Chapter 54: Burning the Company Camp

Wang Rui found some thorns and branches, and made two large baskets, which had to be made stronger in order to prevent the rats from biting off, and then the two of them walked around the mountains, and they had something to do, and they didn't feel so cold.

The weather is cold and frozen, but rats have to go in and out, and there are always some places where the soil will be softer.

Originally, I thought that tonight's moonlight and snow were too bright, and the sight was too good, which was not conducive to hiding, but now it is just right, and I can see things clearly.

The two of them worked hard in the middle of the night and caught fifty or sixty mice.

Wang Rui told Weizi about his own method, and Weizi felt that this method was feasible when he heard it.

The two of them carried two baskets of rats and ran towards the garrison camp at the foot of the mountain, and the rats "squeaked" along the way, but fortunately after running down the top of the mountain for a while, it was the woods, and the night patrol of the Beirong soldiers was only near their own barracks, and the two did not meet anyone along the way.

Soon arrived at the edge of the forest, standing in the woods, you can see the white tent of the Beirong barracks, Weizi felt that it was safer to get closer, and the two ventured forward again, at this time, the tent closest to the woods from the Beirong barracks was about two hundred steps.

The two took out a few gourds of liquor they had brought on their bodies, poured them on the rats, and ran forward a hundred steps, and some soldiers on night patrol heard the "squeaky" rat call, and looked at it strangely, and probably felt that the rat bark was not surprising, and actually did not get up to check.

God help me! Wang Rui and Weizi secretly rejoiced, took out a little fire fold, quickly opened the lid of the back basket, and threw the fire on the rats who had poured the spirits.

As soon as the rats are frightened, they like to burrow into places to hide, not to mention being burned by the fire, they instinctively run forward, and drill when they see a gap, and in front of them is the camp tent of the Beirong military camp, and the rats immediately get into the camp tent.

The Beirong night patrol soldiers, at first glance, saw clusters of fireballs, squeaked and screamed, ran in the direction of the camp, and after a moment, they saw that it was a rat running into the camp, and then they suddenly reacted and shouted: "Quick! Fast! Someone sneak attacked! There are rats! Mouse hunting! ”

In such a stunned effort, rats had already run into the camp tent, and the camp tent was dry and ignited when it saw the fire.

The Beirong soldiers in their sleep, hearing the shouts of the night patrol soldiers, before they could react, they found that their camp tent was on fire, and hurriedly grabbed things to make fire, and the fire was very fast, and some people didn't have time to put on their clothes, so they had to run out quickly.

Wang Rui and Weizi took advantage of the chaos to run into the camp tent, there happened to be two Beirong soldiers in the hurry of the clothes, one by one, in the dark, killed these two Beirong soldiers, they didn't have time to put on the clothes, directly took them and put them on themselves, in the chaos, some people were busy fighting fires, some people were busy checking around to check the sneak attack of the enemy, and they didn't notice that there were two outsiders mixed into the barracks.

Weizi kept shouting in Beirong dialect all the way, "Hurry up and put out the fire!" Quickly put out the fire", and walked all the way to the stable with Wang Rui.

"Go to the Grain and Grass Camp! Go to the Grain and Grass Camp! Cut off the fire, and the grain and grass must not be lost! In the midst of the confusion, an officer suddenly ordered.

Wang Rui and Weizi looked back and saw several groups of people running to the right side of the barracks, and there was also a camp tent on fire.

At this time, fifty or sixty rats were running around in the camp tent to cause fire, and the Beirong people were chasing and killing, but the small rat target was small, and it was not easy to catch and kill, but the northwest wind blowing tonight was a little strong, and after the camp tent was on fire, it was blown by the wind and set the nearby camp tent on fire.

The rats that set fire everywhere, plus the camp tent that was set on fire, naturally kept baking for heating after the snow stopped for the past few days, and the whole camp was dry, so the fire could not be controlled for a while.

Wang Rui and the others ran all the way to the edge of the stable.

The five or six soldiers guarding the stable, who had not yet figured out what was going on, and did not dare to leave their posts without permission, stood in front of the stable, and when they saw that it was suddenly on fire, they saw Weizi coming over and asked, "What happened to the camp?" How many enemies are sneaking up? ”

"There are thousands of enemies sneaking up!" Wei Zi told them in a loud voice, "Go to the back of the stable, it's on fire!" ”

The soldiers thought it was an order from above, and instinctively ran behind the stable, Weizi pulled Wang Rui and kicked open the door of the stable, one of them rode a horse, grabbed a few torches on the side of the stable, and threw two of them into the stable, the fire burned, the horses were frightened, and they scattered and fled, and the two took advantage of the chaos to immediately urge the horse to run down the mountain.

The soldiers guarding the stables found that something was wrong, and when they came back, it was too late to control the horses, "Someone stole the horse!" Catch the spies! Those two people are spies! ”

A few people shouted for help while hurriedly stirring up the fire in the stables, while the others listened and looked around, only to see a group of startled horses galloping towards them.

Wang Rui and Wei Zi lay on the back of the horse, controlled the horse under them, and rushed towards the outside of the camp with the frightened horses, some people wanted to stop the horses, but the frightened horses were so easy to stop, but they trampled several people to death.

While fleeing, the two heard a soldier shouting: "The grain and grass camp is on fire!" Fight the fire, put out the fire! ”

For a while, they couldn't take care of the horses, and soon Wang Rui and Weizi took advantage of the chaos to run to the foot of the mountain, and the soldiers guarding at the foot of the mountain saw the startled horses running out of the camp, and the fire in the camp was bursting, and they ran in the direction of the camp in a panic.

Wang Rui and Weizi came all the way to the bottom of the mountain unimpeded, and when they looked back and saw the blazing Beirong garrison camp, Weizi laughed happily: "The one who burned his grandmother finally got out of his bad breath!" Let's go, Huzi, let's go back to Shuozhou. ”。

"Good!" Wang Rui said, his body was crooked, he almost fell off the horse, and hurriedly hugged the horse's neck.

"Huzi, what's wrong with you?" Weizi thought he was injured, and hurriedly ran to his side and asked.

"Hehe, it's okay, it's that I'm not very good at horseback riding!" Wang Rui said embarrassedly, as a recruit, he was only an infantryman, and the number of times he rode a horse could be counted in a slap.

"Haha, looking at the way you just ran out on horseback, I thought you could ride a horse!" Weizi laughed, "It's okay, I'll teach you, horseback riding is very fast!" , you see, tighten your legs, grasp the reins in your hands, and keep your back straight! ”

Wei Zi is now teaching, Wang Rui is doing it, but he learns very quickly, and his speed has not slowed down.

"You're a good boy, you're much faster than I learned to ride a horse, and I even fell off back then!" Weizi boasted.

After leaving Hugukou, both of them relaxed, and with Ma Daibu, they might be able to return to Shuozhou City tomorrow.

"Brother Wei, Brother Li and Third Brother are still on the mountain, when are we going to pick them up?" Wang Rui thought of Niu San and Brother Li who died on the mountain, and he was in no mood to laugh, ten people came out together, except for the two who went back to report the news earlier, only two of them survived, and they didn't even find the bones.

"When our big merchant army comes, we will come to give them a place to settle down, and tonight, we will avenge them first!" Weizi said in a deep voice.