"Well, there is an injured horse here. It should be the horse of the Nikan who escaped." A Jurchen said to Kutai.
Kutai looked at the weeds around him and ordered: "Dismount and search, we must find that Nikan, and we must not let him escape back to the Ming Dynasty."
A dozen Jurchens jumped off their horses, holding their own weapons in their hands, and began to search around the injured horses.
Xia Guang, who was hiding in the grass, shrank back and stared fiercely at the Jurchens who were searching for him.
Seeing that the Jurchen was getting closer and closer to him, he suddenly stopped.
At this time, he saw the Jurchen shouting something loudly, but Xia Guang didn't understand a word of what he said.
But he understood the meaning clearly. This Jurchen had obviously discovered his trace, because all the Jurchens around him were surrounding the place where he was hiding.
The Jurchen who found him cut directly with the knife in his hand.
There was no point in hiding anymore. Xia Guang turned over and dodged the knife. He twisted his body and rushed towards the Jurchen.
At this time, only a 'bang' was heard, and the sound of a bird shot was heard.
Xia Guang was stunned. He didn't expect the Jurchens to use blunderbuss, but he soon realized something was wrong, because the sound came from behind him, and the Jurchens were either on his left or right, or in front of him.
These Jurchens did not expect that there were other people in the darkness.
Xia Guang had never heard of the Jurchens or the Beibei messengers, so the people who secretly fired the cannons should be from the Ming Dynasty.
Thinking of this, he gave up his plan to fight the Jurchens, rolled his body, and rolled into the grass again, then got up and ran towards the direction where the gunfire came from behind him.
The Jurchens were not slow to react and rushed towards Xia Guang who wanted to escape with a knife.
At the same time, other Jurchens also chased after him.
"Help me, help me!" Xia Guang shouted loudly as he ran, asking for help from the man who fired the musket.
But he did not remind the other party that those who were chasing him were Jurchens, because he was worried that if the gunman knew that he was chasing Jurchens, he would flee without a fight.
After all, this kind of thing has happened many times in Liaodong, and it is no longer a rare thing.
The dozen or so Jurchens brought by Kutai had fought with the Ming army on the battlefield. They were very familiar with blunderbuss. They had killed many soldiers in the Ming army who used blunderbuss. They knew that blunderbuss were not a threat. Therefore, he was not worried about those who were shooting guns in the dark, and was still chasing after Xia Guang.
"People from the Ming Dynasty?" Someone shouted from the darkness.
When Xia Guang heard the voice with some Shanxi accent, he immediately knew that the people who had just fired the cannons were Ming people even if they were not officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, he quickly responded: "I am an escort from Zhangjiakou, from the Ming Dynasty."
"Get down!" The man in the dark shouted.
Xia Guang was stunned for a moment, didn't understand, and kept running forward.
Then I heard the man in the dark say again: "Get down quickly, quickly!"
This time he heard the anxiety in the voice of the man in the dark. Although he didn't understand why the other person asked him to lie down, he thought that without the Ming people in the dark to save him, he would only end up being killed by the Jurchens.
Thinking of this, he decided to listen to the other party's words, threw himself on the ground, and shouted at the same time: "Get down."
boom! boom! boom……
There were several sounds of gunshots being fired in succession, and even he could smell the smell of burning gunpowder, and then he heard several sounds of someone falling.
It was obvious that the cannon just hit someone, and it should have been the Jurchen who was chasing behind him.
At the same time, he felt happy that there was more than one person from the Ming Kingdom secretly. Otherwise, no matter how capable that person was, he would not have been able to fire so many guns at the same time.
Kutai, who was standing behind the Jurchens, noticed that the Jurchens chasing at the front fell down, and his heart sank.
Although he couldn't see clearly from the distance, he could tell that he had been hit by the bird cannon that had just sounded.
"Rush over and kill all these Nikans." Kutai ordered the Jurchens in front.
Although several Jurchens were hit by cannons and fell, it did not scare away other Jurchens, but instead aroused the ferocity of these Jurchens.
The remaining Jurchens screamed strangely and rushed towards the place where the fire had just been. As for Xia Guang, no one paid attention to him anymore.
While Xia Guang was relieved, he was also worried about the Ming people who secretly rescued him.
But at this moment, the sound of gunfire sounded again.
The few Jurchens who rushed to the front only had time to let out a muffled sound before falling to the ground.
The sound of gunshots sounded twice in a row caused the Jurchen side to lose five or six people. The originally few Jurchens suddenly lost nearly one-third.
Kutai's face was extremely ugly when he saw this scene. He had no idea that a few Ming people's cannons would cause him to lose so many warriors of the Later Jin Dynasty.
However, he had no intention of retreating.
These people who were hiding in the dark and wounded their Houjin warriors with blunderbuss must be found and killed, otherwise they will not be able to explain to their masters when they return, and this will also be a humiliation for the Jurchens.
They, Hou Jin, had never been defeated by Ming soldiers on the battlefield. If they were defeated here by a few Ming people hiding in the dark with blunderbuss, it would be a humiliation to Kutai that he would never be able to wash away.
The Jurchens who rushed towards the direction of the cannon shot became faster and faster, with a ferocious look on their faces.
After the cannon sounds, they have to reload. This time is their opportunity to rush forward.
As long as they rush to those Ming people who secretly use blunderbuss, they can use the weapons in their hands to slaughter those Ming people wantonly.
boom! boom! boom……
Several more cannon shots were fired, and several more Jurchens fell to the ground.
After three rows of cannon shots were fired from more than a dozen Jurchens, only about half of them were left.
Kutai's expression changed several times.
The sound of bird gunfire sounded three times in a row, making him unable to figure out how many people were hiding in the dark.
It was too dark, and the enemy was dark and we were clear, which made him hesitate, worried that if this situation continued, more Jurchens would be killed or injured.
He came to Fan Ji's convoy to prevent another accident from Fan Ji's convoy. If the events here caused too many Jurchen casualties and prevented Fan Ji's convoy from reaching Horqin and ruined the affairs of Si Baylor, then it would be his fault. That's big.
Thinking of this, he knew that he could not delay any longer, so he shouted: "Withdraw!"
The remaining Jurchens were indeed frightened by the cannons fired in the dark. After hearing Kutai's order, they all stepped back and returned to Kutai's side.
"The enemy is in darkness and we are in the clear. Wait until daybreak to deal with these Nikans." Kutai said to the remaining Jurchens.
Both the Mongols and their Jurchens disdained the use of the Ming people's blunderbuss, so he determined that the people who secretly used the blunderbuss must be Ming people.
All the Jurchens returned to their horses and rode away from the grassland along the same path.
Seeing these Jurchens walking away, Xia Guang breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had escaped with his life for the time being.
