In a certain corner of Shixiang Town, it is a sparsely populated afternoon, and the weak sound of cicadas is still trying to call out the last trace of existence;

And under the somewhat gloomy and faint sky, whether it was the beggar squatting on the corner of the street, the vendor sitting cross-legged on the ground and looking like a nap, and the drunk leaning on the edge of the alley, they were all motionless as if they were a group of sculptures, all frozen in this moment.

At this time, a dozen or so sturdy pedestrians walking through the street became the noise and variables that broke this solidified picture of the market; But they didn't stop for too long, they came and went as fast as they could, and they disappeared again behind the buildings in the distance.

At this time, under the eaves of the wooden coarse tiles, a vendor with dried salted fish in front of him seemed to be awakened, rolled his eyelids a few times, looked at the distant figure and dozed off again with some disinterest; However, when he was awakened again by the sound of shreddling, he was astonished to see a figure creeping under the wall against the gap under the building;

He just wanted to scream for a moment, and as he reached out and pushed away the flat sieve and dustpan in front of him, he was stabbed through his vest, and all that was left to the screams in his stomach was the blood spit out of his mouth. Then in the dried fish stall that was knocked over, a half-polished snow-bright sharp blade was revealed.

Almost at the same time, the beggars on the streets, the drunks on the side of the alleys, and some of them approached, and suddenly threw them to the ground and stabbed them with a skillful knife, or wiped their necks, and carried them away in a swift relay manner with their feet and hands, leaving only a pool of blood as proof of their existence.

A moment later, the dozen or so men in civilian clothes who had gone far away also went and returned, still with a little fresh blood on their bodies, and merged with the figures gathered under the eaves, continuing to be busy.

"Tell the head of the team...

Later, he stayed in the attic not far away, observing all this through the hidden panes, and got more accurate feedback.

"A total of seven suspicious people have been touched out of the outer room."

"Four of them have hidden blades."

"The edge of the warehouse has been cleared."

"Only one brother got a cut on the arm."

"No more portals and access were found."

And Zhou Huai'an watched quietly as Lao Guan gave orders and dispatched people step by step, but he sighed secretly in his heart, It seems that the remaining three are obviously injured by mistake for redemption.

"It's time for the next step."

Then, suddenly, he spoke.

"Be quick, in case the night dreams are too much to alert the other party."

"That's going to be a lot more difficult."

"I'll personally lead the team"

Lao Guan nodded at him, and then walked out with the fire chief of this report; Then, Zhou Huai'an saw another group of people on the opposite side of the street, holding bundles of firewood and grass in their hands, as well as stoneware jars and jars.

They trotted in long rows, and when they approached the large barn diagonally opposite, they began to spread the firewood and grass in their hands along the roots of the walls, and poured and splashed the liquid from the various stoneware vessels on the walls and doors.

The last thing that came out was a few wheelbarrows piled with earth and stones, which were pushed straight by several strong men to the front of the confined barn, and then leaned diagonally on them, making a slight vibration and noise.

At this time, something was finally felt and perceived inside, and subtle movements and voices of people speaking began to appear, as if they were inquiring about what was happening outside; And Zhou Huai'an started to scan it again, and at the moment he felt that the human body signals that were originally densely gathered together and posed in a sitting or lying posture also turned into a posture of standing and walking, and then slowly spread out from the bottom up in the interior of this warehouse and the annex building.

And in a ventilation opening at the top of the building, someone began to probe half of his body to peek out to see what was going on at the front door, and then he was shot at the door by an arrow flying in the air, and with a muffled grunt, he fell off the wall, and a cloud of dust was splashed on the ground.

After the preliminary plan was completed, Deputy Lieutenant Lu, who was still weak, was left behind to sit in the camp, and by the way, he watched the new soldiers who joined the latest and waited for the other soldiers who went out to return.

for there are about two or three hundred of those scattered in the streets; In this kind of situation where the enemy is dark and I am clear, I can only hope that with their own quality, they can react in time and return to the team on their own in the movement that is mobilized here.

According to the approximate number and scale of this warehouse in Zhou Huai'an's induction, the soldiers in their early 100s were finally pointed out, which was also the maximum limit that Lao Guan's deputy could barely command; Of them were twenty spear-bearers, thirty sword-wielding bands, and the rest were all archers dressed in one colour, with a baffle for each of them.

Then there were the handymen and servants who could only be used for the sake of strength, and they were given a flag or a piece of wood with strips of cloth to make up the number, and used as a momentum and background for waving flags and shouts, in order to deter and delay the possible support of the other side.

It's just that compared to the other way to meet and rescue, several times the manpower of the drinking leaders in the city pass, the combat power here is a little insufficient; Because of the safety of their respective leaders, they had to take more experienced soldiers than planned.

However, in Zhou Huai'an's expectations, they were originally used to attract attention, but they could hide their actions here.

Therefore, under Zhou Huai'an's next suggestion, they also pushed a few carts, brought more lamp oil, firewood, and other igniting things, and rushed out of the camp in one go.

But now it seems that I don't know if these thieves are too slack and unprofessional, or if these old pawns themselves are good; The next developments were clearly slightly better than he had predicted.

The fall was also like a signal and a sign, and the people inside finally began to realize that something was wrong, and began to regroup in one place and slammed the front door, making a loud banging and banging sound. Under the scan again, several of the more obvious and strong biological reactions also made Zhou Huai'an a little shocked and couldn't sit still anymore.

"In this matter, I actually have some selfish motives"

Seeing that he was about to fight, I don't know whether it was out of the imminent danger of the battle, or the pressure that made people not vomit and unhappy, Zhou Huai'an walked out of his shelter and stood on the side of the street to face the old Guan Dao who had just put down his bow and arrow.

"I see."

Lao Guan didn't think so.

"But if it weren't for the deputy governor, most of the brothers in the camp would have befallen it, but they couldn't have done it."

"So if you have any plans and countermeasures for now, please feel free to explain."

"Don't bother thinking about it, a rough man like me,"

"Then take out the medicine arrows."

Zhou Huai'an also sighed and said categorically

"Get ready to do it...

After killing the eyeliner and patrol posts on the periphery, the archers were deployed with knives and spears using carts as cover, and the firewood was piled around the building, and then lit one by one at the same time, and several tongues of fire quickly spread with the help of firewood and grease, and in a short time they became enveloped in the fireworks around the huge warehouse;

Immediately, the wooden rafters and railings under the high eaves were ignited, and they turned into large pieces of fire that burned upwards, and the tiles that were burned to brittle cracks turned into a collapse that slowly collapsed. The sound of smashing and crashing inside the gate became more and more rapid, and the trolleys stacked on top of the door shook open.

At this time, a continuous gust of wind blew along the street, but after the fire was slightly turned to the west, it burned more violently and produced more smoky black smoke, and then the houses and buildings on the side were gradually burned, which was no longer a controllable state of affairs.

The sound of smashing inside the barn door began to change from all kinds of roars and scoldings to terrible screams and desperate wails; Immediately afterwards, people emerged one after another from the high air windows and under the eaves, and pushed and squeezed each other and tried to jump over the wall to escape;

At this time, they were greeted by bows and arrows that were just in time, and even if someone was lucky enough to miss the arrows, and after falling under the eight-foot-high wall or breaking their hands and feet, it was basically an impossible luxury to climb out of the burning fire and the falling bricks and tiles;

In this desperate death trap, those human bodies that fall like dumplings and fall into various twisted postures can only be frozen alive into pieces of charcoal with different postures in the action of dying and struggling.

Only a few figures on fire were able to run back up after falling to the ground, trying to escape the flaming Jedi, only to be re-knocked back by arrows fired from behind makeshift shelters in the street, or half-cut into the raging flames, none of them spared.

The miserable state of this scene, even the veterans of the rebel army who had experienced the battlefield, couldn't help but be moved, and those new soldiers couldn't help but burst into tears on the spot, or couldn't help but bend down and hold their throats and vomit;

However, in the midst of this turbid air filled with burnt protein and fat, the upper half of the sealed door suddenly shattered.

In the midst of the shattered and exploding doors that opened many burning fragments, several sturdy and smoked gray-black men rushed out like arrows; In Zhou Huai'an's alternative vision, although it is not as obvious and strong as before, the fluctuations and signals on the biological field are still obviously different from ordinary people.

"Beware of enemy attacks."

Therefore, he shouted almost reflexively,

"Drugged arrows."

At this time, the pre-made medicine arrow can come in handy unexpectedly; At least, when their vision is severely obstructed by fireworks, or their eyes are red and blurred from smoke, being able to smash open the brittle door will already leave them covered in bruises, and it is really difficult to dodge the densely packed medicine arrows that are set up in formation.

Although most of them were shot out or blocked, a few of them began to gradually take effect, and the opponent's movements and reactions became sluggish, and finally they were blocked in front of the shields and spears that were lined up, and they were stabbed and poked one by one in the crazy swing covered in blood and dust.

But there were more smoked and dusty crowds, rushing out along the gap in the upper half of the gate; Scattered across the streets, spear and sword players who quickly advanced in front began to engage and fight in close quarters.

Although these desperate thieves are in a state of desperate fighting to the death in order to survive, the exit that can be rushed out is too small, and the people who rush out have reached the end of the crossbow; After only a few steps back from pushing the spears and players to the top, the casualties of the realigned archers collapsed and routed again.

In the end, only a few thieves escaped under the cover of thick smoke, and the rest of the thieves who rushed out were already corpses, or dying on the ground. The thieves who rushed out of the burning and broken portals in the middle of the room were in decline, and they still fell one after another under the arrows or spears.

Soon half-height corpses were piled up in the narrow open space in front of the door, and after a dozen rounds of strings in a short time, the archers also fell into all kinds of weakness and temporary detachment, and had to rely on the rest of the spearmen and swords to block the remnants of the thieves who were still pouring out.

Until everyone present, including Zhou Huai'an, their faces were already covered with blood and soot sprayed in the wind, and no one inside could rush out, and silently stared at the buildings that collapsed inward, and the voices of crying fathers and mothers and shouting for help in the surrounding buildings that were ignited;

Zhou Huai finally confirmed that there was no biological reaction in the area of the fire, and there was no secret room for hiding and refuge; In this way, there are about three or four hundred lives, and they are buried in their own indirect planning. For a while, he didn't know what it was like and what it felt in his heart.

"The outpost that stayed on the periphery not long ago reported back."

touched the black and gray old guan on his face, but with a complicated expression of awe and regret, he faced him

"The city has already been fought there"

"I'm afraid I've already encountered a thief who intercepted it"

Only then did Zhou Huai'an come back to his senses, and turned to look at the place where there was a huge fighting noise in the distance; Obviously, it was the movement caused by the other side that distracted and covered up their actions here in disguise, so there was no chance to put those backup plans of last resort to use.

Otherwise, he could only give up the possibility of achieving all the results, and even discard the auxiliary personnel brought out, so as to win the opportunity to retreat to the garrison for himself.

It's just that what I didn't expect was that when I embarked on the return trip, I saw fireworks and noises coming out of the station, which made Zhou Huai'an's heart and eyes sink involuntarily.