Li Ze believed that in order to catch up with the speed, it was inevitable that the pursuers would not be able to bring sufficient supplies, and after a long journey, they would definitely need to replenish urgently. However, Li Ze had already ordered that all the villages and crops outside the city should be burned to the ground, and they would get nothing. When you arrive in Texas City, it is imperative to go into the city to find provisions.

An army of several thousand people will not starve to death if they do not eat for a day in the barracks, but when preparing for battle, even if they do not eat a meal, it will have a great impact on the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you'll be hungry.

Li Ze did not set fire to Dezhou City, but wanted to make one last use of this ancient city to lure these pursuers into the city. Naturally, some grain was left, gold, silver, copper, money, silk and satin, and they were thrown all over the streets, and these would all become bait to lure the Heng Navy.

The greed of the soldiers of the Horizontal Navy was notoriously known.

It is also impossible for them not to be greedy, because their moderation does not have much money and food to ensure that they can live a better life, especially the government soldiers, who belong to the group of people who are so poor that they jingle loudly.

A thousand cavalry from Cangzhou, a thousand armor soldiers from Dizhou, and three thousand soldiers arrived at Dezhou City when the sky was about to darken.

Above the city, rows of human heads were shocking. In order to increase the effect of intimidation, Li Ze deliberately asked people to hang the heads of Zhu Bin and others on the city.

"Too much deception!" Zhu Yannian looked at Zhu Bin's head hanging in the middle of the city gate building, and the fire rushed to his heart.

A group of scout cavalry entering the city came out on horseback, and Zhu Yannian just glanced at it, and found that there were a lot more things on the back of his cavalry, which he had become accustomed to. He did not rebuke them for their actions, but for the sake of morale, he never cared about the small fortunes of his soldiers. It's really going to block the way for them to get money, but I'm afraid that the soldiers will complain.

"How's it going in the city?" He asked.

"Returning to the general, there is no one in the city to be found, but it can be seen that the enemy is in a hurry, in addition to emptying the treasury, there is also a lot of food and other property left in many houses." One of the scouts bowed his hand with some excitement.

"Great." A voice came from Zhu Yannian's side, it was Ai Song from Dizhou, seeing Zhu Yannian's glance, Ai Song said a little embarrassedly: "General Zhu, after our department received a distress letter from Dezhou, we immediately sent troops to help, the army did not bring enough food, and there were no supplies found on the way. ”

Zhu Yannian knew that Ai Song did not bring enough food with his troops, not because Dizhou did not have it, but because they originally planned to raise food on the spot after arriving in Dezhou, and to put it bluntly, they were asking the people of Texas to ask for it. I never thought that the enemy from Chengde was so fierce and vicious that he would take all the villages to death and all the people captive, which put Ai Song in an embarrassment.

Aison naturally has his reasons, we are here to rescue Texas, so this military ration should naturally come from Texas. Naturally, it is not good for the soldiers to go hungry, but now that there is food in the city, it can finally solve the urgent need. What's more, looking at the scout cavalry with smiles on their faces, and unabashedly dressed in silk on their horses, it was obvious that the enemy had run too hastily and had no time to clean up.

In such a large city, there are only a lot of things left, enough to make a fortune for his soldiers.

Only in this way can the soldiers be motivated!

"General Zhu, it's getting late today, why don't you stay in Dezhou City for one night and pursue tomorrow?" Aison suggested. "The Chengde thief takes a large number of people, and it is great that he can walk thirty miles a day, and with our speed, we will be able to catch up with them tomorrow at most, so it is better to let the soldiers raise their spirits, and tomorrow they will catch up with the enemy and annihilate them."

Zhu Yannian nodded, the night march is too dangerous, most of the people in the army are blind at night, and the intelligence shows that the enemy also has a cavalry with quite strong combat effectiveness, in case it is attacked by the enemy at night, it will be a little difficult to clean up.

The 5,000-horizontal navy marched into Texas City.

Zhu Yannian, Ai Song and others naturally lived in Zhu Bin's Thorn History Mansion, but as soon as the troops entered the city, except for a very small number of personal guard troops, the rest of the army herded sheep.

Thousands of people, like locusts, began to sweep through the city of Texas.

The city of tens of thousands of people was forcibly relocated within three days, and naturally countless good things would be left behind, coupled with the bait that Li Ze had specially arranged and arranged, which made the soldiers of the Henghai Navy unhappy from top to bottom, and walked through the streets and alleys one by one, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and making a windfall.

At this time, Fox One was preparing to set fire.

How to set fire is actually a profound science, in order to be able to turn the entire city into a burning torch in a very short time, Shi Zhuang, Tu Lichun and others racked their brains.

The two of them, no one thought of a dignified decisive battle with this chasing army of Henghai, the little boy pressed the box's chips on this point, and fought a tough battle with the enemy, even if he won, I'm afraid it will be a tragic victory, Henghai can afford to lose, Xiao Gongzi can't afford to lose.

This is not like Zhu Bin, the other party can't figure out the details of the little boy at all, and more importantly, Zhu Bin's strength is not good, but now it's different, a thousand cavalry, a thousand armor soldiers plus three thousand soldiers are enough to suppress the Wuyi people and horses in terms of strength. Although he said that he was not afraid, Li Ze didn't want to do that kind of thing at all to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.

Tempting people into the city, and a fire will solve most of the problems.

Of course, how to lure people into the city, how to effectively set fires, this kind of technical problem, as long as you use your brain, you can still come up with a solution.

Texas City is an ancient city.

The old city naturally has its distinctive characteristics, and what makes Li Ze most happy is that there are a large number of wooden houses and thatched houses where the poor live. Houses made of real brick and stone are nothing more than the residences of a few powerful and powerful. Therefore, the residences of these powerful people were almost swept clean by the Wuyi soldiers, but on the streets where ordinary people lived, a large amount of property, food, etc. were left.

As Li Ze expected, the Henghai soldiers who first went straight to the place where the rich lived and did not gain much immediately discovered this secret, and a large number of people began to move to civilian areas.

Come to think of it, when the enemy comes, it must be focused on robbing rich people.

The night was getting dark, but the city was brightly lit, and groups of cross-sea soldiers were looting in the city with torches.

Getting rich without any psychological burden, everyone is quite happy.

However, they were happy, but they could not have imagined that the Grim Reaper had already grinned wide, and was raising its sharp life-harvesting scythe.

Outside the city, Chen Ping'an and others haunted like ghosts, and Zhu Yannian's police posts and scouts outside the city fell one after another under their swords and arrows.

Zhu Yannian is naturally not a waste, the large army has entered the city, and outside the city, he still put a lot of scout rangers, but helplessly, he is quite familiar with this set of people. And the force value of these people far exceeds that of these ranger scouts.

Five hundred cavalry, fifteen hundred armor soldiers, had marched silently in the night to the appearance of only three or four miles from the west gate, and as soon as the city was on fire, they would speed up.

Of the three city gates, only the west gate is still intact, and the remaining three city gates have been destroyed and blocked by the Wuyi soldiers.

In the city, the fox whistled briskly, then took out the fire fold from his bosom and threw it on a pile of firewood in front of him.

He turned and quickly left the place and ran to the next ignition point. At this time, he was wearing the costume of a cross-sea soldier, and even if he appeared openly on the street, he would not make others who were making a fortune suspicious.

Everyone was busy pulling things into their arms, and sometimes even two different groups of people would fight over the ownership of certain possessions.

Doing this with Fox Yi, there are dozens of subordinates of the Heart Moon Fox.

One by one, it lit up, then it became a line, and finally it became a sea.

Within a short pillar of incense, the city of Texas was illuminated by firelight.

With the firelight, the Wuyi soldiers led by Shi Zhuang Tu Lichun immediately approached the west gate of Texas.

Inside the city, there was already chaos.

At first, the fire did not attract the attention of the Henghai Navy, everyone thought that it was just a little water, anyway, it was an empty city, and everyone would go to a place where there was no fire to pick up their belongings, but what happened next greatly surprised them.

Fires erupted everywhere, and the fire began to burn from the periphery, like a flowing sea of fire, spreading towards the center at an unimaginable speed.

Zhu Yannian and Ai Song are both experienced generals, and when they saw this situation, they immediately understood that they had fallen into the enemy's trap, which was a deliberate fire.

"Get out of the city, rush out of the city!" The two men turned on their horses, and with their guards with them, galloped through the streets, shouting as they could see the army.

However, it is a pity that their army is distributed in various parts of Texas City to make a fortune, and most of them have been besieged by fire at this time, and it has become extremely difficult to escape.

Zhu Yannian, who rushed out of the West City Gate, did not have the slightest feeling of escaping, because under the bright light of the fire behind him, he saw countless cavalry rushing towards him, and rows of neat armor soldiers were marching with neat steps, striking the shield with horizontal knives, and pressing up in unison.