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At this time, the most worthless thing is human life, and the soldiers on both sides are red-eyed, desperately harvesting the lives of enemy soldiers. Even if the soldier who fell to the ground from the arrow did not die, no one cared to help him, so he could only crawl to the rear alone.

And Shan Xiongxin, who was at the forefront, used all his strength to crash into the city gate that was about to be completely destroyed.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the door frame of the city gate finally couldn't withstand the impact, and it broke away from the city wall, and fell down with a heavy city gate, with sawdust and rubble flying sideways, leaving the Zheng soldiers guarding the city stunned.

When the Wei soldiers who were besieging the city saw this, they cheered and their morale soared.

Shan Xiongxin immediately shouted: "Kill! The gates have been slammed open, and everyone has rushed into the city! ”

With that, he rushed towards the city, and there were two stunned Zheng soldiers at the door, and his head was cut off in an instant.

The Wei army was overjoyed at this time, the siege vehicle was withdrawn, and quickly shifted to the left, towards the other half of the crumbling city gate to carry out the final destruction, and several teams were immediately sending people to report the situation to Li Mi.

Li Mi was also overjoyed, and when he ordered Wang Bodang to lead a large number of cavalry to gather at the city gate, he was ready to charge.

This attack on Tiger Prison Pass was really a nest, and they originally thought that they could quickly capture this pass and open the passage to Luoyang. But I didn't expect to be stuck in the Tiger Prison Pass for so long, pay such heavy casualties, and spend so much time.

In the past, Li Mi was invincible and invincible. However, it was the first time he had attacked such a majestic pass as the Tiger Prison Pass, and this kind of siege battle obviously made him very aggrieved, and he had a feeling that he was full of strength, but he just couldn't use his strength.

Now, the anger that has been accumulated in his chest has finally found a channel to vent.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the other half of the city gate was also slammed open, and the Wei soldiers, who had made great achievements, were ecstatic to push the entire siege vehicle to the other side of the outer road of the city gate, and then rushed into the city with a wild scream.

At this time, the sound of "rumbling" horses' hooves also arrived, and the cavalry of the Wei army, under the leadership of Wang Bodang, swept past them like a whirlwind, and a steel knife with a bright handle was raised high, waving towards the panicked Zheng army in the city......

The Tiger Prison has finally been broken!

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Zhang Gongjin and Yang Gongqing, who learned that the city gate had fallen, were also stunned and speechless for a long time. They never expected that the city gate would be deformed due to the collapse of the city wall, resulting in being knocked open by the siege car. That's really depressing.

However, there is no regret in the world, and now there are only 60,000 Zheng soldiers in the Tiger Prison Pass, although they are all elite divisions, they are not enough to compete with the 100,000 Wei troops outside the city.

In desperation, Zhang Gongjin had no choice but to work with Yang Gongqing to lead the soldiers in the city to open the west gate and flee towards Luoyang in embarrassment.

And Wang Shichong, who learned that the Tiger Prison Pass was lost, was also frightened like a frightened bird, and ordered the gate of Luoyang to be closed tightly, preparing to start a final battle with Li Mi.

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After rushing into the Tiger Prison Pass, looking at the Wei soldiers who were cheering, Li Mi couldn't be happy.

Because when he entered the city, he received an urgent military intelligence report from Zu Junyan, saying that Yuming had conquered Donghai County, the last stronghold of the Huaibei Wei army. All the counties of the Great Wei in Huaibei have changed their surnames from "Wei" to "Zhou".

Now Yuming left some troops in each county to guard, and still ordered the original Wei generals to be the defenders, and the generals of the Zhou army to be the deputy generals, guarding the city.

And he himself led an army of 150,000 and drove mightily to the Jindi Pass, and the camp stretched for about ten miles.

Although Yuming had not yet ordered the siege of the city, according to the Wei army's exploration report, large siege equipment such as trebuchets, well fences, and siege crashes were constantly being transported from the direction of Hebei. And the Zhou soldiers in the camp were not idle, they cut down trees in the surrounding woods to build ladders. Apparently planning to start a big war.

Zu Junyan has no more than 10,000 people left behind in Jindi Pass, and most of them are recruits with weak combat effectiveness, how can he be the opponent of the 150,000 Zhou army? Therefore, he was anxious to send someone to send a letter to Li Mi, hoping that Li Mi could send reinforcements to rescue him, otherwise Jindi Pass would inevitably be lost.

As soon as the Jindi Pass is lost, the Zhou army can drive straight in, and Li Mi's old nest Xingyang, and Liyang Cang, one of the world's big granaries, will also be unprotected.

After Li Mi got the news, he was also depressed. Naturally, he also knew the dangers of fighting on two fronts. Therefore, even after learning the news of Yuming's southward attack, he did not return to the division immediately. Instead, I want to make a decision after overcoming the Tiger Prison Pass.

Now, our army has captured the Tiger Prison Pass, morale is booming, the enemy army has been defeated in successive battles, frightened, many generals and officials in Luoyang City, have sent a letter to themselves, saying that if he attacks Luoyang, he is willing to respond internally.

If he gives up and returns to the east, the advantage over Wang Shichong that he has achieved before will come to naught, giving this old opponent a chance to breathe.

Regardless of Jindiguan and Xingyang, continue to attack Luoyang, and after destroying Wang Shichong, return to the division to deal with Yuming?

Or do you want to temporarily let Wang Shichong take a horse, and the main force will advance eastward, defeat Yuming first, and then attack Luoyang?

Li Mi hadn't made up his mind yet.

After a while, he said to the soldiers beside him: "Quickly notify Xu Junshi, General Wang, and General Shan to come to the city guard mansion!" Let's just say that I have something important to discuss! ”

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After Xu Shiji, Wang Bodang and Shan Xiongxin conquered the Tiger Prison Pass, they have been busy counting the warehouses in the pass, arranging fire extinguishing, and clearing the remnants of the Zheng army in the city.

When the people heard Li Mi's summons, they hurriedly put down the matter at hand and hurried to the city guard mansion of the Tiger Prison Pass.

"Xu Junshi, General Wang, General Shan, please take a seat!" After Li Mi asked people to sit down, he ordered his soldiers to serve a cup of tea to people.

Shan Xiongxin was also a little thirsty, so he drank it after taking it, he drank the tea in one gulp, and then asked: "I don't know if the King of Wei summoned me to come here, what is there to discuss, is there any plan to attack Luoyang?" ”

After Li Mi heard this, he smiled bitterly and said, "General Shan's words are a good question!" A certain family originally wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Luoyang, but unexpectedly, when entering the city, they received such a piece of information, which made a certain family have to hesitate again! ”

"Oh? What intelligence? After hearing this, Shan Xiongxin asked with a puzzled expression.

Li Mi handed them the information sent by Zu Junyan and said, "Look at it, this is the news from Jindi Pass. ”

The man took the stack of letters in amazement, and then looked at them with their heads together. The more I looked, the more ugly my face became.

After reading it, whether it was Xu Shiji, Wang Bodang and Shan Xiongxin, they all sighed, and then put the information on the table and were silent.

After a while, Li Mifang asked in a deep voice: "You must have read the information sent by General Zu, how should our army march now, a certain family wants to hear your opinion!" ”

After Shan Xiongxin heard this, he immediately got up and said: "King Wei, according to Shan's opinion, you should continue to attack Luoyang!" Now our army has broken through the tiger prison and its morale is booming. And Zheng Jun has been killed by our army in fear. Our army is making persistent efforts to attack Luoyang. As long as you take the eastern capital in one fell swoop, you can pacify Wang Shichong! At that time, with the power of victory, if you return to the east, you will not have any worries. At that time, I believe that we will be able to win a big battle! ”

I have to say that what Shan Xiongxin said has a certain truth. But Xu Shiji didn't think so, wondering how could Luoyang be so easy to fight? This city is not only the largest city in the world, but also the strongest city. Not only are the walls strong, but the entire city's defense system has also been specially designed to make it easy to defend and difficult to attack. Moreover, there is a lot of grain storage in Luoyang City, and there is not much problem for the defenders to hold out for more than half a year.

According to his understanding, Wang Shichong still has about 150,000 men and horses, plus Zheng troops in other places, the total strength should be more than 200,000. Although Li Mi's troops were twice as strong as Wang Shichong's. But it may not be able to destroy the other party.

Shan Xiongxin's words aroused Wang Bodang's strong dissatisfaction, and he even retorted: "General Shan, you seem to have only considered how you have made meritorious contributions, and you have not considered the feelings of others at all. It's good for you to be alone, unmarried and childless, one person is fed, and the whole family is not hungry, but what about the other Wagang army brothers? They're family-owned. Can An be like you, only caring about yourself and not thinking about your family? ”

Shan Xiongxin was suddenly speechless, he himself was single, and he didn't need to think about family matters. However, most of the other generals of the Wagang army had wives and children, and it was impossible for them to be completely indifferent to the loss of Xingyang like him. You must know that the families of the Wagang Army are all in Xingyang City now.

So, the two of them invariably set their eyes on Li Mi, expecting their lord to make a decision.

After Li Mi pondered for a moment, Xu Shiji, who had been silent, asked, "Master Xu, I don't know what your opinion is on this matter?" ”

Xu Shiji had obviously thought about it, and he immediately said in a deep voice: "Mi Gong, according to Xu's opinion, our army is currently facing a two-front battle. Now there are only two options: the first is to defend the west and attack the east, that is, relying on the Tiger Prison Pass in the west, send a good general to lead elite troops to defend the town, repair the broken city walls and gates, dig through the moat, and re-dig the ditch to block Wang Shichong's attack. Then the main force of our army returned to Jindi Pass in the east of the division, striving to defeat Yuming and recover the lost territory in Huaibei. ”

"The second option is to defend from the east to the west. With part of the troops, he held the Jindi Pass to prevent Yuming from advancing westward, while the main force continued to storm Luoyang. Due to the small and weak troops under General Zu Junyan, in front of Yuming's 150,000 army, he could not hold the Jindi Pass, so he had to send additional troops. The main force of our army attacked Luoyang, and because it had won consecutive battles before, it had a certain psychological advantage over the Shangzheng army. Although Luoyang City is known as the first strong city in the world, the Zheng army is not stable internally, and if our army attacks on a large scale, I believe that there will be changes within the Zheng army. ”

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