Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Battle Begins
"Tian Feng congratulated the alliance leader first, no, he congratulated the emperor."
Tian Feng's eyes rolled, and he hurriedly arched his hand.
"Don't talk nonsense!"
Yuan Shao hurriedly waved his hand.
But the uncontrollable smile on his face betrayed him.
Dragon chair, I'm coming!
Yuan Shao roared excitedly in his heart.
"The whole army obeys the order!"
"Attack with me!"
The voice fell.
Yuan Shao's army took the lead and rushed towards the capital overwhelmingly.
The soldiers and horses of the remaining princes of the Seventeenth Route also followed.
Here it comes!
Seeing this, Liu Hong, who was on the city wall, hurriedly clenched the sword at his waist.
Three hundred meters... Two hundred and fifty meters... Two hundred meters ....
He Jin on the side silently counted the distance in his heart.
Until Yuan Shao's army rushed to a hundred meters.
He Jin's eyes widened suddenly.
Angry eyes widened.
"Launch!"
Ground.
An earth-shattering noise erupted in the capital.
Hundreds of huge dragon chants soared into the sky and fell towards Yuan Shao's army.
These thunderbolts were transformed by Liu Hong from all the thunderbolts stored in the capital.
The proportion of explosives was reduced in it.
Add more sharp iron spikes.
The Eighteenth Route Princes Alliance Army was basically wearing armor.
However, because this kind of armor is a standard equipment, the quality is relatively poor.
Its defense against punctures is not very good.
It was Liu Hong who added a large number of iron thorns.
The goal is to break the armor.
And the iron spikes are sharper.
It is also easier to penetrate into the vital points of the human body.
Especially in areas like the eyes and throat.
Doing so will maximize the range of damage caused by the Dragon's Thunderbolt.
It is also the best way to deal with the alliance army of the eighteenth road princes.
"Oh my God, what is this!"
"Not good! It's thunder! Get out of the way! ”
"What a big thunder!"
Yuan Shao's army was a little flustered when he saw such a big dragon roaring thunder.
Even the princes of the Eighteenth Route were shocked by the huge explosives pack.
Why is there such a big dragon roaring thunder!?
"Leave it alone! Charge! ”
Yuan Shao gritted his teeth and ordered the army to continue to charge.
Even if it's a big explosive package!
You have only one capital, how many big thunders can you make!
Hundreds of dragon chanting thunderbolts smashed into Yuan Shao's army.
Then there was a sudden explosion.
Suddenly the sky was full of blood.
Mourning everywhere.
Many of the sergeants were about to flee immediately.
was cut off by the warlord who was guarding behind.
"Hold on! Hold! ”
"Their thunder is gone!"
"Anyone who kills the enemy generals will seal a thousand households!"
Yuan Shao shouted loudly.
Stimulated by life and death and Lilu, Yuan Shao's army erupted with a roar and continued to rush towards the walls of the capital.
Siege ladders were also erected on the city walls.
Soon, the first soldier of Yuan Shao's army rushed to the capital.
"Hahaha! I'm coming up! Glory and riches, I'm coming! ”
A soldier laughed loudly and slashed off the heads of the defenders of the capital.
However, in the next moment, his body was pierced and blown away by several spears.
Immediately afterwards, another soldier climbed the city wall, armed with weapons, and killed the defenders of the capital.
For a while, screams were heard from time to time in the city.
Or a corpse falling from the city wall.
The army is crushing the city!
Meet at close quarters!
Hand-to-hand combat begins!
Next.
With the sound of drumming from the army formation of the alliance army of the Eighteen Route Princes, hundreds of thousands of troops suddenly retreated like a tide.
On the walls of the capital, there are corpses everywhere.
There were defenders, but more of them came from the allied army of the Eighteenth Route Princes.
As for the foot of the city wall of the capital, there are even more corpses of the alliance army.
The entire city wall of the capital can only be described in one word.
Tragic! Incomparably tragic!
There are stumps and severed arms everywhere.
I don't know how many people's blood gathered on the city wall into a stream that had not yet dried up.
The bloody air rushed to the brain.
Ascending to the top of the city, Liu Hong looked at the tragic situation on the city wall, and felt his heart tremble for the first time.
What a human life!
In the past, Liu Hong gave orders, but he did not personally feel the tragedy of the battlefield.
And now he felt it.
These soldiers who fell to the ground... It's all a piece of life.
They lost their lives in order to defend the capital and defend the country.
Even... None of them had ever seen Liu Hong.
"Your Majesty, war has always been like this, there is no need for too much sadness."
He Jin saw that Liu Hong's expression was wrong, and immediately stepped forward to advise.
"I know... It's just that... Lao He, you go and arrange some manpower and bury them, the alliance army will not fight in a short time"
"Besides, I want to be alone."
"Yes! Emperor! ”
He Jin turned around and left, leaving a little space for Liu Hong.
"Guys, I haven't figured out how to be an emperor yet, and I'm just an ordinary person..."
"If I had come in the right way, wouldn't it be like this today? Wouldn't it be better if I could endure it a little longer? ”
Liu Hong muttered to himself to the dead soldiers not far away.
"Really, I'm just an ordinary person, how can I be a good emperor?"
Liu Hong smiled self-deprecatingly.
He suddenly wanted to smoke a cigarette.
However, in this day and age, there is no such thing as smoke.
Liu Hong had no choice but to sit down and continue to talk to himself.
He Jin saw Liu Hong sitting there alone from a distance, talking to a group of dead soldiers, and he couldn't help but feel a little helpless.
He tried to step forward again and again, but hesitated to retreat.
Let's leave the time to the other person.
Three days later.
Liu Hong held a long sword in front of him, and then bent his legs, slashing through the throat of the soldier in front of him.
Yan Er, who was closely following Liu Hong not far away, was wary of the threat around Liu Hong.
At first, Liu Hong also wanted to go into battle to kill the enemy, but was stopped by He Jin.
Even if it is really the Son of Heaven guarding the country.
The monarch must not die either.
Even if there is a shortage of manpower, Liu Hong must not be allowed to make a mistake.
However, there were too many enemy troops.
He Jin had no time to take care of Liu Hong, so in the end he could only send Yan Er to bring someone to protect him.
So Liu Hong, with the blessing of the emperor's identity, successfully joined the battle.
Become a soldier defending the city.
I thought that after two consecutive days of attacking, the alliance army of the Eighteenth Route Princes would temporarily stop the momentum of the offensive.
However, the opponent attacked one after another.
It doesn't even seem to be ready for the army, and it's a charge.
Under the continuous offensive of the alliance army, the gate of the capital was finally breached.
More fierce battles began.
The two sides fought to the death around a small city gate.
It took almost ten minutes for the corpses of soldiers to fill the city gates.
In just a few days.
The 100,000 soldiers and 200,000 peasant soldiers in the capital suffered heavy casualties.
In the end, less than 150,000 troops remained.
On the other hand, the battle losses on the side of the Union were much smaller.
There are about 300,000 people left in the 400,000-strong army.
The fighting was so tragic that no one even had time to count the dead.
But it can be inferred from the rate of consumption of grain and grass.
Liu Hong, who learned the news, was very silent.