Fleeing the wasteland and farming: don't panic, the family's metaphysics boss

Chapter 75

Dao Scar learned about the movement of Thief Cao's troops from Yang Jin and Fan Yi, knew when the government would dispatch troops, and knew that they were targeting his head.

According to Yang Jin, there will be no less than ten people lurking among the refugees, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate them.Scar then set up an ambush for several days, waiting for those pretenders to be caught.

However, he never expected that he would fall into the opponent's ambush instead.At the beginning, in order to fight back smoothly, he gathered all the leaders of his subordinates in one place, which made him now have no room for outsmarting other than going head-to-head.

Scar couldn't figure out when and how so many officers and soldiers got in among the refugees. He could only wonder if he had been fooled by those two people. It wasn't an assassination at all, but a naked encirclement and suppression?

But no matter how deep he thought, it didn't matter anymore. After the thief Cao Zhong Qiang gave an order, the soldiers and bandits entered into a scuffle.

The battle was simple and intense. One side had been trained, while the other side was composed of farmers and butchers. Even with a bit of kung fu, they were no match for the orthodox soldiers. All the members of the first class were arrested, and only a few people fled up the mountain with Scar and the swordsman who never left him.

Scar was the target of this suppression, so Zhong Qiang personally led his men to chase after him.

The night was dark, and the deserted mountain was illuminated by many torches, startling a crowd of birds and beasts.

There were only a dozen or so people left in Dao Scar's party, and they fled in embarrassment in front of him. The bandit Cao soldiers behind him chased after him.

The vegetation in autumn and winter is dry and flammable. As soon as the torch is dropped, it ignites the surrounding vegetation almost instantly.

Scar watched the fire gradually rise, and he was very satisfied, and ordered other people to light the fire around him, shouting frantically:
"You want me to die, okay, the whole Chengyang County will be buried with me, and I'm not alone on the road to Huangquan. Burn you to death, I'll see what you can do, hahaha."

Zhong Qiang came a step late and failed to stop Dao Scar from setting fire. Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, he was very anxious. If this continues, the fire will not only spread to the entire mountain, but also the surrounding mountains will be implicated. At that time, the entire Chengyang County will be destroyed. Exposure to a sea of ​​​​fire, the consequences are unimaginable.

He didn't care about catching the scars, and quickly divided the soldiers into three teams. One team went to the city to call for help, the other team was responsible for leading the refugees down the mountain to fetch water and cut down trees to cut down the fire, and the remaining team stayed on the mountain to fight the fire as much as possible. .

The two teams hurried down the mountain, while Zhong Qiang took off his clothes to put out the fire, but the dead branches and leaves would ignite when they met the fire.

Seeing that the fire was out of control, Zhong Qiang was terrified. Although he had sent people to ask for help, he knew very well that once the forest caught fire, it would be almost impossible to extinguish it easily.

He seemed to have seen the scene of the people in the city struggling tragically in the sea of ​​fire.

"My lord, that letter, quickly open that letter." In the panic, a subordinate suddenly spoke out to remind him.

Zhong Qiang's heart brightened, that's right, Yan Shi gave him two letters before leaving, and specially told him to open them as soon as the time came, and then he panicked and didn't remember it for a while.

He quickly took out the letter in his sleeve.Although he has been confused before, what exactly is "the time has come", but right now, he can't allow him to think about the timing, so he can only open the letter.

Two letters, one with "two" written on the cover, and one with "three" written on the cover, Zhong Qiang hurriedly opened the second letter, took out a piece of folded letter paper, opened it, and found that there was a letter inside. The talisman, suddenly I was not sure.

There are often bachelors selling things like spells on the street, and he always thinks they are fooling people.

"My lord, take a look at what is written in the letter?" The subordinate urged.

Zhong Qiang suppressed his uneasiness and took a closer look. There was only one sentence written on the letter: Throw this spell into the air.

Zhong Qiang hesitated for a moment, feeling that the fire had scorched his skin so painfully, he said in his heart, "A dead horse is a living horse doctor", and then threw the spell into the air.

The talisman is soft and thin, and Zhong Qiang imagined that it landed lightly, but he didn't want to throw the talisman, but it instantly turned into a flash of light and flew high into the sky.

After a while, there was a burst of thunder, and a large group of dark clouds rolled in. Almost in the blink of an eye, a downpour of rain fell.

Zhong Qiang was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. The rain was heavy, and his whole body was soaked in an instant, and those tongues of flames that were flying around were also defeated by the rain, and they were all extinguished in a short time.

A disaster that would have endangered hundreds of thousands of people was completely killed by this rain.

Without the fire, the mountains fell into darkness again, and only the rain could be heard hitting the forest.

"My lord, are you going down the mountain?" The subordinate asked tentatively, his voice trembling uncontrollably.

Zhong Qiang came back to his senses, thought for a moment, Scar had already run far away, and had no intention of chasing him again, so he nodded: "Let's go, go down the mountain."

A group of people groped their way down the mountain, and met people who came to put out the fire on the way. Zhong Qiang explained the past in a few words, saying that it was a timely rain in Chengyang County, which never dies.

Back at the foot of the mountain, Zhong Qiang subconsciously touched the cuffs when he saw the members of the Tai'an Gang kneeling together. There was still a letter there. Does this mean that something happened?

He was uneasy in his heart, but he could only force his composure on the surface, and ordered the arrested person to be detained, and prepared to return to the city.

A mighty group of people walked along the city wall, waking up the refugees along the wall.

The refugees all knew members of the Tai'an Gang. Seeing these villains being arrested, they couldn't help applauding and cursing. These emotions were contagious and became more and more agitated, until finally the soldiers couldn't move an inch.

A team of hundreds of people was surrounded by tens of thousands of refugees.

Stared at by countless pairs of hungry, thirsty, or hateful eyes, Zhong Qiang's heart trembled. He only had a hundred people. Once the refugees rioted, he would be trampled to death under those bare feet.

"Please step aside, everyone, the Tai'an gang has harmed you, and I am going to send these people to the Yamen for punishment." Zhong Qiang's voice was soft, fearing that he might accidentally anger these refugees.

The refugees didn't move. At this moment, they were silent. They were dressed in rags, and their eyes were like wolves hiding in the dark night, hungry and thirsty.

Zhong Qiang became more and more flustered, and his subordinates couldn't hide their panic, and whispered in his ear: "My lord, these people are like hungry wolves now. If we want to leave this place, I'm afraid."

"Why did the sheriff ignore me?"

"These people deserve to die for their crimes and should be executed in a hurry."

"Yes, kill them and avenge those who died."

"My lord, let us go into the city, we will only die if we stay here, please let us go into the city, my lord."

"Let us go to town. Go to town. We're going to go to town."

The voices of the refugees rose one after another until they shook the sky in unison. The oppressive and menacing momentum made Zhong Qiang panic. The soldiers kept retreating, and the refugees pressed on step by step.

"Why don't we care whether we live or die?"

"You officials don't care about us, then we can die together."

Seeing the refugees getting more and more excited, Zhong Qiang hastily explained loudly: "Everyone misunderstood, the county guard has always cared about you, and now the city is collecting winter supplies for you, and today we will come to suppress bandits, which is also arranged by the county guard."

"We don't want supplies, we want to go to the city, let us go to the city."

"We are only recruiting now. Could it be that we have done too many bad things and are afraid that ghosts will knock on the door in the middle of the night? We have been here for more than a month, and where did you ask?"

"My child is dead, my husband is dead, and I am the only one left in the whole family. You will pay for the lives of my family."

The refugees complained all over the place, and they seemed to be able to swallow them alive in the next moment. Zhong Qiang broke out in cold sweat, and hurriedly took out the third letter in his sleeve.

(End of this chapter)