"Commander Zhuge, the fire has started and we can't escape."
Wang Jianshan's murmur was heard by Zhuge Yue. He quickly ran out of the Chinese army camp and looked down. Sure enough, the thick smoke quickly spread to the surrounding area at lightning speed. When the fire first started, it was just different.
Thick smoke was produced in a small part of the area and has now spread into one area.
There was a burning smell wafting far away in the air.
Wang Jianshan smelled the secret and said, "Damn it, it's tung oil. We've been fighting for so long, but the other side hasn't sent any more troops to harass us. It turns out they went to get tung oil. Why did the fire burn so fast?"
At this time, some of the bandits camped below had come into direct contact with the fire and began to flee up the mountain.
On top of the mountain.
When the fire gradually started, the second battalion commander exclaimed.
"Commander Luo, there's a fire in the mountain, and there are faint screams. I'll go down and investigate."
Luo Wu nodded and said: "Okay, be careful."
Soon, the second battalion commander returned to the top of the mountain after completing the investigation. He leaned towards Luo Wu mysteriously and asked him: "Commander, do you know why there was a fire below?"
Luo Wu thought that there must be something fishy, otherwise the second battalion commander would not ask this question. He looked at his trusted general: "What? Is there good news?"
The second battalion commander laughed and said: "I don't know what happened to these bandits, but they actually moved the camp to the mountains. I guess His Majesty discovered the enemy's unusual movements and set the fire."
"The camp has moved to the mountains? Are you sure?" Luo Wu was very surprised when he heard the news.
I remember that in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei personally led an army of 700,000 to the land of Yiling, but was burned down by Lu Xun. From then on, the elite of the Shu army was lost, and it never recovered.
Will these bandits face the same fate today?
Thinking of this, he suddenly realized something and shouted loudly: "Everyone quickly adjusted their status and took out all the grenade and crossbow reserves. Next, we may be in a hard fight."
The second battalion commander did not react for a moment: "What do you mean?"
Luo Wu explained: "These bandits will not sit still and wait to die when they are burned. If there is a fire at the bottom of the mountain, they have no other choice but to attack the mountain desperately."
"I see."
Everyone woke up one after another. The hard battle that followed was unavoidable and they could only prepare in advance.
Then Luo Wu had another flash of inspiration. Since he could set fire at the bottom of the mountain, he could also set fire at the top of the mountain. In this way, even if he could not force the bandits back, he could still reduce the enemy's charging front.
Thinking of this, he quickly picked up the second battalion commander who was still resting and ordered everyone to start lighting fires along the entire mountain top of the mountain that had not been cleared. Without the help of tung oil, the fire on the mountain was much slower than down the mountain.
Wang Jianshan hurriedly led the bandits down, only to find that the fire was too strong. If they had to rush out, all of them would be burned to death.
At the critical moment, Zhuge Yue reminded him: "Brother Jianshan, go to the top of the mountain. There is a large area of land on the top of the mountain that has been cleared in advance. There is no vegetation and the fire cannot spread there."
Wang Jianshan was overjoyed when he heard this.
"let's go!"
Thirty-five thousand mountain bandits climbed all the way to the top of the mountain. Some of them could not resist the spread of the mountain fire and turned into ash in the mountain, nourishing the land.
When they climbed all the way to the top of the mountain, the fire on the top of the mountain was already getting bigger.
Seeing this, Wang Jianshan gritted his teeth and ordered cruelly: "Everyone above me will die, and everyone below me will die. Everyone rush over after me!"
After that, he took the lead towards the mountain fire. He was more flexible and found a trail that had not been burned by the fire. Taking advantage of the advantage at the front, he quickly rushed out.
The remaining 35,000 people were in a more miserable situation, because there was not much distance left that had not been burned by the fire, and everyone rushed towards that location in a swarm in order to survive.
Some of the bandits who were standing in front were squeezed into the fire. Others stumbled and fell while pushing each other, and were trampled by many people. They had no energy left to stand up and were trampled to death.
The fire behind them is getting tighter and tighter, and the fire on the top of the mountain is also spreading. These bandits have become food for wildfires.
A bandit was squeezed into the fire, his eyes full of fear: "No, no, I haven't enjoyed it enough. The girl at the bottom of the mountain is still waiting for me to sleep with her. You can't do this!"
"Fire, go away!"
The bandit was lying on the ground dying, and he tried to grab a life-saving straw.
"Brother, give me a hand. Just help me up. All my gold and silver treasures will be given to you. Don't step on me anymore. Don't step on me anymore!"
"puff."
As the famous bandit stepped heavily on his chest, a mouthful of blood spurted out from his mouth. The blood dyed other people's feet and the land red.
"Master, Master, where are you? I'm only seventeen years old. I don't want to die yet." A man who joined the bandit base camp at a young age cried sadly. He couldn't squeeze through other bandits and could only get stuck on both sides.
You can't move in the middle of the fire. If you don't rush out, you will only be burned to death.
But where is the shadow of the great master?
Some bandits clung to the treasures they had plundered from other towns before they died, and even if they died, they would take the treasures down below.
Seeing the approaching fire, countless bandits sat helplessly on the ground.
"No, we have an army of 50,000. What happened? It was fine last night, but today we are like this?"
"Are we going to die?"
"God, open your eyes and take a look. There are more than 30,000 lives here. Do you really want to watch these people die in front of your eyes?" A bandit prayed to heaven, but was surrounded by fellow mountain bandits.
The gangster's companion slapped him in the face.
"Come on, we people have done all the bad things. Maybe it's because God opened his eyes that we are in a state of death. Are you asking him to open his eyes again because you are afraid that we will not die fast enough?"
Seeing that there was no hope of survival, these bandits stopped moving even if the fire burned their bodies. They closed their eyes and forced themselves to catch people, intending to die quietly.
The bandits who rushed out from the cracks of the fire were met with fierce fire from the sniper group on the mountain. They used four boats of turtle shells as cover to attack the bandits who had barely escaped death and had no time to respond.
After Wang Jianshan resisted for a while, he grabbed a few corpses around him and finally got a breather.
As for Zhuge Yue, when he rushed out, he was shot into a hedgehog by random arrows from the sniper group.
The military advisor of Situ Xing, the supervisor of Jiangnan Road, perished.
"Damn it, why is this happening?" Wang Jianshan's eyes turned blood red when he saw the corpses scattered all over the mountains and plains. This was an army of 50,000 people. How come they couldn't survive more than two days in his hands?
Zhuge Yue said that His Majesty the Han Dynasty was born in the military and used soldiers like a god. Could it be that he was so defiant that with just a thousand men, he burned 50,000 of them to ashes?