Chapter 298: Conquering Luoyang
As the saying goes, stand tall and see far.
On this day, everything was prepared, and the order of the sealing boat was given, and the Xiliang soldiers who were the best at archery on the wall of Tushan in the north gate began to shoot neatly, and in the buzzing sound of bows and arrows, ten thousand arrows were fired together, and the overwhelming arrows covered the sky, and condescendingly shot towards the head of Luoyang City, shooting at the dense enemy group on the city wall three hundred and fifty steps away.
Almost instantly, the screams of despair continued to sound on the north gate of Luoyang City, and one after another the Wei soldiers and generals were hit by arrows, wailing and falling in a pool of blood, and the defenders of the city were in chaos.
Of course, they wanted to fight back, but the dirt hill on the opposite side was higher than the position they occupied, and even if they shot an arrow at an elevation angle, they couldn't shoot it.
And the angle of the trebuchet has been fixed, and at most it can only hit the foot of the dirt mountain, and it can't reach the top of the earth mountain at all.
At the same time, the trebuchet that the Han army moved to the dirt mountain also began to exert its might, pouring stone bullets and hollow pottery into the city head one after another, blowing up the city head with flames, the pillars collapsed and the houses collapsed, the Wei defenders jumped chickens and dogs, and the ghosts cried wolves, which further increased the chaos of the defenders.
"Go on!"
Fengzhou swept Liangzhou, after surrendering to Qianghu, has gathered more than 30,000 young and strong flying horsemen who are good at archery, some of which are led by Ma Chao, and the rest are basically in the army of Fengzhou commanders.
The Xiliang elites have been riding and shooting arrows since they were children, and they are good at riding and shooting in their bones, and this kind of large-scale covering shooting is enough to completely suppress the city.
The dense Wei soldiers on the city wall were constantly destroyed by stones, flames, and arrows, so that soon there was no place to stand. There are also many Wei soldiers who are unwilling to be suppressed and return fire with arrows, but the arrows they throw out can basically only shoot to the ground forty or fifty steps in front of the earth mountain, and the arrows shot by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry standing at a high place can suppress them, so the condescending advantage is completely revealed at this moment. The Han army was also thunderous with joy and morale.
The trebuchets of the Han army roared for three days and three nights, knowing that they were all destroyed before they stopped.
Nobody is going to fix trebuchets anymore, because that's a hammer deal.
And the north gate of Luoyang has collapsed.
To be precise, it was the collapse of the city walls and the collapse of the soldiers.
Just like the original Chang'an city wall.
Under the continuous bombardment of fires and boulders, it finally collapsed.
A gust of wind blew, and the smoke gradually cleared, but there were few standing figures on the northern end of the city wall.
On the collapsed city wall, there were round stone bullets and pottery bullet fragments everywhere, and the corpses of the Wei army were stacked horizontally and vertically, and they were covered with a layer of arrow feathers, like white grass that suddenly grew.
???? The surviving soldiers walked out of their hiding place, waved their hands, dispelled the fog in front of them, and looked at everything in front of them, and their hearts were furious. From time to time, moans of pain rang out all around. Slowly, more people got up and looked around blankly. Some covered their wounds and looked at the other side with palpitations, while others crawled through the blood stains with difficulty, trying to move to a safe place.
???? There was blood everywhere, and when they stepped on it, they were either the bones of their companions or the mud soaked in blood, sticking to the soles of their shoes, as if an invisible hand was dragging them, and they dragged them into the bottomless abyss.
The city wall collapsed, the soldiers died tragically, the area around the Xiamen of the north gate of Luoyang has become purgatory, I don't know how many Wei soldiers were put to death by the bullets of the Shu Han army, and thousands of trebuchets were dried until they fell apart, completely destroying the will of the Wei army.
This is not a battle at all, this is a one-sided slaughter. The Wei soldiers, whether heroic or not, had no chance to rush in front of the enemy, and they were directly put to death by the bullets that fell from the sky.
Sima Yi and the generals of the Wei army had long been hiding in Luoyang City, so there were only the corpses of ordinary soldiers on the city.
?????“ Kill—" Feng Zhou raised his spear and gave the order to charge.
Wei Yan jumped up and led his subordinates to rush over.
Chen Zhi drew his knife and roared.
Wang Ping raised his arm.
Wu Tong, Zhang Wen and others also led the army to rush over.
???? But the Wei army's position was dead silent, and the surviving soldiers looked at the Han army descending like a tiger, with a blank face. Some threw away their swords, some threw away broken shields, some sat down against the wall, but no one rose up to resist.
The Han army rushed to the city,
The Han army rushed to the front of the battle, covering their mouths and noses. Watching it all. After a brief moment of surprise, there was an earth-shattering cheer.
They have already occupied the city of Luoyang.
After 30 years, the majesty of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty finally spread to the capital of the Later Han Dynasty.
At this time, Sima Yi was completely disappointed.
It's not that he is not strong enough, but many of the soldiers under his command are not strong enough.
Although he commanded the whole army as a general, he used both grace and power, and attracted countless generals and soldiers, but in the end, the time was too short.
What's more, many middle- and lower-level generals, most of them are over forty years old and have felt the residual power of the Han Dynasty.
Among the Wei army, their family background is not obvious, their status is low, and they have never had the opportunity to rise, but it does not mean that they are not stupid.
Therefore, when the Han army attacked Luoyang, it began to plot in tandem, and then launched it once and captured the high-level generals of the Wei army led by Cao Hong.
But Sima Yi fled.
After all, Luoyang City is vast, and there are countless city gates, and it is impossible for the Han army to nail them all.
So when the northern city collapsed, he fled with hundreds of henchmen and guards.
No one knows how he got there.
It is enough to reflect Sima Yi's shrewdness.
But it's no longer about the big picture.
On August 10 of the third year of Jianxing, Luoyang had fallen into the hands of the Han army for three days.
In these three days, the new Luoyang Taishou Wei Yanyi did not disarm, led 20,000 Han troops and 70,000 Wei troops to surrender the army, and cleaned up Luoyang fiercely.
On this day, Fengzhou put out the honor guard of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, entered the city from the west gate of Luoyang, passed through the dragon garden and the gold market, entered the North Palace from the Vermilion Bird Gate, and after the parade, he inspected the whole city.
After inspecting Luoyang City, seeing that the people were all properly settled, Feng Zhou relieved himself and ordered to go to the imperial city to rest.
Although Cao Rui, the emperor of Wei, hunted Yecheng in the north in advance, and Sima Yi sat in Luoyang, he never burned down the palace like Dong Zhuo, so the imperial city is well preserved, but although the Luoyang Imperial City is still there, the furniture and decorations in it have long been emptied by the Wei army.
???? Due to the tight schedule, Wei Yan only had time to order someone to clean and decorate the two main halls located in the North Palace, the Deyang Hall and the Chongde Hall.