"Get on your horse and run into the city, quick." After Wang Ren finished speaking, he jumped on his horse, whipped it, and fled to the city desperately.

At this moment, he heard the familiar sound of explosions on the city wall behind him, and Wang Ren knew what was happening, so he didn't look back and fled on his horse. It seems that the casualties of the defenders and the loss of the city have nothing to do with him.

Looking at the city wall again, the first round of more than 100 rounds of charged iron pellet shells smashed heavily on the city wall, and a loud noise broke out, followed by several explosions on the city wall. Many of the defenders hiding behind the battlements were also blown up by a blast and fell to their deaths. When the guards of the city saw this, they were frightened and fled down to the city like frightened birds.

A shell hit the city tower, directly destroying half of the city tower, Guo Shizhu was seriously injured as a result, and with the support of the remnants of the pro-army, he hurried to the city to avoid the artillery.

After three rounds of continuous shelling, the smoke cleared, and the scene where Luokou City appeared again in Pei Yun's eyes was completely different from before, several places at the battlements, including the city tower, had been blown up, and one of them may have been subjected to continuous shelling to form a large V-shaped gap, breaking the city wall in two. The gates of the city were also blown down and a fire was ignited.

"Pei Shuai, the last general will request an attack." Hua Gongyi saw that the city wall had collapsed, and the defenders of the city had suffered huge casualties, especially the city gate had been opened, so he wanted to go forward and seize the city.

"Huh! General Hua is calm and impatient, and will see what happens in the city. There are still tens of thousands of horses in the city, and our army rushing into the city is a street battle. Pei Yun said with a smile, looking like a bamboo in his chest, and all the generals behind him were also happy, feeling that this battle was too easy to fight.

"General, the Jin army's artillery has stopped, General Guo was seriously injured in the city, and the Jin army is about to rush into the city, please make an idea quickly." Wang Ren had already run back to the Shuai Mansion at this time, and when he heard the report from his henchmen, his face suddenly turned like ashes.

"Quick, order the troops to withdraw into the city and fight with the Jin army entering the city in close combat, be sure to wait for reinforcements to arrive." After saying this, Wang Ren sat down in the circle chair in a dejected manner.

The henchman colonel hurriedly went out to the army to give orders.

After a while, a carriage dragged Guo Shizhu, who was seriously injured, back to the Shuai Mansion, and several relatives carried Guo Shizhu into the mansion and put him on a soft cushion. Fuuchi Langzhong hurriedly stepped forward and healed in a hurry.

Wang Ren also pushed everyone away and came to Guo Shizhu's side to check the injury.

"How's it going, doctor? Is General Guo still saved? ”

"General Yu, General Guo has more than ten wounds on his body, although none of them are critical, but he is bleeding too much and is now in a coma. If the bleeding stops, you will need to rest for several days before you wake up. ”

"Huh? Need to recuperate for a few days? Let's take it into the inner house and let it recuperate! After listening to the words of the medical officer, Wang Ren felt that this Guo Shizhu was like death, and now he could not be expected to defend the city at all.

"General, somehow? The Jin army outside the city did not rush into the city, but only watched from outside the city, as if they had no intention of entering the city. "Just after Guo Shizhu was carried into the inner mansion, a Chinese officer ran into the marshal's mansion to report to Wang Renze.

"Oh? Follow General Ben to the city and take a look. After saying that, he picked up his horsewhip and went out of the house, and the guards hurriedly followed him out.

Wang Ren quickly climbed the already damaged city wall to take a look, and sure enough, the Jin army outside the city was not in a hurry to rush into the city, but what was waiting for?

"Quick, take this opportunity to order the sergeants to block the collapsed part of the city wall with earthen bags, and then go and seal the damaged city gate with earthen bags." Wang Ren hurriedly ordered.

According to the statistics of the damage, the attack suffered less than 3,000 casualties, which is still negligible for Wang Renze, who still has more than 70,000 defenders. But he didn't understand why the hundreds of thousands of Jin troops outside the city didn't take the opportunity to attack the city.

"General, even if the city wall can be filled with earth bags, the soldiers will not dare to go up to the city to defend it anymore. What if the enemy is shelling? One of the lieutenants next to him shouted with a crying voice.

"This ----" Wang Ren was speechless when he heard this, and he didn't know how to answer, but just looked blankly at the row of terrifying black iron bumps in the distance.

At this moment, the Jin army ran through the formation again, still raising his hand and waving the white flag. Wang Ren looked at the person who was getting closer and closer, and it turned out that he was still the chief bookkeeper Pei Yun in the Jin army.

"Mr. Pei Yun, what are you doing here?" Wang Ren shouted.

"The city is General Wang Renze? A certain person came to persuade the general to go out of the city and surrender. ”

"Huh! Although your firearms are powerful, there are still nearly 80,000 defenders in our city, and it is more than enough to defend this city, so how can it be surrendered? Wang Ren replied a little unwillingly. I thought to myself, if I only have a few thousand people now, it doesn't matter if I fall. But it seems too ridiculous to come and force surrender after only 3,000 casualties in the first battle.

"Huh! Whether General Wang can surrender depends not on how many men you have, but on whether the general can hold the city. May I ask the general, under the fire of a certain artillery, can this Luokou City still be defended? ”

"Sir, that's a mistake! Let's not say that my city is safe, just say that my Luoyang reinforcements are close and will arrive soon. How will Ben be able to bring you down? Sir, go back, just come to fight. ”

"Huh! That's all there is to say, wait for someone to bombard the city again. After speaking, Pei Yun turned around and returned to his own formation.

"Quickly order the soldiers to leave the city as soon as possible and take refuge under the city." When Wang Ren saw Pei Yun returning to the battle, he immediately saw the movement of the artillery team, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly ordered the soldiers who had just landed in the city to defend to retreat from the city immediately.

However, Wang Ren ordered the soldiers to hide in the corner of the city when they heard another chilling cannon sound outside the city, and the soldiers immediately covered their ears with their hands.

The continuous bombardment lasted for half an hour, and the defenders of the city struggled in the shock of the earth, and many soldiers knelt on their knees and kept kowtowing to the sky, begging God to let them escape the catastrophe. When the explosions in the city had stopped for a long time, the defenders did not react.

"General, stop, listen." One of the guards kept pushing and covering his ears tightly, and Wang Ren, who closed his eyes tightly, shouted.

"Huh? Stopped. Hurry up to the city to see, is the Jin army coming to attack? ”

"General, what else are you looking at! The city wall has collapsed for a large part, and most of the houses in the city have been destroyed, and our army has suffered heavy casualties. ”

"Ahh Wang Ren seemed to have just woken up from his dream, and hurriedly got up and looked back in the direction of the city wall. Sure enough, the tall city walls were long gone, replaced by a pile of collapsed broken masonry, and only the section of the city gate not far away was still standing in the fireworks, and the city tower building was already a pile of raging fire. Then look at the fire everywhere in the city.

"Alas! Big things go! A city on which it depended was destroyed, how to defend it. Wang Ren muttered to himself.

"General, it is a decisive decision to defend or to descend quickly, if the Jin army enters the city, we will all die."

"Raise the white flag, and the whole army will go out of the city and surrender." Wang Ren hesitated for a moment and made a decision. Without the support of the city wall, his 80,000 horses are not at all the opponent of the 300,000 uninjured Jin army outside the city, and it is meaningless to resist.

When the troops under his command heard this, none of them had any objections, and they wished that they would surrender early.

Under the gaze of Pei Yun and other generals of the Jin army outside the city, I saw a team of people and horses hobbling out with white flags, and they were walking out of the broken city gate in a steady stream.

A warm cheer suddenly sounded behind Pei Yun, which was the cheer of victory for his soldiers. Pei Yun's face was also full of smiles at this time, and he couldn't stop nodding.

"Pei Shuai is smart, I really didn't expect that the defenders of Luokou really went out of the city and surrendered." Hua Gongyi said to Pei Yun with a smile.

"Yes! It's all up to the lord to be able to create this siege artifact! How could the Luoyang Army have ever seen such a powerful firearm? If you dare to resist stubbornly, you will become a powder! How not to drop? Hehe! Pei Yun touched his beard and said with a smile.

"You hurry up and take in the troops and collect your weapons. The rest of the people went into the city with Ben to settle the people. Hua Gongyi turned his head and instructed the generals behind him.

At this point, Luokou City, the gateway to Luoyang, has returned to Yang Second-hand, but it is already dilapidated and has no point in repairing.

The good news was sent to Wagang Yang second-hand middle school by fast horse.

"Huh! All right! It's only been a few days, Luokou City has returned to the king, and nearly 80,000 Luoyang troops have been surrendered, the king is not mistaken, Pei Yun is really handsome! After Yang Er read the good news sent by Pei Yun, he laughed loudly. Once this Luokou City is breached, it is like opening a throat passage to Luoyang and the hinterland of the Central Plains in the south, how can Yang Er not like it!

Unlike Pei Yunzhong's smooth sailing attack, the attack of Dongluyu Culture and the Jin army of Jizhou on Puyang City, the most important city of Tang Wall, was extremely unsmooth.

If Luokou City is only a large city defense fortress, this Puyang is a big city in Yanzhou in the Central Plains. This big city has been a battleground for the Central Plains since ancient times, and the city defense facilities are far beyond the comparison of Luokou City. In addition, the Jizhou army has not yet been equipped with sky-bombing iron cannons, and the siege methods are still the same old way. Therefore, the defenders of Puyang City also complemented each other and did not leak.

Outside Puyang City, in the big tent of Yu Wenhua and the Chinese army, the general civil and military are discussing the method of attacking the city.

"My lord, at the end of the day, the general and General Lei Ming attacked three times in a row, losing more than 4,000 horses, but they were still defeated." Sima Chao, the general of the Chinese army, lowered his head and said.

"Hmmm! This official knows that you have done your best, and it is no wonder that you can't attack the city. Do you generals have a plan to break the city? Yu Wenhua asked, looking at the generals.

"My lord, there are nearly 100,000 defenders in Puyang City, and the city walls are too tall, and the defenders are well prepared. It's better to think of another way to break the city. Wu Yun summoned the class and suggested.

"General Yunzhao has a way to break the city?"

"My lord, our army has as many as 350,000, it is better to surround this city with 200,000, and the other 150,000 horses will be led by General Youmo to sweep the cities around Puyang City first. It is reported that most of the defenders of Puyang are newly recruited troops in Tangbi recently, and their families are mostly in the surrounding counties, which can make the defenders' families go to the city to persuade the defenders to surrender, and they can also disturb the morale of the defenders. ”

"Hmmm! General Yunzhao's plan is good, even if our army conquers this city, we will send generals to destroy the surrounding counties, so it is better to take this matter first. General Yunzhao can go to the camp to allocate 150,000 horses, and then order Hou Junda, Jiao Fang, and Wu Kui as deputy generals to attack Weinan, Zengcheng, Qingfeng and other counties around Puyang first. If there is a small family among the Puyang defenders among the people, they can be escorted to the city of Puyang, and they must not be forced or disturbed. ”

"Yes! My lord, the last general will set off with his troops. ”

Seeing that Wu Yun was summoned out, Yu Wenhua was still sad that he couldn't break the city as soon as possible. Wu Yunzhao's plan was too slow, and it could only be regarded as a next step.

"Lord Yuwen, there will be a plan to break this city in the end." Just when everyone was at a loss, he suddenly turned out from behind Wu Tianxi and said.

"Oh? Does General Su have a good plan? "It turned out that the person who spoke was Wu Tianxi's deputy general Su Lie Su Dingfang, he was originally a defender of Weicheng, and he had a meritorious role in the battle to exterminate Li Zitong in the Bohai Sea, and was promoted to colonel.

"My lord, the young general is originally from Fan County, Yuncheng, and now has a pair of childhood playmates and friends in Fan County, named Ma Sanbao and his brother Ma Zong. Ma Sanbao Chang Dingfang is 3 years old, and is now a training envoy of the Jinan Army in Fan County, and the defenders of about 3,000 people are controlled by him. Please give the party 5 days to go to Fanxian County, and the party can persuade the two brothers of the Ma family to surrender to our Jin army. At that time, it will be convenient to join forces with the Ma brothers to join the reinforcements of Yuncheng to mix into Puyang City as an internal response, and find an opportunity to seize its city gate to determine Puyang City with one blow. ”

"Good! This plan is wonderful, originally to force the Puyang defenders to retreat to Yuncheng, there is an east gate that is not surrounded, and you can enter Puyang from the east gate to act. Yu Wenhua was overjoyed after listening to Su Dingfang's strategy, thinking that this plan was feasible, and couldn't help but secretly praise this young general who graduated from the lecture hall.

Subsequently, after Yu Wenhua made an agreement with Su Dingfang on some details such as communication, he asked him to leave the camp immediately and detour to Yuncheng Fan County.

Due to the repeated failure to attack Puyang, the attacking and defending sides formed an anxious state, and there was no battle for several days. It's just that the Jin army has no leisure, and took this opportunity to take down all the cities in Puzhou except Puyang, making Puyang City a lonely city.

Puyang City is too close to the surname Deyi, originally a civil official, but he is an honest official who is quite popular with the people, and he is quite strategic. There are two generals under him, namely Dongfang Huang and Yang Biao, who are also strong in martial arts, and have a good way to govern the army. This is also the capital of Jinan Wang Tangbi to have the confidence to resist the Jin army in Jizhou.

"The high walls of my Puyang City are thick, and the army and civilians are united to resist the enemy, and Yu Wenhua has been attacking for more than ten days. However, I haven't been attacking for a few days, so I don't know what the intention is? Feng Deyi was discussing with Dongfang Huang and Yang Biao in the Shuaifu.

"Lord Feng, according to the government soldiers who fled back from the surrounding counties, Yu Wenhua and these days are letting Wu Yunzhao lead the army to conquer the counties to which I belong to Puyang, and in just a few days, the three counties of Weinan, Zengcheng and Qingfeng have fallen into the hands of the Jin army. It's a pity that my Puyang City can't divide my troops to defend. Dongfang Huang said with a sigh.

"Alas! This is also a helpless thing, fortunately, as long as I don't lose Puyang City, he will return to Hebei in the future, and it will not be difficult for these counties to recover. I don't know what progress has been made in moving reinforcements and food to Yunseong, Jeju? ”

"My lord, now Yuncheng is also strengthening its defense, and it is also recruiting government soldiers from various counties. Probably there will be reinforcements here? Yang Biao said.

"General Dongfang, you can send someone to Yuncheng to ask for reinforcements and food. He should know that if I lose Puyang, his Yuncheng will also be unsafe. ”

"Huh! Don't worry, even if he doesn't have food there, the food in my Puyang City will be enough for March. ”

"Hmmm! It's a pity that I don't know when this war will end, and the green seedlings in the field will be trampled, how many grains can be laid after the autumn? How will the people survive this winter? Alas, you two go on patrol of the city! ”