"Is it cold or not?" Zhiwen looked at Nannan's little face that was red from the cold.

Riding on a little mare, she shook her head and tightened her sheepskin jacket.

Once you cross the Great Wall, it is really a spectacular scene of thousands of miles of ice and snow drifting, and it feels much colder than in Zhangjiakou.

Thanks to Si Cha's repeated reminders, before leaving the customs, Zhiwen bought a sheepskin jacket for everyone, so he didn't suffer much from the cold.

Although the sweater is warm, it can't stop the cold wind, if you don't wear a leather jacket outside, the wind can blow people's bones crispy, and no matter how bad the smell is, you have to endure it.

On the third day of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, the caravan of the eight major grain merchants in Zhangjiakou was finally assembled and began to leave the customs.

The whole team added up to more than ten miles before and after, and it took a whole day to pass the level.

In order to facilitate the movement, Zhiwen specially bought three docile little mares for the girls, put some food on the carriage, and dressed a few people as small foot merchants.

Such a large caravan is inevitably inconvenient to move, slow speed, many traces, and it is very convenient to track, just hang it far away and see the right time to start.

Zhiwen opened the road first, and after Liu Cai broke off, the three girls rode horses and were in the middle with the carriage.

The horse pulling the cart has been raised by them very well, even if no one is driving, they will obediently follow Zhiwen, and the things that Zhiwen feeds it are very attractive.

"Brother Zhi, I feel that something is wrong." At noon, when he took a break from the sharp, Liu Cai said.

Zhiwen couldn't help but bow his head and stroke his forehead, here he is again, this crow's mouth, on the way to Jingshi, he said that the refugees were wrong, but he didn't expect to be really hit by him.

The real threat of the trip to Jingshi was not the two Tartar sentinels, but the Jiannu who wanted to capture the refugees, and in the final analysis, it was still related to the refugees.

"What's wrong?" Zhiwen asked, he also deliberately stood on the back of the horse just now and looked at it, and then learned from the Yin guard, lying on the ground and listening for a while, but he didn't find anything.

All around them was silent and empty, with low dark clouds piling up in the sky, and there was nothing but a jumble of footprints, horseshoe prints, and wheel prints that stretched into the distance, and the sound of the "whine" chirping was terrifying.

"I don't know." Liu Cai shook his head, "It's just intuition, it always feels like someone is staring at us." ”

With the lesson of the last time, Liu Cai's intuition had to be taken seriously, and after thinking about it for a while, Zhiwen said, "Wait a while on the road, you three should go into the carriage." ”

The main reason is that I am afraid that this unknown enemy will suddenly appear, and then release arrows in the distance, if the three girls can't avoid it, it will be too late to regret it.

As for the three horses, just tie them to the wagon and follow them.

Liu Cai's intuition was really accurate, after a short break, he went on the road, and he didn't go far, and there was a fragmented sound of horses' hooves in front of him.

The other party was not able to distinguish whether it was friend or foe for a while, so Zhiwen simply reined in his horse and waited in place.

After a while, a few small black dots appeared in front of him, and Liu waited for a while, and there was no abnormality in the rear, and he also stepped forward and stood side by side with Zhiwen.

"Go back!" Zhiwen turned his head and yelled at Xiaoying, who had just poked his head out of the carriage, at this distance, the other party could release arrows at any time, Zhiwen himself did not dare to be careless, how could he rest assured that they were in danger, the carriage had wooden planks and protective effects.

Xiaoying pursed her lips and retracted into the carriage.

The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and when they saw that the other party was only a few people, "whoosh", the bowstring sounded three times in a row, "pop", the first arrow was inserted in front of their horse, and then the two arrows fell on both sides of the carriage successively, it seemed that it was intended to warn and establish authority, and there was no intention to hurt people.

Look at the strength and accuracy of these arrows, the archery skills are extraordinary.

It is friend or foe, the other party is undoubtedly a horse thief, but looking at this team of horse thieves with only three people, Zhiwen suddenly wanted to laugh.

There are so few people, don't talk about it, as a horse thief, he doesn't even have any decent equipment, he wears a dirty leather robe, and the felt hat on his head is covered with thick oil.

The scimitars in the front two riders were bright, the longbow of the man behind seemed to be okay, and the guys who ate were not bad, I don't know what their professional skills were.

Seeing that the last man put away the longbow, Zhiwen suddenly said, "Brother Liu, follow me." ”

With that, he held the ash rod in both hands and urged the horse away.

Liu Cai was stunned for a moment, and then realized that since the opponent's archers had collected their bows, their own side had less bow and arrow threats, and it was the best time to attack.

When he hit the horse, he pulled out his waist knife and followed Zhiwen closely.

Zhiwen took the lead and rushed straight towards the middle of the two horse thieves in front of him.

The two horse thieves, one left and one right, one in front and one behind, Zhiwen's move was tantamount to throwing himself into a net in their eyes, with strange smiles in their mouths, and the scimitar in their hands slashed, intending to overwhelm Zhiwen in momentum and win without a fight.

Zhiwen was unmoved, and the body riding on the horse stood up suddenly, and the ash rod in his hand suddenly stretched forward, and then the seemingly stiff long pole suddenly softened, like a long whip, first swept to the right, and with a "snap", although the leading horse thief blocked it with a knife in time, he was still knocked off the horse.

"Big brother!" The second man shouted, in Chinese.

Han?! Zhiwen had doubts, his subordinates were not slow, the ash pole rebounded to the left with the help of the block just now, coupled with his own strength, the power was even stronger, even if this person was prepared, he couldn't stop it, followed in the footsteps of his eldest brother, and fell off the horse.

Zhiwen concocted the same method, and swept towards the last person with the sound of the wind for the third time, this person put away his bow and arrows, just pulled out his scimitar, and where could he stop it in a hurry, and looking at the first two, no matter how well prepared they were, they were not opponents.

This person also knew that Zhiwen's strength was great, and while holding the knife forward with both hands, most of his feet had withdrawn from the stirrup, leaving only his toes still stepping on it, and when Zhiwen's long pole swept his scimitar, the toes made a force, and with the force from the knife, he rose from the horse's back.

After Zhiwen came back from riding a horse, the person rolled on the ground a few times, just got up from the ground, and was about to run, when Zhiwen quickly put the tip of the stick against the back of his neck, and he didn't dare to move anymore.

"Don't kill them!" Zhiwen drank.

At this time, Liu Cai was on the horse, and with horsepower, he had just knocked the knife in the second person's hand away, and was about to cut it down, when he heard Zhiwen's shout, the blade fell lightly on his neck.

And the first person, who was being killed by the three girls who came out of the carriage at some point, was embarrassed when he heard Zhiwen's words, and was only slightly stunned for a moment, and was hit by the tips of three sticks against the throat, chest and lower abdomen respectively.

"Admit it, we admit it!" The man laughed, didn't dare to move, let go of his fingers, and threw the knife in his hand on the ground.