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Chapter 606 Betting with God on wealth

"Bang..." With a crisp sound, a puff of white smoke came out from the ruins. A big man wearing a leather robe and holding an iron bone flower fell to the ground. He covered his neck and crawled two meters away and stopped moving.

This is an abandoned village located on the south side of the East Post Road in Ningyuan City. There are not many houses, and most of them are in ruins. The roads are not complicated. There is only a 100-meter-long dirt road from the beginning of the village to the end of the village. It is surrounded by wasteland, except in the north. There is a small sparse grove.

But even in such a simple terrain, this Jurchen team led by two red-armored Bayalas had already lost three people, including a red-armored Bayala. But he faced only one Ming army detective.

This scene made the remaining Jurchen soldiers hesitate a little. They hid behind nearby walls and peered into the dilapidated house. Seeing that there was no movement, he cautiously approached. The hand holding the bow was trembling slightly due to exertion and nervousness.

"Hehehehe, there are at least three. I have learned enough today. Son, when you grow up, you must not imitate your father and become a gangster. You must study and read. Dad can only help you so far. It's a holiday. Thinking about filling the grave with soil!

Alas, let's forget it. I'm afraid I won't be able to go back. If my father's name can be found on the stone tablet that Your Majesty said, you can just go and kowtow a few times in front of the stone tablet. It's better than leaving no bones. "

Squatting in the dilapidated house was an army soldier wearing a toad-skin military uniform. Judging from the bronze star on his chest, he must have been well-known. At this moment, the short gun in his hand was loaded, and he was looking out along the cracks in the bricks, muttering in his mouth.

Huang Liu is in his forties, dark and thin, with a southern accent. He is an Army forward. In the army, except for a very small number of mid-level and senior officers who were transferred from the Marine Guards, it was rare to see southerners. Huang Liu was a special case.

Originally from Fujian, he followed Lin Ajiao on the sea for more than ten years, and later became Lin Nanping's subordinate. Although he didn't have any great skills, he was a good sailor.

Later, Lin Nanping surrendered to the Navy Governor Yuan, the pirates were reorganized into the navy, and Huang Liu became the sailmaster on the battleship. He has more than a dozen apprentices under his command. Although his official position is not high, he lives a comfortable life. Two years later, he married a local widow from Tongzhou, and the next year he had a fat boy.

A few years after the good times, Huang Liu encountered a storm during a voyage. As a result, a broken sail rope was pulled on his left arm, and his bones and tendons were broken immediately.

The arm was cured and the hand was saved, but I couldn't use force. It might not be a problem for ordinary people, but as a sailor, if one arm doesn't use up the strength, he won't be able to do his job.

Being unable to get on the ship was not a dead end. Huang Nanping still took good care of these old buddies. He went to see Yuan Keli in person and transferred Huang Liu from the sea war guard to the land war guard as a probationary household. Then he was transferred from the navy by Li Ruzhang. He joined the army and became an official hundred households.

Ordinarily, this is a good ending. He is already nearly fifty years old. He can leave the front-line team and move to logistics or factories in just a few years. The salary will not be bad. He will basically win in this life.

However, from the rough sea all the year round to the land, life suddenly became stable, and Huang Liu couldn't adapt to it. Coupled with the fact that he had no acquaintances around him, he couldn't find a suitable person to talk to, so he soon contracted the problem of alcoholism. As a result, he was punished for violating military discipline one after another, and he was demoted from Baihu to Shizhang. If Li Ruzhang hadn't seen him as an old man in the navy, his dismissal would probably have been a minor matter.

This time the army went on a personal expedition with the emperor, and not everyone could go. They were selected internally in advance. Those who performed poorly on weekdays were all left behind, and Huang Liu was naturally among them.

But this guy is not willing to give in. According to the regulations of the army, every time he goes out to fight, his salary will be increased, at least doubled. If he performs meritorious service, he will be rewarded with a large sum of money. So he licked his face again and found Li Ruzhang, swearing not to drink.

After leaving Shanhaiguan, Huang Liu took the initiative to serve as a scout for the front army and led his team to explore the road in front of the army. He was the first to discover traces of the goddess' strength and use fireworks to call the police.

Perhaps because he was eager to perform meritorious service, Huang Liu felt that he would not receive any big reward just for discovering the enemy. If he could kill an enemy general, he would be rewarded for his meritorious service. Fear? It doesn't exist. The wind and waves in the sea are stronger than any enemy and cannot be resisted. After all, we are facing people now, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

So Huang Liu asked Benshi's team members to withdraw first. He used the cover as an excuse to hide in an abandoned village near the post road with a telescope and a long gun. He used the concealment method he learned in the Marine Corps to bury himself in the collapsed soil. In the cracks in the wall, he escaped several patrols of Jurchen rangers and finally reached his target.

A group of cavalry with bright helmets came up the post road. Huang Liu, a Jurchen soldier, had seen them in North Korea. He thought these people were officials, so he aimed at the figures clustered in the middle and fired a shot from more than 200 meters away. .

The man must have been hit. He saw the other man fall off his horse with his own eyes. As for where he was hit or whether he was dead or alive, he didn't care. He dropped his spear and ran away. He went out of the village and into the woods, intending to avoid the cavalry and find someone. The place is to hide first, and then wait for the opportunity to approach the beach.

This was the retreat route he had planned in advance. The post road was only more than four miles away from the seaside. Now that the enemy army had arrived, it was obviously impossible to run back to Ningyuan City. Then go to the beach. As long as the other party has no ships, no matter how many soldiers and horses there are, they can't do anything to you.

The idea was good, but unfortunately he still missed one point, and it was this point that cost him his life. The Jurchen was not familiar with water, but he had grown up in the mountains and forests, and his skills in tracking prey were comparable to his skills in sailing a boat into the water. The woods did not provide effective cover and the trail was quickly discovered.

Seeing more and more enemies chasing after him, Huang Liu knew that there was a high probability that he would not be able to reach the beach. He could only hide in a small village and fight with the two short guns he carried. In line with the principle of killing one to earn another, he shot three enemies in a row.

"Click, click..." At this time, the pursuers also learned the lesson, and no longer showed their heads stupidly. They all hid nearby to form a siege, using whistles and shouts to summon more pursuers to come one after another. Knowing that there was no hope of escape, Huang Liu first smashed the telescope with a stone, then kowtowed three times to the south, opened his mouth and held the barrel of the gun.

So far, he has no regrets. Those who eat the sea have their lives handed over to God from the moment they step on the board of the ship. If they can reach the shore alive, they will be considered a profit. If they leave without a body, they will be considered a loss. This is gambling with God, betting your life to win wealth, making quick moves, willingly, and never complaining about others.

(End of this chapter)