Chapter 119: The Adventures of Huang Taiji (6)
Having said that, Huang Taiji still has to consider one problem - if there is really a fight, where should he run to escape.
There were no walls or moats around the city, and the whole city spread out like a flatbread, with the church as the center, spreading out like a circle, and the buildings along the street were made of stone, wood, and tarpaulin. As a military commander, Huang Taiji thought to himself: it only takes one fire attack to turn this place into a hell on earth.
He didn't want to be roasted into a roast pig, he was a member of the glorious wild boar skin family - Nurhachi is said to have two meanings, one is explained by scholars when Nurhachi was made a duke by the emperor of the Great Liao Empire: Nurhachi is a remnant of the Uighur language in the Mughal language, Nur means light in the Mughal language, and Hachi means holy descendant in the Uighur language, which together means "the holy descendant of light". Huang Taiji thinks this is complete nonsense, although their family has intermarried with the Muguls for generations, and he himself has the blood of the Golden Family, but what the hell is this holy descendant? He didn't feel at all that his grumpy, murderous father had the shadow of a saint, and his neurotics were almost the same.
On the other hand, Huang Taiji thinks it is much more reliable, and the old family said that Nurhachi means wild boar - interestingly, the remnants of the Yin people in the North American continent also have a similar accent, and in their dialect, Nurhachi means little pig.
The fishing and hunting tribes in the far north still respect the bravery of wild boars, and Huang Taiji thinks that the origin of this name is better - you don't see, one of the greatest emperors of the Han Dynasty, isn't the nickname of Emperor Xiaowu of Han Shizong also a wild boar (Liu Che's nickname Liu Yu, the pictogram "彘" originally means wild boar).
It would be a shame for the son of a wild boar to be set on fire by a group of barbarians and made into a wild boar roasted by fire.
He walked around the room: "It's ...... It's two o'clock in the afternoon. They walk slowly, but not too slowly. If we're going to run for our lives, we have to come up with an idea. ”
Gulandam also became nervous: "Then what should we do?" ”
"Let me think about it...... People here. They were ordinary people, and it was unreliable to expect them to resist the Uighurs, even hastily organized herdsmen. They don't even have firearms. The Uighurs only had to set fires along the streets to slaughter them all. And if it really starts......" Huang Taiji closed his eyes slightly, and deduced the rhythm in his mind: "This church will definitely be the best target of the other party, and the people in the city will also come here to take refuge...... These believers always think that they can get shelter by hiding in the church, but in fact, they just give each other the best target...... Let me think about it, it's going to be messy at this point...... We just. ”
Huang Taiji slapped his thigh: "If we don't break it, we won't stand it, we will only be able to kill it when there is chaos...... Qulandam, will you shoot? ”
"I used my father's shotgun and fought wolves. ”
"A man is bigger than a wolf, just shoot at the body." Huang Taiji handed her a short gun: "Five-shot revolver, if it gets stuck, just pull the trigger again." ”
He handed him another pack of bullets: "There are twenty rounds here, pay attention to the range, and also, don't shoot all the bullets at once, aim before firing." ”
Gulandam stabbed the bullet on his belt, and Huang Taiji thought a little about his carbine—but when he entered the church, he left the carbine and the baggage on the horse, and brought in only two short guns and the deadly leather bag.
"Get out of here." Huang Taiji stood in front of the glass window, tried to push the window open and looked at the height outside: "It's a bit high, if only there was a tool." ”
After all, he was the son of a wild boar skin, not a descendant of Persian monkeys. Behind him, Gulandam walked over and looked out the window, and suddenly she fell to the ground and listened for a while, and after getting up, she said with a solemn expression: "There is the sound of horses' hooves outside, it seems that my people are about to arrive." ”
Huang Taiji looked outside: "If only there was a rope - you can slide down." He sighed, "If I were twenty years younger, this height of three meters should be fine." ”
Gulandam said, "Rope...... By the way, you can use my belt. As she spoke, she untied her belt, which was a silk wool belt with two brass rings, long enough for the herdsmen to use in place of tools on the occasion. After untying it, the long skirt was a little loose, and Gulandam bent down and pulled up the corners of the skirt and tied it around his waist: "Don't you think the problem will be solved now?" ”
Huang Taiji said in his heart that the girls on the grassland are very different from the ladies in the city - those celebrities and ladies in Zhongjing City, it is better to kill them if they want to expose their feet and necks. They screamed at the touch of his arm—he looked out and saw that it seemed to be dusty in the distance, and he didn't know if it was a delusion in his own mind, or if the real Uighurs were about to come.
"Prepare the ropes, and when you go down, go to the right, and the stables are over there." Huang Taiji instructed: "You go down first." ”
Agile like a monkey, Gulandam grabbed the belt and slid down, reaching the lower end of the rope, where she let go of the belt and landed lightly on the ground. Wong Taiji wrapped a section of his belt around the windowpane, and then carefully flipped it out—it was too exciting to play with for his age—and he climbed a little slowly, and when he was halfway up, the door seemed to be pushed open. He heard someone yelling in the house. Huang Taiji looked back, and the height seemed to be about one person. He simply let go, and sturdy a butt back flat sand and goose pose, and sat on the ground with a butt.
Patting his buttocks, Wong Taiji stood up, bowed gracefully to the guards poking their heads out on the windowsill, and strode towards the stables.
As soon as he turned the corner of the church, he saw Gulandam coming on a horse and leading a horse.
"Sir, come up!" She shouted at him.
Huang Taiji ran and turned over the horse, and he also had the demeanor of the Imperial Guard twenty years ago. He said to Qulandam, "Hurry up, they found us running." ”
The two ran out of the city together, but found that the people outside the city were crying and shouting to the city, and the road was blocked after a while, and the streets were full of people who helped the old and the young, and ran away with their hands and feet. The two horses were so blocked in the middle of the street that they couldn't get out at all.
"There seems to be gunfire outside the city." Gulandam grabbed his horse's head and said, "Shall we change directions?" ”
Huang Taiji observed for a moment and said, "It's almost the same everywhere, they should have surrounded the whole city." ”
In order to reduce the difficulty of the siege and break the determination of the soldiers and civilians defending the city, military common sense will surround three and leave an opening for people to escape. But if the purpose of the siege is not to the earth but to the people, then the whole city is completely surrounded and no one is released.
Huang Taiji noticed that the roofs of the bungalows on both sides of the street were not too high, and there were cloth canopies in front of the doors to shade the sun. He pointed with his horsewhip: "Go to the roof!" ”
As he spoke, he got up from his horse, took his baggage and jumped to the nearest cloth shed - thanks to the Buddha, although the fat flesh on Huang Taiji's body made the oilcloth under him "stab" and crack, but fortunately it still did not fall. He hurried to throw his bag onto the roof, then grabbed the edge of the roof with both hands and climbed hard, finally turning over on the roof.
Gulandam did the same, rising up from the other side. Huang Taiji grabbed the small leather bag, Gulandam carried his other half of the luggage, and the two of them ran desperately on the roof in the direction of the outside of the city.
As Huang Taiji had expected, at the entrance to the city, the Uighurs had already lit a fire and began to burn the shops, and the fire swept through half of the streets, and some corpses were killed in the streets—men, women, old, and young—and even Huang Taiji saw them round a crying child and smash it against the wall, once, twice, three times, until the child was silent.
Gulandam burst into tears: "O my people...... How they have all become devils. ”
Huang Taiji knelt on one knee by the chimney of a roof and poked his head out to look at the Uighurs in front of him—they all had horses, and they also had guns, and there were about twenty of them...... From here, their short guns can't reach them, but their shotguns can easily hit them.
Although the herdsmen on the grassland have uneven marksmanship, there are always a few who are good at hunting. Huang Taiji didn't dare to bet that all of these in front of him were soft-footed shrimp, but he could only fight for it.
"There's a dead end over there." Huang Taiji pointed to the house across the street: "Do you see that sharp corner?" I'll jump over later, you're here, rush to that place in front and shoot, we'll fire alternately, find the right opportunity, and then shift the place, don't stay in one place for too long, understand? ”
Gulandam nodded, and she took out her short hammer and followed her. Huang Taiji saw the time, suddenly jumped out, like a nimble orange cat jumped over the wall, the Uighurs on the ground really noticed him, and shouted loudly, but he disappeared behind the bulging spire in an instant, Gulandam heard a Uighur directing the others to outflank Huang Taiji, stretched out his head to look out, only to see that their attention seemed to have been attracted to the past, so he hurried over and rushed over according to Huang Taiji's instructions just now, as soon as she arrived at the position, He noticed that the clay railing in front of him had a decorative patterned opening, and if he stretched out the muzzle from here, it would be very hidden. She pulled out her stub and gestured to face a Uighur with her back to her.
For some reason, the young girl suddenly felt that these people below seemed to be no longer of her own race, and they were no longer related to herself—she aimed at the man's back and decisively pulled the trigger.