Chapter 90 Cutting down the abyss of drums and revitalizing Khotan

The only lesson that humanity can learn from history is that humanity cannot learn any lessons from history.

After He Wei offered his plan, Xu You ordered Tang Zhijian to rush to Yique Pass with Zhenhai overnight, and after seeing Tan Xiaozu, he handed him Xu You's edict. Tan Xiaozu took it apart and took a look, and immediately understood it, and early the next morning, he bombarded again with thunder artillery, personally supervised the battle, and launched a fierce attack with 3,000 troops.

But Yique is as solid as a rock!

At the same time, Xu Youbing sent the Tiger Prison Pass, the company camp for dozens of miles, and there was no end in sight, and then he threw a letter into the Tiger Prison Pass, saying that the Chu army was majestic, and threw the whip in the Yellow River, breaking its flow, and urging the defenders to descend early, otherwise the day of breaking the pass, I am afraid of hurting the harmony of the two countries!

This shameless operation made the Wei general Wang Cheng, who was guarding the tiger prison, vomit out the disgusting almost overnight meal, you led the four-way army to encircle Luoyang, take Zhuan, Zhanfan County, and burn the slippery platform, Xuchang, Xingyang, Cangyuan, Yangcheng, and Xincheng fell successively, how could you not be afraid of hurting the peace of the two countries at that time? Now that Jeju has lost most of it, the entire territory of Yuzhou has been lost, and hundreds of thousands of troops have surrounded Luoyang, you come to tell me about hurt and anger?

Immediately wrote a letter and shot it back, Xu You shamelessly burned the letter in front of Wang Cheng, and didn't even read it. Wang Cheng was so angry that he almost opened the city gate and rushed out, but he was pulled left and right, and finally endured it, with a blue face, he strictly ordered the whole army to prepare for defense and swear to resist the attack of the Chu army.

He Wei chuckled and said, "Why doesn't the general look at it?" Maybe Wang Cheng wants to return to righteousness......"

"You don't have to look at it, it's just a liere and scolding me!" Xu You said disdainfully: "Wang Cheng is from the Taiyuan Wang family, and he can be regarded as a famous family of my Chinese family for generations, but as a result, he is a thief and a slave. However, looking at his gaffe just now, it doesn't look like there is a city government, and he ordered Si Zhudu to come forward to challenge! ”

Sizhu is the unique system of the Chu army, originally said that there is a Sizhu County in Yuezhou, the land is barren, the people are poor, but everyone is good at scolding, any trivial things can be scolded endlessly, the key is that the words are not repeated, Later, three hundred loud lonely old people, shrews and young ruffians were recruited to form Sizhudu, taught them to learn the official language, and studied the various preferences and taboos of the Wei people.

This time is no exception, the Tiger Prison Pass is connected with Songyue in the south, bordering the Yellow River in the north, the mountains are staggered, it is a natural danger, there is a big husband when the pass, and there is a trend of ten thousand people not opening. Wang Cheng defended himself according to the tiger prison, and even if he broke the city wall with a thunderbolt cannon, he would repeat the mistake of Yique Pass.

Therefore, let Si Zhu scold first, if Wang Cheng can take the initiative to fight, it will save a lot of trouble!

Si Zhu scolded for half a day, and even stripped in public, using men to play Wang Cheng and women to play the queen mother, imitating Yidi's filthy family affairs of his brother marrying his sister-in-law and his father's death marrying his mother, and interpreting the love of the Wang family's famous family vividly and bloodily. Wang Cheng's face was pale at first, then reddened, he actually looked up to the sky and vomited blood, raised his hand and pointed at Xu You tremblingly, and said, "Xu ...... Xu You, the two countries are at war, you ...... You insulted my door, what a beast ......" After speaking, he fell directly to the head of the city and died.

Xu You didn't expect that Sizhu could build this miraculous feat, as for whether Wang Cheng scolded him for being a beast or a beast, it didn't matter, if he could overcome the tiger prison by scolding people, he didn't have to fill it with the flesh and blood of the soldiers of the three armies, he was not only willing to be a beast, but also willing to be a beast.

Wave the flag and launch a general attack!

Wang Cheng's death had a limited impact on the defenders of Tiger Prison. Because the lord He Beyu, who retreated from Xingyang to the Tiger Prison, was the nephew of He Wenhu, the assassin of Luozhou, he was a Xianbei person, a son of the eighth surname, and he was more rooted than Wang Cheng, a disciple of the royal family, so Wang Cheng died, and after a short period of chaos, He Beyu took over the defense of the Tiger Prison, and ordered the defenders to perform their duties according to the rehearsal plan, and actually relied on the natural danger of the Tiger Prison to temporarily resist the attack of the Chu army.

In order to deal with the long-term consideration of the Chinese army of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the future, Xu You did not use the Thunder Cannon, and the offensive against the Tiger Prison was actually three points true and seven points false. If you can take advantage of Wang Cheng's death and take the tiger prison in one go, it would be the best. But if you can't attack it, you just need to maintain the positive pressure on the defenders of the Tiger Prison so that they don't have time to be distracted.

As He Wei said, the key to Kroyang is not in the Tiger Prison, but in Yique!

At this time, the situation of Yique Pass has changed greatly, Tang Zhijian took Zhenhai to climb over Longmen Mountain that ordinary people can't climb from the west side, bypassed the steepness of Yique Pass, and quietly came to the back of the defenders, and then took advantage of the darkness to have a fierce battle with Tan Xiaozu, set up a multi-faceted drum, created a momentum of the main force in the north, and bravely launched an attack.

The combat effectiveness of Zhenhaidu is far above that of the Chu Central Army, and even the Cuiyu Army and the Chifeng Army cannot be compared.

Finding that the defenders who were attacked in the rear were suddenly in chaos, they were broken through to the pass with their bare arms by the Tai Douxing, and firmly stabilized the position, as more and more Chu soldiers followed, the Yique Pass, which was known as Tianque, finally could not be defended.

The door was closed, the Jingzhou army commander drove straight in, the defenders could not take care of the end of the army, they fought separately, only held out for an hour, and then suffered a heavy defeat, about 6,000 people were killed, more than 3,000 people were captured, and only 3,500 escaped.

Breaking through the Yique Pass, Tan Xiaozu decisively divided 20,000 troops to Xue Xuanmo, and he approached Luoyang City, so that He Wenhu did not dare to go out of the city, and personally led 20,000 people to raid the back of the Tiger Pass.

He Beyu almost didn't believe his ears when he received the report, grabbed the collar of the defenders of Yique who had fled back, and said angrily: "I guarded the Tiger Prison with 8,000 men, and the Tiger Prison is still there, and you have 10,000 troops to defend Yique, but Yique has lost it to Yeye?" ”

"Divine Soldier...... Divine soldiers descend from the sky, and the Chu army has the help of gods and men, we can't resist ......"

"Fuck your shit!"

He Beyu drew his sword and hacked to death this unlucky soldier who narrowly escaped the battle of Yique, but died tragically under his own sword, holding the battlements tightly with both hands, staring at the Chu army outside the pass, his face was full of dissatisfaction.

But the situation was stronger than people, so he had to lead his troops to withdraw from the tiger prison, wanting to enter Luoyang City before the Jingzhou army. However, on the way back to the division, he met Tan Xiaozu, and the two hurriedly fought, unable to defeat the enemy, and wanted to turn around and retreat to the tiger prison, but was chased by Ye Min and the Chifeng army, and attacked back and forth, annihilating the tiger prison army and capturing He Beyu alive.

There are only 30,000 people left in Luoyang City, which is why He Wenhu did not dare to go out of the city, even he himself felt strange, when did it start, the dignified Wei, was afraid of fighting with the weak Chu people?

Don't say that he can't figure it out, Yu Chiyu, Mu Fan and others don't understand!

Yique and Tiger Prison were lost, and Luoyang had become an isolated city, relying on the strong walls of the city and sufficient grain and grass, enough to hold on to the help of the Chinese army. However, He Wenhu also heard that the Chu army had a sharp weapon to attack the city, and it was extremely domineering, but after all, he had never seen it with his own eyes, and he seemed to believe it or not, and he still had luck in his heart - Luoyang City is different from other cities, although Xuchang and Cangyuan are important towns, compared to Luoyang, which is just the light of fire, Xu and Cang can't withstand it, Luoyang may not be able to withstand it!

On the eighth day of the first month of April, the five armies of the Chu State Central Army, the Jingzhou Army, the Cuiyu Army, the Chifeng Army, and the Youdu Army joined forces, and a total of 150,000 people blocked the water of the famous capital Luoyang. Xu You didn't give He Wenhu a breather at all, and the Chinese army attacked the south gate, the Jingzhou army attacked the west gate, the Cuiyu army attacked the east gate, and the Youdu army led the water army to patrol the river, cut off the Heyang Bridge, block the north gate, and the Chifeng army was the reserve, and then directly ordered an attack.

This time, more than 300 thunder cannons were used intensively, only attacking the southern city, and the surrounding mountains and rocks were almost lit by the auxiliary soldiers, and they bombarded for half an hour in a row, such as the thunder god's anger, the earth trembled, the southern city wall was crumbling, and the soldiers defending the city were all frightened and scattered, and they could hardly stand.

He Wenhu was also stunned by the power of the thunder cannon, and let it go on like this, afraid that he would not be able to hold it for even a day, so he ordered his fierce general He Chong to attack decisively, open the west gate, and try to rush through the defense line of the Jingzhou army with five thousand elite cavalry, and destroy those thunder cannons after going around to the Chinese army position at the south gate.

"Good time!"

Watching the Wei cavalry rush to their own defense area, the stars of the Tai Dou Xing were overjoyed, the front row erected a huge shield, the spears were like a forest, and they were ready to fight, and the back row of Yuan Xiang Gong shot a wave of arrows, and the middle ones all turned over and fell off their horses. The Wei army was not discouraged, galloped wildly, and when they rushed into the range of the cavalry bow, they also shot over, but most of them were blocked by shields, and the casualties of the Jingzhou army were only a dozen people, which was insignificant.

"Hold the barrel of the gun tightly, the tail of the gun is too close to the ground, and don't look at eye level."

"The knife and axe hand on the left side is half squatting, only staring at the horse's legs to chop, not caring about the top of the head."

"Pay attention to the right side to guard against arrows, where there is a fallen horse, there is no need to say, whoever has a fast hand, who has the merits of war!"

Seeing the horses surging down, He Cheng suddenly let out a roar, and thousands of cavalry turned their horses' heads in unison, and suddenly ran towards the flank of the Dou Xing.

"Don't move!"

"Don't turn around!"

"This is the enemy's trick, keep your position!"

"Trespasser, slash!"

The Overseer beat them with whips and even killed a few heads on the march, barely able to hold the front line without turning with the sudden turn of the enemy cavalry. He Chong is not a fool, he rushes into battle with light horses, the most important thing is to exert psychological pressure on the other party, but Fang Cai almost rushed to the front of the formation, but the Chu army did not move at all, the defense was tight, and the formation was reasonable and sharp, so he turned around and made a gesture of attacking the flank, inducing the enemy to change formation.

He Chong has never encountered an army that can skillfully change formations without chaos under the weight of cavalry, and when he changes formations, he is already a strong soldier in the world, and he does not think that the Jingzhou army has such ability.

But to his surprise, when he turned to the flank, he found that a large number of bed crossbows had been arranged here in advance, and the dark arrows seemed to be under the gaze of the Lord of Yama, revealing a piercing hideous and murderous aura, which frightened him to turn his horse's head again, and continued to brave wave after wave of arrow rain, using the strong mobility of the cavalry to swim around to find flaws.

Suddenly, He Chong found that a narrow gap was revealed between the Tan Tai Dou Xing Department and Xue Xuanmo Department when they cooperated with the transfer, this gap may be fleeting, if it weren't for him being a veteran of the battlefield, otherwise it would be impossible to find out, and he didn't hesitate at the moment, issued an order, and the more than 4,000 elite horsemen who were still alive spread their bows and shot on both sides, rushing in, like a sharp weapon that broke the cone, splitting a complete giant wood in half.

The Jingzhou army obviously discovered this negligence and desperately squeezed into the middle, trying to use the absolute numerical advantage to crush the Wei army between the two divisions. He Chong gave the order again, put away his riding bow, held his spear in his hand, and slammed all the obstacles that dared to block in front of him into the air, and then stabbed through the air.

I don't know how many people I killed, the spear was broken in two, He Chong pulled out his waist knife, and suddenly stabbed a spear from the side, he reached out and grabbed the barrel of the gun, slashed down, and cut the head of the Chu pawn three or five feet away, the pressure around him suddenly relaxed, and when he looked at it, it turned out that he had rushed out of the junction of the Tangtai Douxing and Xue Xuanmo, but before he had time to be happy, he found that there was a dense fan-shaped car formation in front of him.

Tan Xiaozu has been waiting for a long time!

He Chong was shocked and wanted to lead the army to retreat, but the gap in the rear was closed again, surrounded on three sides, the mobility of the cavalry was completely lost, and he fell into death!

The west gate side of the short hand, the south gate also began a fierce battle, the Chinese army by the captains of the various departments led the team to attack in echelons, the military flag was unfurled, like the tide rushing, one by one is not afraid of death, the shouting of killing covers all the voices between heaven and earth, He Wenhu personally went to the city to command the defense, less than two hours, the reserve team was transferred up, and finally drove the Chu army down, and before taking a breath, another wave of attack came up, the enemy and us started a tug-of-war in this way, from the city to the city, strangled the flesh and blood in the sky.

However, the strange thing is that the Cuiyu army at the east gate has never launched an attack, which is in stark contrast to the cruelty of the west gate and the south gate, but this silent strangeness makes He Wenhu worried, and he did not dare to mobilize the defenders of the east gate at all, but instead sent nearly half of the poor reserves in his hand to strengthen the garrison there.

"Town Lord, all 5,000 people in He Chong's department were killed, He Chong was hit by several arrows, and his head was cut off by Tan Xiaozu himself, and he was demonstrating to me on the flagpole."

"Report! The West Gate is almost impossible to defend, and the Jingzhou army is attacking fiercely, please send a helping hand to the town lord as soon as possible......"

He Wenhu said angrily: "Where do I still have the manpower to send to him? Let Cai Tong defend the West Gate, if you let a soldier go to the city, I will kill him first! ”

At this time, when a loud bang was heard, everyone was stunned, He Wenhu hurriedly stepped forward to check, his eyes were black, and he almost fainted.

The south wall finally couldn't resist, collapsed from the middle, forming a gap in the mountain character, Guangwu general Zhou Shiting led more than 100 people to break through along the gap, He Wenhu turned his eyes to the east gate, there was still no movement, gritted his teeth, and said: "Go, let Chen Bozong bring two thousand people to reinforcements, be sure to plug the gap for me!" ”

"No!"

The heralds rushed away, and after a while, Chen Bozong led his troops to arrive, joined forces with the defenders of Nancheng, and simply blocked the gap and drove Zhou Shiting out again. At the same time, the Cui Yu army finally sounded the horn of the attack, the 30,000 people in the department did not leave a reserve, and attacked the city in one go, the leader was Ming Jing, he did not wear armor, shirtless, long hair was simply tied with a hairband behind his head, the chest and shoulders were hit by arrows, and there were no bones, and the movement was unhindered. There is a Wei will be consciously brave, the steel knife from the back slashing, Ming Jing heard the wind, did not turn his head, the knife stabbed back from the ribs, accurately pierced into the heart, that Wei will spit blood in the mouth, wilted and fell to the ground.

On the other side, Wei Jiang, who was holding a gun, was terrified, turned around and wanted to run, but was caught up by Ming Jing, the knife flashed, and a hole was torn in his back, and he threw himself on the ground, unable to move anymore.

Ming Jing was covered in blood, looking around with horizontal knives, his handsome face was like a killing god in the world, and the defenders threw away their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

"The Lord! Townsman! The East Gate is lost......"

He Wenhu watched the gap in the south gate be broken into by the Chu army again, and when he heard the bad news from the east gate, he sat on the ground in a dejected manner, like a mourner, and was about to draw his sword to kill himself, but was robbed left and right, sighed helplessly, and said: "Order all departments, lay down your arms, and surrender to the Chu army!" ”

After a bloody day, in the evening, the sunset slowly fell from the edge of the lofty mountains, and the red glow in the sky rendered the sky into a beautiful painting, under the picture scroll, is the dusty Luoyang City, piled up corpses, blood and soil flow into a river, and the desolate wind whimpered Wu Qu who did not returnβ€”β€”

War is not a contest between the victors and the losers, but the glory of the living and the cry of the dead!