Chapter Seventy-Three: The Battle of Luoyang V

With a "boom", the sound of the cannon felt extremely terrifying and terrifying in the darkness.

This is already a common show in Luoyang City.

Whether it is the Xia army or the Qing army, it seems that they like to bombard each other with artillery, not seeking to hit, but only to harass one or two. Anyway, there won't be a moment of silence in the night.

Even at night, the Xia army prepared one or two sneak attacks.

It can be said that the war has developed to this point that it has been day and night.

The Xia army can rotate into battle, but the Qing army cannot.

Most of the Qing soldiers lay under the city walls, sleeping on the spot, like dead pigs. The general movement, not looking at it at all, can wake them up.

I don't know if I'm used to this soundtrack, or if I'm too tired.

However, at this time the south gate of Luoyang. The ancestral guards had already taken over the south gate, only to hear that the city gate was opened, and a team of people came in the dark.

Zu Zerun, Zu Dale and others immediately greeted them.

However, Cao Zongyu did not come. It was Deng He who came.

In this war, Zhang Xuan naturally wanted his descendants to have a lot of military merits, and the generals were under the court and overwhelmed the people of the side lines.

In this way, the Great Xia Dynasty will be stable.

Only by overwhelming superiority can there be a peaceful solution to the problem. Otherwise, there will be few swords in the future.

Zhu Qizhen is not afraid of fighting, but he still can't bear to attack internally, so in the eyes of outsiders, Zhang Xuan's Northern Expedition looks a little ugly.

The real military merit is lost by his descendants.

This time, the merit of capturing the city was Deng He's horse.

Deng He sent troops from Cao Zongyu and also had many military exploits. has been made a marquis.

It's just that Deng He can't compare to Cao Zongyu in the end.

Cao Zongyu's family history, coupled with the mutual training with Zhang Xuan, hundreds of thousands of troops are properly arranged in their hands, but Deng He is okay with 20,000 or 30,000 now, and no more.

So in the Northern Expedition, it did not come out.

When Zu Zerun saw Deng He, he immediately saluted and said, "I'll wait to see General Deng." ”

Deng He is now a lot of teenagers who could only work hard at the beginning, and they have already grown beards and their bodies have grown. It's just that it seems that because of the suffering of the teenager, he is not tall, but he has grown up quite strong, unsmiling, and his joy and anger are invisible.

Deng He said lightly: "The generals smiled, Your Majesty said, as long as the generals make meritorious contributions today, he will have no problem with one family and five marquis in the future." ”

"It's up to right or wrong."

Deng He was stationed at the city gate with a sentry, which was personally instructed by Cao Zongyu. No matter what happens after entering the city, the city gate must be in your hands.

The Zu family and the others immediately knew that it was time for them to fight hard.

I know that I can't be soft-hearted.

agreed, so the ancestral army took the lead

, a battalion of the Xia army pressed in the rear. At one time, they all entered Luoyang City and walked on the streets of Luoyang City.

The earth-shattering loud sound of "boom" surprised everyone, especially Deng He, the explosion was not far from him, and there were even countless fragments hitting Deng He's armor.

Deng He's face was pale, how could he not know what was going on, and ordered: "Immediately light a bonfire and report to General Cao, everyone will follow me to guard the city gate, and no one must take the city gate." ”

Although the specific situation, Deng He does not know yet.

However, Deng He followed Zhang Xuan to fight in the south and the north, and had already become a veteran, only in his early thirties, already experienced in a hundred battles, and had a keen sense of the battlefield, which made him realize that this place would definitely be attacked by the Qing army.

As for what happened to the battalion where the ancestral army had already entered Luoyang City, it didn't matter.

However, there is more luck and less luck, but it is certain.

"Boom, boom, boom." The sound of such an explosion sounded several times in a row.

Zilharang had already arranged for a large amount of gunpowder to be hidden in the vital places.

Such an explosion was enough to disrupt the formation of the ancestral army and part of the Xia army, not to mention that there were more than 1,000 people who died in this explosion.

It can be said that the first blow will stun the enemy.

However, Zilharang knew that his seemingly chic sentence was actually a chronic suicide.

Because there are not many gunpowder reserves in Luoyang City.

Originally, he thought that the gunpowder he had hoarded in Luoyang City would last at least half a year, but when the fight really started, he found that he had overlooked a problem.

That is, as firearms became more and more powerful, the consumption of gunpowder also became astronomical.

Zhang Xuan did not lack gunpowder, but he had the manpower and material resources of the entire south behind him. There are even large quantities of saltpeter shipped to Ningbo from overseas.

Although Luoyang City was prepared in advance, it was far from enough compared to the battlefield consumption.

And this time the use of a large amount of gunpowder seems to be easy, but a lot of gunpowder stocks have been used up, and when the gunpowder is used up, what is the situation in Luoyang City?

Everybody knows.

It's just that Zilharang estimates that they can't wait for the day when the gunpowder runs out, because there is one thing that is more scarce than the shortage of gunpowder.

It's a shortage of personnel.

The consumption of personnel defending Luoyang City is already large, and in this infighting, I don't know how many soldiers were killed and wounded, and even fewer soldiers of the Qing army, which is the reason why Jierharang would rather consume more gunpowder.

However, after the gunpowder, the soldiers of the Eight Banners in the city rushed out.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners seemed to have a mortal heart, and the panicked army of the ancestral family was like chopping vegetables and melons, but after a while, the leaders of the ancestral family were in the center.

The soldiers did not move forward, but they withdrew a large number of muskets, and then they were pushed up, and Zilharang was also pushed.

Zilharang

Sitting in a wheelchair, he coughed twice and said: "My Daqing is not thin on my ancestors, is this how my ancestors treat me Daqing?" ”

"Jingle Bell." With a sound, Zu Zeqing put down his weapon, knelt on the ground, and said: "Lord Wang, the slave has just been confused, and he asked the prince to be gracious, and now he is using people's strategies, please let the slave treat the crime and make meritorious contributions." ”

Zu Kefa was beside Zu Zeqing, and he stabbed with a long knife and stabbed Zu Zeqing in the back. Zu Zeqing sighed twice, and fell to the ground, and after a while, blood flowed all over the ground.

Zu Kefa said: "Now the situation is just a death, and I must not lose the prestige of my ancestral family." ”

"Not bad." Zilharang said: "Among the sons of Zu Dashou, the most promising is a righteous son. ”

"The prince will do it." Zu Kefa sneered: "The battle of Luoyang has been fought so far, does the prince still have to think about a good situation, but he will die early and die late." I think the prince is also terminally ill. ”

"No wonder." Zukefa sneered. Before he could speak, he saw Zilharang wave his hand, and countless small cannons fired scattered bullets, like a storm of steel, roaring away, rolling the people of the ancestral family into a team of flesh and blood.

After the battle here ended, Zilharang immediately heard the sound of killing at the south gate of Luoyang, and his heart suddenly burst out, and he said secretly: "Why hasn't this city gate been taken back yet?" ”

Although the defense of Luoyang City cannot be compared to Kaifeng Xiangyang, it can be regarded as a strong city and a barrier for the Qing army. It is also where the morale of the Qing army lies.

In such a situation, once the city is broken, the chain reaction triggered is likely to make a large number of Han troops surrender and defect.

He wanted to go there in person, but his body was long gone.

Come out and look at it, and you'll be overwhelmed, not to mention anything else. The following can only be arranged.

At this time, the south gate of Luoyang was already shouting and killing.

Deng and his soldiers were divided into two divisions, one was to defend the city tower, borrowed the artillery and firearms at the head of the city to suppress the enemy troops in various places, and engaged the Qing army on the city wall in close combat.

However, the Qing army on the city wall was already exhausted and had no sharpness.

It can be dragged for a while.

The most dangerous is the city gate hole.

First of all, the city gate hole is not wide, and in order to pile up the city gate, there are a lot of sundries in the city gate hole, and then Deng He began to clean up as soon as he entered the city, and he did not clean up much.

So I can't fit much.

And after the soldiers of the Eight Banners surrounded and annihilated the ancestral army and a Xia army, they were stunned and killed.

Although there is the suppression of the firepower of the city, in the dark, it is not clear to see many times, and naturally it is impossible to lose one.

If the head of the city is guarded, and the hole in the gate is blocked. The little men and horses on the city tower could not be drowned in the Qing army.

Therefore, Deng He decided that he would guard the city gate.

He only brought fifty guards with him, but all of them were armor and well-armed, and should be able to drag the battle until reinforcements arrived.