Chapter 391: Capture the Valley Gate
Yang Rui used the Dao Feng Flying Carpet to follow the entire march of Sun Jian, and took in the duel with Dong Zhuo's defenders outside the Kaiyang Gate. As for the combat power of Sun Jian and his subordinates, Yang Rui was also greatly moved.
Hu Zhen, Wang Fang and other Dong Zhuo's subordinates can be said to occupy a huge advantage in numbers, but as soon as they collided with Sun Jian's troops, the level of combat power of the two sides was immediately revealed, and the combat strength of Hu Zhen and Wang Fang's soldiers was more than one or two times lower than that of Sun Jian's side, and after only a short period of stalemate, Sun Jian's side occupied an absolute advantage.
In particular, Huang Gai and Sun Jian came out one after another, and after handing over Hu Zhen and Wang Fang, the huge gap in the strength of the generals of the two sides was also quickly reflected.
Of course, Sun Jian and Huang Gai refused to let it go, and then led the crowd to cover up and kill, killing the other party's soldiers and screaming again and again. Originally, Hu Zhen and Wang Fang's troops were very difficult to fight, but they were rushed by Sun Jian and Huang Gai, and they immediately began to retreat.
The small-scale rout caused by the flight of the two main generals can be described as a stone that stirs up a thousand waves, and quickly leads to the complete collapse of Dong Zhuo's troops on the battlefield, and the stalemate between the two sides does not exceed a quarter of an hour, and Hu Zhen and Wang Yi, who have the advantage of troops, are completely defeated.
Yang Rui was also greatly surprised by this scene, he didn't expect that Sun Jian and his subordinates' combat power would be so strong! The two sides also had two generals, but Sun Jian's side obviously surpassed the other party a lot in terms of both the strength of the generals and the strength of the soldiers!
And obviously, although Sun Jian inspired a special class of troops, the Tiger Guard, he has always been in the plot. There must be no time to cultivate. Therefore, Sun Jian's current soldiers are not tiger guards. The reason why it is so strong. In addition to being a special class of troops in itself, it also has to be attributed to Sun Jian and Huang Gai's auxiliary skills.
One can imagine what kind of power Sun Jian's Tiger Pawn Guards will be after they become an army, and the Tiger Pawn Guards can reach up to the 7th Order! Even at this time, Yang Rui couldn't help but secretly weigh what the chances of victory would be if several of his generals brought the most powerful 5th-order special troops against Sun Jian! Maybe it's on par?
"Kill!"
"Don't teach Hu Zhen and Wang Fang"
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Hu Zhen and Wang Fang's troops fled in a complete manner, and Sun Jian led the army to pursue and kill them non-stop. The two sides fled and chased, sticking to each other, and the direction they went to was the opening of the Yang Gate of the Imperial City of Luoyang!
"Open the door!"
"Open the gates!"
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Hu Zhen and Wang Fang came to the Kaiyang Gate first, and when they saw that the city gate was closed, they immediately shouted loudly.
At this time, Duan Xuan, the general of the city guard, was on the tower of Kaiyang Gate, facing Hu Zhen and Wang Fang who were retreating, Duan Xuan hesitated for a moment, and then ordered the guards to slowly open the heavy city gate.
Since Hu Zhen and Wang Fang led the troops out of the city, Duan Xuan was faintly worried, so he stayed at the Kaiyang Gate and waited for the two to return. I don't want the two of them to really lose the battle at this time, and they still have a large number of chasing soldiers behind them! Therefore, Duan Xuan didn't want to open the city gate. However, the main general who stayed in Luoyang was Hu Zhen, who was trapped outside the city gate at this time, and Duan Xuan had to submit in the end.
In Duan Xuan's thoughts, although Hu Zhen and Wang Fang had chasing soldiers behind them, they might not dare to enter the city, even if the other party entered the city, with the layout of the Kaiyang Gate city wall and the city gate tower and the large number of defenders in the city, it should be difficult for the other party to make any waves, maybe they can take the opportunity to win back for a while.
Of course, this is just Duan Xuan's thoughts in an instant, in fact, his biggest judgment is based on his feeling, since Hu Zhen and Wang Fang called the door, the soldiers behind him should not pose a threat to Luoyang City!
However, at this time, Hu Zhen and Wang Fang had already been killed in a panic, and they only wanted to escape temporarily to save their lives, but they had no time to take care of the pursuers behind them! Hu Zhen and Wang Fang fled all the way, Sun Jian pursued and killed very fiercely, and the seventy or eighty thousand soldiers brought out had already been lost!
"Kill!"
"Rush"
With the opening of the Kaiyang Gate, Sun Jian directly waved his army and followed Hu Zhen and Wang Fang into the city, and a fierce battle broke out between the urn city and Yongdao downstairs under the city gate, and the result was also greatly unexpected by Duan Xuan's previous expectations, since Hu Zhen and Wang Fang entered the gate and began to enter the city, Sun Jian and Huang Gai followed closely to kill, even if Duan Xuan made a move, plus Hu Zhen and Wang Fang, they still couldn't stop these two.
And the archers prepared around the urn city, because Hu Zhen, Wang Fang, Sun Jian and others were mixed together, they were afraid of being injured by mistake, so they didn't dare to shoot at all.
The defeat was like a mountain, and the gate tower of Kaiyang Gate was quickly controlled by Sun Jian's department with the unfavorable situation of the main general! Hu Zhen, Wang Fang, and Duan Xuan could only command their soldiers to fight against Sun Jian's army on the city wall, and they were still retreating in the direction of Pingchengmen and Qinmen!
"Just killed it?"
Yang Rui followed Sun Jian's pursuit of his troops to Kaiyang Gate, and after arriving at Kaiyang Gate, he did not enter Luoyang City, but stayed outside the city. To Yang Rui's surprise, Sun Jian directly controlled the Kaiyang Gate on the southeast side of Luoyang City!
What Yang Rui didn't know was that the reason why the current situation occurred was completely caused by the misjudgment of Sun Jian and Hu Zhen! Hu Zhen's bravery was one aspect of his defeat, and if Sun Jian knew that there were still more than 200,000 defenders in Luoyang City, he should not have rushed into the city.
Sun Jianqiang took the Kaiyang Gate of Luoyang City, which made Yang Rui also see the opportunity, so Yang Rui immediately stopped watching the battle, but quickly drove the wind flying carpet and rushed to the Beibi Mountain on the north side of Luoyang City.
Now that the Luoyang Imperial City has fallen, although it is not clear what kind of situation Sun Jian will encounter next, it is almost inevitable that the guards in the city will be transferred to Kaiyang Gate to support, if this causes the decline of the defense strength of other city gates, it may be able to take advantage of it!
The fact is just as Yang Rui imagined, due to the sudden situation of Kaiyang Gate, the defenders in Luoyang City were alert after the news spread. Seeing that Sun Jian and Huang Gai led their troops on the city wall to rush to the Pingcheng Gate and the Qinmen Gate respectively, Hu Zhen immediately ordered the soldiers from all over the city to go to the Guangyang Gate, Pingcheng Gate and Qinmen to help, preparing to use the huge advantage in the number of troops to drag Sun Jian and his subordinates down.
Hu Zhen secretly thought that Sun Jian's main force had already appeared in Guangyang Gate, and the other gates should be bluffing, so there were not many troops left in each gate to defend. In the final analysis, Hu Zhen and a few others were still frightened by Sun Jian's soldiers, so they would be pressured to make this move.
As a result, the other gates of the Luoyang Imperial City suddenly emptied a lot, and as time went by, after leaving the Guangyang Gate for more than half an hour, Yang Rui had already led all the nearly 40,000 troops in the Juling Mountain Villa to come outside the Gumen of Luoyang City, and immediately launched an attack on the Gumen and the city walls on the left and right sides of the twenty or thirty miles.
Since Yang Rui had always had the intention of finally capturing Luoyang, he ordered Duyang of Heyin County to prepare a lot of simple siege equipment such as wooden ladders and crashing wood, which were also taken by Yang Rui at this time.
Yang Rui only didn't expect the opportunity to come so quickly, he originally wanted to grab Dong Zhuo's defense in Luoyang City when the defenders in Luoyang City finally retreated and then occupy the Luoyang Imperial City, so that he could get some merit points and points for nothing, if he wanted to come to the Imperial City-level city to seize it, the merits and points given should not be a small amount!
"Kill"
Before launching the attack, Yang Rui had not yet made much progress in capturing the valley gate, and he was also uncertain about the number of defenders in Dong Zhuo's camp in the city, but after the siege battle began, the advantage of the city wall battle of the 5th-order iron guards was immediately apparent, coupled with the three powerful generals Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo, the siege battle was unexpectedly smooth.
The defense of the Luoyang Imperial City can be said to be solid enough, although the number of guards has been transferred a lot, relying on the power of the city wall can not resist Yang Rui's attack. However, its biggest weakness is that it does not have a strong enough general to sit in charge and give the defenders a bonus to assist in their stunts, and this weakness is quickly exposed in defense.
At this time, the role of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Wu Anguo and other three historical generals was highlighted, and the three of them almost worked together, tearing three openings at the city walls on both sides of the valley gate, and the surrounding 5-order iron guards quickly followed these three people to stand on the city wall, so far it was only a matter of time before Yang Rui captured the Luoyang Valley Gate.
Although it is said to be an attack on the valley gate, but because the defense of the defenders at the city gate is relatively strong, there are not a few archers alone, so Yang Rui put his core forces into the city wall sections on both sides of the valley gate, but Yang Rui alone led a small half of the troops outside the city gate to attract the attention of the other party, and only set up a battle and shouted, and did not enter the range of the opponent's bow and arrow.
The Imperial City of Luoyang has a wide moat, and Sun Jian was able to rush into the city from Kaiyang Gate only because he took advantage of the rout; On this side of the valley gate, due to the proximity to the north, due to the restrictions of the terrain, the city gate tower urn city is very open around the city, and there is also a road between the city wall and the moat, which also provides conditions for Gao Shunsan to launch an attack from the city wall.
Having the experience of capturing the east gate of Luoyang City, Yang Rui had already noticed that the direction of Gumen was different from other city gates, so he came to attack Gumen, instead of choosing Xiamen, which was also on the north side of Luoyang City and might have fewer defensive troops.
"Kill!"
"The Disarmer Lives"
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Another quarter of an hour passed, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo had already led part of their troops from the city walls on both sides to kill the Gumen City Gate, and within a single cup of tea, the Gumen City Gate was also opened, and Yang Rui immediately rushed in with his army and controlled the entire Gumen! (To be continued......)