Li Ze believed that in order to speed up, the pursuers would definitely not be able to bring enough supplies, and after a long journey, they would definitely need supplements. However, Li Ze had ordered that all the villages, crops, etc. outside the city be burned clean and they would not get anything. When they arrived in Dezhou City, it was urgent to go to the city to find supplies.

An army of thousands of people is in the military camp. If you don’t eat for a day, you won’t starve to death. However, when preparing for battle, even if you don’t eat a meal, it will have a great impact on the soldiers’ combat effectiveness.

People are iron, and food is steel. If you don’t eat for a meal, you will be so hungry.

Without raising the fire to burn the city of Dezhou, Li Ze wanted to use this ancient city to lure these pursuers into the city. Naturally, some food was left, including gold, silver, copper, coins, silk, silk and satin, thrown all over the streets. These would become bait to lure the Han Navy.

The greed of Henghai soldiers is notorious.

They were not allowed to be greedy, because their governors did not have much money and food to ensure that they could live a better life, especially the soldiers of the palace, who were even more poor.

A thousand cavalry from Cangzhou, a thousand soldiers from Dizhou and three thousand palace soldiers arrived in Dezhou when it was about to get dark.

Above the city, rows of heads were shocking. In order to increase the effect of intimidation, Li Ze deliberately asked someone to hang Zhu Bin and others' heads on the city.

"It's too much!" Zhu Yannian looked at Zhu Bin's head hanging in the middle of the city gate tower, and rushed into his heart with fire.

A team of scouts who entered the city rushed out. Zhu Yannian just glanced at him and found that there were a lot of things on his cavalry's backs, which he had become accustomed to. He did not scold their behavior. After all, in order to inspire morale, he never cared about his soldiers making some money. If he really blocked their way to make money, he was afraid that the soldiers would complain.

"How about the city?" he asked.

"Reporting to the general, there is no one in the city, but it can be seen that the enemy was in a hurry. In addition to emptying the treasury, many houses also left a lot of food and other property." A scout bowed excitedly.

"That's great." A voice came from Zhu Yannian. It was Ai Song, a non-stop coach from Dizhou. Seeing Zhu Yannian's glance at him, Ai Song said embarrassedly: "General Zhu, after receiving the request for help from Dezhou, our troops immediately sent troops to help. The accompanying army did not bring enough food, and no supplies were found along the way. One day today, the brothers had just had a meal, and they were so hungry that they couldn't stand it."

Zhu Yannian knew very well that Ai Song did not bring enough food to send troops, which was not because Dizhou did not have one, but because they had planned to raise food on the spot after they arrived in Dezhou. To put it bluntly, they were asking the people of Dezhou for it. But they never thought that the enemy from Chengde was so fierce that they actually gave all the villages and kidnapped all the people, which put Ai Song in a dilemma.

Aisong naturally had his reason. We came to rescue Texas, so the food and fodder should come from Texas. It is natural for the soldiers to be hungry. Since there is still food in the city, it can finally solve the urgent problem. More importantly, seeing the scouts and cavalrymen smiling, and the horses were covered with silk and satin without any concealment, it was obvious that the enemy was running too hastily and had no time to clean up.

With such a big city, there are only a lot of things left, which is enough for their soldiers to make a fortune.

Only in this way can the soldiers work hard!

"General Zhu, it's too late today. Why not stay in Dezhou City for one night and pursue it tomorrow?" Aisong suggested. "The Chengde thief led a large number of people. It would be great if he could walk thirty miles a day. At our speed, at most, he would be able to catch up with them tomorrow. It would be better to let the soldiers maintain their energy and make a concerted effort to catch up with the enemy and annihilate them."

Zhu Yannian nodded. The danger of marching at night was too great. Most of the people in the army became blind at night. Moreover, intelligence showed that the enemy also had a cavalry with very strong combat power. If they were attacked by the enemy at night, it would be difficult to deal with.

Five thousand naval forces drove into Dezhou City in a mighty manner.

Zhu Yannian Aisong and others naturally moved into Zhu Bin's governor's mansion, but as soon as the troops entered the city, except for a very small number of personal guards, the remaining troops released sheep.

Thousands of people began to sweep the city of Texas like locusts.

A city with tens of thousands of people was forced to relocate within three days, which would naturally leave behind countless good things. In addition, Li Ze specially arranged the bait left behind, making the soldiers of the Henghai Army happy, walking through the streets and alleys, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and making a fortune.

At this time, Fox Yi was preparing to set the fire.

How to set fire is actually a profound science. In order to turn the entire city into a burning torch in a very short time, Shi Zhuang, Tu Lichun and others racked their brains.

Neither of them thought of having a dignified decisive battle with the pursuers of Henghai. The young master had just bargaining chips to fight a fierce battle with the enemy. Even if he won, he would be a tragic victory. Henghai could afford to lose, but the young master could not afford to lose.

This is not like Zhu Bin. The other party can't touch the little boy's background at all. More importantly, Zhu Bin's strength is not good, and it's different now. One thousand cavalry, one thousand armored soldiers, and three thousand palace soldiers are enough to suppress Wuyi's troops in terms of strength. Although he is not afraid, Li Ze did not want to do the kind of thing that kills one thousand enemies and damages himself by himself.

Tempting into the city, and then a fire can solve most of the problems.

Of course, if you think about how to tempt the city and how to set fire effectively, you can still think of such technical problems as long as you think about it.

Texas City is an ancient city.

The ancient city naturally has its distinctive characteristics. What made Li Ze the most happy was that there were a large number of wooden houses and thatched huts for the poor. The real houses built with bricks and stones were just the residences of a few powerful and powerful people. Therefore, the residences of these powerful and powerful people were almost wiped out by the Wuyi soldiers. However, a large amount of property, food, etc. were left on the streets where ordinary people lived.

As Li Ze expected, the Henghai soldiers who first rushed to the places where rich people lived and did not gain much, immediately discovered this secret, and a large number of people began to move to civilian areas.

Think about it, it is true that when the enemy comes, it must be the focus of robbing rich families.

The night was getting darker, but the city was brightly lit. Teams of Henghai soldiers plundered the city with torches. Well, it wasn't actually called robbery, it was called picking up things.

Everyone was quite happy to make money without any psychological burden.

But they were happy, but they never expected that the god of death had already opened their mouths and was holding up its sharp sickle to harvest life.

Outside the city, Chen Ping'an and others were appearing like ghosts. Zhu Yannian placed the police whistle and scout outside the city, fell one after another under their swords and arrows.

Zhu Yannian was naturally not a waste. The large army entered the city. Outside the city, he still placed a lot of scouts and cavalry, but unfortunately, he was quite familiar with the people he faced. The force of these people was far superior to that of these scouts.

Five hundred cavalry and one thousand five hundred armored soldiers had already marched silently in the night to a distance of only three or four miles from the West City Gate. As long as the city fired, they would accelerate their advance.

The three city gates, only the Xicheng Gate, were still intact, and the remaining three city gates had been destroyed and blocked by all the Wuyi soldiers.

In the city, the fox whistled lightly, then took out the fire snatch from his arms and threw it on the pile of firewood in front of him. With a rush, the flames immediately rushed up.

He turned around and quickly left the place and rushed to the next fire point. At this time, he was wearing the costumes of soldiers from across the sea. Even if he appeared on the street openly, he would not make others who were making money suspicious.

Everyone is busy pulling things into their arms, and sometimes two groups of different people will even have a dispute over the ownership of certain property.

There are dozens of Xinyuehu's subordinates doing this with the fox.

They lit up one by one, then turned into a line, and finally turned into a sea.

Within a short incense stick, Dezhou City was illuminated by fire.

With the firelight, the Wuyi soldiers led by Shi Zhuangtu Lichun immediately approached the West Gate of Dezhou.

The city is already in chaos.

At first, the fire did not attract the attention of the Henghai Army. Everyone thought it was just a little waterfall. Anyway, in an empty city, everyone would just go to a place without a fire to pick up their belongings, but what happened next was far beyond their expectations.

Fires were everywhere, and the fire began to burn from the outside, like a flowing sea of ​​fire, spreading towards the center at an unimaginable speed.

Zhu Yannian and Aisong were both experienced generals. As soon as they saw this, they immediately realized that they had fallen into the enemy's trap. This was a deliberate fire.

"Get out of the city and rush out of the city!" The two of them turned over and took their personal guards, galloping on the street, while shouting loudly at the army they could see.

Unfortunately, their army was spread across all parts of Texas City and made great fortunes. At this time, most of them were surrounded by fire. It has become a huge difficulty to escape.
Chapter completed!