Chapter 554 Trojan Horse Meter

"Your Majesty, this is the person."

"Guo Kan, Guo Kan." I read it twice, laughed and said, "This is the highest-ranking Yuan army general captured alive by our army since the Northern Expedition." General Meng and General Duan are indeed great achievements. ”

Lu Wenhuan said: "Your Majesty, this is not only since the Northern Expedition, but should be the top general of the Mongolian army captured alive by our army since the Song and Mongolian Wars. ”

"Well, General Meng, General Duan, tell me what happened." I excitedly said.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the commander of the Yuan army, Boyan, saw that he had suffered heavy casualties, so he reluctantly issued an order to withdraw the army, and Guo Kan and Shu Du led a thousand soldiers of the new army to break the rear. The street battles in the city of Zhaozhou were very fierce, and in the end, most of them fought separately. Meng Tianxiang and Duan Donglou, who were the first to rush into the city, went through several twists and turns, and only a few guards around them could still get together. Coincidentally, the two came to the north gate of Zhaozhou. At that time, the broken Yuan army was already at the end of the war, although the task of covering the withdrawal of the army was completed, Guo Kan and others were scarred and surrounded by the Song army. That Guo Kan was extremely brave, wielding a spear in his hand, so that the surrounding Song army could not get close, and the besieging Song army knew that this was an important general of the Yuan army, and he did not use firearms.

Meng Tianxiang and Duan Donglou came close to the front and back, and attacked together. What kind of martial arts are Meng and Duan, then Guo Kan is in extreme exhaustion, where will be the enemy of the two joining forces, and they only lasted five or six rounds before they were captured.

The two of you finished telling the process of capturing Guo Kan alive word by word, and after listening to the story, it was already midnight.

Except for the soldiers on duty at night, the Song army, who had been tired for a day, all fell asleep. Although the city is dilapidated and lives in houses with few walls, it is still a little better than camping in the wilderness.

In the early hours of the morning, in some remote corners of the city, groups of people dressed in black night clothes emerged from the ground one after another. The black-clad men were in groups of two or three, carrying barrels full of fire oil in one hand and flint and steel in the other, and scattered around under the cover of night.

The men in black were very familiar with the roads in the city, and some of them went straight to the wooden buildings, threw the wooden barrels in their hands at the houses, and then lit the flints. Others went around the wall, opened the gutter under the wall, and threw down the flint.

After the battle, the tired Song army only cleaned the battlefield, and did not carefully search all parts of the city, because they did not know that the ditch by the city wall was actually full of fierce fire oil.

At first, the Song army, who was awakened by the fire, and the people who patrolled the sentry thought that it was accidentally caused by the people on duty at night, but it didn't take long for fires to burn out in various parts of the city, and at the same time, the patrolling soldiers found a lot of black-clothed people who had not had time to hide underground, so they felt that something was wrong. Although the man in black was quickly killed, the fire grew louder and louder.

"Firefighting, firefighting." The dark night of the city of Zhaozhou was awakened by the word "firefighting".

At the end of June, the weather in the north was very dry, and with the help of fierce fire oil, the fire quickly spread in all directions.

Although they were all sleepy-eyed, the well-trained Song soldiers did not panic, and under the command of their respective superiors, they searched for water in all directions. However, it soon became clear that there was very little water in the city, and to make matters worse, there was a ditch along the inner wall of the wall, and a fire was burning in the ditch. Obviously, in this large circle of ditches, it is not water, but fierce fire oil.

"It's the same as burning the outer city of Fancheng." Lu Wenhuan, who received the news, quickly came to his senses.

"Well, Trojan Horse, I didn't expect that there were still a few talents in the Yuan Army. Tell the generals to panic. I was also awakened by the fire, and stood in front of the Shuai Mansion and said, "First isolate the source of the fire, control the spread of the fire, and then extinguish the fire one by one." ”

Lu Wenhuan didn't know what the Trojan Horse Scheme was, but at this time, he couldn't let him think too much, and immediately conveyed my instructions.

The Marshal of the Yuan Army's Mansion where I am located is the original Zhaozhou County Government, which is all built with bricks and bluestones, and the surrounding area was originally inhabited by local gentry and local tyrants, basically all brick and tile structures, but there was no fire. But from the fires and smoke everywhere, it can be seen that the entire city of Zhaozhou was caught in flames.

After a while, Lu Wenhuan said: "Your Majesty, there is a shortage of water in the entire city of Zhaozhou, and the fires in many places have been connected. The last general had already ordered all the armies to be put into the fire, except for the soldiers in charge of the city's defense. ”

At this time, on a mountain peak about ten miles north of the city of Zhaozhou, more than a dozen generals of the Yuan army were standing on the top of the mountain, looking south.

Ah Shu said first: "There is a fire in the city. ”

Ali Hague, who offered advice, said excitedly: "This time, let's see how Zhao Yu escapes." ”

"Ali Hague, if you succeed tonight, you will be the first to do it." Ah Shu also seemed quite happy.

Atahai, who was wrapped in a strap and was obviously not lightly injured, followed: "Burn, burn." It's better to burn all these Southern Koreans to death, haha. Atahai's laughter was loud, but it was full of hatred, and in the silence of the night, it was like a roar from hell.

Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, Boyan said calmly: "General Azhuhan, General Zhang Hongfan." ”

"The end will be."

"Be prepared, wait for the state to be burned, and attack immediately to avenge General Guo Kan, General Huaidu and other soldiers."

"Yes, Marshal." The two saluted and walked down the hill quickly.

Although the soldiers in the city tried their best to put out the fire, the fire continued to grow. Lu Wenhuan and Yuan Jian glanced at each other and said: "Your Majesty, Concubine Lingniang, the fire in the area of the South Gate is not big today, Your Majesty and Niangniang should go out of the city to avoid it first." ”

Yuan Jian also said: "Yes, Your Majesty, let's leave." After speaking, without waiting for me to agree, Yuan Jian ordered the personal guards to surround me and Fang Ling in the middle and go to the south gate.

Although very few soldiers were burned to death, along the way, there were many wounded soldiers.

After a while, I had come to the south gate of Zhaozhou. Compared to standing here during the day, I felt like I was running away.

The condition of the south gate is fine, there is basically no open fire on the left and right, and the ditch has been filled with gravel by the defenders. I breathed a sigh of relief, at least, that communication with the outside of the city had not been cut off.

"Do you want to order the army to withdraw from the state?" I stopped at the south gate and thought to myself.

Yuan Jian saw that I was stopped, and said, "Your Majesty, there is a lot of smoke in the city, and the air is not good, so it is better to retreat outside the city as soon as possible." ”

"Wait." I turned to Gongsun Xiaochen on the side and said, "Order......

At this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from the sky, and immediately, a bright light flashed. This deafening loud bang interrupted me, and it also caused everyone to look up, only to hear Fang Ling say loudly: "Brother, it's thundering." ”

As soon as the words fell, I felt a wet on my head, and I involuntarily reached out to touch it, and immediately said in ecstasy: "It's raining." ”

The thunder and lightning continued.

Heavy rain poured down from the sky. The guards beside me and the soldiers defending the city all shouted, "It's raining." ”

This sudden rain seemed to be the most long-awaited rain of my life.

Providence.

The officials of Qin Tianjian and Gongsun Xiaochen watched the sky every day, but they did not predict that there would be rain in the next few days, and it would be a heavy downpour.

Can there be any other explanation than providence?

What I didn't expect was that the next day, Gongsun Xiaochen's explanation would be recognized by everyone who knew about it.

Although the rainstorm was not long, it was enough, and the fire in the city was quickly extinguished by firefighters sent by heaven.

In all the things of the world, some people are happy and some people are worried. While the defenders inside the city were ecstatic, the Yuan army outside the city was full of sadness.

I only heard Boyan sigh and said, "Summons the order to General Azhuhan to collect the troops." ”

The other generals on the top of the mountain were silent, allowing the rain to hit. In their hearts, a common thought emerged, that is, the Middle Route Army was abandoned by Changshengtian, at least tonight, Changshengtian was not on his side.

After a while, Ah Shu said, "Generals, go back to the camp." ”

Boyan, who walked at the end, said to Ashu: "More than a thousand years ago, Zhuge Liang of Shu designed to trap Sima Yi of Wei in the upper valley, and burned it with fire, the Wei army desperately attacked, but never able to rush out, just when Sima Yi looked up to the sky and sighed, heavy rain fell from the sky, extinguishing the fire. How similar the events of tonight are, it seems that God will do so, and I am in danger. ”

Ah Shu nodded and whispered, "Boyan, do your best." ”

"That's all there is to it."

The two gods of war in the Yuan army were always full of confidence in front of the soldiers, but both of them knew in their hearts that firearms were invincible, and coupled with tonight's events, they felt an unprecedented crisis.

The sky slowly brightened, and in the city of Zhaozhou, the ecstatic Song soldiers did not feel sleepy at all, in addition to treating the wounded, they were all under the command of their superiors to clean up after the fire and heavy rain.

By this time, I had returned to the Shuai Mansion. After changing into clean clothes, at Fang Ling's request, he told the story of the Trojan Horse Scheme. The story of the Trojan Horse Scheme is known to everyone in later generations, and I told it very carefully, not only Fang Ling, but also Yuan Jian, Zhang Quanyi, Lu Wenhuan and others on the side listened to it with relish.

After speaking, Fang Ling suddenly asked, "Brother, you are a god, do you know what happened to the heavy rain just now?" Could it be a coincidence? ”

During the day, 100,000 troops fought in a fierce battle, and the heat emitted by artillery, muskets and more than 20,000 projectiles gathered in it, and it could not disappear in a short time. At night, it was burned by a fire, and its heat was even more numerous, rising in heat, sinking in cold, and just happened to meet a cumulonimbus cloud floating in the sky, which formed this heavy rain.