Most of the local torches are made of pine, cedar, camphor wood, etc., and the top is wrapped several times with oily hemp vine, and after being lit with a fire agent, it becomes a long-lasting torch. These torches burn for more than four or five hours. Moreover, once ignited, it is generally difficult to extinguish, and there are almost no other disadvantages except for the defect of excessive smoke during combustion.

However, for Xie Zuo, these advantages have become difficulties that he needs to overcome.

In general, there are several simple and easy ways to extinguish a fire torch. One is to bury with sand, the second is to extinguish with water, and the third is to remove the rattan, which can also achieve the effect of extinguishing the fire. Unfortunately, it takes time to bury the sand and remove the rattan, and what Xie Zuo lacks now is precisely time, so these two methods were removed by Xie Zuo in the first place. As for using water to extinguish the fire, of course, it is the most convenient and fast, but there are no less than 100 torches here, where can Xie Zuo find so much water at this moment?

Therefore, Xie Zuo directly chose a more simple and crude way.

I saw that the sword and shield soldier at the head of the platoon was running, and his feet did not stop, but he just stretched out his long knife and picked it up on the handle of the torch inserted in the mud, and the tip of the knife encountered an obstacle at the entwining place of the hemp vine, and the torch was naturally taken up. The sword and shield soldier took the torch in his hand with one hand, and then threw it back without looking at it—

The torch arced through the air with a soft thud, landing on the giant shield that had already prepared for the fall. The shield is rectangular in shape with a slight arc, and when the shield is held downwards in his hand, it is like holding a huge dustpan just in time for the falling torches.

The first torch was picked out by the sword and shield soldier at the head of the line, and he continued to move quickly, oblivious to the rest of the torches passing by as he went. It wasn't until he ran ten paces away that he stretched out his long knife and aimed it at another torch on the ground, continuing the action just now.

As for the remaining torches between these two, it is natural that other warriors will do it for them. The crossbow archer uses the groove at the front end of the divine arm crossbow, and the Mo knife hand naturally still uses the Mo knife, except for the two giant shield warriors, ten back warriors work on the assembly line, repeating the actions of picking, catching, and throwing over and over again. In just one or two breaths, the dozens of meters of ground they passed, except for a few small pits remaining, were as clean as if nothing had ever existed. Behind them, nothing but darkness remains!

Who said that if you cut off a torch barrier, you have to let the torch go out? As long as the torches cannot be provided to the bandits for lighting, so that the people from Yufu will not discover the identity of the bandits in the first place, the goal has been achieved. What difference does it make if you put out the torch or just carry it away like a carrot?

Like old farmers working hard in the fields, the twelve warriors quickly and skillfully plucked the crops (torches) in the field, and threw the fruits of the harvest to the giant shield warrior at the end. And the giant shieldmen seemed to be holding a giant torch in their hands, and the roaring light reflected their figures extremely brightly, which was even more dazzling than a searchlight at night!

In just a few seconds, Xie Zuo's team ran more than thirty steps away and cut dozens of torches. However, these more than 30 steps are the blank space between the wall of the Xie Mansion and the bandits' main formation, and there is no man's land on the left and near, which naturally allows them to operate easily without hindrance. However, from this point on, he will face the bandit formation that is waiting for him, and for Xie Zuo, the test has just begun.

In the face of such an eye-catching existence that is only five steps apart, the bandits will naturally not be completely indifferent. Immediately, someone left the group, shouting and rushing towards the strange team. It's a pity that they have just taken a step, and suddenly there is a sound of breaking the sky in the dazzling light, and the guy who rushed out of the queue screamed, and the shout immediately transformed into a scream, which immediately made the others who were still eager to try stop in disbelief.

The bandits' counterattack was expected, so under the command of Xie Zuo, when approaching the enemy's main position, the work of pulling radishes was completely handed over to the melee soldiers, and the four crossbow archers had already raised their crossbows and were ready to teach the guys who shot rashly at any time. At such a close distance, there is no need to worry about missing the shot, and as for the power of the crossbow arrow, it is not intended to be fatal in one hit, it is originally used to scare people, no matter how powerful it is, what is the point?

In fact, as a ferocious bandit, he was not intimidated by the slightest injury - it was obvious that even the injured companion was not seriously injured, at least not enough to deter the bandits. Fortunately, the prestige of the big boss in the Panshan cottage is extremely heavy, and the big boss must obey orders before going down the mountain, and most of the thieves do not dare to act easily without orders under high pressure.

Although it was a sudden anomaly, most of the bandits still strictly followed the order to report to the big boss. Xie Zuo and the others are located on the outermost side of the horizontal phalanx, and there is still some distance from the big boss of the Chinese army, even if they shout to deliver news, it will take some time to come and go. Although the time is not long, it is enough for Xie Zuo and his party to run a long distance!

There was such a delay, so that Xie Zuo and the others took the opportunity to run more than ten meters away. Even so, the longitudinal depth of the bandits' main formation was tens of nearly 100 meters, and this little distance was not enough to get them out of danger. At this moment, the order of the big boss has been sent back, and it is simply a word "kill"!

The bandits, of course, who had received the order, had no scruples, and dozens of them broke away from their formations and shouted and pounced on their opponents as bright as torches. At this time, Xie Zuo's team was able to complete half of the fire extinguishing work on the bandits' flanks, and there were at least forty meters left before they could get out of the scope of the bandits' main formation. However, the strange thing is that this team did not hesitate to turn around when the bandits had just made an abnormal move, and quickly fled in the direction away from the bandits. They fled so resolutely and decisively that the bandits who had just left their camp were at a loss in an instant - to chase or not to chase?

The firefighting team behaved strangely, and the target was obviously not aimed at people, but at torches. By the way, what is the use of torches other than providing lighting? Now it is the bandits besieging Xie Mansion, and the only place where the contact battle takes place is the first line of the courtyard wall of Xie Mansion, and the wall is full of lighting, reflecting the wall as if it were day. In this case, in fact, the lighting required by the bandit formation is minimal. Since the torches in the outer ring are like chicken ribs, what do these guys want to do?

That's how strange people think. When faced with unknown and incomprehensible things, they will instinctively begin to doubt, and then hesitate to look forward and hesitate. Now the pursuit of the bandits is faced with such a situation, and the meaningless behavior of the opponent in their eyes makes the suspicion in their minds infinitely magnified, and they all involuntarily slow down.

This looks...... Are you trying to lure the enemy?

Once the seeds of suspicion are planted, they quickly bear the fruit of all kinds of suspicions. Seeing the figure gradually disappearing in the darkness, as well as the surrounding night *** enemy penetrating, please enter the urn and other similar words came to my mind one after another. In fact, I only lost a torch on my side, and I didn't suffer any essential damage, so why bother to put myself in an unknown danger for this? Besides, the order of the big boss is only to "kill", not "chase", since he refuses to honestly let us kill, it is reasonable to go not far to pursue!

Thinking so, the chasing bandits seemed to find enough reasons not to pursue, and dozens of people pretended to take a dozen steps in the dark, and after exchanging words, they naturally turned around and walked back to their main formation. What they didn't know, however, was that in the darkness not far behind them, a pair of eyes were watching their every move.