385. Burning grain

In the middle of the night, the whole Lucheng was quiet, and even the sergeants stationed on the city wall dozed off against the wall.

In the center of Lucheng, there is a large warehouse, which stores a large number of materials and ordnance, as well as the most valuable food.

It stands to reason that such an important place must be heavily guarded, and someone must be on duty to patrol at all times.

But at this moment, the warehouse area is extremely silent inside and out, and there is not even a ghost shadow......

No, there is a shadow, sneaky, scurrying around the guard barracks and various fixed outposts, and seems to be very familiar with the situation in the warehouse area.

The shadow made a big turn, and finally ran into an official room.

The room was pitch black, but I could hear a lot of slightly heavy breathing.

Seeing the shadow come in, a very nervous voice immediately sounded, "How!?" ”

"Hehe, don't worry, everything is going well." Shadow smiled lightly and continued to reply in a low voice, "Those red guys, including the officers including Du Tou, are all like dead pigs, we can let it go." ”

"Whew...... This sweat medicine really works. The questioner breathed a sigh of relief, took the fire breaker from his bosom, and lit a small oil lamp.

As soon as the lights shone, the figures of six people appeared in the room, and the person who lit the lamp was Fang Linsun, the chief bookkeeper and warehouse supervisor of Luding County.

He took out a large set of keys, looked for the one he needed by the light, and extinguished the oil lamp.

"Okay, let's act according to the plan, let's go to the unitary warehouse to carry the oil first, everyone hurry up, and be quick with your hands and feet."

The six of them left the official room, drove two ox carts that had been prepared a long time ago, and went straight to the unitary warehouse.

There are fire prevention measures in the warehouse area, different materials will be stored in different divisions, the ordnance stored in the unitary storage is in the westernmost part of the warehouse area, and the trump warehouse where the grain is stored is in the easternmost place, which is still a little far away.

The fire oil was packed in the pottery jar, sealed with mud, a jar of 30 catties, six people moved more than 40 jars to two ox carts, and also opened the mud seals of the other more than 10 jars, poured out the fire oil, and prepared to burn this warehouse later.

After the busy work, the six drove the ox cart to the Uzi warehouse.

When passing by the Yinzi warehouse, a person couldn't help but mutter, "At night, a group of red guys came in with more than a dozen large boxes, which looked quite heavy, most of them were treasures snatched from the natives......"

"I think so, it's a pity we don't have the key, otherwise it's better to go in and pick up some, maybe we can get a few family heirlooms."

The Yinzi warehouse was stored with military salaries and property, so Fang Linsun had no right to ask and no key.

Unfortunately, in the dark night, they didn't realize that the door of the Yinzi warehouse was not actually locked.

Regarding the muttering of his subordinates, Fang Linsun just said lightly, "It's not that you haven't seen any virtues of the natives, how can they have treasures?" Don't think about it so much, when you finish your work, you will be indispensable. ”

"Chief, let's burn down the granary, can we really escape smoothly? Will it be too late? ”

"Don't worry, I can still mess with my own life? Later, we will pour the fire oil into the granary, and then use incense sticks to light it for a delay, then we will have enough time to leave the warehouse and run to the north gate, and the north gate guards are also our people, and when the fire burns, we are already outside the city......"

Fang Linsun explained, and arrived at the door of the cang.

He took the key and went up to unlock it, making a little noise.

At the same time, a bowstring sounded not far away, and a sharp arrow grazed his face and nailed to the door.

"Don't move, or you won't be killed!"

With a strong drink, more than a dozen crossbow sergeants came out of the darkness around them, and surrounded the six people in front of the granary.

Fang Linsun and the others were already stupid and didn't dare to move at all.

The archery man also walked over slowly, "Heh, Lin Zhizhou said that someone would come to burn grain, but Lao Tzu still didn't believe it, thinking that he was just chattering, but I didn't expect to catch a few mice...... Let Lao Tzu see, who is the bear-hearted leopard who dares to eat inside and out, yo, isn't this the master of Fang. ”

At this time, Fang Linsun also saw the person who came, "Zeng, Zeng was in charge, why are you here?" ”

Zeng Bayi slapped Fang Linsun in the face, "You turtle grandson, you dare to ask questions!?" Say, "Who ordered you to burn grain, and are there any other comrades?" ”

Interrogated here, Lin Yingjia and Fu Yixin, who had been waiting outside the warehouse, also rushed over after being notified.

It turned out that after the tribal coalition broke through the village, they left a lot of alive, which was too abnormal in the eyes of Lin Yingjia and Fu Yixin.

Thinking of other signs, I guessed that the purpose might be to consume their own food, and the other party also knew about the shortage of food in the city, and it was very likely that there were spies who reported to them.

However, when the grain obtained from Pabula was transported back, it was very smooth, so if the other party really wanted to do the food starvation, most of them would have to start in the warehouse, so they quietly guarded against such a hand, so as to find out the spies.

Fang Linsun was not a strong-willed person, so he didn't torture much, so he poured beans into a bamboo tube and explained everything.

After listening, Lin Yingjia pondered for a while and said, "Come on, transport these fire oils to the Chenzi warehouse, and then get some wood and the like to go in......"

The Tatsuzi library used to store grain, but now it is empty.

Fu Yixin's eyes lit up, "Zhizhou, this is planning to do the plan?!" This is a clever plan, and if you make some illusions in the future, maybe you can lure those tribes to take the initiative to attack the city, so let's take advantage of the situation to give them a ruthless one! ”

Zeng Ba also applauded, "That's right! Lao Tzu is afraid that those monkeys will not come, if they dare to come, even if there are 100,000, we will eat them all! ”

100,000 is too exaggerated, and the natives of the entire island, including the old, young, women and children, may only be two or three hundred thousand.

Lin Yingjia muttered, "For us, the biggest problem now is not how many natives can be eliminated, but how to survive. ”

"Zhizhou, I think it's better to implement the previous strategy and send the main force south to fetch food!" Fu Yixin said solemnly.

Zeng Ba nodded in agreement, "This is also a method, even if it is not good to transport the grain back, at least three or four thousand people can go out to eat......

Lin Yingjia twisted his eyebrows and waved his hand, "First of all, the other party has already prepared, if we go south, they will definitely move to the mountains, and when we go to the forest, we can only pounce in the air, secondly, the other party can only use attack tactics to drag down our attacking troops, third, now there are more than 4,000 Babuza people in the city, if we have fewer troops......"

Fu Yixin and Zeng Ba knew that Lin Yingjia was right, so they couldn't help but fall silent.

Then, Zeng Ba frowned, "Then we can't sit still like this." ”

Lin Yingjia tapped his forehead with his fingers, "I have thought of two unreliable methods for the time being, one is to seduce the natives to attack the city, let's take the opportunity to counterattack, and then seize the natives' military rations, and the other is to send people to Quanzhou for help, if the situation in Quanzhou is not good, go to Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Mingzhou, and even Lin'an!" It is impossible for the imperial court to ignore us, and it is even more impossible for His Royal Highness King Yan to ignore us! ”

Although I don't know what happened in Quanzhou, based on various intelligence, most of them are something big.

Hearing this, Fu Yixin couldn't help but wonder, "The former method is okay to say, as long as it works properly, the possibility of success is still very high, but the latter one... The fishing boats we built later were all destroyed by the pirates yesterday, not to mention that the pirates have been wandering outside, and our people can't get out at all! ”

"If you can get out, you can go from the place of the Pabras, the pirates won't pay attention to that side, in fact, they should have done it before, but they didn't expect the situation to become so bad, and they didn't expect this aspect to be complicated yesterday...... I mean, it is true that the small sampans made by the Pabra people themselves can only be found in the near sea, but if we let our craftsmen renovate it, we can still take the risk of running, even if Quanzhou can't enter, but as long as we can go to the coast of the mainland, we can always find other ships and continue to go to other places for help......"

As soon as Lin Yingjia said this, Fu Yixin also felt that it was feasible, and Zeng Ba was even more energetic, "Since this is the case, it's a big deal, let's take someone to fight again." ”

"Doesn't that draw the attention of the enemy!?" Lin Yingjia laughed and continued, "I mean, just take the opportunity tonight to cause a civil strife, and let Ma Huo lead the warriors of his clan out of the north gate ......"

The three of them put their heads together and conspired for a while.

In the end, Zeng Ba was still a little worried, "I'm afraid that this Ma Huo is not under control, and after I go out, I will turn against the ......water."

"This possibility does exist, but his whole family is still under our control, and there should always be some scruples, in our situation, we can't take risks." Lin Yingjia smiled bitterly.

Fu Yixin clasped his palms together, "I think that's what I do!" Zeng, you go and pick a few craftsmen and messengers who are similar to the Pablas, fortunately the Pabras are okay in height, otherwise it will be really troublesome...... I'll go and persuade Ma Huo, and arrange the action, Lin Zhizhou, you sit in the warehouse and light the fire......"

As a subordinate, directly assigning the boss to do things is obviously arrogant and rude, but Lin Yingjia and Zeng Ba don't care about this little bit, so they go their separate ways.

Half an hour later, several figures at the head of the north gate kept shaking, but instead of probing and inspecting outside the city, they frequently stared at the center of the city.

"Rely on the cup, Grandson Fang's work is too unreliable, what time is it, and he hasn't come yet!?"

This scolding is none other than Liao Neng, the head of the capital who is responsible for guarding the north gate, who was born in the forbidden army in Quanzhou and a native of Tong'an.

As soon as he finished scolding, he saw a raging flame rising from the warehouse in the city, and the fire was extremely fierce, "Ganlin is cool, why did it burn first before people came?" ”

I saw that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and it took a while to be discovered, and people began to rush to put out the fire, but the movement in the Turen resettlement area in the northwest of the city was even greater, and there was a faint sound of shouting and fighting.

And the most intense part of the voice has been moving closer to the north gate, which makes Liao Neng very confused.

Soon, he saw nearly 100 people in native costumes appear on the street fifty or sixty feet away, among which there were a few people in official clothes, and there were many sergeants chasing and killing behind him.

A flurry of crossbow bolts fell, and a dozen natives who fell behind fell, followed by another round of crossbow bolts......

Someone in the ranks of the natives shouted towards the city, "Open the door!" Open the door, we are the people of the master book! Liao Dutou opened the door quickly! ”

When Liao Neng heard this, he didn't think much about it, no matter what happened, those people called out his name, then he definitely couldn't stay in the city, so he immediately ran down the city with seven or eight henchmen around him.

In fact, the city gate has already been removed from the bolt and locked, just open it.

As soon as the door opened, Liao Neng didn't care about anything, and ran first with his henchmen as respect.

Not long after, dozens of natives also ran out of the city gates.

The Song army was in hot pursuit at first, but after chasing for a short time, they found that a large number of tribal troops were approaching, so they hurriedly retreated to the city and closed the city gate tightly.

Seeing that Song Jun retreated, Liao Neng, who was out of breath, stopped running away, waiting for the natives to come over and ask what was going on.

"Where is Master Fang, where is Master Fang!?"

Liao Neng didn't know how to be a native, so he could only shout to find Fang Linsun first.

"Here ...... here"

Liao Neng pushed aside the natives, followed the sound and saw a person dressed as a servant in the crowd, and then saw that the person who was being held by the two natives seemed to be Fang Linsun, but this guy lowered his head.

Taking a closer look, Liao Neng found that it was indeed Fang Linsun, but this guy was out of breath, and there were several crossbow arrows stuck in his back.

"Rely on the cup, what an unlucky ghost!" 33

Liao Neng scolded, looked at the official again, and saw that he also had a crossbow bolt stuck in his buttocks, which was shaking and shaking, about not deep into the flesh, "You are a good fate, let's say, what the hell is going on, didn't you say that you would leave the city first after finishing the granary, why did you stir up so many ......earth dogs?"

The clerk looked full of pain, and Ai Ai said, "Originally, Master Fang took us to do the granary very smoothly, leaving a delayed incense stick, and planned to withdraw to the north gate, thinking that there was enough time anyway, for the sake of caution, we didn't dare to go directly to the street, and went around a little, and then when I passed a place, Master Fang said that there was a captured native leader living there, and found that the guards were not very strict, so Master Fang planned to rescue this native leader, and it was a credit ......."

"It's okay at first, Master Fang really persuaded this leader with his half-baked vernacular, but this leader had to gather his subordinates to flee together, and as a result, he alarmed the soldiers, but left his family behind, and we were also unlucky, and those red guys aimed at us and shot ......"

"Hehe, who made you wear the clothes of the Great Song Dynasty, of course the soldiers give priority to killing the internal thieves." Liao Neng understands.

Then Liao Neng looked at Ma Huo and the others again, and the chickens and ducks on both sides talked for a while, and they couldn't communicate at all, so they had to give up and continue to talk to the official who called himself Liu Jianming.

After a while, a large group of tribal armies came running and surrounded them.

Some people died, but not completely......