Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 821

Of course, it was impossible for Zhu Wei to think that Puyang City was difficult to conquer, so he gave up withdrawing his troops.

Although when Zhu Wei came to the city wall of Puyang City, he looked at the block fortresses still occupied by Cao Jun inside Puyang City and the Puyang Inner City at the core, and was also surprised by Cao Cao's inner city defense, but Zhu Wei would never leave Cao Cao behind. life chance.

So after seeing the situation in Puyang City, Zhu Wei made a harsh decision to set fire to the city.

Since Cao Cao created such a scene in Puyang City, Zhu Wei didn't want his army to fight inch by inch, and then consume a lot of troops in unnecessary siege battles.

Anyway, the houses and buildings in Puyang City are still mainly made of wood, so let's burn them all.

Even if Cao Cao has gathered at least 7 to [-] people in Puyang City, if he really set fire to it, so many people could be easily burned to death in the city. However, it is because Cao Cao still has so many troops gathered in Puyang City. It can only be destroyed at a minimum cost by setting fire.

Of course, as the lord, Zhu Wei couldn't speak out about this kind of plan in person, so Zhu Weijun completely captured the outer city wall of Puyang City, opened up all the city gates, occupied the urn city inside the four gates, and cleaned up the surrounding city walls. After ensuring safety in the area of ​​the gate, Zhu Wei summoned his civil and military officials to hold a war forum on the east gate of Puyang City.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and Cao Jun also lit bonfires around the block fortresses in various places in the city to prevent Zhu Weijun from sneaking at night.

In this way, the defensive fortresses of Cao Jun in the entire Puyang City are also very obvious, and from the tower where Zhu Wei and the others are located, you can see the situation of more than half of Puyang City, and naturally you can also see the state of Cao Jun in Puyang City.

"My lords, although our army has captured the outer city of Puyang, Cao Cao intends to fight to the death inside the city. What should our army do next?"

Although Zhu Wei had the idea of ​​setting fire to the city, on the surface he still put on a questioning attitude of his opponents' counselors. Of course, if they have other better ideas, Zhu Wei can also consider accepting them.

"My lord, this battle may not be easy. Looking at it now, Cao Cao's layout in the city is also orderly in chaos. It seems to be a hidden formation. Our army must first find out the defense plan of Cao's army in detail before we can find a solution to it." !"

The relatively honest Lu Su looked at Cao Jun's arrangement in the city from a distance, and seemed to see something, so he said something warning.

"My lord, it doesn't matter. Now that our army is all here, it only needs a few generals to attack from several directions at the same time. If Cao Jun has any means, he can't care about each other. Naturally, he can't cooperate. The attack on Puyang City is just a matter of course." A matter of time!"

But Xu Shu said with a bit of aggressiveness. In his opinion, Zhu Weijun has more soldiers now, and he can push them flat, so he doesn't have to worry about Cao Jun's deployment methods.

It’s just that Zhu Wei was not very satisfied with their words, so Zhu Wei sighed, “Oh, but if Cao Cao is determined to resist, he doesn’t know how much our army will have to sacrifice in order to pacify this city! If there is a Northern Expedition, if the loss is too high here, the unification of the world will be delayed again!"

Jia Xu listened to Zhu Wei's words, looked at Zhu Wei's expression quietly, followed Zhu Wei's eyes to look at the fires in the city, and suddenly thought of something.

So Jia Xu stroked his beard and thought about it for a while, then smiled and said, "My lord, don't worry, even though Cao Cao gathered his troops in the city to resist, he is actually in a dead end! My lord, it's autumn today, and it hasn't rained for days , the sky is dry and things are dry, it is time to use fire! Most of the buildings in Puyang City are made of wood, and Cao Cao has already driven the people out of the city, so our army can burn them, so we can call them Cao Cao without a single soldier. Desperate!"

"My lord, don't do it! There are still tens of thousands of lives in this city. Although they are all Cao soldiers now, they are human lives after all! If it is burned with fire, tens of thousands of lives will be burned, what a tragedy! My lord, God has the virtue of good life." , it is too cruel!"

Hearing Jia Xu's words, Lu Su immediately objected. He could imagine that when the fire broke out, the whole Puyang City would be engulfed in flames, and Cao Jun's soldiers who could be seen at a glance would naturally be burned to ashes by the flames.

How can people bear such a miserable scene in the world.

But except for Lu Su, the others just frowned and thought about it, obviously still thinking about the effect of Jia Xu's fire attack strategy.

"Water and fire are ruthless, human life should not be underestimated, but now Cao Cao is stubborn, if our army attacks by force, it will destroy countless lives! Zijing, Mr. Wenhe's strategy is also for our army's thinking, but can you please If you think about it a little more, maybe you can save Cao Jun a chance, if Cao Jun is destined to escape, if Cao Jun seeks his own death, that is also his fate!"

Zhu Wei heard Jia Xu express his intentions, of course he would not object, but Lu Su's words made Zhu Wei have to consider the impact. You must know that Bai Qi buried 20 Zhao troops alive, and his reputation was considered a murderous name. It has been passed down through the ages, and it can be seen that killing too many people at once with cruel means will also damage their reputation.

Therefore, while Zhu Wei roughly decided on Jia Xu's fire attack plan, he also hoped that someone could come up with some methods to reduce the casualties of Cao Jun in the fire.

"My lord, don't worry, our army only needs to leave the main road in the city for Cao's army to escape. Naturally, we can have the best of both worlds!"

Jia Xu seemed to have thought of the possibility of setting the fire, so he spoke again, and then he explained in detail how to set the fire and how to leave a safe passage so that Cao Jun's soldiers could escape from the fire.

Of course, Zhu Weijun would also set up a position outside the escape passage, so he could easily let these escaped Cao soldiers be restrained with peace of mind.

After listening to Jia Xu's words, Lu Su had nothing to say. After all, this method can prevent Zhu Weijun from attacking Cao Cao's defensive formation, and can also leave a glimmer of life for Cao Jun's tens of thousands of soldiers. Naturally, it is the best way to capture Puyang City. method.

At the same time, in order to reduce the consumption of food, grass and materials in the city and avoid the stagnation in command and transportation in the city, Cao Cao's strategy of driving away ordinary people in the city earlier also saved Zhu Weijun from worrying that such a fire attack strategy would hurt innocent people. Strategies are easier to accept.

So Zhu Weijun's final tactics for Puyang City were settled in this way.

On the second day, Zhu Weijun naturally sent someone to measure the wind direction, and checked the sky to make sure that there would be no rain in the near future, so he began preparations before setting the fire.

Many thunderbolt catapults of Zhu Weijun were transported to the city walls of various places. At that time, these catapults would throw oil tanks and firewood into the city, which saved the disadvantages of Zhu Weijun soldiers going up to catch fire.

In addition, various preparations are being made to increase the intensity of the fire. Naturally, after the fire starts in the city, the fire can be made to burn more and more intensely. However, Zhu Weijun has already occupied the outer city wall of Puyang City, so it is condescending to face all the blocks in Puyang City. , Many things are also much more convenient to do.

After preparing for a day in this way, the preliminary means of setting fire have been completed.

However, Zhu Wei did not set fire immediately, but sent someone to deliver the final letter of persuasion to Cao Cao, and at the same time made people shout words on the four city walls, so that the ordinary soldiers of Cao Jun surrendered early.

Zhu Wei still gave Cao Cao one last chance...

(End of this chapter)