Huang Taiji has risked his life many times in his life, but never has he been so close to the brink of life.

He huddled behind the heaves of the roof, bullets crackling around him, dusting the clay bricks. And in the dust, he saw someone who seemed to be climbing up from under the eaves.

Without hesitation, he raised his hand and fired a shot that half-opened the freshly exposed skull, and blood spilled on the earthy roof, leaving a large dark red stain.

"Damn it." Huang Taiji said to himself in his heart: "You can't hide like this, there will always be a time when the bullet will run out." ”

He crawled on the roof and climbed to another corner, and when he looked back, he saw half of a Uighur already crawling up. He turned around, waited for most of the Uighurs to come up, and shot him in the head.

The Uighurs did not even scream, but lay down on the roof, and Huang Taiji quickly climbed back, took off the shotgun that the dead Uighur was carrying, and dragged the dead body aside, removing his bullet belt and hanging it on his body.

There seemed to be Uighurs shouting and screaming from below, and Huang Taiji decided to leave them alone for the time being. He trotted behind another chimney and saw Gulandam on the opposite side hiding behind the railing and shooting.

Huang Taiji looked into the street, and two Uighurs had fallen, their horses pacing beside their master's corpse, not knowing what to do.

With lightning speed, he raised his gun and fired another shot at the dazed Uighurs in the street, knocking down one of them—after all, they were herders, and they didn't know what to do if they were attacked in the street battles in the city. Coupled with the air convection caused by the fire, the vision of people in the distance is somewhat blurred. Huang Taiji nimbly jumped from railing, chimney, and roof to roof, firing only one shot at each location, and then changing places as soon as the shots were fired, so that the Uighurs had no idea how many people were attacking them, or even where the bullets were coming from.

"Be careful!" Huang Taiji jumped onto the roof of an empty bare house, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of someone climbing onto the roof from the opposite side—Qulandam was so slow to change places that Uighurs passed behind her. Huang Taiji drew his pistol and fired three shots at the cat-waisted Uighur, but only hit the mud on the roof, and the other man was hiding behind the barrier, and he could not see him now.

"Damn it."

Huang Taiji bent down to change ammunition as he tried to find a place to jump, but a Uighur also climbed up on his side. Huang Taiji didn't wait for him to gain a firm foothold, and smashed the shotgun with a round shotgun.

Maybe it's because the strength is too much. Even though he knocked the guy down, the shotgun fell with him, and now he only had a short gun and ten bullets.

Taking a deep breath, Huang Taiji jumped over the roof with a run, just in time to see a Uighur on the other side with his back to him, grinning and ready to pounce on Qulandam - at this moment, Huang Taiji shot him in the back of the heart—"There is an old Chinese saying that the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind." He pulled up Gulandam: "Go, while they are dizzy, let's run." ”

Gulandam ran with him to the outside of the town, where there were several tall horses that were left untended, and each of them snatched one, flicked the reins, and galloped away.

I ran out for more than ten miles in one breath and came across a small stream. They stopped, and Huang Taiji jumped off his horse to give the horse a drink. Gulandam looked back in the direction of the city of Keno, and saw that there was already a fire burning there, and even though it was so far away, she still seemed to be able to feel the heat rolling in, and the cries of women and children in the city shook the sky.

"What should we do next?"

The girl suddenly sobbed, she no longer had the composure and wit she had just had, and it seemed that the courage of the whole escape had been exhausted. She cried in the direction of Keno City, which was blazing in the sky, and I don't know if it was for herself, for the innocents of Keno City, or for the sake of her former people.

Huang Taiji washed his face with the water of the stream, and he meditated on the map of the vicinity: there seemed to be no prefecture-level cities within a hundred to one hundred and fifty miles in the vicinity, and the largest city to the east was Naren.

He asked Gulandam if he knew if there was a garrison nearby, and Gulandam also cried and shook her head, she was just an ordinary herdsman's daughter, she had only been to the town once or twice, and she had no impression of what was around her, not to mention that their location was far beyond her world.

"Then we can only walk east first." Huang Taiji wanted to find the nearest garrison, but unfortunately this was the Great Xia Kingdom, and his advantage as an officer of the Liao State was useless at all.

After a short rest, the two began to march east, and on the way they met a group of pilgrims, who were Buddhists from Anxi to Samarkand, and Huang Taiji warned them that the road ahead was dangerous, but these optimist pilgrims happily said that it was "just a little test of the Buddha", but a few of the servants they hired were so frightened that they would not leave after hearing about the massacre rendered by Gulandam. Huang Taiji took the opportunity to encourage them: "Why don't you go to Naren with me, and I will give you double your wages when you get there."

After deceiving the porters with rhetoric, Huang Taiji and the others asked the porters to lead the way and went to the nearest market town, Ximu Town. There he left Gulandam behind—he inquired with the mayor that there was a Xia army station not far away. Their address is kept secret, but every two or three days, the Firehead would come to town in a cart to buy goods and deliver mail. Huang Taiji left Gulandam behind, hoping that she could get in touch with the Xia army in time, and it was best to report the matter to the general headquarters of the Kingdom Army.

With two porters, as well as supplies replenished in the town, Huang Taiji rushed to Naren City, who knew that on the way he encountered a group of white bandits to beat him in an ambush, the two useless porters were riding horses and running fast, and the white bandits also thought that this chubby old man was a rich fat sheep, probably with the intention of tying him up, so he did not kill him.

"Fluke, fluke." Huang Taiji rode on the horse and smiled happily, but he really had a bit of the style of the rich man Bayi. Several Tajik eagles were interested in his intelligence, urging him to lead the way.

Huang Taiji took them to find the place where they were ambushed, and immediately sighed with emotion: "Fortunately, it's just a group of bandits, if the opponent organizes a little, a certain person will die here!" ”

Cheng Qi thought secretly: "If you die, it's not a good thing." ”

The Tajik cavalry searched the scene and said, "It's just a small group of bandits, not a large group of Uighurs." ”

Huang Taiji said: "This rebellion will not be small, it should be reported to your high command and the deployment of troops should be coordinated." I just have one concern right now. ”

"Uncle, what are you worried about?"

"I'm worried that Xia Juncheng has been peaceful for a long time, after all, this is the mainland, and both the officials and the armament nerves have been relaxed. If they misjudge the situation and think that it is just a few herdsmen joking, then when the matter is big, they want to cover the lid again, I am afraid that once the grassland is turbulent, it will spark the prairie fire. ”

Huang Yang didn't think much of what he said, but Cheng Qi knew that this was a first-class military strategist and politician in the world. There must be a reason why he can make such an analysis.

Huang Taiji said to the three Tajik rangers: "Several, the current situation is not trivial. We must get to Naryn as soon as possible, as there is only a telegraph office there to contact your command. ”

The three Rangers exchanged glances, "We can escort you to Naryn." ”

Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief, but the next words of the three rangers made him feel cold in his heart: "But, when you get there, we are going to send you to prison." ”

said that it was too late, it was fast, Zhang Qian pulled Huang Taiji down with a grappling hand, and Zhao Jiayu brought a rope to tie him up strongly: "You dog spy of the Liao Kingdom, you look good when you arrive in Nalun!" ”

Is Huang Taiji a spy or not? This is obviously obvious. The Rangers searched his small leather bag for suspicious notebooks and contour maps - although the cavalry did not recognize many words and could not read the Khitan script that few people used, they had all seen contour maps, and ordinary tourists or business travelers would not carry such things out of the house.

Huang Taiji was bound hand and foot, and staggered on horseback to Ximu Town, as the name suggests, this is a small town located on the banks of a stream, surrounded by dense forests, and the population of the whole town is only about a hundred people. Huang Taiji was dragged to the town office by the rangers, and the daughter of the mayor's family went out to see, and before she could say hello to the rangers, she shouted: "Isn't this Mr. Huang?" How do you ......?"

"Caught a Liao dog spy." Zhang Qian said smugly: "Do you still raise pigs in the pig cage in your backyard?" If he is free, put him in first. ”

So, in the midst of a series of protests, the dignified Guards officer Aixin Jueluo Huang Taiji, who was really as his name, was put in a pig cage and became neighbors with an old sow and a dozen piglets.

Cheng Qi kindly sent him a bowl of water: "Uncle, you are a carpenter with a flail - you are self-inflicted." ”

Huang Taiji sat in the pig cage and said with a wry smile: "It is right to oppose Liao, and it is also right to exclude heretics. When two right things collide, it's up to them to choose. ”

Huang Yang also came, he had a good impression of his "own family", but he couldn't bear to see him lose his life here. He asked, "If we want to save you, who should we turn to for help?" ”

Huang Taiji said: "If you want to save me, unless it is the nobles of the Xia Kingdom who help, but you are not familiar with life here, and you are also powerless." Hey, it's okay, it's just sitting in a pig cage, and when I get to Naren, I'll ask for a fair trial, and I have the right to ask for a lawyer, and I have the right to ask for a defense. This is not a problem, in fact, I am still worried that this rebellion will become a big trouble because of the carelessness of the Xia people. ”