When dawn came, the blood-red morning sun poured heat on the earth unscrupulously, baking away the last trace of coolness on the earth.

Liu Juntao walked out of the big tent of the Chinese army and came to the camp, only to feel a heat wave rushing towards him, which made people feel a little irritable.

"This year's ghost weather, after the floods in Xuzhou Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion, we have caught up with such hot weather, don't have a plague!"

Generally, after the Great Flood, the plague is always with us, and each time it will bring great losses and casualties to the dynasties!

At this time, Bai Yuxing walked over quickly and said, "General, everything is ready!" The front camp, rear camp, and iron cavalry camp of Yushan Town, as well as the main barracks of Yanzhou Prefecture, have all been dispatched, and all the mountain roads in the east of Gongchuan Mountain have been blocked. ”

Liu Juntao nodded and asked, "How is the preparation of the Jingying side?" ”

"The general sent someone to tell you that all the mountain roads north of Gongchuan Mountain have also been blocked."

Speaking of this, Bai Yuxing said with a little excitement: "General, all the ignition materials we prepared have been deployed, and now the sky is dry on Gongchuan Mountain, if this fire is put up, Ye Zongliu and those thieves will definitely die!" ”

Liu Juntao sighed slightly and said, "It's better for us to fight less in the future after such a battle!" ”

"Why?"

Bai Yuxing asked suspiciously: "General, this is a military feat!" If we don't fight thieves, who are we going to fight? ”

"Tartar!"

Liu Juntao said loudly and categorically: "I want to go north to kill the Tartars!" ”

An hour later, Liu Juntao also led the Yanzhou Mansion Qi Barracks to dispatch, and the army broke the posture outside the main mountain road on the east side of Gongchuan Mountain, which was three miles away from the mountain road.

At this time, the ignition time discussed by Liu Juntao and General Dai Jingkui had arrived, and Liu Juntao immediately ordered the army to start ignition!

The soldiers and horses responsible for lighting the fire on the east side of Gongchuan Mountain were the soldiers of the former battalion of the Yushan Town Guard led by Zhang Xiaojun, while Yan Hu's department, Sun Xu's department, and Zhou Zongsheng's department were on standby in the east to prevent the thieves from breaking through the fire and rushing out.

After Zhang Xiaojun received the order, he took Liu Youcai and Liu Youfu brothers to start working.

I saw Liu Youfu and Liu Youcai rushing forward with a solemn face, the two soldiers and horses all stepped forward in formation, the long knife held the shield in front of the protection, the bird gunner stepped forward in three rows, the thunderer followed behind the formation, and the horse team protected the two wings of the phalanx.

This is still the result of Zhang Xiaojun's strict order, that is, he is worried that the thieves will suddenly come out to prevent the army from igniting.

At the same time, Ye Zongliu also received the news and rushed to the eastern hillside, and Ye Zongliu also guessed a few points about the actions of the officials and soldiers, after all, the smell of those igniting objects was overwhelming, although it could be hidden from the thieves for a while, but it would not last long!

As early as before dawn, Ye Zongliu organized his thieves and soldiers to go down the mountain to clear the ignition at the foot of the mountain, but they were driven back by the officers and soldiers of the battalions who had been waiting at the foot of the mountain, and in addition to leaving hundreds of corpses, they could not remove much ignition at all.

So, Ye Zongliu hurriedly ordered a large amount of water and sand to be prepared to extinguish the fire.

Ye Zongliu stared coldly at the soldiers of the former battalion of the Yushan Town Guards who were approaching quickly, and said coldly: "Prepare water and sand!" ”

The leaders of the surrounding thieves scattered one after another, and everyone was already in a frenzy, constantly roaring and directing his soldiers and horses to carry water and sand.

"Ignition!"

Seeing that Liu Youcai and Liu Youfu had led their troops to the foot of the mountain, Zhang Xiaojun roared, and Liu Youcai and Liu Youfu immediately ordered their soldiers to light the fire.

"Whew! Call! Call! ”

In an instant, a fierce fire rose and spread rapidly along the fire materials deployed around the base of the mountain, and rushed towards the mountain.

The fire roared like a manic dragon and rushed up the hill, scaring the thieves as they prepared to extinguish the fire.

Seeing this, Ye Zongliu's eyes were also round, his face was frightened, and he shouted loudly: "Go up!" If you don't want to die, put out the fire! ”

When the surrounding thieves heard this, they immediately dispersed, and threw the basins and sandbags in their hands into the flames in front of them, but they still couldn't stop the fierce fire, and the fire line still spread rapidly to the mountain.

In just a stick of incense, the fire in the east of Gongchuan Mountain and the fire in the north were connected, the boundless fire was burning, and everything that could be ignited was groaning in the fire~ groaning, and it turned into ashes in a blink of an eye!

Zhang Xiaojun had already led his soldiers to retreat more than a mile, but the soldiers still rushed to the heat wave and kept coming, until the soldiers of each battalion retreated to three miles away, which was slightly better.

Liu Juntao looked at Gongchuan Mountain, which had been engulfed by fire, and muttered: "170,000 people! How can you be a thief, if you can go north and kill Hu, you can be regarded as a worthy death! But now, your death is too worthless! ”

When Zhang Xiaojun, Yan Hu, Zhou Zongsheng, Sun Xu, and Liu Zi'an heard this, their faces showed a trace of regret, and Zhou Zongsheng and Sun Xu couldn't stop shaking their heads and sighing.

And Dai Jingkui, the general in the north of Gongchuan Mountain, also looked terrifying, and looked at the fire on the mountain like a hellish scenery with a group of Beijing generals, and everyone sighed in their hearts, and they also had a new understanding of Liu Juntao's methods.

"Guerrilla Liu has managed the army in a good way and has brilliant achievements, but his wrists are too ruthless, but fortunately, Guerrilla Liu is not an enemy!"

Such a sentence floated through everyone's hearts, and their foreheads were all sweating.

At the same time, Ye Zongliu on the mountain had fled back to the camp on the top of the mountain in embarrassment, and at least 50,000 or 60,000 people had died in the fire of the 170,000 thieves' army, and the remaining thieves and horses~ Seeing that the fire could not be extinguished, they immediately dispersed in a hurry and fled in all directions on Gongchuan Mountain.

At this time, there were only more than 40,000 thieves left in the camp of thieves, and they were commanded by Ye Zongliu to dig fire ditches around the camp, prepare clean water and sandbags, and prepare for the last fight.

The remaining tens of thousands of thieves fled to the west and south of Gongchuan Mountain, trying to escape down the mountain from the west and south.

However, the terrain of Gongchuan Mountain is peculiar, the east and north sides can go down the mountain, while the west and south sides are full of cliffs and cliffs, which are not passable at all.

Tens of thousands of thieves crowded on the cliffs, crying and wailing, and even many people were squeezed down the cliff by their companions, falling apart.

At this time, letting the fire get closer and closer, feeling the heat wave that is getting hotter and hotter, there are constantly thieves and soldiers who have a mental breakdown, shouting and jumping off the cliff to actively beg for death, so as not to be burned to death by the fire.

In the camp of thieves, the fire has burned to the front, and the rolling heat wave hits, so that the thieves in the camp can't get close to the fire ditch around the camp to put out the fire, and can only watch the fire continue to ignite the fence of the camp, and then ignite everything that can be burned in the camp.

Suddenly, the tens of thousands of thieves in the camp dispersed in a hurry, while Ye Zongliu looked at the spreading fire in a sluggish spirit, and suddenly pulled out his waist knife and killed himself.

The raging fire was so loud that it burned for a whole day, and the smoke like a black dragon rose straight into the sky, and it was clearly visible ten miles away.

In the evening, Liu Juntao stood a few miles away looking at Gongchuan Mountain, and the firelight accompanied by the sunset was spectacular.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the sky, and then Liu Juntao felt a cool breeze coming!

"It's raining!"

Liu Juntao looked up at the sky in surprise, only to see that the evening sunset had been shrouded in dark clouds, and in an instant, the pouring rain poured down, suppressing the fire on Gongchuan Mountain.

"Thank goodness!"

Liu Juntao let out a sigh of relief, and then said to Zhang Xiaojun, Yan Hu, Zhou Zongsheng, and Sun Xu beside him: "Immediately mobilize troops to continue to block the mountain roads, and after the fire is extinguished tomorrow, we will start to enter the mountains to check the remnants of the thieves!" ”

"Order!"