Volume 1 The Wind Rises at the End of Qingping Chapter 23 Fire Breaks the Thief's Lair (II)

Seeing the officials and soldiers constantly throwing these strange jars and jars up, and smelling the pungent smell at the end of their noses, Du Hu and the others had clearly felt that something was wrong with the situation. But before they could come up with a countermeasure, the drums at the foot of the mountain rang out again, and an officer and army galloped towards the mountain road on horseback.

Seeing that the official army was attacking again, Du Hu didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ordered: "Take out our bows and arrows, let them prepare all the stones, this time I will make them suffer enough!" ”

The minions immediately agreed loudly, and then acted quickly, estimating the distance of the official army, so as to give the other party a head-on blow. And Shen Laoqi, who was injured, looked at the officers and soldiers who rushed in a few times, and his expression became more and more solemn: "Be careful, it is the elite of the officers and soldiers who attacked the mountain yesterday, you can't be careless!" ”

Yesterday's battle that they forcibly broke into the middle of the mountainside is still vividly remembered, and at this time, naturally they did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and immediately some people began to set up defenses, and some people had already pried the rocks and smashed them towards the officers and soldiers who had killed them, wanting to give the other party a big dismount.

Du Hu personally led people down, although he believed that the defense line of Hutou Village was enough to block the strong attack of these elite officers and soldiers, but he still had some faint worries in his heart, and always felt that there must be some greater crisis hidden behind the silence of the officials and soldiers for half a day.

With yesterday's lesson, Suo Chao and the others have more experience in going up the mountain, even in the face of the falling rocks, they can easily dodge, almost no impact on their speed to go up, only half a cup of tea, they have already rushed up seven or eight feet, and there are only a few steps left from the halfway up the mountain that was repelled yesterday.

By this time, the bandits had already started to block, and arrows were fired at them with a whistling sound, and they were even more dense than yesterday. But this was already expected by the soldiers, and without Suo Chao's order, the shield soldiers in front of their heads had erected shields one after another, blocking everyone, so that those arrows could only shoot on the shields, making a tuk tuk sound.

Behind the shield, Suo Chao had solemnly ordered: "Light the fire and prepare to release the arrows." I'm aiming at it, only shoot the cottage wall! ”

As the soldiers agreed, the torches were lit, and the arrows wrapped in oil rushed towards the fire, and after a while, the heads of the arrows were already on fire. Then, in Suo Chao shouted in a low voice: "Release the arrow!" After that, all the soldiers suddenly raised their hands and drew their bows, and shot rockets one by one at the huge target sixty or seventy steps away in front of them - the wall of Hutou Village!

As a dynasty that generally lacked horses, the Great Song army paid special attention to the power of its bow and arrow in order to protect itself. Therefore, this point is often taken into account when selecting soldiers. According to the regulations of the army, the real elite forbidden army should be able to shoot more than eight buckets of hard bows, and can hit targets more than 100 steps away to be qualified.

But now that the armament of the Great Song Dynasty has long been abolished, there are not many officers and men in the army who can do this. Even the soldiers from the Daimyofu, an important town in the north, could not meet such high requirements, not to mention the township soldiers in Yuncheng County, who could shoot at the target thirty steps away.

Because of this reality, when it comes to attacking Hutou Village with rockets, Suo Chao will take people to venture up the mountain again, in order to shorten the distance with the target, so as to shoot accurately. And the results presented now show that his decision is quite correct -

Dozens of rockets pierced the sky like fireflies, leaving a trail of light in the air, and then shot at the seemingly tough wall.

"Not good!" Du Hu, who was directing his minions to release arrows to block the enemy, suddenly sank in his heart after seeing the rockets, and a terrible conjecture had emerged. He quickly turned his head to look back, and then he saw a shocking sceneβ€”

After the rockets hit the wall, the flames on their heads quickly attached to the wall, and the brown slightly sticky diesel fuel ignited. Suddenly, the flames burst out and spread rapidly, and together they burst out like mad beasts, and in the blink of an eye, the entire wall was swallowed into the flames.

"How can this be ......" Du Hu flashed this thought in surprise, and then he heard a burst of cheers and drumming noise from the bottom of the mountain, and his heart sank even more, knowing that this could boost the morale of the officers and soldiers.

Sure enough, when the officers and soldiers under the mountain saw that Hutou Village was indeed ignited by the fire, they naturally felt a burst of ecstasy in their hearts, maybe this fire could really help them knock down this thief's lair!

Lei Heng and Zhu Tong reacted quite quickly, and immediately pointed the knife forward and shouted: "Brothers, the opportunity for the big thief has arrived, rush with us!" With that, the two of them had taken the lead and rushed towards the West Hill.

The other soldiers hesitated for a moment, and some of them were encouraged to go ahead and follow them. Seeing this, Sun Tu also shouted: "Folks, are we Shandong men not successful?" We can also kill thieves to defend our homeland, kill! As he spoke, he followed three steps and two steps.

His action really inspired everyone's hearts, and immediately many bloody men echoed, shouting, raising the sticks in their hands and running towards the West Hill in a hurry.

For a while, the sound of killing under the mountain shook the sky, and the momentum was unprecedented, which made Shi Wenbin and Liu Yuan both dumbfounded.

The bandits on the mountain were already in a great predicament at this time, and when the fire spread, they not only completely swallowed up the wall, but also extended out and burned towards the cottage.

Seeing that the fire was extremely large, Shen Laoqi, who was staying in the village, immediately ordered his subordinates to wait for water to extinguish the fire. In order to guard against the fire attack of the officers and soldiers, they had already stored several large vats of spring water in the stockade, which could be used at this time.

Barrels of water were brought in quickly, and then minions picked it up and threw it hard at the flames in front of them. Immediately, a scene that surprised everyone appeared, the fire that should have been doused by water not only did not go out, but after being poured with water, a larger flame rose to the ground, and more smoke billowed out, and the pungent smell quickly filled the entire cottage.

The minions were completely stunned by the scene beyond common sense in front of them, and some of them did not believe in evil, and even splashed the water on the wall in front of them. The result, of course, is to make the fire more intense.

After a while, the two- or three-zhang high wooden wall was finally loosened by the fire, and after a strange creaking sound, it suddenly collapsed in the direction of the cottage.

The thieves who were standing behind the walled wall didn't expect such a change at all, and before they could react, more than a dozen people were directly pressed down by the wall, and suddenly screams and exclamations rang out.

"Save people, put out fires!" Shen Laoqi shouted repeatedly, but it was already too late, these minions had been frightened by the strange fire in front of them and didn't know what to do, seeing the flames spreading, they were left to instinctively run away and dodge, and they couldn't care about treating their companions, let alone extinguishing the fire.

This kind of strange fire, which not only does not go out but burns more and more fiercely after being poured with water, is too terrible in their eyes, and fleeing for their lives is the most correct choice.

And after hearing the loud noises and screams coming from the mountains, and seeing the billowing smoke and raging fire, the hearts of Du Hu and those bandits were also completely chaotic. They wanted to go back to support, and they wanted to make trouble to understand what was going on, but the officers and soldiers below had already taken the opportunity to kill, so that they didn't dare to retreat at all.

Du Hu could only shout hoarsely in his throat: "Give me arrows, push the stones down, they can't withstand it!" But the movements of the flustered subordinates when they acted according to the order obviously lost their original accuracy, not only did the arrows shoot in the air, but even those rocks were pushed to the side by them, and they did not go straight to take the opportunity to kill Suo Chao and the others.

Seeing this, Suo Chao was even more overjoyed in his heart, with a loud shout, he had risen up, and after his toes were a little the mountain wall, the person had swept up like a big bird, and he split an axe straight towards the thieves who were in a hurry in front of him: "Bold thief, don't surrender quickly!" ”

Encouraged by it, the other soldiers also let out a shout and rushed forward, their swords and spears slashing at the enemy.

Although they were only more than forty people, they had the momentum to swallow one or two hundred thieves in front of them!

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