Li Ye has already sneaked into the warehouse area. The warehouse area is also on guard. Teams of patrolling soldiers are patrolling the warehouse. However, compared to the tight security outside, the level of security in the warehouse is much lower.
When a group of patrolling soldiers passed by, Li Ye gently stepped ashore from the water and jumped to the side of a large warehouse.
The warehouse is very tall and very large. It is actually a wooden structure and is very old. There are finger-width gaps between the wooden boards. Through the gaps, you can see the inside of the warehouse.
This is a hay warehouse, filled with bundles of hay piled up like a mountain.
Li Ye was not in a hurry to take action. He ran to a nearby warehouse. There was still fodder in it. It took Li Ye more than half an hour to find out the details of the fifteen warehouses. The seven warehouses to the east were for grain, and the warehouses to the west were for grain.
Seven warehouses are for fodder, and one warehouse stores other materials.
The warehouse doors are locked, but each warehouse has a small back door to facilitate the entry and exit of warehouse managers. Of course, these warehouses were not built by Tongluo people, but were granaries for the Shuofang Army.
Li Ye entered a warehouse through a dilapidated back door. The warehouse was dark, and the moonlight came in through the transom window, making it appear bright and dark.
With the help of the weak moonlight, Li Ye took off the skin bag on his back. The skin bag was divided into two layers, the inside and the outside, which were sewn tightly. This kind of sewing had a waterproof effect. Li Ye used a dagger to cut open the skin bag. The outer layer was still
A little water seeped in, but there was no water seepage in the inner layer, and there was still a layer of oil paper wrapped in the innermost layer.
Opening the oil paper bag, there were all things to light the fire, including twelve small torches, two fire tumblers, a spare pair of fire sickles, flints and tinder.
The grain in the warehouse is packed in burlap bags. Each bag weighs one stone. However, it is not easy to ignite the grain directly. There must be other combustible objects.
Li Ye searched around the warehouse and finally found a large number of old wooden boards and sacks piled up in a corner. The wooden boards were left over from the renovation of the warehouse, and the sacks were also used to hold grain. There were hundreds of sacks.
In fact, Li Ye's purpose was not to burn all the grain and grass. In fact, it was not necessary. This battle was not a long confrontation, but a violent battle. It was likely to end tomorrow, so it doesn't matter how much grain could be burned.
It's important, it's important to light the grain storehouse and set off a huge fire, which can severely damage the enemy's morale.
Therefore, for Li Ye, burning the grain and grass warehouse was more important than burning the grain itself. Of course, once the wooden grain warehouse was burned down, more than half of the grain stored in it would also be burned.
Li Ye visited five more grain warehouses, collected old sacks and broken wooden boards, and stacked them in the corner. He was done. It was almost the fourth watch.
Li Ye used fire sticks to light the old sacks piled up in the first warehouse, and then rushed to the next warehouse. He lit five warehouses in succession. Smoke began to billow from the warehouse and flames raged.
‘Dang! Dang! Dang!’ The alarm sounded loudly on the guard tower, and the soldiers in the military camp woke up from their sleep. Countless soldiers rushed to the warehouse.
At this time, Li Ye's mission had not yet been completed. He still had seven fodder warehouses that had not been burned down. However, it was much easier to burn the fodder warehouses. He directly threw a burning torch into the transom.
Li Ye threw four torches into the air, and suddenly several soldiers rushed from the opposite side, pointing at Li Ye and shouting: "Over there!"
There were only five people on the other side. Li Ye threw away the torch in his hand and rushed forward. Two flying knives were shot out, hitting two soldiers in the forehead. The two soldiers screamed and fell.
Li Ye did not carry a sword. He pulled out the Qinglong Hengdao, dodged the spear and slashed it with the sword. "Crack!" A human head flew up.
His figure was as fast as a ghost. Before the other two soldiers could react, two cold lights flashed, and the two soldiers were stabbed in the neck and fell on their backs.
Li Ye picked up two more unextinguished torches, threw them into two fodder warehouses, turned around and ran towards Caohe River.
At this time, the warehouse was in chaos, with smoke rising into the sky and flames raging from more than a dozen warehouses. Hundreds of soldiers were desperately trying to put out the fire, but to no avail.
"I saw it, there!"
A group of soldiers discovered Li Ye and chased after him.
Li Ye ran to the river and bumped into a fire-fighting rebel soldier. He stabbed the opponent with a dagger, hit him hard on the shoulder, and knocked the opponent into the river. However, he rolled over and rolled out a foot.
Far away, disappearing into the darkness.
"He jumped into the river and shot an arrow!"
Dozens of pursuing soldiers rushed to the river. In the darkness, they could not see the details clearly. They only saw one person jumping into the river and escaping.
The soldiers shot arrows into the river one after another. After a moment, a corpse filled with arrows floated up. Everyone fished the corpse out, but it was a Tongluo soldier, which made everyone look at each other.
"Dive down and take a look!"
The leading centurion shouted an order.
Two soldiers who knew how to swim jumped into the river. After a while, a soldier came up and shouted: "Centurion, there is a big hole under the iron fence. You can get out!"
The centurion immediately made a decision: "Go and report immediately that the arsonist escaped by diving and asked to search along the river!"
Hundreds of soldiers searched along the Cao River, shooting arrows into the river and stabbing the river with spears, but in the end they found nothing.
Li Ye climbed out from another wall. The wall was originally full of soldiers, but the warehouse caught fire. All the soldiers rushed down to put out the fire. The wall was empty without a single soldier.
Li Ye rolled out of Cangcheng and ran for more than ten steps before his figure disappeared into the darkness.
Thirty miles away, Li Chu walked out of the tent and looked at the firelight in the distance. It was the firelight of Mingsha County. Li Chu was immediately overjoyed. Li Ye had lived up to his instructions and succeeded.
At this time, Dugu Lie walked over quickly and asked in surprise: "Your Highness, there is a fire in Mingsha County, but the grain and grass warehouse is on fire?"
Li Chu nodded, "It should be the surprise troops I sent that succeeded."
Dugu Lie said quickly: "If this is the case, the enemy can only make a desperate move. I am afraid they will attack before dawn. Your Highness, we must be ready to fight!"
Li Chu turned around and asked, "What time is it now?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, the fifth watch has passed!"
Li Chu immediately said: "Pass my order, beat the drum and prepare for war!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The drums of the Tang Army's garrison were beating, and the 55,000-strong army woke up from their sleep and began to pack up and get up. After a while, tens of thousands of troops were ready and lined up neatly.
Li Chu gave an order, and all the soldiers sat down and started eating breakfast. The Huotou soldiers brought buckets of hot soup and baskets of meat buns. They were going to fight the enemy today, and the soldiers of the Tang army had to eat and drink enough.
Two-quarters of an hour later, the soldiers all finished their breakfast and, in high spirits, began to line up and march north.
Li Ye came out of Mingsha County and came to the woods ten miles away in the northeast. His horses were hidden in the woods, and Liu Xing, a soldier, guarded them for him.
As soon as they approached the woods, more than 20 soldiers suddenly rushed out from the forest and surrounded Li Ye.
Li Ye was shocked. He felt someone coming from behind with a spear to kill him. He turned over and struck the person behind him with the sharp knife in his hand.
"Dang!" The opponent's steel spear actually blocked Li Ye's sharp blow.
The opponent's spear dodged and continued to stab Li Ye's throat with unparalleled speed and cold murderous intent.
Li Ye has never encountered such a powerful opponent. He dodged the opponent's fatal shot with a flash of body. The knife in his hand pressed down on the opponent's spear shaft. With a flash of cold light, he followed the spear shaft towards the opponent's hands.
Cut off.
This move was too weird and too fast. The opponent was startled and it was too late to dodge. Seeing that he was about to lose his hands, he had to give up the spear shaft.
Li Ye sneered and kept slashing at the opponent's waist with his sword. The opponent had already realized it and jumped off his horse, avoiding Li Ye's sharp blow.
"What a powerful swordsmanship!" the other party blurted out in praise.
The other party actually spoke Chinese, and the other party's soldiers did not attack him.
Li Ye felt something was wrong, so he took a few steps back, waved his sword, and asked sternly: "Who are you?"