Already chasing you!
Hearing Xu Laoer's words, Geng Dali and others were all on high alert. With their crossbows in hand, they tried to keep their eyes open, trying to spot the savages who had caught up.
However, nothing was found.
However, Xu Laoer suddenly took the long bow from his horse, put three arrows on the bowstring at once, the string opened to the full moon, and suddenly shot out the three arrows at once.
Three arrows shot out like lightning.
Then, three consecutive screams came from the wind and snow.
Hearing the screams, Geng Dali and others were dumbfounded. The savages actually caught up with them, but they really didn't see anything just now.
"Uncle, how did you find out?"
"Feel!"
Xu Laoer raised his hand and rubbed his nose. Naturally, he would not tell the people around him. He first smelled the special smell in the air, and then felt the presence of these savages.
This feeling comes from practicing the Fetal Breathing Method.
It's very weird, and I can't explain it clearly, but it exists, and it's very supernatural.
"Uncle, are there only three savages?"
"Yes, there are only three for now!"
Xu Laoer smiled and said, "It seems that the savages are not as powerful as we thought!"
Killing these three savages made Xu Laoer understand that the savages' ability in the wind and snow was not as strong as imagined.
Five thousand of them walked through the wind and snow. The wind and snow covered the traces of their passage, and the savages could not immediately pinpoint the direction they left, so they sent people to trace them.
The three people just now came to follow their traces.
However, Xu Laosan shot and killed these three people, which means that at a certain time, the savage army should be able to lock their direction through the three people's failure to return.
"Brothers, do you dare to play something big with me?"
After Xu Laoer realized the identities of these three savages, he understood that they must find a way to divert the pursuit of the savage army.
"Uncle, just tell me what you want to do?"
"Abandon your horse!"
Xu Laoer chuckled, "The tracking of the savages relies on traces, so let's create some traces for them!"
"Uncle, with just a few horses, what traces can we make?"
"Yes, we have too few horses!"
"No, it's okay!"
"We can change!"
Xu Laoer hooked his hands at several people, "Wait for me for a while!"
As he spoke, Xu Laoer rode his horse towards the rear and brought back the body of the savage he shot in a short while.
"Tie the bodies of these three savages and drag them running in the snow. Do you think the marks are big enough?"
"Should, forget it!"
"But this doesn't look like the traces of a war horse running past!"
"Idiot, this is called a plan within a plan."
"Yes, we discovered the savage pursuers, so we wiped out all the traces of the horses passing by."
"Uncle, is that what you mean?"
A few people talked to each other, and the analysis was so clear and logical.
Xu Laoer didn't answer because he didn't have the answer himself.
Just now, he just wanted to leave traces that were easier to find, so he did it like this. As for the deeper meaning, I'm sorry, he really didn't think about it.
However, as the three of them spoke to each other, they provided Xu Laoer with a very sufficient reason.
So, a few people quickly dismounted, tied the bodies of the three savages with ropes, dragged them with war horses, and quickly headed northeast towards Dragon City.
On the way, a group of people stabbed the horses with short knives and watched the horses disappear in the wind and snow. Then they braved the wind and snow and chased towards Longcheng.
In the wind and snow, without the horses to move around, Xu Laoer and his party walked in the snow, one foot deep, walking as slowly as a snail.
Fortunately, Xu Laoer and his party were all in very good physical condition, so they were not in a state of physical exhaustion.
However, they did not catch up with the large army that Fubao left with him.
Xu Laoer and his party spent a whole day and night in the snow before finally arriving at Dragon City when the wind and snow subsided.
Not long after the group entered Dragon City, the wind and snow stopped.
On the snow, the savage army also appeared on the horizon.
The snowman army, which was misled by Xu Laoer and the others, successfully took the wrong path. By the time they found out that they had been deceived, it was too late to catch up with Xu Laoer and the others.
"Not bad, I've made progress!"
After knowing that Xu Laoer used the trick of suspecting soldiers to divert the pursuit of the savage army, Mr. Xu was quite satisfied.
Just as Mr. Xu thought, Mr. Xu also believed that the savage army wanted to fight a retaliatory counterattack.
Originally, Xu Laoer's 5,000 men were destined to be completely destroyed, but after Xu Laoer's operation, the 5,000 men reached Dragon City without any losses.
Outside Dragon City, the savage army did not retreat, but stayed stationed.
Then, through the telescope, Mr. Xu was shocked to discover that this so-called savage army was not at all the savage tribe they imagined.
To be precise, these are not savages, they have their own civilization.
The savages who appeared in their sight before were soldiers.
The so-called savage cannibalism is really a deterrent strategy.
"Dad, these people are too disgusting, aren't they?"
Xu Laoer was also using binoculars to observe the situation of the savage army.
The camps of the savage army were densely packed, and many of them were wearing special clothes. Moreover, these savages were actually assembling siege equipment.
The savages who were thought to be barbaric and uncivilized turned out to be a civilized race with its own unique civilization. This really surprised everyone.
"It's okay to be disgusted!"
Mr. Xu sighed softly, "If it's just disgusting, just kill them. But now, what they show is not just disgusting, but cunning, ruthless, and cruel!"
"We are in big trouble!"
"By the way, second brother, you can't stay in the city any longer. You have to go to Glacier Mansion quickly and tell your uncle and the others that there are forces behind the Northland Savages and tell them to be careful!"
The savages of the Northland have the same origin as these savages.
But now, the level of civilization shown by these savages is definitely accumulated over the years. In other words, the Northland savages are just savages in disguise, and their goal from the beginning may have been the Tang Dynasty.
If the people of the old Zhao family had no precautions and just regarded the Northland Savage as a knife that they could use at will, then once the real owner of the knife appeared, what awaited everyone in the Zhao family would be catastrophe.
"Dad, I'm leaving now!"
"Then what? My sweaty horse is not with me. Dad, can you lend me your yellow gelding?"
"I borrowed it from you!"
"Go back quickly, be careful on the way!"
Mr. Xu raised his hand and patted Mr. Xu on the shoulder, his expression solemn as never before. (End of chapter)