"Why don't you send a few more people? There are three thousand Rakshasa ghosts on the island! What if we run into them?"
"If you're afraid, go back to Shenyang. There are not enough soldiers everywhere, and the sentry horses are even more nervous. It would be great if Xiao Yingguan can give you five people! Don't make such a fuss!"
Zhou Dabiao laughed in apology, looked behind him, and lowered his voice:
"What Captain Huang said is, how about bringing an auxiliary to make up the numbers!"
Huang Wenyu held a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth, the beard on his face trembling slightly.
"Stop talking nonsense, collect the corpses first and then talk."
There were three Han Chinese in this team, one wild Jurchen, and an auxiliary soldier, Jiang Liu'er. Responsible for sentinel inspection of the Rakshasa people's troop deployment on Sakhalin Island. Each person's equipment is very simple, with only flintlock muskets and grenades as firearms.
Captain Huang Wenyu is a two-year veteran of Taichang. His name sounds like a scholar who studies, but in fact he is a bearded Shandong man.
Zhou Dabiao, who was talking to Huang Wenyu just now, is from western Liaoning. He is not tall and has thick limbs. He is an old man from the Kaiyuan Army. He used to work as a gangster in Ningyuan. Later, he offended the Wu family in western Liaoning and fled to Liaodong. He exudes a strong philistine atmosphere.
On the third night, Bu Ting was in his forties and was the oldest among the five. He didn't speak a word along the way. Jiang Liu'er didn't know his name, but he only knew that he was from Guan Nei and his surname was Qian. I used to be a soldier in Kaiyuan City and worked under Yang Tong. Last year, my son got a serious disease and needed money urgently. I heard that joining the Northern Expedition Team has the highest monthly salary (three times that of a soldier), and there will be a high bonus after completing the mission. After receiving the reward, he signed up to participate. After several rounds of reviews, he was assigned to serve as a scout for the expedition team.
Then there is Alessa, who looks like a typical Jurchen:
He has a hooked nose, a horse face, slender eyebrows and short beard, and a pair of small eyes that seem to be squinting all the time.
After getting along for more than two months, Jiang Liuer and this Udgai (savage Jurchen) hunter became good friends.
Alsa's hometown is in a mountain village near Kuyi Island. All the men in the tribe were captured by Daishan three years ago and sent to Hetuala to dig trenches. Half of them died from exhaustion.
Three years ago, when the Kaiyuan Army crossed the Taizi River, Alsa was still digging ditches. Niu Lu'erzhen sent them bows and arrows. Alsa was still adjusting the bow strings, and the Kaiyuan Army's rockets poured down. Leza was stunned by the explosion of the Divine Fire Crow, and when she woke up again, she was inexplicably a prisoner.
He had never really fought with the Han people, let alone killed anyone, so he was given priority to get out of the prisoner camp. Despite this, his status as a Jurchen still made him unpopular among the expedition team. Some team members suspected that the ambush of Li Sanguang and others was caused by the collusion between these wild Jurchens and Rakshasa ghosts.
A loud roar of tigers came from the dark forest, which was more penetrating than the previous roar of leopards.
Alsa looked around, sniffed with a hooked nose, and muttered something in Udgai. Jiang Liuer heard that his father spoke Jurchen and translated to everyone:
"You've broken into tiger territory, get out of here."
The three of them looked at each other for a long time. Huang Wenyu looked at the remaining corpses around the bushes and said angrily:
"God damn Rakshasa ghosts, when I catch you, I will cut you to pieces!"
The location where the tiger roared just now is only two miles away from here. Captain Huang is from Dengzhou, Shandong Province and has never seen a tiger since he was a child.
The Jurchen hunter's eyes were anxious, and her legs began to tremble involuntarily. Jiang Liu'er urged:
"Let's go quickly. If the tiger comes, we won't be able to leave."
Huang Wenyu leaned over to collect the broken corpses on the ground:
"These brothers died heroically. Wrap them up and take them back."
Zhou Dabiao waved to Lao Qian, who was on guard in the distance, and Lao Qian immediately ran over.
Captain Huang took off his cotton robe and spread it on the ground. The three of them piled the remaining leg bones and hand bones together and stuffed them into the robe.
Alsa and Jiang Liu'er stood nearby and looked at each other.
Jiang Liuer whispered:
"There are wild beasts around. You can't take the body with you. They have eaten human flesh and they will follow it if they smell it."
Zhou Dabiao turned around sharply, his eyes sharp, like a knife cutting through the young auxiliary soldiers.
"You're not even hairy, but you know how to use a hammer, just get out of the way!"
The beast's roar suddenly stopped, and Jiang Liu'er looked around with fear in his eyes.
Zhou Dabiao pushed Jiang Liuer away, who was still in a daze, and cursed:
"Coward, I'm not even afraid of slaves, so why are I afraid of a few wild beasts? In Hunhe, I killed two servants in Liao Town. You were still nursing at that time! If you're afraid, get back on the boat!"
Jiang Liu'er took two steps back and stopped talking. The sight of Peng Yong, a white-armed soldier, before his death appeared in front of his eyes.
When he joined the Kaiyuan Army, he never told the people around him about his experience in the bloody battle of Hunhe River. The little boy brandished a dagger and stabbed the bear-like Ding Bi, leading the people of Shenyang to launch a counterattack against the Jin Army.
"Do you know Ding Bi? He is much more powerful than a human bear. One of his servants is as strong as ten. I hacked two of them to death with my own hands in Shenyang without blinking an eye. When I was in Jinzhou, I saw these people in Liao Town. It’s pleasing to the eye…”
Zhou Dabiao wanted to brag about his past achievements, but Huang Wenyu glared at him, tied the robe stuffed with corpses into a bag, and handed it to him.
"Stop talking nonsense and let's go!"
Biaozi reluctantly took the bag and carried it on his body. The captain turned back to look at the two of them and said coldly:
"You two..."
There was a sound of snapping branches in the dense forest ahead.
"The Rakshasa ghost is here! Get ready to fight!"
Huang Wenyu shouted in a low voice, while taking out the throwing ax and protecting it in front of the four people, leaning forward slightly in a fighting posture.
The noise became louder and louder, and everyone quickly dispersed into a three-row battle formation, with the captain at the front, Lao Qian and Zhou Dabiao in the middle, and Alsa and Jiang Liu'er at the back.
Jiang Liuer clenched the flying ax tightly, his fingers trembled slightly, and his palms started to sweat.
"It's a beast, not a Rakshasa ghost."
Before Alsa finished speaking, a giant black beast suddenly appeared in the forest.
The giant beast was nearly one foot tall. From a dozen steps away, Jiang Liuer had to look up to see the blood marks on its head.
The black bear's face and body were covered in blood and flesh, and its left eye was missing and turned into a pulpy bloody hole. There were horrific scars all over his back and lower abdomen, and blood was dripping down, which was horrifying to see.
The black bear raised its head, sniffed with its nose, and let out a loud roar. The wounds on its body suddenly started to bleed.
It was like a collapsing mountain of flesh, screaming and crashing into everyone.
Alsa raised his big bow, drew it into a full moon, and said to his Han companions:
"It has just experienced a fierce fight and will tear apart any living thing."
Zhou Dabiao cursed:
"Shangmenxing, say beast, the beast will come!"
"It would be great if I had a spear. I can kill it alone!"
Huang Wenyu said:
"We don't collect at night, where can we bring a long gun?"
He took off his throwing ax and told everyone:
"Don't use firearms, lest you alert the Rakshasa ghosts!"
Alsa let go of the bow string, and everyone threw flying axes and iron bones. A wave of flying axes was thrown out, and all of them hit the black bear.
The heavy arrow was shot along the black bear's wound, leaving only the tail feathers of the large arrow still outside the body.
The black bear's bulky body stopped for a moment, roared on the spot, angrily pulled down the flying ax stuck on its head with its paws, reached out and pulled out the heavy arrow, revealing the bloody intestines underneath.
It endured the severe pain and accelerated towards everyone.
"Draw your sword and spread out!"
The black shadow had rushed in front of him, knocking Huang Wenyu out of the way.
Captain Ye Bushou groaned, flew out, and hit the trunk of a birch tree hard.
"kill!"
Jiang Liu'er followed the three Ye Bushou, and the four of them swung their knives together to kill the black bear. The four waist knives were inserted into the back and lower abdomen of the black bear. Using the inertia of the beast's running, the hilts of the knives were sunk into the bear's body and slashed. Several wounds over a foot long.
Blood splattered all around.
The black bear roared angrily, covering the flowing intestines with one paw, and waving the other paw vigorously.
Zhou Dabiao was unable to dodge and was hit on the head by a bear's paw. The palm was so powerful and heavy that half of Ye Buhui's cheek disappeared, revealing the red and white skull underneath. His body flew five or six steps away and fell to the ground for a moment. Dead, writhing and howling.
Lao Qian grabbed the handle of the knife and tried hard to pull out the knife from the bear. The blade was stuck in the bone and could not be pulled out. He was carried a few steps away. The black bear screamed and swung hard, throwing him away. In the bushes.
Jiang Liu'er roared, pulled out his Shoujie knife, slid under the giant bear with one lunge, and stabbed at the lower abdomen, which was already bloody.
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