CHAPTER 113 The Fish That Slipped Through the Net
Lu Meng asked the army to quickly control the situation in the city, and he led his people to rush to the granary, and saw that there was already a fire there, so he hurriedly ordered that the fire must be extinguished as soon as possible at any cost. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Tossing to the fifth watch, the fires in all parts of the city have been extinguished, Lu Meng saw that the grain in the granary did not burn much, took out his saber and cut open a rice bag, saw the white rice flowing out, finally relieved, ordered the sergeant to strengthen the guard, everyone hurry up to rest for a while, and then organize personnel and ships to transport the grain back as soon as possible.
At this time, in the underground pipe network extending in all directions under Baqiu City, Liu He was leading three hundred warriors to deploy defenses everywhere, inspecting various hidden exits and secret doors, and also telling everyone to rest, from now on, they will enter the system of sleeping during the day and attacking at night.
Eventually, he pushed open a secret door and climbed into a deep underground well through a narrow passage. Crawling out of the well, there is suddenly a relatively spacious underground passage that can accommodate two people in parallel.
In the past few years, he has always admired the set of underground pipe network designed by Zhuge Military Division, which can not only prevent water accumulation in the city in the rainy season, but also because of its well-connected paths and perfect structure, which is enough to ensure that they can lurk underground for several months, even if they are discovered by the enemy, through various secret doors and traps, they can hold on for a long time.
The passage in front of him was a special passage, and just last night the sergeant had escorted many of the remaining citizens of the city out of it, and now he had re-entered it to check for any omissions—though it had been temporarily closed at both ends.
He Si, who was waiting for death in the dark, had already dodged and retreated to hide in the dark when he heard a sound coming from the well.
He was one of the members of the Jiangdong advance team that had infiltrated Baqiu New Town a few days earlier, and although most of his teammates had been found and executed, he had evaded the search and had blended in with the fleeing civilians last night - no matter how closely Liu Pan's men watched, it was normal for one or two of the more than a hundred disguised enemies to slip through the net.
Originally, he could have been hiding and waiting for Lu Meng to rescue him last night, but when he found that many people had entered a courtyard under the leadership of the sergeant and never came out, it immediately aroused his curiosity, after all, this courtyard is not big, how can he continuously stuff people into it?
Curiosity kills people, of course, the most important thing is to find out, maybe you can make a big contribution! He emerged from his hiding place, blended in with the ranks of the people, and was immediately urged by the defenders to burrow into the underground passage.
When he entered the passage, he found that he had organized the people to escape from the city. He didn't want to escape with them, he wanted to hide again, and when Lü Meng's army entered the city, he would inform them of this passage, but the sergeant had been urging everyone to move forward quickly, and there was no fork in the passage, and he couldn't get out of it.
It wasn't until he saw this underground well that he had an idea, pretended to trip and fell to the ground, and went to the mouth of the well, taking advantage of the fact that the sergeant was still separated from him by a dozen people, and the people ran away in a panic in the dark, and no one cared about him, turned over and drilled into the his body on the wall of the well, and clasped the edge of the well tightly with both hands, and finally successfully escaped.
When there was no more movement, he crawled out of the well, and walked back in the dark, trying to go back to the surface again, and open the deadbolt of the secret door, but could not push it open. He didn't know that just after they all entered the tunnel, Liu He's subordinates had already tied the secret door outside, that is to say, this door needed to be activated by someone inside and outside before it could be opened.
He Si had no choice, so he had to turn around again, after a long dark crawl, hoping to get out from the exit at the other end, but he didn't expect that it was also blocked there, so he regretted it, after the city was broken, it would definitely be difficult for the Jiangdong army to find this passage, if Baqiu was really occupied by Jiangdong for a long time, he hid alone in this underground passage, no different from being buried alive, and couldn't help but cry.
Tired of crying, thirsty and hungry, he remembered this well, so he groped and crawled back again, and wanted to get some water to drink from the well, and only then did he remember that the well might be relatively deep, and when he hid in the well, his feet did not touch the surface of the water, and there was no well rope on the well, how could he get water to drink?
There was no hope of living, He Si cried loudly again, and then he was tired of crying, so he had to sit there and prepare to die.
When a human voice came from the well, he thought he had met a ghost, and quickly stepped back and flashed to the side.
Then, he saw the light of fire coming out of the well, and then, three Jingzhou soldiers came out of the well.
He Si lay on the ground and held his breath, he was found and interrogated by them alone, and he didn't believe that he could get through, after all, those who came with him seemed to have been found out.
In the dark, Liu He didn't find He Si, because he went to the direction of the entrance of the city of the passage, and he wanted to check whether the secret door was bolted from the inside, in case the secret door was found abnormal by the enemy outside, as long as the inside was locked, the enemy couldn't push it, maybe he would feel that there was nothing here.
Sure enough, the door was not bolted from the inside, and Liu He couldn't help but scold: "Are these guys scared?" Before the enemy entered the city, he was so frightened that he couldn't even bother to bolt the door? ”
After bolting the secret door, he led two of his men to turn around and go to the exit outside the city again.
Seeing that people were getting closer and closer, He Si knew that he couldn't hide, and he would be discovered sooner or later, besides, hiding here was just waiting for death, so he finally made up his mind, and simply cried again: "Help, help." ”
Suddenly hearing such a scream in the dark, no matter how bold Liu He was, he couldn't help but run in his heart, reflexively and quickly took two steps back, pulled out the crossbow inserted in his back, and at the same time pushed the tongue to buckle the string, and shouted: "Who is it?" ”
He Si stood up and walked over to the firelight: "Master Jun, help, help me." ”
The sergeant approached with a torch, looked He Si up and down, and turned back to Liu Hedao: "My lord, it seems that he is a lagging city citizen. ”
"Left behind?" Liu He took a closer look, only to see He Si's face frightened, and his face was full of tears.
"How can you fall behind, aren't there many sergeants at the back who follow you?" Liu He felt that this person was raw, so he was naturally vigilant and interrogated.
He Si has a ready-made statement: "Master Jun, I ran with everyone, I fell down at the mouth of the well, and then fainted, I don't know why they didn't see me, when I woke up, there was no one here, fortunately I met you, I can finally pick up a life." Take me out, my lord, my family is still waiting for me outside. ”
"I can't get out now, and the exit over there has been blocked." Liu He asked the sergeant to help He Si continue to walk forward, to check whether the exit was bolted from the inside.
He Si pretended to be puzzled: "Master Jun, then how do you get out?" ”
Liu He said in a deep voice: "Don't ask too much, we can naturally keep you from dying." ”