Chapter 18: The Empty City and the Breakdown
At this moment, everyone's mood is broken, before the White Emperor ran all the way over, I don't know how many enemy soldiers were trampled to death, and now there are a lot of 'meat pies' on the ground. However, Li Ming said that he ate meatloaf at noon, and there was no one present who was not disgusted.
Fortunately, Li Ming really just planned to make a joke, after all, the enemy is not far ahead, how can he bury the pot and make up for some compressed biscuits. The first generation of compressed biscuits has been studied, after all, peanuts are already widely cultivated.
This means that it needs to be improved, but it is absolutely full, in fact, in the eyes of many soldiers, the taste is already very good, after all, Li Ming has very strict requirements for taste, and the military factory has also tested hundreds of times before it is officially finalized.
Eat two compressed biscuits and drink a glass of water, the average soldier is probably full, a person wears ten compressed biscuits on the standard, and there are several trucks of barreled biscuits in the baggage truck, which is dehumidified with lime desiccant. It is enough for the army for more than ten days, but in fact, most of these dry foods will be eaten when they are in a hurry.
The enemy is not far ahead, and the soldiers will naturally not bury the pot and cook in a good way, so the two compressed biscuits will be water, make do with it, and rest for half an hour. Military doctors take the opportunity to treat them, and seriously injured patients will even have a tube of potion.
Still the original formula, Li Ming regularly allocated a batch of low-end potions to the General Logistics Department of the army. This is the most profitable business of the Li family, after all, as long as there is still a breath left, then you can hang your life, even if you can't recover completely, the success rate of subsequent surgeries will be greatly improved. After this treatment, more than fifty more soldiers were able to return to the battle after three days of rest.
Nearly 1,000 people survived, but 300 had to retire early because they were already disabled.
"Do you want to save the enemy prisoners?" The military doctor came to inquire, and many of them were Qi practitioners, and it was too wasteful to hang up like this.
"Save it first, it's useless for a few years of hard training for the practitioners, if you can transform it, you can transform it, and if you can't transform it, see how much news you can dig up!" Li Ming whispered, the identity of this military doctor is not so simple, the military doctor is just a disguise, but he is actually a shadow guard.
Torture or something, they're the best at it. If you really want to torture, you can definitely take out all the secrets of a person.
After a brief rest, the large army came to the city of Luoyang in a short time. The scouts have always been active, and many indications indicate that Liu Ting has not left Luoyang, but to be honest, Luoyang itself has a secret passage leading to the outside, so it is difficult to guarantee whether they left through the secret passage, but this also means that Liu Ting intends to abandon Luoyang.
Why do you care so much about whether Liu Ting leaves? It's just because the current Luoyang City is a bit weird!
"The middle door is wide open, is this intended to welcome us in?" Xu Chu looked at the four gates of Luoyang City, which were wide open, and couldn't help laughing.
Inside, you can vaguely see some people busy there, but most of them are in a hurry. There are also no vendors on the streets, and most of them have retreated to their homes. Li Ming even saw a few travelers, begging in front of the inn, obviously they also needed a place to hide, but it seemed that the inn was really full.
It's not that the guest rooms are full, but the entire inn is full, and it really can't be stuffed with people. Luoyang was burned by Dong Zhuo in the past, and after so many years of reconstruction, it has regained a lot of vitality. In the end, it is the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the past, the recovery ability is still very good, and at the same time, this is also the only way to enter Guanzhong, which is to come and go with people, and many merchants are doing business here.
Yes, there are too many foreign populations, so the inn business is very hot, the key is that these foreign populations do not dare to go out of the city casually, and they dare not wander on the street, they just want to find an inn or something to avoid, so there is this scene.
"I can't rule out that there are a group of soldiers in those inns!" Li Ming couldn't help but ponder, "General Staff, tell me what we should do?" Our enemies seem to have laid an empty plan for us! ”
"Even if they close the gates, does it make sense to us?" Guo Jia just smiled when he heard this. Li Ming also reacted when he heard it, it really didn't make any sense, at most it was a matter of smashing a few more times, and it was only a matter of time before the city wall and the city gate were destroyed.
"If they plan to leave, then they must close the city gates, so that they can delay time, after all, tens of thousands of troops, it is not so easy to retreat all. In other words, they deliberately opened the door so that we could break in from all directions! Chen thought that this might even be Liu Ting's last move, that is, relying on the geographical environment of Luoyang, to fight with us in the streets! Guo Jia pointed to Luoyang City and said.
How big is Luoyang City? Anyway, it was very large, and tens of thousands of people could be accommodated when they entered, and then they were cut into small troops one after another by the streets. The key is that in a more narrow environment, many martial arts cannot be used, and at the same time, the enemy may condescend to shoot, after all, it is someone else's home field, as long as you go in, then you will not have an advantage in the geographical advantage.
"It's burning!" Li Ming said playfully, whether he wants to leave from the secret passage, whether he is an empty city plan, he burns it in one go, and then everything is solved.
"Your Majesty, Luoyang was originally burned by Dong Zhuo once, and now it is difficult to recover, if it is burned again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover for a long time. Let's say that now Luoyang is not full, there are still many open places, even if you attack with fire, the fire will not be able to spread, obviously Liu Ting has realized this. Guo Jia stepped forward and persuaded him.
Li Ming suddenly felt bored, there was no benefit in going in, the fire attack could not be used, and Liu Ting might retreat if the time dragged on for too long, and now the entire Luoyang City seemed to him to be like chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, and it was a pity to abandon it.
"Actually, Your Majesty doesn't need to worry too much, as long as we occupy the various walls of Luoyang, then we can have a bird's-eye view of the entire city. The other party obviously didn't expect that we would have such a reconnaissance weapon as a telescope in our hands, as long as we go to the city wall, the other party's layout in Luoyang will naturally be at a glance! Guo Jia then laughed.
"Then what are you waiting for, follow me to the city wall!" Li Ming waved his hand, and then slashed towards Luoyang.
There was no trace of the Han army on the periphery of the city, so Li Ming directly climbed the city wall, and then took out a telescope to check. After a while, I found some clues.
Generally speaking, at this time, most of the people in Luoyang hid in the houses and did not dare to come out, but in several courtyards, there were many people gathered in the courtyards. It's a little farther away, and I don't really see it, but it should be a soldier, and there are about 3,000 people, and maybe there are more in the house.
Sure enough, Liu Ting set up an ambush in Luoyang City, waiting for him to send it to the door, most of these ambushes are located on the passage to the palace, this is only one direction, the other three directions are difficult to say, after all, Luoyang is too big, and the telescope can't see all the situation clearly.
"It is estimated that there are 10,000 ambush soldiers left behind in Luoyang...... There are also a lot of ambushes on the palace side, and it is estimated that the ambush and retreat are going on at the same time! Li Ming handed the telescope to Guo Jia, and then expressed his opinion.
"In this way, Liu Ting is afraid that he has already gone out of Luoyang through the secret passage, how about sending an elite army to search around Luoyang? Especially...... In the area of Beibi Mountain, you may be able to focus on searching, as far as the minister knows, the Wudou Mi Sect has set up a capital position in Beibi Mountain, and it is said that it is the place where Zhang Daoling concentrates on cultivating! Guo Jia reminded.
"Zhang Mo!" Li Ming looked at Zhang Mo, who was ordered to quickly leave Luoyang with three thousand soldiers of the Guards.
"As for the rest, I'll be disrespectful!" Li Ming looked at the courtyards and smiled.