The ancient besiegers lacked a corner of the city, so that the defenders in the city could see the hope of escape, which could weaken the fighting spirit of the defenders to the greatest extent. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the contrary, if the four gates are blocked without absolute superiority, so that the defenders in the city will have the heart to fight to the death, they will burst out with extraordinary combat effectiveness, causing huge damage to the attacker, and the result is often a situation where 1,000 enemies are killed and 800 are lost.

Of course, if the attacking side has an absolute superiority in numbers, such as three or five times the enemy's strength, so that the defenders do not see the slightest hope of victory, and fall directly into despair or even collapse of the army's morale, then it is a different matter.

Yue Fei's strength was only twice that of the defenders, so Yue Fei did not intend to annihilate the enemy, when Gao Chong and Gao Changgong led a large group of men and horses to enter the city from the south gate, Yang Ye and Dong Xi led part of the men and horses towards the west gate, and Feng Sheng and Huo Jun attacked the east gate, and left the north gate for the defenders to flee.

Yue Fei's combat goal is very clear, taking Xuchang will be considered as a complete task, not to completely annihilate the defenders. Otherwise, if you kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, and lose the ability to continue fighting, Yang Jian in Luoyang City will get a respite of about a year, and it will be difficult to take Luoyang again at that time.

But Yang Su, who had just woken up from his sleep, did not find out the movements of the Han army, but led his troops to flee to the west gate in a panic, and happened to meet the soldiers and horses led by Zhang Xutuo on a narrow road. I only hate that Shicai is soft-hearted and didn't cut you down, so that the tiger is in trouble, and I deserve to be blocked by you now! ”

Zhang Xutuo hugged his wrist on the horse and saluted: "Yang Gong is guilty, Zhang Xutuo is polite!" Before tonight, I had nothing to do with the Eastern Han Dynasty, and at this moment, I am standing opposite Yang Gong, all thanks to Yang Guang, a villain! ”

"Yang Guangxian's nephew?" Yang Su looked puzzled and sneered, "Although Yang Guang has a bad conduct on weekdays, what does it have to do with you?" If you covet glory and wealth, sell your lord for glory, and become a shameless traitor, you must dare to act, why bother with strong words? ”

Zhang Xutuo waved the big knife in his hand and pointed at Guo Yan and Lu Shang behind Yang Su: "If you ask these two people with a tendency to attach, you will know why I defected to the enemy?" I, Zhang Xutuo, embarked on this road, all thanks to Yang Guang. Your Hongnong Yang clan has this kind of bullying men and women, and you and Yang Jian are not dealing with it impartially, what kind of face do you Yang have in charge of the dynasty? ”

Yang Su had long heard of Yang Guang's greed and often bullying men and women in Luoyang City, but he turned a blind eye on weekdays, and did not seriously ask about it except for a few side strikes.

Moreover, Yang Su has also heard that Zhang Xutuo's daughter gave birth to Chu Chu and moving, and the admirers have broken through the threshold of the Zhang family, and Zhang Xutuo's daughter-in-law Kou Shi, who married his godson Zhang Wuji, is even more beautiful, known as the color of the city.

As soon as the two things were combined, Yang Su guessed that it was probably Yang Guang who started the idea of Zhang Xutuo's daughter and daughter-in-law, so that Zhang Xutuo turned against the enemy and took the initiative to open the door to welcome Yue Fei's army into the city.

Before midnight, Yang Su swore that Xuchang would never lose it, he lost to Yue Fei in the field, and he could never lose to Yue Fei again in defending the city, but he didn't expect that before he woke up, the tide of the Eastern Han army swarmed in, and his face was simply swollen!

"If I can escape from Xuchang and return to Luoyang this time, I vow to clean up the portal!" Yang Su clenched the double hammer in his hand and urged the horse to take Zhang Xutuo directly, "But before that, I also have to clean up you, the betrayal!" ”

Zhang Xutuo urged the horse to greet him, and the cold light Huo waving the wind-breaking mountain splitting knife in his hand: "I would have trusted the bright moon in my heart, but the bright moon shines on the ditch!" I originally wanted to shroud the body of the horse leather for the Luoyang Imperial Court, but your Yang clan deceived people too much, and I, Zhang Xutuo, had to abandon the darkness and turn to the light! ”

Yang Su's face was like frost, a pair of golden maces flew up and down, and when he saw the move, he sneered at each other: "You are a big old man who has also learned to be vassal, and you are still reciting poems written by Liu Wei, do you dare to say that you have the heart to surrender to Liu Wei a long time ago?" ”

Zhang Xutuo's big knife is like Mount Tai pressing on the top, wrapped in the whistling wind, the battle of the three-in-one knife knocked Yang Su's double hammer, and when he was about to cut Yang Su's chest, he stopped abruptly, and roared in his throat: "Thinking of Yang Gong's kindness to Zhang Xutuo in the past, I will let you go today!" After tonight, the two don't owe each other, and the next time they meet on the battlefield, they will be ruthless! ”

Yang Su's eyes were full of despair at the moment when the weapon was taken off, and he thought that he would die under Zhang Xutuo's knife tonight, but he didn't expect him to be merciful and spare his life, and he couldn't help but be surprised, and he didn't care about answering, urging Ma Ti to take the reins and flee, like an arrow from the string, he jumped out of the west gate of Xuchang.

Zhang Xutuo let go of Yang Su, waved his big knife, and shouted at the soldiers behind him: "Except for Yang Su, don't let go of a single soldier!" ”

"Zhang, General Zhang...... You, you and I used to have a good relationship, and it's still ...... Raise your noble hand, put Deng Ai on a road? As soon as Zhang Xutuo gave the order to block the way, Deng Ai urged the horse forward and pleaded.

Thinking of the scene of fighting side by side with Deng Ai in the past, Zhang Xutuo couldn't bear it, shook his head and sighed, and turned his horse to get out of the way: "The Luoyang Imperial Court is already a building that will collapse, why don't Deng Shizai abandon the darkness and turn to the light?" ”

Deng Ai urged the horse to pass by, and while following Yang Su to escape for his life, he turned his head and replied on the horse: "Thank you General Zhang for sparing your life, I used to treat me warmly and treated me well, and even planned to marry my daughter to me, I ...... Will never surrender Liu Bian! I heard that Miss Lingqi left Daxia to join Xiang Yu, such as ...... If the Luoyang Imperial Court is destroyed, he will go to Daxia to find Miss Lingqi, and he will never die for Liu Wei! ”

The sound of horses' hooves rumbled, and one hundred and ten horsemen followed Yang Su and Deng Ai through the west gate of Xuchang and fled in the direction of Tiger Prison Pass.

Guo Yan, who was mixed in the crowd, also tried to escape while he was in chaos, but was urged by Zhang Xutuo to catch up, and cut down the horse with a knife in his hand, and a human head rolled to the ground, "You flattering villain, do you still want to go?" ”

Zhang Xutuo slashed Guo Yan under the horse with a knife, and saw Lu Shang riding his horse from not far away, so he hung the big knife on the saddle, picked up the iron tire bow with his backhand, and took the carved arrow from the quiver, and pulled the bowstring like a full moon.

I only heard a crisp sound of "duh", an arrow hit Lu Shang's back, broke through the armor, penetrated the heart impartially, and fell off the horse with a scream, and was urged by Zhang Xutuo to cut the head forward.

Just as Zhang Xutuo was relieving Yang Su, Cao Zhen led nearly 20,000 horses to flee from the north gate in panic and went all the way to the northeast to Cao Ren. In addition, more than 20,000 remnants of the Western Han Dynasty escaped from the north gate, and went to the west to run to the tiger prison, and the remaining nearly 20,000 horses died and surrendered, and the battle ended at dawn, and the city of Xuchang changed its banner, and the hunting banner of the Eastern Han Dynasty was inserted, and it fluttered in the wind on the head of the city. (To be continued.) )