A battle to defend Luoyang officially began.

Under the city, under the three gates to the west, a large number of rebels appeared at the same time, and there were at least 50,000 rebels in each place. Li Wei used the advantage in military strength to make a gamble that cost his life, and he was gambling that Ao Lie didn't bring so many people at all.

The walls of Jinguangmen were suppressed by red-clothed ballistas, but the other two city gates were not, so the rebels who attacked first were not Li Dao's troops, but the two rebels who attacked Yanpingmen and Kaiyuanmen separately. The sound of shouting and killing came clearly from both sides, and Ao Lie knew that the rebels had begun to attack the city in a big way.

Stretching out his hand to pull Dian Wei, Ao Lie pointed at him and said to Liu Xie: "Your task is to fight with him." "After all, Liu Xie is the son of the Han Dynasty, no matter how you say it, you can't treat him as a real warrior, Ao Lie nominally asked Liu Xie to fight with Dian Wei, but in fact, he asked Dian Wei to protect Liu Xie. With Dian Wei's all-round protection, Ao Lie doesn't have to be distracted to take care of Liu Xie, and can devote all his mind to the battle.

Without waiting for Liu Xie to answer, Ao Lie turned his head to Dian Wei and said, "Lao Hei, take this group of rookies to move the Heavenly Maiden Sanhua to the city wall." In Ao Lie's eyes, a group of "sergeants" led by Liu Xie can be regarded as authentic rookies, most of them have not gone through the real battlefield fighting, and their combat effectiveness is worrying, only a few people such as Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are real warriors, but after all, the years are not forgiving, Huangfu Song and other veterans are already old, and it is impossible for Ao Lie to let them really charge into battle, so let Dian Wei take Liu Xie and other generals to carry the combat equipment.

After arranging the actions of Liu Xie and others, Li Dao's men and horses also began to attack the city. Because of the presence of the red-coated ballista. Therefore, the men and horses under Li Dao changed the method of attacking the city this time. The rebels in the first echelon were no longer carrying ladders and rams, but in groups of ten, holding a huge crossbow shield. In order to reduce the damage of the red-clothed ballista, Li Dao just now specially ordered his subordinate sergeants to cut down a big tree from nearby, chop it into thick wooden blocks, and then assemble these wooden blocks together. Tied with cow tendon. This shield wall, which is more than a foot long and wide and three feet thick, was improvized.

The heavy shield wall is lifted in an inclined plane to minimize the stress area, and hundreds of huge shield walls are underneath. is the real first echelon of the rebels. They were under the cover of the shield wall. Bowing down, the cat walked forward with his waist bent, carrying the ladders and other equipment necessary for siege in his hands.

Behind the shield wall. It is a neatly arranged phalanx of two sword and shield hands, the sword and shield hands raise the round shield in their hands above their heads, and then stand together intensively, covering their bodies with the round shield over the top, looking down from a high altitude, they can only see a shield wave composed of round shields, and they can't see where the person holding the shield is. There were originally 10,000 sword and shield men under Li Dao, but he only sent 5,000 people to form two phalanxes this time, because the sword and shield men sent by Li Dao, each of them held two round shields in their hands to resist the powerful red-clothed ballistas, and the 5,000 sword and shield men who lost the round shield were left in his large array by Li Dao.

After the sword and shield hands, there were two teams of Xiliang cavalry, each with 5,000 cavalry, they cruised on both sides of the sword and shield hands, ready to use the riding bows in their hands to accurately kill the defenders rising on the Luoyang city wall. Don't doubt the archery skills of the Xiliang cavalry, live together with the Qiang people all the year round, the Han people and the Qiang people in Xiliang intermarry with each other, there is no distinction between the pure Han and the simple Qiang people, the blood of the Xiliang people, more or less with some Qiang blood, therefore, the physical fitness of the Xiliang people is particularly outstanding, and the arm strength is far beyond ordinary people, and they have also practiced a good ability in the battle with the Qiang people in peacetime, and shooting arrows on the city wall is not a difficult thing for them at all.

Zhang Xiu saw that the rebels were gradually approaching, and the anger in his eyes had already burned vigorously, and he immediately ordered the two thousand tiger troops who controlled the red-clothed ballistas to collectively fire a salvo. In an instant, thousands of crossbows left the cannon chamber with a whistling again, and shot towards the Xiliang rebels.

This time, however, the red-coated ballista did not work as well as it should. Under Li Dao's multiple protections, nearly half of the crossbows fired by the red-clothed ballista were weakened after penetrating the shield wall three feet behind, although it was still after breaking the shield wall, causing damage to the rebels behind the shield wall, but it was no longer the scene of killing more than a dozen people one after another, and after barely piercing the bodies of two or three rebels, it lost its lethality. Even so, the powerful crossbows fired by the red-coated ballistas still caused considerable chaos for the rebels, and a volley took the lives of five or six hundred rebels.

"Quick! Speed up, rush to the city, and render the enemy's ballistas useless! Li Dao shouted hoarsely behind the siege troops. Any ballista is not without shortcomings, long reloading time and long time between launches are the commonality of all ballistas, and red-clothed ballistas are naturally no exception, Li Wei saw this, so that the siege troops accelerated their pace and ran to Luoyang City at the speed of sprinting, so as to enter the shooting blind spot of the red-coated ballista and get rid of the killing of the red-coated ballista.

Nearly 20,000 siege rebels, under the shouts of Li Dao, exerted their strength, threw off their legs and rushed to Luoyang City, and soon entered the range of bows and crossbows. At this moment, Li Wei's eyes widened, he wanted to see how many arrows and crossbows would be shot down in Luoyang City this time, and whether Ao Lie had brought a large number of men and horses, which would soon be revealed.

At the head of the city, Ao Lie sighed helplessly, it seems that Li Dao has seen through his plan, and the number of soldiers and horses he brought will not be able to confuse him. However, with the strength of the 20,000 bloody killing army and the Tiger Ben army, plus Liu Xie's Imperial Forest Army, Ao Lie was still confident that he could keep the rebels out of Luoyang City!

"All crossbowmen, release the arrows!" Ao Lie looked at the 20,000 rebels rushing under the city and gave the order to shoot.

Nearly 10,000 crossbows were shot into the sky and shot down in the direction of the rebels. However, like the crossbows of the red-coated ballistas, these arrows did not play much role, many of them were blocked by the rebels' shield walls and round shields, and only a few arrows shot into the gaps pierced by the red-coated ballistas, killing the rebels hiding under the shield walls.

Ao Lie smiled mysteriously, and then continued to give the order: "The Blood Killing Army and the Tiger Ben Army stop firing, leaving behind the most rear-end crossbow arrows. The Guards continued to shoot. The two elite troops strictly carried out Ao Lie's order, retreated three steps neatly, and gave Liu Xie's Imperial Forest Army a better shooting angle, and the more than 3,000 archers in the Royal Forest Army quickly filled the empty space they left, and then bent their bows and arrows again, throwing them at the rebels under the city. Without the help of the Xizi crossbow of the Blood Slaughter Army and the Tiger Army, the arrows fired by the Royal Forest Army had little effect, and the 3,000 arrows only injured more than 200 rebels.

Seeing this scene, Li Dao also smiled, and smiled very comfortably: "Hahaha, Ao Lie is really bluffing, he didn't bring so many people at all!" General Yan Xing guessed correctly, Ao Lie was just using a triple crossbow to scare people. "Just now, Yan Xing seized the time and briefly introduced the characteristics of the Xizi repeater, this kind of hand crossbow that can carry out three consecutive rounds can only be equipped with the four elite troops under the command of Ao Lie, and the regular equipment of each elite is a crossbow plus nine crossbow arrows. Through the sparse rain of arrows just now, Li Dao deduced that the elites under Ao Lie's command had no spare crossbow arrows after two rounds of bluff volleys, and the number of crossbow arrows embodied by the Luoyang defenders at this time was real! From this, it can be inferred that the soldiers and horses brought by Ao Lie were guessed by Yan Xing, and there were no more than 20,000 people at most!

After Da Lu laughed, Li Wei turned around and shouted to the other 30,000 rebels waiting behind him: "Charge! All to a certain rush! Ao Lie no longer has spare crossbow arrows, and everyone is going to break Luoyang in one go! ”

The 30,000 rebels shouted in unison, raised their swords and guns one after another, and rushed towards Luoyang City frantically. In their eyes, Luoyang City is a good place for money, food and women, as long as Luoyang City is broken, everything in the city will be theirs. The great temptation in the city made them forget about life and death, until the crossbow of the red-coated ballista struck.

The 30,000 rebels who pounced on them followed, but they did not have any shields to protect their bodies, and the power of the red-clothed ballistas was vividly displayed. Under the control of Zhang Xiu and others, thousands of crossbows pierced the space, and instantly came to the eyes of these rebels, bringing a burst of bloody rain! More than 2,000 rebels fell under the tremendous power of the red-coated ballistas, and they could no longer expect the money, food, and women in Luoyang City, and they were greeted only by boundless darkness.

"Don't be afraid! Speed up and rush to the ballista's firing corner to win! After the city is broken, everyone can plunder for three days! No, five days! Li Dao shouted hoarsely in the back, and he threw out a huge temptation at the critical moment, encouraging his subordinates to move the rebels forward.

Dozens of Li Dao's personal guards spread Li Dao's words to all directions, and the morale of the rebels was immediately boosted, and all of them rushed to Luoyang City with a howl and death as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. After withstanding the two salvos of the red-coated ballista, the rebels finally rushed within a hundred paces of Luoyang City, a distance that was no longer suitable for the red-coated ballista to continue firing. Expensive crossbows don't get the most out of their power at this distance, and it's a bit of a waste to continue firing.

The red-clothed ballista is useless, but this does not mean that Ao Lie has no way to take the rebels under the city. "The Blood Killing Army and the Tiger Army stepped forward and shot your most rearmost crossbow arrows." Ao Lie turned around and called the two retreating elites again.

In the next moment, tens of thousands of crossbow arrows mixed with the arrows of the Royal Forest Army poured down from the head of Luoyang City again, aiming directly at the follow-up troops of the rebels who entered the firing range. Having just dodged the crossbows of the red-coated ballista, the mood of these rebels was at a time of great relaxation, and their psychological laxity made them pay a huge price. Nearly 5,000 rebels were shot by the hedgehogs with men and horses, and those who died could not die again.

Seeing this scene, Li Dao's face turned the color of iron blue, and he felt like a little mouse, being beaten hard by Ao Lie, a strong tiger. What arrows and crossbows are exhausted, it is simply Ao Lie deliberately stayed, waiting to burst out at this moment!

"Ao Mohan, you and you are incompatible!" Li Dao let out an angry roar from the sky, and then, he also threw his own personal guards into the battlefield, he didn't believe that Ao Lie's arrows were endless, and the moment Ao Lie's troops ran out of arrows, it was Ao Lie's death! (To be continued......)