Chapter 39, Li Ru's poison plan
(Thank you for the reward of the book friend "Hei Yi", the gift is light and affectionate, and the reward of the "Unlimited Heavenly Sword" children's shoes last time is grateful and forgot, forget it, thank you here, even if you thank it again, it has something to do with the wood, haha~)
There are so many things in total, although there are enough craftsmen in the official workshop in Luoyang City, and they can rush out if they really want to, but in fact, they will still not be able to withstand the consumption, because the alliance army of the princes is menacing, and they don't seem to care about the casualties at all, if those corpses piled up can make them closer to Luoyang City even if it is only an inch away.
In the camp of the alliance army, Lu Bu did not participate in the charge this time, and really did what a prince and a superior should do, that is, to stand by and wait.
There are eight city gates in Luoyang, and there are ten ways to ask the princes of the Dong Alliance, but the strength of the princes of each road is uneven, so there is no question of who to assign to that city gate, not to mention that these eight city gates are not all the goals of the princes' alliance army, they only need to be besieged on the periphery, and there is another layer of siege outside the city, and the focus is on attacking, there is only one east city gate.
The reason why the east gate of Luoyang was chosen as the entrance was because it was the closest place, and it was this gate when the alliance army arrived; Second, it is naturally because there is a natural defect here compared with other city gates, that is, it is neither like there is a mountain range in the north to rely on, nor is it like there is a water flow in the south to block it, and it is not like the west side is directly facing away from Dong Zhuo's army, which can be said to be the best focus of the siege.
There is no need to go into detail about the process of the siege, in fact, it is just like that. There are only a few things back and forth, the attacking side is a ladder, a tower, a stone thrower, a city crasher, etc., and to prevent the arrow rain offensive on the city, you also need a shield team to go out, after all, people are professional; The defender is a long-range such as bows and arrows, trebuchets, often as soon as the arrow rain comes out, the black pressure is dense with arrows covering the sky and the sun, and the battle alone will scare the person to death, and the trebuchet is powerful, that is, aiming and interval time is always a big trouble, otherwise the lethality will be more terrifying. Then there are short-range strikes, which are some rolling wood, rolling stones, rolling oil, and some various commonly used weapons, and so on.
Although the defenders with the Xiliang Army as the main body have some inexperience in defending the city. But Xu Rong and other Xiliang generals, who had already retreated back, as well as Zhang Xiu and other good generals who were already here, guarded the major city gates - the east city gate was only the main attack point, and under their leadership, the arrangements were well organized, quite like that, and they were able to pass the customs.
And the main attack point of the East City Gate, the defender faced by the coalition army was Xu Rong, who had caused them a lot of trouble in Gongxian before. This person had also defeated Cao Cao before. Cao Cao loved and hated him. loves his talent and hates that he has repeatedly acted against himself, and now in the coalition camp, Xu Rong, who is looking at the city tower with his head held high, secretly gritted his teeth.
The Alliance Army is attacking fiercely, and the East City Gate has no natural advantage after all, relying on the strength of the defenders. But there is also a limit, and it is crumbling at the moment, which may be the only place where Cao Cao can feel pleasure now.
And Lu Bu also looked at the city tower, but it was not like Cao Cao paying attention to Xu Rong with a solemn face, but a figure not far behind Xu Rong.
Although the other party seemed to be deliberately trying to avoid something, Lu Bu still vaguely saw that this figure was someone he was quite familiar with, and he already had a spectrum in his heart, but he was not so sure.
"It's time to strike the final blow......" Jia Xu was also beside Lu Bu at this time, he whispered, but he watched Cao Cao give the order by waving the military flag.
The soldiers of the alliance army on the ladder each relied on a sharp spirit, and the defenders of the city began to show signs of self-collapse when they held up to the limit, and finally climbed the city tower one after another, and then there was a burst of slashing, and when the coalition forces on the city tower will be more and more, the formation of a siege and killing trend, but at this time, few people noticed that Xu Rong, the main general of the city gate defenders who should have been the commander-in-chief, disappeared at some point, and at the same time, of course, there was another figure.
When the fierce battle on the city tower suppressed the defenders so that they no longer had time to care about the city, in front of the gate of the east city of Luoyang, the huge crashing wood of the alliance army of the princes hit the gate of the east city gate again and again, and I don't know when, there was the first gap, and then the second impact, a series of cracks seemed to come out of thin air, and then the gap hit several times, and finally the entire city gate was like tissue paper was broken by a "poke". And from this moment on, going straight into the city is no longer an obstacle for the Alliance Army.
"The city is broken, the city is broken......"
This is really a thing worth cheering, after all, it took so long to finally succeed, and the joy of the coalition soldiers corresponded to the already powerless faces of the defenders of the city tower, especially when they wanted to find the figure of their main backbone, but found that they could no longer find it, and at that moment they even forgot what the resistance was, and it was not bad if they did not surrender immediately.
The east gate of Luoyang was breached in this way, Cao Cao, Lu Bu and Yuan Shao and others were all happy, and there was no need to echo each other in this case, and no one would suddenly jump in alone with a hot head, so they naturally gathered together, and then entered the city together.
After working hard to siege the city for so long and paying such a heavy price, they finally achieved their goal, but their heartstrings have not been completely relaxed now, after all, breaking through the city gate is only the first step, and in Luoyang City, there are at least tens of thousands of enemy soldiers who may die together waiting for their arrival.
It's just that not long after entering the city, they found that something was wrong, and the situation in front of them now was similar to the scene they saw in Gong County before?
Except for the soldiers of the alliance army who resisted stubbornly on the city gate and then rushed into the city and then rushed to the city tower, the soldiers who swept the city guard lightly, after entering the city gate, they only saw a lonely street, of course, the houses on both sides were not all uninhabited, but at this time the people knew what they should do, and they all returned home and locked the door, as for what scene was on the other side of the door, it is unknown.
The deserted street showed a sense of desolation that only can be found in the wild, and there were still some corpses on the ground, and there was no sign of a living person in sight along the way.
Cao Cao and Lu Bu glanced at each other, and their hearts were faintly a little heavy, and at this time, Lu Bu was far more sensitive than Cao Cao.
"Look, look at the ...... over there" Lu Bu's eyes were sharp, and he was the first to notice that something was wrong, and no one else had noticed it, but he just raised his head at random and looked into the distance, and found that in the direction of the Beicheng Imperial Palace, which should be the part of the imperial city in the center of Luoyang City, there was actually a pillar of smoke rushing into the sky, as if something was burning.
Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others also looked over, their eyesight was not as good as Lu Bu, but it was clear enough, the most important thing was that the smoke on the opposite side was too conspicuous, and it was strange to not see it, they thought that Lu Bu was making a fuss at first, but now when they saw this scene and thought about it carefully, they couldn't sit still.
No one thought that he was going to evacuate Luoyang, and Li Ru actually broke the jar and broke it.
He himself led the army to evacuate and burn the materials, and he didn't even let go of the palace, and if he thought about it deeply, maybe he even wanted to burn the entire Luoyang City, but it was too difficult to implement it in this way, after all, Luoyang was a big city with a large number of big men.
But in fact, no one knew that this was what he had planned a long time ago, or if he thought about it a little deeper, Lu Bu, Cao Cao and others could also imagine it, but where would they have the time to think about it now.
Even if they don't have any feelings for the little emperor, they really can't sit idly by at this time, after all, under the banner of maintaining the Han family, they can't say anything if they don't react at this time.
All the princes restrained the joy on their faces, and quickly rushed towards the palace with panicked faces, they were really a little anxious at the moment, after all, if Luoyang really wanted to say what was the value, the little emperor, the orthodox preservation of the Han family, was the greatest value. (To be continued......)