The big pit in the urn city has been filled, and the officers and soldiers of the official army are stepping on the soft soil and attacking the inner city wall of Yangzhou little by little.

The soldiers are in danger, and Li Yi is no longer on the city gate tower at the moment. To be precise, since the day the outer walls fell, a high-ranking rebel army has not held on to the city gates.

Retreat, without a doubt, is a big deal, but also a dangerous thing.

In the Yangzhou Mansion, groups of rebel soldiers rushed out, and Li Yi's orders spread throughout the city.

"The military division, the sailor is on standby at the dock and ready to sail at any time. A guard reported.

"Did the scouts send out? Did the enemy notice the movement of the sailors?" Li Yi didn't raise his head, there were still too many things for him to deal with.

The man shook his head and replied uncertainly: "The main force of the enemy army has been at the west gate, and there is only a ten-man scout team at the east gate, which has now been taken by our army, and the news should not have spread yet." ”

After hearing this, a staff member next to him couldn't help but speak: "According to the frequency of enemy scouts, another scout team will come to patrol after half an hour, and half an hour is not enough time for the whole army to retreat to the ship." ”

Li Yi did not speak.

Generally, if the generals defending the city want to abandon the city and retreat, they generally choose to act late at night. For the sake of safety, even if the besieging party finds something strange in the city, they will never dare to enter the city rashly before dawn.

However, now Wang Zhonghe's attack day and night did not leave Li Yi time to retreat at all, once the soldiers on the city wall withdrew, the officers and soldiers would immediately notice it, and after entering the city, they would chase and kill, not to mention the heavy casualties, and it would delay the time to retreat.

"Leave someone behind!"

This was said by a bold staff member after a moment of silence in the hall, and it was also the voice of everyone in the room.

"That's right! Leave a group of men and horses behind! Leave some boats outside the east gate, and after the large army leaves, you can withdraw a few if you can!"

As soon as these words came out, the staff nodded in agreement.

Li Yi raised his head, put down the roster and classics in his hand, looked around, ignored the lowered heads of everyone, and asked, "Who stays?"

Li Yi asked undoubtedly the most crucial question, everyone knows that someone needs to break the rear, but who stays? The large army can be safely withdrawn, but the people who remain are more than lucky.

The rebels in Yangzhou City are all clan members who have been inherited by the Yang family for a hundred years, and they have received special military training, so they can have such a high combat power. Unlike the mountain people led by Yang Tinghe, they are just a group of fools who have been bewitched by religion. Smart people are easy to use and have high combat power, but smart people are a little bad and are more afraid of death, especially when they know that they will die.

After hearing Li Yi's question, no one in the audience answered. Like Kong Ke, these staff members are all representatives of various ministries, and Li Yi took the opportunity of the military discussion to bring these people together, in order to prevent everyone from being in the army, pointing fingers, and avoiding multiple orders. And the reason why these people happily agreed to do such an idle job is that they have no intention of supervising the army. If the top brass of the army loses their own people, who would dare to hand over the children of their own family?

The scene was a little cold for a while, and Kong Ke, who was standing next to Li Yi, sighed lightly when he saw it, stood up and said, "Actually, there is another way." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience looked at Kong Ke for a while.

"Burn the city, set all the houses around the West Gate on fire, the fire will always buy us some time." ”

Yang Xun's troops are far away in Shengzhou, and it is impossible for him to take his turn after this break. There is no need for Kong Ke to say this sentence. However, Kong Ke, who had followed Yang Xun's father, that is, the previous sect leader, really couldn't bear to induce the suspicion of various departments in the army because of a small problem now, so that the good situation would be ruined. After listening to Li Yi's strategic plan, Kong Ke also privately consulted for many days, and this plan does have a high probability of success. The original dream, Kong Ke didn't want it to die now.

The burning of the city is no less than the slaughter of the city. When the rebels took Yangzhou, they did not plunder the place, but now they want to slaughter the city. The method of burning the city may not have been thought of, but no one dared to carry this infamy. They are not rioters without political aspirations, they want to take over the world. The infamy of slaughtering the city will follow for a lifetime, even if he finally wins the world, it will become a stain on the life of the person who first mentioned yì.

For the dream he has been sticking to all these years, Kong Ke no longer cares about those false names.

"This ......" After hearing Kong Ke speak, several pairs of cloudy eyes suddenly became clear, and under the gray beard, a pair of mouths opened with some difficulty: "Not very good......

"That's it!Tell the guards on the walls to light the fire oil as they retreat. Li Yi was still a little responsible, and stood up and ordered.

"Yes, Strategist. ”

Since you don't have to run to death with your own people, it is naturally a happy thing, as for burning a few people in the city, wouldn't it be better for the people of the Li family to die more?

Outside the West Gate, after a battle, the rebels once again repelled the officers and soldiers who had climbed the city walls.

Without waiting for the ladder of the officers and soldiers to reach the city wall again, the defenders on the city wall began to pour fire oil on a large scale.

Unlike the previous siege of the defenders, this time the oil was no longer in a clay pot and was not lit before being poured.

A cascade of oil covered the entire surface of the city walls......

"What are they doing?"

The official army filled in the moat outside the city, and Wang Zhonghe's well was moved to a mile away from the outer city wall of Yangzhou. Although the night was already deep, through the bright moonlight, Wang Zhongsi could still see the movements of the rebels on the city wall clearly.

When the defenders defended, they generally poured boiling gold juice, which was a mixture of various dung, downward. Something like fire oil is usually packed in a clay pot, lit and then thrown at the besieging soldiers.

Like the rebels in front of you, the scene of smearing the entire city wall with fire oil is rare in siege battles, and even if there is, the person who does this should be the besieging side, not the defender, after all, once the fire oil is ignited, it is the city wall that will be burned.

"No! they're going to burn the city!"

As he said this, Wang Zhongji saw that the rebels on the opposite wall had begun to pour fire oil on the city gate.

"What are the rebels going to do, are they crazy?" Han Zhi on the side was also dumbfounded.

"No! The rebels are retreating!" The famous general's reaction was always very fast, and his mind turned to a possibility.

"Retreat, where to retreat, didn't they all give up the cities on the outskirts of Yangzhou?"

In fact, Han Zhi can't be blamed, limited by the lack of intelligence. No matter how clever he was, he couldn't have guessed what had just happened thousands of miles away.

"Someone, have the scouts who were released come back?" Wang Zhongsi didn't care where the rebels wanted to retreat, since he had doubts in his heart, he had to confirm it as soon as possible.

Hearing the greeting of the boss, the soldiers hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Hello Marshal, several teams of scouts were released half an hour ago, and it will take some time to reply." ”

Wang Zhongsi felt a second in his heart, so he said anxiously: "Don't worry about them, send a few more teams of scouts out, focus on searching for the other three, and report back as soon as there is any movement!"

"Yes!" the guards commanded.

Since the rebels want to retreat, they still have to leave through the city gates.

These days, Wang Zhongsi has placed the position of the main attack on the West Gate, but it is impossible for the other three gates not to send one person. In addition to the west gate, the eastern, southern, and northern gates were more than tens of thousands, and as few as thousands of officers and troops were also attacking the city day and night.

However, in addition to the south gate, there was a relatively empty piece of land, and Wang Zhongsi put a lot of men and horses to attack the city. The north gate is a lake, the land is scarce, and the east gate is where the canal wharf is located, and the water network is dense, and the pace of the official and military projects of these two city gates is really not very fast.

After all, most of the soldiers from the north came to counterinsurgency, and few knew how to water, and there was a shortage of ships.

In June next year, Ge Shuhan was defeated by thieves and closed the door, and Guozhong ridiculed Xuanzong Xingshu. Ding You, to Ma Weidun, the six armies do not advance, please punish the Yang family. So Zhu Guozhong gave the concubine to commit suicide. The chariot will be dispatched, and it will be left behind to proclaim to the people. The crowd wept and said: "Reverse Hu Beien, the Lord is sown, the ministers were born in the sundae, the world is the Tang people, I am willing to work hard to fight for the thief for the country, please recover Chang'an from the prince." Xuanzong heard this and said: "This apocalypse is also." "It is to order Gao Lishi and Shou Wang Mao to send the prince's inner man and the royal service, and leave the military stable and horses from above. Ling Lux proclaimed: "You are good to go! The people are hopeful, and they should be careful not to disobey it." Don't take me for granted. And Xirong Beidi, I taste the thick, now the country is difficult, it will be used, you are reluctant!" "The last time I went back to Weibei, the bridge was broken, the water was soaring, and there was no boat; the people on the waterfront were ordered, and more than 3,000 people returned. Weishui can be waded, and the Tongguan scattered soldiers, mistakenly thought of thieves, and the battle, many soldiers were injured. It is to collect the rest of the people to go north, and the army is rich, and then they are all drowned, and they are happy, thinking that God blesses. At that time, only Guangping, Jianning and the soldiers of the four armies were only 2,000 people. From the north of Fengtian, the night is eternal, and the people cover the road and offer cow wine. There are white clouds from the northwest, several zhang long, such as the shape of a pavilion, and the speaker thinks that the breath of the Son of Heaven. Wuxu, to Tan Binh County. Running for more than 300 miles day and night, more than half of the soldiers lost their equipment, and the people who survived were only one brigade. Jihai, to Anding County, cut Xinping too Shou Xue Yu, Baoding too Shou Xu, with its abandonment of the county. Gengzi, to Wu's Station, Peng Yuan Taishou Li Zun saw it, led the soldiers to welcome, and still entered the clothes and grain. went up to Pengyuan, and raised 400 armor soldiers, and led private horses to help the army. Xin Chou, to Pingliang County, to read the public and private horses, tens of thousands of boils, officials and soldiers are revitalized. When the thief was based in Chang'an, he knew that he was in charge of the Hexi. The people of Sanfu all said: "My prince's army is coming!" The thieves looked at the dust in the northwest, and sometimes ran away. Wu Shen, the Fufeng man Kang Jinglong killed the thief and comforted more than 200 people including Xue Zong, and Chen Cang ordered Xue Jingxian to lead the crowd to collect and defend the Fufeng County. Since Guan Fuhao is a thief, the thief does not dare to invade.

On Pingliang, a few days between the unknown suitability, will Shuo Fang stay after Du Hongji, Wei Shaoyou, Cui Yi and other judges Li Han Feng notes to meet the situation, prepare for the gathering of soldiers and horses, the number of storage warehouses, on the great joy.