My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?

January 18th, the 17th year of the Qin Dynasty.

The blood that was supposed to be warm was bullied by the cold air as soon as it flowed out of the body. It quickly shrank into a ball of blood ice and stayed in place without daring to flow out without authorization, so that Zhuocheng looked relatively clean as a whole.

But the soldiers of both armies knew how fierce the battlefield in Zhuocheng was!

"Rolling stones and crushing trees! Release them to me!"

"The spearmen abandoned their crossbows and stepped forward with their guns. The crossbowmen retreated. Keep shooting! Don't stop!"

"Two to five hundred troops from Qu Lu will rush to the northwest corner to help immediately!"

"Come on, men and women, follow me! Drive the thieves off the city wall!"

Battelle's troops attacked the city day and night, regardless of casualties, which exposed the weakness of Deng Ming's troops' sparse troops.

Even though Deng Ming had ordered his soldiers to take turns to rest, it was still difficult for them to withstand such a high-intensity fierce battle.

Seeing a group of Donghu soldiers rushing up the city wall along the ladder, Deng Ming had no troops left in his hands. Deng Ming had to rush forward with his gun in hand and fight with the Donghu soldiers who rushed up the city wall!

"kill!!!"

During the roar, the Donghu soldiers who climbed up the city wall were finally killed. Deng Ming quickly ran to the ladder, thrust his spear along the ladder without looking, and pierced the Tianling Gai of another Donghu soldier.

After creating some gaps, Deng Ming retreated decisively and shouted: "Luo Lei Mu!"

The heavy wood fell down the ladder, knocking all the Donghu soldiers clinging to the ladder off the city wall.

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

Deng Ming was about to pull away and rush for help, but Qu Lu, the commander of two or five hundred troops, quickly ran to Deng Ming's side and whispered: "Captain! We only have about 10,000 crossbow bolts left!"

Deng Ming's pupils suddenly condensed: "How could it be consumed so quickly?"

If all the copper on the tops of thousands of crossbow arrows were removed and forged into money, the money purchased would be enough for the people of a township to chew for a year.

But in the war, tens of thousands of crossbow bolts were only enough for Qu Lu's troops to complete thirty rounds of firing!

Under the current intensity of the war, thirty rounds of fire are not enough for an hour!

Qu Lu looked outside the city and said bitterly: "The general is already sparing his money."

"If we had used it more sparingly, the city wall guarded by our troops would have fallen long ago!"

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

Behind this exaggerated battle loss ratio is the Qin army's crazy consumption of crossbow arrow reserves!

Once the density of the Qin army's crossbows is reduced, the enemy soldiers who surge up to the city wall like a tide can swallow up the entire city in an instant!

Qu Lu took a step closer to Deng Ming and lowered his voice: "The commander's order is to make our troops fake defeat."

"Our troops have been fighting with the enemy until this point and then retreating, which is enough to make the enemy not hesitate."

"Captain! Chi Zesheng has changed!"

Deng Ming was once the master of Dongling Mountain, and Qu Lu was the captain of the Chu army.

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

Deng Ming looked at the white paper in the distance, with a bit of unwillingness in his eyes, but then he became determined and ordered in a deep voice: "Pass this general's order!"

"Each crossbow shoots ten rounds, and all the rolling stones and wood will be used within three quarters of an hour!"

"In three quarters of an hour, open the south gate!"

"The ministries rushed out of the city through the south gate according to the original plan, and I personally cut off the rear!"

Deng Ming hoped to take this opportunity to earn more military merit.

But, there is nothing we can do.

If you don’t retreat, you won’t be able to retreat!

Three-quarters of an hour later, the southern gate of Zhuocheng opened wide, and two chariots rushed out at the lead. They fiercely crashed into the thicket of thieves in front, forcibly creating a gap, and thousands of Qin army infantry followed closely behind. , completely tearing apart this line of defense along the gap created by the chariot!

Seeing this, Dalai perked up and said repeatedly: "Father, the enemy army has finally left the city!"

"The enemy is relying on the city wall, so there is nothing our army can do to defeat the enemy."

"Now that the enemy has come out of the city to invite a fight, our army can completely trap this unit outside the city and completely eat it!"

But Bater said flatly: "Send orders to Hurihuti's troops to turn westward and get out of the way!"

"Let the Qin army go!"

Dalai was stunned: "Father!"

Battle's voice increased: "The Qin Army is not going out of the city to invite a fight, the Qin Army is trying to escape!"

"An excellent hunter will never push ferocious prey such as bears and tigers to a dead end. Only by giving them a way to survive and stalking them can they capture their prey while ensuring their own safety."

"It's the same thing in war."

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

Dalai nodded thoughtfully: "Father is right!"

The father and son watched from a distance as Deng Ming led the remnant army to withdraw from Zhuocheng. It was not until Deng Ming's troops fled five miles south and no Qin troops left the city that Battelle finally spoke: "Send orders to Erelchin's troops to pursue the Qin troops! "

"Don't hurt the life of this army general. I want to see that warrior in person!"

"Send an order to shout down the troops and seize the city!"

After hearing the general's order, Huriheti immediately became excited.

Those who enter the city first will be plundered first. This is a rule agreed by all Donghu tribes.

Now Battelle gave Hurihuti the opportunity to take the lead in entering the city. This was not only an honor, but also represented huge benefits!

Hurihuti shouted impatiently: "Tribesmen! Soldiers! Enter the city!"

The soldiers under Huriheti immediately climbed up the ladder and poured into the city. They removed the city gate bolts from the inside and opened the city gate that blocked Donghu for two days and one night.

Hu Riheti lightly saddled his horse, and ran into the city with his eyes shining, with fantasies of delicious food, fine wine, beautiful women, gold and silver jewelry, and armor and weapons in his heart.

But when Hu Riheti really stood on the street of Zhuocheng, he found that there was not only no smoke from cooking on both sides of the street, but even no suppressed crying!

Hu Riheti had a bad premonition in his heart, and shouted solemnly: "Enter the door and check!"

The doors of the houses were kicked open, and the Hu thieves broke into the houses and searched them roughly.

However, the news sent back by the Hu thieves from various tribes was exactly the same.

No people! No money! No food!

When Deng Ming's troops withdrew from Zhuocheng, the city turned out to be an empty city!

Hu Riheti slapped his thigh angrily: "These southerners must have known the whereabouts of us, the pride of heaven, and dismissed the people in the city early."

"The reason why the Qin army fought to the death must be to delay time for the people in the city!"

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

"Southerners, shameless!"

But, is this really an empty city?

In the dark pit supported by wooden boards under the four walls of the east, west, south and north, four dead soldiers estimated the time and took out a fire starter from their arms one after another.

After blowing a few times, the flame in the fire starter became brighter. The four dead soldiers calmly brought the fire starter close to the fuse and watched the flame climb along the fuse.

"Boom~"

The sound of air friction exploded, and four flames bloomed on the oil, and quickly climbed up the nearby haystacks, and finally spread to the tung oil that was poured all over Zhuocheng!

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

"There's a fire in the north! Hurry up and report it to the head of the household!"

"Fire! It's all fire! There's fire everywhere! This must be a trap set by the enemy, run!"

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

Huriheti, who has lived in the mountains since childhood, has seen the scene of wildfires more than once.

Every time a wildfire comes, it is a huge disaster for the Donghu.

Tall trees are burned, prey are burned to death, and tribesmen 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 are far more afraid of fire than the Chinese people.

"How could this happen!" Hu Riheti straightened his back immediately, his pupils full of shock and fear: "How could such a big fire appear!"

"Run!"

"Run!"

"Run!"

Before Hu Riheti's brain could react, his muscles had already driven his vocal cords to issue orders, and he even drove his warhorse to rush towards the south gate!

If nothing unexpected happened, with Hu Riheti's speed, he could reach the gate before the fire increased, and the horse under Hu Riheti's crotch could also take Hu Riheti across the fire snake and carry him out of the sea of ​​fire.

But the dead soldier squatting in the pit under the south wall took out a dagger from his arms and cut the thick hemp rope beside him again and again.

"Squeak~Squeak~Squeak~"

The harsh cutting sound made people's teeth ache, but in the ears of the dead soldier, it was like the most beautiful music, so that his cutting movements even had some rhythm.

When the hemp rope, which was as thick as an arm, was only as thick as a little finger, the rope could no longer withstand the huge force, and the remaining strands of hemp rope suddenly broke.

"Bang~Bang!!!"

At the end of the hemp rope, the Broken Dragon Stone, which was hanging high above the inner side of the city gate, no longer had to resist the pulling force, and fell down under the action of gravity!

Not only did it smash the two Hu thieves running under the Broken Dragon Stone into pieces, but it also set a threshold of ten feet high for the city gate.

Hu Riheti, who was riding a horse out of the city, cried out in shock: "Ah!!!"

"Bang!"

Unable to rein in the horse, the warhorse under Hu Riheti's crotch hit the Broken Dragon Stone head-on, lying on the ground and no longer able to get up.

Hu Riheti was also thrown onto the Broken Dragon Stone, but he was lucky enough not to be killed because he had taken evasive action in advance.

Hu Riheti looked back at the growing fire behind him, and then looked at the Broken Dragon Stone in front of him, his eyes full of despair.

The warhorse could not cross the boulder, so Hu Riheti could only hold on to the dents on the Broken Dragon Stone while enduring the severe pain, trying to climb out of the city.

But a piece of ground not far from the city gate suddenly opened up, and a soldier wearing cast iron half-body armor holding a long sword jumped out of the dark pit, and immediately targeted Hu Riheti with turquoise in his hair.

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

"I will avenge you today!"

Rushing forward, the soldier's face flushed abnormally, and he screamed: "Barbarian!"

"Die with me!!!"