Chapter 496: Wandering Crime (5)
At the same time, the scope of the uprising expanded rapidly, and Po Song Province quickly assembled auxiliary troops, led by the maintenance team, busy suppressing the uprising in the southwest, but in the blink of an eye, it had to face tens of thousands of mobs day and night.
The mob sometimes gathered, sometimes dispersed, and often the auxiliary soldiers of more than 10,000 people surrounded and suppressed the mob of several hundred people, and then found that the territory behind them had been occupied by more gangs. The Jin Xuedi people, who had recovered from their senses, quickly divided their troops and exterminated them, and were often besieged by the gathered gangs.
Hundreds of thousands of mobs with their families retreated eastward to the deep mountains and old forests outside the Jinxuedi people's administrative area, and some of them did not know whether they were alive or dead, and continued to advance into the hinterland, fantasizing about creating a greater effect and erecting a bigger mountain, but it was not difficult to come to an end.
On this day, fifteen miles southeast of Kamis City, in the hinterland of Posong Province, Bailiyan climbed on a 60-meter-high tree and looked at Kamis City with a telescope in hand.
Such a tall tree, seven or eight people can come together, it is almost difficult to find this kind of giant tree in the Central Plains, but in the land of the Jinxuedi people, you can see this kind of towering tree almost everywhere, the short is twenty or thirty meters, the height can be more than seventy meters, the texture is hard, the toughness is excellent, the leaves are like okra, it is a coniferous plant, it is inedible.
In the memories of Baili Yan and the two lives, they couldn't find any impressions, and it was obviously a plant native to the native planet.
The city wall of Kamis City is adobe strip bricks, as high as three and a half zhang, higher than Guangxin and Chenling, it is difficult to imagine that this is a prefecture-level city city, it is conceivable that the provincial city Po Song must be at least the level of Tiannan Pass, and at the same time, it can also reflect that the productivity of Jin Xuedi people is stronger than that of the Central Plains.
Comparing the map, it is almost certain that there is a heavy stockpile of grain in the northern part of Kamis, and the cars that are speeding up and down the road are obviously not telling a lie, and the Jinxuedi are transporting nearby grain to a fork in the road, which is obscured by the forest in the distance, and it is impossible to see where the horses and carts have finally gone.
From the tree down to the ground, Tian Peng was eating and drinking:
"Yo Chief, you're coming down."
"Have you eaten and drunk enough?"
"Almost, how about it, do it tonight?"
"Although it can't be seen, it must be a heavy force, and according to the local population and arming situation, there will be no less garrisons in the shadows."
"This is not right, first attack the city and kill his mother, no one has been able to kill their city in these years, if you do this vote, the leader will definitely have a great reputation, and keep those gangs bowing down to you."
"To put it mildly, the population of the districts of Qamis and Bakusaa is nearly 400,000, and any 20,000 or 30,000 civilian troops can drown us."
"What then?"
"It's better to wait for dark, I ponder, some rioters are nearby, and they are also waiting for it to get dark to do something, then we will make a detour, avoid them, and let the Jin Xuedi people entangle with them."
"It's dark again, I've learned this trick, leader, can't you change the tricks?"
Bai Liyan rolled her eyes, and a sense of powerlessness suddenly came to her heart:
"If I had 120,000 horses, I would have attacked the city a long time ago, and I could sneak around like this. If you think that the brothers will live a long life, you can pull the team and use your brain to knock open the city gate, and I will make you the leader! ”
Bai Liyan felt very strange, and it was also to discover some inexplicable hobbies of the mob. After the first eleven pits were scattered, most of the scattered hills were watching Baili Yan's night attack very easily, so they followed suit and specially dispatched at night.
Of course, this strategy is fine, at least for the time being, but it seems that they have nothing innovative other than simple imitation.
Moreover, several groups of more than a dozen people acted surprisingly consistently, all of them acted at night, either not moving, or moving together, without weighing the pros and cons of tactics at all, only knowing how to do it, not knowing why, which is most likely another big problem after the mob has lost the roots of civilization.
Of course, the current situation is favorable to Bailiyan, but in the future, it is very unfavorable to the development of these mountains themselves.
At night, tens of thousands of torches were lit at the head of the city of Kamis, and the head of the city was at least three or five thousand men, according to this estimate, there must have been as many as twenty or thirty thousand men gathered in the city, and although the combat strength was average, it was enough to deter the mob. Bai Liyan would not believe that anyone would not be able to do his best, and would pull hundreds or thousands of people to attack the city guarded by tens of thousands of people.
As expected, as soon as it got dark, mobs began to run rampant everywhere, more than twice as loud as a few days ago.
Bai Liyan judged that there were only more than 10,000 people who could be observed and heard nearby, but they were no different from bandits and bandits.
Of course, this is a long-standing backlog of hatred and anger, and vendetta and rape are a kind of strong revenge for the violence inflicted on the Jinxuedi people, which is understandable, but the purpose of the existence of an insurrectionary army is only to satisfy the desire for revenge in a short time, and failure is bound to be doomed.
The combat effectiveness of the people's army hastily organized by the Jin Xuedi people was very weak, and Bailiyan knew it deeply. In the first war of Guangxin, the hastily organized people's army had no combat effectiveness at all. It is very difficult to suppress bandits, let alone bandits. So no matter how they killed, injured and looted in the distance, the Jin Xuedi people's army that was cowering in the city did not come out.
"Tian Peng, let everyone get ready to go on the road, and they are not allowed to light the fire."
"Oh, okay!"
Along the way, Bailiyan attacked 19 pits before and after, liberated more than 9,000 people, but only pulled more than 1,400 people, and the rest fell apart, pulling the mountain alone, and simply lived up to his "good intentions".
These more than 9,000 people gathered around him, it was useless, and it was only when they dispersed that they really created great value. He believed that many of these gangs already had one or two thousand people, and even two or three thousand men, women, and children, and even two or three thousand people, and the target was much bigger than him.
Leaving the camp and heading west, bypassing the city of Qamis and heading north, the glow of a fire looming in the west could be seen along the way.
"Oh my God, it's coming so fast!"
Bailiyan took out his binoculars, and could vaguely see more than sixty miles to the west, and the fires in the distance may be endless, which is the light of the camp of the entire army.
"Tian Peng, let the brothers hurry up, the army of the Jin Xuedi people will arrive tomorrow."
"So fast, then what are we going to do in this battle, let's run."
"So many people have to eat, and it's a fart to run. Hurry up, find your way. ”
"But this black light is blinding, how do we know where the granary is hidden."
"That's it, we'll find out soon!"
Bailiyan can almost conclude now that the Jinxuedi people must have built the granary in the blind spot behind the hillside, so that Bailiyan climbed on the tree and couldn't see the lights at all.
Traveling more than ten miles to the north, at the middle of the day, we arrived at the vicinity of Chidao, five miles north of the city of Kamis, and to the north of Chidao was a large wood, and when I saw it during the day, it was dense and without bounds.
"Tian Peng, let the brothers go into the forest and set fire to me, the bigger the better."
"What are you doing with the fire?"
"Now the southwest wind is blowing, blowing to the northeast, if there is a granary in the north, the defenders will definitely put out the fire, let's take a detour behind their backs to intercept the grain!"
"What a fucking pit hey!"
The ground of the grain hoarding place is the land that has been leveled by rammed earth, there should be no continuous grass and shrubs on the ground, and the nearby is far away from combustibles, and the trees around the granary are cut down and leveled to eliminate hidden dangers, and a buffer zone of isolation area is set up to prevent the spread of external fires, and the Jinxuedi people naturally do the same.
However, since the granary is built in a hidden place, it must have its geographical advantages for the view of the barrier, such as the shielding of the mountains, the shielding of the forest, etc., so it is impossible to completely eliminate the grass and trees.
The wind is blowing from the southwest to the northeast, and if a forest fire starts, even if the granary is separated from a safe distance, the wind may bring sparks into the granary, and one can burn up if you are not careful.
The defenders would definitely not see the fire spread to the granary, and they would have to extinguish the fire, or mobilize men and horses to be on guard, so that the location of their granary would be exposed, and it would be easy to do it again.
Tian Peng quickly scattered his manpower to set fire everywhere, and within two quarters of an hour, the fire was burning, and after half an hour, the forest fire in the real sense was quickly burned under the arson.
"Hehaha...... This fire is so fucking big, I've never seen it in my life! ”
Tian Peng was very happy, and Bai Liyan was also surprised to look at the skyrocketing fire, and his heart was also shocked, if he had put such a big fire in his previous life, it was estimated that he would be able to sit through the prison without shooting.
When it was young, the fire burned more and more, the wind blew more and more vigorously under the rising hot air, and the deep forest was full of people's voices, although it was impossible to hear what was shouting from afar, but the momentum of thousands of people in a mess was exposed.
"Okay, it's so deep!" Tian Peng was ruthless, and his eyes were full of murderous intent.
"I wonder if the Jinxuedi are so clever that they have built a dark path by the river on the north side of the forest, so that the brethren can go around it."
"Okay!"
Kamis City is south of the forest, and the forest is opposite to the north of Kamis City, separated by the forest and the hillside, and the ordinary Jinxuedi people in the city don't know that there is a granary seven or eight miles away from the other side, and most of the Jinxuedi people have built a dark road along the granary.
The fire caused not only the panic of the granary defenders, but also the general of the city of Kamis, who knew that there was a granary behind the forest.
At the same time, the mob more than a dozen miles east of the city of Qamis looked at the raging fire burning in the west, and they saw not danger, but more opportunity. In their eyes, the greater the fire, the greater the ability to cause trouble, and the more things they loot.
Even some gangs with poor geographical angles, mistaking it for the city of Kamis, were attacked by some daring guys, and they didn't think about it for a while, and rushed to the place where the fire started, ready to take advantage of the fire to rob and salvage.