The stronghold of Tarumuwei is actually the main camp of the Tarummu tribe of the Jurchen people, and the policy of restraint implemented by the court on the northern ethnic groups is to control the land and contain each other, in addition to the increasingly powerful and difficult to control the Tatars, most of the northern ethnic groups including Duoyan Sanwei are under the control of this policy, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di completely conquered a large area of the northeast territory, in order to appease the various ethnic groups and facilitate management, select strong and more obedient tribes among the various ethnic groups, and set up guards in the main living settlements of their tribes, Their leader exercises autonomy, and appoints their leader as the commander of a certain guard, or a higher official, such as Duoyan Sanwei, who is stronger, and their leader is the commander of the guard.

The leaders of each guard only need to send some ginseng, mink, and good horses as tribute every few years to get the verbal recognition and support of the court, and in many cases there is no need for any tribute, and a paper document can obtain many tangible benefits, so the various ethnic groups in the north are vying to follow suit, so that the slaves and the guards are lined up, and in such a big place, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it actually reached nearly four hundred guards, and in fact, there are only a handful of people who are really controlled in the hands of the court.

The northeastern tribes of the Ming Dynasty rose and fell one after another, each leading the way for decades, and many Wei (tribal settlements) could not even confirm the exact address of the descendants, but Taru Muwei was an exception, Taru Muwei was built in the fourth year of Yongle, and began to flourish in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and eventually became the famous Yehe tribe in the future, that is, the Yehenalan clan of the eight Manchu surnames.

Tarumuwei is not very strong now, and can barely be regarded as a relatively active tribe among the northeastern tribes, and the so-called active is to harass the surrounding area, constantly provoke disputes, loot other people's camps, rob food, tools, and women, and accumulate strength for future strength.

The current patriarch Zhu Kongge is an ambitious man, his old father' After more than ten years of accumulating strength, Tarumuwei once again had the power to challenge the court, so when Duoyan Sanwei issued a call to raid, he responded positively, planning to take the opportunity to make a big profit, greatly enhancing his strength, anyway, after grabbing it, he picked up some mountain ginseng that no one wanted to pay tribute to the idiot emperor of the Ming Dynasty, maybe he would get a reward from the Ming Dynasty, and this trick has been tried and tested for more than ten years.

Zhu Kongge was in his tent, fantasizing about snatching back the delicate women of the Han people after attacking the border, when his general, Sa Hui, who had played with him since he was a child, cried and rushed in, shouting: "Brother, you have to make the decision for me, Sizhong him...... He was killed by the Han people who broke through! ”

"What!" Zhu Kong Ge was taken aback, and he exclaimed: "The Han people who broke through the pass? What did they do? ”

Sa Hui said sadly: "Brother, it's not safe, today I asked Sizhong to go to the bridge to guard, and as a result, a group of Han people were killed, all the people guarding the bridge died, and the people guarding the north city gate were either dead or injured, brother, those Han people rode fast horses and ran out of the city to the north, brother, you quickly order, I will lead a group of people to chase down, catch those damned Han people, and avenge Sizhong!" ”

Zhu Kong Ge frowned and said, "How long have they been gone?" ”

Sa Hui said: "The people under the mountain came back in time, they have been gone for less than a tea time, with the riding skills of the Han people, we will definitely be able to catch up." ”

Zhu Kongge sneered: "A cup of tea? Can you run back from Anbu in a tea time? I'm afraid they'll run away long ago. ”

Sa Hui hurriedly said: "Brother, a few of them have very poor riding skills, and I still have time to take a shortcut from Lina now." ”

Zhu Kongge asked, "How many people are you going to bring over?" They can break through in the blink of an eye, how many people do you have to bring to win? Sa Hui, you have to use your brains to do things, now that we are about to go south, you don't want to give me extraneous branches. ”

Sa Hui said with red eyes: "Brother, it is my son Sizhong who died, if it is the Tai Pestle who dies...... Brother, the living people have seen clearly, those Han people have bows one by one, I only need to take a dozen or so people, and if I catch up with them from afar, I will shoot them with arrows, they can't catch up, they can't escape, and within two days, I can come back to see my brother with their heads. ”

Zhu Kongge was still a little hesitant, and Sa Hui said whimsically: "Brother, when is this happening, why do the Han people still force their way through?" Why are they here? Why is it so strong? There must be something wrong with this group of people, if they don't chase and kill them, I'm afraid that my brother's plan will fall short! ”

Zhu Kongge suddenly came to his senses, patted his thigh and shouted: "It makes sense, I'm almost confused, Sa Hui, you will take your subordinates to catch up with this group of people, it's best not to let any of them go, after killing them, search their manners, I want to see what kind of evil god they are, dare to kill our Tarum people in our Tarum territory!" Remember, when you see a thousand mountains, you turn back. ”

Sa Hui agreed, and left with a roar, and the men who had already gathered hugged him rushed out of the camp and headed north, Zhu Kongge's son Tai Pest walked in and said, "Father, should we kill all the Han people who are in peace?" Avenge the dead and wounded! ”

Zhu Kongge shook his head and said, "Revenge? What revenge? Anbudu is now our territory, who would dare to trade with us after killing all the Han people? Fools, if you want to kill, kill the Han people in the south, rob them of their gold, silver, jewelry and women, hehe...... Sizhong died well, there is one less person who has a chance to rob you, hehe......"

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Xie Sanniang led everyone to the north along an unknown river, and did not follow the post road, the further north Xie Sanniang became more worried, under her leadership, everyone even nibbled on the horse for lunch.

Xie Sanniang jumped off the horse from time to time and listened to the sound on the rock, it is said that the sound of horses' hooves seven or eight miles away could be heard, about the time of Shen Shizhong, Xie Sanniang kindly asked everyone to stop the horse, find a place to rest, and lie on the stone to listen carefully, listen to it, her face suddenly changed, turned over and sat on the stone, and beckoned to Duan Fei.

Duan Fei walked over and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Xie Sanniang's face was ugly, she whispered: "Someone is chasing after you across the mountain, they are not walking the same road, I estimate that they will be able to catch up with our footsteps in an hour, and they may appear in front of us at any time, with our speed, it will take at least an hour and a half to reach the Snake Pan Valley in front, if they are blocked before entering the valley, it will be troublesome." ”

Duan Fei asked, "Can you tell how many of them there are?" ”

Xie Sanniang shook her head and said: "The distance is too far to hear, it is estimated that there are at least thirty people, they are skilled in bows and horses, although the archery skills of the son are good, I am afraid that there is still a gap compared to them, and the son is only one person, they are just far ahead of us, or hide on the side of the road to secretly release cold arrows, it is enough for us to bear." ”

Duan Fei nodded and said, "This is a bit troublesome, it seems that we have to rush some way, I wonder if these horses can still hold up?" ”

Xie Sanniang looked at Shi Bin and the others who were lying motionless on the ground, and said, "The horse is okay, I'm just afraid that the four of them won't be able to stand it first." ”

Duan Fei said: "It's okay to have a good horse, everyone listen to me, there are already chasing soldiers behind me, if you don't want to die in the middle of the road, let me get up and hurry!" ”

After a while, Duan Fei and they were still a step slower, and when they could look at the mouth of the snake valley from afar, a group of people and horses suddenly rushed out of the col in front of them, there were fifty or sixty people, they looked at Duan Fei from a distance, and they blocked the road, and one of the big men shouted: "Xie Sanniang, you are worthy of us, you actually took the Han people to kill my son, I will definitely break your corpse into ten thousand pieces!" ”

Xie Sanniang also stopped the horse, and said with a smile: "Sa Hui, you can't blame me for this, I've said all the good and bad things, Sizhong They just want to rob our horse, what is the horse?" Horses outside the border are our lifeblood, do you think we can let them rob them? There's no way, we have to use the knife in our hands to speak, Sa Hui, don't blame me for not persuading you, these friends behind me are not ordinary people, maybe the little people you brought are not enough for them to stuff their teeth. ”

Answering Xie Sanniang was an angry arrow, more than 300 meters away, when it flew over, the strength was exhausted, and it was grabbed by Duan Fei casually, Sa Hui shouted over there: "Xie Sanniang, this arrow is to repay your love, in the future, we will break off our righteousness, I will never be soft when I kill you, you let the horse come!" ”

Xie Sanniang chuckled: "It's you Sa Hui who have the revenge of killing your son, you don't come to kill us to take revenge, what are you doing standing so far away?" Is Sa Hui, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, still afraid of a few of us Han people? ”

Sa Hui was so angry that his face turned blue, and his clansmen were also a little angry, but Sa Hui suppressed them, although he was very angry, but he understood that these Han people in front of him were different from those who could be bullied at will, if they were wolves, ordinary Han people were sheep, then these Han people were lions, and there was no chance of winning in fighting with these lions at close range, they had to keep their distance and harass them with arrows from afar, and the lions were also going to nap, but the wolves could take turns resting, and the lions were consumed to death.

Sa Hui sneered: "Xie Sanniang, let's see, I advise you not to enter the Snake Valley, hehe......"

With a wave of his hand, Sa Hui led most of the people to gallop forward, and in the blink of an eye, he entered the Snake Valley, and two other young Jurchen warriors fell behind, nearly five hundred paces apart, staring at Duan Fei and them.

Xie Sanniang smiled bitterly: "Second Young Master, what should we do now?" If the sky gets dark, cold arrows are more difficult to defend, and these barbarians will create traps, and this snake valley is in danger step by step. ”

Duan Fei wasn't very worried, he laughed and said, "So we can't give them time, let them lay traps, let's go, everyone be careful, just a few cold arrows are afraid of where he will come?" ”

Duan Fei's legs were slightly forced, and the jujube red horse under his crotch rushed forward with an arrow step, and the two Jurchen warriors in front hurriedly turned their horses' heads and ran forward with shouts, with bows and arrows in their hands, ready to give an arrow to the people behind them at any time.

Duan Fei accelerated first, and gradually chased the distance to two hundred steps, the two Jurchen warriors did not hesitate to shoot an arrow at him, the distance of two hundred steps plus the speed of Duan Fei's forward rush, the lethality of the arrow was still very strong.

Almost just heard the sound of the strings, the arrow had already arrived in front of him, Duan Fei let out an exclamation, and while his body flashed, his right hand fished into his arms, and the two arrows suddenly fell into his palm.

The palms of their hands were rubbed hot, but they finally caught it, and the two Jurchen warriors were confused by Duan Fei's suspicious plan, and saw that the target was lying on the back of the horse, not knowing whether he was alive or dead, and couldn't help but forget to continue to accelerate and pull away the distance, and reached out to touch the arrow again.

Duan Fei put the two arrows he received on the string, his legs were clamped again, and the neighing of the red horse under his crotch increased, narrowing the distance between the three of them to about one hundred and eighty steps, Duan Fei suddenly straightened up, stretched his bow like a full moon, and shot out with an arrow.

Only then did the two know that they had been fooled, and when they were in a hurry to urge the horse to run forward, the arrow had already been shot in front of them, and the Jurchen warrior who had unfortunately become Duan Fei's target snorted, saw the direction of the arrow, and flicked it with the back of the bow, and the arrow was suddenly tilted, flew past him, and shot into the grass next to him.

The Jurchen warrior was about to laugh sarcastically, but his companion roared angrily: "Sien, be careful! ”

The second arrow hid behind the first arrow, silently piercing Sien's young body, and he let out an unwilling roar, clutching his chest and running on the horse's back for a few steps, before finally falling off the horse with a bump.

Duan Fei couldn't help but let out a burst of wild laughter when he saw that an arrow was successful, and continued to chase wildly, and the people behind him also cheered, no one thought that Duan Fei's archery could actually shoot the Jurchens who were skilled in bows and horses, and even Xie Sanniang cheered with joy at this time.

Another Jurchen warrior tried to rescue his companion, but Duan Fei quickly caught up, he had to roar and speed away, Duan Fei did not waste the arrow, let him escape far away and caught up with Si'en's horse that was gradually slowing down, only to see Si'en being dragged by the stirrup, his face had been hit by the ground and his flesh was blurred, and he was out of breath.

Duan Fei grabbed the reins of the horse and stopped Si'en's horse, took Si'en's feet out of the stirrups, took away the bow and quiver on his body, changed his horse, and waited for the people behind to catch up, Duan Fei asked: "Which of you is more confident in your archery skills, take this bow." ”

Everyone looked at each other, although Shi Bin and they got Duan Fei's guidance, and their archery skills were stronger than those of ordinary guards, but they were still too far behind the Jurchen warriors, and carrying a bow on their back was equivalent to suicide, and the other party would definitely kill their own people with long-range attack capabilities first, not to mention Shi Yufeng and Shaolin Wudang's masters, they were good at dancing knives and sticks, bows and arrows, they hadn't practiced.

It was actually Xie Sanniang who took the bow and arrow from Duan Fei's hand, she sighed and said: "It seems that only the slave family can do archery, and I practiced it when I followed my father to the mountains to hunt when I was a child, and I haven't used it for many years, and I don't know if it will be successful." ”

Duan Fei was also worried that she wouldn't be able to pull away the Jurchen's hard bow, but fortunately, Xie Sanniang immediately tried it and easily pulled the bow away with more than two stones.

Under everyone's amazed gaze, Xie Sanniang smiled: "Fortunately, I can open about three bows in one breath, and it's okay to barely use it for emergencies." ”

Duan Fei nodded and said: "Three bows are enough, Shi Bin, you lead my horse, and after a while, when it recovers, I will take turns to change horses, Rong'er, you protect Xie Sanniang, Yuantong, you follow me, Yuan Jing and Qinglan Qingyu take care of it before and after, big brother, you be careful." ”

Shi Yufeng smiled and said: "Don't worry, I told my fortune before I went out, and the old monk said that I would be lucky now, and I would be fine." ”

Duan Fei smiled: "Can you believe the words of fortune telling?" I hope I can grab more horses and bows and arrows, and everyone will rush with me! ”

The Jurchen warrior in front of him saw Duan Fei coming, turned around and ran, and at the same time shot arrows from time to time, wanting to slow down Duan Fei's progress, but one or two cold arrows were just as Duan Fei said, and they were not put in the eyes of everyone at all.

In a blink of an eye, I entered the Snake Valley, the terrain of this Snake Valley is really like what Xie Sanniang said, it is very complicated, not to mention the nine turns and thirteen turns of the sheep intestine path, the two sides are suddenly chaotic and rocky, and suddenly they enter the dense forest, high and low in the mountains, and there are good places for ambushes everywhere.

Seeing the complicated terrain in front of him, Duan Fei instead smiled and said, "It's really good, as long as we stay until night, these dozens of Jurchens will never see the sun tomorrow!" ”

Xie Sanniang was puzzled, Duan Fei didn't explain, he took the lead in riding forward along the path, with a bow in his left hand, and a saber collected from that Si'en in his right hand, the Mongolian system, which is slightly thinner than the Daming saber, and the iron quality is slightly worse, but in the current situation, it is much more convenient than Duan Fei's dragon teeth.

There was a 'whoosh' sound, an arrow flew through the sky, and when everyone was a little puzzled, they only heard the sound of rubbing the ground, as if the taut string had been cut, and then there was a rumbling sound on the hillside, and a large stone with a diameter of two meters rolled straight down the hillside.

The boulder broke countless small trees along the way, constantly changing the direction of rolling down when it hit the stone, and brought down countless gravel along the way, rolling towards Duan Fei with great momentum.

The starting time of this trap is very accurate, and it is even more creative to start it with arrows at a long distance, but unfortunately Duan Fei has no heart for appreciation, he just wants to scold his mother, and the healthy horse under his crotch also panicked, and when there is no way back, Duan Fei can only gallop forward with his head and gallop forward, and at the same time shout: "Don't come over if you can turn around in the back!" ”

Four of the twelve men rushed forward, eight hurriedly reined in their horses and retreated, the boulder rumbled down the cliff, and under the smoke and dust, no one knew whether the others were dead or alive, at this time, several Jurchens appeared on the mountain, and they shot a few arrows at the shadow that was faintly visible in the smoke and dust, and then turned around and left without hesitation.

Shi Yufeng, Yuantong and Qingyu's horses were hit by gravel in the boulder flying, and then stumbled and fell to the bottom of the cliff, fortunately, the three of them were agile, jumped up in time to avoid the gravel, just saw the Jurchens fall into the well and put cold arrows on the rocks, and heard someone in the smoke and dust snorting in pain, they were suddenly furious, and chased down the mountain with a little bit, Shaolin's eight steps to catch the cicada, Wudang's Tiyun Zong all showed their power, Yuantong and Qingyu rushed to the mountain in a blink of an eye, catching up with the Jurchens who had just ridden the horse, but had not had time to run far.

After a burst of punches and kicks, the six Jurchens fell to the ground and wailed in grief, Shi Yufeng fell to the end, looked at the fleeing horses and shouted: "Quick, quickly catch all the horses!" Otherwise, we'll have to walk. ”

After the smoke and dust cleared, everyone gathered again, only to see that Jiang Jun had been hit by an arrow in the abdomen, but the others were not injured.

"How could it hurt! Didn't I ask you to protect him? Duan Fei only glanced at it, and then asked Qing Lan and Yuan Jing with red eyes.

Qing Lan and Yuan Jing sighed, and Qing Lan explained: "My lord, please forgive me, it was too chaotic at the time, and the enemy's goal was clear, first shot Shi Bin at the end of the team, and then suddenly attacked Jiang Jun at the front with all his strength, we were negli......gent for a while."

Jiang Jun covered his stomach and smiled bitterly: "My lord, it's all my fault that I don't have the ability, I don't know if the injury is serious, if it is serious, the adult will leave me behind!" ”

Duan Fei looked at the blood flowing from Jiang Jun's fingers, his heart was aching, looking at the location of the wound seemed to hurt his stomach, in this place where birds don't and there are no modern medical conditions, does Jiang Jun still have any hope of survival?