398 Burning the City
On the city tower of Junyang County, the archers immediately opened their bows and shot arrows to cover Ling Cao and others into the city.
But Zhou Tai led more than a thousand cavalry to chase after him, and tightly bit Ling Cao's troops.
Ling Cai fled back to the city desperately and shouted to retreat on the city tower. The young man with silver helmet and silver armor that had originally stood on the city tower was nowhere to be seen.
Ling Cao ran wildly, and the soldiers behind him followed closely, not making any obstacles, but rushed towards another city gate.
When he ran to the county government office, the young man with silver helmet and silver armor suddenly appeared beside Ling Cao and said to Ling Cao: "Father, you are all ready. As long as the enemy dares to enter the city, they will definitely be wiped out."
Ling Fu nodded and said to the silver-armored boy: "Tong'er, thank you for your hard work. Take people out of here quickly, and leave the rest to Yu's father."
The silver-armored boy was nothing but Ling Tong, the son of Ling Fu. Ling Tong was only twelve years old, but his physical development was extremely good. He had grown into an adult, but he could not block the immatureness on his face.
This time, impersonating Sun Quan is Ling Tong's mission.
When Ling Tong heard Ling Fu say this, he was shocked and asked, "Father, aren't you leaving?"
Ling Cao said: "Zhou Tai is a powerful general in the enemy army. He must try to get rid of him. You should take people away first so that people can see the flaws."
"If my father doesn't leave, I won't leave!" Ling Tong said stubbornly.
"Bastard! This is a military order! There is no father and son in the army. You are my soldier, so you must obey my orders! And you are the most critical person, and you don't escape. How can the enemy chase after you? If the enemy sees the flaws, our efforts will be wasted. Do you want to fail this operation because of me alone?" Ling Cao scolded sternly.
"But, father..."
"Nothing is true!" Ling Cao said, turning his head and saying to the twenty followers behind him, "Protect Ling Tong from the city and must escort him to a safe place!"
The twenty followers behind Ling Cai answered in unison: "Here!"
Immediately afterwards, these twenty followers surrounded Ling Tong and left the county town of Hanyang. Ling Tong stayed near the county government in Hanyang County and gathered his subordinates again. He said to his subordinates: "This battle is the battle of life and death in Jiangdong. Whether it can be won depends entirely on you. If anyone is afraid of life and death, please leave here as soon as possible. I will never stop you. But if you choose to stay, you must put life and death aside. At that time, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
As soon as Ling Cao finished speaking, the more than 500 soldiers around him looked at each other, and more than a hundred of them were shaken. If he wanted to leave, Ling Cao gave up the road and let them out of the city. The remaining four hundred soldiers expressed their willingness to advance and retreat with Ling Cao, even if they died, they were not afraid.
Ling Cao then organized the four hundred people and blocked the streets, preparing to fight with Zhou Tai, drag Zhou Tai as much as possible, and then allow more enemies to enter the city.
At the same time, Ling Cao sent another person to go outside the city to inform him and prepare the ambush outside the city. In a quarter of an hour, he would come out of the city and hope that the ambush outside the city would respond!
Immediately afterwards, Ling Cao commanded many tables and chairs from the surrounding houses, blocking the entire passage. He and his subordinates lined up behind the obstacles, drawing bows and arrows, waiting to be shot.
Zhou Tai led his army into the city and killed the soldiers who resisted him. When he arrived near the county government, he saw that the road was filled with obstacles and could not pass through. He vaguely saw the situation opposite from the gap between the obstacles.
But seeing Ling Cao organizing about three or four hundred subordinates, all waiting to shoot. After Zhou Tai realized the danger, he immediately ordered: "Hide quickly!"
Just as Zhou Tai ordered, hundreds of arrows shot into the air, drew a graceful arc in the sky, and then flew towards the dense crowd blocking the streets.
"ah……"
A cluster of arrows fell, and some Yangzhou soldiers were caught off guard and were shot by arrows. Some were shot to death by one arrow, while others were shot to death by arrows, and they let out a burst of wail.
"Disast away quickly!" Zhou Tai ordered loudly, and the congested soldiers on the road dispersed into the buildings on both sides, looking for cover.
Zhou Tai hid behind the wall of a private house and called two soldiers under his command, and ordered them to take a team of people around from the left and right wings, and he stayed here to attract the enemy.
After the order was issued, Zhou Tai and others divided into three groups. Zhou Tai stayed here to organize archers to shoot at the opposite side, while his two Simas of the army led three or five hundred people, one left and one right, detoured from the side.
"Swoosh swish swish swish..."
Zhou Tai and Ling Cao began to shoot at each other, and the arrows were coming and going, and both sides suffered casualties, but Zhou Tai had many soldiers, and the soldiers behind were still pouring in into the city, which had a great advantage in terms of military strength.
At this moment, the two Simas of Zhou Tai's army detoured from left to right and attacked Ling Cao directly from the side. After Zhou Tai heard the sound of fighting in front, he immediately rushed up.
Although the avenue was blocked, Zhou Tai rode his horse and detoured through the alley on the side. Before he could run there, Ling Cao suddenly ordered the withdrawal of his troops, and hundreds of remaining soldiers rushed toward the city gate.
Zhou Tai was not willing to give up. While letting people clear obstacles on the road, he led people to chase him.
Zhou Tai rode his horse through the county government and was about to reach the city gate. He suddenly found something was wrong. The city of Junyang County was in a mess, and no people were seen in the city. Apart from this, he did not encounter the so-called army, and he fought around, and it seemed that only the thousand soldiers led by Ling Cai were the ones.
Zhou Tai hurriedly grabbed the horses and looked back. The streets and alleys in the city were filled with his subordinates, and they became more and more crowded, with at least more than 10,000 people.
Zhou Tai was shocked and suddenly had an unknown premonition. Just as he was about to issue an order, Ling Cao and his men had already rushed out of the town of Hanyang County. After a while, tens of thousands of rockets suddenly shot from the west of the town of Hanyang County, with Mars arrows covering the entire sky, densely packed.
"Oh no, I've been trapped! Leave the county town quickly, leave the county town quickly!" Zhou Tai looked up and saw the sky full of sparks. The dense rockets were flying towards the city quickly. He shouted loudly while running forward.
Zhou Tai and hundreds of cavalrymen followed him. When he just ran to the city gate, tens of thousands of rockets landed in the town of Junyang County. In just a moment, a fire suddenly ignited in the town of Junyang County. The fire spread rapidly around the ground with the traces of some liquids, gradually forming a sea of fire.
"ah……"
In an instant, the people in the city were overturned, and the fire quickly formed a raging fire, quickly swallowing everything in the city, gradually forming raging fire dragons, opening their bloody mouths, stretching out their burning tongues of fire, swallowing everything in the city into the mouth of the fire dragon.
Chen Deng, who was watching the battle on the other side of the county town, had a happy smile on his face, but when he saw the fire in the county town soaring into the sky and the smoke rolling, many soldiers rushed out of the city gate, with burning marks everywhere on his body. But just a moment later, the fire dragon sealed the city gate, and the entire county town became a fire scene, screaming endlessly.
At this moment, Chen Deng was shocked. He never expected that this would happen. He stood there for a moment, not knowing what to do.
Before Chen Deng could react, bursts of shouts came from all directions at the same time. Groups of people with white cloth straps wrapped around their heads and white cloth appeared and rushed towards Chen Deng.
Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Sun Ben, Sun He, Chen Wu and Dong Xi, led their respective teams to fight out from seven different directions, forming a huge pocket, surrounding Chen Deng and his subordinates, and directly ahead was the town of Zhenyang County burning with fire.
Chen Deng never dreamed that he would encounter such a situation. He immediately commanded his headquarters to defend, but it was too late. Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Sun Ben, Sun He, Chen Wu, Dong Xi and others rushed quickly. Without waiting for Chen Deng to give the order, the army had already arrived in front of him and collided with Chen Deng's army directly.
Chen Deng and others were caught off guard. Although Chen Deng tried his best to order the army to maintain the battle, his army had too many people and the scope of his orders was very limited. Only one or two thousand people around him could know his orders very clearly. The remaining more than 10,000 people could not understand Chen Deng's orders, so they fell into chaos for a moment.
At the same time, Zhou Tai led more than 300 cavalrymen to escape from the county town by luck, but they just left the wolf's nest and fell into the tiger's mouth again. Zhu Huan, Zhu Ran, Ling Cao, Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang and others who had been ambushing outside the city led their troops to kill Zhou Tai.
Zhou Tai was outnumbered and could not resist it, so he quickly led the cavalry to find Chen Deng. He walked around half of the county town, and screams and fighting kept coming from his ears.
When Zhou Tai saw Chen Deng's troops, he found that Chen Deng was suffering from fierce attacks from the enemy. Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Sun Ben, Sun He, Chen Wu, and Dong Zhi all appeared here. The Yangzhou army was in chaos, and Chen Deng was surrounded.
Seeing this, Zhou Tai immediately took his subordinates to rescue Chen Deng.
Cheng Pu and Han Dang joined forces to attack Chen Deng. Chen Deng's command calmly responded to the battle. With the help of the military armor, some unfavorable factors will be temporarily eliminated, and almost formed a confrontation with Cheng Pu and Han Dang.
However, Cheng Pu and Han Dang are both brave and good at fighting. No one in Chen Deng's army can resist. Seeing Cheng Pu and Han Dang gradually killing Chen Deng, Chen Deng was powerless.
At this moment, Zhou Tai led his army to come from behind, and his sword fell, and his heads fell to the ground. Zhou Tai's sword skills were superb, and his subordinates were all elite soldiers in a hundred battles. After a lot of hard rushing, he finally tore a crack and rushed to Chen Deng. He took Chen Deng out and asked to search for astronomy. The novel was better and faster!
Chapter completed!