—— When Li Jue, the king of Yan, arrived in Luoyang with his army, the sun just rose to a pole's height.

It is the mid-spring season, the weather in Luoyang is still a little cold, the sun is out, and the people are more comfortable, at least all the way to the horse, Li Jue, whose face is numb by the cold wind, feels like this - it is good to have the sun.

He was very tired, he was in a hurry every day, his bones were about to fall apart, and after arriving in Luoyang, he wanted to find a place to lie down and sleep beautifully. But he also knew that this was impossible, the war in Luoyang was still going on, he arrived in Luoyang, and all affairs had to be decided by him, at least on the surface. After he entered the city with Yang Xi, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and other generals who greeted him, he also immediately agreed to Yang Xi's request, and now the main generals are discussing the follow-up situation.

Pang Zhong, Wang Sili, Lu Chongben and other generals had already finished the "feat" of personally leading the army to charge and kill, and came back one after another to report the situation to Yang Xi and ask for the next move.

The massive fighting in the city had subsided, and thousands of rebels had chosen to surrender.

Just kidding, the Tang army has already attacked the city, and the strong and tall walls of Luoyang City may not be able to withstand the attack of the Tang army, but now that the Tang army has entered the city, how can they resist? Even the crown prince An Qingxu and heavyweights such as Yan Zhuang, Gao Shang, Tian Qianzhen, Yin Ziqi and other heavyweights in the DPRK have chosen to cooperate with the Tang Army, and now that the Tang Army has entered the city, in addition to An Lushan's most trusted people, who has the heart to resist?

The generals gave a general report on their respective situations and waited for Li Jue to arrange the next arrangements.

However, Yang Xi knew that Li Jue had never experienced such a big scene, so it was a little difficult for him to arrange the next action, and after the generals reported the situation, he stood up and pleaded: "Your Highness, the last general feels that the only place for the rebels to resist now is the imperial city and south of Luoshui, and most of the rest of the city is occupied by our army. ”

"Hmm, what Marshal Yang said is reasonable!" Li Jue suddenly understood the intention of Yang Xi's words, and after giving a grateful look, he also "decisively" immediately ordered, "That Wang ordered Marshal Yang's department, Marshal Guo's department, and General Li's department to attack the imperial city together, with Marshal Yang as the command!"

"Yes! Respectfully the order of His Royal Highness King Yan!" Yang Xi, Guo Ziyi, and Li Guangbi all went out to answer the order.

Li Jue didn't say anything more, and ordered the generals to prepare.

With Yang Xi in control of the situation, he didn't have anything to worry about, he wanted to find a place to rest, he had been pampered, but he couldn't bear such hard work.

After the generals received the order, they each made preparations, and Li Jue asked Yang Xi to come back, and after giving instructions alone, he was relieved to rest.

For himself, a "biological father", he can't bear the fatigue of the military, and when the war is in full swing, he wants to find a place to rest and nourish his spirit, which is really wonderful, and there are few such people in the world. But he can't force Li Jue to do anything, let this His Royal Highness King Yan go down to rest, and he will continue to work hard for the rest of the matter.

The battle in the city continued, many generals led their men and horses, and were clearing the remnants of the rebels. Because the fighting began at night, when the city of Luoyang was still under curfew, and the people were hiding at home to sleep and rest. The shouts of killing woke up the resting people, but except for a few who dared to sneak out to observe the situation, most of them did not dare to go out of their homes. After daybreak, there was hardly a single civilian in sight in the streets, except for the sergeants running back and forth. This also brought great convenience to the battle, and there was no need to take into account the troubles caused by the people.

Not all the soldiers and horses of the Tang army entered the city, and the Tang army assembled in all directions outside Luoyang City, preparing to attack the city together with the Tang army in the city. The imperial city of Luoyang is located in the west of Luoyang City, and the west gate is the gate leading to the outside of the imperial city, Yang Xi arranged for each 5,000 soldiers to gather outside each gate, of course, the purpose is not to attack the city, but to prevent the rebels from taking advantage of the chaos to open the city gate and escape after the attack begins.

Yang Xi hoped that the battle would be over in one day, so he also arranged the order with great vigor, and the various units quickly assembled.

After entering the city, Pang Zhong and Wang Sili, who had not been addicted to killing, still continued to carry out the task of attacking the imperial city, they knew that this was the last chance to reap the merits of the war, and they were all gearing up to fight again. If you can be the first to rush into the palace, if you can capture or kill An Lushan, it will be a great achievement. Being able to capture and kill other important people is also a great feat.

And Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, who rushed from the north for thousands of miles, have almost never encountered major battles in the city, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers who want to establish military merits is also very good, and they want to compete with Yang Xi's men and horses, and compare which one has stronger combat effectiveness.

Yang Xi has concentrated an absolute superiority of forces to attack the Luoyang Imperial City!

Before noon, a total of 100,000 horses had surrounded the Luoyang Imperial City, and after all the horses and weapons were ready, Yang Xi also decisively gave the order to attack. The attack started from the direction of the east gate, Yang Xi did not take a comprehensive siege method, he concentrated all the mighty general artillery in the direction of the east gate of the imperial city, ready to use the huge power of gunpowder to collapse the east gate city wall for a section, or directly blast open the city gate, after giving the defenders on the city head a great damage, as a breakthrough, forcibly kill into the imperial city, completely break the defensive position of the rebels. Then concentrate on charging in, give the rebels the final blow, and end the battle as soon as possible.

The height of the walls of the Luoyang Imperial City was even higher than that of the outer city walls, and it was more difficult to attack, although Yang Xi knew that the attack of full flowering would definitely be successful, and the less than 100,000 rebels in the imperial city would not be able to withstand the attack of his men, but he did not want to pay too much price. If there are weapons in the army with such great lethality as firearms, let the soldiers pay less.

To the east of the imperial city, a total of 50,000 horses were gathered, including 10,000 horses each of Pang Zhong and Wang Sili under Yang Xi, and 15,000 men and horses of Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi. Yang Xi's arrangement was to let the armies equally share the exploits of the attack on the imperial city, so as to avoid the situation of the soldiers fighting because of the merits of the war. Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi are quite satisfied with this arrangement.

The rebels at the head of the city were already frightened in the face of the large-scale siege of the Tang army, and everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before the Tang army broke through the imperial city, and they could not hold it, but no one dared to say that they would not fight. All the rebel sergeants at the head of the city drew their bows and aimed their arrows at the city, and when the Tang army began to attack, they shot angry arrows into the attacking Tang army's array.

However, the Tang army did not attack immediately after the siege was completed.

Under the nervous gaze of the rebel defenders in the direction of the east gate of the imperial city, about 400 "mighty general cannons" were placed in two columns directly south of the city wall, and an earthen cannon was placed at intervals of about two steps. Yang Xi, Guo Ziyi, and Li Guangbi were only a few steps away from each other on horseback, and after seeing the arrangement stopped, Yang Xi turned his head and said to Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi beside him: "Marshal Guo, General Li, the last general is ready to give the order to attack, and please Marshal Guo and General Li plug their ears so as not to damage the eardrums!"

As he spoke, he plugged his ears on. The huge sound produced by the salvo of many mighty general's cannons for a while is not something that ordinary people can bear, and if you don't do a good job of protection, your eardrums will be shocked and bleed, and even completely deaf. Those ** arsonist sergeants had already plugged their ears, and the other sergeants also covered their ears as ordered.

Guo Ziyi had seen the power of the artillery brought back by Guo Xi, and knew that the sound was very loud when the bombardment was carried out, and he also plugged his ears according to Yang Xi's advice, but Li Guangbi had never seen the power of this crude simple artillery, and he hesitated a little, but in the end, like Yang Xi and Guo Ziyi, he took two earplugs to plug his ears, and at the same time ordered his subordinates to cover their ears as well.

"Ready to shoot!" The "artillery" command, who received Yang Xi's order, calmly gave the order, held high the red flag in his hand, and then immediately waved it vigorously, and the red flag in the hands of several captains from other directions also waved down. As several red flags were waved almost in unison, the sergeant, who had been waiting for the order to attack, had been waiting for the order to attack, and ignited the fuse on the cannon loaded with gunpowder with the fire fold in his hand.

With the sound of a "hissing" fuse burning, a large amount of green smoke came out of the gun positions.

"Boom...... Boom ......" Soon a huge roar sounded, the earth began to tremble, and in the huge black smoke and a cloud of sparks, the explosive bag flew in the direction of the city wall under the action of a huge thrust. Soon, the Tang army, which was lined up to attack, was covered by the black smoke in the sky, and the huge smoke produced by the continuous bombardment obscured the sky, and even the sun could not be seen. Soon, a huge explosion was heard in the direction of the city, and the explosive packets that fell on the city walls exploded with great lethality, knocking down a large number of rebel sergeants near the explosion point.

In the binoculars, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, who saw the power of artillery, both showed shocked looks.

However, they soon lost sight of the situation, and the continuous huge explosions not only greatly killed and injured the rebels at the top of the city, but also obscured the situation at the top of the city with thick smoke from the explosions. In the tremor of the earth-shaking mountains, the follow-up explosives were continuously sent to the city, producing a huge explosion, and the stone-throwing machine also began to work, sending the ignited explosives to the city.

Yang Xi thought of the thrilling scene of large-scale artillery salvo fire in the war situation in later generations, and really did not expect that this kind of scene also appeared in the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, and he believed that the historians who studied this period of history in the future would be surprised.

However, he did not wait, and when the artillery was still bombarding, and the catapult was still throwing explosive bags, he gave the order to attack the death squad waiting on the side. With the order, nearly two hundred daredevils, more than half of them were holding explosive bags, and some of them were holding ladders and rushed towards the moat. (To be continued.) )