Chapter 8: Fighting with the Mouth

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou asked the Eastern Wu soldiers to see what was underground, and at this time, everyone had the opportunity to pay attention to the ground under their feet. I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

I saw that the ground of the entire open space was covered with a thick layer of firewood and grass, including thatch, straw and weeds, firewood, dead branches and fallen leaves, and some of them could be seen to be some furniture, wood removed from the beams of the house, and even some wooden barrels and clay pots mixed in it. In short, all of these things have one thing in common - flammable!

The generals of Dongwu couldn't help but gasp when they saw this, and their hearts were cool, even a fool could see Liu Hou's arrangement now. It's going to turn them all into the rhythm of roast pigs.

"Ahh Zhou Tai was shocked and angry.

Liu Hou rolled his eyes and said, "You think I'm a fool, and now I'm going to fight you alone with all my advantage?" Besides, I'm porcelain, you're a rotten clay jar, and you want to play with the rich and handsome me with your bad life, you're really funny. ”

"I'm a traitor in Dongwu, see that the master will meet you, lest you say that we have no one in Xishu." When Liu Hou was secretly cool, Zhang Bao, who was standing next to Liu Hou, saw Zhou Tai's arrogant arrogance, and couldn't hold back any longer, and was about to jump out to duel with Zhou Tai with a scolding, his temper was a bit like his father Zhang Fei, which belonged to the impulsive type.

Liu Hou was startled when he heard it, but fortunately, he was also a practitioner, his eyes were quick, and he immediately reached out and grabbed Zhang Bao to prevent him from jumping out and fighting with people. Just kidding, Zhou Tai has been through a hundred battles, how many times he has charged, how many times he has wandered between life and death, to put it mildly, people have been injured and left more scars on his body than your bird feathers, you go to fight with others, aren't you looking for death?

Although Zhang Bao has studied hard with Zhao Yun in the past few years, he can be regarded as a good learner, but after all, he is young, now he is only 15 years old, and he will be a junior high school student in the next generation. When it comes to combat experience, Zhang Bao and Zhou Tai are even more incomparable, one is a novice on the battlefield, and the other is an old bird who has been immersed for many years.

Liu Hou is not optimistic about Zhang Bao and Zhou Tai's heads-up, besides, it is completely unnecessary, his side is now completely in control of the situation, take the advantage, what kind of heads-up to play, winning will not help to achieve a more brilliant victory, losing in vain Liu Hou will not do it?

"Adou, what are you holding me for, let go quickly, let me cripple this birdman." Zhang Bao turned around and said to Liu Hou.

As soon as Liu Hou saw his expression, he knew that his stubborn temper had been committed again, and he was afraid that stopping him would achieve the opposite effect, everyone played from childhood to adulthood, Liu Hou knew a lot about the character of these little children, and there were ways to deal with them. So he rolled his eyes and counted on his mind.

"Brother Bao, your martial arts are so high, go down and fight this birdman, isn't that self-surrendering? Haven't you heard the saying 'kill a chicken with a knife'? You are a knife to kill a cow, to kill him a chicken, don't you think you are overkill? ”

"Haha, that's a good point, Adou, your words are really good, he is a chicken, a birdman, I went to kill him and really gave him a face, I bah, I also want to fight with Lao Tzu with his ability, I really want to be beautiful. Adou, you are so smart, you can say such a novel thing, 'kill chickens with a knife', haha, that's a good thing. ”

Liu Hou rolled his eyes, what is new about this sentence, it has appeared in the Analects, this person must not have listened carefully to Mr. Lecture. It is said that when Liu Bei asked Jiang Wan to teach Liu Hou a course on Chinese studies, Zhang Bao, Guan Xing, Guan Yinping, Zhang Xingcai and others all followed the class together.

Jiang Wan was very strict with Liu Hou, and had an attitude of turning a blind eye to the others. After all, Liu Hou is the heir of the great country, and others are just descendants of military generals to put it bluntly, and it is estimated that they will also develop in the direction of military generals when they grow up, and it is normal to be relaxed about cultural classes.

Liu Hou's words hit Zhang Bao's weakness, which immediately made him fluttering, and he dispelled the idea of going down and fighting Zhou Tai alone in the court.

"The surname Liu, don't be too complacent, even then you can't help us." Zhu Ran said.

After that, he issued a loud order: "All obey the order, take off your clothes at once, wet your clothes with water, and wet your clothes with urine if you have no water." Later, Liu Jun will prevent fire, and everyone will immediately use their clothes to extinguish the source of the fire, so that the fire cannot spread. ”

Worthy of being the next Grand Governor, Zhu Ran still has a bit of a brain, and immediately thought of a solution, and after issuing this order, he whispered to Zhou Tai, Pan Zhang, and Han Dang: "You will lead the men and horses of the headquarters to attack from the left, center, and right directions at the same time, and launch the most fierce attack at any cost, so as to break through the low wall with one blow." ”

At the time of life and death, everyone didn't care about anything, and when they heard that Zhu Ran's plan was really good, they all responded and went to prepare for action.

Liu Hou saw that the Eastern Wu Army seemed to be going to move seriously, and he didn't dare to be naughty anymore, so he hurriedly said:

"Don't worry, don't worry, tell me how many times you've been, why are you still so frizzy. You first look at what is in those barrels and clay pots, and then decide whether to attack or not. He hurried to unravel the final mystery.

Only then did the Dongwu generals notice that there are wooden barrels or wine bowls and clay pots at certain distances in the venue, and the number of these containers is definitely not small, and the distribution is very regular, almost evenly distributed in various places in the venue in a grid shape, giving people the feeling that each container is responsible for covering a certain range, and all the containers add up to cover the whole field.

The hot-tempered Han Dang was the first to rush forward, splitting a wooden barrel with a sword, only to see some liquid gurgling out of this wooden barrel, Han Dang stepped forward and smelled it, and couldn't help but change his face greatly, "Fire oil!" He exclaimed, and it resounded throughout the audience.

Several other people also found a container, or with a knife or a sword or a spear to chop or chop or stab it, only to see that each container had liquid flowing out, some of which was fire oil, some of which was soybean oil, some of which were peanut oil, some of which were vegetable oil, and even soju.

It is said that Jingzhou is the meeting place of the three countries, and many of Liu Hou's new products are exported to the other two countries through this place. Among the products he exports is soju, so there is a large stock of soju in this Jingzhou city.

During the Three Kingdoms period, there was no distillation technology, and the alcohol content that people drank was very low, according to Liu Hou's estimate, it was only a few degrees to more than ten degrees, which was similar to the beer of later generations, so some people were not even drunk with a dozen bowls, this is not an exaggeration, in modern times, many alcoholics can also drink more than a dozen bottles of beer, but they vomit after drinking, and then drink after spitting.

Of course, the technique of distilling liquor was taught by Liu Hou to Zuo Ci, who in turn taught it to the craftsmen who made the wine. Of course, Liu Hou did not introduce the distilled liquor technology for the sake of brewing and drinking, but his main purpose was to make alcohol.

The main purpose of making alcohol is to disinfect, and let Hua Tuo continue to research and improve the disinfection technology and the technology to make the wound not suppurated. And making a strong liquor or a high liquor is just a matter of incident.

In later generations, Sichuan was a place to produce famous wines, such as Jiannanchun, Wuliangye, Langjiu, Tuopai, Luzhou Laojiao and other famous wines all came from Sichuan. There are many reasons for this, but they have a lot to do with the climate and water quality of Sichuan. Therefore, the distilled spirits launched by Liu Hou's "Ministry of Industry" are not only high in degree, but also mellow and delicious, and of excellent quality.

As you can imagine, this high-quality wine was immediately popular, and although it was expensive, the wealthy and aristocracy were proud to be able to drink this superb wine.

Because of its high content and combustible ignition, it is also called shochu. Due to the shortage of various oils, Liu Hou took out all the stocks of soju in Jingzhou City for export trade and used it in this large array of roast suckling pigs as one of the eyes of the array.

At this moment, the hearts of everyone in Dongwu had sunk to the bottom, everyone felt cold to the bone, everyone was silent, Zhu Ran did not issue a new order, but no one carried out the previous attack order, everyone stopped moving, the scene was silent, only the sound of chaotic and heavy breathing was heard.

The reason why the Eastern Wu Army reacted like this was because they all knew what kind of dangerous situation they were facing.

These containers are not all wooden barrels, some are clay pots, vases, wine and other containers, but they are very numerous, and no one has noticed these small things that are placed on the ground at a height of no knees before, and they thought they were sundries discarded by the people of Jingzhou. Now I know that someone deliberately laid it here. Only now did they notice that they were distributed in almost every corner of the clearing, and there were no dead spots.

What does this mean? This means that as long as the Shu army on the opposite side shoots rockets and ignites the liquid in these containers, this open space will instantly turn into a sea of fire, and these liquid fuels cannot be extinguished by soldiers with their clothes at all.

The previous firewood and grass were solid fuels, and it was not so easy to ignite, and the burning speed was relatively slow. There are 30,000 soldiers and horses in Soochow, which almost crowds this open space, and the soldiers are really scattered, and each person's defensive range is just over one square point. No matter where the rocket goes, soldiers can quickly run over and pounce, and it is easy to control the fire.

However, once these containers are broken, the liquid will flow all over the ground, and the fire will not be able to be controlled at all. Not to mention letting them take their clothes to fight, even if there is a river next to it, it is difficult to extinguish it if they go to carry water to water it (Consultant of the Public Relations Management Section of the Fire Bureau: Of course the oil can't be extinguished with water, the author is an idiot, and the identification is complete.) ）

Therefore, almost everyone present was aware of the severity of the problem, and there were a few people who were sluggish, and when they saw that everyone was silent, they asked the people next to them, what is going on? After hearing the explanation of the person next to him, he was so frightened that he turned into quail and couldn't say a word. They had a question in their minds: why is there so much firewood, grass and oil here?

Why is there so much firewood, grass, oil, and shochu here? Time back to 10 hours ago, that is, this morning, Liu Hou and everyone came out of the brainstorming meeting, made a plan, and immediately arranged for people to implement the plan.

Pan Jun first requisitioned 2,000 people and demolished all the houses within 200 steps of the city gate in the east gate. Liu Hou inspected the scene and found that the progress was too slow, and urged Pan Jun to recruit more people, especially at noon, the spies sent out earlier reported that at the farthest beacon tower, sure enough, some large merchant ships were docked on the shore to avoid the wind.

Liu Hou was highly vigilant about this information, and after analysis, he believed that these merchant ships were likely to be the sneak attack of Soochow, so he urged all departments to step up preparations. Later, almost the whole city was mobilized, and even some old and weak women and children who did not move in time were driven out by Pan Jun as long as they could still move.

Soon the people cleared the bricks, wood, and thatch from the demolished houses to form an open space. And the dismantled things were filled in the low wall not far away. Soon the low wall was also formed. Then, Liu Hou asked people to collect firewood, grass, and oil from all over the city, and put them in the open space.

The firewood and grass are not enough, so let people cut some of them, and throw them where to dry for a day, barely usable, although they are still blushing, it is estimated that it is difficult to light, even if they are lit, it will be thick smoke, but at this time they can't take care of so much, anyway, there is a lot of oil as a trigger, it is estimated that it can still be ignited in the end, and the smoke will be used as a chemical weapon. Many people's furniture, doors, windows, and even beams have been torn down and thrown on this vacant land for firewood and grass.

The oil was later found to be insufficient, after all, the vacant land was too large, and it was too much oil needed to cover the entire site. Fortunately, someone later suggested that there was still a batch of soju in the foreign trade warehouse, which could be used as fuel, and Liu Hou was overjoyed and immediately asked someone to move this batch of soju and put it on the open space. Inspired by this, Liu Hou ordered to collect all the restaurants and restaurants in the city, gather all the soju, and distribute them in this open space.

The whole city was busy until the evening, and it was only after all the arrangements were completed, so there were these things that the soldiers of Eastern Wu would see.