Ma Yuan did not pursue him into the woods. He was also a warrior who had experienced many battles and knew the principle of staying out of the woods. The Xixia man obviously entered the woods with a purpose.
If the hundred or ten soldiers he brought along headlessly into the woods, God knows how many people would die before he could catch that guy.
Therefore, he chose the most brutal method, which was to set fire. After the hundreds of soldiers dispersed, they stood upwind and threw kerosene bombs into the woods without hesitation.
Nowadays, arson is the best skill of the Song Army. Since the emergence of gunpowder bombs, Yun Zheng has been very dissatisfied with its lethality. In order to find a more lethal weapon, Yun Zheng's younger brother Yun Yue served as a supervisor.
The kerosene was purified again.
It is so easy to set a fire, let alone on the grassland, where most of the pine trees contain oil. Under the scorching sun, the fire quickly formed a prairie fire.
If it were the Liao herdsmen, even if their father-killing enemy fled into the woods, they would not choose to set fire. If they were the Xixia people, they would not do such a sinful thing. They don't care about human life, but they do harm to the mountains and trees.
There is a way to worship within.
Ma Yuan waited for the fire to burn completely, and said to the growing number of Song Jun around him: "Surround the woods, I will wait for him on the other side of the woods."
The Song army immediately began to be on guard along the edge of the woods. Some Song troops armed with loud arrows immediately stood up and looked at the woods warily. Everyone knew how angry the commander was today.
Li Qing heard the sound of the fire burning. With the help of the prairie wind, the fire burned quickly, and soon he felt a burning sensation on his back.
It was impossible to outrun the wildfire by following the wind. There was a shallow mud pool in front of him. Li Qing dove into the pool. When he emerged from the other side of the pool, his whole body was already covered with mud.
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After a little discernment of the direction, Li Qing decided to break out in the direction of the Lightning River. Things changed. If he stayed in the woods, he would definitely turn into a roast pig.
Through the dense branches, the sky is still very bright. If you want the sun to set, you need to wait at least another hour. It is the longest day of the year. This forest is not big and it will definitely not be able to support the sunset.
The sound of crackling and burning trees was like a life-threatening impermanence, forcing Li Qing to run wildly in the woods like a rabbit.
Along with him, there were countless jungle creatures running wildly. A huge wild boar turned over a troublesome yellow sheep with one mouthful, and then its huge hooves ruthlessly stepped on the yellow sheep and rushed forward, before it drove away.
Behind the road, whether it was a wild boar, a leopard, a wild wolf, or some grazing wild deer, they followed closely behind the wild boar and ran wildly. As for the yellow sheep that was overturned by the wild boar, it had already
He was trampled into a pulp.
Naturally, Li Qing also fled for his life with the wild boar. Within reach of him was a female leopard with colorful fur. The female leopard also held a cub in her mouth.
At this time, humans and beasts get along extremely harmoniously, and no one cares about any hostility towards anyone when they are escaping for their lives.
In order to speed up the burning of the woods, the Song Dynasty people began to use ballistae to throw kerosene bombs into areas that were not yet on fire. This intensified the progress of the burning, and the beasts in the woods became even more frightened.
Li Qing could not let that stupid wild boar lead the fleeing army to the center of the woods. Although there was no fire there now, the fire would soon spread there.
Without these beasts, there would be no way for him to escape the pursuit of the Song cavalry, so this escape team needed a new leader.
Li Qing passed over the howling wild boar and became the animal at the forefront of the fleeing army. The beasts who were frightened by the wildfire followed Li Chang and ran towards the Lightning River without even thinking.
In the woods, Li Qing's hunting skills for many years finally came into use. He crawled through the woods extremely fast, but this time it was not for hunting, but for escaping.
The hoofbeats of war horses thundered outside the woods, and the Lightning River was not far from the woods. As long as he could run fifty feet away, he could sneak into the Lightning River. This was his only chance to escape.
He really wanted to delay it for a little longer, but unfortunately, after finding out that he had escaped from the sea of fire, his group of beast comrades were unwilling to stay in the woods for a moment. They screamed strangely and passed Li Qing, who he thought was the leader just now, howling towards Li Qing, who he thought was the leader just now.
He ran towards the grassland. If Li Qing hadn't dodged quickly, the yellow sheep would have been trampled into pulp.
The leader is that fierce wild boar...
As soon as the wild boar escaped from the woods, it turned into a porcupine. Its body was filled with crossbow arrows. A group of Song Army cavalry in iron armor stood coldly on the edge of the woods and shot the escaped beasts one by one.
At the edge of the woods.
The female leopard also died, and there was no trace of the little leopard in her mouth. In order to speed up her escape, the survival instinct defeated her mother's duty, and she abandoned the little leopard.
Now the little leopard was crouching next to Li Qing, opening his mouth to call his mother.
Maybe he thought there was little hope of his mother coming back, so the little leopard decisively lay down next to Li Qing and stuck out his tongue to lick Li Qing's face.
The flames behind him were burning not far away. After the fire burned, it evacuated the air in the center of the forest, causing negative pressure. As a result, an inexplicable wind arose in the woods. The air rushed into the woods from all directions to replenish what had been blown away.
Burnt out air.
The wind helped the fire, which made the fire even higher. The flames almost formed a fire tornado, and then spread out high in the sky, spreading little bits of flames in all directions.
Black dust kept falling from Li Qing's body, and the little leopard had already gotten under his body, howling desperately. If it could leave here with its own strength, it would never stay with Li Qing here.
burned by fire.
Li Qing's ears kept twitching, and the sound of horse hooves gradually disappeared. The war horses were also animals, and they also had a heartfelt fear of the fire in front of them. He kept leading the knights back, no matter how the cavalry controlled the war horses, it was of no avail.
Li Qing crawled out slowly. The mud on his body had been dried by the fire, and his body was about to be dried at the same time.
He held the little leopard's melon skin with one hand and wanted to break the leopard's head. At least the little leopard's blood could quench his thirst a little.
The little leopard screamed "wuwu" and seemed very happy. Its mother brought it here from the depths of the forest with its melon rind in its mouth.
A big tree fell down, sending sparks flying all over the sky around Li Qing. The burning tree trunk instantly ignited the dead leaves on the ground.
Li Qing had no choice but to stop trying to break the little leopard's neck and speed up his climb out.
A burning wild boar rushed out of the woods with a shrill howl, and fell on the beach of the Lightning River not far away. This time it was not attacked by a crossbow.
Li Qing jumped up, threw off his footsteps and ran towards the Lightning River with long strides. After running ten feet away, a crossbow arrow shot through the air from a distance. His shoulders and back were numb. This was the feeling of being hit by an arrow. Song Jun was so extravagant.
He used a three-edged armor-piercing arrow on himself.
Li Qing couldn't care about this. He couldn't pull out the three-edged armor-piercing arrow at all. He would die faster if he pulled it out. So he almost exerted his physical strength to the extreme - faster than a galloping horse!
The crossbow arrows kept passing by him, and twice the crossbow arrows almost flew past his cheek, taking away a piece of his cheek flesh.
Li Qing only wanted to run and plunge into the arms of the Lightning River. As long as he could swim across the Lightning River, his life would be saved.
The sun was about to set, and the clouds on the horizon looked particularly beautiful. The burning woods behind him made the river water red. The first moment he stepped into the water, Li Qing suddenly jumped up and threw himself at the person in front of him.
Large areas of water light.
At this time, his body and mind were extremely happy. It seemed that he was not celebrating his escape from death, but simply celebrating that he could dive into the water in front of him.
The water covered his body, and he couldn't wait to drink the water. When he was happily preparing to dive into the water and swim through the most difficult distance, his whole heart was sinking.