A fire in the city of Guangling extinguished the ten-year war caused by the struggle for Jizhou. The main body of the wooden frame of the county official temple was burned clean by a fire, and even the county magistrate's office next to it was also burned to ashes, and the fire burned for an hour and three minutes...... Xu Huang's soldiers entered the city through the south gate, and the north gate was blocked by stones and giant trees, and it would not be clean for a while and a half; Xue Zhou led the troops and the defenders of the Ximen Yuan clan in a stalemate, although the war stopped, no one dared to take it lightly; Chen Deng had the heart to put out the fire, but there was no manpower at hand, so he could only mobilize the people to fight the fire, but the fire was not at all something that hundreds of people could put out of the way, and he could only drive out half the people in the street, and saw that the fire was getting stronger and stronger.

On August 14 of the third year of Xinghe, the people of Guangling City gained great knowledge. What I have seen and experienced in the past few days is enough for the people who are buried in the ground to talk for a lifetime.

The war horses trampled on the fertile fields, and the most impressive thing about the Yan army heading south was not only the big ships with stone cannons, but also the cavalry in black armor and red robes galloping through the streets, and Chang Ge was dragged in the air with eight feet of red silk tied to it.

Banner to cover the sky.

At night, the sky hung in the clouds like a floating moon, and the people who were dragged by the Yuan soldiers from their homes to the school in the morning threw down their soldiers and armor, and walked in the closed street market with their heads down, occasionally looking up and seeing the red fire of half the city reflected in the night, no one could speak.

They had never seen armor painted with tiger and dragon coats of arms, boats sailing into the moat to bombard stone cannons, and, of course, no fires that used entire streets as firewood. Perhaps for the nobles, this is a funeral worthy of status. On the day of Yuan Shao's death, half of the women and children in Guangling City wept - they lost their husbands and fathers forever, which is nothing in this era, but many more lost their destitute homes in this firelight funeral.

Ancient books say that the July Flowing Fire refers to the westward movement of Great Mars, and the weather is about to turn cooler. In the past, Xu Huang didn't know if this was right, but this night, he looked at the streets and alleys curled up with those eyes that were red and swollen from crying...... The ancients were right, the fire in July made it worse in the blink of an eye.

The surrender of the soldiers lasted until the next morning, and the air still smelled of smoke and fire. The accompanying officials raised a fire all night, and moved the books and slips of the Qing school arsenal and granary to Xu Huang's desk in the early morning. Yuan Shao retreated from the north of the Yellow River to the south of the Huai River, and left behind a lot of legacy.

The princes who once marched westward to protect the Han Dynasty most resembled the nobles of the ancients became more and more like bandits in the ten-year war, while the bandits of the year became more and more like nobles. The arsenal of Guangling is a collection of armor made in almost all parts of the Kanto region, and the inscriptions on the weapons can be used to sort out all the wars that have taken place in the Kanto region in the past two decades...... The spearhead made by Julu in the first year of Zhongping, the iron armor of the national captain of Bohai County in the second year of Xingping, the tablet strong crossbow made by Donglai in Qingzhou in the first year of Xinghe, and of course the sandalwood bow from Lelang across the sea.

Yuan Shao didn't have any treasures, and he didn't even have many valuable items in his arsenal. Weapons, in addition to weapons, are armor, or mules, horses, and oxen. From these victories, Xu Huang could see how the Yuan clan was forced into an embarrassment like a rogue by the Yan clan in the war from the three nobles.

Just the right few people are where they should be to be and can turn the tide of a war. That's about when these people are most valuable, and when the war is over, things tend to be different...... This is just right for Chen Deng and Xue Zhou.

During the siege, because their soldiers were in the city, and they also informed Xu Huang of the news in advance, they were friendly forces attacking and defending each other in the Battle of Guangling. But when the war ended, Yuan Shao set himself on fire and died, and all the soldiers and horses surrendered? If it weren't for Xu Huang to cross the river and tear down the bridge, even if he was a general and the commander of the Xuzhou battlefield, he didn't have the ability to treat them as robes.

Chen Deng and Xue Zhou's soldiers could only hand over their weapons and return to the camp southwest of Guangling, and Xu Huang's subordinates blocked the secret passage in the early morning.

Let's call it house arrest, although they have no armor and ordnance, and the armament in the camp has been cleaned up, they have been left with rations for a few days. Xu Huang is not worried about the rebellion of those pirates in the past, this year there is a shortage of soldiers, famine, epidemics, and military disasters, I don't know which one will come first, and no one can guess how long he can live. can be said to be a thousand ways and ten thousand, in the end, if you have food in your stomach, you don't panic.

When the national soldiers of Guangling County had food, they couldn't make a fuss. What's more, even if there are ill-intentioned people, they don't have the strength to make a fuss, and the battle with Yuan's army in the city has caused serious casualties among the county soldiers, and the original school captain department can still pick up weapons now There are less than two songs, and the Yan clan has more than 40,000 sailors stationed in Guangling.

They are all waiting, whether it is Xu Huang or Chen Deng, they are all waiting for a word from His Royal Highness King Zhao in Jizhou...... In a word, decide their fate.

Fortunately, the Yan clan's messengers have always been fast, and they did not let Chen Deng and Xue Zhou wait too long. On the third day when Guangling City was breached, surrounded by the brightly clad Yan Zhao warriors, Zhen Yao rushed to Guangling from Xiapi, and smiled when he saw Xu Huang open his mouth, and was amazed, "General Xu is powerful, I have heard King Zhao talk about the battle of Jundu Mountain, General Xu rode as ten thousand, and taught Kebineng, who is in the north, did not dare to go south for several years, and today I know that your ability to attack the city is more than the work of field warfare!" In one day, Guangling was taken down, and Yuan Benchu was executed to relieve King Zhao's confidants. ”

After saying that, Zhen Yao paced the mount and looked eager, and pointed forward with his hand and smiled: "Yuan's corpse, where is it?" ”

"Yuan Benchu was not killed by our sergeants, our troops just entered the city gate, Yuan set himself on fire in the official temple in the city, and the generals were incorporated into the three captains' departments, if not, there would be a fierce battle." Xu Huang and Zhen Yao walked side by side, and said: "In the past two days, I have sent people to clean up the official temple, and dozens of corpses have been burned in human shape, and I can't recognize ......."

Before Xu Huang finished speaking, Zhen Yao's face had changed greatly, and he waved his hand to stop Xu Huang from continuing, looked up at the ruins at the end of the road, turned his horse's head and asked Xu Huang: "At this time, General Lao will write another letter to Zhao Wanggong to return his life, Chen Yuanlong and Duwei Xue Zhou, let's go see the two of them first." King Zhao had an order to recruit Chen Yuanlong to Zhao State, and set off on the same day, as for his experienced sailors, they were handed over to General Tian, and the subordinate management department transferred troops along the river to follow the general Yuzhou Runan, and entered Jingzhou to help in the war. ”

"Go to Zhao Kingdom?" Xu Huang was stunned and asked, "What about Guangling?" It is adjacent to Jiangdong and has a particularly advantageous location. ”

"Guangling, General Xu, you are Guangling's Taishou." Zhen Yao's mood was much lower after knowing that Yuan Shao had died of self-immolation, shook his head and said: "Xiapi Chen Qi is the assassin of Xuzhou, Guangling, and you General Xu will be stationed there." ”