Everyone quickly entered the tunnel to take shelter. They tied their mouths and noses with cloths, pressed their heads against the ground and walls, and huddled in the pit with their heads in their hands.
Li Huihe and some of his men were not in a hurry to hide. He went to the northern hillside to observe the enemy's movements. There is an extreme possibility that the enemy would attack on the top of the mountain after learning about the fire, hoping to attack them before the fire arrived.
To deal with the enemies on the top of the mountain, Li Hui had to be on guard. If they rushed up, he would be defenseless and would be at the mercy of others. So this extreme situation must be prevented from happening.
The fire on the east slope had broken out raging, with smoke rising into the sky, and the fire lighting up the east slope. The enemies down the slope quickly got the news, and they became nervous and commotion. Many people rushed out of the forest and looked toward the east.
Soon after, a sharp bamboo whistle sounded. Everyone turned around in panic and got into the forest. The bamboo whistle gradually faded away, and the noise gradually faded away. Li Hui breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look to the east, where it was already ablaze.
The rising flames and flying sparks were like brilliant meteor showers in the night sky, shooting straight into the dark sky. The air was filled with the smell of burning rosin and the burning smell of fireworks.
Li Hui quietly looked at the flames in a daze, while Jiang Sheng urged from the side: "Xiao Lang, we have to hide."
Li Hui nodded, and then he and the others ran to the wall on the top of the mountain and jumped into the tunnel to escape.
The fire began to burn and spread from the pine forest below the east slope. The pine needles and oil-rich pine trees all over the ground soon burned into a sea of flames. The east wind was strong, and the wind helped the fire spread to both sides and down the mountain. It was less than a month
At that time, the eastern slopes and the pine forests on the north and south sides were all on fire. The entire southern peak of Nianzi Mountain was completely surrounded by fire, like a lonely island in a sea of fire.
There are no words to describe the scene at this moment. The fierce fire soared into the sky, and the flames even exceeded the height of the top of the mountain, with the power of burning the sky. The sound of the fire wind was like thousands of troops galloping and neighing, and like countless ghosts in the sky
It was like screaming. The smoke rising into the sky was mixed with a large number of sparks shining and annihilating in the sky, drifting and falling.
In the valley, burning consumed a lot of oxygen, causing strong winds in the valley. The vegetation shook violently, making a tidal sound, as if in response to the fire on the hillside.
Driven by the strong east wind, the fire quickly engulfed the mountains and forests along the slopes, quickly enveloping everything inside. The flames licked the rocks on the slopes, baking them violently. In the high temperature
Under the burning, the rocks on the hillside collapsed and shattered, rolling down, making a violent sound, like a mountain falling apart and the ground cracking.
When the sky dimmed, the whole mountain turned into a mountain of flames. The smoke shrouded the top of the mountain and quickly drifted to the west sky blown by the wind. There was darkness on the top of the mountain, smoke and ashes shrouded the sky on the top of the mountain, like
A dark cloud that will never clear away.
No one knows how everyone on the mountain is feeling at this moment, only they themselves understand.
In the early stages of the fire, nothing special changed. You could just hear the roar of the wildfire, and see the smoke and ash moving quickly overhead.
But as time went by, everyone hiding in the tunnel clearly felt something was wrong. The air became unbearably hot, and breathing became difficult. The violently burning mountain forest consumed a large amount of oxygen and evacuated the surrounding air. This made everyone
People feel suffocated.
It can only be said that fortunately, the top of the mountain is high enough, a hundred steps above the forest belt on the hillside. The area of the top of the mountain is also large enough. The area of the top of the mountain alone is two to three hundred steps in radius. Adding the lateral area of the slope, the radius is four hundred steps.
More than enough. This is a huge space, giving everyone a huge buffer area and open space, but it will not suffocate everyone on the top of the mountain.
But the scorching air and suffocation made people feel panic and discomfort. Everyone felt that death was close at hand.
An even more terrifying scene occurred after the slopes on both sides were completely on fire. It was already dawn, but the top of the mountain was shrouded in the thickest darkness. The billowing smoke mixed with black ashes rolled past the top of the mountain, like
The devil's wings hang over the top of the mountain.
Outside Nianzi Mountain, the morning sun shines brightly, and everything is bright. But on the top of Nianzi Mountain, you can't see your fingers, and everything is pitch black.
A large amount of dust fell down and fell on the shelter. Fortunately, in order to prevent the fire ash from falling, everyone sprinkled sand on the shelter to cover it. Firstly, it can isolate some heat, and secondly, it can also isolate some people from carrying the fire.
The ashes of the sparks fell. But some hot fire ashes still fell into the tunnel and fell on their trembling, rickety backs. They could not get up and could only grit their teeth and endure it.
It can only be said that the excavated tunnels and firewalls worked. The two stone walls blocked most of the scorching radiation, and the tunnels effectively avoided the intense heat at the top of the mountain. The smoke rolled against the top of the mountain, but there was smoke on the lower floors below the tunnels.
A few feet of space was not disturbed by the smoke, allowing everyone to survive.
I don't know how much time passed, almost as long as a lifetime, the walls of the surrounding pit were already hot, and when everyone felt that they could no longer bear the suffering, everything seemed to have changed.
After two hours of burning, the fire on the east slope slowly became smaller. The dense pine forest on the hillside had become a dead place after being swallowed by the fire. The dead trees were leaning here and there, and the embers were still burning, but there were a lot of combustibles.
It has been exhausted, and what is left is already the charcoal ash at the end of the war.
The fires on the north and south sides have spread to the western slopes and are spreading towards the valleys and hills to the west.
For everyone on the top of the mountain, they obviously felt that their breathing was much easier at this moment, and the surrounding heat began to subside. The dark smoke and dust covering their heads had faded, and through the smoke, they could already see the white sky.
Although everyone is extremely thirsty now, their throats seem to be on fire, their bodies are in pain where the ashes are burning, and their whole bodies are like dried fish that are about to be roasted. However, they understand in their hearts that
Everything is about to pass and they survived.
At around 4 o'clock in the morning, amid the rolling heat wave, Li Hui and Zhou Che got out of the tunnel and stood on the top of the mountain. There was smoke all around, and the fire on the west side of the hillside was red, devouring the last forest.
The ground was covered with a thick layer of black ash, but there was already a blue sky above his head. Through the floating smoke, Li Hui saw the fields to the east, the mountains and forests to the north, and the river in the wilderness in the distance.
Li Hui's heart was filled with great joy. The nightmare was finally over and he survived.
"We succeeded." Zhou Che said solemnly from the side.
Li Hui nodded and said, "Yes, we succeeded."
The two looked at each other and burst out laughing. Zhou Che laughed so hard that it affected his wound, and his smile turned into a weird look. He kept laughing while covering his wound.
"Come out, everything is over." Li Hui shouted loudly.
"Come out, everyone. The fire is over." Zhou Che also shouted loudly.
In the tunnel, a group of gray-faced people crawled out of the pit like zombies emerging from the ground. They came to the ground with squinted eyes and shielded themselves from the light, looking around like babies seeing the world for the first time.
.
"We survived."
"We survived!"
"Ha ha ha ha."
Someone yelled, and then everyone yelled, hugging each other and laughing. After laughing, they started crying again. The joy of surviving the disaster swept away the previous haze. They thought they were all going to die here.
But now they have survived, and the three or four hours of suffering were not in vain.
Li Hui also had tears in his eyes. This time he came to protect the food supply. He knew that it would not be easy and there would be dangers. But he never expected to experience such a critical moment. He had made mistakes and misjudged this time.
There was rashness and blind self-confidence, and there were inappropriate decisions. But this is all in the past.
All of these are costs, all experiences, and all experiences that make him stronger and better. At this moment, after experiencing the baptism of this fire, Li Hui has more desire to live than ever before, and he has more desire to live.
The confidence to fight hard in this era.
Under the baptism of life and death, some people will shrink from then on. Some people will be sublimated and become fearless, just like being reborn from the ashes.