Chapter 313
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Chapter 313: Hunting the Ferocious Tiger
“How did you get here?”
When this invasion battle began, Shadow was not in his office.
However, this was normal. Shadow often flew out for 2 or 3 days and never returned, never having any issues.
Coupled with the urgent war situation at the time, Luo Ji had no time to manage it.
After receiving news from the front, he directly rushed to West Plains City with a troop of cavalry, but he never expected Shadow to find its way to him.
It was truly remarkably intelligent.
There were clear bloodstains on Shadow’s talons, and it seemed to have fed itself.
After Luo Ji stroked its shiny black feathers, he slightly raised his single arm.
Shadow, standing on his forearm, immediately understood, spreading its wings and soaring into the sky again with astonishing speed.
Watching Shadow fly far away in the blink of an eye, Guo Zhen’s eyes were filled with envy.
At the same time, he couldn’t help but mutter to himself.
“Is Bai Ze really helping me find one?”
“Achoo!!”
At this moment, perhaps sensing something, Bai Ze, far away on the plains, suddenly sneezed vigorously and then rubbed his nose hard.
“Caught a cold? No way?”
Just as Bai Ze was muttering this, Zhao Chuan had already quickly arrived from a distance with a troop of cavalry.
“General, we’ve found traces of that band of horse bandits!”
“Good.”
Hearing this, Bai Ze immediately perked up.
“Tell the brothers to keep their spirits up. One troop will feign an attack from the front to pin them down, and another will flank around to cut off their retreat.”
“Don’t let them escape this time! These horse bandits are truly tired of living, daring to raid our horse herd!”
At his command, the light cavalry units behind Bai Ze moved into action.
While Bai Ze on the plains confidently directed his troops, preparing to eliminate a band of horse bandits who were tired of living, on the other side, outside the southern forest of West Plains City, Luo Ji quite easily spotted his target for this outing.
“Roar—”
A tiger’s roar shook the heavens, scaring the warhorses beneath the few guards, making them restless.
That man-eating ferocious tiger swaggered around outside the forest, as if patrolling its territory.
“Such a beast, so arrogant?”
Ordinary warhorses would be startled by the ferocious tiger’s roar, but Liaoyuan Huo beneath him remained unafraid and completely unaffected.
It even snorted dismissively, as if saying, “I’ve seen grand scenes with thousands of soldiers and horses, who are you trying to scare by yourself?”
Sensing the emotions of his beloved horse, Luo Ji chuckled, lightly nudging Liaoyuan Huo’s flank with his left foot, signaling it to stay alert, then maintained his speed and walked slowly forward.
After so much practice, Luo Ji’s horseback archery skills, while not comparable to Burigude’s, were quite decent with the help of skill effects.
As the distance closed, Luo Ji took the longbow from his back with a flick of his wrist.
Firing an arrow, he let loose three consecutive shots with a whoosh!
This beautiful display earned loud cheers from the guards behind him, while Guo Zhen, Guo Jia, the two brothers who had come along, and the 20 accompanying soldiers watched in stunned silence.
“I didn’t even know Your Majesty had this skill…”
Guo Zhen mumbled, completely bewildered.
He had originally wanted to come out and enjoy himself by hunting, but looking at this situation, it felt like there was nothing for him to do.
It was no wonder that the reactions of these two groups of people were so different.
For the guards, their Emperor, or rather, their chief, had always been a warrior who could kill a hungry wolf with just a stone spear.
But by the time Guo Zhen and Guo Jia joined, many battles no longer required Luo Ji’s personal involvement.
He appeared more as a commander on the battlefield.
Thus, people from different stages had different impressions of Luo Ji.
As a group of people’s thoughts raced, another tiger’s roar sounded.
This ferocious tiger’s physique was clearly very strong, and three arrows failed to fatally wound it.
The enraged tiger ferociously lunged towards Luo Ji’s direction!
Facing such a charge, Luo Ji, riding Liaoyuan Huo, remained calm.
In contrast, Guo Jia, behind him, was scared stiff and repeatedly shouted.
“Your Majesty, be careful!!”
The gap between civil and military officials was evident at this moment.
There’s a good saying, an expert sees the technique, a layman sees the spectacle.
In terms of combat ability, Guo Jia was clearly a layman just watching the show.
Rarely displaying the authority of an elder brother, Guo Zhen grabbed Guo Jia and said.
“Quiet down. You’ll distract His Majesty.”
“Is this the time to be saying that?!”
Concerned for Luo Ji’s safety, Guo Jia was completely unable to stay calm at this moment.
“Don’t worry, His Majesty is quite at ease right now. Just watch.”
Guo Zhen said, pointing with his hand.
Indeed, Luo Ji was not flustered at all.
While signaling Liaoyuan Huo to accelerate, he fired three more arrows, continuously pressuring and kitting the ferocious tiger with his excellent archery skills.
After circling the ferocious tiger for several rounds with his horseback archery skills, the ferocious tiger seemed to sense Luo Ji’s range advantage.
After dodging subsequent attacks with a series of dodges and weaves, it surprisingly turned its head and fled towards the forest behind it.
Seeing this, Luo Ji decisively spurred his horse in pursuit.
Liaoyuan Huo, galloping at full speed, was like a blazing inferno, making Guo Zhen, trailing behind, envious once more.
After a fierce chase, watching the distance between them rapidly close, Luo Ji gently pulled the reins.
Understanding his master’s intent, Liaoyuan Huo began to slow its pace.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the ferocious tiger running ahead suddenly spun around and lunged at him with its gaping maw!
“Good beast! You even know how to play tricks with me?!”
Luo Ji was startled, but he had, after all, been on battlefields and seen grand spectacles.
At this moment, he remained calm.
Just as he was about to make a move, accompanied by a sharp eagle’s cry, a rapidly passing black shadow attacked from the air, instantly scratching out the ferocious tiger’s eyes!
“Roar!!!!”
Blood splattered!
The ferocious tiger’s roars continuously pounded Luo Ji’s eardrums, almost making him deaf.
In comparison, Liaoyuan Huo, with its special earplugs, felt better at this moment.
Its intelligent eyes glanced at Shadow, who was rapidly ascending into the sky, as if complaining about its meddling.
Then, it turned, kicked with its hooves, and struck fiercely, directly kicking the ferocious tiger’s massive head.
The power of a horse’s hooves, shod with horseshoe nails, was undeniably immense, one kick was enough to almost smash the ferocious tiger’s head open and make it bleed profusely on the spot.
The ferocious tiger, having suffered repeated heavy blows, its roars now tinged with a tragic wail.
Luo Ji seized the opportunity, activated Precise Shot, and fired an arrow.
The whistling arrow immediately buried itself into the ferocious tiger’s gaping maw.
Then, without Luo Ji needing to say more, as he retrieved his bow, Liaoyuan Huo suddenly accelerated, completely widening the distance in one breath.
