When the Taiping army on the first route had already taken the lead in killing the predetermined place and scattered black fire oil, the Taiping army on the second route had also taken action.

Under the guidance of the little Taoist priest, this group of about 100 soldiers went east to a secret passage in the Guò Guqing Temple, crossed the 24 Taoist Courtyards, and appeared near the stele pavilion on the east side of the Guqing Temple. It has been confirmed by the Military Intelligence Service that there are large quantities of grain and grass, and in some places they are piled up as high as a hill. However, there are many palaces and courtyards, and once the fire is ignited, it can spread quickly in a short period of time, and it is extremely difficult to extinguish.

At this time, the movement in the wing area has gradually spread. The first group of Omani soldiers who rushed over shouted in horror when they saw the black oil spilled everywhere. While desperately attacking, trying to extinguish the fire after trying to drive away the Taiping army, he began to gather reinforcements everywhere. But just when the defenders in the temple were attracted to the attention and frantically rushed towards the west side, they didn't know that a more dangerous situation had been staged on the east side of the ancient Qing Temple.

At the end of the secret passage, behind a statue of the Taoist Statue of a Taoist Temple.

The little Taoist priest first listened to make sure that there was no one outside, and then pushed the statue away from behind. Then, the soldiers of the Taiping Army rushed out and saw the grain piled up almost the entire Taoist temple. A soldier couldn't help but draw a knife and scratch the grain bag, cutting a hole. Then I saw countless white flowers of rice flowing out of it and sliding to the ground with an enticing clattering sound.

"The best Chiang Mai rice!"

There are local Taiping soldiers in Songjiang who are more knowledgeable about the goods and have a voice.

Just the rice stacked in this Taoist courtyard in front of you, I'm afraid there are no less than a few thousand stones? If it is put into the year when the harvest is not good, I don't know how many lives can be saved.

It's a pity!

Although there was some reluctance in their hearts, the Taiping soldiers present knew very well what they were here for. No matter how good the food is, it is also the enemy's, and if you can't take it away, you can only burn it all. Taking advantage of the fact that no Omanis were paying attention in the vicinity, hundreds of Taiping soldiers divided into seven or eight squads and sprinkled black oil everywhere. With each additional fire, it becomes exponentially more difficult for the Omanis to extinguish the fire.

Countless grains and grasses + hundreds of skins of black fire oil to fuel + wooden courtyards + summer days in Tiannan County!

When all these factors come together, all that is needed is a Mars......

The ancient Qingguan, which was at its peak and had a history of more than 200 years, went to ruin in one day!

With a few torches thrown, the black fire oil that ignited at one point quickly ignited a fire, which in turn ignited the grain and grass, and burned the entire Taoist temple. Since the West Road started earlier than this side, when several Taoist temples on the side of the 24th Daoyuan began to burn out, the fire on the side of the West Road Wing had reached the point where it was still visible to the naked eye from a long distance.

The fire spread quickly, and black smoke billowed into the sky.

Because the fire had not yet burned to a certain extent, fearing that it would still be extinguished, the Taiping army on the western route did not withdraw immediately. Instead, after holding on for a moment and paying a lot of sacrifices, he began to fight and retreat to the back hill before the Omanis in the brigade swarmed in.

Some red-eyed Omani soldiers tried to pursue, but were stopped by the ridicule of the Taiping soldiers.

"There's a kind of chasing? Don't you want your food? ”

Just one sentence immediately calmed down the Omani soldiers guarding Gu Qingguan.

Except for a few Omani officers who were so angry that they refused to give up, most of the Omanis had no choice but to turn back and throw themselves into fighting the fire. They rushed to pick up wooden barrels and tubs, and fetched well water to extinguish the fire. However, with a few deep wells on the mountain and a waterhole, it was barely enough to feed the 4,000 defenders on weekdays, which is why only one brigade was stationed on the mountain. Now, it is whimsical to try to extinguish the fire with the water from these wells!

A bucket of water was poured over the fire, and the fire only weakened slightly, and then it was back in flames. By the time the next bucket of water arrived, the fire had already recovered and had begun to spread farther away.

In order to stock up on enough grain and grass here, the grain piles were spaced very little apart from each other, which cost the Omanis dearly.

"East! Look to the East! ”

When the Omanis were still trying to extinguish the fire, or try to move the grain in the distance to prevent it from being burned all, I don't know who shouted, so that the people who were burning in fire looked up at the 24 Taoist monastery and the stele pavilion.

The same black smoke billowed out.

The fire has even risen more than ten meters high!

Under the cool mountain breeze, the fire in the east is spreading rapidly. What's even worse is that most of the remaining Omanis have gathered here, and there are not many soldiers on the side of the Twenty-Four Dao Courtyards!

"It's over!"

A soldier cried out in despair, and the barrel full of water in his hand fell to the ground with a thud.

In such a short period of time, the fire burned out again, and it had reached the point where it could not be extinguished no matter what—although in terms of manpower, a few hundred of them were still qualified, but there was not so much water!

The Omani code stipulates that there must be a cistern or a large number of tanks around the grain storage point. However, due to various reasons, the preparation of the ancient Qing Temple was not so sufficient. What's more, after the Taiping Army's black fire oil ignited the fire, even if there were dozens or hundreds of large water tanks in the ancient Qing Temple, it would be difficult to recover the situation.

In a short time, the fire that rose to the sky reached the point where even the soldiers on the front line of Gu Qingguan could see it clearly.

When the Taiping army saw the flames and black smoke on the top of the mountain, they naturally cheered and cheered. On the other hand, on the side of the Omanis, the morale of the army, which was not very stable, plummeted and fell to the bottom in an instant. Their duty was to guard the grain and grass in the temple, and now the defense line was still there, but the 200,000 stone grain and grass on the mountain were finished - all the Omani soldiers knew how terrible it could be once it burned!

The entire mountaintop, including inside and outside the ancient Qingguan, will be reduced to ruins in the sea of fire.

"Quick, go back and put out the fire!"

Ye Fanqing's body was cold, he never expected that such a tight defense line organized by himself would be managed by the enemy to sneak in. Although it is not clear how the enemy did it, there is only one way for himself and the entire defenders to survive, and that is to try to extinguish the fire. He couldn't even take care of the front line, except for the two wings that had been put into the front, the rest of the soldiers, including the two hundred reserves in his hand, were all transferred back to Gu Qingguan.

However, by the time more than 1,000 Omani soldiers joined the firefighting team in a panic, the fire had completely lost control.

Where the fire first started, the ground was charred black, and people could not be approached within a dozen meters of the high temperature. At the fire point on Donglu that no one has been putting out the fire for a long time, the three Taoist temples that originally caught fire have begun to spread to all sides, forming a huge fire field with a total area of thousands of square meters in as many as a dozen!

This kind of fire, for the feudal era with limited technical conditions, is already at a level that is absolutely impossible to extinguish.

The barrels in the hands of the Omani soldiers were humble and pitiful in the face of the unbridled fire, even to the point that Cheng Dù could not even make the sea of fire fluctuate.

The only way to stop it is to let it burn the qiē that it can ignite until there is nothing left to burn!

Ye Fanqing, who came in person, saw this scene from afar, and his face was full of despair. By this time, he no longer needed to think about how to extinguish the fire, but had to quickly find a way to withdraw the people from the Gu Qingguan. Otherwise, when the fire gets out of control and spreads further, the entire Gu Qingguan will be engulfed, and all the Omani soldiers who remain inside will be turned into charred corpses.

However, where can the withdrawal go?

The fact that the thieves were able to sneak in certainly meant that there was still a way to survive, but it could be inferred from the number of people who infiltrated that that road would definitely not be easy to follow. Otherwise, there would be more than that. And apart from that limited retreat, the only way they could choose to survive had been blocked by one or two hundred thousand imperial people.

If it weren't for the fact that they had cut a barrier around Gu Qingguan in advance and pulled a safety for themselves, those imperial people would only need to stay where they were, block their way, and wait for the fire to spread down the mountain and burn all the Omanis to death.

But even so, their situation is only slightly better.

Behind him was a sea of fire, in front of him were enemies several times his size, and the thousands of soldiers under his command were tired and hungry, and the water source and baggage were all lost in the sea of fire, and the morale of the army was even more lost. Even if you survive, you will have to face Saladin's wrath afterwards!

Without these vital grains, the armies on the front line are likely to be forced to retreat. Enraged, Saladin feared that he would exile them all to the terrible Western Desert.

Rather than that, it's better to die here!

However, just when Ye Fanqing was determined to die and was ready to fight to the death, the Taiping Army's previous aggressive offensive slowed down and began to shrink slowly.

The truth is still the same sentence, the Taiping army's purpose on this trip is only to destroy the granary in the ancient Qing Temple. As for killing and wounding the defenders here, it was only incidental. Chen Wu didn't think that killing these thousands of people would have much impact on the Oman Kingdom. Therefore, after determining that the fire was too large to be extinguished, he gave orders to the Taiping army to shrink slowly and at the same time ensure pressure on the Omanis.

Even if Ye Fanqing wanted to work hard, Chen Wu wouldn't give him this chance!

………

The fire of Gu Qingguan burned for a whole day and a night before it was completely extinguished.

The main army of the Taipings, some of whom were wounded and wounded and prisoners of the Valanga division, were the first to begin to withdraw from the battlefield and wait and see what would happen next. The other part, including the cavalry and Chen Wu's Chinese army, retreated to the foot of Pingling Mountain, ready to confirm the effectiveness of this fire attack.

The results undoubtedly satisfied the generals of the Taiping Army.

At the peak of the fire, the entire ancient Qingguan was clear, and the flames were ten zhang high, and they were clearly visible ten miles away. The grain, grass and buildings of the entire ancient Qingguan were completely burned to ashes in the sea of fire. Except for some collapsed masonry, tiles and blackened statues, there is nothing of value in the entire ancient Qing Temple.

The 280 soldiers infiltrated by the Taiping Army, although they paid as many as 60 sacrifices, but in exchange for a textbook victory that can be recorded in history!