Chapter 962: Take the initiative to set fire

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Feng Yi's face became solemn and asked, "How many of these fire oils are there in the city?" Geng Shu shook his head and said, "General, how much oil Jia Biao has buried in the city, the last general doesn't know, but the last general inferred that there must be a lot of it." In this case, just a small spark falling to the ground may make the entire Lingqiu City

Instantly turned into a sea of fire. ”

Feng Yi narrowed his eyes and said quietly: "The enemy army is using a fire attack strategy!" ”

If it was an ordinary fire attack, it would be too easy to be discovered, no matter how hidden Lu Fangjun hid the fire oil, the fire oil itself would also emit a pungent smell, and if the quantity was huge, when it entered the city, it would immediately make people smell it.

Lu Fangjun was clever in that they did not use ordinary fire oil, but used stinky fire oil with a stronger smell and more pungent smell.

Using this kind of fire oil to set up an ambush is easier to be discovered, but Lu Fangjun cleverly used the rotting corpses of the people in the city as cover. The corpses have been left in the city for too long, and they have all rotted and stinked, causing a disgusting putrid smell to spread throughout the city, and the rancid smell emitted by the corpses is precisely fused with the stench of stinky oil, which is the perfect cover for stinky oil

, it can be said that the mind is exquisite to the extreme.

Thinking about the tactics used by Lu Fangjun, Feng Yi was also shocked into a cold sweat, it is conceivable that once he failed to discover the fire oil hidden in the city and rashly entered, his 100,000 troops would probably be buried in the sea of fire.

Feng Yi figured out this, and all the generals present also figured it out, and people looked at each other, all of them grinning secretly with a look of horror.

Zhao Kuang swallowed his saliva and asked, "General Geng, are you ...... How did you find out about the anomaly? Geng Shu said with a wry smile: "Here in Jizhou, there are a lot of this stinky oil, and the people from poor families have no money to buy high-quality fire oil, so they go to buy these stinky oil for household use, and the surrounding neighbors have suffered

。 In order to solve this problem, the state government also issued a special announcement to look for strange people to see if they could get rid of the smell of stinky fire oil, but the results were not very good, until now, many people are still using this fire oil. ”

"I see!" Geng Shu said: "Originally, at the beginning, I didn't expect the enemy army to use the smell of corpses to cover up the smell of stinky oil, but I always felt that Jia Biao's retreat was too weird and too casual, such an important Lingqiu City, how could he give it up, this

It's unreasonable, so I suggested to the general that I explore Lingqiu City again, if General Zhao hadn't stepped on the floor in time, I wouldn't have found the fire oil under the floor, if you want to say credit, General Zhao is bigger than me! ”

Zhao Kuang waved his hand again and again, and said with a dry smile: "General Geng is too humble, I don't dare to take credit, this time I can see through the enemy's tricks, all thanks to General Geng's cleverness!" ”

Feng Yi asked, "Can you drain all the fire oil hidden in the city?" ”

Geng Shu thought for a while and said, "General, I'm afraid this will require a large number of soldiers to enter the city, and it will be difficult to arrange it cleanly in a short time, and our army's itinerary will also be greatly delayed." ”

Zhao Kuang frowned and said: "The point is that there are still a large number of rotting corpses in the city that need to be disposed of, and the soldiers may ...... when they are discharging fire oil You might get caught the disease. "There's just too much at stake.

The generals looked at each other, and finally their eyes fell on Feng Yi, waiting for him to make a decision. Feng Yi pondered for a long time, a dark light flashed in his eyes, and he said word by word: "Light the fire oil in the city!" ”

Hearing this, everyone present was shocked, and subconsciously said, "General! ”

The amount of fire oil in the city is likely to be huge, and if you set fire to one place, it will be equivalent to burning the whole city. As a result, this huge Lingqiu City will be burned to ashes. But if you don't, there's really no other way.

If you don't deal with it, you will go around the city, and this Lingqiu City is also a huge hidden danger, and it is likely that a large-scale epidemic will break out in Daijun with Lingqiu City as the center.

He took the initiative to ignite the oil and burn Lingqiu City, and all the hidden dangers were solved.

The problem is that if such a big matter is transmitted back to the imperial court, it may not be criticized and impeached by many ministers, Feng Yi issued this order, which is equivalent to him carrying this cauldron alone.

The generals said one after another: "General, the stakes are very high, but you have to think about it carefully!" "Yes, General, Lingqiu is not a small city, such a big city is burned, if it provokes the wrath of His Majesty, can it ...... But how is it good? ”

Under the world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. All the cities in the world are the Son of Heaven, and you can't burn them if a general wants to.

If Your Majesty doesn't pursue it, it will be fine, and once it is investigated, it will be difficult to protect the head.

Feng Yi looked at the people present and asked, "Do you generals have any other good plans?" ”

Everyone looked at each other and lowered their heads in unison.

Feng Yi took a deep breath and said categorically: "Burn!" All the consequences will be borne by me Feng Yi alone! ”

People looked at each other again, and Geng Shu arched his hand and said, "General, the last general will go and light the fire!" ”

Feng Yi nodded and said, "Be careful!" Don't go too deep! ”

"The last general understands!" Geng Shu answered, urging the horse to go to the city. The Youzhou cavalry present had to follow up, Geng Shu stopped them, and only ordered ten cavalrymen to follow him into the city. Geng Shu didn't go any deeper, and when he came to the first shop on the street, he stopped his horse and jumped down. The ten cavalrymen behind also dismounted. Geng Shu pushed open the door, walked into the store, stomped on the ground, and raised the tiger's head to fight

The halberd poked the ground, and with a click, the floor broke, he picked the broken floor, and looked down inside, okay, there was a layer of black oil inside.

After looking around, Geng Shu looked around, pulled out a discarded rag from the corner of the wall on the side, tore it into strips of cloth with a rustle, and then tied the strips of cloth together, and stuffed them into the cracks in the floor, soaking them in fire oil.

He put one end under the floor, took the other, exited the shop, and when he got outside, a soldier came forward with a fire fold and asked, "General, do you want to order?" ”

Geng Shu licked his dry lips, raised his eyes to look at the city, and said quietly: "If this fire burns, this Lingqiu City is likely to ...... Nope. ”

The palm of the soldier holding the fire fold trembled, and the fire fold almost fell to the ground. He turned his head to look at his companions, and the other soldiers took a few steps back.

Geng Shu sighed, walked quickly to the war horse, stepped on the war horse, and then he lowered his head and said, "Burn!" ”

The soldier with the fire fold no longer hesitated, bit off the lid, blew the fire fold, and set the cloth on fire.

The strips of cloth had been dipped in oil, like a fuse, and they were burning rapidly, and the flames followed the strips of cloth all the way to the store. Geng Shu shouted: "Get on the horse!" Back off! ”

All the soldiers got on their horses one after another, followed Geng Shu, and ran out of the city. They had run some distance and had not gone out of the city, and Geng Shule stopped his horses and looked back.

By the time it was time, smoke was already rising from the shop, and flames were rising to the roof of the shed. After another moment, the entire shop was covered in flames, and the flames spread rapidly.

Geng Shu and the others clearly saw a fire snake jumping out of the store, burning down the street until it reached the opposite store, and the shop also followed the thick smoke, and soon turned into a sea of fire.

The houses in the city burned one after another, but this fire was not indiscriminate, but first burned the outer buildings, and then burned inward layer by layer, and the flames spread extremely quickly.

Even Geng Shu and the others, who were standing near the city gate cave, felt the heat wave rushing over one after another.

The horses were afraid of fire, and the fire that burned in the city made the horses chirp in irritability and fright, and the horses' hooves kept kicking on the ground.

Geng Shu lowered his body, stroked the horse's neck, and comforted the war horse under his crotch. A cavalryman muttered beside him: "The fire oil buried by Lu Fangjun is not buried casually, but has a formation!" "Burn the periphery first, wait for the periphery buildings to catch fire, and then burn from the outside to the inside, so that the people trapped in the city have nowhere to run, it is conceivable that if their own 100,000 troops enter the city, it is really no way to go to the sky, no door to the ground, and 100,000 generals

Scholars had to be burned alive in Lingqiu City.

Geng Shu nodded and sighed: "Lu Fangjun is cunning, far better than the Huns and Wuhuan!" ”

The Huns and Wuhuan fought very directly, straight and straight to the Han army, Geng Shu was really not afraid of such an enemy, but Lu Fangjun was different, all kinds of yin tricks, damage moves, and everything was done.

The soldier's treacherous thinking, Lu Fangjun is also perfect.

"Withdraw!" Geng Shu shook his head at the men around him, turned his horse's head, and ran out of Lingqiu City, and ten cavalrymen followed him out of the city gate one after another.

At this time, the Han army led by Feng Yi had withdrawn a hundred paces away and reached a safe distance.

Looking at the fire in the city as few and as the fire grew bigger and bigger, and the flames jumped higher and higher, the soldiers of the Han army were also afraid. The trap left by Jia Biao is poisonous enough, this is a pure intention to put 100,000 soldiers on his side to death!

Seeing Geng Shu bring people back, the generals stepped forward and said in a gossipy voice: "Lu Fangjun really laid a fire array in Lingqiu!" "Fortunately, General Geng reminded me in time, otherwise now, we would all be buried in the fire!"

"I estimate that Lu Fang must have arranged dead soldiers in the city, just waiting for our army to enter and light the oil!" "Jia thief is hateful, and his heart can be punished!"

Geng Shu nodded to everyone, came to Feng Yi's approach, and told Feng Yi about the fire in the city. The arrangement of fire oil in the city is regular, first burn the outside, and then burn the inside, which is not intended to leave a living. After hearing this, Feng Yi nodded, looked around at the generals present, and said, "What General Geng said, all the generals have heard it, right?" This time, our army went north to Dai County

In the future, all generals should be more cautious and cautious against the enemy, and must not be careless, let alone underestimate the enemy! ”

"The last general will remember the teachings of the great general!"

Feng Yi said: "Today, let's camp here, and tomorrow, clean up the wreckage in the city!" ”

"Whoa!"

Originally, the Western Expeditionary Army also planned to use Lingqiu City as an important stronghold and logistics supply depot for its side, but now, Lingqiu City has turned into a sea of fire, and it has no meaning for the Western Expeditionary Army.

Losing the important base of Lingqiu City, the hearts of the officers and men of the Western Expeditionary Army were a little heavy, and they had a premonition that the next battle might not be too easy to fight.

The Chinese military tent was the first to be built, Feng Yi entered the Chinese military tent and wrote a letter to Liu Xiu, which can also be said to be a war report, telling the story of why he wanted to burn Lingqiu City.

Soon, the battle report of the Western Expeditionary Army reached the capital Luoyang. The fact that the Western Expeditionary Army burned Lingqiu City in Daijun has spread inside and outside the government and the opposition in Luoyang. When people hear about this, their first reaction is shock, followed by anger.

Daijun is Han soil, Lingqiu is Han City, and your Western Expeditionary Army said that it would be burned? Is there such a way to fight a war?

If they were all as brutal as the Western Expeditionary Army, what would be left after a battle? What you have subdued for the court is a scorched earth, so what is the use of it for the court? Sure enough, as the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army thought, after learning of this, many ministers in the court were filled with righteous indignation, and at the court the next day, they played to Liu Xiuqi and impeached Feng Yi.