In the silence, a "buzzing" sound was heard in everyone's ears. This was the sound of a bow string playing, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air. Everyone looked eagerly at the string of wind lanterns swinging in the wind on the arrow tower, but they were disappointed.
The wind lantern was still bright, but the arrow actually missed.
Everyone held their breath and looked around nervously, fearing that the sound of arrows had alerted the guards. Fortunately, the enemy troops did not make any movement. Perhaps it was because of the strong wind above the arrow tower that the eardrums were ringing and they could not hear clearly.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of bowstrings started again, and this time he walked through the poplars with a hundred steps. He saw a string of wind lanterns on the arrow tower shaking violently, and then fell down leisurely. With a slight cracking sound, the wind lanterns caught fire after landing.
Got up.
There was an immediate reaction on the arrow tower, and the voices of people shouting and cursing could be heard. Su Jin whispered: "Quick!"
Several men with good shooting skills drew their bows and fired. The arrows shot out in an instant the four or five wind lanterns on the wall.
"Up!" Wang Chao shouted in a low voice. He took advantage of the dimming of the lights and rushed out. He threw the rope in his hand and hooked it up to the wall. His body was as agile as an ape and he was on the wall in a blink of an eye. Everyone followed.
Going up, seven or eight hooks were hooked on the top of the wall. In the blink of an eye, they were all on top of the wall, and then they jumped down one after another. The place where they landed was soft but a piece of barren grass.
"Damn it, this light cord has just been replaced two days ago, and it's broken again; these idiots in the Logistics Department are just fucking fooling me, alpaca, go down and drag them up from the bed, give me a few whips.
, ask them to come quickly and replace the wind lanterns." A rough voice on the arrow tower cursed angrily.
"Du Tou, don't be angry, you just put out the lanterns. The wind is so strong, no wonder it broke. A dozen strings of wind lanterns are heavy enough, so they are indeed easy to break." Someone said to him.
The sound of the words alerted the patrolling team inside. More than a dozen people quickly ran to the arrow tower and loudly asked what was going on. Taking advantage of the time when they were talking to each other, Su Jin and others quickly crossed the open area and dived into the tall grain tree.
Among the piles.
As soon as he entered the grain pile, Su Jin felt calm. It was more convenient to hide among the hill-like grain piles. All he had to do now was to take out the kerosene bag and light it, but Su Jin couldn't help it.
Touching the outer shell of the grain stack, I suddenly felt a chill in my heart.
These grain stacks are actually built with bricks and stones as high as one person. They are not like the grain stacks in the Song Dynasty, which were made of bamboo mats. If you want to burn the grain, it is obviously more efficient to start from the bottom, otherwise you have to climb up.
Lighting a fire on the upper grain stack is easy to be discovered and easy to extinguish. Now that things have happened, Su Jin can't think about it. He immediately ordered to light the fire upwind and use the wind to burn the grain stack.
What is depressing is that the wind blows from the northwest in the summer. Perhaps the mountains block it and change the normal wind direction. The upwind is in the northwest, but it is overlooked by another arrow tower, and it will be discovered soon.
But Su Jin couldn't care less, and led his men straight to the northwest through the gap in the grain pile. The defenders on the arrow tower initially thought it was a small patrol, but they soon discovered that something was wrong. More than a dozen people below
One person actually climbed onto the grain pile, and flames broke out on several piles of grain in an instant. With the help of kerosene and wind, the flames instantly reached a height of one person.
"No, someone set fire to it." The defenders on the arrow tower understood and immediately began to shoot arrows down and blew their horns.
The piercing sound of the horn resounded through the night sky, causing the entire barracks to shake. The defenders in the inner and outer camps were awakened one after another, and ran out of the barracks to look around and ask what happened.
Someone shouted loudly: "Someone is setting fire to the inner camp to burn food. Quickly put on your armor and get someone to put out the fire."
Only then did thousands of soldiers realize what they saw, and saw that the fire was already blazing into the sky in the direction of the inner camp. A pungent smell of smoke and heat waves came with the night wind. They quickly returned to their camps, put on their helmets and armor, picked up their weapons, and rushed towards the inner camp.
Su Jin and others ignored the arrows from the arrow tower and frantically set fire to the grain pile. Two companions were accidentally hit by arrows and their blood spilled on the spot. Su Jin was also almost hit by a bow and arrow.
No one had time to grieve, seeing that the fire in the northwest had become raging, Su Jin immediately led people to rush to the east, because there was a large open space in the middle of the inner camp, which was reserved for loading and transporting trucks, but now it became a natural barrier to isolate the fire. In the fire zone, with this open space, the fire in the west will not spread to the east at all. If it wants to burn, it must be burned completely, so Su Jin chose to go straight to the east and set fire without hesitation;
Soldiers from the inner and outer camps had already swarmed in. They were confused and didn't know what to do. Fortunately, a disheveled general arrived quickly and loudly ordered the chaotic soldiers to be divided into two teams. One part immediately got water to put out the fire, and the other part Go straight to Su Jin and others to arrest the arsonist.
The fire was full of smoke and dust, and the scorching flames prevented people from getting close. The black smoke also blocked the soldiers' sight. For a while, they could not find Su Jin and others, but Xia Bing on the arrow tower to the east From a high position, he could see clearly. From above, he loudly pointed the direction of Su Jin and others, guiding the Xia soldiers to rush towards them.
Whether he could escape at this moment was no longer within the scope of Su Jin's consideration. Everyone just quickly climbed up the grain piles one after another and lit one fire after another. With fewer and fewer people around them, they lit the eighth grain pile in the east. After the stack, Su Jin suddenly found that only Zhao Hu of the Dynasty and Zhang Long were left around him. Ma Han, who was left outside, did not know whether he was alive or dead. Zhang Long was hit by an arrow on his shoulder, but he reached out and pulled it out. His entire left arm had already been injured. Full of blood.
The soldiers on the arrow tower fired arrows while pointing to the direction of Su Jin and others. Wang Chao cursed and reached out to grab the bow and arrow on his back, only to find that he had lost the bow and arrow at some point. Suddenly, a figure appeared from The man came out of the smoke and rushed toward him. Wang Chao raised his machete and chopped it off. The man shouted, "It's me."
Wang Chao quickly stopped, but it was Mahan who was following him. Su Jin felt happy that Mahan was still alive, which was better than anything else.
"Sir, it's almost time, we should withdraw." Wang Chao yelled.
Su Jin said: "There are people above who can point out the direction. They can't walk. We need to destroy their eyes first so that we can escape in the chaos, otherwise we will not be able to escape."
Ma Han stretched out his hand to take off the bow and arrow, bent the bow and shot several arrows at the arrow tower. The two Xia soldiers screamed and fell down from the arrow tower. The Xia soldiers above were so frightened that they quickly shrank back, but this did not stop them. After pointing the direction, soldiers from all directions gathered around despite the billowing smoke, and their thumping footsteps could already be heard.
"Damn it." Ma Han roared angrily, threw away his bow and arrows, pulled out his scimitar, rushed to the bottom of the arrow tower and slashed with the knife. Seeing this, Wang Chao and others realized that this kid was trying to remove the wooden legs of the wooden arrow tower. It was necessary to cut them off, but this arrow tower is extremely strong. There are dozens of pillars below, all of them are big logs as thick as an ocean bowl. How can it be done in time?
Su Jin shouted: "Don't chop, burn these grandsons to death." After saying that, he jumped over and poured all the kerosene from the last skin on the wooden base of the arrow tower. He threw the torch upward and a fire suddenly ignited.
The traces of the enemy were already vaguely visible in the smoke, and Su Jin shouted: "Follow me, and then we jumped into the raging grain stack alley."
Everyone thought that Su Jin was about to immolate himself here, and Wang Chao shouted: "Young Master, no!" and quickly followed him in. A thick smoke choked him and he almost suffocated. The three men around him, Ma Han, Zhao Hu, and Zhang Long, also jumped in, and their eyes were full.
It was dark and foggy, but Su Jin was nowhere to be seen.
"Master, Master, Master." Ma Han cried with a mournful face.
"Are you howling in mourning? Climb down." Su Jin's voice came from in front of him.
Everyone was overjoyed and hurriedly lay down on the ground. What was strange was that there was actually half a foot of space below without any smoke. Su Jin was crawling forward not far away with his buttocks stuck out.
Everyone quickly followed, crawled more than ten feet, and walked around to the south of a grain stack to escape the scorching heat, and then stopped.
"Strange, how can there be no smoke on the ground?"
Su Jin rolled his eyes and said, "I don't have time to explain to you. Hot smoke is lighter than air, so there will be gaps between the ground. This is a truth that will be known to three-year-old children in future generations. I'm afraid it will take me a long time to explain it to you."
"Which of you is holding back your pee?" Su Jin asked confusedly.
"This..." Several monks, Zhang Er, were confused.
"Take out a cloth and wet it and cover your face. To the west is the direction of the city gate, to the south is where the enemy soldiers are gathering, and to the north is the high city wall. So we have to rush through the thick smoke to the east camp wall, and when we get to the outer wall of the camp, we
You can escape with the help of hooks and ropes, but the distance is quite far. Not to mention the enemy soldiers, the smoke alone will choke them to death, they can't climb over, and they will be trampled to death."
Chao Chao and others were still hesitating, but Su Jin had already taken out the cloth and stuffed it into his crotch and started to pee. After a while, the wet cloth was taken out.
"Why don't you pee? Do you want to choke to death on the cigarette? Pee quickly, I don't have time to talk to you." Su Jin shouted.
Everyone cried and said: "Master, I can't urinate."
"You bastard, you slipped up at the critical moment." Su Jin scolded: "Took the black scarf from the four people's hands and said: "I'll lend you some." After saying that, he frowned and pursed his lips, and started to boo after a while.
Three wet and warm cloth towels were taken out and thrown directly on the four people's faces.
"Put on a wet towel and follow me and rush out. This time, take out all the messengers. Life and death are destiny and wealth is in the sky. If you escape, one by one."
Su Jin tied a black scarf on his face, picked up the machete, stood up, and rushed eastward; Chao Chao shouted: "Ma Han, protect the young master, brother Zhao Hu, clear the way for me, brother Zhang Long cuts off the rear
, let’s rush!”
The four of them shouted loudly, jumped up from the ground, chased after Su Jin, and went straight to the east to kill.