"Tianxiang, there is news from Wan Yi that they will attack Luoyang the day after tomorrow, that is, on July 30." In the camp of the Texas Tiance Army, Yang Tiancheng took the information handed by Zhao Si and glanced at it and said, "Wan Yi is confirmed, and we will also be confirmed." ”

"Okay, Houchun, you go and inform Tianyi, let him choose the opportunity to lead the army south to occupy Dizhou after the main force starts the war, and then attack along the Shandong Peninsula, remember not to be too fast, and leave some hemp yarn for Kang Huaiying." Xu Tianxiang smiled at Wang Houchun.

"I think it's time for Tianyi to be depressed again this time, and we will have to invite him to dinner again." Yang Tiancheng looked at the location of Laizhou and Dengzhou on the peninsula and smiled.

"Okay, Tianyi and Wan Yi have both confirmed, and it's time for our main force to do it, right? Now Ge Cunzhou is typically setting up a turtle array, and he wants to spend it with us. Wang Houchun looked at the formation of the two armies on the sand table, touched his head, and said.

"Don't worry, I estimate that the Bianzhou side should be out of the water in the next two days, let's do a good job and help Zheng Fan and Zhu Youqi. At the moment of the Bianzhou coup, he forced Zhu Quanzhong to go crazy. Xu Tianxiang waved his hand and looked at Zhao Sidao, who didn't speak: "In the past two days, Xuanyingwei must find a way to contact Biaozi in Bianzhou to see how his actions are going." ”

"With Zheng Fan's character, I'm afraid that all the passages leading to the outside world in Bianzhou are all stuck at this moment, and we didn't prepare in advance, I'm afraid it will be difficult." Zhao Si is not very optimistic about Biaozi's actions, but the Dragon Group has already sent people to Bianzhou, maybe there is a way. So after hearing Xu Tianxiang's arrangement, he nodded and went out to make arrangements.

Xu Tianxiang's main force in the middle line didn't plan to start immediately, Wang Houchun was also a little bored, and said with a smile: "Qiaoxi should have a child at the beginning of the month, right?" Let's fight and kill, in case we collide with the eldest nephew, isn't it a bit bad? ”

Yang Tiancheng made himself a cup of tea, sat next to him and said happily: "Houchun, where do you have so many rules?" Qiaoxi and the lord himself are not taboo, what are we afraid of? Besides, it's a good thing to be contaminated with a little blood, this eldest nephew may be the heir of Tiance Mansion in the future, and there are some things that must be inherited. "Tea culture actually started in the Tang Dynasty, but it was not as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as in later generations, if it weren't for the fact that Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi liked to drink tea, which drove all levels of Tiance Mansion to follow suit, it is estimated that Yang Tiancheng would not have something to do to give himself some mood.

Here, when the three giants of the Central Plains Command were idle and bored, the Western Front, which had been fighting a little bit before, had entered the final stage at this time. Wan Yi and Xue Yang led their troops to sweep all areas of Henan Province except Luoyang, and sent troops to establish the communication between Luoyang and Bianzhou, making Luoyang an isolated city.

"Marshal, Xuan Yingwei has an urgent military intelligence report." Wan Yi and Xue Yang were busy dispatching troops after reporting their siege plans to the Central Plains and the base camp, when the voice of the guards came from outside the tent, and then a man in tattered clothes hurriedly walked in, handed Wan Yi a piece of information, and said: "Liu Feng of the Xuanying Wei Bianzhou Branch reported to the military intelligence. The branch leader urgently called for help. After saying that, he handed over the Xuanying Guard trait token.

Xue Yang was not very familiar with Xuan Yingwei's token, but Wan Yi was not unfamiliar with it, just glanced at it and knew that this was already the token of the head of the Xuanying Wei's internal regional branch, and immediately took the information and handed it to Xue Yang after reading it in three lines.

This was indeed sent by Biaozi, and there was a special way for Xuan Yingwei to sign it later. However, Biao Zi hoped that the troops on the Western Front could send men to infiltrate the Bianzhou area, and if necessary, to meet him and completely split the forces of the Xuanwu Army in Bianzhou. If it were to be implemented, wouldn't it disrupt the deployment on the Western Front? You must know that there are a total of 100,000 troops on the Western Front, and there are also 100,000 people in Luoyang City at this moment, and the two sides are almost a one-to-one draw.

"Marshal, let's do this, I'll lead the third battalion to start setting off immediately." Xue Yang saw the hesitation on Wan Yi's face and spoke.

"You're going to take a battalion? At this moment, the Praetorian Guards in Bianzhou alone are estimated to be no less than thirty or forty thousand, not counting some of the swallows left by Wang Yanzhang, how do you respond to Xuan Yingwei? Wan Yi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.

"Don't worry, the third battalion can be used as cavalry, and if the troops are not enough, use speed to replace them." Xue Yang said with a smile: "Xue Yang is willing to make a military order to ensure the completion of the task." ”

Wan Yi glanced at him deeply, nodded, patted Xue Yang's shoulder and said, "Be careful, if there is any problem, you must quickly fly the pigeon and pass it to me." ”

Xue Yang nodded, walked out of the tent, began to summon the third battalion to assemble quickly, and then followed Xuanyingwei Liu Feng.

After Xue Yang left, Wan Yi began to convene senior generals to issue specific instructions, with the three battalions of Qian Laoliu's infantry brigade as the siege force, responsible for coordinating the Hellfire Brigade to start the official siege early tomorrow morning, with Xu Ying and Li Yang as the main force and three battalions as the follow-up troops, waiting for the siege force to break through the city and enter the city to strangle the follow-up man. Wan Yi personally led the remaining 30,000 people to detour to the east of Luoyang City to intercept and kill the escapees.

Wan Yi was well prepared here, but Niu Cunjie and the others in Luoyang City frowned for many days. The Tiance Army's campaign on the Western Front was different from other places, but this blunt knife cutting tofu turned Luoyang into an isolated city in more than two months, and all the other cities in Henan Province were occupied by the other side. He originally joined the Xuanwu Army Praetorian Guard from Bianzhou and had a strength of as high as 150,000, but at this time it was only about 100,000, and his morale was low and he was trapped in a lonely city. Niu Cunjie thought of many ways to reverse the tide of the battle, but in the face of a veteran general like Wan Yi, his own strategy could not work at all, and the opponent's tactics were as dense as flowing water, almost blocking all his moves in a leisurely stroll.

Niu Cunjie stood alone in the city tower and looked at the continuous Tiance army camp outside the city, the gloomy color in his heart was gradually increasing, the Xuanwu army and the Tiance army almost never won the battle, the other party not only had endless new weapons, but more importantly, the generals of the Tiance army grew rapidly in the war, and they have gradually surpassed their own people.

"Marshal, there is an abnormality in the Tiance Army." Just when Niu Cunjie was out of his mind, the guards around him reminded.

"They are ready to attack the city, immediately give the order, the war drum corps immediately beats the drums, and the garrison immediately attacks." Niu Cunjie heard this, but he cheered up and gave orders in an orderly manner. The general has a little benefit, and he can quickly stabilize his mind at any time, so as to unite the morale of the army. Under Niu Cunjie's order, the Xuanwu army began to prepare all kinds of defense equipment and waited for the arrival of the Tiance army.

At this time, Qian Laoliu, the main general of the Tiance Army, also saw the changes on the city wall, but for him, the other party's moves were just like that, and the Tiance Army's siege of the city was already different from before. I saw that Qian Lao Liu waved his right hand, and the Hellfire Brigade quickly stepped forward to build a position, and all kinds of ballistas began to follow and set up, while the demolition brigade on the other side was also in place and waiting for the orders of the Chinese army.

Qian Lao Liu nodded to the deputy general beside him, and the other party quickly came to the position of the Hellfire Brigade, holding the red flag and began to direct the launch. In an instant, hundreds of explosive packets rose into the sky at the same time, and sparks flew in all directions, speeding towards Luoyang City.

"Archers ready to cover, Demomen ready." The shouts on the position of the Tiance Army were heard one after another, and the various arms began to cooperate with the lifting of the explosive packs, and a full 5,000 archers marched forward under the cover of the sword and shield men.

The "boom" explosion sounded quickly after the explosives package hit the ground, and the billowing smoke rose like a pillar of smoke in the west city of Luoyang City, and the explosions carried up stones and human figures flew one after another. For a while, the west tower of Luoyang City was in chaos, this kind of explosion was almost unsolvable in this era, and it was impossible to stop this explosion from the sky if it did not know how to reasonably construct fortifications, and with the continuous development of the military industry of the Tiance Army, the fuse of the new generation of explosive packs has been able to be built-in to excite.

The explosion of the explosive pack also caused the follow-up archers to quickly step forward and cover the untouched areas on the city tower with bows and arrows, and the demomen quickly crawled forward in groups of two and two, towards the gate of Luoyang City.

"It seems that the power of the explosive pack needs to be improved, and I don't know how effective this second-generation explosive pack is?" Wan Yi glanced at the rear, nodded, and led the last 30,000 people around him to leave the camp and detour to the east gate of Luoyang.

Luoyang as the Tang Dynasty with the capital is also known as the eastern capital, the Wu Zhou period in the Sui Dynasty on the basis of the expansion, as the royal capital is located, the city wall is almost comparable to Chang'an, after the baptism of war, but the basic outline has not been much damaged, can be called firm. Qian Lao Liu prepared twenty groups of demomen for this purpose, and no one carried three blasters and piled them up at the city gate.

At this time, the defenders of Luoyang City, who were constantly hit by explosives packs, were still unable to organize an effective defense even under the personal command of Niu Cunjie, and the smoke column from the explosion brought by the launch of hundreds of ballistas almost obscured the sky and the sun, blocking the view. "Order the besieging troops to get ready, and when the city gates are blown open, they should sweep along the city walls as soon as possible to block the opponent's reserves." Qian Lao Liu watched the Demoman arrive at the gate of the city gate almost unscathed, and began to arrange the follow-up men.

"Old Qian, how are you preparing? The 100,000 troops in Luoyang City, I'm afraid that Niu Cunjie will use his life to plug the gap? Moreover, the walls of Luoyang City are not brick and stone structures, but authentic original stone barriers. Xu Ying came up at this time and said.

"No way, if only there was artillery." Qian Lao Liu was a little helpless by what this guy said, waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, at least you can blow up the city gate, as long as you enter the city, it will be easy to do." It's a big deal that our more than 60,000 troops have passed through the sieve from west to east, and we are afraid that Niu Cunjie's troops will be able to stop it? ”

"Alright, the Demoman has begun to return, you hurry back." Qian Lao Liu saw the last group of demomen lighting the fuse and hurriedly sent Xu Ying away, and at the same time the whole army was ready, and the drums of the war drum corps were once again high, transmitting the signal of the attack to all the soldiers.

The retreat of the demoman of the Tiance army was also discovered by Niu Cunjie on the city wall, although he did not find a way to deal with the other party's tried and tested method of breaking the city, but the corresponding defense method was available, and he almost retreated from the city wall with the opponent's demoman, and retreated directly to the city wall of the urn city, and ordered the follow-up reserve team to urgently prepare to deal with it.

The explosion of "boom" resounded for nine days, and the city tower of the west city of Luoyang City was wiped out in this explosion, and the entire city wall was blown into two pieces from the city gate, and the bricks, stones, weapons, and human figures flew into the air like flying flotsam, scattering and flying, billowing smoke and dust flying all over the sky.

"Pass my order, and the whole army will assault." Qian Lao Liu pulled out his long knife and raised it forward, and in an instant, the Tiance army charged forward before the other party could react, and the whole army rushed towards Luoyang City. The archers who had taken a step earlier had even begun to ignore the explosion as soon as the explosion sounded, rushing to the gap in the city wall, bending their bows and arrows, and shooting frantically at all directions without money, preventing the opposing troops from re-sealing the gap.

"Praetorian Guard, plug the gap with me." Almost as soon as Qian Lao Liu gave the order, Niu Cunjie, who retreated to the wall of the urn city, also began to command his Praetorian Guards to rush forward, preparing to plug the gap.

The two sides are short of each other in this gap of more than ten zhang wide, because the gap is narrow, can not accommodate more people, the large troops of both sides can not come in handy for a while, can only rely on the small troops little by little to add fuel tactics, and when Qian Lao Liu arrived, the corpses of the soldiers killed on both sides were covered with a full layer.

"Immediately order the Hellfire Brigade to send someone to climb the wall and throw explosives packs down for me, and the archers will occupy the high ground to support the shooting. The guards came with me. After Qian Lao Liu ordered the Hellfire Brigade to immediately take his own personal guards forward, he rushed forward with elite soldiers, pushing the battle line forward little by little.

Qian Lao Liu's method Niu Cunjie also thought of it, but he didn't have an explosives bag, and the archers on both sides climbed the city wall at almost the same time, bending their bows and arrows at close range, trying to kill each other in advance, so as to cover their own troops below.

I have to say that the strength and combat power of Zhu Quanzhong's Praetorian Guard are far above the general Xuanwu army, and after the city is broken, the battle with the Tiance army at the gate of the city is impressive, and the two sides will not let it go at all, and every inch of land will be contested. However, this situation was reversed after the Tiance Army stood on the city wall and threw explosives bags, and Qian Laoliu's practice of ignoring accidental injuries suddenly made the Xuanwu Army suffer a big loss, and a large number of soldiers were overturned to the ground in the explosion, and even those soldiers of the Tiance Army who rushed to the front were killed. But at this time, there is no time to worry about these, in order to rush into the city as soon as possible, Qian Lao Liu's method is cruel but it has achieved miraculous results, after exploding seven explosive packs in a row, Qian Lao Liu's front was finally emptied, and the road of Tiance Army into the city can no longer be stopped. An army of 60,000 swarmed in.

However, the status of Luoyang City determines that Niu Cunjie has no way to give up like this, not to mention that his current manpower is much more than that of the Tiance Army. Therefore, although the Tiance army entered the city, the Xuanwu army did not give up resistance, but relied on the houses and streets of Luoyang City to resist step by step.

In the face of this strategy of the other party, Xu Ying and Qian Lao Liu began to divide labor, Xu Ying led his troops to advance in depth, while Qian Lao Liu divided his troops into two routes, starting from the west city gate, and surrounded the city wall to encircle and suppress. In this way, the battle in the city was immediately divided into three parts, one was led by Xu Ying and Li Yang, and the two divided the troops into a team of 100 people, supporting and cooperating with each other, fighting for the Niu Cun Festival house by house and street by street, and steadily moving the battle line forward. One is dominated by Qian Laoliu himself, leading the army from Xicheng to the south, and Qian Laoliu's deputy general is from west to north.

The battle in Luoyang City was raging, and the battle between the two armies was fierce, but Wan Yi and his 30,000 horses were watching the excitement not far from Dongcheng, which made his subordinates a little anxious.

"Don't worry, the herald cloth is a long snake formation, there will not be a few people who will escape from Luoyang City, remember not to let go of any of them, whether it is the officers and soldiers or the people, all of them will be arrested for me." Wan Yi looked at his personal guard captain and the three battalions and laughed.