My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 1069: Deng Ming was defeated and Zhuocheng fell! Hu thief, die here with me!
January 18th, the 17th year of the reign of Qin Shi Huang.

The blood, which should have been warm, was bullied by the cold air the moment it flowed out of the body. It quickly shrank into a ball of blood ice and remained in place, not daring to flow on its own, so that Zhuocheng as a whole looked relatively clean.

But the soldiers of both armies understood how fierce the battle in Zhuocheng was!

"Rolling stones and battering rams! Let them go!"

"Spearmen abandon their crossbows and move forward with their guns. Crossbowmen retreat. Keep shooting! Don't stop!"

"Twenty to five hundred of Lord Qu Lu's troops, rush to the northwest corner immediately to provide assistance!"

"Follow me, my comrades! Drive the barbarians off the city wall!"

Battelle's troops attacked the city day and night without regard for casualties, exposing the weakness of Deng Ming's troops with small manpower.

Even though Deng Ming had ordered his soldiers to take turns to rest, they still could not withstand such a high-intensity battle.

Seeing a group of Donghu soldiers climbing up the city wall using ladders, Deng Ming had no more troops available. Deng Ming had to charge forward with his spear and fight with the Donghu soldiers who were climbing up the city wall!
"kill!!!"

Amid roars, the Donghu soldiers who climbed up the city wall were finally killed. Deng Ming quickly ran towards the ladder, and without even looking, stabbed his spear along the ladder, piercing the crown of a Donghu soldier.

After creating some gaps, Deng Ming decisively pulled back and shouted, "Lower the wooden stick!"

The heavy battering rams fell along the ladders, knocking all the Donghu soldiers clinging to the ladders onto the city wall.

Unfortunately, just as one line of defense was filled, another line of defense was in crisis again.

Just as Deng Ming was about to withdraw and rush to help, the 250th commander Qu Lu quickly ran to Deng Ming's side and whispered, "Captain! We only have about 10,000 crossbow arrows left!"

Deng Ming's pupils suddenly condensed: "How can it be consumed so quickly!"

If all the copper from the tops of tens of thousands of crossbow arrows were removed and forged into coins, the money would be enough to support the villagers in a village for a year.

But in the war, ten thousand crossbow arrows were only enough for Qu Lu's troops to complete thirty rounds of shooting!

Given the current intensity of the war, thirty rounds of shooting would not be enough for an hour!
Qu Lu looked outside the city and said bitterly, "I am already saving money."

"If we had used it more sparingly, the wall we were defending would have fallen long ago!"

So far in this battle, the casualty ratio between the Hu and Qin armies was about twelve to one.

Behind this exaggerated casualty ratio was the Qin army's crazy consumption of crossbow arrow reserves!

Once the density of Qin's crossbow arrows decreases, the enemy soldiers rushing onto the city wall like a tide will be able to engulf the entire Zhucheng in an instant!
Qu Lu took a step closer to Deng Ming and said in a low voice, "The commander-in-chief ordered us to feign defeat."

"Our troops have fought the enemy to this extent and then retreated. This is enough to make the enemy not hesitate."

"Captain! If you delay, something unexpected will happen!"

Deng Ming used to be the leader of Dongling Mountain, while Qu Lu used to be the captain of the Chu army.

Although the two people's identities are now reversed, Deng Ming is willing to believe the analysis given by Qu Lu.

Deng Ming looked at the white banner from afar, his eyes showing a bit of unwillingness, but then he turned into determination and ordered in a deep voice: "Pass on my order!"

"Each unit must fire ten rounds of crossbows, and use up all rolling stones and battering rams within three quarters of an hour!"

"Open the South Gate in three quarters of an hour!"

"All units should follow the original plan and charge out of the city through the South Gate. I will personally cover your retreat!"

Deng Ming really hopes to take this opportunity to earn some more military merits.

But, there is no way.

If you don’t retreat now, you won’t be able to retreat anymore!
Three quarters of an hour later, the south gate of Zhuocheng opened wide, and two chariots rushed out first, fiercely crashing into the crowd of Hu bandits in front, and forcing a gap. Thousands of Qin infantry followed closely behind, and completely tore through the gap created by the chariots!

Dalai was in high spirits when he saw this, and he kept saying, "Father, the enemy has finally left the city!"

"The enemy relied on the city walls, and our army could do nothing to them."

"Now that the enemy has come out of the city to challenge us, our army can completely trap them outside the city and completely destroy them!"

Bater said in a short voice: "Order Huriheti's troops to turn west and clear the road!"

"Let the Qin army go!"

Dalai was stunned: "Father!"

Bater's voice became heavier: "The Qin army is not going out of the city to invite a fight, the Qin army is going to escape!"

"A good hunter will never force a ferocious prey like a bear or a tiger into a dead end. The only way to capture the prey is to give it a way out and harass it by tailing it, while ensuring your own safety."

"It's the same in war."

"Our army cannot hold back the fleeing Qin army. Instead, we must let them escape. Only in this way can we easily capture Zhuocheng and annihilate the enemy!"

Dalai nodded thoughtfully: "Father is right!"

The father and son watched from afar as Deng Ming led the remaining troops to withdraw from Zhuocheng. After Deng Ming's troops had fled five miles to the south and no more Qin troops had left the city, Bater finally spoke: "Order Erleqin's troops to pursue the Qin army!"

"Don't harm the life of this army's general. I want to meet that warrior in person!"

"Order Huriheti's troops to capture the city!"

Upon hearing the general's order, Hu Riheti immediately became excited.

The first one to enter the city will be the first to plunder, this is a rule recognized by all the Donghu tribes. Now Bater gave Hu Riheti the opportunity to enter the city first, which is not only an honor, but also represents huge benefits!
Huriheti could not wait to shout: "Fellow tribesmen! Soldiers! Enter the city!"

The soldiers under Huriheti immediately climbed ladders into the city, removed the bolts of the city gate from the inside, and opened the city gate that had blocked the Donghu for two days and one night.

Hu Riheti lightly kicked his horse's belly and ran into the city with shining eyes, dreaming of delicious food, fine wine, beautiful women, gold, silver, jewelry, armor and weapons.

But when Huriheti actually stood on the street of Zhuocheng, he found that there was not only no smoke from cooking on both sides of the street, but there was not even any suppressed crying!
Hu Riheti had a bad feeling in his heart and shouted in a solemn voice: "Enter the door and check!"

The doors of each house were kicked open, and one by one the barbaric thieves broke into the houses and conducted a rough search.

However, the news sent back by various bandits were exactly the same.

No people! No money! No food!

When Deng Ming's troops withdrew from Zhuocheng, the city turned into an empty city!
Hu Riheti slapped his thigh in anger and said, "These southerners must have known the whereabouts of our proud sons of heaven long ago and dismissed the people in the city long ago."

"The reason why those Qin troops fought to the death was to buy time for the people in the city!"

"Nearly 10,000 of our warriors died in battle to capture this city, but in the end we only got an empty city!"

"Southerners, shameless!"

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But, is this really an empty city?

In the dark pits supported by wooden boards under the four walls on the east, west, south and north sides, four death warriors estimated the time and took out a tinder from their arms one after another.

He blew hard a few times to make the flame in the tinder brighter. The four assassins calmly moved the tinder close to the fuse and watched the flame climb up along the fuse.

"Boom~"

There was a sound of air friction, and four flames bloomed above the oil. They quickly climbed up the nearby haystacks, and finally spread to the tung oil that was poured all over Zhuocheng!

"There's a fire! There's a fire in the south!"

"There's a fire in the north! Report it to the governor immediately!"

"Fire! It's all fire! Fire everywhere! This must be a trap set by the enemy. Run!"

Hearing the shouts of his fellow soldiers, Hu Riheti subconsciously looked up and saw that raging fires had risen in the four directions of east, west, south and north, and were expanding outwards at a speed beyond Hu Riheti's cognitive limit!

Huriheti, who has lived in the mountains since childhood, has seen forest fires more than once.

Every time a forest fire occurs, it is a huge disaster for the Donghu.

Giant trees will be burned, prey will be burned to death, and the tribe members will also be buried in the sea of ​​fire.

Everything within hundreds or even thousands of miles will be turned into charcoal!
The Donghu people fear fire far more than the Chinese people.

"How could this happen!" Huriheti straightened his back immediately, his pupils filled with shock and fear: "How could such a big fire appear!"

"run!"

"Run!"

"Run!"

Before Huriheti's brain could react, his muscles had already driven his vocal cords to issue commands, and he urged his horse to rush towards the south gate!

If nothing unexpected happens, with Huriheti's speed, he can reach the city gate before the fire spreads. The horse under his crotch can also carry Huriheti across the fire snake and escape from the sea of ​​fire.

However, the assassin squatting in the pit under the south city wall took out a dagger from his arms and cut the hemp rope as thick as his arm at his side again and again.

"Squeak~squeak~squeak~"

The harsh cutting sound was tooth-grinding, but to the dead soldier's ears it sounded like the most beautiful music, so much so that his cutting movements even had some rhythm.

When the hemp rope that was once as thick as an arm became as thick as a little finger, it could no longer withstand the huge force and the few remaining strands of hemp suddenly broke.

“Bang! Bang!!”

At the end of the hemp rope, the Dragon-Breaking Stone that was hanging high above the inner side of the city gate no longer had to resist the pulling force, and fell down with a loud bang under the action of gravity!
Not only did he smash the two Hu thieves who were running under the Dragon-Breaking Stone into pieces, he also set up a ten-foot-high threshold for the city gate.

Huriheti, who was galloping out of the city on his horse, cried out in shock and sorrow: "Ah!!!"

"Oh!"

Unable to rein in the horse in time, Hu Riheti's warhorse crashed head-on into the Dragon-Breaking Stone, and fell to the ground, unable to get up again.

Hu Riheti was also thrown onto the Dragon-Breaking Stone, but luckily he was not killed because he had taken evasive action in advance.

Huriheti looked back at the growing fire behind him, then looked at the Dragon-Breaking Stone in front of him, his eyes full of despair.

It was impossible for a warhorse to cross this huge rock, so Huriheti could only endure the severe pain all over his body and reach out to grab the bumps on the Broken Dragon Stone, trying to climb out of the city by himself.

But a piece of ground not far from the city gate was suddenly lifted up, and a warrior wearing cast iron half-armor and holding a sword jumped out of the pit. He immediately set his eyes on Hu Riheti who had turquoise hanging in his hair.

Gripping the hilt of the sword tightly, the assassin murmured softly: "Grandfather, mother, beloved, and fellow villagers."

"I will avenge you today!"

As he rushed forward, an abnormal flush appeared on the face of the assassin, and he roared hoarsely: "Barbaric thief!"

"Die with me!!!"

(End of this chapter)