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"Attack like thunder, defend like a rock!" Li Qing was very satisfied with the performance of the Dingzhou Army's Fengli Division and the Violent Bear Battalion in today's two battles, especially at night, when he cleanly defeated the more than 10,000 enemy troops who came to steal the camp, and followed the opponent's rout, he captured several positions along the way, and advanced about one and a half miles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Starting tomorrow, the other three cities will also start to attack and maintain a certain intensity, so that Luoyang City will not be able to form large-scale reinforcements on Zhan Degong's side, so that it will be conducive to Zhan Degong to control the entire southern city." Li Qing pointed to the map behind him and said.

"Yes!" All the generals said excitedly, although they have achieved good results today, but it is not themselves who are in the limelight after all, and tomorrow, all fronts will attack at the same time, and they must maintain a certain intensity.

"Guo Quan, Wei Xin, give us two days to take the outer positions of the southern city and break through to the moat." Li Qing looked at the two generals.

"Guaranteed to arrive on time!" The two generals, Huo Di, stood up.

Beginning on the 8th of September, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Dingzhou army began to attack from all sides, and the smoke of gunpowder rose on the periphery of Luoyang, although they tried their best to block, it was still difficult to resist the Dingzhou army advancing step by step, seeing that the peripheral defenders could not resist the strong attack of the Dingzhou army, Luoyang City began to consciously shrink its forces, and retreated its troops to Luoyang City step by step, and began to give up the defense of the periphery. And prepare to resist with the tall and steep walls of Luoyang City.

Nancheng was the first to abandon the outlying positions, and at noon on September 10, the Dingzhou army had already advanced beyond the moat by Wang Zhen's division.

The sandbags piled up like a mountain outside the city make people tremble, that is the Dingzhou army in order to fill the moat and prepare, the Luoyang moat is more than 20 meters wide, all the bridges that originally connected the two sides of the moat were all destroyed after the Luoyang soldiers withdrew to the city, the Dingzhou army wanted to rush through the moat and attack Luoyang City directly, the first step was to break through the moat.

Inspect the defenses of the outer city, and take advantage of the time to return to your dwelling. Seeing Xie Ke smiling and sitting in the middle of the room, he couldn't help but be startled. Signal the henchmen to guard the door. He stepped through the door and turned back to close the door. Reproachfully, "What are you doing here?" Not afraid of arousing suspicion? ”

Xie Ke smiled. "I'm a squire from the Ministry of Works, but this time I'm here to inspect the city's defensive facilities in order to deploy supplies, etc., but I didn't come here casually."

Zhan Degong breathed a sigh of relief and sat down next to Xie Ke, "When will you do it?" ”

"Tonight!" Xie Ke raised his head.

Zhan Degong was taken aback, "Tonight? Even if I open the gates here, how will you cross the river over there? The moat is more than 20 meters wide, how do you cross the river on a large scale? ”

"It's a simple thing for us!" Xie Ke said: "You just need to open the city gate at the third watch tonight." Once the gates are opened, your task is to restrain your troops and keep them honest. ”

"The city of the south gate is broken, and the other sides will definitely send troops to fight back at the first time, without my army, can you hold the city? Zhan Degong asked suspiciously.

"General Zhan's Kaicheng uprising, the credit is already big enough, you have to give some soup to the Dingzhou generals outside, otherwise you will do everything, the generals outside have no credit to take, and they will inevitably hold a grudge against you." Xie Ke half-truths and half-truths.

Knowing that the other party must have another arrangement, he is noncommittal, if he doesn't use his own soldiers to fight, of course it's good, his soldiers are all locals, and Guo Fengxian's army is very familiar with each other, and if they really turn against each other, it's really hard to say what the result will be?

"At the time of the third watch, the gate of the south city, the three small gates will be opened at the same time." Take the credit.

The 6,000 soldiers of the Tiger Battalion lurked quietly in the darkness, carrying with them a large number of things to prepare for crossing the river, in addition to their weapons.

Just after the second watch, in the agreed place in the city, a burning incense head drew three circles in the air, and Qian Duo, who had long been unable to rely on his temperament, jumped up and roared: "Cross the river!" ”

The soldiers of the Tiger Battalion jumped up and rushed to the moat, and the first to rush to the river were soldiers carrying wooden cages, dragging these cages, and the soldiers jumped down the river without hesitation.

The soldiers in the back kept rushing over, either hugging or carrying the iron pillars one by one. With the sound of Kaka, one by one the iron pillars were placed on the cage, in an instant, the two iron pillars were connected to the two banks, and the soldiers behind rushed up with a piece of iron plate, put the iron plate on the cage, and riveted the iron pillar and the iron plate on the cage one by one.

At the same time, seven or eight groups of the same work were being started at the same time.

As the three people in close proximity were pushed together by the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion and riveted, a pontoon bridge about ten meters wide appeared above the moat.

On the city, Zhan Degong watched in amazement as the Dingzhou soldiers under the city had built several such pontoon bridges over the moat in less than a pillar of incense, and the first batch of infantry had already rushed across the bridges.

The city gate had been wide open, and watching the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion rushing into the city, Xie Ke smiled and turned to Zhan Degong, "General Zhan, why don't we two go and have a few drinks?" ”

Zhan Degong smiled bitterly, "Is there anything else I can do?" Let's go, go have a few drinks. Xie Ke laughed and took Zhan Degong's hand and walked away.

The Tiger Battalion quickly took over the southern city, and outside the city, the sound of rapid horse hooves rang out overwhelmingly, and the first to leap into the city was the Changsheng Battalion, the symbol of Dingzhou.

The Tiger Battalion rushed up the city wall, quickly controlled the key passes, and all the weapons such as the Eight Bull Crossbows, Crossbow Arrows and other weapons aimed at the outside of the city were all switched to a different direction, and when they saw the cavalry of the Changsheng Battalion leaping into the city, Qian Duoha laughed, "Come on, send a signal, in the other three directions, you can attack!" ”

A firework soars into the air and blooms into a beautiful flower.

The various departments of Dingzhou, which had long been ready, launched an attack on Luoyang City almost at the same time.

Guo Feng first woke up to the sound of war drums in his dream, he had been busy all day during the day, and he had just rested, and in a daze, he jumped up, and his own soldiers had already rushed into the room, "General, the Dingzhou army has begun to attack." ”

When Guo Fengxian rushed to the head of the city, he saw the offensive formation of the Dingzhou army, and immediately gasped, the opponent was launching a general attack, on the opposite bank of the moat, under the reflection of the firelight, rows of black hole guns were holding their heads high, aiming at the head of the city, and the infantry were carrying steel beams one by one, wooden cages, falling to the moat.

The steel knife in Yang's hand fell heavily.

"Open the cannon, the general offensive begins!"

"Fire!"

In front of the battle, hundreds of Shenwei cannons burst into flames at the same time, and a deafening loud sound resounded through the night sky.

"General be careful!" The soldiers behind him swooped up, knocking Guo Fengxian to the ground, several people pressed on him, and the cannonballs fell on the city wall, sweeping everything they touched, and the towering city tower was cut off a whole layer in a moment. Guo Fengxian felt a warm liquid flowing down the back of his head, reached out and touched it, and when he saw it, it was blood. Several of his own soldiers got up and dragged the other one away, and a spear that had been blown off was stuck in the man's head, and if he deviated a little, he would have stabbed Guo Fengxian to death on the spot.

"General, hurry up!" One of the soldiers shouted, "There will be a second round of bombardment on the horses." ”

Guo Feng first pushed away his own soldiers, rushed to the city wall, ignored the cannonballs flying over his head again, opened his eyes wide, and watched the Dingzhou soldiers who rushed over under the cover of artillery fire quickly set up an iron bridge on the moat, and it was in this short moment that their bridge had extended to the center of the moat.

"Fight, prepare to fight!" Guo Fengxian roared loudly.

Seeing Guo Fengxian standing by the wall, the Luoyang soldiers, who were about to turn around to find a place to hide, plucked up their courage again, turned back, operated the eight-ox crossbow, and the trebuchet began to attack the Dingzhou soldiers who crossed the river.

With the bombardment of Shenwei artillery, the city suffered heavy losses, but because Guo Fengxian insisted on being on the front line, the Luoyang soldiers behind still braved the artillery fire and rushed to the city endlessly, desperately attacking the soldiers crossing the river.

Large-scale casualties began to occur among the Dingzhou soldiers in the river. Whenever the artillery bombardment was in between, the Luoyang soldiers stood up and desperately poured arrow rain down the city.

"General, General Guo, it's not good!" A general ran over with a rolling belt, knelt beside Guo Fengxian, and said loudly: "Nancheng is broken, Nancheng is broken!" ”

"What did you say, what's wrong with Nancheng?" Guo Fengxian asked loudly amid the roaring artillery fire.

"The southern city is broken, and the Dingzhou army has entered the city!"

Guo Fengxian was stunned for a moment, "What are you fartting?" Even if the opponent has a divine cannon, how can Luoyang City be so easily breached. ”

"It wasn't the opponent who broke it!" The general cried out: "Zhan Degong has surrendered, he has opened the city gates, the Dingzhou cavalry has entered the city, and the massive cavalry is cutting off the communication between us and other friendly forces!" ＂

"Zhan Degong surrendered? Guo Fengxian looked at the other party in a daze, at this time, in the interval between the roar of the cannonballs, he could vaguely hear the thunderous sound of horses' hooves in the city, and the slogan of the Dingzhou army Wansheng was even more clearly audible.

The fingernails were deeply embedded in the palm of the hand, and the blood was directly pinched out, I don't know that an ancestor once said that if Luoyang was broken, it must have been broken from the inside, for thousands of years, this has really become an iron law, and it has been fulfilled again today.

"Retreat, retreat to the Imperial City!" Guo Fengxian roared angrily and strode towards the city.

The Dingzhou army under the city obviously also knew the news that the city had been broken, and Yun shouted and rushed to the iron bridge that had been built, swarming across the river. (To be continued)