Chapter 268: Burning Ctesiphon

Liu Ze would never have imagined that the Han army's bird-hunting action would cause an uproar in the city of Tessie, and countless Persians who had a little bit of contact with Vologis VI were cleaned up. Mu Mianjiasha announced his personal vendetta, and took the opportunity to label the person who was not in harmony with him as an adulterous Vologis. At this time, Mu Mianjiasha made a fortune, which caused a lot of complaints in the city.

At the end of the day, the Han army caught hundreds of thousands of birds, put them in cages one by one, and served them with delicious food and drink. Confused a bunch of big-headed soldiers. Towards evening, a new order was given, to tie a thin reed pipe to the legs of all the birds, stuff the reed pipe with velvet at one end, insert a burning incense stick into the other, carefully plug it with a breathable stopper, and then let the birds go.

Under the slanting sun, countless birds spread their wings and flew and hurried home. When the Persians at the head of the city saw the actions of the Han army, they were inexplicable, how could they release the birds they had caught?

The birds finally knew that these two-legged behemoths were the most terrible things, and when they saw that the soldiers at the head of the city could fly as high as they could, they crossed the city in search of their nests and prepared to spend a frightened night.

When night came, the sleeping birds did not know that a catastrophe was coming. The incense in the reed tube on the bird's leg became shorter and shorter, and finally it approached the velvet, and the velvet saw the open flame and quickly burned, and the burning velvet ignited the firewood and grass in the bird's nest, and the bird's nest became a ball of fire. The startled bird let out a burst of screams and flapped its wings into the air.

It was good to have the house in the tree, the bird's nest burned, and it was extinguished in a short time; The house was placed in the firewood house and haystack, and suddenly it became a spark that could ignite the prairie fire, and the fire spread rapidly.

Before releasing the birds, Liu Ze and the others had already made careful calculations, and the incense put in the reed pipe was burned to the velvet, which happened to be in the middle of the night. At this time, almost everyone has fallen asleep, and the fire is beginning to appear, and few people can notice it. Hundreds of thousands of birds have become hundreds of thousands of ignition points in the city of Tessifon, and even half of them will cause a raging fire.

In the city of Ctessi, the place where the fire was most fierce was the military's forage field. The Persians were mainly cavalry, and feeding war horses must be inseparable from forage, and the piled hill-like forage is also the favorite place for birds to make nests. God seems to be helping the Han army, I don't know when, a gust of north wind blew, the wind helped the fire, the fire borrowed the power of the wind, and the burning fire was scattered under the blowing of the wind.

When the soldiers on night patrol found out about the fire, they blew their horns, but unfortunately the fire was already in place, and the little water that was spilled from fighting the fire could not prevent the fire from spreading. The city of Tessie was lively, regardless of the people and soldiers, they began to put out the fire one by one, and the rich families began to carry their property and put it in an open place.

The fire is getting bigger and bigger, billowing smoke, scorching flames, and people have nowhere to hide. At this time, survival is the first priority, since the fire cannot be extinguished, I have to find a place where I can survive and survive this disaster.

Ardashir stood on the high ground of the palace, looking at the fire all over the city, his heart was desolate, and his heart instantly understood the intention of the Han army to catch birds. My Ctesiphon, my beautiful capital, is about to disappear in the fire.

Mu Mianjiasha looked at the treasures placed in the wide courtyard, and his heart bleed, poor my Hua House, there are countless priceless treasures in it, but it was too late to dismantle it, and all of them were swallowed up by the fire. Ctesiphon can't be saved, a fire, what do so many people in the city eat and drink? If the northwest wind is full, it will save trouble, and the northwest wind is blowing strongly at this time. What should I do? Do you still want to follow Ardashir's paranoia? If Ctesiphon can't keep it, how many days can Babylon hold on? Should I take advantage of this chaos to run out of the city and join my old friend Caracalla in Rome?

Mu Mianjiasha called the guards of the palace over, quietly admonished, and more than a dozen carts, carrying him and his family, picked out the places where the fire was slightly weaker, and rushed to the west city gate. What Mu Mianjiasha didn't expect was that before he reached the West City Gate, half of his guards had already run away. You dragged the whole family to run, and your relatives still don't know life and death, in such a situation, who has the heart to die for you.

In Taixi's lockdown city, is there only one person who has the same idea as Mu Mianjiasha? When he came to the west gate, the gate was crowded with dignitaries, shouting loudly for the guards to open the gate.

How dare the little guards offend these masters, but if they open the city gate without authorization, they will inevitably die, and in desperation, they have to fly to Ardashir.

Ardashir was angry, sure enough, the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, at this time he didn't think about how to put out the fire, but thought about running for his life, do you still have me as an emperor in your eyes?

Ardashir shouted, "Assemble the guards." ”

Tai Xi sealed the west city gate, Mu Mianjiasha took out the posture of the prince, forcing the soldiers to get out of the way, how dare the little soldier argue with the prince, holding a spear step by step, and he was about to retreat to the city gate. At this time, a voice shouted, "Kill me, kill these shameless pigs." "It was Ardashir who arrived.

When Mu Mianjiasha saw that his emperor's younger brother was coming, he panicked, pushed away the soldiers in front of him, and came to open the city gate in person. On the heavy city gate, there is a thick bolt stuck in it, how can a pampered prince carry it? Mu Mianjiasha scolded at the guards: "Are you stupid pigs? Come and help. ”

Before the guards came to Mu Mianjiasha, a sharp arrow flew over and was stuck in Mu Mianjiasha's back, Mu Mianjiasha ninja was in severe pain, turned around, and under the firelight, Ardashir looked at him with a sneer.

Mu Mianjiasha trembled and pointed at Ardashir and said, "You dare to kill me? ”

Ardashir said loudly, "Whoever dares to betray the Venerable will be killed." ”

Mu Mianjiasha sighed and said, "Ardashir, you haven't been around for a few days. ”

"I still have the city of Babylon, thousands of people who support me, and hundreds of thousands of Persian warriors, and I will definitely defeat the Han army and kill Vologis."

"You're dreaming." There was blood hanging from the corners of Mu Mianjiasha's mouth, "There's nothing left for Tessiphon, why did you rush to Babylon, the Han army outside the city is not blind." ”

The corners of Ardashir's mouth twitched, and he put on another arrow, and said to Mumian Jiasha, "You can die." With that, as soon as he let go of his hand, a sharp arrow flew out and plunged into Mu Mianjiasha's chest.

Mu Mianjiasha had the life to loot money, but he had no life to bear, staring at a pair of blank eyes, and gradually lost his breath.

The emperor's personal guards saw that Ardashir dared to kill even the elder brother of his own family, and there was no concern, so they brandished their broadswords and killed all the people who blocked the city gate.