In fact, this fire was a trap arranged by Gao Xianda and Meng Yan a long time ago. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After Gao Xianda captured the Guanyin Temple City with lightning speed, Rokkaku Chengzhen was so frightened by the cannon that he lost his mind and surrendered very spinelessly. But the biggest enemy of the Imagawa family is not the Rokkaku family, but the Miyoshi family.

Now in the whole of Japan, only the Miyoshi family can come up with an army to compete with the Imagawa family. And the Roxagonal family is an ally of the Miyoshi family, if he can fight back, the effect will naturally be not ordinary.

Under the coercion and temptation of Gao Xianda and Meng Yan, in order to survive, Rokkaku Chengzhen confessed all the information he knew about the Miyoshi family, and promised to cooperate with the Imagawa family to ambush the Miyoshi family.

In this way, Meng Yan decided to take this opportunity to ambush the three good families.

The Miyoshi family had 50,000 reinforcements this time, which was the same number as the Imagawa family. Although Gao Xianda was confident enough to be able to defeat Miyoshi's forces on a frontal battlefield. However, if you kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself, there will always be some loss in the Imagawa family's troops, which is not conducive to controlling other small daimyo in the future, and it is inevitable that there will be the possibility of snipe and clam competing for fishermen and profits.

But if they had been ambushed by trickery, the outcome of the battle would have been completely different.

So under Gao Xianda's arrangement, the main force of the Imagawa family withdrew from the castle of Kannonji Castle, retreated twenty miles, and hid.

Then, part of the elite troops of the Imagawa clan controlled the Rokkaku family's troops from Sakamoto Castle and Hino Castle, and stationed themselves under Kannonji Castle, re-encamped, and arranged their tents loosely as if they were besieging the castle.

In addition, they also deliberately tied up a batch of scarecrows, and under the rendering of Meng Yan's illusion, they looked like real soldiers from a distance.

Seeing that the reinforcements from the Miyoshi family were coming, Rokkaku Seungzhen deliberately rushed to contact Miyoshi Yoshiken after dark, suggesting that they attack the Imagawa family's station at night. After dark, the Miyoshi family couldn't tell whether those Imagawa troops were real or fake.

Gao Xianda told the soldiers of the Rokkaku family that the enemies of the Miyoshi family would come to rob the camp at night, and you should resist and flee. Those who can flee for your life are free. In the future, you can join the Imagawa Army, or you can receive a severance pay and go home to farm.

I heard that I could resist and escape, and the soldiers of the Roxagonal family were full of fighting spirit. I dare not say that he was very heroic in the process of fighting, at least he was very real when he fled for his life.

The soldiers of the Imagawa family were mainly responsible for creating the atmosphere of battle, and threw some worthless baggage and goods in the camp at will.

So the army of the Miyoshi family was completely deceived. In their eyes, since some of the enemies have the ability to resist, and some know how to escape, then even if most of the enemies do not resist, then they are probably just a little stupid by the surprise attack at night.

They only thought that those scarecrows were all soldiers of the Imagawa family, and they had been slaughtered in the past. And then snatched a bunch of worthless garbage, and it was a huge win.

And victory is the easiest to get carried away.

"It worked." Meng Yan saw that after the victory of the soldiers of the Miyoshi family, his morale was high, and he followed the men and horses of Hexagonal Chengzhen into the Guanyin Temple City unsuspectingly, and he knew that this matter was done.

After all the people of the Miyoshi family entered the city, the inner and outer city gates were locked, and the Miyoshi family was really difficult to fly this time.

It was also very laborious for him to create an illusion of this scale. Although he took advantage of the night to minimize the rendering effect of the image, and used the scarecrow as the basis, to conjure a scene of tens of thousands of people, he was almost paralyzed on the ground.

Gao Xianda arranged flammable materials such as fire oil, firewood, and straw on the ground in advance, and then at the sound of an order, the archers in ambush on the city wall shot the rockets in their hands and ignited all the flammable materials such as fire oil. So the unsuspecting soldiers of the Miyoshi family fell into a sea of fire.

Who would have thought that a huge victory would be followed by a shocking trap?

There are people in front of and behind and on the left and right, except for the city walls, and when you look up, you can see the sky without a hand, and under your feet are the fire oil that has been ignited and flows everywhere. The soldiers of the Miyoshi family had nowhere to hide, and in a panic, they could be pushed down by the people around them at any time, and they could only become more panicked.

Some of them leaned against the wall and wanted to climb up by stepping on the corpses of dead people, but the Guanyin Temple Castle was a big city, and the walls were built too high. And the archers on the wall are not vegetarians. The burning flames made the scene below clearly reflected in their eyes, and there were people who tried to climb the wall, all of whom were shot mercilessly.

For a moment, thick smoke billowed and wails were everywhere. The entire Guanyin Temple City seems to have become a purgatory on earth, exuding a smell that is so strong that it cannot be dissolved.

The fire burned all night, and it was only during the day the next day that it slowly became smaller, and it was not until noon that it was extinguished.

Gao Xianda never gave the enemies of the Miyoshi family a chance to live, and ordered him not to open the city gate, and after waiting for another day, archers were arranged on the city wall, and if there was any movement below, it would be a rain of arrows.

waited until the next day when it was dawn, and then Gao Xianda sent someone to open the city gate and go in to clean the battlefield.

The soldiers of the Imagawa family had food and drink throughout the day, while the soldiers of the Miyoshi family were lying among the corpses. Even if they had survivors who hadn't been burned to death, after such a day of torture, they wouldn't have been able to turn up any storms.

But in fact, not all of the soldiers of the Miyoshi family died from burning, at least half of them were choked to death by the smoke that could not be spread, and a large part of them fell to the ground because of panic, and finally died because they trampled on each other.

Burning to death is the most painful way to die in the world, so these people are relatively more fortunate than those who are burned. But the tragic condition of their death was no better than that of those who were burned alive by the fire.

However, because not all of them were burned to death, many of the equipment on these soldiers can be put back into service.

Armor, swords, guns, bows and arrows, the soldiers of the Imagawa family are now very skilled at cleaning the battlefield, and quickly sort the dead bodies of the enemy.

The Miyoshi family has military generals with status, and they are surrounded by elite guards with strong martial arts, and their clothes and equipment are all different. Moreover, in the midst of the panic, it was difficult for ordinary soldiers to break their formation, so most of them were choked to death by the smoke, and the corpses were relatively intact because of this.

Their bodies were pulled out of sheets and identified one by one.