The fires were raging in the mountains and forests on both sides of Bowangpo, and soon Yang Ling, who was standing in the valley and waiting, found that he had nothing to do, except for constantly urging his subordinates to continue to fire rockets on the hillside to block the road down the mountain, there was no enemy who could escape through the valley, and he had to admire Li Tong. Apparently, at the very beginning, using the cover of the baggage truck, the combustibles were placed at the few exits, completely blocking the enemy's way down the mountain. The combustibles parked along the road quickly ignited the surrounding trees, and the fire in the valley grew faster than in any other direction.

Yang Ling soon became bored, as he vaguely heard the mournful wails of the enemy soldiers on the hillside who were engulfed in flames. It's a mountain, there's no water, it's night, and the only thing you can see is the fire, and when you find it, you can't escape. Especially on the southeastern side of the hill, many people found that although they were far from the top of the mountain, the fire in many directions had spread in front of them, that is, they were surrounded, and although the fire had not yet burned themselves, the choking smoke and the heat of the fire, coupled with the panic in their hearts, many had ???????????????? Unable to stop crying and screaming, trying to alleviate their fears in this way, more people tried to scurry around the burning mountains and forests like headless flies.

After Yang Ling escorted Li Tong and the others out of the valley passage, he led people into the valley again, he found that the previous worries were superfluous, not only was there no enemy here, but the fire seemed to be very obedient, and it did not spread to the flat ground of the valley at all, and the passage of one or two miles wide was enough for his light cavalry to pass calmly. He smoothly passed through the passage and appeared in front of Xu Rong's infantry battalion, and when he looked back, Bowangpo was already in flames, and on both sides of the passage were like two huge fireballs burning, and from time to time there were one or two terrible howls of enemy soldiers.

Xu Rong, who was standing outside the gate, had a solemn face, and Jia Xu looked at Bo Wangpo very calmly and did not forget to ask Yang Ling: "Captain Yang, Captain Li, are they safely evacuated?" ”

Yang Ling came back to his senses and replied: "Don't worry, the prison army is safe, Ling wants to take his brothers to check the valley again, if it is safe, the army can march with the help of fire now." ”

Jia Xu smiled, what he had discussed with Xu Rong before was to march with the help of firelight, so as to catch the defenders of Bowang County by surprise. But the absolute safety of the valley is also a prerequisite, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses marching, as well as a large number of baggage and people, once the fire situation changes, burning the enemy becomes burning themselves is not beautiful.

Xu Rong didn't speak, he jumped on his horse and walked towards the rear of the camp for a while, and then found a high ground to check the fire situation in the south, he wanted to make sure that this fire attack could really weaken the Bowang defenders.

The spread of the fire tonight exceeded everyone's expectations, Xu Rong couldn't help but sigh, the enemy in ambush in the mountains and forests depends on his luck, no matter how much he can survive in the end, he should not pose a threat to his march and attack Bowang.

Shaking his head Xu Rong turned his horse's head and walked towards the camp, when Xu Rong returned to the camp, Yang Ling took his light cavalry to walk back and forth in the valley passage, this time they met a few lucky people who escaped from the mountain, and when they asked, they knew that there were five thousand people in ambush in the mountains and forests on both sides, and now only four or five people can escape from the valley passage.

Yang Ling reported to Jia Xu and Xu Rong again, saying that he was willing to lead the light cavalry to open the way for the whole army, and took advantage of the fact that the enemy on the mountain and the enemy in Bowang County did not react and quickly passed through the valley passage overnight. In this way, it can not only make the defenders of Bowang County panic, but also completely break the connection between the enemy army of Bowangpo and the defenders of Bowang County.

After consulting Jia Xu, Xu Rong decided to march overnight. However, many scouts were sent to the valley to monitor the fire and to prevent a large number of enemies from escaping and disrupting the march.

Yang Ling had repeatedly inspected the valley passage with the light cavalry before, but no fire spread into the valley. On the way, they encountered several groups of more than a dozen or dozens of enemies rushing down from the mountain, but when they saw Xu Rong's tens of thousands of troops, they were stunned on the spot, and it was impossible to escape back to the mountain.

The valley six or seven miles long is a miniature version of the gap in the Fangcheng Mountain of Funiu Mountain, and there are no more than 200 people who can really escape from the mountain to the valley. And Xu Rong entered the valley???????????????? After Duan, he asked Yang Ling to take the light cavalry to break the rear and be responsible for replenishing rockets towards the mountain. The road down the hill to the valley pass is completely blocked.

More than an hour later, most of Xu Rong's men and horses appeared in the open space of Bowangpo and Bowang County, and the news from Zhang Fei, Huo Jun and others was that about 300 people rushed out of Bowangpo, more than 100 were shot, and the rest were taken prisoner. As time goes by, unless someone finds a hiding place early in the morning, the chances of others surviving are getting smaller and smaller.

Since it was already late at night, Xu Rong did not continue the march after making sure it was safe, but sent a large number of scouts to cut off the connection between Bowang County and Bowangpo. And Zhang Fei gathered his men and horses with five hundred elite heavy infantry and Wang Zhao and others to hurry overnight, they also had to appear at the north gate of the Leopard King before dawn, if they could successfully deceive the city gate, the difficulty of capturing Bowang County would be much smaller.

The reason why Xu Rong chose not to continue the march was also a consideration, that is, if a large number of enemies survived on Bowangpo, he would launch an attack on Bowangpo after the fire was extinguished, completely annihilating the enemy who was pulling a piece, and creating the best conditions for the rapid march of Wei Yan and Tai Shici in the back.

When Xu Rong's troops were marching in the valley passage, Yuan Yin in Bowang City was also awakened, Bowangpo is only twenty miles away from Bowang County, the location of the hillside is high, plus the two hillsides are in flames, although the soldiers guarding the city can't see what happened to Bowangpo from the city wall, but they all know that Bowangpo is on fire, so they don't know whether their own people ambushed Xu Rong, or Xu Rong set fire to the mountain.

When Yuan Yin came to the city wall, Yan Xiang looked frightened: "Little general, Xu Rong knows that soldiers are good at fighting, and he will not be easily ambushed, this fire may be that he set fire to the mountain just in case." I don't know if our ambush has any effect now. However, no matter what the situation is, Xu Rong's army will definitely come to the city tomorrow night at the latest. ”

Yuan Yin nodded, and then said to the herald beside him: "Hurry up and send additional scouts in the direction of Bowangpo, and in addition, scouts will be arranged within a radius of ten miles from Bowang County tonight." ”

It should be said that there was no problem with Yuan Yin's response, but as time went by, Yuan Yin's face became ugly, because the first few waves of scouts sent out did not come back for half an hour, and the scouts from Bowang County to Bowangpo were twenty miles away, and half an hour of scouts was enough to go back and forth. Even if Xu Rong's army crossed Bowangpo, several waves of scouts would always come back.

Time passed slowly, and the fire on Bowang Slope did not mean to go down, and the scout still did not send back the news. After waiting for more than half an hour, a scout finally escaped from Wangpo covered in blood.

The reason for the escape was that the scout could be seen from the flickering fire on the city walls, and the scout had been hit by an arrow. Sure enough, when the city gate was opened and the people were let in, the scout said: "There are too many enemy scouts, and there is no way to get closer, and many of my companions have been ambushed." ”

Yuan Yin was not surprised by this, after all, Wei Xuan had defeated Dong Zhuo, and later defeated Yu Fuluo, defeated Yuan Shao who came to provoke in Hebei, and successfully expelled more than a dozen tribes of the Southern Xiongnu, and the war horses in the army were far superior to Yuan Shu in terms of quantity and quality. Wei Xuan has experienced big and small battles since he left Hedong???????????????? There have been many battles, and the scouts in the army are naturally more powerful than Yuan Shu, who has never fought here.

Since Xu Rong chose to burn Bowangpo, he naturally had to send scouts to isolate the battlefield. Bowangpo was on fire, the battlefield was covered, and his servant Yuan Bin went to ambush, 5,000 people did not know whether they were alive or dead, and Yuan Yin was naturally in a bad mood. Finally, under the persuasion of everyone, he reluctantly got off the city wall and prepared to talk about it the next day.

It's just that Yuan Yin returned to the county government to sleep in the middle of the night, he was worried that the soldiers of Bowangpo would naturally not be there, and when he finally fell asleep, he was soon woken up again, Yuan Yin asked the person who woke him up with a gloomy face: "What happened?" Is there any news from Bowangpo? What time is it? ”

It was Sima of the city gate who woke him up, and he said cautiously: "General, there is no news from Bowangpo, it is Luyang who has news." Hundreds of remnants came to the north gate, claiming to be the captain Wang Zhao, who said that Luyang had been broken by Wei Yan and Tai Shi Ci, and Wei Yan and Tai Shi Ci went south along the Fangcheng Pass of Funiu Mountain. They came here over the Funiu Mountains. The little ones didn't dare to let them into the city, so they came to ask the general. ”

Yuan Yin glared at the city gate Sima and reprimanded angrily: "If you are not sure, let them approach the city wall one by one and ask questions, if it is not enough, wait until dawn." It's annoying to have such a little. ”

Na Sima said with a bitter face: "General, the little one did the same, the one who claimed to be Wang Zhao said that he was a captain under General Zhang Ying, they were sleepy and needed to go into the city to rest, they also saw the fire in Bowangpo, and they were worried that they would be caught up by Xu Rong's team after dawn." ”

Yuan Yin was so disturbed by the fire in Bowangpo that he couldn't sleep, and now there is news that Lu Yang has been broken, which is expected by him and Yuan Shu, but this is also too fast. Wang Zhao and the others have arrived over Funiu Mountain, Wei Yan and Tai Shici's two-step people are not far from Bowangpo, maybe after dawn, Bowangpo's people must be withdrawn, otherwise in the face of the siege of the three divisions, the five thousand people in Bowang County will not be able to hold out for a few days.

There was no sleepiness, Yuan Yin simply came to the north gate, and by the way, he asked for some information about Wei Yan and Tai Shici from these people.