288 Burning the Gardens
The Tiandu City at night has always been brightly lit and full of people, and the famous city where millions of people gather naturally has its heritage, no matter how the outside world changes, it will not affect the pride of the Tiandu people, because this is the Tiandu, here is the capital of the Xia Dynasty and the Chu Dynasty.
The people of Tiandu who have been bred by the royal aura for thousands of years are proud, and they have never heard of the people of Tiandu giving up their comfortable nightlife for any reason, anyway, not to mention, this has not happened since there was the State of Chu.
But this year is different, it's been three hundred years, and it's the first time that the people of Tiandu have seen a war happen right under their noses, this is the first time in three hundred years, whether it's the last time, no one can be sure.
For the first time in three hundred years, the night in Tiandu City became unusually quiet.
There is no wind, no moon and no stars tonight. Long Xingkong, the emperor of Chu State, is now standing on the gate tower of the west gate of Tiandu, looking at the light in the distance, and his mood is extremely heavy.
Long Xingkong knew that to the west of the Hundred Gardens, under that faint light, there were 80,000 allied troops under Liuhuo. That was the last glimmer of hope to restrain the expansion of the Yu family and the Li family's power.
Long Xingkong has been a little more comfortable in the past few days, maybe the news of the breakdown of the negotiations between the Long family and the flowing fire has made the Yu family a little relieved, or it may be that the army has pressed the Yu family and the Yu family is really not in the mood to clean up the Long family. Anyway, these days, Long Xingkong has been much easier, occasionally taking care of the government, and going out of the palace from time to time to take a turn, anyway, the Yu family has not reacted at all during this time.
Long Xingkong still remembered the scene when the Flowing Fire Army marched from Tiandu City, and the overwhelming sense of depression made him not sleep peacefully for three days. At that time, Long Xingkong said to his subordinates that he regretted it very much, and he regretted that he did not agree to all the conditions of the flowing fire.
Not to mention the marching army, even the rangers who cover the advance of the army have already given people a very shocking visual impact.
Light cavalry in groups of several hundred trampled on the ground, passing back and forth between the front and rear flanks of the army, and the sentry was released nearly 20 miles away.
The villagers on the plain looked at the galloping horse team in horror, and saw that they trampled the farmland into a different way, but no one dared to question it.
Fortunately, it is winter, and the crops have already been harvested, but in this way, the spring ploughing of the next year will be laborious, and it is a great task to rest the canals and plough the fields that have been trampled by the war horses.
The bold ones still hold on to their little family business in the village, and the timid ones have already taken refuge in Tiandu City with their families and only belongings.
Long Xingkong looked at the overwhelming number of soldiers, and then looked at the continuous flow of fleeing villagers, and his heart was full of mixed feelings. Oh, these grass people, do you think that if you enter Tiandu City, you will have a way to live? As everyone knows, if you hide in the countryside, the chances of survival are greater.
It's a pity that people are conformists, and where there are more people, there is a sense of security, even if that sense of security is false.
When the 80,000-strong army set up a large camp at the southern foot of the Immortal Mountains, Long Xingkong realized that the background of the flowing fire was by no means the little army that he saw on the surface. His true strength was hidden in the endless supply convoy behind him.
The amount of grain and grass consumed to supply the 80,000 troops is unimaginable, and basically ninety percent of the 30,000 people recruited by the fire are used as transport teams, and the work in the battalion is basically handled by the soldiers.
An army of 80,000 accompanied 60,000 war horses, and 10,000 of them were red-scaled horses, and these red-scaled horses were used as sentinels to cover the battlefield.
More than 10,000 rangers, divided into countless squads, with the large camp as the center, covered all the areas within a radius of 100 miles, which had become the back garden of flowing fire, and no wind and grass could hide from his eyes.
The supply lines, in particular, were the Rangers' main protection mission. On the thousand-mile official road from Peishui to Tiandu City, Liuhuo mobilized 40,000 militia soldiers, set up temporary camps in nearly 20 important locations, and had more than 2,000 elite cavalry specially responsible for protecting the transportation team.
In the face of such a tight defense, no one could have imagined that someone would pay attention to the supply lines. But tonight, under Long Xingkong's nose, the impossible really happened.
Long Xingkong had been standing on the tower of the West Gate City for a long time, from the afternoon until almost midnight, he was desperately analyzing the current situation in his heart, and carefully thinking about how to make his family get some benefits.
The walls of Tiandu City are very high, especially the gate towers, which are even taller and heavier. Standing at the highest point of the West Gate, Long Xingkong could clearly see the general outline of the Hundred Gardens, and he could also see the Flowing Fire Camp in the distance.
The strange phenomenon happened in the Hundred Gardens, how could Long Xingkong see some figures haunted inside? Long Xingkong's eyes were really good, they might be the legendary farsighted eyes, and they were the kind without night blindness.
In the current hundred gardens, there are really people haunting.
The Hundred Gardens is an open garden, with no walls to cover it, and in order to escape the war, some of the original maintenance workers have also fled here, and the current Hundred Gardens is a dead land.
The Hundred Gardens were in the middle of the Heavenly Capital City and the Flowing Fire Camp, and they had already let the soldiers go through the sieve three times before, and there was no abnormality at all. If it weren't for the Drift Fire Alert and the 200 sentinels who had to be planted here, I'm afraid no one would care about this place.
But right under everyone's noses, under the cover of the night, three portals emitting a faint white light appeared out of thin air.
The portals are cleverly placed, hidden among the trees and flowers, and if you don't look closely, you won't be able to spot them.
When the portal was more than a man tall, suddenly a large hand stretched out from inside the door, followed by the head and shoulders, and when the figure looked left and right to find that everything was safe, the whole figure came out.
One, two, three or four, an infinite number of them. The silent black shadow was unusually light, like a civet cat stepping on cotton, and there was no sound at all.
The patrolling soldiers didn't notice anything unusual, and when the figure pounced out of the corner, none of the six members of the patrol team could escape their clutches.
The large hand covered the soldier's mouth, and the sharp dagger pierced the soldier's ribs and throat along the gap in the armor until the blood had seeped through the gap in the armor.
There were more and more silent figures, and even the portals had increased to ten, and finally groups of soldiers in helmets poured out of these portals.
The 200 soldiers guarding the hundred gardens did not expect that the enemy's breakthrough would choose here until they died, the patrol squad was killed in the courtyard by a team, the sleeping soldiers were killed in bed, and more than 200 sentries were wiped out in just one meal.
The cruelty of the war is reflected here, since ancient times, it is so simple to be prepared to fight unprepared, not to mention that the more than 2,000 people who came out of the hundred gardens are the elites carefully selected by the Yu family and the Li family.
The actions in the dark night were hidden from everyone, but not from the dragon. Of course, no one imagined that the emperor of a country would not sleep in the middle of the night and run to the city gate tower to watch the scenery.
"Quick... Hurry up and contact Peishui's liaison officer, and say that Baihuayuan has been attacked, let the flowing fire deal with it quickly..."
Long Xingkong is not stupid, he knows that although he has already collapsed with Flowing Fire, Flowing Fire is the person who poses the lowest threat to himself after all, and if he keeps the power of Flowing Fire, he will at least keep a living force to contain the Yu family, which is of course beneficial to the Long family.
Unaware that their movements had been discovered by a third party, the attackers in the Hundred Gardens were now silently marching southeast, with only one target, the convoy that was approaching in the early morning.
007 was the last of the attackers to leave the Hundred Gardens, and they were the first to carry out the assassination. These killers and spies who have been raised by the Yu family for many years have a mission of not only sneaking up on 200 guards and supply teams from the south, but they also have a more important purpose, which is to set fires.
After more than 2,000 soldiers had disappeared into the darkness, the fire was finally ignited by 007. There are more than 50 fires in the Hundred Gardens, and they all seem to be ignited by high-level fire-based spells, and there are a lot of fire-initiating things. The century-old garden turned into a sea of fire in an instant.
Setting fire is a technical job in itself, how to place the thing that ignites the fire, and where to start igniting it, are all particular, especially in the relatively humid garden of Baihuayuan, inexperienced people really can't afford to light such a big fire.
The firelight immediately alarmed the camp of the Flowing Fire Alliance, and even the Heavenly Capital City had a trace of commotion. Flowing fire ran out of the military tent in armor, looked at the already red garden in the east, and scolded angrily.
"Arson, someone set fire, how can there be more than 50 fires at the same time with such a fucking big effort, and it instantly burns the sky?"
"What about Wen Liang, call Wen Liang over, and ask him to immediately bring 3,000 Flying Feather Army to find out the situation, and also spread our guard tower out, and search for arsonists within ten miles of the Hundred Gardens..."
"Cao, except for the Yu family and the Li family, there may be people who will do this kind of thing..."
Liuhuo looked at the hundred gardens that had burned red, and hated the roots of his teeth. He really couldn't understand how the enemy could find trouble with the Hundred Gardens, the century-old famous garden, the symbol of Tiandu City, was willing to set fire to it.
The flowers of the four seasons, the land of ten views in one step. You are willing to set fire to the hundred gardens that have been created into one? You have completely lost your humanity, you are all fucking crazy.
Just as Flowing Fire gritted his teeth and cursed, on the ridge of the Immortal Ridge, there was already a group of figures hiding in the darkness, staring at every move in the Flowing Fire camp.
"It's moving, there are already 3,000 cavalry out of the camp of the Flowing Fire Battalion, and they are rushing straight to the Oriental Hundred Gardens..."
Li Xiao frowned, his eyes stared at the fire-flowing camp like a wolf, and he kept muttering.
"Why is it so little? How can Flowing Fire be so cautious? Why didn't the other soldiers move?"
While he was nagging, there was a sudden sound of footsteps from below the ridge, and in a few moments the herald had already delivered the first-hand information.
"Report to your lordship, the Drifting Fire Battalion has ordered the Rangers to be drawn and searched the Hundred Gardens to the east....Right now the West is the time when the vigilance is at its weakest...."
As soon as Yu Fei heard this, his clenched right fist hit his left palm fiercely, and said excitedly.
"Okay, great, finally give us a chance. Flowing fire, flowing fire, don't you want to fight on the plains? Lao Tzu will fulfill you..."