227 Burning Shinno
According to the prior arrangement, the army of Fancheng has been launched, Liu Bei personally led the army, led his brother Guan Yu and Zhang Fei together, and began to attack Xiangyang frantically, at the same time, let the officials left in the city be ready to completely abandon Fancheng and join the army, and the goal is Jiangling.
"After midnight, while Cao Bing is asleep, I will quietly leave this place." Zhuge Liang reluctantly issued the final arrangement.
"Sir, it's better to wait a little longer, maybe Cao Bing won't be able to stay up and will take the initiative to enter the city!" Wang Baoyu did not give up.
"The strange smell in the city is strict, Cao Bing has already made up his mind, but I'm afraid that this plan has been self-defeating." Zhuge Liang sighed.
"Sir, this must be the second fire after your new official takes office, and when this fire burns out, Liu Bei must be obedient to you." Wang Baoyu comforted, stunned that he didn't dare to confidently say the premise of "pinch your fingers and count it yourself".
Zhuge Liang sighed slightly, and said: "I, Zhuge Kongming, am loyal to the lord, even if the lord doesn't recognize me, future generations will definitely be able to perceive it!" ”
This is said to be a bit pathetic, where can people imagine that this is from the mouth of Zhuge Liang, who is shaking a feather fan and has a good demeanor.
But, that's it. Since Wang Baoyu came to the Three Kingdoms, he found that many things were beyond the scope of his cognition, just like after visiting the thatched house three times, Liu Bei must take a look at this long-awaited military advisor, but Zhuge Liang's status is indeed a little embarrassing.
"Sir, if I didn't encourage you to defect to Liu Bei, but Cao Cao, would you have been loyal to him?"
"It's nature."
Zhuge Liang said without hesitation, Wang Baoyu didn't speak again, but he also began to doubt in his heart, could it be that he had made a mistake in history, and the burning of Xinye written in the book was nonsense and nonsense, just to add luster to Zhuge Liang?
Today's writers are making up some unwarranted things in order to attract attention, what a rigorous character Luo Guanzhong is, he must have rummaged through the history books, basically restoring the true appearance of the Three Kingdoms period.
In real history, there is naturally no such thing as burning Xinye City, but Wang Baoyu, who has not read the real history books, has crossed over and has messed up the history of the Three Kingdoms, and anything can happen.
Just when Zhuge Liang and Wang Baoyu stared at each other with big eyes and depressed faces, a gust of wind blew fiercely. Zhuge Liang was only concerned, the feather fan in his hand was not real, and he was swept out by the wind all of a sudden, Zhuge Liang reached out to reach, and the feather fan rolled a few times in the air, and then fell to the ground and continued to roll.
Zhuge Liang cherished his personal belongings very much, and hurriedly chased out a few steps with his hat, stretched out his right leg, and jumped on his left leg, I stepped on, stepped on, stepped on! It took several times before I stepped on it with my foot, and when I took it in my hand, I saw that several hairs had fallen off, and several hairs had been broken, and all the hairs were dirty.
Hey, Zhuge Liang sighed again, he couldn't cry loudly, held back his tears of sorrow and looked up, only to see countless dark clouds coming from the sky, you chase me, layer upon layer, and then rumble with a muffled sound, followed by several thunderbolts in his ears, which made people tremble all over, as if they were laughing at Zhuge Liang's wolf.
It's going to rain, and it's going to burn a bullshit Xinye City, Zhuge Liang is completely disappointed, which not only marks the complete failure of the plan, but also the will of God, and he clearly doesn't want to destroy Cao Bing.
"It is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen!" Zhuge Liang let out a sigh and ordered the soldiers to quietly follow the ridge to join Liu Feng Guanting's army and return to Fancheng.
"Sir, look, Cao Bing has made a move." At this moment, Wang Baoyu said excitedly.
The rainstorm is coming, Cao Bing does not have too many tents, in case he is drenched out of the rain and sick, but it affects the movement of the army, Cao Hong thinks about it so, and repeatedly checks and feels that there is no ambush in Xinye City, although the smell inside is unpleasant, fortunately, there is a strong wind to dilute, the rainstorm washes away, go into the house to hide from the rain, God help me!
Thundered! There were a few more thunderbolts, and the ground shook and the mountains shook, and Cao Hong gave an order to enter the city! The army had long hoped for a place to shelter from the rain, so the soldiers swarmed into Shinno Castle.
When the soldiers entered the city, they scattered and hid in the house, regardless of how dirty the houses were, and at the same time raindrops began to fall sparsely in the sky, occasionally with the wind on their faces, and then large raindrops fell and the rain began to increase.
The opportunity must not be lost and will not come again, Wang Baoyu was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks: "Sir, give an order quickly!" ”
Zhuge Liang nodded calmly, straightened his chest and gave an order, and all the soldiers immediately lit torches, put them on their bows and arrows, and went into the city with the wind.
When the torch was stained with oil, it immediately burst into flames, and at the same time, the raindrops in the sky became dense.
"It's on fire!"
"It's on fire!"
There was a shout in the city immediately, Cao Hong and Xu Chu were so frightened that they hurriedly ran out of the official residence, and some soldiers came to report that on Heilong Mountain, someone rushed to the city ** rocket.
The raindrops of beans fell on Cao Hong's face in full swing, making people unable to open their eyes, but he looked up at the sky and laughed: "Although Kong Ming is cunning, how can the sky not help him, such a heavy rain, how can the fire be ignited, in vain!" ”
However, Cao Hong's judgment was obviously too subjective, and the city was full of oil, and unless it rained heavily, ordinary rain could not be extinguished at all, but would instead fuel the fire.
The fire originally only started from the east of the castle, but the fire quickly spread along the streets with the help of the wind, and after an hour, the entire Shinno Castle was already in flames.
There is a saying that thunder is loud and rain is small, and in the midst of lightning and thunder, the rain does not fall, and the dark clouds in the sky are blown away by the strong wind, revealing the stars in the sky.
In Xinye City, the screams were endless, Cao Hong's 100,000 troops were caught in the fire, I don't know how many soldiers died in the fire, and countless were choked to death by the smoke, Cao Hong Xu Chu led the army, braved the raging fire, and began to desperately flee out.
The oil burned in the streets, and it became a fire dragon, even the wells were burning, and the water could not be extinguished at all, and the south gate, west gate, and north gate could not be passed, and the army could only flee from the east gate.
Zhuge Liang ordered his subordinates to beat the marching drum, and when he saw the fire burning in the city, Liu Feng and Guan Ting led the army to immediately rush over, intercept the east gate, and frantically release arrows, Cao Bing, who lost their combat effectiveness, could not resist at all, and the corpses at the city gate were quickly piled up into a hill, and the people who rushed to kill inside wanted to add another layer of corpse obstacles!
Cao Hong and Xu Chu were both burned eyebrows and beards, choking on snot and tears, and their faces were black, but the army relied on the strength of the number of people to finally rush out of Xinye City, which was still smooth, but it was also nearly half of the troops, fortunately, Xu Chu's iron cavalry blocked a lot of bows and arrows, otherwise, I am afraid that the loss will be even stricter.