Less than a mile away, six thousand cavalrymen suddenly screamed in pain and their horses fell to the ground. The cavalrymen behind them were so frightened that they quickly reined in their horses. Xia Houliang asked sharply: "What's going on?"
A soldier fell to the ground and groaned in pain, "There are caltrops on the ground, all of them!"
Xia Houliang was taken aback and quickly ordered his men to dismount and search. Sure enough, the ground was full of spikes and caltrops. Now the trouble was serious. Xia Houliang quickly reported it to Brother Richard.
Brother Richard said angrily: "When did the Song army lay down the caltrops? Is it today?"
Xia Houliang bowed and said: "It shouldn't be today. My humble subordinates have been observing. There is no movement from the Song army today. It should have been laid out before."
"Now, don't worry about when the caltrops were laid. Hurry up and find an exit for me. The Song Army can't block them all!"
"Follow the order!"
Xia Houliang immediately sent out a hundred teams of ten people to look for a way out in all directions. They found it soon. To the southwest, there was a rocky beach, about one mile wide and more than ten miles long, filled with piles of rocks.
The large and small rocks make it difficult for horses to move, and it is also difficult for people to walk.
But it was this rocky beach that was difficult to navigate, which became the only way for Dangxiang's army to break out of the encirclement.
They didn't care whether there would be an ambush by the Song army ahead. If there was an interception, they would rush over.
It was difficult to ride a horse on the rocky beach, so everyone dismounted and led their horses on foot. It was the third watch, and the Song Army's camp five miles away was dark, which gave the Dangxiang soldiers a sense of luck. Maybe they would be able to do it tonight.
Escape.
There was a strange smell in the air. During this time, they had smelled the smell of corpses in the city so much that they had become numb to all kinds of strange smells.
After walking for about four or five miles, countless black shadows suddenly appeared in front of them. They shot bows and arrows together. They were shooting gunpowder arrows. Hundreds of gunpowder arrows fired bright red fireworks, which were particularly bright in the night sky. Dang Xiang
The soldiers stopped one after another.
But the power of the gunpowder arrows seemed not enough. They all landed dozens of steps in front of them, but the ground suddenly burned. At this moment, Lieutenant General Shang Dongyan suddenly woke up. The smell he remembered was the smell of kerosene.
"There's kerosene on the ground!"
Shang Dongyan shouted, but it was too late. The flames spread too fast. Before they could react, the blazing flames engulfed them, and thousands of people struggled in the flames.
The war horse neighed, its mane and tail were ignited, like a ghost horse rushing out of hell, running out of the fire, but after running a few steps, it stepped on a thorn, fell to the ground, twitched, and gradually became motionless.
The soldiers were also screaming. Countless soldiers ran out of the fire with their bodies covered in flames. However, they fell down not long after running, and curled up with their whole bodies burned.
In the distance, Niu Gao sighed softly, "If the plague had not broken out, these soldiers could have gone to mine. What a pity!"
Zhe Yanzhi said coldly: "Since these party soldiers are the army, it is their fate to die on the battlefield. Niu Dutong has no need to pity them!"
At this time, thousands of Dangxiang soldiers tried to break out of the Song Army's trap, but under the intensive fire of 10,000 Song Army crossbowmen, groups of Dangxiang soldiers were shot down by arrows. Even Brother Richard was shot through by dozens of crossbow arrows.
He lost his body and fell into the fire.
The soldiers of the Song Army continued to throw hay and kerosene balls to keep the fire going. It was not until dawn that the fire gradually extinguished. Overnight, the Song Army burned more than 3,000 enemy troops to death with raging fire, and another 3,000 party troops died tragically.
Under the bow and arrow formation of the Song Army.
All six thousand people were burned to black charcoal, and it was impossible to tell who was Brother Richard and who was Bari Zuren. The soldiers of the Song Army simply dug a big and deep pit and buried them all.
Although the west city gate was wide open and a fire burned all night outside the city, there was always silence inside the city and no one escaped.
At this moment, Zhe Yanzhi and others got the news that King Yong Chen Qing had led his army twenty miles away. Zhe Yanzhi and others could not take care of the county town for the time being, and immediately rushed to welcome King Yong twenty miles away.
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Flags are fluttering, spears are like a forest, 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 camels are like a long dragon, lying on the endless grassland.
The sunshine in Fuzhou was more dazzling than that in the southeastern part of Henan Province. Chen Qing held up his hand curtains and looked towards the city in the distance, and could faintly see the outline of Fugu County.
"Your Highness, they are coming!"
Yang Zaixing saw a group of cavalry running towards this side from a distance.
This time Chen Qing did not let Yang Zaixing go to the battle. Yang Zaixing felt uncomfortable. He heard that King Yong was going to Fuzhou to inspect the war situation. Yang Zaixing worked hard and Chen Qing had to agree to go with him.
After a while, the cavalry came closer. The man at the front was Zhang Xiao. Although Zhang Xiao was a military advisor, he was qualified to serve in the Internal Affairs Hall and could come back as a counselor at any time. He was the person with the highest official position in this Northern Expedition.
Zhang Xiao stepped forward and saluted, "See His Highness King Yong!"
Chen Qing sighed with emotion: "Military advisor, we haven't seen each other for almost two years!"
"Beizi went to Lingzhou to take up a post the year before last year. It has not been more than two years. In fact, Beizi returned to Jingzhao Mansion a few months ago, but His Highness happened to go to Lin'an and was not able to see him."
Chen Qing nodded, "Hedong Road is on the right track. The military advisor should return to Jingzhao first!"
"It will take about half a year for Rong Beizhi to make proper arrangements for the salt-iron transfer on Hedong Road."
"Okay!" Chen Qing did not force Zhang Xiao.
At this time, Zhe Yanzhi and Niu Gao came forward to salute, and Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "Zhe Dutong, did the army capture Fugu County?"
Zhe Yanzhi said quickly: "Reporting to your highness, last night the goddess tried to break out, but we used fire attacks and crossbows to annihilate them all. No one was left. However, the situation inside the city is unknown, and the soldiers did not dare to enter."
"It is wise for soldiers not to go in. Once infected, the consequences will be disastrous. This time I have brought 500 doctors and a large number of herbal medicines to allow the doctors to go into the city and take a look."
Niu Gao said from the side: "I have an idea. I can ask the soldiers to call the people out on the city wall. After understanding the situation in the city, we can then formulate a plan to enter the city."
Chen Qing nodded, "This plan is good and can be implemented!"
Twenty thousand cavalry went to the camp to rest. Zhe Yanzhi sent thousands of soldiers to climb the stairs to the city and shouted in Dangxiang language from the top of the city: "There is medicine outside the city. You can survive if you go out of the west city!"
It did have an effect. A quarter of an hour later, people began to come out of the city one after another. Most of them were women and children, some were sick, and some were just weak. Some soldiers were handing out steamed buns on plates by the roadside. After receiving the steamed buns, the women and children in the party
Carrying the old and the young, we continued walking along a wooden plank road toward the resettlement camp.
Not long after, Li Muqing stepped forward and reported to Chen Qing, "The military doctor asked about the situation in the city. It is very serious. Most of the people are dead, but nearly a million cattle and sheep are fine, and none of them are infected."
Chen Qing pondered for a moment and asked: "How much lime do we have left?"
"There are still many more, hundreds of thousands of kilograms."
"First use quicklime to pave a road on both sides of the east and west. The soldiers take precautions and follow the doctor into the city. As long as there are still people alive, they will first use carts to pull out the people, and then burn the entire county with fire. You know what I mean.
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"I understand that the soldiers drank the medicine and then covered their mouths and noses with thick cloths before going in."
Chen Qing nodded, "Everyone must wear leather gloves, and eventually these gloves will be burned!"
Li Muching agreed and went to implement it.
At this time, Niugao led tens of thousands of soldiers to clear away iron caltrops. The Song army's method of clearing iron caltrops was very simple. They used powerful magnetite. The soldiers pushed carts loaded with iron ore and walked on the grass. Wherever they passed,
All the tiny caltrops were sucked into the cart, and none of them escaped the net.
At the same time, tightly packed soldiers and military doctors drove into the city in carts and spread lime on the streets. They started shouting from house to house. People kept crawling out of the house and struggling for help. After the soldiers sprayed lime powder,
Lift people onto the cart.
Hundreds more soldiers of the Song Army opened Nancheng and drove out the millions of cattle and sheep raised in Nancheng. Nancheng was safe, no common people lived here, and none of the more than 300 civilians responsible for taking care of the cattle and sheep were infected.
After a whole day of busy work, more than 24,000 people were rescued, most of whom were infected with the plague. Only 24,000 people were left out of more than 100,000 people. This severe plague was really tragic.
At night, a raging fire broke out in Fugu City. Millions of tons of fodder were all turned into fire starters. Song soldiers dumped thousands of barrels of kerosene.
The fire engulfed the entire Fugu City.
This also means the complete destruction of the remnants of Xixia.
