Xu Rong didn't let them hope, and they could see Xu Rong's great truth four or five miles outside the passage. It's just that Xu Rong didn't rush into the passage as they hoped, but began to camp outside.

The ambush soldiers had to focus on the baggage soldiers who entered the passage again, and then a scene that surprised them happened, the original baggage team of more than 2,000 people, the team was long, the front had gone deep into the valley passage for two miles, and the back had just entered the valley, and had been walking along both sides of the mountain, as if to give way to the middle passage for the soldiers and horses behind to pass, could there be cavalry behind? This is the question of all ambushes.

Yuan Bin is the captain who led the ambush this time, he is Yuan Yin's slave and Yuan Shu's clansman. Seeing that it was getting late, Xu Rong's main force outside did not intend to enter the passage, but the baggage team in front of him was still stretching the line continuously, Yuan Bin felt very strange, but the result of the previous discussion of several people was to ambush Xu Rong's main infantry. Now he had to change his plans on the fly, and he wasn't allowed to let his companions on the east side of the passage be informed. For the baggage team had thought that the valley passage had been cut off, and the two sides were separated???????????????? It became difficult for the soldiers in ambush to make contact.

Just when Yuan Bin made up his mind to prepare, no matter what the situation, he would rob the grain and grass of these baggage teams first. There was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves outside the valley, Yuan Bin stared at the entrance of the valley with wide eyes, Xu Rong's headquarters is at most more than 10,000 people, and more than 3,000 heavily armed cavalry have passed during the day, and now the cavalry is coming again, is it to protect these baggage teams? Shouldn't the cavalry walk on both sides and the baggage team in the middle?

Without waiting for Yuan Bin and the others to understand, the cavalry at the entrance of the valley had already appeared, and they did not take the middle avenue like the previous baggage team, but moved forward along the foot of the mountain, and the speed gradually increased. Yuan Bin saw it clearly on the hill, these were not the kind of heavily armed cavalry during the day, and there were not many of them, Yuan Bin breathed a sigh of relief. If there were any cavalry like the one in the daytime, he would not only worry about the servants in Bowang County, but also about Yuan Shu in Wancheng. Because most of Nanyang County is a basin, it is most suitable for cavalry galloping.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, an arrow shot into the sky in the center of the valley. Yuan Bin knew that this was the enemy's signal, but he didn't understand what the enemy was signaling, so could he confirm that the valley passage was safe? Then in Yuan Bin's stunned eyes, he found that the baggage soldiers who had already marched to the middle of the valley stopped, began to move many things off the baggage carts, and then put them next to the woods, and then set them on fire, yes, they lit them. Are they burning their own baggage? Yuan Bin felt that the weather was definitely not cold enough to the point where he needed to burn his weight to keep warm. Besides, it was just nightfall, so they only had to light a bonfire in the valley, and then there were countless dead branches and leaves in the mountains and forests on both sides that were enough for them to burn the fire.

And then even more bizarre was the number of torches in the hands of the hussars who entered the valley from one to two, from two to four, and then they threw torches along the foot of the mountain into the forest.

Seeing this, if Yuan Bin still didn't understand what was going on, he would be an idiot, he glanced at his companions who were also stunned around him, and suddenly shouted hysterically: "The enemy is going to attack with fire, quickly go down the mountain, hurry up and stop them!" ”

The soldiers who came back to their senses broke out in a cold sweat, and then regardless of how difficult the jungle was at night, they waved the weapons in their hands one by one to open the way.

Yuan Bin rushed a few steps and stopped, because he could see from the light of the fire that the two thousand heavy soldiers and more than a thousand light cavalry in the valley began to shoot rockets continuously towards the mountains and forests after igniting the dark matter around them. The weather was dry during the season, so there was no wind to cheer it on, and soon a large forest near the foot of the mountain was set on fire.

At the same time that Yuan Bin stopped, almost the ambush soldiers in the mountains and forests on both sides stopped their steps, because they could see that the mountain fire was developing too fast, and now Xishan not only could not ambush the enemy, but there was even no way to stop the spread of the fire, and if they didn't want to be burned to ashes, they had to quickly find a way to go down the mountain from the other side.

However, when Yuan Bin was out of breath and climbed to the top of the hill with the support of several personal soldiers, he saw a scene of his eyes splitting, and there were countless torches at the foot of the mountain in the distance, surrounding this mountain forest, and the combustibles at the foot of the mountain had been ignited, forming a line of fire, and it was spreading towards the top of the mountain.

Yuan Bin understands that???????????????? Some of the firefighters must have been those cavalry who passed during the day, relying on the speed of the cavalry, it was not difficult for 3,000 people to quickly set fire to the mountains and forests within a radius of more than ten miles. 3,000 heavy cavalry plus 2,000 infantry and light cavalry on the valley road, so many people set fires, and in this cat's mountain forest, it is almost impossible to rely on more than 2,000 people to fight the fire. Yuan Bin immediately felt helpless.

It is ridiculous that he also sent out men and horses to lure the enemy's cavalry deeper during the day, and now it seems that everything is in the enemy's calculations, which at least 4,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry were sent to set fire. The total number of troops participating in the ambush in the mountains and forests on both sides of them was no more than 5,000 infantry. The enemy was not worried about ambushing the soldiers, but planned to burn them all to death at Bowangpo. Yuan Bin turned to look to the northeast, where was the place where Xu Rong's infantry camped in the evening. Where there are stars, and at the foot of the mountain four or five miles away from Daying, there is also a line of fire spreading and developing. The enemy is out with his whole army, and he would rather sacrifice some baggage and the infantry in the valley than burn them all to death on this Bowang slope.

The more than 2,000 soldiers under Yuan Bin's command looked at the rapidly developing fire line on all sides, and the horror on their faces could not be hidden.

Yuan Bin turned around again and looked in the direction of Bowang County, sighed and said: "Hurry up and cut down trees, clean up shrubs, be sure to isolate the top of the mountain from the mountain forest, fast, must be fast!" ”

Yuan Bin shouted as he pulled out his sword and began to slash towards the trees beside him. Under his leadership, the panicked soldiers finally came to their senses, and under the guidance of the military marquis, they stood in a circle, and 2,000 people began to clear the trees and flammable materials from the top of the mountain, two hundred paces from the top of the mountain. Five hundred people cleaned up the combustible materials from the bottom up to the top of the mountain. This is the space to clear out a hundred steps of food first.

I have to say that Yuan Bin is quite calm at this time, and only by starting construction at the same time in this way can it be possible to open up a safe open space as soon as possible. However, due to the dense forest, the clearing speed is not fast.

On the one hand, there is tension, and on the other hand, the dark night is not suitable for such high-intensity work, and many people are armed with spears, and they can only use the tip of the gun to sweep the dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground. The archers became purely porters

Bowangpo is called a slope because the mountain is much lower than the Funiu Mountain to the north, so many of the felled trees and combustible debris that have been cleared cannot be rolled down the mountain. And the forest is as dense as it is, and with the shrubs and dead branches on the ground, those who go up the mountain to cut firewood know that all the trees and firewood within a radius of one step are cut down enough to pile up four or five steps as high as a person. So the clean-up team just cleared three or four steps in front of them, and the accumulated trees and shrubs had nowhere to go. And the people who cleaned up from the bottom up quickly pushed more combustibles down, blocking everyone's progress. Piles of firewood and grass were collapsing and falling, scattering into a mass of open space that had been cleared out of the way.

Yuan Bin immediately ordered the people who were cleaning up from the bottom to the top of the mountain to stop, and then all the people climbed over the pile of debris, advanced about twenty steps, and then looked at the cutting down of trees again and cleared the empty space. Everyone clearly understood that they could only continue Wang Yu's gap one after another to form a wide enough isolation zone to stop the spread of the mountain fire. Want to clear out a ???????????????? in a hurry It was almost impossible to have a clearing where 2,500 people could hide, because there was nowhere to pile up the debris. In the panic, the soldiers piled up debris in one position to the south, and then it was quickly stuffed. Then bounce and press and spread out......

Yuan Bin watched his 2,500 men move together, the melee combat was so slow, and his heart was like a cat scratching, some timid soldiers had already begun to disobey the command, and took advantage of the darkness to break away from the team and prepare to rush out before they were surrounded.

In this regard, Yuan Bin was helpless, as soon as it was dark, he didn't dare to light the torch now, only a few piles were used to light the small fire, and many people were closely guarded.

At the same time, in the southeast direction, the captain who led the ambush here was not as calm as Yuan Bin, he saw the fire, and immediately led people to rush into the valley, and when he walked halfway, he found that the fire was developing too fast and turned around and ran in the direction of Bowang. As a result, naturally the legs are not afraid of the spread of food. As for the very few who succeeded in running to the foot of the hill before the early mountain fire completely surrounded them, and then hundreds of heavy cavalry awaited them.

Those who did not find a chance to pet them had to turn around and go southeast, and then they found that the entire slope of the hill was burning. At this time, many people remembered to hide on the top of the mountain, although it was not safe anywhere, but it must be the last place to burn.

Soon more people gathered towards the top of the mountain, and then they made the same choice as Yuan Bin when they found that the fire was on fire on all sides. However, they wasted a lot of time and energy, and there was very little space they could clear before the fire spread to the top of the mountain.

In the process of running back and forth, some people who were a little less physically strong, or those who had other minds, fell behind. The fate of these stragglers is naturally destined to be unable to dig out this mountain forest.

Because whether it is physical exhaustion or timidity, it affects their determination and determination to escape, and hesitation is the best opportunity to go. By the time they found themselves unable to get out of their predicament, they could no longer find their companions, and the smoke from the burning fire had begun to approach them, dulling their judgment even more.