"Fu Jun, Fu Jun is about to wake up, the alliance of the relevant Eastern Princes outside the South Gate has killed Luoshui!"

At dawn that day, the sky was just bright, and in Yin's yamen in Henan, there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping, and a personal entourage didn't care about the etiquette, stumbling and waking up Yang Yi in his sleep, and told him the bad news.

Yang Yi was a member of the Hongnong family, that is, the famous "Hongnong Yang Clan", and had just become Henan Yin in late February—it was three days after Dong Zhuo learned that Han Fu had abdicated and Qiao Mao had been killed.

The only task given to him by Dong Zhuo was only "to wait for Hu Zhen and Lu Bu and their troops to win the battle and retreat safely, and then set fire to Luoyang City, as well as Yanshi, Heyin, Gucheng and other three counties around Luoyang."

Wushi County did not let Yang Yi be responsible for setting the fire, because it was Lu Buhuzhen's grain land, and they would set it on fire when they retreated.

So to put it bluntly, Yang Yi is a fire-setting guard.

Originally, he thought that he might have a maximum of ten days and half a month to serve, and as soon as Lu Bu withdrew, he would also withdraw, but he didn't expect to be attacked.

Because everything was already packed, and there were no weapons left in the Luoyang arsenal, of course, this old capital that was about to be abandoned did not have much defense power.

Yang Yi hurriedly put on his horse and took hundreds of personal soldiers to the south of the city to check the situation, but he had already encountered defeated soldiers rushing over on the way.

"Fujun, Zhu Jun, the captain of the city gate, colluded with Guan Yu, the Taishou of Hanzhong, and has opened the city gate to let Guan Yu enter the city, and it was Zhu Jun who personally shouted the city gate." A henchman of the Xiliang Army, a junior colonel, rushed to Yang Yi with blood on his face and rushed to apologize.

"Guan Yu? Is it Guan Yu who broke Hu Zhen and killed Huaxiong half a month ago? Is that Guan Yu who pacified Zhang Ju Zhang Chun Yellow Turban and White Bomi Thief? ”

Yang Yi gasped, and saw that thousands of enemy soldiers in the distance were rushing north along the main street of Kaiyangmen in the south of the city, and there were still 100 horsemen galloping over, so he immediately ordered: "You guys go and set fire to create chaos!" We ...... from the North Gate No, go to the West Gate and run! ”

He paused for a few seconds before shouting, so that the soldiers who had been asked to set the fire had walked a little farther away and could not hear them.

Obviously, the person who set the fire was already considered an outcast, and the second sentence was only addressed to the close pro-soldiers.

In the past few days, he has also made a lot of preparations for the cause of arson, and there are dozens of mansions and neighborhoods in the city that have piled up firewood and grass, so throw a few torches and let them burn slowly.

Yang Yi was not really as frantic as Dong Zhuo in his heart, and he had to completely destroy Luoyang City. But he knew that if he didn't set the fire and left, he would die a miserable death if he was confessed to the other party when he returned. On the other hand, setting fire to create chaos is also good for his own safety, so that he can distract the enemy army and escape better.

As for why you fled by walking up to the west gate instead of Xiamen or Gumen on the front and back, it was because you had to take the north gate to take a little more unjust road and bypass the North Palace.

Now that the eyebrows are burned, of course, how to run the fastest, the big deal is that the North Palace will not set fire, throw a few torches a little when passing by the South Palace, and let the fire burn along the South Palace to the North Palace by itself, which is worthy of Dong Zhuo's order.

It's a pity that despite running so hard, Yang Yi still couldn't get away.

Because he had the most guards around him, and the target was too big, he was targeted by Guan Yu from afar. And when he chased dozens of zhang away, Guan Yu found that there were soldiers in Yang Yi's group who scattered out to set fire from time to time, and he was even more vicious, knowing that this guy was the chief officer who commanded the arson.

"Yang Yi's traitor is killed!" Guan Yu picked up the Qinglong knife and chased after him.

"Quick! Stop him! Yang Yi heard the shouting of killing behind him, and the three souls and seven spirits were so frightened that he ordered his own soldiers to block it desperately. He felt that he had hundreds of guards around him, and it shouldn't be a problem.

As for himself, although he also knows a little swordsmanship, he is not a military general who fights in battle after all, so don't count on it.

Fortunately, he saw that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around Guan Yu, it turned out that Guan Yu commanded Zhou Tai and Gan Ning to take all the Danyang soldiers to fight fires everywhere, and according to the method of demolishing houses and fighting fires he just learned last night, he removed some isolation belts, so that there was no need to consider whether the water source was sufficient.

Only Guan Yu himself was left behind, and a small number of cavalry pursued Yang Yi.

At the beginning of the Qinglong knife, Guan Yu slashed and killed more than 20 Xiliang thieves, and Yang Yi's personal soldiers entered the waves and cracked, and they couldn't stop it at all.

"Don't kill me, I'm willing to surrender, I'm a famous Hongnong Yang, and my cousin Yang Biao has been Situ Sikongsi......"

Yang Yi's hands trembled and he raised his sword while trying to resist, while shouting for mercy in his mouth, but he was directly slashed by Guan Yu and flew his head.

As soon as Yang Yi died, his personal soldiers, subordinates, and small colonels were scattered, and they flocked to the West Gate, and Guan Yujun killed more than 100 people, and finally chased those guys out of the city and scattered, unable to chase anymore, so they returned to the city.

"Okay, leave some alive to go back, or tell Li Dao Guo Yan that Luoyang City has been burned, so as not to cause more trouble to Dong Zhuo." Guan Yu was secretly worried, so he gave up the pursuit.

After all, when those people were chased out of the West Gate, it had been half an hour since Guan Yu entered the city. Luoyang City was the largest city in the late Han Dynasty, and it was impossible to run in a quarter of an hour from the south of the city to the north of the west of the city on horseback.

When those scattered Xiliang subordinate colonels escaped from the city, they turned around and saw that the fire was everywhere in the city, and the sky was a little red, as if the sunrise had been advanced.

Guan Yu returned to the city, and then personally commanded the firefighting. Thousands of elite soldiers worked in an orderly manner, and finally brought some of the fires under control, and controlled the losses within the range of a dozen or so neighborhoods -- whenever one neighborhood was set on fire, the officers and men gave up saving it, but only demolished the houses that were close to other neighborhoods and piled up wood and straw on one side of the fire to prevent the fire from spreading too much across the street to another square.

The only thing that was more difficult in the process was that Nangong was intensively set on fire by Yang Yi before his death, and Zhou Tai, who was in charge of attacking the city and fighting the fire, soon found that it could not be dismantled at all, and he couldn't control it, so he reported to Guan Yu:

"General! The fire in Nangong can't be separated by streets and alleys like Waichengfang City. Nangong was already in a mess, and Yuan Shu had burned some of the rebellion of the Ten Standing Servants, and Dong Zhuo had not repaired it since he entered Beijing, and the chaos of trees and bushes could not be controlled! ”

Guan Yu's face was pale, his mind was racing, and he quickly remembered a deed that Zhao Yun had talked to him about: "Go to the overpass connecting Nangong and Beigong!" Let the soldiers cut down and hit the wood to break the flyover! ”

"Flyover re-entry?" A countryman like Zhou Tai has never been to Luoyang at all, so of course he was confused when he heard it.

Guan Yu patted the horse's neck: "The North and South Palaces are connected by a double road!" At the beginning, Zilong rescued the Queen Mother and Chen Liuwang who jumped off the bridge under the compound road! Don't know this? ”

Zhou Tai was suddenly very ashamed, he didn't even know the details of the heroic deeds of the senior famous generals in his camp, and it seemed that it was indeed a little bad.

He immediately asked people to rush to the Wende Palace, the seventh and last entrance of the South Palace, and then violently demolished a very thick palace pillar, and boarded the double road between the Wende Hall of the South Palace and the Deyang Hall of the North Palace, and directly let dozens of wrestlers carry it like a battering ram, and then slammed into the bridge walls on both sides of the overpass, and smashed the bridge into a thousand holes in a few strokes.

Then hit the ceiling and floor, and after a few moments, the overpass finally collapsed, separating the South Palace and the North Palace.

There were also more than a dozen bridge demolition wrestlers who confiscated their feet and fell directly from the collapsed bridge deck, which was equivalent to jumping from the fourth floor. Some fell with bruised noses and swollen faces, and some broke their legs unfortunately, but no one died.

It can also be seen from this that the young emperor did not dare to jump off the bridge at the beginning, because even if there is no protection, it is impossible to fall to death, let alone the quilt at the beginning.

When the overpass was completely demolished, the fire was extended to the Chongde Hall in front of the five halls, the Jiade Palace, the Xuande Palace, the Jiande Palace, and the Wende Palace, which was still one step away from the Zhangde Palace, so the time was more than enough.

……

Guan Yu can only isolate the fire and cannot extinguish the fire, because more than a dozen Fang City and Nangong in the city are on fire, and the water is not enough at all. As a result, the ruins will burn for at least a few days before they run out of fuel.

In this process, Guan Yu had to be cautious and let the soldiers take two or three shifts to guard, and once there was a risk of spreading, they had to be dismantled, or the flames that were flying around were extinguished as soon as possible.

Xiaoxin was cautiously busy for a whole day, most of the combustibles burned out, and the fire became smaller, so he was a little more relaxed, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous. It was not until noon the next day that Zhao Yun's troops rushed back, and in the early morning of the third day, Sun Jian's nearly 10,000 remnants of troops forcibly marched to Luoyang, wanting to see if there was any benefit to be gained.

However, after entering the city, he found that Guan Yujun and the remaining thousands of people in the city who had escaped the net were actually seriously fighting the fire, and Sun Jian was also a little ashamed and admired.

"How did General Zhengxi maintain military discipline, and he was able not to rush to plunder and loot but to fight fires and save the people, and sure enough, there were not many soldiers."

Sun Jian can fully imagine how the prestige of Liu Bei, the general of Zhengxi, will be widely sung in the Sili area after this incident.

He was also embarrassed to be special, so he asked the soldiers to find a safe neighborhood to find an empty house to live in, rest for a night to recover from the fatigue of the rapid march, and then work with Guan Yu to prevent the fire and cover the mausoleum.

The fire burned for three days, and Guan Yujun was not idle while fighting the fire, so he dragged all the dead bodies found in the city to a place where the flames were particularly fierce and threw them in for cremation. In a place like Beigong that has not been spread by fire, there are also many corpses of palace people, so they will be dragged to the fire ground in Nangong for cremation.

This is the method of "preventing the plague" that Li Su told Zhao Yun, and Zhao Yun has always kept it in mind.

Work such as "burying the well with the dead body of the palace maid" can be done slowly, but the cremation must take advantage of the fire, otherwise it will be too wasteful to build another pile of fire to burn the corpse when the fire is extinguished.

In the process of searching the corpses, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun inevitably found that some wells with palace maids, the number of corpses was not much, and some were dry wells. Only wells with many corpses were directly sealed.

After all, we also have to consider the life of the people in Luoyang in the future, and after the well is filled, it will be impossible to drill wells for a long time in the surrounding area, and it will be inconvenient to get water.

The corpses of hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs were dragged to Nangong, and they would not search for the things on the dead people, because Li Su told Zhao Yun that the "corpse qi" may be the source of the plague.

But it burned and burned, and soon there were also soldiers who monitored the fire and noticed some problems.

"General, it seems that there is something in the fire just now that can't be burned, why is there still a yellow light? But it was just a flash, and soon it was gone, and the light that smelted something like gold. ”

Zhao Yun followed the instructions of the fire guards, and also felt strange: "Huh? What's going on, it's been burning for so long, according to the words of the military advisor, it should be 'disinfected', pick it out and take a look. ”

He picked it with his gun, and pulled out a square four or five inches long from the fire, which was burned to a thick layer of ash, and one corner was missing, as if there was a molten soft stream of gold.

Zhao Yun waved his hand: "Bring a bucket of clean water, and you have to beat it from the wells of those palace maids who have never died, and wash this thing clean." ”