Guo Ning paid no attention to the idle people on the roadside. He smoked and burst into flames, and in an instant he was a hundred steps deep into the fire.
Such a fire must have been carefully calculated in advance, a huge amount of igniting objects must have been arranged, and the fires must have been ignited simultaneously by capable hands.
At present, the scale of the fire has expanded to more than two miles to the left and right of Nanxunmen Street; it has covered two large vegetable fields in the city before slowing down slightly.
God knows why the officials in Kaifeng City are so bold. If such a fire is not controlled, half of the outer city can be burned down!
The Jurchen nobles are huddled in the inner city. Do they really not regard the people living scattered in the outer city as human beings? It's really funny to say that before Guo Ning entered the city, he was thinking about killing people, but when he got here, he had to be busy rescuing people.
After all, the sudden advance of Li Ting's troops was due to Guo Ning's order. He could not watch Li Ting and other soldiers perished in the fire, nor could he act wantonly like those Jurchens who broke their jars and smashed them!
As his status gets higher and higher, Guo Ning becomes more and more accustomed to bloody and ruthless methods. However, in any case, he is not a cold-blooded politician, let alone an ambitious man who thinks about glory and wealth. Instead, he always stands with the leaders. Warriors together.
A warrior has a warrior's stance, and there are things a warrior must do! He got closer to the fire scene and watched carefully. The fire spreading from Nanxunmen Street no longer looked like a winding wall of fire, but more like a huge, living fire, which was being pushed around at will. scattered.
Under the blazing sun, the red color of the flames is inconspicuous. Only when thick smoke clouds rise and block the sun can you see the red tongues of fire, constantly devouring abandoned houses, dilapidated tents, and even piles of wood and bricks everywhere.
As the flames flickered, heat continued to generate, attacking the people who were scurrying around the edge of the fire like ants.
The water Guo Ning poured on his forehead and hair was quickly dried by the hot air. The high temperature of the air made his skin feel scorched and his eyes stung.
More sweat soon poured into his eyes, and the surface of the sweat was immediately covered by black-gray smoke floating in the air, leaving black marks on his face.
At this time, a group of naval officers were busy urging their war horses to knock down all the houses near the fire on both sides of the road, and then tied the wood with ropes to drag them away to prevent the fire from spreading.
Occasionally, people cried and shouted to stop them, but they were driven away without mercy. Looking towards the center of the fire scene, there are several queues extending continuously. Each queue is composed of more than a hundred people. Each person stands a few feet apart, relaying buckets of water transported by vehicles into the fire scene and splashing it everywhere.
But this manpower was nothing compared to the rolling flames, and their results in putting out the fire and saving people were also insignificant.
They went no more than ten feet deep into the fire scene and dragged out more than ten people from the smoking ruins. Unfortunately, almost everyone they rescued was dying.
Some soldiers still had breath in their mouths and noses, but their body and limbs were burned like coke. Even the armor on their bodies was still emitting high heat. The palms of the rescuers were immediately blistered when they touched it.
There was also a soldier who kept roaring when he was dragged away from the fire. The roar was heartbreaking, because most of his face, including his eyes, nose and facial features, were almost like wax, burned and melted!
With such injuries, there is almost no hope of survival; any idea of rescuing them will only make them suffer for some time.
This situation is also torture for the soldiers who launched the rescue. The officer leading the team stared at the horrific bodies, vaguely recognizing these people as his familiar comrades, and his eyes almost started to bleed.
"You bitch, how dare you set fire... kill them! I want to kill them!" the officer shouted repeatedly, but he didn't know who he wanted to kill and how to kill them.
He tossed and turned, yelled and cursed a few words, and then poured a bucket of water on himself. He pointed to a direction in the fire scene that was blocked by piles of wood, and shouted hoarsely: "There! There! Just now I heard clearly that someone was asking for help! There must be living people over there! And there are quite a few of them! I'll rush once , try to find them, you follow me, prepare to pour more water on me!"
"General, are you going to charge again?" Several soldiers looked at the blisters on their bodies and all looked embarrassed. They all stared fiercely, and when they were about to yell and scold, Guo Ning stepped forward without hesitation.
He took several skin bags filled with water from the hands of the soldiers around him and carried them on his shoulders. He also tore off a pair of cloth strips from the sleeves of his robe and covered his mouth and nose. Then he said: "Lead the way, let's charge!" In the midst of the fireworks, everyone felt that the voice that spoke did not sound like one of his subordinates, but they couldn't care less.
He shouted "Hello" and immediately charged forward, with Guo Ning following closely behind. The two figures flashed one after another for a few times before disappearing behind the fireworks.
The attendants did not expect that Guo Ning would feel inadequate when he arrived here, and would personally brave the fire to save people!
"My lord! Don't be so rash!" More than a dozen attendants exclaimed and rushed into the fire scene one after another. The soldiers around him were shocked: "What? The Duke entered the fire scene? Is that man just now our Duke Zhou?" These are the soldiers directly under Guo Ning, and they practice martial arts in the same training ground as Guo Ning every day. Yes, if you don’t look up and see you when you look down, how could you not recognize Guo Ning?
It was just that it was obscured by the smoke and dust, and I was so flustered at the edge of the fire that I didn't even look carefully! At this moment, hearing the attendants exclaiming, the soldiers reacted immediately and felt that they were dizzy and blind.
The two soldiers who dared not advance because they were blistered beat their chests and slapped their heads on the ground, making their foreheads ring loudly: "It's my fault, why do you let the prince of the country take such a risk!" The next moment , more people splashed water on themselves, and then rushed towards the fire.
Many people rushed, coughing and shouting: "Go to the right! The Duke is going to the right, we are following him!" The officers and soldiers of the Song Army who came here pushing the water transport vehicle saw such sacrifices. I was almost dumbfounded by the situation.
The Southern Dynasties had their own heroes, and the Song army also had many heroes who were not afraid of death. But who would have thought that the heroes of the North would have such a style?
How can a leader of a military and political force, who is just a few feet away from being crowned with yellow robes and changing dynasties, do this?
Earlier, Guo Ning jumped down from Qiuxu to help lift the vehicle. Everyone thought he was a certain general in the Ding Navy. They thought this general was very approachable and seemed easy to deal with.
I really didn’t expect that he was Guo Ning! What's more, he didn't expect that he wouldn't stop when he reached the forefront, and suddenly plunged into the fire!
When the Song army went north this time, it was not without private talks about the rise of the navy. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, literature has been favored over martial arts, and the soldiers have been influenced by the ethos. When it comes to Zhou Guogong Guo Ningqi who retired from the army, there is some affection, some admiration, but more, in accordance with the habits of the Song people, he can't help but despise the lower-level warriors.
Especially after Guo Ning personally led his troops into Kaifeng, many people were intimidated by his bravery, but also felt that this person was really too arrogant and bold, and he was not like a king, and something would happen sooner or later.
But at this moment, all the contempt of the Song army officers and soldiers disappeared, and their admiration increased tenfold.
Saying it a thousand times is not worth seeing it with your own eyes. Then Guo Ning was able to personally fight for the rescue of his own soldiers. For such a leader, you may say he seeks death or is frivolous, but from the perspective of an ordinary soldier, how can you not admire him?
The officers and men of the Ding Navy are so blessed. How can they not be envied by having such a commander-in-chief? Is such a commander-in-chief worthy of the soldiers' service?
