XV. Burning the city

Ma Qing's speed had already increased to the limit in an instant. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info head-on. The Heavenly Wind Sword swung out, and a powerful battle aura blasted away the long sword that Fu Xinglin attacked, and then, swept through Fu Xinglin's neck.

Fu Xinglin's head fell backwards, and a stream of blood spurted from his neck like a spring. Under the moonlight, a large and beautiful blood flower was formed.

The battle lasted for twenty minutes, and the soldiers of the Whirlwind Battalion and the Mountain Battalion were not killed, and the wounded were also treated by Yang Siqi's healing technique, and their combat effectiveness was not weakened. It can be said that this is tantamount to annihilating the 1st Cavalry Division without injuring a single soldier. If the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division were to know about it, would they not be able to turn a blind eye?

If Fu Xinglin did not step into the ambush circle, then even with the combat effectiveness of the whirlwind and mountain battalions, it would not be easy to defeat the First Cavalry Division, let alone achieve total annihilation with zero casualties.

This one is the result of intelligence superiority combined with air superiority. And, of course, the magic of money.

"Ten minutes to clean up the battlefield, and then, withdraw." Ma Mengshi did not hesitate, although the enemy may not have reinforcements, but he still had to fight and withdraw quickly, and he could not let himself be in danger.

The sky was already dark, and the guard of Sand Iron City knew that reinforcements were coming, and his heart was a little calmer, and he got up early in the morning to patrol the city. At this time, there was really some surprise, and the guy who ate on his neck was only afraid of having to move.

The sound of hooves was like thunder, coming from the west.

"Enemy attack. Level 1 combat readiness. "The guard will order. All the fighters were in good spirits and prepared for the coming battle.

Soon, thousands of heavy cavalry had already killed seven hundred zhang away from the city gate, which was the ultimate range of the divine power crossbow. The soldiers defending the city were so nervous in their hearts, and they all turned pale. Seeing the cavalry under the city, the people are like tigers, the horses are like dragons, and the momentum is so strong that it is not like words, can this battle be fought?

Fortunately, it was cavalry, not infantry, and no one would be stupid enough to use cavalry to attack the city. This always made all the soldiers defending the city feel a little more at ease.

The men of the city rode out of the crowd, and he rushed forward with an object held high in his right hand.

"Don't shoot the arrows, see what he says?" Only one horse rushed closer, it should not be a battle, but something to say, and the guard will order not to provoke the other party at the first time.

"I'm Ma Haidong, the commander of the Whirlwind Battalion. What I have in my hand is the head of Fu Xinglin, the commander of the First Cavalry Division of the First Army of your Fourth Army, and your reinforcement First Cavalry Division has annihilated our army last night. Catch his head. ”

Ma Haidong, the sixth-level war king, threw Fu Xinglin's head on the city wall with all his strength from a distance of 100 zhang. The guard reached out to catch it as soon as possible.

This is really a human head, and, as the guards recognize, this is really the human head of the Blessed Star. Seeing this head, the defender only felt that his eyes were black for a while, there was no hope for reinforcements, and it would take at least another day to count on the support of the large forces of the Fourth Army, and would they be able to withstand the enemy's siege for a day?

"My commander-in-chief said, give you two hours to leave, if after two hours, you don't lead all the civilians out of the Sand Iron City, then, we will mobilize the Pegasus Mountain Battalion, set fire to your Sand Iron City, and when the time comes, ensure that you don't leave any chickens and dogs in the Sand Iron City. The clock starts now. Ma Haidong dropped a sentence, pulled the horse and left.

"Burning the city with fire?" The defender was stupid for a moment, is this possible?

Four years ago, during the battle of Pegasus City, Pegasus City used the Pegasus Mountain Camp to sprinkle a large amount of soybean oil from the sky, burning half of the grain and grass of the orcs southward. This was the root cause of the orc's fiasco in that battle.

If it's just ground troops, setting fire to the city is just a nonsense, but the other side has an air force, if Ma Mengshi uses this trick again, can Sand Iron City be able to stop it?

You can resist the impact of the iron riders on the ground, but can you resist the soybean oil falling from the sky? Will you be able to stop the torches falling from the sky? Is there enough water in the city to fight the fires?

No, if you don't have all of them, if you can't do all of them, there will be ghosts if you can still hold the Sand Iron City. If you retreat now, you can still keep the people of the whole city, if you don't retreat. Then the whole city will be completely finished, the fire is merciless, once the enemy really uses this poisonous trick, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city will all have to die.

This can't blame people Ma Mengshi for hating, people have already let you go, if you don't leave, people will set fire to you, which is merciful enough. If you change to someone else, you won't be too lazy to do this at all, and you will burn it with a fire, so much easier.

There are still loyal soldiers and people in the Great Wu Kingdom, and these people naturally do not want to retreat. But most people don't think so, and besides, what's the good of you staying here? If someone burns it down, you will die in vain.

"General, we can't withdraw, if we withdraw, the consequences will be serious."

"That's it, they just say it, they won't set fire to the city, they still want to use this city to resist our Fourth Legion, they just scare us, we can't withdraw, we can't let them abandon the city with a few lies, general, you are guilty of killing your head." A deputy will persuade.

The guard smiled bitterly: "What they say is not a lie, they themselves are going to set fires." ”

"What?" The other generals shouted puzzled.

"Although the Sand Iron City is a strong city, Ma Mengshi's mother-in-law has no intention of using this city to defend it. What she brought this time was only cavalry, not infantry, and using cavalry to defend the city was simply. Therefore, Ma Mengshi himself planned to set fire to the city when our Fourth Army approached, and once the fire in the city broke out, I was afraid that it would burn for a few days, and our army would be stopped for a few days. And she can use these few days to retreat, capture all the small cities to the west of this city, and expel all our soldiers and civilians. At that time, even if Duke Fu has great ability, in this hundreds of miles of uninhabited land, it is difficult to supply, and I am afraid that this battle will not be able to continue. ”

This defender is not a stupid person, and he saw Ma Mengshi's strategic intentions at the first time. But what if you see through it? Can he stop it? Unless he also has a large Air Force, no need to talk.

Since Ma Mengshi has decided to set the fire, then the withdrawal of the military and civilians in the Sand Iron City is the same whether they do not withdraw or not. If you don't withdraw, Ma Mengshi's results will be one more success, and if you withdraw, there will be no harm to Ma Mengshi.

"Order the troops, escort all civilians out of the city, don't let them die in vain, hurry up, Ma Mengshi only gives us two hours, I'm afraid it's too late."

Seven or eight hundred thousand people wanted to evacuate the city within two hours, of course, it was impossible. Two hours had passed, and half of the people had not yet evacuated.

Ma Mengshi did not order the burning of the city, she was waiting for the enemy to withdraw. Although the two-hour deadline has passed, the guards and the lieutenants know that Ma Mengshi is merciful and does not want to be charged with massacring civilians, so let them have enough time to withdraw, of course, it is also appropriate to make a small fortune.

Fu Anning's army is still hundreds of miles away from Shatiecheng, and the army is slow, even at the speed of rapid marching, I am afraid that it will take a day and a half to arrive, that is, Ma Mengshi still has a day and a half to arrange his defense. Of course, if the enemy sends the fastest cavalry, it will only take about half a day to arrive.

A city of seven or eight hundred thousand people, even if these people take away the wealth that they can carry casually, even if the house or anything can't be moved, the remaining wealth is still very considerable, at least it must be worth millions of gold coins, as long as you scavenge it and move everything that can be moved, I believe it is not difficult to make a profit of more than five million gold coins.

However, it is not so easy to move them all, there are quite a lot of valuable things that are very bulky, and it is absolutely impossible to move them without using more than 30,000 people for a few days. The Pegasus Legion only had two battalions of 13,000 men, and if they wanted to empty the Sand Iron City, they needed to transfer men from Qingshan City. And from Qingshan City to Sand Iron City, it is more than 800 miles, tens of thousands of people come over, it will take at least eight days, plus three days to empty Sand Iron City, that is, it will take at least eleven days, but Fu Anning will give Ma Mengshi eleven days? No, it won't.

"Empty into the gold mountain?" Although Ma Mengshi is not a fan of money, no one has too much money.

The generals did not dare to speak. Obviously, it is simply unrealistic to let the two battalions of Whirlwind Pegasus block the hundreds of thousands of troops of Fu Anning in Sand Iron City for eleven days, and even if they can block it, the price to pay is very large. This is tantamount to exchanging the lives of two battalions of soldiers for money. If it were other nobles, they would definitely think that money was worth much more than the lives of these warriors, but Ma Mengshi couldn't do it. The soldiers of the two battalions are the elite carefully selected from the Pegasus Legion, and it is still after several years of training to form today's combat effectiveness, and the death of one of them makes Ma Mengshi's heart ache. Risking their lives for money, Ma Mengshi really couldn't do such a cold-blooded thing.

Yang Siqi, who was sitting far away, hugged his son, he didn't dare to come up, Ma Mengshi's anger had not disappeared, at least half of his anger, he didn't dare to come up and find him uncomfortable. But the eyes of the generals were on him. In the generals' opinion, this aunt has a lot of ideas, and there should be a way.

Giving up such a large sum of money for nothing? It's shameful to waste, children, it's not easy to make money. Ma Mengshi said: "Come up with a way for me, and if I can think of it, I promise not to beat you." ”

Although he did not name names, everyone knew who he was talking to.

Yang Siqi touched his nose and whispered to his son: "Hua'er, your mother is so fierce." ”

Ma Mengshi is very popular, what does this mean? Is she a Hedong Lion? She is Ma Mengshi, not Hedong Lion.

Seeing his wife's eyes that wanted to kill, Yang Siqi stopped joking and said, "Shi'er, although you have advanced to the Holy Rank, how is your strength compared to Fu Anning?" ”

Ma Mengshi was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Yang Siqi meant, but she still thought for a while and said: "I haven't been promoted for a long time, although I have a treasure like a hundred refining fruits, but my strength is only at the level of a second-level saint." Fu Anning, that old thief, although I can't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood, but his strength is definitely above me, at least he has reached the strength of the fifth level of the holy rank, even if I join forces with Ma Qing, I am afraid that he will not be his opponent. ”

Of course, Ma Mengshi didn't tell the whole truth, after all, after advancing to the Holy Rank, and after Yang Siqi's reinforcement, now, her physical fitness is at least four hundred times that of ordinary earthlings. (After the first enhancement, it was fifty times, and in the past four years, he has used the gravity magic array to cultivate, and his strength has improved, and after he has advanced to the holy level, it has reached one hundred and thirty times, and then he has taken the hundred refining fruit, and it has reached two hundred times, and then, the second strengthening, it has reached four hundred times) This kind of physical fitness is about four times stronger than when Ma Jiuming was at the fourth level of the holy stage that day. Therefore, when it comes to physical fitness, Ma Mengshi should be about four times that of Fu Anning.

The physical fitness is more than three times, which is a huge advantage, at least, on top of strength, Ma Mengshi can definitely press the opponent to fight. Although Ma Mengshi is inferior to Fu Anning, who has been promoted for at least forty years, in terms of the total amount and purity of battle qi, the advantage in physical fitness is enough to level the opponent's advantage in this aspect. If it is really calculated, there should be a tie between her and Fu Anning. Coupled with Ma Qing, Ma Qing's strength is no longer below the sixth-level holy rank (of course, outsiders don't know), and it is not impossible to kill Fu Anning.

"If you ask Fu Anning to duel, will Fu Anning agree?" Yang Siqi asked.