Ji Jie took off his tattered armor, changed into clean clothes, and followed the Huns forward.
From their conversation, we learned that these people belonged to the subordinates of King Baishan of the Xiongnu tribe. Like the Rongdi people, there were also many tribes among the Huns. The Baishan tribe led by King Baishan was the second largest tribe after the King of Xiongnu. King Baishan had long wanted to replace the large tribe. When he learned that the Huns came out to hunt and only brought a thousand-man guard camp, he immediately dispatched five thousand cavalry and personally led them to encircle and suppress them.
As long as he kills the Xiongnu king and unifies several other tribes, the Baishan King can become the overlord of the Huns, the Great Chanyu.
Hearing this, Ji Jie shrugged and thought, Rouyue, you have treated me so badly, I will definitely be sitting next to you and watching you kill each other while applauding me.
The five thousand men came in force and were about to rush to the predetermined attack position. The appearance of a small animal disrupted King Baishan's plan. He immediately ordered the five thousand men to be broken into pieces and must be captured.
The small animal is naturally what they call the snow toad.
Ji Jie thought the name Xue Chan was familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he just couldn't remember it.
Where have you seen it?
It is not difficult to see from King Baishan's actions that the Snow Toad must be very important, otherwise how could he change his plan at a moment's notice? You must know that he has been planning to assassinate the King of the Huns for many years!
How could such an important thing be given to others so cheaply? Ji Jie was also very interested.
When the Snow Toad first appeared, it froze several of the White Mountain King's men into popsicles, and then plunged into the valley. People have been discovering its traces in the past few days, but the little guy is very clever, and every time Able to escape from heavy siege.
The King of Baishan promised a heavy reward to anyone who could catch it. The reward would be 500 taels and 5,000 cattle and sheep.
By the way, an idea flashed in Ji Jie's mind, and he remembered where he had seen the word "Xue Chan". He turned around and walked to a deserted place. With a thought, the Wang Ding with "Shennong Chapter" engraved on it appeared out of thin air in front of him.
The last paragraph of the Shen Nong chapter records the method of making the elixir of immortality. One of the sentences is "The snow toad in the cold land of Mobei is made by absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, and is the most important thing in the elixir of immortality..."
Ji Jie has never been interested in medicine, but what was mentioned in "Shen Nong Chapter" is definitely not an ordinary thing. Zhao Qian must understand the importance of snow toads and catch them back and give them to her to play with!
It's just that in such a big valley, there are hiding places for snow toads everywhere. Which group of people can you follow to find them?
At this moment, a whistle sounded, short and urgent. Several Huns looked at each other and immediately ran in the direction of the sound.
Someone must have found the snow toad and sent a signal for help.
After running three miles in one breath, Ji Jie hid behind a stone. Directly in front of him was a circle surrounded by hundreds of Huns. In the center of the circle was a small pool, with a radius of only ten feet.
There are two "ice sculptures" standing on the shore. They are two Huns frozen into ice blocks. They still maintain the posture of catching snow toads.
There was a pure white frog floating in the pool. It wasn't a frog to be exact, because this guy only had three legs, two in front and one in the back.
A middle-aged man in fur clothes came to the shore surrounded by people, took a look at the snow toad in the pool, and said, "Quickly think of a way to trap it here!"
The middle-aged man is the King of the White Mountain, with a square face and a beard, and a pair of eagle eyes full of wisdom.
A person next to me said in embarrassment: "No one can get close to it. It's even harder in the water. Even if it doesn't spit out white air, it's still hard to catch!"
Looking at the extremely nimble snow toad in the water, King Baishan suddenly had an idea and said: "Let's lower the net and use the finest fishing net!"
"That's right!" Several people suddenly realized and immediately went to prepare.
It is indeed a good idea to use a fishing net. The white air emitted by the snow toad has a limited distance. In a sense, the fishing net can extend the length of a person's arm and fish it up. After the white air in its body is ejected, you can go up and catch it. live.
After these few days of rounding up, the Huns gained some experience in arresting them. Each time the snow toad erupts, the white air can cover a distance of two feet. People and livestock within this range will be frozen into ice sculptures in an instant. It will cause varying degrees of frostbite within a range of three feet. A safe distance is five feet away. It can emit white gas up to nine times a day.
King Baishan lost dozens of people and must capture them.
After a while, more than a dozen nets were thrown at the pool at the same time. The snow toad was so nimble that it rushed left and right, but no net could catch it.
"Connect the nets together!" King Baishan ordered.
More than a dozen nets are connected together, covering an area large enough to cover the entire pool. Let’s see where you go to escape this time.
Sure enough, when we started to close the net, the snow toad was trapped in it. The mesh was so small that even the tadpole couldn't get out, let alone it.
Ji Jie was ready to come out and grab it. Before that, he drank several large gulps of strong liquor to keep out the cold.
The people pulling the net felt heavier and heavier as they pulled it, and more people joined in. Soon they discovered that in addition to the snow toads, there was also a large lump of ice in the net.
Needless to say, this must be the snow toad blowing a breath of white air into the water, and the surrounding water turned into ice. The diameter of this piece of ice is more than one foot. According to the density of the ice, it is not difficult to calculate that it weighs dozens of tons.
"Everyone, come over and pull us together!" King Baishan called for more people to join in.
The strength was strong enough, but the fishing net couldn't bear it. There was a "crack" sound, and a big hole was ripped open at the joint between the net and the ice. The snow toad stepped back and jumped out easily.
"Damn, what a pity!" King Baishan cursed.
People around me asked: "What should I do? Are you still offline?"
"Down!" King Baishan said resolutely: "It has already sprayed white gas six times today. Just let it spray three more times and see what it can do? All you have to do is force it, don't care about the fishing net, continue!"
"yes!"
Ji Jie took out the wine bottle and took another sip, and said to himself: "This little thing is really difficult to deal with. It doesn't seem like it can be done in a short while. I need to take a nap first to regain my energy so that I can snatch things from you." !”
Until the bright moon was in the sky, the Huns were still busy, and finally forced the Snow Toad to exhale its eighth puff of white air. There was only one hour left before midnight. If it could not be captured within this hour, it would have nine more chances. .
King Baishan was sitting on a horse, with a low table in front of him, with barbecue, cheese and fruits on it. However, he had no appetite at all and was watching the people casting nets intently.
Finally, the snow toad was trapped in the net again, and people carefully pulled it out.
There was no ice this time, and this continued until it was pulled ashore, but no one dared to approach it. Everyone knew that it had another chance to kill someone like a Biancheng popsicle. Wouldn’t it be courting death if it went up there now?
"Who dares to go up?" Seeing that his subordinates refused to come forward, King Baishan slapped the table and said, "Whoever dares to go up will be rewarded with a thousand taels and ten thousand cattle and sheep!"
Still no one dares to go. It’s true that the reward is very generous, but you have to have a life to get it!
"I'll go!" A man with a hat with a low brim walked out of the crowd. King Baishan was extremely happy, but he didn't realize that under the brim of the hat was a face that was clearly from the Central Plains.