Soldiers come to the world

Wenpin walked to the sand table and pointed a wooden pole at a river in the east of Wancheng, "This is the Weishui, and it is also the source of the moat of Wancheng. The low-lying place is here!"

Wenpin pointed to a small town in the north, "This town is called Xiyangju. It is about ten miles away from Wancheng. The terrain here is the lowest. You can first block the upstream and downstream of the Wu River, cut off the water source of the moat, and then dig the moat. The water is drawn here to form a lake here, and this series of fortifications will take up to three to four days, and the water in the moat can be drained."

Liu Jing shook his head, "I'm afraid I can't wait that long, I'm going to destroy the city tonight!"

Wen Pin was taken aback, "Why are you in such a hurry, Your Highness?"

Fazheng explained: "The key is Xuchang's reinforcements. We have just received news that Xiahou Dun has realized our true purpose and has personally led [-] troops to Nanyang. It is estimated that we will arrive in Ye County tonight. If we get If we don’t go down to Wancheng, the situation will be very unfavorable to us, and the Nanyang campaign will most likely fall short.”

Wenpin was silent, and said for a while: "If we don't need to drain water, we can only use boats to build a pontoon bridge, but there is a large amount of kerosene accumulated in Wancheng, and we will face a great threat."

Liu Jing smiled, "Maybe our Fire Ape won't disappoint us."

'Fire ape? Wenpin was stunned for a moment, who is the Fire Ape?

The overnight search in Wancheng has temporarily stopped, and Cao Jun found nothing. Cao Hong repeatedly asked the officers in charge of searching the big households whether they had thoroughly searched. How high, only they themselves know.

At first, he thought it was very simple, searching all over the city, he could always find these forty people, but after actually searching, he found that the matter was not simple, but there were too many hiding places, which made it impossible for him to search. The important thing is that Cao Hong has realized that letting the soldiers search the city will make him lose the support of the people, and thus lose the assistance of the civilian husbands. He also had to order a suspension of the search.

Now he can only hope to offer a reward for his capture. He raised the reward to 500 taels of gold. If he can provide clues so that Cao Jun can catch the enemy's spies, he will reward him with 500 taels of gold.

In the warehouse of Huang's back house, Ren Ping and others are still patiently waiting for news. Cao Jun has put martial law in the city, and there are patrolling soldiers everywhere. It is easy to be found on the street now. More importantly, he needs the necessary information from the Huang family.

At this time, someone knocked on the door outside the warehouse, and the soldiers raised their crossbow arrows. Ren Ping pouted and let his hand go down to open the door, only to see a figure flash, and a person had already entered the warehouse, "General, it's me!" It was Huang Yu's voice.

Everyone put down their bows and crossbows. Huang Yu took out a neatly folded oil-paper bag from his arms and handed it to Ren Ping, "This is the map the general wants."

Ren Ping was overjoyed, quickly took the map, and spread it out on a wooden box. It was indeed the military defense map he wanted. Ren Ping was surprised. Where did Huang Yu get such an important map?

Huang Yu seemed to understand Ren Ping's thoughts, so he smiled and said, "This is actually the military deployment map embroidered by Zhang in the past, and Cao Jun also used it. Zhang's residence has this map. I sent the housekeeper to Zhang's residence just now to get it."

"Isn't martial law outside?" Ren Ping asked puzzled.

Huang Yu sighed, "Cao Jun is going door to door arresting strong men now! The streets are in chaos, and it doesn't matter if martial law is not enforced."

Ren Ping's heart brightened, he seemed to see an opportunity, but now he had to find the fire oil depot first, this was his mission on this trip, to burn down the fire oil depot in Nanyang County.

Ren Ping carefully checked the military map in front of him. There are more than a dozen warehouses, large and small, distributed in the two military camps of Dongcheng and Xicheng. There was no kerosene in Zhang Xiu's era, so there was no special kerosene depot on it, but there was sulfur on the map. Storage point for fire igniters such as cotton yarn.

Ren Ping quickly locked on the target, which should be in the Dongcheng military camp. The Western city military camp is mainly for food and weapons, while the Dongcheng military camp stores military sundries such as tents, armor, gongs, drums, flags, and logs. It should be placed in the East Day Camp.

Ren Ping pondered for a moment, and said to the crowd: "To carry out the task, there are not many people. It is enough for me and Xiaoliu to go. Everyone can be captured by Cao Jun as strong men and participate in defending the city together."

Everyone nodded. At this time, Huang Yu said from the side: "Cao Jun wants our Huang family to hand over fifty strong men. There are only more than twenty people in our mansion. If you don't mind, you can pretend to be the servants of the Huang family and go to apply for it." .”

Ren Ping immediately agreed, and he gave a few words to a deputy, and then left the Huang Mansion with one of his subordinates. Ren Ping's subordinate was a very thin soldier named Zhao, from Berkshire, nicknamed Xiao Liulang Climbing rocks and trees is like walking on flat ground, he is as agile as an ape, and his skill is no less than Liu Zheng, the leader of the Eagle Strike Army.

Ren Ping's figure was also thin and small, and he was extremely agile and dexterous. From the back, the two looked like two eleven or twelve-year-old boys, and it was impossible to connect them with the strong Han army.

There was chaos on the street at this time, the martial law was meaningless, there were cries and shouts everywhere, and many people ran desperately, but they were blocked by Cao Jun soldiers back and forth, overturned and taken away.

This time, Cao Jun no longer looted property and raped women, but went door-to-door to arrest strong men. As long as they were not old, weak or young, they would all be taken away. When Cao Hong found that the people refused to help spontaneously, he could only arrest them by force. .

Ren Ping and the others did not take the main street, but took the alleys, and when they encountered a dead end, they climbed over the wall. In less than half an hour, they touched the back of the Eastern Camp. The barracks were surrounded by earth walls more than ten feet high. , the outside is covered with dense shrubs and grass, and hundreds of large trees are distributed along the wall.

The two quickly climbed up the most lush tree. In front of them was an open school field, and in the distance were rows of military barracks. On their right side were more than [-] large brick and stone buildings. military warehouse

The two jumped off the tree, ran for more than a hundred steps, and climbed up a big tree. Now they are at the back of the warehouse. "General, there are dozens of warehouses. How can we find them?" Xiao Liulang asked in a low voice.

Ren Ping waved his hand. He was carefully observing these warehouses. He found that three warehouses existed independently and were located in the west. From the perspective of fire prevention, the fire oil depot must be separated from other warehouses.

More importantly, there are only two or three people guarding the gates of other warehouses at most, but there are more than [-] soldiers guarding the three warehouses around them. The security is very strict, which shows that the supplies inside are very important. Just store it here.

The Han army had the experience of burning down the enemy's fire oil depot many times, including Ren Ping himself. He burned down Cao Jun's fire oil depot when he was in Xicheng, and thus got the nickname "Fire Ape". Sub-masonry warehouses are different.

But Liu Zheng burned down the Jiangdong Army’s kerosene depot when he regained Chaisang. That warehouse is very similar to the current warehouse. Ren Ping remembers Liu Zheng said that any kerosene warehouse must have air windows to facilitate the distribution of oil and gas. .

Ren Ping turned his attention to the warehouse again. He searched carefully and found the transom at the back by the eaves. This lifted Ren Ping's spirits, which meant that he was one step closer to the correct answer.

The two descended from the tree again, and carefully climbed up the big tree outside the fire oil depot. Inside the fence under the tree, there were five patrolling soldiers pacing back and forth vigilantly. Ren Ping observed through the branches for a while, and he found that there was almost no chance , the five soldiers did not leave at all.

what to do?Either shoot five soldiers, or continue to wait?It is obviously unrealistic to shoot soldiers. This is the barracks, and there are dozens of patrolling soldiers around the warehouse. Once the enemy is alarmed, hundreds or thousands of people will come running.

Ren Ping looked at the sky again. It was just noon, and it was still early before nightfall. What's more, once Cao Jun started to carry the kerosene, all the kerosene barrels would be moved to the city, and they would have no chance.

As soon as Ren Ping gritted his teeth, he could only take a risk. At this moment, Xiao Liulang touched him and pointed to the gate of the barracks. Only a large number of Cao Jun soldiers poured into the gate of the barracks. Many people were driving carts. Moving supplies.

Ren Ping thought 'hum! With a bang, the thing he was most worried about finally happened. Cao Jun's soldiers must be carrying kerosene.

The situation was critical, Ren Ping didn't hesitate any longer, and took out the crossbow. The arrow is actually a plum blossom-shaped iron hook with a long cable at the end. This kind of crossbow is powerful and can shoot fifty paces away. .

Ren Ping aimed at the transom, pulled the hanging knife, and the arrow shot out, accurately hitting the transom, but the sound of the shooting alarmed the patrolling soldiers below. Several people looked up at the same time and found the rope above their heads. The soldiers of Cao Jun immediately shouted stand up.

"There are spies! There are spies!"

Ren Ping yanked the rope, and the iron hook on the arrow just caught the iron bar on the transom. Ren Ping immediately ordered: "You cover for me, and I will set fire!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Liulang's figure jumped out, grabbed the rope, and crawled towards the transom with great agility. A dozen soldiers of Cao's army came rushing down, and they opened their bows and fired arrows together. Han soldiers in mid-air, but Xiao Liulang had a shield on his back to protect his body, and seven or eight arrows hit the shield, but the moment he jumped towards the transom, a mace arrow puffed! 'Shot Xiao Liulang on the thigh, he trembled in pain and almost fell.

Ren Ping's eyes were red. He tied the rope to a big tree, set up an arrow with his crossbow, and shot at Cao soldiers inside the wall. One soldier screamed and was shot to the ground. There was another person on the big tree, and they all turned their bows and arrows and shot at Ren Ping.

At this time, the entire barracks was boiling. Thousands of Cao Jun soldiers rushed out of the barracks, and together with the soldiers who came to carry the kerosene, they rushed towards the warehouse, and the distance was less than a hundred steps.

Although Xiao Liulang's body is thin, he can't get through the air intake window, but he can see clearly that the warehouse is full of countless barrels of kerosene, and the kerosene barrels are piled up like a mountain. One foot was hooked on the iron bar to stabilize the body, and the whole body was curled up inside the shield.

He pulled out three stainless steel spikes and threw them at the nearest fire oil barrel, 'Crack! ' With a bang, three spikes shot into three kerosene barrels respectively, and the oil barrel cracked a crack, and kerosene began to gush out from the slit.

He quickly took out the fire sickle, but at this moment, two spiked arrows hit Xiao Liulang's vest one after the other.

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