Chapter 481, Burning the Company Camp, the Decisive Moment

The torches fell on the grass and suddenly ignited a fire, Ziyou threw a few more torches into the stable, and looked at the burning fire, Ziyou left satisfied.

The fire woke up the sleeping horses, and the horses that felt the danger suddenly became a mess, and they let out dangerous screams, and a little spark fell on the back of a black horse, and the black horse jumped up with his front hooves in fright and rushed out of the stable, and as the fire spread, more horses rushed out of the stable.

Unsupervised and forced by the fire, two or three hundred horses rushed out of the stable, and by the time the soldiers on patrol found the barn on fire, the horses were already scattered in the barracks.

For a while, the shouts of firefighting, the frightened barks of horses, and the sound of rebel soldiers being rammed and trampled by military horses sounded everywhere. Mo Di, who had just slept in the big tent, was awakened, and listening to the chaotic shouts outside, Mo Di's first reaction was that the Qin army had attacked at night.

Murdy drew his sword and rushed out of the tent, shouting at the light of the fire not far away and the panicked voices around him

"What's going on?"

"Commander, there is a fire in the stable, and the horses have rushed out of the stable, and these horses have fled in all directions and killed many of our brothers. It also expanded the fire. A Mo disciple said.

The Warring States lacked war horses, these horses were obtained by them at a great price, and if they were injured or died, they would feel distressed for a long time, and Mo Di and Mo Li had said before that they could not let these war horses have any losses, so the rebel soldiers did not dare to rush forward to surrender these frightened war horses. But these war horses didn't care about the soldiers, and under the frightened running of the war horses, they didn't care what was in front of them, and directly knocked the rebel soldiers who were in the way out, and along the way, they trampled the torches and bonfires and flew around, causing the fire to extend.

"How could Ma Peng have a fire!? It must have been the Qin army that sent people to attack the camp. Murdy exclaimed.

"But we didn't see anyone from the Qin army attacking the camp." The Mo family disciple said.

"What about the soldiers guarding the horses?" Modi asked.

"I don't know, Ma Peng is already in a sea of fire now."

"Don't care about it so much for now, immediately organize people to put out the fire, and at the same time send people to control these horses, it's okay to hurt some of them, and we can't let the fire spread any further." Moddy said.

"No."

Mo Di looked at the raging fire, and he was very sure in his heart that it was the Qin army that had attacked the camp, because this was the usual method of the Qin army. The Qin State defeated the Xiongnu twice head-on, both of which were used first, attacking the camp at night and lighting a fire to the camp, so that the war horses were frightened and began to flee. The lethality of the galloping war horses was stronger than that of the Qin soldiers, because the soldiers did not dare to kill and injure the war horses at will.

Mo Di looked at the fire spreading in front of him, and regardless of his identity as the main general, he snatched the bucket in the hands of the soldiers on the side and rushed towards the sea of fire.

While the rebel soldiers were fighting the fire, Ziyou had already come to the outside of the granary again, and there were not many soldiers guarding the grain and grass at this time. In order to mobilize the soldiers guarding the granary, Ziyou set fire to the road all the way, in order to spread the fire to the vicinity of the granary.

The remaining guards of the grain and grass were also nervously watching the fire not far away, for fear that the fire would spread. Ziyou took advantage of the fact that their attention was attracted by the fire, so he slipped in.

In a no-man's land, Ziyou poured some fire oil on top of the grain and grass, lit it with flint, and then quickly moved to another uninhabited place and began to light the fire repeatedly.

The moment the fire in the granary appeared, it was discovered by the soldiers guarding the grain and grass, and then the remaining soldiers began to put out the fire. And Ziyou has come to the farthest place from the place where the fire is burning and lights the flame again.

In this way, he set fire everywhere in the granary, so that the soldiers guarding were exhausted, and they could only watch the fire in the granary gradually spread.

After the mission was completed, Ziyou quietly left the rebel camp.

At the head of Zibo City, Qi Wangjian and Hou Sheng came again, and both of them came after hearing from the people below that the rebel camp was on fire. Qi Wangjian and Hou Sheng looked at the burning rebel camp, their eyes full of joy.

"The Qin army is worthy of being an army of a hundred battles, tired and hurried, and even attacked the rebel camp at night. Burn down the company camp! Burn down the company camp! Qi Wangjian looked at the fire below and said, Qi Wangjian almost applauded at this time. For any monarch, the enemies of another country are far less hated than traitors to their own country.

Hou Sheng on the side also nodded and said, the defenders of Zibo are already very laborious to defend the city, let alone attack the enemy camp at night. The Qi soldiers and attendants on the side watched their kings and ministers praise the armies of other countries one after another, and they may come to attack their country at any time, not to mention what they feel in their hearts.

What are the hearts of the soldiers, Qi Wangjian and Hou Sheng will not think about it, both of them are hardcore surrenderers, and the Qin army is also fierce, the happier they are, only in this way will the opposition in the court and clan of Qi State be smaller.

Soon there was a sound of armor ringing, Qi Wang Jian and Hou Sheng looked at the steps of the city wall, and the commander of the guard led a team of armor soldiers to escort a group of people with five flowers and big ties towards the city wall.

"Minister, meet the king, prime minister." The commander of the Praetorian Guard saluted to Qi Wang Jian and Hou Sheng.

"What are you doing here?" Qi Wang Jian frowned and looked at the commander of the Praetorian Guard and the group of people who were tied up by the Five Flowers. He knew all the people who were bound, some of these people were the Qi clan, and the other part was the henchmen of these clans.

"King Qiyu, these people are the supporters of the rebels outside the city, and it is because of them that there will be rebels in my Qi country." The commander of the Praetorian Guard said and asked the soldiers to escort Tian Zhan up, "Gongzi Tian Zhan is the leader of these people, and the rebels outside were also cultivated by him in Xue Ling City. ”

"What!?" Qi Wangjian looked at Tian Zhan in surprise.

Hou Sheng also looked at Tian Zhan in surprise, at the beginning of mentioning the name Tian Zhan, Hou Sheng couldn't remember who it was, if it wasn't for the Praetorian Guard Commander mentioning Xue Ling City, he wouldn't have remembered it. Although Tian Zhan is a little transparent in the clan, he still has some reputation in Zibo City, and he is the first clan son to be sent in public.

Tian Zhan, who was trapped by the hemp rope, looked at the commander of the Praetorian Guard with anger and murderous intent in his eyes, his mouth was blocked by a sackcloth, but Tian Zhan still kept whining.

"Do you have proof?" Qi Wangjian looked at the Janissary Commander and asked.

Qi Wangjian also knew Tian Zhan, in his impression, Tian Zhan had always been an excluded person, and he was not treated well everywhere, and now he had become the leader of the rebel army that almost overthrew the Qi State, and there were many clans that were his accomplices, which made Qi Wangjian a little unbelievable.

"That's the proof." The commander of the Praetorian Guard took out a stack of letters from his arms, "This letter is after the battle of the rebels, Tian Zhan sent someone to win over the minister, and the minister knew that this person had bad intentions, so he pretended to agree, but in fact, he acted as an intermediary, and waited until he relaxed his vigilance before arresting him." Tonight, he came to find the minister alone, hoping that the minister could lead the forbidden army to rebel, kill the prime minister, and control the king, but the minister is the king's courtier. The king trusted his ministers, so he gave the forbidden army to the ministers, and the ministers must not be able to live up to the king's trust, so after finding out his accomplices, he arrested these people. ”

Qi Wangjian didn't care about the allegiance of the Janissary Commander, but took these letters and read them one by one, some of these letters were written by Zhao State, some were written by the local county orders or county lieutenants of Qi State, some were correspondence between Tian Zhan and the ministers of the court and the clan, and the letter that surprised Qi Wangjian the most was the letter from Tian Zhan and Zhang Liang.

Hou Sheng on the side glanced at these letters, and then glanced at the guards coldly, and when Hou Sheng looked at them like this, the guard commander suddenly began to panic in his heart. His words deceived Qi Wangjian and said that it might not be okay, but in front of the old and refined Hou Sheng, it was just a little nonsense.

Hou Sheng naturally understood what the Commander of the Praetorian Guard thought, and he also knew very well what kind of person this person was, if he was really a loyal minister as he said, then his prime minister would not regard Qi Wangjian as a puppet. But Hou Sheng didn't have the heart to investigate what the Praetorian Guard Commander said now, no matter what the truth was, at this time, the Praetorian Guard Commander caught Tian Zhan to show that he was on their side.

"King, there must be more than these rebellious accomplices in this Zibo City, and now the top priority is to send people to arrest these people in the city, if they find out that Tian Zhan has been arrested, it will not be good to make any crazy moves regardless of it." Hou Sheng said.

Hearing Hou Sheng's words, Qi Wangjian also recovered from the shock.

"King, don't hesitate, this is the time to make a move." Hou Sheng said with a wink at Qi Wang Jian.

Qi Wangjian immediately understood what Hou Sheng wanted to do, and Hou Sheng wanted to take advantage of Tian Zhan's rebellion to arrest all the people in the court who did not agree to surrender to Qin.

"Do what the prime minister says, you are responsible for assisting the prime minister in arresting these people." Qi Wangjian looked at the Janissary Commander and said.

"No!"

"Leave Tian Zhan behind, the widow has something to say to him." Qi Wangjian looked at Tian Zhan and said.

"No!"

After the commander of the Praetorian Guard left four armor soldiers to guard Tian Zhan, he followed Hou Sheng to arrest people.

"Take the sackcloth out of his mouth." Qi Wangjian said.

A soldier took away the sackcloth from Tian Zhan's mouth. After being able to speak, Tian Zhan immediately scolded angrily at the back of the Praetorian Guard Commander

"Despicable and shameless villain!"

Tian Zhan never thought that he would almost be able to control the Qi State, but he was arrested at the hands of a villain like the Commander of the Praetorian Guard. Tian Zhan wanted to stabilize the Praetorian Guard Commander at that time, but as soon as he arrived at the Praetorian Guard's mansion, he was caught by the armor soldiers who had been ambushed, and then Tian Zhan couldn't speak, so the Janissary Commander and the Praetorian Guard armor rushed into the location of the sect and began to arrest his comrades.

"Tian Zhan, if the widow remembers correctly, you should be my cousin's child, you should call me uncle." Qi Wangjian looked at Tian Zhan and said.

"The king, the winner is the king and the loser, although I lost very unjustly, but I admit defeat!" Tian Zhan looked at Qi Wangjian and straightened his chest and said, in order to hide himself, he had bowed to everyone before, but now he could finally straighten his chest in front of the king of Qi.

"Why rebel? Isn't it good for a widow to treat the clan? Qi Wangjian asked.

"The great king treats the people of his clan as never before in the seven kingdoms." Tian Zhan said, "The king supports the clan and makes us worry about food and clothing, but the king forgets that some people are not pursuing food and clothing, but to revive the majesty of the Qi country!" ”

"Qi is majestic, how long has it been since the widow heard these four words." Qi Wangjian looked at Tian Zhan and said with emotion, "You said that you want to revive the majesty of Qi State, but have you thought about it, no one in Qi State is willing to fight anymore, and there is no ability to compete with Qin State anymore." ”

"It's man-made, how do you know if you don't try? Knowing that you can't do it is the act of a great husband. Tian Zhan said proudly.

"Do you know how many people would die like that? Do you know how many people in Qi will die? Qi Wangjian said coldly.

"So what? Wang Tu's hegemony will inevitably be sacrificed! If as long as he dies, Qi Guo repeats his majesty, I am also willing! Tian Zhan said.

Looking at Tian Zhan, Qi Wangjian knew that he couldn't understand the other party, Tian Zhan looked like a big husband for Qi on the surface, but in fact he was just a careerist who even deceived himself.

"Take a look at your army, the Qin army attacked the camp at night, and your rebels are already in chaos." Qi Wangjian looked at the still unabated fire under the city and said.

Tian Zhan looked at the fire in the rebel camp outside the city, and his heart ached, these armies had been cultivated by spending a lot of money and time, and now they had fallen before victory.

"Youyoutian, why can't you stand on my side Tian Zhan!" Tian Zhan gritted his teeth and said.

"Drag it down and hand it over to the prime minister." Qi Wangjian said.

"No!"

The next day, Mo Di and Mo Li looked at the unshakable camp burned by the fire with sad and miserable expressions.

"What about our dead and wounded?" Moli asked.

"The casualties have not yet been calculated, less than half of the horses are left, and all the food has been burned. The elite in our hands has hundreds of casualties. Murdy closed his eyes and said.

Mo Li sighed helplessly, turned to look at Zibo City, where the city gate was still closed, his eyes were full of helplessness. Mo Li didn't know that Tian Zhan had been arrested, he thought it was because the Qin army attacked their camp last night, so Tian Zhan didn't dare to act rashly and didn't start a rebellion in the city.

"The attack of the Qin army has made our plan fall short!" Moli said.

"This is the horror of Ziyou, you can never think of what he is thinking, being an enemy of him, everything about you seems to have been seen through, no matter what you do, you will be recognized by him." Moli said. Mo Li experienced the Battle of Organ City firsthand, and he knew the causes and consequences of the Battle of Organ City, as well as the role Ziyou played in it. It can be said that the reason why Xu Fuzi and Yan Dan failed was because of Ziyou alone.

Before the two of them had time to sigh, a grizzled soldier stepped forward to report that the Qin army was approaching them, led by Ziyou.

Moli and Modi looked at each other, and they knew that the time for a decisive battle had come.

(End of chapter)