Sure enough, in the face of the rebels' crazy attack, the defenders began to panic a little, although Pei Renji has been commanding and dispatching, but the foundation of the Yulin Army is really too poor, they haven't fought for a long time and haven't been on the battlefield, and they are not the opponents of the Zhichong Army and the Guoyi Army who have crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, Pei Renji was not very flustered about this, although Luoyang City's excuse was very wide, but for the attacking side, it was a little reluctant to put down the offensive formation within such a range, so he had great confidence that he could deal with Wang Shichong's attack, and it would be no problem to delay it for at least a day or two.

The imperial city of Luoyang City is actually very wide, and there is no problem at all with installing large weapons such as trebuchets and stone cannons and bed crossbows on it, but because it is only an inner city, and it is where the emperor is, so these things are not installed, and when it comes to wartime, according to the combat situation on the front line, it is not too late to arrange craftsmen to move these things on the city wall, so the fortifications of the imperial city are not very sound, and in this way, they are very powerless in the face of the attack of the rebels' tower carts and ladders.

The only advantage of the defender soldiers now is the advantage in numbers, the rebels climb the city wall from the ladder, and when they get off the ladder, they will face the siege of the enemy army who are several times their own, which is very unfavorable for them, and Pei Renji also designed a formation composed of shields and spears for this, this formation gives full play to the advantages of the equipment of the Yulin Army, and forms a small team of seven or eight soldiers, so that they surround a battlement, five of which are armed with huge shields and horizontal knives, once there are enemy soldiers climbing up from below, They swarmed with their shields raised, besieged them in the middle, and stabbed them to death, while the three pikemen behind protected them from attacking their backs by the newly enthroned enemy below.

This trick really worked, many of the rebel soldiers climbed the city wall, but they were killed more, a large number of soldiers were killed immediately after climbing the city wall, which made it difficult for them to occupy an effective foothold on the city, and the defenders also began to improve their morale after such a battle, which was very unfavorable for the rebels.

Under the city, Wang Shichong's face began to look ugly, he thought that the other party was just a group of embroidered pillows, without much combat effectiveness, but they were still very tenacious, not at all like an army that had no resistance, and his army had another big problem, that is, whether it was the Zhichong Army or the Guoyi Army, Wang Shichong did not take over them for a long time, because in order to strengthen his control over these two armies, he removed too many generals, Among them, almost all of his sons and nephews have been arranged, which has a very bad impact on the operation of these two armies, Wang Shichong can clearly feel that today there is a lack of cooperation between the Zhichong army and the Guoyi army, for example, when the tower cart was close to the city wall before, if the archers under the city could provide more fire support to the city head, the defenders would not be so easy to throw dozens of clay pots filled with fire oil onto the tower cart, In this way, this expensive tower car will not be burned into an empty shell.

Wang Shichong sighed, it is not a way to fight like this, the morale of the defenders has been raised, and the morale of his subordinates has dropped a lot, if only Wei Wentong had not died, then he would have a fierce general in his hands who could take the lead in the charge, but unfortunately Wei Wentong was dead, and Fei Qingnu was also cut in two by Shan Xiongxin.

Wang Shichong had no choice but to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and the soldiers heard the sound of Mingjin, so they quickly came down from the city wall, but after all, they were elite troops, and when they retreated, they formed a tight formation and did not give the defenders a chance to counterattack, which made Pei Renji also dispel the idea of pursuit.

In Luoyang City, Wang Shichong was worried, he was really a little envious of Li Mi, there were many generals under his command, Shan Xiongxin, Wang Bodang, Xie Yingdeng, Qiu Rui, Hou Junji, etc., it can be said that there are many talents, but there is nothing under his command.

Wang Shichong is a lot of suspicions, he doesn't trust others, so the important positions in the generals are placed in his own family members to serve, but these members of his family do not have the ability to lead the troops to fight, in the battle against Li Mi This is not very obvious, after all, the commander of the three armies is still himself, and he is also himself who formulates the battle plan, and his subordinates and nephews only need to implement it, but the siege war is not the same, the four city walls have four different terrains and situations, and the defenders have different responses, And his sons and nephews only knew about blindly attacking and did not formulate different countermeasures according to the actual situation, resulting in the Sui army's attack not working, and these sons and nephews were very afraid of death, hiding behind during the war, only knowing how to command others, and the soldiers were of course unwilling to die for them.

Wang Shichong sighed, that's it, since the strong attack can't work, let's set it on fire, there is not much food in the palace, they will definitely not last long!

Soon, the rebels brought dozens of trebuchets and began to launch clay pots and fireballs soaked in fire oil into the imperial city, these clay pots are the kind of very viscous oil, after the clay pots are broken, these viscous oils can even attach to the city wall without falling, and those fireballs are directly shot into the imperial city, for a while, the fireballs in the sky are flying sideways, the imperial city is full of gunsmoke, the city and the city soon fell into a sea of fire, the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace are in a mess, and the fire ignites several palaces, A large number of soldiers brought a large amount of water from the Kyushu Pond to put out the fire, but these fire oils were not afraid of water at all, and they could not be extinguished, but the fire became bigger and bigger, and spread with the wind.

"Protect the food, transfer all the people out, move to a leeward place!"

Pei Renji didn't know what to do for a while, when Ziwei Palace was gradually engulfed in flames, any firefighting action seemed too futile, the owner of this nearly 100-meter-high building would be covered by fire, the raging fire made it impossible for the firefighters to get close at all, and in Luoyang City, at this time, every household was horrified to see that the huge building in the center of the city was engulfed in flames, this kind of scene was as unacceptable to them as the end of the world.

Looking at the dazzling light emitted by Ziwei Palace, a smile appeared on the corner of Wang Shichong's mouth, although it is a pity to burn down such a gorgeous palace, but things can be rebuilt, and it is urgent to compete for power and hit the morale of the other party. (To be continued.) )