Chapter 12: Breaking the City

The inner city of Luoyang is the imperial city, newly built after the founding of Cao Wei, most of the buildings and pavilions are made of wood, a fire is up, there is no way to put out, there is no way to save it. In order to prevent fire, this era can be regarded as exhaustive, the state has formulated a curfew policy, no travel at night, no arbitrary lighting; During the construction, one "li" after another was built, separated by high walls, to prevent the fire from spreading once it caught fire; During the construction, a series of protective means were adopted to "thoroughly the hut, paint the big house, prepare the water device, the livestock water, and accumulate the soil"; He also listed Zhi Jinwu as a professional firefighter (the head of the palace outside the ring division is very hot and watery). In front of the two armies, the only way to take precautions is to add a new word. Sima Yirao is wise, but he can't figure out how this fire was lit, the thousands of fires flickered at the same time, and they all flashed between the corners and eaves of the house and other places that were not easy to guard, and the originally dark inner city was full of light, so conspicuous, so dazzling.

Fire and water are merciless!

In this day and age, fire is one of the most terrible things. Three hundred miles of Afang, the Chu people burned and turned into ashes; The beautiful and beautiful palace of the Western Han Dynasty was set on fire with bare eyebrows and turned into ashes; Thirty years ago, Dong Zhuo was in turmoil, burning a hundred miles outside Luoyang City, and burning the North and South Palaces, Zong Temples, Treasury and Folk Houses by his own soldiers, and only a broken wall was left in Luoyang City. Fire in the hearts of Cao Wei's soldiers, it is a terrible symbol, a fire in Chibi, burned the world-minded Cao Mengde; A fire in Weinan burned Cao Pi, who was determined to take revenge, and fled; And today, in the city of Luoyang, the fire has appeared again.

"It's over!" Sima Yi felt his body stunned, and almost a mouthful of blood spurted out.

The smoke was billowing, the flames were rising, and there was already a great chaos in the inner city, and under the firelight, some of the Wei troops scattered and fled, and some shouted and screamed. Some organized firefighting, some guarded against the Han army, and some did not rush to the burning place, but rushed to those palaces that were strictly forbidden to enter, they were robbing by fire! The troops completely lost their formation, the command began to be confused, and finally, inevitably. A military shock was formed!

The most taboo thing to fight on the march is military fright. Soldiers are begging for a living on the tip of a sword, their spirits are always tight, and they live in fear. Sometimes, because of an exclamation and a rumor, the overly nervous soldiers thought that the enemy was coming, and in a hurry, they blindly slashed and killed without knowing the truth, causing chaos in the barracks. In the event of a military panic, the troops lose control, and the best commanders can be trampled to death by the minions. A good general can also be injured by guards who lose their minds. After days of defeat, coupled with the sudden fire tonight, despite Sima Yi's heavy precautions, the most terrifying military panic is still happening!

And outside the city, Zhuge Liang, who is good at grasping the situation, will never give the enemy any respite. He waved his feather fan, and Ji Han's entire army moved, rushing towards the gap that Bai Ri had broken through. Rockets flutter and torches fly. The ladders were pushed up the city wall one by one, and the cannon carts started again, and the crossbows roared angrily...... In order to help the fire, the Han army shot a crossbow arrow with a large gourd head, which contained fire oil and a fire fuse on the shaft, and once shot, the gourd shattered. The oil splashed, and a raging fire rose into the sky. In the Han army, Kong Ming lanterns were raised one by one to illuminate the night, adding a demonic atmosphere to this battle to the death.

In every section of the city wall, every city gate, is tearing and killing, in order to attack the city, Kong Ming has practiced night battles many times before. The swift and well-trained Han generals overwhelmingly pressed Cao Wei's men with experience and morale. And during the day, there is a gap. The battle was even more tragic.

Due to the fire and military shock, the Wei army was disorganized. Where can it withstand Ji Han's desperate attack. In the blink of an eye, a hole had been opened, and the Han army poured into the city like a tide.

Sima Shi rushed to Sima Yi's side and shouted, "Father! Let's go, Luoyang can't hold it! ”

A generation of wise man Sima Yi was almost stupid at this time, he looked at the fire in the inner city, standing in a daze, Sima Shi pulled down, but did not pull, only listened to Sima Yi said: "Yuan Shao attacked Gongsun that day, Gongsun Zan once said, Yuan's attack, like a ghost, drums and horns sounded in the ground, and the ladder rushed to dance upstairs...... But the ladder is erected on the ground, after all, it is just a small road, but Zhuge Kongming is not a human being at all, he is a demon! If it's not a monster, how can you afford to light this fire?! ”

Sima Shi hurriedly said: "Father, don't say it, let's go quickly, otherwise it will be too late!" Sima Yi cried bitterly: "Ten years of foundation, destroyed in one fell swoop, palaces and temples, all turned into smoke, isn't it heart-wrenching to death!" What else do I go? I will die here, so as not to discredit the Sima family and embarrass Your Majesty! Sima Shi was willing to let his father die, seeing that Sima Yi had not moved, he bent down and carried his father on his back and ran to the city.

At this time, there was a mess in the inner city, there were figures flashing everywhere, blocking the way, and some people were carrying all kinds of jewels, which was obviously taking the opportunity to make a fortune and break into the palace to steal land.

Sima Shi was furious, gave orders on behalf of his father, and punished several people in a row, but when he turned around, he saw that the Han army had opened the north gate of the city and rushed in. I just feel that tonight is strange, and everything doesn't seem real.

As he was running, a team suddenly rushed over and shouted: "Capture Sima Yi, please take credit for the city!" ”

At this time, Sima Shi had no soldiers and horses around him, and he was drenched in cold sweat, but he had never encountered such danger in his life, he put down his father and rushed forward to kill, and several soldiers had already pounced on Sima Yi. Sima Shi was entangled, and watched as the soldiers raised their weapons and slashed at Sima Yi.

Suddenly, Sima Yi shouted loudly, like a thunderstorm: "Who dares to kill me!" In the flash of light, all the swords were cut off, but it was Sima Yi who pulled out the dagger at his waist and waved his hand to fight back. Although Sima Yi was shocked by Kong Ming's fire, he was a hegemon after all, how could he be willing to be killed at the hands of the rebellious army. His dagger was forged by Cao Cao's own hands, and it was so sharp that only those close to him or those who had made great achievements could obtain it. Those soldiers saw the chaos in the city for the first time, thinking that the city was difficult to protect, and saw Sima Shi fleeing alone with Sima Yi on his back, Sima Yi did not know whether he was alive or dead, and then he had a heart of betrayal.

Sima Yi ignored these people, returned the dagger, snatched a torch, held it high in his hand, and shouted loudly as he strode forward: "I am Sima Yi, the governor of the capital, and all the soldiers of the Wei army obey the order." Report the camp number, move closer to me, I will take you out of the city and return to Dawei! ”

Sima Shi hurriedly said: "Father, don't reveal your identity, it's too dangerous!" ”

Sima Yi didn't care about that, and shouted to the soldiers on the ground: "From now on, you are my personal guards. Shout with me! Don't worry, although our army has lost, I can definitely take you home! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a hussar arrived, and everyone was shocked, but it was Chen Tai who jumped off the horse: "The Governor! ”

Sima Yi shouted: "Organize the people and horses, and kill them with me!" ”

"Yes!"

With the roar, the Wei army in the chaos had a return. Like a noisy passage of a raging tide, it quickly moved closer to Sima Yi, forming a huge whirlpool. Frightened by his father's actions, Sima Shi ran to his father's side, wielding his knife and guarding it tightly. Sima Yi rode on a tall horse. With a torch in his hand, he shouted as he rushed south. At this point, he's the most obvious trick. If anyone throws arrows at him in the night, he is afraid that he will not be able to escape from anything. But under Sima Yi's courage and usual prestige, no Wei army dared to think like this. In such a defeat, only by following him can you escape.

The southern gate of the city was opened, and the Han army's blocking troops rushed towards them with arrows. Sima Yi pointed forward with a torch, and countless Wei troops poured out like a flood. At desperate time. The power of man is enormous, and this wave of anger seems to have no interval, and it rushes forward wave after wave. The Han army was like a solid stone in a huge wave, desperately resisting, but it was swayed by the rush, becoming thinner and thinner, and finally was crushed with a bang. The Wei army rushed out of the city with a shout.

Zhuge Liang ordered Jiang Wei and Wang Ping to pursue the Wei army. But he hurriedly ordered the rescue of the palace. Extinguish the flames. When setting fire, I am afraid that the fire is small, but when I put out the fire, I only blame the fire for being big. Although the rescue was timely, many palaces and houses were still set on fire, and the fire lit up the sky, which could be seen for hundreds of miles. Fortunately, the inner city is an imperial city, and there are no ordinary people, so the civilian casualties are not very large. But overnight, the number of Wei troops killed and wounded in the inner city reached almost 10,000, and more than 30,000 people who failed to escape with the Wei army became prisoners, that is, the number of Wei troops who fled with Sima Yi was still 30,000 to 40,000. With such an army, if you want to easily annihilate Sima Yi in the pursuit, even if you personally lead the army, it will take a lot of effort, not to mention that Luoyang is inseparable from herself. Forget it, he just goes, anyway, he just jumped from one circle to another.

"Come on, did Xiahouba let him go?"

"Back to the prime minister, he has been let go."

"Well, let's go down. Sima Yi, back to Cao Wei, I don't know what kind of situation awaits you. ”

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After this battle, the prestige of Zhuge Kongming, who was already famous all over the world, rose again, like a round of tomorrow illuminating the sky of the Three Kingdoms, which could make Cao Wei stop crying. Weinan Earth Fire, Luoyang Sky Fire, two amazing fires, two clean defeats of strong enemies. The battle of Luoyang made Sima Yi, who had superb skills, even more defeated, who didn't know how to lose, and called Zhuge Liang a demon.

In fact, this time, Kong Ming used a rather bizarre siege method - Aoxing.

In the Central Plains, the most bird is the sparrow, which eats both insects and food, and is not a beneficial bird or a harmful bird. They like to live under the eaves of other people's houses and accumulate in granaries. At the beginning of the siege, Kong Ming secretly let people open nets to catch innumerable, and took a large number of apricot kernels, grinded them out, broke the almonds, stuffed them with saltpeter, and really used wormwood fire, tied them to the feet of birds, and on the day of attacking the inner city, they flew in the twilight. In order to prevent flying into the outer city, the Han army deliberately made loud noises to scare the birds into the inner city. At this time, Sima Yi should not change everything, the whole army is not allowed to move, not noisy, Qin and Han Dynasty buildings, mostly wooden, very easy to ignite, Ai fire burned to saltpeter, the fire was everywhere, sprayed out, burning the fire finch, it became a small torch, flying everywhere, although the fire was not very big, but the momentum was amazing, if it encountered flammable things, it was a little bit of burning, these tens of thousands of fires were triggered at the same time, and there was a great ability to prevent it. Cao Wei only cared about guarding against the Han army, so he didn't think that the birds in the twilight would bring a chasing talisman. Suddenly, seeing the fire in all directions of the inner city, I don't know where the change came from, I only remembered from the two aspects of demon law and fine work, and the whole army was already panicked, and even caused a military panic, and it was even more impossible to resist Kong Ming's army.

The Han army entered the inner city, extinguished the flames, collected the soldiers, cleaned up the corpses, and collected some loot. Kong Ming also ordered the protection of the people in all parts of the outer city, made an example to reassure the people, temporarily appointed local officials, and reported the chapters, and there was no need to list them one by one.

In the northwest corner of the inner city, Ji Han dug up thousands of huge urns, and when he opened them, they were all grain. It turned out that Sima Yi was wise, but he was afraid that the grain and grass would be destroyed, so he hid it in advance, but he avoided this fire robbery and cheapened Ji Han for nothing. He also carefully investigated the prisoners of war, and found among them that Luoyang was left behind, and Wang Cang and others were among the servants of Wei. Wang Cangqiren, in the history of the literary name is very high, known as the first of the seven sons of Jian'an, he traveled to Jingzhou when he was young, and later followed Liu Cong to Cao. He and Kong Ming are old friends, and when they meet at this time, they sigh separately. Kong Ming did not embarrass him, treated the guests as a gift, and flew the pigeon to report to Chang'an, I immediately decreed, named him the Pavilion Marquis, and helped Mr. Luoyang to take charge.

I was very excited to hear the news of the capture of Luoyang. Although this has been expected for a long time, there is still a huge gap between the expectation and the confirmation. At that moment, I didn't care about popularizing the law, and said again and again: "Amitabha, the prime minister has killed too many people this time, and Xiaoque is so poisoned." He only ordered Kong Ming to be rewarded, and the big hat was put on his head without money. I only laughed at the popularization of the law in my heart, in history, Mr. Ji Han was able to wipe out tens of thousands of Ugo people with a fire, and his killing at this time was much slighter.

The symbolic meaning of Luoyang is no less than that of Chang'an, and the capture of Luoyang will firmly sit in the center of the world, and Ji Han will become the head of the Three Kingdoms, and his strength will completely replace Cao Wei. At that moment, I decided to go to Luoyang in person. Although Luoyang is not stable, the passes are undecided, and Guo Huai's troops are still in fierce battles, I should also go to the labor army. If my father was here, he would definitely have to stay on the front line when attacking Luoyang, instead of preparing grain and grass in the rear like I did.

Before leaving, I sent another letter to Zhuge Qiao, telling him in secret words that Sima Yi was going south, passing through the road of Wancheng, Luoyang had been captured in front of him, and Nanyang Ji Han's strength was too weak, either attacking or defending, first to protect his own strength first, and at the same time he must do a good job in relations with Eastern Wu.

Mr. deliberately opened the passage to the south, increased the troops with a false pretense, and recalled Wang Ping on the south road, with Sima Yi's talent, after a little thought, he could know that it was Kong Ming who attacked Luoyang in the concentration of troops, and the southern line passes had been released, and he could take advantage of the situation to break through. Moreover, in Nanyang, Xu Huang and others, who were surrounded by the Sun-Liu coalition army, are still there, and he relieved the siege of Nanyang, which can be regarded as a little bit of a crime.

Sima Yi, who was defeated, against Lu Xun, who had a slight advantage, is really lively to see on the future Nanyang battlefield.

However, Sima Yi is too big to swallow in one bite, Guo Huai shouldn't be able to run this time, well, take a Sima Xuanwang, and take the future Zhenhou General to make up the number, it will be enough.