Chapter 122: Burning Grain

After putting down the thick rope, first five masters went up smoothly, and then twenty elite soldiers went up. There were twenty-five men in all, each of whom carried several parchment water bags. The water bladder is filled with fire oil.

When the twenty-five men went up, they were not found because it was dark and they were wearing the same clothes, and they began to look for a place to store food in groups of five. It is not easy to find the grain storage place at night, and I am not familiar with the mountain, and I haven't found it until the day is almost dawn, and everyone gathered together again, and the leader of the team is Ju Yi's personal soldier captain, called Chen Fu, and everyone has not found it.

Chen Fudao: Let's not look for it, it's very dangerous to find it like this, and it may not be found, let's just wait for dawn and then go together, let's pretend to be a team patrolling, anyway, thousands of people must not know each other, in the morning they always have to cook, cook to get food? Let's go along, and then we'll do it. Everyone nodded.

More than 20 people were also bold, and after dawn, more than 20 people swaggered directly on the top of the patrol, but the sheepskin water bags on their bodies were covered with clothes, because no one expected that someone would get into it. When it was time to cook, the twenty-five of them finally found the grain depot, and the bags of grain were pushed together, covered with oilcloth, afraid of being wet by the rain.

Chen Fudao: Who is in charge here? There is a way to manage food: The villain is, I don't know who you are?

Chen Fudao: On the order of the general, I came to inspect the grain and grass, I wonder how many of you are guarding here now? The steward's way: The younger one had four men who kept accounts at this point. The people on the periphery are all managed by villains, and they are also guards arranged by the second general, Chen Fudao: Well, I clearly took me in to see how the grain and grass were, No.

Walking into a small tent, the other three were counting the accounts. Chen Fu called them over, and these people didn't suspect the identities of these people at all. Suddenly, behind them, several people covered their mouths and cut their necks with knives, but the four unlucky ones didn't even understand what was going on.

Chen Fudao: Immediately pour the oil. Then the twenty-five men, opening the tarpaulin, each with three water bags, poured all the oil on the piles of grain, and it was done in less than five minutes. Chen Fu is very smart, he lit the fire from the inside of the tent, and the tent was lit. They just left, and just a few dozen meters away, there was a big fire.

Chen Fu shouted, go to the water, come and put out the fire, and then shouted: Let's hurry up and get water to put out the fire.

Then twenty-five people left, and all the people on the mountain were frightened by the fire, and they all wanted to come to put out the fire, but there was not much water on the mountain, and it was only enough to drink water and cook, and it was far away. In the midst of the chaos, no one paid attention to whether the twenty-five men were looking for water to put out the fire or heading up the cliff to the east.

When these people came to the edge of the cliff, they first climbed down the slope for a few meters, then quickly found the rope under the crooked neck tree, and began to lower it, wearing horseskin gloves on their hands to prevent the palms from being worn out. The speed is very fast, but after all, there are twenty-five people, and only three or four people can be put on the rope at a time, too many for fear of breaking. When this side was escaping with a rope, and the grandson of the mountain was in a hurry, he quickly ordered someone to extinguish the fire, and if there was no food, he would starve to death in three days. But the water is too far away, and the grain and grass are full of fire oil, how can it be extinguished at once.

In the end, a soldier said: General, hurry up and save the food that is not on fire first, how much can be saved. Gongsun Yue immediately ordered someone to save the non-existent first. At this time, he reacted, this is obviously someone deliberately set fire to the grain, who is it?

He immediately searched for it by arranging people, but it was impossible to find out who it was at once. I saw a grain soldier and said: Just now a group of people came and said that the general asked them to check the grain and grass, and they were on fire immediately after leaving.

Gongsun is more anxious, I didn't call anyone to check, what about them? I had been walking for a while, and I was heading east. Chase after them, they are spies.

Then he took his own soldiers to chase him, but he ran to the east cliff and saw nothing, and at this time there were four Jizhou soldiers climbing down the rope, just halfway up the mountainside. Gongsun Yue's own soldiers shouted. They were still crawling down, there was a rope, and Chen Fu, who had reached the ground below, exclaimed, hurry, hurry, slide down, speed up. And the people on the mountain also found someone fleeing down the rope.

But standing on it, I couldn't find the place to tie the rope at once, and I had to climb a few meters to find the crooked neck tree.

Finally, someone saw that the crooked neck tree was shaking, because the gravity of the four people this tree was not big, so the trunk shook very badly, a soldier said: It is tied to the tree, let's cut it. Let them fall to their deaths.

Then he climbed down a little himself, but because he was also afraid of falling, he climbed very slowly. When he climbed to the edge of the tree, the knife was raised, and now there was only one person on the rope, and the rest were on the ground. When a knife is cut down. It is said that the knife is not broken, because the rope is a thick hemp rope, it is relatively strong. So it took three cuts to break, and the rope of the last person who climbed fell off as soon as it broke, but unfortunately, it was less than two meters from the ground. In the end, the soldier also sprained only one foot.

It is a miracle that these 25 men burned a third of the grain and grass on the mountain, and returned without casualties.

When Gongsun Yue desperately put out the fire, he finally saved one-third of the grain and grass. Twenty-five people, each with three bags of fire oil, is seventy-five bags, hundreds of pounds of fire oil. In this era when there are no fire extinguishers, it is good to be able to save a third. This is mainly due to the fact that it is difficult for the grain below to catch fire. Otherwise, it's all over.

And Zhang Jie and others under the mountain thought that something had happened to the people who went up, because they said that they would set the fire in the middle of the night, but they didn't wait for the fire to start, indicating that they were discovered by the defenders.

Zhang Jie was still a little guilty. Twenty-five brothers were sacrificed in vain. Unexpectedly, a fire broke out on the mountain in the morning. This made everyone under the mountain happy, indicating that they had succeeded.

Not long after, Ju Yi personally brought twenty-five people to see Zhang Jie.

Zhang Jie said: Okay, I didn't expect you to come back unscathed. Okay, each officer will be promoted to one level, and each person will be awarded ten gold. After everyone thanked him.

Zhang Jiedao: Tell me about the above situation? Chen Fudao: My subordinates don't know too much about the defenders, but their tents are all on the top of the mountain, and there are defenders all around the top of the mountain. We pretended to be like them before we got by. We didn't find the location of the grain and grass at night, and we didn't find it until dawn when someone went to fetch grain for cooking. However, the grain must not be burned, the grain is piled up in bags, and it is impossible for the oil to be burned to the lower layers, and the subordinates estimate that half of it must be burned.

Zhang Jiedao: No matter how much you can burn, you have done your best. Let's go down and rest first! Promise!

After everyone left, Zhang Jie said to Jia Xu: It seems that we can carry out the next step, Jia Xu said: In the end, it is better to let Wang Er go tomorrow, Zhang Jie nodded and said: Come and bring someone 100 gold, and then bring Wang Er.

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