Chapter 472: Burning the Capital (For I Don't Understand Culture)
"This is the White Pagoda of Wan'an Temple?" In the west of the capital, Li You looked at the more than fifty-meter-high tantric white tower in front of him and sighed slightly, this is the place where Zhao Min imprisoned the six major sects in the novel, but now because of his broad vision, Li You is regarded as the command of the attack on the capital, in addition, Zhao Min and Wang Baobao's father Chahan Timur is the seventh grandson of Mu Huali, and Mu Huali's fourth grandson Antong has been killed by Li You in the east of the capital, and there are still two people in the future. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Kublai Khan ordered to build a 51-meter-high Tibetan white pagoda in the west of the capital city in the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty, later generations called the white tower of Miaoying Temple, which lasted eight years to complete, and then took this tower as the center, with ten years, the temple of the first to build a large-scale "just like the system of the inner court" - "Great Shengshou Wan'an Temple", Li You stood on the tower and looked around, only to see that there were piles of building materials everywhere, but now it is just used to build siege equipment.
At night, the Yuan army in the capital city still wanted to take advantage of the night to steal the camp, but unfortunately Li You had already taken precautions, and Yuxi Timur returned in vain after losing hundreds of cowardly Xue elites, and fled back to the city in a hurry.
Meng Yuan's reinforcements have not yet received the news, but the infantry led by Zhang Shijie has arrived, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will not be completed to build the capital of the city of water, Kublai Khan on the head of the city raised his eyes, the city is densely packed with Song troops, people are worried, just now these tattered walls of the capital, can they stop the Song army? Meng Yuan is unparalleled in cavalry, but defending the city is not a means they are good at.
"It turns out that these southern barbarians have already planned, and they have attacked Quanzhou, Fuzhou, and Lin'an Mansion, and harassed coastal prefectures and counties just to lure the troops of Gongwei Dadu to the south." Kublai Khan felt deep remorse, he never thought that the Song army could transport a large army by sea to attack Dadu, and now tens of thousands of Song troops have descended outside the capital, which really surprised him, and it is only now that he understands the purpose of the unexpected actions of the Song army.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, there are still more than 10,000 elites in the capital, plus the people in the city, these southern barbarians are not so easy to break the city, as long as I hold on for half a month, the reinforcements should also arrive." Ahma comforted him by saying that before entering the city, Kublai Khan had sent many cowardly soldiers to ask for help in various places with his holy decree, so the situation had not yet reached the point of no return.
The rest of Kudu Da'er, Yuechi Cha'er, Chen Yan, Fan Wenhu and others nodded one after another, while Marco Polo on the side trembled slightly, could it be that his distant trip was about to come to an end?
At the same time, on the top floor of the tower of Wan'an Temple, Li You and Zhang Shijie, Zheng He, Fan Wenchao, Yang Liangjie and others are also looking at the defense of the capital, looking condescendingly, inside and outside the capital, Kublai Khan did not destroy this tower before entering the city It is really an unwise move, "Heh, these Mongolian Tartars built the city, and they didn't even build the urn city, as long as we break through this wall, there will be nothing to stop us." Zhang Shijie said in surprise.
The urn city is one of the important protective measures of the ancient city, and a small city is built at the outer entrance of the city gate, which is the same as the big city, and its shape is round or square. The round one is like an urn, so it is called the urn city; If there is an urn city, even if the Song army breaks through the outer city wall, the Mengyuan army can still rely on the inner city and the city wall on both sides of the urn city to defend the Song army, and give them huge casualties.
It's a pity that because Meng Yuan pacified the world by force, there was no external threat, so the urn city was not built, and the capital city only had the city wall for defense, until the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Emperor Shun, in order to guard against the red turban army, the urn city was hurriedly built, but this did not delay the time when the dream came true, and it didn't take long for it to be broken by the Ming Dynasty general Chang Yuchun.
"This city has not yet been covered with bricks, and the city is full of reed mats, if there is a fire, then there are still people who dare to stand on the city to defend?" Fan Wenchao, the general of the Great Sui Dynasty, also felt extremely incredible, for him, who had experienced the battle against Goryeo, it was not difficult to attack the current city at all!
"The arson was prepared." Zheng He replied with a smile, when Zhu Di was named the king of Yan, he had stayed in the capital for a long time, and he was very clear about the situation of this city, and he had long known the allusion that the capital city was now called "the city of clothes", so he had prepared all kinds of things to ignite the fire before he was sad.
"Alright, the armies are ready, and the order to start attacking the city is ordered!" Li You ordered to go down, and the soldiers behind him quickly took out a flag from the window of the tower and shook it a few times, the surrounding Song troops can see the top of the Wan'an Temple Tower as long as they raise their eyes, and it is extremely convenient to command, if they find that the flaws in the capital city are exposed, Li You can also immediately mobilize troops and horses to focus on attacking here, it can be said that with this Wan'an Temple Tower, at least the losses of thousands of Song troops can be reduced.
Below, the archers of the Song army took out rockets wrapped in strips of cloth soaked in grease, lit them on the torches and aimed them at the city wall of Dadu covered by countless reed mats, and the Song army next to the trebuchet also quickly took out a few clay pots and placed them on the launch bucket, which were full of oil that Li You had specially found.
"Put!" Seeing the red flag on the tower waving a few more times, the generals of the Song army immediately issued an order, and as soon as the words fell, tens of thousands of rockets rained towards the city.
"Oops!" Seeing countless rockets coming, and then looking at the reed mats below, Kublai Khan and the others were suddenly shocked, they were in too much of a hurry to enter the city yesterday, and they forgot these terrible things; It's just that even if they started packing these things last night, they probably won't be able to clean them up overnight.
"Your Majesty, go away!" Behind him, Yuechi Cha'er, Kudu Da'er, Ahma and others were even more heartbroken, and they couldn't help but immediately surround Kublai Khan and flee to the city, lest they would be buried in the fire if they were a little late.
The reeds are flammable, and in less than a moment with the addition of oil, the city walls of the capital are shrouded in skyrocketing fire, and many Mengyuan soldiers who have not had time to escape let out a wail in the burning fire, this is the first siege of the Song army, but now it seems that it has caused huge losses to Mengyuan.
Zhao Min was the six major factions of fire back then, and today I will burn most of the capital, Li You showed a satisfied smile, his hand today is much more than Zhao Min's hand at that time, she burned just some martial arts people, and what she burned today is the Great Khan of the entire Mongolia. (To be continued.) )