I'm in the Red Mansion

Previously, the coalition forces of thirteen countries had suffered a great defeat.

This time, they sent a large army forward and laid siege to the city.

This is the rhythm of destroying them!
The entire Zhenzhen Kingdom, from top to bottom, was in panic.

The King of Zhenzhen Kingdom hurriedly sent an envoy to communicate.

Jia Huan received the envoy from the Zhenzhen Kingdom.

The envoy asked in a tough tone: "I wonder why the general has led his army to our Zhenzhen country's territory?"

This envoy was quite an expert on the Central Plains, and his questioning was surprisingly polite.

Jia Huan sneered, "What are we doing here? Don't you have any idea?"

"Earlier, you gathered thirteen countries and prepared to attack our Central Plains. Now, we will naturally repay you with an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!"

The messenger immediately said: "General, you have misunderstood. Our coalition of thirteen countries is not going to attack the Central Plains, but has other purposes."

"Your country attacked our 13-nation coalition without asking any questions, causing us heavy losses, and we have not yet held you accountable!"

Jia Huan sneered, "What a shameless face you have! If that's the case, then go back and tell your king to prepare for war!"

"Your Zhen Zhen country has no need to exist anymore. Just wait for your country to be destroyed!"

Hearing this, the messenger was almost frightened to death, and his knees suddenly went weak.

Although he did not kneel down, he already showed a servile attitude.

His original toughness was all pretended.

There is no way. At the negotiating table, if you want to get more, you have to be tougher.

But he still hasn't understood one thing, that is, what you can't get with guns, you can't get at the negotiating table either.

He immediately said in panic: "General, calm down, it's all a misunderstanding."

"This time, we, the Zhenzhen Nation, came with sincerity."

"We were the ones who were in trouble before, and we are willing to show enough sincerity to make up for the mistakes we made."

After hearing this, Jia Huan smiled and asked, "If you had said this earlier, there wouldn't be any misunderstanding."

"I wonder how sincere you are?"

The envoy could not help but say: "We are willing to compensate your country with one million gold coins!"

One million gold coins?

Where are you sending out beggars?
Jia Huan sneered and immediately turned hostile: "Oh, one million gold coins, your country is really generous!"

"Since you have no sincerity, I don't think there is any need to continue the discussion. Come on, show us around!"

"In three days, we will attack your Modern City. See you on the battlefield!"

The messenger became panicked again.

Negotiation, after all, is nothing more than asking for a high price and paying back on the spot.

Since you are not satisfied with the compensation we offer, why don't you name a price? Then we can negotiate with each other and find a number that both parties can accept.

How can someone fall out with someone at the slightest provocation?

Is this still a negotiation?

However, the situation was not favorable to him now and he had no other options.

Next, the messenger had no choice but to carefully question Jia Huan, and first asked about Jia Huan's conditions.

Jia Huan was too lazy to talk to him any more and directly took out the conditions that Zhongyuan had set in advance.

After reading it, the messenger's face turned ugly.

There is no way. The conditions in the Central Plains are too harsh.

If we agree to such conditions, it will be no different from the destruction of the country.

There is absolutely no way they would agree to such conditions.

The messenger tried to bargain, but Jia Huan didn't give him any chance to bargain.

He immediately ordered his men to drive him out and ask him to take it back to their king for decision.

If their conditions are not met, they will directly attack Modern City in three days.

The messenger's face looked extremely ugly, but he had to take the conditions proposed by Jia Huan and rush back to report.

In the Zhenzhen Kingdom's palace, there is the Zhenzhen Kingdom's king and a group of Zhenzhen Kingdom's ministers.

When they saw the conditions proposed by Zhongyuan, they were extremely angry.

They would never agree to such conditions.

If they agreed, they would all become sinners of the Zhenzhen Kingdom.

In the end, they decided to have a fight first.

While holding back the Central Plains army, they sent envoys to seek help from other countries.

As long as the coalition forces arrive, they will no longer have to fear the Central Plains.

Last time, their coalition forces suffered a great defeat.

But the last time it was a naval battle, and this time it was a war on land.

This is a completely different way of warfare, and they just don't believe that they can't defend against the Central Plains army.

Well, in fact, the allied countries, including the Zhen Zhen Kingdom, all have stronger navies, and their land warfare level is slightly inferior to that of naval warfare.

However, these were actively ignored by them.

Let’s talk about Jia Huan, who was also making preparations for war.

What Jia Huan prepared was not only cannons and guns, but also intelligence and other things.

Jia Huan sent out scouts while secretly gathering information through the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

As for the Zhenzhen Country, they did not attach any importance to intelligence protection at all.

In their eyes, it was impossible for the Central Plains to detect any intelligence about them.

After all, the two countries are very different in appearance.

The skin colors of both sides were different. The Central Plains people wanted to sneak into the city and spy on their intelligence? This was too much to imagine.

But what they didn't know was that the Jinyiwei had already developed many subordinates in their country.

And these downlines are people with no moral bottom line.

As long as they are given enough money, they will never refuse, let alone betraying their country, even if it means selling their souls or their families.

Therefore, the Jinyiwei easily obtained a lot of intelligence.

This also includes the defensive layout within Modern City.

Because among the Jinyiwei, there is a general from Modern City.

After obtaining this information, Jia Huan was secretly very grateful.

If we hadn't known their deployment in advance, we might have suffered a great loss this time!

It turned out that in order to inflict heavy damage on the Central Plains army, they were willing to make a desperate arrangement.

Not only did they secretly stockpile a large amount of oil in Modern City, they also buried a large amount of gunpowder.

If the Central Plains army broke into the city, they could retreat quickly, then ignite the oil and detonate the explosives.

In this way, the Central Plains Army can be severely damaged.

It would be even better if the generals of the Central Plains army could be killed.

By then, the Central Plains Army's attack will collapse on its own, and they will even be able to pursue the victory.

And they never thought about what would happen if this information was obtained by the Central Plains Army?
Let’s talk about Jia Huan. Now that he knew of their conspiracy, he naturally thought of a way to deal with it.

Three days passed quickly.

There was no response from Zhenzhen Country.

Since that’s the case, Jia Huan won’t be polite.

Some people are like this. Unless you beat them and scare them or hurt them, they will never know fear.

Soon, Jia Huan mobilized an army of 100,000 and headed straight for Modern City.

At this time, there were also 100,000 defenders on the city walls of Modern City, guarding the city to the death.

Blowing up Modern City and perishing together with the Central Plains Army was only their last resort.

They were unwilling to abandon Modern City unless it was absolutely necessary.

Although the artillery fire from the Central Plains was fierce, the defenders had an advantage over the attackers after all.

Relying on the solidity of the city walls, they may be able to defend themselves.

Soon, the two sides engaged in fierce gunfire.

Soon, the firepower of Modern City was completely suppressed by the Central Plains Army. However, the Central Plains City was not in a hurry to attack the city.

They didn't even use cannons to bombard the walls.

This scene made the defender of Modern City a little confused.

For a moment, they couldn't figure out what the Central Plains Army was trying to do.

However, at this moment, they saw that ten hot air balloons from the Central Plains Army were slowly rising into the sky.

This gave them a bad feeling in their hearts.

They also have hot air balloons in the Zhenzhen Country, but their hot air balloons are only limited to being tied with ropes underneath and fixed in position before taking off for detection.

They currently cannot control the direction of the hot air balloon.

However, the Chinese side seemed to be preparing to attack them from high altitude using hot air balloons.

This made the defender of Modern City dumbfounded for a moment.

How to fight back? How to defend?
In fact, their cannons can reach the height of hot air balloons in the sky.

Unfortunately, the cannons at this time were all ground-to-ground attacks.

There was no ground-to-air attack.

After all, hot air balloon attacks had never occurred in previous wars.

The muzzle of their cannon can naturally be adjusted.

However, it is also impossible to adjust to a 90-degree angle to attack the sky directly.

When their cannons were designed, they were not prepared to adjust at such a large angle.

Or, if they set up cannons outside the city, perhaps they could adjust the angle to reach the hot air balloons in mid-air.

However, they did not deploy any cannons outside the city, and it might be too late to pull the cannons out now.

Besides, it might be difficult to aim at the moment.

As for defense, apart from passively taking the beating and lying on the ground, they find it difficult to find a more effective way to defend.

Soon the hot air balloon arrived above their Modern City. At this time, the hot air balloon had risen to a height of three hundred meters.

The hot air balloon was moving slowly, and then kept throwing something down. Small black dots were falling from the hot air balloon at a high speed.

The defender of Modern City guessed that it must be a bomb.

He hurriedly ordered the soldiers and civilians in the city to find shelter or lie down on the ground.

Soon, these small black dots fell to the ground.

Unexpectedly, these small black dots were not the bombs they imagined.

When it fell to the ground, it did not explode, but instead burst into flames.

What the Central Plains Army threw were incendiary bombs.

Yes, Zhongyuan has developed incendiary bombs.

What Jia Huan wanted was to help Modern City ignite their stockpiled oil and explosives and directly destroy Modern City.

Don't you want to die together?

There's no need to perish together, just die on your own.

Let’s talk about the ten hot air balloons. After launching some hot air balloons, they flew away.

And in Modern City, a raging fire was burning.

But for the time being, there were not many casualties.

This made the soldiers and civilians in Modern City breathe a sigh of relief.

I couldn't help but feel contempt in my heart.

It looks so impressive, but this is the result?
Just set a big fire and ran away?

You can't do this either -

However, at this moment, the defender of Modern City was so scared that he pissed his pants.

Because he was an insider and knew the location of the City Lord's Mansion, which stored a large amount of oil and had tens of thousands of kilograms of explosives buried underneath.

These arrangements were originally intended to be carried out in the hope of perishing together with the Central Plains Army.

But now, they have not yet broken into the city and have not yet entered!
But this big fire is likely to set it all off.

If this is true, I am afraid the entire Modern City will be destroyed.

The defending general at this moment was so frightened that his heart and fear trembled.

He hurriedly and sternly directed the soldiers in the city to put out the fire quickly.

I just hope that the fire can be put out in time to avoid detonating their arrangements.

It’s a pity that the fire was too big.

Moreover, some fires cannot be put out with water, and may even grow stronger with water.

It scattered in all directions, making the fire burn even more vigorously.

Seeing that these fires could not be extinguished at all, they were rapidly spreading towards the City Lord's Mansion.

At this time, the defender could no longer care about anything else and hurriedly rode his horse and quickly evacuated towards the city wall.

There is no way to escape now, as the entire Modern City is surrounded by the Central Plains Legion.

Now the only option is to be as far away from the city lord's mansion in the center as possible.

At this time, outside the city, Jia Huan had ordered the Yuan army to retreat slowly.

In fact, even tens of thousands of kilograms of explosives were buried under the Mansion of the Lord of Modern City.

The power of the explosion will basically not reach here.

However, just in case, it would be bad if you were accidentally injured.

Soon, they retreated another five hundred steps.

With such a large buffer zone, there should be no problem.

At this time, the defender of Modern City in the city had not yet run to the city gate.

At this moment, he felt the ground shaking.

A huge wave of sound roared up.

Soon, a huge shock wave blew him off the horse's back.

A dazzling light rose from the center of the City Lord's Mansion.

A huge cloud of smoke rose up.

In an instant, sand and rocks flew everywhere, centered on the City Lord's Mansion.

The defenders within a mile radius were almost instantly killed by the shock wave.

Half of the houses in the city collapsed, and the remaining houses on the outskirts were also damaged by the shaking and were on the verge of falling.

Even the city walls were dripping with mud.

The defenders on the city wall were shaken to the ground.

Some even fell directly from the city wall.

This wave of explosions stunned everyone inside and outside the city.

Of course, the defenders in the city were terrified.

The Central Plains troops outside the city were dumbfounded.

The noise was really too loud.

Could it be that they came up with this?

How did they come up with this?
How much explosives would be needed to achieve such an effect?

How on earth did the general manage to secretly transport so much explosives into the city without anyone noticing?

At this time, the disaster in the city was not over.

Because the fire is still raging.

A large amount of oil had been stored in the city lord's mansion, and it exploded.

The oil also splashed everywhere.

The raging fire near the City Lord's Mansion was largely extinguished by the explosion.

But at this moment, it started burning again.

This time, the burning area has expanded a lot. (End of this chapter)