The folk proverb says "The lantern is turned on in the 15th day of the first lunar month". It seems that when it comes to this day, some wind and snow will blow in the sky, and this year is no exception. Although it is not very big, you can feel the snow particles in the cold wind constantly hitting the face.

Looking at the fireworks exploded in Tongguan City, Taoist Niu knew that the time for the attack was up.

Instead of rushing to order to set the fire immediately, he stood in the upper wind and slowly shook a scarf.

Taoist Niu knows that those who want to accomplish great things must be cautious everywhere. There is never any plan in the world. The so-called magical tricks are just the word "careful".

He looked carefully at the scarf in his hand, and saw that the scarf was wrapped in the wind and snow, swaying in the wind. However, the tail spikes always point to the south.

"The so-called world and the world come together, and now the north wind is tight. It seems that the heroes are destined to have such a disaster. Now, it is no wonder that I am cruel and vicious!"

Taoist Niu calmed down, put away the scarf, gestured with his hand, and signaled that he could start setting fire.

The soldiers next to him received orders, and a whistle arrow shot into the sky. The "arson team" north of the Daxia Camp and the "house-piercing team" on the side of the civilian houses heard the arrow's order, and they all roared and started the action almost at the same time!

In the sky above the north of the Great Hero Camp, a large piece of it was dyed red by flames almost instantly.

Facing the direction of the fire, the Taoist Niu murmured like a actor: "It's really your misfortune to be born in the same era as me. Struggle, in the abyss of fire and darkness..."

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Feng Qi, the vegetable head, is a good crop that can be counted in Tongguan City, and the vegetables grown are big and green. In addition, the virtues of his ancestors have accumulated, leaving behind several acres of good fields by the Yellow River. So despite these chaotic years, Feng Qi's life is still pretty good.

A few years ago, he expanded his house and courtyard walls outwards. He also married a good wife, which is a rare well-off family in Tongguan.

Because it was the slack season, Feng Qi had nothing to do in the evening. He took off his shoes and went to the kang early, smoked two bags of dry tobacco, and asked his wife to get foot washing water, and was about to burn her feet to sleep.

Suddenly, the gate of the yard was kicked open by several big men who looked like wolves and tigers. Before he could react, he was dragged out of the yard with his wife.

Feng Qi thought that a bandit had entered the city, so he was so scared that he trembled all over. His wife was even more inexperienced. She simply fainted when she turned her eyes.

After Feng Qi finally calmed down, he realized that the big men who dragged him out were not bandits at all, but the Dashun Army!

However, these Dashun troops are worse than bandits. At least bandits are fair in kidnapping, and they can even discuss the amount of ransom based on your wealth. But I have never heard of any bandits and bandits who are so vicious that they can demolish houses.

But the Dashun Army in front of us didn't listen to your explanation at all, took out the shovel draft and scattered it randomly. In an instant, it pushed down its newly built tiled house and turned into a piece of rubble.

This is a terrible thing! Feng Qi's eyes were red, so he wanted to fight with these Dashun troops. At this time, his wife also woke up and pulled Feng Qi desperately to prevent him from stepping forward.

Feng Qi's eyes turned around, trying to find a stick or brick to fight these Dashun troops, but accidentally saw the Niu Taoist priest in the fire.

Feng Qijiu delivered vegetables in Tongguan City, and the Dashun Army had eaten many of its own dishes. I don’t know how many times he has been to the Supervisor’s Office, so he has seen people like Ma Shiyao and Niu Taoist Magi many times.

When he saw that the leader was Taoist Niu, he felt even more angry and thought to himself:

"This magic Taoist priest is the most stingy on weekdays. When he is delivering vegetables to the army, if he meets him, he will definitely pick a few words. What kind of vegetables are not watery, insects and yellow leaves, and he will try every means to wipe off some fractions of them.

In order to make a long-term living of delivering vegetables, he not only did not have the same knowledge as him, but also sold his face. Whenever he met this magnificent Taoist priest, he would take the initiative to reduce some money. I didn’t expect that today he was the one who took the lead in shaving his house. Isn’t this avenge of kindness and revenge!"

Because he was an acquaintance he often met on weekdays, Feng Qi was no longer afraid. He broke away from his wife's hand and rushed over to Taoist Niu, wanting to argue with him.

When several personal soldiers saw that some people came forward, they thought it was going to be unfavorable to Taoist Niu, so they hurriedly reached out to stop him.

Seeing that Feng Qi could not get in, he started scolding the matriarch of Taoist Niu at the top of his throat.

When Taoist Niu heard the scolding, he looked up and recognized Feng Qi, who was usually sent to the army to deliver vegetables, and signaled the soldiers to let him come.

Feng Qi was already full of anger and walked to Taoist Niu in a few steps. But when he saw the murderous look of Dashun soldiers around him, he calmed down a little and did not go up and tear him directly. Instead, he pointed to Taoist Niu's nose and said, "I'm the one with you, why are you wronged and resentful? Just take someone to demolish my house."

Taoist Niu looked at Feng Qi's distorted face, and sighed, pointing at the fire that had risen in the north with his fingers, and said:

"Old Feng, I know that you hate me now, and I actually have nothing to explain to you.

Have you seen the firelight over there? I have already ambushed a large group of people and prepared tinder oil and dry firewood. Today I will burn the camps of these heroes and burn them to the fire.

But water and fire are incompatible. With the north wind together, it does not recognize what a hero's camp is or which one is called the house of the people. As soon as the fire arrives, it will disappear in an instant.

If I don’t dig out a few fire-proof open spaces, one of them will be damaged by the flames. In an instant, the entire Tongguan City will be turned into ashes."

As he said that, Taoist Niu paused and continued:

"All of them are old acquaintances, why would I want to do this? But I had no choice but to do this. Han Feizi said, "The heroes violate the ban with martial arts." These heroes cannot be punished. If they are not eradicated, they will sooner or later be a big conscience for me. Everything must be discussed, and everything must be based on the great cause of the country.

I know that you can't listen to this, so I won't tell you anything about empty talk about "The people who are content with your own will also worry about the country."

If you want to blame this, you blame the bad location of the house. Who made it close to the camp of these heroes? Even if I don’t go to dig your house, your house will definitely not be able to be saved even if the fire occurs.

However, Tongguan City is where your ancestors live for generations, and the surrounding areas are all the hometowns of your relatives. I am sad that your home is gone, but you can bear it and let the houses of the people in the city be burned out?

So if you cut off your house, you can be considered as giving up the small and protecting the big one, taking into account the overall situation. The people of Tongguan will also remember your sacrifices and contributions today.

If the house is gone, we can build it again. If something happens to this person, everything will be done.

Actually, Lao Feng, you have to thank me for this matter. If I hadn't asked someone to pull you out of your house, you wouldn't have been able to come out later. Eighty percent of your life would be killed in this sea of ​​fire tonight. If this is the case, I will still be your life-saving benefactor."

After listening for a long time, Feng Qi finally heard it clearly. It turned out that this Taoist Niu was cruel and had to set fire to burn all these heroes to death in the camp overnight.

He is just a vegetable farmer, how much culture can he have? Before he could say anything, Taoist Niu talked endlessly and kept his whole body full of words back.

But no matter how much Taoist Niu has a grudge with the heroes, he can't control himself, but the matter of digging a house in the middle of winter is too immoral. And I don't know how Taoist Niu was talking about this. He not only digged his house, but also inexplicably became his savior!

Feng Qi walked around the place for a long time, but he didn't think about how to scold Taoist Niu. He couldn't help but tremble his lips and pointed at the house that had been broken into ruins, so angry that he couldn't speak.

Finally, Feng Qicai stomped his feet hard and said:

"After all, hasn't the fire you mentioned yet? If I really burned, I wouldn't have any words to tell you if you cut off my house for the sake of the people of Tongguan!"

Taoist Niu smiled and shook his head and said, "The general is ready for the future and expects the enemy to take the initiative. You are a vegetable farmer in the countryside. How can you know how powerful this fire attack method is? How can you see what a big fire is?

When the fire really comes, do you think it's still too late to think about scattering a house? The fire in the sky is still a few dozen feet away, and it's still too late to think about scattering a house to isolate the fire."

Feng Qi stumbled and said, "Yes... but what if the fire cannot be burned? Then my house will be cut in vain? I always listen to people saying that this soldier is invincible. They are not fools, can they wait for you to burn? What if the heroes come out to put out the fire and put out the fire?"

Taoist Niu would not follow Feng Qi to explain his strategic plan, judge and the structure of the hero camp, and just snorted heavily and said, "Is it a blessing to be burned under the flames? If this fire cannot be burned, I will cut off my head and apologize to you."

"This is what you said, I'm waiting for you!" Feng Qi cursed a few more times, sat down next to him, looking at the place where the fire was flashing in the north, and stopped talking.

Taoist Niu also carried his hands behind his back, looking at the faint fire in the north, waiting for a while to burn the camp, slaughtering all the heroes here.

The two of them looked north together, standing and sitting silently...

It took a long time.

Taoist Niu was surprised to find that the sky in the north was not as bright as he imagined, but seemed to be much darker than at the beginning. He couldn't help but wonder and thought:

"Probably this will be a dark fire, and the fire has already burned into the inside of the shack. After it is burned for a while, the north wind outside will ignite, and the open fire will rise."

After a while.

The north wind really bulged, but Taoist Niu found that not only did the fire burn without the wind, but it became much darker. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't even see the fire in the north.

Taoist Niu knew that something must have happened, so he urgently summoned all the soldiers around him and gathered about a few hundred people. He also asked the soldiers to lead a horse and flew onto the horse. He hurriedly rushed towards the camp north of the hero.

Seeing this, Feng Qi next to him trotted all the way and followed closely.

When Taoist Niu ran to the ignition place that was scheduled to be found in the north, he was shocked to find out. This scene was completely different from the scene in his mind.

In his imagination, it must have been discovered by the heroes because these soldiers who set fire did not work closely. As a result, the fire did not burn. Moreover, this place must have become a battlefield. I am afraid that these soldiers who were arranged to set fire to be cut and killed by the heroes on the spot.

But who expected that when he arrived at the place, he found that the fire had not been released. There were a lot of people around the camp of the heroes. There were dozens of places that could be sparsely.

However, the soldiers he arranged was not hurt at all, but instead mingled with many heroes.

The heroes did not go to put out the fire, but kept holding firewood into the fire. Many heroes were wearing bamboo sticks and wooden sticks and wearing meat skewers by the fire to roast them. Everyone looked happy.

Several of the Shunjun from Shaanxi took off the helmets on their heads, used them as clappers, and sang Qin Opera. There were many rounds of clapping and applause from around them, which was a festive atmosphere!

"What's going on?" Dao Shi Niu asked in a low voice.

The general in charge of setting the fire saw Taoist Niu coming, and hurriedly ran over and told Taoist Niu that the whole story passed by:

Not long ago, as soon as the Daoist Niu was issued the order, the hundreds of soldiers responsible for setting fires piled up the wood fences of the Dahe camp, poured tinder oil on them, and started to ignite one by one.

At the beginning, the fire was extremely fierce, and it almost instantly became a whole. Everyone applauded and celebrated, thinking that the errand was done.

But who expected that all the fire was just the fire-striking items he brought. The heroes' wooden fence and bark shed were not damaged in the fire. Even the hot tincture oil splashed on it was useless. Like oil beads on the wall of the pot, large balls of slid down from the fence, gathered into a pool under his feet, burning wildly.

But it turned out that when the main god Bai Quanyi was building these shacks, although the materials used for building them were tree bark, the density and even materials of these barks had been modified.

He didn't think about fire prevention at the time. He just felt that the house built with tree bark might not be very strong, so he had to find a way to make it stronger so as not to rework again in the future.

So the surface of these shacks looks like they are all tree bark, but in fact, they know the molecular structure inside it and what material is in the universe.

This is like the wooden piers and wooden bridges carved out of cement in the park. It looks like wood, but in fact it is all cement lumps. If this thing can be burned, it will be truly ecstasy.

So the fire did not ignite from beginning to end, and it was all burning the fire-induced objects brought by the Dashun Army. Although many of these fire-induced objects were prepared, they burned quickly and extinguished quickly, so the fire became smaller and smaller.

And this movement still alarmed the heroes in the camp. However, they did not realize that this was the Dashun Army's fire attack method, because today is the Lantern Festival, the city is full of lanterns, and there are many bonfires and lanterns to celebrate.

So they thought the Dashun army and the people were having fun together, so they saw that the bonfires were about to be extinguished. They hurriedly picked up some dead branches, hay and other nearby, and added them to the flames that were about to be extinguished.

A few days ago, many war horses died in the Tongguan battlefield. Because the heroes also had a hunger and thirst setting, many heroes also cut some horse meat into the package for backup.

However, these horse meats are all raw meat, and the effect of replenishing physical strength is different from that of cooked horse meat. At this time, I saw a bonfire lit outside, so I also found some bamboo sticks and wooden sticks to skew the horse meat, and happily took it to the fire to roast it.

These heroes were so heroic that when they saw the soldiers of Shunjun next to them, they cut off the roasted horse meat and shared them together.

Originally, Taoist Niu gave the order to ask the soldiers in the north to carry more firewood and grass, be responsible for setting fire to the camp, and the soldiers in the south to carry strong bows and crossbows, be responsible for killing the heroes who missed the net.

Therefore, these soldiers who set fire are mostly fire-driven objects, and even some weapons are short weapons for self-defense. As for shields, bows and arrows, there are no such things as any.

At first, when they saw the heroes coming out of the camp, they were quite nervous. They thought they would have to fight these heroes to death.

As a result, these heroes were amiable. They not only helped to add firewood, but also grilled meat skewers and shared them with everyone. The soldiers of Dashun were afraid of exposing their sacredness and did not dare to do anything, so they barely ate some.
To be continued...