In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 6 Burning the Tatars
"what!"

"Brother Lin, are you telling the truth?"

"Is this okay with fire?"

Hearing that Lin Rui had a way to wipe out all the Tatars, Sister Niu and others were shocked and opened their mouths. There were doubts, but more of them were happy.

"As long as everyone is careful, it should be possible! It depends on whether you dare to do it or not."

Lin Rui nodded affirmatively.

Not to mention these women, even if he didn't want to be a slave and wanted to survive, the only way was to kill all the Tatars and occupy their camp.

With no weapons and insufficient manpower, it seemed that there was no other way but to use fire.

There happened to be a lot of hay here, and the Tatar's dog was dead. As long as the two guards were eliminated, the feasibility of the plan was still very high.

"Brother Lin, we all listen to you. Life is worse than death anyway. We might as well fight with the Tatars."

"Yes! I've had enough."

Sister Niu and the others looked at each other, and except for the two timid ones whose eyes were a little evasive, the others nodded.

"Okay! Sister Niu, do you know where the other three Han people are being held?"

As Lin Rui spoke, he took out a dagger and cut off all the ropes on their hands.

"The three of them are even worse than us. They are locked up in the sheepfold over there."

Mrs. Niu moved her wrist and pointed to the sheep pen not far away.

"Come on, let's get them out first!"

After Lin Rui cut everyone's ropes, he took only Mrs. Niu with him. The two of them hunched over and came outside the sheepfold, and saw three figures huddled on a pile of hay.

The hands and feet of these three people were not tied, but they all had leather rings around their necks and were tied to the pillars with ropes. They looked like animals.

"Wake them up first, tell them about the situation, and see how they react!"

"it is good!"

As Mrs. Niu said, she jumped into the sheep pen. The sheep obviously knew Mrs. Niu, but they just bleated a few times and stepped aside.

Mrs. Niu woke the three of them up and explained them. The three of them were so excited that they trembled all over and immediately expressed their willingness to do it. Obviously, they had had enough of this kind of animal-like life.

Lin Rui did not hesitate, but temporarily cut the ropes of the three of them, then took them to the haystack, and then carefully asked about the Tatars' situation.

After understanding it, Lin Rui became more confident.

Because of the cold weather, in order to save burning materials, dozens of Tatars only crowded into ten tents. Excluding the elderly and children, there were only about sixty people in the entire tribe who had fighting ability. They had lost almost half of their men in the battle with the wolves just now.

At that time, these women were hiding in the haystacks and did not dare to move. In addition, the wolves were targeting the sheep, so they were not attacked. Although the three people in the sheepfold were not injured, they were still very frightened.

The three of them are not very old, the eldest is in his early twenties, and the youngest is about the same age as Lin Rui.

"By the way, Brother Lin, besides us, there are two Han Chinese here, but they have been captured for several years. Do you want to call them here too?"

Sister Niu said suddenly.

"Oh? Where are they being held?" Lin Rui was overjoyed. In this way, including himself, there were 18 of them.

"The two of them live alone in a small tent. The Tatars usually treat them well and eat better than us."

Mrs. Niu pointed to a small tent in the distance.

"Well, that's it. Let's ignore them for now, lest they do bad things."

Lin Rui thought about it and had no intention of calling the two of them over to act together.

After all, it's hard to tell what the attitude of the two is. If the Tatars are alarmed by their obsession, they will be completely ruined.

Everyone nodded after thinking about the two people's usual attitudes towards them.

Lin Rui then revealed all his plans, allocated manpower, and after repeatedly telling him what to pay attention to, he approached the two Tatars who were keeping watch.But after reaching the vicinity, they found that there was no way to kill them. The two Tatars were awake, warming themselves by the fire and drinking kumiss. It was almost impossible to kill them in one fell swoop without making any noise.

"You guys make some noise. I'll hide with the three of them later. If only one Tatar comes, don't move. I'll take care of it. If two of them come together, you three will be responsible for dealing with the other one." , remember to hold his hand from behind first, cover his mouth, and not let him swing the knife and scream..."

"Ok!"

Although the three of them nodded, sweat was almost breaking out on their foreheads in the cold weather, which showed that they were very nervous.

Then the four of them hid behind the haystacks, one on the left and the other on the right, and Aunt Liu and the others also made some noise.

Sure enough, not long after, two Tatars came over to check, holding knives and cursing, thinking that these female slaves were dishonest and wanted to escape.

As soon as the two came to the haystack and were about to count the number, Lin Rui jumped out from the left and hit a Tatar hard on the back of the head with the handle of his knife, knocking him out instantly.

The other Tatar reacted very quickly and struck at Lin Rui with his knife. Lin Rui couldn't dodge, so he had to use the dagger to hold it. As a result, the dagger was knocked away with a clang, and he stumbled backwards and fell to the ground. .

Seeing that the Tatar was about to attack Lin Rui with his knife again, the three people hiding behind the haystack on the right finally rushed out.

The person at the front immediately hugged the Tatar's knife-wielding arm, the other hugged the Tatar's head and covered his mouth tightly, and the last person desperately hugged the Tatar's arms with both hands. waist.

The Tatar immediately started struggling violently, howling angrily from his mouth.

The three of them tried their best, but they couldn't restrain the Tatar. They were about to break free. The cow sisters in the haystack wanted to step forward to help, but they were afraid of being stabbed by the knife in the Tatar's hand, so they could only do it in a hurry. Watch.

In the end, Lin Rui rolled to the ground, picked up the dagger, rolled in front of Tatar and stood up, and stabbed him hard in the heart.

A set of movements is performed smoothly, cleanly and decisively.

It wasn't until the Tatar fell softly to the ground that the three of them let go and collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath. Lin Rui was worried and stabbed his throat again, and then killed the other Tatar who had been knocked unconscious. He also sat paralyzed. on the ground.

"Brother Lin, are you okay?"

Only then did Sister Niu and the others heave a sigh of relief and quickly climbed out of the haystack to help the four of them up.

"There is no danger, let's take action!" Lin Rui waved his hand, secretly saying that the quality of this body is really poor.

Although there was a bit of noise here just now, it was well covered up by the howling wind, and the sleeping Tatar was not disturbed.

Then everyone, led by Lin Rui, each picked up a bundle of hay, walked lightly to the outside of the tents, then gently piled the hay along the tent, and then went back to hold it.

During this period, even Lin Rui's heartbeat accelerated nervously, not to mention the other 15 people, whose hands and feet were trembling all the time.

Fortunately, women are more attentive and did not make any mistakes.

It may be that the fighting in the first half of the night left the Tatars exhausted both physically and mentally, so they slept very deeply until a circle of half-man-high hay was piled outside the ten tents, and they were still sleeping soundly inside.

"Get ready to light the fire. Remember, you must start from the door of the tent, and then light it in sequence, and the speed must be fast..."

Each of the 16 people held two hay bale torches in their hands. Under Lin Rui's greeting, everyone first lit the torches in their hands on the fire, and then each went to the assigned tent to start lighting the fire.

There are ten tents, six of which are large, and two people are responsible for lighting each tent, while the remaining four small tents are lit by one person.

I saw that everyone first set fire to the hay stacked at the entrance of the tent, and then continued to set fire to the hay piles on both sides.

With the help of the wind, the fire was extremely fast and spread wildly as soon as it was ignited. In a moment, the entire camp was ablaze.

When the fire first started, some Tatars inside woke up and wanted to rush out from the door.

But the door was the first to catch fire, and the hay was piled the most. When the Tatars found the long knife in panic and tried to break open the tent from other directions to escape, the fire had spread from the door to both sides in a circle, completely engulfing the tent. Tents were surrounded and burned.

And more Tatars were not awakened until the fire started completely. For a while, screams and screams of terror filled the entire camp.

The Tatars in the ten tents were like headless flies, scurrying around, trying to escape, but they were blocked by the fire and had no way to escape. In the end, they could only be burned alive and choked to death.

After the fire completely started, Lin Rui and everyone had to retreat far away to avoid the heat wave.

At this moment, listening to the miserable screams of the Tartars, everyone clenched their fists and felt extremely happy. Some women even laughed madly, and some knelt on the ground and cried loudly after laughing.

(End of this chapter)