Chapter 328: The First Step
This fire also kicked off the prelude to the fire attack of the You Yan coalition army.
The You Yan coalition army locked all the Jin troops infected with the plague in the barracks, and then the soldiers of the two armies began to add dry firewood around the barracks and set them on fire, pitiful more than 30,000 Jin army soldiers were not killed by the plague virus, and all of them were burned alive.
The fire was uncontrollable and spread everywhere, and the You Yan coalition army didn't want to control it at all, and set fire everywhere, and at noon that day, the southern gateway of the Jin Kingdom, the Shuangfeng City, which is known as the natural danger, had fallen into a sea of fire.
Set fire to Twin Peaks City, this order was not given by Chu Chen, but by Ren Tianxing's military order.
Ren Tianxing also has his own ideas when he does this. In his opinion, the plague tactics are too inhuman, and now, the plague is spreading in Twin Peaks, if it is abandoned, who knows if it will spread to the people of Jin and Chi, once the plague spreads among the people, then his own sin will be too great.
No plague can stand the fire, and a fire is equivalent to forever eliminating future troubles, and at the same time, it also destroys the evidence, so as not to blacken the face of his country and monarch.
In addition, he has a deeper intention, he can't divide his troops to garrison Twin Peaks City now, he is very worried that Twin Peaks City will be seized by the Red Kingdom and become the northern danger of the Red Country, and after his own destruction of Jin, the next object of annexation is likely to be the Red Kingdom, so he must not let the Twin Peaks City fall into the hands of the Red Kingdom, and burning the Twin Peaks City is equivalent to dispelling his concerns.
The battle of Shuangfeng City can be said to be the worst battle fought by Lin Haotian since he commanded the Jin army, and it was also the worst defeat, not only Song Yu and the 60,000 defenders of the Fifth Army were all wiped out, but even Shuangfeng City was burned clean by the You Yan coalition army, leaving only two bare and scarred city walls. The defeat of Twin Peaks also made the ambitious Jin Kingdom taste the bitterness of the enemy's invasion of the mainland again.
After burning Twin Peaks. The You Yan coalition army rested for a while, and then went north to pursue the main force of the Jin army.
Let's say that the 200,000 You army led by Nie Lin launched a rapid march towards Lingcheng.
These 200,000 troops are almost non-stop, day and night. The march was so fast that it was not much slower than a normal cavalry march. Along the way, Sergeant You was so tired that he couldn't run, and he fainted and fell to the ground while running.
No one cared about them, and the people dragged the unconscious soldiers to the side of the road and continued the march.
In the You Army, there is never a concept of killing those who die without saving, and if you stay to take care of the unconscious wounded, you may be out of touch with the large army. The result will be a dead end. So people can only grit their teeth and insist, even if they are tired and tired, their legs are going to break, and they have to keep up with the main force.
The generals in You's army rode their horses back and forth through the crowd, constantly shouting to cheer up their soldiers. Their shouts are not as high-sounding as they are, but they are all true.
"Run, don't leave anyone behind, if you fall behind, you will only have to wait to be killed by the Jinren!"
"Within two days, we won't be able to make it to Lingcheng. You have to starve, you have to starve to death. If you don't want to die, give me the strength to feed! Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
The difference between the two armies can also be seen from the shouts of the generals of the You army. The retreat of the Jin army was only a retreat, while the rapid march of the You army was a march for survival.
In the pursuit of survival, people can often burst out of their own potential.
It is hard to imagine that it only took 200,000 You troops to run all the way from Shangxing Mountain to Lingcheng in only two days, which was a full day ahead of the Jin army who came from the approaching road.
The Lingcheng side was defenseless against this sudden You army, and people never dreamed that the enemy army would appear under the Lingcheng city.
When the You army is less than a mile away from the mausoleum. The gates of the city were still wide open, and the people and caravans were still in and out as usual, in peace, and the officers and soldiers at the head of the city noticed this army hurrying over. However, because the You army did not raise the banner, they did not regard the You army as an enemy army, but only regarded their own army as retreating.
Seeing that there was an opportunity, Nie Lin, the commander of the You army, gave the order to go down, and the whole army advanced at full speed, and entered the city with all his might.
The You army led by Nie Lin was almost unhindered, and rushed to the city gate in one breath, and the soldiers waved the weapons in their hands, regardless of whether the people in front of them were civilians or officers and soldiers, and slashed wildly.
At this moment, there was a great chaos on the side of the city gate, and the officers and soldiers at the head of the city finally realized that it was not their own army that came over, but the enemy army.
People are ringing the alarm bells and trying to provoke suspension bridges and close city gates, but where is the time?
Countless soldiers and soldiers flocked into the city, seeing such a prosperous city, it was really like a locust seeing a crop, both eyes were glowing with blue light, cutting people when they saw them, grabbing things when they saw them, and seeing snacks on the street, the hungry You army rushed up to a large group of people, grabbed the food and stuffed it into his mouth.
At this time, the entire mausoleum city fell into chaos, there were fleeing people everywhere, and there were unarmed people chasing and killing soldiers everywhere.
For a time, the prosperous mausoleum city became the lawless slaughterhouse of the You army.
When Wu Hao, the lord of Lingcheng, heard that the enemy army had entered the city, he immediately gathered the defenders in the city, and personally put on the battle to meet the enemy.
As a result, their Jin army met the You army who came by surprise on the main street of Lingcheng, and the two sides launched a life-and-death fight in the city.
In a hurry, Yu Hao only gathered more than a thousand local troops, where could he parry the beast-like You army?
You Guo general Li Feng took the lead in the crowd of the Jin army, left and chop, where he passed, there was a scream, he rushed to a bloody road, killed Wu Hao in front of him, raised the knife in his hand, and split Wu Hao under the horse with only one move.
He originally used the Flying Dragon Yue, but in the battle with Shao Lin, the Yue was taken away by Shao Lin, and now he has no weapon to fit in, so he can only use a knife instead.
But even with a knife, Li Feng's force has not been weakened much, and it is not comparable to the civil official Wu Hao.
With Wu Hao being killed, the Jin army was scattered, and was chased and killed by the You army all the way, people had no way to go to the sky, no way to enter the ground, and few really escaped in the end.
The defenders of the Jin State were so vulnerable, which made the You army even more crazy and unscrupulous, and 200,000 You troops were running around the streets, as long as they saw pedestrians on the streets, regardless of men, women, and children, they were all slashed and killed.
The military discipline of the Jin army is loose enough, and the military discipline of the You army is even more corrupt to the extreme, and the three words of beating, smashing, and robbing are brought into full play.
When there was no one on the street, the people were so frightened that they cowered at home and didn't dare to show their heads, and You Jun's crazy robbery began.
The large and small shops in the city, no one can be spared, even if the store door is closed, You Jun will break in, gold, silver, jewelry, silk clothes, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and even the rouge and vermilion powder used by women will not be spared, but everything that can be snatched, they want everything.
This is no longer the regular army of a country, but a bandit who is more savage than a bandit.
When Nie Lin ordered the whole army to assemble on the main street, the waist of each soldier was bulging and full of belongings, and many people grabbed too much, and strings of pearl necklaces came out of the gaps in the breastplate.
Nie Lin didn't care about the behavior of his subordinates at all, the soldiers worked hard for him, he didn't have too much military pay to his subordinates, so his subordinates should snatch what they liked on the battlefield, which was also Nie Lin's principle and concept of governing the army.
He looked up at the sun overhead, calculated the time, and then said to the generals around him: "The whole army will rest in the mausoleum for two hours! After two hours, return here and assemble! Remember, don't let the brothers patronize and grab things, get more rations, and it is not certain whether we can grab the next meal!"
"Understood, General!" the generals of the You army gave their hands one after another.
The two hours when You Jun rested were the real catastrophe for the people of Lingcheng.
The 200,000 You troops moved freely, scattered all over the city, and also broke into the homes of the people, taking valuable things when they saw them, killing men when they saw them, and dragging them into the houses when they saw women.
The originally lively mausoleum city, under the ravages of You Jun, was devastated and cried all over the city.
The military discipline of the You army was lax, but the orders of the superiors were highly obedient, and after two hours, none of the 200,000 people dared to be late, and all of them were assembled in the main street of Lingcheng.
The corps commanders and commanders of each corps did not name them at all, and when all the corps were assembled, Nie Lin gave an order, and the whole army drove out of Lingcheng and went straight to the next target - Bocheng. (To be continued......)