From eunuch to emperor

Xiahou led his troops into the mountains, but did not attack the city outside Zhuangzi, but ordered the soldiers to cut firewood.

Peng Mao didn't understand, and asked Master Xu what he thought.

Master Xu looked at it for a long time, and said, "They want to cut down the front and set up camp on the spot, blocking our way out."

Master Xu can only think of these.

Peng Mao sneered and said, "I expected them to do this, blocking the way out? Let them block it. I'll see how long they can last."

It's winter now, and there will be winter rain soon, and the ground will be full of water, freezing the officers and soldiers half to death.

Peng Mao looked at it for a while, then turned back to Zhuangzi to rest.

Master Xu was worried, and kept watching from the top of the city.

Peng Li said: "Master, it's windy outside, let's go back."

Master Xu shook his head slightly and said, "I don't think they are trying to block us."

Peng Li asked: "Then what are they doing? Let us have no firewood?"

Master Xu shook his head again, and said, "I always feel... I can't figure it out."

Peng Xing smiled and said: "Master, you are always too thoughtful, they are just chopping firewood, what else can they do, don't think too much."

The brothers also went down the city wall, ignoring the outside affairs.

Master Xu was on the city watching the forbidden army cutting down trees outside.

Xia Houlian and Chu Tianjun were directing soldiers to cut down the surrounding trees. Before the rain fell, the firewood was still dry.

Long Chen chopped trees with a hunting knife, he looked very skillful, very much like a hunter.

Seeing it from a distance, Xia Houlian walked over slowly, and asked with a smile, "Is there a lot of firewood cut in the mountains?"

Long Chen stopped, and said with a smile: "My lord, we need to build a house in the mountains. Sometimes when it snows, we can go to the mountains and we won't be able to get out for a whole winter. Chopping firewood is a basic skill." 81Zw.?0?4?0?2m

Xia Houlian looked Long Chen up and down, and said, "Let me see your hand."

Long Chen stuck the hunting knife on the ground and stretched out his two hands.

Xia Houlian observed carefully, and found calluses on the palm joints of his left hand, and calluses on the index finger and middle finger of his right hand.

"Is there no master?"

After reading the cocoon on his hand, Xia Houlian looked at Long Chen and asked.

Long Chen said: "We are all Oriones who taught each other, we can practice what we know, anyway, it is for hunting."

Xia Houlian looked at Long Chen suspiciously, but finally just smiled and didn't say anything else.

After the people left, Long Chen continued to chop firewood.

Zhang Yong came over and asked, "What did Lord Yasi tell you?"

Long Chen said: "Tell me to marry two beautiful wives, one to sleep on the left and one to sleep on the right."

Zhang Yong's face darkened, and he scolded: "Little bastard, you have learned how to entertain me. With you like this, you can afford two daughters-in-law!"

Long Chen chuckled, and continued chopping firewood.

Xia Houlian was already suspicious, but there was no way, Long Chen couldn't waste time here.

Soon, the firewood was ready.

Xia Houlian commanded the imperial army to pile up the firewood and push it down the city.

The dealers in the city immediately shot arrows, but there was firewood blocking their heads, and the feathered arrows could not shoot through, so the imperial army kept arching forward.

Seeing this, Master Xu finally understood what the officers and soldiers were going to do.

"They wanted to burn the door through."

Seeing that firewood was blocking the door, Master Xu immediately thought of this question.

Peng Mao rushed out immediately when he heard the shout of killing.

Looking at the firewood blocking the door, Peng Mao sneered and said, "If you want to burn the door through, there's no use for it!"

"Hurry up and block the stone behind the door, it's useless to burn through the door."

Peng Xing immediately ordered people to block the gate with stones.

Peng Mao smiled and said, "Master, look, these people are not as smart as you think."

Master Xu looked at Xia Houlian outside, and said, "Maybe I'm thinking too much."

At this moment, Xia Hou fired dozens of rockets, ignited the firewood, and the fire began to burn.

Zhuangzi's north gate was quickly charred, but the stone behind it blocked the gate, and Peng Mao felt safe.

Zhuangzi outside.

Chu Tianjun looked at the firewood and asked, "How long will it take?"

Xia Houlian turned his head to look at Long Chen, and asked, "Liu An, how long will it take to burn?"

Long Chen thought for a while, and said: "When we dig a canal, the stones will be burned for several days and nights. I don't know how long it will take."

To be honest, Long Chen knew that burning would expand with heat and contract with cold, but he didn't know how long it would take.

Xiahou even glanced at Long Chen, and said: "Keep burning until the city wall collapses."

Chu Tianjun was a little speechless, but he didn't dare to disobey the order and asked the soldiers to continue chopping firewood.

The fire burned for two consecutive days, and the officers and soldiers camped outside.

Anyway, there was a big fire blocking the door, so Peng Mao couldn't get out.

At the beginning, Peng Mao even sent someone to monitor, and he came up to check from time to time.

Later, Peng Mao got used to it and didn't care about it.

The fourth son, Peng Cheng, walked to the north gate. The fire was still burning underneath, and the black charcoal was piled up very high.

"Why do I feel that the stone wall is a little cracked?"

Peng Cheng felt hot on the soles of his feet, and the stone wall showed signs of cracking.

The third son, Peng Hao, also said: "That's right, do you think the top of the door is cracked?"

The two found that the stone wall in the middle of the north gate had begun to crack.

"They don't mean to burn down the stone wall?"

Peng Cheng suddenly felt bad, Peng Hao immediately rushed down the stone wall and ran into Peng Mao's room, where Master Xu was playing chess with him.

Peng Mao dropped a piece and said with a smile: "Master, I won your chess for the first time."

Master Xu came back to his senses and said with a smile, "I lost."

Peng Mao said with a smile: "Master is absent-minded, still worried about the outside world?"

Master Xu said suspiciously: "The gate is blocked, knowing that setting fire is useless, why is it still burning?"

At first, Master Xu thought that Xia Houlian's intention was to burn through the gate and storm into the city.

But now, the gate has been blocked, and a strong attack is useless.

That being the case, why continue to burn the wall?

"Father, it's bad, the wall is about to collapse."

Just when Master Xu was puzzled, the third son Peng Hao rushed in and shouted.

Peng Mao asked: "The wall is about to collapse? What's going on?"

Before Peng Hao could answer, Master Xu stood up abruptly, suddenly realized: "That's right, they didn't want to burn through the gate, they wanted to burn down the stone wall."

Peng Mao thought it was impossible, and said: "My wall is built of stone strips, how could it burn down?"

Master Xu said: "Vendor Master, do you know how to burn mountains and dig canals?"

Peng Maudun felt bad, and immediately rushed out of the room to the north gate wall.

There are already cracks in the stone walls, especially the stone wall near the north gate. The outside is burnt red, and the stone inside is hot.

Master Xu stood on the city wall, looked at the swollen and cracked stone wall, and said worriedly: "Sure enough, there are expert advice, I didn't expect it."

Peng Mao was so anxious that he shouted: "Get water, put out the fire!"

Peng Xing was about to put out the fire, but Master Xu immediately stopped him and shouted: "If you pour water on it, the stone wall will burst!"

Peng Mao became anxious and asked, "Then what should I do?"

Master Xu said: "Bring a pole and pry the firewood apart."

Peng Mao immediately asked the dealer to find a pole, but the stone wall was too high to reach.

Outside Zhuangzi, watching Peng Mao instructing the farmer to pry open the firewood, Xia Hou even put away the binoculars and said with a smile: "Peng Mao is in a hurry, I think it's about the same."

Deputy chief Tu Gang looked up at the dense dark clouds and the cold north wind, and said, "It's only a rainstorm away!"

Xia Houlian looked at Long Chen in the distance, he was roasting rabbits.

"This kid is just a hunter?"

Xia Houlian narrowed his eyes and looked at Long Chen.

Deputy chief Tu Gang said: "Too smart, not like it!"

Xia Houlian said: "Go back and check out his details thoroughly. If there is any problem..."

Both of them had the same idea, they both guessed that Long Chen was a spy of Da Zhou.

Just be sure and kill immediately.