Chapter 275: Burning

The ladders of the Rong people and all kinds of siege equipment finally came to the city, and this desperate siege battle finally entered a white-hot state.

The battle began at noon and continued until the sun set and there was no sign of stopping, during which the soldiers of the two armies could take a breath except for the Rong people who were dispatching troops and sending generals, the rest of the time in Quwo City was a scene of endless fighting.

The towering walls of Quwo City were already covered with the corpses of soldiers of the two armies. Until darkness came, countless torches were lit above and below the city, but the shouts of the two armies never subsided.

"Captain Zhezhe, the east gate of the city is open, and about 5,000 Qin people have fled from the east gate to the outside of the city."

Zhezhe, who had been watching the siege from outside the city for a whole day, raised his hand and wiped his eyes covered with red silk. After listening to the Tanmalai report, he thought for a moment and then looked up at the dark sky and said, "With the commander of the Monan Tiger and Bemuer, 15,000 soldiers and horses from the headquarters will go in pursuit, and they must be annihilated to the west of the water."

The rest of the soldiers and horses continued to attack the city, and Qin's popularity was exhausted at this time, which was a critical pass, and with a little more strength, this Quwo city was captured.

I don't believe it, these Qin people are not flesh and blood raised by their fathers and mothers, and they can still hold on after fighting for so long. ”

After Zhezhe finished speaking, the tanma immediately left, and Zhezhe shouted: "Sons, the Qin people can't hold on anymore, success or failure is in this move, follow me to attack the city!" ”

After saying that, with the sound of the three charging horns of the Chinese army's "woo woo", Zhezhe also led his troops and horses to kill the head of Quwo City, which was full of blood.

Today, Zhezhe watched nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command die under the city of Quwo.

Therefore, even if he is old and accustomed to seeing life and death, Zhezhe can't help but be frightened by the hellish scene in front of him.

But at the same time, he also understood that under the siege of life and death on his side, the Qin people in Quwo City were bound to be no better, and now that the Qin people had broken through the siege, it would be a matter of course to take this fortified city in one go.

In the darkness, stepping on the corpses of the robes, Zhezhe came to the city. He saw Han Yun and Bortu, who were also red-eyed, and they understood each other's intentions, so they didn't say much, and immediately threw all their soldiers and horses into the final siege.

Finally, in the second half of the night, with the shouts of "Ulaula" at the head of the city, Zhezhe and the others finally knew that the head of Quwo City had been completely taken down.

"Order all the soldiers and horses who attacked the rest of the gates to come to the south gate, and take down the city gate in one go, those Qin people have been fighting for so long, there are not a few people left, let them go."

Zhezhe made a quick decision and immediately made a series of orders.

If you attack a fortified city, as long as one point is broken, then you must use your forces to break through this point with all your might.

Therefore, after Zhezhe's order was issued, all the generals also showed joy on their faces, because they knew that victory was already in sight.

Sure enough, not long after the rest of the Menrong troops gathered at the south gate and immediately flocked to the city, Zhezhe found that the city was full of fire.

After a short time, the south gate was opened, and the soldiers outside the city poured into the city of Quwo with shouts.

Overjoyed, Zhezhe immediately ordered the whole army to charge, trying to occupy the whole city of Quwo in one fell swoop.

Tens of thousands of horses poured into the south gate, and they raised their weapons and shouted to kill all parts of the city.

At this time, for every soldier besieging the city, it was a day and a night of siege

During the war, the shadow of death was always with us, and every soldier lost their most familiar relatives and clansmen.

After finally entering the city at this moment, the pleasure in their hearts and the pain of revenge all rushed to their hearts, making every soldier of the Rong army eager to kill those Qin people who should still be resisting in various corners of the city.

In the monstrous rage, Quwo City was full of soldiers looking for the Qin people, they didn't care about the houses burning on both sides of the road, they just carried weapons and looked for the Qin people from street to street, whether it was soldiers or ordinary people.

Slaughtering the city, this is the only thought of all the soldiers of the Rong army at the moment. This sinful city has made them careless about any military orders, even if it is a violation of military law, they have to avenge the tragic death of the robe today.

Half an hour later, Zhezhe and other generals finally entered the city with the soldiers.

"What's the matter, who set the fire, those Qin people? What about the people of the city? ”

After following the soldiers and horses into the city, Zhezhe immediately noticed that something was wrong.

When he walked all the way to the direction of the Wuying Hall in the center of the city, Zhezhe, who had observed for a long time, finally found that there seemed to be only red-eyed soldiers in the city who had killed his own side and the sporadic soldiers of the Qin State who had not had time to escape from the city in secret.

In addition, none of the tens of thousands of civilians in the city nor the Qin soldiers, who were expected to have more than 10,000 horses, appeared.

He looked at the fires burning on both sides of the main street in a daze, but found that someone was escorting several soldiers of the Qin State to meet him.

"Captain Zhezhe, there seems to be something wrong with these Qin people. These people were lying in ambush everywhere and were setting fires, and they were caught by the children. I thought they must have a conspiracy, but I didn't understand the words of the Qin people, so I was brought in and asked for interrogation. ”

One of the commanders of the Rong people who was holding several captives hurriedly said to Zhezhe with a nervous look on his face, apparently he had also discovered something strange in Quwo City.

Zhezhe immediately summoned Han Yun and the others, and tortured these Qin soldiers, and after a while, they learned the news from the mouths of these Qin captives that made them frightened.

It turned out that the Qin army had long been preparing to withdraw from Quwo City by night, and in the past four months, they had sent the people in the city out of the city one after another. Tonight they gave an empty city to the Rong people, just to attack it with fire.

In order to make this plan more realistic, the Qin army did not hesitate to start a cruel battle to the death with the Rong people, in order to dispel the doubts of the Rong people, and they would immediately rush into the city after conquering the city.

The capture of the South Gate was not the result of the manpower battle, but the loophole deliberately released by the Qin army.

The Qin army, which had been prepared for a long time, withdrew from the city after the Rong army of the East Gate turned to attack the south gate, leaving only some dead soldiers responsible for arson.

When the Rong army poured into the city, they began to set fires from all over the city, allowing the fire to engulf the grease-soaked houses of the city.

Zhezhe's face turned pale after hearing the results of the interrogation, and in a fit of rage, he immediately swung his stick and killed these captured Qin ** soldiers, and then ordered the soldiers in the city to withdraw from Quwo from the south gate.

At this moment, only the south gate has not been engulfed in fire, but under the blowing of the autumn wind in the south in the middle of the night, the fire in the city that has been artificially sprinkled with grease may affect the south gate at any time, completely blocking the escape path of their soldiers.

As he retreated towards the south gate, he gritted the steel teeth in his mouth. He knew that at this moment, under the chaos of the army, there were fires burning all over the city, and he did not know how many soldiers would be killed in the fire if they could not get the order.

But even then

After receiving his own orders, more and more fires were burning everywhere, and how many people were able to escape through the streets and alleys to the south gate. Zhezhe didn't dare to think about it anymore, but walked towards the south gate with his head bored.

Fortunately, when Zhezhe came to the south gate, he saw that the south gate still did not show the slightest sign of fire, and he was deeply relieved in his heart.

He immediately ordered Han Yun and Bortu to lead his men and horses to search for the Qin people who were hiding in the houses near the south gate and were about to set fire, and at the same time sent spies into the city to guide the soldiers to retreat to the south gate in time.

Half an hour later, the fires in all parts of the city were already like a monstrous wave, illuminating the dark city of Quwo as if it were day. Even standing outside the south gate that was not on fire, waiting for the soldiers to escape from the city, Zhezhe also felt a parchment of his mouth.

The air was filled with flying ash, and everywhere there was the smell of burnt wood and other things.

"Kill."

Suddenly, a panicked Zhezhe heard a burst of shouts of killing from the east, and not long after, countless cavalry appeared in the bright wilderness illuminated by the fire of Quwo City.

They were like beasts in the darkness rushing towards the place where Zhezhe was outside the south gate, although the distance was still far away, Zhezhe's heart began to flutter and plop.

"It's the Qin army, it's the cavalry of the Qin people."

Not only did Zhezhe see the soldiers and horses in the east, but also the 20,000 soldiers of the Rong Kingdom who escaped from the south gate of Quwo and were terrified, and at the same time saw the terrifying cavalry in the darkness of the east.

Zhezhe looked back and saw that the houses near the south gate had also begun to catch fire, and he closed his eyes in despair, knowing that there were finally more than 10,000 warriors who would die in the flames.

When he opened his eyes, Zhezhe immediately shouted: "Retreat", and then the two retreat trumpets sounded, and the Rong army quickly formed a retreat array and slowly disappeared into the darkness to the south.

Unlike night raids on camps or castles, which are tactics for fixed locations, field battles in the dark have rarely occurred since ancient times. Because in the case of blind sight, it is unlikely that the offensive and defensive sides will be able to make full use of the advantages of the battle formation to fight.

So few people would make such a stupid decision.

After watching the more than 20,000 Rong troops slowly retreat, the cavalry of the Qin State also immediately stopped their attack and turned around and retreated into the darkness in the east.

In the purgatory-like city of Quwo, there is hardly an inch of land that is not illuminated by fire at this time.

But there are exceptions.

The ancestral hall of the Fang family, located next to the Wuying Hall, was temporarily unaffected by the fire because there were no houses of residents around.

Here, about 100 people gathered in the ancestral hall, listening to the terrifying sound of the wind gathering flames, and quietly watching several old people in the ancestral hall wiping the dense plaques.

Among these people, none of them were white-skinned or red-haired Rong Di people, all of them were wearing black Xuanjia Xuanyi robes, and they looked at the name written on the nearest plaque in a daze, Fang Yuanheng.

Ironically, this undefeated god of war who was once in the hearts of all Qin troops still controls the life and death of these Qin soldiers who defected to the Rong people after his death.

Finally, more than 100 people opened their mouths and sang a war song that they had not sung for a long time.

In the ancestral hall of the Fang family, in front of the spirit card of the greater person on the left.

A song "No Clothes",

Tears on everyone's face,

The air is blazing but does not kill people,

The terrible voice of heaven,

And there is also the faint vitality in the palm of the land in this Quwo city.