Chapter 1019.
Bang!
A dull roar suddenly broke the tranquility of the grassland.
The left eye of a bison that was nibbling on grass along the riverbank abruptly burst into a brightly colored cloud of blood, and its huge body instantly lost its balance and heavily planted itself on the ground.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Without waiting for the other bison to wake up, the same roaring sound followed one after another.
One by one, the bison were either killed on the spot, or went crazy from the pain of their injuries, and the whole herd was thrown into complete chaos.
However, the hunters rode their fast horses and approached from different directions, and a cannon raised a cloud of white smoke and shot out a deadly pellet, killing all the surviving bison.
These bison are the specialties of the West China Sea prairie, they are huge and robust, adult bulls can even reach more than 2,000 pounds, its Mercedes charging power coupled with a pair of sharp horns, even if it is a black bear encountered also have to run away.
Due to the bison are in groups, coupled with individual strength is very strong, because only a few smart and warlike hunters dare to come to hunt them, a careless may bury their lives.
However, in front of the hunting team equipped with heavy cannons, this group of grassland tyrants became lambs to be slaughtered!
They wailed and fell in a pool of blood, and only a few cows and calves were purposely ignored by the hunters and fled into the distance in terror.
“Ten thousand victories!”
Victory cheers rang out amongst the hunters.
Wang Dust smiled faintly and threw the long cannon that had been emptied in his hand to the personal guards at his side.
In order to welcome and resettle the incoming army of stragglers, the West Sea County City, which had just calmed down, re-tightened its strings and began to operate with extraordinary speed and efficiency.
On one hand, Wang Dust sent merchants to buy livestock and food from herders all over the country, and on the other hand, he organized a hunting team to hunt wild animals such as bison and wild sheep on the prairie of the West Sea.
The number of bison on the prairie is huge, and a bison is full of treasures, the fur can be made into fur coats, the tendons can be made into bowstrings, and not to mention the beef, which is very nutritious food.
Including cow horns, cow bones, cow hooves are all more useful, even cow dung can be used to fertilize the fields.
In order to obtain these valuable resources as soon as possible, Wang Dust personally led the hunting team to go deep into the grassland to hunt the bison herd.
Accompanied by loud whistles, the hunters dismounted their horses, pulled out the daggers they carried and started to deal with the trophies.
Cow skin, beef, cow bones and other materials were quickly broken down, wiped dry with blood and water, then coated with salt and crushed herbs, and finally placed on different wagons.
These trophies would be sent to the outskirts of Xihai County as fast as possible and cooked before the meat spoiled, then chopped up and added to flour, ghee and dried wild vegetables before being kneaded and smoked.
It was made into fist-sized rations.
Only two balls of this ration were needed to give an adult the strength to walk for a day and a night!
A bison, can let hundreds of stragglers no longer starve.
In fact, the grassland bison was not easy to deal with, their thick fur could withstand the damage of bows and arrows, and they themselves were very powerful, and were very scary when they went berserk.
However, when faced with the bombardment of heavy cannons, they can only be reduced to food.
In order to prevent the bison from going extinct, Wang Dust specially instructed to let go of some cows and calves, so that they would have a chance to reproduce and be utilized continuously in the future.
Newt ~
It was at this time that a loud and clear eagle cry came from the sky.
Wang Dust looked up and saw a black shadow swooping down towards him like lightning.
He raised his arm, and an eagle falcon landed steadily on it.
Wang Dust took off the bamboo tube tied to the eagle’s leg and crushed the beeswax at the top, then poured out a roll of silk paper.
He unfolded it and his expression moved slightly.
After thinking about it, Wang Dust took out a pen and paper and returned a letter, stuffed it back into the bamboo tube and sealed it, then helped it back onto the eagle’s leg.
And aside the personal guards cut to two fresh beef fed to the falcon, the falcon after eating satisfied chirped twice, then unfolded wings rushed up to the sky.
“Go!”
Wang Dust said in a deep voice, “Come with me to greet the guests!”
He patted the yellow horse underneath him, and the latter immediately spread its hooves and charged forward.
Whistling, dozens of elite horsemen followed closely behind.
With these personal guards, Wang Dust traveled northward, running as fast as he could across the vast prairie.
At noon the next day, he and a group of his personal guards arrived at the northern border of Xihai County.
To the north of Xihai County was Jichuan County, which was only half the size of Xihai County, but was much more affluent than the former, with a population several times larger, and was one of the few counties that chose to pledge allegiance to Emperor Yuan Jing.
However, Jichuan County did not show any hostility towards Xihai County, which had raised the “anti-flag”, and even allowed migrants to enter the Xihai Prairie through its own territory.
Of course, this may not be a good intention, after all, Jichuan County is not capable of supporting so many stragglers, happy to throw this big burden to the Qing Yun Patriarch.
Wang Dust received Qin Qingxuan’s Flying Eagle Transmission yesterday and learned that the first batch of stragglers were about to arrive at the border between the two counties, so he brought his personal guards to rush over to meet them.
This batch of stragglers was of great significance to the two counties of the Western Sea and the Han Sea, which was why Wang Duan had personally come out.
“Lord Tai Fu, this is the Wild Mountain Slope.”
A personal guard compared the map and said, “Further past that is the Jichuan County land, do you want me to bring someone over to check it out?”
“Good.”
Wang Dust said, “You take two people over there to check it out, and pay attention to safety.”
Wang Dust himself, along with the other personal guards, set up camp on this gentle, open slope and waited for the stragglers to arrive.
Earlier, he had already sent someone to notify Xihai County City to immediately mobilize people and supplies over.
Wang Chen observed the surroundings and terrain and felt that it was very appropriate to build a temporary camp here to specialize in receiving the procession of stragglers.
His biggest problem right now is that he is missing a group of talents who can be unique, otherwise a lot of things don’t need to be done personally, and can be completely handed over to his subordinates to complete.
In the final analysis, Princess Qing Yun’s appeal was too poor.
Wanting to sweep the entire world, relying solely on Wang Chen alone obviously wouldn’t work.
Thus he was very hopeful that this acceptance of stragglers would bring him more talents.
It wasn’t until sunset and dusk that a procession appeared on the plains in the distance, and its numbers kept expanding.
The stragglers were coming!
“So many people!”
The personal guards standing on the wild hillside with Wang Dust looked dumbfounded.
Because the number of the first arriving stragglers far exceeded their imagination!
The scale of this group of stragglers was very large, the long line seemed to be endless, most of them were on foot, clustered with a large number of carriages, black and pressurized all over the mountain.
From afar, it brought heavy pressure to everyone.
Immediately afterward, several knights rushed out from the ranks of the stragglers and quickly rushed towards the direction where Wang Chen was.
The personal guards who had first traveled to Jichuan County to scout the area had returned.
And Qin Qingxuan followed them!