Go chop! Huan Chong shouted like thunder, and several pro-soldiers hurriedly responded to Wang Shu, who was there, and grabbed his arm. Wang Shu, who was covered in blood all over his body, knelt there dejectedly, lowered his head and didn't say a word, letting the soldiers behind him twist his arms high.

Huan Chong, who quickly calmed down, saw Wang Shu kneeling in front of him, the helmet on his head had been thrown somewhere, and the cloth towel wrapped in his hair had also fallen down with his hair, and fell to the ground with his long low-hanging hair. His hair and cloth were covered with black spots and blood clots, and the iron scale armor on his body was full of tears, which fell to the ground like a broken curtain.

Seeing Wang Shu's eyes closed and waiting to die, Huan Chong couldn't help but sigh, and then said to the soldiers who were about to pull Wang Shu up and drag him out: "Forget it, help General Wang down and have a good rest." ”

The pro-soldiers were stunned for a moment, but in a blink of an eye, the captain of the pro-soldiers who took the lead reacted and hurriedly responded: "Yes, we will help General Wang down immediately!" Then as soon as he lost his eyes, he and his own soldiers immediately turned into support, and their movements were natural and smooth.

But at this time, Wang Shu, who was still kneeling there just now and lost his soul, was suddenly awakened when he was pulled up, raised his body and pounced, and kneeled in front of Huan Chong.

"General Wuwei, I'm damned! Five thousand brothers attacked for ten days and ten nights, more than half of the dead and wounded, they had already climbed the Luyang City Tower, but they couldn't take it, and the lives of more than 2,000 brothers were lost in Luyang City in vain. General, let me go with my brothers! ”

Wang Shu burst into tears, and washed out the traces of furrows on his black face. and set off the hysterical voice from his hoarse voice, which made people feel an inexplicable sadness and desolation.

Huan Chong looked at Wang Shu blankly, and his heart was like numbness. In the first ten days, Wang Shu led 5,000 elite soldiers to attack the city day and night using building cars, ladders, etc., and several times they have already controlled a section of the city wall, but they were still counterattacked by the defenders in the city. But this damn Luyang City is still standing.

It's been more than a month. The ambition of restoring the ancestral cemetery was smashed under this small but dangerous enough Luyang City. 30,000 soldiers and horses attacked here day and night, and three groups of siege generals and troops were changed in a row, and the bravest generals and the best soldiers in Jingxiang were all sent, but they still only got one result, that is, the hatred of the soldiers retreated.

Thinking of this, Huan Chong became popular for a while, why people can take Yizhou Shuzhong in the west and Guanlong in the north like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, which is easier than eating a piece of tofu. But the first time he led the troops to attack, he hit the big bag headfirst. Huan Chong originally thought that it was a great blessing that he met the Northern Expedition of Wang Shi for the first time when he led the army alone, and originally planned to make a splash in this "world-renowned" Northern Expedition, so that others would know that in addition to his brother and Zeng Zhenbei, he was also a famous general in the Jiangbiao court.

However, after more than a month of hard fighting, from March to the end of April, it was difficult for Huan Chong to go further under Luyang City. The huge defeat made Huan Chong, who has always been calm and wise, become irritable, and he has taken the opportunity to cut off the heads of several pro-soldiers and sergeants who don't have long eyes, and everyone looks at Huan Chong's appearance. thought that Wang Shu would become the first general to be beheaded because of defeat.

In the two rows of generals on the left and right of the big tent were in a nervous mood. Huan Chong waved his hand helplessly, and said weakly: "General Wang, I don't blame you. General Fuwang go down and rest! The soldiers hurriedly pulled Wang Shu, who had been crying, out of the big tent.

Listening to Wang Shu's cry getting farther and farther away in his ears, and finally floating out of the sky like a kite that has dropped its strings, Huan Chong knelt down to his position in the middle, and waved his hand to let the generals who stood there kneel down, while bowing his head and thinking.

After a long silence, Huan Chong finally raised his head, and then asked the generals in a low voice: "What do you think should be done?" How should this Luyang City be captured? ”

When the generals heard this low voice, they took a closer look and found that General Wuwei, who had always been high-spirited and directing, actually showed a helpless and confused look in his eyes, just like a lost child begging for help.

The generals' hearts sank, and they couldn't help but sigh. As Huan Wen's henchmen, they all know that Huan Wen values his younger brother the most, this Northern Expedition, Huan Wen stayed in Nanyang to dispatch, and sent Huan Chong to command the main general, just to give Huan Chong a chance to make great contributions, so that he can take the opportunity to rise.

But people are not as good as the sky, Huan Wen and Huan Chong didn't expect that this Luyang City was so stubborn, so that tens of thousands of Northern Expedition troops were defeated in the city for more than a month, if it was according to this way of fighting, I don't know which year and month it would be able to hit Heluo and recover the old capital.

Huan Chong raised his head and saw that the generals were all sitting there, their eyes were complicated, but none of them spoke. Huan Chong couldn't help but feel a burst of anger from the bottom of his heart, the blood on his body suddenly became hot, and the sense of disappointment and defeat that was still on his body just now disappeared at once, and was replaced by a murderous aura all over his body.

Huan Chong rose up, pulled out his sword with a bang, cut off the corner of the table with a sword, and then looked around at the generals and said loudly: "Tomorrow I will personally supervise the battle, and each general will lead his troops to attack the city, but if you retreat, you will not be killed!" ”

"My lord, I have counted it, and today the brothers have lost more than five hundred, and there are less than three thousand brothers left who can fight. My lord, when will our reinforcements arrive? In Luyang City, General Zhou Liwu Bu Liansa asked worriedly.

"Reinforcements? Liansa, how long has it been since we led 7,000 soldiers to Luyang City? Luyang guard, Zhou Sanqi regular attendant Cheng Pu asked quietly. More than a month of hard defense of the city had exhausted the hard work and spirit of this forty-year-old man, who had changed from the elegant, free-flowing middle-aged scribe of the previous month to a dark and thin little old man, who could not even speak.

"My lord, it's been eleven days a month." Bu Liansa replied after the calculation.

"Eleven days a month, in addition to a few batches of grain and grass equipment transported to the north, have you ever said that reinforcements are coming?" Cheng Pu coughed a few times and asked again.

"Nope!" Buliansa kind of understood. Luyang City is close to Funiu Mountain in the north, and there is water in the south. It just got stuck on the valley mouth of the north. Therefore, the Jin army from the south could not completely surround Luyang City, and Luyang City could rely on the valley in the north to go straight to Liang County and get a steady stream of supplies and support, which was also the biggest reason why Huan Chong could not capture Luyang City.

"Liansa, we should be prepared not to go back when we come to Luyang City, don't you know our role?" Cheng Pu is still so weak, and it sounds like his voice has always been so slow and unhurried, neither light nor heavy. It's a little weird in a dark room.

"Your Excellency. What do you mean? ”

"Lissa. Haven't you seen the layout of Your Majesty's land? First the East and then the Middle. Our biggest task is to block the Huan Wen army in the middle lane, so that the prime minister (Fu Xiong) has enough time to defeat Yin Hao's Northern Expeditionary Army on the east road. Cheng Pu continued.

"Great

Meaning, meaning we have no reinforcements coming? "Although Buliansa is gone, it is confirmed today that he is still a little unwilling.

"It can't be said that as long as the prime minister can defeat the Jin army on the east road, His Majesty will naturally send a large army south to defeat the Huan Wen army on the middle road. In that case, we will have to wait for reinforcements. Cheng Pu saw Bulian Sana's dark face, and couldn't bear to let him completely despair, and finally left a little hope.

"My lord, I understand your intentions, don't worry, I will follow your lord and you will hold this city until reinforcements arrive, or. Or the fall of the city! Buliansa bowed his hand. However, it was clear from his tone that the latter was the most likely.

"I know," Cheng Pu said weakly with a wave of his hand, and after a while. He let out a long sigh in the flickering bean lights, and then made up his mind and said, "Lensa, you know what? I received a letter from Luoyang the day before yesterday, saying that ten days ago, Jia Xuanshuo was beheaded by His Majesty on charges of communicating with the river and plotting to deal with the internal response. ”

"What?" Bu Liansa was stunned for a moment, and only after a while did he ask, "Why is this?" Why is that? ”

Cheng Pu glanced gloomily at the north in the light, and silently replied for a long time: "Don't you remember that before Your Majesty ascended the throne last year, Lord Jia Xuanshuo Jia was unwilling to be on the throne, but only wanted to be a general and a metropolitan governor, which is why he was convicted. Your Majesty can endure the seizure until now, it's really ......"

Bu Liansa nodded, his eyes turned red all of a sudden, he bowed his head and said to Cheng Pu: "I know what the Lord told me, we are all people close to Lord Jia, even if we stick to the victory, we will end up with Lord Jia, in this case, it is better to die in this Luyang City, and it can be regarded as a loyal minister." ”

"The name of a loyal servant?" Cheng Pu hummed and said, his face hidden in the dark was full of sarcastic looks, and finally shook his head and said, "Liansa, you should rest early." Huan Chong suffered another big loss today, I'm afraid that tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will make a big move, so I have to prepare early. ”

"Yes, my lord!" After Bulian Sashi, he turned around and walked out of the door, and his sturdy back was actually a little staggering. Looking at Bu Liansa's back, Cheng Pudi's tears couldn't help but flow silently: "The name of a loyal minister? Can we win? ”

On the third day, Huan Chong personally drove 15,000 infantry troops across the river, pushing hundreds of crashing cars and building cars, and carrying hundreds of long ladders to Luyang City.

After the whole army was launched, Huan Chong set up a big banner behind the army, and then said to the generals on the battlefield: "The Zhenbei Army has an order to move the flag, once the whole army is launched to move forward desperately, the military flag will move forward in ten steps, and there will be no retreat, until the big victory or the whole army is destroyed!" Today I am going to learn the military method of the Zhenbei Army! But whoever retreats the flag, no matter the general's soldiers, I will be beheaded under the banner! ”

When the generals heard this, their hearts couldn't help but be awe-struck. As old acquaintances, they naturally knew that the army under Zeng Hua's rule, whether it was the Changshui Army or the Zhenbei Army, was strictly military law, and there was no advance or retreat. However, the military merits of the people are richly rewarded, the rules and regulations are clear, and the generals and soldiers all know that if they die on the battlefield in battle, their families will have a pension, and their descendants will have a future, which is much more cost-effective than being killed in the retreat, and the family members and children will be implicated, so they will naturally all fight to the death. However, the Jingxiang army did not have this rule, and their soldiers did not receive special propaganda and training in this area, and they may be able to withstand it at the beginning, but once the war is brutally strangled, these soldiers who are not determined will naturally not risk their lives to fight like the Zhenbei army.

But seeing Huan Chong's black face, the generals didn't dare to say much, and turned to their own departments to solemnly warn their subordinates that if they couldn't beat Luyang City today, the big guys wouldn't want to go back alive.

After the sound of war drums, tens of thousands of Jin soldiers pushed and carried all kinds of siege equipment like a nest of huge ants to Luyang City, and soon the entire Luyang City only saw the black armor and yellow robe of the Jin army shaking, and it was almost impossible to see that it was people moving.

Hundreds of ladders leaned against the city wall of Luyang in the rain of support arrows from the archers of the Jin army, and the black Jin army below immediately divided into hundreds of small teams and climbed the ladders like a line and quickly climbed up. As soon as I saw the black line rise to half of the ladder, I heard a bang, and countless arrows flew out from behind the stomping wall and the female wall, pouring down towards the Jin army on the ladder. Since Liang County has always been behind to support, Lu Yang has never been short of arrows, so he will not be stingy with these life-threatening things.

The soldiers of the Jin army who were struggling to walk on the ladder were hit by arrows one after another, screaming and falling down the ladder, and then fell heavily to the ground. The general led the army with his sword and patrolled under the ladder, shouting at the Jin soldiers gathered at the bottom of the ladder to continue to climb up one after another.

At this time, some flammable materials such as firewood, sulfur, charcoal, and even tung oil were thrown down one after another, and after a while, they were gathered under the ladder. Experienced Jin soldiers immediately tossed the firewood aside and covered the sulfur, charcoal, and tung oil with sand. Soon, torches were continuously dropped from the city tower, and the few flammable things that had not been quickly cleaned up suddenly burst into flames, immediately surrounding the cloud ladder and the surrounding dozen Jin troops. The Jin army on the ground was on fire desperately slapping the fire on their bodies, and some of the Jin troops on the ladder were desperately rushing upward, and some were panicked, ready to jump to the ground, all wanting to leave the ladder that had caught fire and was crumbling.

Soon, the entire Luyang City was like a pot of boiling water, constantly boiling and tumbling, and tens of thousands of soldiers were constantly tormenting and fighting in this dire situation.

Huan Chong stood under the military flag with a long sword in his hand, and looked coldly into the distance. The night before yesterday, Huan Chong calmed down and made a detailed plan for today's siege, and then prepared for another day and a night, just for today's blow.

Compared to ladders, building cars and crashes are much more effective. More than a dozen building cars slowly advanced as cover, and dozens of selected archers stood on them, covering the collision cars with arrows from top to bottom, from left to right, and suppressing the Zhou army on the city gate tower. Twenty or thirty Jin soldiers hid under the wooden cover of the crashing car, desperately pushed the crashing car, rushed to the city gate, and then pulled the rope of the crashing giant tree, pulled the giant tree back and forth, and finally slammed into the Luyang city gate. Under the impact of one after another, some of the broken Luyang city gates made a frightening squeak and trembling violently, and the trembling even shook the entire city gate tower.

The Zhou army on the tower of the city desperately shot rockets, splashed boiling oil, and threw torches to burn, and soon turned the city gate hole into a hell filled with the smell of meat, wood burn, and blood. But the Jin army also fought hard today, and the sergeants under the wooden cover were shot by arrows one after another and were scalded by boiling oil, but the sergeants behind were still filling the vacant seats, pulling the giant wood that had been on fire and desperately hitting the city gate.

Huan Chong looked at the sunlight obscured by the black smoke, calculated the time in his heart, and said secretly: "It's time!" It's time to break the city! ”