But in the past ten days, Yang Chong still didn't show up, this time Shangshu Province spread the gossip, Yang Chong took the third lady Cui Yao, Zuotunwei general Suo Yanshou, Hao Ying, Zhonglang general Chi Li, Su Dingfang and others and the five thousand cavalry of the Hundred Cavalry Battalion, Chang Jie Battalion, and Zuotunwei went to Wuguan to hunt, and also brought Duhu Hong and three hundred female soldiers. Duhu Hong has dissolved the marriage contract with the Xue family, and accompanying Yang Chong to hunt was said by the good deeds to be unpredictable, full of scandals.

Du Fuwei just laughed when he heard it, Yang Chongchu is not a big deal about this kind of thing, the power is leaning towards the government and the opposition, and it is normal to like a confidant; But when Kan Ling said that the students of Daxing Medical School and Mozhuo Academy went to the field to practice, and they didn't come back for a few days, Du Fuwei understood that things were not so simple. I know it myself, can the other bigwigs in the political hall know?

Du Fuwei has lived in the environment of war for a long time, and he is very sensitive to feel that there must be a problem in it, and Yang Chong must have made a big move; Du Fuwei transferred the map from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, looked at it for a whole day, and finally concluded that Yang Chong's target was Luoyang. Du Fuwei said with emotion: "The Yue Guogong soldiers are indeed cunning, the army has been moving since he left Chang'an, if my guess is right, Yang Gongqing's right imperial guard should be dispatched, as well as the troops of Song Jingang in Hanoi County." ”

Kan Ling calculated: "Even so, the Duke of Yue can only mobilize an army of 1120,000, Wang Shichong is said to have re-expanded the army to 100,000, why should the Hexi army take Luoyang." ”

Du Fuwei shook his head and said: "I can't figure it out, but the Hexi army can create miracles every time, I heard Yuan Tiangang say that there is still heavy rain in the past two days, which is completely unsuitable for attacking the city, Yang Chong may want to flood Luoyang, or it may be to pull out the two towns of Xingluocang and Heyang, and eat the twenty or thirty thousand defenders there." If Yang Chong can really win Luoyang in one fell swoop, we will really make the right move to Chang'an. ”

The army is impermanent, before Du Fuwei left the Jianghuai army, Li Baiyao was still persuading Du Fuwei to defect to Li Tang, join forces to capture Jianghuai and Hanshu, and engage in a north-south confrontation with Chang'an. Li Baiyao's most critical basis is that Luoyang will not fall in more than a year, and a long-term siege of Luoyang will consume most of Yang Chong's army and financial resources, and can buy time for the countries of Hebei and Jianghuai.

In the evening of the next day, heavy rain began to fall in Chang'an, and in the evening, news came from Tongguan that the road was washed out and that it would be locked for five days; In the political hall, Yang Wang opened a letter reserved by Yang Chong, saying that Xu Shiji and Wang Ji had made a plan to attack Luoyang, and asked the political hall to announce that because the defenders of Luoyang were unwilling to hand over the surplus weapons and equipment, they would attack Luoyang on a later date. After reading the letter, Du Fuwei and the others understood seven or eight points, Yang Chong agreed to negotiate with Wang Shichong at that time, one was to win without a fight, and the other was waiting for this heavy rain.

The heavy rain fell for a day and a night, turning into a torrential rain, and the rain pillars were raging and flying, as if it was a curtain of rain that cut continuously, like fog and dust, splitting and crackling, lightning, thunder, overwhelming; The wind and rain seemed to never stop, and the road outside the tent had been flooded, and as far as the eye could see, it was all a world of water. A rabbit couldn't find a place to hide from the rain, so he went straight into the tent, was stabbed by a spear by a quick-handed sergeant, and was caught and sent to the kitchen to cook.

Yang Chong smiled, the highlands inside and outside the city were all garrisons, and this rabbit was destined to be eaten; The thunder roared, the dark clouds became darker and darker, and the officials who observed the water level came back to report that the water level of Gushui and Luoshui rose rapidly, and Luoshui Valley and Luoershui detoured to the south and east of Luoyang City, all passing through the city, and entering the Yellow River through the Luokou of Yanshi County and Gong County. Yang Chong bowed his head, still looking at the sky in Luoyang City, as if waiting for a miracle to happen in the fortified city under the dark clouds.

Zhang Jin and Yang Gongqing didn't say anything, but Yang Gongqing guessed that it must be Peng Moyun's ambush army that did it in the city, but in the 100,000 army, what could Peng Moyun do. Time passed little by little, Yang Chong and others took shifts to rest, always keeping someone looking at the night sky of Luoyang, not long after a watch, Cheng Yanjin and Suo Yanshou were helpless, and suddenly saw a flash of firelight, and a seven-colored fireworks bloomed in the sky above Luoyang, full of weirdness and brilliance in the rain.

Of course, Zheng Jun, who was on patrol, also saw it, Guo Shizhu was stunned for a quarter of an hour, and immediately commanded the soldiers to rush to the place where the fireworks were raised, and gongs sounded all over the street; It is not difficult to find the place where the fireworks are emitted, and the Heshengzhai Restaurant by Luoshui is already a skyrocketing fire, and when Sergeant Zheng broke in from the front door, he sent out crossbow arrows, and more than a dozen people were killed, which also delayed time. The soldiers who rushed from all directions did not find any trace of anyone running away, and Guo Shizhu suddenly felt that something was wrong, and sweat and rain mixed together.

Suddenly, there were two huge explosions not far away, mixed with thunder, which was not amazing, but the roar of the huge waves that followed made Luoyang City tremble, and the water that didn't know where it came from rose rapidly; Guo Shizhu instantly felt that the water had submerged his calves, so he ran away, and fled to the nearby high-rise building with the soldiers around him.

Guo Shizhu ran to the roof of the second floor of an inn, and could see clearly from a high place, there was no city gate in the west of Luoyang, and now there was a big hole in the city wall, and the embankments on both sides of the canal were blown out of a gap, and the churning Luohe River water gushed out, crossing the gap, like a giant dragon rushing wantonly, sending out angry power. The water on the streets was waist-deep, houses were collapsing, trees were tumbling, small animals were running for their lives, and countless officers and soldiers were struggling and crying.

There was another explosion in the southeast corner, and Guo Shizhu suddenly sat down on the ground weakly, which was the channel of Gu Shui in the city, and the Hexi army was indeed a devil-like opponent. Luoyang 100,000 male soldiers, really experienced veterans are only more than 50,000 people, excluding the defenders in Xingluocang, Heyang, and the imperial palace, among the more than 60,000 people deployed in the city, there are as many as 50,000 recruits, if the Hexi army takes the opportunity to attack the city, the Zheng army has no room to fight back.

Xu Shiji was on the hillside, looking at the gap in the southeast corner of Luoyang City, it was obvious that the terrain outside the city was higher than the inside of the city, and the flood was rolling and rushing into the city; Xu Shiji waved his hand and coldly ordered: "Attack." ”

The 20,000 sailors led by Chen Ling, Zhang Yeyi, and Wang Yaohan supported wooden boats and bamboo rafts and entered the city; The water level in the city was already enough for boats, and the water depth had already submerged to the head, and the panicked Zheng army did not resist at all. According to the pre-arranged arrangement, the sailors of the Hexi Army shot and killed the officers and soldiers who stabbed Zheng Jun all the way and seized the preset target; Only more than 3,000 Zheng troops on the two city walls in the southeast still insisted on fighting under the command of Zhang Tongren.

(End of chapter)