Chapter 9 four

Three days later, Haji sent Timur the exact news from Jieshi City.The time of the incident remained unchanged, and he asked Timur to get in touch with the army controlled by Sraz Khan one day in advance. At that time, Haji and his army will be stationed near Samarkand.If all goes well, Haji will return to Jieshi City first as agreed, and continue to eliminate the forces supporting Hazhan in the surrounding cities. If the matter is revealed, he will take Timur back to Jieshi City, and the two armies will merge into one to fight against Hazhan Rare pursuers. Everything is going smooth.Since then, Haji has maintained the necessary contact with Timur.

There was also news from Sharaz Khan that his trusted generals had already controlled the inside and outside of Khan's palace, and were waiting for the right time to deal with the forces Hazhan had placed in the guards. Timur had already contacted top generals in a dozen armies, and they all expressed their willingness to support his efforts to overthrow Khazhan.Not only that, but his companions who had followed him and were later assigned to various armies by Harzhan were also ready, and they would gather around him again on the day of the incident, and fight side by side with him.Timur is full of ambition and believes that good luck will accompany him.

Haji sent someone to contact Timur for the last time, and the time of the incident was confirmed in the early morning of the 9th. That night, Timur stayed with Shana, and Shana drank some wine with him.Neither of them said much, Shanai was restless, and Timur was thinking about how he would treat Hazhan once the incident was successful.Later, Shanai said goodbye and went back, saying that Aya was still waiting for him. As soon as Shanai left, Timur lay on the bed, planning to rest for a while.He thought he would be so excited that he couldn't fall asleep, but unexpectedly, he fell asleep in a daze not long after he lay down. It wasn't until there was a quick knock on the door that he grabbed the Mongolian scimitar placed beside his pillow and started Jumped up on the bed.

"Who?" he shouted. "Sieve the sea." Timur opened the door. Shi Hai followed Timur into the room.The guard who brought Shahai over put the lighted oil lamp on the table, and then quietly withdrew. Timur looked at Shahai suspiciously under the dim light. Under the light, Shao Hai's face looked a little pale, and his eyes unexpectedly showed a little panic. His different expression showed that something astonishing must have happened. "What's wrong?" "Timur, you have to leave quickly, the sooner the better!" "what?" "You have to hurry up and escape! Hazhan's people will be here soon."

"Speak more carefully." "It's too late, I can only say briefly. Your affairs have been exposed. Hazhan has taken control of the Khan's Palace, and he vowed to catch you. I got a secret message and worried about the safety of you, Shanai, and Aya, so I came here in person." It's over. You go, no matter how late it is, I'm afraid none of you will be able to get away." "Could someone tell the truth?" "I don't know, let me find out these things slowly. The most important thing now is to leave this place of right and wrong. Remember, whether you go into exile or become a bandit, in short, Hazhan can't catch you."

"I see." "Go, go find Shana and Aya." "it is good." Timur walked to the door and thought of something again: "Shai Hai, we are leaving, what should you do?" "As for me, don't worry, I helped Hazhan before, and he still has to remember this kind of affection. Besides, I have never participated in your operation from the beginning to the end, and those who inform Hazhan will not be able to find me. Not only that, I After all, I am still the leader of Hongji's assassination department, without conclusive evidence, he would not dare to touch me easily."

"Oh, Shahai, I will never forget your kindness." "Stop talking so much, let's go. By the way, I almost forgot, what about your wife? Do you want to try to inform her to escape together?" "Forget it. Even if I can escape by chance, I will be a bandit, not a prince who dominates one side. Besides, the person I object to is her grandfather, and she will not be willing to suffer with me. It is better to let her continue Stay with her grandfather, at least, her grandfather can keep her and my son safe." Xi Hai pondered for a while: "Forget it, let's do it this way."

Timur left Samarkand overnight with a few cronies. On the way, he was lucky enough to gather most of his former companions, and some soldiers who were willing to follow him defected to him one after another. When he retreated to the iron gate When he was in the mountains in the area, he already had a team of nearly a thousand people. Within two days, Hazhan led an army of 5,000 people to chase him to the iron gate.Timur took advantage of his familiarity with the terrain to deal with Khazhan.However, Hazhan seems to have mastered the rules of his command, relying on experience and an advantage five times that of Timur's army to keep narrowing the encirclement, resulting in many casualties between Timur and Hazhan in several fights, and his team also suffered. Rapidly reduced to a quarter of the original number.Knowing that he can no longer entangle with Hazhan, Timur decides to withdraw from the iron gate, and the camera shakes off Hazhan's pursuers.

Timur with his remnants retreated south first, then north, then east, then south again, and finally west.Wherever he goes, where his team plunders, he mainly plunders food and livestock. If he encounters a caravan, he does not want fragile things such as porcelain, but only soft and gold and silver jewelry. All are distributed to the soldiers under his command according to the degree of credit, and everyone has a share.In this way, during the escape, his team not only did not decrease, but quickly increased to more than 500 people. Hazhan's pursuers were confused by Timur's elusiveness. Several times, they managed to catch Timur's whereabouts, but when they arrived, Timur had disappeared without a trace.The repeated setbacks made the chasing soldiers depressed, and their exhaustion made them complain constantly.Later, even Hazhan himself's ambition to eliminate Timur in one fell swoop was wiped out.

Thus, after a three-month pursuit of Timur, Khazhan ordered a retreat to Samarkand. Timur was a little relieved when the pursuers returned without success. In autumn, Timur led the team to the border of Sistan.Most Xistan people make a living by grazing cattle and sheep, surrounded by mountains and rivers.At the beginning, the Sistan people were unprepared for the robbers who fell from the sky. Their cattle, sheep and property were repeatedly robbed but they had no way to defend themselves. They could only choose to graze in more secluded places.The repeated success of Timur and his people also made Timur more and more unscrupulous, and his looting area gradually penetrated into the hinterland of Sistan.

In order to deal with Timur, the leader of Sistan decided to gather the herdsmen to graze. The grazing locations were changed frequently, and the army was sent to protect the herds in turn.Unexpectedly, this unreasonable solution was in Timur's arms. He had a comprehensive understanding of Sistan's geographical environment and customs. Not only that, he also worked hard to bribe two greedy Sistan shepherds, father and son, from them. I learned from my mouth that the Sistan people have always driven their livestock to a narrow valley in the past few days. There are rich pastures in the narrow valley, which is an ideal place for grazing.The bribed father and son promised Timur that once they had an opportunity, they would notify Timur in time. Timur salivated at this god-given opportunity.He pulled the team to the jungle thirty miles away from the canyon a few days in advance, and sneaked into the canyon every day for reconnaissance.He is waiting for the right opportunity, and he has a hunch that this opportunity will come soon. It should be said that everything was in Timur's plan.Soon, two Sistan shepherds sent definite news. In order to protect the grassland in the canyon and not overuse it, the Sistan leader decided to move to another place to continue grazing after tomorrow. That night, Timur led his troops to hide secretly in the mountains near the narrow valley.He did this, firstly, through his secret reconnaissance of the narrow valley these days, he had already worked out a careful robbery and retreat plan; secondly, he was condescending and attacked quickly. When night fell, Shanai came to Timur's camp. From fleeing from Samarkand to robbing the border of Sistan, Aya has always followed Shanai and Timur.But since going deep into the hinterland of Sistan, Shanai worried that Aya was in danger, and insisted on leaving her in a small village on the border of Sistan. Every time the robbery was successful, he went home to visit Aya. Recently, because Timur decided to attack the canyon, Shanai hadn't seen Aya for more than ten days.When the team came to camp in the jungle, Shanai could no longer resist missing Aya, and decided to meet Aya even if Timur blamed him afterwards. In order not to reveal his purpose, after dinner, Shanai deliberately went to Timur's tent and chatted with him for a while as if nothing had happened.Later, seeing that Timur was a little absent-minded, he said his goodbyes knowingly.Timur's guards saw him as he left. He also wanted them to see it. He walked to his tent, which was less than a hundred meters away from Timur.He purposely ostentatiously walked to his tent, as if he wanted to go back to rest, but he didn't go in, but sneaked out his war horse from behind the tent, and slipped out of the camp in the dark.