The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

In the silence, the sound of 'buzzing' was sent to everyone's eardrums. This was the sound of bowstrings snapping, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air. Everyone looked at the string of wind lanterns on the arrow tower swinging with the wind, but they were disappointed. The wind lantern was still bright, but the arrow missed nothing.

Everyone nervously held their breath and looked around, for fear that the sound of shooting arrows just now would alarm the guards. Fortunately, the enemy army did not make any movement. Perhaps it was because of the strong wind above the arrow tower, which made the ear drums ringing and could not be heard clearly.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of bowstrings reappeared. This time through the Yang with a hundred steps, a string of wind lanterns on the arrow tower shook violently, and then fluttered down. With a slight cracking sound, the wind lanterns caught fire after landing up.

There was a sudden reaction on the arrow tower, and the voice of exclamation and cursing could be heard, Su Jin said softly: "Quick!"

Several men with good archery skills drew their bows together and fired, and the arrows shot out four or five wind lanterns on the wall in an instant.

"Go!" Zhao Chao yelled, and when the lights around him dimmed, he rushed out quickly, threw the grab rope in his hand across the air and hooked it to the wall, his body was as agile as an ape, and he climbed onto the wall in a blink of an eye, followed by everyone On the top, seven or eight hooks hooked onto the top of the wall, and in the blink of an eye, they all climbed up to the top of the wall, and then jumped down one after another. The place where their feet landed was soft, but it was a barren grass.

"Damn it, this light cord just broke after two days of replacement; these bastards in the logistics department are being fooled by their mothers, alpaca, go down and drag them out of bed for me, and whip them hard , I want them to quickly replace the wind lamp." A rough voice on the arrow tower cursed angrily.

"Dutou, don't be angry. It's just that the lights are off. The wind is so strong, so it's no wonder that they will be broken. A dozen strings of wind lanterns are heavy enough, and they are really easy to break." Someone said.

The sound of the words alarmed the patrolling team in Neiyingzhong. A dozen people hurried to the arrow tower and asked loudly what was going on. Taking advantage of the conversation between the upper tower and the lower tower, Su Jin and others quickly walked through the open place and burrowed into the tall grain building. among the piles.

As soon as he entered the grain stacks, Su Jin was in a good mood. It was more convenient to hide among the small hills of grain stacks. Touching the outer shell of the grain stack, my heart suddenly became cold.

These grain stacks are as tall as one person and are made of bricks and stones. They are not made of bamboo mats like the grain stacks of the Song Dynasty. If you want to burn the grain, it is obviously more efficient to burn it from the bottom, otherwise you have to climb Lighting a fire on the upper grain pile is easy to be found, and it is easy to extinguish it; now that things are up to now, Su Jin is not allowed to think about it, so he immediately ordered to switch to the upper air outlet to light the fire, and use the wind to burn the grain stack.

What is depressing is that the wind blows from the northwest in the summer. Maybe the mountains have blocked the normal wind direction. The upwind port is in the northwest direction, but it is overlooked by another arrow tower, and it will be discovered soon.

But Su Jin didn't care too much, and led his people straight to the northwest from the gap between the grain stacks. At first, the defenders on the arrow tower thought it was a small patrol team, but they soon realized that something was wrong. One person actually climbed onto the grain piles, and flames burst out on several piles of grain piles in an instant. With the aid of kerosene and wind power, the flames rose as high as a person in an instant.

"No, someone set fire." The defenders on the arrow tower understood and immediately began to shoot down arrows, and blew their horns.

The ear-piercing sound of horns resounded through the night sky, and the entire barracks was shocked. The defenders of the inner and outer battalions were awakened one after another, and ran out of the barracks to look around and ask what happened?

Someone shouted loudly: "Someone set fire to burn food in the inner camp, quickly put on your armor and get someone to put out the fire."

Only then did thousands of soldiers understand. Seeing that the direction of the inner camp was already on fire, a pungent smell of smoke and heat waves came with gusts of night wind.

Su Jin and the others ignored the bows and arrows that were constantly shot down from the arrow tower, and frantically set fire to the grain stacks. When the two companions accidentally shot blood on the spot, Su Jin was almost shot by a bow and arrow.

Everyone had no time to grieve. Seeing that the fire in the northwest direction had become raging, Su Jin immediately led people straight to the east, because there was a large open space in the middle of the inner camp, which was reserved for loading vehicles, but at this moment it became a natural place to isolate the fire. In the fire zone, with this open space, the fire from the west will not spread to the east at all, and it must be burned cleanly, so Su Jin chose to go straight to the east to set fire;

Soldiers from the inner and outer battalions had swarmed in, and they were a little confused and didn't know what to do. Fortunately, a disheveled general arrived quickly and loudly commanded the confused soldiers to divide into two teams, one part immediately took water to put out the fire, the other part Go straight to Su Jin and others to arrest the arsonist.

The fire was full of smoke and dust, and the scorching flames could not approach people. The black smoke also blocked the soldiers' sight. For a while, they couldn't find Su Jin and the others, but Xia Bing on the arrow tower in the east Looking down from the heights, he clearly pointed out the direction of Su Jin and the others loudly, guiding all the Xia soldiers to come straight.

At this moment, it is not within Su Jin's consideration to be able to get away. Everyone can only quickly climb up one grain pile after another, and light one fire after another. There are fewer and fewer people around them, and they light the eighth grain stack in the east. After stacking, Su Jin suddenly found that Zhao Hu and Zhang Long were the only ones left beside him. It was full of blood.

The soldiers on the arrow tower were shooting arrows while pointing to the direction of Su Jin and the others noisily. Wang Chao yelled and reached out to copy the bow and arrow on his back, only to find that he had lost the bow and arrow at some point. Out of the smoke came straight at him, Wang Chao raised his scimitar and slashed at him, the man shouted, "It's me."

Wang Chao hurriedly stopped, but it was Ma Han who followed behind. Su Jin was overjoyed that Ma Han was still alive, which was better than anything else.

"Master, it's almost time, we should withdraw." Zhao Chao roared.

Su Jin said: "There are people on the top pointing out the direction, so we can't go. We need to disable their eyes first, so that we can escape in the chaos, otherwise we will definitely not be able to escape."

Ma Han reached out to take down the bow and arrow, bent the bow and put the arrow on the arrow tower and shot a few arrows in a row. Two Xia soldiers screamed and fell down the arrow tower. Pointing the direction, soldiers from all directions gathered around despite the billowing smoke, and the sound of their footsteps could already be heard.

"Damn it!" Ma Han roared angrily, threw away his bow and arrow, pulled out his scimitar, ran to the bottom of the arrow tower and slashed fiercely with it. When Wang Chao saw this, he realized that this boy wanted to kill the round wooden legs of the wooden arrow tower. It was cut off, but this arrow tower is extremely strong, there are dozens of pillars below, all of which are big logs as thick as a sea bowl, how could it be possible in time.

Su Jin shouted: "Don't cut it, burn these grandchildren to death." After saying that, he jumped over and poured all the last skin of kerosene on the wooden base of the arrow tower, threw the torch up, and immediately ignited a big fire.

The traces of the enemy were already faintly visible in the smoke, and Su Jin shouted: "Come with me, after that, jump into the burning grain stack alleyway."

Everyone thought that Su Jin was going to set himself on fire here, Wang Chao yelled: "My lord, don't do it!" He hurriedly followed in, a puff of thick smoke almost suffocated him, and Ma Han, Zhao Hu, Zhang Long and three people around him also jumped in, with eyes full of eyes. It was dark and foggy, but there was no sign of Su Jin.

"My lord, my lord." Ma Han howled with a mournful face.

"Howling? Climb down." Su Jin's voice came from in front of him.

Everyone was overjoyed, and quickly lay down on the ground. It was strange that there was half a foot of space below without smoke, and Su Jin was crawling forward not far away with his buttocks sticking out.

The crowd quickly followed, crawled more than ten feet, went around to the south of a grain pile to avoid the scorching heat wave, and then stopped.

"Strange, why is there no smoke on the ground?"

Su Jin rolled his eyes and said in his heart: "I don't have time to explain to you. Hot smoke is lighter than air, so there will be gaps between the ground. The truth that three-year-old children in future generations will know. I'm afraid I will have to explain it to you for a long time."

"Which one of you is holding back your urine?" Su Jin asked nonchalantly.

"This..." Monk Zhanger couldn't figure it out.

"Take out a cloth towel and wet it with urine and cover your face. The west is the direction of the city gate, the south is where the enemy soldiers gather, and the north is the high city wall. So we have to rush through the thick smoke and kill the east camp wall. When we reach the outer wall of the camp, we will But I escaped with the help of the hook rope, the distance is a bit far, not to mention the enemy soldiers, the smoke alone would choke people to death, and I couldn’t climb over, and I was trampled to death.”

Wang Chao and the others were still hesitating, but Su Jin had already taken out the cloth towel and stuffed it into his crotch, hissing in his mouth, and took out the wet cloth after a while.

"Why don't you pee? Do you want to be choked to death by the smoke? Pee quickly, I don't have time to ink with you." Su Jin shouted.

Everyone cried and said with mournful faces: "My lord, I can't urinate."

"Bastard, you lost the chain at the critical moment." Su Jin scolded: "He snatched the black scarves from the hands of the four of them and said: "I will lend you some. After saying that, he frowned and licked his lips and boasted, and after a while, three wet and warm cloth towels were taken out, and they were thrown directly on the faces of the four people.

"Put on wet wipes and rush out with me. This time, take out all the books. Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky. One escapes one by one."

Su Jin tied the black scarf on his face, picked up the scimitar, stood up, and rushed east; Wang Chao shouted: "Ma Han, protect the son, brother Zhao Hu, clear the way with me, brother Zhang Long cut off the back!" , let's rush!"

The four shouted violently, jumped up from the ground, caught up with Su Jin, and went straight to the east to kill.

Chapter [-]: Raising Fire to the Sky