Chapter 398: Into Luoyang
"Huluoyang City has finally arrived!"
Pang Gang looked at the city gate that had just been closed, and breathed a long sigh of relief, the situation just now was really thrilling, he led the team of his own soldiers to the rear of the palace was almost broken, and finally relied on the rapid fire of the Minnie gun to repel these crazy hungry people.
At this time, there was a commotion from the front, and Shi Bowen, the captain of Pang Gang's personal army, came over to report and said: "Lord Qiyu, the governor of Henan, Liu Yuliang, Lu Weiqi, Li Xianfeng and other adults have come to greet your lord with all the officials of Luoyang. ”
"Oh!" Pang Gang fixed his eyes and saw that a group of people came in front of him, Lu Weiqi and Li Xianfeng were accompanying a middle-aged man of medium height, slightly fat, and with a Chinese face, this middle-aged man was wearing a vermilion official robe, and a lifelike crane was embroidered on the complement of the official robe, which proved the identity of this official from an official position above the first grade.
Pang Gang understood that the person who came must be Liu Yuliang, the governor of Henan who is now in the military and political affairs of Henan.
Pang Gang walked forward quickly, came to the other party and arched his hand: "The last general, Pang Gang, has just seen the governor!" ”
It stands to reason that Pang Gang, the chief military officer from the second rank, should kneel and bow when he sees the senior officer from the first rank, but Pang Gang has already turned his face with the court, so naturally he doesn't want to suffer from this broken rule anymore, so he just gave up. Naturally, Pang Gang's actions also aroused the dissatisfaction of some officials in front of him, and an official with a tiger and leopard costume embroidered on his chest on his chest was glaring, and he wanted to scold this guy who didn't know how to be polite, but he was vaguely pulled his sleeves by the people around him, and then he closed his mouth stupidly.
Although Pang Gang looked very weak, the person who came took a few steps forward as if he hadn't seen it and smiled: "Eh, this must be General Pang, this official is Liu Yuliang, the governor of Henan, General Pang has worked hard from afar." ”
Seeing that Liu Yuliang was able to surrender his identity to please himself, Pang Gang naturally knew the reason, and while admiring the other party's ability to bend and stretch, he also despised the other party's cowardice.
Since the other party gave him such a big face, Pang Gang naturally couldn't help but go around, and he also piled up a smile and a snake tail with the other party, and the atmosphere between the two sides was surprisingly harmonious for a while.
After the two sides exchanged pleasantries, Liu Yuliang smiled and said: "General Pang, you came from afar to let the soldiers from Shandong rest, but the situation is urgent."
Pang Gang interrupted the other party with a smile without taking the other party to finish speaking: "What did Lord Liu say, the last general didn't come to rest this time, the thieves haven't retreated, how can they rest lightly, the last general immediately ordered the sergeant to go to the city wall to defend the city." ”
Seeing Pang Gang "on the road" like this, Liu Yuliang and all the officials around him couldn't help but be overjoyed, and even the military general who was originally a little dissatisfied with Pang Gang's rudeness couldn't help but glance at Pang Gang with unexpected eyes.
Seeing the joy in everyone's eyes, Pang Gang secretly sneered, but said in his mouth: "Okay, without further ado, let's go up to the city wall to have a look!" ”
Liu Yuliang also laughed and said, "Okay, huge people, please!" ”
After everyone went up to the city wall together, Pang Gang squinted his eyes and carefully looked at this ancient city known as the thousand-year-old Yanjing, but he didn't know it, and he was really startled when he saw it.
When Pang Gang was under the city just now, Pang Gang only saw the majesty of the Luoyang city wall, and now he feels its majesty even more when he goes to the city wall.
The circumference of the city wall of Luoyang is about twenty-three miles, and the wall is covered with blue bricks, and the wall height reaches four zhang high. What impressed Pang Gang was the majestic tower on the city gate, as well as the numerous probes and battlements on the city wall, as well as many perfect city defense equipment.
After Pang Gang went to the city wall, Liu Yuliang, who was in a good mood, personally introduced to him the defense situation on the city, Luoyang City has a total of 39 horse faces, and there are enemy towers on the horse face to look at the enemy's situation. The horses were each dozens of paces apart, and the besieging enemy was within the range of the city's weapons, forming a network of crossfire on the front and sides.
The four corners of the castle also have corner towers and corner towers, which have a wide field of vision, and can monitor and attack attacking enemies from various angles. The four city gates are also built with urn cities, making Luoyang City extremely strong. As long as the defenders use a little bit of effort, it is impossible to break through such a majestic city without perfect siege equipment and more than ten times the elite soldiers, and pay a heavy price.
Pang Gang estimated that as long as he had 10,000 soldiers, with Li Zicheng's army without artillery, he would give them a year to take this Xiongcheng.
After visiting the city, Pang Gang ordered Wang Zhi to lead 4,000 soldiers to be stationed on the four city walls, and the rest of the men and horses were ready to enter the city and set up camp.
Pang Gang and Liu Yuliang and their party went down the city wall and were about to go to the camp, when suddenly there was a commotion in front of them.
This made Liu Yuliang, as the master, very embarrassed, and his face sank suddenly, "Come on, quickly send someone to find out what's going on?" It's making a lot of noise here! ”
After a while, someone came to report, saying that the people of Luoyang City heard that the Shandong army had come to support, and specially greeted the army outside the east gate.
Liu Yuliang's face instantly softened after hearing this, and he said to Pang Gang with a smile: "General Pang, since it is the sincere heart of the people of Luoyang, you see"
"Hahaha" Pang Gang smiled heartily: "Don't worry, Lord Governor, why is Pang so disruptive, since the people of Luoyang want to watch our army so much, just let them see it." ”
After speaking, Pang Gang turned his head to the generals behind him and said: "Soldiers, cheer up, let the blind dates in Luoyang City see our demeanor, and enter the city now!" ”
After listening to Pang Gang's words, all the officers who were originally standing behind Pang Gang returned to their ranks and began to organize their ranks.
"All line up and enter the city!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa"
In addition to the 4,000 foot soldiers who had already gone up to the city wall, the remaining 6,000 foot soldiers, as well as more than 1,000 of Pang Gang's personal soldiers and the soldiers of the baggage battalion and artillery battalion, lined up one after another, and they walked towards Luoyang City with neat steps.
When the sergeants marched into the city in a neat queue, Pang just shouted: "Soldiers, all sing!" ”
Immediately, an officer stood up from the queue and sang loudly: "You don't see you, the Han Dynasty, the weak crown is the captive, please be long." ”
With the officer's singing, thousands of soldiers also sang in unison: "You don't see, Ban Dingyuan, the Peerless Light Cavalry is urging the battle clouds!" The boy should be in serious danger, how can he let the Confucian crown miss this life? The situation is that the country is in danger, and the feather is constantly fighting! Abandon my old pen and write my wartime money"
The people of Luoyang, who were distributed on the road to watch the excitement, listened to the passionate singing, and they couldn't help but be stupid
(To be continued)