Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 273 Huo Yan Yan Yi

  At this time, it was approaching Xu time, and the sky was gradually getting dark. Although the yellow turban bandits were approaching, they did not intend to rush to attack the city overnight, but set up camp and stopped moving forward.

  Fei Qian really didn't expect the Yellow Turban Bandits to be so bold, to brazenly point their troops at Hangu Pass...

  Although they received the news that the Yellow Turbans were coming, after all, it was not time to attack, and the people gradually calmed down. Although there is still a danger of being attacked tomorrow, at least not now.

  Fei Qian did not climb the city wall, but walked along the east-west avenue inside Hangu Pass. Hangu Pass was originally designed to defend against attacks from east to west, so the eastern city wall itself was relatively majestic and thick, but the western city wall was not bad, and it was not something that the Yellow Turbans who lacked siege equipment could conquer. .

  Besides, today's Yellow Turban Thieves have lost the vigor they had under the leadership of the three brothers Zhang Jiao. The kind of fanatics who are hypnotized by religious beliefs and the ants who fear life and death will indeed greatly damage the morale of the defenders.

   But now the heads of the three Zhang Jiao brothers have been beheaded, and the myth of the so-called invulnerability of the Yellow Turban warriors has long since been shattered. Everyone knows that the gold thief is also an ordinary person who bleeds, hurts and dies...

So now if the yellow turban thieves under the city don't have siege equipment and want to use human ants to attack the city, in the face of dealing with a grand pass like Hangu Pass, even if the west wall is a little lower, they will definitely be hit. blood flow.

However, the only unsafe factor now is that now that Hangu Pass is closed, Zheng Chu's remaining troops are not many. If there are about 3,000 soldiers, as in the case of sufficient military supplies, it will be no problem to defend for ten days and a half months. No.

  But now there are only these people, and it is indeed not enough to guard the two walls...

   Fei Qian looked up at the soldiers waiting to be stationed on the east wall, shook his head, and walked back. It was already getting late, even if he wanted to leave Hangu Pass, he would have to walk the mountain road overnight. In the Han Dynasty, where the population density was not very large, it was undoubtedly an act of death.

  Fei Qian had just returned to the posthouse, but he saw the postmaster directing the postmen to pour out the water in the water tanks in each courtyard...

   "What is this for?" Fei Qian asked.

  The postmaster hurriedly stepped forward and said: "I would like to report to Minister Fei, the water has been stored for a long time, and it breeds insects and ants, so it is poured out, and it will be stored again after washing."

   "Oh!" Fei Qian nodded without saying anything against it.

Seeing this, the postmaster asked a few people to brush and clean the water storage tank in the courtyard where Fei Qian, Huang Cheng and others lived. Immediately, several postmen put down the half-empty water storage tank next to them. He went straight to Feiqian's yard.

   Fei Qian's heart suddenly moved, and he stopped the postmen who were about to push the vat, "It's getting late today, and it won't be too late tomorrow. Besides, the ground is full of water, how can people live?"

   "Ah? This..." The postmaster on the side laughed and said, "The land is dry, and the water will disappear in a while, so it's not a problem. Besides, the water is smelly, and it's not good for the nobleman's health..."

  Fei Qian walked to the water tank, reached out to fish some water out and smelled it, there was a little smell, but it was far from the point where the water was already smelly, so he shook his hand and said, "I'll pour it tomorrow."

  The postmaster wanted to do something else, but when he saw Huang Cheng standing next to Fei Qian staring at him unkindly, he nodded and bowed and said, "Okay, okay, I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do it tomorrow..."

   After speaking, he laughed with him, and led a few postmen out of the courtyard where Fei Qian and others lived.

The post house at Hangu Pass is quite big. In addition to the two front houses, there are four small courtyards for people to live in. There is also a large backyard behind it, which is specially used for parking. Carriages and other vehicles, stables and kitchens and other functional houses are also in the backyard.

  Relying on his status as the servant of the Zuo Department, Fei Qian asked for a courtyard to live in. Anyway, the temperature is not too high, and it won't feel so stuffy when crowded.

  Waiting for the station chiefs and postmen to walk out of the courtyard, Huang Cheng said, "Mr. Fei Lang, these people feel...somewhat strange..."

   Cleaning the tank is fine, but the time is wrong.

  Because people in the Han Dynasty generally had two meals, the working time was mostly in the middle of these two meals, that is, before and after the early and late preserved meals, and rarely came to work suddenly when it was getting dark.

  Although the working people at this time don’t say that they need overtime pay for working overtime at night, it is true that unless there is an emergency, it is rare for people to come to work at night...

  The other one is that now that the Yellow Turban bandits are approaching the city, the head of a post station suddenly came to care about whether the water in the water storage tank in the post post stinks?

   What kind of person should have this idea?

   Feiqian nodded, he was aware of this just now, and stopped the postmaster from pouring the water in the yard, although he couldn't figure out why for the time being.

   As a precaution, Fei Qian asked Huang Xu to quietly take some people to guard the carriages and horses in the backyard. They were also divided into two shifts and took turns to rest, while Huang Cheng took the remaining soldiers in the courtyard.

  The night was deep, but Fei Qian didn't feel sleepy.

  Too many things happened today, one after another all of a sudden, there is a feeling of being caught off guard.

  Especially the fact that the Yellow Turban soldiers came to the city is indeed too weird.

   It’s as if there is a large piece of fat nearby that can be easily obtained, but you choose to absorb the little bone marrow from the hard bone.

  Unless the Mianchi army has already rushed towards Xin'an, causing these Yellow Turban soldiers to have nowhere to go, they can only go here, otherwise it really cannot be explained.

  However, there are still some unexplainable problems...

  The night is like a thick layer of black veil, shrouded in all around.

  Suddenly there were some small and fragmented sounds outside the yard. They were scattered. At first, they didn't attract much attention, but later they became more and more.

One of Fei Qian's guards opened the courtyard door and wanted to go out to check it out, but just opened the door halfway, he was shot down by an arrow flying in from outside the door, and the screams before death alarmed the people in the small courtyard. everyone...

  A few torches were thrown out and landed on the gate of the yard. With a bang, the fire rose into the sky!

I don't know when the gate of the yard was piled up with a lot of hay, and it seemed that kerosene was poured in. The flames spread extremely quickly, and it seemed to surround the whole yard in a blink of an eye. Burning hot...

By the time Fei Qian rushed out of the room, the fire had spread to the surroundings of the courtyard, surrounded the entire small courtyard, and quickly swallowed everything around it, causing all life to be reduced to nothingness in the raging flames, and the roiling heat wave hit the face come!

   Through the jumping flames, Feiqian saw the faces of the soldiers outside the door seem to be distorted, and the leader of the soldiers actually looked like Hangu Pass Commander Zheng Chu!

   Zheng Chu cupped his hands in the firelight, and said loudly: "Master Fei, it's better to leave!"

The master of modern martial arts, the originator of the time-traveling genre, Master Huang Yi driving a crane... I think I saw Xun Qin Ji for the first time, and I couldn't be obsessed with myself... Then there is Datang Shuanglong, who abducts to the bookstore every day after school, just to borrow books as soon as possible, to be able to See the latest chapter... The mysterious and mysterious traces of meteors in the night sky are the God of War illustration left by Master Huang Yi...

  (end of this chapter)