Smoke billowed from the pile of burning pine branches, and the familiar smell made Tian Liuhu feel very comfortable, this smell represented death, blood, women, and wealth for him and his men. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Every cottage they breached would eventually start a fire, whether it was a wooden fence or a wooden house, everything that could be burned would be burned, accompanied by fire and smoke, and the smell of wood burning.

Beside him, several Chen soldiers fell beside the simple beacon tower, the blood flowing from the wounds on their bodies had dyed the ground red, looking at these few people who struggled to light the beacon fire, Tian Liuhu was quite regretful.

Courage is commendable, if you can join my slave hunting team, you can make a name for yourself, and now you die to light a cigarette, it's really good, good...

Tian Liuhu didn't believe in Buddhism, but he was dragged by the tigress at home to the temple to incense a lot, and learned the words "Amitabha" and "good, good" and other terms, recalling the solemn Buddha statue in the Anning Temple in Xiyang City, he couldn't afford the slightest piousness.

In this world, if you want to eat and drink spicy food, you have to rely on the knife in your hand, and the king of Xiyang is much more reliable than the Buddha!

Several people walked up to the beacon, each with armor stained with blood, but the first one was Tian Zhengyue, the general of the Hulin Army, seeing Tian Liuhu looking at the Sanjiangkou at the foot of the mountain in a daze, he opened his mouth and asked: "Tian Zhai master, is there any movement in the Chen army at the foot of the mountain?" ”

"Ah, General Tian, Chen Jun is afraid that he will not dare to go up the mountain, and the grass people are thinking about how they will feel when they see the smoke coming out of the top of the mountain."

"It doesn't matter, they'll know in a moment,"

Tian Zhengyue said with a smile, looked at the small Chen army camp at the foot of the mountain, and then looked at another camp on the opposite bank, he raised his hand to let go of the leaves he was holding, and when he saw that the leaves were carried away by the north wind blowing on the top of the mountain, he ordered left and right: "Prepare immediately." ”

"Yes."

Walking forward, Tian Zhengyue asked Tian Liuhu: "Master Tianzhai, are you sure about this height, this wind direction and wind force?" ”

"Yes, it couldn't be better."

Tian Liuhu stretched out his right hand as he spoke, stretched out his thumb and laid it horizontally in front of him, he was using the visual method to judge the distance of the Chen army camp at the foot of the mountain, preparing for the next attack.

Not far away, Mai Tiezhu sat on a stone and watched the owner of the village gestile, climbing the mountain for almost half a month, he finally felt tired, but the owner of the village and the group of volunteers under him were far from the limit.

Sure enough, he is an expert who robs houses in the mountains all year round!

Mai Tiezhu sighed in his heart, the volunteers in Huangzhou are actually slave hunting teams, twelve months a year, about ten months are in the mountains around the country, breaking through the cottages and catching the mouth, and the slave trade is doing well.

As a result, they have trained a strong slave hunting team, which can stay in the mountains for months without needing to transport grain and grass from outside, drink mountain spring water when they are thirsty, and find ways to find something to eat in the mountains when they are hungry.

Everyone is good, walking up the mountain road as if walking on the ground, and there are all kinds of tools, ropes, and climbing all kinds of cliffs.

Only such a slave catching team can easily bypass all kinds of cottages guarded by danger, and use all kinds of unbelievable tricks to catch the other party off guard.

"What's the matter, old Mai, this won't work?"

A big hand slapped on the shoulder of the wheat iron staff, with great force, if it weren't for his tough body, this beat would have been shot apart, and when he turned his head, it was the military master Li Shimo.

"Lord, I haven't been here for many years, so I feel emotional."

"Hey, revisiting the old place, it is natural to sigh with emotion, if you don't lead the way, how can we go over the mountains and mountains to touch this pass?"

Mai Tiezhu smiled and didn't speak, he didn't want to come to this place again, he was chased by the government as a thief with others, a group of people fled by the way, and after slipping to this pass by boat, he was blocked by the officials and soldiers, and he had no choice but to abandon the boat and run ashore to the mountains.

That year, they went up the mountain from the foot of this mountain, stumbled all the way to the north, and only after half of the people died did they get out of the mountain to reach the northern foothills, and were about to go upstream of Zhenshui through Zhenyang, and then go back to Shixing over the mountain, but they were arrested by the government in Zhenyang.

This road left the lives of many of his companions, so Mai Tiecane remembers it vividly, and this time he revisited the old place as a guide, although he walked in the opposite direction, but he did not take the wrong way.

Arriving safely at Tsui Mountain at the southern foothills, Mai Tiezhan breathed a sigh of relief, not only relieved that he had successfully completed the task of leading the way, but also glad that he had such a strong comrade.

A thousand people, it took half a month to come here over the mountains and mountains, except for a few comrades who died in an accident on the way, everyone else arrived at their destination with all their tails.

Not to mention the slave hunting team led by the owner of the village, people eat this bowl of rice, and the Hulin Army can have such a performance, which makes Mai Tiezhu quite emotional: The hard training on weekdays is really not in vain!

Sleeping in the mountains, he has suffered this kind of hardship, so he knows that not everyone can eat it, but the soldiers of the Hulin Army can endure this kind of hardship, and the main general Tian Zhengyue personally led the troops to sneak attack Weikou.

With such a strong army, coupled with him as a guide, how could a sneak attack on the mouth not be successful?

Li Shimo poked the wheat iron rod in a daze, and motioned him to look aside: "Hurry up, go and make a wish, whether it is spiritual or not, there is no harm anyway." ”

In the open space next to it, many soldiers were lighting lights, and it was dusk, so it seemed natural to light them, but the lights lit by the soldiers were something special, they were sky lanterns.

The sky lantern, also known as the Kong Ming lantern, is made of paper and bamboo strips, and then a piece of pine resin is lit at the bottom, and after a while, the lantern is bulged by the heat and slowly floats towards the sky.

This thing is very fun, and it is also very auspicious, you can make a wish when you put the sky lantern, pray that God will bless you and your family to be safe and sound, just because of the use of paper, so it costs more money, and in previous years, the people were reluctant to put more sky lanterns.

But now it's different, the paper in Huangzhou is very cheap, and there are many workshops, as long as you are willing to work, you will not lack wages, so the people can afford to light the sky lanterns, one point is thousands of points.

Thousands of sky lanterns were raised at the same time, and the scene was spectacular, but the consequences were also serious, because the sky lanterns that drifted away with the wind and the remaining flames after falling could cause a fire.

And now, the Zhou army, which attacked Chen Junfengsui on the top of Tsui Mountain, was going to set fire to the sky lantern.

A few sky lanterns had already been released, and with the north wind drifting towards the south, it didn't take long for the sky lanterns to suddenly burn, and the pine resin burning at the bottom fell immediately, and below them, was the Chen army camp at the foot of the mountain.

However, none of these fallen pine resins fell in the Chen military camp.

Several volunteers carefully looked at the landing point and released a batch of sky lanterns, but this batch of sky lanterns was adjusted, of course, the adjustment was the time when the sky lanterns spontaneously combusted.

Soon after the lanterns were released, they still spontaneously combusted, and the pine resin on them fell, although they were significantly closer to Chen's military camp, but none of them hit.

Then the third batch of ten sky lanterns was released, and the volunteers continued to explore the time of spontaneous combustion, while there were several circles of soldiers sitting on the open ground, assembling the paper and bamboo strips that had been prepared into sky lanterns, there were a lot of materials, and the sky lanterns made were absolutely effective.

Set fire to the sky lantern is a trick of the Huangzhou slave catching team to attack the cottage, it is very troublesome to use, and it needs experienced people to command, and the sky lantern used, of course, is different from the common sky lantern: this kind of sky lantern can 'time' spontaneous combustion.

In fact, there is a fire twist on the paper lantern, which can burn the lantern to the end and cause it to fall, and the starting time of the lantern's 'spontaneous combustion' will be different depending on the length of the fire twist.

How to adjust the length of the fire twist according to the wind direction and wind force is a craft, and at this time, there are many such 'craftsmen' on the top of the mountain.

After the fifth round of sky lanterns was released, more than half of the fallen pine resin fell into the Chen military camp at the foot of the mountain, and after a while, the sky lanterns that had been adjusted again were released by Zhou Bing, a total of one hundred.

Mai Tiezhu released a sky lantern with his own hands, folded his hands, and silently made a wish in his heart, praying that God would bless him and his family with peace and security, and prayed that he would make great achievements and seal his wife and son.

By the way, pray for Chen Bing under the mountain to be reincarnated as soon as possible after he dies.

In the evening sky, many sky lanterns rose from the top of the mountain in batches, like a sky full of stars, and after a few moments, there were fires, and countless burning pine resin fell downward.

The stars in the sky turned into a meteor rain and fell to the ground, igniting the Chen military camp below, and finally converging into a sea of fire, mixed with smoke and wailing, rushing into the sky.