Chapter 100: Outwitting the Celestial Star (2)
One torch after another was lit, and then they were thrown by Zhiwen one by one, with a beautiful arc, constantly flipping, and finally falling to the roof, the corner of the wall, and so on.
Perhaps it was a fire that had been let go by the stars in the evening, and the fire did not burn for a while, especially the torches that fell on the burned houses, and they were quickly extinguished.
But it doesn't matter, there is a systematic processing workshop, and there are even more shrubs, which are almost inexhaustible, Zhi Yuan kept taking out torches and handing them to others, Ma Er was not there, and was sent by Zhiwen to the south gate city wall to observe the enemy's situation.
If it weren't for the fact that it was dark and everyone was busy throwing torches, they would have found that they had run out of torches.
With a large number of torches thrown out as if they didn't need money, these sparks finally became the momentum of the prairie fire, especially those thatched roofs, which took the lead in igniting a raging fire.
Someone had already been awakened, and the probe poked out of the room, only a bright fire could be seen in the blur, and the heat wave had already forced him in front of him, and he screamed, and then didn't care about the looted items in the house, and subconsciously ran towards the place where there was no fire—the south gate—holding his head.
"The officers and soldiers are coming!"
"The officers and soldiers are here!"
"It's on fire!"
"Run!"
Seeing that the number of displaced people forced out of their houses by the fire gradually increased, Zhiwen led everyone to shout in time, and in an instant, the crowd who were already panicked because of the fire blew up.
The crowd that had just escaped from the house, which looked chaotic, suddenly boiled and rushed towards the south gate, which was not on fire.
Most of them shouted "the officers and soldiers are coming" as they ran, as if doing so would alleviate the fear in their hearts.
Zhiwen and they only got up, and they didn't need to shout anymore.
But in the midst of such chaos, there were still a few guys who were so ignorant of current affairs, who actually went upstream, through the crowd, through the burning houses, and came to the north gate where Zhiwen and them were stunned.
It seems that night blindness is not light, not only can I not distinguish the direction, but I can't even identify the strength of the fire.
"Huh!" As soon as Zhiwen raised his hand, a handful of gravel flew out with the sound of the wind.
With a chaotic sound of "crackling", these homeless people who came against the current were beaten squarely with their heads covered in their faces.
Although the strength was not large, it also hurt them, and a few gravels broke their skin, and several homeless people were beaten and hurriedly lay on the ground.
He wiped his face with his hand, took a closer look, and after confirming that it was his own blood, he let out a few screams in horror, shouting wildly, "Officer! Artillery! He finally turned around and ran towards the south gate.
Originally, they thought that the gravel thrown by Zhiwen was splashed on the house by the artillery of the official army, and they thought that they had suffered a lot of artillery during the siege of the city before, and they already had a psychological shadow.
"Do you see clearly?" Zhiwen clapped his hands, "If someone comes, just beat them like this, just hurt them and drive them away." ”
In such a scene, a wounded, bloodied, screaming homeless person is much more useful than a dead homeless person, and can cause more chaos.
"And what if you can't beat them back?" Xiao Jie asked.
"Then ......", Zhiwen paused, then put the two fingers of his right hand together and compared them to his throat, "Kill!" ”
It's really too small in their own numbers, if they can't scare these people away in secret, once they show up, they must be ruthless to leave these homeless people behind, otherwise, even if the homeless people have serious night blindness, it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be one or two who can see at night, and then they will reveal their details for no reason.
Now only Xiao Yingniang and Xiao Jie are using spears, and in order to increase the lethality, Zhiwen had to dig out a woodcutter from the system warehouse and sharpen all the ash rods used by others (including himself) one by one.
"Alright, I'll leave it to you to guard." After Zhiwen finished speaking, he picked up the ash pole, ran along the wall, and ran to the south.
They have thrown torches wherever they can be, and there is nothing they can do further away.
Zhiwen wanted to take advantage of the current chaotic momentum and throw a few more torches along the wall to further expand the fire.
In the darkness, except for Zhiwen and his own people, no one among the displaced people noticed that torches flew out of the wall of the dock fort and kept falling on the roofs that had not yet caught fire, and more houses were burning one after another, and the fire became bigger and bigger.
"How?" Zhiwen came to the fence on the side of the south gate and whispered to Ma Er, who was hiding here, he had thrown torches on almost all the roofs within the wall.
"Judging by the number of them in the afternoon, half of them must have run out." After saying that, Ma Er turned around, and looked at the monstrous fire in the village with some fear, it was so ruthless that almost the entire Zhuangzi was a sea of fire, of course, there were a few places that did not burn, and it was already burned by the two kings in the evening.
"But with such a big fire, some people are afraid that they won't be able to escape." Ma Er was on the wall, he could see it quite clearly, and saw those people running out with fire in their own eyes, and then the screams changed from high-pitched to low, and finally there was no sound, and they were burned alive.
Forget it, Ma Er comforted himself, he was just running errands to eat, and he wouldn't dare to provoke these evil stars in the future.
There is also a stampede, there should have been a lot of deaths, Ma Er didn't say it, but Zhiwen thought of it.
For example, the south gate under the wall now, the homeless people are fighting for me, and no one is willing to fall half a step behind, once anyone accidentally falls, the end is the inside and outside of the door, those corpses that have been lying horizontally.
"There shouldn't be many people in the village." Zhiwen muttered to himself.
At least half of the rest of the people were burned to death by fire or trampled to death, and those who didn't die were basically gathered here at the south gate.
"Where's the guy?" After thinking about it, Zhiwen's heart let go of most of it, and tonight's plan should be said to have succeeded most of it.
"Whoa." Ma Ernunu mouthed, showing the will to see it himself.
I saw that Wang Er's group of wandering forces were surrounding the carriage loaded with grain, struggling to resist the flow of fleeing people, and they were barely scattered.
There was a man standing in a carriage, pointing at the fleeing homeless and shouting hoarsely, but apparently to no avail.
A bald man was obviously not angry, and after cutting down a few more homeless people who rushed in front of him with a knife, he shouted and led a few people in the direction of the south gate with difficulty.
It is estimated that I only heard the homeless people shouting "the official army is coming", but I never saw the real person, so I was suspicious.
In this situation, even if they find that there are no officers and soldiers, it will be difficult to turn the tide.
However, in order to avoid falling short, Zhiwen still took out a handful of gravel from the blanket and prepared to throw it out when these people got closer.
If you don't have a bow and arrow, you can only use this trick to scare people, so I don't know if it's useful to people like Tianxing.
Come on, come closer, come closer!
Zhiwen half-squatted on the wall, his whole body hidden in the shadows, his left shoulder in front, his right shoulder behind, his right hand raised, and he threw the gravel in his hand when the bald guy got closer.