Late at night, the entire Lucheng was quiet, and even the sergeants stationed on the city wall dozed off against the wall.
In the center of Lucheng, there is a large warehouse that stores a large amount of materials and ordnance, as well as the most precious food.
It stands to reason that such an important place must be heavily guarded, and someone must be on duty at all times.
But at this moment, the warehouse area is extremely quiet inside and outside, and there is not even a ghost...
No, there really was a shadow. It was sneaking around the guard barracks and various fixed sentry points. It seemed to be very familiar with the situation in the warehouse area.
The shadow circled around for a long time, and finally rushed into an official room.
The room was pitch black, but a lot of heavy breathing could be heard.
Seeing the shadow come in, a very nervous voice immediately said, "How!?"
"Hehe, don't worry, Chief, everything goes well." Shadow smiled easily and continued to reply in a low voice, "Those red guys, including Dutou and other officers, are all like dead pigs, we can act freely."
"Huh... this Mongolian sweat medicine really works." The person who asked the question breathed a sigh of relief, took out the fire seal from his arms, and lit a small oil lamp.
As soon as the lamp was illuminated, six figures appeared in the room. The person who lit the lamp was Fang Linsun, the chief bookkeeper and warehouse supervisor of Luding County.
He took out a bunch of keys, looked at the light to find the one he needed, and then put out the oil lamp.
"Okay, let's proceed as planned. First, we will go to Youzicang to transport kerosene. Everyone, hurry up and be quick with your hands and feet."
The six people left the office, drove two ox carts that had been prepared, and headed straight to Youzicang.
The warehouse area has fire prevention measures, and different materials are stored in separate areas. The ordnance stored in the Youzi warehouse is in the west of the warehouse area, while the Maozi warehouse where grain is stored is in the east. The distance is still a bit far. If there is no transportation means, just rely on I'm afraid that even if the six people move there at dawn, they won't be able to get enough kerosene.
The kerosene was put in pottery jars and sealed with mud. Each jar weighed 30 pounds. Six people moved more than 40 jars to two oxcarts. They also opened the mud seals of more than ten other jars, poured out the kerosene, and prepared This warehouse will be burned down later.
After finishing their work, the six of them drove the bullock cart to Maozicang.
When passing by Yinzicang, someone couldn't help but muttered, "At night, a group of red guys came in with more than a dozen big boxes. They looked quite heavy. They were probably treasures snatched from the natives..."
"I think so. It's a pity that we don't have the key. Otherwise, we might as well go in and pick some out. Maybe we can get some heirlooms."
Yinzicang stored military pay and property, so Fang Linsun had no right to intervene and did not have the key.
Unfortunately, in the dark night, they did not realize that the door of Yinzicang was not locked.
Regarding the mutterings of his men, Fang Linsun just said lightly, "You have never seen the virtues of the natives. How can they have treasures? Don't think so much. When the work is done, you will benefit."
"Master Chief, if we burn down the granary, can we really escape smoothly? Will it be too late?"
"Don't worry, I can still risk my own life? Let's pour kerosene into the granary later, and then use incense to ignite it in a delayed manner. Then we will have enough time to leave the warehouse and run to the north gate. Then the north gate guard The general is also one of ours. When the fire breaks out, we will already be outside the city..."
Fang Linsun explained and arrived at the entrance of Maozicang.
He stepped forward to unlock the door with the key and made a little movement.
At the same time, there was a sound of a bowstring not far away, and a sharp arrow grazed his face and was nailed to the door.
"No one is allowed to move, otherwise they will be killed without mercy!"
Following the fierce shouting, a dozen Duannu sergeants walked out of the darkness and surrounded the six people in front of the granary door.
Fang Linsun and others were stunned and did not dare to move at all.
The archer also walked over slowly, "Hey, Lin Zhizhou said someone would come to burn food. I didn't believe it. I thought he was just talking. I didn't expect that he actually caught a few mice... Let me take a look. Who is this bear-hearted leopard who dares to eat inside and outside, oh, isn't this Master Fang?"
At this time, Fang Linsun also saw the person coming clearly, "Zeng, Commander Zeng, why are you here?"
Zeng Bayi slapped Fang Linsun in the face, "You idiot, how dare you ask questions!? Tell me, who ordered you to burn food, and do you have any other accomplices!"
While interrogating here, Lin Yingjia and Fu Yixin, who had been waiting outside the warehouse, also came over after being notified.
It turned out that after the tribal coalition attacked the village, it left a large number of people alive. This was too abnormal in the eyes of Lin Yingjia and Fu Yixin.
After thinking about other signs, I guessed that its purpose might be to consume their own food, and the other party also knew about the food shortage in the city. It was most likely that a spy had tipped them off.
However, the food obtained from Pabra was shipped back smoothly. If the other party really wanted to carry out the grain depletion plan, he would probably do it in the warehouse, so he quietly prepared for such a move, so as to find out the spies.
Fang Linsun was not a strong-willed person, so he just poured beans through a bamboo tube and confessed everything without much torture.
After listening, Lin Yingjia thought for a while and said, "Come here, transport the kerosene to Chen Ziku, and then get some wood and the like to go in..."
Chenziku was used to store grain, but now it is empty.
Fu Yixin's eyes lit up, "Is Zhizhou planning to use his tactics?! This is a clever plan. If we create some illusions later, we might be able to lure those tribes to take the initiative to attack the city. Let's take advantage of the situation and give them a hard blow!"
Zeng Ba also applauded, "Yes! I'm afraid those hozens won't come. If they dare to come, we'll eat them all even if there are 100,000!"
One hundred thousand is too exaggerated. The natives on the entire island, including the old, young, women and children, probably only have two or three hundred thousand.
Lin Yingjia pondered, "For us, the biggest problem now is not how many natives can be eliminated, but how to survive. The current food reserves can only last for more than ten days even if we save food. We must come up with a solution as soon as possible." ."
"Zhizhou, I think we should implement the previous strategy and send the main force south to collect grain!" Fu Yixin said solemnly.
Zeng Ba nodded in agreement, "This is also a method. Even if it is difficult to transport the food back, at least three to four thousand people can go out to eat..."
Lin Yingjia frowned and waved his hands, "First of all, the other side is already prepared. If we go south, they will definitely move to the mountains. In the forest, we can only attack in vain. Secondly, the other side can wear down our attacking troops just by using harassment tactics. Thirdly, there are more than 4,000 Babuza people in the city now. If our troops are reduced..."
Fu Yixin and Zeng Ba knew that Lin Yingjia was right and couldn't help but fell silent.
Then, Zeng Ba frowned, "Then we can't just sit back and wait for death."
Lin Yingjia tapped his forehead with his fingers, "I have temporarily thought of two unreliable methods. One is to use the tactics mentioned just now to lure the natives to attack the city. We will take the opportunity to counterattack and seize the natives' rations. The other is to send people to Ask for help in Quanzhou. If the situation in Quanzhou is not good, go to Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Mingzhou, or even Lin'an! It is impossible for the imperial court to ignore us, and His Highness King Yan is even less likely to ignore us!"
Although we still don’t know what exactly happened in Quanzhou, but based on various information, it seems that something big happened.
Hearing this, Fu Yixin couldn't help but wonder, "The first method is okay. As long as it works properly, the possibility of success is still high, but the latter one... The fishing boats we built later were all destroyed by pirates yesterday, not to mention the pirates." If you keep wandering outside, our people can’t get out at all!”
"Those who can get out can just go from the Pabra people's place. The pirates won't pay attention there. In fact, we should have done this before. I just didn't expect that the situation would become so bad. With everything going on yesterday, I didn't expect that In this regard... I mean, the small sampans built by the Pabra people can only be used offshore, but if our craftsmen can modify them, they can still take the risk. Even if Quanzhou cannot be entered, as long as If you can reach the coast of the mainland, you can always find other ships and continue to seek help elsewhere..."
When Lin Yingjia said this, Fu Yixin also thought it was feasible, and Zeng Ba became even more energetic, "In that case, the worst case scenario is that we can take someone to fight again."
"Wouldn't that attract the enemy's attention!?" Lin Yingjia laughed and continued, "What I mean is that we might as well take advantage of tonight to cause a civil strife and let Ma Huo lead the warriors of his clan to attack the north. Door……"
The three people put their heads together and conspired for a while.
In the end, Zeng Ba was still a little worried, "I'm just afraid that if I get out of control, I'll rebel after I get out..."
"This possibility does exist, but his whole family is still under our control, so we should always be cautious. In our situation, it is impossible not to take risks." Lin Yingjia smiled bitterly.
Fu Yixin clasped his palms together, "That's what I think we'll do! Commander Zeng, go pick some craftsmen and messengers who look similar to the Pabra people. Fortunately, the Pabla people are of good height, otherwise it would be really troublesome... I'll go Convince Ma Huo and arrange the operation, Lin Zhizhou, you sit in the warehouse and light the fire..."
As subordinates, it was obviously overreaching and rude to directly assign tasks to their superiors, but neither Lin Yingjia nor Zeng Ba cared about this little detail, so they each acted separately.
Half an hour later, several figures kept swaying at the top of the North Gate. However, they were not exploring and patrolling outside the city, but were constantly staring at the center of the city.
"Damn it, grandson Fang is too unreliable in doing things. What time has it been and he still hasn't come!?"
The man who was cursing was none other than Dutou Liao Neng, who was in charge of guarding the north gate. He was from the Forbidden Army stationed in Quanzhou and a native of Tong'an, Quanzhou.
As soon as he finished cursing, he saw raging flames rising from the warehouse in the city. The fire was extremely fierce, "Qian Linliang, why did it start burning before anyone came here?"
The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and it took a while before anyone noticed it. People began to rush to put out the fire. However, the noise in the native resettlement area in the northwest of the city was even greater, and there were faint sounds of shouting and fighting.
Moreover, the most intense part of the sound kept coming closer to the north gate, which made Liao Neng very confused.
Soon, he saw nearly a hundred people in native costumes appearing on the street fifty or sixty feet away. There were also a few people in official clothes mixed in, and there were many sergeants chasing them behind.
A burst of crossbow bolts came, and the dozen or so natives behind fell down, and then another round of crossbow bolts...
Someone in the native team shouted towards the city, "Open the door! Open the door quickly, we are from Chief Fang! Liao Dutou, open the door quickly!"
When Liao Neng heard this, he didn't think much about it. No matter what happened, those people called out his name, so he definitely couldn't stay in the city anymore, so he immediately ran down the city with seven or eight of his confidants.
In fact, the city gate has long been unbolted and locked, just open it.
As soon as the door opened, Liao Neng didn't care about anything and ran away first with his confidants as a sign of respect.
Not long after, dozens of natives also ran out of the city gate.
The Song army pursued them closely at first, but not long after they pursued them, they noticed that a large number of tribal troops were approaching, so they quickly retreated to the city and closed the city gate tightly.
Seeing that Song Jun retreated, Liao Neng, who was panting, stopped running and waited for the natives to come over and ask what happened.
"Where's Director Fang? Where is Director Fang!?"
Liao Neng didn't know how to speak native language, so he could only shout to find Fang Linsun first.
"Here here..."
Liao Neng pushed aside the natives and saw a man dressed as an official in the crowd. Then he saw the person being held by two natives, who seemed to be Fang Linsun, but this guy lowered his head.
Taking a closer look, Liao Neng found that it was indeed Fang Linsun, but this guy was out of breath and had several crossbow arrows stuck in his back.
"By the cup, you are such an unlucky guy!" 33
Liao Neng cursed and looked at the official again, and saw that he also had a crossbow bolt stuck in his butt. It was shaking, but it probably didn't go deep into his flesh. "You are lucky, tell me, what is going on here?" What's going on, didn't you agree to leave the city first after finishing the granary, why did you disturb so many local dogs..."
The official's face was full of pain, and he said, "Originally, Chief Secretary Fang led us to handle the granary smoothly, and left the delay incense, so he planned to evacuate to the north gate, thinking that there was enough time anyway, so be careful For our own sake, we didn't dare to go directly to the street, so we took a detour. When we passed a place, Director Fang said that a captured native leader lived there. We also found that the guards were not very strict, so Director Fang said. I plan to rescue this native leader easily, which is probably a credit..."
"It was okay at first. Director Fang really convinced the leader with his half-baked dialect. But the leader insisted on gathering his men to escape together. As a result, he alarmed the soldiers and left his family behind. We were also unlucky. Then The bloody Chi guy just aimed at a few of us and shot..."
"Haha, who told you to wear the clothes of the Song Dynasty? Of course the soldiers give priority to killing the traitors." Liao Neng understood.
Then Liao Neng looked at Ma Huo and others. The two sides talked for a while and couldn't communicate at all, so they had to give up and continue talking to the official who called himself Liu Jianming.
After a while, a large group of tribal troops came and surrounded them.
Some people died, but not completely...
