Chapter 970 Evacuation of Tsuruta Castle

Tsuruta Honsaku understood what Sakata Go meant by being complicated, and asked: "What does General Sakata mean?"

"Withdraw." Sakata Go said calmly.

"What? Withdraw?" Tsurutamoto was extremely surprised and asked, "We managed to capture this place with great difficulty, do we just want to do it?"

"Yes, neither the Tsuruta family nor the Sakata family head can fight with the Tang army. This will cause relations between the two countries and be very detrimental to our country." Sakata Wu said.

"But I have sent two thousand soldiers to support Shiguo City. Now it seems that they may have fought a battle with the Tang army."

"It's okay. It's fine if we don't admit it. We just need to tell Tang Jun that they are Oda's people." Sakata Wu said.

Tsuruta Honsaku sighed and said, "What a pity for the two thousand soldiers of my Tsuruta family."

"Humph, you are still feeling sorry for them. If we don't leave, we may have to stay in Tsuruta Castle." Sakata Wu said unhappily.

Tsuruta Honsaku could only smile bitterly and said, "I'm going to prepare for the retreat now."

"You should hurry up. I have to leave now. By the way, take away all the people in the city. We will leave an empty city for each other." Sakata Wu said.

Tsuruta's eyes suddenly lit up and he said: "After I drove the people away, I burned the whole city with fire, so that they could not get a single tile in the city."

"Okay, you go make arrangements."

"good."

…

An hour later, the Tang army on the hot air balloon in the sky saw soldiers retreating, as well as civilians. The long queue was like a long snake advancing slowly.

Just when Tang Jun was confused, wisps of thick smoke slowly rose up. They immediately looked down and found that Tsuruda Cheng was in a sea of ​​​​fire. Many places were already on fire, and the house was already set ablaze.

"Damn it, they are so cruel. Not only did they move all the people away, but they also burned the whole city. They don't even intend to leave an empty city for us." said a Tang army.

Another Tang army replied: "I didn't expect the Fusang people to be so decisive in their actions. It seems that we need to divide our troops into three groups.

Send two hot air balloons to follow them to see where the people will be taken, and send a hot air balloon to inform the general, while the others will stay here."

"Okay, it's settled, I'll inform everyone." Then Tang Jun stood up and waved the flag.

The remaining nine hot air balloons received a response quickly, and some people were willing to take the initiative to follow the people and see where they went.

Someone is willing to stay and find a way to put out the fire in the city.

So, out of ten hot air balloons, two chased the enemy and one went to deliver the message.

The hot air balloon left behind saw the flames spread all over the city, with almost no possibility of extinguishing them. The only solution for now was to blow up the most violent places with grenades, so as not to spread to other places.

After discussing the countermeasures, the seven hot air balloons began to lower their altitude and began to use thermal grenades against the fierce fire.

"Boom, boom..."

Soon, the fire was brought under control, but 90% of the place was still in ruins.

The hot air balloon going to inform saw the Fuso deserters and immediately dropped two grenades. The Fuso deserters were so frightened that they squatted on the ground and did not dare to run around.

This was an unexpected surprise for Tang Jun on the hot air balloon. They dropped the grenades purely to vent their frustrations.

Li Derjian, who was catching up from behind, heard the explosion and knew that the hot air balloon must have returned. When he looked up, he saw a hot air balloon there, so he asked the flag bearer to ask the reason, and the flag bearer soon gave the answer.

When Li Derjian learned that Tsuruta City had completely turned into a dead city, he became furious and ordered the soldiers to arrest all Fuso deserters.

Then they marched quickly to put out the fire. They couldn't let the fire completely burn down Tsuruta Castle, otherwise it would be useless even if they captured the city themselves. Restoring the previous prosperity could not be achieved in a short time.

In other words, the plan to capture three cities will be ruined. Li Feng's plan has failed and needs to be rectified.

By the time Li Derjian and the others arrived, Hetian City had been completely burned by the fire. Fortunately, Tang Jun used hot air balloons to blow up some of the areas with larger fires with grenades. In the end, 10% of the area was not destroyed.

The fire is burning.

As for the common people, they really didn’t see any of them.

"Marshal, we have searched the whole city and there are no civilians. Should we continue the pursuit now?" a scout replied.

Li Derjian said angrily: "Chase, at least we have to chase the people back. Mad, what's the use of an abandoned city?"

"yes."

Immediately afterwards, the whole army attacked. As for the prisoners, Li Derjian didn't care about them. He just stayed in the city and no one took care of them. They could go wherever they wanted.

This group of prisoners were like headless flies for a while, wandering around and around until they made their way to Shikoku Castle.

Li Zhong, the defender of Shikoku Castle, thought it was an enemy attack and something was wrong with Li Derjian and the others, because the prisoners were coming from the direction of Tsuruta Castle.

However, he soon learned about the situation and the situation in Tsuruta Castle, which made him feel that the people of Fuso Country were very ruthless, completely opposite to what he usually saw.

This made Li Zhong begin to feel that Li Feng's choice was correct. Fusang Kingdom might become a serious problem for Datang in the future, so it would be best to solve it as soon as possible.

Li Derjian led a navy of five hundred and rode at full speed on his war horses to pursue the people who had been taken away.

These five hundred war horses are still supporting the Tsuruta Army in Shikoku Castle.

After the war horses heard the gunshots and explosions, they immediately collapsed. They threw the Fuso soldiers off their horses and ran around, so almost no war horses were damaged.

It's all thanks to Li Feng. During the training, he also asked them to train on horseback to fight. The reason is very simple. War horses are the only means of transportation at present. They can't do it without learning.

So, relying on these five hundred horses, Li Derjian finally caught up with the people after two hours of fast running.

"General Sakata, they are actually catching up." Tsuruta Honsaku said in panic.

Sakata fifty-fifty said decisively: "Abandon the people and evacuate immediately."

"But there are only 500 of them, so we just withdraw like this. I always feel unwilling to do so," Tsuruta Honsaku said.

Sakata Wu frowned and said, "Don't you know about the Turks? The Tang Dynasty defeated hundreds of thousands of Turks with only three thousand firearms battalions.

We only have a few people now, not to mention that there is a big ball following us. We can't win, so we should withdraw and don't make unnecessary sacrifices."

"Have we always been so passive?"

"No, Her Royal Highness went to the Tang Dynasty to find out the secrets of the firearms camp. When the time comes, we will do our own research. The Tang Dynasty is not yet within our grasp." Sakata Wu sneered.
Chapter completed!