At this moment, the southeast wind was blowing hard, and the raging fire could not be controlled at all.
In this situation, only a fool would let someone put out the fire.
In the art of war, when the enemy is strong, we retreat; when the enemy is tired, we attack.
Only a fool would play games to defeat the weak.
In fact, in every war from ancient times to the present, there is no true sense of the weak defeating the strong.
The winner is the strong one!
The loser, the strength he showed before was just a show-off.
To put it more honestly, a strong person with a fierce appearance but a weak heart is like a paper tiger or a silver pewter spear head.
Xu Laoer immediately asked people to organize the people to evacuate. The fire would burn if it wanted to.
Of course, Xu Laoer would not let the fire burn like this. He had to make some partitions or something. But even if you want to make partitions, you have to find a suitable terrain to save time and effort.
Otherwise, if the partition is halfway done and the fire comes over, all the efforts will be wasted.
As Xu Laoer's order was conveyed, the people of Shicheng County, whether they were in the city or in the villages outside the city, quickly packed up their things and moved away from the sea of fire.
Anyone who is not a fool would understand that such a huge fire cannot be extinguished in a short while. Even if it is filled with human life, the result is destined to be a tragedy.
Du Qingruo and Guo Zhun wanted to take advantage of this fire to extinguish Xu Laoer and reduce the living space of the old Xu family in Jiannan Mansion.
The fire was burning in front, and behind was the army of Jie Yun Dao. Guo Zhun personally led the team, waiting at any time to ambush the fire-extinguishing army led by a surprise attack.
After all, smart people know that to put out a fire, you should chase the fire and attack it, rather than rushing up into the sea of fire.
However, Guo Zhun waited for three days and watched the fire burn for three days. He was stunned not to see any team sent by Xu Laoer to put out the fire.
"It shouldn't be!"
Guo Zhun was a little puzzled. If such a big fire was not controlled, half of Jiannan Prefecture, not to mention Shicheng County, would be burned down.
By then, the people here in Shicheng County will be desperate and will definitely fight Xu Laoer.
Xu Laoer will definitely put out the fire for the sake of people's support.
Guo Zhun's calculation was correct, but he underestimated Xu Laoer's ability.
There are many ways to put out a fire.
Chasing the flames is just one of them, and it is a relatively stupid one.
In fact, Guo Zhun watched the fire burn for three days, but on the other side of the fire, the fire had no room to burn.
Xu Laoer led the people to choose an isolation belt, and then also set a fire.
This selected isolation zone has no lush vegetation.
Although it was set alight by Xu Laoer and his men, the fire in this area was easily extinguished.
As a result, an isolation belt was burned out so easily.
Guo Zhun led his men behind the sea of fire, waiting to harvest Xu Laoer's troops.
Unfortunately, when the fire burned near the isolation zone, Xu Laoer directly led his people and killed them through the passage that had been left long ago.
Although there were only a hundred cavalry that could be scraped together, but with Xu Laoer, a fierce general, leading the team, they were able to kill thousands of troops with a hundred cavalry.
Of course, this momentum is inseparable from the vigorous shouting of the infantry following behind.
At that moment, a thundering cry of killing rushed out from the sea of fire.
After three days of suffering, the Jie Yun Dao troops led by Guo Zhun were already exhausted. How could they be the opponents of the troops led by Xu Laoer, who were ready to attack
The war came to an end from the moment it started.
Guo Zhun, the elder of the Hidden Pulse of the Jie Luck Dao and the Prime Minister of the Dao Kingdom who was planning to fake his own death to escape, was doomed to his tragic end the moment he was targeted by Xu Laoer.
One battle, success!
Xu Laoer and his troops captured 20,000 soldiers and horses of Jie Yun Dao, and seized countless grain, grass and weapons.
Originally, the food and grass in Shicheng County were almost exhausted. Now, with this seizure, Xu Laoer was really full at once.
"Are all people in the Luck Path so particular?"
Looking at the abundant supplies of grain, grass and ordnance, Xu Laoer was really surprised.
If he is the leader of the Jie Luck Road, even if he wants to ambush, he will make two preparations. One way is to lure the enemy's army, and the other way is to delay the main army for several miles as support.
In this way, when the enemy's army is attacked, he will lead the main army to fly away quickly, thus completely leaving behind the invading enemy.
However, the people in the Jie Luck Path were so stupid that they just gathered all the people in one place.
You said you gathered people in one place, why don't you do some camp defense
Not to mention anything else, if he prepares a few horses, he can block the charge of the cavalry he leads.
The cavalry lost the advantage of charging. Once they were surrounded by infantry, they were lambs to be slaughtered.
As a result, Jieyundao, the general, was not prepared for anything.
This person could come up with such a desperate plan as a fire attack, but in the subsequent formation of troops, there was nothing at all
"Uncle, do we want to continue the attack?"
"Do you even need to ask?"
Xu Laoer originally did not plan to attack the Jie Luck Road directly. He planned to follow the plan step by step and force the Jie Luck Road out of Jiannan Mansion first.
But now, with such a good advantage in front of him, if he doesn't seize the opportunity, who is Xu Yuanba
"Give me the order. Let the army pack up and march quickly. I want the bastards of Jie Luck Dao to know what it means to have divine soldiers descending from the sky!"
Xu Laoer saw Guo Zhun's ability in leading troops, and he really despised Jie Yun Dao to the extreme.
Such a huge advantage was defeated by his just a tentative blow. Such an opponent was simply humiliating him!
With Xu Laoer's order, the five thousand troops acted as the vanguard and ran all the way, followed by the original town army from Shicheng County and the troops recruited by Huang Jixiang and others.
Of course, the battle mainly relied on the 5,000 troops brought by Xu Laoer. The people behind them were purely for creating momentum and transporting supplies.
But the people in the Luck Path didn't know it. They only saw tens of thousands of troops roaring towards them.
In one day and night, Xu Laoer led his 5,000 troops to run for hundreds of miles and captured three cities. The forward troops approached Bacheng, the capital city of Jiannan Prefecture.
It was not until Xu Laoer's army was about to approach the city that Du Qingruo and the leaders of Jie Yun Dao received news of Guo Zhun's defeat.
Tens of thousands of so-called elite troops were defeated by Xu Laoer in one battle.
All kinds of ordnance carried by him fell into the hands of Xu Laoer.
Xu Laoer, who was originally short of all kinds of powerful ordnance, now lacked nothing but war horses.
"Uncle, shall we attack the city?"
The two lieutenants who followed Xu Laoer all the way to the outside of Bacheng both had gleaming eyes.
Originally, they could have almost charged into the city directly.
It's a pity that there is only a quarter of an hour difference! (End of chapter)