Chapter 193: Half-way Strike
"Stop retreating, calm me down, stop retreating........" Sima Hao, who was about to retreat, stopped and faintly heard the sounds of fighting and screams coming from Luoyang City. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info He narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance, only to see that there was chaos on the city wall that had been heavily guarded just now, and the figures were longing and shouting. Suppressing the ecstasy in his heart, his voice almost trembled and said: "The person who answered is coming, the person who answers is coming, give the order down, straighten out the formation, hear the drum and attack, hurry up and give the order." ā
His order was immediately passed on, and the black-pressed troops were finally stopped from their marching state, and slowly stopped. After the formation was sorted out, Sima Hao officially issued the order to attack, although he had planned to open the city gate and swagger into Luoyang City, but Sima Hao actually had to take precautions, and prepared some engineering ladders and siege cones with the army, but the number was not much, and it was okay to launch a surprise attack at one point, but it was not possible to launch a siege battle on the whole line. After all, the siege equipment is a large equipment, it is time-consuming and laborious to make, and it is very eye-catching, there is no way to hide it, if you gather at the gate of Luoyang, Kyoto, and bring a large amount of engineering equipment, once the news is leaked, fools can understand their intentions. Therefore, Sima Hao is not unprepared in advance, but can not prepare, just these small amount of construction machinery or special area storage, closely guarded, do not let idle people approach, for fear of leakage. At this moment, Sima Hao secretly rejoiced that the previous preparations had not been done in vain.
The situation in the city is critical and critical. The defense of the ancient city wall was divided according to the lot, and each section was responsible for the designated troops and officers, and if that section was lost, someone naturally took responsibility. There are only a few hundred people under the city gate leader, and after being slaughtered by this one-sided round, there are not many left, but the surrounding soldiers look at this kind of fighting style that is obviously sending them to death, and the other party is actually the prince who rushes to the front, this meat shield is really powerful and invincible. Therefore, they all hesitated and didn't know whether to rush up to help, so they could only stare at their blood-red eyes, watching their robes fall down one by one, and the roots of their teeth were about to be crushed.
"Oh no, the enemy has turned around and is about to start attacking the city, everyone is in place........" The sound of the command was transmitted one after another, looking at the enemy troops rushing towards the opposite side, listening to the earth-shattering snare drums, the defenders of the city who had just breathed a sigh of relief immediately tensed their nerves again and threw themselves into defensive preparations.
As soon as the situation on the city wall became tense, the group of people in the city was even more excited, "Kill them all, open the city gates, hurry, hurry." There were bursts of excited shouts, and these people were even more unscrupulous with guns and knives. When the last of the city gate leaders held a shield in front of the city gate hole, these people did not hesitate to pierce him into a hedgehog with their spears, and the city gate leader almost became a bloody man, still holding the gun into his body with both hands, staring fiercely at the enemy holding the gun, standing still, but obviously already dead of anger.
When Sima Hao saw the city gate that finally opened, he laughed wildly: "God help me, God help me, the prince really does not deceive me, now we are saved, kill into Luoyang City, surround the palace, do great things, send orders to the whole army, rapid process, according to the predetermined plan, each battalion is in place on time........ "The endless army has become a long snake formation, five people in a column, marching towards the city, the winding line is lined up for several miles, there is no end in sight, it is half an hour, and the troops enter the city is only more than half. According to the plan prepared in advance, after entering the city, the army should first concentrate on the whole team according to its own establishment, and then be led by its own generals, arrive at their respective defense areas outside the imperial city and take up their positions, and wait until the troops are assembled, and then launch a unified attack.
At the beginning of the army's entry into the city, the whole team, the opening up, and the vacating of the venue were relatively smooth, but the later it became, the slower it became, Sima Hao stood at the gate of the city, frowned and asked, "Isn't it the prince who leads the team?" Why is it so slow to enter the city? ā
"Report the .........." herald squeezed out of the flow of people entering the city with sweat on his head: "Lord Qi, the prince asked for help, Wen Yang personally guarded outside the palace, and the march was blocked. ā
Sima Hao snorted: "It's expected, in terms of conspiracy and trickery, but when it comes to leading troops to fight, of course he is not Wen Yang's opponent." But we have an absolute advantage in troops, and the prince is in the lead, does Wen Yang dare to do it? ā
"Lord Qiqi, the shield of the prince is no longer working, long live the holy decree, the whole army, the prince is a rebel, abolish the crown prince, if the prince dares to step into the imperial city, he will be killed. Now Wen Yang is guarding the walls of the imperial city, with the bow and crossbow facing the prince, and said that as long as the prince dares to take a step forward, he will kill him immediately. The herald continued to report.
"It seems that you still need to command it in person, the prince is afraid that he will not be able to control the situation, so I will leave it to my younger brother here, brother, you better enter the city quickly." It was Sima Yan, the king of Wu, who spoke.
Sima Hao pondered for a moment, looked at the tail of the team, and stretched to the end of the night: "Okay, I'll go into the city to meet the prince, and I'll leave it to you to command here, and you must let them speed up..........."
After speaking, Sima Hao entered the imperial city under the support of the pro-army, and the Luoyang City in the middle of the march of the team was still late at night, and it was silent, but there was a team of people and horses that were particularly eye-catching, the pro-army was holding high the Songming torch, and there were dozens of fierce royal flags, and Sima Hao in golden helmets and golden armor looked particularly eye-catching and mighty. Looking at the streets of Luoyang City stretching out under his feet, Sima Hao was so excited that he almost shouted out, so far, although there was a little episode in the battle for the city gate, but in the end his side won the city gate, and the rest of the process was surprisingly smooth, all proceeded smoothly according to the preset plan in advance, and the victory was still in sight. At this moment, a huge explosion suddenly sounded in more than a dozen places in the city wall and the city, and then the pillar of smoke soared into the sky, and more than a dozen colorful fireworks bloomed in the sky, which were gorgeous and dazzling, attracting everyone's attention. You must know that in the Jin Dynasty, fireworks have not yet been invented, and the invention of fireworks and entering the homes of ordinary people still started in the Song and Yuan dynasties. In the past, when the people were celebrating the New Year's Festival, they stuffed saltpeter gunpowder into the bamboo tube, threw it into the fire and burned, and then listened to the sound of the bamboo cracking, so all the people present were shocked by the scene of this fireworks, I don't know what it is, and I was shocked by the grandeur of the scene.
"Report to the prince, the big thing is not good, King Wu asks for help, there are a large number of enemy troops behind the army outside the city, and suddenly launch a fierce attack, whether to enter the city or leave the city, please make a quick decision, otherwise, it may be cut off by the waist........ "The panting herald reported loudly.
"What are King Wu's scouts doing, the enemy is coming, why didn't they detect it?" Sima Hao was shocked and angry.
"Report to the prince, it was you who ordered the whole army not to raise fire, and if you don't raise fire in the middle of the night, the scouts will not be able to investigate at all." The herald replied honestly.
Sima Hao then remembered that he had really given such an order, but at that time it was to hide his whereabouts in order to approach the city gate to launch a surprise attack, and he did not consider that there would be enemy troops behind him, you must know that all the news showed that the nearest troops were also a day and night away from Luoyang, and when they arrived, Luoyang City would already be in a situation again, so he did not go to the rear at all.