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"King Zhou, you must avenge General Wang, General Guo, and General Duan!" Lu Chu said with a sad face. Bi·Qi Medium·· Net·· hair

"Lord Lu, don't worry! This king and Li Tang are incompatible, and I will definitely avenge the general's revenge! However, now that the enemy situation is unknown, and our army is only more than 10,000 people, the top priority at the moment is to rush back to Luoyang first. Wait for reinforcements to arrive, and then make a decision! Yu Ming was not carried away by the bad news of Wang Xuanshu and the others' deaths, and still maintained a strong sense of reason.

"Yes! Luoyang is the key place. Now there are almost no soldiers in the city, if we don't go back to defend it quickly, I'm afraid that we will be taken by the Tang army! Li Jing also hurriedly reminded.

The enemy they faced before was General Li Yuan, so they could naturally play with ease, but now their opponent has been replaced by Li Shimin, with this wisdom, how can they let go of Luoyang's fat?

Lu Chu thought about it, so he stopped sobbing and stood aside silently.

Yu Ming took a deep breath at this time and said loudly: "Pass my order, change the direction of the march, and return to Luoyang immediately!" ”

The 15,000 cavalry of the Zhou army immediately turned their horses around and turned in the direction of Luoyang City in the northwest.

At the same time, Li Shimin, who defeated Wang Xuanshu's army, also led the Wantang army and marched towards Luoyang City. Now it depends on which side of the Zhou and Tang armies is faster, and if you take the first step to seize Luoyang City, you can take the lead.

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About an hour later, the outline of the tall city wall of Luoyang City appeared in Yu Ming's eyes. At the same time, he also heard the neighing of people from the south, judging from the black crowd in the distance, and the banners with the words "Tang" and "Li", it should be Li Shimin's army.

Unexpectedly, the two armies arrived outside Luoyang at the same time.

In terms of distance, Li Shimin's army was closer to Luoyang City. However, the Tang army suffered from the fact that they did not have many cavalry, and most of the Tang army were infantry, and they had only experienced an ambush battle, although they had won the battle, but the soldiers were also very tired, so that the speed of the march was greatly affected.

On the other hand, on the side of the Zhou army, although the distance from Luoyang City is farther, the 15,000 soldiers are all cavalry, and they have all gone through a day and a night of rest, which is the time when they are full of energy, so it is reasonable to be able to arrive in advance.

At this time, Li Shimin also discovered that the Zhou army's brigade was approaching Luoyang City. He knew it was a critical moment. So he immediately ordered: "All the cavalry will follow me and rush into the city gate!" The infantry followed the King of Qi to attack the Zhou army! They must not be allowed to enter the city. ”

With Li Shimin's order, the Tang army was immediately divided into two troops, one of which was mainly cavalry, led by Li Shimin himself, and rushed to the south gate of Luoyang City.

The other force, consisting of infantry, led by Li Yuanji, intercepted the Zhou army.

Li Yuanji was very dissatisfied with Li Shimin asking him to intercept him. He knew very well that the credit for winning Luoyang City was much greater than intercepting the Zhou army.

It's just that now that the military order is like a mountain, Li Shimin has the supreme power of the army, if he insists on not listening, Li Shimin can immediately order him to be arrested, and then use Zhang Baode to intercept him instead. In this way, he can sue him in front of Li Yuan for not obeying the command, and his result will be even worse.

Therefore, although Li Yuanji was full of displeasure, he could only bite the bullet and lead more than 20,000 infantry to attack the Zhou army's brigade.

And after Yu Ming carefully checked the city wall and the situation of the two Tang armies of Li Shimin and Li Yuanji, he was overjoyed.

At this time, he said in a deep voice: "There is no need to rush the city gate now, first turn all the way and defeat these infantry of Li Yuanji!" ”

"Ahh King Zhou, this can't be done! When Lu Chu heard this, he was anxious. He hurriedly pointed to Luoyang City and said, "If Li Shimin is allowed to occupy Luoyang City first, then it will be difficult for our army to recapture it." Although the reinforcements of our army will soon come from the Tiger Prison. But it is not easy to break through a fortified city like Luoyang. Moreover, our army can increase troops to help, and the Tang army can also increase troops to rescue, and then our army will be in danger of being attacked by the enemy inside and outside. ”

Yu Ming listened, but smiled slightly: "Lord Lu, of course this king knows what you said. But if Li Shimin wants to win Luoyang City, he must enter the city gate. But look at it now: the army he sent was all cavalry, and the gates were closed. How did he get in? ”

After Lu Chu heard this, he was also stunned, he hurriedly put his hand on the canopy, and looked carefully, but saw that the gate of Luoyang City was indeed closed, and there were still some soldiers wearing forbidden army uniforms guarding the city wall.

"Oh! Lu got it! Lu Chu thought about it carefully, and then suddenly realized: "I almost forgot that King Zheng is still in the city!" Although the soldiers in the city were all transferred with the king of Zhou, there were still some city guards who maintained law and order. When King Zheng saw a large Tang army coming, how could there be a reason not to close the city gate? ”

The current situation is so simple: the main force of the Zhou army has indeed withdrawn from the eastern capital, but Luoyang City is still in the hands of Wang Shichong, who has been returned to the Zhou army. Although he only has a few city guards who can only maintain law and order. But if Li Shimin wanted to break through Luoyang, he had to launch a formal siege war and set up a ladder.

Of course, since there were only a few defenders in the city, perhaps he would be able to attack only once. But that would have to be done by the infantry. It was impossible to send just over 10,000 cavalry to pass through the closed gates.

Yu Ming took off the spear from the hook on the horse's back at this time and said, "When Li Shimin arrives at the city gate, he will react quickly!" But before that, let's crush his 20,000-odd infantry! ”

With that, he waved his hand, and then raised his spear and rode up a small hill.

"Woo woo"

The sound of the horn in the Zhou army's array suddenly rushed into the sky, and in the suffocating sound of the horn, the cavalry of the Zhou army, which was originally in the shape of a long snake, began to gather to the front line one after another, forming an arc-shaped array.

This array is the Glaive Array, a resilient array of attacks that crush the enemy in one fell swoop as if they were being blocked by an enemy with open arms, attacking the enemy's flanks from the left and right directions.

Yu Ming put out this formation, and he also had the idea of inflicting heavy losses on the infantry of the Tang Army in one fell swoop.

The cavalry of the Zhou army continued to surge, gathering under the black "Yu" banner like a sea of rivers, and swore to follow behind the young knight who was like a beautiful jade statue.

After about a meal, tens of thousands of cavalry had gathered under the black flag, and the fluttering black flag looked more and more poignant under the light of the setting sun.

When the loud horn sound of the cavalry of the Zhou army gathered suddenly stopped, the heaven and the earth were silent, except for the cool breeze blowing from the Yellow River, only the war horses made a few sniffles from time to time, the vast sky, the silent wilderness, showing a very solemn killing, nine points of gloom.

"Kill!" Yu Ming waved the spear in his hand at this time, then pointed forward, and took the lead to rush down the dirt slope.

"Follow King Zhou!"

"Smash the enemy's head!"

The 15,000 cavalry of the Zhou army also shouted in unison, and then, under the leadership of Li Jing and the Red Whisk Girl, followed Yuming and rushed towards the Tang army infantry.

"The enemy cavalry is coming! Quickly line up to meet the enemy! ”

Seeing this, Li Yuanji hurriedly shouted.

His mournful shout pierced the sky, and the Tang infantry hurriedly stopped in the hurry, and the soldiers behind accidentally bumped into the soldiers in front, and the formation was a little chaotic.

However, these Tang troops were all elite soldiers, and they were war divisions that had experienced many battles, and they quickly calmed down from their panic and began to assemble in formation......

"Drive!"

Yu Ming gently grabbed the horse's belly with his legs, then raised the horsewhip and slapped the horse's buttocks, the white war horse shook its head, and then let go of its four hooves and began to gallop.

Behind Yu Ming, tens of thousands of Zhou army iron horsemen followed closely, when the slightest hint of horse hooves rumbling gradually grew into a deafening thunder, the war horses had begun to sprint at full speed, 15,000 war horses fought bravely, 60,000 horse hooves ruthlessly trampled the earth, in the wilderness outside Luoyang City, it seemed that only the horses were neighing, and the earth was groaning......

More than 10,000 ironclad cavalry of the Zhou army swept towards the infantry phalanx of the Tang army like a surging torrent of steel.

"Pass the order! Bow and arrow wind! ”

Li Yuanji shouted loudly.

The archers of the Tang Army, who had already been ready, all drew their longbows, and then opened their bows and arrows, facing the sky diagonally.

"Shoot the arrows!"

With Li Yuanji's shout, only to hear the sound of "hum", thousands of sharp arrows shot into the air like dark clouds, emitting a continuous "whoosh, whoosh" sound.

A moment later, dense arrows fell from the sky like raindrops, attacking the Zhou cavalry who were running rapidly.

Yuming, who rushed to the front, was naturally the brunt of it. However, he raised his spear to the left and right, and the arrows fired at him were quickly disrupted.

Li Jing, Red Whisk Girl and others, who followed closely behind him, also waved their weapons and picked up the sharp arrows flying in the air.

However, some cavalry with lower martial arts skills are not so lucky, although they are desperately blocking, but after all, they are not as fast as martial arts masters like Yu Ming, and when they can't block it, there are still many unlucky people who have been hit by sharp arrows.

And in the cavalry marching at high speed, as long as an arrow falls, it means death. Even if they weren't killed by the enemy's arrows, they would have been trampled into meatloaf by their comrades who followed them.

Fortunately, the cavalry equipment of these Zhou troops is quite good. The 10,000 cavalry brought by Yuming from Beiping were all ironclad cavalry, wearing fine iron armor. And the cavalry who defected from Wang Shichong's side were also wearing Mingguang armor. Although some people were hit by arrows, because of the armor, the arrows did not penetrate deeply, and they had not completely lost their combat effectiveness, and they could still support themselves.

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