The soldiers pressed the border, and the people in Luoyang City were panicked.

The men carried it to the city, and the women wept when they were worried about the men in the family.

Suddenly, prices skyrocketed, especially for food.

The emperor immediately issued an edict to appease the people, and recently ten meetings opened porridge shops in the city, so that everyone did not need to panic because of the problem of food.

Emperor Renjun did this, and when he was second, he began to open porridge shops in various markets, and the prices were suddenly lowered again, and at the same time, the women cooked the grain at home and gave it to their husbands and sons.

There was a lady with a strong personality, who carried a knife and went to the city, and accompanied her husband or son to live and die together.

For a time, the head of Luoyang City was full of people, and it was roughly estimated that the soldiers and civilians defending the city had reached 150,000, and this number was still increasing.

The imperial court completely opened the equipment depot and sent all kinds of weapons to the city, but it was still not enough, and the weapons of the people were all kinds of weapons, and some even came with wooden sticks.

Empress Tang Qi personally sat on the arrow tower of Changxiamen in the south, looking at the troops gathered under the city, Tang Yuan wanted to take the initiative to attack and beat the vanguard of Ximen Zhensen.

Tang Yuan's use of scouts has always been very subtle, his eyes are all over the battlefield, and he is always aware of the movements of the enemy army.

After Ximentai broke through Dagu Pass, perhaps he was greedy for merit and went straight to Luoyang first, but he made a fatal mistake and he was alone.

Ximentai thought that once he broke through any of the eight passes in Luoyang, there would be chaos in Luoyang City, and as long as he killed himself, he could arrest the Empress Dowager Cao and put the emperor Zhao Ce under house arrest, but he underestimated the determination of the soldiers who defended the city.

Tang Yuan was a fox on the battlefield, how could he miss such an opportunity. With 10,000 people, he met Ximentai thirty miles south of the city, and if he didn't say anything, it was a vicious battle when he met.

The strength of Tang Yuan's army is far beyond what Ximentai imagined, and after a charge, more than 20,000 people under his command will become loose and collapsed.

"Haha, it turns out that the Tiger Ben Army is such a weak chicken!" Tang Hu laughed.

Tang Yuan said: "It's not that the Tiger Ben Army is weak, it's that they are too tired!" ”

Ximentai made several big mistakes in a row, his troops mainly attacked Dagu Pass, the sacrifice was great, the soldiers were also very tired, without trimming, directly marched to Luoyang, the soldiers had resentment in their hearts, and the will to fight was as lax as their formation, but the main general Ximentai did not consider these, and still desperately marched to Luoyang, and as a result, he encountered the elite troops guarding Gyeonggi.

The incompetence of the general and the exhaustion of the three armies are vividly reflected in him.

Tang Yuan's 10,000 people were like chopping melons and vegetables, and at a cost of only 1,000 rao, he scattered more than 20,000 enemy troops, hacked and wounded more than 10,000 people, and captured more than 3,000 people.

After only chasing for ten miles, he stopped chasing and began to quickly clean up the battlefield, collect the equipment and weapons thrown on the ground by the Tiger Ben Army, and bring them all back to Luoyang to put on the militia.

The Tiger Army is quite well-equipped and can gradually build a fairly effective army.

Zhang Yunlong said with emotion: "Tang Yuan, I have long seen that your son is promising, and today the old man can be regarded as an eye-opener, if the first emperor is still there, I will try my best to ensure that you are the general of the country." ”

Zhang Yunlong seemed to be an empty word, but looking at General Zhang's slowly sinking face, he knew that he was actually feeling the memory of the first emperor.

Tang Yuan didn't know very well how good the first emperor was to Zhang Yunlong, just by Zhang Yunlong's feelings for the first emperor, he knew that the first emperor must be a person worthy of respect. It's a pity that the life of the first emperor was too short, and he died in his thirties.

When Tang Qi saw Tang Yuan set off with the troops, she had been beating the drum in her heart, and when she heard that the battle had begun in front of her, she was even more worried, trying to stay calm and waiting for the news of the scout.

After receiving the good news, the queen mother was very pleased, and immediately moved the military order to let Tang Yuan return to the city quickly.

But Tang Yuan didn't come back, he just sent the equipment into the city, and he himself led the troops to hide in the mountains west of Luoyang, he, he couldn't hold all the troops in the city, so it would be too passive to fight, it was better to stay outside a part, and he would be more flexible when fighting.

Tang Qi sent someone to ask Tang Yuan if he needed to increase the number of people.

Tang Yuan's reply was: I now have 12,000 people.

Tang Qi smiled bitterly, this Tang Yuan has always been like this, the more the troops beat fewer people, but his troops beat more and more people. When he crossed the Yellow River by force, he was like this, bringing him hundreds of soldiers, and he was able to bring back thousands of people, which was always so unexpected.

His ability to subdue captives is just as impressive as his ability to capture them.

You must know how difficult it is to get some soldiers who have just surrendered to immediately counterattack his original troops, but in Tang Yuan's opinion, this matter seems to be easier than others. Every time he indoctrined the captives, he would gather them together, move them with affection, preach benevolence, righteousness and morality, first occupy the moral high ground, and then impress the captives with tangible benefits, so that they can see hope without worries.

Who doesn't want to live?

When the captives changed into the uniforms of the Shence Army, when they arrived on the battlefield, even if they encountered the Tiger Army, they didn't want to fight, because the Tiger Army didn't know them anymore.

Ximentai was defeated, and the remnants of the defeated army would lose their armor and run back.

In the end, there were less than 5,000 people left, and they were scolded by Simon Mamori.

Simon Mamori's combat experience is not very rich, but when he was young, he conquered Mobei, and that expedition to the desert left a deep impression on him.

Although the vanguard was frustrated, Ximen Masen was not flustered, he ordered Ximen Kuo to lead his troops westward, first block Tongguan, block the back road of Luoyang City, and at the same time block the way of supporting troops, and must block the Longyou Army and the Hanzhong Army.

Choke Tongguan, kill two birds with one stone.

Simon Kuo received the order, and Simon Masen led an army of 100,000 to the city.

"Is that the Queen's Mother?" Ximen Zhensen looked at the city from afar, and saw the phoenix flag, at first I thought it was the Empress Dowager Cao, but after a closer look, this person's popularity was quite tough, it turned out to be the young Empress Tang, Ximen Zhensen smiled bitterly: "This phase leads the troops to the emperor, wants to save the people from fire and water, seek the well-being of the people, for the benevolent monarch Zhao Ce Qingjun side, kill the Empress Dowager Cao and the Cao family's chaotic party, and has nothing to do with the Empress Tang, the queen should be sympathetic to the old minister Geng Geng's loyalty, this is also for the sake of the people, you might as well open the city gate and let us in." ”

Queen Tang Qi looked down at Ximen Zhensen with the female wall battlement, and scolded loudly: "Ximen Zhensen, you don't want to believe that the female yellow is demagoguery, without the permission of the emperor, you lead the troops to besiege the city, this is a great rebellion, your wolf ambition is exposed, how can you talk flatteringly, such a brazen old thief, people and gods are angry, if you leave with the troops today, for the sake of the ancestors of the Ximen family for the sake of the Liang Dynasty, your family still has a chance to live, if not, you will walk hand in hand on the Jiuquan Road." ”