Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 153 An Excellent Model for Youth

Yun Ce's archery skills are not yet good enough to hunt down the Gale Beast.

Since the dog can do it, it's basically the same as Yun Ce being able to do it.

What Gouzi could do, Cao Kun's old steward could do as well, or even better, because the Gale Beast he hunted had a wound on its eye, but its fur was intact.

The meat of the Gale Beast actually doesn't have much flavor, but it has one advantage: it easily absorbs flavors. Stewed with chicken, it tastes like chicken. Stewed with pork bones, it tastes like pork bones. And when grilled, if your cooking skills are good enough, you can grill it to achieve the complex flavor you desire.

Baby beans are the best-tasting beans Yun Ce has ever seen. When stewed with the meat of the Gale Beast, the oil inside the baby beans gradually seeps out under high heat. Since the meat of the Gale Beast has almost no oil, the fragrant plant oil blends with the meat, instantly elevating the flavor of the meat by two or three levels.

Cao Kun started by eating roasted Gale Beast. Later, after the Gale Beast stewed with Baby Beans was fully cooked, he didn't touch the roasted Gale Beast meat at all.

The old steward observed clearly that Yun Ce, the young man, did not show any obsequiousness or excessive flattery towards Cao Kun, who came from a wealthy family. In fact, when Cao Kun put down the roasted meat and began to eat the stewed meat, a hint of smugness even appeared on his face.

Only when Cao Kun was being served with the utmost care by the Cao family would he be slightly distracted. However, he would quickly recover, set up his tent himself, feed the Thunder Smoke Beast, and at night when he rested, the Thunder Smoke Beast would stuff its big head into the tent to keep him company.

"I heard that he brought his whole family to settle and cultivate land north of the Great Wall."

"Hmm, I wonder what kind of unexpected events could have led a pampered young master from a noble family to leave the comfortable life of Chang'an and come to this desolate place where even the local folk festivals can't take care of him."

"The situation in Chang'an has been quite turbulent lately. The struggle between the Grand Marshal and the Emperor has intensified. Now that Zhao Shu, the Grand Commander of the Great Wall, has also become involved, it's difficult to predict what will happen next."

"For a declining family like the Yun clan, it's indeed unwise to remain in Chang'an. When the giant python turns its back on its power, even if they don't provoke it, they'll still be affected."

"From this perspective, the young master's choice may seem absurd, but it is actually wise."

"You only see that he led his family to flee Chang'an to save themselves, but you don't see the second point: the timing of his settlement north of the Great Wall was perfect."

Now, Iron Enclosure Pass is short of food, and the Grand Commander of the Great Wall, Zhao Shu, has deserted his post. In these chaotic times, if this young man can truly achieve something in the wilderness, even if it only supplies a small amount to Iron Enclosure Pass, when the chaos in Chang'an subsides and rewards are distributed, his contribution will undoubtedly be recognized.

"Tsk tsk tsk, I didn't expect you to have such insight at such a young age..."

Yun Ce pitched his tent in the grain transport convoy, thus blending in with Cao's forces while maintaining a clear distinction. By not getting close to Cao Kun, Yun Ce showed no intention of currying favor; by getting close to the grain transport convoy, he demonstrated his concern for the success of the grain transport. This attitude was most likely to be accepted by Cao's forces.

After daybreak, Yun Ce rode his chestnut horse to clear the way for the caravan. Actually, there was not much to do; the caravan formed a long dragon as it traveled on the frozen Qingshui River.

Yun Ce stood on the riverbank, looking down at the convoy stretching for ten miles, and couldn't help but say to Cao Kun beside him, "What a grand gesture!"

Cao Kun proudly said, "It's nothing, Iron Enclosure Pass is the most important."

Cao Kun's statement indicates that transporting grain and other supplies to Tiewei Pass was not as easy as Cao Kun made it out to be; it was definitely a painful and arduous task.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have sent Cao Kun, the eldest son of the Cao family, in person.

Tiewei Pass is only a thousand miles away from Jingkou Pass. Going upstream along the Qingshui River, the slope is gentle and the ice surface is relatively flat. Just by looking up, you can see the unfinished river connecting with the sky. The entire Qingshui River is like a ribbon laid down from the sky, and it seems that as long as you follow this ribbon, you can reach the sky.

When Yun Ce was preparing to return, he decided not to ride the chestnut horse anymore, but instead wanted to make a large sled and take the chestnut horse all the way from the plateau to Jingkou Pass. He thought it would be very exciting.

Warriors guarded the grain carts on both sides of the river, and the carts stretched out in a long line in the river. To prevent the large horned horses from suddenly falling over, Cao's old steward ordered all the carts to be linked together.

Yun Ce ignored these matters. To be honest, the carriage transportation technology in this world far surpassed that of Earth during the carriage era.

In addition, the animals pulling the carts were much stronger than those on Earth, and their carrying capacity and delivery distance were incomparable to those of the horse-drawn carriage era on Earth.

This is inherently related to the fact that they are not good at farming but only good at gathering. Transportation is a process of allocating resources, so it is only natural that the transportation industry is more developed.

"The Guifang people are lying in ambush in the woods on the left."

Dog, who had been poised to act for two days, suddenly said to Yun Ce.

Yun Ce said, "Let's wait a little longer. I can't appear too alert. Discovering the enemy's presence on the second or third occasion would be the most acceptable outcome for everyone."

"Why?" These kinds of social niceties are beyond Gouzi's comprehension.

"Let me tell you, everyone wants to be number one, but as a manager, nobody likes being number one. If the gap between the second and third place and the first place isn't that big, then managers will prefer the second or third place. Being number one is a bit too overt."

"This is a disgusting principle."

"It's disgusting, so people usually don't say it out loud."

Yun Ce was talking to the dog in his mind while urging his chestnut horse to take a favorable position, so that when he charged out bravely, he could leave Cao Kun with a very cool back view.

"There are also quite a few Guifang people hiding in the woods on the right. It seems that they already knew about your grain transport and were just waiting for you to deliver the grain."

"Help me identify the most valuable goals."

"Then you should stay here. There's a leader in the woods over here, probably their leader. But the hammer he's holding is bigger than your head."

"Are people of this level like Zhang Min, who have all cultivated what is called 'qi'?"

"did you mean……"

"You guessed right."

"Your sense of morality is really low."

The old steward, riding a Thunder Smoke Beast at the front of the procession, suddenly stared intently at the woods by the roadside for some reason. The samurai leader following behind the old steward immediately raised his hand, and the caravan stopped the moment the samurai leader raised his hand.

A troop of cavalry left the main force and quickly approached the woods. Yun Ce was mixed in with them, neither too far ahead nor too far behind, belonging to the bulky middle section.

"Ouch—"

Suddenly, a unified roar erupted from the woods, and then Yun Ce saw more than a dozen hollowed-out flying wheels, each the size of a car wheel, being thrown out of the forest.

The flywheel flew very fast, spinning violently and making a howling sound.

Yun Ce watched helplessly as a flying wheel severed the neck of a Thunder Smoke Beast and then cut the rider on horseback in two before finally crashing to the ground.

The flying wheel came flying in from a flat surface, covering a large area. The knights at the front were caught off guard and were all cut down.

By the time Yun Ce faced the flying wheel, it was already exhausted. He slammed the flying wheel to the ground with his lance, and the chestnut horse suddenly leaped forward. Yun Ce then became the vanguard of all the cavalry.

Yun Ce's performance did not escape the old steward's notice. Seeing that Yun Ce did not retreat after suffering a major loss, but instead stepped forward to act as the vanguard in this difficult time, the steward said with satisfaction to Cao Kun, who was guarding him, "This kind of person can be entrusted with important matters."

Just as the old steward was commenting on Yun Ce, he had already seen the Ghost Fang infantry that Zhang Min had mentioned.

According to Zhang Min, the Guifang infantrymen were strong and muscular, and wore heavy armor. Arrows and swords could not harm them; only armor-piercing weapons like the horse lance, as well as heavy weapons like hammers and clubs, could hurt them.

Zhang Min's experience did not apply to Yun Ce, because he was very strong, stronger than ten Zhang Mins combined. So, he swung his lance and used it as a cleaver. Sure enough, being strong had its advantages. Yun Cheng's nearly two-foot-long lance blade sliced ​​through a Gui Fang member blocking his way in the middle as easily as cutting tofu.

As he passed by the corpses, Yun Ce took a special look and found that although the skin of the Guifang infantryman he had just killed was black and green, his internal organs were no different from those of the Han people. His heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys were all intact and there was no difference between them.

"Hey, let's go!"

Yun Ce looked at the Gui Fang leader who shouted every time he exerted his strength, and signaled the rest of the cavalry to continue the search. He would deal with this guy himself.

A meteor hammer, much larger than Yun Ce's head, hurtled towards Yun Ce's face with a whooshing sound. If it hit him, Yun Ce felt that his head might explode like a watermelon being smashed by a hammer.

So Yun Ce freed his left hand and grabbed the meteor hammer. At the same time, Gouzi's silvery tentacles plunged into the body of the ghost Fang man along the chain of the meteor hammer.

To outsiders, it looked as if one of their young generals was wrestling with a burly Guifang man, one on horseback and the other on the ground, circling around and kicking up dust, like evenly matched opponents who couldn't be determined to win in the short term.

Yun Ce chose the strongest soldier among the Gui Fang infantry to fight, while the rest of the cavalry charged at the Gui Fang infantry who had just emerged from the woods.

Seeing the chaotic battlefield, especially Yun Ce who was fighting so fiercely that he couldn't see anything clearly, Cao Kun's neck veins bulged, and he roared at the old steward, "I don't care, I just want to fight!"

(End of this chapter)