The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 345
Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng looked at each other, and they both saw the seriousness in each other's eyes.

The weather in Guangxi is still hot right now, and the land of Leizhou has always been dry, so the fire is extremely easy to spread.It was only a short period of time, and the weeds on both sides of the official road had begun to show the potential to start a prairie fire. The screams of the soldiers ignited by the fire made people feel frightened.

Li Heng said: "Commander, call for gold!"

Zhang Hongfan still hesitated.

An army of [-] attacked the city, and returned without success?

Li Heng anxiously said again: "Brother Hongfan, it will be too late if you don't ask for gold!"

As the deputy general, he not only has military power, but also has the responsibility of supervising Zhang Hongfan.Usually, a lieutenant general has a calmer personality than a general.Therefore, although Li Heng also felt great hatred in his heart, he knew very well that it was wise to withdraw the army at this time.

Zhang Hongfan gritted his teeth and finally said, "Mingjin!"

He also understood that even if he persisted now, the army might not be able to break through the fire and take the city.

There was a sudden sound of gold ringing in the middle of the Yuan army.

Under the city wall, soldiers of the Song Army kept throwing torches down. In this short period of time, the city was covered in flames, and there were explosions from time to time in the middle, which caused heavy damage to the densely packed Yuan army.

Even the moat was covered in flames.

When the fuel oil floating on the river burns, it emits a strange blue light.

The Yuan army's elite Hongtianlei squad that was about to destroy the city still failed to cross the pontoon bridge, and the pontoon bridge was already engulfed in flames.

Numerous soldiers of the Yuan army died in the sea of ​​fire, and the siege of the city was frustrated. When they heard the sound of gold, the generals were very angry, shouted loudly, and led the army back.

Some of the soldiers who were caught in the fire looked like crazy demons, screaming and struggling, and then set the soldiers next to them on fire.

Many soldiers were drenched in kerosene, and as soon as they were touched by the fire, the flames rose up from their bodies, enveloping them in an instant.

The scene was extremely miserable.

If we talk about death, being burned to death is probably the most painful.Before death, they often suffer endless torture.

The feeling of being gradually eroded by the flames and scorching every inch of skin and flesh can only be felt by the soldiers who are being covered by the fire.Others, I'm afraid they can't imagine the pain anyway.

Before dying, these soldiers who were burned by the fire often struggled for several minutes.

This caused more and more Yuan army soldiers to be ignited by the flames.

Some people saw the flame-wrapped Robe stumbling towards them in a panic, and they did not hesitate to draw their knives to kill him to the ground.

However, this still cannot prevent the spread of the fire.

On the grass on both sides of the official road, the fire will billow thick smoke, covering countless Yuan soldiers in the sea of ​​flames.

This is the real slaughterhouse, with flames everywhere, and the Yuan army who was drenched in kerosene had no shame to escape.

The flames are ruthless, and the speed at which the Yuan army is damaged is much faster than the two armies fighting head-on.

The Song army on the top of the city, and the flying army in the sky, are still throwing and pouring kerosene down.

This made the fire grow even more.

The screams resounded throughout the world, piercing the lungs, making people's hearts twitch.

Countless cannon throwing vehicles of the Yuan army were thrown down, and gradually burned to ashes in the sea of ​​flames.

Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng were unaware of the Song army's intentions before, and it was undoubtedly too late to order Mingjin to withdraw.

The soldiers of the Yuan army who rushed out of the flames were all ashamed.Originally nearly [-] troops attacked the city, but only about [-] escaped.

What they hated the most was the Feitian Army, because even though they withdrew, the Feitian Army was still chasing after them in the air.

Fire oil and torches were poured down, igniting many soldiers of the Yuan army who managed to get out of the flames.

"withdraw!"

Zhang Hongfan's face was already blue with anger, he reined in his horse and turned around.

Song Jun used such a fire strategy to make the victory and defeat suddenly reversed. It really caught him off guard, and he felt like he fell from heaven to hell suddenly.

The Central Army of the Yuan Army withdrew first along with Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng.

Afterwards, the soldiers who just ran back from the top of the city seemed to have dogs chasing after their buttocks, and only hated their parents for not giving them two more legs to run wildly.

Although they have already run out of the coverage of the Song army's cannon-throwing vehicles, the flying army in the sky is still lingering like a gangrene.

Under the city, there were still many Yuan troops who were blocked by the fire, screaming incessantly.From the top of the city, there was earth-shattering cheers from the Song Army.

Relying on the grasslands on both sides of the official road, the Song army's fire plan can be described as a complete victory.

If it weren't for the fact that this battle was far inferior to the Battle of Chibi during the Three Kingdoms period, it might have left a glorious page in the history books.

Zhang Jue and Su Liuyi breathed a sigh of relief.

The Yuan army was defeated, and Haikang should be safe in a short time.At least, it is impossible for the Yuan army to reorganize its offensive today.

Not long after, Ren Wei led the flying army back and landed on the open space in the city.The kerosene carried on the hot air balloon is empty.

On the west side of Haikang County, the sky is full of smog.

The flames hadn't been extinguished yet, but there were no soldiers of the Yuan army struggling.

Those who could run ran away.Those who missed it were all engulfed in flames.

A disgusting burnt smell wafted through the air.

In this battle, the Yuan army probably lost more than [-] yuan.The Song army at the head of the city also paid the price of more than [-] people.

Most of these soldiers were killed by the bombing thunder thrown by the Yuan army's catapult.

Some soldiers have already begun to clean the battlefield.Su Liuyi and Zhang Jue went back to the palace to report the results of the battle to Concubine Yang Shu and others.

Li Heng and Zhang Hongfan led their troops back to the coast, boarded a boat and left.

When they returned to Donghai Island and counted the soldiers, there were only less than [-] left, which made the two want to vomit blood.

How many Song troops are there in total in Haikang County?
So far in this campaign, they haven't caused much damage to the Song army, and they have lost so many soldiers and horses first.If in the past, it was inevitable to pay a huge price for the siege, they would have accepted it, but now they also have thunder, and they thought that they would win Haikang, but they were defeated by Song Jun's tricks one after another. People are angry and aggrieved.

The two of them felt as if their IQs were crushed by others.

The morale of the Yuan army almost fell to the bottom because of this battle.

But no matter how angry you are, the war has to continue.In the afternoon, Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng led the army to withdraw from the army formation, and the big ship headed for the west coast of Haikang County.

The Song army withdrew to defend Haikang. Although they had just suffered a big defeat, they still had to approach step by step.

In the end, the two camped within a few miles of Haikang.

The hall of Haikang Palace is still dignified.

Although the Yuan army's attack on the city was thwarted, they stationed their troops several miles outside the city, obviously not intending to die down.

Anyone can imagine that before the emperor leads his army back to Haikang, the Yuan army will launch an attack.

Haikang's crisis cannot be completely solved by a fire plan.

In the main hall, all the important ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty stood on both sides.Su Liuyi and Lu Xiufu, who replaced Zhao Dongting in charge of both military and political affairs, split their forces around Long Nian.

Since Zhao Dongting came to power, Concubine Yang Shu really never cared about any military and political affairs, and became her empress dowager with peace of mind.

After a moment of discussion, Lu Xiufu coughed softly, signaled everyone to calm down, and then asked: "Everyone, although the Yuan army was defeated, they camped a few miles outside the city, and they still intend to invade our Chaohaikang. Regarding this, what do you think?" Is there a good strategy?"

Most people in the hall looked towards Su Liuyi and Zhang Jue.

Although this is a court meeting, in the final analysis, it must be Su Liuyi and Zhang Jue who make up and make up their minds.

In the Song Dynasty, there were many civil servants who could fight with soldiers, even eunuchs.

After pondering for a few seconds, Zhang Jue said, "All the wild grass outside the city has been burned to ashes, and I am afraid that the fire plan will not be able to do any good. If we want to stop the Yuan army, our army has no ground to rely on. I am afraid...the only option is to fight to the death."

His voice was undoubtedly heavy.

The Liu Mansion was on fire, which gave him a sudden inspiration and thought of a fire plan.But now, it seems that there is really no good way to retreat from the enemy.

If there is no grassland, even if kerosene is used again, it will not be able to form a prairie fire.Obviously, there is no way to cause too much damage to the Yuan army.

At this time, Zhao Da said, "Deputy Commander, why don't you lead the army to chop off the heads of Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng?"

Their flying dragon army has assassination as a training subject.Although the force is definitely not as good as Wu Dingtang, but in terms of assassination skills, it is not much worse.

"inappropriate."

After Zhang Jue thought about it, he shook his head, "There are also masters from the Green Forest Camp in the Yuan army. If you go, it will be difficult for you to make achievements."

Zhao Da yelled: "Then let the Flying Army go and blow up his mother!"

His words were originally angry, but just as he finished speaking, it made all the officials ponder.

That's right, the Yuan army has already moved the general camp a few miles outside the city, and instead of staying at sea, it is completely feasible to use hot air balloons to carry out air strikes.

Although this may not be able to kill Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng, it can always cause some damage to the Yuan army, can't it?
Zhang Jue laughed out loud, "General Zhao's plan is very clever."

Zhao Da didn't understand, "What plan?"

In fact, he didn't take what he said just now to his heart at all. It took only a little over ten seconds, and he had already forgotten it.

The ministers laughed.

Zhang Jue shook his head slightly, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, ignored Zhao Da, looked at Ren Wei, and said, "General Ren, you will lead the army to attack the Yuan army's camp tonight!"

"The last general takes orders!"

Ren Wei took the lead.

Not long after that, all the ministers retreated one after another.

Zhang Jue had just left the hall, but Su Liuyi chased after him, "Master Zhang, the Yuan army already knows that our army has a flying army, will there be any tricks?"

Zhang Jue just sighed: "The Yuan army probably has no way to deal with the Feitian army..."

In fact, he didn't have any good ideas in mind.It is better to let the flying army attack and harass than the army to stay in the city.

(End of this chapter)