Chapter Ninety-One: Li Dao Dies
Tens of thousands of rockets were fired into the camp, and the Xiliang soldiers were in a mess, and there were countless arrows, and what was worse was that there were a large number of fire-igniting things hidden in the tents in the camp, and after these rockets were shot in, these things were ignited, and the entire camp quickly turned into a sea of fire. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Quick, get out!"
Li Wei shouted loudly, wanting to take the army out of chaos, countless Xiliang troops rushed to run towards the exit of the camp, Ma Teng's camp is surrounded by board walls, if it is usual, the Xiliang army can calmly dismantle these board walls, and then break through from the side, but now the camp is full of fire, where do they still have such idle time to find a breakthrough, the only thought in everyone's mind is to rush out from here quickly, so the originally wide camp gate, Crowded with tens of thousands of cavalry, it became overcrowded.
Dozens of cavalry of the Xiliang Army, who rushed to the front, suddenly rushed forward and fell into a ball, and behind them, the root of the tree was the culprit.
After the cavalry in front fell, the cavalry in the back was too fierce to stop, and they were tripped by the soldiers and horses who fell in front of them, and as a result, they were blocked into a hill at the gate of the camp all of a sudden, and the soldiers of the Xiliang Army who wanted to detour from both sides were also shot by the dense arrows from both sides.
"Li Dao, when will you stay if you don't descend at this time? Do you want all your soldiers to be buried with you? ”
Seeing that the Xiliang army was besieged layer by layer, Ma Teng shouted loudly in the direction of Li Dao.
"General, we are surrounded, what to do!"
A young general of the Xiliang Army said to Li Dao, Li Dao glanced around, and found that his army had been heavily surrounded by the other party, judging from the number of the other party, they were no less than 100,000 people, and it was unlikely that they would want to break through.
He knew that if he had his own avatar, he would definitely be sentenced to death, he plundered and harmed the Quartet, there must be no way to live, although the army was trapped at the moment, but after all, he still had the capital to fight, so Li Wei ordered the soldiers to prepare to break through from a small fire in the north of the camp, and shouted to Ma Teng: "Brother Shoucheng, you and I have been friends for many years, do you really bear to watch your brother bury in the sea of fire?" The so-called do things to leave a line, good to see each other in the future, why don't Brother Shou Cheng open the net today, let me Li go, he will definitely remember Brother Shou Cheng's grace not to kill today, and return heavily! ”
Before Ma Teng could speak, there was a burst of laughter in the distance, and after the laughter, a person shouted: "Li Dao, Li Dao, it seems that you still don't give up, and you are trying in vain to persuade the general of our army to spare your life, ridiculous and ridiculous, General Ma Teng Ma is loyal to the imperial court, how can you let go of you, a henchman of the imperial court, because of his own selfishness, catapult, ready to launch fireballs, to help General Li, I don't think the fire in this camp is big enough, General Ma, this is your mistake, old friends meet, you greet them like this?" ”
Ma Teng saw sweat on his forehead, he didn't know what Liu Zhi meant, and he didn't dare to answer, just resigned.
"Why should you add a little more fire, this fire is too small, you see, General Li is still wearing armor, it must be that the fire is not enough, and his body is not warm yet!"
Li Dao's heart was cold, the person who spoke was not Ma Teng, but Ma Teng didn't dare to speak, then there was only one person who could do it, that is, Liu Zhi, the general of the Han Dynasty, but if Liu Zhi wasn't in Weiqiao? If he were here, wouldn't he mean that all of this was a game they had set up? Their every move is either under their surveillance, or they have already seen through it, so they set up an ambush!
And the former is not very likely, if it was discovered by the spies, they would not have laid this ambush so quickly, only it is possible that they had already expected that they would take this step.
Before Li Wei thought about it for a while, dozens of huge fireballs were thrown into the camp from the outside by the Western Expeditionary Army, at this time the fire inside the camp was getting bigger and bigger, and the soldiers of the Xiliang Army were gradually forced into the middle, almost a crowded situation, after dozens of fireballs coated with fire oil smashed in, a fire path was plowed out in the crowd, hundreds of soldiers of the Xiliang Army were smashed to the ground, and the ground where the fireballs rolled was also ignited.
Zhang Yang looked at the military camp below, although he couldn't bear it, but he knew that this had to be done, he looked back at the princes, and saw that the expressions on their faces were different, some were excited, some were worried, some were afraid, and some were uneasy······
The raging fire burned all night, except for a very small number of Xiliang army who escaped by luck, most of the soldiers were burned to death by the fire, the tragic situation on the battlefield shocked many people, they fought a lot of vicious battles, but never felt afraid of war like this, more than 80,000 people were wiped out by a fire, the barracks were full of burned and smoked soldiers of the Xiliang army, there was like a killing Shura field, which made people shudder.
Li Dao's body was found, and he chose to kill himself before being burned to death by the fire, so the pain was reduced a lot.
Liu Zhi put his mind at ease now, after Li Dao died, the remaining Xiliang army was not to worry, their number was too small to make any waves.
The army then sent troops everywhere and took all the places back, and they returned to Chang'an.
Chang'an City is different from Luoyang, although it was also affected by the war, but it was not completely burned down like Luoyang.
Chang'an City was the largest city in the world at this time, although the Eastern Han Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang after Liu Xiu ascended the throne, but the scale of Chang'an City was larger than Luoyang, when did Luoyang exceed the scale of Chang'an City? It was after Wu Zetian moved the capital, when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, so Luoyang City was greatly developed, so the scale began to exceed Chang'an, and at the same time, in Yangzhou, which was more developed in commerce, the scale of Yangzhou City gradually exceeded Chang'an.
The circumference of Chang'an City in the Western Han Dynasty is close to 60 miles, the city wall is three zhang high, it is very solid, there are many palaces such as Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace, Jianzhang Palace and so on in the city, compared with the palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the scale of the palace in the Qin and Han dynasties is obviously much larger, for example, Changle Palace, its scale is eight times that of the Forbidden City in Beijing, but it is said that the scale of Afang Palace is twice as large as Changle Palace, this is still not completed Afang Palace, how big is the area of Afang Palace of the original scale of the first emperor, I am afraid that only he knows.