Chapter 139: Captive

"Are you deaf?" Seeing that Acton didn't pay attention to him at all, Naransagai became even angrier, and he grabbed Acton's shoulder: "You are a beggar and charming Aha, why do you command us to work? ”

"It's getting late, the nest is still two miles from here, and the nights are long and dreamy, do you think I should be allowed to wash my prey?" Acton replied with a blank face. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Hearing Acton's answer, Naransagai was stunned, only Acton knew where the marmots were nesting, and none of them had more hunting experience than him. If he were to pick up his prey, I am afraid that no one present would agree. He had to let go of Acton's shoulders and sneered, "Okay, I'll go with you too!" ”

"No, Naransagai, you stay!"

"What? Do you look down on me? Naransagai's brow furrowed dangerously again.

"As I said, I need someone who can keep my mouth shut. This thing has very smart ears, and if you scream like you, you don't know where to go. Besides, you just said that I am an ahha, you must not want to listen to my orders, the most taboo thing about this hunting is that the orders are inconsistent, if there is a person in charge, you also have to go, so who is in charge? ”

Naransagay watched Acton choose someone to go with him in the crowd, and when his name was called, he stood up with joy, his chest bursting with anger, but there was nothing he could do. He knew very well that in the eyes of everyone, Acton was much more important than himself, and if he wanted to go against him, everyone would side with Acton, and he would definitely suffer in the end. He had to suppress the anger in his chest, sat down, and thought to himself: "A gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late, one day I will make you look good!" ”

Naransagai's every move, Acton watched. He didn't bother to bother with the other party at this time, after all, now that he was living one day at a time, he might be cut off by the pursuers to receive a reward, even if he could return to the Jurchens alive, just by losing the sin of Hauge, his best fate would be to be beaten back to his original form, and he would become Aha for the rest of his life, and he would never be able to turn over.

Acton picked up his assistants and went to the mound, and he asked them to gather some firewood and grass around the mound himself, and in a short time he found seven holes. By this time the people had already made a lot of hay, and Acton had woven seven or eight nets out of straw, and covered them at the entrance of the cave, and told each of them to watch the entrance of the cave, and to be careful, and then he took two bundles, and put them beside a cave, and set them on fire. Smoke suddenly rose from the lit firewood and grass, and Acton fanned his robe vigorously and blew the smoke inside. Soon there was a movement in the cave, and a marmot burst out of the hole and crashed headlong into the net. Before it could struggle, the man who had been waiting for a long time grabbed it and broke its neck.

After a while, more than a dozen marmots rushed out of the cave, only two escaped in a hurry, and the rest fell into prey. These Jurchens couldn't help but cheer when they saw the fat marmots next to them. Acton had seen that the marmots had not come out for a long time, and knew that there were no more marmots in them, so he dug the cave with a wooden stick, and swept away the dozens of kilograms of grass seeds, grass roots and other food that the marmots were preparing to spend the winter in the cave.

When Acton and they returned to camp with their harvest, it was already a golden Ushi. Marmots were skillfully skinned and disemboweled, cleaned, and roasted on a fire with twigs, and made soup with grass seeds and wild herbs and fat. Although there is no salt or condiments, it is already extremely delicious in the mouths of the people who have not touched the meat for more than ten days, and Acton is full of praise for the food.

"There is the sound of horses' hooves!" Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the mound, and chaos erupted in the camp. It turned out that these defeated soldiers were in the enemy territory, and maintained a high level of vigilance, leaving a secret sentry in the high place, and just saw two horsemen going to the west, apparently just saw the smoke coming over, and found that this group of defeated soldiers went back to ventilate the news.

"What to do? Found out by a barbarian? ”

"Do you want to run?"

"yes, put out the fire, bring the rest of the food, and we'll split up!"

"Fool, you are sending us to death, after we disperse, people will catch us like rabbits and hang us one by one!"

"Then stay and fight, and get a few cushions!"

"Fight? Just a few of us? How many bows, how many arrows, fight with your bare hands? ”

Soon, from discussion to quarrel, from quarrel to push, from push to fight, these days the warriors who have won all battles have become gutter rats fleeing in all directions, everyone's heart is holding a fire, what just happened is like a spark, falling on the dry firewood and grass, and suddenly burning.

"Don't fight, don't fight, they're all flesh and blood brothers who ride the same horse and drink the same river water, isn't it too stupid to kill each other at this time?" A voice calmed the crowd, and they looked at the man who spoke, but it was Naransagai. One asked, "Naransagai, what do you say we should do now?" ”

"I say?" Naransagai rolled his eyes, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Acton sitting on the ground, gulping down wild vegetable porridge, as if he hadn't heard or seen the fight and quarrel just now. He had an idea, walked over to Acton's side, and pulled him up: "Acton, what do you say should be done?" ”

Acton was suddenly pulled up, with a dazed look on his face, he looked at Naransagai, and found that the other party's eyes were full of pride, and immediately understood that this guy wanted to deliberately make himself ugly. He was about to say goodbye, but he heard someone shout, "Yes, I want to hear what the Acton brothers think!" ”

"Okay, Acton, tell me, what should I do now?"

"Yes, everyone is out of recruits now, Acton, you can get an idea!"

Unexpectedly, everyone did not disagree with Naransagai's suggestion, on the contrary, the vast majority of people cast an expectant gaze on Acton, which was inconceivable in the past, many of these white-armored soldiers are noble children, and some are even a "Jueluo", if in normal times they definitely do not ask a charming descendant of a beggar like this, but the environment is the most educational, the cruel escape life quickly smoothed the identity boundaries between people, Actun is a beggar with a charming background, However, in the grassland, Jueluo's identity cannot be exchanged for a piece of meat and a mouthful of soup, but the hunting skills left to him by the beggar charm can find grass roots and marmots. Perhaps after they escape from the steppe and return to the artificially established class society of the Houjin Kingdom, the original identity boundaries will be re-established, but at this time, most people are still more willing to give their trust to this beggar charm.

"Acton, everyone is waiting for you, don't put up a fight!"

Seeing Naransagai's angry purple face, Acton suddenly felt the urge to laugh, what could be more pleasant than the enemy who always looked down on you had to bow his head to you? He forced himself to laugh, walked to a small mound, and said to the people: "Since everyone wants me to speak, I will say two sentences, but before I have a request, since you want me to speak, then let me finish." No one can interrupt me in the middle of the process, if you promise me, I'll speak, if not, forget it! ”

"That's natural, if anyone doesn't let you finish, I'll break his legs!"

"Yes, how can there be no one who doesn't let people talk, it's all at this time!"

"Acton, don't worry, just say it!"

Seeing that everyone agreed, Acton nodded: "Since everyone believes in me Acton, then I will say a few words." Now there are no more than three paths before us: run, fight, and drop. Run, everyone has seen it, we don't have a horse now, in this vast prairie, how can two legs run more than four legs? And we are not even familiar with this road, we only know that we should go east, but even if we can run past a four-legged war horse and come to the edge of the Yellow River, how can we cross the river? Do you swim past? ”

Hearing Acton say this, everyone's faces became ugly, in fact, most of the Jurchens can basically swim, but now it is early winter, the early winter in the grassland outside the Saiwai is not a joke, the cold current in the north of the Saibei is a common thing to cool down more than ten degrees Celsius in one night, swimming across the Yellow River in this climate is not much different from suicide, in the seventeenth century, there is no cold spirit and Contec sustained-release capsules, but the cold will become pneumonia.

"Then let's fight, it's all a death anyway, and you can still get a cushion!"

"Okay, then I'll talk about fighting." Acton replied, "There are forty-two of us, how many knives do we have?" How many spears? How many bows? How many arrows? How many people have armor? Everyone is also an old soldier, how many do you think you can get backs? ”

"Acton, you mean to descend?" Nalan Sagai's face was pale, his eyes showed a fierce light, he pulled out the dagger on his waist, and scolded viciously: "Dogs are not as charming as beggars, I really didn't read it wrong, I want to dig out your heart to see if it's red!" He cursed as he rushed towards Acton, but only after taking two steps was the man who rushed next to him threw him to the ground and snatched the dagger down.

"Let go of me, I'm going to kill this beggar dog!" Naransagai cursed as he struggled.

"Naransagai, we promised to let Acton finish anyway, a manly man can't talk and don't count!"

"You want to listen to this kind of? Let go of me! ”

"If you listen to it, there won't be a piece of meat, you have to move again, don't blame us for being rude!"

Naransagai felt that the strength of the hands of the two people behind him was getting heavier and heavier, and he knew that if he continued to insist, the other party would break his arm, and sneered: "You let go of me, I won't embarrass him!" ”

Hearing Naransagai answer, the two men behind him let go of their hands and let him stand up, but they didn't return the dagger to Naransagai. Naransagai snorted coldly, and didn't ask for it, so he found a corner and sat down, staring at Acton coldly with a pair of eyes, like a ghost.

"Naransagay says I'm a beggar dog, but I ask you, didn't I fight to the death that day? Didn't I lead the soldiers to break through the enemy's chariot camp and attract the Mongols, who were several times our size? Even after the defeat and capture of the Great Baylor, we fought to the death until we were crushed by the terrible ironclad cavalry after dawn. Naransagai I ask you, in my position, can you do better than me? ”

In the face of Acton's questioning, Naransagai did not answer, but just stared at Acton hatefully. Everyone in the room was nodding slightly, Acton's battle that night was obvious to all, and many of the survivors could testify for him, he fought until the last moment, until the final collapse of the flow of people carried him away, which was beyond human power.

"If I have to say that I am at fault, it is that I should have died on the battlefield, but since the enemy's guns, swords, hooves and spears did not kill me, should I cut my own neck? As a soldier, I've done everything I can and should do, so all that's left for me to do is to think about surviving and living as well as I can. ”

"Beggar charming dog, you don't know what the honor of a Jurchen warrior is!" This time Naransagai didn't shut up, he scolded fiercely, and spat on the ground.

"Yes, I am a beggar charmer, just as you are a Yeh." Acton sneered: "I was captured by the old Khan, became Ahha, and became a white-armored soldier through my martial arts and courage; You Yeh people were also defeated by the old Khan and became banner people, except for the low point of origin, I don't see any difference between the beggar charm and the Yeh people. If we can talk about honor, if we can escape back, what awaits us is an axe, and your wife and children will be reduced to Ahha, could it be that this is the honor of the Jurchen warriors you are talking about? ”

"Youβ€”" This time Naransagai could no longer refute Actun's sharp words, as he said, even if they were lucky enough to escape the pursuit of the Mongol cavalry, and still swim across the Yellow River without dying of illness, they were also greeted by harsh military law when they returned to Houjinβ€”they lost Hauge, the eldest son of the Great Khan, the future heir to the throne. Even the most optimistic would not think that they would get away with military justice, but no one would think that it had anything to do with the honor of the samurai.

"If we resist to the death, most of us will still survive and become slaves. We have no weapons, most of our bodies are weakened by lack of food and clothing, and the enemy only needs to kill a few people to crush us and capture what is left of us. In the face of fate, the bravest heroes must also bow their heads, and Lao Khan has also been a slave of Li Chengliang, why not surrender to them in exchange for a better treatment? (To be continued.) )