Liu Xiu, with black hair, was walking forward while watching, when a door on the side of the road suddenly opened, and Choshi walked out of it, bowed to Liu Xiu, and said, "Your Majesty! ”

"Hmm!"

Liu Xiu waved his hand, signaling Cho to flatten his body, he looked into the hut, although it was dark inside, Liu Xiu could see clearly, it was densely packed with people.

He walked over and asked, "How's the preparation?" ”

Choshi followed Liu Xiu, entered the house, and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen and Disun have set up 20,000 ambush soldiers on the side of Dongcheng, and if the enemy army does not come to steal the city, it will be fine, as long as the enemy army dares to come and steal the city, Weichen will let them have no return!" ”

Liu Xiu nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's still early, you can let everyone rest for a while, and when it's over, cheer up!" ”

Without waiting for Choshi to speak, all the Han soldiers in the room whispered: "Your Majesty, the villain is not tired!" ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured, even if you stay up all night, the villain can go into battle to kill the enemy!"

Liu Xiu smiled, waved his hand and said, "You don't have to stand, let's sit!" ”

The Han soldiers looked at each other, and finally sat on the ground one after another according to Liu Xiu's intentions.

Liu Xiu was also the same as others, sitting directly on the ground, and said: "If no one attacks tonight, it's fine, if there is a thief army attacking, everyone must be more careful, these thieves, make good use of the crossbow machine, wrists, back, legs, may have a hidden crossbow machine, a little careless, you may be shot by the thief's crossbow arrow."

When fighting the enemy, you need to use your shield to protect yourself as much as possible! ”

Hearing Liu Xiu's words, the hearts of everyone present were warm, and an elderly veteran said: "Your Majesty, Lord Wei Wei has already reminded me and others, we all have shields!" ”

As he spoke, he lifted a round shield upwards for Liu Xiu to see clearly.

The rest of the soldiers also took up their shields.

Some people don't have shields, so they tear down the door panels and cut them open to serve as shields.

The shields in the hands of the people are called all sorts of round, square, and long.

Liu Xiu looked around carefully, and his face showed satisfaction.

Regardless of whether the shield looks good or not, in short, against the enemy troops of the crossbow battalion, no matter how ugly the shield is, it can save your life.

He continued: "Our army has 20,000 ambush soldiers, and the number of enemy troops will not exceed 3,000. ”

The veteran was the first to say, "We all listen to Your Majesty!" Back then, His Majesty was in Hebei, leading us to fight, often the enemy was outnumbered, but every battle must be won, today, I am outnumbered, and we can't embarrass Your Majesty! ”

"That's right! We can't embarrass Your Majesty! ”

All the soldiers said in unison.

Liu Xiu looked at the veteran, he was nearly forty years old, and he had followed him since Hebei, and it had been seven or eight years now.

He patted the veteran on the shoulder and said, "Brother has worked hard! ”

His words frightened the veteran into trembling, and he hurriedly got up, knelt on his knees, and stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty tortures the villain!" ”

Liu Xiu patted his arm again and said, "Brother, sit down!" ”

The veteran sat cross-legged again, his eyes flushed unconsciously.

Liu Xiu looked at the veterans, and then looked at the others, and all he saw were young and unfamiliar faces.

He said: "When the hustle and bustle are calmed down, Gongsun Shu, and the world is settled, everyone can go home and live a life of peace." ”

He has never liked to fight, not because he has a weak personality, but because the world has been in chaos for too long, and there are too many people who have died, he really can't afford to fight.

Liu Xiu is most often criticized in two ways.

One is that his background is not good enough, not the proletariat, but the landlord class, saying that Liu Xiu cannot be regarded as a peasant rebel army.

In this way, it is both right and wrong, Liu Xiu is a real farmer, there is no doubt about this, but he is a descendant of the Liu family.

At that time, the Liu family was too huge, with various branches, various clansmen, and relationships layer upon layer, including those who were well mixed and those who were poorly mixed.

But in the Liu clan, there is indeed a group of people in the upper class of society, with a lot of resources in their hands, and this is precisely a solid foundation for Liu Xiu's success and even the later emperor.

In the second aspect, Liu Xiu did not make much achievements in foreign wars and failed to expand the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Even if he fought with the Huns, and he could always win, the battles he fought were all passive defensive battles, not active battles.

Compared with the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in front of Zhuyu, he is indeed a step worse.

But what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty inherited was the peaceful and prosperous era left to him by Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing (Wenjingzhizhi), and it was a powerful and incomparable Han Empire, and he certainly had enough resources in his hands to support his foreign conquests.

But even so, in the later period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the country was really unable to move, and the national strength was almost exhausted.

And Liu Xiu is not so lucky, he does not have such a huge inheritance left to him by his ancestors, and the restoration of the Han family was brought down by him bit by county, county, and state.

The world that Liu Xiu got was a big mess full of holes, with warlords everywhere, wars going on everywhere, and society on the verge of collapse, corpses everywhere, and devastation.

It is impossible to manage such a big mess and go to war with the outside world, and to go to war with the outside world is also a reckless force, and it is the ordinary people who suffer in the end.

Liu Xiu's temperament is soft, and his concept of governing the country is biased towards Taoism, but he is by no means weak and easy to bully.

If it is necessary to fight, he will not hesitate to fight, but there is no need, it is not a battle that must be fought, he really will not fight.

Get back to business.

Liu Xiu, Choshi and the others stayed in the small black room, quietly waiting for the enemy to attack.

Will Du Ling send a crossbow battalion to steal the city, Liu Xiu is not an immortal, so naturally he can't be an unpredictable prophet, but he is good at speculating on human nature, and from the perspective of human nature, he thinks that Du Ling will send troops to come.

Time passed minute by minute, and I don't know how long I waited, but the day had already passed.

Just when Liu Xiu was sitting cross-legged and closing his eyes to recuperate, the door opened a crack, and Long Yuan flashed in from the outside, he walked through the crowd, came to Liu Xiu, and whispered: "Your Majesty, there is movement outside the city!" ”

Hearing this, everyone present invariably widened their eyes and subconsciously clenched their weapons and shields.

Liu Xiu raised his eyes, looked at Long Yuan, and asked, "Can you see clearly, how many enemy troops are outside the city?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's too dark outside the city to see clearly, and the subordinates judge that there should be a lot of people!"

Long Yuan said.

"Probe, report!"

Liu Xiu said.

"Whoa!"

Long Yuan agreed, turned around and walked out.

Outside Luoyang City, there was indeed a group of people in black, but the number was not large, and there were only a dozen people.

They crept up to the bottom of the walls, and one of them took off the rope and shook the hook from the rope.

Then, with all his might, he threw it upwards, and the hook flew out, impartial, and hung on the battlement.

The man in black pulled the rope hard under the city, and it felt very strong, he grabbed the rope with both hands, kicked the wall with both feet, and quickly climbed upward.

In a short time, he climbed to the top of the wall, and instead of immediately turning over the battlements, he poked out a small head and quietly observed the movement of the city.

Not far from him, a Han soldier was sitting on the ground and napping.

At such a close distance, he didn't even hear the sound of the iron hook hanging on the arrow stack, and he slept enough to die.

The man in black was also shocked to see a guard so close, but when he heard the other party's snoring, he couldn't help but sneer.

The Han army really sat back and relaxed, thinking that if they won the battle during the day, they could neglect the defense at night! How did he know that this person who sat on the ground and slept was not a Han army at all, but a thief who was brought out of the prison by Cho Period.

At first, they promised Choshi that they would be responsible for guarding the city wall, and that the first half of the night was fine, but in the second half of the night, these people couldn't stay up, some of them were sitting on the ground and napping, and some of them just lay down on the ground and fell asleep.

The man in black observed for a moment, then jumped over the arrow stack and jumped onto the city wall.

He didn't deliberately slow down his steps, but walked directly to the guard, drew his dagger, and stabbed the other man in the neck.

The guard didn't say a word, and the man was still asleep.

After eliminating the guard, the man in black casually picked up a torch stuck in the arrow stack and shook it a few times towards the city.

Bang, bang, bang - iron claws flew up from the city to the top of the city, hung on the arrow stacks, and then, more than a dozen men in black climbed the city wall in unison along the ropes.

More than a dozen black-clothed people scattered on the city wall, and when they saw the guards who were napping, they immediately stepped forward and solved them with a clean knife.

In just such a while, there was no longer a living Han army guarding the city wall within 100 meters.

After disposing of all the 'Han army' on the city, the man in black picked up the torch and shook it outside the city again.

In the dark curtain outside the city, thousands of Long troops rumbled out, and the speed of these Long troops was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, people ran to the front of the city wall, and along the rope left by the man in black, people quickly climbed up.

It can be seen that this Long army, well-trained and agile, has a total of about 2,000 people, and in less than a quarter of an hour, all of them have climbed to the top of the city.

Tonight's night attack went much smoother than they expected, and without encountering any resistance at all, all 2,000 of their men attacked the city wall.

People walked down the nearby steps, little by little.

Looking at the city gate not far away, there were only two guards guarding.

The dozen or so black-clothed men who walked in the front picked up their crossbow machines one after another, aimed them at the two guards, and moved the triggers continuously.

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! The crossbow ricocheted continuously, and the bolts flew towards the two guards.

Poof, poof, poof, in a series of muffled sounds, the two guards were nailed into hedgehogs by crossbow arrows in an instant.

There was no shouting, and both guards were killed instantly.

A dozen men in black ran down the steps, past the bodies of the two guards, and came to the city gate.

Looking up, more than a dozen people in black were a little dumbfounded, it turned out that there were many huge stones piled up in the city gate hole, and these huge stones were not at all something that a dozen of them could move.

They beckoned to the Long army behind them.

The Long army ran down the steps one after another, and when they reached the front of the city gate, they were also startled by the huge stones piled up inside.

The Han army wants to completely block the East City Gate! The 2,000 Long army, all of whom descended the city wall, gathered in front of the city gate cave to consider how to move these boulders.

Just when they were at a loss, all of a sudden, there was a deafening shout of killing behind them.

With the shouts of killing, one torch after another was lit, and I saw countless Han soldiers pouring out of the houses near the city wall.

These Han soldiers left the house and immediately formed a neat phalanx in front of the city wall, with shield soldiers in the front row and crossbowmen in the back row.

In addition, on the roof, there were also countless Han troops standing densely, twisting bows and arrows one by one, and all the edges were aimed at these Long troops.

Among the Han army, one of the leading generals was the Cho period.

Choshi held the Hama Iron Point Steel Gun, took two steps forward, and shouted loudly: "Choshi is here, I've been waiting for a long time!" ”