Seldan quickly ran away from the position where he had just shot the arrow, and ran towards a house in the north.
When he reached the outside of the courtyard wall, he rushed forward, took a step forward, held on to the courtyard wall with both hands, and climbed over. Except for the village chief's house, the walls of the more than 20 households in the village are not very high, mainly to prevent wild beasts.
That family had long been awakened by the noise and gunshots in the village. They were so frightened that they hid in the house and did not dare to show their heads. Amidst the barking of their own dog, the family in the house heard the sound of footsteps passing through the yard and quickly disappearing.
With a "boom" sound, the bowstring sounded, and an arrow was stuck in the wall. At this time, Serdan's hand holding on the courtyard wall had just disappeared.
(According to the "Hunchun Deputy Dutong Yamen Archives", as of the 49th year of Qianlong's reign, among the weapons in Hunchun under the three banners of Huang, Zhenghuang and Zhengbai, bows, arrows and spears were the main ones. There were 468 bows in total. Zhang, had 24,490 arrows. The muskets they were equipped with were all locally made, and there were not many of them. At that time, the Ministry of War's examination for garrison officers and soldiers did not involve musket shooting.)
"Have you been hit?" asked a soldier who was catching up.
"It's so dark, shoot one and let me see." The armored soldier holding the bow took out another arrow and put it on the bow, and said angrily.
"Where are the people?!" Several armored soldiers hurried over and shouted to their two companions.
"Climb over the wall and go that way." The armored soldier holding the bow pointed at the opposite courtyard wall with the arrow in his hand.
The leading soldier said: "Why is this guy like a fox? He can't hold back his hand. Take the horse away from here quickly."
The two armored soldiers kicked open the courtyard door, rushed into the courtyard, walked to the stable and took the horse away; the others circled outside the courtyard to the north and continued to chase.
Tomohuoguo learned from the armored soldier who escaped from the arrow that there were two horses on the sledge that rushed through the blockage. Then he learned from the village chief who hurriedly arrived that there were only two horses in Serdan's house. . He guessed that Serdan must find a horse to escape.
So he ordered the more than twenty armored soldiers to be divided into several groups, and while chasing them, they took away the horses from various houses in the village and gathered them together to take care of them. It's impossible to escape without horses in this weather. The rest of the armored soldiers were dedicated to chasing and intercepting Serdan.
Serdan just rushed into the family's yard just to grab the horse, but unexpectedly the armored soldiers quickly chased after him. This made him groan secretly in his heart. Although dogs can also pull sledges, dogs recognize their masters and are not their own masters, so they cannot be commanded at all.
At this moment, there are two families left here in the north of the village where he is. If the horse is taken away by the armored soldiers, he will definitely not be able to escape. Thinking of this, he quickened his pace and ran towards the next yard as hard as he could.
There were footsteps behind him, and Seldan hurriedly hid behind a big tree. Looking back, he saw four armored soldiers chasing towards him under three torches.
He touched the bag on his waist and found only three arrows left.
At this time, he didn't care anymore. He casually took out one and put it on his bow. He aimed at the armored soldier in the front and shot it.
With a "boom" sound, the iron arrow flew as fast as a ghost in the dark night. The thick arrow first shot off the ear of an armored soldier in front, and then hit the eye of the armored soldier behind him.
Two screams rang out. The armored soldier whose ears were shot off was kneeling on the ground and howling miserably while covering his wound, while the armored soldier behind him screamed for his life. When the two companions following him saw it, they immediately turned around and ran away in fear. Is this still a human being?
Seldan shot an arrow and immediately turned around and walked away. Behind him came the wail of the armored soldier who had been hit by the arrow. He ran to the nearest courtyard door in a dozen steps, jumped up and kicked open the courtyard door.
The dog in the family's yard was not tied up, and it roared and pounced on him. Seldan raised the big bow in his hand and swung it fiercely.
"Woo~" Amidst the screams, the dog that rushed up was slapped on the waist by Seldan, and immediately flew out and fell a few steps away. Several other dogs were so frightened that they tucked their tails between their legs and backed away. The two maroon Mongolian horses under the stable were also frightened by the dogs' whining.
Serdan drew out the short knife from his waist, went up and cut off the reins tied to the stable pillars; then he held the two ends of the broken reins tightly with one hand, and placed the big bow in front of the horse's back with his other hand. , his legs jumped up hard, his arms worked hard, and he climbed up.
He held the reins with one hand, turned the horse's head, and came outside the courtyard. After briefly identifying the direction, he shouted low, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and galloped toward the outside of the village.
Suddenly he heard the sound of a bowstring behind him. Seldan knew something was wrong. Just as he was about to lean over, his back was shaken, and an arrow hit his right back shoulder blade. Seldan let go of his right hand in pain, and the big bow fell off the horse.
Serdan endured the pain and clung to the horse's back; and the maroon horse under his crotch was also hit by an arrow in the buttocks. The frightened horse immediately ran very fast and disappeared in a moment.
Not far away, Tuomo Huoguo and seven or eight armored soldiers who came over lowered their bows. He stared at the direction in which Serdan was going, and ordered to his subordinates: "You guys quickly bring your horses over and follow me to continue chasing!"
Bear Island at the same time.
It was only around 9 o'clock in the evening. Liu Sheng was bored and was about to go to bed when he heard someone talking outside.
As the voices got closer and closer, the car door was opened by A Miao, and Zhao Xin came back.
"Let me go, why are you back so early?" Liu Sheng put down the towel in his hand and said to Zhao Xin with a smile.
"My eyelids have been twitching in the past two days, and I always feel that something is going to happen." Zhao Xin said with a smile while placing a large bag of things in his hand on the table.
"For me?" Liu Sheng opened the bag and started to take it out.
"It's all food. Our old lady asked me to bring it to you." Zhao Xin sat down on the chair, too tired to move.
Liu Sheng felt moved in his heart. After all, the friend in front of him was still thinking about him. So he opened a small bag with a smile.
"Oh, Zhajiang!" he exclaimed. "And fried pickles..."
"Yue Sheng Zhai's roasted mutton, Tianfu Hao's sauced pork elbows, Songhua tripe, and oven-roasted pork. I went to several places to buy them for you."
As Zhao Xin spoke, he raised his hand to touch his eyelids and muttered: "Why are you still dancing? I asked, has anything happened these days?"
"Hmm... delicious..." Liu Sheng opened a bag of roasted mutton and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Hey~ don't eat, I'm asking you something." Zhao Xin couldn't wait to eat as soon as he saw the other person, so he patted the table and asked.
Liu Sheng chewed the meat and said, "Well, it's nothing. Two natives came two days ago and said they were friends of that Yalha. I gave them a bag of salt in exchange..."
"Two more are here?" Zhao Xin lowered his head and thought for a moment and said, "There are already five natives here. I asked, why didn't that Yalha come?"
Liu Sheng put down the bag with satisfaction and finished chewing the meat in his mouth before saying: "I was just going to tell you. The two natives who came said that Yalha had frostbite. Because he exchanged things with us, he was arrested by the Qing soldiers, and later he He escaped. But everyone in his family was dead. I also took two boxes of medicine and asked them to take them back to Yalha."
When Zhao Xin heard this, he almost jumped up. He stood up and said, "Why did you say such an important thing last? I said my eyelids have been twitching recently."
"What does this have to do with us?"
"If the relationship is serious, if we don't clear up the troops, they may come to the island."
"Come just come, the guns in our hands are not fire sticks." Liu Sheng said nonchalantly.
"I bet what I told you before was all in vain." Zhao Xin shook his head helplessly. "I'm really not afraid of a few Qing soldiers. But after the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, those applicants should all come. If the Qing soldiers also come by then, I won't worry about hurting a few refugees. If those few It will be troublesome if you get hurt."
Zhao Xin walked back and forth for a few steps and frowned and said, "Let's do this. Early tomorrow morning, you will launch the drone to investigate the north of the island, paying special attention to the situation near the northern coastline. I will take Sheng Haizhou and the others. First go to the north and build an observation point. If the Qing soldiers come, we will completely surround them. No one can be let go!"
Liu Sheng said: "It's better that you stay and I go."
Zhao Xindao: "You are more familiar with drones than I am; when it comes to the environment and humanities here, I am more familiar with you. We just need to keep in touch at any time."
After all, Liu Sheng was in the south when he joined the army, and he was indeed not very familiar with the cold temperate environment in the north.
"Do you know where the Qing soldiers will disembark?" Liu Sheng asked suspiciously.
Zhao Xin sneered and said: "On the left and right are the places closest to the opposite continent. And with the weather like this, there are only a few dozen people at most. When Hunchun notices it, they will have to wait until spring if they want to send troops over again. We should have left early then. Let them find it slowly."
There was no words for the rest of the night.
Early the next morning, Zhao Xin got up, washed and put on his equipment. After checking the guns, he called on Lu Shoushan, Katsu Kaishu, Jiuzang, Torayoshi and Mosuke. He first went to Rikichi and got five axes (which can be used as weapons in an emergency), two hand saws, and two bundles. Wire, a few moisture-proof mats, four sleeping bags, and two large bags of compressed biscuits and water.
Except for the ax, several people packed these things into several large bags, then set off with the bags and axes on their backs.
Liu Shengze ate something hastily and was busy preparing for drone reconnaissance.
Two hours later, Zhao Xin and his party of six arrived in the forest near the northern strait. He searched around for a long time and finally selected a location to set up an observation post behind two rocks over one meter high.
The two rocks are more than twenty meters apart. At this distance, they can take care of each other in time for any situation.
After the shed is built, you only need to squat in the shed and look sideways from behind the rocks, and you will be able to clearly see the situation on the seaside; with a telescope, you can also see clearly what is happening on the frozen sea.
On the way here, Zhao Xin had already told Lu Shoushan and the others about the situation. At this time, when several people saw that Zhao Xin had chosen a location, they immediately followed Zhao Xin's request and began to cut down the surrounding trees that were only as thick as an arm. Of course, dead tree trunks are also acceptable, but they must be five or six feet long.
Soon, the chopped wood was piled on the snow. After measuring the space behind the rock with a tape measure, Zhao Xin cut the wood into lengths of 1.5 meters and 1.7 meters with a hand saw.
After sawing the wood, Zhao Xin first placed three 1.5-meter-long pieces of wood vertically in the open space, with a distance of more than 40 centimeters in between. Then he pressed a dozen 1.7-meter-long pieces of wood horizontally on the three pieces of wood. , and then use three 1.5-meter pieces of wood to press it vertically.
Then, he took out the wire from a bag and tightly wrapped the six vertical pieces of wood in twos. After the top and bottom were tightly wrapped with wire, the wall module of a shed was completed.
Lu Shoushan and others imitated Zhao Xin's operation and quickly completed four wooden rafts.
Zhao Xin erected a wooden raft as a wall on one side, and asked Sheng Haizhou to use two pieces of wood to support it front and back. He also asked Lu Shoushan to use an ax to cut several long wooden wedges and clamp them on both sides of the wooden raft. Nailed deep into the soil. In this way, the inner support wood can be removed.
Then he asked someone to bring another raft over. The two wooden rows were connected at a right angle of 90 degrees, close to one side of the rock, so that there were three walls of the outpost.
Later, Zhao Xin put the rest of the piled wood on the wooden rafts to use as a roof. However, he deliberately left an opening near the corner of the rock as a chimney.
After the roof was laid, Zhao Xin dug up the thick snow under the big tree and dug out large pieces of moss and dead leaves from underneath. He spread moss and dead leaves on the roof first, and stuffed the rest into the gaps in the wood on the wall to seal them tightly.
Sheng Haizhou and the others were extremely impressed while working with Zhao Xin.
Lu Shoushan asked Zhao Xin curiously: "Master, where did you learn this? This is much stronger than the straw shed I built."
Zhao Xin chuckled: "I wouldn't know even if I told you."
After the two sheds were erected, Zhao Xin asked several of his men to shovel the snow out of the sheds and spread it on the roof. In this way, when viewed from a distance, the wooden shed blends in with the surrounding environment.
Finally, Zhao Xin found a few stones from under the snow, and built a simple stove against the rocks under the roof opening in the wooden shed. He also asked his men to cut down several thick tree trunks. One was to cut them short and put them upright at the door of the wooden shed as a door to block the wind; the other was to split them and make fire.
After the six people were busy, when everything was tidied up, white smoke rose from the roofs of the two wooden sheds, and it was almost dusk.
From the morning until the afternoon, Liu Sheng had been operating a drone to observe the situation at the seaside, and informed Zhao Xin of the situation in time.
Zhao Xin asked Sheng Haizhou and the four of them to go back. He planned to stay here with Lu Shoushan tonight. Katsu Kaishu and the others firmly stated that they would stay vigil here with the adults.
Zhao Xin said there are only four sleeping bags, and you must go back with two. The four of them couldn't stop arguing, and Zhao Xin directly ordered Mosuke and Toraji to go back and ask them to come back tomorrow morning to replace Katsu Kaishu and Jiuzang.
