Technology dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 160 [Fire Burning West City, Corpses Across the Field]

The offensive and defensive battles in Jiaozhou, Jiaozhi County, and Xiyu City continued.

Liu Yan and Yu Bao conspired to retreat, and at the same time prepared a special gift for Shi Xie.

The army led by Shi Yi attacked the three city gates of Xiyu City at the same time, but at this time, the main force was placed on the east city of Xiyu City, and they continued to attack.

In the west of the city, the streets towards the east gate are already empty, and there are a lot of firewood or kerosene and other flammable materials piled up in the houses beside the streets.

Most of the people in the city were forcibly driven to the south gate and west gate by Yu Bao, and Yu Bao and Liu Yan had already transferred most of their troops from the north gate.

Outside the north gate, more than 2000 soldiers and more than [-] civilians have gathered, and most of the grain and grass in Xiyu City have also been transported out.

As dusk approached, Yu Bao and Liu Yan were looking at Xiyu City from the north gate, Yu Bao said coldly: "I hope Shi Xie will like this great gift, haha."

"Let's go back to the Central Plains."

Liu Yan doesn't seem to care much about this anymore. His future is in the Central Plains, and he never wants to return to this remote and wild place.

The [-] soldiers who were brought out basically obeyed orders, and those soldiers with bad intentions were left in Xiyu City and would become "cannon fodder".

Yu Bao and Liu Yan led their troops northward, planning to enter the Central Plains after passing through Yulin County.With soldiers in their hands, they will definitely be reused by the princes of the Central Plains, and at the same time they will have the capital to gain a foothold in the Central Plains.

Liu Yan and Yu Bao withdrew the army, and the soldiers defending the city were attacked by the enemy continuously, and the east city gate was breached first.

"The East City Gate has been breached!"

The news quickly spread to the barracks of Shi Yi's army, and Shi Wu was overjoyed after hearing this.

"Come on, hurry up and send this news to the prefect's mansion, and hand it over to the prefect!"

Shi Wu ordered his two cronies to deliver the letter as soon as possible, and he wanted to deliver the great news to his elder brother Shi Xie as soon as possible.

Afterwards, Shi Wu ordered his horse to be brought, and with dozens of guards, he hurried towards the east gate of Xiyu City.

Shi Yi blocked the enemy's reinforcements from the east, Shi Wu wanted to take advantage of this to enter Xiyu City before Shi Yi, and it would be a great achievement at that time.

"Go to the city and capture Yu Bao alive!"

Shi Yi led dozens of people, and followed behind the team in the advanced city, shouting all the way, for fear that others would not know that he was coming.

Soon, he entered the east gate, and found that there were almost no enemies on the street. He was overjoyed: "The enemy wants to escape, come here, follow the general to chase the enemy, and capture Yu Bao alive!"

Killing the enemy and doing meritorious service is the direct and most important way for soldiers to improve their status and treatment. When soldiers and soldiers encouraged them, many people responded.

"Deputy General, beware of fraud, we'd better wait for General Shi Yi to arrive before making a decision."

The siege general kindly reminded him that he already had some dislike for this self-willed soldier, if it wasn't for him, the city of Xiyu would have been destroyed two hours ago.

Shi Wu listened with displeasure on his face, and shouted: "If you are afraid of death, just wait here. See if this general captures Yu Bao back alive!"

"Soldiers, follow me to pursue the enemy and capture Yu Bao alive!"

More than 3000 people followed Shiwu into the city in search of Yu Bao.

About a quarter of an hour later, Shi Yi got the news and also came to the east gate.

The siege general, Shi Wu, led his troops to pursue the enemy and told him about it. Shi Yi was very angry at that time, and he was also worried that the enemy was cheating.

"Report to the general, the south gate and west gate were also breached by our army, but"

Suddenly a soldier rushed to report.

"Just what?"

Originally, I was overjoyed to hear the first half of the sentence, but who would have thought that there would be a "just" at the end, Shi Yi had an ominous premonition.

"Report to the general, after the south gate and west gate were breached, suddenly a large number of people ran out of the city, and they shouted: Xiyu City is going to be burned, run for your life!"

The soldier trembled and finished speaking.

"not good."

Before Shi Yi finished speaking, he heard many people shouting: "Fire!"

To the west of the city, thick smoke began to rise.

"Listen to my order, everyone quickly withdraw from the city!"

Shi Yi shouted and ordered the whole army to withdraw from Xiyu City. He knew that this was a trap, a vicious trap.

Half an hour ago again, in the prefect's mansion of Jiaozhi City.

Shi Xie was bedridden because of serious injuries, but his consciousness was quite clear. According to the plan, the two brothers Shi Yi and Shi Wu led nearly [-] troops to attack Xiyu City in a surprise attack, which should be broken within half a day.

But now there is no good news at this time, Shi Xie is full of worries.

"Cough cough."

"Isn't there any news from Xiyu City?"

Shi Xie struggled to prop up half of his body on the bed, coughed and asked the housekeeper beside him.

The housekeeper replied: "Master, it must be soon, you still need to recover from your injuries."

Shi Xie also knew that this kind of thing cannot be rushed, so his strategy was that Shi Yi and Shi Wu led a large army to attack Xiyu City, and let Shi Huang lead people to garrison in Mishui to prevent Longbian City from coming to capture Jiaozhi City.

Only by pulling out the thorn in the back of Xiyu City first, can he attack Longbian City with peace of mind, and thus unify the entire Jiaozhi County.

Time was running out, and the rebels in the east were staring at them, so Shi Xie was eager to make a surprise attack on Xiyu City. After Xiyu City was breached, it would be much easier to besiege Longbian City.

"If you have any news, let me know immediately, cough cough"

As Shi Xie said, he slowly lay down on the bed again. His injury really made him suffer a lot.

After about a stick of incense, Shi Huang suddenly returned to Jiaozhi City with hundreds of remnants of soldiers, and then went straight to the eunuch's mansion.

Shi Huang asked the housekeeper to take him to see Shi Xie, and it was extremely urgent.

"Brother Shi Huang, why are you back? Could it be that Liu Yan brought the troops here?"

Shi Xie saw Shi Huang with a lot of blood on his body, and knew that something serious had happened.

Shi Huang shook his head with a dejected expression, and said, "It's not Liu Yan, but the tens of thousands of cavalry who suddenly appeared from nowhere, they suddenly attacked, seized the bridge, and then rushed to kill us."

"There are tens of thousands of cavalry, we can't stop them at all. After a life-and-death fight, only a few hundred escaped from thousands of people. This group of cavalry may have already arrived outside Jiaozhi City at this time, and the prefect hurriedly called back to attack Xiyu The soldiers and horses of the city, go back to the city of *toe."

"Tens of thousands of cavalry? Could it be the rebels in the east, only they have such a huge cavalry, but how come... cough cough"

Shi Xie's pale face became more gloomy, and he coughed up blood from the corner of his mouth.

"Master!" The butler hurried forward to support him.

"Ahem. I'm fine. I won't die yet."

Shi Xie endured it, and now he finally understood who assassinated them at the priest ceremony that day.

"I didn't expect that the traitors in the east had a premeditated plan. We were too careless. Brother Shi Huang, please go there yourself and pass on my order to let Shi Yishi Wu lead the army back to the Toe City!"

As he spoke, Shi Xie took out a soldier talisman from the bedside.

However, at this time, Shi Wu ordered people to quickly send back the good news to the prefect's mansion.

"Master, great victory, great victory, Xiyu City has been breached!"

A servant leading the messenger shouted loudly from a distance.

Shi Xie and Shi Huang were overjoyed when they heard the words, things were not too bad after all.

"Brother Shi Huang, hurry up and go to Xiyu City. Now our enemy is the rebel army from the east. We must keep Jiaozhi City."

Shi Xie's complexion improved a bit, and he urged Shi Huang to leave quickly.

(End of this chapter)