Chapter 328: The Flames Attack
It is said that people like to nag when they are old, but I didn't expect Li Daozong to be in his forties, this mouth has begun to be so broken, I really don't know what he will be like when he gets old, Jia Yi listened to the drowsy arrangement of Li Daozong in his heart, and from time to time he would give some "um", "ah", "good" and other responses, indicating that he was still awake.
Just when the two of them were talking happily and the other was yawning, a spy suddenly broke into Jia Yi's camp, and the equipment covering his body had not been unloaded, which startled Li Daozong, who was sitting on the chair and talking happily, and thought that a straw man had come in.
"General Qiyu, a fire was found fifty miles ahead, and now it should be thirty miles away from our army."
The news of the horse exploration was like a thunderstorm exploding in the camp tent, Li Daozong and Jia Yi stood up from their chairs at the same time, their faces were full of disbelief and solemnity, you must know that if there is a fire on the vast grassland, then it will be a huge disaster, on the grassland full of pastures, the fire will not be extinguished unless the entire grassland is burned to scorched earth or heavy rain falls from the sky, otherwise, all the nomads on the entire grassland will suffer an unprecedented disaster.
"There are still thirty miles, so why don't you run quickly and wait for death?" Li Daozong was like a monkey with his butt burned by fire, and he rushed out of the camp tent and ran quickly towards the place where the army was stationed.
Jia Yi frowned into a pimple, even if the army retreats now, it is absolutely impossible to be faster than the flames burning violently under the strong wind, if you can't leave the grassland before the flames arrive, then what awaits the army is still the end of being burned alive, so choosing to flee now is definitely not the wisest choice.
No one cares about why the flames appeared, and everyone in the army knew the news that the fire was spreading ahead, and Xue Yantuo, who belonged to the nomads, and the Turkic soldiers all made the same action, that is, they fell from their horses, knelt on the ground and begged for rain from heaven to save the herdsmen from the fire.
However, the army of the Tang Dynasty began to pull out the camp under Li Jing's order, ready to evacuate at any time.
In the face of disaster, everyone has the responsibility to fight head-on, if the Tang army is withdrawn now, I believe that it will be difficult for the soldiers of the imperial envoy Turks or Xue Yantuo to be safe in the future, because at the most critical time, it was the Tang people who sent them to the fire.
In order to avoid this situation, Jia Yi quickly found a way to suppress this flame in his mind, and came to the army for the first time, and found Li Daozong, who was preparing to evacuate.
"General Li, if we leave like this without doing anything, then what will Xue Yantuo and the Turks and other nomads on the steppe think of our Datang, do you want to create an immortal enmity between these people and our Datang?"
"Are you stupid, the fire in front of you is a natural disaster, what can we do, do everyone fight in a row and let the fire burn to ashes? The life and death of the Hu people has a fart relationship with us, as long as our Tang people's army does not die, I don't believe that anyone dares to argue with us. ”
Li Daozong's words made Jia Yi sigh helplessly, Datang is definitely the strongest among the surrounding countries at the moment, but which country in this world can be strong for hundreds of thousands of years, the change of dynasties has created the history of China, and the surrounding other countries are the accomplices of this change, every time the change of dynasties dies the most is definitely the Han people, Jia Yi is a Han person, I really don't want this to happen again.
"General Li, I have a way to suppress the fire, but I need our help."
Li Daozong stopped the cleaning in his hand when he heard this, and looked at Jia Yi as if he wanted to see from Jia Yi's eyes whether what he said was true or false, and when he saw the full sincerity in Jia Yi's eyes, he breathed a sigh of relief, and the solemnity on his face was slightly reduced and replaced by a faint smile.
"Jia Yi, I know you are resourceful, but if your methods fail to extinguish the fire and put my Datang soldiers in danger, I will slash you before you are burned to death."
"Okay, that's a deal."
Jia Yi ordered people to quickly call Ashina Simo and Dadu set together to Li Daozong's camp, the two people who originally looked at no one right, but now they came together, there was no hostility or any ridicule, some were just full of solemnity and worry, when the two people came to Li Daozong's camp, they saw the traces of Li Daozong's cleanup, a touch of anger flashed from their eyes, and the two of them clasped their fists at the same time and said to Li Daozong: "I don't know what the general called the two of us?" ”
"I didn't call you, if I could, I wanted to leave the grassland as quickly as possible, it was this kid who said that there is a way to suppress the flames on the grassland, but it requires the full cooperation of the army."
Li Daozong made his position clear in a few words, but this person was also very good, and directly told the two of them his intention to escape from the grassland, that is to say, the idea of escaping the grassland was his, and if there was anything wrong, it was also his, and it had nothing to do with Datang or other people in Datang.
It's a pity that Li Daozong's careful thoughts were in vain, and the people Ashina Simo and Dadu She didn't have time to think about what he meant in his words now, and the attention of the two of them was all on Jia Yi's body, hoping to hear the way to extinguish the grassland fire from Jia Yi's mouth.
"The solution is not very difficult, it is to cut the grass and cut the grassland in two, because of the strong wind today, I personally recommend that the distance of cutting grass be tentatively set at one kilometer."
The two of them glanced at each other when they heard this, and they were a little unsure of their idea, could it be that as long as the grass was cut down, the fire could be suppressed? However, at the moment, no one has a better way to do it, so they can only follow Jia Yi's method, but before leaving the camp, the two of them still asked Jia Yi at the same time: "Is it really feasible?" ”
"I'm not sure, but this is the best way right now, okay, let's say a little more, the flames will get a little closer to us, and start giving orders quickly."
The commanders of the three armies returned to their respective teams as soon as possible, and passed the method described by Jia Yi to all the generals, and the soldiers, who were already worried about the flames in front of them, immediately drew out their sabers on their bodies, and began to chop grass without saying a word, and soon the grasslands that were originally connected together became two under the hands of these soldiers.
It's just that when Jia Yi saw the behavior of these people, his face turned black.
"Are you all fools, you only cut down the grass for one egg, and throw all the grass over there for me." As soon as Jia finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction where the flames returned.
After Jia Yi said this, many people understood for the first time, it turned out that it was artificially cut off the fuel of the flame, and without fuel, no matter how big the flame was, it would be extinguished.
Everyone who saw hope began to cut down the grass desperately, and many people gathered the grass they had cut down and threw it into the grass on the opposite side, and even some of the smart ones even walked through the grass for a long time, and then put the grass in their arms into the grass.
Everyone gathered firewood and the flame was high, and everyone cut the grass bald, just two hours, an artificially made isolation belt was across the grassland, if someone looked at it from the sky at this moment, they would find that there was a long scar on the grassland, which was more than ten miles long.
Although the flames in the distance were already shaking, the Xue Yantuo people and the Turks were still extending this isolation zone across the grassland, for fear that the isolation zone was not long enough, and the flames would spread from other places.
The wind carried the flames and soon came to the front of the army, the moist grass evaporated every trace of water in the flames, turned into fly ash and rushed up to the sky with the heat wave, the blue sky has been dyed black by the grass and wood gray, some were burned red by the flames, and the three colors of black, red and blue appeared alternately in the sky, so that all the people standing behind the barrier had solemn expressions on their faces.
The sky-high fire devoured everything that could be swallowed, no one knew whether this kilometer of isolation zone could really stop the pace of the fire, and everyone sincerely prayed that God could bless the herdsmen on the grassland.
The fire line was more than ten miles long and quickly burned to the edge of the barrier, and the rolling heat wave hit everyone standing here across a distance of thousands of meters, but none of these people took a step back, because Jia Yi knew that if this heat wave caused another fire in the grassland behind them, then they would all be buried in the flames, and compared to being burned alive by the flames, the roasting fire did not seem to be too much of a problem.
I don't know if it's an illusion, the flames have become more majestic, like a team of demon gods under the effect of the wind, sending out a roar to the world, but the barrier of the barrier prevents them from taking a step forward.
The grass that turned into fly ash flew into the isolation zone with a slight flame, these are the real murderers who will ignite the grassland behind him, Jia Yi's eyes were dry and abnormal from the heat wave, but he didn't dare to blink, for fear that a spark would fall behind him and ignite the grassland.
Even if it is such a strict defense, it is still impossible to avoid the invasion of flames, and large and small flames began to appear on the grass behind the army, but the army that had been prepared for a long time would extinguish the flames as soon as they saw the flames appear, which was an effective way to avoid the invasion of flames.