"I haven't eaten for a day, please open the door quickly!"
"Save me, save me! I'm from Jingu Township, Henan County, please save me!"
"The Xia thief hasn't come yet, please let me go in first, they are all Paoze."
"That's it, forget it if you don't open the door. I'm leaving. I'll go home to hide for the rest of the month and plow the next month."
There was a lot of noise outside the city, and hundreds of defeated soldiers looked frightened, like frightened birds.
Duan Ning's sharp eyes saw some defeated soldiers marching directly into the neighborhoods outside the city. Over the past few years, some ruins had been cleared out, and houses were built using materials on the spot. Many people lived there, and now they would just desert and go home.
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There was also endless chaos on the other side of Cangcheng. More than a hundred defeated soldiers swarmed there, shouting and cursing. The people on the city were saying something, but no one listened, and they all shouted to open the door.
There was a sound of horse hoofbeats coming from far away. The defeated soldiers suddenly exploded and got into the ruins one after another.
The sound of horse hoofbeats gradually approached, and Duan Ning breathed a sigh of relief at first. He thought there were thousands of horsemen when he heard the sound, but it turned out that there were only more than a thousand people. There were more horses, one person and three horses, and some horses were carrying armor on their backs.
, equipment, and some horses carried skin bags, packages and small boxes on their backs.
But I was soon shocked again. Those hundreds of horses at the beginning were probably soldiers, right? They were all white horses, very tall, and looked very majestic. The knights on the horses were holding daggers, maces, sabers and other weapons.
Gu Pan Zixiong is majestic.
Behind the soldiers were thousands of auxiliary soldiers, each with two horses, one riding a horse carrying some gadgets, and one horse carrying four boxes hung on both sides of the horse's back.
What a fucking luxury!
For the 500-horsed warriors, there were 1,000 men to serve them, and a total of nearly 4,000 horses were deployed - the extra empty horses should be spare horses to carry some supplies.
"Leopard Cavalry Capital." Ma Sixun came over and sighed softly: "I heard that the Shao thieves have built six official ranches, and the vassal tribes also have many horses. Datong Horse Racing is famous in the Central Plains, including Khitan horse merchants, Xiren horse merchants,
Uighur horse traders are nothing to them."
"Losing Heyang is the biggest mistake that King Liang has made in these years." After leaving these meaningless words, Ma Sixun went straight down to the tower, and his voice floated from a distance: "Be on guard strictly, no one can do it.
Open the door!"
Duan Ning turned her head blankly, her mind wandering.
The Leopard Cavalry paid no attention to these defeated troops, passed through the west of the city, and disappeared at the end of the post road.
After a while, there was another sound of horse hooves.
This time it was light cavalry. Judging from their attire, they seemed to be Tibetan people. There were seven or eight hundred cavalry in total. They passed Lindu Station and roared southward.
"No, this is going to Luonan." Duan Ning realized something.
He remembered what Ma Sixun said before. The strategy of launching a war and isolating Luoyang was formulated by Shao thief. However, this kind of deep penetration and large-scale roundabout tactics was definitely not the work of Shao thief. It was more like a Tibetan from the grassland.
will command.
Duan Ning hurried down the tower and planned to talk to Ma Sixun again. The Xia thief's appetite was so great that he even wanted to capture all these people, but could they defeat the three levels of Luonan?
Alas, if you don't control an army, you will be in trouble. Duan Ning is now increasingly eager to control an army, even if it is only a few hundred people, it may be useful at critical moments.
At Youshi, not long after the two left, another army arrived at Luoyang City and began to call the door.
Ma Sixun and Duan Ning climbed onto the tower again and looked at each other.
The sky was a little dark, but the words on the big flag were still recognizable: Tiande Army Envoy Cai.
"Thief general Cai Songyang!"
"At least five thousand people."
"Where's Hu Shuai? Did he die in the battle?"
"Or was he captured?"
The two stared at each other. Hu Zhen led 7,000 people to the north. The 4,000 native Tuan peasants were gone. In fact, it was not a big problem. The loss of the 3,000 Youguo army was a bit hurt, but it was not a big deal.
The question is, if there is no loss, what can we do if we stay in Luoyang City? If the Xia thieves overwhelm tens of thousands of troops, will they end up like Huo Cun?
But what about Mr. Hu? Is he really dead?
"Inspector Duan, after dark..." Ma Sixun came to Duan Ning's side and whispered.
"Forget it, I'll just take a walk." Duan Ning took a deep breath.
After calling for a while outside the city, there was no movement. Cai Songyang was too lazy to continue trying. He sent 500 yamen soldiers and 2,000 local peasants into the abandoned city of Luoyang, cleaning up every house and collecting food.
During this period, there was an unexpected gain: the defeated soldiers hiding here were captured.
They disrupted the organization and formed a group of dozens of people. They each found a piece of land to rest and curse.
When they saw Tiande soldiers rushing in in groups, few of them could muster the will to resist and surrendered one after another. Cai Songyang sent people to gather them, about five to six hundred people.
Looking at the ruins around him, Cai Songyang suddenly felt that it might be more suitable to build a camp here than Jiangqiao. Back then, Li Hanzhi and Zhang Quanyi divided the territory in the ruins of Luoyang, built fortifications, and fought street battles with others. It was actually not bad.
"Come here, send the troops to attack Cang City. I want to take over this place first." After deciding on the plan, Cai Songyang ordered.
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A large group of cavalry swarmed at Pingyuan, west of the ancient city of Luoyang.
Wang He was riding a tall horse. When he let go of his right hand, an arrow flew out from the string, and a Liang soldier fell down in response to the string.
Gu Zong
A few of the Changzhi Army's rangers were beaten and fled back in disarray, lingering under the wings of the infantry.
There were so many Xia thieves, more than a thousand of them, they rushed out from all directions, shouting from left to right, and fired continuously. The two hundred of them were unable to stand, and they had no choice but to retreat and seek protection from the infantry.
Kou Yanqing was so angry that he wanted to kill a group of rangers to show his authority, but after thinking that they still needed to reconnoiter the situation, and one less one would die, he gave up. Then he called several side commanders and ordered them to lead infantry and hold rifle bows.
, spears, clearing the way in front. Then they placed the baggage vehicles on both sides to prevent the cavalry from attacking from the flanks.
In this way, the safety was improved, but the speed suddenly dropped a lot. Seeing that Luoyang was still twenty miles away, he was a little anxious.
With the bandit cavalry making such an incursion, anyone with any brain would guess that there must be a large band of bandit troops crossing Mang Mountain and heading south.
Despite the harassment, they walked westward for half a day, but they only walked seven or eight miles. Seeing the fatigue on the faces of the soldiers, Kou Yanqing had to order to camp and rest.
The soldiers began to form formations and moved forward, using strong bows and crossbows to drive away the Xia army's cavalry.
The auxiliary soldiers took out various items from the baggage vehicles and set up camp leisurely. Some injured and dead horses left by the Xia army were also dragged back and slaughtered for meat.
Kou Yanqing was anxious. He was not sure whether Luoyang was still safe. There was no news and no communication. He could only wait until nightfall and quietly sent out scouts to investigate westward.
Up to this point in the battle, it was as if someone had blinded their eyes and ears. Everything was hazy and they could not see the whole battlefield clearly.
However, Kou Yanqing's confidence has not been lost.
Look at those veterans who have been fighting for many years. They walked most of the night and then withstood the harassment of thieves and cavalry all morning. Only now are they a little tired, and they can still muster the courage to drive away those thieves.
Tibetan soldiers and cavalry. With such soldiers around, you can sleep peacefully and have no fear at all wherever you go.
Could it be that the Xia thieves want to eat my troops? Kou Yanqing smiled, come on, give it a try.
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Outside the Luokou warehouse, flames shot into the sky and the sounds of killing filled the fields.
The Chishui Army sent Fan He up a high slope, overlooking Cangcheng on the Nanyuan.
There were burning fires everywhere outside the city, and he knew that they were siege equipment that had been destroyed by the enemy.
Outside the city, there are trenches everywhere, some dug by the enemy and some dug by our own side, restricting the rebels from leaving the city at night to attack the camp.
The defenders in the city were at their last moment. More than a thousand people came out of the city to fight to the death, trying to break the siege.
The Yamen Army and Yumen Army in the river resisted desperately, and the cavalry braved the rain of arrows and penetrated behind the rebel army, trying to intercept it.
Both sides fired real fire, and their faces looked ferocious under the light of the fire.
In Liang Jun's opinion, the Xia thieves' siege was unreasonable. They came one after another, without giving anyone a chance to breathe. How can the rhythm of a normal siege be so fast? After a wave retreats, shouldn't they be reorganized?
But they just didn't want to, and all the troops took turns to attack, regardless of casualties, and attacked fiercely.
The first sergeant to retreat was beheaded on the spot, and his head was thrown to the ground. Whether they were vassal troops, local peasants or their own people, they were all killed without mercy. Even a martial arts student fled and was beheaded.
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With such harsh punishments and laws, ordinary armies would have rebelled long ago, but the Chishui Army could still hold on, which was not easy.
Sergeant Hezhong was suffocated by the shadow of Xia Jun in recent years. In addition, he was whipped one after another, and the assassins also died batch after batch. He only became agitated once on a small scale, and soon he was
was suppressed.
The Yumen Army has a lot of brute force. They only have wealth in their eyes, and Fan He just promised a heavy reward. If the reward is enough, they don't mind fighting for it. If someone dies carelessly on the grassland, they will have nothing, and they can still make a fortune right now.
The opportunity is totally worth taking a chance on.
"The Liang thieves are defeated!" Warm cheers rang out from the bottom of the mountain.
Fan He looked intently and saw that a thousand Fan cavalry had already inserted themselves into position, blocking the retreat of the rebels leaving the city. They attacked from all directions and completely routed the thousands of people.
The Liang people who failed to break through were defeated and their troops ran all over the ground.
Some people try their best to dig into the dark place.
Someone was overtaken by the cavalry while running and felled to the ground.
Some people couldn't run away, so they simply knelt on the ground, abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
Others sat on the ground and cried: "How can you attack a city like you? Attack day and night, so many people died, why do you still attack?"
The sergeants who surrounded him looked sad. They captured Luokou warehouse in a few days and shocked all parties. But what was the price paid? No one wanted to talk more. Anyway, the dead sergeant couldn't speak. Alas!
Yumen Army envoy Long Run organized two thousand people to quickly enter the city. There were actually no soldiers in the city. They went in to put out the fire.
The Xia army besieged the city for several days. The Liang people were frightened by such a high-intensity siege. They suffered more than a thousand casualties within a few days. Seeing that the entire army would be wiped out before reinforcements arrived, they had to order a breakout. But before the breakout,
, these damn gang actually set fire, trying to burn the food, hay and other supplies stored in the city, not leaving them to the Xia army.
Fan He's face was gloomy. He almost wanted to kill the prisoners, but in the end he sighed. It seemed better to send troops to attack Gong County.
"The battle is about to rest, and we will rest for a day tomorrow. After the Yumen Army extinguishes the remaining fire, they will replenish equipment and supplies on the spot, and tomorrow they will go directly south to Yanshi." Fan He ordered.
Ling Qiu got on his horse and ran towards Cangcheng.
The Luokou warehouse has been conquered, so there is no need to garrison everyone here. Hearing that Fu Cunshen had sent troops southward, Fan He did not intend to lose to him, so he sent the Yumen army to rush up the Luoshui River to try to attack Yan
Division County.
There is still Gong County in Luokou!
There is a saying in the art of war: when you encounter an enemy city on the road, you must attack or prepare for it. "Be prepared" means that there is no way to prepare, because it will take up too many troops, so you still have to "attack".