After waiting for half an hour, the team of 6,000 people finally passed.
Half an hour later, more than a thousand civilians came slowly in carts, pulling provisions, horse supplies, tents and other luggage.
There were about a battalion of guard soldiers, wearing tattered mandarin duck jackets, guarding the convoy on all sides.
The peasants were all sitting on the shafts of the carts, dozing off. They were whipped up by these wolf-like soldiers from the kangs of the cart shops with whips in the middle of the night. They drove the carts in the middle of the night, and they were all very sleepy.
They didn't dare to resist. Mr. Zuo was very fierce and killed two guys who tried to escape on the spot.
The soldiers were all in front, and those guarding the grain carts and baggage carts were a group of Yanqing Guard soldiers. They were all skinny and looked listless when walking.
"Old Cao, why do you think Deputy Shen Qianhu brought us here in the middle of the night? He didn't sleep all night long."
"Old Wen, if you don't know, something big has happened. The Japanese pirates have come back and captured Tianjin."
"What the hell, Tianjin. That's a fortified city. Why did it fall?"
"Who knows, the Ming Dynasty is so bad now. It's not the same everywhere. The world is as black as crows."
"Then what are we going to do? We're not going to fight the Japanese pirates, right? My mother is a young girl, and I've never fought in a war. Isn't this going to the toilet with a lantern and looking for death?"
"I heard that a group of Japanese pirates went north and landed in Zhangjiawan. It seemed that they were heading for the capital. The court was panicked. We were asked to intercept them. Our guardsmen are just escorting them, so it's okay. We still need to set up troops to fight.
Come on, can Wei be able to fight? Stop joking."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang from the squatting tiger cannon. Countless Japanese pirates wearing Japanese armor appeared from the reeds on the south side of the road next to the lake.
The man yelled rudely in Japanese and ran over while jumping. He set off firecrackers as he ran.
This is Yang Fan's instruction. They are just garbage soldiers. Just scare them away. There is no need to do more killing.
"Oh my God, this, this is a Japanese pirate!" Lao Shen was startled. These people wearing masks with ghost faces were too scary.
Lao Cao simply threw his whip and ran away.
"Wait for me." Lao Shen also hurriedly chased after him. Unexpectedly, the soldiers in front did not encounter the Japanese pirates, but civilians like himself did. It was really unlucky.
The guardsmen who were yawning and holding guns suddenly woke up. They ran faster than the civilians and threw away their weapons. They hated themselves for missing two legs.
Yang Fan didn't really want to fight, so he walked slowly over with his people, and saw a fifteen-year-old child in the car, standing there stupidly.
The child was probably too frightened to even run away.
Yang Fan kicked his butt and scolded: "Run away quickly, I'm waiting for you to eat."
"Ah! Don't kill me, don't kill me." Only then did the stupid kid react and run away rolling and crawling.
With a bang, a leather bag filled with gasoline was thrown to a servant. He grabbed it skillfully, opened the stopper, and started throwing it towards the grain truck.
More than a hundred large trucks and heavy goods were doused with gasoline. A torch was still on the grain truck.
One after another, the carts were set on fire. Due to the accidental management, thick smoke billowed out, which seemed to block out the sky from a distance.
"Are they all lit?" Yang Fan asked.
Zhang Geda said: "They are all on fire. This experiment was a perfect success. Master, the gasoline you used to steam the wine is so useful."
Yang Fan saw burning grain trucks and baggage trucks everywhere on the road and nodded. It was impossible to put out the fire if it was burned like this.
"Retreat and go to Tongzhou to attack the Tongzhou granary."
The army marching ahead obviously also saw the thick smoke column to the west.
Dong Jishu and others stood on horseback to watch. What kind of smoke was this? Could it be that something had happened in the capital? But judging from the color, it did not appear to be wolf smoke.
People generally have misunderstandings about wolf smoke. Wolf smoke is not actually made from wolf dung. If wolf dung is used as fuel, it will be difficult to collect a large amount of wolf dung, and the smoke emitted when wolf dung is burned does not rise straight up.
So what kind of fuel has been used in beacon fires since ancient times? Yes
Experts have verified that firewood is used. Populus euphratica, tamarisk, apocynum, splendens, white cilantro, camel grass, licorice, dry reed, Haloxylon ammodendron, etc. grow in the desert, and these can be used as fuel.
But this smoke enhancement is special. The smoke does not rise straight into the sky in a straight line. Instead, it rises in messy smoke.
No, this is not smoke, this is a fire.
The five of them looked at each other, and they all saw what was there on the way here. It was desolate along the way, and there was nothing flammable anywhere.
Zuo Liangyu suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "No, there is something wrong with our food, grass, and baggage."
Only then did everyone realize that because the peace in the pass had been peaceful for a long time, everyone in the capital had relaxed their vigilance.
If the reeds there were either caught on fire, or the grain carts were burned. Now it seems that the grain carts are more likely to encounter Japanese pirates.
"Turn around immediately, hurry up and go back to protect the baggage." Dong Jishu said anxiously.
He still knows the truth that an army without equipment will perish.
The army of more than 6,000 people immediately changed from the rear to the front and rushed towards the baggage convoy with great momentum.
By the time they arrived, Yang Fan had already withdrawn and headed towards the Tongzhou Granary.
Looking at the mess on the ground, the grain and carts burned to black charcoal. As soon as everyone saw this miserable battlefield, they knew that this batch of grain was finished.
"Everyone, we must get rid of these Japanese pirates who are still chasing us as soon as possible."
"Sir, Ye Bushou discovered this group of Japanese pirates. There are about a thousand people. They are heading towards Okura, Tongzhou." A guard came over and said.
