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Chapter 993: Dingzhou Soldiers, Forward! （2）

The important generals of the enemy have won the merit and surrendered, which basically means that the Dingzhou army does not need to pay much more losses to capture the dangerous and difficult Luoyang City. That's thousands of lives!

"How much military power do you have in your hands now? How much can he actually control? Li Qing suppressed his excitement and asked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Zhan Degong now has about 80,000 troops under his command, he can absolutely control about half of the loyal to him, the other 40,000 are all allocated to him from the Royal Forest Army and the newly recruited army in the near future, and there is no guarantee that they can follow Zhan Degong in this uprising, so Zhan Degong will gradually deploy these 40,000 troops to the defensive positions outside the city, so that they can be gradually consumed in our attack, when we approach the city of Luoyang, he will only have soldiers who are absolutely loyal to him, and at that time Kaesong surrenders, Easy as pie. Hu Dongdao.

"Good!" Li Qing slapped his face, "It seems that our deployment is indeed going to change." Hu Dong, can Xie Ke guarantee that this merit is a sincere surrender? ”

Hu Dong nodded and said: "Yes, in order to express his sincerity to us, Zhan Degong agreed that we have placed a group of people around his family, if he dares to rebel, then we can destroy his family at the first time!" A hint of murder flashed in Hu Dong's eyes.

Li Qing looked at Lu Dalin, Chen Zeyue and the others, "The troops that were previously arranged to prepare for the attack on the East Gate are suspended, Guo Quan!" ”

"The last general!" Guo Quanhuo stood up.

"From your Feng Li Division, plus Wei Xin's Violent Bear Battalion, supplemented by Lu Dabing's Red Cavalry, to attack the position outside the South Gate City controlled by Zhan Degong, and clear the outer line of the South Gate as soon as possible!"

"Yes!" The three generals who had only caught the feint attack mission before were overjoyed, jumped up on the ground, and answered the order loudly, looking at Hu Dong's eyes.

And Xiong Dehai, Jiang Heiniu, and Qian Duo's eyes are more annoyed and annoyed, in the blink of an eye, the old hen turned into a duck, and the fat in her mouth flew again, and now it was their turn to feint.

"Lots of money?" Li Qing's eyes swept over the corners with his teeth grinding, and his hateful eyes swept over Hu Dong's body.

"The last general!" was wondering if waiting for the account to be released was one more agitation for Hu Dong's money, so he jumped up and stood up straight.

"After your tiger battalion quietly maneuvered to Fengli Division, the battle outside the south gate will not be easy, Guo Quan and Wei Xin will have to face tens of thousands of enemy troops, and after laying down the peripheral positions, their own losses will not be small, at this time, once you have the merit of the city, you must pounce as quickly as possible, control the south gate, and cover the large forces of our army to protrude in the city."

"Yes!" Qian Duo suddenly smiled, and the idea of beating Hu Dong's stuffy stick just now immediately turned into a military discussion, and after that, he wanted to pull this cute guy to have a few drinks to express his gratitude.

"Changsheng Battalion, Whirlwind Battalion, Yizhou Battalion, after the Tiger Battalion controls the south gate of Xin, immediately rush into the city, don't care about the battle on the city wall, just advance forward, advance! Divide Luoyang City for me. ”

"Yes!"

In the early morning, the thin mist has not yet dissipated, the earth-shattering sound of war drums has sounded in the distance, the loud military horn sounded, and a group of cavalry rushed from a distance, rushing to Luoyang City, behind them, the neat infantry phalanx shouted slogans, and the sound of the military trumpets of the drums, stepped on the neat steps, pressed forward, and behind them, there were countless chariot battles.

Banners were unfurled in the wind, and the Dingzhou army's attack on Luoyang officially began.

Standing at the head of Luoyang City, he could only vaguely see the attacking team, and he couldn't see any joy, anger and sorrow on his face, and said to the herald soldiers around him: "The Dingzhou soldiers have begun to attack, and they have given orders to all the departments outside the city, defend the battle line to the death, and fight to the last soldier, and they must not retreat, and those who retreat will be killed!" ”

"Yes!"

"Send a letter to Hou Ye, our department is ready to meet the enemy's attack, please inform Hou Ye that Shoufu and the emperor are determined to live and die with Luoyang City, and will never take half a step back."

"Yes!"

When the Dingzhou soldiers advanced to about two miles away from the defensive position, the sound of the military horn changed suddenly, and the cavalry suddenly accelerated, and swept at high speed hundreds of meters away from the defensive position.

From time to time, cavalry fell off the horse, and from time to time there were Luoyang soldiers who fell heavily, Dingzhou first suppressed the enemy with cavalry, in order to prevent the enemy troops in the defensive line from attacking the position when they were in their own infantry formations and installing long-range strike ordnance, and the Luoyang generals in the defensive line were actually playing with this attention, a battalion of cavalry was on standby, and what was done was to take advantage of the enemy's infantry to carry out a counter-charge, but seeing the high-speed rush of the Dingzhou cavalry, the front-line generals immediately dispelled this attention, The opponent suppressed as many as 10,000 cavalry in front of the infantry position, and once his thousands of cavalry went out to fight with the famous Dingzhou Iron Cavalry, it would be to death.

The two sides shot at each other in this round, but it was the Luoyang soldiers who took advantage, after all, they had a defensive line to rely on, and although the Dingzhou Red Cavalry was elite and the horse speed was strange, but the opponent's arrows rained down, which was also mixed with eight bull crossbows, and after a cup of tea, it was a loss of more than 100 horses.

But with the harassment of the Red cavalry and the retreat to the two wings of the infantry, the good days of the Luoyang soldiers came to an end.

Columns of soldiers have been lined up in a typical triangular pyramid offensive formation, and there are nearly twenty such triangular pyramid offensive formations on the forward positions for several miles, and what is even more terrifying is that in just a short time of tea, behind these infantry, there are already long-range trebuchets like a forest, and the number is no less than hundreds.

The war drums of the Dingzhou army stopped, the military horn also quieted down, and on the battlefield, in an instant, there was a strange and extremely quiet scene, as if even a needle could be heard falling to the ground.

A Dingzhou cavalryman jumped out of the battle, holding the Dingzhou military flag in his hand, and swept along the front line of the twenty triangular pyramid attack formations, waving the military flag in his hand, and he roared hoarsely: "Dingzhou army, advance!" ”

"Dingzhou Army, advance!"

And in response to him, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Dingzhou Army shouted in unison!

"Dingzhou Army, Wansheng!"

"Dingzhou Army, Wansheng!"

Boom!

A war drum sounded.

The infantrymen took a step forward in unison and shouted.

Knock knock!

Two more drums of war!

The infantry began to advance forward.

Knock knock knock! The drums of war rang out continuously, and the Dingzhou infantry let out an earth-shattering cry and began to speed up their advance, and at the same time, the hundreds of trebuchets behind them almost at the same time, the high throwing arms were raised, and the air became dark, and the stone projectiles passed the Dingzhou soldiers who were trotting forward and fell to the defensive position.

"Hidden!" A Luoyang officer shouted, a short body had already burrowed into the hidden soldier hole in the trench.

There was a loud rumbling sound, and one by one the stone cannons weighing more than ten catties fell from the sky and fell heavily to the ground, some of them burrowed into the softer ground, and some smashed on the relatively hard ground, and bounced high and fell again.

The breastwork trembled and shook under the blows of the stone cannons, and finally reluctantly fell down, and one after another the stone cannons fell on the outer walls of the pry, smashing the whole fortress to shake.

The stone cannons seemed to be endless, constantly falling from the sky, some of the trenches were filled with these stone bullets, and the fallen breastwork masonry and earth were poured on them, and the soldiers hiding in these places had no reason to survive.

"Trebuchet, return fire!" The commanders and soldiers at the forefront of Luoyang ordered loudly, compared to the hundreds of trebuchets that were put into the battlefield for several miles at a time on the opposite side, their counterattack seemed very weak, and the strike density of Liao Liao's dozens of trebuchets and the overwhelming saturation bombing on the opposite side seemed so weak and powerless.

Tao Xing held the spear, shrunk his body tightly against the trench, just a companion was beside him was smashed on the head by a stone cannon, just under his gaze, the head was nothing, red and white sprayed him, at that moment, he felt that his soul was also sucked away with the companion.

He knew the man very well, they were neighbors, they were enlisted in the army this time, just for one person in the family to enlist as a soldier, he could get fifty catties of food, and he had two elders in the family, and two younger brothers and a younger sister below, just relying on a little ration every day, the family was already so hungry that they couldn't even walk, with fifty catties of food, they could live at least a month longer. and the neighbor named Ergouzi, without hesitation, followed the officer who called for troops on the street, under the tearful eyes of his parents, and in the tearing cry of his brother and sister, he left, leaving behind a bag of fifty catties of grain.

"Stick to the trench and don't show your head!" I don't know where came the call of the officer, as if it was the officer who called them to join the army, Tao Xing pressed his whole body tightly against the ditch wall in a daze, and his ears were buzzing.

In the sky, the sun's rays suddenly shot down and shone on Tao Xing's face, and he looked up at the sky, and the stone cannon that covered the sky suddenly stopped.

"Is it finally over?" He thought.

"Ready to fight, out of the trenches, ready to engage!" The officer's voice rang out again.

Without thinking, Tao Xing held his spear tightly, stood up, and jumped out of the trench, and in front of him, there were black and oppressed enemy soldiers, who were screaming and rushing towards his position.

Tao Xing also roared and rushed up, and greeted him with the remaining companions around him, he hated these people, if it weren't for these people to come to Luoyang, now he is still wiping the table in the full hall in the city, greeting guests, and can bring back some leftover good wine and good food for his family every day, sometimes he meets bold guests, and he can also have considerable tip income, but when the Dingzhou soldiers came, all this was gone, and he sold himself for fifty catties of grain.

"Kill!" Tao Xing roared, he didn't think it was his own voice, but it seemed to come from some distant place. It was dark in front of him, and he couldn't see anything else, only the cold light of the spear, the big sword, and the iron shield.

With a sharp pain in his chest, Tao Xing lowered his head and stabbed a spear into his chest, a smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he saw that his opponent was also laughing. Tao Xing fell.

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