"Maotou, you go first, Lao Tzu will avenge you, let's see you later," roared at the ashes, the knife did not look back, and urged the horse to whip towards the Altai Mountains in the south; The three companions behind him silently glanced at the black line behind them, and galloped across their horses and followed the knife.

Maotou's death set a precedent for black-clothed guards, and also made the bloody and fierce guards have an unwritten rule, black-clothed guards either live well, or they die and have no bones, and even iron cards are rarely left.

From the beginning to the end, he was tied to a heaven-shattering thunderbolt, which was the head of the knife, and he was stimulated by the tragic death of the hairy head, and he no longer had mercy on the enemy.

The wind howled on the steppe, the dark clouds rolled, and the knife that moved forward against the wind soon found that a large group of Tartar cavalry also appeared on his left side, that is, in the east.

When it comes to equestrianism, the Tartars who grew up on the grassland are experts, and they are even better at tracking and encircling targets by taking advantage of the wind.

However, the Tartar cavalry from the north, when passing through that small minefield, suffered a lot, and did not let go of their speed to pursue the swords, but let the four third-order sergeants rush south for more than a hundred miles, and then rushed into a swamp.

The heavy rain that poured down obscured the figure of the southern mountains, and the four knives who were hobbling in the swamp, except for the older Hu Tielin, the old hunter was not injured by the gunpowder because of the horse, and the others could not even continue to walk now.

Hu Tielin is in the Galen tribe, and in two months, he killed more than 50 Tatars who attacked the tribe in a row, and the accumulation of combat exploits was recruited to Xiao Ye's personal guards, and those military households and craftsmen who were familiar with Xiao Ye earlier, as long as they couldn't catch up with the pace, Xiao Ye would not deliberately promote them because of favors.

If you have the ability, it will naturally be revealed, and if you don't have the ability, Xiao Ye will make trouble for herself if you reuse it, so it's better to go with the flow.

Hu Tielin, who was walking in front of the group, followed the grass and small trees on the edge of the quagmire, and from time to time explored the road with wooden sticks, and led everyone to a high ground in the center of the swamp in the heavy rain, surrounded by reeds that were damp and higher than their heads, and only here grew a low crooked neck willow tree.

Gathered the war horses and tied them to the willow tree, the four of them opened the two barracks tents, hurriedly set them up, and the three of them got into the knife and lay down, only Hu Tielin was guarding the lookout with a cigarette pouch in his mouth.

"Lao/Hu, I've worked hard for you tonight, I'll go back and compensate you for a lighter and add a small barrel of oil," the knife that barely opened his eyes shouted in his throat, and in the tent next to him, Lao/Hu responded happily, and then there was no movement.

Outside, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the raindrops the size of beans crackled and smashed on the tent, and the dense chaos became a dense mess; Lao Hu, who was guarding the tent alone, was already soaked after moving all the supplies and dry food on horseback outside into the tent.

Fortunately, rifle and short/gun bullets are not afraid of water, otherwise no one would have wanted to sleep tonight, and it would be too late to escape for their lives overnight. Looking out from the lookout, there was nothing to see on a dark and rainy night.

On the outskirts of the swampy area, the continuous low sound of horns in the heavy rain showed that this quagmire depression within a radius of ten miles had been surrounded by the tartars of the brigade. But once there is rain in the swamp, the brigade of Tartars will have to think carefully if they want to come in, and the bottomless quagmire everywhere is not so easy to pay.

After sleeping for more than an hour, the heavy rain outside the tent made the knife open their eyes, get up and find the medicine bag, pick up the army and swallow the water, or say that the hundred households spend money like running water, this march is a good product for the border army to heal the wounds, and it is also the only medicine for internal injuries.

The barracks tent at the bottom was closed, the small door was closed and the lookout was opened, but it was dry and warm inside, otherwise they would not even have a place to live on the high ground that had been filled with stagnant water. It's just that the dozen or so war horses suffered, so they could only stand under the willow trees and drench themselves in heavy rain, allowing the water under the horses' hooves to rise little by little.

The knives they got up to eat dry food and drink water, and the old man/Hu, who was originally vigilant, got busy, took out the remaining box of jumping mines, went out and stepped on the stagnant water without feet, and laid it out in the reeds around the highland, and it was already half an hour later.

"Alright, let's start counting the ammunition and wiping the weapons," in the tent, the knife became more and more hoarse, making the old man who was wiping his head frown, but now it seems that the three of them can still support it, but they don't know how long they will have to raise it when they go back.

Lighting up the small and sturdy wind lantern, under the dim light, the materials in the two tents were quickly counted, there were three hundred rifle bullets, two hundred and ten short/gun bullets, eight earth-shattering thunders, four crossbows, eight short arrows, eighty arrow magazines, and one waist knife and hunting knife.

There were still seven or eight bags of dried meat and milk wine seized, enough for them to eat for a while.

But with a small amount of ammunition, if they didn't rush back to the burial site, they wouldn't be able to resist the Tartars' pursuit.

After wiping the weapon, the knife took out his pocket watch and looked at it, lay down on the felt carpet and fell asleep for a moment, and then looked at the watch again; Finally caught the time, he found a small black bag and opened it, and he put on earthy yellow earmuffs.

After listening for a while, the knife regularly blew the letter whistle a few times, repeated more than ten times, shook his head and took off the earmuffs, here is still a hundred and ten miles away from the Altai Mountains, and the contact distance of the letter whistle is too short.

Thousands of Tartar cavalry surrounded the swamp, and with the weapons in their hands, even if a single shot could kill a Tartar, the swarming Tartars would cut them into pulp.

As long as the rain stops, then their limit is approaching.

Called Lao Hu, Dongshan, and Pingxing together, the four of them crowded into the tent, listening to the sound of raindrops above their heads, everyone looked at the wind lantern next to their legs and was silent, no one could have imagined that although they had strength beyond ordinary people, they would also end up being besieged and killed.

"Lao/Hu, you are familiar with the road, take advantage of the heavy rain you rush out first, go south to the Altai Mountains to find Dudin, bring them to the rescue, in case, don't come back," there was silence for a while, the knife reached into the clothes, pinched the iron plate under the neck and was about to tear it off.

The three of them suffered internal injuries and could no longer insist on riding, and now hope can be placed on Lao/Hu. At the very least, this squad can't be a joke about the total annihilation.

Lao / Hu held down the arm of the knife, shook his head, not to mention whether he could rush out on a rainy day, that is, he went out, and when he rushed back to the Altai Mountains, this place may have become a different picture.

"Knife, you are our leader, the military rules set by Baihu for the pro-guards, you know better than me, my old / Hu Ke dare not disobey the order,"

The black-clothed guards belong to the pro-guards, and Xiao Ye specially set three military rules for the pro-guards: military orders are like mountains; No lies, no lies; Don't give up on your companions.

Lao/Hu's words made the knife cry like rain for a while, and his closed eyes couldn't stop the rolling tears. As soon as he thought of Maotou, he felt uncomfortable to death.

"Okay, okay, Maotou was an accident, no one expected that the slave captured by the Tartars would actually perineum," the eldest Lao/Hu, patted the knife on the shoulder, and raised his eyebrows as he spoke.

"Oh, before we leave, I saw that Baihu gave you a short/gun, the body is very thick, and the projectile is also a big guy, you have to take it out and let everyone open their eyes," I have to say, the eyes of the guards are bright, and now they have reached the juncture, and there is no need to hide it.

"You mean, flare gun," the knife snapped, and hurriedly wiped the tears from his face, and after a smooth ride on the prairie, he had long forgotten about the so-called flare gun.

Turned out a short gun with a thick barrel from under the backpack, this kind of single-hit short system, loaded with a projectile at a time, and handed the knife to Lao/Hu casually, "Oh, this thing is said to be shot to the sky, used to contact the surrounding brothers,"

As he spoke, the knife took out a few more projectiles, and the thick shell was painted with a circle of red, "This kind of projectile is used to call for help, and the other hundred households didn't give it to me,"

Now that this flare gun has been taken out, we have to try it, even if it rains, and if it's late, I won't even have a chance to try it.

Like the revolver short fire/gun, open the magazine, race a projectile, Lao/snap closes the magazine, hands the flare gun back to the knife, "Let's go, let's go out and try?" ”

"Okay," the knife took the short/gun, got up and got out of the tent, and the three people inside also got out one after another.

Raising his face, in the dark sky, the crackling raindrops hit the knife and made his face hurt, and he didn't care about looking for the terrain, so he snapped off the machine spring, raised his gun and pulled the trigger fiercely at the sky.

"Bump," there was a low soft sound, and a thick smoke came out of the thick muzzle, and a scarlet fire burst out in the dark sky.

Hitting a signal flare hundreds of feet high, the dazzling firelight crossed an arc and slowly descended, and it was quickly extinguished because of the rain, but the scarlet dazzling light made the faces of the knife several people excited.

"Bump, bump, bump," every few breaths, the knife fired a red flare, until there was only one flare left in the handle, and then he blushed and stopped.

The distress signal was sent, and it also made the knife ashamed of himself, the black-clothed guard went out on military affairs for the first time, and asked the surrounding brothers for help, he didn't know how to face the hundred households when he went back.

He could fight to the death with the Tartars, but the three brothers around him could not die here because of his negligence, and then he would die blindly.

The Tartar cavalry also saw the continuous red signal flares fired in the swamp, and outside a large cowhide tent on the edge of the swamp, two Tartar commanders in armor just admired the scenery they had never seen before, and then entered the big tent.

The thousand-man team sent by Lanelt, and the thousand-man team sent back by Tawolfwa, surrounded the fleeing knives at about the same time, and forced them close to the swamp area, which also made the two commanders quite satisfied.

The terrain in the swamp area, they have seen it, there are countless quagmire traps, and people who are not familiar with the terrain basically can't exit after entering, so what if those few people just quit.

There are two iron horsemen guarding the north and south sides, and there are also large groups of rangers on the west side, as long as the men in black come out, they can't run away from the rangers with their handles; It would have been better if they had run west, and Captain Wavan of the Tawolf would have been waiting there, waiting for the pole to light the lantern.

If you want to talk about the upward and downward effect, the commander under Lanelt, but there is no reckless Han Niu, this time the commander who came up the most, pointed to the swamp outside, "Don't let us go in, the sky is sunny and the sun will be basked for a day, and the fire problem will be solved, see where they are going,"

"Oh, that's right, yes, yes, just burn them to death and drag them out and give them to the captain," said the other commander, who was still struggling to enter the swamp, and gave a thumbs up in agreement.

Anyway, Captain Wan explained, if you want to see people alive and die, you have to see corpses, and if you die, you can also turn over the corpses, so why bother to damage your subordinates.

On the rainy grassland, a team of war horses was slowly moving north in the dark night, Sun Xiaoming, who was dressed in a robe, put a wide-brimmed felt hat on his iron helmet, stared at his eyes and led the way, following the general direction of the knife.

Sun Xiaoming was quick-witted, led the team to avoid the exploration of the Tartar rangers, and went to the Galen tribe, but there was no trace of the tribe, so he knew that Yu Shan took a group of tribes to hide in the depths of the western grassland, so he did not chase anymore, but at the foot of the southern foothills, with the letter post, and a hidden outpost left by Du Ding, he got in touch.

After learning that Du Ding and Xu Wangliang had used the medicine, they were safe and sound, but several elders under Du Ding and Xu Wangliang died violently, and Sun Xiaoming directly sent two personal guards to return to Madao Stone Fort to report the news to Baihu.

There will be no pie in the sky, and if you want to get benefits, you must pay a price, those who have bad thoughts about Xiao Ye, no matter how well they cover it up, they didn't expect that there would be this kind of red five-star pill, which will bring them surprise and death at the same time.

Without thinking about it, Sun Xiaoming couldn't find Yushan, so he took a dozen brothers and drove directly into the depths of the grassland.

A few people went into the grassland to harass the Tartars, Sun Xiaoming could guess without pondering, he must have gone to trouble the Tartars' grain road, then, as long as he walked in the direction of the Tartars' grain road, he would be able to meet those black-clothed guards sooner or later.

Hehe, the black-clothed guard, it sounds exciting; Although this is just a name within the pro-guards, but the obviously different black uniform, Sun Xiaoming asked himself if he was blushing? That's a lie.

His exploits have not yet arrived, so he can only watch and smash his mouth, and envy cannot be envied.

In a hurry, the horse team went north for more than three hundred miles, but in order to avoid the Tartars' rangers, they went around more than five hundred miles to the west, and they did not find their shadows, but they encountered this heavy rain.

It's been a day, it's getting dark, the rain is pouring down, and the wet grass full of puddles can't go anymore, looking for a high point of terrain, Sun Xiaoming arranged for the guards to start camping and resting.

After changing dry clothes in the tent and eating dry food, Sun Xiaoming, who had just lay down, was shouted by the guards on duty and ran to the northernmost tent; Looking into the distance from the lookout, you can see the little red flares rising on the horizon without a telescope, scarlet and dazzling.

Although the flare was fleeting, the constantly rising flames made Sun Xiaoming immediately recognize that this was the new object that Baihu had just taken out, and he also had a flare gun in his backpack.

"My mother, this knife won't be to make the Tartars anxious, it's forced like this on a rainy day," Sun Xiaoming, who was shouting, kept sneering in his mouth, "It's okay now, it's still a third-order sergeant, and he has no tricks,"

"Well, let's not rest, as long as we can get them out, I'm afraid our military merits are enough, at least the second-order sergeant didn't run," looked at the rain outside, sighed, and Sun Xiaoming waved his hand at the guards next to him.

If it weren't for the big trouble with the knife, he would never have used the flare as a firework to play with his face-loving way.

"Tell everyone to check their weapons, after a stick of incense, oh, it's fifteen minutes later, the team will kick out," Touching the pocket watch in his pocket, Sun Xiaoming was very uncomfortable under the military order; To say that the pocket watch given by 100 households is very good, but the hours above look not so easy to recognize.

Two hours later, in the continuous heavy rain, Sun Xiaoming and his entourage, who were covered in muddy water, touched the ditch west of the swamp, stepped on the knee-deep rain, and contacted the sleepless knife through the letter post before dawn according to the pre-agreed time.

hurried slowly, and finally arrived at a gray swamp in front of them within five miles of the knife, which made Sun Xiaoming laugh secretly; It can be regarded as a scene of seeing the knives and they are surrounded.

In the early morning, when the rain had subdued a little, the sky was still gray, and the visual distance was no more than five hundred paces, a group of wet Tatar cavalry, while patrolling through the northwest corner of the swamp, suddenly spotted five figures riding under the cover of the reeds, trying to escape out of the swamp.

"Bah, bah," the Tartars who didn't have time to blow their horns were met with a rain of bullets, and a dozen or so scattered Tartars threw down the dead bodies on the ground, and blew the alarm horn while fleeing on both sides.

Immediately, the Tartar cavalry in the north and south directions of the swamp became lively, and the Tartars who rushed out of the cowhide tent divided into several hundred-man teams and surrounded them according to the sound of the horn.

The Tartar cavalry reacted quickly, and the five guards, who had rested all night, ran even faster with one man and two horses, and while turning and shooting, they galloped in a southeasterly direction, and soon left the Tartar pursuers behind.

Dividing five of their best guards, they touched the swampy reeds, let them shoot down the patrolling Tartar cavalry with a burst of shots, and galloped directly to the eastern foot of the Altai Mountains, from where they made a detour to Bailong Lake.

This is the idea that Sun Xiaoming came up with, thinking that when the Tartar was angry, he would not pay attention to why the guards had changed their clothes, it was normal to change clothes on a rainy day.

After several groups of Tartar horses rumbled after him, Sun Xiaoming took the binoculars and lay down in the watery grass, staring at the edge of the swamp against the rain, without any intention of getting up. The guards behind him also honestly hid in the deep ditch, and the war horses had chews on their mouths without making a sound.

It wasn't until there were two more Tartar cavalry that flashed out of the east of the swamp and ran to the grassland to the south in the rain, silently counting the number of chasing soldiers, that Sun Xiaoming grinned heartily, "These fools, luring snakes out of the hole, didn't even see this little trick, no wonder they have been mixed on the grassland all their lives,"

Although the Tartar brigade chased to the east, Sun Xiaoming did not dare to be careless, and waited for another half an hour, that is, an hour later, before he issued a military order.

After sending Xiaobo's guards one after another, and after exploring around the swamp, Sun Xiaoming's guards who left a guard spread out, and he took five or six brothers and Shi Shiran into the swamp area.

Knives they've been waiting in the swamp for a long time.

After listening to the description of the knife, Sun Xiaoming was also full of excitement, thousands of Tartar cavalry, chasing after him, his twenty or so people, if they were against the Tartars, it would also be eaten in one bite, at most the Tartars were stabbed in the throat a few times, and they would have no way back.

When encountering a Tartar who changed his brain, it can be regarded as a knife life, and after a good harassment action, a brother was blown up, and there were three internal injuries left, basically losing his combat power.

Sun Xiaoming, who had just raised countless thoughts and wanted to win the battle in this operation, was completely sober in the face of the tragic situation of the knife.

and the Tartars in the grassland around the guerrillas, there is no strong strength, people are more familiar with the terrain than themselves, there is no Yushan, Duding people to lead the way, that is a mouse playing cat, dead or alive is a matter of a blink of an eye.

"Forget it, Baihu has explained, if it really doesn't work, go back to Eagle Claw Fort, clench your fists together so hard, let's go," Sun Xiaoming and Daozi discussed and decided not to take risks.

The three knives whose internal organs were injured were no longer able to hold on to the horse, there was no way, Sun Xiaoming asked the guards to collect reeds in the swamp, weave them into thick mats, hang staggered ropes between the two horses, and tie two rifles horizontally to the saddle to fix them.

Straw mats were laid on the rough rope nets, and the people were put on them, and the reins of the two horses were tied together, and the guards on horseback watched them, and as long as they did not run quickly, the wounded could be taken away. This method was first found in the Tartars, and the people used large and small rope nets, and later spread to all parts of the border army.

Not to mention that Sun Xiaoming rescued a few seriously injured knives, and retreated to Eagle Claw Fort day and night, Xiao Ye, who originally planned to set up another position outside Eagle Claw Fort, was drenched in a torrential rain before he could find a suitable terrain.

When the rain fell, Xiao Ye knew that his original plan was about to fail, and the Tartars' plan might have to come true.

After having to contact Liu Shuihe, Xiao Ye simply led the team to rush through the blockade of the Tartar Ranger and directly entered the stone fort.

Entering the stone fort, Xiao Ye learned that Ah Man, with a hundred cavalry, had just broken through the Tartar blockade yesterday and entered the stone fort.

But now he didn't have time to learn the news from Ah Man, and the fire/gunfire that rang out from time to time on the stone castle wall made Xiao Ye's nerves tense.