Lu Tu certainly wouldn't join them. He let Xiao Hei graze freely, while he found a high spot to sit down, where he could roughly see the movements in three directions.
I thought Nie Yun or Liu Hong would win, but to my surprise, it was Liu Yang, who was usually in charge of guarding the warehouse.
Perhaps because of his past mistakes, he had been holding back his anger. The moment he spotted the goat, he and Liu Hu rode up on horseback and cornered it.
Unexpectedly, the goat was able to leap onto a near-vertical cliff, almost allowing it to escape. Fortunately, the archer behind it reacted quickly and shot an arrow through the goat's neck, thus successfully killing it.
This made Liu Yang and the other 100 soldiers excitedly shout. This was a competition between them. They usually trained together, and of course, none of them would admit defeat to the other.
Now that they had a chance to prove themselves, they naturally seized it and mocked the other two teams: "Hey, Chen Laowu, didn't you always brag about being a sharpshooter? Look at what I have in my hand! This is a bow that can hit a willow leaf from a hundred paces!"
Chen Laowu, who belonged to Liu Hong's group, was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He wanted to retort but didn't know what to say, so he could only shout sullenly, "What are you bragging about? There are still four hours left. It's not certain who will win!"
"Hehe, anyway, we caught our prey before you!"
Lu Tu found it amusing. This was exactly the kind of competitive atmosphere he wanted. If everyone was just a nice guy, what would be the point of having any ambition? They could just coast along.
In the end, they will only become cowards like the Wuchuan and Huaishuo border troops. If they want to fight on the battlefield and become elite soldiers, they must distinguish themselves from the mediocre.
As time went on, the competition among the three parties intensified, with almost everyone automatically giving up small prey such as squirrels and rabbits and only targeting the bigger ones.
During the chase and hunt, the three teams also subtly deepened their understanding of each other and cooperated more effectively.
Lu Tu nodded repeatedly. Although the physical abilities of each of the 300 people were different, they were almost completely masked by the teamwork during the hunt, and their strengths were also quite similar.
Although on paper, Liu Hong's Southern Palace Imperial Guard squad should theoretically be the strongest, in actual combat, Liu Yang and Nie Yun, after being trained by Lü Tu in modern methods for a long time, actually had a slight advantage.
Several hundred men fought their way in and out of Aiying Mountain in a chaotic battle, unaware that a hundred Wuhuan cavalrymen had already gathered at the foot of the northern slope of Aiying Mountain.
They were the Wuhuan tribe who had traded salt and iron with Deng Lang half a month ago. They learned through carrier pigeons that Lu Tu had intercepted the deal half a month ago.
As a result, Zhao Wuyou of Huai Shuo was no longer willing to trade with them. After all, who would want to continue doing business at a loss?
Therefore, they dispatched a cavalryman with a wolf's head carved on his helmet and armor, leading five chainmail cavalrymen and 100 elite leather-armored cavalrymen to ambush here, waiting to storm into Kuishan Village after nightfall and kill Lü Tu, their thorn in their side!
"Lord Ulm, we've heard that Nalutu has three heads and six arms and is invincible. Shouldn't we bring more men?"
The wolf-headed cavalryman, Ulm, with a scar running from his left eye to his lower lip, casually tossed the half-eaten lamb leg behind him. A five-foot-long gray wolf, smelling the scent, pounced fiercely, snatched the lamb leg in its mouth, and let out a deep growl.
Ulm merely glanced back at the gray wolf with his sinister eyes, and the magnificent wolf instantly let out a howl, tucked its tail between its legs, and quickly fled a short distance away, not daring to eat at all.
He turned around and sneered, "What bullshit about having three heads and six arms? You haven't dealt with Yu Gou much. They love to brag. I don't believe there's really a war god in Yu Gou's border army. Even if there is, he'll just become my stepping stone."
If I mobilize too many men, Uhagan will only mock me, and how can my people submit to me? What I want is to use 100 men to kill this rising star from Wuchuan; perhaps then my father will make me the next chieftain.”
"But sir, there's a saying among the common people: 'Better safe than sorry.' I think..."
Ulm looked at the chainmail soldier beside him with displeasure: "Have you ever seen a ship in the desert?"
The chainmail soldier was speechless: "Uh...no."
"You actually believe Yu Gou's nonsense? Your life is over."
...
On Lu Tu's side, seeing that the sun had already set and calculating that it was time to call it a day, he shouted to everyone, "Pass down the order to retreat!"
The soldiers were already addicted to hunting, and they were all still eager for more. In particular, they didn't know how much the other squads had hunted and were always worried that they hadn't hunted enough, but they could only obey Lü Tu's orders.
After a stick of incense had burned, all three teams had piled their prey in front of them and were also sizing up each other's prey.
Nie Yun looked at Liu Hong's prey: "Brother Liu, this isn't good either. The prey is so small. Did it not eat?"
Liu Hong laughed heartily: "You little rascal, there aren't any big game in my area. We can't just not hunt anything, can we? Otherwise, the brothers won't have anything to eat for dinner."
Lu Tu jumped down from the rock, looked at the various kinds of prey on the ground, and nodded: "Alright, everyone did a good job today. At least no prey escaped. Let's carry the prey home and weigh it!"
Liu Yang muttered from the side, "No way, brother, I only hunted big game. I was bleeding all the way back, so my total weight is naturally lighter than their small game."
Nie Yun and Liu Hong nodded in agreement: "In that case, we humbly request that you allow us to weigh it now, brother!"
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