"His Royal Highness the Governor has a good heart and does not want to commit more crimes!"
"I give you the last chance to surrender to the Huru traitors without killing them. If you refuse to surrender at this time, after the city is broken, the soldiers will press on the border and the city will be full of traitors. They will kill all the traitors regardless of gender!"
Facing the Ming army's persuasion to surrender, the Qing army's response was a hail of arrows.
Tuk-tuk-tuk...
The envoys of the Ming army walked away in confusion, while the Qing army defending the city stood at the head of the city and burst into bursts of proud laughter.
Zhu Hongyu was rewarded, and he no longer had the slightest bit of intolerance in his heart, and just gave the order.
"Give me the order, let's do it!"
Upon hearing this, an orderly soldier clasped his fists and left.
Not long after, the Ming army's trebuchets on the front line received the order, and tightly sealed clay pots were placed on the trebuchets one by one.
Ming soldiers holding torches lit the oil-soaked cloth on the clay pot...
Collapse! Collapse!
A Ming Army soldier knocked the latch on the trebuchet, and the ignited clay pots flew towards the inner city of Guangzhou.
One by one, blazing black spots shot toward the inner city of Guangzhou.
Drawing arcs in the air!
The Qing soldiers guarding the city looked up and saw the clay pots in the sky.
A Qing soldier sneered.
"Hey, this Ming thief is probably out of his depth, right? What age is this, and they still use trebuchets to attack the city?"
However, the Qing soldier's sneer had just ended.
With a bang, a clay pot fell to the ground first.
The body of the clay pot instantly cracked and turned into countless fragments, and the oil in the pot splashed everywhere.
Immediately afterwards, the oil on the ground was ignited by an open flame!
With a bang, the fire quickly spread and burned.
With the help of oil, wooden buildings were quickly ignited and turned into balls of fire.
Bang! Bang!
As more and more clay pots fell to the ground, they were broken and oil was spilled.
The fire spread faster and faster, and the entire inner city of Guangzhou was quickly engulfed by the disaster...
"ah……"
"Help!"
"I'm in trouble, help me, help me!"
"..."
Screams and wails kept ringing in the inner city of Guangzhou.
The Qing troops guarding the city stared blankly at the inner city of Guangzhou that had turned into a sea of flames, their faces filled with despair.
A Qing soldier shouted and ran down the city wall into the sea of fire.
Of course, they are not looking for death!
It's because their family members are still caught in the fire, and they want to save them.
Shang Zhijie looked at the direction where the fire was spreading, his eyes were about to burst, and his eyes were full of despair.
"Damn it!"
"The thief is so vicious!"
"..."
Jin Guangzu stood at the door of the Governor's Office and shouted loudly.
"Put out the fire! Put out the fire!"
"Go put out the fire!"
“The inner city of Guangzhou cannot be lost!”
"..."
The government officials and soldiers in the inner city of Guangzhou fell into panic under the overwhelming fire.
It can only be said that fortunately the incendiary bombs used by the Ming army were just ordinary petroleum incendiary bombs, and the gasoline was not refined into incendiary bombs.
Plus the trebuchet has a limited range!
As well as the fire prevention function common in ancient Chinese cities, that is, the separation of cities and towns, and the buildings are divided by streets.
Those streets are natural isolation zones.
As a result, the scope of the fire was strictly limited to a few cities near the outer city, and it was unable to ignite the entire inner city of Guangzhou.
But even so, the fire that spread rapidly in the inner city caused a lot of headaches for the Qing troops defending the city.
A large number of Qing troops defending the city were engulfed in the sea of fire while fighting the fire.
Although the Ming army’s incendiary bombs used oil!
But once the oil is ignited, it is not so easy to extinguish.
You can only use sand to extinguish the fire. If you use water to extinguish the fire, it will only increase the spread of the fire.
But the Qing army didn't know this. A soldier, a famous government official, went to put out the fire with a bucket.
A bucket of water was poured over, and the oil floated on the water, but it continued to burn.
It even turned into an even more terrifying flowing fire!
When a Manchu government official didn't pay attention, the fire spread and burned his feet in an instant.
In just the blink of an eye, the yamen servant screamed and turned into a charred corpse in human form.
If you want to extinguish the fire caused by oil, given the technical conditions of this era, the only option is sand.
Or wait for the combustibles to burn out and the fire to extinguish itself!
You can use sand to extinguish fires, but the workload is much greater than extinguishing fires with water.
After all, in terms of light weight, sand is much heavier than water!
…
Looking at the raging fire burning in the direction of Guangzhou's inner city, Zhu Hongyu had a very cold expression on his face.
Thinking that I might be known as a barbecue master in the future, I eagerly wanted to get rid of this pot.
Wang Ruxian on the side felt an inexplicable chill down his spine and shivered.
At this moment, a sudden strong wind blew from the Pearl River. The strong wind swept across and the flags of the Ming army were flying.
In the direction of the inner city of Guangzhou, the fire that originally only ignited a corner spread rapidly when the strong wind blew.
Several cities and towns adjacent to the fire were ignited in an instant!
Driven by the sudden strong wind, the fire spread like waves.
Everything he passed was ignited!
The fire was raging, and countless people were engulfed in the sea of flames, screaming in agony.
Standing outside Guangzhou, looking at the scene inside the city, Zhu Hongyu twitched the corners of his mouth. It seemed that his reputation as a barbecue master would never be shaken off.
The fire continued to spread, one city after another was ignited, and even spread to the surrounding Pingnan Palace.
Jin Guangzu stood in front of the Governor's Office, looked at the Governor's Office covered in flames, and let out a shrill scream.
"Heaven will kill me!"
"Heaven will kill me!"
"..."
Although the original fire was not small, it would not ignite the entire inner city of Guangzhou.
If it hadn't been for this sudden strong wind, the fire would not have spread to the point where it was almost engulfing the entire inner city of Guangzhou!
Why can't it be considered that God is going to destroy them?!
This makes it clear that God wants to burn these Qing troops huddled in the inner city of Guangzhou to death!
…
The fire lasted for a whole day and night. When the fire was at its strongest, Pingnan Palace was half engulfed by the fire.
The entire inner city of Guangzhou has turned into a scorched earth!
A large number of bannermen who settled there were engulfed by the fire and turned into charred corpses.
It is no exaggeration to say that there is not even one out of ten people living in the inner city of Guangzhou!
Boom! Boom!
There were bursts of roaring between the sky and the earth, but it was not the artillery of the Ming army, but thunder.
Thick clouds accumulated in the sky, and thunder dragons snaked and climbed in the clouds.
A drop of rain fell to the ground!
Immediately afterwards came bursts of continuous pouring rain.
A sudden heavy rain extinguished the fire in the inner city of Guangzhou.
Streams of white smoke are steaming, making the vast inner city of Guangzhou seem to be in a fairyland.
However, in the fairyland-like inner city of Guangzhou, the ground is full of traces left by the fire!