The Song people felt that Huang Taiji was a little exaggerated, and they didn't take what he said to heart. I found a carpenter's house in the town, spent some money, bought two chickens, and then bought some local specialty mountain mushrooms and asked the mother-in-law of the main family to stew, stir-fry a few side dishes, and cook a horse intestine in white water, and eat it with relish.

After everyone was full, Shi Laoqi squatted at the door to pick his teeth, and the three strangers went to the town office to stamp the postmark as a souvenir - in such a small town, the town office almost concentrated all the administrative functions, from the maintenance of law and order to the distribution of newspapers through the mail, and the mayor's family also worked part-time as a security officer, a forest ranger, a postal brother and a scrivener, posting newspapers, paying tribute taxes and other businesses.

On the leather cover notebook of the Three Strangers, the mayor's cute daughter with long hair, a high nose, and a lot of light freckles on her face is postmarked one by one.

Guo Shan wanted to laugh with him, but a few horses galloped outside, and an officer immediately jumped down: "Oh no! There are anti-thieves! Hurry up and get ready to pack up and hide in the mountains! ”

The crowd hurried up to meet them. The mayor asked his wife to bring water to wash the faces of several military masters. The Rangers also heard the news.

One lieutenant said, "Mayor, immediately inform all the people in the town to retreat immediately - to the mountains." The Uighurs rebelled, they bloodied the city of Keno, and our army was ambushed by them. The captain ordered us to go to various towns and give orders, to enter the mountains at once, and not to stop. ”

The Rangers asked, "How many Uighurs are there?" Which team are you from? Where did you meet them? ”

The lieutenant replied, "We are a local garrison, belonging to the 154th Regiment. Yesterday the whole team set out to fight the rebels. But I didn't expect the rebels to be so numerous, and they were all charging at us frantically, and we ran out of bullets, and we couldn't stop them. In the end, our line was broken up by their cavalry. The captain gathered his troops and retreated to the northeast, and sent a small detachment to warn the surrounding villages and towns that the Uighurs were approaching in this direction and that the evacuation of the villagers must be organized immediately. ”

The rangers said, "I'll leave it to you to cover the villagers, let's go ahead and warn you—by the way, we've caught a Liao spy here, so you'd better take him with you." ”

The lieutenant asked, "Spies?" Liao? ”

The rangers described the origin of Huang Taiji's appearance. The lieutenant patted his head: "This person should be optimistic, he is a useful person." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"He's a man who can fight." The lieutenant said: "Before we set off, he had a talk with Major Qiu, but it was a pity that the major was enthusiastic to serve the country and did not listen to his advice steadily. Before his martyrdom, Major Qiu also said to the captain that if we could follow that Mr. Huang's arrangement, we might not lose this battle. ”

The lieutenant put on his military cap: "Several, you keep him, maybe it will be of any use, we have to hurry, it is inconvenient to take him with us." ”

The mayor of the town brought some dry food to the military masters, and after watching them leave, he said, "Several military masters, I will go and ring the bell now and let everyone retreat to the mountains." ”

The Ranger nodded, and gave a special order: "Bring that dog spy here." ”

Soon, the bell rang, and the three strangers also found Shi Laoqi and asked what to do. Shi Laoqi said: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, and the safest thing at the moment is to retreat to the mountains with the mountain people." The Uighur rebels only passed through and should not stay here for long. ”

Before he finished speaking, Uncle Huang's laughter came from next door: "Sure enough, he is worthy of being a Han person, and he is proud to be a turtle with a shrunken head in everything." ”

This rod has knocked over a lot of people. Even the three strangers who had a "good relationship" with him glared angrily. Huang Taiji didn't seem to care about the eyes of these people. Walked up to the mayor: "Mayor." I looked at Ximu Town, although it is not big, but there are dozens of men. Ancestors have been home here for generations, don't they want to turn in victoriously if they don't let go of a shot? Even if you go to the mountains and forests to starve for dozens of days, when you return here, you will inevitably see ruins, and it is difficult to become a home. ”

The mayor said, "What then?" You can't fight hard, can you? There are only about 150 people in our town, and even if one person kills ten, it will only kill 1,500 people. There were thousands of Uighurs. ”

Huang Taiji said: "I saw that Ximu Town was located between the valleys, and there was a gorge in front of it, which was the only place to pass here from the west, and if an obstacle was erected there, it might not be impossible for the Uighurs to make a detour. You think—the Uighurs are numerous, and if they all pour in, it will be difficult, and if we let him retreat, he will take a detour. ”

Ranger Zhao Jiayu also thought of this verse: "This road in Ximu Town is narrow and difficult to travel, and the Uighur army may not all enter the valley, if it is only a small group of enemies, we will not be without the strength to fight." ”

The mayor said: "Every family has a hunting rifle and rope, which are used to hunt in the mountains, if there are many people on the other side, they dare not say, but if it is only a small group of enemies, we occupy a favorable position, and we can still fight." ”

Huang Taiji said: "In this case, we will set the following strategy - first of all, we will ask the rangers to work hard and go out of the canyon to reconnoiter the number of Uighur invaders. Secondly, the hunters must be organized, and there will be no traps and bunkers on the road from the canyon to the town, so that they cannot easily enter the mountain. Third, it is still necessary to transfer the old, weak, sick and disabled, and settle the family members well, so that there is no worry about fighting ahead. ”

When the rangers saw that he was right, they were convinced, and they went their own way. Cheng Qi and the others saw that Huang Taiji was planning to set up his troops, and he couldn't help but feel a little moved, and wanted him to arrange an errand for himself.

After waiting for a long time, Huang Taiji didn't make a sound, just muttered with the mayor about digging a pit there and where to set it. Guo Shan waited for a long time, and he couldn't wait. jumped out and shouted: "Could it be that no one really bullied my Han family's son?" ”

Huang Yang also asked: "Since you are here, you can't sit idly by." Ximu Town is in trouble, and we and other Chinese Miao descendants must help. ”

Cheng Qixin said: Huang Taiji is a strategist, I don't know what his tactics are - forget it, you can't run away, it's better to listen to his vote here, it's not in vain.

Huang Taiji said with a smile: "The hearts of several little friends have been received by a certain family." It's just that you are all scribes and scholars, no better than Orion Rangers, and I am afraid that there will be unforeseen circumstances when you participate in the battle. ”

Huang Yang said: "Hugh has to underestimate people. We've seen it too. Besides, we also came out with guys, so we can't go back empty-handed. ”

Huang Taiji smiled: "Since this is the case, let's arrange a glorious task for a few people." ”

The three strangers were eager to try: "Dare to ask what is the task?" ”

Huang Taiji said: "The hunters in the village are scattered, you can help the old and weak to move to the mountains - no disobedience, this is a very important task." ”

Huang Yang didn't want to do it, but Guo Shan took his hand, and when he came out, he said, "I saw the mayor's girl go out with a gun on her back, why don't we go and help her." ”

Huang Yang's eyes rolled, and he said in his heart that it made sense, it was also a glorious mission to help the girls work, so the three strangers left others to help the people in the village transfer their belongings, and they followed to catch up with the freckled girl.

The mayor's girl's name is Guli, which is a very common name in the Western Regions, and along the way, the three strangers don't know how many Guli they have encountered, but each Guli is beautiful.

Gu Li walked by the stream with a gun on her back, and the three strangers hurriedly caught up with her: "Gu Li, Gu Li!" Where are you going? ”

Guli stopped and looked back at them: "I'm going to prepare some wood, it's in the forest farm over there." You're just in time to help me load all the lumber into the car. ”

Guo Shan jumped over: "Okay, what are these woods for?" ”

"Make traps, and mend the ranger's treetop hut."

Creekwood is flanked on both sides by mountain forests, and in order to prevent wildfires, there are rangers' huts at some commanding heights, and now they can be used as good sniper pads.

Guli led them to a forest farm—it was just a relatively flat piece of ground cleared out of the forest, and a relatively fast stream in the middle was left from the hill and merged into the river that flowed through the town of Creek.

There is a huge steam engine in the farm, which drives a set of hacksaws to cut logs into standard planks. Now the main figure of the four of them is to carry the planks to the wagon of the forest farm, and then drive the cart to the place designated by the mayor.

This job is simple to say, but the wooden board is really not light, Cheng Qi moved a wooden board that is one meter wide and two meters long and about five or six centimeters thick, feeling that he is going to use all his strength to breastfeed, but Gu Li seems to be very relaxed.

"You Han people eat a lot of grass, and we mountain people eat a lot of milk and meat." Gu Li didn't laugh at him, she rolled up her sleeves and showed them her biceps: "This is all practiced in the mountains." ”

"Awesome, my sister Guli." Huang Yang gasped, and together with Guo Shan, he stacked the two planks together and moved them into the car: "Move a little more, my muscles are about to explode!" ”