Chapter 35: The Burning of Anping City

Just after Lian Da led all the troops into Anping City.

"Are you ready?"

Chen Wu looked at the three Yang Shuo who had returned beside him and asked in a deep voice.

"Ready!" Yang Shuo nodded and said, "As long as the lord gives an order, the Lian Da army will definitely be defeated!"

"Okay!" Chen Wu patted Yang Shuo's shoulder, and then said solemnly: "Pass my order, light the fire!"

"Yes!" Yang Shuo immediately replied, then turned around and rode away.

"Herald the Lord's order, set fire!"

"Herald the Lord's order, set fire!"

Chen Wu's order immediately spread throughout the army, and all the soldiers who were ambushed outside Anping City immediately lit the torches in their hands, and then aimed at the hay and oil prepared in advance around them.

All of a sudden, the flames outside Anping City were monstrous, and the endless raging flames swept out, directly enveloping the entire Anping City.

It turned out that as early as a few days ago, Xu Mao had discovered that Lian Da had sent a team of about two hundred soldiers to blend in with the people, and then entered Anping City.

And after Chen Wu learned about it, he deliberately did not find out these soldiers, so that he could annihilate the Lianda army with the least number of troops today.

At first, Chen Wu led the army to feign defeat and retreat, and fled into Anping City, but did not stay, but escaped from Anping City again through a secret passage in the city lord's mansion.

And the Lianda army that stayed behind became a turtle in the urn.

Inside the city.

"What's wrong, why is there a fire outside?" Seeing the raging fire outside the city, Lian Da couldn't help but be shocked.

"It's not good, it's a trick!" Lian Da gave an order and shouted: "Quick, retreat, withdraw from Anping City!"

However, since he had entered Anping City, Chen Wu naturally refused to let Lian Da escape easily.

Xu Mao and Yang Shuo each lifted a thousand catties of boulder and threw it directly at the city gate, completely sealing the city gate.

Seeing that the city gate was blocked, Lian Da was anxious, although the fire only spread outside Anping City, and it would not burn into Anping City for a while, but Lian Da still felt faintly uneasy.

"Quick, go up to the city wall!" Lian Da shouted, while directing his soldiers to prepare to escape from the city wall.

"Lord, they have gone up to the city wall!"

Outside Anping City, on a steep slope, Xu Mao said lightly to Chen Wu.

"Hmph, go up to the city wall?" Chen Wu's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he said in a deep voice: "Release the rocket, today, let Lian Da's army avenge all the brothers who died before!"

"Yes!"

With Xu Mao's order, all the soldiers outside Anping City, including some civilians who had been temporarily requisitioned, all raised their longbows in their hands.

All of a sudden, countless flaming arrows shot towards Anping City.

These rockets are like a signal, in Anping City, there are many soldiers and civilians ambushed in the tunnels dug before, as soon as they see the rockets, they immediately start to set fire to the city.

"General, general, no, no, there's a fire in the city!" a soldier hurried over and reported to Lianda.

Lian Da, who originally planned to go out of the city from the city wall, was repelled by the rockets of Chen Wu's army, and wanted to find another exit, but suddenly heard the news and couldn't help but turn pale.

"What?" Lian Da said angrily: "How can there be a fire in Anping City, is it possible that Chen Wu is still in the city?"

Just when Lian Da was still questioning why the fire suddenly broke out in the city, several places in Anping City began to emit thick black smoke, and among the black smoke, raging flames rose into the sky, and these places were just the beginning, more and more places began to catch fire, just a short incense time, the entire Anping City was wrapped in endless flames.

"Ahh

"Ahh

On the streets, the Lianda army, which should have been strictly disciplined, became chaotic at this time.

Countless soldiers were enveloped in flames, and then died in endless wails.

"What to do, what to do!"

Lian Da's whole eyes are extremely red, there is no way to go to heaven and no way to go down, does God really want to end himself here?

Lian Da roared angrily in his heart, "There is no way to go to the ground, go to the ground?"

"Quick, find the source of those flames, since Chen Wu can set fire to this city, there must be a secret passage that can lead to the outside of the city!" Lian Dafu came to his heart, and immediately ordered the soldiers beside him.

The flames outside Anping City have slowly subsided, and in a few places, the flames have even been extinguished.

The fire outside the city is only used to prevent Lianda's army from escaping from the city, and the most important thing is the fire inside the city.

On the highest pavilion in Anping City, a soldier saw the flames outside the city slowly extinguished, and immediately said in surprise: "General, the fire outside is extinguished!"

"Oh?!" Lian Da was also happy in his eyes, and immediately turned his head to look, turned his eyes to condense, and said: "No, the fire outside the city is extinguished, but how did the city wall become red?"

"Ah!" the joy in the soldier's eyes immediately dissipated, and when he looked closely, he found that the bottom of the city wall, after being scorched by the flames, had actually turned red, and there was a faint flash of fire on it.

On the steep slope outside the city, Xu Mao saw that the bottom of the city wall was actually burned red, and faintly, as if it was about to burn, and couldn't help but ask: "Lord, is that?"

Seeing this, Chen Wu smiled slightly, escaped from his arms with a swarthy stone, handed it to Xu Mao, and asked, "Xu Mao, do you know what this is?"

Xu Mao took the black stone in his hand, and after taking a closer look, he asked uncertainly, "Lord, this can't be a lump of coal, right?"

"Indeed!" Chen Wu nodded, a few months ago, Chen Wu, who returned to Anping City, buried a large amount of coal at the bottom of the city wall in the name of rebuilding the city wall, in case there was no way to retreat in the future, but he didn't expect it to be used today.

A trace of cold sweat broke out on Xu Mao's forehead, he also knew Chen Wu's strategy, how much courage and courage it would take to burn Anping City and burn his foundation to the ground.

And when he learned that the bottom of the city wall was all made of coal, he faintly felt a trace of compassion for Lianda's army.

Lian Da came to pursue Chen Wu this time, but brought the entire Red Wolf Regiment with him, that is to say, now in Anping City, there are more than 10,000 Red Wolf Regiment soldiers, more than 10,000 soldiers, that is, more than 10,000 lives, but what they are about to face is to be burned alive!

Thinking of this, Xu Mao closed his eyes, and after a long time, he opened them, once he was successful, he would inevitably face such a situation again in the future, just for the hegemony of the lord, everything he could ignore.

Thinking of this, Xu Mao breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to Chen Wu and asked, "Lord, won't Lian Da and them forcibly break through?"

Chen Wu stared at Xu Mao, smiled faintly, and said: "If they could break through, they would have broken through a long time ago, and they would have to wait until now, and I expected that after setting fire outside the city, Lian Da would not dare to forcibly break through before making this plan!"

"Why didn't he dare?" Xu Mao was a little puzzled and asked: "As long as Lian Da leads the team to break through, although the casualties will be heavy, but the whole army will not be wiped out!"

"Hehe!" Chen Wu shook his head and said: "As long as it is a person, there must be a fluke mentality, at first when the fire broke out outside the city, it was the best time for Lian Da's army to break through, but they were repelled by our rockets, Lian Da found out, forcibly breaking through, casualties will inevitably be heavy, but staying in the city, it will not necessarily be fine." Therefore, he chose the safest way, but it was precisely because of this that he also missed the last chance at all!"

Just when Chen Wu and Xu Mao were talking, the fire in Anping City was already full of sky, the entire city was filled with black smoke, and the four city walls were red.

"General, it's not good, the city wall, the city wall is burning!" a soldier ran upstairs and reported to Lianda.

"Huh?" Lian Da frowned and shouted, "Didn't you let you put out the fire with all your might, why did it burn again?"

When the soldier heard this, he hurriedly said, "General, the fire cannot be extinguished, the first open flame is fine, but the fire that rises later cannot be extinguished, as if the flame rose from the ground." ”

"What about the secret passage, has the secret passage been found?" asked Lian Da again in a loud voice.

"I found it, but I couldn't get out of those secret passages at all, and all of them were blocked by the enemy!"

"What!"

Lian Da sighed and ordered: "Pass the order, put out the fire with all your might, and wait for the rescue of the eldest prince!"

Now Anping City can no longer get out, all the four walls of the city are burned red, the surface temperature is even higher than ridiculously high, some soldiers originally planned to climb the city wall and escape, but before they could get close, they were forced back by the scorching temperature and thick black smoke.

So now, what Lian Da can do is to hope that Chen Tian can see the fire in Anping City, so as to bring troops to the rescue.

Chen Tian did see the fire in Anping City, and at the same time brought his three thousand Black Dragon Battalion to the rescue.

But halfway through, he was stopped by Yang Shuo and Xie Lun.

Yang Shuo and Xie Lun still had a total of 4,000 soldiers under them, but in addition to these soldiers, there were also nearly 100,000 people, all of whom had withdrawn from Anping City after being notified by Chen Wu before, and they were also in the right place at this time.

At this time, Anping City, after such a long period of burning, has become a city of flames, a city of purgatory.

The coals in the city were completely ignited, no matter how Lian Da's soldiers tried to extinguish them, but after a while, those coal blocks burned again, and the flames spread, and all the houses and shops in the city were all set on fire, even the tall pavilion where Lian Da was located before, it had already been ignited.

At this time, Lian Da, with the remnants of his subordinates, were all disgraced and demoralized, gathered in a small area that had not yet been spread by the fire.

However, this area, although it is not surrounded by flames for the time being, judging from the current fire in Anping City, this place, it will not be long before it will be engulfed by flames.