Where are the people? Could it be that they have already run away in advance?
That's wrong! How could the Qin people know that the Xiongnu and Yuezhi would go south, and leave early?
However, looking at the empty streets in the city, a man named Yuezhi could not explain why all the Qin people in the city disappeared.
Just when a man named Yuezhi was crowded in the streets of the city, puzzled.
Just outside other city gates, the Yuezhi army looked at the closed city gates and surrounded Gaonu City.
Within the city.
Several Yueshi men followed the empty houses all the way to the city ladder. They looked at the blocked city ladder with puzzled faces.
Several men looked at each other with curiosity. One of the Yuezhi men came to the city ladder, stretched out his hand to touch the black liquid on the wooden shelf, and smelled it.
Just when I was about to speak.
Suddenly, the man saw black smoke suddenly coming out of the tower, and black smoke was also coming out of other places on the tower.
"I was going to the Qin State cavalry in Gaonu before."
Princess Yangjin was asking the people of Qin brought over by her subordinates about the whereabouts of the Bai family's cavalry. However, before she could finish her words, she saw black smoke suddenly rising from the city walls.
Seeing this scene, not to mention Princess Yangjin, even Touman Shanyu looked at him in confusion.
next moment.
Under the gazes of Princess Yangjin and Touman Shanyu, suddenly at the city gate, the Yuezhi army pouring into the city were suddenly knocked to the ground by huge wooden barrels and wooden frames.
Accompanied by a loud noise, the city gate was in panic, and all the Yuezhi men who had not entered were forced to exit.
Before Princess Yangjin and Touman Chanyu could react, they saw several flaming objects suddenly falling from the city gate.
In an instant.
The bodies of the Yuezhi people who had just been knocked down were all blazing with fire.
Along with the screams, even some Yuezhi people who were not hit were instantly burned by the flames and kept screaming and running wildly.
"ah!!"
"ah!"
Along with the miserable wails and seeing the chaos at the city gate, both Princess Yangjin and Touman Shanyu immediately thought of an ambush.
However, by this time I thought it was already too late.
Inside the city road on the Gaonu city wall.
A cavalry general wearing Qin armor drew his sword and gave the order.
Suddenly, a Qin official who had been hiding in the city road took a torch, stood up and threw it towards the wooden house in the city.
The squatting cavalry soldiers wearing Qin armor and holding crossbows also stood up, pointed the arrows with burning tips at the wooden house, and pulled the trigger.
From outside to inside.
Under the horrified gazes of countless Yuezhi people at the city gate, messy torches and rockets one after another fell on the wooden house, and all the nearby houses immediately burned.
The fire grew from small to large and spread to other houses at a rapid speed.
"Run!"
"run!"
When the city is empty and there is nothing to loot, when you see an ambush on the city wall, the excitement subsides and reason returns to your mind, followed by panic.
As long as they are not stupid, every Yuezhi person will know after seeing this scene that the people on the top of the city want to set fire to them.
Burn this city together!!!
All Yuezhi people panicked, every Yuezhi person's face was filled with fear, and every Yuezhi person was rushing to leave the city.
However, the fire at the gate of the city wall was already burning more fiercely than inside the city.
Looking at the city road above the city gate, a Qin man kept throwing wooden barrels downwards. Dozens of Yuezhi people, including their horses, were burned by the flames, and then they let out miserable screams.
.
See the situation.
How happy we were when we went south, how excited we were when we entered the city, but how desperate the Yuezhi people are now.
Looking around, visible to the naked eye, all the houses were ablaze with raging fires. Thick smoke rose into the sky. The fires spread at an extremely fast speed. All the Yuezhi people crowded together in the city were in chaos.
Seeing that it was impossible to leave the North City Gate and seeing that the fire was close at hand, all the Yuezhi people had no choice but to start rushing towards the city, hoping to break out from other city gates.
However, right now in the city, with thick smoke rising from the direction of the city wall, a white-haired old man jumped out of nowhere in the city.
The old men varied in age, but without exception, they were all dressed in coarse cloth. They all held a burning torch in their wrinkled palms. They started burning from their own houses, then ran out of their houses and lit the moon in front of the street.
In front of the family, he held the torch to the house opposite.
The result of these skinny old men doing this was naturally to be killed by the Yuezhi people.
However, the house where the old man came out just now was already burning with raging fire, getting bigger and bigger, spreading to the surrounding houses.
If the fire spread from the city wall in the beginning, then due to these old men, raging fires have begun to burn everywhere in the city, spreading from the inside out.
On top of Gaonu City.
Like other cavalry generals, Jiang Shang held the Qin sword and stood in the city road, looking at the raging fire in the city.
Seeing the houses burning one after another, the fire was taller than the houses and spreading towards the city. Jiang Shang knew that, just like the forest fires, no one could stop the fire in the city at the moment.
"ah!!"
"ah!"
Jiang Shang listened to the screams of countless Yuezhi people in the city, turned around and walked towards the other side of the city.
After a few steps, he came to the city wall and stood next to a famous cavalry soldier. Jiang Shang, wearing Qin armor, looked straight at the huge Huns army outside the city.
Outside Gaonu City.
Princess Yangjin of the Yuezhi saw an iron knight soldier on the top of the city and looked at the thick smoke in the sky. She immediately understood that the Qin people wanted to set fire to the city and burn all the Yuezhi people in the city.
Princess Yangjin, who had rarely been afraid since she was a child, felt fear for the first time.
The fire burned tens of thousands of people and burned down a city together. She had never seen anyone so cruel!
Are the Qin people crazy? There are so many Qin people in the city.
wrong!
Since the Qin people dared to burn the city, maybe there were no Qin people in the city from the beginning!
Think of this.
Princess Yangjin still doesn’t know that there may only be tens of thousands of people from the Yuezhi tribe in the city at this moment!!
"Attack the city and save people!"
Princess Yangjin's eyes turned red when she heard the pitiful wails of the people in the city. She turned around and ordered her subordinates to climb into the city and save people.
As Princess Yangjin finished speaking, the people of the Yuezhi tribe began to take action.
Princess Yangjin only had one doubt in her mind at this moment: why did the Qin army know that the Yuezhi and Xiongnu armies were going south, and why the Qin people had left early and the Qin army had already ambushed here.
With doubts, Princess Yangjin turned her head, listening to the miserable voices of the people in the city, her beautiful eyes looked straight at Touman Chanyu in the distance.
It was Touman Chanyu who proposed the idea of uniting to move south.
At this moment, Touman Chanyu looked at the tower with a shocked expression. Touman Chanyu did not expect that there would be an ambush here in Gaonu.
Moreover, the ambushers even planned to burn down Gaonu City altogether.
"Chanyu! What should we do?"
Not only Touman Chanyu, but also the other Huns saw the huge black smoke rising in the city at this moment, and their eyes were full of fear.
Seeing the huge flames burning at the city gate, it was only then that each of the Huns in the Xiongnu army suddenly recalled that those tribesmen who advocated not provoking Qin once said that the Qin people
not to be trifled.
Moreover, the Zhao State that defeated them before was killed by hundreds of thousands of Qin State just a few decades ago.
The Qin general who led it was named Bai Qi!
The cavalry army stationed in Shangjun is the Bai family's cavalry, and its generals are all descendants of the Qin general Bai Qi.
The Huns should not be provoked.
"Quick, water, put out the fire with water!"
"Water, get all the water out to put out the fire!"
Listening to countless shouts, each Huns looked at the huge black smoke rising from the city, and then watched the panicked Yuezhi tribe in the distance constantly taking water to put out the fire at the city gate.
All the Huns were thankful in their hearts that they did not enter the city.
Otherwise, they are the ones who will be burned to death in the city now!
"No! Sanjia! You immediately lead the people of your tribe to guard Qianshan Pass and Yunshan Pass!"
Touman Shanyu looked at the Qin soldiers who showed no fear at the top of the city, and immediately thought that since the Qin army had ambushed here in advance, there must be back-ups, and they might even have surrounded them here.
Touman Shanyu's forehead was covered with cold sweat at this moment.
Seeing the tens of thousands of people from the Yuezhi tribe in the city in front of him, all trapped in the city and about to be burned to death, Touman Shanyu thought that it was possible that behind them, the Qin army was ready to cut off their retreat.
"Sanjia obeys!"
Sangjia, who had been standing aside, quickly rode away after hearing Touman Shanyu's words, leading more than 10,000 people from the tribe back along the original road.
After Touman Shanyu watched Sangjia leave, he turned to look at Princess Yangjin in the distance.
Only then did Touman Shanyu notice that Princess Yangjin had been staring at him.
When Touman Chanyu saw this scene, he still didn't understand. Now that tens of thousands of people from the Yuezhi tribe were trapped in the city by the fire, Princess Yangjin had already suspected him.
Thinking of the Yuezhi, the Huns have always had friction. Now that the two tribes have finally united, there must be no doubts at this time, otherwise they will not be able to continue southward, and no one will trust the other.
Touman Shanyu knew that without the Yueshi, the Xiongnu tribe alone would not be able to break through the defense line of Qin Shangjun.
However, when he was about to defend himself, suddenly Touman Chanyu discovered that the Qin army on the tower had disappeared just like the one who had been ambushed before.