Xiahoudun led the army non-stop, and just arrived at the Xinye Land Boundary, he suddenly saw the red light in the southern sky, and wondered: "Strange, what happened?" ”

The deputy general Qin Qi also saw the difference, and said to Xiahoudun: "General Han Hao's men and horses have been in An'an for many days, could it be that they are fighting with Liu Biaojun at this moment?" ”

"No!" Xiahoudun frowned and thought for a while, "According to the report, there has been no sign of the transfer of troops and horses in Xiangyang and Fancheng, Han Hao came to Anzhong for the first time, if Wancheng wants to communicate with Liu Biao, it is impossible not to pass through Xinye, this is the nearest path, and Han Hao has not sent back any special news these days, which shows that we have successfully blocked the situation in Wancheng, and Liu Biao is still in the dark!" ”

Qin Qi smiled: "Having said that, how can the situation ahead be explained?" ”

As he spoke, the herald reported: "General Qiqi, there are many graves and offerings in the dense forest ahead, and the fire is likely to be accidentally caused by people when they worship!" ”

"Huh! I hear about this kind of thing every year, but I didn't expect to be bumped into this year! Xiahoudun smiled, and then smiled, "It's been a long time since I went back to my hometown to worship my ancestors, I'm really ashamed!" ”

Qin Qi persuaded and said: "The general attaches great importance to the world, and the ancestors have spirits, so they must be able to understand the general's hardships!" ”

"Well, after Meng De calms down the world, I can't miss it anymore!" Xiahoudun raised the whip in his hand and whipped it the mount, the horse was in pain, and carried the master away, "But I must first ask Meng De to issue a ban, don't burn paper money on the Qingming Festival in the future, how many years will these trees grow to become mature, and they will become ashes in an instant!" ”

Qin Qi also followed closely, and at the same time ordered some soldiers to hurry up to help put out the fire.

For a while, the Qingzhou soldiers were busy, and there happened to be a tributary flowing into the water at the edge of the dense forest, but the problem arose, there was no tool to take water.

The soldiers reported the situation to Xiahoudun, who ordered the leader of the gang to take out all the buckets, but only a dozen buckets were made, and all of them could only hold two or three buckets of wooden barrels, which was a drop in the bucket.

"Qin Qi, you take some soldiers to quickly go to the nearby village to borrow some wooden barrels, I'm afraid that the fire in this forest will not be extinguished if it's too late!"

After hearing this, Qin Qi immediately took a few hundred Qingzhou soldiers to the nearby villages and towns.

"The cavalry dismounted, put the existing barrels on the horseback, and fetched water from the river to put out the fire as fast as possible!" Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, Xiahoudun immediately ordered.

"No!"

All of a sudden, the army was busy, because most of these soldiers had been Tuntian soldiers when they were in Xudu, and before surrendering to Cao Cao, these Qingzhou soldiers were farmers who farmed, so these jobs were quite handy.

"General, the fire is very strong, but how can it be good!"

Xia Houdun had already smoked the fireworks to black, if people were not careful, they thought it was a piece of charcoal, he stood next to a bush that had just been extinguished, and commanded the soldiers who were carrying water to fight the fire: "Listen, now we have no way to extinguish the entire mountain fire, you are optimistic about the wind direction, give me to start from the downwind direction, small piece by piece to fight the fire!" Even if we can't extinguish all the wildfires, at least we can't let them spread! ”

"The general is really clever, let's do it!"

"What's the wind right now?"

"General Qiyu, it's the southwest wind direction!"

"The wind direction in Jingzhou is really fickle, the southwest wind blows in the spring, everyone listens, they all face the southwest direction to extinguish the fire, and cut down the trees in the downwind direction to make a vacancy, the fire is burned out, there is nothing to burn, and it will be extinguished naturally!" Xiahoudun said, remembering the same experience that Cao Cao encountered at the foot of Mount Tai three years ago, and that time the mountain fire was so unextinguished.

The soldiers all obeyed the order and went to carry out the order, and Xiahoudun asked the guide officer beside him: "Qin Qi, how long have they been going?" ”

The guide officer replied: "General Hui, General Qin has been gone for more than three hours!" ”

Xiahoudun frowned: "It's been so long, why haven't you come back yet!" ”

At this time, Qin Qi was leading the soldiers into a village, knocking on the door door, and hundreds of Qingzhou soldiers entered the village late at night, and for a while they could get chickens and dogs jumping everywhere, and everyone was frightened.

When the people saw the officers and soldiers who suddenly appeared, they were already frightened, thinking that Qin Qi was here to arrest the strong man, so the women hurriedly let their sons and husbands either climb over the wall or escape through the back door, so the people who came to open the door were some women and young girls who were quite good-looking.

A few soldiers had already looked at their greed, so they remembered many people's homes, and although they pretended to greet each other, they ate a lot of tofu and took a lot of advantage, and finally not only borrowed a lot of buckets from the civilian homes, but more of them almost turned their homes upside down, but they didn't dig three feet into the ground.

"Official, this is the last few buckets of corn left in the villain's house, you have to take it, how can we orphans and widows live!" A woman cried as she grabbed a few soldiers who were carrying her bags of rice.

"Let go, now the fire is tight, and you can't even keep your village if it's late, let alone hungry!" A soldier said viciously.

The woman still didn't let go: "My lord, now the green and yellow are not accepted, last year was a famine year, there are only these harvests at home, you love the people like a son, your lord, you have not committed any crimes in autumn, your lordship, you are the teacher of benevolence......"

"Don't come to give me these high hats for my uncle! Uncle, I charge on the battlefield all day long and are reluctant to live and die, so that you can enjoy Qingfu at home, what is the matter with these grains and grass now? I can't say that I can't exaggerate to tell you that you gave the little lady to the uncle, how can I fight for you if I can't eat enough? ”

At this time, the woman's little daughter rushed over and bit the back of another soldier's hand, and the soldier was in pain, shook it fiercely, threw the little girl far away, drew her knife and scolded hatefully: "You are looking for death!" ”

When the woman saw her little daughter being thrown away like a leaf, she couldn't help but exclaim, let go of her hand that grabbed the rice bag, stepped forward to help her daughter, and cried out: "Ying'er, are you okay, wake up, don't scare your mother!" ”

Ying'er woke up slowly, looked at the backs of those fierce Qingzhou soldiers, and cried in a hoarse voice: "You robbers! You brutes! You pigs and dogs are inferior to something! ”

Those soldiers had already walked away, and when they heard the voice of this warbler, they sneered at each other: "Brothers, this little girl scolds us!" You say, "What shall I do?" ”

"Do you need to talk about that?" Everyone stared at the tearful mother and daughter on the ground and laughed evilly, "This girl is not young, this woman is even more extraordinary, we haven't opened meat for several months, it's better to fight now!" ”

"You're just going to fight quickly, but I'm going to fight for a long time!" One guy was not convinced, and everyone laughed.

"What are you going to do?" The woman asked in horror when she saw some of the soldiers coming back with bad intentions.

But when they did not speak, they rushed over and stripped the woman naked—

"Ahh The stripped woman screamed, never expecting that she, who had been talking to her husband a few hours ago, would now be subjected to such humiliation, and she knew that there was more to await her.

"Ahh The daughter on the side screamed, crawled over and slapped desperately at the soldiers who were holding her mother's hands and feet, but her strength was so small that it didn't help at all.

"Ahh This time it was one of the soldiers who had stripped off his clothes to reveal his lower body, and he fell to the woman with a pop, his eyes wide and his back was a feathered arrow more than three inches deep into the back of the heart.

"What are you doing?" Qin Qi, who was holding a bow and arrow, walked in with an angry face, and when he saw the scene in the courtyard, he asked angrily.

When the woman saw Qin Qi coming in, she immediately called for help: "General help, general help!" ”

Qin Qi stepped forward angrily, drew his sword in his hand and asked everyone: "Let you come to borrow the buckets of the people, but you take the opportunity to rob the property, and you still want to do filthy deeds, don't you?" ”

Several people immediately let go of the mother and daughter, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "The general spares his life, read that I am waiting for the first offender, just let us go, we will definitely wear a crime on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions!" ”

Qin Qi was about to speak, only to hear a chaotic sound not far away, Qin Qi frowned, knowing that there were still soldiers who were also robbing property, and said to the soldiers who followed behind: "Tie up these people, let me check the rest, and whoever else robbed the property, tie them up together, and go back to General Xiahou to send them down!" ”

"No!"

The soldiers agreed in unison, immediately took out the ropes, tied these people strongly, Qin Qi took off the cloak and covered the woman, helped her up and said apologetically: "Let the lady be frightened, I will naturally send them down after these people go back, but the fire in the south is urgent, I must go down, farewell!" ”

The woman was like a cloud in the fog, and by the time she reacted, Qin Qi had already led her own soldiers to escort those people away, and only the cloak on her body reminded her that what happened just now was not a dream.

Ying'er said to the woman: "Mother, that general is a good man!" ”

"Yes, it's a good person!" The woman looked at the corn bag that Qin Qi ordered her soldiers to return to her, and muttered, "Good people will be rewarded!" ”

At this moment, Qin Qi was riding on a horse, holding a horsewhip and whipping the soldiers who were tied together by a rope from time to time: "Thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight!" Thirty-eight people! Thirty-eight! I brought 300 people and borrowed more than 20 buckets, and I got out of you bastards, more than you borrowed! It's a shame to have you scum in the Qingzhou soldiers! ”

Those soldiers knew that they were in the wrong, and they lowered their heads one by one and kept silent, but they exchanged glances at each other, as if there was some conspiracy.

A pro-soldier said to Qin Qi: "General, the business is important, don't be angry with these people, they haven't been like this for a day or two, this time it's just to find out, General Xiahou will definitely not let them go!" ”

Qin Qi said: "I'll leave you with more than a dozen people to escort behind, and I'll take people back to help General Xiahou first!" ”

"No! Rest assured, general! ”