When it was dark, Zhang Zongyu and Du He were still waiting for an opportunity to move more than 20 miles from the east side of Baoding Town. Once the soldiers of Baoding Town arrived in Xinxiang City, it would be too late.

Du He couldn't help but comfort Zhang Zongyu, telling Zhang Zongyu not to worry, at this time, the cavalry scout of the Twist Army rushed back and shouted: "Cavalry King Liang, General Du, the Qing Demon has stopped at a distance of twenty miles from us, and the defense is tight, I'm afraid that we still don't have a chance to start!" ”

Zhang Zongyu was deflated when he landed, what a deal, there is still no chance, how is this good?

"What about the baggage camp behind the Qing Demon?"

Du He asked.

The cavalry detective replied: "General Du, now that the Qing Demon's baggage battalion is protected by two battalions of cavalry, it is also difficult to start, once we can't end the battle in a short time, we will fall into a heavy siege......

"Where are they now?"

"General Du, according to our detectives, the baggage battalion of the Qing Demon has been stationed in the pine forest twenty-five miles away from us, and is resting......"

"What? They went into the pine forest? ”

Du He's eyes lit up, Deng Shi jumped up, and asked urgently.

"Yes, that pine forest is five or six miles away, and now the cold wind is blowing, and it is the best place to rest......"

"Haha, God help me! King Liang, your chance has come! Here's our chance! ”

Du He was ecstatic and shouted loudly.

Zhang Zongyu asked, "What chance?" Let's rob the baggage camp of the Qing Demon? ”

"Yes, a godsend, this is a godsend!"

Du He hurriedly said: "King Liang, now the weather is dry and dry, it is the easiest to catch fire, the pine forest within a radius of five or six miles, the baggage battalion has all been drilled into it, we only need to shoot all the rockets in our hands into it, it must be a fire, even if those pine trees want to extinguish, it is impossible!" No matter how much grain and grass they have, and as much ammunition as they have, they will be burned to the ground! ”

Zhang Zongyu also became excited, Du He said well, God-given opportunity, even if it was discovered by the cavalry battalion, what does it matter, we just need to set the pine forest on fire, now that the weather is cold, where is the water source to extinguish the fire? Everything can only be burned! ”

"Herald! Order Zuo Yuqing, Zhang Kai, Li Fengshan, and Zheng Xingliang to collect all the rockets and march towards the pine forest at full speed. The rest of the departments will follow us on the periphery to protect the retreat! ”

Du He Yin laughed and said, "King Liang, why do you have to protect the back road? At this time, as long as we ignite the fire, it will be too late for the Qing Demon to put out the fire, where will it intercept us? Now we have more important things to do! ”

Zhang Zongyu asked, "Du He, what else is going on?" ”

Du He replied: "King Liang, when the fire burns, Guo Ye will definitely do his best to help the pine forest to extinguish the fire and rescue materials, then this time is when the protection of the artillery battalion is the weakest, we must seize this only opportunity to besiege the artillery battalion of the Qing Demon with all our might!" You lead a fire to the pine forest, I lead a siege of the artillery battalion, success or failure in one fell swoop! ”

"Good! Just follow your advice and act now! ”

Zhang Zongyu couldn't wait for a moment, and immediately deployed the army to act.

Twenty-five miles away, for cavalry, that is, less than half an hour's journey, in the blink of an eye!

Now, the first was on the left side of the pine forest, and the second battalion was on the right side of the pine forest, constantly patrolling the enemy, and the first battalion in the distance spotted the cavalry in the distance.

Mu Tianying, the commander of the first battalion, was shocked and shouted: "If there is a situation, prepare for battle immediately!" ”

The soldiers of the first battalion were nervous one by one, the rifle bullets in their hands were loaded, and they were held flat and aimed into the distance!

Mu Tianying shouted angrily: "Which part of the cavalry on the opposite side, stop advancing, and move forward again, so that you will die without a place to be buried!" ”

It's just that at this time, where will Zhang Zongyu stop, if he stops, wouldn't it really be a waste of his efforts?

"All of them, full impact, prepare the rocket!"

Zhang Zongyu shouted angrily.

The rockets of the Twist Army are different from the Congreve rockets, they are all old-fashioned rockets, that is, ordinary feather arrows, carrying a gunpowder tong on them, after ignition, they are launched out specifically for the purpose of igniting fire, as for injuring the enemy, the lethality of the enemy can even be negligible, but even if it is such a rocket, the lethality brought to the Baoding Town Heavy Battalion is the greatest.

The cavalry of the Twist Army attacked with all their might, desperate at all, and Mu Tianying on the other side was taken aback, and shouted: "Order, respond with all your strength, fire!" ”

The guns of the first battalion of cavalry rang out in an instant, and the Twist Army, which was charging at the front, fell in response, but the Twist Army on the opposite side had four battalions, even if they suffered a lot of damage in the previous battle, the four battalions together still had more than 1,000 people, where could they all be killed in a short period of time?

In a short time, the cavalry of the Twist Army had already rushed to a distance of less than a hundred paces from the pine forest!

One by one, the twisters wound the rockets and shot them out desperately!

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of rockets fell into the pine forest, which was densely wooded, rich in oil, and the most prone to fire, and in an instant, the fire rose to the sky!

Mu Tianying was almost scared to death, I am a mother-in-law, all the baggage in the entire Baoding Town is in the woods, and even the hundreds of brothers in the baggage camp are also inside! Now that the fire is soaring, isn't it going to kill you!

Where can Mu Tianying still take care of the battle? Now the most important thing is to fight the fire, if all the baggage is burned, then more than 10,000 soldiers in Baoding Town will have to drink the northwest wind!

At this time, the second cavalry battalion on the opposite side also discovered the fire and began to rush into the pine forest frantically to rescue supplies!

Zhang Zongyu's heart is now happy as if he has been stuffed into a belly of ice lumps, cool, today finally made the Qing Demon late!

"Order, all the cavalry will shoot all the rockets in their hands, and the ones that will turn around will shoot at me, and the whole pine forest will be set on fire! Lao Tzu wants to turn this place into a fire temple! ”

Taking advantage of the panic of the cavalry battalion and the baggage battalion, the cavalry of the Twist Army shot all the rockets in one go, nearly 2,000 rockets, igniting a pine forest, enough is enough, how many pine trees have to be burned to the ground!

The fire is getting bigger and bigger, and at this time, it is impossible to extinguish the fire at all, and the brothers and cavalry battalions of the baggage battalion can only desperately carry the materials outward, but the fewer the fires, the faster, and it is difficult to carry all the materials out!

(To be continued.) )