Chapter 974: Dogfight (7)
"How the fuck are you going to fight?!" Yuan Shu, with his hair open, his eyes wide, and a ghostly expression on his face, stood on his horse in a daze. His eyes looked straight at the city of Luoyang in the distance.
The princes watching the battle watched in despair as hundreds of clay pots were thrown from the tall Luoyang city wall, and then smashed heavily on the ground, splashing terrifying water stains.
In an instant, the soldiers of Yuan Shujun, who were originally slowly approaching the city wall cautiously and tensed up, were ready to run away at any time, and suddenly exploded. I don't know who took the lead and suddenly shouted, and thousands of soldiers who had long been frightened were immediately frightened by these clay pots and ran for their lives.
There are soldiers who have watched the siege of the city under the command of other princes before, and have seen the terrifying power of the gasoline bomb. Immediately without saying a word, he abandoned the weapon in his hand on the spot. While running away in the direction of the main formation, he frantically tore at the clothes and armor on his body that were stained with that deadly water stain.
。 Once this weird-smelling water stain sticking to the body is ignited by the flames, the result will inevitably be that it will be burned into a human-shaped torch!
The defenders of Luoyang City did not disappoint these frightened soldiers. Rows of ignited rockets were quickly raised from the walls, and then they were shot at the city below. The tragedy of the fire, which had been staged many times in the previous two days, once again happened in front of the eyes of the princes of the Kwantung Coalition.
A humanoid pillar of fire screamed and rolled desperately on the ground, a roar of despair in its mouth full of flames.
The ignited soldier desperately waved his flaming arms to call for help, but the person who was not burned instantly ran faster.
However, there were still some people who did not give up and threw themselves into the cart, trying to use water to save their robes. But the end result is that the flame burns even harder.
"It's useless." Xuzhou Taishou Tao Qian looked at the miserable scene in the distance, shook his head gloomily, and said miserably, "This is a ghostly fire from the underworld, and it can't be extinguished at all." Don't let the sergeants die in vain. ”
After the Kwantung coalition army came to Luoyang City, they quickly reached a silent tacit understanding with the Xiliang Army. The two major armies each besieged half of the Luoyang city wall and attacked them separately.
The Xiliang Legion is to avenge Dong Zhuo. plus looting to get the grain to return to Guanlong. Of course, if you can make a small fortune in Luoyang City, these men from the northwest will not mind.
The mind of the Kwantung coalition is complicated. The most powerful of the allies, Yuan Shao, intended to prevent Gao Yang from stealing the fruits of victory, intending to capture the city of Luoyang, destroy the main opposition forces, and at the same time firmly control the imperial court. So as to create a good foundation for the Yuan family.
The minds of the other princes were much more complicated. There are those who want to pick up bargains, those who want to be promoted and make a fortune, those who want to make a name for themselves, of course, those who really want to support the Han family, and those who want to watch the excitement and so on.
For example, Liu Daer and Guan Yu just want to take revenge. Gao Yang killed their sworn brother Zhang Yide. That is to form an indissoluble life-and-death enmity with them. They didn't care if Zhang Fei was killed in a head-to-head confrontation. They only have in their hearts the desire to avenge their brother.
That is, the strength of these two brothers is too weak, and they are all attached to the name of Gongsun Zhan. It is almost impossible to get revenge alone. These two people can be regarded as the deepest hatred with Gao Yang.
The Western Liang Army suffered a big loss at the hands of Gao Yang. But they didn't tell the Kwantung coalition about it. As for what kind of thoughts they have, that is, the benevolent see the benevolent, and the wise see the wise.
And among the unsuspecting Kwantung coalition forces, the first to attack was the famous Danyang soldiers under Tao Qian, the Taishou of Xuzhou.
When it comes to the name of Danyang Bing, it is really thunderous.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Li Ling took the army of tens of thousands of Xiongnu to attack wildly, and the 5,000 Han soldiers who were never able to be eliminated were the Danyang soldiers who were known for their bravery.
In the future, the Bai'er soldiers, who followed Liu Bei's personal army, were also recruited from Danyang. After the establishment of Sun Wu. In the Jianghuai area, he has been fighting against the Wei and Jin dynasties for more than a hundred years, and all the people he relied on were Danyang soldiers. This soldier and horse from Danyang County is definitely a famous strong soldier in the history of the Chinese clan.
When the huge army of the Kwantung Coalition Army three days ago had settled under Luoyang City, they launched an attack on Luoyang City with confidence. It was the head of the Danyang soldiers under Tao Qian.
The intentions of Yuan Shao and the others were simple. Use this powerful army of soldiers and horses to take the lead, make a good start to the siege war, and boost the morale of the army. After all, Luoyang City, as the state of the Han Empire. How impregnable its city defense is, Yuan Shao, who has lived in Luoyang City for many years, knows it very well.
The idea is beautiful, but the reality has slapped these arrogant hearts. The loud mouths of the princes who think that everything is already under control.
Fifteen hundred menacing Danyang soldiers pushed dozens of sturdy and huge shield carts, nest carts. Carrying hundreds of ladders and hooking chains. Lined up in a tight formation, it rushed to Luoyang City like Mount Tai pressing the top.
Instead of attacking them with their crossbows, the defenders threw down a large number of clay pots from the walls. When the clay pot shatters and splashes with water stains with a strange taste. Those brave Danyang soldiers thought it was the urine thrown down by the defenders, and they once laughed loudly at the defenders for being cowards.
It's just that when the rockets in the sky fell from the sky to the ground, igniting the raging flames that burned everything in the world, no one could laugh anymore.
Tao Qian fell off the war horse in anger on the spot and was almost killed alive. The princes who were originally going to watch the excitement all dropped their jaws in shock.
In the following period, the Kwantung coalition used various methods. What to dig tunnels, what to divert water for irrigation, what to attack with fire against fire, what to attack in batches and small-scale attacks to consume these strange waters, etc., etc. It's all about running out of tricks.
These instruments have not had any effect.
The movement of digging the tunnel was detected by a large vat half-buried in the ground for special monitoring, and then a hole was dug up above the tunnel, and after a can of gasoline was poured into it, all the fires burned out.
Not to mention the diversion of water for irrigation, where can I get so much water to pour back such a huge Luoyang City in this cold weather!?
As for the fire attack, it is faced with such a tall and strong city in the world, and it is faced with a strong city wall made of blue bricks and bluestone. The Kwantung coalition forces, lacking siege equipment, did not even have long-range weapons to launch a fire attack.
In the end, the Kwantung Coalition Army was left with only one way to fill it with human lives.
The princes of all walks of life could only hope that the stock of this kind of water in Gao Yang's hands that could burn everything was not much. After a bitter quarrel, the princes reached an agreement to take turns sending troops to attack the city. In just three days, the princes have already filled in tens of thousands of people under Luoyang City!
"Lao Tzu is not fighting!" Yuan Shu, who was extremely angry, shouted angrily, "How many soldiers and horses are not enough for that tall man, you soldiers should fight by yourself!" ”
Yuan Shu was severely slashed by Gao Yang in the Tiger Prison Pass before, and suffered heavy losses, and he has never been able to slow down. This time, it was his turn to attack the city, and he was forced to do it reluctantly. was already distressed about the loss of soldiers and horses, but at this time, when he saw such a tragic scene again, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he shook his hand and left away with his soldiers and horses.
Similarly, all the princes were very dissatisfied with Yuan Shao's idea of capturing Luoyang City at all costs. With Yuan Shu taking the lead, the princes from all walks of life hummed and discussed in a low voice, and then returned to their military tents one after another, seeing that today's siege battle ended in this way.
Everyone knows what Yuan Shao thinks. However, Yuan Shao was watching from the wall at the moment, driving the soldiers and horses of all the princes to send them to death and attack the city. It's not a big deal if it's going well. However, now that the offensive has been thwarted, the contradictions between the various princes are immediately apparent.
Watching the princes from all walks of life return to the camp with their soldiers and horses, no one proposed to attack the city. Yuan Shao slowly closed his eyes, and opened them again after a while, his eyes were already full of coldness
"Negotiations?" In Luoyang City, in the front hall of Gao Yang's mansion, Gao Yang, who was leisurely smoking a cigarette, looked at Jia Xu who was reporting the military situation with some surprise, and asked suspiciously, "What do they want?" ”
After returning to modern time and space after a lot of hardships, Gao Yang gradually picked up his addiction to cigarettes. In your free time, you'll be able to swallow the clouds. In the same way, after the large-scale appearance of this novelty, it spread very quickly in the army and in Luoyang City. In a very short period of time, a large number of cigarette enthusiasts have been created.
Jia Xu smiled slightly and said, "Their request is very simple, ask the lord to provide them with a batch of grain, and then they will leave Luoyang City and return to the land of Guanlong." ”
"Supplying grain?" The corners of Gao Yang's mouth pursed, with a look of smiling on his face, and asked, "How much?" There must be a lot of them, right? How to say that there are more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, and there are so many war horses. This man eats what the horse chews, tsk. ”
"Huh." Jia Xu showed a contemptuous smile on his face, and said with a smile, "These people are crazy, and they will ask for millions of stones of grain when they open their mouths." Do they think they have already entered Luoyang City? ”
Gao Yang chuckled and shook his head, and said, "This is really interesting, and I don't want to know why they made such a request." I didn't even plan to let them go. ”
"Huh?" Jia Xu's face stiffened slightly, and there was a look of surprise in his eyes. He really didn't expect that Gao Yang would let go of such a good opportunity to break the large-scale siege of Luoyang City by hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Coalition Army and Xiliang Legion. Even thinking about exterminating the Xiliang Legion?
If it weren't for Jia Xu knowing that Gao Yang was not a person who liked to talk emptyly, then he might have started planning how to escape from Luoyang City with his family. (To be continued......)