Chapter IX Mountain Wars Against Mountain Peoples (1)
At dusk, Zhang Ping'an came to Wang Ermu's house again and saw Carpenter Li sitting on the kang waiting for him. Zhang Ping'an bowed to them and said, "Uncle Wang, Uncle Li, I've saved me! Gu Xin was very injured, Gu Yaxin was just a girl, nothing big. What we were going to do this time is a lot of trouble. If Lu Deyin and I didn't come back for three days, we would have to take care of Gu Xin and the others."
Li Tie looked at Zhang Ping'an in confusion and said to Wang Ermu: "Brother, have you noticed that Ping'an has changed a lot. He is usually very smart, that is, he is a little skilled in teaching dogs and doesn't talk much. What's wrong today? He looks like a little adult!" Wang Ermu did not answer Li Tie's question, pointed to the burden in the corner and said to Zhang Ping'an: "You have done what you want. I know you want to do big things. If you don't want to say it, you won't ask. Your uncle is skillful. Considering that you are weak in strength, you have specially built a mechanism. Come and try it!"
While trying the crossbow, Zhang Ping'an said, "Uncle Wang, Uncle Li, it's not that Ping An doesn't say it, it's because this matter is too risky. I don't want to implicate you. I didn't tell them, including the two I just rescued. At most, you will know the result in four or five days!"
Zhang Ping'an was busy with work: "The uncles' skills are so great! When you push the pedal forward, the strings will go up. It's not difficult! This five-inch-long cylinder that looks like a gun is much more practical than a arrow groove!"
Zhang Ping'an took out more than thirty taels of silver and said, "It's useless for us to bring this, you guys will take it first."
Li Tiedao: "There are two gloves in the bag. They were made by your two aunts. Let's see if it fits! In a few days, I will make them for the new little guy! The four wooden boards you made were made with a rope according to your requirements. They were put on your feet! I knew you were going to do a big thing, so I took you seven kilograms*. This was given to Burigude by Mangguertai more than a year ago. Burigude felt it was useless and threw it outside. I picked it up. There were about 40 or 50 kilograms. Next time you came back, I thought it was enough to use it! I just threw it on the fire and tried it. It can be used!"
"Nothing can be hidden from my uncles! I'm leaving, I still have to go to the night!" Zhang Ping'an asked Wang Ermu for incense, clasped his fists at them like adults, turned around and walked away, and heard two sighs from afar.
When Zhang Ping'an came back, Lu Deyin was ready to set off. Zhang Ping'an and Lu Deyin tried the range of crossbow arrows, which was good enough to shoot more than fifty feet (approximately more than 100 meters). Twenty feet were the best accuracy. Zhang Ping'an estimated that he could shoot three arrows in one minute. This time Zhang Ping'an looked at the direction and pointed it with a horse whip: "Start!"
Zhang Ping'an began to train Lu Deyin's military shooting speed on the road, telling him how to avoid the impact of wind, terrain and other weather on shooting. After walking more than ten miles, Zhang Ping'an saw a gentle ravine more than ten feet away from the road. Using the last afterglow of the sun, they decided to practice their hands. They used a big tree as the target and peeled off a small piece of bark as the bull's eye. Zhang Ping'an shot five arrows first, and the arrows shot into the bull's eye. Lu Deyin was slow to get into the game, and the fifth arrow shot. Zhang Ping'an guided Lu Deyin to shoot six more arrows, which was quite good. Two arrows shot into the bull's eye, and the rest shot on the trunk not far from the bull's eye.
After packing up the arrows, Zhang Ping'an waved his hand and said, "Hurry up!" Lu Deyin took Zhang Ping'an to seven or eight miles away from the Jurchen Tartars and said, "Brother, we're here soon!"
Zhang Ping'an: "Let's go north into the mountain and walk at least two miles! Go to bed!" They came to the shelter, tied the horses, and put a feed bag on the horse's head.
Lu Deyin pointed to a stone: "Brother, it's good there!" Zhang Ping'an shook his head: "Brother, you can think that the enemy may also think that we should sweep the snow near the place you choose, lay out some dry branches, whether it is a human or a beast, and there will be a sound when stepping on the branches. We live on a small slope. When the horses finish eating, we will leave more footprints within a half-mile range, so we can't make a fire! No matter who wakes up at night, we have to wake up the other party and sleep in a different place. The Tartars' war horses can keep a watch! Brother, be careful to sail for ten thousand years!"
After everything was arranged, the two could only hug each other and lie down (left a set of leather mats and quilts for the Gu brothers.) Zhang Ping'an comfortably put his legs on Lu Deyin's body, thinking about taking his son to sleep before, and always putting his son's feet on him wherever he wanted.
As I thought about it... the night became quieter and the wind gradually became stronger!
Sausage, such a fragrant sausage! It seems that it is still a wide-flavored sausage. Zhang Ping'an happily bit it hard. "Ah! Ah!" Two painful screams woke up Zhang Ping'an's beautiful dream.
Zhang Ping'an reacted quickly! He grabbed the saber and clasped his hands tightly, and looked around with his eyes blurredly! No! The sound was very familiar, as if it was Lu Deyin's voice. What was his ghost's name early in the morning? Zhang Ping'an vaguely saw Lu Deyin raising his middle finger at him in great pain.
Zhang Ping'an began to be furious, and then wondered, and didn't teach him this gesture? How could he know himself without a teacher? Why is there blood on his middle finger? Zhang Ping'an began to think randomly in a confused and dirty way: Could it be that he had stabbed the divine horse film of some mm while I was asleep? It's wrong! I didn't smell the breath of a beauty, and I didn't even smell the breath of a dinosaur. Zhang Ping'an touched his butt, did I have teeth behind me?
Finally, Zhang Ping'an woke up: "Accidental injury! It was definitely a mistake! I thought it was the Tartars who touched it, and they were instinctively reacting! Brother, you know me. I hate the Tartars quite a bite. Even in my dream, I want to take a bite to them! So, you have to learn from your elder brother, treat the enemy as cold as winter! Treat your brothers as warm as spring! Treat your beauties as hot as summer... In short, learn from me!"
"Brother, listen to you. But what is the beauty?"
"It's almost dawn! Let's eat something, hide the horse, look at the terrain nearby, and then teach you how to draw a simple map." Zhang Ping'an was completely awake at this time and quickly changed the topic.
"We will go east in a while. I will say a good place. You must remember all the details there! Then we will discuss the plan."
Lu Deyin nodded, looked left and right, and pointed to Xiaopo in the northeast: "Brother, how about you look?" Zhang Ping'an looked in the direction of his finger.
He nodded and said, "Brother, you're a little bit of a start!" Seeing Lu Deyin's excited expression, he felt that he could not over-hit his enthusiasm: "The place you chose is a good place for ambushing. But have you ever thought about how far away the place you chose is from the Tartars? How much effort does it take to lead the Tartars over? The further the Tartars go, the more cautious they will go! So this place can only be used as an alternative location. We have to walk east, it's best to choose a spot two or three miles away from the Tartars."
Zhang Ping'an said it was an alternative location. In order to encourage Lu Deyin to come to the place chosen by Lu Deyin, he began to discuss the ambush plan. Zhang Ping'an saw that the terrain was relatively flat, so he took out the snowboard, helped Lu Deyin to set it up, and taught Lu Deyin the key points of skiing. Zhang Ping'an thoughtfully said, "You are a kid. I spent a little 100,000 yuan to play skiing in my previous life, including equipment!"
Zhang Ping'an used a rope to connect the two of them. Zhang Ping'an was carrying them in front and slid while teaching. Lu Deyin was very smart. He only slid for three miles and mastered all the basic principles. Zhang Ping'an sighed with relief: "I learn faster than me!" I can't remember how many times Lu Deyin fell, but five miles later, Lu Deyin no longer needed Zhang Ping'an to pull the slide. "What a genius!" Zhang Ping'an sighed. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!