Li Xiaofei held Chen Hongyi's handsome banner and restrained the main force of the Qin army in Liyang. Chen Hongyi and Liu Jian seized the opportunity to go straight to Luoyang, and the Luoyang guard Hou Shan closed the city gate and resisted desperately, and the Luoyang city wall was tall and difficult to break for a while.

Hou Shan said triumphantly to his subordinates in the city: "It is said that Chen Hongyi has used his troops well, and my Luoyang City will wipe out his reputation", and some subordinates persuaded him to take out some money to comfort the people, so as to avoid a civil uprising in the siege for a long time. Hou Shan sacrificed his life and wealth to kill the subordinates who suggested the words, and the rest of the subordinates stopped making a sound.

Chen Hongyi was at a loss outside the city, and discussed with Liu Jian, Shen De, and Xiao Qian how to break the city, Xiao Qian remembered that Li Xiaofei had talked about being extorted by Hou Shan in Luoyang City: "Hou Shan is greedy, and everyone in Luoyang City has to pay what taxes and clothing taxes, why don't we shoot letters into the city, and promise that after the city is broken, Hou Shan will return the money and property looted by Hou Shan to the people, and also exempt these harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, as long as someone believes in us, we are not afraid that this city will not be able to be defeated", Liu Jian laughed: "There are still rich people who know how to use money, Even if this method can't be successful, at least it will cause chaos in Luoyang City, and there may be a chance when the time comes", Chen Hongyi nodded: "Yes, not only do we have to shoot letters, but we also have to shout to Hou Shan's subordinates around the city, promising that whoever kills Hou Shan will give him a reward, we can even use trebuchets to throw thousands of dollars to make money, give the money first, and they will naturally believe us, and the next thing will be easy to do." ”

The next day, there were only more arrows shot into the city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city dodged one after another, and when the arrow rain landed, everyone stepped forward to see that they were all arrows cut from slender wooden sticks, and only small notes were tied, and some of the notes said "Kill Hou Shan, exempt from taxes", some wrote "Kill Hou Shan, divide the gold mountain", and some wrote "Open the city gate to welcome the king of Han, and the king of Han will not pay for food when he comes". Luoyang City has passed on the content of today's arrow rain, Hou Shan naturally also knew, Hou Shan sent his own soldiers to patrol the city, and found that there was a note hidden in Liang Jun's killing, so Luoyang City cried.

The sergeant on the city wall was about to pick up the note, and when the soldiers who were patrolling the city arrived, they continued to wave their swords and curse on the city. The Liang army under the city also recited "Kill Hou Shan, exempt from taxes", "Kill Hou Shan, divide the gold mountain", "Open the city gate to welcome the king of Han, the king of Han will not pay for food when he comes", and then threw 3,000 pieces of money from the catapult to the head of the city.

Chen Hongyi personally shouted under the city: "Brothers in Luoyang City, this is a reward for you, whoever takes the most will kill Hou Shan, and I, Chen Hongyi, will have a heavy reward after entering the city."

Hou Shan's personal soldiers also stopped others from picking up money at first, but later they also joined the team to grab money. After Hou Shan learned that his soldiers had gone to pick up Chen Hongyi's bounty, he was furious, and ran to the city with his subordinates to kill these soldiers who picked up money, and collected all the money picked up by others and brought it back to his house.

The soldiers who soon lost the money in their hands were very angry, and they all slowly rushed towards Hou Shan, who pulled out his sword and shouted: "What are you going to do? Want to rebel? I spared your life just now, how can you take revenge? ”

The soldier who walked in the front raised the knife in his hand and threw it over: "You despicable villain, you will not end well with you!" ”

The others also threw their weapons at Hou Shan, and in an instant, Hou Shan was stabbed to death with knives and guns. The people in Luoyang City knew that Hou Shan was dead, and they all rushed over to bite off a piece of meat from him to eat, and by the time Chen Hongyi and Liu Jian entered the city with Liang Jun, Hou Shan had only a skeleton left.

Chen Hongyi and Liu Jian talked and calculated, abolished the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in Luoyang City, and opened the treasury of Hou Shan's mansion, distributed most of the soldiers and civilians in the city, and gave the rest of the rewards to the soldiers of the Liang army. The Qin army was grateful for Chen Hongyi's kindness, so they joined the Liang army one after another, and Chen Hongyi gathered 80,000 military horses under his command.

Chen Hongyi led 800 people to Tongguan with several newly surrendered Qin military captains, and the Tongguan guards were fellow villagers with these captains, and after some analysis of the interests and disadvantages, the switch surrendered to Chen Hongyi. After Chen Hongyi occupied Tongguan, he was not in a hurry to march into Chang'an, because Chang'an was burned by Hou Dong at this time, and most of the people fled in all directions.

After taking Tongguan and Luoyang, Chen Hongyi decided to personally lead 30,000 horses across the river and go straight to Liyang, and let Liu Jian lead 30,000 horses to rescue Jinyang. Liu Jian was very puzzled at this time: "Master, didn't the art of war say that Wei was encircled to save Zhao?" We took this opportunity to directly capture Yecheng and copy the Qin army's lair, didn't we naturally relieve the siege of Liyang? ”

Chen Hongyi touched his beard: "Surrounding Wei to save Zhao also varies from time to time, the Qin army is mostly cavalry, and today they will conquer Yecheng, they can conquer Liyang and flee north to Zhending and Fanyang, or they can come back to fight Yecheng." We occupied the city empty, but Xiaofei and they were going to die, and the purpose of encircling Wei to save Zhao was not achieved. The important thing is that I personally came forward to defeat Yecheng, that is, to tell the Qin army besieging Liyang that I was not in Liyang City, then they would desperately capture Liyang. The only way to do this is to rush to the outside of Liyang City, fight a decisive battle with the cavalry of the Qin army, and destroy most of their soldiers and horses. I think Xiaofei's situation there is now very dangerous, and Hu Jian must already know the news that we have taken down Luoyang."

When Hu Jian learned that Chen Hongyi led his troops to defeat Luoyang, he was so angry that he almost fell off his horse, so he ordered 60,000 horses to attack Liyang day and night.

Fortunately, Xiang Xiaoyu took people to dig wells and ditches in the city during this time, and the people in the city also knew that they would end up in the hands of the Qin army, and the soldiers and civilians resisted desperately. The Qin army dug tunnels into the city, but without exception dug in the ditch in the well dug by Xiang Xiaoyu in advance, as soon as the Qin army showed up, the coals that split their heads and covered their faces fell, and the Qin troops in the tunnel were either burned to death or choked to death.

Hu Jian built a dam to divert water from Liyang to irrigate the city, and finally flooded most of the houses in Liyang City. But after the flooding of the city, the Qin army did not practice water warfare, so they had to dig earth and build roads towards Liyang City. The people of the city were all hiding on the walls of the high buildings, cold and hungry, but none of them wanted to go out of the city and surrender.

Li Xiaofei saw that there was already a country outside the city, so he ordered to tear down the beams and tiles of each house in the city and build rafts and arrows on the spot. The Qin army did not guard against Li Xiaofei and others daring to go out of the city, and when Murong Ling led people to rush out on a raft, they were all stunned, and the Qin army that was building a road could not dodge, and was killed by Murong Ling and others. When the Qin army organized people to shoot arrows to counterattack, Murong Ling took people back to the city on a raft.

The good times did not last long, on the second day of the lunar month, Lishui froze, and the outside of Liyang City was also frozen.

Looking at the frozen outside of Liyang City, Hu Jian was overjoyed, so he prepared a cavalry team and prepared to rush into Liyang City in one fell swoop. Li Xiaofei waited for Xiao Yu with his archers at the head of the city, and Hu Jian also kept observing the situation at the head of the city, and he found that the general who led people out on a raft to kill people was not at the head of the city, so he had a trace of concern in his heart. But when he saw that it was his own cavalry, he no longer worried, even if that man rushed out, he would only kill a few hundred of his own men, and it had nothing to do with the overall situation. Today, this Liyang City will definitely be conquered!