24. a granary
"So in my opinion, it's better to smoke than to attack!"
Zhou Liang hooked the corners of his mouth proudly, and a slight smile appeared. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
With the progress of wooden construction technology, the common high-rise buildings in the Qin period and the previous dynasties gradually decreased in this dynasty, and the folk architecture tended to develop towards wooden pavilions.
The main residence of this dock fort is a wooden building with a double-storey attic, Yan Xing originally considered using the fire to bury these stubborn enemies in one fell swoop, but he didn't think of saving the goods in the main house, but now after Zhou Liang's reminder, he couldn't help but nodded, looked at Zhou Liang with a flattering face and said:
"Good! Guide Zhou, your plan is wonderful! ”
After speaking, Yan Xing turned back to Ma Lin behind him and said:
"Ah Lin, you take someone to carry some wet firewood and grass!"
Ma Lin promised loudly, he looked at Zhou Liang's smug appearance with some annoyance, turned around and took some people away.
It didn't take long for Ma Lin to bring in bundles of half-wet firewood and grass. In order to seize the time to annihilate the remaining enemy, Yan Xing immediately ordered to set fire to the smoke, and then asked his subordinates to throw smokewood and grass into the main house of Wubao in batches.
Yan Xing wrapped a slightly wet linen towel around his nose in advance, and at this time, together with his subordinates who were also wrapped in wet linen towels, he held his bow and arrow aloft, quietly aiming in the direction of the lobby of the main house, preparing to make a fatal attack on the remaining enemies who were too smoky to stand the smoke in the inner hall and were ready to flee.
Not long after the smoke poured into the lobby, there were coughing sounds from time to time in the hall, and even mixed with the screams and pains of women and children. After hearing this palpitating sound, Yan Xing's face changed, and he loudly admonished the archers beside him.
"Second and third sons, act carefully, the enemies in the hall will want to fight to the death, and they will all obey my orders!"
As soon as the words fell, a flurry of panicked footsteps sounded rapidly, and crossbow arrows continued to fly out of the smoke, and then in the thick smoke, one figure after another rushed out of the lobby.
"Arrow!"
Yan Xing aimed the cluster of arrows at the figure that rushed out first, and released the bowstring without hesitation, and then a bowstring sound sounded beside him. Immediately afterwards, under the dense rain of arrows, the screams at the entrance of the lobby continued to sound, and a large part of the crowd that rushed out fell in an instant, and the rest of the people had to retreat. The smoke continued to pour in, and the others who were forced to retreat were not reconciled, and tried to rush twice at the risk of death, only to be shot back by the rain of arrows.
Yan Xing's people had already controlled the entire dock fort except for the main mansion before this, and the weapons placed in the dock fort warehouse were also distributed by Yan Xing as soon as possible, and now there were more than thirty pairs of bows and arrows under Yan Xing's hands, plus Yan Xing and Gan Ling and other marksmen, it was enough to trap the enemies in the hall alive.
In the lobby, three breakthroughs failed, and even the owner of the dock fort was killed by an arrow because he took the lead in breaking through, and the remaining few remnants of the dock fort tribe and clansman Ding Zhuang could no longer hold on, so he had to beg for mercy loudly, shouting "Don't let go of the arrow", and crawled out of the inner hall as terrifying as a ghost one after another.
The strategy of using thick smoke to force the enemy to flee achieved miraculous results, not only Yan Xing, who commanded it, was a little surprised, but even Zhou Liang himself was a little surprised in his heart, in his opinion, not long after these smoke poured in, the enemies in these halls couldn't stand it, and rushed out to die, which was really a little weird.
However, it was easy to capture the lobby and avoid burning all the goods in the main mansion and causing trouble outside the dock fort if the fire attack was used.
When he saw the people around him looking at him, there was finally a little respect in his eyes, and Zhou Liang was even more proud in his heart, he quickly put this doubt in his heart behind him, and hurriedly walked up to Yan Xing and said with a smile:
"Leader Yan, it's done, the goods of this main mansion have finally been saved!"
Yan Xing also smiled in front of this guide surnamed Zhou, and he smiled and approved:
"This is also thanks to the clever plan of Guide Zhou!"
Zhou Liang smiled, and wanted to be humble, but unfortunately Yan Xing didn't give him this opportunity at all, he turned around and ordered, let his men who were waiting for the battle clear the firewood and grass that emitted smoke everywhere in the main house, and put these prisoners who were constantly crying and coughing under thick smoke into custody, and then ordered the two of them, Da Niu and Hutou, strode around the main house, and walked in the direction of the granary of Wubao.
Zhou Liang's smiling face, who was still standing in place, became a little stiff, and his face changed for a while, he was a little uncomfortable with Yan Xing's attitude of being detached, and he really couldn't figure out the inner thoughts of this "rogue" leader.
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The granary was built in the open space in the backyard of the dock fort, and there were already two soldiers guarding the door of the granary. The top of the granary is the top of the hanging mountain, there are often fangs under the eaves, the fangs are bearing the bucket arches, the upper part is open with wind windows, the lower part is left with air holes, the whole warehouse body is supported by the square column feet to get rid of the ground, the warehouse door is repaired with stairs and ladder side handrails, and the guards stand in the lowest position.
Seeing that there was only one granary, Yan Xing's face became a little ugly, and after he signaled to the guards and soldiers, he hurriedly stepped on the stairs, and after letting the tiger head and the big cow push open the warehouse door, Yan Xing deliberately slowed down before slowly stepping into the granary.
The scene in the warehouse, the tiger head and the big cow who came out of the mountain were dumbfounded, although half of the original marked grain storage position has been emptied, but the scene of the remaining grain storage piled up made the tiger head and the big cow smack their tongues, the grain packed in the sack was stacked neatly and orderly, piled up into a small hill, and some of the mountains were even about to touch the beams in the roof of the warehouse.
"This, this, this, this food is enough for us to eat for a year, no, two years!"
The big cow stammered a little and said, although the mountain people of the oxtail gathering are still passable, but every family has a little surplus grain in the rice tank, like this kind of grain piled up into a mountain of scenery he has never seen, so he was frightened by the grain stored in the granary all of a sudden, although the tiger head did not sigh like the big cow, but he was also excited, and he thought of it similar to the big cow.
It's a pity that Yan Xing frowned when he looked at these stored grains, which were far from the estimated amount of grain in his heart. Originally, he thought that this dock fort was not built in a dangerous place halfway up the mountainside, but was built in the anointed fields under the mountain, and there must be a lot of grain stored in the dock fort, but now it seems that these grains are still a little cold for a powerful family with 200 households.