That night, the Han army finally launched an attack on Jianye City, a hundred giant trebuchets launched a fierce attack on the east and west cities of Jianye City at the same time three hundred steps away, the boulders roared in the sky, and the huge fireball crossed the dark night sky, as if a lightning ball hit the city, and the fire oil clay pot weighing fifty catties rose into the air, rolled in the air, and smashed the Jianye city wall one after another.

The battlements were hit by the boulders, and they broke instantly, the rubble flew sideways, and the soldiers hid under the base of the city walls, not daring to raise their heads, and the trebuchets at the head of the city were hit by the boulders, and they broke violently, and the broken giant trees fell heavily from the city.

But what is really terrible is the fire oil attack of the Han army, the sealed clay pot filled with fire oil smashed into the city, the clay pot shattered, the fire oil flowed all over the ground, and then it was ignited by the whistling fireball, and the city instantly ignited a raging fire, with the continuous fire oil clay pot shooting, the fire continued to spread, more and more violent.

The soldiers at the head of the city were burned to the ground, and countless soldiers rushed through the flames and fled to the city, but many of them were smoked by the thick smoke, poured into the burning oil, and were burned into a ball.

But the goal of the Han army is not only the head of the city, but also the target in the city, Jianye Palace is located in the north of the city, the south is the military camp, and the buildings on the east and west sides are the Jiangdong government offices, because the city is small, most of the official offices are close to the city wall.

The Han army attacked the east and west, the main target was the official office in the city, at this time the official office complex close to the city wall was all ignited by the flames, the fire was spreading rapidly, gradually engulfing the entire official office group, the official office lived in a lot of officials' families, in a frightened scream, hundreds of officials' families escaped from the official office, under the guidance of the soldiers, evacuated to the relatively safe direction of Jianye Palace.

Just when the fire in Jianye City was raging, ten huge ships of 3,000 stones advanced south along the Qinhuai River from the Yangtze River, and gradually approached the north city of Jianye, and there was chaos in Jianye City, but Lu Meng watched the movement outside the north city nervously, and he had already discovered the true intention of the Han army, that is, to use the advantage of fire oil to burn the buildings in the city.

The east and west sides are the official offices, there is no meaning, burning does not affect the war situation, the military camp in the south is slightly important, but it is not indispensable, the key is the north, the north is the Jianye Palace and the warehouse group, once the Jianye Palace or the warehouse group is on fire, then the Jianye City can no longer be defended.

At this moment, a soldier pointed to the river outside the city and shouted: "General, look! ”

Lu Meng suddenly saw it, in the night, hundreds of steps away there appeared a huge ship shadow, is slowly heading towards Jianye City, Jiangdong Army knows all kinds of tactics of the navy, if the warship is close to the city, it is most likely to be a siege ship, once the height of the siege ship exceeds the city, it is easier to attack the city.

The ships that sailed in the distance were very large, more than four zhang high, obviously higher than the city walls, and if they were siege ships, the consequences would be very severe.

Lu Meng immediately ordered: "Set fire to the ship!" ”

They knew how to deal with the siege ships, and immediately there were soldiers under the city who poured thousands of barrels of fire oil into the Qinhuai water, and the fire oil flowed out of the city and slowly flowed towards the ships, at this moment, the Han soldiers who were ambushed outside the city lit the fire oil in the river with torches, and the fire oil quickly burned, and a blue flame burned on the entire river.

However, the fire oil in the river slowed down after flowing more than 100 steps, and instead flowed into a small tributary next to it, which could not be seen clearly at the head of the city, but if you walked to the river, you would clearly see that hundreds of huge trees on the river were connected together, intercepting the fire oil floating on the river, making them turn around and flow to another small tributary, and they could not burn the Han warships at all.

This is also the Han army's countermeasure, as long as the fire oil is diverted, no matter how much fire oil the Jiangdong army has, it will not be able to burn the warship, five warships are lined up three hundred paces away, each warship is equipped with three giant trebuchets, and the big fireball is loaded in the projection pocket, waiting for the order to be given.

On a large ship farther away, Liu Jing stood on the bow of the ship with his hands in his hands, staring coldly at Jianye City, which was shrouded in fire and smoke, the fire had already made the city a mess, he could use this time to attack the city, but he still hoped to surrender without a fight, let Sun Quan surrender himself, tonight was just a warning to Jianye, if Jianye City still refused to surrender, then he would not be blamed for burning the city.

"Launch!" Liu Jing gave the order.

The soldiers of the Han army lit a huge fireball, fifteen trebuchets on five warships were launched at the same time, fifteen large fireballs rose into the air, and flew towards the city, and the city was full of exclamations, and the Jiangdong soldiers looked up at more than a dozen large fireballs flying overhead, flying towards the city,

Lu Meng's heart was cold, and he saw that the intention of the Han army was not aimed at the warehouse, but at the Jianye Palace in the north direction, and the Han army was attacking the Jianye Palace.

Jianye Palace is not close to the north city, but more than two hundred steps away from the north city wall, the Han army obviously knows the structure of the city very well, their fifteen large fireballs are extremely elastic, and after landing on the ground, they bounce up again and shoot straight into the Jianye Palace.

Seeing that the fire oil in the river had no effect, Lu Meng was so anxious that he yelled: "Fight back with a trebuchet!" ”

Ten trebuchets on Jianye North City were launched, and Jianye City could not install giant trebuchets, only large trebuchets, which could project 50 catties of boulders to more than 200 steps away.

But the Han army was 300 steps away from the warship, in order to shoot the Han warship, it could only reduce the weight of the stone, ten pieces of more than 30 pounds flew out of the city, and shot towards the Han warship, although the Han warship was far away from the city, but there were still three boulders hit the target.

'Boom! The ground hit the big ship, and the hull was smashed into a big hole, and at the same time, the second round of fireballs of the Han army was launched, and fifteen large fireballs crossed the sky, crossed the city wall and smashed towards Jianye Palace.

Seeing that the Jiangdong Army had begun to counterattack, Liu Jing ordered: "The fleet retreats!" ”

The fleet slowly turned around and headed towards the Yangtze River, gradually moving away from the range of the Jiangdong trebuchet.

At this time, Jianye Palace has been in chaos, dozens of big fireballs broke into the harem, some fell into the water, some crashed into the harem house, a fireball rushed into the Baique Building where Sun Quan's wife Mrs. Xie lived, ignited the curtain, and soon, the Baique Building, which covers an area of about five acres, was engulfed in flames, and the maids were frightened and screamed, and fled forward with Mrs. Xie.

In the back hall, a large fireball smashed the roof, rushed into the lobby, hit the wooden pillar and slowly stopped, dozens of guards doused it with water and covered it with soil, and finally extinguished the fireball.

Sun Quan next to him was pale, looking at the fireball being extinguished in a daze, he looked up at the roof again, and a big hole was knocked open on the top, at this time, two maids ran over in a panic, "Wu Hou!" Madame's Hundred Sparrow Tower is on fire! ”

Sun Quan was taken aback, "How is Madame?" ”

"Madame has escaped, in the front hall, please Wu Hou also come over."

Several guards next to him also persuaded: "The stables and Ming Tower are also on fire, the harem is not safe, Wu Hou should avoid it!" ”

Sun Quan sighed for a long time, turned around and walked to the front hall, at this time, the safest place in the Jianye Palace is the front hall, the huge hall is crowded with people, Sun Quan's wife and concubines who fled from the harem and more than 100 maids, as well as hundreds of officials' families who fled from the official office, everyone gathered in groups of three or five, talking about it, and still have lingering palpitations about the fire attack that happened tonight.

Sun Quan walked into the front hall, the lobby suddenly quieted down, hundreds of pairs of eyes looked at Sun Quan together, Sun Quan did not speak, and turned to leave, at this time, Mrs. Xie ran over, grabbed Sun Quan and persuaded: "General, it's safe here, just stay here!" ”

Sun Quan broke free of her hand and left the front hall without looking back, Mrs. Xie looked at him and walked away, sighing lowly, seeing that Jianye City is not guaranteed, what will be their fate, it is best that her husband can surrender and live in peace for the rest of his life!

After the Han army trebuchet attacked for more than an hour, it slowly retreated, and there was no follow-up attack, and the fire in the city gradually went out, and there was basically no other loss on the east and west cities except for the trebuchet being smashed or burned.

However, the government offices were burned down, and the fire was not gradually extinguished until the third watch at night, and hundreds of government offices on the east and west sides were all burned down, leaving only a broken wall, and all kinds of documents and bamboo slips piled up all over the house were destroyed.

Some of the houses in the harem of Jianye Palace were also burned down, especially the Baique Building where Mrs. Xie lived and the Ming Building where Sun Quan meditated and cultivated were destroyed by fire, three maids were burned to death, and more than a dozen maids were injured.

The casualties of the soldiers were not large, only more than 100 defenders could not escape and were burned to death, although the casualties were not large, but the morale of Jiangdong was a devastating blow, the soldiers were tired of war, the damage to weapons occurred repeatedly, and many soldiers tried to escape from the city and were caught.

But the fire attack of the Han army was only a threat, which had little impact on the lives of the soldiers, while another threat that directly affected the lives of the soldiers appeared, and the epidemic broke out in the army, and nearly 100 people fell ill, causing panic in the army.

At the time of the fifth watch, the south gate of Jianye City, hundreds of Jiangdong soldiers rushed to the city, trying to escape over the city wall, and were suddenly discovered by the defenders, the defenders immediately sounded the alarm, in the chaos, countless soldiers used ropes to lasso the battlements to climb down, and many soldiers panicked, jumping directly from the city into the moat.

Not long after, the general Dong Xian, who was in charge of defending the south gate, hurriedly ran over, and the marquis on duty reported: "General Dong, hundreds of soldiers have fled, and it is not good to intercept them, most of them have run away, and only three people have been caught. ”

Dong Xi walked up to the three people who were arrested, and when he saw that one of them was still a teenager, he couldn't bear it, so he asked, "Why did you want to escape?" ”

The boy cried loudly, "My father is sick, he told me to escape, or I will die, I don't want to die!" ”

Dong Xi sighed and ordered left and right, "Let them all go!" ”

The soldiers released the three people who had been captured, and at this time, Lu Meng also rushed to hear the news, and he asked anxiously: "General Dong, how many people have escaped?" ”

"I don't know the exact number, but it is estimated that there are three or four hundred."

"This is bad, the Han army must know that there is a plague in our army."

Dong Xi couldn't help but say any longer: "Governor Lu, I really don't understand, what is the point of guarding this city, do you have to wait for us all to die of illness and let the Han army collect the corpses for us?" ”

Lu Meng sighed, "I don't know, but Marquis Wu is not allowed to surrender, who dares to surrender?" ”

Dong Xian's face tightened and he didn't say a word.