But there weren't enough trees for them to climb.
"Commander Ji, can you take off the shackles for them?"
Lu Zan frowned, watching more than a hundred prisoners crowded together, swinging the iron chains in their hands to hit the gray wolf that jumped up. But after all, they were wearing shackles and wooden shackles. If these prisoners were not young men with good physical strength, more people would have died in the run just now.
"Um."
At this time, Ji Tai was not so harsh.
They had 40 imperial guards and Zhaowei, and more than 30 horses. If they left these people behind and fled directly, they could still escape on the official road. But this was in the mountains and forests, and even with horses they couldn't run fast.
They are skilled in martial arts and have weapons, so they still have a chance of killing more than a hundred wolves.
But if there are countless wild boars following behind, it would be less than spectacular.
"Take off their shackles and shackles, and we'll go to that steep slope. We'll go in front, and they'll cover the rear."
Ji Tai was a veteran of marching and fighting, and he quickly found a favorable terrain. Not far from the forest, there was a steep slope that could accommodate several of their officials and horses. He asked the prisoners to guard the middle of the slope and then threw big rocks at them.
"How many arrows do you have?"
"Not many, about ten per person. The earth dragon turned over and ran away in a hurry, so some were lost. There are about a hundred left."
"That's good. Our quivers are together. Let's throw them away."
Ji Tai looked at Lu Zan,
"Give us some, not too much, just half will be enough."
Lu Zan wanted to curse in his heart. In this situation, one more arrow means one more chance to save his life. Ji Tai is really shameless. How dare she ask me to give her half of the arrows? Although he was angry in his heart, Lu Zan couldn't openly break up with Ji Tai.
Let the brothers give half of the arrows to Ji Tai.
Zhaowei and the imperial guards rushed forward, shooting down the wolves one after another, cutting a bloody path, and rushing up the steep slope with the prisoners.
Perhaps fearing the arrows from the Zhaowei and the Imperial Guards, the leader wolf howled, and the other gray wolves dodged and waited for Ji Tai and his men to rush up the hillside with the prisoners before surrounding the forest again.
Zhaowei and the imperial guards ran away, but those who stayed behind were in trouble.
The wolf took all his hatred out on the people who stayed behind.
Ahhhh uh—
The donkey's miserable bray.
The Su family watched helplessly as the donkey they had just let run away was chased and bitten by several wolves, and was soon eaten up.
ah--
“Save me!”
With a scream of pain, a person fell from the tree. It was a young woman, and the wolf pounced on her.
There was an arrow stuck in the young wife's leg. It was obvious that she was accidentally shot by Zhaowei and the imperial guards when they were shooting wolves.
"Don't be afraid, wife, I'm here to save you."
A young man jumped down from the tree, holding a stick and beating the wolf, and stood in front of the young wife, "Wife, you quickly climb up the tree, I'll block it."
The young man fought and dodged at the same time, and soon he was bitten and turned into a bloody mess.
The two men were fighting the wolves while retreating, and they rolled and crawled to a big tree next to the Su family. The young wife hugged the tree and climbed up. Several wolves pounced on them from below, causing the tree to shake.
ah--
The young man screamed, and a wolf jumped on him and bit off a large piece of meat from his shoulder. The young man tried his best to climb up the tree, and finally climbed to the lowest fork of the tree, lying on it, his body covered in blood and his face full of horror.
[He is the son of the village chief.]
Su Mibao saw the young man's familiar face.
Isn’t this the son of the village chief of Da Liuzhuang?
I looked at the young bride on the tree more carefully, and found that she was the new bride of the village chief.
[Muxiang, this is the new wife of the village chief of Daliu Village. Her name is Muxiang and she is from Mujiabao. She is not Liu Er's wife at all. The child she is pregnant with belongs to the village chief.]
Su Mibao quickly shared what he knew with his family.
"It turns out that those villagers just now were all from Da Liuzhuang."
Song Jinhe looked at the people in the trees around him. The people from Da Liuzhuang had separated from them at the foot of the mountain. After walking for a few days, they didn't expect to meet here. Why did the people from Da Liuzhuang go up the mountain? Could it be that the official road at the foot of the mountain was cut off, and they had no way to go, so they also went up the mountain? [Brother, after we solve the problem of wild boars and wolves, we still have a troublesome matter. ]
Su Mibao thought about Wang Lao Ba. Liu Lao Er and the others had always believed that Wang Lao Ba was with the widow he loved in Da Liu Zhuang.
【Brother, what should we do? 】
Su Mibao's swaddling clothes were tied to Song Jinhe's back with a rope. Song Jinhe and his wife, along with Mrs. Su and their group, were on a big tree next to Su Zhenbei.
"The wild boar is coming, and the wolves are waiting for it."
Su Zhenbei stood on the tree, watching the wild boar running towards him from a distance.
There was no rush for Wang Laoba’s problem; what needed to be solved at that time were the problems of wild boars and wolves.
With a few howls from the leader wolf, the wolves began to surround the group of villagers, and there were two or three wolves under each tree.
The leader wolf howled a few times in the direction of the wild boars, and then a few howls were heard from the wild boar group.
What was this for? Everyone was still confused when the leader wolf barked a few more times. Following the barking, six white wolves came out of the dense forest, each holding a little wild boar in its mouth.
The white wolf bit the little wild boar to death and put it in the woods, then retreated to the side.
"Master, this is bad. The leader wolf is really smart. It is deliberately bringing the wild boar cubs to chase us. When the wild boars see the cubs dead, they will definitely think that the humans in the trees killed them. They will gnaw down all the trees.
Sumibao’s eyes widened. The wolf was so smart.
She would actually set a trap for someone? No, she had better wait and run away with the Su family.
But,
Looking at so many exiled prisoners and then looking at so many villagers, Su Mibao felt conflicted.
She doesn't want to be a hero, she just wants to be bad and live a lazy life.
But the situation doesn't allow her to give up!
hidden weapon?
Archery?
Shooting?
More shells?
Su Mibao thought about all the weapons in her space.
But these weapons are too conspicuous when used.
Before Sumibao could think clearly, a herd of wild boars came rushing over like a flood.
Seeing the dead wild boar in the woods, the wild boars became angry and started to bite and ram the tree.
Soon a tree fell down, and the people on the tree fell to the ground, and were drowned by wild boars and wolves, with waves of shrill screams...
"ah--"
A woman screamed.
"misty rain."
Not far away, one of the trees where the Wang family was hiding was knocked down by a wild boar.
Plop…
Like dumplings falling from the tree, there were three members of the Wang family on the tree, and they all fell down.
Song Jinhe turned around and saw that the woman who fell from the tree was Wang Yanyu, the young daughter of Taifu Wang, Qian Chengxiang, the wife of Wang Changlin, the second son of Taifu Wang, and their youngest daughter Wang Zhaoxi.
As soon as Qian Chengxiang fell to the ground, she reached out to pick up her little daughter Wang Zhaoxi and climbed up another tree.
Wang Yanyu grabbed her skirt and said, "Second sister-in-law, take me with you. I can't climb trees."