Chapter 1333 Burning the carriage
At the third update, Du Yi appeared at the camp gate on time and said to Hao Jin: "General Hao, thank you for your hard work, you can go back and rest."
At this time, Hao Jin was indeed very sleepy. He didn't even have the strength to say politely to Du Yi. He hurriedly said, take care of himself, rushed into the camp, and plunged into the tent, and even did not take off his armor. He fell on the hay bed. In a flash, he was already snoring.
The conditions for marching and camping were extremely simple. Even Hao Jin, as a leader, had no qualifications to sleep in a hay shop. Many ordinary soldiers probably didn’t even have a hay shop, so they could only put some things on the ground and hit the floor.
Hao Jin has not closed his eyes for nearly three days and three nights. Even if he is a pair of iron to Tongtao, he can't stand it anymore. Of course, the main reason is that Hao Jin trusts Du Yi more. Since setting off, Du Yi has been quite calm and his suggestions are quite reliable.
What's even more rare is that Du Yi can do it himself, go to the night tour every day, and take on the hardest and most tiring errands to himself. This spirit of dedication makes Hao Jin deeply admire him.
Originally, Hao Jin didn't know how to go on patrol by himself, so he just needed to send a few trusted subordinates out, but Du Yi volunteered to go on patrol and even pulled Hao Jin. Hao Jin was embarrassed to refuse, so he could only stay with Du Yi for the second half of the night.
This batch of supplies was escorted from Luoyang to Yecheng by Du Yi from Luoyang. If something could happen, I am afraid something would happen halfway from Luoyang to Yecheng. How could I wait until now?
Therefore, no matter from that perspective, Du Yi is trustworthy. Even if it was the first contact on the first day, Hao Jin was a little unfamiliar and distrustful. However, through these two days of interaction, he no longer had any warning about Du Yi and handed over the task of guarding and patroling on the periphery to Du Yi, and Hao Jin had no worries.
This is also the reason why he slept so hard that he could sleep hard.
Just after Hao Jin and the Sima Bing in the camp fell asleep, Du Yi had already taken action outside the camp.
Although most of the equipment loaded on these baggage trucks and the ordnances are made of wooden and easy to ignite, as long as one fire occurs, it will inevitably cause Sima Jun to detect and extinguish the fire. Therefore, if Du Yi wants to ignite the fire, he must make the fire more violent and unable to extinguish it.
If you want to make the fire more violent, you must add fuel to the fire. Fortunately, Du Yi had already prepared. As early as when the batch of supplies were intercepted, Du Yi knew that several cars were equipped with heavy oil tanks.
The fierce oil canister is a powerful weapon for siege, which can kill the enemy's vitality on a large scale. These tincture oils are even more flammable and explosive things. So before entering Yecheng, Du Yi distributed these fierce oil canisters to his soldiers. In addition to leaving a small part for Yang Bo, Du Yi took away most of them. He asked the soldiers to hide the fierce oil canisters quietly and take them out when setting fire to the baggage truck.
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and it is the time to kill and set fire. At this moment, Sima Jun’s camp was silent and all the soldiers had fallen asleep. There was no exception. Taking action at this time was a god-given opportunity.
Moreover, Du Yi no longer has to worry about the situation in Yecheng, because according to the agreement he and Wang Jun made before, the Bingzhou army will launch a raid on Yecheng tonight. Even if Hao Jin returns to Yecheng at this time, there will be more than 120 miles to go. Without two days, he will not be able to return to Yecheng at all.
Judging from the current normal situation, it would not take long for the Bingzhou Army to take down Yecheng, which has weak defense forces. By the time Hao Jin led his troops back, the dust had already been settled and he had no chance to turn the tide.
Du Yi ordered all five hundred men to scatter and form a circle around the periphery of the baggage truck array. Then he poured the turtle oil from the turtle oil tank onto the baggage truck. Although hundreds of cans of turtle oil cannot guarantee that all of these turtle oil can be sprinkled, at least one can be sprinkled with two or three cars. The turtle oil tank is amazing and causes great fire and is difficult to control.
Du Yi’s goal was to burn all these supplies and vehicles, destroy the materials transported to the front line, and not give Sima’s army the opportunity to increase its attack efforts, so as to ensure that Jingxing Pass will not be lost.
As for the 20,000 Sima Army, Du Yi naturally couldn't eat it. With the help of the raging fire, Sima Army temporarily escaped from this fire circle. If Du Yi led his troops to retreat quickly, he could still escape from Sima Army's pursuit.
After sprinkling the turtle oil, Du Yi ordered all the Bingzhou soldiers to light torches, and then threw the torches at the baggage truck formation one after another.
Due to the existence of tinder oil, when the torch was thrown on the baggage truck, with a "pan" sound, the entire baggage truck was instantly swallowed by the fire. Five hundred torches were five hundred fire-induced points, and the Bingzhou soldiers almost made their hands at the same time, so almost in an instant, the entire baggage truck array was ignited, with flames rising to a maximum of several feet high. From a distance, it was like a huge fire ring covering the Sima Jun's camp.
After the fire was ignited, Du Yi did not stay too much. He believed that Sima army, including Hao Jin, would wake up soon, but Du Yi had already sealed the camp gate. At this time, it was almost impossible for Sima army to break through the sea of fire.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Du Yi fled decisively. I guess Hao Jin found that the baggage truck was burned and his lungs could be blown up. He would definitely hate Du Yi to the core and wanted to kill him quickly. When the fire was slightly smaller or extinguished, Hao Jin would definitely send troops to pursue him.
Therefore, Du Yi could not give Ye Jin such an opportunity at all. Taking advantage of the fact that Hao Jin is still trapped in the Fiery Circle, he will take the lead in running away, and the farther he runs, the better.
Du Yi was professionally trained to escape. He did not return to Yecheng, but fled all the way toward northern Hebei, so he had the opportunity to meet with the main force of the Bingzhou Army and get rid of the pursuers.
If you flee back to Yecheng, Sima Jun will be eyeing him, and it will be difficult to get out of the trap.
Du Yi evacuated decisively. After everyone left, Du Yi turned around and looked deeply. The fire was fierce and it was impossible to burn all the supplies trucks in a short period of time. The Bingzhou army had plenty of time to escape.
But what Du Yi didn't expect was that Hao Jin didn't chase him at all. The fire burned out not only the supplies trucks, but also almost brought a catastrophe to Hao Jin.
Hao Jin was completely out of his way, so he had no time to chase Du Yi.
Chapter completed!