Chapter 10: Out of the City
"Here's one!" Suddenly, someone shouted nearby, and I saw a big man with messy hair walking towards Zhang Wenyi with a big knife. Zhang Wenyi swept the corner of his eyes and found that there were two or three other people running towards him from another direction.
Found out again! Zhang Wenyi knew that the long-term lack of training had seriously degraded her senses. Taking advantage of the other party's inattention, she took out the homemade revolver from her arms, and now she was not sure that she could draw the gun, shoot the gun, and shoot in one go in an instant, so she had to take the risk of pulling out the gun first so that it would be easier to shoot. Fortunately, these people think that she is just a child and can't play any tricks, so they don't take it very seriously. Zhang Wenyi successfully pulled out the pistol and successfully did not let the opponent suspect.
Due to the quality of the steel, the propellant, the smoothbore and the warhead, the effective range of this pistol is only seven or eight meters away, and even if the bullet is still lethal at a distance, the accuracy can no longer be guaranteed, so Zhang Wenyi must put the enemy close before shooting.
Seeing that there were three people in total, she only had six rounds in her revolver, so she had to kill three people with six rounds, which was a task that would be difficult to accomplish with a standard revolver with one magazine.
Zhang Wenyi took a deep breath and slowly stepped back. She had to delay the first man's attack and let the other two into effective range so that she could finish with a single hit.
Seeing Zhang Wenyi retreating, the big man who first noticed her had a cat-and-mouse look on his face, and he wanted to play this little girl to his heart's content before killing her.
Someone from the other two big men who was approaching laughed and said, "Lao Tzu has never played with such a big female doll, so let Lao Tzu have fun before taking her life." ”
Zhang Wenyi slowly retreated towards the burning house step by step, and only by retreating in this direction could the three of them enter the effective firing range at the same time. Zhang Wenyi could already feel the burning heat on her back, as if the clothes behind her would immediately burn. It made her have to stop.
The big man who first noticed her smiled and said, "Look where else you can run!" ”
The other two big men had already entered the effective firing range, and Zhang Wenyi quickly shot at the head of the big man in front of him. When Zhang Wenyi raised the pistol, the man subconsciously tilted his head. He felt that the dark object in Zhang Wenyi's hand might be a hidden weapon, so he almost subconsciously dodged it, but the bullet propelled by propellant was much faster than the hidden weapon fired with the machine bracket. The man didn't dodge, and the bullet hit the man in the cheek.
Lead bullet is a soft ammunition, after hitting the human body, it will be violently deformed under the squeezing of the musculoskeletal body, thereby tearing the muscles and breaking the bones to form a relatively large cavity effect. Zhang Wenyi's choice of lead as a warhead was because he took a fancy to the stopping effect of this bullet, and half of this person's face was instantly knocked away!
The other two saw that their companion had been punched in the cheek as if they had been punched hard, and their whole heads were tilted to one side, and they spun their bodies before falling to the ground. Just as she was wondering what was going on, Zhang Wenyi had already turned her gun on them. Before they could react, Zhang Wenyi shot one by one, breaking one of the legs and hitting the other in the stomach. The three of them fell to the ground in pain, and Zhang Wenyi stepped forward and shot them one by one.
Since most of the Wen family's houses were wooden structures, the crackling sound of the fire was loud. The sound of gunfire and screams was drowned out by the sound of burning, and no one noticed the strange situation in the distance. Zhang Wenyi quickly fled to the wall, got out of a dog hole somewhere, and took advantage of the chaos to hide in the nearby streets.
Before running to the dog hole, Zhang Wenyi saw Liu's mother's body, and she was slashed with many knives. The hand holding the scissors was cut off and left far aside. His neck was cut to a single layer of skin, and his head was at a strange angle, staring up at the sky. Zhang Wenyi didn't stop when she ran past her, so she didn't have time to be sad in this situation. But I secretly resolved in my heart that sooner or later I would take revenge on this.
At this time, people had been awakened by the fire in the house, and many people began to carry buckets of water to prepare to fight the fire. No one in the chaotic crowd noticed the small figure moving towards the city gate.
Fortunately, Zhang Wenyi, who had been a spy, had not degraded to the point of becoming road blind, and according to her memory, she walked along the streets and alleys to the city gate. Because the fire attracted the guards, officers and soldiers who were patrolling the night to the vicinity of the Wen house, and the streets and streets in other places were already empty and no one could be seen, Zhang Wenyi came to the city gate relatively smoothly.
Zhang Wenyi didn't go directly to the city gate recklessly, she first found a shadow that was conducive to observing the situation near the city gate and hid in. Then she was surprised to find that the city gate was open, and there were no soldiers guarding the deserted city gate.
Zhang Wenyi observed carefully for a long time, but she really didn't find anything unusual, so she came out of the shadows where she was hiding and was about to venture out of the city. After walking a few steps, before she could walk out of the shadows, she suddenly felt something shaking in the hole in the city gate, and Zhang Wenyi hurriedly retreated into the depths of the dark shadows of the wall.
After a while, a figure came out of the hole in the gate, and stamped his feet into the room next to him, and after a while, four people came out of the house, and three more people came out of the hole.
It turns out that someone is lying in ambush in the shadow of the city gate hole! was almost fooled, Zhang Wenyi secretly sweated for herself. The fire in the distance was still soaring, but the chaos in the city gradually subsided, and it seemed that people felt that they could not save the fire and chose to give up.
There was a chaotic sound of footsteps in a nearby alley, and according to the sound of footsteps, it was walking in the direction where Zhang Wenyi was hiding. She quickly and quietly changed positions to avoid the crowd that was about to arrive.
The crowd went from far to near, and walked directly to the vicinity of the city gate cave and stopped. More than a dozen people walked out of the house at the gate of the city, and one of the leaders greeted the group of people and asked, "Fifth Master, how is it?" ”
Someone replied, "The Wen family has a secret passage, and most of them have run away from the tunnel." ”
The person who spoke before asked again: "Isn't there Mrs. Zhao and they are answering inside?" ”
The "Fifth Master" replied: "I was accidentally injured by our people. However, judging from the situation inside, at least one of the nine girls of the Wen family did not leave, but this little girl was so cunning that she didn't know where she was hiding. But we've been watching, and we haven't seen anyone run out, and it's estimated that most of them are dead in the fire. ”
The person who spoke before snorted, obviously very angry, and after a while, he calmed down his emotions and asked, "Where does the secret passage of the Wen family lead?" ”
The "Fifth Master" replied: "I don't know yet, the people of the Wen family blew up the secret passage, and Xiao Qi led people to dig it up and chase it down." ”
After a while, someone came running from outside the city, and he panted and said: "Fifth Master, Zheng Ye, the Wen family's tunnel leads to the mule and horse shop outside the north of the city, and the seventh master asked me to come back to report the news, and he led people to chase down the rut first." ”
The "Zheng Ye" spoke: "Fifth Master, you go to the Wen family's brigade first. I'll take someone to look for it in the city again, maybe the nine girls of the Wen family have run out. ”
Listening to the conversation between these two people, knowing that the family is currently safe, Zhang Wenyi breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, she suddenly understood why the daily greetings were in the eldest lady's room, and the secret passage must be where, otherwise the second sister would not have deliberately run over at that time tonight to tell her where to run. Please be safe is to let them walk the escape route every day, so that they can quickly come here to escape in case of emergency.
Since the parents have done such a good job of preparation, they will definitely not be caught up easily. This "Zheng Ye" is a suspicious person, and you must be careful when you meet him in the future. Exposed to themselves, they may be tracked. She can't go after her parents, or she might expose them.
Zhang Wenyi instantly analyzed in her heart, and now she must find a way to get out of the city quickly, otherwise the longer she is delayed in the city, the more dangerous it will be. But how could she get out? Zhang Wenyi was very confused. The city walls of Chuzhou are very high, and jumping without rigging can only be a fall to death. The city gate is controlled by those people, and when you go out of the city normally, you have to be interrogated, and Zhang Wenyi is not sure that those people will not be able to find herself.
It's just that it's useless to be anxious now, Zhang Wenyi can only quietly wait for the opportunity to appear. The men left the city gate in two groups. "Zheng Ye" left four people to guard the city gate.
Before leaving, "Zheng Ye" carefully advised: "The ninth girl of the Wen family is seven or eight years old, and she is very fat. You must pay attention to this place. With that, he took the people away.
The city gate was very heavy, and after Zheng Ye took people away, the four of them closed it for half a day. Later, these four people simply lazied, dragged two refusal horses over and blocked the city gate.
After cleaning up, two people got up, and it seemed that they were going to go into the house to rest. Zhang Wenyi was overjoyed and felt that the opportunity had come. But her joy did not last long before it turned cold, and only two of them left, while the other two remained at the gates.
I was sweating when I was running for my life just now, but I didn't feel the cold of winter, but when I calmed down, I felt more and more cold wind. Zhang Wenyi gently unwrapped the package on her back and took out her clothes to wrap herself tightly, but she wrapped all the clothes around her body and still couldn't stop the cold wind, so she had no choice but to wait quietly like this.
At last a group gathered at the gates, but most of them were vendors who had gotten up early to enter the city, and they had gathered in front of the horses at the gates of the city gates, waiting to be allowed to enter the city. Two people take turns on duty for the night, one to maintain order and the other to wake up his sleeping companion.
Taking off the rest of his clothes and repacking and carrying them on his back, Zhang Wenyi took a deep breath and prepared to venture out of the city. Because she didn't want to wait, and she didn't dare to wait. A lot of time has passed, which "Zheng Ye" will come back at any time. If he returned, with his careful Zhang Wenyi, there was even more hope of escaping from the city gate.
Slowly approaching the city gate, when I was about to reach the city gate, the other side had already begun to let go. There were also people in the direction of the city who walked over to this side, and they couldn't be sure if these people were the gang of "Zheng Ye", Zhang Wenyi was very anxious. In a hurry, she took two steps after a middle-aged man who had entered the city, and then deliberately hit his head on the back of the man.
The man turned around and was about to scold, but saw Zhang Wenyi pretending to be sleepy-eyed and said, "You are not my father!" Then he ran out of the city.
Everyone thought that the child was dozing off with the wrong person, and they all laughed kindly, and they made a way for Zhang Wenyi to run out. One of the four big men watching the city gate was about to stop Zhang Wenyi for interrogation, but the person at the head pulled him by the hand, pointed to the people who approached the city gate from the city, and said, "Li Liu, you go over there to check." ”