The next day, Wang Rong and Wuluo's cavalry guards continued northward, rushing from Gucheng to the city of Luoyang, and the herald who returned told him that the second army of the Tang army had arrived at Luoyang, under the walled city.

At the same time, Zhang Yunshu and others also counted the summary of the battlefields in this battle, and reported to him that the battle was about 107,000 captured about 107,000 Yu troops on the battlefield of hundreds of miles from Yique Pass to Gucheng.

About 92,000 of them were killed.

However, there were actually a small number of people killed on the frontal battlefield, only about 15,000 people, most of whom were surrounded and killed by the follow-up Tang army after the rout, pursued and killed to death, and some were executed after being captured, occupying the majority.

Of course, the data is not accurate, because there are many people who do not know where they died, but only an approximate count.

And the casualties of the Tang army are actually not small, especially the first four formations facing the Yu army, if they didn't withstand it at the beginning, it would be a different look.

The Tang army suffered more than 33,000 casualties and more than 13,900 casualties, and all of a sudden, nearly 80,000 armed guards who marched eastward two months ago were only about 40,000 soldiers, and almost all of them gathered under the city of Luoyang.

There are also more than 5,000 captives from the Sixth Army of Henan County, almost all of whom are from the people of Henan County, and Wang Rong ordered not to be killed. This move was Wang Rong's order, and he was not at ease.

In order to inform the people of Yuguo, the policy of the Tang Dynasty towards the people of Yuguo.

Creating antagonism in Yuzhou and other places has intensified the internal contradictions of the Yu State and divided it internally, and the Yu State itself has serious class contradictions, and this move will inevitably deepen their internal contradictions, and it may have miraculous effects over time.

When Wang Rong arrived outside the city of Luoyang, Lang Zeqing, the commander of the First Army, excitedly led the army to greet him, and at the same time told him that the people in the city of Luoyang were already panicked, and many people ran to the mountains to take refuge, and every day soldiers fell from the city at night and fled out of the city to surrender to them.

The battle situation is very favorable to the Tang Army! Moreover, the news of the defeat of the Yu army must have spread rapidly over time and spread all over the world.

Hundreds of thousands of Tang soldiers came to the city and besieged Luoyang, which was something that had not happened for decades, and it was also something that was never expected in Luoyang City.

The Tang army camped all over the wilderness and camped on all sides of Luoyang.

The walled city is all over the ground, the flags are all over the field, the morale of the soldiers is high, and from time to time they sing military songs in unison, and they practice neatly, and the people inside and outside Luoyang are panicked. c

In fact, Wang Rong also understood in his heart that the loss of the Tang army in the war was also not small, and Luoyang, unlike Jinyang, Xindu, Jidu, and Shudu, Yuguo tried his best to rescue, and the logistics supply of the army was also very difficult, and it was impossible to surround it for more than a year like Yongguo's attack on Lishisai to see how he defended.

Fighting with Yu, they are not simply fighting a big war like fighting other countries, but fighting on three fronts.

Their route is the attacking army on the northern route, and the Tang army on the southern route is in Xincheng, defending against the possible northward movement of the Jing army.

The biggest reason for this situation is that Yingchuan County and Unspeakable Rolling are both in the hands of Jing Guo. Jing not only obtained a large amount of land from Yu State, but also obtained a lot of wealth, or the reason why Yu State can exist is because of the protection of Jing State.

Nanyang County, Yingchuan County and other places of the passes, but these passes in the hands of Jing State means that the Jing *** team, can travel unhindered in the territory of Yu State, their army can go north from Yingchuan County to Henan County, cross the river to Bingzhou, and even Yanmen County and other places, and to the west can reach the central part of Hongnong County from all over the Bears Ear Mountain.

"Geography is like the womb of history", Hedong, Taihang Mountain in the middle of Hebei determines the isolation of east and west, and also determines the northeast of Hebei, and the north of Hebei is the gateway of the Central Plains, and the absence of one of these two gateways will put the Central Plains in a very passive position. What's more, these two places are now under the control of the Tang Kingdom.

In the same way, Bears Ears Mountain determines the separation of Guanzhong and Jingzhou, Wang Rong is most looking forward to recapturing Yingchuan County, opening the situation first, the front of Luoyang is the gateway to the north, but geographically it is not as good as the Wuguan area in the west, this area is far less dangerous than the southwest Wuguan vicinity, although the city of Luoyang is majestic at this time, but there are too many roads from the south to the north.

Wang Rong thought that the best way was to make a forced landing, and the people inside couldn't withstand the pressure and took the initiative to open the city and surrender.

But the day after arriving in Luoyang City, he found that the matter might not be that way

It's so simple, because even if the Tang army was disciplined, the people in the surrounding villages and towns still ran away, either into the city or into the mountains, and there was no one to watch. did not welcome the king at all, but feared the Tang army like a tiger and wolf.

Wang Rong rode on horseback and inspected the camp, and everywhere he went, the soldiers were greatly encouraged, chanting the saint, and some people shouted long live; Wang Rong didn't have time to dig deeper, but asked Zhang Yunshu who followed him worriedly, "Are there many people who run into Luoyang City?"

Zhang Yunshu flipped through the documents in his hand and said, "Back to the Holy Heavens, there are a lot, when our army arrived, a large number of cattle, sheep and furniture were also discarded outside the city, all of which were left by the people who were afraid that they would not have time to enter the city, and they were all over the wilderness."

"That's not right, our army scared them out!" Wang Xu was very excited, since he won the last battle, his young guard chief suddenly became a bull.

Wang Rong was not optimistic, and said, "Let me tell you a story in history."

The generals looked over one after another, only to hear Wang Rong say: "In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, the powerful ministers usurped the government, making the people miserable, and the people were poor and unable to live.

There are two small stories in it, when Jingzhou Mu led the army to attack the Green Forest Army, was defeated and captured, but the peasant army only killed the state pastor's entourage, but released the state pastor.

In the same year, there was also a Korean and Chinese official who was captured on the way to Yuzhou, but the peasant army did not kill him, and sent him to the county seat, and there was a dialogue between the two, in which the official asked the people, "Why did you rebel", and the people replied, "Because of poverty."

As soon as he said that, Wang Xu and a few other people who didn't have much thought laughed.

Meng Qiong, Wang Tan and others were thinking deeply about something.

Wang Rong sighed and said, "This is how people's hearts go back, and my story has two meanings."

"First, ordinary people don't understand so many truths, and whoever makes them live a good life, they choose to support whom." There is another paragraph that he only thought about in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it, for fear of affecting the morale of the army.

At this time, hundreds of years have passed since the end of Qin, the world has suffered from wars, and Luoyang and its surrounding areas are under the protection of Yuguo, and the people have lived a stable life for hundreds of years.

This is the same as the war of the Han Dynasty after the Han Dynasty, no matter whether you win or lose, you will go to the territory of other countries, and it is the people of other countries who will suffer.

In addition, Zhu Hai, the Henan county guard, is known as the "Fumin County Guard" in Yuguo, so you can imagine what he did when he governed Luoyang.

A hundred years of peace are very rare in troubled times.

What Wang Rong feared most was that this would cause a serious consequence, and in the short term, Yu might be more popular than them in Luoyang, and they would be regarded as invaders.

When the people nearby saw the Tang army coming, they ran to the mountains and the city, and they didn't even give him the opportunity to show military discipline and win the hearts of the people.

"Second, I'm also very emotional.

Even if the people reached the point where they couldn't survive and rose up, they still didn't want to kill the court officials, at least it shows that the Great Qin Dynasty was unshakable in the hearts of the people of the world at that time, and the ordinary people also yearned for it, and even the people who were forced to rise up still remembered that they were the people of the Qin Dynasty. Do we still have a chance to restore that glory, who still remembers Daqin?"

Speaking of this question, everyone didn't speak, this is actually what Wang Rong is most emotional, there is no such cohesion in the world today, in addition to the Dayong royal family also claims to be the successor of the Qin Dynasty, and it is inevitable to fall apart.