In Hua'an's Chinese army tent, the generals Deng Qiang, Zhuge Xiong, Wang San and others arrived in Qi successively and waited for Hua'an's arrival.

Hua An walked into the big tent of the Chinese army, and when he saw that all the generals had arrived, he said: "Generals, in the area of Luoyang, there are hundreds of large and small cities, and there are hundreds of large and small forces. ”

"Big brother, Luoyang City is not far away, our army will occupy Luoyang immediately, as for the other cities, when our army has gained a firm foothold near Luoyang, we can clean up one by one in the future, why hesitate." Wang San said loudly.

"Yes! The generals, the garrison generals of Yanshou City, Yanshi City and other dozens of cities have sent letters to surrender to our army, and half of them are willing to surrender to Kaicheng and join our army, and will obey the general's dispatch in the future, and the rest are willing to help our army continue to defend the city. Zhuge Xiong hurriedly said.

Hua An nodded and said softly: "Those who are willing to open the city and surrender and are willing to obey the command of the general are all sincere surrenders, and those who want to continue to garrison the city must have other plans!" ”

"The general is right, however, our army has just arrived in the Central Plains, the foundation is not stable, and the people here do not know much about our army. Deng Qiang built yì road.

"Very good, your thoughts are basically the same as Ben General, although our army has an absolute advantage, but before stabilizing the foundation. It is better not to provoke too many enemies, and to unite all the forces that can be united. Hua An said softly.

Wang San thought for a while, looked at Hua An, and said softly: "Big brother, now Luoyang City is dilapidated, and what occupies Luoyang City is a Hu army defeated by Ran Min, with less than 5,000 soldiers and horses, and it is not an opponent of our army at all. Luoyang City will be taken. ”

Hua'an naturally believed in Wang San's ability. However, in order to reduce casualties as much as possible, Hua'an decided to let Deng Qiang lead the main army of 30,000 to attack Luoyang, with a six-fold superiority in troops. Gain an absolute advantage over the enemies defending the city. It is better to surrender without a fight. Let the Hu soldiers choose to surrender or evacuate Luoyang.

In the northeast of Luoyang, there is an important city of Chenggao, which is also occupied by Hu soldiers and horses. and unwilling to surrender to the Jin army, the geographical location of Chenggao City is extremely important, and the nearby is Chenggao Pass, control the Chenggao Pass, you can control the throat of the Central Plains, since ancient times for the soldiers to fight.

Chenggao Pass is bordered by the Yellow River in the north and west, and there are deep streams in the south and east, which is an easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult to conquer without several times the number of troops.

Hua'an's goal was to attack in two directions, so that Deng Qiang would lead 30,000 main forces to attack Luoyang, while Hua'an himself would lead Wang San and Zhuge Xiong with a total of 20,000 main forces to go east along the Yellow River, attack Chenggao Pass, and seize Chenggao Pass, the most important pass in the Central Plains, to prepare for the formation of strategic superiority in the next step.

After the plan was decided, Hua'an left 50,000 reserve troops to garrison in Heyin City, and left a large number of logistics materials here, and then led 20,000 main forces to kill Chenggao Pass by land and water, and at the same time, the 30,000 main troops and horses led by Deng Qiang also went to Luoyang City by land.

The main army of Hua'an is divided into two routes, attacking Chenggao Pass and Luoyang City respectively, and the reserve army is staying in Heyin City, so that the arrangement can ensure that the most important strategic points in the Central Plains can be taken at the same time, and at the same time, the reserve army can stay in Heyin City, which can also make the main army have no worries, so that you can rest assured and boldly seize the strategic points of the Central Plains.

In just one day, the Deng Qiang army that attacked Luoyang by land arrived at Luoyang City, and immediately launched an attack on Luoyang City, Deng Qiang was extremely brave, and commanded 30,000 Guanzhong Legions, all of which were elite soldiers and horses, but for attacking the city, the cavalry was not good at it, so the enemy army defending Luoyang City was not very worried.

However, the enemy army obviously underestimated the strength of the Deng Qiang army, and although this 30,000-strong army was all cavalry, it carried a secret weapon, a secret weapon that could blow open the city gates.

Under Luoyang City, Deng Qiang carefully observed for a moment, decided to attack from the four city gates at the same time, and asked each besieging team to capture Luoyang City in the shortest possible time.

Deng Qiang personally led the main force of 15,000 cavalry, lined up the siege formation in the direction of the north gate, and immediately launched an attack as soon as the time of preparation came.

"General, the hour is almost up, and you can attack." The general reminded softly.

Deng Qiang nodded and said loudly: "Order, the army will attack immediately and break through Luoyang City." ”

"Knock knock......" In order to boost morale, the drums of the march sounded in the military formation.

The 2,000 cavalry at the forefront of the "...... Kill" immediately rode out and went straight to the moat.

At the eastern, western, and southern gates of Luoyang City, the partial division under Deng Qiang also launched a fierce attack, and also adopted the method of cavalry assault and siege.

The enemy army defending Luoyang City, seeing thousands of cavalry under the city riding horses, can't help but feel very strange, since ancient times to attack a strong city, must rely on a large number of siege equipment, with cavalry siege city, it is really unheard of.

I saw that these cavalrymen had a very clear division of labor, some of them were in groups of people, carrying ladders, some of them carrying shields that were strong enough to resist arrows, some of them were equipped with black powder bags, and some were carrying large wooden planks.

When they arrived at the perimeter of the moat, the crossbowmen on the city wall continuously lowered their arrows, and the cavalrymen holding shields used their shields to provide reliable safety for their comrades behind them.

After a large number of cavalry rushed to the edge of the moat, a group of soldiers responsible for transporting the ladder immediately threw the ladder to the moat, and a large number of simple ladders set up simple bridges on the moat.

This qiē was carried out under the rain of arrows of the enemy army on the city wall, and for this reason, many soldiers fell into the moat with arrows, and of course there were many soldiers who were seriously injured and lightly injured.

After the improvised bridge was erected, the shield soldiers and the soldiers carrying the explosives packs, in pairs, quickly crossed the bridge and headed straight for the city gate, where they had to blast a large hole in the city gate in the shortest possible time, so that the main cavalry could enter the city.

Seeing the Guanzhong army approaching, the defenders on the city wall threw rolling wood and stones downward, causing great losses to the attacking soldiers, but there were still many soldiers who rushed into the city gate hole and piled up explosive packs, ready to blow up the city gate.

As soon as Qiē was ready, the soldiers who attacked the city gate cave immediately lit the fuse and quickly exited the city gate hole.

......With a loud bang, the gate of Luoyang City was blown open, and huge smoke came out from both sides of the city gate.

Seeing that the city gate had been blown open, Deng Qiang stretched out his hand and ordered: "The whole army will attack immediately, enter Luoyang City, and rush to the ......" After speaking, he took the lead and rushed in the direction of Luoyang City.

"Killing ......" more than 10,000 cavalry rushed up and rushed to the gate of Luoyang City.

Deng Qiang led his cavalry, followed the simple bridge, and rushed into the city gate, and then easily entered the city of Luoyang.

Same as the direction of the north gate, the soldiers of the rest of the city gates, also broke through the city gate along the way, and killed Luoyang City, seeing the Jin army soldiers rushing into the city one after another, the enemy soldiers who defended the city, they were all dumbfounded, they couldn't believe that this was true, at this moment, Luoyang has been unable to defend, the enemy soldiers, some surrendered to the Jin army, and some gathered together, resisting stubbornly on the streets of Luoyang City, intending to kill a bloody road and escape from Luoyang City.

Before attacking the city, he had already ordered his soldiers to leave 500 men to defend the city gate and cut off the enemy's escape path.

The stubborn enemy soldiers probably never dreamed that Luoyang City could be breached in such a short period of time, and that the four city gates were breached at the same time, and they had no way to escape.

Seeing that there were still some enemy soldiers who were stubbornly resisting, Deng Qiang issued an order to completely annihilate the enemy, and personally led his personal guards to rush to various streets to fight with the stubborn enemy soldiers in the corner.

After several hours of purging, the stubborn enemy soldiers in Luoyang City were basically cleared, and Luoyang City was restored to peace.

But the Luoyang City captured by Deng Qiang's army is an empty scale, but very dilapidated city, there are many houses in the city, but there are not many people living in it, even the former palace, are dilapidated, without the royal momentum.

After Deng Qiang took control of Luoyang City, he sent his henchmen to report the situation to Hua'an, and on the other hand, he ordered his soldiers to firmly control the four city gates, and sent heavy troops to patrol the streets of the city to prevent turmoil in the city.

There are many idle empty houses in the city, so for convenience, Deng Qiang let his army live in these empty houses and use these empty houses as military camps.

The news of Deng Qiang's capture of Luoyang City was delivered to Hua'an at the first time, and at this moment, Hua'an's 20,000 main army had not yet arrived at Chenggao Pass.

Hearing such happy news, Hua'an and his soldiers were excited, and made up their minds that they must quickly break through Chenggao Pass and must not lose to Deng Qiang.

"Big brother, Chenggao Pass is not far away, our army can arrive this evening, and if we launch an attack in the middle of the night, we will definitely be able to break through the pass." Wang San said impatiently.

"General, Luoyang has been broken by Deng Qiang, and Chenggao Pass can't wait too long, it's completely feasible to break through the pass tonight." Zhuge Xiong also clenched his fists and asked for his life. (To be continued......)