Chapter 53: The Burning of the City

Duan Zhong stood on the palace noon gate square, watching the soldiers of the beam hit the palace wall like a flood, there was no expression on his face, seeing that the Dali soldiers who were desperately guarding were getting fewer and fewer, that is, this "poisonous dagger" had been seriously damaged, the original number of two thousand, but now there are less than half left, but Duan Chong still did not have any expression, after a while, a herald rushed over, his face was pale, and he said breathlessly: "Your ...... Your Highness, Miyagi wants to ...... It's broken, we can't hold it anymore! ”

Duan Chong nodded lightly when he heard this, it is extremely normal to not be able to hold it, the garrison force invested by Dali is only half of that of Daliang, and it is not easy to defend the palace, so Duan Chong waved his hand and signaled that the herald could go down, and the herald glanced at Duan Chong with a pale face, knowing that if he went down, he would join the team to resist the Daliang army, I am afraid that he would live or die, but he still retreated very firmly, and the next moment, Jiang Mingchen's figure had already appeared beside Duan Chong.

Duan Zhong touched his nose: "Have all the people withdrawn!" ”

Jiang Mingchen nodded.

"The enemy is coming into the city!"

Jiang Mingchen narrowed his eyes: "Originally, all the Great Liang troops had already rushed into the city, but it seems that there was a force out of the city!" ”

Duan Chong frowned: "How many people are in the team, who led it!" ”

"I don't know who led it, but the preliminary estimate should be around twenty or thirty thousand!"

Duan Zhong sighed: "Since they have gone out, we have no way, as long as the main army of Daliang is in the city, we can't worry so much!" ”

Jiang Mingchen comprehended: "As long as the enemy's large army is annihilated, there will be nothing to worry about!" ”

And Duan Zhong touched his nose again: "Death squad, the hot oil and ignition are ready!" ”

Jiang Mingchen nodded again: "Two hundred 'poison daggers' are already in place, lurking in every corner of the city, as long as they give an order, the fire will ignite immediately!" ”

Duan took a heavy breath, and then nodded with satisfaction: "Send a signal!" ”

Jiang Mingchen took out a signal flare from his arms when he heard this, and took advantage of the dark night that had just come, a beam of firelight rushed into the sky, and then, countless sparks burned in the entire Yanjing City, and quickly connected into one. With the help of saltpeter and other combustibles, the Liang soldiers had no ability to extinguish the fire, but the fire became more and more vigorous, and when some of the Liang soldiers reacted: "Oh no, it's on fire!" Run for your life! Countless soldiers flocked to the city gate.

Suddenly, the road of Yanjing City, which has always been extremely wide, was blocked, more than 100,000 soldiers blocked the road, all wanted to pass through the only exit, the south gate rushed out, the Liang army only broke through the south gate when attacking the city, and the rest of the city gates have already been blocked by the army of Dali with stones and sundries, and they can't be opened at all, for a time, more than 100,000 troops are running and fleeing for their lives, and there are roars and screams everywhere, and the eaves of the houses around the avenue, The pillars continued to fall down, smashing and injuring countless soldiers of the beams, the injured soldiers of the beams who were pressed under the pillars were burned to death by the pillars burned into charcoal, and more were trampled to death by the comrades who rushed up from behind, more than 100,000 troops collapsed in an instant, the generals could not find their own soldiers, and the soldiers could not take care of their generals at all, and the only belief was before the fire spread to their bodies...... Rush out of the city and find a way to live.

Yanjing City, since ancient times is the key place of Gyeonggi, before the Liang Dynasty, it has been three dynasties in Yanjing Dingdu, the time spans more than 1,000 years, has experienced countless elites, craftsmen and construction, there is such a majestic city, more than four times larger than Nanjing City, hundreds of thousands of people, there are countless historical relics, treasures and national treasures, it is the spiritual totem of the whole country, and now, it is burned by a fire of the Dali army, and the initiator of this battle, Duan Chong, But there is not the slightest distress, after all, this Yanjing City has nothing to do with Duan Chong and Dali, why should Duan Chong think about these things?

In less than an hour, Yanjing City seemed to have become a sea of fire, the Liang soldiers who attacked the palace were originally the most elite soldiers, but at this moment they were in the middle of Yanjing City, and if they wanted to escape, they would have to wait until far behind, and at that time, the fire might not give these soldiers any chance, seeing that death was about to come, it inspired the blood type of these soldiers besieging the palace, desperately attacking the palace, and at this time, the garrison army in the palace began to retreatFinally, the soldiers of Daliang saw a glimmer of hope, because this palace is still the only place without fire, you can go in to take refuge, if the measures are right, the high palace wall can block the raging fire outside the palace, which is undoubtedly the last straw to save life.

And what is even more delightful is that the soldiers of Dali did not have any resistance at all, so they let the army enter the palace of the palace, countless Liang soldiers cheered, thinking that they had finally found a place of refuge, and hurriedly prepared to isolate the fire from the palace wall, but they did not expect that the soldiers of Dali had disappeared without a trace in the palace, and when the Liang soldiers were busy arranging the fire belt, countless flames suddenly ignited in all corners of the palace, and then instantly diffused, The entire palace began to burn a raging fire, until the end of this fire, just from the palace on the noon gate square, there were thousands of suffocated Liang soldiers.

Until the palace caught fire, the entire Yanjing City had been surrounded by fire, and the palace, which had condensed countless energy and wealth of the entire Great Liang, was also burned in this fire, and the fire only burned for less than two hours, within these two hours, the number of Liang soldiers who could escape was less than 10,000, and more Liang soldiers were trampled to death by friendly troops, burned to death by the fire, smashed to death by the fallen masters, house beams, smoked to death, and more Liang soldiers were struggling on the road to the city gate.

The soldiers who escaped were naturally very fortunate for the rest of their lives, but those who did not escape were miserable, and some of the Liang soldiers saw the crowds at the gate of the city, so they simply climbed the city wall and jumped down from a height, if they were unlucky, then they were directly crushed and their brains were broken, if they were lucky, and fell on the pile of corpses, they might break an arm and a leg, but they could survive, and they were very lucky.

However, just when the Liang soldiers piled up at the city gate saw a ray of dawn, and they were able to go out of the city to escape and ascend to heaven after a while, there were countless Dali archers holding longbows outside the city gate of the south city gate, and the Liang soldiers Fang Fu rushed out of the city gate, thinking that he could be alive, but he found that there were countless arrow rains waiting for him outside the city gate, and before he could shout for help, he had been shot through by the arrows.

It turned out that long before the siege of the city, Dali's soldiers spent half a month, that is, in the palace to dig out a number of secret passages leading to the outside of the city, this move is a heavy precautionary move, because no matter what, Emperor Zhengkang can not be caught in Yanjing City, so he thought of this way to escape, and Duan Zhong was even more witful, knowing that the frontal battlefield is not the enemy's opponent, so he simply used these tunnels to fight a battle, and for this battle, what needs to be sacrificed is the lives of tens of thousands of Dali soldiers, It is necessary to introduce all the enemy's army into Yanjing City in order to play a strategic reversal role, so half of the original Dali army of more than 100,000 people was used to defend to the death, and the enemy could not see any flaws.

There is no doubt that Duan Chong's move was successful, and the number of people who could pass through the secret passage was very limited, so as soon as the battle began, Duan Chong had already begun to transfer a large number of troops outside the city, just waiting for the fire to ignite, and then rushed out of the secret passage, shooting all the soldiers who wanted to rush out of the city to fight Daliang.

This is undoubtedly a nightmare for the Liang soldiers, when the Liang soldiers at the gate of the city were shot, the countless Liang soldiers in the city are constantly swarming outside the city, these soldiers who saw the enemy's arrow rain did not have the opportunity to enter the city again to dodge, they were rushed out from behind the Liang soldiers to be squeezed into the arrow rain, under the impetus of this huge flow of people, the soldiers of Dali did not need to aim at all, there were countless enemies into the range, any arrow can be shot to the enemy's body, at this time, If a bomb was dropped in the crowd, the effect would definitely be extremely obvious, but Duan Zhong did not order this, because once the bomb exploded, it would cause even greater panic among the soldiers of Daliang, and it would make the soldiers of Daliang, who had seen a glimmer of hope, fall into despair and make a final counterattack.

The current situation is the final result, countless Liang soldiers rushed into the rain of arrows of the Dali army without knowing it, the money of the former servants and servants came to die, the dead Liang soldiers in front of them did not have time to speak, and there were more Liang soldiers who thought that the outside was a living road and rushed out again, and the city gate was only so wide, the Liang soldiers who could rush out each time were extremely limited, and the soldiers of Dali could kill the enemy calmly outside the city gate, it was completely unilateral slaughter, and the enemy could not even touch the body of the Dali soldiers.

And at this moment, Duan Chong was standing alone in the palace of Yanjing in Northern Liang, opposite a person full of anger, Xiao Li,