Chapter 710: The Fire in the Camp

Niu Fuxi Liang soldiers also have war horses, and there are a lot of them, so the camp carries not only the food that ordinary soldiers need to eat, but also a large amount of hay......

War horses are not the same as free-range horses at home, in order to maintain the physical strength of the horses, the war horses must ensure that the war horses have a certain amount of fat, and once the war horses lose fat, for a team with cavalry as the main combat effectiveness, I am afraid it will be a disaster.

Therefore, when ordinary soldiers sleep and rest, they also need to prepare some supper for the war horse, mainly a large amount of hay plus some wheat bran and beans, so as to continue to maintain the physical strength of the war horse, not to mention that the war horse of Xiliang is taller than the Bingzhou horse, and the appetite is naturally greater.

Gong Jun saw this group of Xiliang soldiers walk to a tent in the rear camp, and then, under the leadership of the captain, talk to what seemed to be a quartermaster or something, and then moved out of the tent a whole bundle of hay......

The hay must be dry and not mildewy, as is the wheat bran and bean feed, and the leading soldier digs it out of the whole bundle of hay, checks the quality of the hay, etc., and then hands over to the quartermaster and lets the soldier carry the hay away.

In the middle of the night, add food to the war horse. For soldiers who have been in contact with war horses for a long time, the behavior of throwing laxatives and so on on to war horses is actually not very reliable, unless it is secretly avoiding these soldiers, it is very easy to be discovered by these soldiers who are already familiar with the habits of horses, and even the damp and mildew in the hay will be picked up and thrown away by these soldiers for the big guys, not to mention those laxatives and other harmful substances.

In addition, these are all Xiliang horses, big, and short-tempered, if you don't eat food at a fixed time in time, most of them will be noisy, if you finish supper, the horses will naturally stop in the second half of the night, and you can have a good rest, so these Xiliang soldiers also came out at this time to serve these masters......

Gong Jun confirmed the location of the forage tent again, and then quietly slipped down from the tree.

Hay grass, the best flammable.

Plus combustibles.

According to Nakaro, fierce fire oil.

The name is very loud, but in fact it is the product of ordinary vegetable oil, petroleum and asphalt blended together, between solid and liquid, there is a very strong adhesion and flammability, if it is not completely burned, it will never be extinguished, even if it is splashed with water, it is not much use, the only way is to cover it with sand......

But the problem is that most people in the Han Dynasty don't know how to deal with this thing this way.

Including Gong Jun, eleven people, each of them had such a small clay pot filled with fierce fire oil, although the amount was not much, but once the tank was broken, it could cover an area if it was sprayed.

Gong Jun beckoned back, and then summoned his subordinates, as special soldiers under Fei Qian's subordinates who were dedicated to operating in the dark night, they were dressed in black robes, and even the blades were either painted with black lacquer, or roasted with flames in advance, and they hid under the shadows of the trees, if they did not go close and observe carefully, they might not be able to distinguish them.

Gong Jun lowered his voice and gestured slightly to one of the soldiers around him: "Across the camp wall, about eighty steps, there are more than a dozen tents gathered together, which is the place to store grain and grass...... Two dogs, you go up the tree and take a look......"

The soldier, known as Ergou, also nodded and quietly climbed the tree.

Gong Jun lowered his voice and said, "...... There were two braziers hung from wooden shelves, and behind them were two guards of the guards...... Do you see it? ”

Ergouzi whispered: "I saw ......"

"Okay, come down...... You have to hit the shot, is there a problem? Gong Jun continued to ask in a low voice.

Ergouzi is the best bow and arrow under Gong Jun, and Gong Jun himself is about the same, because there are two soldiers standing guard at the grain and grass of the back camp, so it is necessary to shoot the two soldiers at one time, so that after Gong Jun lights the tent, there will be no soldiers to warn him at the first time, and only in this way can the flames burn to the point that they cannot be controlled......

The second dog opened his mouth, and laughed twice: "It's only eighty-five steps, if you can't shoot again, where do you say to put my second dog's face?" ”

"Don't fucking be foolish, if you shoot, you will naturally be counted, but if you can't shoot and make a mistake, be careful that Lao Tzu whips you!" Gong Jun carefully reconfirmed.

"Okay, team rate, don't worry, no problem!"

Eighty steps, if you use a bow and arrow, because there is still some wind in the early spring night, it is not difficult to shoot, but if you want to kill with one blow, there is a little risk, but this time because Fei Qian's iron crossbow has been developed, as Gong Jun is naturally fully equipped.

For the iron crossbow, more than eighty steps is in the flat firing area, almost no need for too much adjustment, plus the crossbow arrow is shorter than the arrow, and the resistance to the wind is relatively small, the most important thing is that the crossbow can charge up the attack, and the mountain can be aimed at stationary, so the two dogs also dare to pat their chests to guarantee.

Gong Jun said: "Okay, wait for another half an hour, and then we will do it, the second dog and I will go up the tree to shoot people first, and then shoot the tent, and the rest of the people will help light the fire under the tree......"

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Time passed little by little, and as the horses finished eating, the sound in the camp slowly decreased, and only some unknown insects could be heard chirping crookedly.

The two guards who guarded the grain and grass held their spears and put their hands together, cold and sleepy, and they had to be on duty until the ugly hour before someone came to replace them, and then they could stare at it for another hour or so before dawn.

The night breeze didn't know when it stopped, and even the firewood in the brazier was almost finished, and the flames gradually shrank, flickering, and swaying......

Suddenly, a shrill voice irritated the guard's ears, and before the thug's dull brain could react, a pitch-black crossbow bolt had arrived in front of him!

The powerful power of the crossbow bolt is directly like a hammer swung in the air, and it directly hits the guard's face door unreasonably, penetrates through the bones, and throws the defender's body backwards......

With the dull sound of the corpses and spears of the guards hitting the ground, a succession of crossbow arrows flew out of the night with small clay pots that had already been set on fire, and made a slightly curved arc in the dark air, smashing into the tent and the surrounding ground.

The clay pot shattered in an instant under the impact, and the powerful kinetic energy caused the fierce fire oil in the clay pot to scatter and splash in all directions, and at the same time carried the flames around......

Almost instantly, the flames stained the tents that had been set up together, burned through the felt cloth of the tents, and ignited the grain and grass in the tents, like a huge bonfire in the middle of the camp, and the red flames rose into the sky almost in a dozen breaths!

Such a big flame was suddenly found at the gate of the camp or on the guard towers at the four corners of the camp, and the sound of the gong of warning suddenly resounded throughout the camp, and many soldiers drilled out of the tent in panic, staring at the raging fire in the back camp in amazement, and then under the orders of the non-commissioned officers at the bottom, they looked around like headless flies looking for water sources and tools to extinguish the fire......

Niu Fu was also awakened by the noisy sound in his sleep, and jumped up from the bed to rush out, but immediately retreated, grabbed the war knife that was originally padded under his head as a pillow in his hand, brushed it out, and then used the knife to pick up the curtain of the tent and walked out of the tent.

"General! The back camp is out of the water! A personal guard saw Niu Fu and hurriedly reported.

Niu Fu turned his head and saw the fire in the back camp, and his face turned white instantly: "Hurry up and put out the fire!" ”

The guards hurriedly agreed and rushed to the rear camp, but soon ran back with a sad face, and said with a little horror: "General! This...... This fire is poured out...... No...... Indestructible! Immortal! ”

"Huh? What the!? Niu Fu's eyes widened, looking at the red flames that had been reflected in the back camp for a long time, but his face became more and more pale......