Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 946 Burning Luoyang

Chapter 944: Burning Luoyang

Withdraw from the city walls?

As soon as Li Shimin said this, everyone present was in an uproar.

"No, general. Once the city wall is withdrawn, even if all the gates are closed, the North City will still be unable to defend."

"That's right, General, we can't withdraw, otherwise the blood of the brothers will be shed in vain."

"..."

Everyone kept trying to dissuade Li Shimin, of course, this is also a reasonable thing.

The purpose of closing the opened city gate is to prevent the coalition forces outside the city from continuing to send troops into the city.

And if the defenders on the city wall are withdrawn, even if the city gate is closed, the coalition forces can still send troops through the ladder.

The entire section of the city wall at the north gate, in such a spacious area, if there is no defender to stop it, the speed of sending troops can be faster than the city gate.

Therefore, withdrawing the defenders from the city wall is actually equivalent to giving up the north gate on their own initiative.

The Liang army was already at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. If they lost the protection of the city wall, not to mention the North Gate, even the entire Luoyang would soon fall.

Generally, in a city defense battle, if the city gate is opened, the battle is basically over.

But the Liang army is different.

The city gate was opened from the inside, and the Liang army did not lose the north gate, and was still struggling to hold Luoyang.

But now, because of the fall of the city wall, Luoyang was forced to abandon, and most of the Liang army naturally couldn't accept it!

Li Shimin knew what everyone was thinking, so he explained with a sigh: "Don't worry, everyone, the general didn't intend to abandon the North Gate, but the morale of the coalition forces is now at a high level. Wan Dajun fought desperately, but failed to expel the coalition forces.

Therefore, it is better to avoid its edge for the time being, and after its morale has been rubbed, concentrate on taking back the North Gate. "

The strength of the other three sects cannot be easily mobilized, and the Liang army only has 1 fresh troops, and more than [-] of them have already died in battle. Of course, the casualties of the coalition forces are naturally greater.

The [-] new force now has less than [-] left, and if it continues to be consumed endlessly, even if the North Gate is taken back, it will still be unable to hold it!
Therefore, it wasn't that Li Shimin didn't dare to fight Qin Hao hard, but that the Liang army really couldn't afford it, and the casualties of the coalition army were borne by all the princes, so Qin Hao naturally didn't care.

After speaking, Li Shimin said to Yang Jian again: "General Yang Jian, you immediately lead people between the city wall and the civilian area, clear a separation zone as soon as possible, and prepare a lot of kerosene, sulfur and other things.

After all the troops on the city wall were withdrawn, a fire wall was immediately set up to prevent the coalition forces from directly attacking the city.

It will be dark in one or two hours, and the dark night is not conducive to siege, and only after dark can we have any hope of retaking the North Gate. "

Yang Jian was taken aback when he heard the words, apparently he didn't expect Li Shimin to take advantage of the time, but at present, this is the only way to make up for the lack of troops.

"promise."

Yang Jian clasped his fists and said in a deep voice, but then asked again: "But general, once the firewall is set up, Yuanba will be separated from us, how can he come back?"

Li Shimin waved his hands, and said confidently: "You don't have to worry about this. Yuanba's physique is already extremely strong, and it is difficult for ordinary swords to hurt him. In addition, he has reached the realm of a master, and he can release his internal qi externally." If you protect the body, it is impossible for the mere wall of fire not to hurt him."

What Li Shimin said was also true. With Li Yuanba's inhuman physique, even if he didn't use his internal energy to protect his body, he wouldn't be burned to death in a short while, and this time was enough for him to pass through the firewall.

And right here, another spy came to report.

"Reporting... a major change in Ghost Street. Disciples from hundreds of families other than the Daoza family have used unknown means to not only cure the poison, but also escape imprisonment. Their whereabouts are no longer known."

"What? How could this be?"

Li Shimin said with a look of shock and anger, and his heart became more and more uneasy.

Li Shimin knew that there must be members of the coalition army among the hundred families, so he guarded against these disciples from the hundred families from the beginning. If he did nothing, he would be extremely passive, so he simply wiped out all of them, and directly turned passive into active!

Li Shimin thought that he had paid enough attention to the disciples of the Hundred Schools, but he didn't expect them to escape silently under his nose. For this, Li Shimin could only sigh that the background of the Hundred Schools was really unfathomable.

There is nothing wrong with the escape of the disciples of the hundred families, but it means that a bigger conspiracy in Luoyang will also be uncovered, otherwise why would they flee with a guilty conscience?

Every time he read this, Li Shimin became more and more uneasy, and finally decided: "General Yang Jian, there may be some changes in the city. I was going back to the city to frighten Xiaoxiao. I will leave the north gate to you."

"Don't worry, general, the North City will not be lost in the end."

Li Shimin nodded, and then hurriedly led the people back, but on the way back, the sense of uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

Boom... The soaring fire ignited, dyeing the sky of Beicheng red.

Li Shimin turned his head and saw that Yang Jian had already set the fire on fire, but he fell into deep thought while looking at the fire, and woke up suddenly after a few seconds.

"fire?"

Li Shimin's eyes widened, a bad guess appeared in his mind, and he shouted: "No, Li Xiuning has been ordered to send more people to guard the grain depot immediately to prevent military spies from attacking."

"promise."

After the order was issued, Li Shimin was still worried, and immediately prepared to go to the grain depot to sit in charge.

Outside the city, Qin Hao looked at the fire in the city, and couldn't help laughing: "Li Shimin is really very clever and clever in using this method to stop the enemy."

"Reporting to the lord, after the enemy army on the city wall was defeated and retreated, our army wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, but the Liang army lit a fire at the north gate. Our army was unable to attack in the short term because of the fire."

"Forget it, if that's the case, let's suspend the attack on the north gate."

After saying that, Qin Hao couldn't help but looked up the tower again, and whispered to himself: "Li Shimin, this small fire of yours has been taken by the lord, the big fire that the lord has carefully prepared for you, I don't know if you can take it or not!" where?"

On the tower of the north gate, Li Cunxiao and Li Yuanba were still fighting, and the light of the fire made this battle even more legendary.

Seeing the brilliant eyes, Qin Hao said softly, "The side that wins this battle will definitely be number one in the world for more than ten years!"

As soon as Qin Hao finished speaking, he saw that the inner city of Luoyang, where the Liang Army's grain depot was located, actually burst into flames.

Grain and grass are flammable things, and the fire will soon be difficult to control, and the momentum is even stronger than the fire wall at the north gate.

"The grain depot caught fire, hurry up and put out the fire!"

"Water, bring water here!"

On the roof of a certain building across the street from the grain depot, a group of black-clothed swordsmen were watching the guards messily put out the fire, but they couldn't stop the fire from spreading at all.

(End of this chapter)