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Chapter 5 Sacrifice to the Wolf

The north was vast and sparsely populated. Since King Wuling of Zhao established Yanmen County in the Warring States Period, he then went to the Han Dynasty and governed fifteen counties including Shanwu, Woyang, Zhongling, Yinguan, Loufan, Wuzhou, Juyang, Wan, Pingcheng, Han, Mayi, and Jiangyin, with a population of about 250,000 or 60,000. Since the Southern Xiongnu surrendered, the business journey from south to north has become much more prosperous.

It is also one of the front lines for the Han people to resist or expedition to the northern nomadic peoples.

The sky rises eastward, and the clear light sprinkles from the clouds. The dew on the grass reflects a crystal light. The horse's hooves trampled over, climbed up the grass slope, and galloped towards the vague city walls.

The sight crossed the running loft, located in Yinguan City in front, with flags sweeping in the wind, soldiers patrolling the city with their spears, carriages, ox carts, vendors coming and going at the city gate, and the shouts of animals were noisy and lively. In such a bright weather, a tall man from northern China with black pattern and white background led several people to patrol the streets, occasionally urging the vendors on the street, and then walked up to the city.

He was only half-body armored, not gorgeous and strong. However, this burly man had a good appearance and a steady look. The short beard under his chin shows that he was still quite young, but his momentum was very steady in every move.

Looking outside the city wall, the white clouds, the blue sky light connected to the gradually yellow earth. He looked at his half-body armor, sighed, and looked back and walked on the city wall.

"The weather is not hot..." He looked at the listless soldiers around him and patted a soldier's back. "High up the back. There were also Hu people in the past. If someone looked at him, wouldn't he laugh at me for being incompetent?"

He reminded these soldiers all the way, but many of them laughed out loud, after all, the other party was just a county official and could not control them. There was a sound on the city wall.

"Zhang Wenyuan, why don't you go to the street to patrol, and you ran to the city to serve in the army again?"

"Yes, I'm just seeing if you guys are lazy!" The short-bearded young man smiled generously, "Don't let the naughty laugh at you."

The laughter was heroic and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

The flag brushed across his face, and the rushing horse hooves in the wind came from afar. The young man's eyes turned, and he ran away alone, rushed towards this side in a panic. The pedestrians and vehicles rushed away in a hurry and rushed into the city gate. The soldier on the horse staggered and fell down.

Several soldiers at the door hurried up to support him. At this time, the young man with short beards also stepped down from the city wall and walked over quickly. Looking at the knight with a pale and groggy expression, he pulled him up with one arm: "I am Zhang Liao, the official of Yanmen County, what happened?"

"Quick...Quick...Quick...Quick notify the county magistrate..." The knight opened his lips slightly and said weakly. He reached out to the armor with a trembling hand, "It must be handed over to the county magistrate...Huns...Xiongs...attack the border."

"Take him down and take good care of him."

Zhang Liao ordered the gatekeepers, grabbed the information and turned over to the horse, and rushed towards the county magistrate's office.

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The sky is coming west and is about to fall.

In a touch of red glow, Gongsun Zhi was alone in the forest on the hills, and the blade slashed into the tree body. The wood chips splashed. The next second, he pulled it out again, touched the blade with his fingers and took a breath.

Since last night, he began to wield weapons to make himself familiar with the instinct of this body as soon as possible. His martial arts are not exquisite, and he may not be as good as those powerful generals and famous generals who have heard of it. After all, fighting alone with others is not what he thinks, life is the most important thing.

On the one hand, he now has a hundred horse thief minions to be sent to. Although some of them are ill-intentioned, since he had surgery on the woman last night, some people who were malicious intent to kill him in the dark at night gave up this plan. Gao Sheng, who seemed to be close to his ears, was born in the Yellow Turban after all, and he didn't know each other for a long time, and he was also a target to be wary of.

After all, he only has one life, and there is no chance to come back, so he cannot be careful. Unless there is an internal strife among the horse thieves and provoke the hidden and unpredictable people, he will be able to completely bring these people under his command.

The red leaves shone through the gap between the leaves and shone on the resting figure. Sweat flowed across the cheeks and fell on the thick leaves. Behind, the footsteps of stepping on the fallen leaves quietly approached and whispered: "Captain, that Wang Kui has indeed contacted some horse thieves who are dissatisfied and want to do something. Gao Sheng is checking whether there are any missing nets."

This person who came here quietly was Dongfang Sheng.

"If it's a fight, many people will die, right?" Gongsun Zhi picked up the sheepskin bag and took a sip of water, got up and put the knife in the sheath, reached out to take the wolf-haired cloak handed over by Sour Ru, put it on, took a few steps, and thought for a while: "Then wait for them to start, and stand up and see how many people are not convinced by me."

Dongfang Sheng frowned slightly, followed by two steps, and reminded in a low voice: "The Book of Han. Xiang Ji Zhuan" was the first to take action, and then to take action on others."

"I came up with an idea..." Gongsun Zhi, who was walking in front, stopped and his loose hair swayed. He turned his face to look at the thin scholar behind him: "Is there a wolf here?"

"Yes, and many, this place is called Bailangyuan, and there is a pack of wolves nearby." Dongfang Sheng nodded and responded.

Opposite, the cloak was raised, and the tall and mighty figure reached out and pressed it on the scholar's shoulder, "You ask a few people to hunt a wolf and come back, and you say you are making a new leather jacket for me. Remember, after the hunt comes back, let a person who can't trust you to peel off the wolf's skin and have a complete throat."

Dongfang Sheng didn't know what he was going to do, so he nodded and agreed. The two of them walked through the woods, and the sky was flowing, and the last light was lowered.

The clearly extinguished torch ignited from the cave, and a night wind blew out from outside. Several horse thieves came back and threw a thin wolf on the ground and reported to Gongsun Zhi.

Then not long after, a bloody throat was taken out, washed, he held it in his hand and weighed it for a long time, looked at the horse thief who was digging wolf, nodded, and said softly: "Come in with me."

When he went to the back of the stone chamber, the horse thief followed in confusion. The back of the knife handed out from the corner hit the back of his head, and the man fell down with a slam.

Dongfang Sheng held the knife tremblingly, "What's next?"

Gongsun Zhi measured the wolf's throat, took off a piece and put it in his mouth, carried the fainted body on the ground on his shoulder without saying a word, and walked out from the other end of the cave.

The wind blew across the hills and the leaves rustled. At this time, Gongsun Zhi and his men had already walked to the top of the hills and threw their bodies onto a large rock. The howling of wolves could be heard faintly in the wind.

The next moment.

The Mao collar gently caressed, Gongsun Zhi kneaded his mouth, opened his mouth slightly, and made a roaring tremble, which made the sour scholar standing beside him tremble. He felt that this was the call of a wolf?

Not long after, a rustling sound came from the fallen leaves under the hills, and then more and more. Dongfang Sheng's hair stood up and looked around with a trembling murderous aura. He wanted to shout, but the sound was swallowing in his throat and could not be emitted. He could vaguely see something green shaking in the dark in his eyes.

"...Wolf...Wolf is coming..." Sour Ru stuttered and wanted to pull the standing figure in front of him, but his hands were only halfway, his nervous face showed fear. The huge crawling figures in front of Gongsun Zhi were staring out like awls. The dark shadows were faintly flashing around him, and more beasts were approaching.

Huh...ah...

Gongsun Zhi shouted at the throat wrapped in his mouth at the front of the wolf, and let out a slight roar, reaching out to push the person on the stone.

The wild beasts shook their ears, and their heads shook between their bodies on the stone and the person who roared the wolf. The wolf's kiss with fangs was filled with doubts. At this time, the wolf pack, which had originally made an attacking posture, squatted on the grass, clamped its flat tail, went to the side, and gave way.

In the woods behind him, more wolves came over, surrounded by a snow-white figure in the middle. A white wolf king slowly walked over. The wolf king was even bigger than the wolves around him. The mane on his neck and chest was stroking in the wind, with a fierce majesty.

Gongsun Zhi clenched his fist nervously, walked over slowly, and pushed the horse thief off the stone. The other party seemed to have fallen and hurt. He moved for a while, gradually woke up, opened his eyes, and then saw such a terrifying scene.

Gongsun Zhi roared softly and stepped back respectfully. The White Wolf King suddenly nodded his wolf head as if he could understand it. More than a dozen big wolves squatting on the ground were rushing up from the ground and bit the terrified horse thief.

The shrill screams echoed through the sky in an instant, and the night birds were frightened and flew around.
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