After a night without words, Sun Ning slept peacefully until dawn the next day.

Then when the Vietnamese army attacked the city wall of Luoyang as usual, Sun Ning finally officially summoned Yan Hu and other generals, and discussed the strategy of breaking the city while watching the battle in front of the camp.

"Let's all talk about it, what are the difficulties in taking Luoyang now." Sun Ning didn't have any pretenses, and went straight to the point when he opened his mouth.

Yan Hu was the first to speak: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that there are three difficulties in recapturing Luoyang City this time. The first is the rebels defending the city, the second is the people in the city who are being coerced by them, and the third is the possible rebellious foreign aid."

Sun Ning nodded: "These three points are indeed quite important, so let's come one by one, let's talk about the situation of the rebels in the city first."

"The current rebels are actually short of confidence, even with the strength of Luoyang, it is impossible for them to hold it." A military commander spoke.

"Then why didn't our army break through the city?"

"Just because they also mobilized a large number of people in the city to help defend the city together, including the private soldiers of the local big families who dedicated the entire Luoyang to them. Compared to the rebels who were at the end of the war, these people are the key to defending the city."

"Yes, Your Majesty, don't look at these guys who are not from the military, but their combat power is not at all below the rebels of the ordinary sky, and even if they only talk about defending the city, they are still excessive."

"Your Majesty, the second point that General Yan said is that most of the people in the city who were coerced by them were actually forced to go to the city by these big families. In this regard, we have always felt that we are afraid of throwing rats, and if we add this concern of Luoyang Capital, this matter will be even more difficult to handle."

Now that they have all spoken, these generals have also let go of their hearts and will say whatever they want.

Sun Ning listened carefully, looked at the battle ahead, and quickly confirmed that what they said was true.

At least in this siege, the defenders above dealt with it quite well, leaving little chance for the army.

Although they will also quickly hide when attacked by weapons such as stone throwers, as soon as the offensive stops, the defenders will quickly appear at the head of the city, constantly blocking the Vietnamese army from approaching the city wall with various weapons.

So after more than half an hour, the Vietnamese army didn't even have a ladder to go to the city.

As for other siege strategies, whether it is digging tunnels or trying to break through the city walls, in front of Luoyang City, which has many defensive means, it is useless.

"Your Majesty, this Luoyang is my Dayue capital after all, if it weren't for the fact that there was no way, the ministers didn't want to really destroy the city. That's why when attacking the walls, I can't let go of my hands and feet."

Chen Qingyun also opened his mouth at this time, and said with a wry smile: "The enemy army obviously also saw this layer, so they became more and more unscrupulous. Coupled with the people they forced to defend the city as shields, they were able to withstand the onslaught of our army for many days, and even the casualties on both sides were not much different."

Yan Hu then glanced at Sun Ning again: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that there are indeed many inappropriateness in attacking the city like this, whether it is the calculation of the casualties of our soldiers or the impact on morale, it is quite serious.

"After all, taking Luoyang is not the end of everything, at least to the north of us, there are still three forces ready to move."

Sun Ning frowned, he already understood the real intention of these generals to say so much since Yanhu descended.

Obviously, the siege of Luoyang during these days made them feel extremely aggrieved, because of the capital, because of those people, all the soldiers could not fully attack.

However, as the courtiers of Dayue, they did not dare to make decisions on their own, and they were desperate to take Luoyang down. Otherwise, only to lay down a sparse Luoyang City, is this a merit or a fault?

Only by throwing the problem to him, the emperor, and letting the Son of Heaven decide, he decreed that he could ignore the safety of Luoyang, as long as he took the city, so that he could really break the city.

However, Sun Ning did not follow their intentions because of this, but suddenly asked again: "You just said that there are three difficulties, the first two have been explained, what about the third foreign aid?"

"Traitor foreign aid naturally refers to those three parties. And for now, it should refer to Jinju Guo, who has already appeared

Tens of thousands of cavalry from Han, and the Ghost Rong Iron Cavalry that may go south at any time." Chen Qingyun said solemnly, "Especially the former, it scared us before."

"How?"

"At the decisive battle of Xingyang that day, this cavalry from Jinju suddenly appeared at the rear of the battlefield. If they had come along, we would have won, but the results would have been less than ideal. Moreover, our army's casualties will definitely increase a lot, and maybe we won't be able to storm Luoyang today."

"And this?" Sun Ning was also stunned, "Then why didn't they really send troops?"

"Because the winner was already divided. Moreover, according to the information found later, Guo Han's troops originally planned to come together with the Ghost Rong Iron Cavalry and join forces to fight us head-on. Outcome...... The ghost Rong people did not believe in their words and did not send troops, which made Guo Han also have a lot of concerns, so he only watched from afar."

"Yes, Your Majesty, to this day, we still don't understand why the Oni Rong people suddenly broke the appointment, I heard that they had actually arranged the soldiers and horses before, so they waited for the departure at that time."

"I know that." Sun Ning suddenly smiled and said, but all the soldiers were stunned, and they all looked over.

Sun Ning glanced at them, and then said, "When I was in Sichuan and Shu, I had been paying attention to the situation in the Central Plains, and I was also worried that the rebellion of the three parties would disturb it. So I made some arrangements according to their problems.

"For example, Li Wannian, who did not move this time, I made the Langzhou side put on a posture that he was about to forge ahead, so it was enough for Li Wannian not to dare to act rashly. If he really dares to raise troops into the Central Plains again, my army of Langzhou will be able to go straight to Ganzhou, and even kill along the passage over there to Chang'an."

"I see, no wonder I haven't heard of any movement from Li Wannian this time, it turns out that the key lies in Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, please obey ......"

After a lot of praise, someone asked again, "Then dare to ask Your Majesty, is it also related to your arrangement that the Ghost Rong people did not use troops this time?"

"Yes."

"What's that arrangement?"

"Naturally, it's the soldiers and horses of Ludi who are close to them. I sent someone to give Xiao Ke a decree one step earlier, so that he no longer has to care about the battle situation here, and only needs to send troops to the northwest and attack those cities in the north with all the troops of Ludi."

Sun Ning smiled and said his own arrangement, which was where his confidence lay in ensuring that the battle situation in the Central Plains was not affected by other forces.

In fact, if it weren't for the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou being brought to the front line of Luoyang, I am afraid that Sun Ning would have been able to rely on that side and drag Guo Han of Jinzhou in his lair.