Chapter 716: Flames
"Liu, Brother Liu, what's wrong?" Duan Liang was shocked beyond measure, and asked with a pale face.
"I'm sorry Brother Duan, I deceived you, I am the commander of the Daming Jinyi Guard, not Feng Shuangli's personal soldiers." Liu Neng said with a grin.
"Lord Liu, I am willing to surrender!" Duan Liang fell to his knees with a puff, raised his hands and shouted.
turned out to be a very knowledgeable person, and when the situation was unfavorable, he quickly made a choice, which made Liu Neng's raised hand unable to fall.
"Tie it up, I hope it's of some use to us." Liu Neng sighed and commanded. Faced with such a wonderful person, he found that he could not be killed. Thinking that this person still has hundreds of subordinates by the lake, maybe there will be some use, and Liu Neng decided to spare his life.
The empty grain depot here is one of dozens of grain depots, and it is very close to other grain depots, but for the sake of fire prevention, there are more than 20 steps between the adjacent grain depots, and there are many water tanks and other fire extinguishing objects in the middle.
However, because of the chaotic system of the Western Thieves, the unclear rights and responsibilities, and the chaotic management mechanism, the important land of the grain depot actually allowed Liu Neng and his party to easily mix in and live in it. It may be that the thief army never imagined that the grain depot in the hinterland of the army would be infiltrated by officials and soldiers, and it was so bold.
It's not too easy to set fire from the inside, smash the jar directly on the grain bag, poke it with a torch, and a roaring fire will ignite. Half of the five hundred soldiers were on guard, half of them rushed into the various grain depots, and in a short time several fires were ignited everywhere.
The strangeness of the grain depot quickly attracted the attention of the patrolling thieves, and a team of hundreds of thieves rushed over with screams, but when they wanted to put out the fire, they were blocked by the Ming army. The crossbows that had already been put on were fired, and more than two hundred crossbow arrows were fired in a volley, and most of the thieves were immediately knocked down, and the rest fled in amazement.
The soldiers who had set the fire quickly assembled, and five hundred men gathered together and began to rush towards the outside of the granary. The sudden fire had already awakened the entire Lutan, and a large number of thieves armed with weapons gathered at the grain depot.
Liu Neng didn't go far with his subordinates, but he was blocked by a thief soldier, or a burst of crossbows fired angrily, and then hundreds of grenades were still going to pass, and the thief soldiers who were blocking the way were suddenly torn apart.
Easily breaking through the interception of the thieves, Liu Neng led his men to sneak into the night.
At this moment, it was the second watch, and basically most of the thieves had fallen asleep, and the sudden fire in the grain depot woke them up, and although they knew that someone had set the fire, they could not find where the enemy was. Liu Neng and his entourage were all wearing the military uniforms of Western thieves, and it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe in a hurry.
Many thieves rushed to the grain depot with buckets, trying to extinguish the fire and rescue the grain, these dozens of warehouses are the rations of the army of 500,000, if they are burned by people, the consequences are really serious.
There were also many thieves scurrying around with weapons, and they didn't know what to do in the dark.
The chasing thieves were easily defeated, looking at the several fires that were ignited in the grain depot, and looking at the thieves who were rushing to the grain depot in panic, Liu Neng frowned slightly. At this time, it is very easy to get out, and it is easy to leave here while it is dark. But since he is here to burn Zhang Xianzhong's grain, he should make sure that all the grain is burned, and not a single grain of rice or wheat will be left for him!
In this way, you can't just go away. Liu Neng pondered for a moment, and resolutely rushed towards the grain depot with his subordinates.
Countless thieves were rushing to the grain depot with buckets, Liu Neng lifted the crossbow, and pulled the trigger at the thieves who were fighting the fire.
The sharp arrow passed through the black clothes and shot into the back of the thief, countless thieves screamed and fell to the fire, and when the other thieves raised their weapons and turned to kill, they were met with a series of grenades.
After a surprise attack to kill the fire-fighting thieves, Liu Neng led the soldiers to turn over and retreat into the night.
Under the cover of the night, guided by the blazing fire in the granary, Liu Neng led five hundred of his men to sneak around Lutan, attacking from time to time to deal heavy blows to the firefighting thieves, and then disappeared into the night.
There was an enemy army lurking in the night, which made it extremely difficult for the thieves to put out the fire. Several organized firefights were thwarted by arrow grenades, hundreds of soldiers died under the shrapnel of arrows, and no thief dared to approach the granary, and the fire became more and more violent.
The thief general guarding the granary went mad, and seeing that the fire could no longer be extinguished, he no longer organized to put out the fire, but was bent on finding the damned fire-preventer. Judging from the previous encounters, there are only a few hundred firefighters, and the number is not very large. The general of the thief army gathered a team of thousands of men and pounced in the direction of the firefighters, thousands of whom ran wildly in the darkness of the night with a vengeful rage, completely ignoring the arrows flying in the night.
The sudden attack of the thief army also caught Liu Nengbu off guard, and when the crossbow shots and grenade serial explosions could not stop the thief army, all that was left was to enter the entanglement.
It's not that the thieves are not afraid of death, but the thieves can't see how many people they have died in the dark night, and the flash of fire when the grenade explodes can be a little deterrent, but the thieves who can't see their own casualties have not lost the courage to attack.
As soon as they enter the entanglement, the casualties will inevitably increase, even if Liu Nengbu is a battle-hardened elite, he can't take much advantage of fighting the enemy in the dark.
In order to distinguish between friend and foe, Liu Neng ordered his subordinates in advance to tie a strip of white cloth on their right arm, which was very conspicuous in the dark night, which also enabled the Ming army to distinguish between the enemy and their own people.
The battle was swift and brutal, and when the Ming soldiers stopped fighting when they found that there were strips of white cloth all around, there were not many people left standing.
Liu Neng didn't care about counting the number of his subordinates, and hurriedly withdrew with his subordinates to the lake.
Duwei Duan Liang was very lucky, such a tragic fight did not hurt the slightest, but when he was pulled up from the ground by Liu Neng, his face turned pale with fright.
On the lakeside, Duan Liang's more than 200 subordinates all stayed on the boat honestly, looking at the firelight in the sky. They had been camping on the shore, and when the sound of fire and fighting sounded, they involuntarily fled to the ship one by one.
Listening to the anxious shouts of Du Lieutenant Duan Liang, his subordinates hurriedly brought the ship closer to the shore. Then I saw hundreds of figures standing in a dense group.
"This is Brother Liu Neng's subordinates, we are all our own people, we should advance and retreat together." Duan Liang explained weakly, so his subordinates rowed the boat to the shore and led Liu Neng's men to the boat.
"Ordered the fleet to withdraw into the lake, avoiding the flames of the granary." Liu Neng ordered in a low voice, and Duan Liang hurriedly passed the order. As long as they get out of the range of the fire, the thieves on the shore will never find out again, and the living men will be much safer.