There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

But the situation in the west of Xiangyang City is obviously different from what they imagined.

The Jinling generals galloped on their horses for a while, but Zhao Yun suddenly raised his spear and asked everyone to stop.

Zhao Yun looked around and frowned involuntarily.

Lu Bu followed closely behind Zhao Yun, and seeing him stop his horse suddenly, he was very puzzled, and said, "Zhao Zilong, why are you hesitating here if you don't hurry up and pursue him?"

Zhao Yun looked around, wondering: "Why is there no sound at all, even if every family dare not go out, this kind of quiet way is too strange?"

Lu Bu laughed loudly: "What do you care about that? Now, as long as we rush straight into the government office and capture Pang Tong, Guan Yu and others alive, we will pacify Xiangyang. What if there is no sound?"

Zhao Yun frowned, thought for a while and said, "No, Marquis Wen! We have to retreat first."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly heard the soldiers behind him start making loud noises.

"Go away!"

"Go away!"

"Get out! Get out!"

Zhao Yun hurriedly turned his head and said, "What's going on?"

"General Zhao, something is wrong. Many houses in the rear are flooded!"

In this siege battle, the potters, as generals, have been observing the movement in the city outside the city.

According to his prior arrangements, the attack on Xiangyang City was very successful, and now the soldiers of the three armies have passed through the Wengcheng and entered the urban area of ​​Xiangyang City.

Compared with the Jinling Army, there is still a certain gap in the combat power of the Jingzhou Army. The Jinling Army conquered the north and south, and pacified most of the world. The north and the south are their battlefields. It can be said that they have experienced many battles. The Jingzhou Army is just the Southern Army. Compared with the Jinling Army, their combat power is vastly different.

Just when the potter felt that Xiangyang City was basically settled, he saw a sudden burst of flames in the west of Xiangyang City.

The fire was extremely dazzling, but it was getting bigger and bigger, and it burned the sky above the entire city red.

The potter frowned, and said in doubt: "It's all right, why is there such a big fire in the city? There's something wrong with this."

Just when the potter was puzzled, he saw Xu Rong running towards him from the front in a hurry: "Prime Minister, I want an ambush in the west of the city. It seems that the Jingzhou army has already arranged sulfur and fire starters in the west of the city. Now the Jingzhou soldiers The horses have already retreated to the east, and they seem to be about to abandon the city, but after they abandoned the city, they actually set fire to the city?"

"Set fire to the city?" The potter was stunned, and then snorted: "Although Pang Tong is resourceful, his heart is too poisonous. Killing, how can we be worthy of the world and let the whole army leave them alone, put out the fire quickly, and make sure not to let the losses expand!"

"promise!"

8Chapter 16 Determining the enemy's strategy

A fire broke out in the west of Xiangyang, and the potters immediately commanded soldiers and horses to rush to the west of the city.

The fire in the west of the city gradually increased, and all the soldiers of the pottery merchants were blocked in the area of ​​the west city. This also bought time for the Jingzhou army assembled in the east city to rush out of Xiangyang.

After the pottery merchant led the reserve army into the city, he ordered the three armies not to pursue. He just asked all the soldiers to start looking for water sources nearby, trying to put out the fire as quickly as possible.

Zhao Yun and Lu Bu came to the potter from the front with dark faces.

"I accidentally fell into the enemy's treacherous scheme and let the Jingzhou army escape from Xiangyang! Please punish the prime minister!" Zhao Yun said to Tao Shang with guilt.

The pottery merchant waved his hand casually, and said: "It's okay, it has nothing to do with you, hurry up and put out the fire, after saving the fire, comforting the people is the most important thing right now."

"promise!"

Seeing Zhao Yun and others go to fight the fire, the potter fell into deep thought.

From his point of view, he is unwilling to use fire or water. Of course, he has not used it before, but water and fire are ruthless, and the loss caused by this is too great.

But the ancients in history did not think so.

Han Xin, Zhou Yu, Kong Ming, Guan Yu and many other people who have made great achievements prefer to use fire and water rather than soldiers, and rely on nature to achieve their achievements.

Borrowing the power of nature will naturally get twice the result with half the effort. Of course, the damage and loss caused are also huge, because the power of nature is uncontrollable. If one is not good, it will easily cause fire, but the ancients would not take these things into consideration.

There are so many bones and lives hidden behind each story that has a long history.

Of course, in order to defeat the strong with the weak and reverse the situation, these methods are completely understandable from a human point of view.

But the potter is still a bit uncomfortable, maybe this is because his bottom line is different from some ancient people.

Of course, the potter's own bitch's bottom line, sometimes these ancient people really can't accept it.

After a night of hard work, the soldiers of the three armed forces exhausted their painstaking efforts and hard work, and finally extinguished the fire in Xiangyang City.

The pottery merchant led the army into the city, and he ordered all the generals under his command to caress the people on his behalf, while he himself entered the Xiangyang County Governor's Mansion to check the household registration, land register and other things in the city.

But after entering the prefect's mansion to search, the potter found that these things had long since disappeared.

It seems that it was not taken away, but burned.

It is not surprising that things were burned by Pang Tong. Since the opponent is an enemy, it is not a big problem for them to leave some obstacles for themselves.

The main reason is that this kind of thing will not be destroyed until the last moment. Who knows if he can really capture Xiangyang City? Why did Pang Tong burn it?

There was a murmur in the potter's heart.

Could it be that the household registration and household registers in the city had been burned by Pang Tong long ago?

This is quite strange, why would he do this?

Could it be that he didn't think he could protect Xiangyang City from the beginning?

Since he can't protect it, what is he doing here for such a long time?

Unless he is preparing for something.

Just when the potter was puzzled, Cai Mao walked into the hall crying.

"Prime Minister, you are going to be the master of Kuai's family!" Cai Mao came to the pottery and knelt down in front of the pottery, crying.

The potter stepped forward and helped Cai Mao up.

It was the first time for Cai Mao to meet the pottery merchant today, but the two had already communicated on letter paper before.

"You are General Cai, what happened? Get up!"

Cai Mao cried and said: "The last general just got a letter that Kuai Yidu's family was arrested alive by Pang Tong secretly for the crime of treason, and escorted to Jiangling City. Thinking about this time, Yidu will definitely not survive. I beseech Prime Minister Tao to make the decision. , revenge for Kuai Yidu!"

The pottery merchant sighed, and said: "The Kuai family is a big family in Jingzhou, and Tao is deeply ashamed for helping me because of a careless move. Don't worry, Mr. Cai, Tao will definitely conquer Jingzhou and capture Liu Bei and others alive." As a human being, when it comes to crimes and punishments, Duke Kuai will be treated fairly.”

Cai Mao thanked the potter while wiping away tears.

The two talked for a while, and the potter tried his best to comfort Cai Mao, finally calming him down.