The Hexi Army held back when Liu Ya's front army, Dou Jiande's Chinese army, and Baiguan's harem crossed the river, and it was not until Dong Kangmai's 25,000 rear army began to board the ship that the 20,000 cavalry attacked; The generals of the Xia army had no intention of fighting at all, Dong Kangmai took the lead in escaping on the boat, the dragons were leaderless, and the army became a lamb to be slaughtered, and the whole army collapsed in less than half an hour, 10,000 people surrendered, and most of the remaining more than 10,000 people were killed by the cavalry or went to the water to die.

The Zheng army retreated on the west side of the Tiger Pass, and when Du Caigan and Qi Gongshun arrived with 10,000 reinforcements, they only chased the grain and grass equipment of the Zheng army, and the more than 5,000 wounded soldiers of the Zheng army who were abandoned. Xu Shiji left Li Jing's army to take over the defense of Xingyang, and asked Wang Yaohan to lead his headquarters of 20,000 people and Xu Yuanlang to attack Liang County, and he commanded an army of 60,000 to attack Luoyang; Xu Shiji was a knowledgeable person, and immediately replenished Yang Yanshi's Hubu battalion as a front army to attack Luoyang.

Wang Shibian, Guo Shiheng, Zhu Cang, and Zhang Tongren did not dare to set up a position in Gongxian and Luokoucang, and even burned the grain in Luokoucang, plundered tens of thousands of people in Gongxian and retreated. After Xu Shiji easily captured the two empty cities, he continued to attack Yanshi County and caught up with Zhu Cang's army, which held the people hostage; Yanshi County in the two years of the war between Li Mi and Wang Shichong in the city was seriously damaged, in many places even the gap is only a symbolic erection of a single wall, the Hexi army did not even use firearms, less than half a day to attack the city, Zhu Cang abandoned the city and fled, killing and capturing more than 6,000 Zheng soldiers.

Guo Shiheng is deployed in Kim Yong Yong, this is an area that can no longer be retreated, once Kim Yong City is lost, dozens of miles away is Luoyang City; Jin Yong City was built by Emperor Wei Ming of the Three Kingdoms, it was originally a small city in the northwest corner of Luoyang City at that time, the emperor and queen who were abolished during the Wei and Jin dynasties were all placed here, and in the early years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was one of the "Four Towns of Henan", after the Sui Dynasty Luoyang City moved west, Jin Yong City was in the east of Luoyang.

After Li Mi's repair, the current Kim Yong Castle is the joint body of Luoyang City and the original Kim Yong City in the Han and Wei dynasties, with a circumference of 30 li, rammed earth version of the city wall, each side is built with a pier platform protruding to the outside of the city, and there is a moat outside the city. At that time, Xu Shiji was responsible for repairing the city of the Wagang army, so as soon as Xu Shiji arrived in Xingyang, he began to formulate a plan for attacking the city, just for today's use; The airship transferred by Li Jing was also transported to the front line with Yuwen Wen.

The airship saw the movement of Zheng Juncheng clearly in the sky, Kim Yong City was half larger than Chang'an City of the Great Sui, Xu Shiji was not enough to attack the city of 60,000 people, and Guo Shiheng was not enough to defend the city, and 20,000 people were not enough. Xu Shiji sent people to block Luoshui, drove the people to build a five-section moat in the east, and then began to attack, under the cover of thirty airships taking turns throwing thunder, one hundred and fifty cloud ladders pushed to the city wall, attacking Qingyangmen, which was not completely blocked by stones.

After Guo Shiheng's 1,000 soldiers on the city tower were blown up, he sent three groups of soldiers to fill the position, all of them were blown up on the city tower or on the horse road, and it was impossible to form an effective defense. One hundred and twenty of the 150 ladders were on the city wall, and as long as the ladders were on the wall, even if they were burned again, the soldiers on the ladders could still climb the castle tower with their bed crossbows and shoot iron spears.

Then the airship's thunder will spread around, specifically blasting the places where Zheng soldiers are numerous, or extending along the city wall in the direction of the city gate; The two sides fought fiercely for three hours, seeing that the sky was dusk, the suspension bridge of Qingyangmen had been lowered, and there were already 3,000 soldiers of the Hexi Army standing on the city tower, of which more than 700 heavy armor soldiers were unstoppable, and more than 2,000 people of the Zheng army were killed by them step by step down the city tower and lost control of the city gate.

Xu Shiji and his generals saw Yuwenwen's skills, the amount of each explosion just smashed the boulders blocked in the city gate hole, the city tower did not collapse, the fourteen-meter-wide city gate hole was blasted four times, the car crashed into the air, and the infantry swarmed into the city to clear the road. Guo Shiheng, the chief general of the Zheng army, watched the Zheng army's cavalry fighting with the Baidao soldiers on the north city wall, and his heart was highly nervous, and there were explosions one after another, indicating that the stones blocking the city gate were blown apart by sections, and it was only a matter of time before the Hexi army entered the city.

Suddenly, torches lit up at the entrance of the cave, followed by a tsunami-like shout, and under the cover of the Baidaomen, two crashing cars cleared the road, and the Baidaomen flashed to the sides, and a strange-shaped animal was pushed into the city. Guo Shiheng participated in the battle of Hongnong Palace, knowing that these machines were the nemesis of the cavalry, and hurriedly ordered a retreat, but he was still a step too late, and the two hundred cavalry who tried to attack were shot by the rain of arrows and turned over on their backs, and they withdrew from the battle in a hurry.

Xu Shiji ruthlessly threw in 10,000 infantry troops to continuously advance the battle at night, not to occupy the city, but to keep the pressure on the other side and keep the defenders awake all night. Zheng Jun obviously discovered this problem, and Zhang Tongren led 10,000 Zheng troops into the battlefield after dawn, only to find that under the attack of firearms and airships, reinforcements were an irreparable mistake; It turned out that the defeat of the defenders affected their morale, and they did not even hold out until noon, and the whole army was defeated.

What's even more helpless is that after the Hexi army captured the west gate and the north gate, the airship blew up the pontoon bridge, and the three small cities connected together in the north of the city suddenly became a real lonely city, and more than 6,000 Zheng troops who were preparing to escape across the bridge were persuaded by Wei Lu to surrender. Guo Shiheng and Zhang Tongren retreated into Luoyang City with 5,000 remnants of soldiers, only to know that Zhang Jin's army had begun to attack Luoyang City from the west, and Wang Shichong decided to defeat Zhang Jin first, and then turn back to deal with Xu Shiji.

Zhang Jin's army was putting on a show, and as soon as Zheng Jun's army moved, he took the initiative to retreat, and Zheng Jun's time was consumed for two days; There were no reinforcements outside, and after 2,000 Zheng soldiers who were defending the city by Kim Yong Kim, all died in the purge of the Hexi army, and Xu Shiji, like Li Mi, confronted Luoyang in the Kim Yong garrison.

The morale of Luoyang City was low, Dong Jun sent news from Heyang, Li Shimin destroyed Gao Kaidao and occupied the entire Youzhou, Dou Jiande had led the army to retreat north, and the Song Jingang Department of the Hexi Army showed signs of crossing the river in the south. Wang Shichong once again claimed that the emperor repeated the story of Li Yuan in Chang'an, not only did not open the situation, but lost more than 40,000 troops, and the defenders in Luoyang City were less than 60,000, most of which were Wagang's surrendered troops.

All the family members of the generals above the commander of a thousand were detained in the palace as hostages, and the ministers of the court, as long as Wang Shichong was suspicious, tied up the ministers and their families and sent them to the palace for detention. The imperial palace in Luoyang is like a big prison, and the people who are imprisoned are next to each other, and the total number of people is close to 10,000, and the management is not good, and there are even cases of starvation death.

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