Chapter 310: How brave are you?

Zhao Xing shook his head and replied resolutely: "Stop fighting, I'll take the guard in. There are Gurkhas in my guard. They live in high mountains. In terms of familiarity with snow-capped mountains, they may have more experience than the Tubos, but you can't do it. If you can't speak, you can't command the Gurkhas, and our soldiers have not received snow training at all. They also have no language skills with Gurkhas and cannot communicate with them. I'll go, don't fight!

If you are worried about me, why don’t you help me lead a few more dogs. If we are trapped in the mountains, we can kill the dogs and let the dogs come out to report the news... Well, it’s better to hire all the father and son who keep dogs. They know how to command the dogs, so that we can contact both ends."

Shuai Fan sighed and waved his hand to ask the soldiers to go to a nearby village to hire dog owners: "Sir, take care! Guangnan can be less handsome than my handsome, but I must be without adults. I hope that the adults will cherish themselves for the sake of the millions of people in Guangnan."

"Of course, I still have a lot of things to do and I still have a lot of things to protect. I don't plan to say goodbye to this era so soon. Of course, I will be careful..." Zhao Xing's eyes were burning.

"Sir, I mean: It's nothing if the Tubo people can't stop it. Even if they come out of the mountain, we can still mobilize the army to stalemate with them. So, if you see something that cannot be done after you enter the mountain, please retreat to the mountain pass for the time being and don't take too much risk... What about dogs, come and call more dogs nearby!" Halfway through the fight, Shuai Fan saw that Zhao Xing couldn't hear it, and immediately turned to order the soldiers.

The military discipline of Zhao Xing's subordinates was not very good. Relying on Guangdong's wealth, Zhao Xing's army always gave sufficient fees to hire guides and civilians, which made Shuai Fan's action of hiring dog owners go smoothly. Shortly after he sent the message, the dog owners nearby came with the dogs. For a moment, there were too many people coming over and too noisy that Shuai Fan's employment conditions were constantly elevated. In the end, he chose to hire three pairs of father and son. Each of these three pairs of father and son brought more than ten big mastiffs, and the father and son were walking with him, which met Zhao Xing's conditions.

The dog owners were shortly after. The small accessories made by the Gurkha people were also well prepared. Each of them had a small wooden stick in their mouths and a pair of nose clips on their noses, and then wrapped them with a thick wool shawl below their noses. These preparations were all to prevent people from being in the mountains, talking unconsciously, coughing or sneezing.

Each Gurkha man also had a pair of snowshoes on his feet, which was a boat-shaped footrest tied with several branches. It was to prevent people from walking and making noises or accidentally falling into the ice hole in the snow-filled ground. After the captain of Gurkha carefully checked everyone's equipment. Because he was still holding a wooden stick in his mouth, he asked Zhao Xing with his eyes and gestures.

Zhao Xing waved his hand and signaled everyone to hand over the spear. Each person only had three guns left in his waist, carrying two grenades, a sufficient amount of gunpowder and lead bullets. After doing all this, Zhao Xing thought about it and said that the father and son of dogs were raising them, and signaled that the Gurkha people also equipped them...

The team set off.

The Gurkha people walked very carefully. The leader of the captain was more than ten meters away from everyone. He held a bundle of small wooden sticks in his hand and made signposts on the snow while walking. The people behind followed the route he chose and moved forward carefully. Soon, the captain used up the small wooden sticks, and he waved behind him. The people behind silently passed the wooden sticks he carried to the captain.

In this way, the group walked and stopped and went deep into the snow valley.

The team walked very slowly, and time seemed to pass by in the blink of an eye and it was getting dark.

The sunset on the plateau comes later than the flat ground. Because the mountains block each other, the sun is blocked by the ridges in the distance before it has fallen below the horizon. Only by being on the top of the mountain can you enjoy the sunshine for a while.

Regarding the outfit of going out for a wild trip, Zhao Xing's team is unique in the same era. Every Gurkha is wearing a down vest and a sleeping bag behind his back. When the night just came, the Gurkha is not leaving, the captain gestured and told Zhao Xing: "The ground is full of melting ice and snow, and some places are still snow holes. When the sky is dark, the sight is not good, and danger is prone to occur."

Zhao Xing nodded and waved to a Gurkha man to light a candle. He wrote a letter under the light of the candle and tied it to the neck of a dog. The dog turned around and ran towards the back.

The dog in the snow-capped mountains needs to be chewed. This kind of dog chewing like a horse is to prevent the dog from roaring randomly and causing an avalanche. The dog with a message tube tied under his neck whimpered a few words, and hmmed and ran towards the road. After a while, the dog disappeared behind the mountain road.

The dog recognizes its owner, and in front of the team is the son of the dog owner, and the father of the dog owner stays behind the team, so that it is easier to control the dog group.

After a while, the dog that had just run away ran back with a whimper. Zhao Xing took off the message tube around the dog's neck, and there was a handsome reply. He told Zhao Xing: He had chosen a safe place to camp, please rest assured.

After a while, the Gurkha people chose the camping site and brought dinner. What does it feel like to eat on the eternal snowy mountain? The water in the kettle has frozen, the steamed buns are as hard as stones, and the dried meat is full of ice. When you hold it in your mouth, you will immediately feel a needle that pierces the forehead. The needle is cold and cold, making people feel a severe pain in your mind.

It is really hard to swallow food, but in the mountains, you have to eat a lot of fat food to supplement the calories you consume. Therefore, at the foot of the mountain, the fatty fat that Zhao Xing disdains to look at has become a rare delicacy. It is not affected by the cold, it does not melt in his mouth, and it is soft and sweet.

Zhao Xing was wondering while eating. It seemed that the climate was closely related to people's eating habits. If he had eaten such food at the foot of the mountain, he would probably have to vomit it out, but now he felt that this was a rare delicacy in the world. It is estimated that the food of the Tubo people is also like this. But the food consumed by the army was extraordinary. How did the Tubo people fully replenish it?

After eating this mountain rice made of cold oil, Captain Gurkha called the dog-raising children, divided the children's dogs into one of Zhao Xing, held one in his arms and got into the sleeping bag, and fell asleep. As for the dog-raising children, he was obviously used to being used to the mountain environment and didn't even want a sleeping bag. He just found a leeward place, hugged the dog and fell asleep.

Zhao Xing hugged the dog into the sleeping bag. Only then did he feel the benefits of sleeping with the dog. The dog's body was hot, just like a stove, the baked sleeping bag was warm. He hugged the dog's head and began to half-awake.

Captain Gurkha sleeps with a dog but not to warm up the bed, but to keep watch. In the mountains, it is biting cold at night. If a person stays outside and keeps watch, he will freeze into popsicles the next day. Hiding in a leeward and lying in a sleeping bag, although it can ensure that he will not be frozen to death, he loses his vigilance. At this time, he has to rely on the dog's agility.

The dog cannot bark out if he put it on his back. Only by holding it in his arms can he feel its movements. This kind of feeling Gurkha can do, but Zhao Xing can't do it. In the middle of the night, when he was woken up by the captain of Gurkha, he found that the dog in his arms had already been uneasy.

Captain Gurkha reached out and pressed his hand on Zhao Xing's shoulder. In the dark night sky, he leaned on his fingers to bounce and told Zhao Xing according to the sign language on the ship: "Five people came from the opposite side. They walked very lightly, and they had a strong smell of sheep. With the wind, you can smell it."

Captain Gurkha said these words in sign language. When Zhao Xing first entered Haiti, he created a simple set of gestures based on the sign language of the US military, including the method of relying on physical contact to pass on the other party in this dark and unmanned night sky. In the dark sea, this kind of gesture communication is very necessary.

Captain Gurkha asked Zhao Xing to smell the smell, but Zhao Xing's nose was full of the smell of the dog. He reached out and stroked the dog's neck, so that the dog could slowly calm down. Then he touched the captain's hand and asked in sign language: "Who is coming? Are there any general guesses?"

The captain's finger bounced and replied: "I firmly believe that our common sense of life in the mountains is better than that of the other party, but now we don't dare to act, but the other party can explore the road. This shows that the other party is very familiar with this road, and has explored the way many times, leaving relevant marks on the road - the only place where they come is the Tubo soldiers. Only they will leave corresponding marks on the way forward. Only soldiers who receive orders dare to take risks."

"Kill them-I don't need prisoners." Zhao Xing made a gesture.

Captain Gurkha made a gesture and led Zhao Xing and two companions forward.

Zhao Xing and his friends lived in a leeward place, which happened to be a mountain turning point. If you turn that turn, you can see the twinkling torches in the distance.

When Zhao Xing stood here, he felt that the surrounding scenery was very familiar. He seemed to have been here in his memory. The surrounding scenery seemed to be strange, giving him a familiar feeling.

Turning across the ridge, there is a tiger's mouth-like terrain not far away. The mountain naturally sanks into the tiger's mouth, forming a stone path that is wide by one person and one horse. I don't know when, someone hung some iron chains on the stone wall. The person from the opposite side pulled the iron chains to fix the body with one hand and held the torch in the other hand and groped forward. The sound of the iron chain hitting the stone wall was faintly heard in the wind.

Zhao Xing suddenly realized when he heard the sound of the chain - he had indeed seen this place, it was in a TV series, but he had forgotten the name of the TV series.

This is the famous "Tea Horse Ancient Road" of the White Horse Snow Peak. Legend has it that since the Tang Dynasty, merchants from Tibet and Dali have transported goods to each other through this Tea Horse Ancient Road. As more people walked, some people installed iron rings on the stone wall to help pedestrians walk. Later, some people stringed the iron rings together to form an iron chain that penetrated the tiger's mouth.

In modern times, people dug the mountain inside to make it pass through cars, but the shape of the entire tiger's mouth has not changed. In many places, the ancients installed subway rings. These leftover iron rings later became a local scenic spot.

The construction of this ancient tea horse road is to prevent snow disasters, so it is built on the hillside. The path is very narrow and can only pass by one person and one horse. For this reason, those who pass by need to gently tap the iron ring to let the people on the other side hear it, which can ensure the safe interweaving of both sides.

The shape of the bend of the hillside has changed a lot. The scene that Zhao Xing saw in modern times was already blown up by explosives. If it weren't for the darkness of the sky, the entire tiger's mouth could only see the general image hazy, maybe Zhao Xing wouldn't feel a slight sensation - compared to modern times, the image here has changed too much.

Zhao Xing was recalling the past. Captain Gurkha had gently opened the crossbow and installed a crossbow with a crossbow. But after thinking about it, he took down the crossbow again, took out a small bottle from his arms, and dripped two drops of the juice from the bottle on the arrow. Then he reinstalled the crossbow.

Zhao Xing gently pressed his hand on Captain Gurkha's shoulder, flicked his fingers, and asked with gestures: "Why do they dare to walk at night, but we dare not?"

A soft voice came from the mountain. This was the sound of the people coming from the opposite side. Zhao Xing and the three Gurkhas were afraid that the sound of breathing would be loud, so they let the mountain bring the movement here, so their movements were very light. At this time, the Gurkha captain had already picked up the crossbow, and he could not answer Zhao Xing. Because he had no spare hands, he rushed to a Gurkha next to him and asked him to explain.

This Gurkha does not know sign language - not every Gurkha can learn all sign language. Most Gurkhas only learned the simplest thirty gestures. Those simple gestures cannot express too complicated meanings, so the Gurkhas put their mouths to Zhao Xing's ear and surrounded the corners of their mouths with both hands to prevent the words from leaking, and then gently said to Zhao Xing: "Master, if you know the situation of the mountain road down your feet, it is safest to walk the mountain road at night in spring. Because it is cold at night, the snow on the mountain is frozen, and avalanches all occur in the day and earth."

The Gurkha people put their hands on the corner of their mouths, for fear of the sound being leaked. This made his words sound vague, and Zhao Xing understood the other party's meaning after he guessed.

Zhao Xing and the others paused because they were not familiar with the geographical conditions and did not know where the next leeward point appeared, so they were afraid of missing the suitable camping site. In addition, it was because they did not understand the ground conditions, and several people on the other side...

Zhao Xing understood that the people on the other side must be Tubo people who often traveled to this area. They have taken this path well and may be planning to take advantage of the night to walk through the dangerous avalanche area, and also camp and rest at Zhao Xing's camping place for a night, and then continue to move forward tomorrow.

After understanding this, Zhao Xing put his hand on Captain Gurkha's shoulder and used sign language to signal everyone to retreat to the turn of the tiger's mouth. The Captain Gurkha hesitated a little and immediately made a gesture to let the two Gurkha soldiers retreat first. Then he followed Zhao Xing and slowly touched the turn.

Just now, the small bottle taken out of the arms of the Gurkha captain was filled with Nanyang arrow poison juice. Because the power of the crossbow is too small, it is necessary to apply the arrow that can quickly and deadly. However, in the dark night, to shoot accurately is like using a cannon to hit a mosquito, and the accuracy is helpless. At the same time, once the other party is alarmed, it will bring disastrous consequences to everyone, so Zhao Xing asked everyone to retreat to the safer point to prevent accidents. He believed that since he had guessed that this group of people were also looking for a camping place in leeward, it would be better to wait for them to come and then catch them on the spot...

At the exit of the tiger's mouth, Zhao Xing told Captain Gurkha what he meant. The captain quickly agreed. He made a gesture and arranged for his subordinates to pack up his sleeping bag and ambush the rocks.

Later, when everyone made arrangements, the Gurkha captain thought for a while, and then he touched the turning point of the mountain alone with a crossbow.

It seems that he is not giving up and wants to continue working hard.

The night was too dark, and the figure of the Gurkha captain climbed underground at the corner of the mountain and immediately merged into the earth. Zhao Xing glared for a while and found that he could not tell whether the captain was still at the corner.

Soon, a heavy sound of falling to the ground came muffled, and the sound seemed to be the sound of a watermelon smashing on the ground. Zhao Xing was stunned, and then another muffled sound rang out.

In the wind, the sound of iron chains paused, and the whole world fell into silence. Zhao Xing only heard his heartbeat and a slight breathing. Then it seemed as if after a long century, the sound of iron chains continued to sound, and soon, the sound was getting closer and closer.

A black shadow turned over the turning point of the hillside and merged into the darkness in the blink of an eye. Then, a torch appeared. The person holding the torch looked full of fear. He stood at the turn of the hillside and breathed rapidly for a while. A light appeared behind him. A sound similar to snoring sound sounded muffled, as if someone lowered his voice and urged him to leave quickly. The torcher first appeared, and the torch was stunned for a moment, and he held the torch and turned across the ridge. Then, the second torch appeared, and the next was the third torch.

Zhao Xing was thinking about how to deal with these three people, but he saw a black shadow suddenly blew up. He blew past three torches like a wind. The torch that could not be blown out was immediately extinguished, and the whole world fell into darkness again.

It wasn't the strong wind that blew out the torches, but the torches fell to the ground.

One torch bounced on the rock and jumped and disappeared. The other two torchs fell into the snow and made a hissing sound...

Suddenly, he returned to the darkness from the light. Zhao Xing's eyes were a little uncomfortable. When his eyes recovered, Captain Gurkha had already come to him. He raised his thumbs up and praised him, "All of them are tough guys, master, I used a crossbow to plot against two people. These two people did not scream until they fell into the cliff. They did not gaggle before. I clearly heard their low conversation, but when they fell, they did not squeak - they were really warriors!"

"Where are the other three?" Zhao Xing asked softly.

The captain replied: "I used a crossbow to plot against both of them, both of which were close-range. They couldn't see why the two people were stumbled in the dark night, so they paused a little and then moved forward. In the end, there were three survivors who walked through this dangerous road. The master said not to live, so I didn't hold back. Everyone was cut off from their trachea to ensure that they didn't shout out. Master, what do you think we should do now?"

Zhao Xing narrowed his eyes and smiled happily: "I have guessed that the Tubo army has rested there, and must be next to the ridge behind the tiger's mouth... I have heard people say that this ridge is said to be the tiger's mouth. There is a valley that is the most likely place to avalanche. The Tubo people must have walked to that area and dared not enter the mountain easily, so they could only send thorns to come over in groups to understand the situation outside... I have an idea - are you brave?"

What Zhao Xing said about "I heard someone say" was introduced in that TV series.

Captain Gurkha replied softly: "Big, it's so big."

Zhao Xing whispered: "The Tubo people stayed outside the avalanche area, waiting for the outpost to find out the road conditions, and were also waiting for the summer to come. They could wait, but if summer really came, these Tubo soldiers would break into Dali, so we must think of a way to lure them into the avalanche area in advance.
Chapter completed!