"Order the craftsmen to build twenty pontoon bridges quickly, concentrate all the troops and ordnance, and attack the city before it happens." Li Zicheng ordered.

The craftsmen were ordered to immediately take people to cut down the trees and fasten the logs together with large iron nails to make pontoons.

From noon, the defenders of Luoyang saw tens of thousands of beggar troops converging towards the north of Luoyang.

Seeing this, Wen Houyou expected that the focus of the beggar army's attack must be on the north, so he hurriedly transferred most of the defenders of Luoyang to the north to defend, and the north, west, and south, especially the south, which had never been attacked, left only a very small number of vigilant troops.

The morale of the beggar army should be at its peak at this time, and even if there is a slight setback in the morning attack, it will not have much impact on morale.

It's time for a decisive battle!

Wen Houyou strictly ordered that all men over the age of fifteen and under the age of fifty in Luoyang City were on standby, ready to help carry the equipment for defending the city at any time.

The women set up stoves beside the city walls, and the rich families of the city and the Fu King brought rice and noodles for them to cook for the army.

Anyone in the city, but who does not obey, shall immediately engage in military law.

It was silent until the horn of attack sounded in the beggar camp.

"Rush!"

Twenty pontoon bridges, carried by twenty squads, approached the moat to the north. Behind the pontoon bridge, 20,000 beggars followed closely, north of Luoyang, between the moat and the barracks, full of people.

Seeing so many beggar troops attacking the city, and the momentum was amazing, many young people in the city suddenly saw sweat on their foreheads, and fear suddenly grew.

Morale is a thing that is invisible and invisible, but Wen Houyou, a person who is used to leading soldiers, can feel it.

He had to stop this pernicious sentiment from spreading, and the best way to stop it was to strike at the enemy.

At this time, 100 Francos and more than 200 tiger squatting cannons had all concentrated on the northern city wall, just forming an uninterrupted firepower to attack the beggar army.

"Bang, bang, bang......."

Franc was the first to fire, and the projectiles flew and exploded in the dense crowd of beggars, bringing with them one brilliant blood mist after another.

The battlefield was suddenly filled with a strong smell of blood.

"Artillery team, aim at the city, open fire!"

The Fran cannon team on the side of the beggar army, under the command of each gun commander, also bombarded the city walls.

Wherever the projectiles of the begging army went, the bricks and stones of the female wall flew sideways, and from time to time there were also projectiles that crossed the battlements of the female wall and went deep into the platform of the city wall, but it was a pity that the cannons of the beggar army were shelled from the bottom up, and the kinetic energy was insufficient, and the lethality was not large enough.

Limited damage!

The artillery teams of the two sides came and went, and they fought happily.

Originally, the beggar artillery was exposed in the wilderness and was not easy to hide, so it should have suffered a key blow from the defenders' artillery, but Wen Houyou did not think so.

"Concentrate your fire, strike at the thieves' pontoons, and Hugh tell them to get close to the moat." Wen Houyou was worried about the pontoon bridge.

The defenders' artillery fire concentrated on the pontoon bridge.

In the midst of the dense shelling, even if the hit rate of the bombardment of moving targets was extremely low, two pontoon bridges were breached.

The remaining eighteen pontoon bridges were largely intact, and the small detachment carrying them did not stop, running desperately, and seemed to be approaching the moat.

"Furlong machine, retreat, tiger squat artillery, up, blow up the pontoon."

At the head of the city, Franc retreated, and the tiger squatting artillery followed, and the defenders tried to break the pontoon bridge with intensive fire.

"Stop."

The beggar army pontoon team arrived at the moat, the team leader shouted, the front team quickly paused the front end of the pontoon bridge to the ground, and the beggar army in the middle and rear of the pontoon bridge continued to push the pontoon bridge hard, and the pontoon people stood up, turned over and was about to fall to the opposite bank.

"Bang, bang, bang......."

The roar of the artillery came and went, and the small projectiles of the tiger squat cannon were fan-shaped and hit the thick wood, bringing a lot of wood chips, and the bombardment of the tiger squat cannon did not bring excessive damage to the pontoon bridge, and the pontoon bridge was generally intact.

"Rockets, ignite pontoons."

Wen Houyou roared.

The archers lead the rockets, aim at the pontoons, and shoot intensively.

"Take, take, take, take."

The pontoon was nailed with rockets in an instant, but the wood did not burn.

"Hmph, don't we know how to soak wood in water?"

Li Zicheng, who was watching the battle from afar, laughed.

"Boom Knock" "Boom Knock" "Boom Knock" .........

The back section of the pontoon bridge landed on the ground, and the northern city wall of Luoyang was exposed in front of the beggar army.

"Up, on, on, on."

Seeing that the city wall was in front of them, the morale of the beggar army was greatly boosted, and the beggar army carrying the ladder to the city continued to gather under the city wall.

The extra-long ladder to the city is erected on the outside of the female wall, the beggar army ants are attached to the city, and the defenders of the city use tiger squatting cannons, bows and arrows, stones, and rolling wood, and the enemy of 10,000 people meets them.

The artillery of the beggar army under the city, because their own side had already attacked the city and could no longer fire artillery, the archers immediately became active at the right time, and fired arrows at the defenders of the city.

The beggar army archers are also the configuration of the surrendered officer army archer and the orion, the surrendered officer army in the beggar army is well paid, trained hard, and the hit rate and durability are far from comparable to before, so even if the following attack, it naturally has some disadvantages, but it can rely on its own strength to draw with the defenders of the city.

As for the folk hunters, the daily price is to bend the bow and shoot arrows, and the hit rate and endurance are naturally not bad.

In this way, the beggar army was not afraid of death, and rushed to the city wave after wave, and on several occasions they were able to climb several city heads, Wen Houyou took his own men to fight back desperately, and only then did they kill the beggar army.

The battle lasted until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in the early spring, the days were not long, and at this time, it was almost dark, Li Zicheng ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and the begging army slowly retreated.

The beggar army retreated, and the defenders of the city, who were tired and almost out of strength, collapsed to the ground, not wanting to move.

"Damn, these thieves are so powerful, they have only been fighting for a long time, and they are almost going to kill the city, and I don't know if they will be able to stand up tomorrow. I don't know when reinforcements will come? ”

Wen Houyou looked at his own defenders who collapsed on the city wall, and his heart was mixed, and he felt deeply worried about the prospect of defending the city.

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"What about today's casualties?"

In the big tent of the begging army, Li Zicheng, who was sitting in the position of the commander in the middle, asked the generals.

"More than 3,000 casualties." Li Guo replied.

"The casualties are a bit big, and their families should be commended."

"Yes, King Chuang." Megatron responded.

"Today, I received an urgent report from Tanma that a large army from Beizhili came from the south, with a number of about 20,000 people, under the banner of Lu. After a short time, you can enter Henan, if you force the army, you can come to Luoyang within three days. This means that our army must take Luoyang within three days, otherwise we will have to retreat, so as not to be attacked from both sides by the official reinforcements and the defenders in the city. ”

Li Zicheng pointed to the place on the map, where Beizhili and Henan meet, and introduced the enemy situation to everyone.

"Instructor, I don't know if there is a famous marshal surnamed Lu in the imperial court?" Li Guo asked.

"I haven't heard of it."

"Oh, it looks like a nobody."

"It's an unknown person, and he also has 20,000 officers and soldiers, and his combat strength is still unknown, and he can't underestimate the enemy. Moreover, now we have to solve the problem of Luoyang, let's talk about how to fight Luoyang first? ”

Li Zicheng asked.

"King Chuang, the walls of Luoyang are tall, and our army will suffer heavy casualties even if it is captured, so I have a strategy, and I don't know if it is suitable or not?"

"Shocking Instructor, please speak"

"Our army is mainly attacking the north city wall, the south has not been attacked, the official army is weak in defense, it is better to send a death squad to lurk under the south city wall, and then our army will attack the north with all its might, attract the attention of the defenders to the north, and then the dead soldiers in the south will take the opportunity to enter the city and open the south gate, our army will ambush the troops into the south gate, and Luoyang can go down."

When Li Zicheng heard this plan, he only thought for a while, then nodded and said, "This plan is wonderful, just do it." Li Guo, screening a hundred dead soldiers, ambushed under the south tonight, and waited to seize the door tomorrow. ”

"Yes"

"Gao Jie, you take two thousand cavalry, put down the drawbridge in the south, and you will rush in with them, attack the north gate, and welcome the army into the city."

"Yes"

"Two instructors, you continue to send people to preach our army's policies and attack the heart."

"Yes."

That day and night, the announcers of the beggar army used the sound of heaven to broadcast the good policies of the beggar army outside the city over and over again, and the defenders were already very tired after the daytime offensive and defensive battles, so they simply fell asleep to the voices of the announcers.

At three o'clock in the morning of the next day, a hundred dead soldiers of the beggar army secretly sneaked to the south wall and lurked, waiting for tomorrow when the army attacked the north, attacked the south, and seized the city gate. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Changing the Claw Book House Against the Sky" for free for the first time.