After waiting for half an hour, the team of 6,000 people finally passed.
Half an hour later, more than a thousand civilians came slowly in carts, pulling provisions, horse supplies, tents and other baggage.
There were about a battalion of guard soldiers, wearing tattered mandarin duck jackets, guarding the convoy on all sides.
The peasants were all sitting on the shafts of the carriages, dozing off. In the middle of the night, these wolf-like soldiers whipped them up from the kangs of the cart shops with whips, and drove them in the middle of the night. They were all very sleepy.
They didn't dare to resist. Mr. Zuo was very fierce and chopped two guys who tried to escape on the spot.
The soldiers were all in front, and the ones guarding the grain and baggage trucks were a group of Yanqing Guard soldiers. All of them were skinny and sluggish when walking.
"Old Cao, why did Deputy Shen Qianhu bring us here in the middle of the night? He didn't sleep all night long."
"Old Wen, if you don't know, something big has happened. The Japanese pirates are back and have captured Tianjin."
"What the hell, Tianjin. That's a fortified city. Why did it fall?"
"Who knows, the Ming Dynasty is in a terrible state now. It's not the same at all. The world is as black as crows."
"Then what are we going to do? We're not going to fight Japanese pirates, right? My mother is a young girl, and I've never fought in a war. Isn't this just going to the toilet with a lantern and looking for death?"
"I heard that a group of Japanese pirates went north and landed in Zhangjiawan. It seemed that they were heading for the capital. The court was panicked. The superiors asked us to intercept them. Our guardsmen are just escorting them, so it's okay. We still need to set up troops to fight a war. Come on, can Wei fight? Stop joking."
The words have not yet fallen. Then I heard a loud bang from the Crouching Tiger Cannon. Countless Japanese pirates wearing Japanese armor emerged from the reeds bordering the lake on the south side of the road.
He yelled rudely in Japanese and ran over while jumping. Set off firecrackers while running.
This is Yang Fan's instruction. They are all garbage soldiers, so just scare them away. There is no need to do more killing.
"Oh my god, this, this is a Japanese pirate," Lao Shen was startled. These people wearing ghost face masks are too scary.
Lao Cao threw away his whip and ran away.
"Wait for me" Lao Shen also hurriedly chased after him. Unexpectedly, the soldiers in front did not encounter the Japanese pirates, but civilians like me did. It was really unlucky.
The guardsmen who were yawning and holding their guns suddenly woke up. They ran faster than the civilians and threw away their weapons. I hate myself for missing two legs.
Yang Fan didn't really want to fight, so he walked slowly over with his people, and saw a fifteen or sixteen year old kid standing there stupidly in the car.
The child was probably too frightened to even run away.
Yang Fan kicked his butt and scolded him: "Run away quickly, I'm waiting for you to eat."
"Ah! Don't kill me, don't kill me." Only then did the stupid boy react. He rolled and crawled away.
With a bang, a leather bag filled with gasoline was thrown to a servant. He grabbed it skillfully and opened the stopper. Start throwing it at the grain truck.
More than a hundred carts and heavy goods. They were doused with gasoline. A torch was still on the grain cart.
One cart after another was set on fire. Due to an accidental upgrade by management, thick smoke billowed out, seeming to block out the sky from a distance. …
"Are they all lit?" Yang Fan asked.
Zhang Geda said: "They are all on fire. This experiment was a perfect success. Master, the gasoline you used to steam the wine is so useful."
Yang Fan saw burning grain trucks and baggage trucks everywhere on the road and nodded. It's impossible to put out the fire if it's burned like this.
"Retreat and go to Tongzhou to attack the Tongzhou granary."
The army marching ahead obviously also saw the thick smoke column to the west.
Dong Jishu and others stood on horseback to watch. What kind of smoke was this? Could it be that something had happened in the capital? But looking at the color is not a sign of wolf smoke.
People generally have misunderstandings about Langyan. Wolf smoke is not actually made from wolf dung. If wolf dung is used as fuel, it will be difficult to collect a large amount of wolf dung, and the smoke emitted when burning wolf dung does not rise straight up.
So what kind of fuel have been used in beacon fires since ancient times? have
Experts confirmed that firewood was used. Populus euphratica, tamarisk, apocynum, splendens, white grass, camel grass, licorice, dry reed, Haloxylon ammodendron, etc. grow on the desert, all of which can be used as fuel.
But this smoke has a special improvement. The smoke does not rise straight upward in a line. Instead, a mess of smoke rose up.
No, this is not smoke, this is a fire.
The five of them looked at each other and saw what was there on the way here. The road was deserted and there was nothing flammable anywhere.
Zuo Liangyu suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "No, there's something wrong with our food, grass, and baggage."
Only then did everyone react. Because the peace in the pass had been peaceful for a long time, some people in the capital had relaxed their vigilance.
If the reeds weren't burning there, someone's grain truck would have been burned down. Looking at it now, the possibility of grain trucks encountering Japanese pirates is still high.
"Turn around immediately, hurry up and go back to protect the baggage." Dong Jishu said anxiously.
He still knows the truth that an army without equipment will perish.
The army of more than 6,000 people immediately changed from the rear to the front and rushed towards the baggage convoy with great momentum.
By the time they arrived, Yang Fan had already withdrawn and headed towards the Tongzhou Granary.
Looking at the mess on the ground, the grain and carts burned to black charcoal. As soon as everyone saw this miserable battlefield, they knew that this batch of food. Ruined.
"Everyone, we must
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We must deal with these Japanese pirates who are still chasing us as soon as possible. "
"Sir, Ye Bushou discovered this group of Japanese pirates. There are about a thousand people. They are heading towards Okura, Tongzhou." A guard came over and said.
"Let's go to Tongzhou City and catch up."
Dear, this chapter is finished, I wish you a happy reading! ^0^
