Many Caohai soldiers were buried in the sea of fire, and some of them died without making a sound. The most miserable thing was that the flames of the soldiers were stuck to their bodies through oil, and they were slowly burning to death one by one. They cried before they died.
The shout was simply the demonic sound of hell, conveying the deepest fear and despair in his heart to everyone who could hear it.
If this fire breaks out, the entire camp will cease to exist.
There was a hillside a few miles away from the rear camp. The surviving soldiers of Dagan gathered behind Li Luo and Xiong Biting, silently looking at the camp that reflected half of the sky red. The howls before death could still be heard from such a distance.
, where the fire was most intense, the flames were several feet high, and the sound of explosions could be heard from time to time. Abi Hell was nothing more than that.
The pungent smoke drifted over. I don't know if it was because of random thoughts or other reasons. It seemed that the smell of burnt meat could be smelled from the smoke. There was also the nauseating smell of oil smoke, which made many soldiers unable to help vomiting.
Get up. Xiong Biting's face is also a little pale. Fire attack, entrapment and killing are the most cruel and common methods in the battle between the two armies. Watching each living person struggling and crying in the sea of fire, and finally gradually fell silent.
, turned into sections of charcoal, everyone would be frightened. There are only a few people like Li Luo who look calm and calm.
The fire could not be extinguished for a moment. In order to set up the ambush that burned the entire camp, Li Luo used up all the gunpowder and kerosene in the camp. Even the fat in the kitchen in the back camp was used to fuel the fire.
This fire not only stopped the Caohai Allied Forces from moving south, but also burned a military camp of the Dingbei Army to the ground, leaving not even a grain of rice or a blade of grass left.
In the summer, things are dry, and the fires are burning more unbridled. People outside can't get in, and people inside can't get out. There are no stars or moon tonight, and the valley and wilderness in the distance are covered with a layer of blood red by the fire. At a glance, this
The camp in the blazing flames is like a blooming red lotus of the apocalypse, enchanting and dazzling.
Li Luo looked at the fire in the distance with neither sadness nor joy. He must have noticed such a raging flame standing on the top of Jianbei City.
Suddenly, Li Luo's forehead felt cold, and the wind around him suddenly became a little cooler. Li Luo sighed sadly and said calmly: "Withdraw the troops."
Xiong Biting didn't want to stay in this place for a long time. Hearing this, he shouted: "Withdraw troops!"
The soldiers turned around and marched in the direction of Jianbei City. Just a few steps away, a soldier exclaimed: "Hey, it's raining!"
A light rain began to fall in the sky, and the wind cooled quickly. Soon the rain would fall even harder, enough to extinguish the fire in the military camp behind him.
Xiong Biting ordered all the soldiers to step up their march and retreat to the Dagan front as soon as possible. The Caohai coalition forces were blocked and suffered heavy casualties. It was hard to guarantee that after the fire was extinguished, the grassy people in the northern frontier would not hold grudges and pursue them at night. Now, if they join together first, there will be more.
Share peace.
Li Luo was taciturn and rarely spoke. Others thought that Li Luo was annoyed by the sudden rain and did not dare to speak. However, Li Luo did not have such thoughts. The rain had been expected as early as possible.
Tonight, or at the latest the next morning, it will rain, big or small. The plan of the Burning Battalion was something Li Luo only thought of not long ago. If it rained earlier, there would be no Burning Battalion.
Li Luo was not sure how many soldiers could escape. In front of heaven and earth, human power is extremely small and fragile. We should not expect that the rain will not fall, but we should be glad that the rain will fall a little late. No matter what, we should have it.
It’s right to be content.
As expected, the rain soon became heavier. The Caohai soldiers who rushed into the camp should not have been killed, but many of them should have survived. Thinking of this, Li Luo breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably, even though he didn't notice it.
arrive.
In this night's battle, not counting the soldiers led by General Guan Yue who robbed the camp, Xiong Biting had less than 20,000 soldiers left in the camp, and currently there were less than 5,000 soldiers following General Li Luo.
Including those who were separated, those who sneaked away from the camp, the cooks, doctors, and the old, weak, sick and disabled who had been sent away by Li Luo before, there were only about seven or eight thousand soldiers who were lucky enough to survive, and the remaining more than ten thousand soldiers were all killed on the battlefield.
.This fire not only burned the Caohai Allied Forces, but also burned the remains of the Dagan soldiers.
In the early morning, everyone met the soldiers of the forward battalion sent by the Dingbei Army. The fire last night did attract the attention of the rear army. However, without military orders, the camp generals did not dare to act without authorization. They just sent out the forward scout battalion first, and the army prepared.
But he didn't leave the camp.
Fortunately, the Caohai cavalry did not pursue them. It seems that the fire last night also caused serious damage to the Caohai coalition forces and weakened their vitality.
Li Luo and Xiong Biting led their troops to the rear army camp. This time, Jianbeicheng did not embarrass Li Luo again. Everyone had just rested for a while, and just after noon, a military order came from Jianbeicheng, ordering the generals of the rear army and the front army.
The remnants of Xiong Biting's troops immediately returned to Jianbeicheng and retreated without any mistakes.
The front camp was lost, Guan Yue's life and death were unknown, and the rear army generals really did not have the courage to stand between Jianbeicheng and the Caohai coalition forces. When they saw Prince Chun's military order, they couldn't help but feel relieved, and then they put their worries back.
The rear army general's surname was Zhang Mingyan, and he was also one of the 12 generals in the Dingbei Army. However, he was ranked lower and not as famous as Mu Guisai and Guan Yue. Zhang Yan reported the meaning of the Ming military order to Li Luo and Xiong Biting, and Xiong Biting
Without comment, the remnant troops under his command are of no use if they stay here. It would be best if they could go back. Li Luo had long seen that the front and rear fronts deployed by the Dingbei Army were of no use, so he sent a sheep into the tiger's mouth in vain. Although he is withdrawing now,
It was late, but it was better to remedy the situation than to have one's own way, so I didn't say anything more and just let Zhang Yan act as ordered.
The soldiers of the rear army abandoned the camp and took away everything they could, and burned everything they could not take away. It rained heavily last night, and everything in the camp was a little damp. Although the fire started, the intensity of the fire was not high.
It was not big, but the thick smoke was billowing, covering the sky and the sun. Fortunately, the wind direction was from the southeast, and the thick smoke drifted to the Qiuque Mansion area, and did not choke the soldiers who abandoned the camp.
Before they arrived at Jianbei City, I don't know whether it was Prince Chun or King Hui who ordered them to send the city's guards several times to tell Li Luo to return to the city first. Li Luo delayed for a few days, waiting for the army to enter the boundary of Jianbei.
Together with Taishu Gugu and Su Xiaoniang, they bid farewell to Xiong Biting and Zhang Yan and rushed back to Jianbeicheng.
When they arrived outside the city, there was a group of people waiting here. It seemed that they had left the city very early to wait for them. When Li Luo saw them, they were all listless, sitting in twos and threes by the roadside.
The leader was an official in the same dynasty as Li Luo. For a period of time, he and Li Luo were in the same yamen. Zhongshu ordered the official Yan Fengming.