Chapter 260: Closing the Door and Setting Fire, Burning the City
When Jereoris and Xiao Sara rushed into the city, they immediately caused a great panic, and they saw several waves of people sweeping the streets, scattering their legs and running, looking in that direction, it seemed that they were fleeing towards the large number of houses.
In other directions, there were also people in various costumes, running towards their homes with flashing expressions.
The people of the Han people finally saw the "prey", the three of them glanced at each other, and finally let go of their hearts completely.
The people in Shanyang City don't seem to have migrated, but in their minds, since Guo Qizuo, the number one strategist in Shanyang, has not left, it is reasonable that the people have not been relocated.
The reason why they didn't see so many people outside the city just now must have been ordered by Guo Qizuo to hide, and now that the army has entered the city, it is not surprising that these people hiding in the shadows are fleeing in a panic.
took the initiative to make up for the possibility, and the three of them decisively indulged their command, signaling those Khitan warriors who rushed into the city not to care, start looting, and the one who grabbed it was his own.
In Shanyang City, just a cup of tea, there was an intermittent sound of fighting, listening to the ears of Xiao Shira and the other three, they thought that this was caused by the rebellion of the people caused by the plundering of the people under their command, and they didn't need to care at all.
I have to talk about what the identity of these people dressed as people is.
In fact, most of them are elite soldiers who have been withdrawn from Pinglu, and there are countless ghost guards among them, Guo Qizuo has arranged everything early on, and now what they have to do is just follow the order.
These people are hiding in the alleys and corners, as long as they see the Khitan cavalry showing their heads, they will immediately use their killers, whether it is a sneak attack, or a cold arrow, how convenient and how to come.
After the blow, whether they succeed or not, these people will immediately burrow into the alleys and alleys again, and then harass the Khitan cavalry while quietly flying away in the direction of the south of the city.
The Khitan cavalry under Shanyang City is no longer a few, even if it loses 60,000 or 70,000 people, there should be more than 100,000 people now, and such a huge number of enemies will pour into Shanyang City, how can it take some time.
If Guo Qizuo wants to eat all the Khitans in one bite, he must let these soldiers and killers make a move, 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, which broke out sporadically, let's talk about Guo Qizuo.
At this time, Guo Qizuo took Dong Ningyang and Jing Ming to deliberately pretend to be headless flies, running around and bumping around, but no matter how they pretended to run away in a panic, they always kept their figures, and never left the sight of the three Khitan generals.
Xiao Zhira, as soon as they saw Guo Qizuo's figure, they really started to fight for merit.
It's no wonder that for the Khitan generals, Zhu Li is undoubtedly the biggest fish in Shanyang City, but unfortunately this big fish is now far away in Youzhou, and it is destined to have no part for them.
At present, Guo Qizuo, who is known as the first strategist in Shanyang, has obviously become a fragrant bun in the eyes of the three of them, as long as they hold this person, it will naturally be a great achievement, how can the three of them not be moved.
As soon as they saw Guo Qizuo, the three of them almost immediately rushed to chase after him, and the situation was like three perverts and hooligan bastards, who suddenly saw a beautiful woman with infinite amorous feelings, and rushed forward frantically.
This pursuit has come full 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 are eagerly chasing, but it is not a moment and a half to catch up.
In addition, Guo Qizuo seems to deliberately take them around in circles, which makes them even more anxious.
After more than half an hour, the three of them rushed to the gate of the General's Mansion in no particular order, Guo Qizuo had obviously entered the General's Mansion, but let the three Khitan generals lead their subordinates to surround the General's Mansion and block Guo Qizuo in the mansion.
But if the three of them want to enter the General's Mansion immediately, it is not a simple matter, the reason is very simple, in front of the gate of the General's Mansion, hundreds of elite soldiers are waiting for them, and they are not afraid to block there, and in the case of only one gate, the three of them will not be able to attack it at all for a while and a half.
It continued to take more than half an hour, and the three of them finally demolished the wall, and only then did they break through the first line of defense and enter the front yard of the General's Mansion.
There is only one passage in the front yard and the back yard, which is the living room that is usually used for deliberations, and after the courtyard wall was demolished, the remnants of the government soldiers immediately retreated to the front hall, so that the Khitans had to attack again.
With such a terrain, one man is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open, how can the Khitan people say that they will break it, not to mention that the front hall is two walls, even if the Khitan people demolish the house, it will take some time.
At the moment of fierce battle in the front hall, in a pavilion in the backyard, Guo Qizuo sat indifferently, Jing Ming stood next to him, and Dong Ningyang, who was high and high, did not know where to go.
About a quarter of an hour or so later, Dong Ningyang's body was like a flying fly, and he fell into the pavilion like the wind, and reported to Guo Qizuo: "Sir, the Khitan elite cavalry, almost all of them have entered the city, and Mr. can retreat." β
When Guo Qizuo heard this, he stood up indifferently and said coldly: "Don't worry, I have to trouble the Dao Chief to go and pass the order to the soldiers in secret, and after half an hour, let them immediately put down the Falling Dragon Stone and completely seal the four gates of Shanyang City." β
When Dong Ningyang heard this, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and he said in his heart, he is really ruthless, this scholar, if he doesn't do it, he will definitely leave no room for it.
However, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "Raise your hands, first."
Life doesn't have to worry about it. β
Before the words fell, I saw that he immediately used his skills, and disappeared into the small pavilion like a puff of green smoke, and watched Dong Ningyang disappear into the general's mansion, Guo Qizuo turned his head and looked at Jing Ming beside him and said: "When the falling dragon stone fell, the arrow was released, and the people in the dark were notified to set fire to it immediately, and then evacuated." β
"No." Jing Ming hurriedly responded.
In fact, at this time, there were already Khitan warriors who discovered the situation that the houses were empty early, but after reporting, although the three of them were puzzled, they thought hard to no avail.
The residents have gone, but the huge city is left to them, if it is only about the strength of the army, the strength of the Khitans is far more than the army left behind in Heshuo several times, what can Guo Qizuo do in the city, the three of them are puzzled?
But at this moment, three huge roars suddenly came from the distance.
The sound was loud and far-reaching, as if there was a meteor in the sky, falling to the ground, trembling so much that the ground was shaking, and this sudden movement immediately aroused the suspicion of the Khitan warriors in the city.
Soon after, a Khitan scout immediately came from a distant flying horse with a panicked face, and before he came to the gate of the general's mansion, he jumped off his horse and ran towards the mansion as if he was burning his buttocks.
Staying in the general's mansion, when the three of them were in Xiao Zhira, their faces full of surprise and puzzlement, the scout hurried over, and almost as soon as they met, the scout immediately arched his hand and said: "General, general, woe, the east, west, and north gates of the city are suddenly blocked by huge rocks. β
"Blocked by rocks?" When Xiao Zhi heard this, his expression was slightly solemn.
At this time, they finally realized that something was wrong, but before they could figure it out, they only heard the sound of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" in the backyard.
The rocket is also a signal, not only the ghost guards hidden in the shadows understand, but even the three generals of the Khitan also understand.
When the ghost guard understood, he immediately burst out of his hiding place and began to set fire in an orderly manner; But the three generals of the Khitan understand, but they don't know what these three rockets want to convey.
In their minds, the Khitan elite entered the city with superior forces, and he never thought that the Heshuo army had the courage to fight with them behind closed doors.
"Could it be that the so-called First Strategist is too naΓ―ve to plan to block us in the city and let us starve to death?" Xiao Sara muttered unbelievingly.
"Impossible, the situation is weird, it's better to be careful." Jeruoris said with a gloomy face.
The rockets fired in the backyard were obviously not used to notify the reinforcements, and the military strength of Shuozhou, through Lu Yong, they had already felt it clearly, and naturally knew that there would be no reinforcements in Shanyang now.
After all, the loss of Shuozhou is a foregone conclusion, and the Heshuo military never wants to see that because of the reinforcement of Shanyang, the Khitans took advantage of the loopholes, so as to lose Daizhou again.
Without reinforcements, Guo Qizuo didn't plan to fight hard with them, since it wasn't a hard fight, then what this rocket notified must be Guo Qizuo's backhand, but what Guo Qizuo's backhand is, Xiao Zhira's three people, have no clue at all.
When the three of them were puzzled, the soldiers of Heshuo who were guarding the front hall of the General's Mansion suddenly retreated into the backyard like a tide, which was the backyard, and it was also the place they wanted to attack early in the morning, and now these guards did not give up the garrison, what happened.
With this doubt, the three of them immediately led their troops to rush in without waiting for a reminder from their subordinates.
There was no one in the huge inner courtyard, and the soldiers who had just been withdrawn from the front hall were hurriedly passing through the arch of the back yard and retreating towards the back garden.
The three people led by Xiao Zhira, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly led their troops to follow, just entered the back garden, and looked around, they saw Guo Qizuo in white clothes, standing on the side of the rockery with an indifferent expression, looking at them indifferently.
On Guo Qizuo's side, in front of the rockery, a big dark hole appeared on the ground, and all the guards who had withdrawn from the front hall to the back garden flew to the entrance of the cave and jumped down without hesitation.
"Where to go, leave me behind." As a fierce general, Yelu Zuoyu shouted loudly, and was about to wave the warrior Changge and rush forward.
But at this time, Guo Qizuo said coldly: "Since you have repeatedly attacked the Han land, it can be seen how much you love this land, since you are here, stay and stay on this land forever." β
Before the words fell, Guo Qizuo himself was held in his hand by Dong Ningyang beside him and jumped into the hole.
Jing Ming, who was still guarding the entrance of the cave in the end, glanced at everyone gloomily with his eyes under the ghost face, and said coldly: "This is a tunnel, which can lead to the outside of the city, if you have the courage, you might as well follow down and try." β
After speaking, he also jumped into the cave without hesitation, leaving only an eerie provocative sound for the Khitans, which still floated in the air and lasted for a long time.
"What do you mean?" Yelu Oris suddenly turned his head, looked at Lu Yong, who looked a little surprised, and asked urgently.
Lu Yong's expression was also very ugly, because of his betrayal, tens of thousands of people in Biguan County were looted by the Khitans, and their corpses were everywhere.
Originally, he thought that in this way, he could completely bring down Zhu Li, so as to hand in a letter of nomination with enough weight to the Khitans, and then he could go to Dadu and live the second half of his life freely.
But the current situation made him realize that Guo Qizuo and the others had actually been prepared, such as the hole in the garden of the General's Mansion, and no one knew where it would lead.
Just as he hesitated,
How to respond to Yere's question, suddenly another loud roar came, according to the fluctuation of the sound, it can be determined that this is coming from the direction of the south of the city, obviously, Guo Qizuo finally blocked the gate of the south of the city.
led the Khitan army into the city, but blocked all the four gates of Shanyang City, what did this Guo Qizuo want to do?
This doubt did not last long, and suddenly there was a Khitan knight, with a dead child's face, crying and running to report: "General, woe, fire, fire everywhere, even the empty ground is on fire, many brothers are caught in the fire, and they can't rush out at all." β
watched Guo Qizuo jump from the hole in front of his eyes, but none of the Khitan soldiers in the rank dared to chase down, and it was impossible to say in his heart that he was not aggrieved.
At this time, there were still eyeless people running to cry, and immediately annoyed the irritable Yelu Zuoyu, who saw him take a few steps forward, grabbed the Khitan knight who came to report, and said angrily: "Bastard, what is not hot, when you plundered, didn't you set fire?" β
But among the Khitans, not all of them were as reckless and unwise as him, and as soon as they heard the knight's report, they immediately looked up at the sky.
At this time, the sky above the entire Shanyang City is fiery red, and the warm sun in early April seems to be set off, which is more red than the scorching sun of the dog days.
What kind of fierce fire does this need to cause such a vision, isn't it that the entire Shanyang City is on fire?
At this time, Xiao Nara and Yelu Oris finally understood Guo Qizuo's intentions.
Burning Shanyang, this vicious man in white actually burned the entire Shanyang, how much he hated the Khitan people in his heart, and he did not hesitate to lose the entire Shanyang City for this.
For the entire Heshuo, Shanyang City is tantamount to the national capital, this Guo Qizuo, in order to kill them, even dared to burn the national capital.
Xiao Shira, whose brain was spinning relatively quickly, suddenly looked down at the ground, when they were in the city, they didn't pay much attention to it, at this time, he suddenly sounded, and when he just entered the city, he found that the entire Shanyang City seemed to be covered by a layer of fine hay.
What do you want to cover up when the grass covers the city?
Xiao Shira just gently rubbed the ground with his leather boots, and suddenly found that under the fine dry grass, there was actually a wet ground, and the wet and oily ground finally explained why even the empty long street was on fire.
When entering the city, the first thing the Khitans thought of was to plunder, and then to catch Guo Qizuo, the No. 2 big fish; Who would have thought that the problem would be on the ground.
In other words, the ground of the entire Shanyang City was all injected with fire oil by the ruthless Guo Qizuo, and he really wanted to burn the Khitan army of more than 100,000 people in Shanyang City without leaving any land.
This discovery, not only Xiao Nara discovered it, but Yelu Oris also discovered it, and the discovery of the oil was equivalent to understanding Guo Qizuo's intentions, and he raised his head again, and the two looked at each other in shock.
At this time, Yelu Zuolu, who still hadn't recalled, still wondered: "It's not raining, why is the ground under the hay wet?" β
"Bastard, that's fire oil, the entire ground of Shanyang City has been doused with fire oil, you idiot!" Xiao Shira was a little unsettled, and suddenly shouted hysterically at Yelu Zuoyu.
"What, kerose!" Yelu Zuolu suddenly came to his senses, and then he suddenly turned his head, looked at the sky of Shanyang, and said in shock: "Isn't that my son, the fire that was set during the plunder?" β
Yelu Oris and Xiao Shira glanced at him with iron faces, and it goes without saying, do you still need to ask, of course you have both, but those Khitan knights under their command, this time they set fire, but they have pitted themselves.
There is only one road in front of the Khitans, that 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's Guo Qizuo who sent people at the entrance of the cave to give them a guard and wait for the rabbit, can they get away?
On the April day, the breeze was gentle, and the fire in Shanyang City was getting bigger and bigger, and it was getting more and more vigorous, and the Shuo River, which originally ran through the city, was also cut off, and there were clusters of burning flames floating on the entire water surface.
The fire was raging, scorching the sky, and the Khitan warriors who poured into the city instantly turned into burning people, wailing hoarsely, like drunks, and fell crookedly, but soon fell to the ground, and there was no more sound.
As the fire became more and more vigorous, when the entire Shanyang City became a sea of fire, the Khitan army of more than 100,000 was just a pile of fuel in the flames.
Even if there are lucky Khitan warriors who find a place to hide, they are also roasted by the blazing temperature, and they are really cooked, and the sky above Shanyang City is not only surging with endless flames, but also wafting with the fragrance of meat.
When the fire spread to the general's mansion, the two famous ministers of the Khitan, and a fierce general, could no longer care whether the hole was dangerous, and they got into it headlong, and if they didn't go in, they would be burned to death, did they have a choice?
The flames burned the city, the fire raged, and in the end, the flames jumped several feet high, as if they were going to burn the sky, incinerate the flowing clouds, and the entire Shanyang City, not to mention people, was the fish in the Shuo River, all of which were steamed.
In the past, the majestic and tall city of Shanyang was completely submerged in the sea of fire, not only taking away the people of Shanyang, the fruits of five or six years of labor, but also taking away the lives of hundreds of thousands of Khitan troops.
Guo Qizuo's first war was shocking and famous all over the world.