starling is not a bird

The fires in the wine urns were shining brightly, and they were thrown towards the depths of the dense forest. Even the arrows were wrapped in rags and dipped in strong wine, and then shot out after burning.

The rain of arrows finally slowed down, but the narrow path was full of boulders, clods and giant logs. The eighth elder brother held the rein tightly and took a deep look at his younger brother: "Old ten, remember, wait When there is a signal, rush forward, don’t worry about anything else, and wait until you get to an open place before stopping, you know?”

Elder Brother Ten held the reins with one hand, and held up the waist knife in his right hand: "Mynah, you should also be careful, I will press behind you."

Brother Ba shook his head: "No, let's go separately, so that the target is smaller, and you wear the guard's cloak, so that it is more concealed."

The tenth brother was hesitant to speak for a long time before he opened his mouth. The signal from the big brother in front had already come. Three gunshots were fired. The eighth and tenth brothers looked at each other, clamped their legs hard, and the horses With a long hiss, he rushed straight ahead.

But after running for tens of meters, artillery was fired on the road ahead. As the artillery roared, the trees on the mountainside fell straight down with mud, and after a while, several big trees blocked the road ahead firmly. , blocking the way of the two elder brothers.

The eighth elder brother clamped down on the startled mount, leaned down and hugged the horse's neck tightly, and did not let go. Arrows whizzed past his ears, one after another: "Come on!" one after another.

The eighth elder brother waited for the intensive offensive to weaken before he had time to look back for his brother. The ten elder brother had already controlled the horse, and the guards followed. The eighth elder brother got off the horse and looked at ten seriously. Elder brother said: "There is no other way, we can only go on foot, Nalan, take a few people to the rear, and Zheerjin, take a few people to go ahead to explore the way."

Nazheerjin took the order and waved it from a high place far away, signaling to follow behind. The eighth elder brother untied the cloak, tucked the hem of the clothes into the belt around his waist, and carried the waist knife and musket to the back. Started to climb with hands and feet.

The eighth elder brother turned around and urged the tenth elder brother while crawling: "Hurry up, there must be an ambush here, you can go to the place with many branches and leaves, at least you can block it."

Looking up again, someone has already rushed out of the dense forest, holding some knives, guns and sticks. Eighth Brother's feet became more and more urgent, and he did not forget to tell Tenth Brother: "Old Ten, take out the gun, they It seems that there are no guns, and those artillery can't last long, don't wait for them to get close and shoot first! Don't let them get close to you."

Although the tenth elder brother is bigger and bigger than the eighth elder brother, his movements are really nimble, and he rushed to the eighth elder brother in one fell swoop: "Brother, don't worry about me, you take care of yourself."

As he said that, Brother Ten raised his knife and cut off the dead branches in front of Brother Eight. The group of people had just turned over and touched the ground with their feet, when they were blocked by a group of people.

Taking a closer look, these people are still dressed in the Ming Dynasty. Elder Brother Ten couldn't help but get angry from his heart, and scolded in a deep voice: "You still don't kneel down when you see the Lord? What kind of thing dares to be presumptuous in front of the Lord!"

On the other side, someone stood up and replied: "You Tartars, who have occupied our country, dare to let us be ministers? You have a good idea! We have made the third prince Zhu the king, and your majesty is the real dragon emperor. You should kowtow early For the top!"

Before the tenth elder brother could speak, the eighth elder brother stopped him: "What a joke, the emperor of your former Ming Dynasty was not killed by your Han people? If the first emperor hadn't entered the customs, I'm afraid your third prince Zhu would have become The dead souls under the sword! Speaking of which, Zhu Cihuan had to kneel down to thank him. If it wasn’t for the late emperor, I’m afraid his ancestor’s tomb would not be preserved. Are you able to fight back? He is ashamed and not ashamed, is he shameless?"

The person in charge didn't expect to meet someone who knew the inside story, and he didn't give up after being choked up. Anyway, there were only a dozen people in front of him. He had to do a lot of work when he came out this time, so he could hang up when he went back. Act on the banner of "walking for the sky".

I got the letter before I came here. This convoy is the prince's team. The Baojia who was at the inn at the front had already informed me that the four princes were coming, so that the idlers would not wander around on the official road. Seeing that these two are not very old, Just casually wounding one or two is enough to brag about, not to mention that I have a lot of people here, luckily killing one or two, I am afraid that if the publicity spreads, I will return to the world. on the number.

After making up his mind, he waved his hand and led the people forward: "You Tartars are cruel by nature, and the great rivers and mountains fall into your hands. The heavens have no eyes. If we Han people don't rise up and restore the country, I'm afraid there will be no place to stand in the future."

The eighth elder brother sneered: "It turns out that our emperor Ama never adds gifts and is not as good as those dog emperors of the Ming Dynasty! The country has been bestowed by heaven since ancient times, and I want to see whether the sky has eyes or no eyes!"

As he said that, he raised his lianzhu musket and aimed at the front to shoot. Although the marksmanship of the eighth elder brother was average, the musket in his hand had enough ammunition, and in the hands of the guards behind him, seven or eight muskets were fired at the same time. The crowd dispersed immediately.

The eighth elder brother hated him so much that he refused to show mercy at all. He emptied the gunpowder box and reloaded the ammunition and continued to fire. While shooting, he walked forward, and the guards behind him also caught up one after another. Nalan hurriedly rushed forward. Come up and block the eighth elder brother behind him.

When he was walking smoothly, there were several people on the opposite side riding horses and firing muskets. The eighth elder brother had no time to dodge, and a guard rushed out from the side and threw the eighth elder brother to the ground. The bullets grazed his head. A shallow pit popped out of the stone wall.

As soon as the eighth brother overturned the person on his body, he jumped up and was about to rush out to fight, but the leading rider ran straight over, holding the gun in his hand, and aimed at the eighth elder brother's head again.

Seeing this, Elder Brother Ten next to him was furious, and rushed forward to chop the horse's front leg horizontally with a waist knife. The rider quickly pulled the horse and turned around, but Brother Ten still hit the horse's front leg heavily. .

The horse couldn't bear the pain, so it screamed in pain, and knelt down on its front legs. Elder Brother Shi rolled up from the ground and pointed his musket at the rider.The rider hurriedly jumped off his horse, and before he could stand still, Elder Brother Ten had already jumped on him.

Before the two of them had time to raise their guns, they were already wrestling with each other, and rolled to the ground after hitting each other, with mud and water dripping on both of them.

Although the tenth elder brother was strong, but he was not yet full-grown, he was inseparable from the fight with that man. The eighth elder brother was holding a gun beside him and didn't know where to aim, he was in a hurry.

The guards on the side didn't dare to step forward, so they had to concentrate their firepower on the so-called rebels who were fleeing in front. They opened a way out, and the knights didn't dare to come over, so they only fired a few shots from time to time in the distance.

Here, the eighth elder brother guarded his younger brother not to move from his nest, holding the waist knife in his hand, slowly rubbing against the two of them, and stabbing the man when he saw the opportunity.

The man's movements slowed down, Elder Brother Ten rolled over to sit on his waist, punched the man violently with left punch after punch, his face changed into black and purple after a few moments.

He hit Elder Brother Ten so hard that he could barely lift his arm and refused to stop. Brother Eighth was about to hold Elder Ten up, but the man who had been beaten to vomit blood made an awkward smile.

The Eighth Brother instinctively realized that the crisis was coming, and only had time to push the Tenth Brother away, but when a shot was fired, he saw the Tenth Brother's upper body tremble and fall to the ground.

The eighth elder brother flew over and kicked the man far away, and caught the tenth elder brother's body. A handful of small flames fell out of the man's arms. The eighth elder brother was so heartbroken that he picked up the small fire Tong kept pulling the trigger on that person, seeing that guy flying with blood and flesh, Eighth Brother was not moved at all, just hugged Tenth Brother.

Zheerjin, who was next to him, saw that something was wrong, rushed over, and helped the eighth elder brother tear off the tenth elder brother's outer clothes to check his injuries. The bullet was shot at close range, and the tenth elder brother's abdomen was full of blood, and the eighth elder brother His hands trembled unceasingly, his eyes lost sight of reality, Zheerjin shouted for help, the eighth elder brother watched his younger brother being carried up like a dream, and he himself was dragged up, and then what?

The eighth elder brother couldn't remember what happened next, as if he was stumbling all the way, and then at the back, the tenth elder brother switched from this person's back to that person's back, and the eighth elder brother looked at the guard's back. Looking at the large area of ​​blood stains on the face, I wondered why so much blood was shed?

Nalan dragged himself, murmuring in his ears all the time and didn't know what he was talking about, it was really annoying.

Whenever the eighth elder brother wanted to lean over and reach out to check his younger brother's breath, he would be pulled away by someone, and then the eighth elder brother fell down by himself. When he woke up, he was already lying on the rickety boat , When he was confused, Ma Qiyun came over and said cautiously: "Master, I'm so happy to wake up. Master, His Highness Ten is being raised in the cabin over there. I asked the doctor to look at it. It's all right. Master, take care of yourself at ease."

Brother Ba rolled his eyes, and it took him a while to come back to his senses, and said hoarsely, "Water."

The warm water flowed down his throat, but Eighth Brother was still stunned: "Where is this?"

Ma Qiyun respectfully said: "We can see the city gate, master, we are home."