"Mr. Qian, there are traces of the Ming army's sentry cavalry here." A white-toothed soldier picked up the broken armor that Li Yi had discarded and presented it to Tut.

Tut patted his horse and walked over slowly, taking the bloody armor from the white-toothed soldier.

He has been on the battlefield for a long time and has seen countless broken armors. Just taking a quick look, he saw at least five damages on the armor. Two of them should be pierced by spear blades, and the other three were knife wounds. As for

Plus there are three arrow clusters at the back.

The owner of the armor obviously bled a lot, and the innermost cotton armor was completely soaked with blood. Although a quarter of an hour had passed, blood was still dripping down.

Buck, who was behind him, also came closer. He looked at the armor in Tut's hand, and a hint of surprise appeared on his originally gloomy face.

"Tut, how are you? With such a serious injury, is the Ming army spy already dead?" Buck asked personally.

Tut shook his head and said: "He is not dead."

"Then what are we waiting for? Grab this hateful Ming Dynasty sentry and chop off his head. I will skin him alive." Buck shouted angrily.

This time he led a Niulu to garrison Youtun Fort. He originally thought that he could make a great contribution and make his peers from the Aixinjueluo family look up to him. Unexpectedly, he did not get the credit now, and his horse soldiers actually

Ten people were also lost, and even the trusted leader, Mang Hata, had his head chopped off. This was a great shame and humiliation for him.

Tut understands Buck's anger. If he fails to catch this powerful Ming sentry this time, Buck will become a joke among the Eight Banners, and his prestige will be greatly reduced.

"Buck dear, do you really want to hunt down this Ming army sentry? You must know that he killed a group of vest soldiers by himself, and also killed the brave Mang Hata." Tut said expressionlessly.

Thinking of the headless corpse in the woods, Buck's face showed a trace of fear, but the fierce flagmen would not follow a cowardly master, and Buck knew that he could not retreat.

He tightened his grip on the saber at his waist and said through gritted teeth, "I won't give up until I kill this Ming Dynasty sentry."

Tut nodded with satisfaction. If Buck himself was afraid of this powerful Ming sentry, he would choose to leave.

Baturu of the Great Jin Kingdom is the most valiant warrior, a tiger that can kill all enemies. He will not follow a cowardly master.

Buck looked into the distance with eyes full of resentment, gritted his teeth and said: "Tut, you are recognized as Batulu by all the gods. Your bravery was praised by my grandfather. I ask you to help me find this Ming spy."

Tut threw the armor aside and looked up at the gray sky around him. He felt his cold blood slowly boiling. He bowed his head to Buck and said, "Dear Buck, everything will be as you wish."

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the wind was getting colder. Li Yi took advantage of the nightfall and rushed towards the hills in the north.

The ups and downs of the horse's back caused blood to begin to ooze from his wounds, but Li Yi did not look back. He stopped on a hillside and could see a little bit of fire at the place where he had been healing from a distance. It was obvious that the pursuers had discovered

found his own traces.

Now that the trace has been discovered, there is no point in going north now. The best way is to walk all the way west and back to the Daling River while your body can still hold on.

After Li Yi decided, he turned the horse's head and ran towards the west.

It was getting later and later, and the originally dim night had now turned into pitch black. In addition, because it was a rainy day, there was not even a trace of light, so Li Yi could only rely on his senses to hurry on.

Fortunately, the Daling River is surrounded by plains and there are no cliffs. Otherwise, no matter how brave Li Yi is, he would not dare to rush on such a dark night.

But this also has an advantage. He can't see the road, and the same goes for Hou Jin's cavalry. This way, his hope of escaping will be greater.

In the dark night, Li Yi kept his head down and thought about walking to the west, because it was too dark. As time went by, he had no sense of direction and no longer knew where the southeast, northwest and northwest were, so he walked for two consecutive days.

For an hour, Li Yi not only didn't know which direction Daling River City was in, he didn't even know where he was.

The best way now is to stay where you are. Otherwise, if you lose your way and keep walking, you may get further and further away from the Daling River, and you may even run into the pursuers. But if you stay where you are, the pursuers may catch up at any time, which is not okay.

.

Li Yi thought about it and felt that he could not stay where he was, so he simply got on his horse and rode in a direction.

I don't know how long I walked like this, but the sky began to lighten up, and I could already see the outline of the terrain in the dark night. Li Yi looked around carefully and found that he had no idea where he was.

After walking for another half an hour, hills appeared in the north. Only then did Li Yi realize that although he had always wanted to go west, he was actually going all the way north. Unknowingly, he had passed through the Thirteen Mountain Station and entered the

The hilly areas to the north.

If you go west now, you are very likely to encounter pursuers. As long as you enter the mountains, it will be difficult for Hou Jin's cavalry to catch you, so they can only return without success.

So Li Yi rode directly into the mountain and followed the path that people came out of. After a while, he saw smoke rising from the front. It was obvious that there was someone's house.

After a big battle yesterday and traveling all night, Li Yi was tired and hungry now. When he saw the smoke in front of him, he thought he could buy some hot meals.

It started to rain lightly in the sky, and along with the cold wind, Li Yi also felt the cold. However, he was running away from the mountain. Although he saw the smoke, Li Yi still drove for half an hour to get there.

Different from Li Yi's imagination, it was not a village in front of him, but a large city.

Nowadays, the world is in chaos, but there is a stronghold in the mountains. Li Yi doesn't know whether there are kind people or strong men who kill without blinking an eye.

He hid the horse in a mountain forest and climbed to a mountain peak next to the village with his bare hands. He looked down from a high position and could clearly see the situation of the entire village.

Within this rolling hills, there is a path that leads directly to the rural road outside, and the path winds through the mountains and forests, leading to the mouth of the valley. The valley is surrounded by steep peaks on three sides.

The three-foot-high wooden wall can be said to be easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The space in the valley is quite large. There is a large gentle slope in the middle with a slightly flat ground. There are also mountain streams flowing through it, which can supply water. It is a suitable place to live. There are nearly a hundred houses built in it, most of which are thatched houses with vertical mud walls.

, with wooden beams as the beams and Sokcho as the roof. Only the three or four houses in the center have tile roofs and mudstone courtyard walls.

Obviously, this is a cottage where four to five hundred people live.

After Li Yi investigated the situation clearly, he endured the pain and climbed down from the mountain wall. As soon as he reached the horse, four simple wooden spears were aimed at him.

A middle-aged strong man wearing heavy linen clothes was holding a wide-backed ring knife, his eyes were looking up and down cautiously. When he saw that the other person was actually just a young man, a trace of surprise appeared on his face.

"Boy, who are you? Why are you peeking at our Shishan Village?" the middle-aged man asked.

Looking at the spear in front of him, Li Yi did not resist, but glanced at the horse next to him and said: "I lost my way last night and unknowingly entered the mountain after dawn. This morning I saw smoke rising from the stove.

I got up and thought there was someone here, so I wanted to ask for directions."

Although Li Yi hid the fact that he was being hunted, it was true every word.

Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, the middle-aged man nodded towards the young man next to him.

The young man came up and tried to take off the knife from Li Yi's waist, but Li Yi didn't know the origin of this group of people or how they could disarm. He took a step back and held the handle of the knife, looking at the young man with cold eyes.

This young man was not very courageous. When he saw Li Yi suddenly holding the handle of the knife, he was startled and quickly retreated to the strong man's side.

The four men holding wooden spears were also a little nervous, and the spear points came closer.

Li Yi could see that this middle-aged strong man was their leader. He went into the mountain just to avoid the Houjin cavalry, and did not want to increase the number of killings, so he said: "I was just passing by. If you are worried, I will kill you now."

Walk."

The middle-aged man smiled coldly and said: "You are such a brave young man. You came here early in the morning to spy on our Shishan Village. I think you are either a spy of the Ming Army or a spy of the Jin Kingdom."

"Don't deliberately trick me." Li Yi saw through the middle-aged man's attempt at a glance and said: "I told you that I just entered this place by mistake. As long as you point out the way out of the mountain, I will leave immediately."

The middle-aged man pondered for a moment and asked, "Are you really not a spy of the Ming army?"

Although he didn't know why the middle-aged man was so worried about the Ming army and Hou Jin spying on the village, Li Yi could only shake his head and express that he was not.

Seeing Li Yi's performance, the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly said: "Brother, forgive me. We thought you were deliberately spying on our Shishan Village, so we treated you like this. Since you entered here by mistake,

Then I will show you the way out of the mountain."

The men around him also put away their wooden spears, and one of them smiled and said: "It's not that we are timid. You came with seven or eight horses and hid in the mountains and forests. It is too suspicious. If you can go to the stronghold and ask for directions openly,

, I won’t misunderstand you.”

After hearing this, Li Yi realized that these people were not bandits, and immediately returned the greeting: "I came here just to ask for directions, but when I saw that your village had high walls and strong men guarding it, I thought I had mistakenly entered a bandit's den, so I hid it secretly.

, peeking into the cottage.”

They regarded Li Yi as a spy, but Li Yi regarded them as gangsters. That's why they made this joke, and the big men next to them laughed.

Li Yi also smiled and said: "There's just one thing I don't understand. This place is the border between the Ming Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom. If you are only afraid of one side peeking into my understanding, why are both parties afraid?"

The men next to him sighed after hearing this, as if they had something to hide.

The middle-aged man in the lead had a good impression of Li Yi and explained: "We are refugees from Liaodong. We fled all the way from Shengjing in the third year of Tianqi and came here. We accidentally discovered abandoned villages here, so we repaired them and settled here.

As for why we are afraid of the Ming army and why we are afraid of the Hou Jin Dynasty, the reasons are complicated and difficult to explain in a short while."

Although the other party did not explain in detail, Li Yi heard a piece of information from them, that is, Tianqi fled from Shengjing in the third year.

You must know that Hou Jin had already captured the entire Liaodong. The Han people in Liaodong either became Hou Jin's Nikans, or fled to the west of Jinzhou to seek help from the Ming Dynasty. Since these people had already become Hou Jin's Nikans, why did they risk it again?

Escaped from the danger of beheading?

Li Yi was confused, but the other party didn't want to explain, and he couldn't ask further questions.
Chapter completed!