America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 12 Illusions
Asuka rushed into the water like crazy, trying to drag the corpse in the water to the shore.

Chen Jianqiu and Xiao En also ran over to help. There were men and women, old people, and even children among the corpses.

The water flow became more and more turbulent, and the birds were rushed and fell, and they were about to be swept away by the water flow.

Chen Jianqiu grabbed his arm, Xiao En grabbed his other hand, and the two hurriedly dragged the bird to the shore.

Asuka lay on his back on the shore, then struggled to get up, looking at the corpses one by one in a daze.

"My mother isn't inside, no, I'm going to find her." He ran to Huey, got on his horse, and flew upstream.

"Let's go, follow him, something will definitely happen in his current state." Chen Jianqiu signaled Xiao En to get on the horse, and the two followed closely behind the bird.

The scene along the way made them more and more frightened. There were many corpses of Indians lying dead by the stream. Chen Jianqiu observed that many of the corpses were face down and had gunshot wounds on their backs. They were probably chased and shot from behind.

Asuka and his horse stopped when the horse rushed out of the mountain road and stepped onto a higher level ground.

There is a piece of scorched earth in front of me, the ground has been burnt black, and the remains of objects are scattered everywhere. The few remaining unburned wooden poles can still vaguely identify the conical structure of the original tent, and there are still a few charred bodies inside. Corpses, the pain of being roasted alive can be imagined from their posture.

Asuka rolled off the horse and fell to his knees with a "dong", a mournful howl resounded throughout the valley.

However, not far away, there was a gunshot, and a flower of blood bloomed on Asuka's shoulder, and he fell backwards on his back.

Chen Jianqiu, who had already been fully alert, raised his shotgun and aimed two shots in the direction where the gunshots sounded, but the range was limited, and it didn't seem to cause too much damage.

Gunshots from all around also rang out.

Chen Jianqiu didn't stop, with the black radish between his legs, he bent down, picked up the flying bird on the ground, and put it on Xiao En's horse.

"Press his wound." He yelled at Sean while turning his horse's head, "There is an ambush, retreat!"

Black Carrot didn't wait for the owner's orders, and rushed out first. Sean leaned on the horse's back, tightly protecting Asuka, and behind them was Asuka's horse, Huey.

The gunshots continued intermittently, but it seemed that except for the first shot, which was particularly accurate, the rest of the shots were normal.

"Chase!"

Two horses galloped out from the woods beside the ruins, and chased towards Chen Jianqiu and the others.

The sky began to rain heavily, and the raindrops were connected into a line, forming a rain curtain, which drenched everyone who passed through the rain curtain.

"Xiao En, can Asuka hold on?" The rain hit Chen Jianqiu's head and face, left along his forehead, and then poured into his mouth.

"What? I can't hear you!" Sean couldn't hear clearly from behind. He looked at the bird under him, his face pale.

Chen Jianqiu turned around and glanced at them, knowing that the situation of Asuka was not good, he got up to observe, and drove his horse into a forest by the side of the mountain road.

"You keep moving forward, the forest ahead is dense, the rain will be less, find a cave and light up the bonfire." He got off his horse and shouted to Sean on the horse.

"how about you?"

"I'll stay and deal with those two pursuers." Chen Jianqiu pulled out the Indian tomahawk from Huey's saddle bag.

Sean nodded and continued along the mountain road.

……

"Second Lieutenant, it's really difficult to track them in such heavy rain. The visibility is low, and the rain will dilute their horseshoe prints." A soldier riding on a horse said to the officer in front.

"Shut up, there is only one way down the mountain from here, as long as we can still see the horseshoe marks, we can continue to chase." The second lieutenant scolded, "The Indian is injured and can't go far. The boss said we should try our best." If you want to live, it’s best to throw it in a cage and exhibit it around.”

The two also came to the place where Chen Jianqiu and the others parted ways.

"Second Lieutenant, what do you think is that?" The soldier suddenly pointed to the forest beside the road.

The second lieutenant wiped the rainwater from his face, and he saw a black horse wandering alone by a tree.

"Isn't that the horse of the Chinese among the three people just now? Why is the horse missing here, but the man disappeared?"

The two also stopped and turned into the woods.

"The horse must have been injured by stray bullets. They abandoned the horse. We should continue to chase." The soldier began to analyze.

"It's also possible that they are hiding in the woods." The second lieutenant pulled out the pistol at his waist. "They hid the other two horses and ambushed us."

There were three bandits on the other side, and one of them was shot and injured. Judging from the situation of the counterattack, the firepower configuration was only a shotgun, which was useless in the woods; There is no chance of winning if you hide.

The rain fell through the gaps in the coniferous forest, and the visibility in the forest was not high, but it was not a problem to see clearly ten meters away.

Where is the other side hiding?behind the tree?

The two walked towards the black horse cautiously. The black horse didn't seem to want to run away. Could it be that he was really injured as his subordinate said?These three people won't really abandon their horses and run away.

They went back to back, searching behind each tree.

Just when they were about to approach the dark horse.

Suddenly, a black shadow fell from the sky like a big bird, and the next second, a sharp Indian tomahawk smashed into the soldier's head from top to bottom.

The ensign turned sharply and pulled the trigger.

However, before it was too late, the black figure in front of him dropped the ax embedded in the soldier's head, hugged his waist with a cat waist, and threw him hard to the ground.

The second lieutenant, who lost his balance, shot his gun to the sky. Before he could get up, a sense of suffocation came from his neck. The black figure had already grabbed his back, and a strong arm locked him firmly. neck.

His body was clasped by the black shadow's legs like a python, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter how hard he struggled.

The rain hit his face, and there was fear and despair in his eyes.

The person in the arm quickly fell into a coma, and Chen Jianqiu stood up covered in mud.He drew the tomahawk and wiped it on the clothes of the corpse.

Just as he was about to kill the man in front of him with an axe, a piece of paper slipped from the second lieutenant's pocket.

After wiping off the mixed blood and rain on his face, he bent down, picked up the piece of paper, and looked at it.

This is a letter from home, written to my mother who is far away in New York, complaining that I am both an officer and my father's father, and I don't give myself the opportunity to make contributions at all.

This product turned out to be a big fish.

……

Sean tremblingly held the flint in his hand. He tried many times, but there was no way to light the bonfire.

He looked at Asuka lying on the side. Although he was not unconscious, he was not in a good state due to blood loss.

"This one is too wet to light. I have to scrape some dry pine resin and use a knife to scrape off the bark. There might be something dry inside." Asuka panted.

"Just use the gunpowder in the bullet!" A horse neighed from outside the cave, and Chen Jianqiu walked in.On his shoulders was a sturdy man tied with a rope, with a piece of rag stuffed in his mouth.

The two of them looked at the two extra revolvers around his waist and the blood stains on his jacket that hadn't been washed away by the rain, and knew that a bloody battle must have happened just now.

Chen Jianqiu threw the second lieutenant by the fire.He took out a few bullets from his pocket and handed them to Sean.

Xiao En carefully opened the primer of the bullet and poured out some gunpowder. Chen Jianqiu cut the wet bark of the branch to reveal the dry part inside.

The bonfire was finally lit, bringing light and warmth to the cave.

Chen Jianqiu glanced at the half-lying Asuka by the firelight, his silhouette appeared on the cave wall, swaying with the firelight.

Suddenly, he had a hallucination.

Asuka's face gradually changed into a strange middle-aged man he didn't know, yellow-skinned, Chinese.

He covered the wound on his shoulder with his hand, gritted his teeth and said to Chen Jianqiu: "Changluo, you hurry up, after leaving this mountain is the border of Guangdong, the village at the foot of the mountain will meet you, I will drag them here For a while! Let's go... ah!"

The pain distorted the middle-aged face and gradually blurred it.

When he came to his senses, the middle-aged man turned into Asuka's again, and Asuka's gunshot wound occurred.

"What's the matter with you?" Xiao En turned to ask Chen Jianqiu while helping the bird.

"It's nothing." Chen Jianqiu took out the dagger, "I have to take out the bullet for him first."

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