choke element

Chapter 796 Sudden Fire

Guo Ning completely ignored the idlers on the side of the road. He smoked and burst into flames, and he was a hundred steps deep into the fire in an instant.

Such a big fire must be carefully calculated in advance, a huge amount of fire starters must be arranged, and the fire must be ignited at the same time with capable hands.At present, the scale of the fire scene has expanded to more than two miles to the left and right of Nanxunmen Street; it has covered two large vegetable fields in the city before slowing down a little.

God knows why the officials in Kaifeng City are so bold. If such a fire is not controlled, half of the outer city will be burned!The Jurchen nobles stayed in the inner city by themselves, did they really not treat the scattered people living in the outer city as human beings?
It's ridiculous to say that before Guo Ning entered the city, he was full of thoughts of killing people, but when he really got here, he was busy saving people.After all, Li Ting's advance was based on Guo Ning's order. He couldn't just watch Li Ting and other soldiers die in the fire, and he couldn't act recklessly like those Jurchens who broke their jars!

As his status got higher and higher, Guo Ning became more and more accustomed to bloody and ruthless methods, but in any case, he was not that kind of cold-hearted politician, nor was he a careerist who was full of prosperity and wealth. Warriors together.

Warriors have the position of warriors, and there are things that warriors must do!
He moved closer to the scene of the fire and watched carefully. The fire spreading from Nanxunmen Street no longer looked like a winding wall of fire, but more like a huge, living fire that was being pushed around by his own will. scattered.

In the blazing sun, the red color of the flame is not conspicuous.Only when thick clouds of smoke rose up and blocked the sun, could one see the tongues of red flames swallowing up abandoned houses, dilapidated tents, and even piled up wood and bricks.

As the flames trembled, heat was continuously generated, attacking people who were running around the edge of the fire like ants.

The water that Guo Ning poured on his temples was quickly dried by the hot wind.The heat of the air scorched his skin and stinged his eyes.The eye sockets were soon flooded with more sweat, and the surface of the sweat was immediately covered by black-gray smoke floating in the air, leaving black marks on his face.

At this time, a group of naval officers and soldiers were busy urging their horses, knocking down all the houses near the fire on both sides of the road, and then dragging them away with ropes tied to wood to prevent the fire from spreading.Occasionally, some people cried and shouted to stop them, but they were all driven away by unceremonious threats.

Looking at the center of the fire site, there are several queues extending all the way. Each queue is composed of more than a hundred people. Each person stands a few feet apart, and buckets of water transported by vehicles are relayed to the fire site and splashed everywhere.

But this amount of manpower is insignificant compared to the rolling flames, and their achievements in extinguishing the fire and saving people are also insignificant.

They went no more than ten feet deep into the fire scene, and dragged out more than ten people in the smoky ruins. Unfortunately, almost everyone rescued was dying.

Some soldiers still had breath from their mouths and noses, but their limbs were burned like coke, and even the heart armor on their bodies was still exuding high heat. The palms of the rescuers touched it and immediately blistered.There was also a soldier who kept roaring when he was dragged away from the scene of fire. The roar was heart-piercing, because most of his face, including the eyes, nose and facial features, was almost melted like wax!
With such an injury, there is almost no hope of surviving; any thought of rescue will only make them suffer for some time in vain.

This situation is also torture for the soldiers who launched the rescue.

The officer leading the team stared at the horrific bodies, and vaguely recognized these people as his familiar comrades, his eyes were almost bleeding.

"You dog, how dare you set fire...Kill them! I'm going to kill them!"

The officer kept shouting, but he didn't know who he wanted to kill and how to kill him.He tossed and cursed a few words, and then poured a bucket of water on himself.

He pointed to a direction in the fire field that was blocked by scattered trees, and shouted: "There! There! I heard clearly just now, someone is calling for help! There must be living people over there! And there are many! I will charge once , Try to find them, follow me, prepare to pour more water on me!"

"General, are you going to charge again?" Several soldiers looked at the scorching bubbles on their bodies, all showing embarrassment.

All of them stared sharply, and Guo Ning stepped forward without hesitation when he was about to yell.

He took several skin bags containing water from the soldiers around him and carried them on his shoulders; he tore off a pair of cloth strips from the sleeve of his robe to cover his mouth and nose, and then he said: "You lead the way, let's rush!"

In the midst of the smoke and fire, the general only felt that the voice did not sound like his subordinates, but he couldn't care less about that much.He shouted "Hello" and immediately rushed forward, followed by Guo Ning. The two figures flashed back and forth a few times before disappearing behind the fireworks.

The attendants didn't expect Guo Ning to feel inadequate when he arrived here, and he personally braved the fire to save people!

"Duke! Don't be reckless!" More than a dozen attendants exclaimed repeatedly, and rushed into the scene of fire one after another.

The surrounding soldiers turned pale with shock: "What? The Duke entered the scene of fire? Is that man just now our Duke Zhou?"

These are all pro-military soldiers who are directly under Guo Ning. They practice martial arts in the same training ground as Guo Ning every day. If they look up and look down, how can they not recognize Guo Ning?It's just that I was covered by smoke and dust, and I was flustered at the edge of the fire, so I didn't look carefully at all!

Hearing the exclamation of the attendants at this moment, the soldiers immediately realized that they felt dizzy and blind.

The two soldiers who didn't dare to move forward because of burning foam on their bodies beat their chests and stomped their feet, and even grabbed the ground with their heads, making their foreheads thump loudly: "It's my fault, why do you let the Duke take such a risk!"

The next moment, more people poured water on their bodies, and then rushed into the fire.While rushing forward, many people coughed and shouted: "Go to the right! The Duke is going to the right, we are following!"

The generals and soldiers of the Song Army who pushed the water transport vehicles here were almost dumbfounded seeing this situation of risking their lives.

The Southern Dynasties had their own heroes, and there were also many heroes in the Song Army who knew death and were not afraid.But who would have thought that the hero of the North Country would have such a style?Can a leader of military and political forces who is a short distance away from wearing a yellow robe and changing dynasties achieve this level?

Earlier, Guo Ning jumped down from the hillside to help lift the vehicle, everyone thought it was a certain general in the Ding Navy, and felt that this general was very approachable, as if he was easy to deal with.I didn't expect him to be Guo Ning!What's more, he didn't expect that he wouldn't stop when he got to the forefront, and plunged into the scene of fire in an instant!

It is not that the Song army did not talk about the rise of the Ding Navy in private when it went north this time.Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, they have respected literature and suppressed martial arts, and the soldiers have been influenced by the atmosphere. When it comes to the Duke of Zhou, Guo Ning, who died in the army, they are a little kind and admirable, but more, they are involuntarily contempt for the low-level warriors according to the Song people's habits.

Especially after Guo Ning personally led the army into Kaifeng, many people were awed by his bravery on the one hand, but on the other hand they inevitably murmured, thinking that this person is really too arrogant and bold, and he doesn't look like a gentleman, and sooner or later something will happen.

But at this moment, all the contempt of the soldiers of the Song Army disappeared, but their admiration increased tenfold.

Saying it thousands of times is not worth seeing with your own eyes.Then Guo Ning was able to fire himself to rescue his own soldiers. Such a leader, whether you say he is dead or frivolous, but from the standpoint of ordinary soldiers, how can you not admire him?The officers and men of the Dinghai Navy have such blessings, and having such a commander-in-chief, how can they not be envied?Is such a commander-in-chief worthy of death by the soldiers?
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