This night is destined to be a difficult night, the daytime inscription stirred people's hearts, Lingdong City strengthened the night inspection, the streets and alleys were full of patrolling soldiers, Jiang Rulong personally went into battle, with people and horses to patrol back and forth.

"General, if we are so vigorous, do those thieves dare to come tonight?"

A personal soldier next to the war horse asked Jiang Rulong softly.

"It's better to come, so that I can wipe out these bastards!"

Jiang Rulong said through gritted teeth.

After a whole day of investigation, a lot of people were arrested, but none of them could be sure that they were spies of the Southern Dynasty, so he not only missed the dinner party for Young Master Cui, but was also scolded by the half-drunk Hou County Commander, and now he was holding his breath, waiting for the gang of thieves to appear.

Knowing that their thousands of households were in a bad mood and were ready to complain, the patrol soldiers all closed their mouths with amusement.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the distance, and everyone was startled, and hurriedly looked at the noisy place, only to see the fire in the distance and the smoke billowing out.

"It's not good, there's a fire in Dongcheng!"

Jiang Rulong's eyes froze, and he immediately noticed that something was wrong in his heart, and said loudly: "This fire is coming strangely, I'm afraid that those thieves will appear, you two stay here, and the others will come with me!" ”

After speaking, he raised his horsewhip and galloped out on his war horse, and more than thirty soldiers trotted all the way and followed closely, only the two soldiers who were named remained according to the order.

At the same time, such a scene abounds, as soon as the soldiers who went out saw the fire, they immediately gathered towards the eastern city, and the net that Jiang Rulong had painstakingly laid was torn to pieces.

"Erzhu, you said that the things written on the paper can't be true, right?"

Among the two soldiers left behind, there was a veteran soldier in his forties, who was looking at the fire in the distance and asked with concern.

The other soldier shook his head: "I don't know, I see that the old man is quite nervous, maybe there is something wrong." Brother Tong, you said that we only have 2,000 garrisons in Lingdong, if the Wei army really kills them, can they hold it? Brother Tong? Tong ......"

Hearing the veteran's response, Erzhu withdrew his gaze from the firelight, only to find that the veteran who had been standing beside him had disappeared.

Erzhu was shocked and panicked.

"Brother Tong, where are you? What time is it, don't scare me! ”

The surroundings are empty, how can anyone respond? It was as if the veteran had never existed at all, only two dark alleys, one on the left and one on the right, like a beast with a bloody mouth, ready to swallow him at any time.

The sound on the other side of the fire became louder and louder, as if something had happened again, Erzhu was frightened, and he was about to run away with a tremble.

But as soon as he turned around, a steel knife suddenly stabbed and plunged deep into his chest.

Erzhu wanted to exclaim, but a big hand had already covered his mouth.

"Woo ......"

Erzhu struggled desperately, life quickly flowed away from him, the darkness became thicker and colder, and at the last moment of his life, he only felt that he was thrown to the ground, surrounded by many people.

"Hurry up and get the body right!"

Xu Rui jumped out of the shadows, he was dressed in coarse linen clothes, his face was smeared with ginger juice, and the corners of his mouth were stained with two mustaches.

When Mei Chuang heard this, he lifted the body of Erzhu and threw it with all his might, and the corpse weighing more than 100 catties was thrown over the wall by him.

Xu Rui stepped on the shoulders of the three dogs and jumped over the wall, and there were seven or eight corpses in the courtyard at the other end of the wall, and the warriors of the two forward battalions were gathering the corpses together.

Seeing Xu Rui coming, they hurriedly took out crockpots from their baggage, which were full of fierce fire oil.

Tonight, Xu Rui divided the people who infiltrated the city into six teams, and lurked in all corners of the city before the defenders of the Southern Dynasty who were patrolling the night were dispatched, and made an appointment to set fire to them one after another.

In this way, the ignition of a fire in one place immediately attracts the attention of the defenders of the city, making room for another to set fire, and when the fire breaks out in the other place, the previous fire-makers can take advantage of the chaos.

Due to the lack of communication equipment, this plan requires each team to strictly grasp the time of arson, otherwise once the chaos will not only affect the plan, but even expose the horse's feet, and lose the whole game.

With a "click", Mei Chuang jumped down from the wall, picked up a jar filled with fierce fire oil, and walked to Xu Rui's side.

"It's still three minutes before it's our turn to set the fire, now what?"

Xu Rui sniffed and frowned, "What a strange smell, where is this?" ”

Mei Chuang opened the map and looked at it, and said, "It seems to be a pharmacy." ”

"Pharmacy?"

Xu Rui was slightly stunned, groaned slightly, walked quickly to the door, used a dagger to pry open the iron lock, pushed the door in, and a strong smell of medicine immediately hit his face.

The room looked like a storehouse of medicinal herbs, with many herbs stacked in layers in a dustpan, and a huge medicine cabinet in front of it, with rows of drawers stuffed to the brim.

It was the first time for Xu Rui to see a Chinese medicine warehouse of such a scale, so he couldn't help but be a little curious, so he walked around the room and finally stopped in front of a bundle of sacks.

"Hey, what is this?"

He slashed open the sack with his dagger, and white crystals like grit sprinkled all over the ground.

Mei Chuang came over to take a look and said disdainfully: "Isn't it just ground frost, diuretic and laxative, very common, don't you know?" ”

"Frost?"

Xu Rui picked up a few grains of frost with a dagger and looked closer, then leaned under his nose and sniffed it, and was suddenly overjoyed.

"Frost, by the way, it's frost, there's frost here! How did I forget that there is such a good thing! ”

Mei Chuang was surprised: "This thing is not a rare thing, there are a lot of them in every pharmacy, why be so surprised?" ”

Xu Rui ignored him, turned his head and rushed out of the warehouse, and saw that Sangou and Xu Fang had just come in over the wall, and hurriedly beckoned to them.

The two immediately ran to Xu Rui, only to see him with red eyes, and said excitedly: "Which of you has a pocket, give me one!" ”

The two of them didn't know how he could be so out of shape, and they were a little strange, and the three dogs took out two sachets from his body and handed them to him.

"Only this one, I just bought it this afternoon."

Xu Rui took the sachet as soon as he took it out, took out the incense inside and threw it on the ground, the thief rushed into the house with a smile, first filled a sachet full of frost, and then rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the house, looking for it all the time.

Looking at Xu Rui like a mad tiger, Mei Chuang scratched his scalp and asked Sangou and Xu Fang on the side: "What is he looking for?" ”

The two shook their heads, as confused as Mei Chuang.

Mei Chuangqi said: "Isn't this kid crazy, what good things can be in this?" ”

As soon as Xu Fang heard Mei Chuang say that Xu Rui was not, he suddenly felt unhappy in his heart, and retorted: "What do you know, my young master is proficient in medicine, turning decay into magic, and there is an immortal medicine in it, but you and I can't see it with the naked eye." ”

The news that Xu Rui wanted to help Xiao Jinwu treat his injuries spread widely, Mei Chuang naturally knew about it, and even Mr. Changpo, a disciple of the medical saint, said that he could not be saved, but Xu Rui boasted that he could save him.

Mei Chuangda hoped that Xiao Jinwu could survive, but he didn't believe in Xu Rui's rescue, in his opinion, it was mostly due to the righteousness of the young man, and when the fifteenth day passed, Xiao Jinwu still couldn't escape the fate of the horse leather shroud.

"Elixir?"

Mei Chuang laughed in his heart.

There are countless such pharmacies, and if there is any immortal medicine, it has already been collected by the owner, how can it be left here waiting for you to find it?

After a while, Xu Rui ran out of the house and handed the two sachets to Xu Fang.

"Put it away, this is my baby, young master!"

Xu Rui said solemnly.

Xu Fang hurriedly and carefully tied the two sachets tightly and put them in his arms.

Mei Chuang looked sideways, one sachet was filled with ground frost, and the other turned out to be two yellow stones with a peculiar smell, although he didn't know what kind of medicinal herb it was, but it was obviously not what Xu Fang said, so he suddenly lost interest.

"Okay, calculate the time, Nancheng is about to ignite the fire, and then it's our turn, let's pour the fire oil first."

Mei Chuang reminded.

Xu Rui hurriedly shook his head: "No, you can't burn it here!" ”

"Why?"

Mei Chuang asked in surprise.

Xu Rui said: "There are good things here, not only can they not be burned, but they must be marked clearly, and when the army arrives, they will wipe out all the treasures here." ”

"Baby? Those frosts, you say? ”

"Yes, two truckloads of frost, let's send it!"

Mei Chuang was dumbfounded: "This, I don't know you like frost so much, I'll send you a few cars when you return to Dawei, now that the military situation is urgent, don't mess around." ”

Xu Rui shook his head and said: "It's worthless when I return to Dawei, these things can save lives and save many people's lives!" ”

Mei Chuang saw that his anxious appearance didn't seem to be fake, and he couldn't help but be a little suspicious, but Di Shuang's is indeed not a life-saving elixir, so he can't lie to himself with a clear conscience, right?

But after thinking about it, this kid has an indifferent attitude towards everything, this is the first time I have seen him in a hurry, maybe it can really save his life as he said?

"Okay, then I'll go and burn down the grain shop next door......"

Mei Chuang finally took a step back, and was about to turn around after speaking, but Xu Rui hurriedly stopped him.

"No, if you burn the next door, this place will suffer from the disaster of pond fish, and this whole street can't be burned!"

"What?! This street can't be burned, so where should we burn it? If Nancheng can't afford to catch fire, the whole plan will be messed up. ”

"What are you panicking about, I made the plan, I still don't understand?"

Xu Rui took out the map, drew a big section of his finger along the street where he was, poked it heavily, and said categorically: "Here, let's burn here tonight!" ”

Mei Chuang looked down, and suddenly his face turned pale, and there were two words written on Xu Rui's finger - "County Ya"!