The stars in the sky are cooling down, and the bonfires in the city are heating up.
In the courtyard, Shen Chen, Li Zongyin, Zhang Mu, Lu Qian and other people checked their disguises and luggage, and then each led a group of people to leave.
To the east of the city, there is a dry pasture that is specially used to store fodder for war horses.
The main force of Timur's army was cavalry, and horse grass became a strategic material. The horse grass was mainly alfalfa (xu), but it had withered by this time and was cut into almost equal lengths by guillotines, bundled one by one. They are tied together and stacked to form grassy mountains.
The dry grass field is patrolled by a large number of cavalry and has camps. Everyone who enters will be interrogated to prevent fire from being brought in and causing a fire.
Zhang Mu led the people to the outskirts of the withered grass field and took stock of the distance. In order to avoid being spotted by patrollers, they hid at least three hundred steps away. The grassy hill closest to the camp was also two hundred steps away. This was also This means that Zhang Mu is more than 500 steps away from the nearest grass mountain.
More than five hundred steps, more than a mile, this distance is beyond the range of ordinary crossbows. It is impossible to remotely ignite the grassy mountains without carrying firearms.
Zhang Mu was not in a hurry, but checked the bow and arrow. The arrows had been wrapped with coarse cloth. These coarse cloths had been soaked in black oil. Once ignited and shot out, they could ignite the grassy mountains. The more than twenty sergeants beside him were also doing the same. Everyone was silent as they prepared, with perseverance and determination on their faces, not taking death into consideration at all.
In the city, in a simple mansion, Brutus was discussing with his subordinates the allocation of food and grass for tomorrow.
Brutus chose this humble mansion to tell Tamerlane that he was honest and loyal, had no selfishness, and was not arrogant. He was his outstanding subordinate as always.
At this moment, Li Zongyin hurriedly entered the mansion under the leadership of the guards. Meyer looked at Li Zongyin and had a good impression of this person. He was about to say a few words, but Li Zongyin nervously leaned into Brutus's ear and whispered. Said: "General, it's bad. I just overheard that someone colluded with the sergeant in the first warehouse in the north of the city and wanted to burn the food in the first warehouse. It was probably Xizuo sent by the Ming Dynasty."
Brutus was suddenly startled: "You, what did you say, where is the detailed work?"
When the army is marching, everyone also needs to eat. The Ming Dynasty ate steamed buns and rice, and Timur's sergeants ate flatbreads and hand-made rice. These all require wheat and rice. Without food, many sergeants would be unable to eat.
Although eating beef and mutton can fill your stomach, who can eat meat all day long without eating? Besides, they all eat meat, and the beef and mutton they bring will be enough for how long...
Brutus stared at Li Zongyin, reached out and grabbed him, and said anxiously: "Follow me to find General Meyer. This matter cannot be delayed."
"Okay!" Li Zongyin agreed quickly, then suddenly burped, trembled, and said in a panic: "That's not appropriate."
Brutus asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Zongyin hurriedly explained: "General, I just overheard this, so I can't be accurate. If I inform Meier and it turns out to be a farce, wouldn't it damage the general's reputation and status? What's more, the sergeant in the first warehouse is Meyer’s subordinates..."
Brutus frowned. It was true. No one would like a subordinate who lied about military information and did not know right from wrong, and no one liked a subordinate who framed his superior.
Li Zongyin gritted his teeth and persuaded: "In my opinion, it is better for the general to take us to the first warehouse. If the news is true, Ming's detailed work will definitely enter the first warehouse to cause trouble. We will lead people to guard inside and catch them all when they arrive. When the time comes, I will report it to General Maier and ask him to clean up his family. This way, he will not offend General Maier, and he can also make a great contribution. Maybe the general will be appreciated by the Sultan and become a general from then on..."
Brutus looked at Li Zongyin with admiration. This guy is worthy of being Harry's soldier. He is a shrewd thief. Yes, I will do as you say.
Brutus gave full trust to "his own people". In addition, Brutus himself did not have many personal soldiers, only about twenty, so he had to ask Li Zongyin to bring fifty people with him into the first warehouse in the north of the city. .
Naturally, the interrogators did not dare to stop Brutus, and the group entered easily.
Looking at the mountains of grain, Li Zongyin was somewhat surprised.
Some people are reluctant to give it up. If this is given to the Ming army, wouldn't it save a lot of people's power?
It's just that this idea is not realistic. There are 150,000 troops here. If it is not burned at this time and weakens Timur's combat power, it is likely that there will be no chance again. Even if Timur is defeated and Zhu Di is unlikely to eat all of the 150,000-strong army, when these people run away, they will still burn all the food and grass, denying it to the Ming Dynasty.
In this case, we can only end everything here.
Brutus drove away the guards inside the warehouse and took control of it himself. Li Zongyin looked at the time and estimated that Shen Chen should have finished the arrangements. Then he looked at his people beside him, walked towards Brutus, and said, "The people who burned the grain and grass are here."
"Where?"
Brutus quickly became alert, looking around and listening for any movement.
Li Zongyin drew out his dagger, walked behind Brutus, raised his hand to cover Brutus' mouth, stabbed him in the back, looked at the struggling Brutus, and whispered: "Sorry, I'm not Harry." Soldier, I am a soldier of Ming Dynasty."
Brutus whined and lay down weakly, and the sergeant following Brutus was also killed by the scouts.
Li Zongyin did not hesitate, put a metal plate into Brutus's arms, then hid the bodies of these people, took out a small amount of kerosene found in the city, scattered them in different granaries, and gave an order :"ignition."
The fire burned slowly.
Li Zongyin stood still, but when the fire started to ignite, he led people to run out, shouting as he ran: "Oh no, Brutus betrayed the Sultan, he colluded with the Ming Dynasty, and there is no granary! Someone come and put out the fire." .”
The sergeant outside was horrified when he heard this. He quickly came in to check and saw that there were fires everywhere. Although the fire was not very big, there were at least forty or fifty places on fire. No, the fire started!
This is food, flammable!
"Fetch water, hurry up and get water!"
Li Zongyin did not run away and continued to command. He saw the sergeants running around to find water, so he took advantage of the chaos and ran out of Beicheng.
Strangely enough, both Maier and Timur seemed to be very confident. Although they had conquered the inner city of Yili, they had no habit of closing their doors. I don’t know if they were doing it to provide convenience to the Ming Dynasty, or to The sergeants who disliked him were in and out of trouble.
After leaving the city, Li Zongyin stayed at the foot of the mountain, waiting for everyone to come back. If everyone came together, they would go back together!
The fire in Beicheng's granary finally broke out. The fire soared into the sky, and countless people were awakened from their sleep.
Timur, who was already sleeping, suddenly woke up and saw this scene through the window. ***, Milan Shah, Shaharu and others came one after another to inform Timur of the unfortunate news.
"Where is Mile?!"
Timur was angry. The army rations were so important, why did it suddenly catch fire? If Maier, who is responsible for taking care of the grain and grass, cannot give himself a reasonable explanation, then let him go to Allah for an explanation!
Meier ran to the first warehouse in the North City and collapsed on the ground looking at the food that could not be saved. This fire not only burned the food rations of countless people, but also burned their own futures and even their lives!
The sergeant ran over, pulled out Brutus' body, and then handed a metal plate to Meier. After Meier looked at it, he was suddenly full of strength and quickly took the metal plate to find Timur.
When Timur heard that he had lost a lot of food, he was furious and wanted to kill Meier. Meier quickly shouted: "Sultan, I am wronged. It was Brutus who set the granary on fire. He was the one who colluded." I have evidence of what the great editor did!"
"What nonsense are you talking about?!"
Miransha was furious, knowing that Brutus was a general he had single-handedly promoted. If something went wrong with him, how could he explain it?
Meyer quickly took out the metal plate and handed it over: "This was found on Brutus. It is the canonization document written by the Ming Dynasty. Brutus betrayed us!"
Miransha grabbed the large golden copper plate and looked at the string of words typed on it. It was indeed the document canonized by the Ming Dynasty, and his face became extremely ugly.
Timur looked at Musun.
Musun was a wise man with white hair. He held a long crutch in his hand. He took the copper plate document and looked at it. He sneered: "This trick is too bad. How could the Ming canonization document use Chahe?" In Taiwanese, someone just framed Brutus."
Meyer turned pale and shouted quickly: "It's not me, it's really not me, I found it in Brutus!"
Miransha was so angry that he drew his sword, stepped forward and stabbed Meier to death. He shouted ferociously: "It is already a capital crime to fail to take good care of the food and fodder, and now you are still framed against Zhongliang?"
Musun glanced at the dead Meier and continued to Timur: "Meier may have fallen into someone else's trap. This copper plate must have been made by the Ming Dynasty. I think Brutus died in the Ming Dynasty." With his own hands, the Ming Dynasty’s secret work must have been mixed into the city. The Sultan should immediately seal the city and send people to block the mountain roads to prevent anyone from leaving.”
Timur nodded slightly and looked at ***: "What are you still doing? Do as Musun said. I want you to find out the details of Ming Dynasty before dawn!"
*** took the order and left in a hurry.
East of the city.
Zhang Mu and others saw the fire burning in the north of the city, and while the patrol sergeant's attention was attracted, they carefully sneaked into the vicinity of the camp.
The patrol sergeants were all worried about what would happen in the city, and looked intently to the north of the city. At this moment, Zhang Mu and others who came near the camp lit the rocket and then threw it out.
Rockets pierced the night sky and fell into the grassland under the wide eyes of the patrol sergeant, and the fire started burning.
"Arrests!"
The patrol sergeant looked at the burning fire and was so frightened that he lost half his life. He watched the other party set fire several times before ordering the arrest. Zhang Mu led his men to shoot arrows while running. After shooting more than a dozen pastures, the enemy was already close.
Zhang Mu and others dropped their longbows, smiled at Sergeant Timur who was chasing them, turned around and led their scout brothers to jump into the cold Ili River. Timur's sergeants saw this and chased downstream, but no one would have thought that Zhang Mu led his men to swim to the upstream area, found a place to go ashore, changed into dry clothes, and then pulled out the war horses that had been prepared. , hurriedly ran to the north.
Almost at the same time, fires also broke out in the south and west of the city. For a moment, the entire city seemed to be surrounded by fire. In anger, Timur led people out of the palace and directed the soldiers to put out the fire.
At this time, a cart pushing water passed the main street and saw Timur's figure. Then the cart stopped, pointed at Timur, and one person cut off the rope restraining the cart, and a rope as thick as an arm was cut off. The sharpened wood suddenly ejected from the waterwheel and went straight to Timur!
