Chapter 3: A Hot Night
Under the starry sky, in addition to the noise of the Hun barracks and the light of the torches, there were also women in dishevelled clothes who ran out of the sheep sticky tent crying from time to time, and the whole world was in a gloomy place, and the darkness that the torches could not illuminate, it was like a sinking beast, like a very restless beast that would be restless at any time and swallow people. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Han Dynasty began to set up border counties from Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and most of the areas near the grassland were uninhabited, and some were just short loess slopes, and the slope height was less than a zhang. It may be that the border people also have the habit of grazing, there are not many water meadows, if you stand on a high place to look, you can see the yellow sand and thick soil everywhere, the border county lacks the woods to block the wind, and the wind is full of yellow sand.
The whistling yellow sand fluttered on the Han men who were tied, and the night began to become hot, I don't know whether it was the yellow sand sultry, or the yellow sand, the Han men who were originally gathered together slowly dispersed, and the sound of the thin 'huo' rubbing the ground could be heard everywhere, and the air was filled with restless breath, and the thin sound of the straw rope being untied became more and more frequent.
Dou Shiyan pushed Lin Bin with his shoulder, lowered his voice and said, "A lot of people will die tonight." Apparently, he had noticed the movement around him, and his voice became a little shaky because of excitement or worry.
Lin Bin was originally recuperating with his eyes closed, but when he heard Dou Shiyan's call, he opened his eyes and sighed without speaking.
Dou Shiyan asked confusedly: "Why are you doing this?" If someone runs first, it will cause imitation, and if there are many people, they will be chaotic, and make a living in chaos, isn't this the best opportunity for us to escape? ”
Lin Bin still didn't speak, he looked at the people around him who looked nervous, and with a slight force of his arms, he broke the straw rope tied to his body, and then helped Dou Shiyan untie the restraints, and pushed the little scholar Sima Tong who was lying next to him, asking him to wake up the others.
Lin Bin counted the Hun soldiers who were keeping vigil, and also observed that a Hun patrol would pass by every twenty minutes or so, and he knew that what Dou Shiyan said was the truth.
"Wait a minute, listen to me, I didn't let me move, don't move, lie firmly on the ground!"
Dou Shiyan was really excited, he clenched his fists and nodded vigorously, seeing Lin Bin pull up his trousers and pull out a dagger from his calf, but he was stunned.
Sima Tong and the other five people had different faces, except for two of the five people who were expressionless, and the four people, including Sima Tong, were full of fear.
The hot calm lasted less than an hour, and a hurried Xiongnu voice suddenly sounded from the other end of the Han garrison, and as soon as the voice fell, the terrible screams frequently resounded through the night sky.
When the screams fell, the whole camp was silent, and then the hot air seemed to be stimulated by the screams, and the Han men who were bound suddenly rioted, they stood up and shouted as if they were suddenly frightened, like a group of lost lambs with no sense of direction, and some people were knocked down, and in a moment they were trampled by the rioting crowd.
The horns of the Huns began to sound from all directions, and the Hun barracks on the right side of the camp also sounded the horns in response, but for a while the Hun cavalry did not come out, on the contrary, there was chaos in the barracks, and the screams of women were everywhere.
"Run! The Huns won't let us go, everyone run! This is not someone else shouting, but Dou Shiyan who was lying on the ground suddenly raised his head to add fuel to the fire, and he and the other six people were lying next to the sheepfold. Lin Bin stood beside them, once someone was squeezed to lean over, they were all blocked by Lin Bin and carried and thrown out.
After more and more people wanted to escape, the riot turned into chaos, and Lin Bin was no longer able to stop the crowd that was squeezing over alone, "Dou Shiyan, Lu Wu Zuomu, get up and help me!" He looked back and found that there were only two Huns left in the northeast direction, who were supposed to be five people, one of the two Huns stood with a knife and a fierce look, while the other was holding an arrow and opening a bow.
"A certain family is here, brother, don't panic!" The loud voice Dou Shiyan jumped up from the ground, roared loudly and punched the person who was squeezed close, the person was punched in the chest, and he opened his mouth to vomit blood and softened on the ground with a 'uh', which shows Dou Shiyan's great strength. Before Dou Shiyan could finish laughing, an arrow shot out and hit his left arm, piercing the flesh with a 'poof' sound, Dou Shiyan's body fell to the ground in pain, and he was immediately drowned in the crowd.
Lin Bin turned around and saw the scene of the Hun soldiers shooting arrows, he originally wanted to wait for the chaos to be a little bigger before acting, seeing that the Hun soldiers had already moved, he knew that it was useless to continue to wait, and then saw Dou Shiyan fall to the ground with an arrow, because the vision was too dark to see where the arrow was, he thought that Dou Shiyan was shot to death, and roared in anger and turned around and kicked towards the wooden fence, in order to attract the attention of the Hun soldiers and the chaotic crowd.
The wooden stake was not deep in the ground, and it was pulled up in a row and collapsed under Lin Bin's foot force, and the chaotic crowd saw that the wooden fence on this side had fallen, regardless of the Hun soldiers in front of them, and Qi Qi was about to squeeze here.
Lin Bin dodged the arrows shot by the Huns, "Lu Wu Zuomu protects them, follow me ......" The person who was called by Lin Bin as Lu Wu Zuomu was not a Hu person, he was a real Han man, this person rarely spoke, but he had a fierce momentum, and in the chaos, Lin Bin could only ask him to protect Sima Tong and others.
Lin Bin hurried towards Dou Shiyan, who fell to the ground, and when he got closer, he saw that it was his left arm that was hit by the arrow, but there were many footprints on his body, and he was crying out in pain, and his heart was relieved, "Brother Dou ......"
Dou Shiyan grinned and shouted in pain, and was helped up by Lin Bin, "Damn it...... Fuck the Huns! Fucking bastard who tramples on Lao Tzu! He pointed to the arrow that pierced his left arm, "Brother Lin, there are Hun arrows in a certain family, I'm afraid I can't escape, you can quickly escape with Brother Sima and the others!" ”
Lin Bin ignored Dou Shiyan, and picked him up and approached Lu Wu Zuomu and Sima Tong and the others. As far as the eye could see, the two Huns were already lying beside the Han Chinese who had been hacked to death, and one of the Huns was about to untie the 'antlers' (that is, the horns of the ox, but at that time they were called antlers) and blew the trumpet for help.
Lin Bin knew that once the Hun soldiers blew the trumpet, the other Hun soldiers would definitely come over soon: "Stop him at all costs!" ”
Lin Bin ignored Dou Shiyan behind him, squatted down to pick up the stones on the ground, and threw them hard at the Hun soldiers who were blowing the trumpet for help, fortunately, the distance was not far, and the Hun soldiers who were about to blow the trumpet for help were hit on the head by the stone and fell to the ground with a bang. After doing all this, Lin Bin squatted down again and helped Dou Shiyan, who was scolding, up, "Let's go, let's go, don't follow the crowd, run to a dark place!" ”
The scene of tens of thousands of people squeezing together to escape is very chaotic, the wooden fence of the sheepfold has many places where they are squeezed down, the fleeing crowd risks being hacked to death by the Hun soldiers, rushing to the Huns who are standing with their swords drawn, one was cut down, more people took advantage of the gap that the Huns could not retract the momentum and fled, God knows why they were only cut down, did not unite to drown the Huns?
The number of Huns escorting Hannu was originally only more than 1,000 people, and there were even fewer Hun soldiers who arranged to guard Hannu, so many people could not take care of the whole situation at all, which is why Lin Bin was confident that he could escape.
The Huns in the barracks were busy dividing up the property among the women, perhaps the Huns had forgotten their human nature, and once they knew that they would die and the instinct to resist them, they had always thought that the Han people were a group of docile sheep, and they never thought that the captive Han people would dare to try to escape, but they did not react when the riots intensified.
In the chaos, Lin Bin's eight people were stumbled into the crowd, they couldn't control the direction and could only move with the crowd, and unconsciously rushed towards the direction guarded by the Huns, Sima Tong was crying helplessly; The arrow on Dou Shiyan's left arm had not yet been pulled out, and he was hit by the crowd on the shaft of the arrow, and his heart hurt so much that he almost fainted; Lin Bin took advantage of his height to stare at the Hun soldier in front of him who was pulling out his sword and chopping the Han people fiercely.
"It's close, it's close...... Kill him, you can't let him pick up the horn and call for help! Lin Bin didn't know that he was not breathing now, he tensed the muscles on his body, and his right hand held the dagger tightly, five steps away from the Hun soldiers......
The closer to the Huns, the more sparse they became, Lin Bin violently pushed away the Han people in front of him, took a big step forward, tilted his upper body to avoid the scimitar chopped off by the Hun soldiers, and the right hand holding the dagger clenched into a fist and hit the ground, squatting down and clamping the scimitar from the Hun soldiers under his left armpit, and then the pain came from the left ribs, he hurriedly turned around to prevent the whole arm from being dismembered, and waved the dagger of the right arm 'poof' to stab the heart of the Hun soldiers, a series of actions flowed smoothly, and Sima Tong who watched it did not forget to praise in a panic: "What a warrior!" ”
The corpse of the Hun soldier fell to the ground, Lin Bin inserted the dagger into the waist of his trousers, reached out to hold the handle of the scimitar clamped on the left rib, touched his fingers, and the camouflage suit on the left rib was cut by the blade, and he couldn't help but snort when he touched the wound, and he knew a little more about the strength of the Hun soldiers in his heart. He was just about to bend down to untie the water bag on the belt of the Hun soldiers, but he heard a rapid horn sound......
At this time, the Hun barracks guarding the northeast direction finally moved, dozens of horsemen roared out, these Hun cavalry were dressed in disorder, most of them were put on their bodies at random, obviously just in * women and children. They divided into three waves and chased the Han people who ran in the direction of the south, and for some reason, they only sent less than ten horsemen to chase the Han people who fled to the direction of the grassland.
Lin Bin cut the rope that was tied to the dead water bag and pinned the armed belt around his waist, took out a bag of something from the arms of the Hun soldiers, and hurriedly pointed to the northeast and ran, "Let's go that way." Lu Wu Zuomu followed closely behind with Dou Shiyan on his back, Sima Tong shouted for Lin Bin to wait for him, and the other four looked at the direction of the prairie with some hesitation, and their running speed slowed down.
"There are 100,000 iron horsemen of the Huns over there, and there is only one way to escape there!"
"Do you know what it means to die and then live! That's what Martial Saint Sun Wu said! Didn't you see that the iron horsemen of the Huns were chasing to the south? Dou agrees with Brother Lin's words, let's go in the direction of the grassland! ”
"I won't go with you, I want to go back to the Han Kingdom, the grassland is the grassland of the Huns, we can't hide, there is either a desert or a swamp, and people who are not familiar with it are dead! Even if I die, I will die in my homeland! ”
Lin Bin's running speed did not slow down, and gradually opened some distance from them, seeing that Lu Wu Zuomu was not running fast with Dou Shiyan on his back, he turned back and snatched Dou Shiyan from Lu Wu Zuomu and put it on his back, "Lu Wu Zuomu looked at Sima Tong, don't let him lose it." Others ......, feel free to do so! After speaking, he ran wildly again, now time is life, his goal is more than 100 meters away in the northeast side of the pitch dark, as long as he can not enter the darkness before the Huns chase, at least before dawn can temporarily avoid the Huns' pursuers.
In the end, there were still three people who turned around and ran to the south, but the first person who said that he was unwilling to flee in the direction of the grassland followed closely behind Lin Bin and them.
Dou Shiyan's personality was straightforward, and he sneered: "Aren't you going to die in the Great Han Kingdom?" Why did you come along!? He was carried by Lin Bin, and his face was not red or out of breath when he spoke.
The man was originally reluctant to answer, but when he saw Lin Bin, he also looked back at him curiously, and replied angrily: "You are a rough man who still understands 'as for death and then life', how can I, a person who is familiar with military books, not know the truth of 'more death, less life'!" He was still able to raise his hand and bow while running, "Lin Zhuangshi, in the next generation of the county prince Sun Hong, I hope to take more care of it in the future!" ”
Lin Bin smiled bitterly, he didn't know if he could survive, how could he care about a stranger who hadn't said a word? It doesn't matter whether Gongsun Hong can see it or not, he nodded a little in response. At this time, they were only less than ten meters away from the complete darkness, and behind them, the constant sound of the Huns' horns, and the terrible screams of the horses' hooves resounded through the sky......
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