Liu Chengwu and Zhang Yao glanced at each other and nodded at the same time. The two turned around and waved, and led the soldiers to push the cart straight to the edge of the warehouse, the pile of firewood and hay. After the order was given, the soldiers quickly threw the bundles of firewood and grass from the stacks of firewood and hay onto the flatbed, and when they were full, they quickly pulled them to the side of the grain stacks not far away and lined up in a circle.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Liu Chengwu urged in a low voice, pressing the handle of the knife with his hand, and his eyes looked around from time to time.

The soldiers were quick with their hands and feet, and a cart of firewood was dragged to the side of the grain stack and piled up, and soon more than 20 grain stacks were covered with firewood and grass.

"Who are you? What are you doing? A shout sounded from the shadows on the side of the firewood, and then a team of more than thirty patrolling soldiers appeared on the side of the firewood.

"I am Li Zhong, the quartermaster of the former battalion, and I have come to receive grain, grass and firewood." Li Zhong hurriedly stepped forward.

"No, how do you drag the wood and grass to the grain stack? Don't you know that it is forbidden to pile firewood and grass next to the grain stack? What the hell are you going to do? The leader of the patrol asked loudly.

Li Zhong was speechless, and Liu Chengwu on the side took out the waist knife without saying a word, and went up with a knife to cut down the leader.

"Kill them!" Liu Chengwu shouted.

Hundreds of soldiers drew their swords and stepped forward to kill. Dozens of soldiers on patrol screamed loudly, and those who reacted quickly pulled their legs and ran, and those who reacted slowly were dismembered by knives in an instant.

"Hurry up, light the fire!" Zhang Yaoxian shouted loudly.

The soldiers immediately began to set fires, and dozens of grain stacks were instantly ignited, and then the firewood and grass piles were also ignited, and in an instant the fire crackled and rose, and soon the flames were blazing and soaring into the sky.

At the same time as the grain stack was on fire, the surrounding patrol defenders and the hundreds of soldiers and horses who came to receive the food supplies from the rear battalion had already been alarmed. A large group of soldiers rushed over as they scolded.

Without saying a word, Liu Chengwu and Zhang Yaoxian rushed up with hundreds of brothers and fought with the enemy soldiers who heard the news. Later, Li Zhong seized the time to take more than 200 soldiers to draw firewood from the firewood stacks, and began to set fire all the way along the tents, straw stacks, and grain stacks, and in an instant, dozens of material tents started fires.

"Brother Zhang, don't want to fight, rush out together!" Liu Chengwu shouted to Zhang Yaoxian.

Zhang Yao nodded in agreement, and the two of them retreated with hundreds of soldiers. The fire around him was getting bigger and bigger, smoke and sparks were flying all over the sky, the open space around the grain stack was no longer able to stand on it, and the road back was almost blocked by the flames. Liu Chengwu, Zhang Yaoxian and others had no way to retreat from the fire.

When he was helpless, Liu Chengwu gritted his teeth and shouted: "Rush! ”

The two and hundreds of soldiers rushed into the fire with their heads in their hands, and rushed through the curtain of fire. Dozens of soldiers were immediately on fire, and most of them had their hair, eyebrows, and mustaches burning. The soldiers rolled on the ground and helped each other extinguish the fire, and dozens of people were seriously burned.

Thankfully, the stacks of grain behind him began to collapse, and the fire became more intense. The skyrocketing fire held the pursuing soldiers at the other end, stopping their pursuit, forcing them to retreat and make a detour.

"Let's go!" Liu Chengwu shouted.

Everyone struggled to carry dozens of seriously burned soldiers and turned around and left, gathered with more than 200 people from Li Zhong in the rear, and rushed towards the back gate of the granary.

The north wind was blowing, and the wind was burning more and more violently with the help of the fire. In particular, the more than 100 large firewood stacks and haystacks surrounded by the hill-like periphery were like volcanic eruptions after they were ignited, and the fire rose to a height of more than ten zhang, reflecting half of the sky.

The burning firewood and grass were blown by the wind, and sparks flew in all directions, and soon seven or eight grain stacks and a dozen or so material warehouses on the periphery of the granaries were set on fire. The flying sparks even spread over some of the tents on the periphery, setting the tents on fire.

The whole barracks began to stir, and the gongs that called the police were rattling, and the sound of the gongs was filled with panic. The soldiers who had just fallen asleep after being tossed by the signal flares of the Chu army were awakened from their dreams again at this moment, and they hurriedly came out of the tent to check.

The soldiers of the front and rear battalions were far away from the place where the fire had started, but the light of the fire was real, and they stood outside the tent and looked at the fire in the granary of the middle camp, their eyes full of horror and panic. Everyone knows that it's in the direction of the granary, and the granary is on fire! This is the most frightening news.

The soldiers and horses near the left side of the granary were quickly mobilized, and they rushed towards the fire from all directions, intending to extinguish the fire. The fire brigade in the army also arrived immediately and began to use bamboo pipes to draw water to put out the fire. But it is clear that it is not easy to extinguish such a fire.

After Liu Chengwu, Zhang Yaoxian, and Li Zhong rushed out of the warehouse with seven or eight hundred soldiers, they ran straight in the direction of the front camp. On the road at the foot of the mountain, I saw thousands of guards rushing towards me. Liu Chengwu recognized at a glance that the person in front of him was Zhang Wenbiao, the king of Huai, who must have just gotten the news and brought his personal guards to check the situation and put out the fire. Liu Chengwu and Zhang Yao hurriedly lowered their heads and hid among the soldiers, for fear that Zhang Wenbiao would recognize the two.

Zhang Wenbiao saw Liu Chengwu and the others walking in the opposite direction, and shouted loudly: "What's the matter? Why do you do the opposite? Why don't you put out fires? ”

Li Zhong hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Report to the king, the granary is on fire, and the last general is just going to collect the grain and grass in the front camp, so he will bring people to put it out." You see, all of my brothers were burned, so I took them to the front camp for treatment. ”

Zhang Wenbiao stared at everyone with both eyes, and saw that everyone's hair and beard were burned to a mess, and dozens of soldiers were burned beyond recognition, but he didn't suspect it, plus he was worried about the fire, he didn't think much about it, and asked in a deep voice: "How did you start the fire?" ”

"The last general didn't know, he just entered with the cart, and he didn't have time to——"

"That's it, go ahead." Zhang Wenbiao didn't want to listen to his ramblings, and waved his hand and shouted.

Li Zhong hurriedly promised and rushed away with the soldiers.

Zhang Wenbiao walked forward a few dozen steps, suddenly turned around and frowned and shouted, "Something is wrong." ”

"King, what's wrong?" The general next to him asked.

"The appearance of the two people standing behind Li Zhong seems to have been seen by this king from there, although they have been keeping their heads down, how can this king feel familiar."

"It seems to be Liu Chengwu and Zhang Yaoxian, they are the generals of the front battalion." One of the soldiers next to him suddenly shouted.

"Yes, it's them, this Liu Chengwu and Zhang Yaoxian, the generals of the front camp, how did they appear here in the middle camp granary? This is not where they came from. Li Zhong also needs to lead the army, and he doesn't have to let Liu Chengwu and Zhang Yao help first. Zhang Wenbiao frowned.

"yes, it's weird." The generals around him also felt very strange.

"King, there must be something strange in it, then Liu Chengwu and Zhang Yao are wearing the armor of ordinary soldiers, even if they come to help, what are they doing in the armor of ordinary soldiers? Isn't it hiding something? One of the generals shouted.

Zhang Wenbiao was suddenly startled, and scolded loudly: "It's not good, it must be this group of dog thieves who set the fire!" Quickly pass on the king's military order, and order the soldiers and horses in the front battalion to intercept them, and don't let them run! ”