Guo Fengrong found a simple wooden ladder in the courtyard by the faint light of the fire, and everyone erected it at the head of the house, accompanied by a squeaky trampling sound, and everyone climbed up carefully. If there is no one to hold on, Ming Shijie is really worried about whether this ladder will break.

Huang Er climbed up first, bowed down along the ridge of the roof, and slowly sneaked towards Yu Lan's courtyard, because there were fires in several places in the city, and the sound of fighting was endless, and the attention of the Yuan army who held hostages in the courtyard was mostly attracted, and he didn't even find that someone had quietly come to the house in this courtyard.

Huang Er saw that there were several people in the courtyard who were on guard, several houses were lit with candles, and there were several strong men standing guard outside the door of the house, and there were still a few sturdy figures walking back and forth from the windows of each house. Huang Er didn't dare to move, gently uncovered a few tiles on the roof of the lobby, and took a closer look. Guo Fengrong gestured, causing the people behind him to bow down, and everyone temporarily shrank on the outside of the ridge to avoid being discovered by the Yuan soldiers patrolling the courtyard.

Huang Er held his breath, but moved a small slit, only to see fifty or sixty people sitting densely on the floor in the room, Yu Lan and Liu E were close to each other, Xin was also beside him, and he saw a few people standing in the outer circle holding weapons and guarding them strictly. Thinking about the standing position of the Yuan soldiers in the courtyard, Huang Er suddenly felt that there was no good way to save these family members for a while.

Guo Fengrong moved over lightly, leaned over and looked at the guards in the house, and frowned. Now there are guards inside and outside the house, and there are quite a few of them, and if they are raided, it will never be possible to deal with these soldiers at the same time.

Huang Er anxiously looked at the city, the sound of fighting was clearly audible, presumably the Shuntian army outside the city already knew that there was a change, and it was estimated that the reinforcements would arrive soon, but it was very troublesome to rescue these hostages, if the reinforcements escorted them to the battlefield and forced their own soldiers, it was difficult to guarantee that the soldiers would not put down their swords and guns.

When he was anxious, seeing the fire suddenly rising in the city, rushing straight into the sky, Huang Er's eyes lit up, and whispered a few words in Guo Fengrong's ear, Guo Fengrong pondered for a moment, nodded, and quietly returned along the same road with a few people.

Guo Fengrong returned to see Ming Shijie, explaining the situation in the courtyard and the method that Huang Er thought of, it turned out that he was going to use fire to attack and force these pawns to take these hostages out of the house. Because of the fire, the house and the courtyard will definitely not be able to stay any longer, and then take advantage of the chaos to take advantage of the surprise attack!

Ming Shijie immediately instructed the people around him to quietly go to other households, collect firewood and firewood, and use the terrain to cover several piles of firewood behind the target courtyard and outside the walls on both sides, and at the same time quickly evacuate the nearby households to a distance, strictly prohibiting them from making a sound. Some were reluctant to leave home, but Ming Shijie and others were coaxed and frightened, and even pulled out steel knives to make a gesture to split, and finally cleared out a no-man's land.

Fortunately, the number of these soldiers is not very large, and now the battle situation in the city is unknown, except for someone outside the courtyard gate, the rest are in the courtyard, and no abnormalities outside the courtyard are noted.

After everything was ready, Ming Shijie lit up seven or eight firewood outside the courtyard, the fire gradually grew, Huang Er also quietly placed some bundles of firewood or straw on the roof, and when the fire outside the courtyard ignited, the flames gradually increased to one person, and ordered the firewood and grass on the surrounding roofs to be lit one by one, and the firewood and grass were pushed into the courtyard.

The fire was big, the smoke drifted into the courtyard, and finally caused the discovery of the Yuan soldiers, the little leader was shocked, I don't know why a fire suddenly ignited outside the courtyard, Ming Shijie and others were outside to put out the fire, and shouted repeatedly, go water, go water! Everyone, come and help!

Dozens of people held wooden basins and barrels to put out the fire, and a few strong men also took some quilts and other things collected from their houses to ignite them and throw them on the courtyard wall, making the fire bigger and bigger. The nearby households didn't know why, and when they saw the fire here, they called their fathers and mothers, picked up the valuables at home and escaped from this neighborhood, and some people rushed to extinguish the fire with fire-fighting things, but they were all stopped outside by Ming Shijie and several other sergeants, and they were forbidden to enter.

Finally, the fire ignited several houses in the courtyard, and there were more than a dozen officials in the courtyard who wanted to get water to extinguish the fire, but there was only one well in the courtyard to draw water, and the amount of water taken was too small to withstand the deliberate arson of people with intentions.

In order to be more realistic, Ming Shijie even really set fire to several connected out-of-hospital houses in the upwind direction. The two Yuan sergeants of the organic spirit were discharged from the courtyard door, and wanted to go around outside to check the size of the fire and the cause of the fire, but these two people had just gone around to the hospital, and before they could look carefully, they were taken advantage of by Ming Shijie and others to take advantage of their unpreparedness, and they gave the result with one person and one knife!

The Yuan army in the courtyard finally did not dare to stay in the house any longer.

The men, women and children in each room saw the fire, and shouted to rush out of the house to avoid the fire, and more than a dozen Yuan soldiers in the house could still hold steel knives to intimidate at first, prohibiting everyone from making noise, but as the fire gradually ignited the house, the choking smoke drifted into the house one by one, and everyone coughed, and no longer dared to stay in the house, and even the Yuan soldiers ran out in panic to check the changes in the fire.

The leader of the Yuan army finally made up his mind, and ordered everyone to go out of the house in turn, under the intimidation of the Yuan soldiers, hundreds of men, women and children poured out from each house, and were taken to the street.

Hundreds of people came out of the houses crying, the courtyard was relatively small enough to detain so many people, and the fire on the roof was getting bigger and bigger, and the people were even more frightened, even the Yuan soldiers were a little nervous.

"No mess, no crying! Whoever dares to run away, Lao Tzu will kill him! The little boss shouted with a hideous face. Stand on the side of the street and squat down honestly! ”

At this time, dozens of men rushed out of the street corner, holding various buckets, basins and other things, shouting and screaming, just in front of these people.

"Stop them! Don't come! "A few Yuan soldiers stepped forward with their swords, and they were about to stop it.

"Put out the fire, or you'll burn to the houses on the street!"

"What are you doing with knives? Why not rush to put out the fire? Did you set the fire? ”

"Get out of the way, get out of the way! My house is on fire! If you burn down the house, will you pay for it? The gang shouted loudly, seemingly indifferent to the bright steel knife in Yuan Bing's hand. The three soldiers who stepped forward to stop didn't have time to make more movements, and they were suddenly drowned in the crowd, and only a few low wails came out in the chaotic pushing.

The little leader was anxious, and said in a loud voice: "The officials and the army are doing things, and no one else is waiting to back down!" And then forward, I—"

Before the sentence was finished, a few buckets of water were poured on the head, and the little leader suddenly got half wet from head to toe, the autumn night was cool, and it had begun to be cold.

He was also so anxious that he directly popped up the word "official and military".

"Fighting fires is like saving people, what are you noisy!"

"Run, it's too late if you don't run! The fire in the back is getting bigger and bigger! ”

"Get out of the way! Go get water, the fire is about to reach the front hall! The men who rushed over shouted and poured the water from the copper basin on these people who blocked the way, and almost squeezed several sergeants who wanted to block the road to the side of the road.

At this time, only more than half of the hostages in the courtyard came out, and there were about 20 soldiers on the street who were busy guarding and restraining the hostages, and there were only three or four people around the small leader. Others bypassed the courtyard gate and went straight to the street outside.

The leader of the Yuan army slowed down, and found that something was wrong with the comers, so many people poured up at once, although the night was dark, but under the light of the fire, he found that this large group of people were all agile men, and most of the clothes were short, the leader immediately stepped back and drew his sword, and said loudly: "There are villains, do it!" ”

There were a few clanging sounds, but the leader of the Yuan army hurriedly set up a few steel knives that attacked him diagonally. Huang Er, who was at the forefront, let out a "huh", but this guy was so vigilant that he soon discovered the abnormality. However, their gang had basically pasted it over, and a few of them threw the basin in their hands and rushed into the courtyard gate.

This group of Yuan soldiers was selected to do finely, not only the subordinates have good kung fu, but also clever brains, quick to do things, before hearing the ringleader's warning, some people have already pulled out their knives to prepare, and when they saw Huang Er, they shouted to fight the fire and rushed over, and they were ready to deal with it. When the leader shouted, he immediately stepped forward to stop him.

The two gangs immediately started a scuffle on the street, and Huang and the two of them moved suddenly, and they quickly took the advantage. Due to the suddenness of the incident, most of the soldiers were no longer able to effectively take care of the hostages, and many of them were scattered among the hostages, making it difficult to form a joint force.

Most of the pawns had to give up the hostages and fight with the incoming people with their swords. Many of the Shuncheon Army military members squatting on the side of the street were unknown for a while, so when they saw someone fighting on the spot, they screamed in panic, pushed and shoved, and fled into the distance. A few Yuan soldiers standing at the outermost end directly drew their knives and slashed these escapers, and after a while, several people were put down!

One of the soldiers behind him was about to draw his knife and slash forward, but a hand reached out from behind him, and while he was not paying attention, he stabbed a sharp object into his throat, and at the same time, several hands reached out from behind and twisted his arm. This Yuan Bing was shocked, and felt that his throat was cold, and he had been pierced with blood, and the blood suddenly gushed out and flowed all over the ground. Because of the restraint of his two arms, his body twisted hard but could not completely break free, and finally made a ho-ho sound from his mouth, lost his strength, and the steel knife fell out of his hand and fell to the ground with a thud. Then the people behind put down their hands and let them go.

One person picked up the steel knife, it was Yu Lan. When she was executed just now, she hid a pair of scissors in her hand while she was unprepared, and after the fire broke out outside, she was always looking for an opportunity. When the fire was big, Yuan Bing had to release the people in turn and rush to the street outside the courtyard, Yu Lan's eyes were sharp, and he found that the figure of the first person who ran over was very familiar, and when he looked closely, it was Huang Er, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Yu Lan was witty and didn't shout for help easily, but just whispered a few words to the sisters around her, Liu E was surprised when she saw her sweetheart, but fortunately, Yu Lan barely suppressed her panicked thoughts.

They soon saw that the two sides were fighting, and most of the Yuan soldiers were entangled with the comers, and they had no time to separate. The few soldiers who were left behind to guard actually began to draw their swords and slash the fleeing family members. Yu Lan motioned to a few bold sisters to sneak behind a Yuan soldier, grabbed his knife-wielding arm with one hand, tightly grasped the scissors with the other, looked at his throat, and stabbed it vigorously, while Liu E and the others pounced, grabbed his arm tightly or hugged his thigh, and several sisters worked together to succeed in one fell swoop!

The battle outside the courtyard ended quickly, Huang Er and others were many, several fought one, except for a few Yuan soldiers who saw that the situation was not good and escaped in the night, the rest were all killed. Several Yuan soldiers in the courtyard were blocked inside, desperately counterattacking to no avail, abandoning the knife and begging for surrender, Huang Er did not allow it, and killed them together.