Chapter 193: The Tragic Situation in the Ruins

When Xu Da led the navy to the city of Fuzhou, the city was still burning with fire.

Because the distance is so close, Xu Da can even feel the heat wave blowing on his face.

Looking inside from the cave of the city gate, Xu Da only saw the flames that soared into the sky, and there was nothing else.

A gust of sea breeze blew, and Xu Da smelled a strong scorching smell, which made people sick.

Originally, there were some lucky pirates outside the city of Fuzhou, who wanted to put things outside the city and enter the city again to continue to loot after looting things.

But before they could enter again, they saw the fire in the city, and they could only stand outside the city stupidly, at a loss.

They were shocked by the viciousness of Deng Yu's methods, and they chose to burn the city directly, burning the jade with themselves and others.

But it has to be said that this method is indeed cruel and effective.

Now 100,000 pirates are scorched by the flames in the city, and they do not know whether they are alive or dead.

Even their big leader, Chen Zuyi, is unknown in life and death, and his whereabouts are unknown.

These pirates stood outside the city, staring at the fire in a daze, until Xu Da led the army outside the city, and these people woke up like a dream and wanted to escape.

But he was directly pressed to the ground by the Ming Navy, and he couldn't escape, so he was all arrested and used as prisoners.

There was a fire in the outer city of Fuzhou, and it was naturally impossible for Xu Da to enter the city, but Xu Da did not slack off, but let the Ming army camp on the spot.

Then he led the army to besiege the entire city of Fuzhou and waited for it to prevent any pirates from escaping from the city.

The main target of Xu Da's attack this time is Chen Zuyi, as long as Chen Zuyi is captured or killed, then the bandits in the South China Sea will be completely quelled.

After all, no matter how bold other pirates are, they don't dare to attack a country's ports at will.

They all make a living at sea, mainly plundering maritime merchants, and being able to rob merchant ships at sea is the legitimate occupation of these pirates.

Chen Zuyi was bold and reckless, and he had a deep hatred for the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Chen Zuyi is the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty in the South China Sea pirates.

Other pirates, even if someone dared to attack coastal towns, they would pick some soft persimmons and not dare to provoke the powerful Ming Dynasty.

However, Chen Zuyi's gang was specifically picking on the Ming Dynasty, and this time it instigated the entire southeast coastal area of the Ming Dynasty to form an alliance and attack the Ming Dynasty at the same time.

Zhu Yuanzhang has long regarded this person as a thorn in his eye and a thorn in his flesh.

Before Xu Da set out on the expedition, Zhu Yuanzhang had given Xu Da a decree that if he had the opportunity, he would definitely break Chen Zuyi's body into pieces.

In this way, the hatred in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart can be eliminated.

Now that this situation seems to be, Xu Da should not be able to satisfy Zhu Yuanzhang's wishes.

Because Chen Zuyi is likely to have been burned into a roast chicken.

After Xu Da's control was completed, he took a stand and waited quietly outside the city for the fire in the city to be extinguished.

This is a day, three poles from the sun, until the sun goes down and the moon rises.

Although the fire in the city is much smaller, it still exudes a terrifying high temperature, and the heat wave hits, so that the night outside Fuzhou is no longer cold.

The huge flames were more visible in the middle of the night, and Fuzhou City was like a huge torch, illuminating more than ten miles of places.

Xu Da did not relax, and divided his troops into two parts, taking turns to keep vigil, and it was bound to surround all the pirates in Fuzhou City.

Deng Yu in the city also did not dare to rest, from day to night, Deng Yu has been standing on the wall of the inner city, staring nervously in the direction of the outer city.

The moment the fire ignited, Deng Yu knew that these pirates might be doomed.

After all, the fire was so fierce that it was impossible to give the pirates time to react.

But Deng Yu just didn't know how many pirates had entered the outer city of Fuzhou.

However, since Xu Da had already arrived with the imperial army, as long as the pirates could enter half of them, Deng Yu believed that Xu Da had the ability to defeat the remaining pirates and save Fuzhou City from fire and water.

Deng Yu stayed in the inner city in order to prevent some pirates who jumped over the wall in a hurry, and wanted to enter the inner city from the outer city to avoid the fire.

In just one day, Deng Yu had already been attacked hundreds of times in the inner city.

However, this attack was only the attack of a few scattered pirates, after all, these pirates had previously scattered around the outer city to raid.

It was impossible to gather too many people at once and attack the inner city, which gave Deng Yu a chance to breathe.

The Ming army led by Deng Yu actually reached the end of the crossbow, guarding the city wall to resist the attack of pirates, and still holding on.

But if there are a large number of pirates, I am afraid that Deng Yu will not be able to support it.

The fire in Fuzhou City continues, and the crackling sound is endless.

The entire inner city was reflected by the fire of Fuzhou City, as bright as day, and the people gathered in the streets of the inner city, looking panicked.

Hundreds of thousands of people, crammed into a small inner city, are naturally extremely crowded.

In such an environment, it is easy to riot and even bomb the camp.

The slightest misconduct will trample on hundreds of thousands of people, causing heavy casualties.

However, Deng Yu had no choice, it was impossible to put these people in the outer city and burn them alive.

Fortunately, now the people also know that the situation is critical, after all, the fire that ignited in the outer city can also be seen by these people.

The people didn't dare to mess around, because they couldn't rush out at all, so they could only stay where they were, quietly waiting for the judgment of fate.

The fire lasted for two full days, and on the third day, the open flames in the city finally disappeared.

The originally prosperous city of Fuzhou was burned to the ground by the fire, and there were ruins everywhere.

Although the open flames have disappeared, there are still a large number of sparks in the city, and if there is any ignition, I am afraid that another fire will immediately rise into the sky.

Xu Da didn't make a move, but just let people start to enter the city, check the vicinity of the city gate, and clear out the pirates who may be left.

But as soon as he entered the city, Xu Da saw a shocking scene.

I saw that near the city gate, there were corpses piled up, and the hole in the city gate was almost blocked.

These corpses were all charred black, their faces were distorted, their expressions were hideous, their arms were stretched forward unwillingly, and their deaths were very miserable.

Needless to say, these are all pirates who want to cross the city gate from the fire and rush out of the city at the moment of the fire.

It's a pity that Deng Yu was the first to ignite the city gate hole, and these pirates wanted to rush through the sea of fire with their physical mortals, but they could only be fools' dreams.

More and more people fell into the city gate, and they were about to block the city gate, which also made it more and more impossible for the people behind to rush through the city gate.

He could only be burned alive by the fire in the cave of the city gate.

When Xu Da saw so many corpses, a scorching smell rushed into his nose, and he directly asked people to clean up these corpses.

Finally cleared a road to the city, only to find that the entire city of Fuzhou had been turned into a crematorium.

The streets were littered with charred corpses, looking like purgatory on earth.

Even the elite soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time behind Xu Da felt nausea in their stomachs and almost vomited.

Xu Da's face was not good-looking, so he could only ask people to check the surroundings first, whether there were any pirates who were struggling to catch them alive as soon as possible.

After the troops entered the city, they quickly deployed, and Xu Da led people along the main road of Fuzhou towards the city.

The further they went, the more corpses they saw, and in some places hundreds of corpses were clustered together, and the pirates wanted to take advantage of the wide avenues to escape the fire.

Unfortunately, the temperature in the city was too high, and the streets of Fuzhou City were not so spacious at all, so these pirates were eventually burned alive and roasted to dried corpses.

Xu Da sighed when he saw this, the killing caused by this fire was too heavy, and he didn't know if he would be retributed in the future.

Although the fire was set by Deng Yue, it was Xu Da's idea, which had to make Xu Da feel guilty about it.

But the mercy is only for a moment, these pirates do all kinds of evil, and dying here can be regarded as retribution.

Xu Da continued to walk inside, the ruins and sparks filled his eyes, although most of the open flames had been extinguished.

But when the wind blows through these sparks, it still brings bursts of fire.

The flames have not been completely extinguished, but the fuel that can be burned has been completely incinerated, leaving only the spark slowly extinguished in place.

Just as Xu Da was constantly searching, suddenly there was a coughing sound around him, Xu Da immediately became vigilant and led the army to walk in the direction from which the sound came.