In mid-May, Li Yi finally came to the vicinity of Luoyang, and the number of the army changed from 300 million to 1 billion, and the entire billion brave army was urgently put together in order to capture Luoyang.

Now Youzhou's brave-level army has all gone to battle, Li Yi has one billion in his hands, Huang Zhong has two hundred million in his hands, and Lu Bu has only a small amount in his hands, which is still from the battle promotion.

A large number of battle losses have almost exhausted the troops that Li Yi has accumulated over the years, and there are still many elite-level troops left.

However, the three kings were also uncomfortable, except for Sun Quan, who was still in a stalemate with Huang Zhong, the other two lost more.

Cao Cao lost more than 100 million in the brave level, more than 500 million in the brave level, and the elite is now at least 10 billion, although Liu Bei is not as exaggerated as Cao Cao, but the elite loss is also more than 2 billion, and the loss of the brave army is about 10 million.

"Newspaper. No enemy troops were found in front of Luoyang City, and the city gate was closed. ”

"Newspaper. No traps were found outside the city. ”

"Newspaper. No enemy troops were found outside the city. ”

Listening to the scout's report, Li Yi scratched his head, it seemed that Liu Bei was planning to defend to the death, and resolutely not to fight outside his city.

Looking at the direction of Luoyang, you can't see the marginal city wall, which can make the attackers desperate, although the tall city wall is not high, but it is incomparable in terms of thickness, the thickness of ten miles, it is basically impossible to break through.

And the direction of the city gate, it is even more difficult, there are twelve city gates, each gate is made of fine copper, the physical defense and spell defense are ridiculously high, after the reinforcement of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, it can be said that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the first defense in the world.

Turning his head and looking at the truckloads of equipment in his army, Li Yi's confidence was a little lacking, he didn't know if he could take Luoyang.

In the previous battles, it was possible to let the top generals destroy the city gates and city walls, but at the level of the big city, it was already very difficult for the top generals, not to mention the imperial capital of Luoyang.

Even if a hundred top generals want to destroy the city wall head-on, it will take a whole day.

"The Art of War." took out the artifact in his hand and probed in the direction of Luoyang, at a position of 100 miles, the enemy could not attack him.

After the exploration of the artifact, Li Yi learned a little about the state of Luoyang.

Luoyang City (Imperial Capital)

Defense???

Walls defended ???

Gate Defense???

City Lord: Liu Bei.

Fighters: Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Wei Yan......

Strategists: Xu Shu, Pang Tong......

Soldier: 20 billion.

Population???

In addition to Liu Bei's information, the other information is all question marks, this is the first time in the history of Sun Tzu's Art of War, it seems that the imperial capital-level city, even Sun Tzu's Art of War cannot be explored completely, it is estimated that it must be above the intermediate artifact.

Putting away Sun Tzu's Art of War, Li Yi looked at Li Ru and nodded to him, and when Li Ru also nodded, Li Yi left directly.

"The lord has an order, set up camp and set up camp...... Li Ru's voice announced that there was no war today, because the establishment of a billion troops would take at least one day to do it, and it would take more time to guard against enemy attacks.

After Li Ru's order was issued, the whole army began to get busy, some scouts patrolled nearby to guard against enemy raids, and cavalry was to pacify the war horses and accumulate physical strength.

The task of setting up a village was handed over to the foot soldiers, and a large number of soldiers began to carry supplies.

With the passage of time, a large-scale camp was slowly built, and the city wall of the same hundred zhang high echoed with Luoyang across five hundred miles, but looking at the material and thickness of the city wall, even the leftovers of Luoyang were not as good.

In the evening, in Li Yi's big tent, everyone who had been discussing for a day finally determined the way to attack, and tomorrow they would officially start attacking Luoyang, a city with amazing defense.

After everyone left, Li Yi came to the tent alone, raised his head, looked at the morning glow in the west, the orange sun, dyed the clouds in the sky orange red, people were fascinated by it, Li Yi looked at the sunset, and suddenly found that this seemed to be Cai Yan's face, it was so attractive, and now it has been five months since the New Year, and Cai Yan is also five months pregnant.

In five months his child will be born, and then he will have to go back anyway to see his child be born.

There was nothing to do all night, Liu Bei did not send troops to attack at night, and Li Yi did not send people to attack the city overnight, as if it had been discussed, and the peaceful night passed like this.

But in the early morning of the next day, the rousing trumpets and deafening drums came and went, whether it was Luoyang City or Li Yi's camp, it was the same, and the louder sound was more general, telling both sides that I was ready to fight.

"My lord, are you starting to siege the city?" Zhao Yun knelt on one knee and listened to Li Yi's order.

Looking at Zhao Yun with an indifferent face, Li Yi nodded and announced the order to start.

"Pass my orders, the feather pawns are the vanguard, and start attacking."

After the order was issued, Zhou Cang led a million-strong army along the official road outside Luoyang to kill the city gate.

When he was fifty miles away from the city, the arrows rained down, which was the counterattack of Liu Bei and others.

"Raise your shield." Listening to the whistling wind, Zhou Cang roared, and the million-strong army held a shield in one hand and quickly killed the city wall against the rain of arrows.

The sound of the arrow striking the shield ...... the army was very irritated, and in the midst of the sound, there was a sporadic dull sound, the sound of a soldier falling to the ground.

No one looked up, no one looked back, just lowered their heads, followed the footsteps of the soldiers in front of them, and ran step by step.

The distance of fifty miles, if in normal times, would have taken less than a quarter of an hour, but today, it took a quarter and a half of an hour for them to reach under the city walls.

The broadsword in Zhou Cang's hand knocked off an arrow, and he stood under the city wall, looking at the bronze city gate, and a feeling of insignificance rose from the bottom of his heart.

"Attack." With a loud shout, Zhou Cang gave up the feeling of being a talent, and slashed heavily at the city gate with the big knife in his hand.

The "Dong ......" weapon intersected with the city gate, making a sound like beating a drum, feeling the shock from the weapon, Zhou Cang's face was ugly.

"It's hard." I don't know if I don't try, this city gate is really hard.

With the strength of Zhou Cang's top generals, a blow will only make a depression in the city gate, and if you want to break the city gate, it will take at least a few thousand strokes or even more.

Zhou Cang's stop, the army did not stop, the army with a shield in one hand, and a single knife in the other, began to desperately attack the city gate.

The debris of the city gate and the debris of a single knife collapsed at the same time, which made the morale of the army in an unstable state, and as the main general of the army, Zhou Cang's face was even more unhappy.

"Chisel through, divine power, kill ......" two skills were useful, and the army continued to attack.

With the blessing of the two skills, the attack speed is significantly increased, and even the reduction of the weapon's durability is slowly decreasing.

Zhou Cang's attack had long been known to Liu Bei of the city wall, and he deliberately let Zhou Cang approach the city gate to see the combat effectiveness of this army.

Through the defense of the city gate, he calculated that if Zhou Cang wanted to destroy the first city gate, it would take at least three hours, and he would attack with all his strength, which made him full of confidence.

"Attack." Short words came out of Liu Bei's mouth.

The army, which had long been prepared on the city walls, began to push down the nearby boulders.

The boulder ten zhang long and ten zhang wide fell from the hundred-zhang high city wall, and when it fell to the ground, tens of thousands of troops were directly crushed to death, which also blocked Zhou Cang's continued attack, and the boulder blocked the entire city gate, which was regarded as adding another city wall to the city gate.

The city wall, which is completely made of boulders, saw this, Zhou Cang was furious.

"Savage Rush." He took a thousand steps back and slammed his shoulder against the boulder, shattering the situation in front of him, and the debris flew in a cloud of smoke, making it impossible to see the city from the city walls.

"Big brother be careful." Guan Yu shouted, and the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in his hand directly killed forward, where Zhou Cang's figure was revealed in the smoke and dust.

Zhou Cang's attack on the boulder just now was obviously a bluff, in order to raise smoke and dust, so that he could jump on the city wall and attack the people in the city.

But he didn't expect this method to be discovered by Guan Yu and lost his first move.

The two weapons intersected, and it was also a long-handled broadsword, which ended in Guan Yu's victory, and after a blow, Zhou Cang's figure disappeared, and when the smoke and dust dissipated, Zhou Cang continued to attack the city gate.

The boulders at the gates of the city have been removed by the army. The sound of the "clanging" attack made the people in the city smile with disdain, and with Luoyang's defense, they were not worried at all.

"Fire Oil Attack." Zhang Fei shouted, scaring everyone to tremble, and Zhou Cang and others in the city were also startled, and after hearing the loud roar, Zhou Cang decisively ordered.

"Quick, the army retreats." After receiving the order of the commander, the remaining 800,000 troops withdrew in an orderly manner, and when they were far away from the city wall, Zhou Cang turned his head and looked in the direction of the city gate, where there was no trace of fire oil.

It seems that Zhang Fei made a false shot, in order to scare him and make him retreat.

"Damn." Critical teeth, Zhou Cang's anger was rising little by little, after some entanglement, he still chose to retreat, he had already explored the defense of the city gate, and wanted to go back to report and let the lord make plans early.

The withdrawal of the army was very fast, and Luoyang City no longer shoots arrows, which reduced the losses of the army a lot.

After returning to Li Yi's army formation, Zhou Cang counted and found that 200,000 soldiers were killed in the battle, at least 200,000 troops were slightly wounded, and 50,000 troops were seriously injured, all of which were attacks by arrows and boulders, and they did not even kill a single enemy.

Some of them came to Li Yi and told the truth about the information of the city gate.

After listening to Zhou Cang's words, Li Yi had a deeper understanding of the city gate.

"Wenyou, how to take Luoyang?" Li Yi looked at Li Ru.

As the first strategist of Dong Zhuo's period, the former ruler of Luoyang City, he knows Luoyang very well, although it has been built by others, but it is still almost the same, except that the defense has become more perverted, other aspects have not changed.

"Lord, the army is divided into five routes, divide the army into five parts to attack, attack all the city gates on all sides, and use the river as a breakthrough point to enter the city." Li Ru said the plan he had thought of a long time ago.

Li Ru then began to explain the situation in Luoyang, the defense of the four gates is amazing, but Liu Bei's generals are not as many as Li Yi's, and they are evenly divided into the four gates, and there is one person in each door, but Liu Bei can't separate Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, once separated, it will give Zhao Yun a chance to directly break through a city wall.

Since the defense of the city gate is amazing, it is good not to break it, and it is also excellent to attack from above.

For this battle of Luoyang, Li Yi carried a lot of siege towers, as long as the city wall is safely erected, the soldiers can climb the city wall, and there is no need to attack the city gate, but the enemy on the city wall is a key point, which requires the general's rush to kill, disrupt the enemy's defense, and the army has a chance to kill the city wall.