"Good! Fire Thunder Arrow 3 joint shot preparation. Luo Cheng saw everything that happened below on the wall, and he was applauding Wei Chigong's methods in his heart.

"Ahh Meng Haigong in the opposite battle saw that his wife was captured by the black and ugly general of the Jin army, and after opening his mouth to spit out a mouthful of blood, he raised his knife and shouted: "Give me a pass, even if you use people, you have to pile it up." ”

60,000 Caozhou people and horses listened to the order, and shouted wildly and rushed to the front of the pass.

"Shoot ---" Luo Cheng saw that tens of thousands of crazy rebels rushed over desperately, and the formation of this sea of people was really terrifying, and seeing that it was almost at range, he gave the order eagerly.

Suddenly, on the narrow pass city wall, the crossbow fire and thunder archers of the Baimayi Cong Battalion Company who were lined up in front and back shot the first fire and thunder arrows.

Hundreds of loud noises resounded through the valley, and these 400 fire and thunder arrows killed and injured more than 2,000 people of Meng Haigong's Caozhou army. But at this time, the rebels also knew that there was no way to retreat, and they didn't care about the sound of explosions and casualties in front of them, so they only bowed their heads and rushed forward under the urging of their superiors.

The 400 soldiers of the White Horse Yi Battalion on the pass also continued to fire fire and thunder arrows all the time, forming an impenetrable wall of fire between 200 and 300 steps before the first pass. Anyone who stepped into this wall of fire, whether a man or a horse, was blown to the ground. But waves of rebels still charged forward regardless of life and death. The bloody scene was enough to make the 400 veterans of the White Horse Yi Battalion on the wall feel extremely shocked and collapsed.

Seeing that the 20 fire and thunder arrows equipped by each person were shot in an instant, the rebels who rushed from there were still surging forward. At this moment, the fire was interrupted, and they rushed closer to a place less than 100 meters away from the wall.

The soldiers on the wall were horrified, and the wall here was hastily built, no more than a foot high, and it was all made of irregular mountain stones. The anti-cavalry was acceptable, but if the rebel foot soldiers came under the wall, they could climb up with their bare hands.

"Use a grenade, quickly use a bombardment grenade, up ---" Even Luo Cheng's martial arts were shocked by this desperate formation, but fortunately, he quickly came to his senses and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to throw grenades out.

Xue Ju, Zhang Debin and Hong Tianyi, the three members of the martial arts hall who were standing behind him, had already been frightened by this crazy and extremely bloody battle situation, and even the black-faced Wei Chigong's black face became as blood-red as his bloodshot eyes at this moment, and a kind of primitive murderous intent that was aroused made him extremely excited, but he could only watch from the sidelines, and his hands holding the iron whip were dripping with sweat at this time.

As the 400 soldiers and Luo Cheng continued to throw grenades under the wall, the explosion became more intense. As the gap narrows the gap below the wall, the blockade is even more dense relative to the grenade. Finally, after each soldier threw 5 grenades without stopping, the Caozhou army, which was frantically attacking, finally couldn't support it and shouted like a low tide, and retreated out of the gorge.

The smoke gradually cleared, and the scene in front of them almost made the veterans on the wall vomit. Outside the wall, there were all human stumps, and the soldiers' bodies and faces were also splattered with countless blood stains, some indescribable human flesh residues and various organ tissues. The blood gathered into a pool of water, and the heat continued to rise, and the bloody breath that rushed to the nose made it almost impossible for the soldiers at the pass to breathe.

"Shaobao, this pass is abandoned! The firearms in the hands of the soldiers were almost exhausted, and everyone had collapsed, and there was no way to fight anymore. Wei Chi Nan vomited almost all the bile in his abdomen, and only then did he recover a little, and came to Luo Cheng, who was still retching, and whispered.

"Order the soldiers to retreat to the second pass and get out of here quickly, quickly!"

"Yes, brothers, have you slowed down, if you have slowed down, you will quickly retreat and retreat to the lower pass. Why is Xue Ju still stunned? Withdrawn. ”

"General Luo, why do you want to withdraw?" Wei Chigong was the most heartless, seeing that the rebels had retreated miserably, he still had to continue to defend the pass, and he had no feelings of ordinary soldiers and the heavy damage in his heart.

"Yu Chi Lao Hei, enjoy yourself here! Debin, Tianyi, let's go, go to the next pass to talk to Lao Wan, Meng Wei, and Qiao Shan, so that he can be prepared. Xue Ju didn't want to stay here for a moment anymore, and hurriedly greeted the other two interns.

Luo Cheng didn't take care of Wei Chigong, who was in a daze, turned around and walked down the wall under the support of Wei Chinan's brothers, got on his horse and ran to the depths of the canyon with his cavalry.

Wei Chigong saw that there was only one left on the wall in an instant, so he had to say to himself: "Damn, what a fucking bad luck!" Let's go. Then he mounted his horse and followed the brigade to abandon the pass and leave. Above the mouth of the gorge, a dozen mountain eagles hovered overhead, as if watching the human tragedy on the ground.

"Ah--- woo woo woo ---" Meng Haigong couldn't stop crying at this time, no matter how the kings persuaded him.

"Brother Meng, don't cry, this king is just avenging you, it's useless to cry more." The White Emperor talked about the saint and patted Meng Haigong on the shoulder and comforted.

"What an abominable black charcoal head! I have captured the king's beloved wife, and my beloved wife is now unpredictable! Woowoo woo ----"

"It's enough for RD Meng Haigong, thousands of brothers died tragically, and none of them didn't cry, but they only cried about their own girls, what is it?" Shen Faxing, the king of Ruyang on the side, scolded in an atmosphere, and all the kings were disdainful when they heard it, and they were all scolding in their hearts.

"Alas! The black-faced whip general is named Wei Chigong, who was originally a blacksmith in our state capital, but he has some martial arts. Last year, he was thrown into the king's banner as a general, and the king also treated him well, but then he was coerced to apply for the Luzhou Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and now he has become a fierce general under Yang Guang, which is really unpredictable! Liu Wuzhou, the king of Dingyang in Bozhou, sighed, and Song Jingang, the commander of the army beside him, couldn't stop sighing.

"Report ---," suddenly a detective came and shouted.

"What?" Wang Shichong asked angrily.

"Report to the alliance master, the pass at the mouth of the Jin army is empty, and it is obviously abandoned."

"Oh?" Even all the anti-kings, including Wang Shichong, were shocked when they heard this, and they couldn't believe it.

"If you lie about the military situation, you will be killed."

"Alliance master, the little one doesn't dare to lie, there is indeed no one left when it is closed, but it is just ---"

"Just what? Say it. ”

"It's just that the corpses of our soldiers in front of the pass are all over the ground, and the blood is flowing like a river, and I can't look at it directly, and the little ones are afraid that they will shock the princes."

"Alas! Let's go down! Wang Shichong couldn't help but sigh lightly after listening to the detective colonel's story, and waved him to go down and explore again. Then he turned back to his marching Sima Yang and said: "Sima Yang, send a team of men and horses to collect the corpses of the Caozhou soldiers in front of the pass, and bury the blood stains on the ground with soil, and the corpses will be burned. ”

"Yes, my lord." Yang Zhu obeyed the order and left.

"Since the Jin army has retreated, let's camp in this open place today! Tomorrow, we will enter the valley and arrive in front of the Hangu Pass. After Wang Shichong gave the order, the kings dispersed and beckoned the people of their headquarters to set up camp.

Besides, Luo Cheng, who withdrew to the second pass.

The second pass is shaped like the first pass, and it is also a small pass, the difference is that the section outside the pass wall is a narrow valley road 100 meters long, and the rebels who can rush in at most 1,000 people each time. There are another 400 veterans of Baima Yicong guarding the pass here, and now they have heard about the cruelty and bloodshed of the attack and defense of the first pass, and their expressions are extremely grim.

Luo Cheng left Wei Chigong alone, and let the remaining 3 generals go to the next level to garrison. The guards here are still the three lieutenant officers of the martial arts hall trainee generals, Wan Xurong, Meng Wei, and Qiao Shan, whose eyes are resolute, and they are obviously ready to meet the bloody scene.

Compared with the tragic offensive and defensive battles of Hangu Pass on the West Road, the 250,000 Taihang Jin troops on the Middle Road led by Pei Yun easily crossed the river from the south of Wenxian Ferry, and soon surrounded Luokou City. When passing at the foot of Wagang Mountain, Pei Yun took Hua Gongyi and other generals to the mountain Juyi Hall to meet Yang Er.

Yang Er was very happy to see the arrival of everyone, but simply repeated to the generals his strategic intention to manage the Central Plains, and further emphasized the importance of taking advantage of Wang Shichong's army to attack Tongguan in the west, and the Taihang Jin army to divide troops to capture Luoyang and go south to capture the Central Plains states, and reiterated the disadvantages of the division of feudal towns and the significance of land nationalization.

"General Guo, now the four gates of Luokou are surrounded by the Jin army, and it is estimated that there are 300,000 Jin troops besieging the city, this Luokou City is not easy to defend! I wonder when the Luoyang rescue troops will arrive? Wang Ren, the guard standing at the east gate of Luokou, whispered to Guo Shizhu, the chief general of the Jin army who was also watching the outskirts of the city.

"What? I'm scared. There are 80,000 guards in my Luokou City, and there is enough equipment to defend the city, and there is no shortage of food, and it is not easy for the 300,000 people besieging the city to easily break my city. Luoyang reinforcements can be the best, it doesn't matter if they can't come, a certain military order has been set up in front of the lord, and he must defend Luokou. Guo Shizhu said sharply, and his words seemed to remind the treacherous Wang Ren to have two hearts.

"What General Guo said is that the Jin army is coming from afar, and the grain and grass will inevitably be insufficient, if we can hold it for half a month, the Jin army will return to Jiyuan due to lack of food." Wang Ren dealt with Guo Shizhu unscrupulously.

"General Wang, what do you see the Jin army pushing towards my Luokou City?" Guo Shizhu didn't pay attention to what Wang Renze said, but suddenly pointed to the Jin army moving in the distance and asked.

"Some of them look like large bed crossbows, but they're different, and the last general has never seen anything like this, I'm afraid there are hundreds, right? The Jin army made good use of firearms, could it be a new type of siege firearm? Wang Ren had escaped from the bombardment of the crossbow fire and thunder arrows used by the Jin army, and he had a deep sense of fear for the firearms equipped by the Jin army, so he naturally guessed about the firearms.

"Firearms? Ben Shuai had never seen it, but it was not the style of cavalry crossbow arrows that the general mentioned, and it was obviously quite heavy to pull it with two mules. ”

"General Guo, look, the person who came over from the other side to raise the white flag seems to have something to say?"

"Hmmm! Salute first and then soldier, but it is also exquisite, and the archer is not allowed to release arrows, let him come. ”

"Yes." A lieutenant colonel with him hurriedly went to give orders to the archers at the head of the city.

The man who came on a single horse, dressed as a civil official, stopped at a distance of 200 paces from the city gate, a safe distance that a bow and arrow could not shoot.

I heard this person shouting loudly to the city: "The city is General Guo Shizhu, the general of Luoyang? A certain is the main book of Luzhou, Pei Yun is also. ”

"Huh! It turned out that Mr. Pei was here, and the handsome man was Guo Shizhu, fortunately, but what do you have to say? ”

"General Guo, now Luokou City has been besieged by 300,000 of our Jin army, and it is only in the evening to conquer this city. "This official is here to advise the general to abandon the city and surrender, so as not to burn the jade when the city is broken."

"Huh! Mr. is kind and handsome. However, there are 80,000 elite soldiers in a certain Luokou City, and this place is not far from Luoyang, and the reinforcements will arrive in an instant. A certain gentleman persuaded to withdraw from Hebei, how about you and I not disturb each other? ”

"Hehehehehe! General Guo, you still don't know, your lord Wang Shichong colluded with the Central Plains to oppose Wang Hui to attack Tongguan, and now he has been surrounded by my Luzhou Jin army under the city of Tongguan and can't move. ”

"Hugh is talking too much! Sir, go back, and bring troops to attack. ”

"Huh! That's all General Guo said, and what is this? After Pei Yun finished speaking, he half-turned around and pointed to the row of terrifying black "steel monsters" not far away.

"So--- what is that?" Wang Ren asked first, his eyes full of horror.

The name of this thing is called "Booming Cannon", which is a siege weapon, and when the cannon sounds, the city collapses and people die. There are sayings in our army that praise this artifact: as soon as the cannon goes off, my father and mother raise it in vain! Does General Guo not hesitate to die? ”

"General Guo, depending on the general, it is still ---"

"Shut up! I, General Luoyang, only have died in battle, how can anyone be scared to death! General Wang was in a rambling rut. ”

"Mr. Pei, this commander knows that the firearms in your army are powerful, and you can try to attack our city."

"Good! General Guo took care. Pei Yun finished speaking and returned.

"The artillery array is a hundred steps forward, and the officer is close to the bomb." Pei Yun returned to the formation and loudly ordered the head of the artillery battalion, who was originally an apprentice of Li Chunshui, and under the guidance of Ma Shumou, he participated in the transformation of the original "conscienceless cannon" with his master Li Chun. After several months of trial production and continuous optimization and improvement, the Hedong Logistics Equipment Department finally cast this kind of heavy iron cannon with a self-weight of 1,000 catties and a range of more than 1,000 steps, which is specially used to deal with fortified cities and can also be used to defend cities. This is different from the cannon that was transported to Wagang Mountain to defend the city, this kind of cannon is more powerful.

"Humph! So it's a mystery. The herald ordered the soldiers not to come forward and see how he bombarded our army. Seeing that the other party's sky-bombing cannon was constantly pushing closer to the city, Guo Shizhu ordered disapprovingly.

"General Guo, it's dangerous here, it's better to take refuge under the city." Wang Ren was a little flustered when he saw that the shelling was about to start, saying that he was suggesting to Guo Shizhu that he wanted to run down the city and flee for his life.

"Humph! General Wang can go down to the city on his own, and there is nothing for you to do here. Guo Shizhu looked contemptuous, and Wang Ren, who didn't look at it, said.

This Wang Ren's ascension to the throne was completely due to the reason why he married his sister-in-law to Wang Shichong, the king of Luoyang, who had physical defects and could not have children. Therefore, there are many disdains in the Luoyang military circles, but all Luoyang generals look down on him who is treacherous and timid, and Guo Shizhu also looks at Wang Shichong's face before letting him hide on his own.

Wang Ren was as if he had received an amnesty, and after giving up his hand to Guo Shizhu, he hurriedly went down to the city with his personal guards.

As soon as he arrived at the city, he had not had time to get on his horse and run away, when he heard a loud noise from outside the city, like a huge thunder from the sky, and the horses could not stop jumping.