Chapter 260 Close the door and set fire to the city
When Yelu Orith, Xiao Hela and others rushed into the city, it immediately caused great panic. Several waves of people who were sweeping the streets ran away. Looking at that direction, it seemed that they were fleeing towards the large number of houses.
In other directions, there were also men dressed in various colors running towards their homes with a flashing expression.
The Han people finally saw the "prey". The three of them looked at each other and finally let down their hearts completely.
The people in Shanyang City did not seem to have moved away, but, in their opinion, since Guo Qizuo, the number one strategist in Shanyang, has not left, and the people have not been moved, it is reasonable.
The reason why they didn't see so many people outside the city just now must have been hidden by Guo Qizuo's order. Now that the army is entering the city, it is not surprising that these people hiding in the dark are fleeing in panic.
After proactively figuring out what he should have, the three of them decisively indulged themselves in their command and signaled the Khitan warriors who rushed into the city not to take it into consideration and start robbing. The ones they snatched into their hands were their own.
In Shanyang City, there was a sound of fighting intermittently just a cup of tea. In the ears of Xiao Hela and the other three, they thought that this was caused by the resistance of the people caused by the plunder of the people under their command, and there was no need to worry about it.
I have to talk about what identities these people dressed in civilians are.
In fact, most of them retreated from Pinglu, with countless ghost guards mixed in it. Guo Qizuo had arranged everything early in the morning. What they had to do now is to act according to orders.
These people hid in the alleys, around the corner, and whenever they saw the Khitan cavalry exposed, they would immediately launch killers, whether they were sneak attacks or fire arrows, and they would do whatever they were convenient for.
After one attack, no matter whether they succeed, these people would immediately enter the alley and alley again, and then harass the Khitan cavalry while flying towards the south of the city quietly.
There are no fewer Khitan cavalry under Zhengyang City. Even if six or seventy thousand people are lost, there should be more than one hundred thousand people. Such a huge number of enemies will take some time to pour into Zhengyang City.
If Guo Qizuo wants to eat all the Khitans in one bite, he must let these fierce soldiers and killers make noise and take the opportunity to delay time so that more Khitans can pour into the city.
Not to mention the battles in the streets, houses, and alleys, there are sporadic explosions, let’s talk about Guo Qizuo.
At this time, Guo Qizuo, with Dong Ningyang and Jing Ming, deliberately pretending to be headless flies, breaking around and bumping around. However, no matter how they pretend to be fleeing in a panic, they always kept their figures and kept their figures from the sight of the three Khitan generals.
When Xiao Jiela and the other two saw Guo Qizuo's figure, they really wanted to compete for merit.
It is no wonder that for the Khitan generals, Zhu Li is undoubtedly the biggest fish in Shanyang City. Unfortunately, this big fish is now far away in Youzhou and is destined to have no share of them.
At present, Guo Qizuo, who is known as the number one strategist in Shanyang, has obviously become the sweet bun in the eyes of the three. As long as you hold this person, it will naturally be a great achievement. How can the three of you not be moved?
As soon as they saw Guo Qizuo, the three of them rushed to chase after him almost immediately. The situation was like three perverts and hooligan bastards, who suddenly saw a beautiful woman with infinite charm and rushed up frantically.
This pursuit has brought a circle.
Shanyang City is no longer what it was five years ago. After five years of continuous expansion, Shanyang City has almost expanded several times. Although the three of them were eager to chase, they could not catch up in a short while.
In addition, Guo Qizuo seemed to have taken them around on purpose, which made them even more anxious and unable to catch a fire.
After more than half an hour, the three of them rushed to the gate of the General's Mansion in no particular way. Guo Qizuo had obviously entered the General's Mansion, but he asked the three generals of the Khitan to lead the general's mansion to surround the General's Mansion and block Guo Qizuo in the mansion.
But it is not easy for the three of them to enter the General's Mansion immediately. The reason is very simple. In front of the general's mansion, hundreds of elite soldiers were waiting for the troops, and they were standing there fearlessly. With only one gate, the three of them would not be able to attack in for a while.
It took more than half an hour to finally demolish the wall, and then broke through the first line of defense and entered the front yard of the General's Mansion.
There was only one passage in the front yard and the back yard, which was the living room that was usually used for discussion. After the courtyard wall was demolished, the remaining soldiers immediately retreated to the front yard, forcing the Khitans to attack again.
With such a terrain, one man is at the pass and ten thousand men cannot open. How could the Khitans break through it if they say it, let alone the front hall has two walls, and even if the Khitans demolish the house, it will take some time.
At the moment when the front hall was fighting fiercely, Guo Qizuo sat in a pavilion in the backyard with a calm expression. Jing Ming was standing next to him. As for Dong Ningyang who was tall and came, he did not know where to go.
About a quarter of an hour later, Dong Ningyang was like a flying geese, and fell into the pavilion like a wind. He bowed and reported to Guo Qizuo: "Sir, Khitan cavalry, almost all of them have entered the city, sir can retreat."
Upon hearing this, Guo Qizuo stood up indifferently and said coldly: "No hurry, I'll bother the Taoist priest to go and pass the order to the soldiers in the secret. After half a quarter of an hour, let them immediately put down the falling dragon stone and completely seal the four gates of Shanyang City."
When Dong Ningyang heard this, his eyes twitched slightly, and thought to himself, he was really cruel. This scholar did not do it, but he would definitely leave no room for anything after doing it.
However, he did not dare to neglect and hurriedly said, "It's just a matter of raising your hands, first
You don’t have to care about it.”
Before he finished speaking, he immediately used his body skills, and disappeared into the pavilion like a stream of blue smoke. He kept watching Dong Ningyang disappear into the general's mansion. Guo Qizuo turned his head and looked at Jing Ming beside him and said, "When the Dragon Stone fell, he fired an arrow and notified the people in the dark to set fire immediately and then evacuate."
"No." Jing Ming responded quickly.
In fact, at this time, Khitan warriors had already discovered that the houses were empty in the morning. However, after reporting, although Xiao Jiela and the other two were confused, they thought to themselves without success.
The residents have left, but the huge city is left for them. If the strength alone is the strength of the Khitans, the strength of the troops is far more than that of the army left behind in Heshuo. What could Guo Qizuo do in the city? The three of them are puzzled?
But at this moment, three huge roars suddenly came from afar.
The sound was huge and far, as if there was a meteor in the sky falling to the ground, trembling so much that the ground was shaking. The sudden movement immediately aroused the suspicion of the Khitan warriors in the city.
Not long after, a Khitan scout immediately came from a distance with a look of panic. Shang Wei arrived at the gate of the general's mansion, and he jumped off the horse and ran to the mansion like a burning butt.
Staying in the general's mansion, while Xiao Hela and the other three were full of shock and confusion, the scout hurried over. Almost as soon as they met, the scout immediately bowed: "General, General, the disaster has happened. The three gates in the east, west and north are suddenly blocked by huge rocks."
"Blocked by the rocks?" Xiao Jiela looked a little solemn when he heard this.
At this time, they finally realized that there was something wrong, but before they could figure it out, they heard the sound of "swoosh, swoosh, swoosh" three-life arrow sounding in the backyard. Before the sound fell, the three rockets suddenly rushed into the air.
The Rockets are also signals. Not only the ghost guards hidden in the dark understand, but even the three generals of the Khitan understand.
The ghost guard understood, so he immediately rushed out of his hiding place and began to set fire in an orderly manner; but the three generals of the Khitan understood, but they didn't know what these three rockets were going to convey.
When they wanted to come, the Khitan elites entered the city with their superior forces. He would never think that the Heshuo Army had the courage to close the door and fight hard with them.
"Is it possible that the so-called No. 1 strategist is planning to block us in the city and let us starve to death? Isn't it too naive?" Xiao Jiela muttered unbelievingly.
"It's impossible, the situation is strange, so it's better to be careful." Yelu Orith said with a gloomy face.
The rockets shot out of the backyard were obviously not used to inform reinforcements. They had already figured out the military strength of Shuozhou through Lu Yong, and naturally knew that there would be no reinforcements in Shanyang now.
The guards guarding Yanmen and Ningwu were simply impossible to come. After all, the loss of Shuozhou was a foregone conclusion, and the Heshuo army would never want to see that because they were exploited by the Khitans because of reinforcements to Shanyang, they would lose Daizhou again.
Without reinforcements, Guo Qizuo did not intend to fight with them. Since it was not a fight, the Rockets would have informed him that Guo Qizuo must have prepared a backup plan. But what is Guo Qizuo's backup plan? Xiao Jiela and the other two had no clue at all.
Just when the three of them were puzzled, the Heshuo soldiers guarding the front hall of the General's Mansion suddenly retreated into the backyard like a tide. That was the backyard, and it was also the place they wanted to attack in the morning. Now these guards did not give up on guarding. What happened?
With this doubt, the three of them immediately led their troops in without waiting for their subordinates to remind them.
There was not a single figure in the huge inner courtyard. The soldiers who had just retreated from the front hall were hurriedly passing through the arch of the backyard and retreating into the back garden.
The three men led by Xiao Xiala did not dare to neglect, so they quickly led their troops to follow him. As soon as they entered the back garden, they looked around and saw Guo Qizuo in white clothes standing on the side of the rockery with a calm expression, looking at them indifferently.
Beside Guo Qizuo, in front of the rockery, a dark hole appeared on the ground. All the guards who retreated from the front hall to the back garden flew to the entrance of the cave and jumped down without hesitation.
"Where can you leave me?" Yelu Zuolu shouted loudly, and was about to swing the warrior's long sword and rushed up.
But at this moment, Guo Qizuo spoke coldly: "Since you have repeatedly attacked the Han territory, it shows how much you love this land. Since you have come, stay and stay on this land forever."
Before he finished speaking, Guo Qizuo himself was held in his hand by Dong Ningyang beside him and jumped into the cave.
Finally, Jing Ming, who was still guarding the entrance of the cave, glanced at everyone with gloomy eyes and said coldly: "This is an authentic tunnel, which can lead to the outside of the city. If you have the courage, you might as well follow it down and try it."
After saying that, he jumped out of the cave without hesitation. All that was left to the Khitans was a gloomy voice of provocation, which still floated in the air and lasted for a long time.
"What does it mean?" Yelu Orith suddenly turned his head, looked at Lu Yong, who looked a little surprised and suspicious, and asked anxiously.
Lu Yong's expression was also very ugly. Because of his betrayal, tens of thousands of people in Pianguan County were robbed by the Khitans and corpses were everywhere.
Originally, he thought that this would completely defeat Zhu Li, and then handed over a sufficient letter of fame to the Khitans, and then he could go to Dadu and spend the second half of his life freely.
But the current situation made him realize that Guo Qizuo and others were actually prepared for a long time. For example, no one knew where the cave in the garden of the General's Mansion would lead.
While he was hesitating,
How to respond to Yelu Orith's question, a huge roar suddenly came. According to the fluctuations of the sound, it can be confirmed that this was from the south of the city. Obviously, Guo Qizuo finally blocked the gate of the south of the city.
He led the Khitan army into the city, but blocked all four gates of Shanyang City. What exactly does this Guo Qizuo want to do?
This doubt did not last long. Suddenly, a Khitan knight, with a child on his face, came to report crying and shouting: "General, the disaster is wrong, fire, fire is everywhere, even the empty ground is ignited, and many brothers are trapped in the sea of fire and cannot rush out at all."
He watched Guo Qizuo jump into the cave from his eyes, but none of the Khitan soldiers dared to chase after him. It was impossible to say that it was not frustrating in his heart.
At this time, there were still people who were still blindly crying, which immediately annoyed Yelu Zuolu, who was more irritated than the irritable Yelu Zuolu. He walked forward a few steps, grabbed the Khitan knight who came to report, and said furiously: "Bastard, what's the matter? When robbing, didn't you set fire?"
But not all the Khitans were as reckless and wise as him. They saw Yelu Oris and Xiao Hela, as soon as they heard the knight's report, they immediately looked up at the sky.
I didn't expect it to know, but I was shocked. At this time, the sky above the entire Shanyang City was full of redness. The warm sun in early April seemed to be reflected, even more redder than the scorching sun in the dog days.
How can this be so fierce that the fire is needed to cause such a strange phenomenon? Could it be that the entire Shanyang City has ignited a fire?
At this time, Xiao Jiela and Yelu Olisi finally understood Guo Qizuo's intention.
The fire burned Shanyang, and this vicious man in white actually burned the entire Shanyang. He hated the Khitans in his heart, and he did not hesitate to compensate the entire Shanyang City for this.
For the entire Heshuo, Shanyang City is like the capital of the country. In order to kill them, Guo Qizuo even dared to burn the capital of the country.
Xiao Hela, whose mind was spinning faster, suddenly looked down at the ground. When they were in the city, they didn't care much. At this time, he suddenly rang out. When he first entered the city, he discovered that the entire Shanyang City seemed to be covered by a layer of fine hay.
What do you want to cover up the city when we are broken grass?
Xiao Hela just gently rubbed the ground with his leather boots, and suddenly found that under the fine hay, there was a wet ground. The wet and oily ground finally explained why even the empty streets ignited a fire.
When entering the city, the Khitans first thought of robbery, and then caught the No. 2 big fish Guo Qizuo; who would have thought that the problem would actually be on the ground.
In other words, the entire ground of Shanyang City was all over the vicious Guo Qizuo, and someone injected tinder oil. He really wanted to burn more than 100,000 Khitan troops to death in Shanyang City without leaving any land.
Not only did Xiao Hela discover this discovery, but Yelu Orith also discovered it. The discovery of tinea oil was also equivalent to understanding Guo Qizuo's intentions. He raised his head again, and the two looked at each other in shock.
At this time, Yelu Zuolu, who had not yet recovered, still said in confusion: "It's not raining yet, why is the ground under the hay wet?"
"Bastard, that's tincture oil. The entire ground of Shanyang City was poured with tincture oil. You idiot!" Xiao Jiela was a little uneasy, and suddenly shouted at Yelu Zuolu hysterically.
"What, tincture!" Yelu Zuolu suddenly woke up, then suddenly turned his head, looked at the sky in Shanyang, and said in horror: "Isn't that my son-in-law, the fire he robbed during the robbery?"
Yelu Orith and Xiao Jiela looked at him with a gray face, self-evident. Is this necessary to ask? Of course, there are both, but the Khitan knights under their command have cheated themselves on fire this time.
There is only one way in front of the Khitans, which is the cave left by Guo Qizuo and others. But do they dare to go in? Not to mention whether there is an ambush in the cave; it is Guo Qizuo who sent someone to come to the entrance of the cave to give them a waiter. Can these people escape?
In April, the breeze was gentle, and the fire in Shanyang City was getting bigger and stronger. The Shuo River, which originally ran across the city, was also cut off the water flow, and clusters of burning flames were floating on the entire water surface.
The fire was raging, scorching a sky, and the Khitan warriors pouring into the city instantly turned into fire people, screaming at the top of their lungs, tilting like drunkards, but soon fell to the ground and no longer heard any more.
As the fire became more and more prosperous, when the entire Shanyang City turned into a sea of fire, the Khitan army of more than 100,000 was just a pile of fuel in the flames.
Even if the lucky Khitan warriors found a place to hide, they were roasted by the hot temperature. They were really cooked. Not only were there endless flames surging over Shanyang City, but the aroma of meat was floating faintly.
When the fire spread to the General's Mansion, the two famous ministers of the Khitan and a powerful general could no longer worry about whether the cave was dangerous. They just crawled in and would have to be burned to death if they didn't go in. Do they have any choice?
The flames burned the city, and the fire raged. At the end, the flames suddenly rose several feet high, as if they were about to burn the sky and burn the flowing clouds. The entire Shanyang City, not to mention people, even the fish in the Shuo River were steamed.
The majestic and tall Shanyang City was completely submerged in the sea of fire. It not only took away the people of Shanyang, five or six years of labor, but also took away the lives of more than 100,000 Khitan troops. Who said that without reinforcements, you cannot win a big battle?
Chapter completed!