Chapter 145: Night Attack
The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and Village Chief Wang invited them into the village to rest and drink some hot water. Bai Zongren asked Bai Zongrui to go back and bring people over.
"Dad, are you guys starving? I'll go to the village and buy some food to cook for you."
"Dalang, Daddy's not hungry. We killed more than a dozen wolves. We've been eating wolf meat and drinking broth for the past two days."
"It's really amazing that you can still light a fire with your tinderbox in such a heavy rain."
Village chief Wang was very curious. The fire starters in his village would become damp and would not light early on, so the experienced old people would bury a big piece of wood in the stove. When they were ready to start a fire, they would blow away the ashes on the surface, and the charcoal inside would ignite. This was the fire starter.
"Old man, we have special fire sticks that are not afraid of moisture."
"Oh? Can I take a look at what it is?"
"Okay, this is it."
As they walked and talked, Bai Zongren took out a black object from his pocket, pressed it with his hand, and suddenly a cluster of flames shot out.
"Oh! This fire!"
Village chief Wang was startled, and then surprised.
"This thing is really good. Now we don't have to worry about not having fire on rainy days!"
The two of them talked as they returned to Wangjia Village and soon arrived at the village chief's house.
The people of Wang Village gave orders to arrange for Bai Zongrui and his companions to stay in the ancestral hall when they arrived.
Bai Zongren was respectfully invited into the house by the village chief, and Bai Dalang stayed behind to meet his second uncle and third uncle.
"Village Chief, I'll give this to you as a token of my gratitude."
"That's not possible. You'll need it when you're marching and fighting. I have some fire at home."
"Why not? I have several of these."
"This... then I will shamelessly accept it!"
The village chief carefully took the lighter as if it were a treasure.
"Village Chief, you have to use this thing often, otherwise it will get damaged!"
"Such a magical thing, I want to keep it for my descendants to remember, I am so narrow-minded!"
"Dad, can you give it a try for me?"
Wang Haisheng asked his father with a shy face, and then glanced at Bai Zongren shyly.
"Haha, it's good for young people to be curious. That's how they can make progress."
Bai Zongren quoted a phrase his daughter often said, and only after he finished saying it did he realize how profound it was.
The village chief couldn't persuade his son, so he gave him the lighter reluctantly.
"Be careful, don't break it!"
"No, look here and press it."
Bang!
Haisheng lit a fire as Bai Zongren instructed, and the fire went out as he loosened his grip.
"If you want it to burn long enough, you have to hold it down. If you release it, it will go out."
"Oh, it's amazing!"
Wang Haisheng pressed the light and released it, playing like a child.
At this time, Hai Lin came in and said that Bai Zongrui had arrived with people and a carriage.
Bai Zongren walked to the door and arranged for them to rest in the ancestral hall first.
When the people of Wangjia Village saw the carts full of weapons covered tightly with oil paper, they felt inexplicably at ease.
These soldiers, all wet and dirty, are the ones who protect them, and these carts of weapons are their weapons to resist Simon's army.
Without the village chief's instructions, the villagers pooled their resources and sent a lot of eggs, cabbage, coarse grains and dark flour to the ancestral hall.
Bai Zongren looked at the villagers with pale faces and skinny bodies, and knew without saying anything that these were the only things in their homes.
"Fellow villagers, take these back. We still have food."
Bai Zongren firmly refused it. After they had fire, they could dry the wet food and preserve it.
The wolf meat couldn’t be kept, so I ate it all over the past two days, and there’s still some food left.
Seeing that they really had food, the village chief no longer insisted and ordered the women in the village to help light a fire and cook some food for them.
The villagers took their things and went back. Bai Zongren settled the carriage, and Bai Zongrui took the rations and gave them to the village chief. The village chief gave them to Aunt Wang and asked her to find a few women to cook.
After everything was arranged, they sat down in the main hall of the ancestral hall.
"It looks like the rain won't stop anytime soon!"
The village chief and several elders looked out at the heavy rain, their voices filled with worry. "This heavy rain has been falling for six or seven days straight, and there's no sign of it stopping. All the crops for this season will be soaked!"
"God won't give us a way to survive!"
"Old man, how's the drainage in the fields?"
Bai Zongren looked at them and didn't know how to comfort them, so he had to ask about the situation on the land.
"General Bai, we have dug drainage ditches, but the water from the river is overflowing, and the water in the fields can't be drained out!"
"There will be floods this year. Once we drive away Simon's army, the court will allocate relief grain. Don't worry."
"Alas! This is the only way!"
"Let's rest for one night and rush to Yuanzhou early tomorrow morning. I hope we can still make it."
Although Bai Zongren was anxious, he and his men had not had a good rest for days and had dug the silt for two days and two nights. Now they really could not walk anymore. They could only hurry up tomorrow and try to reach Yuanzhou as soon as possible.
As night fell, fifty miles outside Yuanzhou City, a cavalry team of a thousand men was marching day and night towards Yuanzhou.
Bai Li was restless after dinner and paced back and forth in the room.
"Marshal, you haven't rested yet? Do you want something to eat or drink?"
With Luo Yang away, Wu Lanzhi became Bai Li's personal bodyguard.
"Lanzhi, I'm not hungry, no need to bother."
Suddenly, she seemed to hear something and shouted, "Quick! Enemy attack!"
Wu Lanzhi immediately blew the emergency whistle, and the "beep" sound pierced the darkness and resounded throughout the city.
Bai Li climbed up the city wall in a few steps and took out a telescope to look. In the dark night, there was only a gray curtain of rain and nothing could be seen.
She then took out a high-powered headlight, turned it on, and could see clearly for several miles below the city wall.
Suddenly, a group of cavalry appeared in the telescope. They were wearing cloaks made of leather armor and galloping all the way. They were about to reach the first fortification a mile away, but there was no movement over there.
Bai Li didn't know whether the night watchman had fallen asleep or had relaxed his vigilance because of the night, but either way, he couldn't let the cavalry get close to there.
She took out a specially made spear,
A loud explosive bullet is loaded on the muzzle of the gun.
"Bang!"
A bullet was fired, and with a "bang" a beautiful flower exploded in the sky. The flower was watered by the rain and turned into a mushroom cloud.
Such a loud noise would wake up even a sleeping pig. Someone immediately came out from the fortifications and set up a crossbow. As soon as the cavalry showed up, they were hit by a wave of crossbow arrows. They left behind several corpses and horses and retreated.
Bai Li put down the telescope and immediately went down the city wall.
"Marshal, where are you going?"
"Wu Lanzhi, you take the sisters and hold the city wall. I'll be back soon!"
"No, I'll go with you!"
"Wu Lanzhi, this is a military order. Guard the four gates of the tower and wait for me to return!"
"yes!"
Military orders were as heavy as a mountain. Wu Lanzhi stopped abruptly and watched Bai Li ride a horse out of the stable and run towards the city gate.
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