Chapter 599: Fire Attack
Liu Bei Guan Yu saw the flames on the other side of the valley from a distance, and felt bad, so he hurriedly rushed to the outside of the valley with hundreds of cavalry troops close to him. I saw that the flames in the valley were roaring, the red light was scorching, and the whole valley was as if a closed furnace was burning fiercely! The explosion of burning grass and trees, the screams of people, and the mournful screams of war horses were all loud and terrible; The air was filled with a choking smell of burnt meat, disgusting!
Liu Bei was stunned and at a loss, "This, what's going on?!" Then he thought of Zhang Fei, and hurriedly asked the people around him: "Have you seen the third brother?" Do you see the third brother? The cavalry looked around and shook their heads.
Guan Yu Zou frowned and said: "The third brother must be trapped inside!" ”
Liu Bei shouted urgently: "Quickly push the stones at the mouth of the valley away and save the third brother!" The cavalry immediately dismounted and stepped forward, but when they were still more than ten meters away from the valley mouth, they already felt the heat and could not advance. An officer rushed back and reported: "General, the fire is too fierce to get close!" ”
Liu Bei whipped the officer with his horsewhip and shouted hysterically, "Push away the stone immediately!" Otherwise, military justice will deal with it! The officer's heart was furious, and he raised his head and shouted: "We are not your soldiers, we are just temporarily assigned to you to command!" We don't listen to you! Your brother is human, and we were also raised by our mother's biological parents! Liu Bei, who was in a hurry, pulled out his sword and cut down the officer with a sword, and shouted at the others: "Those who disobey military orders, behead!" ”
All the troops were shocked, and they all showed resentment, and an officer shouted at the soldiers: "Let's go, don't listen to him!" Let's see if he can kill us all! Hundreds of cavalry soldiers coaxed together, turned their horses' heads, ignored Liu Bei Guan Yu's shouts, ran along the way they came, and left Liu Bei Guan Yu outside the valley. Liu Bei looked at a loss, then looked at the burning valley and cried, and shouted loudly: "Third brother, my brother can't save you!" ”
Guan Yu couldn't help but feel a little sad, and then said fiercely: "When I catch that woman, I will let her taste the torture of the world and die!" ”
Liu Bei said: "Second brother, Hugh said this, hurry up and find a way to save the third brother!" ”
Guan Yu looked at the blazing valley and frowned: "There is no way now, I can only wait for the fire to be extinguished before ordering the troops to push away the blocking boulders and enter the valley to save people!" Liu Bei frowned.
The flames burned for most of the night before they gradually went out. By the wee hours of the morning, the fire was completely extinguished. The thorns, grasses, and trees in the valley were all gone, and it was a scorched black scene, with blackened corpses everywhere, and countless corpses floating in the small waterhole under the cliff on the left, and the water was no longer visible! How did they die? It turned out that the flames had filled the valley, the small waterhole had been boiled to a boil, and the oxygen was so consumed that it had suffocated, so the soldiers and horses who had fled into the waterhole were not spared!
Hundreds of soldiers searched down the mountain using ropes along the gaps between the almost straight cliffs. Suddenly, someone shouted under the cliff on the right: "There is still a living mouth here!" The captain led a few soldiers to rush over, only to see a strong man with a black face who was extremely majestic lying behind a large rock, his hair and beard were burned off by the flames, and the rest were all yellow and bent, his face was blistered with a few big fires, and his body was full of marks of being burned by the fire, and a black horse collapsed next to him, he was already dying, and he was about to die.
"He's like a general, take him!" The captain said. Several soldiers immediately carried the big black man out.
At this moment, a red flag on the cliff wall on the left side danced vigorously. The captain said urgently: "The enemy is coming in, retreat!" Hundreds of soldiers immediately took the captive and climbed up the rope back to the cliff. I only heard a loud noise at the mouth of the valley, and following the sound, I saw that many soldiers of the Cao army were using the logs that had just been cut down as battering rams to impact the stones blocking the mouth of the valley!
With a loud bang, the stone walls collapsed, creating a ramp of potholes and rocks on both sides. Liu Bei couldn't wait to clean up those stones, and immediately ordered an officer to lead two thousand foot soldiers to rush in to save people!
The two thousand soldiers and horses let go of the rocky slope at the mouth of the valley with some difficulty, and when they entered the valley, a hellish scene immediately came into view, and everyone couldn't help but shiver! At this moment, the stones and trees on the mountains on both sides rumbled down, arrows flew all over the sky, and the soldiers of the Cao army were knocked to the ground one after another, and flesh and blood flew sideways. The soldiers were frightened and hurriedly withdrew from the valley.
The general reported to Liu Beiyu in shock: "General Qiyu, as soon as we entered, stones flew on the cliffs on both sides, arrows flew, and our army suffered heavy casualties, and we couldn't stand on it at all!" ”
Liu Bei was anxious, but there was nothing he could do in the face of this narrow valley where the husband was in charge.
Cao's army's attempt to bypass the Beigu Mountains through the Guò Valley ended in failure. Cao Ren was furious and ordered his army to storm Beigu Mountain. The fierce battle began.
Although Zhuge Ruoxue has a steep position, in the face of the crazy Cao Jun, he gradually felt powerless.
Cao's army stormed for a whole day, but still failed to make progress. At this time, Li Dian offered advice and attacked Beigu Mountain. Cao Ren immediately gave the order, and Cao Jun ran up and down to the foot of Beigu Mountain, taking advantage of the wind to set fire everywhere, and the fire took advantage of the wind to hula and rushed straight up, and the flames burned Beigu Mountain red. Seeing this, Zhuge Ruoxue could only lead the army to withdraw from Beigu Mountain and retreat into Jianye City. This is really feng shui in turns, not long ago, Zhuge Mengxue used fire attacks to hit Cao Jun one after another, but now he was forced back by the opponent with fire attack strategy!
The next morning, the fire was extinguished, and Cao Ren couldn't wait to lead the army through the Beigu Mountain on the still hot ground, and the troops approached the city of Jianye. Jianye City is in danger! At this time, the defenders of Jianye City had 20,000 soldiers and horses, as well as 30,000 soldiers and horses that had just been transferred from Caishang not long ago, attacking 50,000 horses! There seem to be a lot of people, but Zhuge Ruoxue is not sure at all! Because although these soldiers and horses have been trained by her, they were all Cao Jun not long ago, and now they are in critical condition, and it is really hard to say how much combat power they can have!
The people in Jianye City were panicked, and the scholars were secretly excited, praying that Cao Jun would be able to enter and wipe out all Lu Bu's people in one go. Although the scholars thought so, they did not dare to make any rash moves, and these lords of the noble clan, who were about to do something rebellious, had to think twice before they could do it.
Zhuge Ruoxue personally went to the city wall to arrange defenses, and the soldiers on the city wall were demoralized.