Chapter 44 Apricot Yellow Flag

With Sima Qiaoyu's martial arts, these four personal soldiers can't help him at all, but this is in Tian Xiu's mansion, how can he resist, not to mention that Tian Xiu is still his boss, once he fights back, it will be a rebellion, even if he is killed, no one cares. Four pro-soldiers held him down, said "offended", and pulled him out of the flower hall. Sima Qiaoyu was also helpless, after being pulled out, his own soldiers pressed him to the ground, took a stick, and beat him with eighty military sticks.

The soldiers knew him, and when he started, he didn't kill him, so he used seven or eight points of strength, but even so, ordinary people took these eighty blows, which was really enough. also relied on Sima Qiaoyu's good martial arts and strong body, so he didn't hurt his muscles and bones. If it was someone else, he would probably have cried and begged for mercy, but he just snorted a few times.

According to Tian Xiu's instructions, after the battle, the soldiers sent Sima Qiaoyu to the barracks prison for care, because it was a pass, the barracks were in the city, not too far from Tianfu. When he went out, the soldiers under Sima Qiaoyu saw it clearly, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask, but the soldiers only said that they were ordered to act and send people away. The officials and universities crushed people to death, especially the military generals, who were far from being civilians.

Three days later, the Tartars finally arrived. The outpost outside the city had already checked the situation of the Tartar march on the road, and kept reporting the distance between the Tartar and Zhangjiakou to the city, and when the disciple was still twenty miles away from the pass, Tian Xiu heard the report and immediately went to the city. However, before going to the city, he summoned a henchman named Tian Xi, who was Tian Xiu's personal guard.

"Tian Xi, you take my order, go to the prison, and kill Sima Qiaoyu for me."

Killing Sima Qiaoyu at this time is actually to extinguish the mouth, he wants to abandon the pass and escape, Sima Qiaoyu sees the signs, and he must see him killed. In the Ming Dynasty, the deputy general had no right to kill the guerrilla general, at most he was imprisoned, and then impeached, but when the excerpt came to the top, the imperial court would definitely send someone to verify it, once Sima Qiaoyu told the truth, it would be very unfavorable to himself. After all, when the city was broken, he did not die. Of course, Tian Xiu also hoped that after the Tartar soldiers entered the city, they would enter the prison and kill Sima Qiaoyu, but what if the Tartars were in a hurry to withdraw and did not enter the prison? In addition, there is no property in the prison, and as a robber, the possibility of entering is very low.

Since this is the case, let's do it yourself, kill Sima Qiaoyu, and make it look like he was killed by the Tartars, that is, anyway, in the entire prison now, Sima Qiaoyu is a prisoner.

Sima Qiaoyu has a good popularity in the barracks, and if he doesn't send his henchmen to do it, he is also worried that the people below will cheat.

Tian Xiu rushed to the city tower, Tian Xi rushed to the prison, the prison was very close to Tianfu, and Tian Xi arrived soon. As soon as he arrived at the prison door, Tian Xiliang issued an order and said that he was ordered to visit Sima Qiaoyu. When he was guarding the door, he saw the arrow and immediately let him go, leading Tian Xi into the prison and to the cell where Sima Qiaoyu was.

Tian Xi knew Sima Qiaoyu, and when he arrived at the door of the prison cell, he saw Sima Qiaoyu lying on the grass, wearing prison clothes, and his buttocks were covered with blood. Seeing Sima Qiaoyu like a half-dead man, Tian Xi was secretly happy in his heart, and it was not easy to deal with such a person. He asked the guard to watch the door, and when the door opened, he told the guard to stand down, and when the people were gone, he swaggered into the cell.

Tian Xi knew Sima Qiaoyu, of course Sima Qiaoyu also knew him, Sima Qiaoyu originally had his eyes closed, when he heard the sound of the cell door, he opened his eyes, and when Tian Xi sent the prison guards away and walked into the prison cell, Sima Qiaoyu said in a weak voice: "Tian Xi, what are you doing?" Did the general tell you to let me out? By the way, did the Tartar soldiers call, and how did the city's defenses go? ”

Seeing that Sima Qiaoyu was still concerned about the defense of the city when he was dying, Tian Xi couldn't help but chuckle and said: "General Sima, the Tartars are still twenty miles away, and the defense in the city, you don't have to close it, my general has already arranged it." As for whether I came to see you, it was indeed ordered by my general, and I came to see the general home. ”

While saying that, Tian Xi walked towards Sima Qiaoyu one day, and when he finished speaking, the person had already walked to Sima Qiaoyu's side.

"Thank you, General. Tian Xi, you don't have to send me home, the Tartars are not far from here, it is estimated that as soon as it arrives, it will attack the city, you quickly help me up and send me to the city. Sima Qiaoyu said sincerely.

"I didn't expect General Sima to be concerned about the safety of the city at this time, which is really admirable." When he said this, Tian Xi's right hand reached into the cuff of his left hand, held the dagger that had been hidden, and said: "However, General Sima doesn't have to worry about defending the city, my general asked me to send the general home, but...... It's ...... to go back to my hometown."

When he said the words 'return to his hometown', Tian Xi suddenly pulled out the dagger and stabbed it towards Sima Qiaoyu's vest. This move is very fast, if it is an ordinary person, even if it is not injured, it may not be able to dodge.

It's a pity that Sima Qiaoyu is not an ordinary person, he practiced martial arts in his early years, joined the army at the age of sixteen, fought a lot of battles with the Mongols at the border pass, and fought an official position with one shot. The reaction speed was extremely fast, and when he heard Tian Xi's tone was wrong, he realized that something would happen, and the moment Tian Xi made a move, he understood that the other party wanted to kill him. He hurriedly raised his strength, rolled towards Tian Xi's side, rolled to Tian Xi's feet, Tian Xi stabbed the air with a knife, and before he could return his hand, Sima Qiaoyu had already grabbed Tian Xi's crotch with his right hand.

"Ah......h

Sima Qiaoyu's grasp was fast and accurate, and he just caught Tian Xi Tian Xi's vital point, Tian Xi screamed in pain, the dagger fell off his hand, and he covered the vital point with both hands. And Sima Qiaoyu took advantage of his kung fu to stand up suddenly, and hit Tian Xi's chin with an uppercut. With a "bang", Tian Xi directly raised his head to the sky and fell backwards. Sima Qiaoyu's hand was sick, and without waiting for Tian Xi to fall to the ground, he grabbed him, then reached out and grabbed Tian Xi's throat, and asked sharply: "Tian Xi, I have no grudge against you in the past and no enmity today, why do you want to kill me?" ”

"It was my general who asked me to kill you, I just acted on orders, and asked General Sima to be light." Tian Xi was so painful that he had tears in his eyes, and said with tears in his eyes.

"Why did General Tian kill me?" Sima Qiaoyu asked again.

"I don't know......" Tian Xi said with a bitter face.

"Huh?" Sima Qiaoyu's voice was cold, and Tian Xi's hand tightened.

"I ...... I don't really know...... The general spared his life...... "Tian Xi really didn't know, he was pinched, and he was already a little out of breath.

As he was working, there was a sound of footsteps outside the cell, which turned out to be the guard who had just heard Tian Xi's howl, realized that it was not good, and rushed over to check.

Soon, the two jailers came to the outside of the cell, and saw that Sima Qiaoyu was pinching Tian Xi, and hurriedly persuaded: "General Sima, don't come, he was sent by General Tian, if you kill him, the consequences will be unimaginable, calm down, calm down." ”

The prison guards are actually officers and soldiers in the barracks, and they are assigned to work here, so they naturally know Sima Qiaoyu. Sima Qiaoyu was kind and kind, and the prison guards had a good impression of him, so he spoke out to persuade him.

Sima Qiaoyu's rod injury was not light, just now, he almost used all his strength, but he knew that he couldn't fall now, so he beat his spirit, and tightened the hand that was holding Tian Xi again, and then said: "You two don't know, it was this kid who came to stab me and wanted to take my life." He is a confidant of General Tian, and when I asked him why he wanted to kill me, he said that he was on the orders of General Tian. Although I don't fully know why General Tian wanted to kill me, I can also guess one or two that General Tian is trying to kill people. At the beginning, I advised General Tian to seal the north and south gates, and to guard the pass to the death, so as not to let the Tartars go out of the pass. General Ketian not only did not allow it, but he was also angry because of this, and beat me with eighty military sticks and locked me up here. Why General Tian is unwilling to seal the north gate, it must be ready to flee, I estimate that as soon as the Tartars attack the city, it will not be long before General Tian will abandon the city and flee. If he leaves, the morale of the army will inevitably be weakened, and the pass will not be guaranteed. General Tian is afraid that I will not die, and he will be exposed to him in the future, so he is afraid that people will come to kill me. If you don't believe it, when the Tartars arrive, you will see that General Tian will definitely abandon the pass and leave. I advised you to flee out of the city and to the west, or to escape while he was fleeing...... Ahem......"

In the end, Sima Qiaoyu couldn't help coughing violently, but while he was coughing, he grabbed the hand around Tian Xi's neck, and suddenly with a force, he heard a "click", and Tian Xi's throat was cut by him. As soon as Sima Qiaoyu loosened his hand, Tian Xi's body immediately fell to the ground.

Sima Qiaoyu continued to bend over and cough, but grabbed the dagger that Tian Xi had just dropped on the ground.

"General Sima, are your words true?" One of the guards said nervously.

"Whether it's true or not, we'll find out in a moment. When I went to Tian Mansion that day, General Tian even transferred his family's property, if he didn't have the intention to escape, how could this be? Sima Qiaoyu said.

"Well, with General Sima's usual behavior, I believe in you. Sun Si, the Tartars are coming soon, let's hurry up and prepare to escape. This place is not close to the north gate, and once we get up, we may not have time to escape. One of the guards said.

Another jailer named Sun Si nodded and said, "I also believe General Sima's words, but can our head believe it?" If we want to go out of the gate, we will definitely be seen by people outside, what will we say then? ”

"It's really not good, let's just wait, and when there is any movement, let's speed up and escape." The jailer who spoke earlier looked at Sima Qiaoyu in the cell, and said, "General Sima, our brothers believe in you, so that our brothers can prepare to escape in advance." But don't say that our brothers are not righteous......" At this point, the jailer took a bunch of keys from his waist and threw them into the cell, and then said: "Our brother locked the door outside, and left the key for you, and now you can't go, and there are people outside, you can't go." We brothers don't know anything about this, and if the Tartars do come in, we'll shout outside, and then you open the door and run away. Life and death have their own destiny, what do you think? ”

"Thank you so much!" Sima Qiaoyu hugged his fists at the two jailers.

Twenty miles, for the current Tartars, it really takes a while, but twenty miles is twenty miles after all, how long can it take.

Gradually, the Tartars got closer and closer to Zhangjiakou, and finally came to Guanxia.

Once they reached the pass, the Tartars didn't even have the intention of camping, and they still used the old method to drive the people to attack the city. According to Tian Shenglan's instructions before, Tian Xiu first pretended to go to the city to resist, but put on a sympathetic posture and did not stop the people when they landed in the city. Soon, the people who climbed up the city began to run around, wanting to go down the city, and this time, the defenders of the city were rushed.

The Tartar soldiers took advantage of this opportunity to follow up, Tian Xiu turned around and went down to the city, fleeing towards the north gate, and the defenders of the city saw that the main general had fled, so they still had the heart to defend the city, so they fled in panic. This time, the Tartar soldiers easily climbed the city and slashed and killed the people in the city.

At this time, Tian Xiu, who was the first to escape from the city, crossed the horse and went straight to the north gate.

The shouts of killing and fleeing from the city were really not small, and they were heard immediately from the prison. Sun Si and another jailer, realizing that the Tartars had come in, shouted loudly: "The Tartars have entered the city, run!" ”

After shouting this voice, he rushed to the prison gate and ran in the direction of the north gate. The other jailers in the prison don't know if the Tartars have really come in, but people are afraid of death, they know that the Tartars kill people without blinking, if they really come in, how can they still have their own way of life, since someone is leading the way, so what are you waiting for. Fate is at stake, even if you really run wrong, come back, if it's right, then hurry out of the city. So, with a hula sound, he just ran away, and no one paid attention to the prisoners in the cell.

Sima Qiaoyu heard the voice just now, and hurriedly opened the prison door with the key, and after the rest just now, his strength barely recovered a little, he tightened his teeth and ran outside.

The jailers inside and outside the prison had all run out, and Sima Qiaoyu did not encounter the slightest obstruction, and soon came to the street. There aren't many people on the streets right now, because before yesterday, almost all the people who could run were gone.

Sima Qiaoyu also fled to the north gate, but he was injured after all, where could he run fast, stumble, didn't run too far, and his strength was almost used. When he was passing through an alley, he suddenly found that in the front of a door, a person came out unhurriedly, this person held a small apricot yellow flag in his hand, put the flag to the door, and then closed the door and entered the house.

Seeing this scene, Sima Qiaoyu was very puzzled, why did the Tartars come, there was an apricot yellow flag on the door, and the Tartars would be scared and dare not go in. Sima Qiaoyu was amused in his heart, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the signboard on the portal - Wang Ji Goods Store.

The owner of Wang Ji Goods Store is named Wang Dayu, who is also a well-known Jin merchant here in Zhangjiakou, and Sima Qiaoyu naturally knows it as a local guerrilla general. He didn't understand what the Wang family meant, but he didn't have time to pay attention to it, walked through the alley, and continued to walk towards the north gate.

This is called Huang Ji Commercial Bank, and it is also a famous Jin merchant, and its reputation in Zhangjiakou is similar to that of the Wang family. Seeing the Huang family's apricot and yellow flag, Sima Qiaoyu was completely confused, but he seemed to understand a little. He was sure that it would never be a coincidence.

"Could it be that the shop with the apricot yellow flag on the door, the Tartar will not enter the door and disturb it?"

Sima Qiaoyu didn't dare to be sure of his thoughts, but he really couldn't run now, with his current strength, if he wanted to insist on going out of the city, he was afraid that he would be a little powerless. Looking at the apricot yellow flag on the door, Sima Qiaoyu finally gritted his teeth, walked to the wall of Huangji Commercial Bank, followed the wall to the secret place at the corner, and followed his body to pick up the wall. When he looked inside, there was no one below, so he fought again and jumped down.

Entering the Huangji Trading House, Sima Qiaoyu rested for a while, then found a remote corner and hid. His heart was so uneasy that even he didn't know why he was so flustered. It's as if this is not the land of the Ming Dynasty, but the territory of the Jurchens.

After a while, the shouts of killing outside became louder and louder, and the Tartar soldiers had already entered the city. What the situation outside is like, Sima Qiaoyu doesn't know, and he doesn't dare to imagine, he has one thing, he knows very well, that is, Huang Ji Commercial Bank has not been robbed and harassed by Tartar soldiers.

After waiting for a long time, the shouting and killing outside completely stopped, but Sima Qiaoyu didn't dare to head up, nor did he dare to close his eyes to sleep, so he could only fight his spirit and pay attention to everything.

The night was starry, and as a qualified warrior, Sima Qiaoyu could feel that there was still murderous aura in the city, and the Tartar soldiers had not yet left. It was not until the next morning that the Tartar soldiers withdrew from Zhangjiakou.

Dragging his tired body, Sima Qiaoyu jumped out of the courtyard of Huang Ji Commercial Bank, looking around, the surrounding area was extremely desolate, and the place that had just passed the baptism of war could imagine his scene. There was no one on the street, only his lonely figure, Sima Qiaoyu walked slowly, every time he passed a street, he would find that the shops and houses on the street were no longer the same, and the Tartar soldiers had returned to the mess.

Although most of the shops and private houses in the city have moved away, it is easy for people to leave, and the goods in the shops are not easy to move. The Tartars are coming, of course, they will not fight Zhangjiakou alone, and some of the surrounding towns and villages will also piggyback on the cavalry to sweep it, if there are too many goods, go slowly, not to mention that the goods are gone, even the people have to be gone.

Therefore, the merchants in the city did not take all the inventory away, and compared to life, some still kept the goods that affected the speed. These things, the Tartars naturally will not leave any more.

Looking at the bleak scene on the street, Sima Qiaoyu seemed to think of something again. All the shops have been looted, why is there nothing wrong with Huang Kee Trading Company? Could it be because of the apricot yellow flag?

There is also an apricot yellow flag on the door of Wang's house, will there be anything wrong with him?

Sima Qiaoyu walked towards Wang Ji Shang with curiosity, and soon before he came to the firm, he unexpectedly found that Wang Ji Shang had no loss. The portal was not damaged at all, but the apricot yellow flag hanging on the door was gone.

The Tartar army came, and the Wang family and the Huang family were not sacked by the Tartar army because of the apricot yellow flag on the door. Why is that? Could it be that there is an unclear relationship between them and the Tartars?

Thinking of this, Sima Qiaoyu became nervous, and soon, he suddenly thought of the scene when he went to Tianfu that night. Tian Xiu's mansion, moving the property to Tian Ji Goods Store, can it be said that Tian Ji Goods Store has nothing to do? It is very likely, otherwise why would Tian Xiu move there?

Sima Qiaoyu slowly understood that these three goods stores must have something to do with the Tartars, they often do foreign trade, and it is not a problem to have something to do with the Tartars. At that time, what these goods stores would sell to Tartar, Sima Qiaoyu didn't know, and he wasn't sure.

This effort, suddenly, the door of Wang Ji Goods Store opened, Sima Qiaoyu reacted quickly, hurriedly turned to one side, hid in the alley, and peeked out. I saw four men coming out of the goods store, each of the four men was holding a basin, and they splashed the things in the basin outward.

I heard a "bang", and all the blood spilled out of the basin was it, and as for what kind of blood, I don't know.

Immediately afterwards, the four men took out their axes from the door and began to smash their own portals. And when the gate was broken, another man came out, and scattered something of little value out of the door, and then went back inside together.

Is this acting? Deliberately make it look like you've been ransacked.

Sima Qiaoyu saw it clearly, and now he can conclude that there is something wrong with Wang Ji Goods.

At that time and now, on my own, it is impossible to expose them and bring them to justice. Report everything he found to his boss Tian Xiu, forget it, now Tian Xiu is going to kill himself, if he knows that he has found out about this matter, he will dismantle himself.

Zhangjiakou can't stay for a long time, so he must leave quickly, leave here, go to someone to complain, and expose everything here. But who are you going to go to?

The big officials in Beijing, God knows which one has something to do with the Tian family, if he sues the wrong door, he will definitely die. You must know that the Jin merchants also hooked up with many senior officials in the DPRK and China with silver, and even if they arrived in Beijing, they would be killed because they went to the wrong door.

However, Sima Qiaoyu quickly remembered a person, this person was none other than Lord Yue Suyue.

Lord Yue is known as the world's blue sky, and he is also the minister of the first emperor Tuogu, as long as he finds him and sues him for the case, he will definitely be able to redress my grievances. Thinking of Yue Su, Sima Qiaoyu did not hesitate, immediately raised his strength and rushed towards the south gate.

Now he is exhausted, relying on the pursuit of victory and a belief in support. He knew that if he escaped at night, when Tian Xiu returned, he would have no chance to escape again.

Let's go, Sima Qiaoyu!

Finally, Sima Qiaoyu rushed to the south gate, which was a mess, with corpses everywhere, stones and sandbags everywhere. It is conceivable that Tian Xiu sent people to block the south gate with big stones and sandbags, but after the Tartars rushed into the city, they opened the sealed door.

Sima Qiaoyu didn't have time to think about it and continued to walk forward, but at this moment, he suddenly heard someone not far away: "General Sima ......"

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