Iron Powder and Spellcaster

In the early morning, everything is silent, and the day of the nocturnal animals begins.

A hare quietly left a shallow hole in the locust bush and went out to look for food along a hidden path that had been traveled many times.

But the hare didn't know that its path had already been discovered.

After daybreak, two men in robes walked up the hillside one after another to inspect the condoms they had worn yesterday.

The hare pretends to be dead, and its tawny fur makes it look like a pile of dead grass, but it cannot fool the hunter.

"[Herd] There! Brother!" The boy walking behind shouted in surprise.

The young man walking in front also saw the prey. He pursed his lips, took off his short bow, and signaled his brother to be quiet.

It was too late, the hare was already frightened.

It fluttered desperately, jumping up and landing again, trying to break free from the restraints of its hind legs.

The thing that tied the hare's right hind leg was a flexible leather rope that was not easy to break.

The prey that can step into the trap is also a strong adult male rabbit. In its desperate struggle, it actually pulled out the branch holding the leather rope.

As soon as he regained his limited freedom, the hare immediately dragged the rope and stick into the bushes.

"[Hidden] The rabbit is going to run away!" the boy shouted.

The young man took a deep breath, drew his short bow, and shot an arrow like lightning.

Even though the bow in his hand was a shoddy one made of tree branches, and even though the arrow he attached didn't even have a tail feather, the young man still hit his prey.

The boy happily ran into the bushes and picked up the hare.

The two brothers found a sheltered place from the wind. The young man gathered dead branches and leaves to make a fire. The young man skinned and disemboweled the prey and started roasting the hare.

There is no doubt that the youths and lads are Huds - although, of course, they do not think so themselves.

In the cognition of young people and teenagers, there is no concept of "Hud people". They are just subjects of the "Tai Chi" leader.

After the Battle of Pangtuo River, Tiefeng County did not imprison Taichi directly, but only expelled the latter to the south bank of Pangtuo River, still under the control of Taichi himself.

At that time, Winters decided to give top priority to the annihilation of Teltun Khan's tent, and could not spare any extra strength to deal with the Taichi tribe.

So the Taichi tribe's surrender troops were "placed" in Lower Tiefeng County. Winters gave the two companies stationed in Tushechang a single mission: Don't let the Taichi tribe enter Middle Tiefeng County again.

Taichi himself was considered cooperative and did not make any small moves during the battle between the Tiefeng County army and the Teldun Khan tent. To be precise, Taichi may not have known the battle situation in Zhongtiefeng County at all.

In exchange, during this period, the food and drink for the Taichi tribe's descendants were provided by Tiefeng County.

The people of Tiefeng County can only eat black bread themselves, so of course the only thing they can provide Tai Chibe is black bread.

But the daily diet of the Hed tribes mainly consists of porridge, rice and dairy products. Occasionally, they can eat meat if there is a harvest from hunting. Even the stomachs of the Hud people could not bear the rations they ate day after day.

In order to stabilize the surrender of troops, Tiefeng County will provide a certain amount of meat every day.

It's just that all the meat went into the stomachs of the leaders, and the subordinates and slaves at the bottom had to find their own solutions - such as catching rabbits with traps.

Hare has almost no fat and cannot be roasted for too long.

Seeing that the fire was almost done, the young man used his saber to cut the rabbit meat into small pieces, then took out a small skin bag filled with lake salt and gave it to his younger brother to dip in and eat.

The young man tore at the rabbit's legs and asked in a murmur: "Brother, have you heard?"

The young man chewed the rabbit head slowly, as if he wanted to crush every bone and suck out all the marrow: "What did you hear [in Hurd language]?"

"[Hede] Bai Yu and Deji...those people will murmur like sparrows for a long time every night."

The young man snorted coldly and did not answer.

"[Herd] You and I should also join the gang." Seeing that his brother was noncommittal, the young man was a little anxious: "[Herd] When will these days end? You and I should just follow Bai Yu and find a way to escape!"

The young man still didn't speak.

The young man threw away the rabbit leg bone and said with resentment: "[Herd] Don't you want to go home? Brother? That Yan is no longer an eagle, his soul was taken away by the wolf! Bai Yu said, Tai Chi Na Yan wants to sacrifice you and me to that wolf..."

The young man spat on the broken bones: "[Hedian] Shut up."

Seeing that his brother was a little unhappy, the young man kept silent.

"[Hudese] If you knew what Bai Yu was thinking." The young man picked up the rabbit leg bone that his brother had thrown away, wiped it with a blade of grass, put it in his mouth and bit it loudly: "[Hudese] Then Yan will know soon too.”

The boy's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide.

The young man continued: "[Herd] If you want to go home, you must first have a horse. Without horses, you and I can't walk across the vast grassland even if we die from exhaustion. And the horses are in the hands of the leaders."

On the day of surrender, Winters ordered people to take away the horses and weapons of the surrendered soldiers, leaving only the swords for the surrendered soldiers.

Therefore, the bows and arrows used by young people to hunt rabbits were made of temporary branches, which did not fit well in the hand.

But Winters specially left some horses and weapons for Taichi himself - for use in suppressing the Teltun people.

"[Hud speaking] Then... what should we do?" The young man suddenly wilted.

The young man glanced at his younger brother: "[Hidden] Shut your mouth and open your eyes. I'll find a way. Don't get involved."

The young man came to life again and pestered his brother to find out.

However, the young man knew that his younger brother could not hide anything, so he refused to reveal it.

After being beaten to the point of being helpless, he finally mentioned something: "[Hede] It's not just Taichi Nayan, there are other leaders in the south... There are also leaders with weapons and horses..."

The two brothers were preparing to extinguish the campfire when a group of riders suddenly emerged from the northern hillside.

The group of riders saw the fire and galloped straight towards the brothers.

As soon as the young man saw the tall horse, tight-fitting clothing and riding posture of the visitor, he knew that he was not from his own tribe.

"[Herd] Run away!" The young man grabbed his younger brother and ran away.

But two legs couldn't outrun four legs, and the two brothers were soon overtaken and surrounded by riders.

The leading rider took off his triangle scarf and asked in confusion: "What are you running for?"

The young man clearly felt his brother's weight pressing down on him. In fact, his legs couldn't help but feel weak.

Because what he saw was a face that was almost engraved in his bones.

It was the owner of this face that took away Taichi Nayan's soul; it was also in front of this face that the young man handed over his weapons and horses - the "wolf" in his brother's mouth came.

Winters glanced at the translator, who was still dazed.

The translator hurriedly rode forward and translated the words of the tribune to the two Hades.

The young Hud didn't react at all, but the Hud who seemed to be still young suddenly knelt down with a thump and babbled a lot.

"What are you doing?" Winters laughed dumbly and looked at the translator.

The translator listened for a long time and replied awkwardly: "Your Excellency, he said he wanted to be your slave, opening the door for you, leading the horse, carrying the knife, serving the wine... I didn't hear the rest clearly, but they were probably all Miscellaneous things like that.”

After hearing this, Winters wanted to give the little Hurd a whip.

This mentality of being willing to be a slave to the powerful made him unspeakably disgusted, but considering the state of Hed society, he couldn't ask for anything.

Winters shook his head.

The translator immediately relayed the tribune's attitude to the other party, and added an explanation thoughtfully: "[Hidden] The tribe of the leader of the Blood Wolf does not want slaves, and has no slaves."

The little Hud was confused at first, but soon came to his senses and asked a few more questions eagerly.

"Your Excellency." The translator was even more embarrassed: "He asked you, if you don't want a slave, do you want a guard? A groom?"

"What on earth did you say to him?" Winters lightly slapped the translator on the back with his whip.

"I didn't say anything." The translator scratched his head: "I just translated your words truthfully."

Most clerks would feel a sense of awe and fear when they first met Tribune Montagne.

However, the translator who came to Tiefeng County with Winters was a "senior" clerk. After walking beside Winters for a long time, the fear gradually subsided, replaced by a sense of relaxation and closeness.

Winters put away his smile, looked at the two Hurds, one large and one small, and said seriously: "Go home, come back to me if you can't survive, but don't come with swords... Leader Taichi Where are you now? Please take me to see him."

After the translator recited this passage in Khedic, the young Khedic man touched his chest and bowed, extending his hand to indicate the direction.

"He said just follow him," the translator said, "and he will take you to the camp."

The two Hurds walked in front, followed by Winters and his party of riders.

"Your Excellency, I really don't understand what the barbarians are thinking." As one of the entourage, Mr. Jacob Green witnessed the scene just now: "Aren't they the ones who wanted to kill us all before? Now they are taking the initiative to be your pawn. Slave? It’s hard to understand!”

Winters thought for a while, he had a lot to say, and finally simply answered: "To survive."

Mr. Jacob Green wanted to continue the conversation, but seeing that the tribune was not interested, he did not continue the topic.

The group soon arrived at Taichibe's camp.

The scene in front of him was very different from the cold and dark barbarian lair that Green had expected.

Since there is no need to fight anymore, Tai Chi's tribe is trying every means to get food.

The furs of various animals were hung randomly on the branches, and the down feathers of birds and birds were blown everywhere by the wind. There are Hurds who are polishing bone arrowheads, and there are Hurds walking out with fishing rods.

A stone's throw away from the camp, Heinrich raised the Blood Wolf's personal flag.

The atmosphere in the Taichibu camp suddenly changed. The Hud people who were out ran back as hard as they could, while the Hud people in the camp wanted to watch the fun but did not dare to get close.

Winters waited politely at the entrance to the camp with a small group of riders.

More and more Hurds gathered around, and Jacob Green realized that the surrendered soldiers were still half the enemy, and he subconsciously held up the hilt of his sword.

"Sir, how about we go in directly?" Green asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry." Winters reassured the accompanying clerk: "You can't go in directly - we need to maintain Taichi's authority as much as possible."

Soon, horns sounded in the camp, and Taichi led a group of Kota and Nayan out of the camp.

Winters also dismounted. In the eyes of the tribe, Taichi welcomed the Plato champion into the camp in a reciprocal manner.

For the winner, this may be a bit unfair; if Andre was there, he would lose his temper.

Fortunately, Winters never cared about such things. He had already won and there was no need to continue humiliating Taichi.

What's more, the last thing Winters wants to see now is the complete collapse of the Teltown Department.

As soon as they entered the inner tent, the guest of honor took off his mask completely.

The two sides were enemies originally, and they still are now. Instead of maintaining a false sense of decorum, get to the point.

Tai Chi raised his hand to drive away the leader of his men, and Winters also nodded to reassure his men. Only Winters, Taichi and the interpreters from both sides were left in the big tent.

"[Hud speaking] You can walk in here with such a swagger." Taichi sat down on the soft couch with great effort: "[Hud speaking] Explain that the Teldun department is finished."

Winters and Taichi sat across the table and stated calmly: "The man who was warming the fire is indeed dead."

Tai Chi sighed heavily.

Winters observed the other party - although Taichi was partly responsible for the defeat of the Fire Roasters, the sadness at the other party at the moment did not seem to be fake.

Tai Chi's demeanor, figure and loud voice can easily make people ignore his true age, and now he seems to have grown white hair and wrinkles in an instant, turning into an old man in his twilight years.

The old Hud asked: "[Hud] The fire-warmer is dead. What do you plan to do with my men? Kill them all?"

"There was indeed such a plan." Winters answered honestly.

The translator's expression was stiff, wondering whether he should translate this sentence, but Tai Chi's interpreter had already informed Tai Chi.

"[Herd] Your ambush has already arrived outside?" Taichi sneered: "[Herd] Why don't you take action?"

"After repeated consideration, I think it is more conducive to my interests to allow you and the Teltown Department to continue to exist." Winters paused for a moment and slowly said: "So I will not only let you go, but also return you. War horses and weapons, and I will give you a hundred carts of food. In addition, I will also provide you with the remains of those who roasted the fire."

Although the customs of the Hed tribes are different, the act of "returning the remains of the war dead to their families" can be highly rewarded no matter which clan they belong to.

In some clans, those who return the body can even inherit the deceased's property, wife and children.

Obtaining the body of the person who roasted the fire means that he has the right to provide funeral services to the person who roasted the flame. To a certain extent, it is equivalent to having the power to distribute the inheritance of the person who roasted the flame.

Winters looked directly at Taichi: "I have only one request for you and your tribe - return to the Great Wasteland immediately, otherwise I will kill you all."

…

While Winters and Taichi exchanged opinions sincerely, [Green Horse] and [Stone Arrow] returned to the wintering pasture in Teldun.

The damage caused by the fire to the Terdun people is immeasurable, because the Terdun people had no ability to put out the fire and could only flee.

People can escape on horseback, but what about livestock? What about the tent?

The livestock that were too late to be driven away were choked to death, and the property that was too late to be taken away was burned. The Teldun people had to move again with their remaining property.

Compared with natural disasters - most Teldu people still believe that fires are the wrath of gods. What is more dangerous are other tribes.

At this moment, the Teldu tribe urgently needs a large army. Only in this way can the coveted eyes of the tribes be frightened away.

However, the army has been taken away by the fire-warmers, and they don't know when they will come back. The leaders who were left behind to guard the stove had to hold a "conference" to discuss the matter.

Some of the leaders who guarded the stove were determined to wait for the fire-warmers to return, while others implicitly expressed that they might temporarily defect to the Haidong and Suzi tribes...or simply go their separate ways.

When the big bosses were arguing at the conference, Qing Ma and Shi Jian tried their best to find all the small bosses and bosses they could find.

Qing Ma and Shi Jian brought good news: there was a large tribe willing to provide pasture and shelter to the small tribe of Terdun - that tribe was named "Red River".

Acridine... late.

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