At this time in the capital.
Zhang Bao's men and horses have completely poured in.
They surrounded the palace with overwhelming force.
Cao De led tens of thousands of people and was compressed from the city into the palace.
The walls of this palace are also tall and thick. To Cao De and others, it is like adding another city.
With these tens of thousands of men guarding the gate of the palace, Zhang Bao and the others could not attack for a while.
At this time, the remaining soldiers in the capital had been almost wiped out.
When they first broke in, Zhang Bao's men followed Zhang Bao's orders and first shouted to surrender without killing.
Many troops threw away their weapons and surrendered as soon as the city was broken.
Especially the defenders on the city wall, after experiencing the indiscriminate bombardment by Zhang Bao and others, they had long lost the intention to resist. Even when Zhang Bao's men came in, they were still stunned on the spot and were at a loss.
It was captured by Zhang Bao and his men.
"Bring the catapult in for me!"
"Also, I want all the kerosene in the capital!"
Zhang Bao came to the entrance of the palace, and after learning about the current situation, he said to his men.
Not a moment.
The catapult was pushed outside the palace.
Kerosene from the capital was also continuously transported.
"Zhang Zhoumu, Zhang Zhoumu, it's me!"
"I brought all the people here to help. I know where the kerosene is stored. I took them to move it."
While Zhang Bao was busy working.
Zheng Kongqing, the big shopkeeper of Zheng Bao Bank, squeezed his way to the front from the crowd.
"Shopkeeper Zheng, long time no see."
"That's it for what happened before. Quickly gather the kerosene, firewood and ointment from the capital for me."
Zhang Bao said to Zheng Kongqing.
Before, it was precisely because of Cao Kang's threat that Zheng Kongqing spread the news to Zhang Bao and others that Cao Kang was dead.
But fortunately, this news did not cause much trouble to Zhang Bao and the others.
Otherwise, Zhang Bao would not let Zheng Kongqing go.
For Zhang Bao, he understood Zheng Kongqing's awkward position in the capital. Ever since the Zheng family announced their surrender to him in a high-profile manner, he believed that Zheng Kongqing had been put on the fire.
The reason why Cao Kang has not touched them is just waiting to find a suitable time.
This matter could have been expected before.
After Zhang Bao found out, he wasn't too surprised.
On the contrary, Zheng Kongqing knelt down with a thud after hearing Zhang Bao's words.
to be honest.
From the moment he heard that Hezhou's troops were attacking the city, Zheng Kongqing never had a good night's sleep.
Although they are not needed at all to fight the war, they only need to close their doors and close their doors, but for Zheng Kongqing, this is not the case.
On the one hand, he hopes that the people from Hezhou will not invade, so that what he has done before may not be exposed.
On the other hand, he expected Hezhou's men to kill Cao Kang. After all, Zheng Kongqing knew that he was only valued by Zhang Bao, and by Cao Kang, he was just a tool to be used.
When it has no use value, it will be thrown aside and ignored.
After hearing that the city was destroyed, Zheng Kongqing weighed it again and decided to come to Zhang Bao to plead guilty.
In particular, when he heard that Zhang Bao had people looking for kerosene in the city, he immediately arranged for his own people to help.
The purpose is to make up for the mistakes made with Zhang Bao before.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Bao would forget the past.
This made Zheng Kongqing almost stunned.
"Let the catapults disperse around the palace, and throw the kerosene into the palace!"
"Then just set it on fire!"
"There is no need for this palace to exist anymore."
Zhang Bao immediately gave the order.
For Zhang Bao, these men and horses inside are prepared to fight to the end. Although they can rush in hard, they will definitely lose a lot of men and horses in this last-ditch battle.
Moreover, this palace can be said to be the seat of authority of Daxia and Dawei. If this palace still exists, even the capital they have built in Hezhou will be a little less powerful.
In a word, if it is not broken, it cannot be established!
The old will not go, and the new will not come!
burn!
Following Zhang Bao's order, countless kerosene and torches were thrown into the palace.
Inside the palace at this time.
Cao De was directing his soldiers and horses to continuously block the entrances to the palace. In Cao De's view, even if his troops from Hezhou could break through the walls of the capital, it would not be that simple to enter the palace easily.
While Cao De was leading everyone to work, he suddenly heard something being thrown in from outside.
But at this time, I couldn't see anything in the dark, I just heard the sound of some clay pots breaking.
Not a moment.
As countless torches were thrown in, Cao De realized that something was wrong.
Immediately afterwards, the entire palace burst into flames.
Originally, the buildings in the palace were basically made of various types of wood, and the kerosene and the like were extremely easy to burn. Almost instantly, the palace was a sea of fire.
These people inside had already blocked the way out of the palace.
The original intention was to guard against Zhang Bao's men rushing in.
Now it is directly blocking their way out.
Fortunately, most of them were surrounded at the gate of the palace and were not affected by the kerosene thrown in by the catapults.
But now the fire started in the middle and gradually spread to all sides.
Tens of thousands of people just watched the fire approaching, and the blazing flames already made them feel the breath of death.
"Run!"
"Climb out!"
I don't know who shouted, and everyone scrambled to climb up the high wall.
But for all of them, even if two people are stacked, they can't climb out.
Instead, due to constant trampling, countless people were trampled to the bottom.
Gradually, a high pile of corpses was actually trampled.
Cao De had been in the chaos for a long time, and he was stepped on by someone in the crowd and died.
In this chaotic situation, let alone Cao De, even if Cao Kang was here in person, he could not stop everyone's desire to escape.
But when they climbed the mountain of corpses and finally reached the top of the wall.
What greeted them were countless bows and arrows below.
"kill!"
"Leave no one behind!"
Zhang Bao had already asked everyone to wait outside the high wall with bows and arrows.
For these people, they had been given the opportunity to surrender before, but from the moment they followed Cao De and retreated into the palace, they had already cut off their own way of survival.
It's their own choice.
You must bear this price!
