Chapter 565: The Battle of Luoyang
After Sima Yi arrived in Luoyang City, he immediately informed Xu Chu and Yang Xiu of Luoyang about Wei Xing, and now, Yang Xiu and Sima Yi can only put aside the grievances between the two of them for the time being, they already know at this time that their status in Wei is not the first priority, but whether Wei can continue to exist in this battle is the first priority.
According to Sima Yi's assumption, Liu Feng will attack the city of Luoyang in a few days, and their opportunity is undoubtedly to defeat Liu Feng's army from west to east when Li Dian can block Zhao Yun's army outside Xixian County, Weixing County.
In Sima Yi's view, Liu Feng will attack at the west gate of Luoyang, and Zhao Yun's goal is naturally the south gate of Luoyang City, although Luoyang is huge, but Zhao Yun has come to attack Luoyang once before, so he is very familiar with the terrain around Luoyang, so Sima Yi knows that Li Dian can block Zhao Yun in Weixing County, which is a very critical point, and Sima Yi still believes in Li Dian's method of defending the city.
While arranging things to defend the city in the city of Luoyang, Sima Yi silently waited for Liu Feng's arrival, he knew that Liu Feng would not attack as soon as he approached Luoyang, Liu Feng would use this time to wait for Zhao Yun on the one hand, and on the other hand to solve the remaining Wei army near Tongguan, and this time undoubtedly gave them a rare time to prepare.
Everything was exactly as Sima Yi expected, according to the expected Liu Feng's army, which should have arrived near Luoyang, did not appear for two days, so Xu Chu and Yang Xiu gradually believed Sima Yi's words, and they would urge Li Dian to send them battle reports almost every day to pay attention to Zhao Yun's attack on Xixian, fortunately, although Zhao Yun's army was attacking very fiercely, Li Dian's defenders were still sufficient for the time being, and they were able to resist Zhao Yun for some time.
Liu Feng was indeed camped in a secret place less than a hundred miles away from Luoyang, and he was indeed waiting for something, but what he was waiting for was not what Sima Yi thought, if Zhao Yun could break through Weixing County on time, it would be good, but if Zhao Yun couldn't, it would not hinder Liu Feng's attack on Luoyang.
There are two things he is waiting for, one is the follow-up of large-scale siege equipment, because the large-scale siege equipment is slow but easy to be discovered, although as early as the next day after Liu Feng's troops left Yangping Pass, they began to be transported to the territory of Wei, but the speed is very slow, and in order to avoid being discovered by the soldiers of Wei, Liu Feng has been sweeping the remnants of the Wei army in the places he has captured, so he will slow down the time to reach Luoyang.
Moreover, Liu Feng was calculating the days when Guan and Zhang led the army to Luoyang after his letter arrived in Wancheng, and he, as the emperor who personally led the troops to the battle, must be the first to start the attack, and only in this way can the role of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei be maximized, even if there is no Zhao Yun's force, and he and Guan Zhang are very likely to take this Luoyang, after all, the siege of the city is the biggest test for the defenders.
After nearly two days, Liu Feng's army still did not attack, and Li Dian had already defended Wei Xing, Sima Yi knew that a long-distance attack like Liu Feng had led an army of 100,000 troops, and all the places he passed through were the territories of the previous Wei State that had just been attacked, and it was very difficult for him to supply grain, grass and baggage, so Liu Feng would not wait too long, otherwise once there was any problem with the logistics supply, this attack would end in failure.
Sima Yi's purpose is to force Liu Feng to come alone to attack the city first, in this way, Liu Feng has an army of 100,000, but the number of defenders is also close to 100,000, as long as the strategy is appropriate, it is a sure thing to prevent it, once Liu Feng's 100,000 army can be lost in Luoyang, then Liu Feng's attack will end in nothing, and most of the places captured before will be spit out to Wei.
In the war of this era, if you want to win in a situation of equal strength, the first thing to do is naturally to make the information obtained by the opponent and yourself is not equal, and the side that obtains the wrong information must be the losing side in the end, and according to the current situation, the Wei army, as the defending side of the city, is obviously miscalculated Liu Feng's deployment and strength, and even failed to find the 50,000 army that had already set off from Wancheng, maybe Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were moved by Liu Feng. When he led the army out of the mountains for Liu Feng to carry out this last battle, Luoyang was already unable to hold it.
In the middle of the night when the defenders were waiting, Liu Feng's army appeared outside Luoyang as Sima Yi expected, with Sima Yi in the city, naturally there would be no Liu Feng's army had already arrived below the city to know such a thing, this time, it was Liu Feng to fifteen miles outside the city, and the scouts of the Wei army found them, 100,000 troops, the number was exactly the same as the news that Sima Yi got before.
Attacking the city in the dark night is the main theme of this era, and the dark night can blur a lot of pictures, so that the attacking side can more easily capture the city and kill the defending side, this time Liu Feng naturally did it, but the purpose of his doing this is hidden in the depths, but only he knows it.
The onslaught was about to break out when Liu Feng's army arrived at the city of Luoyang, and for a city like Luoyang, the small catapults that had been used in the battle of Weixing County were obviously useless, and they could only rely on the ladders and other things carried by the army to carry out a strong attack.
Because the armor of the army under Liu Feng is very hard, this round of onslaught really made Xu Chu and Sima Yi sweat in their palms, and while the night was dark, from time to time, there would be soldiers under Liu Feng's command to attack the city, causing chaos to the defenders of Wei in a small area.
But Sima Yi is not a mecrete talent after all, after two hours of siege warfare, Luoyang is still standing there steadily, and the sergeants under Liu Feng who attacked the city did not cause Sima Yi any excessive danger.
After losing nearly 2,000 soldiers, Liu Feng looked at the gradual whiteness of the fish belly in the east, and Mingjin withdrew his troops.
The first battle in the dark night can be regarded as Sima Yi's victory, and this is exactly what Sima Yi wants to show Liu Feng, the heritage of the Wei State and the determination of the Wei army.