Chapter 1003 Fire Burns the City
"Then...what is that?" At the head of Zhuozhou City, a Jin soldier pointed his finger at the night sky above his head, screaming in surprise, which also triggered many comrades on both sides to look up and stare, and then they all fell into a brief moment of dullness.
There were stars and moons in the dark night sky above my head, but among the stars, there were many people slowly coming towards the city, as if some immortals were about to descend from the sky to the earth, and the speed was not very slow, and they were no longer three or five miles away from the city.
These Jurchens had just come out of ignorance, and almost all the people of the clan believed in the sayings of ghosts and gods. When they saw such a strange phenomenon coming, someone suddenly felt weak in fear. He immediately knelt down at the top of the city and prayed silently. First one or two people, and then as if they were infected, starting from the top of the North City, a large number of soldiers knelt on their knees and kowtowed one after another, and they did not dare to treat this strange phenomenon that suddenly came from the air as an enemy.
Even Sun Tu, who was on the hot air balloon, did not expect that his move would have such a miraculous effect. After being discovered by the enemy, they not only did not warn them, but instead knelt down and truly became fish on the chopping board.
In fact, the hot air balloon flew far higher than expected. If the defenders on the city ordered arrows to be fired before they came to their heads, and those random arrows shot, some balloons would always be injured, and even fell down with the balloon. This is why Sun Tu deliberately asked someone to launch an offensive at night, and also dyed the balloons and bamboo baskets with ink black.
But the facts at the moment told Sun Tu that he was a little overwhelmed. When these hot air balloons arrived, they scared the Jin soldiers to the point of being invisible. Not to mention shooting arrows, there was almost no one who looked up and looked at them a few more times. After all, for people of this era, those who could fly to the sky must be gods. Who would think in the direction of the enemy?
It was not until the hot air balloons finally came above the city wall that the roaring sounds from the externally ignited engines were faintly transmitted that someone realized something was wrong. He resisted the fear in his heart and tried to look up carefully. Then he vaguely saw that the starlight was actually a fire light. There was a huge balloon above the fire light, and under the fire light were huge bamboo baskets, with figures shaking on it.
This made the soldier's heart tighten in an instant. Although he didn't understand the reason, he still let out an elite scream: "That's not that the gods descended to earth, but that there was an enemy attack!"
But it was too late, because while it screamed, there were heavy objects above it falling down with the whistling sound. First, there were a few, and soon, many black shadows fell like raindrops from all directions, almost completely covering the north city...
When they saw the Jin people reacted like this, the soldiers of the scout camp who were already full of fear on the hot air balloon calmed down. After no longer having any worries, they quickly made relevant judgments, picked up the jars that had been prepared in the basket and threw them down.
Suddenly, Xia Wen let out a burst of screams and screams. The Jin soldiers who were kneeling down or hearing exclamations were hit by the can and were hit by the can and dodged in all directions. At this time, the hot air balloon was seven or eight feet high from the head of the city. They threw the clay pots downwards almost the same effect as throwing stones from the head of the city to the bottom of the city, and their lethality was of great importance.
But the real killer move was behind. With a few calls, after throwing down a piece of clay pot, someone ignited a few torches and threw them down. So just a moment later, a large area of flames quickly burned and spread at the head of the Beicheng city. The guards almost all became burning fireballs, howling and rushing towards all directions. Soon some people fell down, and some ignited other items on the head of the city, causing the entire city to completely fall into the siege of fire.
During this period, the hot air balloons were constantly moving forward. They seemed to be unfast and had floated into the city with the north wind tonight, and then they kept throwing the clay pots to all parts of the city.
Streets, alleys, military camps, shops, houses... all over the city were clamoring, and it quickly burned with the fall of several torches. And with the help of the night wind, the fire spread uncontrollably in all directions. In just half an hour, the city of Zhuozhou was already full of fire, and was almost completely surrounded and swallowed by the fire.
At this time, the buildings were almost entirely built by bamboo and wood, and they were quite close to each other. Therefore, as long as a fire broke out, other buildings around could be ignited in a short time, and even the diesel flowing out of the clay pots would be used to freely exert their fire and bring the entire city into its arms.
What's even worse is that because this Zhuozhou City suffered several war disasters in just a few years, almost no people have lived there. In this way, when a fire broke out from all over the place, it is naturally impossible for someone to run out in groups to try his best to put out the fire.
As for the Jin soldiers who had just become the owner of this city, when the fire suddenly rose, most of them were still drinking happily and didn't know what was happening outside. It was not until the fire was shining that someone was surprised to find something big and ran out to check the situation in panic, but found that the yard where they were located was surrounded by the fires around and could not run out at all.
This time, the Jin people finally paid a terrible price for their underestimation of the enemy. They thought that they expected the enemy to take the initiative and attack Zhuozhou with thunder would definitely completely disrupt the rhythm of the Song and Liao armies. At least for a few days, it would be impossible to be attacked here, so the entire army could take the opportunity to take a good rest without being too nervous.
But as a result, the city was not over yet, but the city was hit by an unexpected air blow. A fire completely divided the Jin soldiers separated in various parts of the city, allowing them to become characters like lambs in the fires that were rising everywhere. They could not even get any solution except to jump around.
As the fire continued to spread, the casualties of the Jin soldiers began to increase. Not only the people who were hit hard on the top of the city, but also the soldiers in the city who woke up and tried to escape also died in every corner of the city due to the sudden collapse of the houses and the raging fireworks everywhere.
Only a few lucky people can escape from this incident, but when there are fire everywhere and almost no half of the generals who can give orders, they are still running around like headless flies, and it is difficult to achieve success.
This also reflects the second big mistake made by the Jin people. They gathered almost all the important generals together to drink, resulting in no one in time when the city was attacked, which made the situation even more chaotic.
The only good news is that because the garrison palace is located in the middle of the city, it has not been disturbed by fire yet. Otherwise, I am afraid that dozens of Jin monarchs and ministers in the Jin Dynasty would die in the fire, and there would be no room for anything left. But even so, the situation here is still very unoptimistic, because with the chaos in the city, someone came to report the situation desperately, and they were frightened to find that from Aguda, all the important figures were drunk and unconscious. Not to mention giving clear instructions, they led everyone to put out the fire and save themselves and save the city, but they could not even say a complete word.
After a long time, he kept shaking and splashing cold water, everyone came back to their senses, and then they were still confused, completely unable to understand what the fires all over the city meant. Wanyan Wushu was the first to wake up completely. After his mind gradually became clear, he screamed strangely: "No, we were completely trapped by the Song people. The wine we received was drugged by them early in the morning, and they had predicted our movements long ago, so they set fire in the city and wanted to kill us! Father..."
At this point in time, he no longer cared about the concept of hierarchy and inferiority. He immediately stepped forward and slapped his father hard in the face, which made the confused Aguda come back to his senses. After learning that such a drastic change had occurred in the city, the Emperor of Liao became extremely nervous and kept shouting, asking all the generals to gather their troops and find a direction to break through as soon as possible.
It was only when they stumbled out of the garrison palace and looked around, they found in horror that the entire city had been completely swallowed by flames, and the fire rolled all the way towards the middle of the city, as if they were spiritual, trying to surround them all here.
And you can still see Jin soldiers who were burned by fire or forced into desperate situations screaming and running around. The warriors have now become a burning fireball that can only move, turning more buildings into seas of fire and bringing more robes into the baptism of this fire.
When I saw this desperate scene, even a rising star like Aguda, who was a brave and smart person like Wu Shu, was caught in a brief daze, and didn't know what to react and deal with it for a moment.
Before, when they heard that the fire broke out in the city, they thought they were just set on fire. But who could have expected that the harm and damage of this fire could be so great.
At this moment, the Jin army soldiers who really gathered around them were only two or three thousand, and many of them were covered in dust, carrying scorching wounds on their bodies, and were still in shock. As for the other soldiers in the city, you can only hear the screams coming and the fireballs that frantically ran around, and you will know what the outcome will be.
"The Song people are such a vicious means, such a sinister plan..." Wu Shu sighed, and Aguda finally showed the appearance of a heroic leader at this time. He immediately pulled out his sword and pointed to the east gate that was closest to this place and had not been completely affected by the fire. He shouted loudly: "Roar eastward, as long as we leave this city, the Song people can't do anything to us!" As he said that, he took the lead and rushed towards the east.
Chapter completed!