While Hu Ju and Xuan Zhen were looking at each other, Shi Tianni set a fire in the village. ..net
There is also something to be learned about setting fire. If you want the fire to explode quickly and fiercely, you must drop the torches from the center of the village one after another, so that the fire circle will continue to be entrained by the wind as it expands. Combustion-supporting materials such as dry firewood, kerosene, and grass can also be placed in various ways to suit the wind and terrain.
Shi Tianni's subordinate Feng Cun was an expert at setting fires. It only took about half a moment to set fire. The whole village was engulfed inside and outside. The huge pillar of fire seemed to be alive. It rolled up thick smoke and rose into the sky, as if half of the fire was burning. The sky was on fire.
The prisoners who were driven outside the stockade could all see clearly. Everyone exclaimed, and some were shouting angrily.
Those who made exclamations were either relatively peripheral members of the pirates or the crew. The former are generally not qualified to go out to sea for plunder by ship. They are more like the evil slaves used by pirates to drive when they transform into local tyrants and gentry in their hometown. Even if they are really dragged out to rob, most of them will fight against the autumn wind. The latter are mostly just crew members.
The leaders are all dead. They have no desperate stance and are the quickest to surrender. They will not be angry because the stronghold is burned down. There are others who are angry.
Zheng Guang is one of them.
During the fight just now, a straight knife passed over his face. The blade cut into the flesh from the left cheekbone down to the base of his right ear. Half of his face was torn open, and blood flowed profusely. With such heavy injuries, he still resisted until his face was hammered with the handle of the knife again, causing him to faint and fall to the ground.
He was somewhat popular in the pirates' camp, and he was obviously seriously injured and unconscious. There were still people who tried their best to protect him and led him to mix with the prisoners.
At this time, he woke up leisurely and suddenly saw the village being set on fire. There were exclamations all around, and he couldn't help but roar furiously.
He felt like everything was lost.
An innocent and good citizen has lost all his property and is forced to live in poverty. Not to mention his reputation, his wife and son can only become thieves, which is enough to bring shame to the ancestors. But Zheng Guang originally had a little bit of hope, thinking that he might be able to slowly exert his influence among the pirates with his talents, and then guide them to do less harming things, and then find opportunities to respond to the imperial court's call for peace.
Wang Ziqing's previous move to Shanghai was due to his promotion.
But who knows why Wang Ziqing went crazy? Why should a small character like a shrimp want to offend a giant?
It's completely over now! If you want to die, your clan will be destroyed!
The flames grew bigger and bigger, and soon the village was burned to the ground. Zheng Guang was angry, sad, and desperate. He couldn't help but curse, but he didn't know who he was scolding.
The person responsible for guarding the prisoners was Shi Tianni's cousin, Shi Tianxiang, who was famous for his fierceness. Since Shi Tianni's father Shi Bingzhi formed the Qingyue Army, Shi Tianxiang has been following the expeditions from east to west, often as a vanguard, and fought fierce battles with the Jurchens, Khitans, and Mongols.
After a fierce battle just now, Shi Tianxiang felt hot all over, so he took off his helmet, revealing a face covered with scars. Suddenly he heard someone shouting angrily. He turned around quickly and saw Zheng Guang's ferocious face. He couldn't help but be surprised: "This guy is seriously injured. His face is scarier than me. He actually has the spirit to provoke!"
He raised his hand and pointed: "That one who is always swearing, come here!"
Zheng Guang couldn't understand the Yandi accent, but he understood the meaning of this action. He snorted coldly and strode out of the crowd.
Several people in the prisoner queue reached out to pull him. Even among the old men, women and children who were sitting or lying aside and resting, there was a rustling sound. A woman cried loudly, but others covered her mouth.
Zheng Guang didn't care at all, gritted his teeth and stood in front of Shi Tianxiang.
"Since you're looking for death, I'll count you as one." Shi Tianxiang said casually and kicked him into another group of people.
Turning around, Shi Tianxiang swallowed the word "defense envoy" and changed his words: "Commander, after excluding the old and weak from the four hundred prisoners, and then excluding the useful crew members and watermen, there are only one hundred people left. One hundred people. I’ll pick out forty more bosses or lively ones, and they’re all here!”
Shi Tianni looked at the forty people in front of him and waved. A soldier held a number of daggers and daggers and threw them randomly in front of them.
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Here in the state, in addition to Wang Ziqing and his gang, there is another group of pirates who own the manor on Thursday and Saturday. Although he was not there on Thursday and Saturday, the leader who was responsible for staying behind would definitely send people to check out the fire when he saw the fire in Kuling. When they come, I will go. I want twenty people to take us to the manor overnight; I also want these twenty people to falsely open the gate of the village in the name of asking for help and enter the village to fight! "
Shi Tianni said calmly, and next to him there was a maritime merchant selected from the meat tickets, who spoke every sentence with a local accent in a trembling voice.
Zheng Guang sneered a few more times.
I heard Shi Tianni continue to say: "You forty people are all evil people, so half of them will die! I only need twenty people! If you kill others, you will be our own partner. If you do this, Done properly, not only will you receive a generous reward, I will protect your future as a glorious ancestor! If you die, I will also protect your family and your family's wealth for the rest of their lives! Let's do it now!"
Zheng Guang continued to sneer.
There are forty people here, and there are only twenty who are qualified to live and serve. This method of forcing the surrender of certificates is too crude.
But what about roughness and fineness? I don’t want to live anyway, so why should I hand in a certificate of nomination? Die, just die here, everyone dies, it's all over.
What, a future? What, Guangzong Yaozu? What, the family will be rich for a lifetime?
It's such a big tone, you think I'm a fool...but what if that's true?
What if?
I have to live!
All the chaotic thoughts suddenly disappeared, and Zheng Guang jumped up suddenly.
The pirate leader closest to Zheng Guang was flying towards the dagger. But he never thought that Zheng Guang's target was not the dagger, but himself.
The pirate leader's fingers were about to touch the dagger, and Zheng Guang's hands had already grasped his face. He suddenly turned his head to dodge, and five scratches were torn out on the left side of his face.
The next moment, he screamed miserably and his right eye went black. Those were the two index fingers of Zheng Guang's left hand, and they all stabbed into his eye sockets!
The pirate leader held the dagger and stabbed in front of him.
Zheng Guang raised his right hand to meet him, and the sharp edge of the dagger easily penetrated the flesh of his palm, and then pried the bones of his palm. The entire right hand was covered in blood and flesh, and the pain pierced his heart and lungs. Zheng Guang screamed loudly, and the wound on his face was completely torn, and blood surged wildly.
But this does not affect Zheng Guang's left hand!
He roared and screamed, and threw himself on the pirate leader. He hung on the opponent's eye socket with two fingers of his left hand, tearing it wildly inside! The pirate leader's eyes exploded, his blood vessels were disconnected, his nerves were tangled up, and his muscles and fat were intertwined with each other, bursting out from between his fingers!
Zheng Guang continues to tear! He pulled his opponent's eye sockets with his fingers and shook him back and forth and left and right as hard as he could!
The pirate leader suddenly screamed wildly, his hands and feet became stiff, and his whole body stopped moving.
Zheng Guang gasped crazily and slowly stood up with the dagger embedded in his metacarpal bone. He smiled at Shi Tianni. When he smiled, his upper and lower lips, which were divided into four pieces, were twisted and blood dripped down, making him look like an evil ghost.
He pulled out the dagger with his backhand and shouted sternly: "I have already killed one! No matter where you come from, I am willing to serve you!"
"This guy is interesting." Shi Tianxiang chuckled.
The remaining thirty-eight people around him were still fighting to the death. Under the firelight, the light of swords and blood appeared one after another, and screams and groans came one after another. Only this one ended the fastest and the most tragically. Shi Tianni looked at Zheng Guang and nodded with satisfaction: "If this person can survive, he can be used!"
After Yin Shi, the sky began to get brighter.
In the west of Fuzhou City, to the north of the West Lake Watergate built by the King of Fujian, behind the Chenglan Pavilion, a rather impressive manor was brightly lit.
There is a makeshift checkpoint at the main entrance of the manor. In front of the checkpoint, the right-hand man of the village owner Thursday and Saturday, Thursday Qi, who ranks seventh in the clan, is wearing a fur and holding a steel knife.
He had previously sent two groups of nearly a hundred men, fully armed, to explore Guling, but there had been no response yet. Even the gates of Fuzhou City were closed, and all the familiar soldiers in the city pretended to be deaf and mute.
Thursday Qi felt very strange and became increasingly vigilant. He mobilized all the strong men and women in the village to be on guard, while his own family was waiting at the door.
Looking at the firelight among the mountains in the distance, I waited for news.
Suddenly there was a roar of footsteps not far away. Thursday Qi looked ahead warily and shouted loudly: "Who is it!"
"Master Zhou Qi! It's me! It's me, Zheng Guang!"
There were many footsteps in the shadows of the night, and someone responded sternly: "Master Qi! I have something important to report!"
Who is Zheng Guang?
Thursday Qi thought about it and had no impression. It wasn't until a man ran into the light of the fire that he squinted for a while and was suddenly surprised: "Are you Master Zheng from Guling Village? How did you become like this? Was your village attacked by strong thieves?"
When these words came out, Thursday Qi felt a little ridiculous. The pirates themselves are the most fierce thieves in the coastal military states. Where can there be stronger thieves? How could anyone disturb Tai Sui's head?
Thinking of this, Thursday Seven took a few steps forward. Then he spotted more figures in the night.
It was a tall figure wearing thick black armor, looking like a beast.
A chaos caused by the great pirate Alibaba and his forty thieves quickly spread to the surrounding areas.
On Lanshan Island, in the security courtyard, Zhang Liangpeng threw down a book: "This is a newspaper from Quanzhou. It says that there is a big pirate named Alibaba. Between Luliang, Tong'an and Huizhou, there are sailing soldiers and rhinoceros. When all of them are on the run, one is worth a hundred, and the brave men of his subordinates are called the Forty Thieves, who cannot be restrained by the officers and soldiers."
Zhang Liangpeng threw out another book: "This is a newspaper from Zhangzhou. It says that outside the Jiaoguan Pass, the pirates are raging, looting and running rampant in the daytime. The passenger boats do not dare to go out of the river unless thirty or fifty ships have the combined momentum." Enter the sea."
Zhang Liangpeng threw the third booklet in front of Zhou Keshan: "This is a newspaper from Chaozhou on Guangnan Road. It says that there is a pirate named Ali Baba who has dozens of bandits attached to him. Wherever he goes, he plunders and plunders. They harmed civilians and set fire to people in the Chao and Lianhai areas."
Zhang Liangpeng threw out the fourth book: "This is a report from the Xinghua Army. It is said that the pirate Alibaba has recently gathered his boat divisions in Haitan Mountain, Meihua'ao and other places, and crossed the sea dragon and rolled the sea dragon fire with the pirates on the same route. And, it affected the local area, burning and plundering more than ten villages, villages, and stockades, causing the people to suffer."
"And these! All of them!" Zhang Liangpeng turned around and picked up a thick stack of books and placed them heavily on the table. With a loud bang, a plate of buttered abalone was knocked to the ground, and two rhinoceros horn cups rolled around.
"The response strategy we agreed on earlier is not like this!" The Song Dynasty's coastal defense envoy was furious.
