There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 289 Burning Fangcheng County

Fangcheng County has been ruined. It has been transformed from the original county seat into a military town. Wang Qing's abandonment of rule has made the place even more chaotic. The county is respected by the soldiers. This group of thieves only care about their own enjoyment but never Concerned about the city, the lonely old man had no one to take care of him, so he finally chose to commit suicide in his own house. No one even took care of the body. Even in this cold weather, the inside was rotten and smelly.

Room Ten was almost completely empty, and almost everyone who could leave had left.

Before Li Chu's army arrived here, all the businessmen along the way passed by here and were unwilling to enter the city.

There are broken walls everywhere, and some rotting corpses can be seen everywhere on the streets.

"Beasts!"

Lu Zhishen slapped his palm on the stone wall, and sat on the ground meditating and chanting sutras to save these dead people. Li Chu only walked less than half of the city before he couldn't help but lead the people back out. He was feeling sick in his heart and his face was a little pale. , he ordered Feng Yu: "Rescue all the surviving people in the city, and then burn this side with a torch."

"Yes." Feng Yu took the order and went.

Li Chu stood outside the city and looked at the city wall of Fangcheng County. Fangcheng County occupies a geographically important position and guards the barrier to the north of Nanyang. It is also a very important pass in terms of geographical location. If he is Wang Qing, Definitely pile up all the heroes here, so that the northern part of Nanyang will have no worries.

He couldn't understand this Wang Qing a little bit. Is this person conspiring or not?

If there is no scheme, how can a small gangster in Bianjing, Kaifeng Prefecture, go to a small overlord to separate a side, and call himself the King of Chu?Wang Qing's territory is also a bit big, to what extent, it is almost as big as an eastern province in later generations.

But if there is a conspiracy, how can such an important military county be let go?Only sent a mere thousand soldiers to station here for show?
At the same time, what also made Li Chu suspicious was the style of the Song Dynasty court. Originally, Fangcheng County belonged to the imperial court. Logically speaking, such an important county could block Wang Qing's route to the east, and could also monitor Wang Qing's every move from here. As soon as they moved, the imperial court stationed thousands of soldiers here. Wang Qingyi led the army to break the city in less than half a day.

At this time, a fire broke out in the city, and a thick smoke began to rise into the sky.

Li Chu looked up and hoped that the dead people in the city could rest in peace.

Suddenly, Li Chu's expression changed, and he quickly took out his walkie-talkie and shouted to Feng Yu: "Put out the fire, put out the fire quickly."

After yelling on the walkie-talkie, Li Chu's scalp was a little numb. He wanted to slap himself at the moment, and almost made a big mistake because of his pity. At this moment, his eyes kept staring at the sky. Fortunately, the fire had just started. There was not much thick smoke rising and floating in the sky, and the wind dissipated after a while.

Shi Tianyi did not participate in this battle, and stayed at Rufen Town to manage the spring farming. Zhu Wu, the military commander of Shenwu, was the military commander of the army. When he saw thick smoke rising from the sky, he rushed over immediately. When he saw the fire was extinguished, he was relieved. big breath.

"My lord, is this?"

Zhu Wu looks like a middle-aged Confucian scholar with a mustache on his lips.

"It was a pity in the first day of junior high school, and it almost caused a fire. Now that the fire has been extinguished, please punish me, sir."

Zhu Wu looked at the sky, shook his head and said: "The fire has gone out and the smoke has dispersed, but it doesn't matter. My lord is compassionate to the people in the city and is a benevolent person. If something goes wrong for a while, Zhu Wu can blame the lord."

"Sir, let brother Zhi and brother Junyi go to Nanyang first, don't attack directly, it will definitely lead Wang Qing's bandits out of the city."

Zhu Wu nodded, and then asked: "I wonder if my lord can tell Wu, my lord's plan to defeat the enemy?"

"Okay." Li Chu nodded. This matter really cannot be hidden from Zhu Wu. When he asked a soldier to get a Molotov cocktail, he also ordered the soldier to make a temporary scarecrow, put on clothes and armor and put it in front. Li Chu would burn the Molotov cocktail. The bottle ignited and hit the scarecrow. Because the scarecrow was wearing iron armor, the glass bottle broke and the gasoline inside sprayed on the scarecrow. The flames from the mouth of the bottle also instantly ignited the scarecrow.

They also asked the soldiers to slap the scarecrow to put out the fire, but no matter how much they slapped it, the fire could not be extinguished, as if it was attached to the body. Without a fire, the straw was completely burned, and the iron armor was also burned by the fire for half a moment. All burned red.

"How, sir?"

After seeing it, Zhu Wu couldn't calm down for a long time. After a while, he turned around and asked Li Chu: "How many of these objects are there? Could it be that the soldiers were asked to throw them on the enemy before the battle? But once the scuffle broke out, I'm afraid they would burn themselves." people."

Li Chu smiled and pointed to the sky.

Zhu Wu raised his head and looked where Li Chu was pointing, but found nothing. He was puzzled.

Li Chu said with a smile: "There is a soldier in the Shui River Army who can fly into the sky on a wooden bird, and then send the object from the sky into the enemy's camp..."

Zhu Wu's expression changed, he bowed to Li Chu, and left with the order.

Less than half a moment after Zhu Wu left, Yang Zhi and Lu Junyi led the army to Nanyang to force the battle.

Li Chu looked at the sky above Fangcheng County. Now the army has not reached Nanyang. Previously, only some cavalry were charging. It seems that the news Wang Qing received was only about the six thousand cavalry, and the cavalry went directly south. Since they didn't attack Nanyang, Wang Qing probably couldn't guess that a large army was coming here.

The surprise attack on Nanyang happened so suddenly, even if Wang Qing's spies in Rufen Town wanted to pass the news back, they ran out of time.

Now if Fangcheng County is burned down because of this matter, I am afraid that the monstrous fire and thick smoke will surely alarm Nanyang, and Wang Qing will be able to guess something. At that time, the army must be prepared, and maybe it will be in time. They escaped or sent a message, but now Lin Chong has not fully rushed to the destination, so there is no way to intercept him.

Hey, Li Chuyi sighed, this Fangcheng County, hey.

Li Chu turned around and left to find Sun An.

Sun An's mission this time was to attack Biyang, the western gateway to Tangzhou.

"Pay homage to the lord."

"There is no need to be too polite. According to intelligence data, there are ten thousand bandits stationed in Biyang, and the leader is Bo Ren. It is unknown how capable this man is, but this time you are attacking, and he is defending. There are more than [-] people, but the number is not very dominant, and the army here is mainly attacking Nanyang, I am afraid that there is no reinforcement to help you, this battle is for you to fight alone with the navy, do you have confidence?"

Sun An said resolutely: "Please rest assured, my lord, if Biyang cannot be captured, I will come to see you with my head raised."

Li Chu shook his head: "There is no need to raise your head, I want you to help me take down Xiangyang. If you have confidence, then you will be fine."

"Thank you, my lord."

When Li Chu's Sun An's army left, Zhu Wu took the initiative to look for Li Chu.

"Lord, Wu has a plan."

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