At the south city gate, the torches gathered at the head of the city, and when the soldiers and horses were out of the city, Zhang Liao and Lejin were asking the captain over there, and when they saw Cao Cao leading Xun Yu to the city gate, they hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

“.… What does the captain mean is that there is only one carriage, one coachman, and no one else? Cao Cao listened to the report, pondered for a moment, and looked at the city gate: "The kidnapping should have been done by Gongsun, and the horse thief's temperament can't be changed after all." ”

Zhang Liao urged the horse to get closer and lowered his voice: "Prime Minister, could it be that Gongsun Zhi sent someone to capture the military division?" ”

"There are doubts in this matter, Wen He has always been low-key, even if he had a feud with Gongsun Zhi a few years ago, people have also been beaten, looking at the lord's face, the matter should be put aside....." Xun Yu agreed with Zhang Liao's question, suddenly thought of something, and when he straightened up, Cao Cao and the others looked over.

"A plan to divert the tiger from the mountain! Gongsun Zhi still has a purpose-" At the moment when Xun Yu's words came out, a thought flashed in his mind, he turned the reins and looked towards the southwest side, and in the dark night, there was a faint firelight rushing into the distant sky.

Cao Cao, Zhang Liao and others had already galloped out.

“…… Burning arsenals. ”

The red color reflected in the sky, illuminating the night, even if it was far away in the middle of this huge city, the imperial city could also see the raging fire, the sky occasionally had snowflakes drifting down, and before it landed, it was turned into water vapor by the heat wave, and the violent fire directly swallowed up the huge warehouse, and it was still spreading to several other buildings, and the people in the city were also awakened from their sleep by the noise and the light of the red sky, and they walked out of the house and stood on the side of the street to look over there, whispering and talking, as for whether the fire would spread, they were not worried, In that direction was the Cao Ying Arsenal, surrounded by an open area without any buildings or trees.

In the imperial city, someone got up from the soft bed, next to her was a sleeping sweet child, put on a robe and dragged a long skirt up to the pavilion, looking at the sky outside the city wall, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then quickly converged, someone approached this side, his hand on the wooden railing, the firelight reflected in the sky and also shone on this side, and the outline of the person's figure was outlined in the future.

The other had an excited smile on his face.

"It's still the queen's method..... as long as I see Cao Cao deflated, I can't say how comfortable I am."

"Your Majesty, don't say this kind of duplicity, the concubine knows what you think in your heart, you have to hide it, don't say it..... tonight can only be a thief, and it has nothing to do with Your Majesty and the concubine."

The figure in the long skirt of Qiu Yi turned slightly sideways, and glanced at the emperor opposite, Fu Shou slowly turned around from this side, and walked down the attic to go back to the room.

"Slut!"

Liu Xie looked at the direction where the woman disappeared, subconsciously cursed in his heart, stretched out his hand and tightened the clothes he was wearing, and continued to look excitedly at the result of his help over there, after all, it was the first time to do something, and it was difficult to fall asleep with excitement.

On the Yang Mansion, the nearly sixty old man got up from the bed, heard the chaos in the south of the city, looked at the reddened sky, and showed a trance-like look, and after a while, someone came over to help him, "Father, it seems that someone doesn't want Prime Minister Cao Cheng to have a good time." ”

Yang Biao looked back at the other party, it was his son Yang Xiu, his forehead full of wrinkles wrinkled, "Put away your thoughts, don't make your own decisions, the southwest arsenal is far away from the private house, even if the fire is huge, it is just to burn some weapons and armor, and it has nothing to do with the prime minister, as the head of the prime minister's mansion, you should send someone to participate in the firefighting, but you don't command it yourself, all the generals under the prime minister's command, remember?" ”

The fourth lieutenant of the Yang family, even if Yang Biao's title is cut now, he stays at home on weekdays, but at this time, he can tell his son that he can see the demeanor of the year.

"In the future, the family will rely on you to support you, do more and see less talk, hide all ideas in your heart for your father, don't show off in front of others."

Now at the age of twenty-five, sitting in the position of the prime minister's chief bookkeeper, Yang Xiu didn't care about his father's advice in his heart, but he still nodded respectfully. The fire in the southwest arsenal ignited, and after the chaos, in addition to the Yang Mansion, there were many court officials who walked out of the eaves and stood in the courtyard looking at the southwest sky despite the cold, some were surprised, some showed joy and applause, and of course most of them still sent their home guards and servants to participate in the firefighting.

The fire spread and swept through, and the wind blew and rolled up a huge wave of fire, and in the firelight that made it impossible to look at it directly, people shouted and cried, and figures shuttled through the open space, carrying any utensils that could hold water to and fro to and from the well in the camp.

Soon after, a group of soldiers and horses rushed over from the south gate, and the vigilant general wanted to step forward, but when he saw the leader, he hurriedly asked his soldiers to get out of the way. The war horse stopped, Cao Cao turned over and dismounted, and strode into the arsenal gate, the huge fire could feel the temperature of the scorching skin three hundred steps away.

He clenched his horsewhip, and when he was silent, a lieutenant in the battalion came over and cautiously reported the situation at that time, Cao Cao pursed his lips and looked at the fire, and after a while, he spoke: "There were only so many people at that time?" ”

"Back to the lord, there are only thirty-eight people, and they ..... them ....."

Cao Cao turned his head and squinted at him: "What about those people?" ”

The lieutenant hurriedly lowered his head, hesitated for a moment, and said: "These people are like ..... are not afraid of swords, they are more crazy than madmen, obviously their stomachs are broken, and they are still running with a piece of intestines, they also set themselves on fire, and the lowly officials stopped some, but there are still people who crash into the warehouse against the fire." ”

The surrounding generals looked at each other, they were all bloody and brave people who fought on the battlefield, naturally they had seen those who were not afraid of death, but they had never seen this kind of cruel death to themselves, which sounded somewhat ridiculous. Cao Cao nodded, and asked again, "How did they get into the walled gate?" ”

"These dead men had tokens in their hands..... but they were suspicious when they spotted a clay pot with fire oil tied behind them."

Cao Cao snorted, waved his hand to let the captain go down to put out the fire, turned back to Xun Yu, Zhang Liao and others behind him and said: "When I was friendly with Gongsun in my early years, I heard that he was teaching people to give religious ghosts and gods on the grassland, so those who are not afraid of death should be those believers. He tightened his teeth, turned around and walked to the war horse, "..... this matter should be on that token, if there is no token, even if they are no longer afraid of death, they will never want to enter this gate, pass on my order, and recruit Cheng Yu to come back from Jiyin to investigate thoroughly." ”

"Yes!"

Then, Cao Cao got on the back of the horse and raised his hand: "There should still be this group of dead soldiers, the city is closed and investigated, they must be found out..... and several other arsenals are also strengthened to defend them, fortunately, the wolf has been prevented from coming out like this, how can the weapons be placed in one place." ”

The order was ordered, Cao Cao then led the guards to leave here, the city was chaotic, he still had a lot to deal with, and the matter of fighting the fire was handed over to the generals below, and in the process, he said abruptly to Xu Chu, who was riding a horse behind him: "Zhongkang, don't leave my door all night after you go back." ”

"Oh." Xu Chu blinked.

In the days after the night burned, Xu Du has been in a state of martial law, the streets and alleys of the city can see the government officials, the city guards to search for the thief's figure, for the thief's appearance, body shape is probably not too intuitive, a few days, the traitor Koppi, the scoundrel almost were arrested, and so on the seventh day, the strategist named Cheng Yu returned to the city to take over, only to calm down for a short time.

As the sun sets, the afterglow shines on the corner of the eaves of the streets and alleys.

“.… I can't get out for the time being, so I told the brothers to hide. ”

"Hide your identity, remember your accent..... if you are caught, cut yourself off, or bite indiscriminately and create your own chaos."

"..... rest assured, Zhu Gongdao has already left the city, and the news will go to the north soon."

After a brief exchange of words, the ragged beggar sat under the eaves and watched the sunset, Han Long was dressed in shabby linen, carrying the goods of the merchant and bowed slightly, and his expression humbly merged into the crowded street.

"I was born humble, and I can still live and die with you who kill you......."

Although the war has not begun, the confrontation has already begun.