Chapter 1490: The City Consumed by Flames!【2】

"It's bad, Chanyu."

"It's bad, Great Chanyu, fire, fire, fire... fires have broken out everywhere in the city, and inside and outside the city, it's all fire!"

The words of the reporting soldier caused expressions of extreme shock to instantly crawl onto the faces of Yufuluo and Budugen.

Fires would not break out inside and outside the city for no reason.

Someone must have set the fire.

"No!"

Guo Tu was even more terrified, his expression changing instantly.

In his mind, he suddenly recalled a great fire from the year before last, when Duan Yu was suppressing the Huang Jin Rebellion in Jizhou.

That great fire had directly buried Lu Zhi and the fifty thousand troops under his command in a sea of disaster.

Even Lu Zhi himself had died in that fire.

And then there was the Mayi Plot.

The number of Liangzhou troops in the city did not add up, and those Liangzhou generals who should have been leading the troops had not been seen at all.

This Mayi County, which had been so easily breached, was likely a trap carefully prepared for them.

Who!

Who!

Who was so ruthless as to use the people of an entire city as bait!

Guo Tu's face was filled with panic: "Two Chanyus, quickly, quickly gather the troops and break out from the four gates. If it is too late, no one will be able to get out as the city is consumed by flames."

Hearing Guo Tu's words, Yufuluo and Budugen also recovered from their panic and quickly ordered their men to immediately assemble and launch a breakout.

The soldiers who had been planning to breach the Zhang Family fortress were also panicked; some even abandoned the wealth they had looted and began to flee toward the city gates.

On the walls of the Zhang Family fortress, watching the Xiongnu army retreating like an ebbing tide, bursts of cheers erupted from the walls.

"Master, Master, the Xiongnu and the Xianbei have all retreated, they have all retreated."

The Zhang clansmen ran to Zhang Liao's grandfather and said happily.

However, Zhang Liao's grandfather did not show a smile.

Is it over?

No.

In fact, it had only just begun.

Their Zhang family was merely bait to delay the Xiongnu and Xianbei.

And the people of this city were all bait carefully prepared for these one hundred thousand Xiongnu and Xianbei youths.

This Mayi city was a giant graveyard, used to bury these one hundred thousand Xiongnu and Xianbei youths.

"Go, let everyone reunite with their families; the remaining time... is not much."

In a hidden corner of the city, Cheng Yu, dressed in black robes, stood in a corner, watching the fires burning inside and outside the city.

The Xiongnu and Xianbei soldiers had stopped their slaughter and were all running wildly toward the four gates.

"You all go; whether you can survive depends on your fate."

Cheng Yu turned his head to look at the four guards following behind him, also dressed in black robes.

The four guards looked at each other, and one of them stepped forward, bowed to Cheng Yu, and said: "My lord, what about you..."

Cheng Yu shook his head slightly and said: "The people of this city died because of me. If I live alone, how will I have the face to face the people of the world in the future?"

"To face the people of Liangzhou?"

"If someone is destined to bear this infamy, then it is better that I bear it alone."

Saying this, Cheng Yu waved his hand again and then walked toward a civilian house nearby where a fire was glowing.

"My lord."

The four guards all knelt on one knee with a thud.

"What you have done, my lord, is for the people of the border, for the thousand-year plan of the Great Han; what sin is there in that?"

"My lord..."

The tall Cheng Yu shook his head and said: "No need to say more, my mind is made up. You all go; I hope you can survive, so that I may have a little less guilt in my heart."

Seeing that Cheng Yu's determination to die was set.

The four guards behind him looked at each other, and each saw the same thought in the other's eyes.

Thus, the leader suddenly stood up, took a stride to get behind Cheng Yu, and then raised his palm, bringing a hand-strike down quickly.

Bang.

A muffled sound rang out, and Cheng Yu, having no reaction at all, went limp and fainted.

The guard caught Cheng Yu with quick eyes and hands, then signaled to his companions.

The other three companions immediately stepped forward and lifted the unconscious Cheng Yu.

"Go, send the lord away; we can die, but the lord cannot."

The other three also nodded in agreement.

Thus, they immediately carried the unconscious Cheng Yu toward a civilian house in the distance.

In the courtyard of the civilian house was a well covered with a bluestone slab. ===== CHAPTER 1492 =====