A moment later, Ren Hong had crossed his waist and stood on the Great Wall as high as two feet.

This earthen wall is made of red willow and reed as the skeleton, and the middle is really made of loess, which is rammed layer by layer. At first, the exterior was smooth, but after decades of wind and sun, the loess on the outside fell off, revealing layers of reed poles, which were easy for people to drag over them.

Ren Hongneng could see that a series of footprints came from the direction of the Shule River outside the Saiwai, stepped on the Tiantian, climbed over the Great Wall, fell heavily into the inner Tiantian on the ground, and then continued to extend towards the Saine......

The footprints were swept with leaves, but they could not be swept away because they were in a hurry, or because it was still dark, and they were simply trying to cover them.

"Sure enough, someone is getting in."

Ren Hong didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing on the second day of his appointment, and he began to wonder who Yue Sai was? It can't be a female savage with fiery red hair anyway.

Zhao Hu'er, on the other hand, had already observed those footprints on the inside of the Great Wall, but he saw him stretch out his hand, measured the footprints on the Amada with the distance between his thumb and index finger, and said, "These footprints were left by a man, and he is less than 7 feet tall." ”

Ren Hong was not a policeman in his previous life, he had never solved a case, and he had never learned to study footprints!

Suddenly a little surprised, he looked at Zhao Hu'er's sun-tanned face and said, "How do you know?" ”

Zhao Hu'er said: "The length of the body is seven times the length of the foot, and the men's strides are larger than the women's. ”

He also observed the depth of the footprints on the left and right feet and judged: "The right leg may be injured, so one foot is shallow and the other foot is deep, and after crossing the Great Wall, he failed to stabilize and fell ......."

Ren Hong can also see this, because the person's landing posture is not very good, leaving a large butt mark. Because of the panic, he actually climbed over the Tianda with his hands and feet, and then turned back and swept it with leaves or something, hoping to make amends, but he still did not completely remove the traces.

Zhao Hu'er moved a few steps forward, and after observing the footprints on the edge of Tiantian, he smiled: "The leg injury should have fallen more seriously, and he was limping." ”

"Can you confirm when this person left his footprints?"

Ren Hong can only judge that this time the Yue Sai will not be earlier than Han Dangdang and Zhang Qianren's inspection yesterday evening, nor will it be later than after the sky is bright.

The beacon is not an ornament, and it is almost impossible to climb over the Great Wall in broad daylight.

Zhao Hu'er said: "Of course you can, this should be the footprints left in the second half of the night, the ground is dew and damp, the soil is fragile, and the edges of the footprints are blurred, not to mention ......."

He carefully picked out a black object from his footprints, put it to his nose and sniffed it, and even stuck out his tongue to taste it.

"What is this?" Ren Hong also came to the side.

Zhao Hu'er handed this thing to Ren Hong and Lu Guangsu: "The dung eggs of the wild yellow sheep are still fresh!" ”

"Phew, you beard, aren't you hurting me!" Lu Guangsu had already learned from Zhao Hu'er's appearance, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and he was furious when he heard the words.

Zhao Hu'er explained: "It's autumn now, and the wild yellow sheep forage earlier than in summer, so they will move on both sides of the river on weekdays, leaving dung arrows, which this person unintentionally stepped on." ”

"The outsiders must have crossed the Great Wall after Pingdan, because the sky was not bright, this place was far away from the two beacons on the left and right, and Yin Youqing, who was guarding the second half of the night, did not find it."

Pingdan, it's been a few hours now, can this person still catch up?

Zhao Hu'er came to the spirit and asked Ren Hong for orders to pursue: "Suichang, he injured his legs and feet, he will not be able to run too far, he will escape during the day, and it is easy to be discovered by the patrolling flints." I thought I had cleared the traces of Amada and might be resting in a shaded place. ”

Ren Hong bowed: "Since it is a Hun from outside the Saiwai, maybe they have a blade, don't be careless, and the three of us will go together to encircle it." ”

"Not the Huns."

Zhao Hu'er shook his head, pointed to the footprints and said: "The Huns basically wear felt shoes or leather boots, but these footprints are left by coarse hemp rope shoes!" ”

What else can Ren Hong say? is really convinced, in the future generations, this Zhao Huer can not only go to the Olympics for archery, but also be a criminal policeman?

At the same time, he is also very hot-eyed, if he can learn this track skills, it would be good, and if he goes to the Western Regions in the future, he should be able to come in handy, right?

Ren Hong had the idea of learning art, and couldn't help but praise him a few more words, but Zhao Hu'er shook his head and said:

"It's nothing, the most powerful hunter I've ever seen in Horsehair Mountain, can determine the type of beast based on hoof prints and dung and animal hair, whether it is new or old, whether it is scared away or wandering to forage, whether it is male or female, whether it is pregnant or not."

Can you know if you're pregnant? Ren Hongchang has seen it.

Horsehair Mountain is the Xiongnu grazing land where Zhao Huer lived when he was a teenager, and unlike the typical grassland, that area is a forest and grassland area, so hunting accounts for a large proportion.

Ren Hong asked, "Then who taught you this footprint tracking?" ”

Zhao Hu'er suddenly fell silent, and seemed very reluctant to mention the person who taught his own skills, and finally only said lightly:

"A Hu man."

……

After leaving Tiantian, the footprints became more and more blurred, and after Ren Hong and the others tracked for two or three miles, they disappeared completely.

Because there was a dry yellow earth in front of him, at a glance, the ground seemed to be gone, Lu Guangsu was hot and anxious, holding a felt hat fan in his hand and kept fanning: "Are we lost?" ”

But in Zhao Hu'er's eyes, the information left by this "prey" is like a claw in the snow, extremely clear!

He could find the faint traces left by the fugitive's wounds, dragging his right foot forward.

He can touch a trampled dead grass, a piece of crumbling soil, and determine the direction of his prey!

"It's close." Zhao Hu'er said when he found a shallot that had been pulled out and chewed, and then spit out the grass juice.

As the goal got closer and closer, Ren Hong also had questions: If it was really not a Huns, then why did he come from outside Cyprus?

Finally, when the footprints reappeared, the three of them had also approached a Yadan cliff, and Zhao Hu'er believed that the person was hiding nearby.

When Ren Hong climbed over to take a look, sure enough, there was a man in rags, who was lying in the shade under the cliff and fell asleep.

He gestured to Lu Guangsu and Zhao Hu'er, and the three of them dived and touched them from different directions.

Ren Hong tiptoed forward, his figure agile, while Zhao Hu'er felt his bow and aimed as he walked.

At this time, I heard a "crackling" sound, but it was Lu Guangsu who was too stupid to step on a dead wood branch!

The man awoke from his slumber and crawled to his feet to escape.

But Zhao Hu'er's arrow was faster, and a feathered arrow shot at his feet, so frightened that the man sat down on the ground again, not daring to move.

Ren Hong hurriedly stepped forward a few steps, and the ring head knife in his hand was aimed at him! It's like a border guard capturing a drug dealer.

"Stand up! Put your hands on your head! ”

The man was about thirty years old, with unkempt hair, a dirty face that was blue-black, eyes full of fear, chapped lips trembling slightly, and shallot juice at the corners of his mouth.

Although he was wearing a tattered felt coat, he was indeed wearing a pair of hemp rope shoes under his feet.

Under Ren Hong's order, this person got up tremblingly, his right foot was indeed not very convenient, and his height was less than seven feet after standing upright, exactly the same as Zhao Hu'er judged from the footprints!

"Spare your life!"

When Lu Guangsu twisted his arm and wanted to tie this person up, he finally came to his senses, screamed loudly and knelt on the ground, and hissed:

"Official, I was taken captive by Hulu, and after a lot of hardships, I can be regarded as escaping back from the Huns!"

Ren Hong looked at this person's eyes: "Are you a household Qi Min who is not in Hudi?" Where is the place of origin? ”

The man stammered, and after thinking for a long time, he answered, "I...... I am a commoner of Yumen County, Jiuquan County, and I was taken captive to Hudi last year and plundered the Hulu ......"

"Lie!"

The chief of the captive Sui who was on duty for the first time interrupted him: "The people of the Han Dynasty who have been taken captive, after fleeing back, go to Fengsui and knock on the door, explain the situation and get treatment, why sneak over!" ”

When Zhao Huer fled from the Huns, he was rescued by the "Zhao Suichang" who broke the captivity.

"Not to mention ......"

Ren Hong tore off the felt coat on his body, revealing his back full of whip marks, as well as four obvious ink thorns on his shoulders: Suo's slave!

"If you are really a family and a people, why do you have the character of a slave on your body?"