Origin Chapter 577: Set fire to the mountain
"Where do you think the assassin is most likely to be hiding?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
Wang Xinran said after pondering, "This person fired two shots during the day at ten o'clock in the morning and two in the afternoon. If the third shot followed a four-hour interval, it should be at six o'clock in the evening. The fourth shot should be at ten o'clock in the evening. There are a lot of torches around the city, which means that people in the city are searching for this person. This also indirectly means that the sniper probably fired the fourth shot. If not, the city's People don't go out of town to search at this time, so I feel like this person should still be near the city."
"It makes sense." Wu Zhongyuan nodded slowly.
Wang Xinran added, "It's around eleven o'clock in the evening. Even if this person immediately withdraws after firing the last shot, in a wild environment like this, he can only walk seven to eight miles in an hour at most."
"You mean that the eight-mile area around the city is the dangerous area?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
"Yes, we should be safe before entering this range." Wang Xinran nodded.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't say anything more. He stretched out his arms and hugged Wang Xinran. This place is still a hundred miles away from Lianshan City. It took too long to walk.
Wang Xinran knew what Wu Zhongyuan was going to do, and did not refuse.
Not long after, the two came within ten miles of the city. Since today is the end of the month, the dark moon has no light, the surrounding is dark, and the light of the torch closest to the two is far away eight miles away. No one can imagine how terrifying the range of this hidden weapon that can take people's lives is, and they just search according to the longest range of the bow and arrow.
"What are you doing now?" asked Wu Zhongyuan, who had never fought a sniper, had no experience, and had no clue.
“You don’t have to do anything, just go back the same way,” Wang Xinran said. “The enemy doesn’t know that I’m here. If you show up, the enemy will guess that I’m also nearby. Go back and put this discharge Take the puppy too."
"Throw yourself here?" Wu Zhongyuan frowned.
Wang Xinran looked around with a gun, "Can you help me by staying?"
Wu Zhongyuan is at a loss for words. He is a Taixuan cultivation base with clear eyes and ears, but no matter how keen his senses are, he cannot see far with the scope of a sniper rifle. In addition, he can also perceive the surrounding area within a hundred meters. A living creature, but this distance is also within the opponent's range.
"How can you find this sniper?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
Wang Xinran shook his head, "There's no other way but to take a chance. Come back in three days, and we'll meet here again."
"What a joke," Wu Zhongyuan shook his head again and again, "I will not leave you here, this person must not be left behind, and he must be killed at all costs, you go to the limelight to hide and ambush, I will try to This person is forced out."
"What do you want to do?" Wang Xinran asked.
"Set fire," Wu Zhongyuan said in a deep voice, "Aren't snipers good at hiding their whereabouts? I will directly burn all the woods around the city to see where this guy hides."
Wu Zhongyuan finished speaking, and walked away without waiting for Wang Xinran to answer. He did not take Huang Maoer, but God gave Huang Maoer to protect Wang Xinran.
The two of them were originally located in the due east of Lianshan. Wu Zhongyuan circled to the due south of the city, took a deep breath, raised his breath and said, "I am Wu Zhongyuan, the Yellow Emperor of the Central Plains. I was shocked to hear that Prince Jiang was attacked, and I came here to arrest the murderer. The warriors obeyed my orders, closed the city gates, and prohibited anyone from entering or leaving the city. All warriors immediately left the city, encircled nine miles, set fire to the mountains, destroyed large tracts of forest, and put the murderers to death.”
After Wu Zhongyuan shouted, the warriors who were searching shouted "Yes", and at the same time quickly moved around.
There are hundreds of warriors in the bear city. In addition to the warriors from this city, there are also high-level warriors who came to hear the news from various cities. The high-level warriors were all in place within three minutes, and most of them were ordinary soldiers holding torches. It is also moving rapidly towards the periphery.
Wu Zhongyuan once again raised his breath and ordered, "One person at ten feet, set fire on all sides, watch from left to right, and if someone is attacked, immediately sound an alarm and inform you of the location."
Jiang Zheng was assassinated. Everyone in the Niu tribe was angry and sad. They listened to his orders and obeyed immediately. There are many dead trees and hay in the mountains. The fire was getting stronger.
The wind blows from the south today. Not only the bull warriors on the south side are setting fires, but also the east, west, north, and north sides. Their purpose is to remove cover and obstacles to ensure that the murderer cannot escape.
At this time, warriors of all ranks and soldiers with torches in the city have already taken their positions, consolidating the encirclement from nine miles away, cutting down and moving the trees around the fire field while defending, to prevent the wildfire from spreading and becoming uncontrollable.
Worrying that the cattle warriors would accidentally hurt Wang Xinran, Wu Zhongyuan raised his anger again and said, "Those who wear black fur and bring yellow dogs are friendly troops, don't accidentally hurt them."
The nine-mile radius is a large area, not nine miles in diameter, but nine miles on each side of the city. Burning so many woodlands will definitely bring a lot of inconvenience to the lives of bearers in the future, but this move also has another benefit. That is, he originally wanted to expand the cultivated area of the major cities, and the burned woods could be reclaimed as arable land in the coming year.
In fact, setting fire to the mountain is a very stupid method, and the price to pay is also very high. It seems that only Wu Zhongyuan has the right to issue such a major order to burn down the forest on a large scale.
After a while, the fire was blazing into the sky, and the flames were everywhere. Jiang Nan and Jiang Dahua left the city and found Wu Zhongyuan following the sound.
Before the two came, Wu Zhongyuan had already cut down two big trees as cover. Seeing the two came, he hurriedly pulled the two behind the tree to prevent them from being attacked by snipers.
Jiang Nan was wearing a plain white dress, and his face was full of sadness. When he saw Wu Zhongyuan, he felt sad in his heart and lowered his head and choked up.
Wu Zhongyuan patted Jiang Nan on the shoulder, sighed and comforted, "You have to mourn and change, today is a thousand miles away, and the murderer will never let the murderer get away."
Jiang Nan nodded sadly.
Wu Zhongyuan turned his head to look at Jiang Dahua, "Can someone be attacked and killed in Youshi and Haishi?"
"Yes," Jiang Dahua nodded, "the one who was assassinated at You Shi was a maid in the harem, who died in the North Courtyard. The one who was assassinated at Hai Shi was a warrior of the cave god, who died on the east wall, with all the wounds on his head. Same."
Wu Zhongyuan nodded slowly. Before Wu Junyue described the situation of the assassinated guard, the bullet penetrated from the left temple and flew out from the right temple, and the warrior was going up the steps at that time. The sniper fired from Xishan.
The third assassin was the palace maid of the North Courtyard, and the fourth was the defender of the city wall on the east side. From this, it can be inferred that the assassin's movement trajectory was from west to north and then east.
It has only been an hour since the assassin shot the warriors of the east wall. No matter how fast the assassin runs, it is impossible to jump out of the nine-mile encirclement. The assassin should be in one of the northeast, due east, and southwest, or very close to him. Either it is very close to Wang Xinran...