Zhe Keqiu suddenly realized that something was wrong and shouted: "Throw all the wheat straw down the city, move away the kerosene and gunpowder, leaving only 2,000 people at the top of the city, and all the other brothers evacuate."
The city fell into chaos, with thick smoke billowing and flames raging. Bundles of burning wheat straw were thrown down the city, and soldiers ran to both sides holding gunpowder barrels and kerosene barrels.
Huang Dong took advantage of the chaos and approached Zhe Keqiu. Zhe Keqiu was guarded by 300 soldiers and it was impossible to get close. Huang Dong carried a bucket of kerosene and pretended to retreat. He took advantage of others' unpreparedness and dodged to the tower.
There was no one in the back. Huang Dong quickly took out a poisonous crossbow arrow and loaded it on the crossbow. At this time, he was still thirty steps away from Zhe Keqiu.
At this time, the soldiers surrounded Zhe Keqiu and retreated to the west city. This was the last chance. Huang Dong raised his crossbow and aimed at Zhe Keqiu, and decisively pulled the hanging knife. "Click!" The crossbow machine sounded, and a crossbow bolt flashed.
Eject like.
In the chaos, Zhe Keqiu groaned and fell down. The soldiers were immediately in chaos, "Commander! Commander!"
Huang Dong had already retreated behind the city tower, calmly threw the general's crossbow down the city, picked up the barrel of kerosene and ran to the other side. Under the cover of thick smoke and fire, he blended into a group of soldiers and evacuated towards the east city.
The soldiers were shocked and angry. They didn't know where the cold arrow came from. This arrow penetrated the neck. The potent poison took effect quickly. Zhe Keqiu's face was dark and he could not speak. Someone shouted urgently:
"Commander is dying, let's get down to the city!"
The soldiers picked up Zhe Kiqiu and evacuated quickly to the city. As soon as they walked down the corridor from the city, Zhe Kiqiu breathed his last.
When Zhe Keqiu died, the consequences were immediately apparent. Lieutenant General Wu Jincheng, who had lived under the shadow of Zhe Keqiu's authority for a long time, had almost no sense of existence. He only had three thousand troops in his hands and was responsible for logistics. He had neither Zhe Keqiu's prestige nor Zhe Keqiu's authority.
The ability to seek cannot command other controls at all.
Without a unified command to rely on, several armies began to work independently. Commander Sun Rong used the pretext of arresting the assassin and led his five thousand troops to search from house to house, taking the opportunity to plunder people's property and rape women. Another five troops were resting in the military camp.
Thousands of troops also joined in the process of looting property, and Luoyang City was in chaos.
The Song Army's trebuchets continuously fired kerosene towards the city, and the Thousand-Step Cannon was even more powerful. It could project a 50-pound kerosene urn 800 steps away. However, the target of the Thousand-Step Cannon's attack was Wengcheng, and the kerosene urn directly
Projected into the Wengcheng, the area near the West City turned into a sea of fire.
Chen Qing stared at the city head. When the city head was covered with flames, he immediately ordered: "Send two thousand troops close to the moat and build a pontoon bridge!"
Two thousand soldiers rushed away carrying large wooden boxes. There were iron chains on the large wooden boxes. They were locked with iron locks. More than a hundred large wooden boxes were connected into one, fixed at both ends of the moat, and covered with another layer.
The wooden planks form a floating bridge.
Chen Qing looked at the two thousand soldiers laying the wooden bridge and said with a smile: "Zhe Keqiu is dead!"
Everyone was surprised and asked: "How did your Highness know!"
"It's a long story. Our intelligence scouts in the city killed him, otherwise we wouldn't be able to lay the pontoon bridge calmly. He would definitely leave troops to stop us."
"But there's a raging fire on top of the city!" Liu Cui said in confusion.
Chen Qing smiled lightly and said: "We all came here to play with fire. Don't we know that no matter how big the fire is, there is a place to hide?"
Chen Qing's guess was correct. Zhe Keqiu did leave two thousand troops to resist the Song army. However, after Zhe Keqiu was assassinated, the two thousand soldiers lost their command and were afraid of being burned to death, so they all evacuated.
At this time, Liu Cui saw an opportunity and immediately asked Chen Qing for instructions: "Your Highness, please decide whether we can use iron fire thunder to blow open the city gate?"
"Okay!" Chen Qing approved the use of iron fire thunder.
Liu Cui loudly ordered: "The Firearms Battalion sends a group of soldiers to blow up the city gate, and the trebuchets stop attacking!"
A dozen soldiers rushed away carrying the Iron Rhino Fire Thunder and two Chain Thunder.
The so-called chain mine is an iron hedgehog with two iron chains on it. It can be used in many situations, such as blowing up ships, blowing up small doors, etc. It is mainly used to blow up suspension bridges.
The pontoon bridge has been laid, and a dozen firearms battalion soldiers ran across the pontoon bridge and ran against the wall towards the city gate.
At this time, the trebuchets had stopped attacking. Liu Cui and Li Muching led 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry to the moat, waiting for the moment the city was broken.
The firearms battalion soldiers had rushed to the city gate and stopped about fifty paces away from the city gate. Two soldiers rushed up carrying the chain mines. They climbed to the top of the suspension bridge like monkeys and wrapped the chain mines around them.
At the base of the iron chain of the suspension bridge, the two of them looked at each other, lit the match rope with a fire stick, and then turned over and jumped off the moat.
After a moment, there were two loud sounds of "Boom! Boom!", and the suspension bridge suddenly fell down, landing heavily on the stone bridge. Luoyang's moat was so wide that a stone bridge was built to the city gate first, which was about two feet away from the other side.
After disconnecting, the remaining two feet will be connected by a suspension bridge. When the suspension bridge falls, the entire bridge will be open.
Two hundred soldiers holding large shields escorted a battering ram and walked quickly towards the drawbridge. Their target was the gate of the barbican city, and the outer gate was left to the firearms battalion to deal with it.
The soldiers pressed a 120-pound iron rhinoceros fire thunder on the gate and held it firmly with two pieces of wood. A soldier lit the match rope with a fire stick. Everyone turned around and ran towards the bridge. Twenty thousand soldiers also covered their heads.
Live the war horse and your own ears.
After a moment, there was an earth-shattering muffled sound, "Boom!" The city wall was shaking, the ground was trembling, thick smoke was rising into the sky, dust was flying, and gravel and wood chips were falling.
Before the dust fell to the ground, Liu Cui waved his sword and said, "The giant shield army marches into the city!"
Two thousand giant shield troops rushed into the city with large shields and short spears in their hands. Behind them was the army of battering rams.
Although the city gate of Luoyang was very thick, a large hole was still blasted out by a large iron fire mine that was nine feet high and one foot and two feet wide. Two thousand giant shield troops rushed directly into the urn city through the hole.
The huge explosion shocked the entire city of Luoyang, and the soldiers began to panic. The soldiers who were looting stopped their looting, rushed to the streets, and looked towards the west city in horror.
At this time, many soldiers ran down from the Wengcheng and shouted: "The Song Army has entered the city! The Song Army has entered the city!"
Countless soldiers rushed to escape towards the East City. The East City Gate had been opened, the suspension bridge was lowered, and the soldiers rushed out of the city carrying large and small bags.
There was originally a raging fire in Wengcheng. The thousand-step artillery had stopped attacking and the fire gradually became smaller. Two thousand soldiers rushed into the city and extinguished all the fire. Only the top of the city was still burning with fire. The towers were also engulfed in fire. Originally,
There were still one or two hundred soldiers. When the outer city gate was blown open, countless Song soldiers rushed into the barbican with large shields in hand. The last two hundred soldiers also collapsed and fled one after another. There was no more soldier in the barbican.
Hundreds of Song soldiers shouted, and sixty soldiers held the battering ram and rushed towards the last inner city gate. "Boom!" With a muffled sound, the inner city gate burst open, and two thousand soldiers rushed into the city with shouts.
Inside.
Liu Cui also gave the order, and 10,000 cavalry rushed into the city first, followed closely by 8,000 infantry.
All the enemy troops in the city were running towards the east gate, except the three thousand soldiers guarding Cang City who did not escape and still stood on Cang City.
Several generals stepped forward and said to Lieutenant General Wu Jincheng: "General, they have all escaped. Should we evacuate quickly? Otherwise, it will be too late."
"What are you afraid of?"
Wu Jincheng said coldly: "We didn't burn, kill, loot, or rape women. Why did we escape? Do you think it will be fine if you escape? It's too simple to think. Chen Qing's 150,000 troops besieged the city, and no one could escape.
If it goes away, we will finally fulfill our duties and everything will be fine!"
What Wu Jincheng said was absolutely correct. The defeated army that escaped from Dongcheng was surrounded by 80,000 troops led by Gao Ding and Li Fuxing. None of them escaped. They all became prisoners of war of the Song army. The wealth they carried with them became their
Chen Qing will be severely punished for robbing people of evidence.
