put their front legs on the hunter's shoulders, and bite the hunter's throat the moment the hunter turns back.  Ordinary wild animals are scared away with torches, but when encountering ferocious bears and wild boars, there is nothing you can do. You can only pray that you are lucky and do not encounter the beasts in estrus. The Xianbei tiger with its cubs is also very scary.  Yuli Surgu quietly approached the edge of the dense forest. Behind him were thirty young and strong Xianbei hunters. Their target was the elk herd living in the dense forest.  The elk are highly alert and can be alerted if not careful, so only the most powerful hunters can approach silently.  Hunting requires not only great skill but also care and patience.  Whistling sounds came from several directions in the dense forest, and the vigilant male elk immediately stood up.  Unfortunately, it was shot to death by an arrow before it could issue a warning. Then the elk woke up and barked, but it was too late.  The Xianbei hunters attacked from all sides, holding strong bows and sharp blades and strangled them. In a short time, all the poor elk herds were killed. Only the calf, which was born last spring and was less than one year old, stood there fearfully. The Xianbei people roared.  The frightened young elk fled in many directions. They just stood there and watched coldly as the young elk escaped.  The female hunter murmured to herself: "We didn't want to do it, but we had to kill them in order to survive. I hope they can survive this winter." "Don't lose the orchid! We don't have much time, take the prey as soon as possible before dawn  If we leave here before dawn, the Huns patrol will appear again at dawn." Yuli Sulgu picked up the two-hundred-jin stag and walked out holding the neck of another stag with his left hand. The strong Xianbei male hunter carried the stag.  , the petite Xianbei female hunter was carrying the doe.  Beslan turned back: "We must clean up the blood stains and footprints. There will be no more snowfall before dawn. The smell of blood will attract wild beasts and Huns, and the footprints will expose our whereabouts." Yuli Sulgu nodded: "Everything  People clean up the blood stains and footprints on the snow, and don't let the Huns find any traces." The Xianbei hunter broke off the masson pine and carefully swept away the traces. The expressionless brown eyes on his pale face looked around vigilantly. He lived in the jungle all year round.  Proficient in various enemy escape techniques.  They are natural hunters of the jungle.  This hunting trip was planned for three days. We tracked the elk¡¯s habitat several times to determine the general range of its activities, and quietly entered the dense forest to lurk before the sun set.  After feeling behind a herd of elk, he suddenly attacked and successfully killed more than two hundred elk.  Although it cannot solve the food crisis, it can at least alleviate the difficult predicament.  The life of the Xianbei people is very hard.  It was extremely difficult to live in the mountains and fight against bear bears. Last year, the heavy snowstorm made life very difficult. The leakage in the house happened to be caused by the continuous rain. The Huns were defeated and came to provoke them. The Xianbei people were really defeated.  After eight lifetimes of bad luck, in order to survive, the whole tribe worked together to grit their teeth and persevere. In the tribe, the elders up to seventy years old and the children down to seven or eight years old had to work. The young and strong went to hunt in the mountains and forests or went to the front line to defend the enemy. The old and the weak  From making fires for cooking to cutting wood into arrows, everything is covered for women and children.  Xianbei women also have to carry swords and go hunting. Without the beautiful prairie under the blue sky and white clouds and the herds of cattle and sheep, the Xianbei people have to fight with the ferocious beasts in the Xianbei Mountains, and they must always beware of the hateful Huns attacking and harassing them.  , the more snow fell, the more frequent the Huns were, almost chasing the Xianbei people into the deep mountains and forests until they were forced to death.  "You let the little elk go? Bastard!" Elder Xianbei raised his snow-white beard angrily: "Do you know how many people are starving? Letting go of prey is a shameful act. You have to watch yourselves.  The same people starved to death and then were killedDrop it?  " "I know" "Yuli Sulgu!  It is not shameful for you to lose to the Huns. It is really shameful to lose to the Huns and become discouraged. Are you going to be a coward?  "Bie Shelan said anxiously: "Abba, don't blame Surgu, I asked you to let go of the little elk.  " Another elder scolded in a low voice: "Shut up!  He is the leader of the hunting team, and it is he who is responsible for releasing the prey.  " "No, I don't agree!  Tuoba Yili stood up and retorted: "We, Baibe Xianbei, suffered heavy losses. The Huns got iron weapons from nowhere and hit us with no power to fight back. Yuli Sulgu was still injured. You can't do anything to such people."  The Warriors punished.  The Xianbei leaders looked at each other and said, "We support Tuoba!"  " "The shameful failure was all due to my command error, and I deserve to be punished.  " Yuli Sulgu knelt down and lowered his head, waiting for the guards to capture him and pull him out to behead him. The young Xianbei man jumped up anxiously: "Elder, stop it. The enemy must not destroy his arms now. Yuli Sulgu is dead, the warrior of our ancestors.  I lost confidence.  "The scene fell into an awkward silence. "Forget it, Yuli Sulgu is a warrior of our clan. The sins of this battle will be recorded on Tou Shang for the time being, and he will wait to make amends one day!  "Xianbei King Cheluo returned to speak, and the elders kept silent. It was inappropriate to blame Yuli Sulgu alone for the failure. "The Xianbei people never expected that they would lose to the incompetent Huns at the foot of the Great Xianbei Mountain.  The Xianbei people are tall, strong, ferocious and tough, while the Huns are shorter and slightly less powerful. The Rongdi tribes who claim to be their ancestors are some powerful tribes, but they are not good at fighting in winter, especially in the dense forests of ice and snow.  Fighting on the sidelines, it stands to reason that the Xianbei people should have killed all the Huns like chickens and sheep. But this was not the case. The situation was one-sided and the Huns, who should be at a disadvantage, suddenly had more compound bows and a large number of iron swords and defeated Gaoao.  The Xianbei people, who were strong but only had daggers and daggers, could not defeat the more armed Huns invaders. The war turned in the direction of the Huns' dominance from the beginning. Xianbei warriors continued to die, and 20,000 Xianbei cavalry  More than 6,000 people died in one battle! The overwhelming advantage of the Xianbei cavalry was that they were unable to fight back. The battle losses were astonishingly high at more than 30%. If the Xiongnu had suffered such a high loss, 80% would have collapsed, but the tenacious Xianbei people  It did not collapse. They fought and retreated, dragging the Hun cavalry back into the dense forest. Relying on the advantages of the terrain, they fiercely sniped at the advancing Hun cavalry, slightly regaining the overall disadvantage, and forcing the Huns to retreat to a distant place to clean up.  On the battlefield, the defeated Xianbei cavalry was able to come back. The defeat in this battle was so miserable that the Xianbei people were unwilling to accept the heavy losses. The Xianbei tribe with a population of 300,000 lost more than 6,000 young and strong elites in the battle, occupying the total area.  Two percent of the population accounts for 8% of the young population, which is roughly converted to one-twelfth. A few more battle losses of the same level will not be far from annihilation. The Xianbei tribe that has lost its young people cannot compete.  Even if they take back the pasture, they can't hold it back. The flocks of cattle and sheep they raise are just to make wedding clothes for the Huns. The Xianbei people hate it to death, but what can they do no matter how much they hate it? It will really cost them their teeth and blood.  Swallow. The sky is dim, hundreds of miles away in the temporary Shan Yu Ting. A heavy snowstorm hit last night. The cold air froze the land thousands of miles away. The water surface of Daze was completely frozen. Use an iron knife to cut through the ice.  The Huns got up early, ate some hot food and set out in a hurry to enter the dense forest at dawn to search for the best results, because this was the peak time for the Xianbei hunting team to return to the cave and the day when the Xianbei people were forced by the Huns cavalry.  Fuyechu became a night owl simply because it was too easy to be discovered in the dense forest during the day. The slightest movement in the silent forest would be carried far away, and if it was heard by the wandering Huns, it would cause a disaster.  Due to the quasi-Xianbei people's behavioral habits, the Huns' war results became more and more abundant. The bold Huns cavalry penetrated hundreds of miles into the greater Xianbei Mountains. They once intercepted a Xianbei hunting team composed of more than 200 people. In the end, they shot more than a dozen people because there were not enough people.  The people retreated calmly, but the Xianbei hunters couldn't beat them and didn't dare to pursue them, so they had to watch the Huns cavalry retreat. "Sir, I want to go hunting.  " Zhao She lowered his head to draw a map in the king's tent. He could no longer remember whether it was the 16th or 17th version of the map. Every time he drew a new map, he would find that there were details that needed to be modified. A map was revised seven times and eight times.  The painting was completely unrecognizable, and he was forced to take out a new piece of parchment and draw it again. The parchment that was not damaged was used purely as a draft. ¡°Sir!  " After drawing the last stroke, Zhao She calmly put away his pen, picked up the map and looked at it carefully in the morning light for a long time before turning around and said: "The prince's demands are too high, and I can't help you.  ¡± ¡°?You are the only one in this royal court who can convince my father. Without you, there is really no way. Can you help me?  "Yu Dan is looking forward to it. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster! ps: Cheluogui is a kind of transliteration, Yiluogei, Cheluhui, Jiuliujuan, Chenglvgui, He  Liuhun is a different transliteration of a cognate word, which means "hero" or "warrior" in Xianbei language.
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