After two days of marching, the rebels were exhausted. After having a simple supper, they lay in a bonfire. The trees on the hills not far away were also making noises under the night wind, but these sounds did not disturb their sleep. Many people had already made heavy shouts to fall asleep. However, the earth walker did not sleep. He sat by the bonfire. The night wind blew the bonfire and turned it into various strange shapes. The earth walker's eyes swept across the bonfire and turned to the hills not far away, and the shaking fire light

Under the reflection, the woods and bushes began to change. The tall branches were ferociously hungry. The withered short trees rustled in the ground by the forest. The tall weeds squirmed like eels in the cold wind. The hay was bent and waving, like stretching out their long arms and claws to grab people. Balls of hay were walking in the wind, as if a disaster was coming and fleeing in a hurry. There were desolate and vast open lands everywhere. Seeing all this, the earth walker couldn't help but think of the stories of the monsters in the forest told by the old man in the village when he was young, and shivered.

"Chief!" A voice woke the earth walker up, and he turned around a little slow. He saw a young and capable young man looking at him with a surprised look: "What's wrong with you? Are you cold?"

"Cold? Maybe it's a little bit!" The earth walker said with embarrassment. In order to prove that he did feel cold, he tightened the collar of his shirt.

"But you are sitting next to the fire. Are you sick? That's bad!" The young man showed a worried look on his face.

"No, no!" Seeing the sincere concern on the young man's face, the earth-walker couldn't help feeling a little guilty. He squeezed out a smile and said, "I'm in good health, there's really nothing. Give me a cup of hot water, and drink some hot water is fine!"

"Okay, leader!" The young man quickly turned around and left. After a moment, he brought a tin pot and poured a cup of hot water for the earth walker. The earth walker took the cup, took a sip of water, and asked in a low voice: "How is it, Aung San, how is the team going?"

The young man named Aung San immediately showed an unhappy expression on his face: "What do you think? No, it should be said that it is very bad. It's so bad. Many teams just find a place to lie down and sleep, and do not send out guard posts. This is not an army, it's simply a group of escaped farmers. Leader, you should grab the leaders of these guys and whip them hard on the back with a whip, otherwise if the Chinese catch up, they will be done."

"Aung San, my child!" A helpless smile appeared on the Tujie's face: "This will only make things worse. If they were willing to listen to me, we would not have left Ren'an-Kang at all!"

"Oh, it would be great if Lord Wu Songzan was still here!" Aung San lowered his head in frustration, and then he found that he had said something wrong and defended in panic: "Chief, please forgive me, I have no intention of accuse you!"

"No, no, Aung San, you don't need to apologize!" The land walker looked at Aung San with loving eyes, and could see that he liked the young man very much: "You are telling the truth. I can't compare with Wu Songsan. He can grasp the hearts of everyone in the team. Even if he doesn't say a word or do nothing, as long as he is in the team, everyone will know what he should do. If we lose him, it's like a flock of sheep losing rams. No one is convinced or obeys anyone."

Aung San also sighed. He knew in his heart that what the Tushanger was right. After losing the Sungammon, the rebels could no longer find a leader who could convince the public like him. Perhaps the Sungammon had excellent organizational skills, and Huiying was an excellent military commander, but neither of them were able to pour dignity and enthusiasm into the minds of the Burmese peasants filled with fear and superstition, leading them to fight against the nobles and foreign invaders, and change the unchanging destiny for thousands of years. In a sense, Sungammon is irreplaceable.

The two of them calmed down, and for a moment, it seemed as if something invisible strangled their throats, making them speechless. Aung San and the earth-walker thought hard, was it all over like this? So many people had already shed blood and their lost lives were wasted in vain, just like a bonfire in front of them. Although there was still the light brought by the flames, it was so weak compared to the night, and as the firewood burned less and less, this little light would always be swallowed up by the night in the end.

Aung San was thinking hard, suddenly saw the face of the earth walker opposite him change, and he jumped up and said, "No, something happened!" Aung San was stunned, turned around and looked at the place where the earth walker's eyes were. He saw more than a dozen fires rising hundreds of meters away. The fire spread so fast, and in a blink of an eye, it was connected and burned towards the camp of the rebels.

"Damn it, that bastard didn't take care of the bonfire well. I must teach you a lesson tomorrow morning!" Aung San cursed, jumped up, and was about to ask someone to go down and take a look, but the earth walker grabbed his arm: "Call everyone up quickly, the fire is burning too fast, someone has released it!"

"Someone released it?" Aung San was still a little skeptical. At this time, a voice came from the other side. It was obvious that the group of people who had noticed the fire had already noticed the fire and got up to extinguish the fire. At this time, a burst of gunfire came from the night sky, and then a scream was heard. It was obvious that the person who was going to put out the fire was suddenly attacked.

"It was a night attack, and the Chinese are coming!" A scream suddenly came from the camp. Almost at the same time, a few military horns were heard from the fire. The uprisingers who had dealt with the Shun Army knew that this was a signal that the other party launched a charge, and the camp was in chaos.

"Get up, get up, stop sleeping, the Chinese are coming!"

Aung San and the Tujie shouted loudly at the camp, waking their hands from their sleep with their fists and butts, and then tried their best to sort them out. At the same time, there were bursts of gunfire and screams from the night sky, and the fire spread very quickly. Near Ren'angang was originally a drier area in Myanmar. In addition, it was March and the last month of the dry season. Most of the branches of trees and shrubs around the camp were not very watery. Once they were lit, the wind would burn very quickly. In a blink of an eye, the flames had already turned half of the sky red.

Although the Tudor and Aung San tried their best to wake up their subordinates and organize their teams, their discipline was much better than other parts of the uprisingers, even the most elite army would inevitably fall into inevitable chaos when they were attacked at night. So by the time when the Tudor and Aung San completed the sorting of the teams, about twenty minutes had passed. By the time they fully grasped their own teams, most of the uprisingers' teams had been defeated and were fleeing in the opposite direction of the enemy in panic.

"Let's retreat too!" Aung San shouted to the earth walker.

"Yes!" The earth walker nodded, picked up a torch, pointed in the direction where the flames were burning, and shouted loudly: "Follow me with me! Let's break out to the east!"

"Chief, there are enemies over there, just a few of us can't beat the Chinese!" Aung San shouted loudly. He thought the earth walker was stunned. Why did he choose a direction for the enemy to attack to break through? Wouldn't he just hit the enemy's arrow?

"No, the main force of the Chinese is definitely not there! On the contrary, the Chinese should put the main force in the opposite direction!" The earth-walking practitioners pointed to the direction where most of the rebels escaped: "If we run there, we will become the prey of the Chinese!"

Aung San asked in confusion: "Chief, but the flames and gunshots are clearly in the east?"

"That's just an illusion that the Chinese want us to see. Haven't you noticed that the gunshots are very rare?" The earth walker whispered: "Have you forgotten how the village hunts? First let women and the elderly set fire to beat gongs, frighten the beasts out of the woods and grass, and drive them to the place where the hunters are ambushing them and hunt them. Think about how many people can the Chinese kill if it is a head-on attack? They don't know the way and cannot pursue us at all. Maybe they can beat us, but most people can escape smoothly. If I were the commander of the Chinese, I would definitely use a few people to scare us, drive us away, and then put the main force in the opposite direction, let us escape to the preset battlefield, and wait until dawn to hunt us exhausted!"

"Yes, the Chinese general's heart is so vicious!" Aung San suddenly realized, he slapped his thighs and said to the earth walker: "Then let's tell your companions quickly, otherwise they will all fall into the hands of the Chinese!"

"It's too late!" The earth walker shook his head: "Do you have a way to find a few people in the dark and convince them? I'm afraid they will beat you to death as an enemy and run away with me. All we can do now is to protect ourselves!"

"No, Wu Songchan once said: All the poor are one. If you don't help others when others need you, no one will help you when you need others. As a result, they will be defeated by the nobles and men!" Aung San said calmly: "Chief, please take your brothers and brothers. I will save as many people as possible with the rest!"

"No, you're just killing your life in vain!" The earth walker reached out to grab Aung San, but the young man leaped quickly, avoided his hand, and then disappeared into the darkness. Ye Feng brought his voice: "Chief, you must be alive, you must take your brother out alive!"

"You must be alive!" The earth walker stared at the dark night. The young man's description just now seemed to be still jumping in place. He suddenly felt a little wet in the corners of his eyes. The earth walker closed his eyes suddenly. When he opened his eyes again, all his emotions and weakness disappeared from his eyes.

"Listen to everyone, one follows the other, our direction is east! Facing the fire! Do you know?"
Chapter completed!