>" report, Qi Yu Marshal, the rebels outside the city are withdrawing. "In the city of Luokoucang, a messenger came to report quickly.

"Withdrawn?" The bearded Zhang Zhongjian's face was full of disbelief, and he stroked his face and beard and turned his head to look at Li Jing on the side.

Li Jing sat there calmly, as if he was settled like an old monk.

After a long time, he said slowly, "Do you know when they started to withdraw their troops, and to which side they withdrew?" ”

"As soon as the sun set, the rebels outside the city were already setting camp, and now they have set off. They divided into two routes, one of which was about 50,000 rebels under the banner of Wei to the west in the direction of Luoyang. In addition, about 100,000 rebels marched in the direction of Tiger Prison under the banner of Zhengzi. ”

"The rebels have besieged us for days, and now they have suddenly withdrawn. Dashuai, do they want to fight Luoyang and Tiger Prison? Are we going out of town to pursue? His Royal Highness Luoyang City doesn't have many soldiers and horses there, in case Li Mi really goes to attack Luoyang City, we can't put His Highness in danger. A lieutenant spoke up.

Zhang Zhongjian didn't think so, he muttered: "Although the rebels put us together, the rebels put together temporarily, and there was no tacit understanding. Although they were numerous, they were poorly armed, lacked armor, and had little food. In today's situation, we have few soldiers, but we have a strong city to rely on. Luokou Cangcheng, Tiger Prison and Luoyang are all the strongest cities in the Central Plains. At this time, we should not blindly go out of the city to fight the enemy, but should stick to the city and consume Li Mi and them. We have been waiting for a while, and it has been a while since the Hebei side besieged Dou Jiande. It won't take long to destroy Dou Jiande and go south. And Huainan has been recovered. It will take them a lot of time to get north. As long as we wait until then, Li Mi and other rebels will run out of food and grass, and their morale will be weakened, and when our new reinforcements arrive, they will definitely be able to annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop. ”

Li Jing nodded, the best way to deal with it at this time is, of course, to stick to the city. But Zhang Zhongjian was the defender of Luokou Cangcheng, and he only temporarily retreated into Luokou City. If Zhang Zhongjian really wanted to send troops, Li Jing couldn't stop it. "Marshal Zhang is right, Tiger Prison and Luoyang are both high city fortresses, with few soldiers but strong cities. Li Mi and other rebels can't beat us. Now that they are divided into two places, it is even more unlikely that they will succeed. According to Ben Shuai's opinion, Li Mi and the others were trying to lure us out of the city, and then fight with us in the field. This dang. We can't go on. ”

"However, in case Li Mi really goes to Luoyang City, His Highness will not have many soldiers and horses around him. What's more, now that the Eastern Capital Army has also surrendered to Wang Xuanying and them, this Eastern Capital is their lair, in case they come to join forces with each other, then wouldn't we put His Highness in danger? The other general was still hesitant.

"In case Li Mi really goes to attack Luoyang, then Ben Shuai will personally lead the headquarters to the rescue, and Ben Shuai will bear all the responsibilities. The matter was thus agreed. Needless to say. The generals go back and strengthen their defenses! Li Jing said solemnly.

Night.

Twenty miles away from Luokou Cangcheng, by the Luoshui River, the two rebel armies that retreated separately before dusk gathered here.

On the side of the Luoshui River, where the moon was reflected in the dark night, Wang Xuanying, Li Mi, Huangfu Xiren, Dou Hongxian, Du Ji and others gathered together, all with solemn expressions.

Wait, wait, wait.

"There is no movement in Luokou Cangcheng!" Explore the Malay newspaper.

"There is not the slightest movement in Luokou Cangcheng!" After an hour, the horse was recalled

"Still no movement!" The sky is getting brighter, and the horse will report again.

Silence, silence, silence. Li Mi and the others, who had been waiting by the Luoshui River all night, were all silent.

"We should wait a little longer and send some more men to feint on the Tiger Prison. And try to march to Luoyang. Huangfu Xiren's face was pale and a little discouraged.

None of them answered, and after a while, Wang Xuanying broke the embarrassing silence. …,

"Where is Chen Pojun now?"

"He is still in the Yan Division, and it seems that he is reorganizing the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Capital. I didn't plan to kill it right away. But depending on the situation, there are two or three days at most. It is estimated that he will appear under Luokou City. Li Mi replied a little weakly.

"The plan to lure the enemy has failed." Wang Xuanying sighed and said, "Attack, let's storm Luokou Cangcheng!" ”

Dou Hongxian shook his head and persuaded: "The city is small and solid, if you attack it but don't pull it out, it will damage my army." How can this be done to break its army today? In my opinion, we should take advantage of Chen Pojun's departure from Luoyang to go to Yanshi to attack Chen Kefu, if Chen Pojun is defeated, the Hebei army will be chaotic. ”

Huangfu Xiren, who was clamoring to break Chen Pojun's body into 10,000 pieces yesterday and threw it out to feed the dogs, said with a pale face: "Chen Pojun captured the Yanshi camp and re-incorporated 40,000 Dongdu soldiers, and now is the time when morale is at its peak. He stayed in Yanshi but didn't move forward, and I guess he had set some trap waiting for us to go. Chen Pojun is too cunning, I think it's better for us to attack Luokou Cangcheng. Chen Pojun now has 60,000 soldiers and horses, but Luokou Cangcheng only has 30,000 soldiers and horses, not to mention that if we take Luokou Cangcheng, we will be able to cut off Chen Pojun's grain and grass, and we can solve the problem of grain and grass. ”

Chen Pojun's prestige was like a huge stone pressing on everyone's chests. Everyone wanted to go to war with Chen Pojun, but everyone was like Emperor Fu Xiren, who felt that it was impossible for a cunning person like Chen Pojun to stop in the field and wait for them to fight, he must have set a trap and waited for them to drill. Again, hundreds of thousands of rebels gathered in Luokou, and every day people ate horses and chewed horses, and the grain and grass were almost exhausted.

Without food, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses will be in chaos without a fight.

In the morning, Wang Xuanying ordered the whole army to return to the division and besiege Luokou Cangcheng again. The whole army attacked to capture Luokou Cangcheng before Chen Kefu arrived.

Under Luokou Cangcheng, Zheng's army lined up outside the city and confronted Luokou Cangcheng from a distance.

Li Mi rode on horses with Huangfu Xiren, Dou Hongxian, Du Ji and others. Wang Xuanying looked at the tall Luokou Cangcheng and waved his hand violently: "According to the plan, launch." ”

Li Mi waved his hand, and the drum beat loudly, earth-shattering, from slow to fast. At first, you can hear the drums, and then they all sound out. The drumming suddenly stopped.

Li Jing and Zhang Zhongjian stood at the head of the city, condescendingly watching the hundreds of thousands of rebels.

"Li Shuai expected the enemy prophet, these rebels really wanted to lure us out of the city yesterday." Zhang Zhongjian said to Li Jing with a smile.

The generals of the city looked over, and the rebel army was advancing slowly in a neat formation.

"If they dare to come back, then they don't have to go back." Li Jing looked at the hundreds of thousands of rebel troops under the city, but he was not worried, but looked like he was in control. Slowly brushing his beard, Li Jing's face was calm and light.

To the sound of rumbling cowhide drums, Zheng Jun launched a tidal attack.

Li Jing calmly said to Zhang Zhongjian: "Give them a little bit of power." ”

"Stone-throwing carts and crossbows are ready. Mine-throwing vehicles prepare fire oil bombs and flowering bombs! ”

The soldiers stoned the stone-throwing carts, the crossbows opened under the pull of several men, and the iron arrows as big as axes were aimed outside the city. The soldiers of the engineer battalion carried boxes of pig iron shells, solid shells, fire oil shells and other shells to the city one by one.

The lookout soldier loudly reported the distance: eight hundred paces...... 700 steps...... Six hundred steps...... Five hundred and fifty steps......

Five hundred steps

Three hundred steps

Two hundred steps

One hundred steps

Fifty steps

The commander of the engineer battalion strode to Li Jing and Zhang Zhongjian's side, and reported loudly: "Report to the marshal, the rebels have entered the city, and the engineer battalion requests to ignite the mines that have been laid!" ”

Facing the wind, Li Jing looked at the rebels who poured to the foot of the city like ants and nodded lightly. …,

The engineer battalion commander ran back excitedly and shouted: "Light the mine fuse!" ”

A sapper lit up the fire fold in his hand and lit the fuses one by one. After the rebels withdrew yesterday, Li Jing had already asked the engineer battalion to lay a large number of mines within 500 steps outside the city. However, the production of such trigger-type mines is cumbersome, and there are only a few in the city. Li Jing simply asked the sappers to bury gunpowder bags and clay pots of gunpowder outside the city, and the rebels would never have known that a large amount of gunpowder had already been buried under their feet. At this moment, it is as if they are standing on top of a volcano that is ready to erupt at any time.

"Boom!"

Like a thunderstorm in summer, a burst of fire suddenly exploded at the feet of the rebels under the city, and more than a dozen soldiers who were rushing were blown up into the sky.

Before the rebel soldiers could react, the mines under their feet began to sound one after another, bursts of earth-shattering thunder, and one after another burst of fire. Within 500 steps of the entire Luokou City, it was like a Shura Hell Field.

Stumps fly, human heads splatter, and the air is filled with blood and fire. Bursts of blood mist were reflected in the morning sun, like a bright cloud.

The power of a buried gunpowder bag is not great, but when thousands of gunpowder packets on the battlefield explode at the same time, that scene, that scene, that power, and that result made all Wang Xuanying, Li Mi and others who were watching the battle behind them stunned. They have all fought with the Hebei army, and they all know that the Hebei army has firearms, which are amazingly powerful. But most of the previous experiences were firearms, bombs flying through the air with white smoke, and then landing and exploding. Although the lethality was also very great, but at this time, without warning, countless bombs suddenly exploded from under their feet, enveloping tens of thousands of soldiers in countless flying shrapnel, this kind of scene was something they never expected.

The large scene of a one-time explosion using almost one-third of the gunpowder in the city did not even anticipate the two plans of Li Jing and Zhang Zhongjian. After watching the successive explosions, the rebels under the city were like wheat fields beaten by a torrential rain, and countless soldiers were blown to the ground in pieces, and they were all silent for a while.

"It's against the peace of heaven." After a long time, Li Jingcai sighed and said.

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