Chapter 26 Fire Demon (2)
"Secret Service, please give an order. Any house within twenty feet of the east gate must be demolished. Tell the owner of the house that you will compensate them after the war and help them rebuild their residence." Seeing that the defenders had begun to take action, the wise man Hafez decisively retreated to Yihu and whispered orders.
"Hey, hey!" At this moment, Yi Hu was so confused that he was as numb as he could. How could he have any ability to think? He agreed repeatedly, turned his head to his personal soldier, Dark Arrow Gri, and signaled him to pass the order.
The personal soldier Dajian Gerry looked at Yi Hu sympathetically, rode his horse to the demolished house, and yelled at the top of Yi Hu's orders and promises to the owner of the house over and over again. As for whether Yi Hu could still be the special service of the Shi Kingdom and whether he could still pay for the owner of the house to pay for the losses, he forced himself not to think about it carefully.
"Suled Burke's position as a sacrificial fire, let him put out the fire, and make meritorious service. If he had done his best to fight just now, the Tang army would not have set fire calmly." Looking at Yihu's reaction, Hafez continued to give advice.
"I have done my best just now. The Tang army used poisonous smoke, and no one could stand on the top of the city!" Suleder was so aggrieved that his face turned purple, and rushed forward and defended himself loudly.
Without Hafez's order, a mad believer of the great food priest rushed up and pressed Sullard to the ground. Hafez turned his eyes to Yihu's eyes and forced him to make a choice immediately.
Yihu asked for this person and did not dare to disobey his intentions. At the same time, he was indeed suspicious of whether Sulled had tried his best to fight just now. He thought about it and nodded slowly.
The crazy believers immediately pushed Sullard aside and forced him to a bucket. They rushed him to fetch water and put fire. Sullard protested loudly and frequently asked Yihu for help with his eyes. The latter was like a clay sculpture and wood sculpture, and ignored his voice and movements.
"Secret Service? Please order the reserve team to be transferred up and divided into three big arrows to take charge of using horse water. There are many wells in the city? As long as order is maintained, it is enough to put out the fire!" Seeing Yihu so obedient, Hafez, the wise man of the big food, was not polite. He continued to give him advice in a commanding tone. From the words and physical movements, there was no respect at all. It was obvious that deep in his heart, he had long regarded this person as a puppet.
"Hey, hey!" Yihu agreed without hesitation, and immediately passed on Hafez's order to another confidant beside him, asking this person to order the troops in his own name.
"After the special service, after the reserve team came up, wet the houses and streets near the isolation belt with water. Everyone's yards must also be wet. We must not let the fire continue to spread."
"Secret Service? Orders to move the dismantled wood to the tax prison. Do not stay where it is, so as not to add firewood to the fire!"
"Tiqin, someone is carrying the wood and hitting the house that has just caught fire, speeding up the collapse of the house!"
"Secret Service, I ordered the brothers on the South City Wall, the North City Wall and the West City Wall to get water in advance, pour the city wall and the city gate tower, and tear down all thatched houses within five meters of the city gate, so as not to burn them in another direction!"
"Secret Service..."
"Hey, hey!" No matter what he said, Yi Hu continued to nod, then turned his head like a worm and told his subordinates without any discount.
It is said that professional things must be done by professionals. For nearly fifty years, the Dashi Army has expanded toward east and west at the same time and set fires countless times. Therefore, it is very experienced in how to prevent fire.
Under the control of the wise Hafiz, all the defending reserves in Talas were dispatched, and soon, they dismantled a wide enough isolation belt to curb the spread of the fire.
"Secret Service, send orders to build a barricade based on the brick wall of the tax supervisor, build it from the south wall to the north wall to build a second spinning thread!" He raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and Hafez continued to give orders in a hoarse voice.
"Is it too late?" Yihu finally stopped being like a puppet, and hesitated and asked in a low voice.
"It's time to build it!" Hafez deserves to be a wise man, and he told the key point in one sentence, "It's even more time to withdraw now. The Tang army is full of cavalry, and there are also rushing cavalrymen to help them. As long as we leave the city, we will definitely be chased by the Tang army with all our might."
"Then, can you defend it? The magic fire like Tang army and Tang army can even light the city wall." Yihu felt bitter in his heart and continued to ask in a low voice. Regardless of his expression and voice, he looked like a child who had not grown up.
"I smelled the smell of fierce tinder oil. The four towns of Anxi do not produce fierce tinder oil. Zhang Qian only entered the Broken Leaf for half a year, so he would definitely not be able to buy too much. Tang Jun used up all the fierce tinder oil at the East City Gate, and there would be nothing next. In the street fighting, his catapult cart could not be used." Hafez smiled and began to grit his teeth.
Fierce tinder oil is an essential material in the Dashi army. It has made many amazing achievements in its conquest against the West. In order to avoid the Tang army using fierce tinder oil in battle, the Dashi Kingdom issued a ban on vendors twenty years ago. Anyone who sells fierce tinder oil to the East will be killed without mercy.
However, in just half a year, Sao Ye Jun collected so much tincture oil. And through some mysterious means, the power of tincture oil has increased dozens of times!
If he was asked to catch the caravan that secretly sold harsh tinder oil to Zhang Qian, he would tie all the vendors of the caravan to the fire and roast them all into jerky meat. If he was asked to catch the craftsman who made harsh tinder oil for Zhang Qian, he would definitely use a saw to saw the man from head to toe and saw it into two pieces!
"Street fight, wise man, do you mean that we still have to continue fighting against the Tang army in the city?" The personal soldier Dajian Gerry hurried back with a smoky face. He happened to hear Hafez's words, and he glared and asked in a low voice.
"Street fighting, special service, ordered all the people to pick up weapons and prepare for street fighting with the Tang army!" Hafez ignored him, put away his thoughts, stared at Yihu with oil-green eyes, and continued to command, "Turn every street in Talas into a battlefield, fight them to the end. As long as we spare no expense, the Tang army will definitely retreat."
"Do any cost, no cost!" He was frightened by Hafez's eyes and his hair stood up. Yi Hu repeated repeatedly. For fear that he would answer slowly, the other party suddenly spit out a poisonous snake core from his mouth and bit himself to death!
"Secret Service! Most of us are recruits here, at all..." Dajian, the personal soldier, wanted to speak to remind Yihu that the combat effectiveness of the Tang army was far greater than that of the defenders. As long as the East City Gate was broken, his morale would inevitably collapse and it was impossible to organize effective resistance. However, when he finished speaking, Hafez's crutch had stabbed him hard under his left rib.
"This is nothing to do with you! A small and small man dares to question the decision of the special service. If it were in Dashi, you would have been killed to feed the hunting dog!" Staring at Gerry's eyes with his eyes, Harriz, the wise man of Dashi, scolded him.
The pain in his ribs was so painful that his personal soldier, the arrow Gri bent down in pain and never dared to make any sound again. The wise man Hafez was still unwilling to let him go, frowned and whispered, "Please him to go to the city gate to put out the fire. If he dares to be lazy, he will kill the Qiqi directly."
"Yes!" Several believers of the big food crazily shouted, stepped forward and dragged Gerry away, without asking the special agent Yihu's opinion from beginning to end.
"You all go to put out the fire, and use practical actions to show your piety to God." In order to show his determination, Hafez suddenly turned his head to the crazy believers around him and shouted.
The crazy believers agreed without hesitation and then quickly took action. Everyone was afraid of falling behind their companions.
"The Tang army has only more than 5,000 people. If the losses in Talas are too heavy, they will not be able to continue to shock the various troops of the squad!" Knowing that Yi Hu had been scared out of his courage, Hafiz slowed down his voice a little and tried to exaggerate his own advantages. "And that Zhang Qian is another guy with false benevolence and righteousness. Before setting the fire, he would create a chance for the Tang people to escape. How could he be willing to let a large number of soldiers under his command die and be injured?"
Fearing that Yihu was not confident enough, he paused and continued to add, "In recent days, the great cannibals scattered around the world have been trying to rush to Talas. During street fighting, I will also let my followers be in front. You have also seen that they are all devout believers, all of whom are brave and fearless, and regard death as glory, and in street fighting..."
Before I could finish a bragging sentence, a loud bang suddenly came from my ears. Immediately afterwards, an invisible heat wave hit my face, making my hair curled, my face tingling, and it was smoky from my nostrils to my throat.
Yi Hu and others turned their heads instinctively, and then they were all stunned.
I saw that the city gate and the wreckage of the enemy building on the east side of Talas had completely collapsed, and it turned from the stove to a huge fire. There were bright red city walls on both sides of the fire, which kept collapsing. Every time a large piece fell, a circle of red waves would be smashed on the ground!
Several soldiers who were splashing water on the ground could not dodge and were caught in the red waves, and instantly turned into firemen. They screamed and tried to escape, but after only three or five steps, they fell to the ground. Then, they were caught in the second circle of red waves, turning into burning "candles".
"The city gate collapsed, the city gate collapsed!" A team of Sogdian soldiers who had just returned from harvesting water dropped the clay pot and wooden barrel and turned around quickly. They were afraid that they would run slower, and were also swept by the red waves, following in the footsteps of the water-splasher.
Look at the "braveless" believers in Hafez's mouth, they actually hugged their heads and ran faster than anyone else. They knocked the Sogdian soldiers who were not anxious to dodge and the people who were crying next to their own houses and cried!
I don't know if it was hot or shy, the face of the wise man Hafez suddenly became redder than the pig's liver. He raised the crutch in his hand and faced a group of panicked followers, smashing his head, "Don't run away, don't run away, continue to put out the fire. You guys have sworn to give their lives to..."
"Tang Army, Tang Army!" Several followers dodged and explained loudly, resolutely refused to stop. "Tang Army is at the gate of the city! It will come in soon!"
"The city gate is gone and the city wall collapses. The Tang army will immediately kill in!"
"What?" Hafez was stunned, stopped his crutch and looked up. His eyes were through the flames and smoke. He saw that a large brigade of Tang Jun was watching the city through the fire that had been turned into the city gate. The distance was estimated, at most one or two hundred steps away from him. As long as the fire was extinguished, he could immediately rush into the city with embers!
"The city gate collapses, the Tang army is coming in!" Some Sogdian soldiers who were a little far away from the city gate suddenly discovered that the Tang army was watching the excitement here through the fire, and their morale plummeted. They threw down the bucket, clay pot and wooden pillar in their hands, ran away.
"No running, no running. The fire is so big that the Tang army dare not rush in!" Hafez was furious and swung his crutch and smashed it at the head of a Sogdian soldier, preparing to kill the chicken to warn the monkey.
Unexpectedly, when he saw him, he was like a mouse or a cat, he pulled out his knife without hesitation and cut the crutch into two pieces with a clang. Then, he accelerated his speed and rushed past him, as if he was avoiding the plague.
"If you dare to insult the wise, you will go to the fire hell after death!" Hafez was stunned, pointed at the soldier's back with half a cane and threatened loudly. The latter turned a blind eye to his threat. He turned around and disappeared into the fleeing crowd.
"Stop, stop all!" He was slow and had no strength to chase the escaped person, waving half a crutch to block other defeated soldiers. He was like a dead tree in a mountain torrent, lonely and stubborn.
"Secret Service, go quickly." Taking advantage of Hafez's time to block the defeated soldiers, Dagan Shetuo quietly squeezed to the at a loss Yihu, pulled the reins of the opponent's war horse, and staggered towards the west of the city.
"The wise man just said that as long as we can at any cost, we can..." Yi Hu turned his head and looked at the figure of Hafez, a wise man who wanted to eat, and refused loudly.
"We are the price, and the entire city of Talas!" Dagan She Tuo was also very loyal. He carried the reins of the horse on his shoulders and pulled them hard.
"What did you say? What are we?" Yi Hu was stunned, and finally understood the smell. In an instant, his face turned pale.
"Go to Ximen, take advantage of the chaos yet. Fortunately, the Special Service, you have the foresight and left an exit at Ximen." Little Berksulder rode a horse, led another horse and hurriedly chased after him, whispered, and threw the reins to Dagan Shetuo.
"Secret Service, go quickly, go quickly, Hafez is not at all kind. He hasn't seen any sign of reinforcements and money he promised!" Da Jian Gerry, who didn't know what to do, also got rid of the surveillance of the crazy believers. He rode his horse back with his burnt hair and yellow leather armor. While approaching Yihu, he shouted loudly. "He just wants to use us to consume the power of the Tang army. He has no intention of helping us."
"Stop, stop, don't leave. The Tang army will not come in if the fire is not extinguished." Hafez's voice came from not far away, and he sounded furious.
"Go away quickly, if you don't leave, the Tang army will enter the city!" Dagan She Tuo let out a loud roar, and then jumped onto the mount with agility that was extremely accented to his age, and fled to the west of the city with Sulede, one left and one right with Yihu.
Among the other confidants around Yihu, several of them had been bribed by the wise man Hafez. Instinctively wanted to step forward to stop him, but their personal soldiers were slashed one by one, and they all cut off their horses.
The other confidants immediately knew what to do, and together with Dajian Gri, they rode their horses closely behind Yihu. The group passed through the crowded streets and dispersed all the panicked people along the way. When they met the defeated soldiers who were unruly, they called the other party to follow. In a blink of an eye, they arrived at the gate of the west city, and the number of people in the entire team expanded to more than 400.
The only soldiers guarding the passageway had already escaped without knowing where to go. Several brave and careless gangsters were guarding the entrance of the passage with scimitars and spears, extorting all the people who were trying to escape from the city. Seeing Dagan She Tuo, Yi Hu and others, they were immediately frightened to throw away their weapons and escape as quickly as possible.
The order of people's escape was in chaos in an instant, and they pushed and squeezed the entrance of the passage. However, they were soon dispersed by Gerry and Yihu's personal soldiers. Suleder took a bow and arrow, and was on guard and aimed at the entrance of the passage. In case a Tang army suddenly rushed in outside the city, threatening Yihu's safety.
"I'll go out to explore the way first. If there were no Tang army, Gerry would protect the special agents and come out together. The special agents would take off the clothes and throw them away. Your dress is too conspicuous now. Sullard, you are responsible for breaking the rear." The old Dagan She Tuo seemed to have become the backbone of everyone. He gasped and reminded him a few times, led the war horse to the passage specially left, and in a blink of an eye, he appeared outside the city gate.
Outside the Xicheng Gate, there was no one of the Tang army's thunder cavalry servants. Dagan Shetuo looked left and right, confirmed that the Tang army's attention was still in the east of the city. He immediately lowered his head and shouted to the city, "No one, hurry up and change the special agent's clothes and send him out. Sulede, you have also changed your armor, your armor is too conspicuous."
"I understand!" The personal soldier Da Jian Gri agreed, jumped off his mount, pulled his war horse and Yihu's war horse reins, and walked quickly towards the passage. Halfway through his walk, a angrily shout came from behind, "Yihu Special Qin, where are you going? I am organizing people and sacrificing my life to resist the Tang army for you. How can you abandon the city and escape by yourself?"
"I, I..." Teqin Yihu immediately lost his mind and blushed, not daring to respond.
"If you go to Ju Zhanti, Mohe will only tie you up and hand it over to the Tang army." Hafez held half a crutch and chased after him with a scorched hair, and continued to yell loudly, "The Tang army has not launched an attack yet, and is obviously worried about losses. The soldiers under your command are not fewer than the Tang army. As long as you make up your mind and take care of it at all..."
"The special agent has made up his mind!" Before he could finish his words, Sullard quickly turned his corner bow and pointed the feather arrow at his chest. "No more cost to you! If you want to fight against the Tang army, why don't you go up by yourself? We don't owe you anything, why do you just say a few good words and let us flow into a river?! Get out of the way, otherwise don't blame me for not reminding you that I count from one to three..."
"Secret Service!" Hafez knew that his influence had plummeted, so he jumped and escaped half a foot away, then waved his arms and shouted at Yihu, "Have you forgotten your oath? You abandoned the city today, just betrayal. Even if you escape to the horizon..."
"Three!" Sullard shouted and let go of the bowstring. The wolf-tooth arrow was as fast as lightning and penetrated directly into Hafez's chest.
Chapter completed!