Chapter 161 Coincidentally
The Jingyin soldier controlled the arsonist, holding a torch and following the main force, keeping a distance from the main force. The arsonist was unwilling to give up and was waiting for an opportunity to escape. Just after turning a corner, he suddenly struggled and attacked the Jingyin soldier. The attack and the arsonist happened to touch the flame of the torch. Because he was already stained with oil when he set the fire, he quickly caught fire. The arsonist screamed and rolled on the ground. The soldier walking at the end of the team looked back to see what happened. Rolling on the ground did not completely extinguish the fire on the arsonist. The soldier who controlled him wanted to continue to control him and walk with them for a while, but there was no river in front of him, and the thirst-quenching water he brought was also with another soldier in front, so he had to collect the water carried by the soldier in front to put out the fire on the arsonist. The arsonist thought that as long as he fell into their hands, he would be dead, so he took advantage of the Jingyin soldier talking to the soldier in front and ran away. Since they were still near the bend, the arsonist ran out of the sight of the Jingyin soldiers as soon as he turned the corner. When the soldier who was controlling him chased him back and looked back at the road he came from at the bend, the arsonist was nowhere to be seen.
The arsonist was afraid that he would be caught by the Jingyin soldiers again, so he didn't even look back, and ran as fast as he could, ignoring the fire on his body. As a result, the faster he ran, the faster the fire burned. He wanted to run to a place with water, but there was no water in sight. Soon he couldn't bear it anymore, so he stopped and rolled on the ground. Unfortunately, the fire was too big at that time, and there was no one around, so he was burned to death.
Now the soldiers of Jingyin knew that even if they were deceived by the arsonist, they could not get the real whereabouts of Wang Lieci and his party from him again. They had no choice but to resign themselves to their fate and continue to walk towards the place the arsonist said.
Originally, it would not be easy for them to see the villagers' hiding place if they followed the route mentioned by the arsonist. However, by chance, Wang Lieci chose to go to the hill to watch the Ding couple shooting arrows. And on the road that the Jingyin army was heading towards the wrong place mentioned by the arsonist, they happened to see the direction where Wang Lieci went up the hill. They happened to see Wang Lieci, who was wearing Hongluo Kingdom clothes, and several soldiers walking up the hill.
The archers of Jingyin Kingdom quickly rushed to the foot of the hill, walked up quietly, and when they reached the right place, they shot arrows at the same time from several directions that were not easily noticed, killing Wang Lieci and others.
Earlier, when the archers were halfway up the mountain, they secretly looked down at the villagers and many invaders below, so they sent one of the archers to quietly go down the mountain to inform other soldiers of Jingyin. Then, the soldiers of Jingyin rushed to the place where the invaders bullied the villagers from different directions, surrounded and completely wiped out the soldiers under Wang Lieci.
After the soldiers of Jingyin Kingdom wiped out the soldiers under Wang Lieci, the leader asked some soldiers to leave, some soldiers to help with the funeral arrangements for the dead, and the other soldiers to escort some villagers back to Dingsu Village. When they returned to Dingsu Village, the fire there had been completely extinguished and the fire scene had been cleaned up. The soldiers of Jingyin Kingdom who stayed in Dingsu Village to put out the fire were about to get up and look for the main force, but they saw the soldiers who escorted the villagers back, so they didn't have to look for them specifically.
(End of this chapter)
