Xu Rong's decision was crisp and decisive, and he didn't even give the coalition army much time to react, and when they finally broke through the city, they found that all they got was an empty city where most of the defenders had completely evacuated, and all the supplies that could be taken away were burned, and nothing could be taken away, leaving the coalition forces with nothing but feathers and tiles.

Looking at the county seat of Gongxian County, where there was nothing to say except for those useless people who stayed and some of the defenders who had not been able to escape from the capture because they were on defense at the head of the city, as well as the county seat of Gongxian County, which had nothing else to say except those buildings, they hurriedly arranged it and continued to march.

In fact, for such a tense continuous march, many princes have opinions in their hearts, perhaps because of the momentum along the way, except for Xingyang, a limited number of places have not encountered a decent resistance, which makes many of them have a kind of pride in their hearts.

This is naturally a big taboo in the war, after all, the current Dong Zhuofang has not suffered fundamental losses, even if the 100,000 Xiliang troops in Yuzhou are gone, but one of them cannot immediately become the combat power available to the coalition army, and the other is that Dong Zhuo is still a powerful minister who controls the government, as long as he uses the little emperor's big pen, the holy decree can be adjusted from all over the world that does not belong to the alliance of princes, and Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao and Yizhou Mu Liu Yan, who have not been mixed with them so far, are always more likely to be among them.

In the face of such a still powerful enemy, they must always be vigilant, but whether it is Cao Cao or Lu Bu, they will not deliberately remind them of anything, after all, in their hearts, these people's lives and deaths can be given up when necessary. Anyway, I can't blame them when the time comes, and the reminders are all reminded, what can I do if I don't listen?

Of course, even if they were the alliance leader and deputy alliance leader, if there was no one in the alliance who was completely on their side now, they would not be able to make so many princes obey their orders, and if that were the case, they would not want to rush so much.

However, what Lu Bu didn't expect was that it was actually Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and Sun Ce who stood on their side, Sun Ce could still understand it, after all, he was such a character, and he was still related to Cao Cao by marriage, even if he was among them, but now that he has matured psychologically, he can distinguish the priorities, and it will not affect his judgment; And the Yuan brothers are a little elusive. Especially Yuan Shu. Lu Bu naturally didn't know that what happened in Yuzhou before had made Yuan Shu's attitude towards him change a lot, although he usually couldn't see it.

Yuan Shu is indeed a little reckless many times, but he is definitely not stupid, just like Sun Ce. He found abnormal signs of the death of Li Yu and others. And the disposition of the 100,000 Xiliang army also seems to be a bit problematic. The first thing that came to mind was not to sue Yuan Shao and others, but to hide it in my heart, but it was different from Sun Ce. Even if the Yuan family had a lot of grievances with Lu Bu before, Yuan Shu wanted to get close to Lu Bu without a little psychological burden, and even had the intention of soliciting - uh, you can ignore this as much as you like, this is just another embodiment of "why abandon therapy" for mentally handicapped children.

In short, with their support, especially the support of Yuan Shao, an alliance that actually has the greatest weight in addition to Cao Cao, the others have no choice but to obey even if they are dissatisfied and have any opinions, after all, compared to the fatigue brought by the continuous march, if they are left behind by the large army, it is the most frightening for them, to put it bluntly, these people belong to the typical people who have a thief's heart but no thief's courage, and want to share the benefits but don't want to pay too much, and Cao Cao doesn't care whether they share the benefits or not, only cares that they can't contribute, If you don't make a effort, you can't force them out, and you can't let them be too idle anyway.

It was under such circumstances that the alliance army of the princes did not stop marching one after another, but in the next they were hindered one after another, once the fire bull array broke the Yanshi City that fought against the Dong Alliance army for the first time, and even several small counties and towns around it, there were different forms of resistance, these were obviously Li Ru's soldiers and horses transferred from all over the country, stationed in the periphery of Luoyang to form layer after layer of protection, even if it could not delay the pace of the coalition army, it was necessary to greatly consume its men and horses.

This time it was hard for those little princes who were scrambling to come forward to grab the credit, such as Wang Lang, who came with Yuan Shu and them, I thought that the defense of a big city like Xingyang City before was just that, and this kind of small place was not worth mentioning, but I didn't expect that it was not him who was the main attack at that time, but Lu Bu and Xiahou Yuan, who could fight well, and there was also Lu Bu's plan to support the troops in Beicheng, that battle was not as simple as he saw on the surface, but Cao Cao and others knew about it, and it was impossible to sue him, so that Wang Lang, who was kept in the dark, thought that Dong Zhuo's combat effectiveness was blown out, and it was mostly cavalry, and defending the city was definitely not a strong point, so he took the initiative to ask for orders to attack a nearby small city, but was almost dragged to death there, because he wanted to save face, so he was never able to break through the fierce resistance of the small city Wang Lang was unwilling to ask the alliance for help, and when Lu Bu finally arrived, he found that Wang Lang's entire army was beaten half to death, This is not like they are besieging each other, but it is like the other party besieging them, this is not that Wang Lang is really so wasteful, but that he is too light on the enemy and completely exposed himself to the fire attack of the city at the beginning, and as a result, he has never been able to slow down after that.

Although there are these laughable episodes, in the end, the coalition forces still came to the imperial capital Luoyang in a crushing posture.

And here, the Union army has completely relaxed, and it is necessary to spend a protracted war, and they have supplies that can be replenished in various places around them; To attack immediately, their army of hundreds of thousands surrounded Luoyang City from all directions, including some dead ends, and it was so hard to see that the slightest disturbance could be noticed.

In this case, a protracted war finally began, and Luoyang City is worthy of the name of the imperial capital, obviously it does not look like the terrain of the tiger prison is as dangerous as the city defense of Xingyang, but it is repeatedly blocked by the elite of the alliance army to do its best to continue to attack rapidly.

It's just that careful people still found that the more this Luoyang City goes to the back, the more weak the resistance becomes, this is obviously because although the defenders in the city are numerous, but the Luoyang City is too big, and the places that need to be taken care of are even more aspects, there are eight large city gates alone, so many people are really assigned, and there are not many defenders in each place, and there is nothing to add, and the coalition army is constantly having a fresh force to replace, so that the defenders are getting more and more tired, but the energy of the attacker can be maintained at all times, and it is inevitable that one will lose the other.

In fact, Luoyang's resistance became more and more weak later, and another important reason came from materials.

Lu Bu's looting of the Taicang and the arsenal of Luoyang still has a lot of influence to this day, it is true that Luoyang itself has a deep background as a capital master, but you must know that most of the previous accumulations were stored in these two places, and the two most important strategic materials were moved out overnight, although Li Ru then gathered a large number of craftsmen to rush out a batch, but in terms of quality and quality, because of the haste, there are some flaws.

After all, the materials are also limited, and Li Ru's mind can't all be put on this, the quality is fine, anyway, it is enough to barely be usable, but there is no way in terms of quantity. (To be continued......)