Chapter 24: The Nighttime Fire
At this time, the entire Changshan Town was already silent.
After a day of fuss, exhausted people have already fallen asleep. Even those who were frightened because of the rebellion fell asleep in a daze at this time. Only the people who were guarding the grain shed in the center of the town could barely keep their senses.
There was no way to do it, and in the middle of the night, they met several people who wanted to steal food. It's just that when I saw them awake, they all quickly turned around and left. It took four vigils to resist the onslaught of drowsiness.
On the other side, the side that guarded the catcher and the baron's family was worse than the grain shed.
Of the more than a dozen soldiers from the Capture Kuai and the City Defense Battalion, only five survived in the end, and all of them were covered in bruises. Even if no one is watching, they can't even escape if they are beaten like this. The people of the Baron's Mansion were slightly better, but they were tied hand and foot, and they couldn't escape either. In this case, the two Li family members who were on guard outside didn't think much about it at all, and they collapsed at the door before midnight, snoring all day long.
Two black shadows touched them silently.
It was Chen Wu and Dian Yong, who were drunk before, but at this moment, there was no drunkenness in the eyes of the two!
"Right in front, I'll go over and knock two people unconscious."
Dian Yong whispered, motioned for Chen Wu to wait here, and climbed into the courtyard alone. It was impossible for the two people who were already asleep to find out that they were completely unconscious when they were pressed the neck by Dian Yong. Seeing this, he softly pushed open the door and touched it in.
One of the least wounded soldiers of the city defense battalion, as well as the steward of the Baron's Palace, were locked up in the first wing outside.
The guards personally arranged by Dian Yong naturally knew the location of the two. At this moment, probably never asleep, the steward of the Baron's Mansion actually sensed something and opened his eyes. Seeing a man in black quietly coming to his side, the steward couldn't help but be surprised.
However, he didn't make any sound.
As early as when they were locked in, the mouths of the two were gagged. What's more, Dian Yong wouldn't give him a chance to shout out, so he stepped forward and knocked the two unconscious. After camouflaging the scene for a while, he pushed open the door from the inside and walked out with one in his hand. The two of them added up to more than 300 catties, and Dian Yong didn't seem to have the slightest feeling of difficulty.
This courage has to be admired by Chen Wu.
After the person is taken out of custody, the rest is much easier. Chen Wu and Dian Yong carried people and came to a hidden forest outside the town overnight. A pit had been dug here, just enough to bury them. Dian Yong did not relent, and according to Chen Wu's intentions, he pinched to death the soldiers and stewards of the city defense battalion in a coma, and then hurriedly filled it in.
After his disguise, Chen Wu looked rough and didn't notice anything unusual.
After doing this, the two of them sneaked back to the center of the town unconsciously and unknowingly, and came to the vicinity of the grain shed. Bows, crossbows, arrows, etc. were all in place, and the shafts of the arrows were tied with black oil-soaked cotton wool. With such dry weather and such a fire-initiating substance, once the grain is burned, the fire cannot be controlled at all, and it will be burned in an instant.
"Do you really want to do it......"
Seeing the more than 20,000 catties of grain under the granary, even if Dian Yong understood, he was still a little reluctant in his heart.
Even if it's to force these townspeople to rebel, there can be other ways. For example, the grain inside is dropped and transported away in advance, so that even if it is burned, it will not be distressed at all.
"It must be burned!"
In the night, Chen Wu's face did not change in the slightest, and his attitude was as firm as a rock.
Changshan Town is too small, and ninety percent of the locals who have lived here for generations, will definitely hug each other at a critical moment. Chen Wu now has almost no manpower that can be fully trusted, and his prestige has not been established, so he rashly drops his bag, and it is easy to expose his traces. And he's not sure if the grain will actually be burned all. If some are snatched back, and it happens to be a bag of hay wool or something like that, it will be bad.
The great cause is ahead, and he can't afford to take this risk!
"That's fine."
Chen Wucai was the leader of the rebel army, seeing that he insisted, Dian Yong no longer objected, drew his bow and arrows and said: "I shoot people, you burn food"
Of the four men who were assigned to keep watch over the grain shed for the first night, there were two thorns from the town. During dinner in the evening, Chen Wu and Dian Yong secretly noticed that they were sneering intentionally or unintentionally, and instigated others not to listen to Chen Wu and Dian Yong. There was an opportunity to get rid of them reasonably, and Chen Wu naturally would not let it go.
"Who told yourselves to seek death......
Dian Yong looked at the thin monkey with a sharp beak and a grain bag napping under the light of the torch, and couldn't help but sigh with pity and let go of the bowstring that was pulled to the full moon.
The whistling sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air sounded!
Along with his arrow, there was also Chen Wu's rocket that ignited the cotton wool.
Warrior's arrows were the first to hit their target because they were lighter. The thin monkey was groggy when he heard a low, rapidly approaching roar, and before he could open his eyes, he was pierced through the heart by an arrow and nailed to the grain bag. His body trembled, and he lost his life in an instant.
On the other side, Chen Wu's rocket also hit the grain bag.
There was black oil that fueled the combustion, and the flames spread rapidly. At this time, the other three woke up from their daze, and when they saw the rapidly spreading flames, their faces couldn't help but change greatly.
"It's out of the water!"
While shouting, the three of them got up and picked up the nearby broken gong and struck it deadly. But at that moment, another arrow came at him.
In less than ten seconds, two guards of the grain shed were shot one after another!
The remaining two couldn't help but be stunned when they saw their companion fall from the arrow. The man with the gong was even more frightened and peed his pants, and the gong in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and it took a while to realize that someone was shooting in the shadows.
"You untouchables in Changshan Town dare to rebel. Master, I'll burn your grain and go back to report to the official, and wait for the heavenly soldiers to encircle and suppress it! Don't even think about escaping, the government issued an official document to catch the sea, and all of them were raided and wiped out! Chen Wu, who was in the dark, lowered his voice and shouted in imitation of the voice of the baron's housekeeper. Subsequently, for fear that the fire would not be enough, the two of them each fired two rounds of rockets to ensure that the entire grain shed with more than 200 stones of grain fell into the sea of fire, and then disappeared in a puff of smoke.
The previous sound of the gong, coupled with Chen Wu's loud shouting, woke up many people.
Soon, some nearby Changshan townspeople hurriedly dressed and rushed over. Seeing that the food, which was regarded as the root of life, was actually burned, these people seemed to see the sky fall and the end of the world coming. I don't know who shouted "put out the fire" first, and the rest of the people came back to their senses and hurriedly began to put out the fire.
The broken gong that was thrown away before was also picked up and struck from house to house.
"It's out of the water!"
"The grain shed is burning, everyone come and put out the fire!"
The movement here inevitably woke up the east side of the town. The man in charge of guarding the captives woke up from his sleep, and saw the wide open door in front of him and the missing steward of the Baron's Palace, and could not help but be shocked, and hurried over to take over with the firefighters here.
The two sides changed the message, and in connection with the previous shout, these people still did not understand what was happening.
The stewards of the baron's house and the soldiers of the city defense battalion actually managed to untie the tight ropes and escaped overnight. And before fleeing, he stole a bow and arrow out of nowhere, shot the guards guarding the grain, and set fire to the grain!
"Oops, how is this a good ......?"
The people who rushed over didn't know what to do in the face of the big things that happened one after another. In a panic for a moment, seeing that the fire would not be extinguished for a while, Sun Shou, the head of the Sun family, finally thought of the two nominal commanders of the rebel army, so he hurriedly sent someone to the old mansion of the pawn family to invite someone.
"Is General Dian? Something big is happening! ”
"Oh no, General Chen, open the door quickly!"
Several people who were sent to report the news knocked on the door one after another, but there was no response, and they couldn't help but be anxious. In desperation, several people argued a few words, and boldly turned into the courtyard of the pawn. After entering the bedroom in the backyard, they found that Chen Wu and Dian Yong still hadn't sobered up, one was lying on the edge of the bed, and the other was simply lying on the ground, and the room was still smoky.
"Oops!"
The Sun family, who reported the news, jumped to their feet in a hurry, pushed and shouted, and finally woke the two out of their hangover.
"What did you say?"
"Is that so?"
Hearing the messenger's relay, Chen Wu and Dian Yong couldn't help but be shocked, and they were also frightened to wake up, so they hurriedly washed their faces with cold water and rushed over in the night.
However, the two only saw the flames soaring to the sky!