Chapter 549: Surviving in the Fire
He knew that the archery of the opposite Zheng General was very good, so he let the guards cover in front, a distance of more than ten zhang, with the speed of a war horse as long as two or three breaths can be approached, just entangle the opponent for a moment, and wait for the surrounding light cavalry to arrive is Zheng Jun's death.
He was not wrong in his intentions, but he misestimated Jiang Anyi's archery skills. At the beginning of the year, Jiang Anyi repeatedly made contributions with archery skills in Shasu Kingdom, which made him deeply feel that the shortest way to take the head of the general in front of the two armies was to bow and arrow. After returning to Huazhou, he spent a lot of effort to study archery, and on the basis of precision, accuracy and speed, he gave birth to tricks, and multi-arrows, star-chasing arrows, bead arrows, and special arrows with one hand only hit the target unexpectedly.
Jiang Anyi knew that he only had the opportunity to draw two bows at most, if he couldn't solve General Rong Mi between the two bows, the next situation might be very bad, there were chasing soldiers around, and there were blocking the enemy in front, Jiang Anyi didn't know how many people he could bring back to the city.
General Rong Mi on the opposite side was hidden behind the human wall, obviously wanting the person in front of him to block the arrow for him, Jiang Anyi was secretly happy in his heart, and the opportunity came because of the other party's caution. He didn't know that Jiang Anyi had stepped into the realm of refining the gods and returning to the void, and the primordial gods could come out through his body, and his actions hidden behind the human wall Jiang Anyi "saw" clearly, but he was blocked by the human wall, and he had less time to deal with it, and this was the opportunity that Jiang Anyi wanted.
The arrows went like a rainbow, and the oncoming Rong Mi guards didn't have time to dodge and fell to the ground. Jiang Anyi quickly pulled out two arrows from his quiver and shot them towards the guards in front of Yu Leda. The guard had learned from the past, and his body subconsciously flashed to the side to avoid the flying arrows, but his dodge revealed the Celestial behind him.
It is not difficult to say that it is not difficult to chop or dodge the arrows with the skill of the Celestial Lotta, but the Celestial Thunderbolt hid behind the guards, and when he found that the arrows were only seven feet away from him, it was too late to dodge. The two arrows both ran to the chest, and the sharp wind knife tried its best to block it, and with a soft sound of "ding", the scimitar in his hand shook, and an arrow shot on the knife surface. The other arrow grazed the back of the sword, picked up diagonally, and burrowed into the right shoulder through the shoulder armor with a "poof".
He felt like his shoulders had been pierced by a red-hot iron bar, and his body was shaken back by sharp arrows, and a great pain came, and the smell of burning filled his nose. "Oops", Yu Leda exhaled in pain, seeing that Zheng Jiang hung his bow and swung his sword, how dare he fight, his left leg knocked the horse's belly, and the mount slantly avoided to the right. Seeing that the general was injured, the guards beside him desperately stepped forward to protect, and when Jiang Anyi killed several people, Yu Leda had already run more than ten zhang away under the protection of the guards.
The number of Rong Mi's army was too much, Jiang Anyi sensibly did not chase after him, and returned to Hecheng County with the light cavalry behind him, and thousands of light horses went out of the city, and more than 200 people never returned. Outside the city, the army retreated ten miles, and the military doctor took off the arrow on his shoulder for him, the flesh and blood in his shoulder were blurred, the pain was unbearable, and he could not fight again.
Counting the number of people, more than 1,300 people and horses were lost, and nearly half of the casualties were caused by falling into horse traps and trenches. The second prince and Yi Caiduo died in the city, and they were also injured, the key is that Hecheng County has been delayed for a long time, and Zheng Guo's reinforcements have arrived one after another, and this eastward invasion can only end in failure.
In any case, he must take Hecheng County today, otherwise he will have no face to go to see the king. There was still more than an hour before the sun went down, and Yu Leda thought for a while and said: "Push the corpses of the Zheng people and the dead horses into the pit, fill in the trenches and horse traps before going down the mountain, and build siege equipment, I will attack the city overnight." ”
According to Teng Yige, who fled back to Jingmen Pass, there were no defensive equipment in the city, not even a shield. Such a huge contrast in strength, just need to roll the past in a dignified way to win, their own merit, do not wait for the trench to be filled, only open a seven-zhang wide road, give the Zheng people an opportunity, and wait for the trench to be filled, the horses can be free to fly, see what else the Zheng people have to deal with themselves.
In the hall of the county government of Hecheng County, everyone looked solemn, and it was not easy for the fire bull to win a battle, but it did not hurt the muscles and bones of the Rong Mi people at all, as expected by Lu Leda, when the Rong Mi people filled the outer trenches and horse traps, it was when Hecheng County fell, and the street battles in the city probably could not last long.
Feng Dingzhong broke the loneliness and said: "Right now, the Rong Mi people are filling the pit outside the West City, so it is better to take this opportunity to withdraw and leave the empty city for them." ”
"There are still 6,000 stone of grain in the city, more than 5,400 taels of money in the silver treasury, and so many shops and materials, all of which are the blood and sweat of the people, and they have been given to the Rong Mi people in vain, which is really sad." Fan Shiben sighed. Assassin Shi came to Hecheng County in person, or fight or retreat, Jiang Anyi was the master, Fan Shiben no longer mentioned dying with the city, the ants are still greedy for life, and there is a chance to live, of course Fan Shiben will not be pedantic to seek death.
Jiang Anyong said indignantly: "If you burn it, you won't give it to Rong Mi." ”
The speaker had no intention of listening, and Jiang Anyi's eyes flashed, as if he wanted to capture some inspiration. Park Tianhao behind him said with a smile: "The second general said well, just burn the fire, but this fire is good, and the Rong Mi people must pay some price." ”
"You mean to set fire in the city, and when the Rongmi people enter the city, they will light a fire and burn them to death." Jiang Anyi stared at Park Tianhao with blazing eyes.
"Not bad." Pu Tianhao said calmly: "It's only an hour before it gets dark, and it's almost dark for the Rong Mi people to fill in the trenches, seeing that this Rong Mi people plan to attack the city overnight, let's try to delay the time, it's dark for us." Take advantage of this time to collect flammable materials around the city, pour soybean oil, and wait until the city gate breaks through the Rongmi people and enters the city, shoot rockets or send people to ignite the flammable materials, and burn the Rongmi people to death in the city. ”
There are many people to do things, outside the city Rong Mi army fills the ditch, inside the city Tunding demolishes the house, the removed doors and windows are piled up on wheat straw, silk, cloth and other flammable things. There are Hu merchants who trafficked more than 100 urns of soybean oil and left them in the inn, and were found by the demolished Tunding, Park Tianhao commanded everyone to move the soybean oil to a hidden key place, only to break the pottery urn before going out of the city to let the soybean oil flow out and burn in the fire.
The sky was getting dark, and the Rongmi people outside the city had already filled in the ditch and were resting and eating. In the city, Jiang Anyi asked Fan Shiben and Feng Dingzhong to quietly evacuate from the east gate with the remaining light cavalry and more than 10,000 tundings, and only 200 sturdy tunding were left in the entire city to defend the city. The four gates of Hecheng County were blocked by stones and wood, and only the road two feet wide left in the east gate was left, which was convenient for the city to be evacuated when the city was broken, and the whole Hecheng County was dark and quiet, and the soft cough was spread miserably by the empty county seat.
When the sky was dark and the south wind was blowing, Jiang Anyi stood on the city tower and watched the torches of the Rong Mi people in the distance connect together, illuminating the night sky red. The torches of the Rongmi people began to move towards the city gate, like a long fire dragon, and everyone in the city was forced to breathe by the firelight.
In front of the rushing car, more than a dozen cloud ladders set up the city, the Tunding threw stones to the city, and the Rong Mi people also rained arrows. Jiang Anyi saw the opportunity to kill several generals, and soon Rong Mi soldiers climbed up to the top of the city from the cloud ladder, and the city could not be defended. Jiang Anyi signaled the Tunding to withdraw, according to the plan, these people would break the oil urn along the road, and Jiang Anyi took Jiang Anyong and Siyu to quietly hide in the dark, and the three of them wanted to light a skyrocketing fire.
In less than half an hour, Hecheng County was broken, and the Rong Mi army, who entered the city first, swept the stones at the city gate and let the Rong Mi army enter the city. He did not enter the city, and sent detectives to investigate, and after a while, the detectives returned, and the entire Hecheng County was empty, and all the Zheng people fled.
The army led from Jingmen Pass without a tent for camping, and the army was busy for a long time, and they wished they could enter the city early to rest. He was wounded in the shoulder and bled a lot, his head was dizzy and a little unsupportable, so he said with a strong spirit: "Muhe, Gari, Kamiko, the three of you work hard, each bring two thousand people to four rounds, and they will be stationed outside the city tonight, the Zheng people are cunning, be careful not to fall for their schemes." ”
The three of them took the order and left, and the pain was unbearable, and his shoulders were like a fiery snake burning, licking, and his temples were crumbling, knowing that the injury was not clear, and if the pain did not go away tomorrow, he would report to the king, and change someone to lead the army.
The remaining 7,000 people entered the city, but the road was blocked by piles of stones and timber in the east and west, and it was dark, so they could only lead their horses. Thinking of the second prince and Yi Caiduo, he hurriedly ordered: "Look at the shops around, is there Zheng Jun hiding?" The army scattered and searched, but did not find Zheng Jun, and Yu Leda slackened down, surrounded by guards, and entered the county office, preparing to rest in the county office.
Jiang Anyi, Jiang Anyong and Siyu hid at the east, south and north gates respectively, watching the chaos and noise in Hecheng County, those piles of flammable materials did not attract the attention of the Rong Mi army in the dark night like stones and wood on the side of the road, after a day of fighting, these Rong Mi soldiers left some patrols, and others looked for houses to sleep.
Hecheng County quieted down, Jiang Anyi quietly appeared from the shadows, found the oil urn and pulled the urn down, and the light fragrance of soybean oil soon spread in the air. The snoring was loud and loud, and the patrolling soldiers were yawning and yawning, and no one noticed the anomaly in the air.
Shaking the fire twist, Jiang Anyi lit the wheat stalk, watched the flames rise and become bigger, Jiang Anyi ran to the next place, and in a moment he lit more than 20 flames. According to the plan, the three of them converged at the east gate and climbed down the city from the city wall to find the light cavalry hidden outside the city.
Standing at the head of the city, Jiang Anyi watched the flames burn more and more, and the flames scurried up along the perimeter of the city, rolling towards the middle. In the night wind, the firelight carried a fierce whistling sound, which made people feel terrible.
"It's on fire, it's on fire." The shouts of the panic were everywhere, waking up Rong Mijun's sweet dream. In the firelight, the war horses fled in a panic, and the figures danced wildly in the firelight, and the entire Hecheng County fell into hell.
Standing far away at the head of the city, I can still feel the compelling heat, and the Rong Mi army in the fire is afraid that it will be difficult to escape again. Jiang Anyong and Siyu rushed over, and Jiang Anyi jumped off the city wall with them, leaving hell to the Rong Mi people behind him.