Chapter 381: Burn, Burn, Burn
With a silver bullet to open the way, the old general Zhao Hongyin led the men and horses, and easily killed the Zhongjing Dading Mansion in the Liao State.
Although the emperor of the Liao Dynasty pursued the four seasons of the bowl and lived in a fixed place. However, Zhongjing Dading Mansion is still the nominal capital, and many Khitan nobles, tribal leaders who are dependent on the Khitan, and merchants who have come from the Western Regions gather in this kind of city.
For a vast empire several times the size of the Great Zhou, how magnificent should the capital be?
When I didn't see it, the big guys were full of imagination, thinking that even if it was not as good as Kaifeng, it would be better than Youzhou, and even if it was not as good as Youzhou, it would be better than Shunzhou......
It's just that all the beautiful imaginations, after seeing it with my own eyes, are all shattered. The area of Zhongjing is not small, but the city wall is only more than one zhang high, and the foundation is built with stones, and the top is bricks, and the city wall is not wide, less than one zhang. As for the moats, enemy towers, horse faces, fortresses...... There is not one defense facility of this kind.
It's like a circled market, and there are no rules at all!
Zhao Hongyin gritted his teeth, and he became more and more angry and angry!
Khitan savages, how much ability can they have!
They only know how to plunder, where will they build cities, build fortresses, and create wealth?
But such a group of savages, wreaking havoc for decades, not to mention Yan Yun, but also broke through Kaifeng, ran to the Central Plains to ascend the throne and became the emperor, and even more despicable and shameless Shi Jingjiao, respected the Khitan Emperor as his father!
It's a shame on the Central Plains!
"Soldiers, the time has come to be ashamed, listen to my orders, and attack the city!"
"Siege!"
"Siege!"
The knight rode his horse and gave the order, shouting loudly.
The soldiers were exhausted from the long journey, but at this moment no one wanted to miss this big battle. Stepping on the capital of the Khitan under our feet, Yan Ran Legong, exalting the prestige of foreign lands, the feat in the history books is about to be realized in our hands!
Someday, maybe we'll be written down in history!
Chen Ming, Xu Jie, Liang Hongcai, and many soldiers, all of them were enthusiastic, looking forward to this moment!
From among the people of the Great Zhou, twenty crossbow carts were launched and aimed at the Dading Mansion.
"Put!"
Jars filled with explosives cut through a graceful arc and crashed into the city walls of Dading Mansion.
Suddenly explosions rang out, dust flew up, and bricks and stones kept falling.
"Put!"
The soldier who controls the ballista constantly adjusts the angle, and the attack becomes sharper and sharper.
Rumble!
Finally, the gates of the city have fallen, the weak defenses have been torn apart, and the city has been exposed in front of everyone!
"Kill!"
Liang Hongcai was the first to rush out, relying on his superb equestrian skills, he was like an arrow from the string, like a flying gallop, and quickly rushed to the city gate.
The panicked Khitans resisted hard, and bows and arrows continued to shoot out, landing on Liang Hongcai's body with a thumping sound. Plate armor resists most of the arrows, but there are also arrows embedded in the body.
The strange thing is that Liang Hong didn't feel the pain, and there was only blood madness left in his eyes! ”
"Kill!"
He burst into a shout and rushed up against a Khitan general, and the saber slashed down from top to bottom. The other party subconsciously blocked, but he was split in half diagonally, and the corpse fell to the ground.
Liang Hongcai still doesn't know that the person he killed is named Nuli, who is the Khitan Flying Dragon Envoy!
The flying dragon envoy is an official who raises horses for the emperor, but don't underestimate the horse raiser, people and horses, and people and horses in the past generations are together, which means power.
The founding lord of the Qin State was rewarded for his meritorious work in raising horses for Zhou Tianzi.
The Taifu Siqing, who was responsible for raising horses in the past dynasties, was one of the Nine Qings, and there were even more powerful imperial horse supervisors, and the eunuchs with the palm seal were the same as the military department, but the great great court of the inner court was extraordinary.
So the Jade Emperor gave the monkey Bi Ma Wen, not a petty official, but the monkey didn't know the goods and didn't know what to do......
Nuli is Xiao Siwen's sworn friend, Xiao Siwen led his troops south to attack Youzhou, and Nuli stayed in Zhongjing to take care of Xiao Siwen's home. This was originally to inspect the horse farm, and just got back a batch of very good war horses from the Western Regions, and the woman arranged for special personnel to raise them. Prepare for a while, breed with Khitan mares and breed strong war horses.
After losing Youzhou, the Khitan paid more and more attention to the ability to ride and shoot. They already know very well that the war horse is the only thing leading the Great Zhou, and it must not be lost!
The woman came back with a good mood, and among these horses, he found a sweaty and bloody horse covered in pale gold, which was incomparably like the legendary Pegasus.
The woman's saliva flowed out of the elder, but this horse was too strong, not to let anyone ride, the woman pondered to wait for a while, take time, and then train well, be sure to make this horse succumb.
It's just that he never imagined that as soon as he returned to Zhongjing, he encountered the attack of Da Zhou's men and horses, and he hurriedly led his troops to meet the battle, but was actually killed by a small soldier.
The Wyvern was simply unjustly killed.
Liang Hongcai didn't care about those, he was the first to rush into Zhongjing, the knife in his hand waved frequently, and the Khitans were killed by him and retreated.
He yelled proudly, with the merit of ascending first, how could he get a commander back!
Xu Jie also followed in, he was only one step later than Liang Hongcai, and he was so angry that he was like thunder.
The first merit has been robbed, what should I do?
He rolled his eyes, and immediately came to an idea, beckoned the brothers around him, and rushed forward against the city wall, and when he rushed out about 200 steps, Xu Jie immediately turned his horse's head and rushed straight to the center of the city.
Although he has never been to Zhongjing, Xu Jie knows that no matter where he goes, the most critical place must be in the center of the city.
Don't really say it, let Xu Jie bet on the right one.
He led his men and horses and slaughtered into the mansion of the king of the North Courtyard.
There are elite leather room guards here, Xu Jie attacked twice, but did not kill them. He simply asked the brothers to prepare something to start a fire, but he set it on fire.
It didn't take long for the mansion of the king of the North Courtyard to fall into a sea of fire, not only here, but even the surrounding neighborhoods followed, fire snakes jumped wildly, and fireballs flew all over the sky.
The backwardness of Zhongjing is not only reflected in urban construction, but also in countless details.
For example, in Kaifeng, there are open channels and culverts, drainage ditches, wells in each block, buildings are mainly bricks and tiles, and walls are set up to isolate fires.
In the event of a fire, water could be drawn from everywhere to extinguish the fire, and the officials and the common people were told to pay attention to fire prevention.
A huge city, which is very delicately managed, must be taken care of. Otherwise, a little mistake can have dire consequences.
As for Zhongjing, it's not just a mistake, the buildings in the city are low, and most of them are wooden buildings, and many poor people can't even afford to build adobe houses, so they can only use the skins of cattle and sheep to enclose a shed, which is no different from a tent.
How can such a building withstand a fire.
What's worse is that there are still a large number of livestock, cattle, sheep and horses in the city, and the excrement of manure is piled up into a hill. Sun-dried cow dung is known to be used as fuel.
And in the city of Zhongjing, there are mountains of cow dung everywhere.
It is no wonder that the Khitan Emperor chose to make a bowl at four o'clock and change places every few months, if he stayed in Zhongjing all the time, the stench of feces alone could smoke him to death.
And at this moment, everything in the city was turned into fuel, including the people in the city, who ran through the fire and let out a desperate roar. Someone with flames on his body ran and fell to the ground, and soon turned into a pile of black charcoal. Others were crushed to the ground by fallen houses and trees, and were burned to death.
Xu Jie is like a naughty boy, setting fires everywhere and having fun.
And the happiest one is a tiger!
He frantically brandished his torches, setting them on fire.
"Burn, burn, burn your king's nest!"
A tiger screamed wildly, once the Khitan people were like this, killed his family, burned his hometown, Lao Tzu waited for this day for twenty years!
This Zhongjing City should not be left on the earth, it must be turned to ashes!
A tiger set fire to a large area of the neighborhood, set fire to the emperor's palace, and set fire to the inn trading house...... He burned everything he could see.
The Khitan people are desperate and wailing, running for their lives, in the eyes of a tiger, it is simply the best music, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
The same is true of all the members of the Hu killing team, who not only set fires, but also kill people, pushing any Khitans who tried to escape into the fire.
A tiger turned a street and suddenly found several Khitan cubs, one of whom held a dagger aloft, and a Zhou soldier lay under him.
A tiger threw the javelin almost without thinking, just penetrating the chest of the little cub, the blood rushed wildly, the boy fell straight to the ground, and the other few were so frightened that they hurriedly ran away, but they were blocked by the killing team, and none of them were spared.
They lifted the soldiers on the ground and examined their injuries.
This soldier's weakness was penetrated, and the blood stained the lower half of his body, he clenched his teeth, and was already unconscious, but fortunately he was bumped into by a tiger, otherwise there would be no life or death!
And this young soldier is no stranger to a tiger, it is the one who accused a tiger of killing an old man and was slapped in the mouth by Xu Jie at that time.
Unexpectedly, his sympathy was overflowing again, and he couldn't bear to let a few cubs be burned to death, and wanted to let them go.
But how did the soldier know that the little cub's parents and family were burned to death, and he was only full of hatred and hatred for all the Zhou soldiers!
It doesn't matter if you're a good guy or a bad guy, they just want revenge.
The largest of them took advantage of the soldier's inattention, stabbed him in the soft underbelly with a dagger, and several brothers together, pressed him to the ground, if it weren't for the timely arrival of a tiger, he would already be a corpse!
"Grandma, I really let Xu Jie say it accurately, you owe Lao Tzu a life!"
A tiger gritted its teeth in anger and let the wounded soldiers be sent away, there are too many places where there is no fire, and he needs to destroy the city completely! Turn this place into a scorched earth!
Burn!
Burn everyone!
Burn down all the buildings!
Due to the transfer of the main force of young and strong, there are only tens of thousands of old and weak women and children left in Zhongjing, and they can't stop the wolf-like Great Zhou people at all.
In just one day, Zhongjing has turned into ashes, and the old general Zhao Hongyin rarely showed a satisfied smile, "Go, send someone to send a good report to Hou Ye!" ”
At this moment, Chen Ming's Pegasus ran over, he was so happy that he rolled off the war horse, and shouted: "Old general, we have found the treasure!" ”