readx; The sun was like blood at dusk in midsummer, and the heat was still steaming the earth, and every soldier at the head of the city was so hot that his clothes were sweaty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 But they didn't have the heart to wipe their sweat, and they didn't dare to take off their armor, because the thieves on the other side pressed down like a sea again.

Zhu Youzhen also learned from Qi Meifeng the method of visually measuring the number of enemy troops. With just a glance at the battlefield, he already knew that the number of thieves was at least more than 30,000, and this was only in the direction of Luoyang's East City Gate. And at this moment, there are already murderous voices, and the thieves are advancing from four directions at the same time, and the momentum is terrifying!

Gradually, the bandwagon approached the walls. When viewed from a distance, it is only a black oppression; As you get closer, you can gradually see the outline of the facial features of the soldiers in the front row, and even the expressions on your faces can be seen clearly. And the swords and guns that stand in a row, under the illumination of the setting sun, reflect the golden light, like the vast Milky Way, shaking so that people can't open their eyes!

Behind the rows of thieves were rows of high-pitched horses, with riders on horseback holding flags of various colors. A scorching summer breeze struck, and the flags suddenly waved in the wind, and the hunting sound almost covered the countless thieves behind them.

The largest and tallest of them, spread out enough to be square enough to be square, is supported by four flag bearers at the same time. On the blood-red flag, a line of slightly smaller words was embroidered with golden silk thread: "The Great General of the Thief through the Sky", and in the center was the word "Zhang" with a big fight.

Under the banner, a man sat proudly on a black horse, holding a spear in his right hand and a long hair in his left hand. When you get closer, you can see that he is burly, golden, and powerful. At this time, he had a nonchalant expression, and there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Zhu Youzhen's heart sank suddenly, and he muttered unconsciously: "Sure enough, it's Zhang Xianzhong!" ”

Zuo Liangyu didn't take Zhang Xianzhong in his eyes, seeing the army of thieves approaching, he roared: "Archers prepare!" ”

With his order, all the archers, including Zhu Youzhen's team, stretched out their bows and arrows, aiming at the enemy a hundred paces away. As soon as they came closer and entered the range of the bow and arrow, a baptism of arrow rain began.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but secretly hate in his heart: This huge Luoyang City doesn't even have a single usable artillery! Originally, at this distance, it was the time when the Furlong cannon was in full swing; The formation of the thieves is very dense, and it only takes a few shots to defeat the opponent with heavy casualties and chaos. But now, I can only watch the thieves press over!

The army of thieves marched forward for more than ten steps, and suddenly saw Zhang Xianzhong raise his spear into the sky, and the team immediately stopped on the spot. Immediately after the door flag, hundreds of foot soldiers slowly marched out of the column with large iron shields. These large iron shields are more than a man tall and an inch thick, and the front is sealed tightly.

Zhang Xianzhong and his personal soldiers, surrounded by this iron shield array, slowly went straight to the dirt mountain in front of the city, and soon hit the horse uphill.

This earthen hill is only about 20 steps away from the city wall, so it can be said that it is close at hand. Zuo Liangyu also knew that after the thieves went up the mountain, they would inevitably repeat their old tricks and condescendingly release arrows to attack the city, so he shouted first: "Release the arrows!" ”

At the sound of the order, hundreds of sharp arrows broke through the air, like a large net, covering the mountains of the earth and mountains in them.

Zuo Liangyu just nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly found that Zhu Youzhen and the others actually stopped in place and didn't move, without firing a single arrow, he couldn't help but be furious and said: "You Jian, what happened just now, it's just that General Ben doesn't care about you." Why is it that when the enemy soldiers are approaching the city, this general wants you to release arrows, but you do not obey the order? Do you really want to rebel and can't do it! ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled bitterly and said, "General, it's not that we don't want to fight hard, you see! ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the earth mountain with his hand. Zuo Liangyu looked in the direction he pointed, but saw that the large array of iron shields was tightly sealed, protecting the front and sides like iron buckets. A round of arrow rain passed, all of them shot on the iron shield, and for a while, the sound of "ding ding dong dong" was endless, but they were all bounced off by the iron shield, and they couldn't hurt a single hair of the people in the array!

"Shooting arrows like this will have no effect, you can only waste your strength and arrows!" Inspector Zhu You sighed.

Zuo Liangyu was not a fool, seeing that the attack was ineffective, he had to give an order stupidly: "Stop releasing arrows!" ”

In an instant, the battlefield, which was full of hustle and bustle just now, suddenly fell silent. The iron shield array on the opposite side still maintained the shape it had just had, and there was no next move; But the more this happened, the more nervous and frightened the defenders at the head of the city became, knowing that this was only the last calm before the big battle, and the tragic siege battle was about to officially begin!

After a long time, there was a burst of unbridled laughter on the top of the earth mountain: "Hahahahaha! You Luoyang officials and soldiers don't know how to be polite, do you just welcome the imperial court officials and reinforcements? ”

The defenders were all stunned when they heard this, and they were obviously thieves on the other side of their hearts, but they were talking nonsense about "court officials and reinforcements", did they take the wrong medicine?

The voice then shouted, "Don't let go of the arrows, look at who these people are!" ”

Zuo Liangyu knew that there was something wrong, and hurriedly raised his hand and said, "Don't let go of the arrow for the time being!" ”

The iron shield array on the top of the mountain slowly opened a wide opening, and it was vaguely seen that Zhang Xianzhong had dismounted and sat on a tiger skin chair with a big grin. Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed, and just wanted to take the opportunity to give Zhang Xianzhong an arrow, but suddenly found that a whole row of people were tied to the front, either wearing official uniforms or armor, and at this time they were all wearing heads, and they were forced to kneel on the top of the mountain by thieves!

"General Liu? How did you fall into the hands of thieves?! Zuo Liangyu was immediately shocked.

"General Zuo save me!" The general Liu Shen was already so frightened that his face was pale, and as soon as he shouted, he was kicked by the thieves behind him, and then he didn't dare to speak again.

"Hahaha!" Zhang Xianzhong laughed wildly for a while, and then looked at General Liu contemptuously and said, "Zuo Liangyu! I didn't expect you to know him. Yes, he is Liu Shouzheng, the general of Kaifeng, who led 3,000 officers and troops to rescue Luoyang two days ago, is it interesting enough? It's a pity that others are too stupid, and the soldiers under him are too timid and afraid of death, so they were killed by an ambush by me and wiped out the whole army. The three thousand officers and soldiers have all been beheaded, and the other soldiers and horses fled without a fight when they heard the news, are you still waiting for reinforcements? He's the reinforcements! ”

Zhu Yousong, Zuo Liangyu and others at the head of the city all changed color when they heard this, and Zhu Youzhen's heart sank suddenly. It seems that it is no accident that this Zhang Xianzhong can stand out among the thieves and become a giant, he will actually use the trick of "besieging the city and sending reinforcements"! Now that the reinforcements are gone, the glimmer of hope for the defenders has suddenly turned into despair!