The inner city is more tightly guarded than the outer city, the snow on the street has also been swept away, the buildings along the walled wall are much taller and more majestic, Shi Xin came all the way, knowing that many of the big houses on both sides are the yamen of the inner city, and there are soldiers standing at the door, he looks down on these barbarians in his heart, what is the white flag yamen is just a blue brick house, the main hall is only three bays, but it can't reach the gatehouse of ordinary large families in Liaoyang, but when he passes by a yamen, the verdict may come down, and a team of soldiers carrying a prisoner dragged out, Press in front of the courtyard door, the prisoner knelt in frustration, and after a while, another official came out and announced the verdict, saying all in Yi language, Shi Xin didn't understand, but after the official finished speaking, one person pulled the prisoner's braid, and the other person pulled out his waist knife, and the straight and sharp long knife flashed with cold light, and then the kneeling man suddenly didn't speak Yi language, but he spoke Chinese, and sobbed loudly, Shi Xin listened to a few words, but it was this person who missed his parents, wife and children, and said a few words, the Yi soldier who stood with horizontal eyebrows suddenly took out a knife, the knife flashed, and the human head was suddenly cut off to the ground, Blood splattered on the snow-white ground, and it looked particularly shocking.

"Haha, die Nikan, in the black camp, he still refuses to serve with peace of mind, says some strange things, and deserves to be beheaded."

The Jurchen general should know the inside story of this matter, it was really the Han people who were beheaded, but after the service of Jin very early, he served for many years, in recent years, Nuerhachi used troops against the Ming Dynasty, and the Han soldiers and even the Han officers and generals under each banner were some unstable, and this person was beheaded should be quite related to the undercurrent surging within the Jurchens in the past two years.

The so-called black battalion soldiers can also be called black flag soldiers, Nuerhachi had a black flag at the beginning, and later changed to eight banners, the black flag or black camp became the name of the Han military camp, even if there are a small number of soldiers of various tribes in the battalion, it is mainly Han soldiers.

The black battalion soldiers were mostly discriminated against, judging from the later Manchu old files, there were Han gunners in the black battalion soldiers, and cotton armor would also be issued, but it was clearly stipulated that the new armor made by each Niu Lu was returned to the Manchurian army, and the old armor was eliminated to the black battalion. In the era of the old slaves, the number of people in the armor of each Niu Lu was about 100, and the maximum mobilization was about 200, and the Eight Banners could mobilize the main force to add more than 60,000 people, mainly because of the large number of Han soldiers under the banners, and in the later period of the Mandate of Heaven, the old slaves were too jealous of the Han people, and most of the Han soldiers were driven out, and the mobilization ability of the Eight Banners dropped sharply.

The current Jurchens are also very suspicious and wary of the Han people, at least from the reaction of this general to the matter in front of them.

Shi Xin felt a pang of sorrow in his heart, if he wasn't forced to flee, why would he fall into such a dangerous situation in front of him.

The messenger took him all the way, and after a while he came to a huge courtyard, which was not far from the Khan's palace in the center, and there were several guards in silver armor standing at the gate, these guards were all about thirty years old, and they were all dressed in dazzling iron armor with silver light, and they wore double-inserted bow bags and throwing bags, long knives and short knives were stuck in their waists, and they also held weapons such as tiger tooth guns or long knives in their hands. Even the Jurchen general was very scared, and whispered: "This is in front of the Sanbeile house, and these are his white tooth guards in front of you, you have to be careful of your head." ”

Shi Xin was even more frightened in his heart, and his body bowed even more, a white-armored leader walked over and said in stiff Chinese: "Is this the person in front of you?" ”

The general cautiously replied, "Yes, this is the man who claims to know about the attack on the caravan." ”

Shi Xin had already knelt down at this time, the white-armored leader glanced at him, Shi Xin happened to meet his eyes, and found that this person's eyes were slightly yellow, just like the fierce beasts he had encountered when hunting with people in the dense forest, indifferent and emotionless, only containing a deep killing intent, Shi Xin was frightened and quickly lowered his head, not daring to look at it again.

"You Nikan come with me, the master of the Three Belles is very busy, if you dare to talk nonsense, I will cut off your head in a while."

Shi Xin hurriedly replied: "The small words are true, and I will never dare to make them up." ”

The white-armored leader ignored him, there were more than ten big houses side by side from the main gate to the middle, but Shi Xin was not led in, the two walked around in this compound, Shi Xin didn't dare to look left and right, and honestly lowered his head to follow, but the corner of his eye swept to find that the courtyard was full of bows, vests, stomachs, and various weapons, scattered everywhere, some bannermen looked like they were constantly wiping armor and weapons, and several huge bows and arrows were disassembled, and the bowstrings were taken down for maintenance, in addition to the weapons and armor battles, There is horse manure everywhere in the courtyard and on the side of the road, and there is a pungent smell everywhere, the people here don't seem to feel anything, everyone is busy doing their own things, most of these people's faces and hands are frozen red, and they still seem to be doing nothing, and even some people's robes are made of animal skins, and the inside is naked, seeing Shi Xin coming, these people all look at it, and their eyes are extremely fierce, Shi Xin only feels that he is walking in a group of fierce beasts, and his heart is extremely afraid.

When he arrived at the bottom of a building, the white armor head took the lead, then turned down again, and said to Shi Xin: "Brother Sanbeile and Abatai, Xiuri is here, you can go up and talk honestly." ”

Shi Xin didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly climbed upstairs, the Jurchens like the building very much, they can climb high and look far away, and they can also isolate the cold, of course, this is the preference of the nobles, ordinary banner people and middle and lower class aristocratic officials do not have the ability to build high-rise buildings, even if the Baylors of all sizes at this time, there are not many people who can have the financial resources to build buildings.

This building is also very simple, but the ground on the second floor is covered with thick blankets, there is no blanket in the middle part, a bonfire rises on the cold sky, a pot hangs on the top, bursts of aroma waft out of the pot, snow-white mushrooms and mutton rise and fall in the white broth, a few men with shaved heads are wearing blue or black robes, bareheaded, and are eating very happily around the pot.

"The villain knocks on the three Baylors, the elder brother, and the grandfather."

Shi Xin has a very good memory, but he doesn't know the taboo of the Jurchens, and he didn't dare to call out the full names of each person, he lay on the ground and kowtowed, and he didn't know how many times he kowtowed.

The three people who ate and drank ignored him, Shi Xin lay on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head, only heard the sound of sucking and sucking and drinking, and he was also very hungry in his stomach, and even dizzy, but at this time he could only grit his teeth and hold on.

"What's your name?"

Someone finally asked him in Chinese, Shi Xin hurriedly reported his name and resume, and didn't wait for others to ask again.

"Well, you're pretty smart. You are Han, why do you want to invest in me? ”

The man asked just now, and there was a sense of majesty in his tone.

Shi Xin's forehead was sweating, and he hurriedly replied: "The villain saw his companion being killed with his own eyes, the person who killed my companion will never let me go, and the big family of Liaoshen who lost the convoy will not let go of the villain, except for investing a lot of money, the villain has no other way out." There is still an old lady in the villain's house, and the villain just wants to earn more silver and two to support the old lady, and the villain will never be a Ming country. ”

"Well, you get up!"

The questioner seemed satisfied, and ordered Shi Xin to get up.

Shi Xin hurriedly got up, his heart was still up and down, and he was terribly afraid.

At this time, he finally saw the three people in front of him, although the three of them were all men with pigtails, but they were obviously two Zhenyi and one Han, those two Zhenyi had small eyes and round faces, and their bodies were extremely strong, especially their arms were thick, and they knew at a glance that they were traces of long-term archery and war, and the eyes of these two people were also very indifferent, and when they looked at Shi Xin, they were like staring at dead things, both of them had scars on their faces, and the places exposed inside the jackets they wore were also covered with scars, and at a glance, they knew that they had been born and died many times in the battle array.

The person who asked the question was obviously Han, taller, thinner, and his face was much longer, and his eyes were much more flexible than those of the two Zhenyi, but the sense of coercion was much weaker.