Chapter 312: Attack and Defense
Thousands of Sun Jian's army could not have done much under the strong impact of Lu Bu's army, and they were finally annihilated, no one escaped, most of them were killed, and a few were captured. However, the half-day struggle of this lone army also made Lu Bujun very admirable, Zhang Lang ordered people to bury those dead soldiers alive, and let people take good care of those injured soldiers.
Zhang Lang stood on the city wall and looked at the sky to the north, his brows furrowed, and he was very worried in his heart. There has been no news from the north for so many days, Zhang Lang is very worried in his heart, I don't know what the situation in Luoyang is?
Zhuge Liang came to Zhang Lang's side, hugged his fists and said, "Lord." β
Zhang Lang came back to his senses, glanced at Zhuge Liang, and asked, "Is the situation of the people in Fancheng okay?" β
Zhuge Liang replied: "A notice has been posted to reassure the people, General Yan Xing is caring for the people, and the people's feelings are very stable, so the lord can rest assured." β
Zhang Lang nodded, looked to the north again, frowned, and took a deep breath.
Zhuge Liang asked, "The lord is worried about the affairs of Luoyang?" β
Zhang Lang nodded, "I can't help but worry!" β
Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "Don't worry too much! Just now, General Ma Chao sent someone to summon the news, Nanyang is only defended by 20,000 Cao troops, which shows at least two points, one is that the Cao army did not capture Luoyang, and the other is that the Cao army did not expect us to counterattack so quickly and capture Jingzhou! I will immediately assemble all the assault cavalry, leave Nanyang alone, enter the Sili area at full speed, and strive to carry out a large-scale assault on the flank of the Cao army before it can react, even if it cannot defeat the Cao army, it will force its attack to stop! β
Zhang Lang thought for a while and nodded, "Okay, just do it." Looking at Zhuge Liang, "Immediately tell Meng Qi that I will command all the commandos to come over to meet him, and ask him not to fight Nanyang's idea, and wait for me on the bank of the Luoshui River." β
"Yes."
Zhang Lang continued: "I will hand over the infantry army and the armored iron cavalry of the Longtao army to you, you lead the army north to advance into Nanyang, be sure to capture Nanyang in the shortest possible time, and then come over to meet me." β
"Yes."
The gaze turned to Nanyang.
Li Dian, the general of Nanyang, was shocked when he found that a large number of Ma Chao's turquoise cavalry suddenly appeared around Nanyang City, and immediately came down to the city wall to defend in order to deal with the unexpected. However, after a short time, the cavalry did not attack the city, but surged towards the north.
Li Dian immediately realized Lu Bujun's intentions, and immediately called the herald, ordering him to immediately go to the prime minister's camp to report the situation here to the prime minister. The herald ordered you to go and ran straight north to the Luo River, but when you arrived near the Luo River, you found that Lu Bu's army had firmly controlled all the crossings of the Luo River. The herald had no choice but to give up his plan to enter Sili from the Luo River and instead make a detour to the Xuanyuan Mountain area in the east.
About half a day later, Zhang Lang led 50,000 turquoise cavalry to the bank of the Luoshui River, where he joined the 90,000 Ma Chao army that had arrived earlier, and the 140,000 turk cavalry immediately began to cross the river.
Eyes turned to Luoyang.
The majestic city of Luoyang is surrounded by boundless and endless waves. The black wave is the torrent of Cao's army, which is storming Luoyang from the north, east, and south. The roar is earth-shattering, the rain of arrows covers the sky and the sun, the assault troops continue to attack along the ladder, the defenders desperately throw down the rolling stones and trees, several places in the city have fallen into a bloody battle, the soldiers on both sides fight to the death for the city, the sword light flies, the blood flies, and the eyes are full of bloody battles, everyone is crazy, everyone seems to have become a beast, and swear to tear the opponent apart with weapons and minions!
The attack of the Cao army was even more fierce than three days ago, and some time ago, the 100,000 assault infantry carefully trained by the Cao army according to the methods of the Lu Bu army were used as the vanguard of the attack, which caused great pressure on the defenders. The only ones in their hands who could compete one-on-one with these Cao troops were the soldiers of the Luoyang Legion, but this army had already suffered a lot of casualties in the fierce battle of the Tiger Prison Pass before! Now, after a few days of vicious warfare, the soldiers have shrunk, and now these soldiers are not enough on the city wall at all!
Those militia troops mobilized from Guanzhong and Xiliang, although they were very brave after the baptism of war, but they were a little weak against the elite of the Cao army, and they often outnumbered the other party, but they couldn't resist the opponent's attack! As a result, the Luoyang Legion, which has a small number of people, is rushing back and forth like a firefighting team!
Huang Yueying, dressed in military uniform, stood at the highest point in the city and watched the changes on the battlefield on three sides.
The situation on the battlefield is gradually developing in an unfavorable direction, and all fronts are in danger. In Huang Yueying's place, it can be clearly seen that there are fierce battles on the sandy city wall, and the soldiers on both sides are constantly throwing themselves into the battlefield, and the city wall is like a meat grinder constantly devouring lives.
Huang Yueying frowned, the battle situation deteriorated far faster than she expected, she originally expected that it would not be until the tenth day to get to today's situation, but four days actually arrived, Cao Jun's combat power nose had obviously increased a lot!
Huang Yueying thought for a moment, and ordered to the herald beside herald: "Sue General Huang, attack immediately and counterattack Cao's army!" β
The herald answered and ran down.
A moment later, Huang Yueying, who was standing on a high place, saw that on the main street west of Luoyang City, the cavalry tide was surging towards the city gate. 100,000 cavalrymen, wearing goose-winged helmets on their heads, wearing heart armor, capes on their shoulders, spears in their hands, bows and arrows hanging on the side of their saddles, galloping like a tide, and their momentum is like a rainbow.
Outside the west city, Cao Jun, who was storming the city, suddenly saw the city gate open, and then saw 100,000 war cavalry surging out.
The 100,000 cavalry divided into two groups and swept away to the left and right sides, with the cavalry in the middle rushing and killing with their horses, and the cavalry on both sides firing with bows and arrows. Cao's siege forces were in disarray, with countless casualties. Cao's cavalry immediately attacked, trying to stop LΓΌ Bu's cavalry.
However, the cavalry of the Lu Bu army did not engage in battle, and after sweeping from the battlefield, they went to the north gate and the south gate respectively, and the cavalry of the Cao army rushed behind, but Qi Yu Su zhì was not as good as the Lu Bu army after all, and could not catch up at all.
The hussars entered the Cao army outside the north and south gates respectively, swept towards the city gate, the iron cavalry rushed to kill, the arrows flew wildly, and the originally rigorous siege formation was rushed to pieces. Immediately afterwards, the hussars rushed into the city from the south gate and the north gate. Before Cao's cavalry arrived, the city gate slammed shut.
The original vigorous siege posture stopped, and there was chaos outside the three walls, and the generals of the various armies were reorganizing their ranks.