On the morning of June 16, despite Li Mi's full opposition, Yang Xuangan, whose right ear was shot off half of it, still insisted on launching a siege war, and the target was Luoyang Shangchun Gate, which had caused Yang Xuangan to suffer a great humiliation on the previous day.

Yang Xuangan's rebel army also has a lot of talents, several younger brothers Yang Xuanting, Yang Xuanzong, Yang Jishan and Yang Wanshuo are rare generals with excellent martial arts, the military advisor Li Mi is resourceful, and Yang Xuangan was taught by his father's Yang Su in the military, and participated in the great battle to quell the rebellion of Yang Liang, the king of the Han Dynasty.

This point is evident in the military appearance and military situation of the rebels, although it is a rabble that has been formed for less than half a month, but in the hands of Yang Xuangan and other rebel leaders, it has been built to be impressive, like a decent, according to the system of the Sui Dynasty's government soldiers, every fifty soldiers are organized into a team, set up a team, two teams are a brigade, set up a brigade commander, two brigades are a school regiment, set up a captain, and forty teams and ten regiments are an army, set up partial generals, each army's flag color is different, clear and clear, easy to distinguish and command, At the same time, the queue and lineup are also very neat, and it is almost impossible to see that this is a temporary team that has been hastily assembled in a patchwork.

On the contrary, the well-equipped defenders of the eastern capital seem to be a little disorganized, in the case of obviously having the protection of the city wall and the moat, the defenders on the city wall still seem quite flustered, from time to time you can see the defender soldiers who are out of their posts, the orders in the army will take a long time to be implemented in place, the progress of the city defense preparations is slow, Pei Hongce is so anxious that he jumps to his feet, and arranges Fan Zigai to his military deputy Hu Yalang to scold Xie Zichong to the blood, Xie Zichong is also so anxious that he personally whips and whips the soldiers and generals who violate military law, which barely completed the deployment of the city wall before the end of the rebel formation.

Although he was angry and raised troops, Yang Xuangan still calmly accepted Li Mi's proposal, and arranged for 2,000 troops to be divided into two teams to form a feint outside the neighboring Anximen and Hui'anmen cities to contain the defenders of this city gate, forcing the defenders of the eastern capital not to dare to concentrate heavy troops on the Shangchun Gate, and also making the defenders on these two city gates dare not go through the most convenient city road to rescue Shangchun Gate. In this regard, Fan Zigai's contingency strategy was to assemble the reserve force in the eastern capital of Beishi, led by Hu Benlang General Liu Changgong, ready to rescue Shangchun, Anxi and Hui'an at any time.

Originally, Chen Yingliang wanted to show his skills in this battle, and once proposed to Pei Hongce to lead an army as a firefighting team, ready to fight fires at any time to fill the gap, but this request was categorically rejected by Pei Hongce, on the grounds that it was too dangerous, and second, Chen Yingliang had no military position, so Chen Yingliang immediately commanded the troops for fear that the soldiers would not be satisfied, Chen Yingliang had no choice but to stay by Pei Hongce's side and continue to serve as a staff officer for Pei Hongce.

In the sound of war drums, the first batch of two thousand rebel soldiers who attacked the city marched out of the city, and were divided into two waves before and after the school, the first wave of five schools kept a distance from each other, and the four schools on the left and right were carrying temporary trenches and pontoon bridges, and the school in the middle was carrying a few giant trees, and the target was directly aimed at the gate of Shangchun City - the eastern capital was too big, and there were too many residents in and out, so there was a fixed stone bridge built on the moat, which made it convenient for the residents in the city to cross the river. It also made it easier for the rebels to cross the river directly.

As the rebel team slowly approached, the atmosphere on the city wall became more and more tense, including the coach Pei Hongce and Xie Zichong, who were so nervous that they seemed to be able to hear their own heartbeat. Chen Yingliang was also a little nervous at first, but as the rebel team gradually approached, Chen Yingliang completely calmed down, as if he was born accustomed to such a scene, and began to calmly think about various variables that might arise, and said to Pei Hongce: "Uncle, my sergeants are too nervous, and we must prevent them from releasing arrows indiscriminately, which not only wastes feather arrows, but also affects the morale of the army, so I should give an order, don't listen to the drums, and don't let go of arrows." ”

Pei Hongce, who admired Chen Yingliang's nephew very much, nodded, and immediately sent a herald to run to deliver the order, and at the same time arranged for the drummers to prepare, Chen Yingliang said: "For the sake of safety, uncle should wait for the traitor team to approach within eighty paces, and then give the order to release arrows, if the first round of arrow rain can be effective, it will be a great encouragement to the morale of our army." ”

"Okay." Pei Hongce nodded again, and then commanded in a low voice: "Virtuous nephew, follow your uncle closely, if you have any good ideas, say it immediately." ”

Chen Yingliang agreed, and continued to observe the movements of the rebels, but Pei Hongce was still able to listen to persuasion, when the rebel team approached the city wall about 100 paces, although Pei Hongce was already so nervous that his forehead was sweating, he still gritted his teeth and did not give the order to beat the drum. The rebel generals who led the siege were also very experienced, and immediately ordered a full-speed charge, allowing the rebel team to raise rough shields to protect the front of the door and chest, and rush through the defenders' arrow-covered position at the fastest distance.

There are defender archers who can't stand such a huge psychological pressure, and can't help but rush to release the arrows, but the feather arrows shot are not only outrageous, but also soft and powerless, only flying fifty or sixty steps before falling to the ground, Chen Yingliang secretly scolded a good soldier who has no training in the emperor, but he also has no time to clean up those archers who disobey the order to release arrows.

"Uncle, you can release the arrows!" When the rebel forward rushed within eighty steps, Chen Yingliang immediately pulled Pei Hongce's sleeve, and Pei Hongce, who was so nervous that he was sweating profusely, came back to his senses and shouted: "Beat the drum!" Shoot the arrows! ”

Knock knock knock, the war drums beat quickly, the nervous defender archers unevenly released arrows to cover, although because of the nervousness, many feather arrows are still weak and accurate, but the number of feather arrows can not stand up to the number of feather arrows, dozens of feather arrows on the blind cat hit the dead mouse into the rebel ranks, killing and wounding more than a dozen rebel soldiers, one of the feather arrows also miraculously hit the face of a rebel captain, making him scream and fall with blood on his face, and the two hundred soldiers behind him were in chaos.

"Well shot! Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Keep shooting me arrows! The harvest far exceeded the expectations in his heart, Pei Hongce was overjoyed and even forgot about his nervousness, the roar was like thunder and just an order, seeing that the rain of arrows worked, the defenders on the city wall archers were also greatly confident, and quickly pulled the bow and threw the arrows, and the feather arrows shot had a significant improvement in quality in terms of strength and accuracy.

"Huh?" At the same time, Yang Xuangan and Wang Bozhong, who were watching the battle from a distance, and other veterans on the battlefield couldn't help but be surprised, they didn't expect that their defeated general Pei Hongce could be so calm, not chaotic, and calmly achieved the results of the first round of arrow rain.

After all, the morale of the rebels was high, and they still risked their lives to rush to the edge of the moat at the risk of their lives, jumping into the river to build a pontoon bridge, and the rebel soldiers of the colonel rushed directly to the stone bridge across the river with their shields, carrying huge logs and preparing to ram the city gate. The defenders' archers tried desperately to stop with their arrows, but the distance was long and the arrows were mediocre, and the results were never great.

Chen Yingliang didn't worry about the first wave of the five colonels of the rebels attacking the city, in the case of sufficient materials for the defenders to defend the city, they could break open the Luoyang city gate with just a few rotten logs, then the defenders should really hang themselves and apologize, Chen Yingliang paid attention to the thousand rebels hiding in the distance, they not only have ladders to climb the city, but also have obviously better equipment, it is likely to be the main soldiers in the rebel team, Chen Yingliang is very worried, if one of these main rebel soldiers can rush to the city wall, With the defenders' weak melee combat ability and low morale, it is likely to lead to unpredictable consequences.

The bow and arrow coverage continued, but the effect was still not great, the rebel soldiers quickly built pontoon bridges under the rain of arrows, carried the only two trench carts to build bridges across the river, and occasionally a few rebel soldiers who were hit by arrows screamed and fell into the moat, but the results were still outrageously low compared to the expensive feathered arrows fired by the defenders' archers.

Chen Yingliang built the first day to build yì arranged here four yaksha rings played a huge role, weighing 100 catties with spikes in the Yaksha roared down, on the spot smashed two rebel soldiers, guide zhì a hit city wood to the ground, at the same time the continuous smashing of the sheep's head stone also caused a lot of damage to the rebel soldiers, more than a dozen rebel soldiers quickly crossed the corpse in front of the door, and also led the zhì behind the city tree did not dare to approach the city gate.

Six of the eight pontoon bridges carried by the rebels were built along the way, and the two trench cars also successfully built a more stable bridge across the river, and Yang Xuangan's brother Huyalang, who commanded the first wave of siege, immediately ordered the five schools behind to launch a charge, and the defenders of Shangchunmen also ushered in the most dangerous anti-ant test in the city defense battle.

The battle ensued even more brutally, with the high-morale rebel soldiers rushing forward with ladders, rushing across the moat under a rain of arrows, putting ladders that had not even scraped off the bark of trees on the walls, and then howling and stepping on the ladders to climb up. And at this point, Chen Yingliang's accumulated military knowledge and bad stomach were completely useless, and he could only look at the defenders under Pei Hongce and Xie Zichong.

What relieved Chen Yingliang was that although the morale and fighting spirit of the defenders were not high enough, the Dongdu city wall, which was as high as four feet and eight feet and more than fourteen meters, still helped the defenders a lot, and also created great difficulties for the rebels. Condescending to such a close distance is naturally a great increase in accuracy, but the rebel soldiers are difficult to dodge on the narrow ladder, many rebel soldiers who climb the ant attached to the ant were soon hit by the sheep's head stone and injured, screaming and falling down the ladder, falling to death on the spot and seriously injured, although the rush is fierce, the morale and fighting spirit are high enough, but it is basically useless.

At the same time, Pei Hongce's military deputy Xie Zichong also proved that he did not just rely on flattery and sycophancy to ascend to the high position of the tiger tooth general, commanding the soldiers to work in groups of ten to lift the wood to hit the rebel ladder, and really knocked over several ladders first, so that the rebel soldiers on the ladder even led the ladder to fall backwards, fell into the moat and fell to death and injury.

It's not without danger, at least one flying ladder has not been knocked over, and the rebel soldiers on the ladder have not been smashed down, and the rebel soldiers who stepped on the ladder to climb once climbed to the position level with the city wall, seeing this, Chen Yingliang was so anxious that when he directly pulled out his knife and rushed up, two spears were stabbed out in time, and one spear also directly stabbed the rebel who ascended first in the eye, killing him on the spot, and did not let him take a step up the city wall, and then the other defender soldiers rushed up under the pressure of the generals and the overseers, smashed the remaining rebel soldiers on the flying ladder with stone ash bottles, and Chen Yingliang, who was worried about the defenders' melee ability, breathed a sigh of relief.

Yang Xuangan's siege was obviously underprepared, there were only two trenches that could cross the river, only eight pontoon bridges, and only fifty or sixty flying ladders that could be boarded, and even the bows and arrows that could suppress the defenders in the city were pitiful. The moths charged upwards like a fire, only to be rewarded with rain and hail of stone ash bottles, as well as the occasional falling huge sasswood and ring-piercing boulders, which were killed and injured countless times, with heavy casualties but no progress.

Seeing this scene, the defenders who were so nervous that they couldn't even draw their bows gradually calmed down, and they were able to draw their bows and arrows according to the calmness of their usual training, and the panicked situation gradually improved, and the inexperienced grassroots generals could also choose their own strategies to resist the enemy without relying on the command of their superiors.

On the contrary, it was once high morale and fighting spirit, firmly believing that he could easily rush to the city wall, like a duck to drive away the rebel soldiers who slaughtered the defenders, morale fell down in a hurry, since the start of the army, there was an unprecedented phenomenon of fleeing backwards, and the wood team that had high hopes for Yang Xuangan was even more miserable, and the four thick wood crashing trees carried across the river basically failed to hit the city gate a few times, and they were smashed to the ground by the stone big wood Yasha that was continuously smashed on the city wall. The rebel soldiers who carried the wooden door suffered heavy casualties, and later, no rebel soldiers dared to lift and hit the front end of the log, and the power of the impact was greatly reduced, and it was even more powerless to cause damage to the fortified city gate.

Seeing this scene, he had already completely calmed down Pei Hongce laughed, patted Chen Yingliang's shoulder and said with a smile: "The virtuous nephew is really smart, it is expected that the rebel team will not have enough siege weapons, and it will inevitably hit the idea of hitting the city. ”

"Uncle has won awards." Chen Yingliang hurriedly humbly and said: "In fact, in this regard, the uncle who has contributed the most, if it weren't for the uncle's trust in the little nephew who has never been on the battlefield, can change the position of the yaksha from the advice, the little nephew is no matter how good it is, it is useless." ”

"Haha, you kid can talk! If you have any good ideas in the future, just sue Uncle Sù, as long as Uncle feels reasonable, he will definitely adopt it! You boy, genius! Genius! ”

Contrary to the wolf bèi's treacherous uncle and nephew, at the same time in the rebel ranks, the rebel commander Yang Xuangan was already thundering, if it weren't for Li Mi and Wang Bozhong to stop him, Yang Xuangan would have sent troops to join the siege, Li Mi desperately pulled Yang Xuangan, who was eager for revenge, and said bitterly: "Duke Chu, we can't invest troops anymore, our siege weapons are insufficient, and no matter how many troops are sent forward, it will be useless, and it will only expand the unnecessary casualties!" In today's circumstances, we can't afford to lose a battle with more than a thousand men! ”

"Then you say, how can we break through this Luoyang City now?" Yang Xuangan asked with a roar.

"Duke Chu, it's hard for a good woman to cook without rice!" Li Mi replied with a wry smile: "I still say the same thing, if the Duke of Chu must break through this Luoyang City, then now we should attack Kim Yong City first, force Fan Zigai to send troops to rescue, the old thing to send troops, we get the opportunity to fight in the field, no troops, Kim Yong City is isolated, the city fortifications and the defenders in the city are far less than Luoyang City, we have a great grasp of taking Kim Yong City, after taking Kim Yong City, we can get the hoarded ordnance baggage in the city, build heavy siege weapons, and then attack this Luoyang City can have a lot of certainty." ”

Although he understood that Li Mi's tactics were the right way, Yang Xuangan still refused to be reconciled, looked at the Shangchun Gate where the fierce battle was raging in the distance, and touched his right ear wrapped in cloth, Yang Xuangan still yelled and ordered: "Go and give Yang Wanshuo an order, continue to attack the city, and those who ascend the city first will be rewarded!" As long as I have one soldier on the wall, and as long as one soldier on the wall, we have hope of breaking the city today! ”

With the morale and fighting spirit of the rebel soldiers, as long as one soldier can rush to the city wall, he has a great confidence that he will hold on to the follow-up companions who will continue to rush to the city wall, and then seize a city wall position and win the hope of the ant annexing the city.

But this is also a hope that is doomed to be dashed, under the repeated impact and trampling, the rebel team's shoddy siege ladders began to be damaged one after another, one after another broke and broken, one after another could not be used again, the rebel soldiers could use fewer and fewer ant tools, casualties continued to expand, the defenders who occupied the geographical advantage of the defenders fought more and more easily, the more confident they fought, and the sufficient weapons to defend the city also exerted more and more great power.

Finally, when there were only about a dozen of the sixty flying ladders that were temporarily built, and the corpses of the rebel soldiers were also lying under the Shangchun Gate, Yang Xuangan finally gave the Mingjin order helplessly, and accepted the first defeat after his army, and because of Yang Xuangan's ungiving heart, he issued the Mingjin order more than half an hour late, and the rebel soldiers paid no less than 200 casualties, which nearly doubled the number of soldiers and soldiers in this siege battle, and ended the previous offensive that was overwhelming. Morale and morale have been shattered.