Chapter 32: Fire Attack
"One day, you'll know I'm right. They can betray the first time, and they can betray the second. Be wary of those who say sorry to you, because they will always be sorry for you. Yun Xiao suddenly appeared behind Yun Yan. A ten-year-old child, seeing such a killing scene, did not faint and surprised Yun Xiao.
"Father, but my mother said ......!"
"Your mother is wrong to teach you, the world is full of deceit. As long as you have wealth and status, there will be countless people who will rush out and want to snatch it from you. If you want to save your life and wealth, you have to use some means. Killing your opponents, and potential opponents is an extremely effective means. "You don't need a hammer to ring the drum, Yun Yan is a smart child. Yun Xiao believes that Yun Yan will understand his hard work. Because, this is a quality that a king must have.
Yun Xiao is very busy, and he is done worrying about a son. Now I have to worry about the other one, Yun Ao has already hit his head in that woodland. The wagons were full of wounded soldiers, and the wagons were pulled back. Even Bayan was wounded by an arrow, but fortunately they always held Yun Ao, who was full of anger. Didn't let this little guy go into the forest and fight with Dexue Chan.
"Father!" "Master Hou!" Behind Yun Ao stood Bayan, who was hanging his arm, and it seemed that he was not lightly injured. Blood oozed from the wound, even soaked with sackcloth.
"Your brother has already brought back the Donghu people without a bad break. But that was very dangerous, for my father to kill those Donghu rebels. And you, who have been here for so long without progress. Don't know how to be flexible? One by one, let the soldiers rush in and send them to death.
Those rebels are very good hunters, and you have fallen into the trap of the enemy. Fight your enemies in the terrain they are most familiar with and best at. This is the absence of the two of you as generals. ”
As soon as Yun Xiao came up, he severely criticized the two main generals who led the team.
Yun Ao lowered his head. I can't say anything. Just staring at the tips of his boots and not speaking. A failure is a failure, there is nothing to say. Making excuses for your own failures is a sign of cowardice. That's how my mother taught herself.
Yun Xiao took a look at this forest, it was beautiful. The blue sky pine forest, and the pale blue and clear Juyan Sea. It's a pity. This scenery is going to disappear here. And most likely forever.
An army of 50,000 had already surrounded the entire forest, and Yun Ao only had 5,000 men. He didn't have the qualifications, but Yun Xiao did. Now Lao Tzu has an army of 50,000 in his hands to deal with your rebels of thousands of people. It's basically a knife for killing chickens. Belch...... No, it's with a saber.
"Arise, all of you, and see how the Father avenges you. Remember to be flexible, you know? ”
"No!" Yun Ao obediently walked behind Yun Xiao, and standing next to him was Yun Yan, whose face was still pale.
"Let's get started!" Yun Xiao sat on the chair and gave an order. Then there were guards who lit two kicks. Then one by one, the two kicks rose into the air and exploded. Almost at the same time, all the Donghu Iron Cavalry and the Yun Family guards opened their bows. The bow was equipped with rockets, and the second round of explosions with two kicks sounded. Countless rockets shot out into the forest.
The rockets are like meteors in the sky. With a whirring flame, it shot straight into the forest. It's early winter, and there's still not a single snowfall. The hay on the ground has long since withered and yellowed, and the wood in the forest is at its lowest moisture of the year.
Locust-like rockets ignited the dead grass on the ground. There is no way to extinguish this fire. The flames soon coalesced, and the billowing smoke engulfed the forest in sight almost instantly.
Yun Xiao watched with a telescope. The smoke was thick and the woods were dense. It is impossible to see which Donghu rebels are moving, but there is no need to see it. Lice hiding in the hair are just that, just shave the hair. Where do lice still have the soil?
"Chief, it's not good. Han Army...... The Han army set fire to the forest. A leader hurried up to Dexue Chan.
"I'm not blind!" Dexue Chan shouted as he looked at the billowing smoke coming out of all directions. This is really a desperate plan, it must have been done by the Han people. It was not the grassland people who did it, but the grassland people knew the value of the forest. No one dared to order such a forest to be burned.
"What should I do with the big head, let the forest burn like this. Sooner or later we will be burned to death? Another leader shouted.
"Big head, let's break through. Concentrate all the warriors, and you must be able to break out from here. ”
"Big head ......" The people around him talked about various methods, but they were all vetoed by Dexue Chan.
What a mistake! Retreat into the woods. I didn't expect them to attack with fire. Dexue Chan was very remorseful. "Stop arguing, where to break through. Enemy forces are everywhere. Even if he went out, he lost his subordinates and cattle and sheep. Can live on the grassland for a few days. Dexue reprimanded the leaders of the tribe.
"Are you being burned alive right here?"
"Didn't the Huns say that they came to attack the Han people, why didn't they see anyone?" In private, there were still tribal leaders muttering quietly.
"Great Elder, what do you say should be done?" Faced with such a situation, Dexue Chan had no choice but to consult the well-informed Great Elder. The idea of hiding into the woods was also his idea. For five days, they all relied on the forest to block the attack of the Donghu Jingcai, and the results were quite good.
"If this continues, it will only take a day or two to burn to us. Breaking through is not a way, we can't take away women, children and livestock. You can't watch your family being burned to death in this and run for your life first.
I think there are two steps, one is to send people to break through. Ask for the help of the Huns, according to the words of Lord Yue of the Bank of China. Da Shan Yu was already preparing to attack Donghu, so presumably his team was already on the way to Juyanhai at this time. As long as you send someone to greet us, and then report that we are in such an embarrassing situation, I believe that Da Shan Yu will definitely come to the rescue of us.
The second is to quickly dig a fire ditch in the forest, at least one zhang wide. If the weeds can be effectively contained, we take water from the lake to water the trees. I believe that it is difficult for us to attack by fire, as long as we stick to the remaining forests. Just wait for the Huns to come for reinforcements. ”
The Great Elder is worthy of being well-informed, and he actually knows how to dig and set fire belts. In this way, even if the wildfire is stronger, it will definitely not burn over. In addition, the trees are drenched with water, and it is not easy to bake a fire in the air.
"Wonderful! All it takes is digging a trench to stop the fire. Dexue Chan couldn't help but praise the Great Elder's wisdom. Without further ado, Dexue Chan took almost all the men, women, and children who fell. Begin digging in the woods, hopefully before the fire arrives. Dig a trench one foot wide.
Yun Xiao looked at such a large forest, and felt quite helpless. In order to defeat the opponent, you have to destroy the environment. Perhaps the sandstorm that ravaged the capital in later generations was the initiator of himself.
"Order all departments to be stationed tightly, and not let go of a single heat leakage. Especially at night, be sure to arrange for people to take turns sleeping. "Such a fire will burn for a few days, and Yun Xiao thinks that it will only be a few days later. You can inspect the charred corpses of people and animals in a place. However, this also lost a suspense, what does Dexue Chan look like.
The flames burned all day long, and the smoke and flames that drifted in made everyone cough violently. But none of these people were passive and slacking off. This matter is a matter of life and death, and if you let the fire burn, you must die a painful death. They use swords, they use shovels. The guy who didn't have tools used his hands, digging bloody one by one, and he definitely didn't give up.
Under the hard work of the entire tribe, it is actually with rudimentary tools and hands. A strip of one zhang wide was dug out and surrounded a woodland near the lake.
When the tongues of fire scurried around with green smoke, they burned in front of the firewall. I had to slow down until I finally stopped. When the Donghu rebels saw this, they all jumped up with cheers.
Although the area of activity was greatly reduced, a life was finally saved. Such a big fire is not burned to death, but also smoked to death.
However, the guys who broke through were not smooth, and they could even be described as miserable. Yun Xiao looked at the corpses on the ground, everyone was scorched black. But they finally rushed out of the sea of fire, but they were opposite the Donghu Iron Cavalry more than ten times their size. The guy who just escaped from the fire and was about to go to the Huns to deliver a letter. was shot into a hedgehog by a flurry of arrows, and the arrows all over his body were densely packed. All over the body, there is hardly a good piece of skin.
"Master Hou, these people rushed out on horseback desperately. Presumably the guy who carried the rescue soldiers, it seems that the Huns are really going to attack our Donghu. Ba Zhen stepped forward and said. Now he was skeptical that the Huns would attack, no matter how unusual the weather. But time does not deceive, according to the habits of the Huns. At this time, Yi Zhixie's army must have been on the way. He has the blood of the Huns in his body, and he knows more about the habits of the Huns than others.
"Send more scouts and let people farther away. The Huns are really coming, and they won't catch us off guard. ”
Yun Xiao thought that Ba Zhen had a point, and hurriedly ordered more scouts to be sent. For a while, the air in the camp suddenly became tense. Everyone is preparing for a fierce battle to come.
The news of the arrival of the Huns did not wait, but waited for the news that the fire was extinguished.
The fire, which had been burning for three days, was quietly extinguished, and the earth was scorched black. Everything in the overheated woodland has become charcoal, and there are many animals such as roe deer, rabbits, foxes, and Yelang, which have been burned to a pitch black like a lump of meat!
Amazingly, in the dark. The Donghu rebels were able to keep a forest. It seems that a ditch was dug next to the forest to stop the fire from spreading.
However, it doesn't matter anymore, their space for maneuver is greatly reduced, and if Yun Xiao launches a surprise attack on everyone, these rebels will be wiped out. (To be continued......)