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Chapter 732: Soldiers Descending on the City (6)

Three days later. Pinshu.com

In the morning, the red sun hangs high and the autumn wind blows.

Shi Chaoyi, the puppet Yan emperor, led the ministers of civil and military affairs of the puppet Yan to look at a military horse looming in the banner display that had been stretching towards Luoyang in the southeast on the majestic and tall city tower of Luoyang, and sneered.

Luoyang City has been strengthened and repaired by successive dynasties, and was once the capital city when Wu Zetian called the emperor, its city defense is strong, its city is profound, and its city is far from being comparable to other cities in the Central Plains, in a sense, even Chang'an is difficult to compete with Luoyang in the city defense.

Recently, Shi Chaoyi has gathered rebels from all over Henan, and at this moment nearly 100,000 troops have gathered in Luoyang City, and the hoarded grain and grass are enough for Fan Yang's army to spend more than a year. Therefore, Shi Chaoyi was not worried that the Tang Dynasty officials and troops would attack. As long as he can hold Luoyang, it means that Henan Province still belongs to the Fanyang regime. And after the commander of the Fanyang army in Hedong drove straight in and wiped out Li Guangbi's soldiers and horses, he went south to Luoyang again, and the two armies attacked, not to mention just one Kong Sheng, that is, Emperor Li Tang poured his nest to attack, and Shi Chaoyi was also confident that he would swallow one bite and kill it on the spot.

Besides, this time it is still the Jiangnan military horse that Shi Chaoyi doesn't care about and looks down on the most, Kong Sheng is known as the genius of the Tang Dynasty, the king of Jiangning County, but in Shi Chaoyi's eyes, Kong Sheng is just a yellow-haired son who has taken the **** luck and made an unexpected fortune, and there is nothing to worry about.

The only thing that bothered Shi Chaoyi was that Sun Qing, whom he relied on, was defeated by Guo Ziyi in Bianzhou, Guo Ziyi led the Bianhe River to pour water into Bianzhou, and the city of Bianzhou became a vast ocean. The reason why Sun Qing did not retreat to Luoyang to join Shi Chaoyi was mainly because he was worried that Shi Chaoyi would settle accounts after the autumn and investigate his responsibility for the defeat.

The importance of Bianzhou to the Luoyang and Fanyang regimes, Sun Qing knew better than anyone else. And Shi Chaoyi's personality, he is also very clear. lost Bianzhou, no matter what reason and excuse he had, there was a possibility that Shi Chaoyi would kill him to vent his hatred. In a sense, this was the fundamental factor in the eventual defeat of the Fan Yang regime of Shi Siming's father and son. The political power was established in a hurry, but the internal monarchs and ministers had evil intentions, each with their own small calculations, and when it came to a critical moment, they would deviate from morality.

An Lushan was killed by his son An Qingxu, and An Qingxu betrayed his relatives soon after. Shi Siming, who inherited the foundation of An Lushan, was killed by his son Shi Chaoyi, and Shi Chaoyi also betrayed his relatives and embarked on an almost identical tragic track.

Fan Yangjun, who was stationed on the tower of Luoyang City, all looked contemptuous. Fan Yangjun had defeated the Tang Dynasty officials and troops before, and even the famous generals Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi were defeated in the hands of Fan Yangjun, not to mention a young Jiangning County King Kong Sheng.

Kong Sheng led a rabble of 50,000 people from Jiangnan and Shannan to attack Luoyang, which was undoubtedly a big joke in the hearts of the soldiers of the Fanyang rebels.

The defenders of Luoyang were twice as large as Kong Sheng's soldiers and horses, and their combat effectiveness was even more incomparable. As for the news of Luo Yue's defeat to Kong Sheng, many people do not believe it, thinking that Luo Yue's defeat must have an inside story, and Luo Yue's whereabouts are still unknown, which makes all kinds of rumors rampant. More and more Fan Yangjun believed that Luo Yue had surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, with Luo Yue's bravery and the fierce combat effectiveness of the 10,000 Fan Yang Iron Cavalry under his command, how could he have fallen under Kong Sheng.

Including Shi Chaoyi, it was probably decided that Luo Yue had defected to the Tang Dynasty and became a traitor. Therefore, two days ago, Shi Chaoyi scolded Luo Yue to the point of indecency in front of the civil and military ministers of the puppet Yan regime. And Luo Yue's family members were also ordered by Shi Chaoyi to be arrested and taken to prison. As long as Luo Yue is sure to return to Tang, Luo Yue's family members will inevitably be killed by Shi Chaoyi on the spot.

Kong Sheng's coalition army marched slowly towards Luoyang. The whole army, the first is the infantry battalion of Wuxian Wuxi, the middle is the bow battalion and the baggage logistics team, and finally the cavalry battalion led by Li Biao and Li Hu. As for Kong Sheng, he marched in the middle of the team with Su Wan, Gu Yun and Nie Chuchen, with Gu Yun's female barracks and Luo Yong's personal guard camp.

Not far away were a dozen black and felt-covered carts, each of which was pushed and pulled by dozens of soldiers, judging from the ruts they had pressed deeply, and they must have been loaded with heavy objects, certainly not grain and grass.

With the exception of a few henchmen, most of the coalition soldiers did not know what mysterious materials were on these carts. Even Nie Chuchen was a little suspicious. Nie Chuchen and Ge Muhua ran side by side, Ge Muhua's curious gaze swept over a dozen black carts from time to time, and said softly: "General, what kind of heavy things are loaded on these carts, the ground is pressed out of a deep ditch, and it still needs such manpower to push and pull......

Nie Chuchen shook his head: "I don't know. ”

Nie Chuchen looked at the backs of Kong Sheng and Su Wu Guyun who were advancing side by side on the horses not far ahead, and a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes. Although she had led her women's battalion into Kong Sheng's coalition army, and Kong Sheng also promised to give them a bright future, after so many things, she found that there was already a deep gap between her and Kong Sheng, which was difficult to fill for a while.

Kong Sheng in front of him is familiar and unfamiliar.

Things are people, and when they meet again, she is no longer the simple and hot red-clothed woman Nie Chuchen in the past, but Shi Chaoying, who used to be the princess of Fan Yang. Even though she gave up the name Shi Chaoying, how could she completely erase all the things that belonged to Fan Yang and the Shi family in her heart?

Seeing Kong Sheng and Su Wan's love for each other, Nie Chuchen's heart ached. It's just that she knows that she is not qualified to be jealous of Su Sheng, compared to herself, Su Wu has always remained by Kong Sheng's side unswervingly and is loyal. What's more, Su Wu and Gu Yun both have the emperor's edict to give marriage, and they are already Kong Sheng's legal wives.

And what are you? Desperate poor man who took refuge in Kong Sheng? Victims? Or is it the orphan of the traitor Shi Siming? Strictly speaking, she is not even Shi Siming's orphan, because she is the daughter of the Shi family who even Shi Chaoyi does not recognize.

With a faint sad wry smile on the corner of Nie Chuchen's mouth, he gradually lowered his head and quietly wiped away a tear that slipped from the corner of his eye.

Although Su Wu didn't ask Kong Sheng in person, she also guessed that this was Kong Sheng's biggest hole card, and the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon that had been used once outside Deqing City. The firearms workshop set up in Zhongshan outside Jiangning City is Kong Sheng's biggest secret, and the relevant artillery accessories cast in the firearms manufacturing workshop in the capital have been secretly transported to Jiangnan through the secret channels of Kong's firm, and more than a dozen artillery pieces will soon be assembled.

Su Wan was very curious about artillery, she had only heard of the power of artillery, but had not seen it in person. And this time, Kong Sheng was obviously going to attack the city with artillery, and Su Yu was faintly excited in her heart. Along the way, Kong Sheng did not expose the existence of artillery, and it was probably used to attack Luoyang in the end.

As for the bone cloud, it is no stranger to artillery. After all, outside Lingwu City, in Helan Fort, Kong Sheng once used artillery to deal with the Hui people, causing the Hui army and horses to be frightened and killed and injured countless times.

In fact, whether to attack Luoyang with artillery, Kong Sheng also hesitated for a long time. Because he knew that once he used artillery on a large scale to attack Luoyang, it would be difficult to keep the secret of artillery, and under the pressure of the emperor, he had to hand over the artillery technology completely.

However, artillery is an important weapon of the country, and it cannot be used as a personal deterrent weapon for Kong Sheng for a long time, and Kong Sheng knows this well. For Luoyang, Kong Sheng weighed it again and again, knowing that if he did not use artillery to attack the city and exert the maximum deterrent effect, the possibility of Luoyang City being conquered was infinitely close to zero.

Handing over artillery technology is actually not a problem in Kong Sheng's opinion, the problem is that he is unwilling to let artillery technology become the forbidden of the Li Tang royal family, he wants to nationalize artillery and turn it into a national weapon to enhance the national strength and military strength of the Tang Dynasty, rather than a royal weapon.

There is still a difference. In this regard, Kong Sheng has already made arrangements.

There is another question that makes Kong Sheng hesitate. Luoyang is the ancient capital, there are many palaces in the city, all kinds of exquisite buildings can not be easily destroyed, even if the Anshi Rebellion has occupied Luoyang for many years, the traitors have preserved this ancient city as much as possible, Kong Sheng feels that if he bombards Luoyang, he will be psychologically sad.

But it's hard to have it both ways. The two armies fought, and it was impossible for Luoyang to remain unharmed. And even if he didn't use artillery, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi were bound to use heavy equipment common to the army in this era, such as trebuchets, in order to take Luoyang. The main force of the Fan Yang army is in Luoyang, and the Tang Dynasty official army is almost exhausted, and the two main forces must use all kinds of means in order to compete for Luoyang.

Luoyang must be taken, because it endangers the safety of Chang'an and the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. In order to eliminate hidden dangers, even if Luoyang City is completely destroyed, I am afraid that the emperor will not hesitate to do it.

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Kong Sheng's military horses camped at the foot of a hill near Luoyang. There is a particular choice to camp here, this is Yang Tong's suggestion. On the west side of the camp was the surging Luoshui, which blocked the possibility of Fan Yang's army attacking from the west, and the mountain road was rugged and difficult to navigate, which was also doomed to make it difficult for a large army to raid from behind.

An army of 50,000 is not a small number. Two hours later, the huge camp that could accommodate 50,000 people was built, and it appeared in the field of vision of Shi Chaoyi, Fan Yang, and the pseudo-Yan Junchen. One after another, the camps are endless, surrounded by stars under the mountain, and the flags in the camps cover the sky and the sun, and the sound of people shouting horses and neighing war drums is endless, which makes Fan Yangjun despise it, but it is still slightly dignified.

If according to the minds of many generals, Fan Yang's army should go out of the city to fight, rely on absolute combat effectiveness to crush it, and destroy Kong Sheng's invading enemy outside Luoyang City! However, Shi Chaoyi was gloomy and cautious, and he made up his mind to stick to Luoyang and wait for the soldiers and horses from the east of Fanyang Hedong to come to help, so he rejected many generals' requests to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight Kong Sheng.

Yang Tong and the others stood halfway up the mountain and stared at the towering and majestic Luoyang City in the distance, full of emotion. In the past, Yang Tong lived in Luoyang City for three years. For Luoyang, he is naturally familiar with tight. In Yang Tong's view, it was simply unimaginable for Kong Sheng to rely on Jiangnan Shannan, a ragtag army with low combat effectiveness, to confront Shi Chaoyi's Fan Yang Iron Cavalry head-on and take Luoyang.

But for Su Wu and Wu Xian Wuxie, Li Biao and Li Hu, Luoyang City is familiar and cordial. In the past, Kong Sheng led the Xiayi army to sweep Henan, and recovered the eastern capital Luoyang in the shortest possible time by unconventional means.

But Luoyang City at that time was not the same as it is now. The current Luoyang is the capital of the Shi Chaoyi and Pseudo-Yan Dynasty, gathering the elite army of Fan Yang's army, known as 100,000. And Kong Sheng's soldiers and horses are only 50,000, and these 50,000 people have to fight against Fan Yang's iron cavalry, which is twice his body, and the result can be imagined.

Therefore, even these henchmen and generals are not too optimistic about this battle. In Wu Xian's view, Kong Sheng should come to the city and wait for Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's other two armies to converge, and then gather the strength of the three armies to besiege Luoyang, so as to have any hope of conquering Luoyang.

However, a fool can see that Kong Sheng is obviously playing music to swallow Luoyang alone.

Yang Tong said softly to Yuan Chao beside him: "King Kong led his army to Luoyang first, and faced the 100,000 army under the command of Shi Chaoyi in Luoyang City, which may not be a good thing. The large camp is stationed here, although it can prevent the rebels from attacking, but if the rebels in the city pour out and attack the large camp head-on, Yang is worried that our army will still be difficult to resist. ”

Yuan Chao pondered for a moment, smiled and said: "Sir, don't worry too much, Yuan knows that the king of the county is far-sighted, since we can figure out this section, how can he not know?" Yuan heard that the king of the county led his army to gallop in Henan in the past, which frightened the An's rebels and took the lead in recovering Luoyang. If it weren't for the prince who was the king of Guangping at the time of the courtesy of the county king, he would have been able to recover Chang'an before the prince and establish a world-class meritorious service for the Tang Dynasty! ”

Yang Tong has been in Jiangning for a long time, and he gets along with Wuxian and these people day and night, so he has naturally heard the anecdote that Kong Sheng ceded the great achievement of recovering Chang'an to Li Yu in order to Taoguang. It's just that Kong Sheng's courtesy did not exchange for Li Yu's kindness, but made Li Yu more jealous and suspicious, which led to the fact that Kong Sheng and Li Yu were incompatible later, and two people with the same strong personality met together, lived in the same era, and were ministers in front of the emperor's palace, which in itself was a kind of fateful confrontation.

Although Yang Tong still had some hidden worries in his heart, he never mentioned it.

He doesn't know much about leading battles. Although he has read a lot of military books and war books, he is only talking about soldiers on paper, and Yang Tong is deeply aware of his weaknesses. This is the biggest characteristic of Yang Tong, and it is also the fundamental reason for getting Kong Sheng's weight.

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