Seeing that it was getting late, Wu Kuai declined the warm invitation of the Lintao county order, did not go to the backyard of the county government to eat and rest, nor did he go to the border army camp in the city to settle down, but led the entourage to stay in a slightly humble pavilion.

The officials of Lintao County couldn't help beating the drum in their hearts, and immediately sent additional officers to carefully inspect outside the pavilion, on the surface to protect Taishou and thoroughly, but in private to monitor Wu Kuo and others. In addition, many eyeliners sent by the powerful also gathered from the vicinity of the county government and the border army camp to guard the pavilion post tightly.

In the inn, the officials trembled and accompanied Wu Kuai with a simple dinner, and they didn't know how to eat anyway, but they weren't too picky. Wu Kuai didn't seem to notice the strangeness of everyone at all, and he seemed to be quite interested in talking nonsense with them, and even stopped a few officials who tried to leave in the middle of the night.

This dinner lasted more than an hour, and the officials of Lintao were like pins and needles. Seeing that the curfew was coming, they secretly glanced at the county commander from time to time, signaling him to take the lead and resign to Taishou. The county commander looked at the Taishou who was talking about Xing, his face was full of helplessness, and he was about to speak, but he saw a young man in Xuanyi slowly walking into the hall and whispering a few words in Wu Kuai's ear.

Wu Kuai's eyes lit up, and he did not shy away from the many officials in the hall, and said loudly: "Since you have cleaned up all the eyeliner, you can do it according to the plan, and you don't need to report it again!" ”

The young man in the dark robe bowed down and walked away, ignoring the inquiring and horrified eyes of the officials.

Seeing that something was wrong, the Lintao County Commander hurriedly got up and left the table, bowed down and said: "Taishou, now there is a curfew in the city, and it is inconvenient for me to stay for a long time, so I will leave first." ”

When the rest of the officials saw this, they all got up and wanted to leave.

"Don't worry, stay here, and accompany the official to watch the show." Although Wu Kuai's face was full of banter, there was a hint in his words that could not be disobeyed.

The officials tried to speak, but they heard several screams outside the door, followed by the muffled sound of heavy objects falling to the ground. Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen thieves in light armor appeared in front of the hall door, the sword in his hand was shining coldly, and the blood that had not yet dried up slowly slid down the blade, and fell on the bluestone ground ticking, which was particularly clear in the dead silence of the hall.

"Taishou, why is this?" The county commander's eyes were full of fear, and he tried his best to calm down the horror and asked.

Wu Kuai glanced at him and said faintly: "Please return to the table, otherwise you will blame the ruthlessness of the official's sword!" ”

The scene in the hall is not mentioned for the time being, in the backyard of the pavilion, more than 100 young people in the feather forest dressed in dark clothes are leading more than 1,000 burly men in civilian costumes to unload a large number of black tubular clay pots from the blanket-covered cart.

"Grab the incendiary bombs and set off as soon as possible, listen to the bells, and do it at the same time!" Li Song stood at the back door of the pavilion and kept instructing.

Yu Linwei led more than a dozen big men, with incendiary bombs on their backs, and left through the back door one after another, lurking along the streets of the city to the vicinity of the mansions of the powerful people in the city.

As early as half a month ago, more than 100 Yu Lin Wei had infiltrated Lintao City, secretly monitoring the mansions of the major giants and surveying the terrain. A few days ago, after Wu Kuai transferred the officers and men of the border army in the city to Didao as soon as possible, the defense of Lintao City was handed over to hundreds of county soldiers for the time being, and it was naturally a lot lax. More than 1,000 guards under General Pingdi Zhuang Feng waited for an opportunity to infiltrate, and then were assigned to these Yulin guards to prepare for tonight's operation.

At this time, outside Lintao City, the manors of the major giants were brightly lit and full of people. Most of the mansions of the powerful are located in Lintao City, while the private soldiers are hidden in manors outside the city.

Today, the clansmen who are in charge of the manor have all received a summons from the head of the family, asking them to gather their private soldiers, and they will also gather a gang of horse thieves who are secretly colluding. Naturally, the stewards of the manor did not dare to slack off, and ordered their henchmen to hurry to the footholds of the various horse thieves, so that they could hurry to the manor as soon as possible to meet.

The Yao family has dozens of manors in the suburbs of Lintao County, the largest of which has a hundred tilts of fertile land. Naturally, the tenants and hired laborers of the village were not qualified to live on the estate, and their humble huts were clustered into small groups scattered throughout the wilderness.

The huge manor is located on the hill, and the solid rammed earth wall is more than two zhang high, which is only half a minute shorter than Lintao City. At this time, a large amount of wine and meat were placed in the front yard of the manor, and the private soldiers and horse thieves were drinking happily, and there was some confusion between the noise and neighing of people and horses.

On the high courtyard wall, there are all families armed with strong crossbows, but whenever there is a slight movement of private soldiers and horse thieves in the courtyard, there are more than ten crossbow machines to deter from afar. According to the law of the Han Dynasty, there are many controls on ordnance, and strong crossbows are not allowed to be used by the people, which shows that Longxi is arrogant and domineering, and lawlessness has reached the point of blatantness.

The steward of the manor did his best to maintain order, and only waited for the summons from the lord of the city to allow the horse thieves and private soldiers to go to Lintao City. On the road to Zhuangzi under the hill, many families are also patrolling back and forth to avoid unknown thieves trying to take advantage of the chaos.

In the distance, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground, and a large number of torches quickly moved towards the hill, pulling out countless long tail flames in the dark night, which made people feel a little dizzy. The family leader hurriedly ordered the horse to be stopped in the middle of the road, so that many family members all bowed and crossbowed, and then shouted: "Stop coming, report the name quickly, otherwise Hugh blames the bow and crossbow for being ruthless!" ”

"A cloud in the northwest sky, overwhelming the desert Wanren Mountain!" There was a loud shout in the distance, as the sound of hooves slowed down, many torches slowly approached, and a fierce man came out of the crowd, rode slowly, came to the front of the horse, and said in a deep voice: "Our family has accepted your master's request, bring the brothers to help one or two, and put the tricks brighter, don't hurt the harmony!" ”

The head of the house could smell the incision that the horse thief used to report, and by the faint light of the fire, he saw several terrible scars on the man's face, and he escaped from a fierce and vulgar steppe horse thief leader. At the moment, he did not doubt him, and hurriedly ordered people to move away from the horse, and said with a smile: "There are many offenses to the right talents, and I hope that the strong man will forgive me." Please hurry into the village, the main family has already prepared wine and meat to entertain all the strong men. ”

The sturdy man nodded with satisfaction, raised his horsewhip, and shouted: "Children, go with your king to drink wine and eat meat!" ”

Before he finished speaking, he galloped towards the Zhuangzi on the hill, and hundreds of men dressed as horse thieves behind him roared away, raising a sky full of smoke and dust, and the torches on the side of the road were dimmed, almost extinguished.

The head of the house, who couldn't reach it, ate a mouthful of dust, frowned, and spat at the horse thief gang in the distance, but he had to secretly say that he was unlucky, and he didn't dare to really scold. Shi Cai was in the dark, and he was dazzled by the firelight, and he didn't really see the number of horse thieves, so he dared to shout.

Now there are no less than four or five hundred horse thieves whistling by, which really scares him a lot. The leader of the horse thieves with so many men and horses under his command is considered a giant even in the northwest border where bandits are rampant. If Shicai annoyed him and was beheaded, he would never come to the master's house for himself.

Seeing that he was about to arrive at the main gate of Zhuangzi, the leader of the horse thieves slowly lowered his horse's speed, leaned towards a middle-aged man who caught up, and said in a respectful whisper: "Now that Taishou has not yet been summoned, how to act, please ask the general to show me." ”

"The hour is almost there, and move forward slowly, wait until you enter the Zhuangzi, and listen to my orders!" The middle-aged man pondered for a moment, said slowly, and asked interestingly: "Ben will listen to the horse thief incision that you blurted out at the right time, but it is quite stance, and I want to come to the past......"

The leader of the horse thieves scratched his head, and said with a smile: "I used to be a horse thief leader, leading my brothers to destroy the blue wolf tribe in Xiqiang. ”

The middle-aged man bowed his head and said: "Gong Wu is quite knowledgeable, and the general's military spirit is too heavy, so I will leave it to you to deal with it later." ”

The leader of the horse thieves hurriedly agreed, and then rode forward, leading hundreds of light horsemen behind him, so that he had the majesty of a giant.

The night is getting deeper, and the people in Lintao City have already undressed and gone to bed peacefully, and only the occasional barking of dogs will break through the silence of the city.

Dangdang! The heavy and distant bell rang suddenly, and the aftermath echoed in the sky above Lintao City, and spread far away.

"Do it!" Yu Linwei, who was lurking in the city, was shocked and ordered.

Bang bang bang! After the ignition rope on the pottery pipe was lit and thrown into the mansion of the powerful people, a large number of flames spread rapidly, quickly igniting everything that could be burned, and the fire grew bigger and bigger under the breeze of the summer night.

The mansion was full of panicked shouts, and the disheveled servants hurriedly used various containers to draw water from pools, wells, and tanks, and poured them all at the place where the fire was on fire, but found that not only did the fire not get smaller, but the flames actually spread slowly along the water.

Haoqiang, who was furious, and his relatives at home kept scolding many servants, and at the same time ordered people to hurry to the county officials to report the fire, and ask the officers and county soldiers to come to put out the fire.

Because most of Haoqiang's mansions are gathered in one place, which is far away from the humble houses of the common people, the Haoqiang also have to send a lot of family members to the civilian area to pull the ordinary people up from the ** Qiang and come to help put out the fire.

Seeing that the fire was getting more and more fierce and the mansion was not safe, the heroes ran out of the mansion with their families and stood anxiously from a distance. Since most of the family members were fighting fires, Haoqiang, who escaped from the mansion, did not leave too many guards by his side.

At this moment, the sound of bowstrings continued to sound from the dark alleys and rooftops, and countless deadly crossbow arrows screamed and pierced the increasingly dense Haoqiang and his relatives. Screams rang out one after another, and the unsuspecting crowd immediately lay down in half. The magnates were shocked and fled in all directions, calling out to the guards at the same time.

However, the black pipes that were constantly thrown from all directions injured many people. But something even more terrible followed, and a crisp cracking sound sounded one after another, and the flames of the large canopy were contaminated with the splashing liquid, and then ignited the clothes and hair, and quickly spread, and a human-shaped torch continued to roll and hiss, clinging to the people or objects within reach around them, and then igniting them again.

As the bell rang, all kinds of Lintao City were lit with raging fires, and many powerful dying wails were drowned out in the panicked cries of the people in the city. The night sky, red by the firelight, is strange and beautiful. (To be continued.) )