"Mr., it's hard to wake up soon. The coalition of the Eastern Princes outside the South Gate has killed Luoshui!"

It was dawn that day, and it was just dawn. Even in the yamen of Yin of Henan, there was a storm. A person with his companion could not care about courtesy and stumbled to wake up Yang Yi, who was sleeping, and told him the bad news.

Yang Yi is a Hongnong native, also known as the famous "Hongnong Yang Family". He just became the Henan Yin in late February. That was the third day after Dong Zhuo learned that Han Fu gave way and Qiao Mao was killed, Dong Zhuo himself left Luoyang and asked Yang Yi to leave Zhu Jun's position.

The only task Dong Zhuo gave him was "waiting for Hu Zhen, Lu Bu and his troops to win a battle and retreat safely, and then set fire to Luoyang City, as well as the three counties around Luoyang such as Yanshi, Heyin, Gucheng, etc.."

The Liushi County did not ask Yang Yi to set the fire because it was Lu Bu and Hu Zhen's grain storage land, and they would set the fire themselves when they retreated.

So to put it bluntly, Yang Yi is the prefect of setting fire.

Originally, he felt that he might have a term of ten days and half a month. Once Lu Bu withdraws, he would also withdraw, but he didn't expect that he would be attacked.

Because everything was packed up, there were no weapons left in Luoyang's arsenal, and of course there was not much defensive power in this soon-to-be-give-gate.

Yang Yi hurriedly put on his horse and took hundreds of personal soldiers to the south of the city to check the situation. On the way, he had already encountered defeated soldiers coming.

"The Lord of the Palace, Zhu Jun, the head of the city gate, colluded with Guan Yu, the prefect of Hanzhong, and had opened the city gate and let Guan Yu enter the city. It was Zhu Jun who personally called to open the city gate." A confidant of the Xiliang army rushed to Yang Yi with blood on his face and rushed to Yang Yi in an emergency.

"Guan Yu? Is Guan Yu who defeated Hu Zhen and killed Hua Xiong half a month ago? Is Guan Yu who pacified Zhang Ju Chun's Yellow Turban White Bomi thief?"

Yang Yi gasped and saw thousands of enemy soldiers rushing north along Kaiyangmen Street in the south of the city. At the beginning, there were still hundreds of riders riding horses. He immediately ordered: "Go and set fire to create chaos! Let's go and run from the north gate... no, go to the west gate!"

He paused for a few seconds before shouting the second sentence so that he would say it after the soldiers who were asked to set fire went a little further away and could not hear it.

It is obvious that the person who set fire has been regarded as a abandoned child, and the second sentence is just to his close confidant soldiers.

Fortunately, he has done a lot of preparations for the fireworks these days. There are dozens of large houses in the city, and the neighbors have piled up firewood. At that time, throw a few torches at that time? Let them burn slowly.

Yang Yi was not really as crazy as Dong Zhuo? He insisted on completely destroying Luoyang City. But he knew that if he didn't set fire, he would leave and be sent out after returning. He would die miserably. On the other hand, arson creates chaos, which is also good for his own safety? This will distract the enemy's attention and escape better.

As for why you go to the west gate to escape instead of Xiamen or Gumen on the front and back? Is it because you have to take a little more detour to walk the north gate? Bypass Beigong.

Now that I am in a state of danger, of course, why do you run as fast as possible? At worst, Beigong will stop setting fire. When passing by Nangong, throw a few torches a little? Let the fire spread along Nangong to Beigong by yourself? It is worthy of Dong Zhuo's order.

Unfortunately, despite running so hard, Yang Yi still couldn't escape.

Because he had the most personal guards around him and his target was too big, he was targeted by Guan Yu from afar. And when he chased him dozens of feet away, Guan Yu found that Yang Yi and his group were scattered out from time to time to set fire, and he was even more jealous of his courage. He knew that this guy was the commander who commanded the fire.

"Yang Yi's traitor will die!" Guan Yu swung the Qinglong sword and rode his horse to chase him.

"Hurry! Stop him!" Yang Yi heard the sound of killing behind his back? The three souls and seven spirits were so scared that they were in a hurry and ordered their personal soldiers to fight to block it. He felt that there were hundreds of people guarding him around him? It should be no problem.

As for himself, although he can have some sword skills, he is not a general who fights, so don’t expect it.

Fortunately, he saw that Guan Yu was getting fewer and fewer soldiers. It turned out that Guan Yu was commanding Zhou Tai, Gan Ning took all the Danyang soldiers to put out fires everywhere, and according to the fire-demolition method he just learned last night, some isolation belts were removed, so that there was no need to consider whether the water source was sufficient.

Only Guan Yu himself was left, and he led a small number of cavalry to chase Yang Yi.

At the time of the Qinglong sword, Guan Yu swung and slashed and killed more than 20 cavalry thieves in Xiliang. Yang Yi's personal soldiers entered the wave and broke into the waves, which could not be stopped at all.

"Don't kill me, I'm willing to surrender. I'm the famous Hongnong Yang family. My cousin Yang Biao has been Situ Sikong Si..."

Yang Yi raised his sword with trembling hands while trying to resist, while shouting and begging for mercy, but Guan Yu directly swung his head away with a knife.

As soon as Yang Yi died, his personal soldiers and subordinates, and the small school even scattered birds and beasts, flocked to Shangximen, and Guan Yu's army killed more than a hundred people. Finally, they chased those guys out of the city and could no longer chase them, so they returned to the city.

"Well, leave some living slaughter to go back, or contact Li Jue and Guo Si, and tell them that Luoyang City has burned, so as not to cause more troubles in Dong Zhuo." Guan Yu thought to himself, and gave up the pursuit.

After all, it was half an hour since Guan Yu entered the city when he chased those people out. Luoyang City was the largest city in the late Han Dynasty. It took a quarter of an hour to run from the south of the city to the northwest of the city.

When the collapsed Xiliang officials' school escaped from the city, they turned around and saw that the fires were everywhere in the city, and the sky was slightly red, as if the sunrise was ahead of schedule.

Guan Yu returned to the city and directed the fire to extinguish him. Thousands of elite soldiers worked in an orderly manner, and finally controlled some fire and controlled the losses to the range of more than a dozen neighbors. Whenever a neighbor was set on fire, the officers and soldiers also gave up the rescue, but demolished the houses closer to other markets, and piled wood and straw on one side of the fire to prevent the fire from being too big and spreading across the street to another neighborhood.

The only thing that was more difficult in the process was that Nangong was set on fire by Yang Yi before his death. Zhou Tai, who was responsible for siege and put out the fire, quickly found that he could not dismantle it at all and could not control it. Fei declared the customs to Yu:

"General! The fire in Nangong cannot be blocked by the streets and alleys like in the outer city. Nangong is already in a complete state, and Yuan Shu was burned in the ten regular attendants' rebellion. Dong Zhuo did not repair it after entering Beijing, and the mess was mixed and the mess could not be controlled!"

Guan Yu's face turned pale and his thoughts were turned on. He quickly remembered a story Zhao Yun talked to him: "Go to the overpass road connected to Nangong and Beigong! Let the soldiers cut down and knock down the overpass and break it!"

"Flying bridge and road?" A country man like Zhou Tai had never come to Luoyang at all. Of course, he was confused when he heard it.

Guan Yu slapped his horse's neck: "The North and South Palaces are connected by Fudao! When Zilong saved the Queen Mother and King Chenliu who jumped into the bridge under Fudao! Don't you know this?"

Zhou Tai was suddenly embarrassed. He didn't even know the details of the heroic deeds of the senior generals in his camp, and it seemed that it was a bit bad.

He immediately sent someone to the seventh and last entry of Wende Hall in Nangong, and then violently demolished a very thick palace pillar to come over, climbed the reaming road between Wende Hall in Nangong and Deyang Hall in Beigong, and directly carried dozens of strong men like a siege hammer, then slammed the bridge walls on both sides of the overpass, and knocked the bridge over a few strokes.

Then he hit the ceiling and floor again, and after a few seconds, the overpass finally collapsed, blocking Nangong and Beigong.

There were more than a dozen bridge-destroying fans who did not hold their feet and fell directly from the collapsed bridge deck, which was equivalent to jumping off the fourth floor. Some of them fell to their noses and faces, and some of them accidentally broke their legs, but no one fell to death.

From this we can also see the cowardice of the young emperor not daring to jump off the bridge, because even without protection, it is impossible to kill someone, let alone putting on a quilt.

When the overpass road was completely removed, the fire continued to burn to the five-entry Chongde Hall in front of the Chongde Hall, Jiade Hall, Xuande Hall, Jiande Hall, and Jiande Hall. It was still one short of Wende Hall to enter Zhangde Hall, so the time was more than enough.

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Guan Yu was able to deal with it properly, but he could only block the fire and could not put out the fire, because more than a dozen markets and Nangongs in the city caught fire, and there was not enough water at all. Therefore, these ruins would have to be burned for at least a few days before they would be extinguished due to exhaustion of fuel.

During this process, Guan Yu had to be cautious and let the soldiers take two shifts or three shifts to guard. Once there is a risk of spread, they must be demolished, or the flames that are flying around are extinguished as soon as possible.

Xiaoxin was cautious and busy for a whole day. Most of the combustible materials were burned out. The fire became smaller, so it was a little easier, but he did not dare to be arrogant. It was noon the next day that Zhao Yun's troops rushed back. In the morning of the third day, Sun Jian's nearly 10,000 remaining soldiers rushed to Luoyang, hoping to see if there were any benefits to be reaped.

However, after entering the city, he found that Guan Yu's army and the remaining thousands of people in the city were actually putting out the fire seriously, and Sun Jian was also a little ashamed and admired.

"How did the general in the Western Expedition maintain the military discipline? He was not in a hurry to plunder and search but to put out the fire and save the people. Sure enough, the soldiers are in the same place, not many are in the same place."

Sun Jian could completely imagine how the reputation of Liu Bei, the general of the Western Expedition, would be widely sung in the Sili area after this incident.

He was embarrassed to be special, so he asked the soldiers to find a safe neighbor to find an empty house to live in, rest for a night and recover from the fatigue of the marching, and then worked with Guan Yu to prevent fire and cover the tomb.

The fire lasted for three days. While Guan Yu's army was not idle while putting out the fire, they dragged all the dead bodies found in the city to places with particularly fierce flames and threw them into cremation. In places like Beigong, which were not spread by the fire, there were also many palace servants' bodies, so they were dragged to the fire site in Nangong for cremation.

This is the way Li Su told Zhao Yun to "prevent the plague", and Zhao Yun has always kept it in mind.

Works like "burying the well that burys the dead bodies of palace maids" can be done slowly, but cremation must be done while there is a fire, otherwise a pile of fire will be specially created and burned into the body after the fire is extinguished. That would be a waste.

During the search process, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun couldn't help but find some wells with palace maids, with not many corpses, and some were thrown into dry wells. Guan Yu and Zhao Yun combined to reduce the workload, and salvaged the wells with only one or two corpses and cremated them, and then sprinkled some quicklime to purify the water. Only wells with many corpses were directly sealed.

After all, we have to consider the lives of the people in Luoyang in the future. After filling the well, it will be inconvenient to dig wells for a long time after filling the wells, and it will be inconvenient to withdraw water.

Hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs were dragged to the Nangong, and they would not search for the dead, because Li Su told Zhao Yun that "corpse gas" may be the source of the plague.

But as they were burning, some soldiers surveillance the fire soon discovered some problems.

"General, it seems that something in the fire just now could not be burned, why did it emit yellow light? But it flashed and disappeared soon, and the light of something like gold melting."

Zhao Yun followed the instructions of the fire-monitor soldiers and found it strange: "Hmm? What's going on? It's been burning for so long. According to the military advisor, it should be 'disinfected'. Pick it out and take a look."

He picked up the gun and pulled out a square four or five inches long from the fire, which was burned to a thick layer of ash, with a corner missing, and seemed to have a melting soft stream of gold.
Chapter completed!