Under the dark clouds, there are thousands of armors, and the cold light of the sword halberd is like a cold moon shining obliquely in the dark room, and a piece of silver light is like frost.

The hunting banner flew, piercing the sky, and the 200,000 Dahua troops lined up in a square array, archers, spearmen, light armor battalions, heavy armor formations, and light cavalry, neat and orderly, echoing the layout of the formation.

The strongest is still 30,000 iron cavalry, the whole horse team is an elite iron cavalry, as if the war horses are wearing armor, the queue is majestic and majestic, the swords and guns are flashing with a cold light, and the murderous aura is full of heaven for a while, showing that this team is unusual and fierce and good at fighting.

In the formation of the Chinese army, a person with a purple and gold crown on his head, wearing chain mail, wearing a jade lion belt around his waist, wearing long boots, stepping off a green horse, and being as stable as Mount Tai under the banner, it was the commander Li Jing who commanded the army to move forward.

Now the Dahua army is strong and strong, and Li Jing is well versed in the art of war, so he did not attack the city directly, but first sent the elite of the vanguard army to attack the Zheng army camp under the Beibi Mountain, where King Jing Wang Xingben was in charge, about 20,000 horses.

The result was tragic, when the sky was just bright, Xue Wanqian came over with 10,000 cavalry and outflanked him with 20,000 infantry.

The cavalry charged, the horses kicked the company camp, like a tiger and wolf into the flock, this kind of rapid fighting, all of a sudden beat Wang Xingben's army, the defense camp was quickly torn apart.

When Wang Su, the king of Song, came to the rescue with his troops, the camp was already full of holes and was forced to retreat.

Pei Renji and his son came with reinforcements, and almost intercepted Wang Su's army and drove him back to his barracks.

Subsequently, Cheng Zhijie and Luo Shixin also arrived with troops and rushed straight to Wang Su's camp.

The three route army horses were killed, all of them were led by fierce generals, and the two important Zheng army camps outside the city were all destroyed and destroyed in half a day.

Wang Shichong took his nephew Wang Renze, son-in-law Shan Xiongxin, and his trusted generals Zhang Yongtong and Liang De, and his henchmen 30,000 elite soldiers and horses out of the city to rescue him personally, but at this time, Li Jing led an army of 100,000 troops to slowly advance to Luoyang City.

"That's it!" Wang Shichong sighed, led the army back to the city, and did not dare to go out to meet the battle.

Li Jing approached Luoyang City, and did not rush to fight, but stationed the Chinese army camp on the north mountain of the high ground outside Luoyang City, overlooking the entire Luoyang City from a high position.

Then, Li Jing began to divide the troops, and sent Xue Wancheng, Cheng Zhijie, Mai Jicai, Luo Shixin, Pei Renji and his son to cut off the connection between Luoyang and the surrounding strongholds respectively, capture Luocang and Yanshi City, cut off all the grain routes outside Luoyang, pull out some checkpoints and communication points leading from Luoyang to the city, and then set up a blockade.

The outer city of Luoyang is tall and majestic, more than ten meters high, there is a wide moat, which can separate the city from the field, the rammed earth city wall is wrapped with several layers of blue bricks and marble, the urn city and the outer city are surrounded by layers, there are at least two or three defensive offensives, even if a city gate is overcome, there are open spaces and city gates to intercept inside.

Therefore, Luoyang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which makes Yang Xuangan and Li Mi look forward to talking!

As long as Luoyang City has food and soldiers for a day, it will be difficult for the peripheral army to break through smoothly, after all, in the era of cold weapons, people need to be close to fight, if even people can't reach the enemy, how can you break the city?

As long as it is trapped for two years, Luoyang City will be self-defeating!

But Li Jing knew that this was not feasible, because Wang Shichong had a thin personality and was ruthless, once the city began to lack food, Wang Shichong would definitely mobilize all the people and nobles in the city to eat food, and finally even kill people and eat it, and there would be a tragedy in the world.

There are many rich people, nobles, courtiers, sages, and hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the city.

Moreover, in the Dahua Army, many middle-level generals and soldiers, their families are still in Luoyang City, so they will never agree to besiege the city like this, and let hundreds of thousands of people in it be buried with Wang Shichong, all of them will die and become a dead city!

Pei Renji, Bing Yuanzhen and others all offered suggestions, but it was difficult to effectively and directly break the city.

At this time, Wang Shichong also implemented a high-pressure policy in the city, and during the period of right and wrong, he implemented strict punishment and strict laws, and one person defected and killed the whole family. In each mile, five families are one guarantee, one family has fled, and the neighbors sit together and supervise each other.

Moreover, in Luoyang Palace, open up an area as a prison, and all officials and generals who do not trust themselves will hold each other's families in the palace prison as hostages, in case they go out of the city to fight or front-line generals, and then take refuge on the side of the Dahua army. In just a few days, nearly 10,000 people were held in prison.

The entire Luoyang City has been shrouded in the clouds of war, and the rumors are loud.

Li Jing was condescending, summoned the generals to discuss siege tactics, he couldn't keep going on, everyone in the world and insiders were gathered here, and he had a heavy burden on him!

"The outer city of Luoyang is very difficult to capture, but after all, the area is large, there are always weak points, as long as the outer city is conquered, we can enter the inside, and Wang Shi will continue to consume, this deadline I set for one month, take the outer city. And the Miyagi city inside is more like a fortress, as long as you take it before winter! Li Jing announced the deadline so that the generals knew it.

Many people feel a little at ease, because some of the adjutant general's family relatives are still in the city, if the deadline is to be completed next year, then in the south of Luoyang, south of Luoshui, dozens of people in Lifang may suffer.

Bing Yuanzhen echoed: "What the marshal said is that Luoyang is divided into the south city and the north city, and the important troops are in the north city, because the north city has the imperial city and the palace city, the emperor's relatives and relatives, and many nobles are concentrated in the north city, and we can save at least 300,000 people if we take the south city in a month, but I am worried that Wang Shichong is already migrating the people and concentrating more hostages in the north of the city." ”

Li Jing pointed to the sand table map and said: "You see, in the south of the southern city, there are three cities, there are two city gates in the east, and there are canals and mountains in the west, and there are layers of obstacles inside, and it is difficult for the army to pass through. ”

The generals nodded, this question is easy to understand, and they can all understand it.

Mai Jicai reminded: "Marshal, one more point, we also have to control the Tiger Prison Pass in the east, Luokou and Gongxian are all granary places, after taking it, our army's grain and grass also have additional supplies and guarantees, and at the same time, there are Dou Jiande and Li Mi's troops in the local Tiger Prison Pass to destroy!" “

Xue Wancheng sneered: "Then Li Mi hates Wang Shichong so much, he shouldn't come to the rescue, but at this time, he definitely doesn't want Dahua to be destroyed so quickly." ”

Li Jing stroked his short beard and said calmly: "Yes, Ben Shuai also took this into account, and plans to send people to attack the remnants of the army in Luokou and Gongxian, and by the way, take the Tiger Prison Pass in the hands of the Wagang Army, which is the east gate of Luoyang, control, and have a great guarantee for Wang Shichong, who is dedicated to encircling and suppressing Luoyang, according to the report of the spies, the guard there will be Wang Junkuo, who can take the Tiger Prison Pass!" ”

Cheng Zhijie pondered for a while, hugged his fists and said: "Marshal, let the last general go, go alone, I hope to persuade him to surrender!" ”