At night, there was a sound of fighting in Youxin City.
Blood and limbs were sprayed everywhere, the sound of steel knives cutting into the human body made people's teeth sore, and the screams of dying stimulated people's eardrums and brain.
The screams could be heard clearly outside the city.
Ren Baqian sat side by side with the Empress outside the Luanjia, enjoying the night wind and the smell of blood brought by the night wind from a distance.
"Sing a song for me!" the empress said suddenly.
"I can sing Little Star!" Ren Baqian cheered up.
The ears of the little Luoli Tonglan in the distance moved, just now she caught a sentence in the night wind.
"Little Xingxing..." Tonglan gritted her teeth, she beat up all the students in the academy, and no one knew what Little Xingxing was.
"You sing, I'll listen!" the empress said lightly, looking up at the night sky.
"Twinkling and twinkling, the sky is full of small stars, hanging in the sky to shine brightly, like many small eyes..." Ren Baqian hummed softly.
The empress didn't think the song was naive, but felt a different kind of warmth, just like the song she was listening to in her mother's arms, but the memory was too long, so long that she couldn't even remember it, but when she heard the song, she suddenly She pulled it out from the depths of her memory.
"When the war is settled, I will go back to the mountains to have a look." The Empress said.
"Sixty thousand mountains?" Ren Baqian stopped humming and asked.
The empress nodded slightly.
"Why do you suddenly have such an idea?"
"It is said that my mother's tomb is in the mountain, and she has never seen what I look like now." The empress was so emotional.
"At that time, I will go down with your Majesty to have a look. But if you want to finish the battle, you have to scare Daxia." Ren Baqian said.
"Aren't you planning something with that Da Xia person?" the Empress asked.
"As I told His Majesty back then, when the Great Xia is in chaos, we will be safe. And with 100 million taels of silver, we can do a lot of things." Ren Baqian said.
The empress nodded and stopped talking.
"Actually, there is no need to finish the war. As long as there is a radio station, it will not affect the handling of government affairs wherever you go." Ren Baqian laughed.
"It can't be used here!" the empress said lightly.
"Uh..." Ren Baqian opened his mouth, who would have thought that the Land of Sky View would be so weird, and such a large area would be a place of silence.
At this time, several figures passed through the city and rushed towards the place where Ren Baqian and the Empress were.
"Lord Ren, urgent news!" Zuo Leng said loudly in front of Ren Baqian and the Empress.
"explain!"
"My lord, the news was left by Fengping Daohucheng."
Immediately, Ren Baqian's mind flashed through the person Zuo Leng had mentioned two days ago, who was serving as a school lieutenant under Tie Zihe's command. At this time, the news came back, and he didn't know what happened.
"The rebels are going to set fire to the city!" Zuo Leng said in a cold voice, he was shocked when he saw the news just now, and then he was extremely angry. He was born and bred in the land of heaven and earth. Although it is understandable for the two armies to use any means to fight, they did not expect them to be so ruthless.
"What are they going to do?" Ren Baqian's face became serious.
"According to the information left by Hucheng, the rebels placed a lot of fire igniters in various parts of the city, and set fire to the city just after they led our army to the depths of the city. I just checked and saw it in many places. Oil tanks and dry firewood are mostly in some corners or in yards, and it is difficult to find them if they are not known in advance.
My lord, most of the houses in Youxin City are made of wood, as long as the fire burns together, it will be difficult to control. Not only did our army suffer heavy casualties, but even the people in the city had difficulty escaping! "
The oil tank here is filled with animal fat.
"Didn't the people in the city evacuate first?" Ren Baqian was a little surprised.
"No, otherwise you will find something wrong as soon as you enter the city."
"It's really cruel and poisonous!" Ren Baqian laughed suddenly, and the laughter was a bit cold. "The dog jumped the wall in a hurry, these rebels actually let hundreds of thousands of people from the whole city come to be buried with them, it's really crazy!"
"My lord, what should we do?" Zuo Leng asked.
"Here's an order, all the people in the Protectorate's Mansion will first take away the oil tanks on both sides of the main road, pile up the firewood in one place and keep them guarded, so as to ensure that the army will be safe when they evacuate. Afterwards, they will use the main road as the axis to spread around, mainly searching for oil. Can." Ren Baqian said in a deep voice.
You must know that most of the cities burned to death were not burned to death, but suffocated by the smoke.
Even though he was not burned, he would die from inhalation of a large amount of carbon monoxide, lack of oxygen and other reasons.
As long as the main road can be guaranteed to be safe, at least some more time can be bought so that the army can withdraw from it. After that, the oil tanks in other places will be taken away. Without the oil tanks, even if there is a fire, it will not be difficult to clean up immediately.
"yes!"
"Your Majesty, what do you think?" Ren Baqian turned his head and asked.
"Notify Flying Cavalry to block the city gates in the other three directions, and block the rebels in the city." The Empress said coldly. Originally, in order to reduce casualties, they planned to leave two doors to allow them to escape, and then chase them all the way.
Now the Empress has changed her mind.
"Your Majesty, if that's the case, I'm afraid they won't burn the city, but will focus on their lives. I'm afraid the casualties will be much higher in the end. It's better to block the three city gates when they start to light the fire." Ren Baqian looked at Said coldly.
"What you sow reaps the cause, and what you sow reaps the fruit. Originally, I hadn't thought of doing this, but since they want to set fire to the city, then I can't blame others, let them perish with this Youxin city!"
"My lord, the people in that city..." Although Zuo Leng's name was cold, his heart was warm, and he was shocked when he heard Ren Baqian's words.
"Notify Xi Duhu of this matter, let him reduce the intensity of the attack, delay the time, and then strengthen the attack after most of the oil tanks in the south of the city are transported away. As for the common people, you will send people to the other three directions at that time The people fled from the south of the city. How many can escape depends on their fate."
Zuo Leng was very grateful for the arrangement.
Unexpectedly, the three native forces made such a plan to burn the city, allowing hundreds of thousands of people in the city to be buried in flames, just to prevent the ancient army from discovering the problem in advance. But Ren Baqian, the boss who always felt cruel to him, left a way for the people in the city to survive.
Although there will inevitably be a lot of casualties in this way, it can already be said that there are countless living people.
"Tell these words to General Xi. Let people pay attention to the movement of the rebels from a high place. If they find that the three gates are impassable after the fire starts, and a large number of troops want to break out towards the south gate, they will intercept immediately. As for You, after leading the civilians to flee towards the south of the city, wandered around the city to intercept and kill small groups of rebels!"
"Understood, my lord." Zuo Leng said. Pity
"Go. Find a way to contact Hucheng and let him leave." Ren Baqian said lightly, turned his head to look at the Empress and said, "Your Majesty, although we can keep the rebels here, it's a pity that we can't keep the leader of the rebels."