Through deliberation, Kui Huan divided his army into four parts.

Part of it was led by Wang Yuan, stationed in Longdi, part was led by Niu Han, stationed in Wating, part was led by Wang Meng, stationed in Jitou Road, and part was led by Xingxun, stationed in Fanxukou.

The garrison was everywhere, with the largest number of soldiers and horses under Niu Han, 100,000 people.

In addition, Kui Huan also gave Niu Han the right to temporarily recruit soldiers, that is, Niu Han could recruit soldiers and horses by himself in Wating and the surrounding areas.

This means that Niu Han's soldiers and horses will not only be 100,000, but can reach more than 100,000.

It can be seen that Kui Huan trusts and values Niu Han.

After dividing the troops and garrisoning the four places, Kui Huan sent a letter to Gongsun Shu, asking Gongsun Shu to send troops to help.

Gongsun Shu really did not sit idly by, and sent his generals Li Yu and Tian Yi to command 50,000 troops to reinforce Kui Huan.

The arrival of the 50,000 Shu army was like a reassuring pill for Kui Huan, making him suddenly full of confidence.

After the 50,000 Shu troops led by Li Yu and Tian Yi arrived in Shangqi, Kui Huan personally led the 30,000 Long troops who stayed in Shangtai, and together with the Shu army, went straight to Luoyang, which was occupied by the Han army.

Kui Huan calculated very clearly, Wang Yuan, Niu Han, Wang Meng, Xing Xun, led the four-way army, blocked the road of the Han army to Hanyang, then the 20,000 Han troops who captured Luoyang were an isolated turtle in an urn.

With a total of 80,000 troops, it is easy to destroy this Han army.

Before the war, Kui Huan was full of confidence, leading an army of 80,000 and going to Luoyang.

Inside the city of Lüyang.

A spy had already reported the news of the enemy's approach to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu climbed to the top of the city and looked out.

I saw a large army coming to the west of Lüyang, looking at the flags played in the army, some of the flags were written with the word 'Kui', and some of the flags were written with 'Gongsun'.

After looking at it, Lai She frowned and said: "Your Majesty, this must be the reinforcements sent by Gongsun Shu to Kui Huan, it seems that the number of reinforcements is quite a lot!" ”

Liu Xiu nodded and estimated: "There should be no less than 50,000 people!" ”

Choshi said: "The strength of the Long army is also about 30,000. ”

One side is 50,000, the other side is 30,000, together, it is almost 100,000, and there are only 20,000 soldiers on their side, and it is not easy to resist the siege of nearly 100,000 troops! Seeing that the faces of the generals were a little solemn, Liu Xiu smiled slightly, and said in a brisk tone: "What are you afraid of?"

If these 80,000 enemy troops are all Long army, or all Shu army, this battle, our side is indeed not easy to fight.

But this enemy army, half of the Long army, half of the Shu army, it will not be too difficult for us to resist it! ”

The most common thing that happens in coalition operations is to pass the buck to each other in order to preserve their own strength.

Kui Huan and Gongsun Shu are not generous people, they are extremely selfish, the coalition formed by both of them, it is not difficult to imagine that when they really come to the battlefield, they will only hope that the other party can take the lead, fight hard with the enemy, consume, and their own side will stay behind, preserve their strength, and easily pick up leaks, or sweep the tail.

So don't look like there are a lot of enemy soldiers and horses, but Liu Xiu really didn't pay attention to it.

After listening to Liu Xiu's words, the people who came to She, Choshi, and Zunzun suddenly came to the spirit again.

Choshi said proudly: "The city of Lyoyang has strong walls, abundant food and grass materials, and sufficient city defense weapons, even if the enemy army is a hundred thousand elite soldiers with one heart, it is not easy to capture Lyoyang!" ”

Liu Xiu tilted his head and said: "Pass the order, let the soldiers of the whole army be ready to face the battle!" ”

"Whoa!"

All the generals present responded in unison.

The Han army is ready to meet the enemy, and the coalition army is also ready to attack.

Kui Huan quickly arranged the troops, he personally commanded 30,000 Long troops, and mainly attacked the west city of Luoyang; Ling Li Yu led 30,000 Shu troops, the northern city of the lord Luoyang, and Ling Tian Yi led 20,000 Shu troops, the southern city of the lord Luoyang.

The grandson has clouds, and the teacher must be que.

It means that whether it is besieging a city or besieging enemy soldiers and horses, a gap must be left so that the enemy cannot be besieged to death.

In this way, the enemy will not resist to the death, and can greatly reduce the battle losses of your own side.

Kui Huan's ability to lead troops to fight is indeed very ordinary, but this does not mean that he does not understand military theory knowledge and military strategies.

Regarding the hustle and bustle of the arrangement, whether it is the generals of the Long Army, or the generals of the Shu Army such as Li Yu and Tian Yi, there is no objection.

After that, the coalition army was divided into three, and the Shu army led by Li Yu and Tian Yi moved to the north and south of Lüyang respectively.

When the soldiers and horses of the three parties were ready, Kui Huan gave the order and marched with drums.

The first to launch an offensive against Lüyang was the 30,000 Long Army.

The front army of the Long army, lined up in a neat phalanx, advanced to the city of Luoyang.

Within a hundred steps of entering Luoyang City, a long arrow array was vacated on the top of the city.

The arrow array was like a dark cloud, cutting through the sky and smashing down on the top of the Long army's head.

The soldiers raised their shields one after another to form a shield array to resist the Han army's arrow array.

Snap, snap, snap – the arrows were nailed to the wooden shields, and the sound of crisp sounds came and went, and from time to time soldiers fell to the ground.

After one round of arrows, the second and third rounds followed...... The arrows of the Han army seemed to be endless, which made the advancing Long army formation feel great pressure.

Kui Huan, who was watching the battle from behind, frowned, raised his horsewhip, pointed to Luoyang City in front, and asked in a deep voice: "Why is the enemy's arrow array so fierce?" ”

The arrows are shot as if they don't need money.

In fact, the arrows used by the Han army were indeed obtained without spending money.

When the defenders of Lüyang fled, they left the Han army with a large amount of armament, including hundreds of thousands of arrows.

Now, the Han army has used these arrows that they picked up for nothing on the Long army.

The front army of the Long army, against the arrow array of the Han army, finally advanced to within fifty steps, and at this time, a more dense crossbow arrow was shot down on the head of Luoyang City.

The arrows were smashed in an arc in the air, while the crossbow arrows were shot straight down, and the first to suffer were the soldiers in the front row.

After a round of crossbow arrows, the advancing phalanx fell in front of a row of people, and each of them had more than a dozen or even dozens of crossbow arrows inserted into their bodies.

The soldiers in the second row rushed forward, but a second round of crossbow arrows came at them.

Under the Han army's round after round of arrows, the casualties of the Long army rose in a straight line.

This front army, which consisted of thousands of people, did not advance to the front of the city wall of Luoyang when the sound of gold was heard from the rear.

The officers and men of the former army did not know what was going on, so they could only change from the rear team to the front team, and all of them retreated backwards.

After they retreated from the battlefield, they looked at the battlefield again, and there were thousands of corpses lying on them, each of which looked like a hedgehog.

The generals who led the front army came to the front of Kui Huan, intervened to give a salute, and asked, "Why did the king retreat?" ”

They saw that they were about to attack the city of Luoyang, and retreating at this time was tantamount to paying thousands of brothers in vain.

Kui Huan glanced at the generals under his command, and said with a gloomy old face: "The enemy's arrow array is very fierce, and our soldiers are difficult to resist. ”

The generals of the former army are not fools, as soon as they heard this, they immediately understood the intention of Kui Huan, the king did not want his side to take the lead and go to the enemy army, but wanted Li Yu and Tian Yi's Shu army to fight with the enemy first.

As a general, he is unwilling to hide behind people, which is too embarrassing and spineless.

But from Kui Huan's standpoint, he can fully understand Kui Huan's approach.

Liu Xiu, Gongsun Shu, and Kui Huan, the three parties, belong to the smallest territory of Kui Huan, the weakest strength, if they themselves do not want to try to preserve their strength, the future end, either by Liu Xiu, or by Gongsun Shu.

Under the influence of selfishness, Kui Huan only made a tentative attack on Lüyang, and after losing thousands of soldiers, he immediately withdrew the attacking soldiers and horses.

At the same time, the 30,000 Shu army led by Li Yu was attacking the northern city of Lüyang.

The Han army had more than 5,000 people on the Beicheng side, and the main general led by it was the Choshi period.

On the other side, the 20,000 Shu army led by Tian Yi was attacking the southern city of Luoyang.

The defenders of the Han army on the southern side of the city are also more than 5,000 people, and the main leader will be the priest.

The battles in the south and north of Luoyang are almost a copy of the west city.

At the beginning, both Li Yu and Tian Yi sent troops and horses to attack.

But seeing that the defenders' arrow array was very fierce, and hearing that the Long army on the Xicheng side had retreated, the two of them no longer blindly attacked, but ordered the attacking soldiers and horses to retreat, and it became dry thunder and no rain.

The performance of the coalition forces can be said to be exactly the same as Liu Xiu expected.

The noisy Long army waited for the Shu army to fight first, and the Shu army of Li Yu and Tian Yi waited for the Long army to fight first, both sides were waiting for the other party to go first, and they were unwilling to take the lead, and the two sides were facing the grinding foreign workers.

Under this mentality, the coalition forces still want to tear apart the defense line of the Han army and capture Luoyang, which is naturally wishful thinking.

The time of the day was exhausted under the offensive of the coalition forces with loud thunder and little rain.

When the sky darkened, Li Yu and Tian Yi led their respective soldiers and horses and retreated to Kuihuan.

At this time, Kui's hustle and bustle, his face was unusually ugly, and in order to retain his strength, he was unwilling to fight with the Han army.

But thousands of miles away, the Shu army that came to reinforce was also selfish, and wanted to preserve its strength, and was unwilling to take the lead, which was extremely shameless.

Outside the western city of the coalition army and Lüyang, they set up camp.

In the tent of the Chinese army, Kui Huan sat in the middle, his face was sinking like water, and the generals stood on both sides, one by one with their heads bowed, without saying a word.

Kui Huan looked around at everyone, slapped the table suddenly, and said angrily: "Today's battle is simply terrifying!" You yourselves, how did the battle of today be fought? ”

The generals of the Long army looked at each other and muttered in their hearts, "O king, you didn't let us attack the city with all our might, why are you complaining about us now?"

Of course, such words cannot be spoken.

Zhao Hui said in a low voice: "King, the enemy army is fierce and tenacious, our army has been attacking for a whole day, and the casualties are very heavy!" ”

Li Yu and Tian Yi looked at Zhao Hui and almost laughed.

He is not blind, and the corpses transported by the Long army from the battlefield are only a thousand people in total, which is a huge casualty?

Kui Huan glared at Zhao Hui fiercely, and shouted angrily: "It's useless, it's useless, you don't have to make excuses in front of this king!" ”

As he spoke, he turned his head, his eyes fell on Li Yu and Tian Yi, his tone softened a little, and asked, "General Li, General Tian, how is the situation on your side today?" ”

Li Yu and Tian Yi looked at each other, and secretly said in their hearts, Kui Huan reprimanded Zhao Hui in public, in fact, he was doing it for the two of them.

The two of them were like mirrors in their hearts, their faces did not show any of it, they continued to pretend to be confused, and said with a straight face: "Back to King Shuoning, when our army attacked the city, it also suffered from the stubborn resistance of the Han army. ”

Kui was so angry that his teeth itched, the casualties of the Shu army today were not as large as the casualties of his own side! After all, Li Yu and Tian Yi are Gongsun Shu's people, and they came to help, so he shouldn't reprimand him too much.

He said meaningfully: "Your Majesty sent two generals to Hanyang, and has high hopes for both generals, and hopes that the two generals will do their best, and must not disobey the yang and the yin. ”

Li Yu and Tian Yi had the same straight face, and they both intervened to give a salute, and said in unison: "Weichen should be loyal to His Majesty, and he will never give up!" ”