From the intuitive point of view of the troops, Ashina Falcon's Turkic army is twice that of Sun Shouren and Luoyang City combined, not only that, but the personal combat power is also much stronger, if it meets head-on, it is impossible to be an opponent anyway.

As for Sun Shouren's defense in the city, are you a fool when you are a Ashina falcon? If an army of more than 100,000 people enters a big city like Luoyang, then no matter how brave the Turks are, it is impossible to take Luoyang City. Attacking the city without any technical content is the next strategy among the next strategies, and the casualties are much larger than those of the defenders, in this case, how could Ashina Falcon not guard against Sun Shouren.

Originally, he had secretly contacted several officials in the city, but he killed a eunuch Wei Chengen, so that he had to attack directly, and Ashina Falcon was also very irritable about this.

But it's still not a big problem, in his opinion, how long can 30,000 weak brigades be able to defend themselves?

The art of war is cloudy, and the siege division must be que, that is, the siege of three que, this method of war is not even only suitable for siege warfare, even if it is an ambush and surrounding. And even in later generations, such use was indispensable in warfare.

In fact, the truth is very simple, everyone has a survival instinct, and no one wants to die if they can live, even if there is only a slight chance of survival. Assuming that Ashina Falcon is surrounded on all sides, in the face of such a powerful enemy onslaught, the soldiers and residents of Luoyang City are desperate, and they simply fight.

But if the wind and waves are calm and there is no enemy, then the defender of the city will inevitably have a certain luck mentality, perhaps, can escape?

This trick has been used for thousands of years, and it has almost been tried and tested, and the defenders of the city will definitely be fooled again and again.

Often left behind, the road is rugged, which is conducive to ambush, so it can be ambushed and intercepted. But for the Turks, there is no need for this, the roads are rough, but it limits their mobility, and the war horses under the crotch are not wasted?

So the side that is left is the most flat.

In this way, the big families in the city have ideas.

If it is an ordinary person, there will be some scruples, because everyone knows that two legs can't run on four legs, and you can't run out empty-handed, no matter where you go, you always need to eat, and then carry something, the speed slows down again, and the Turks ride horses, even if they start chasing later, and they still catch up and cut down.

But this is not a problem for big households, isn't it just horses, haven't they been able to do it yet?

Anyway, if they really let them stay in the city and live and die with Luoyang, these big families are unwilling. In tandem, an alliance of high-ranking families was formed, and then together they put pressure on Wei Chengen, the highest organizer in the city, to open the city gate and let them leave.

"Let's go? Yes, you can bring gold and silver treasures with you, leave the grain behind, and explain where there is still grain hidden in the city! Wei Chengen was not verbose, and immediately put forward his own request.

Others don't know, can Wei Chengen still know how many reserves these big families have? In particular, there are a few rice merchants, as long as they know where the grain is, the longer Luoyang City can be defended.

In terms of gold, silver and money, Wei Chengen doesn't care, in a state of stubbornness, nothing will be more important than food, and when the time comes, there will be money, and there will be no place to buy food.

After some coercion and temptation, all the high-ranking families had to compromise, after all, Wei Chengen had military power in his hands, and now he had the final say in Luoyang City. In the end, they explained the location of many hidden granaries, and then these people brought the gold and silver treasures of the beams, many carriages, and their families to escort them, and they marched out of the city gates.

At the same time, Wei Chengen gathered a large number of people to stand on the head of the city, seeing this scene, many people couldn't help but move, but the next moment, a large wave of Turkic cavalry galloped in the distance.

No matter how fast the carriage is, how can it outrun a single ride?

Even when they caught up with the convoy, they were far away from the city gate, and some shadows could be faintly seen, but in everyone's minds, it seemed that they heard the screams of the people, the wails of the women, and the triumphant laughter of the Turks. At this moment, everyone was silent.

"Did you all see it?" Wei Chengen didn't know when he climbed onto the wall, his old body made him unable to roar too loudly, but fortunately, the scene was silent at the moment.

"That's the Turks! They will cut off your throats, cut off your heads, and force your wives and daughters to humiliate your crotches, and your children and grandchildren will be slaves for generations, never to be turned over and tortured! We have no way out, those so-called big families have already given us the best example, we can't run, we can't run away, we can only defend it!

We have no choice but to fight to the death, for dignity, for the sake of our wives and children, and for the sake of being upright! Instead of groveling to be slaughtered! The old man, I am nearly eighty years old, but I still dare to stand at the head of the city and fight the Turks to the end. ”

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight with the Turkic mongrel!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

After a period of noisy noise, finally everyone's voices converged and condensed into the word 'death war', despair is depressing, depression makes people explode, in the absence of a choice, what need to be done is still to think.

"Wai Sanque one? When the miscellaneous family was in the past, they also followed the first emperor to conquer it. Looking at this scene, Wei Chengen made up his mind, as long as the city is united, with the number of hundreds of thousands of residents, Luoyang City may not be unbearable, as for those big families who died tragically or were captured, heh, after all, they are just chess pieces in Wei Chengen's hands.

The so-called old and immortal is a thief, in a place like the palace Ouchi has lived smoothly until now, and he is still in a high position, Wei Chengen has long become a human spirit, and the actions of those big families have long been in Wei Chengen's calculations.

If it weren't for his loyalty, he Wei Chengen wanted to escape alive, or even simply surrender to be reused, what was the difficulty?

On the other side, in the mountains at the junction of Tanzhou and Chenghuizhou, in a simple wooden house, Xin Xianying was talking.

"More than 100,000 against more than 200,000? At first glance, this battle should be like this, and even the strength of Luoyang City cannot be counted, because everyone knows that the combat strength is weak, and even defending the city is a problem, let alone taking the initiative to attack. However, the truth is that this is not the case at all! ”

Xin Xianying is dressed in a pure white crane, wearing a scarf, and holding a feather fan in his hand, this kind of dress is naturally biased towards men, but it also has a bit of a hermit's taste, needless to say, it must be Zhou Shaoyu's bad taste, but Xin Xianying doesn't seem to hate it.

"There is a cloud in the art of war, the first army is to fight, the second is to fight, the second is to attack the army, and the next is to attack the city. It can be seen that it is difficult to attack the city, and the Turks have always been good at attacking the city, as long as there are people in the city who can maintain the situation and guide one or two, so that the people in the city can defend it, then, anyone in the city can be regarded as combat power!

However, this is still not enough, in the final analysis, ordinary people are not soldiers, their combat power is limited, even if they fight to the death, it is difficult to stop the courage of the Turks, if it is tens of thousands of Turkic troops, it may not hurt, but this time the Turks are more than 200,000! In the case that the Turks are especially good at archery, the defense of the city is not allowed to gain an advantage in the exchange, so Luoyang City will still be broken! ”

Hearing this, Lu Lingqi couldn't help but wonder: "Since it must be broken, how can this battle be won?" ”

"The Turkic benefit lies in the horse, but what if the horse is useless?" Xin Xianying stretched out his hand and pointed to his feet, and said, "Let's compare this house to Luoyang City, if the war horse rushes in, is there still a place to use it?" ”

"Street fighting!?" It's all said to this point, how can you still not understand? All the women couldn't help but exclaim in unison.

"Of course, it's street fighting!" Xin Xianying nodded and said, "The main road of Luoyang City may be wide, but with the nature of the Turks, how can they not plunder?" The Turkic military discipline has always been loose, and once they enter the city, it is basically impossible to restrain them, and at that time they will inevitably scatter and plunder in all directions.

Before the city was broken, even if the Turks were strong, they would pay a lot of price, the significance of Luoyang City was too great, and it was worth the casualties, in terms of 50,000 casualties, there were still 200,000 after the city was broken, but Luoyang was such a big city, 200,000 was a lot, but it was not too much if it was scattered.

As long as time is prepared, obstacles are erected, and houses and alleys are relied on, the Turkic horses and archery skills will be useless, in other words, they can only dismount and fight at close range, while the residents of Luoyang, who have no choice, can only choose to fight to the death. But it's still unstoppable.

And at this time, it was time for Sun Shouren to appear.

Therefore, the key to this battle lies in whether Luoyang can be defended to the death, and in addition, whether Sun Shouren can approach Luoyang without the Turks noticing, and enter the city in time to fight to the death.

But even if everything goes well, after this battle, both Luoyang City and Sun Shouren's army will be greatly damaged. It is this battle that is bound to be rapid, even if it costs a lot, it will make the Turks suffer heavy losses, and they will die so much that they feel that they can no longer invade easily, in the final analysis, until now, the court side headed by the Empress Dowager Gao Yuyao has not made any moves.

As long as the Turkic casualties are too large, the internal contradictions will expand, and they will be even more afraid of the counterattack of the Great Liang. Therefore, the battle of Luoyang is related to the trend of the entire situation, and we should make any possible full plans. ”

"Wonderful!" Zhou Shaoyu clapped his palms, his eyes were extremely gratified, he was originally worried about pulling out the seedlings to help them grow, but now it seems that Xin Xianying's talent is really not covered, and he has absorbed everything he has taught and used it for his own use.

"Then between you, what kind of ending is best for us?" Zhou Shaoyu couldn't help but continue to ask.

Xin Xianying was silent for a while, and then said: "Although I can't bear it, I have to say that it is in our best interest for the Turks to win." ”

"What's the explanation?" Zhou Shaoyu was not surprised by this answer, but he also wanted to hear a more detailed explanation.

"Luoyang as a companion capital, its significance is self-evident, if the Turks win this battle, the prestige of the Liang court is bound to fall, and at the same time Sun Shouren's army will also be broken, can only retreat to Jingzhou to regroup troops and horses, and at this time, the imperial court also has to send troops to confront the Turks, the two armies are consumed, which is naturally the most beneficial to us.

And on the other hand, if Luoyang wins, that is to say, not only Sun Shouren is good at fighting, but there must also be a strange person loyal to the imperial court in Luoyang City. ”

After listening to Xin Xianying's statement, Zhou Shaoyu couldn't help but be stunned, he thought of it in the first half, but he didn't pay attention to it in the second half, but after Xin Xianying said this, things are indeed the case, the so-called soldiers are bearish, there will be a nest of bears, and there is a warlike commander, which has a great impact on the army.

For Sun Shouren, he was extremely glad that there was a Wei Chengen in Luoyang City, Sun Shouren's thinking was almost the same as Xin Xianying's, but such a strategy must have a premise, that is, Luoyang City was defended, and before the city was broken, the casualties that could be caused to the Turkic army were as large as possible.

With the blessing of dragging around Sanqueyi, Sun Shouren was able to send a dead soldier who would rather die than leak secrets to communicate, and Wei Chengen also completely agreed with Sun Shouren's method. Of course, this law will cause Luoyang to suffer heavy losses, but for Wei Chengen, who is only loyal to the royal family, as long as the Luoyang Palace is still standing there and continues to witness the history of the Great Liang in the process of the rotation of the sun and the moon, then it is all worth it.

The news of the big families in the city leaving the city and being besieged or captured by the Turks quickly spread in the city, and no one would expect that seemingly peaceful road anymore, and under the single-minded defense of the entire Luoyang City, the Turks paid a very large price, which made Ashina Falcon extremely irritable.

The Turkic tribal surname system makes it difficult for them to truly unite, if everything is smooth, everything is easy to say, but if the casualties reach a certain level, they will immediately rebound, the number of each tribe is limited, and the number of warriors is even more numerous, once there are too many casualties, then the combat power of the entire tribe will be greatly reduced, and in the steppe of the jungle, there will only be one consequence, that is, it will be annexed by other powerful tribes.

No patriarch would be happy to see such a thing happen to his tribe, so once the battle power is consumed too much, he will never fight again.

As a last resort, Ashina Falcon can only set an example in person, and every time he charges and attacks the city, each tribe sends a certain proportion of the number of people, and Ashina Falcon accounts for the majority. Only in this way can we continue to attack, otherwise everyone will be separated from morality, and how will they fight.

Ainul is happy to see this.

In the final analysis, Ainur's current strength is too weak, and it is difficult to develop, since this is the case, so why not be a good way for everyone to be weak?

In this battle of Luoyang, Ainur only brought 3,000 soldiers and horses, compared to more than 200,000 troops, such a small number is not enough to see, and with the advantage of being a woman, under the long-sleeved dance, no one asked Ainur to send people to appear, it is to let them fight and die, and it has nothing to do with Ainur, of course, if Luoyang is captured at that time, Ainur can share much less spoils.

Day after day, the battle became more and more fierce, and the men in the city were recruited from fourteen to forty-five years old to twelve to fifty years old, and not only that, but also the healthy women of the city were also called together for urgent simple training, and as a last resort, even the women needed to stand at the head of the city to defend.

It's not easy inside the city, and the Turks outside the city are not having a good time, and if it weren't for the younger and older guards on the wall, Ashina Falcon would have even suspected that this battle would not be able to be fought.

But now, Ashina Falcon has to fight if he doesn't want to, such a big casualty, if it returns in vain, it will inevitably fall in prestige, and how to control the overall situation at that time?

(End of chapter)