When Luo Xian led his troops to the city of Xingyang, he saw that the four gates of Xingyang City were closed, the suspension bridge was hanging high, and the Wu army stationed in Xingyang had no sign of fighting at all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, this is in Luo Xian's expectations, the soldiers of Eastern Wu are good at water warfare but not good at land warfare, especially cavalry combat, has always been the short board of the Wu army, more than 70,000 cavalry of the right army roared in, and the vast formation alone was enough to scare the courage of the Wu soldiers, and the cavalry of the Han army carried out field warfare, which was purely looking for abuse.

What's more, the two defenders selected by Lu Kang are both steady and cautious generals, good at fighting defensive battles and not good at charging into battle, like this situation, they will only retreat in the city, and they will not dare to come out if they are killed.

Luo Xian was not in a hurry to attack the city, but ordered the Han army to first besiege Xingyang City, and ordered to only surround it and not fight.

The cavalry's action is fast, after Luo Xian's order was issued, it was only half an hour, the deployment of the Han army's siege was fully completed, Xingyang City was surrounded by the Han army, outside the four gates, the Han cavalry was in strict formation, and the Wu army wanted to get out of the city, there was no way out.

Looking at the cavalry of the Han army galloping back and forth outside the city, the military appearance was neat and awe-inspiring, and Zhang Xiang, who stood on the head of the city and watched, was shocked.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiang couldn't help but sigh at the wisdom of Lu Kang, the grain and grass of the general army are piled up in the wild, set up a big camp, and the grain and grass can be stacked as much as they want, and now they are piled up in Xingyang City, lacking enough warehouses and grain points, and there is nowhere to store the grain and grass in the mountains, which has attracted the attention of the generals.

Zhang Xiang, as the general of Xingyang and the head of the grain guard, also took great pains at that time, and forcibly occupied and robbed many people's houses to solve the problem of grain storage.

Now it seems that it is safe to put grain and grass in the city, if the grain and grass are placed in the field camp at this moment, a round of impact of the Han cavalry, the Wu army will not be able to resist, I am afraid that a large number of grain and grass have already fallen into the hands of the Han army. Now there is a strong wall of Xingyang City, and the cavalry of the Han army can only sigh at the city.

Don't look at the Han army besieged Xingyang City like an iron bucket, Zhang Xiang was not too afraid, the cavalry was invincible in the field, but if it was about siege operations, it was not even comparable to the infantry, what Zhang Xiang had to do now was to hold on to and wait for reinforcements, as long as he held on for three or two days at most, the reinforcements of the Wu army could arrive, so Zhang Xiang had no reason to be afraid of anything at all, he ordered the Wu army to be strictly defended and defend Xingyang City at all costs.

As soon as Wu Yan, the general of Zhennan stationed at Tiger Pass, heard that Xingyang was besieged by the Han army, he immediately gathered his men and horses and rushed to Xingyang. Xingyang is the place where the Wu army stores grain, and there is no room for loss, and Lu Kang's order to Wu Yan is that once something happens in Xingyang, he must immediately bring troops to reinforce.

Wu Yan didn't think about anything else, and leading the troops was to go straight to Xingyang.

As soon as he arrived at Yuting, he encountered the Blue Dragon Army led by Deng Pu. Deng Pu's task was to block the reinforcements at Tiger Pass, and the two armies met in a narrow way, and they immediately fought in one place.

Although Wu Yan brought 20,000 horses, the number was more than Deng Pu's cavalry, but in the field battle, the comparison between infantry and cavalry in terms of quantity had no meaning at all, Deng Pu used a textbook victory to tell the Wu people, what is the king's army, fighting in the field on the plain, the cavalry is invincible.

Although the Wu army also discharged a spear formation in response to the Han cavalry, the powerful impact of the Han cavalry, like a flood that broke the embankment, was unstoppable.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wu Yan led the remnants of the defeated army to flee by seizing the road, and fled back to the Tiger Prison Pass in one go, never daring to come out again.

And Zhang Xiang wanted to see through, but he couldn't wait for the reinforcements of the Tiger Prison Pass, but he didn't know that the reinforcements of the Tiger Prison Pass had already been defeated by the Han army in Yuting, and Zhang Xiang's only hope now was that the troops had arrived at the land resistance under Luoyang City.

But how could Luo Xian give him a chance, although siege was not the strong point of the Han cavalry, Liu Yin had already prepared a plan to attack Xingyang.

This time, the goal of the Han army is to gather the grain and grass in Xingyang, not Xingyang City itself, so it doesn't matter if you can take Xingyang City or not, the important thing is how to destroy the grain and grass in Xingyang, as long as these grains and grass can be burned, the 200,000 Wu troops besieging Luoyang will definitely fall into a grain shortage.

How to burn grain and grass without destroying the city, this Liu Yin was prepared in advance. Luo Xian crossed the river, bringing not only cavalry, but also hundreds of catapults and hundreds of crossbow carts, and after the cavalry completed the encirclement of Xingyang, these catapults and crossbow carts were also evenly distributed to the four gates of Xingyang and placed on the first line of the siege.

The catapult did not prepare stone bullets, but a kind of straw rope balls wound with straw ropes, all of which were soaked in tung oil and stained with oil. And the crossbow arrows on the ballista are not ordinary crossbow arrows, all of them are crossbow arrows equipped with gunpowder.

Luo Xian gave an order, and the catapult and the repeater attacked at the same time.

The arquebuses that were burning with flames flew towards Xingyang City, and the gunpowder crossbow arrows flew towards Xingyang City with long smoke marks.

At first, seeing the catapult and the crossbow cart pushed to the front of the formation, Zhang Xiang and Cai Min were still a little flustered, the power of the catapult was not small, and they didn't know how strong the walls of Xingyang City were, and whether they could withstand the attack of the catapult. However, they were slightly relieved to see that the balls thrown from the catapult did not hit the walls.

But in an instant, Zhang Xiang secretly screamed badly, it was obvious that the target of the Han army's attack was not the defenders on the city wall, but the piles of grain and grass in the city.

"Hurry up and put out the fire!" Zhang Xiang shouted, his face pale.

A single straw rope ball is not terrible, as long as the defenders can extinguish it, there will be no harm, but when thousands of arquebuses fall in the city, it can only be described as a tragedy, although the Wu soldiers are struggling to extinguish, but how can the overwhelming fireballs be extinguished, grain and grass are originally flammable, once ignited, immediately turned into a raging fire. And those repeating crossbow arrows with gunpowder not only have the effect of igniting, but also have a lot of lethal power.

The fire spread wantonly in Xingyang City, at this time it was spring in April, the spring breeze was blowing, the wind helped the fire, and the fire borrowed the power of the wind, and burned Xingyang City into a sea of fire.