Jiuxi

Chapter 538 Chapter 536 [The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying] ()
After Jingjun destroyed a section of the northern outer city wall of Yongqiu, the fighting in other directions gradually calmed down.

There was already a gap in front of him, and there was certainly no need for Jingjun to continue to lose his elite troops in vain. After all, the siege team would suffer greater losses than the defenders most of the time.

In fact, if it were not to avoid alerting the defenders, Jingjun only needed to attack one city wall to achieve the strategic goal. However, Qing Yugong wanted to be safe and still followed the established rhythm and launched the offensive just like the previous sieges. , only the intensity has been improved, which is also in line with Jing Jun's more urgent needs.

After opening the gap, what Jingjun had to do was to continuously encroach on the defenders' defense line through this point, and finally completely break through Yongqiu's city defense.

Their progress was smooth in the first half. After the gap appeared, the defenders had only two choices, either to block the gap and continue to fight to the death on the city wall, or to actively choose to retreat.

However, this gap of more than ten feet long is obviously too large. If the defenders alone want to fill it, I am afraid it will only exhaust all the reserve forces.

So the Qi army began to retreat, and Li Tianrun took out his personal guard battalion to temporarily fill the gap. All this happened under the noses of He Shilie and Qing Yugong.

Jing's army rushed into the north city, preparing to destroy the inner city defense in one go, just like Zhu Zhen did when he opened the north gate to lead the Jingzhou army into the city, completely disrupting the defender's defense line.

At this pass, an extremely tragic fire blocked Jing Jun's progress.

The narrow area between the inner and outer cities became the burial place of this Jingjun pioneer.

Li Liangyu noticed the movement behind him and quickly turned sideways and saluted: "Father, handsome."

Up to this moment, the fire was spreading at an alarming rate. It would ignite as long as it was touched by a spark, and it was extremely difficult to extinguish. Even if those Jingjun soldiers were rolling on the ground, the flames were still burning tenaciously.

Under the admiring gazes of the generals, Li Tianrun shook his head and said: "I have not guessed Qing Yugong's specific strategy, but that is not important. No matter how he changes, he will still end up with the word "broken city".

In fact, these generals were a little scared.

Leaving aside the impact on morale, the first people who poured into the city were the elite of the Jing army. The attacking force at this decisive moment could not be ordinary soldiers. They entered this narrow and cramped space and faced this kind of situation. The strange and violent fire was unavoidable, and the losses caused by it were unbearable even for Qing Yugong, who had hundreds of thousands of troops.

Li Liangyu's sister had never been so excited in his impression, and then he learned from her that the thing made from this recipe was like a strange fire, which could work wonders when defending the city. It was also the first time he heard it that day Lu Chen’s name.

"Jing's army retreated."

Thinking of this, Qiu Jixun, the commander of the Xu Army of the Qing Dynasty, said with great joy: "Fortunately, the commander-in-chief had anticipated in advance that Jing Jun would use such methods to attack the city, and then set up a trap here. This was enough to severely damage Jing Jun's morale and strength. "

Later, according to Li Tianrun's arrangement, this prescription was handed over to Li Liangyu for safekeeping, and he used his free time to organize people to conduct experiments, and finally ensured that he could make an effective strange fire, but the Jingzhou Army had never used it.

To be kind to your enemies is to be cruel to yourself.

Because they knew very well that once the Jing army was allowed to win, the fate of the Jingzhou army officers and soldiers would be even more miserable.

This was of course a fatal blow to Jing Jun.

Li Tianrun's eyes were calm, but the dozen or so generals who followed him could not be so indifferent. They looked at the miserable scene below without the slightest hint of intolerance on their faces.

"You lead the guard battalion and chase them out immediately until they reach the outer city gate."

The generals couldn't help but nod their heads.

Li Liangyu stood in the middle area of ​​the inner city wall, looking calmly at the elite Jing army trapped in the sea of ​​fire.

The Jingzhou army had never used gunpowder in the past few decades, and suddenly used this method to blow down the city wall. If the Jingzhou army was unprepared, the destruction of the city would become inevitable.

What came to his mind at this moment was a scene from many years ago.

"The general is here!"

Li Tianrun's simple words cheered up the others, and then they heard him say: "Qi Shouzhi."

It was the southern invasion launched by the Jingyan Allied Forces after many years. A Jing army crossed over the vast Shuangfeng Mountains to surprise Guangling. Li Bingxue led Feiyu Camp down the river to help. When she returned to Jingzhou after winning the victory, she In an instant, a prescription was presented to Li Tianrun like a treasure.

"The last general takes command!"

Qi Shouzhi agreed loudly, and then led the guard battalion to rush out immediately under the envious gazes of the other generals!
The Jingjun vanguard suffered heavy losses in the fire. He Shilie was not directly affected because he was at the very back, but looking at the tragic scene in front of him, the general's eyes were filled with tears.

While he ordered the rescue of the soldiers in front, he looked at the inner city wall in the distance with his eyes spitting fire.

At this moment, his heart was bleeding.

According to Qing Yugong's arrangement, although the infantry that stormed the outer city were not weak among the Jing army, they were certainly not the strongest elite. If it were a normal siege, those elites would definitely have to shoulder the important task of ascending first, but this time we have a simpler way to open the gap, so the elites will naturally have to stay in the subsequent attack.

That is, the inner city wall of Yongqiu in front of us is less than two feet high.

However, what greeted them was not the panicked defenders, but this strange fire that was difficult to extinguish once contaminated and only needed a few sparks to ignite. Such a loss is extremely difficult for any general to accept.

The order to withdraw came from the rear. He Shilie gritted his teeth and ordered the soldiers to retreat. The less injured people could be brought back, but most of the elite pioneers who were tumbling in the flames had no choice but to give up.

Naturally, the defenders would not miss this opportunity.

Qi Shouzhi led the guard battalion to go around from the side doors on both sides and launched a strong pursuit towards the retreating Jing army.

He Shilie commanded his troops to fight and retreat, and waited for reinforcements sent by Qing Yugong near the outer city gate. Only then did they successfully return to their position, and the defenders retook the north gate of Yongqiu.

The war finally came to an end today.

Yongqiu City in the night looked like a wounded giant beast.

The gap in the North City was like a bleeding wound on a giant beast, but the giant beast still held its head high. The fire in the city and the more than two thousand corpses left by Jingjun proved that anyone who dared to approach it easily would be killed. Bite the neck in one bite.

Jingjun's central army position.

He Shilie's face was extremely gloomy and guilty. He knelt down on one knee and said, "The general is leading the army at a disadvantage. I beg you to punish me!"

Logically speaking, the move prepared by the defenders was completely beyond his expectation. Even Qing Yugong himself did not expect that this was not a mistake of his command, but naturally it was a non-war crime.

But He Shilie was still extremely sad, because he lost the strongest troops of Jing Army in this battle, and it would take at least three years to train such a soldier!
In the biting night wind, there was deathly silence all around, and no one dared to make a sound at this time.

Qing Yugong looked away from Yongqiu City in the night and said calmly: "There is no need to apologize in a hurry. What is so strange about the fire in the city?"

He Shilie replied: "Back to your lord, the fire starter is placed in a well-sealed clay pot. After the clay pot is smashed, it will look like muddy water splashing everywhere. It only takes a spark to ignite. It spreads very quickly and is extremely difficult to extinguish." ”

"Father, Lu Chen used this kind of strange fire in Guangling City a few years ago."

Qingyu Huaijin looked ashamed. Although she had never witnessed the battle in Guangling, she had heard it from the soldiers who had escaped. Firstly, it had been a long time ago. Secondly, the Qi army had never used it in the follow-up. Thirdly, this kind of strange fire was It can only be most effective in a relatively narrow space, otherwise the effect of intimidation is far greater than the real damage.

"Lu Chen..."

Qing Yugong had a complicated expression. He realized that he had underestimated the young man after all, but at this moment it was clear that he could not control his position, so he looked at He Shilie and said: "The soldiers who died in battle must be recorded, and the wounded soldiers should be sent to the rear immediately. Treating burns and scalds in the city has always been difficult, and we cannot delay treatment by staying on the front lines.”

He Shilie responded: "Yes, Your Majesty."

Qing Yugong looked around and raised his voice slightly: "The offensive has been thwarted, and the enemy has this kind of strange fire. I know that you must be worried. But I hope you understand that the enemy's number of this kind of strange fire is definitely not large. Otherwise, as long as our army is close to the city wall, the enemy can spray and ignite it. In this case, how can our army have a chance to attack the city? Therefore, this is the enemy's last struggle. Now that the gap in the north city has been breached, our army only needs to move along. Continuously attacking through this gap will surely defeat the enemy's defense."

He did not deny the lethality of the strange fire used by the defenders, but there was no problem with his analysis.

This kind of strange fire can only be a strange move, and the number Qi Jun has must be limited. Otherwise, how could Jing Jun have a chance to get close to the city wall?
The expressions of the surrounding generals gradually returned to normal, and there was a ferocious look in their eyes as they looked at Yongqiu City ahead.

After appeasing the army's morale, Qing Yugong sighed secretly in his heart. He knew that even if there was a gap in Yongqiu City, it would not be easy for Jing's army to capture it.

As he said to Qingyu Huaijin before the war, this is just the beginning.

Not only because of the tenacity of the defenders in the city and Li Tianrun's methods, but also because after the city is breached, reinforcements from the Qi army will inevitably rush in at all costs.

Thinking of this, Qing Yugong slowly turned his head and looked toward the night in the northeast, his eyes obscured.

……

Far northeast of Yongqiu City, southeast of the northern Yan Jingji area, this is the land bordering Yan and Qi.

To the east is the famous Leize Plain.

This must be a very unpleasant memory for Jing Jun. In the past, more than ten thousand of the main force were annihilated, and in the later, a scheming tiger used him as bait and finally died in the battle.

On a sunny early spring morning, a large army appeared on the vast plain.

Zhenbei Army, Taixing Army, Guangling Army, these Huben divisions from the Huaizhou Dudu Mansion of Daqi appeared one after another.

Within the central army, two flags fluttered in the wind.

Duke Rongguo of Da Qi and Governor Xiao of Huaizhou.

Under the commander's flag, Xiao Wangzhi rode his horse, with the Beiyan territory in front of him.

(End of this chapter)