After Qin Jian encouraged Cheng Xi for a few words, he said to everyone: "Li Tang's attack is fierce now, and there are many new soldiers in Luoyang City, and there are not enough elites.
The military advisor has ordered that from now on, all private soldiers of the major families must join the city defense army to guard Luoyang.
I, the descendants of the Qin family, must set an example, and all men over the age of sixteen must join the war and defend Luoyang."
"Yes, fourth uncle."
All the children of the Qin family shouted in unison, all of them looked excited, except for Hu Hai, who looked frightened.
He hadn't even mastered the first level of the Ancestral Dragon Art. How could he survive if he went to the battlefield?
The Qin family spared no effort in cultivating their own children. They even took out the ancestral secret art "Ancestral Dragon Art" without reservation and taught it to all the disciples of the right age. This was something that had never happened before. Therefore,
Disciples of the Qin family have a sense of belonging to the Qin family.
Hu Hai can naturally learn the complete version of Zulong Jue, but he doesn't know how to cherish such a precious opportunity. He often slacks off when practicing, so that now he can break through the first level of Zulong Jue.
At this time, Hu Hai felt extremely regretful. It would have been better if he had worked harder when he was practicing.
At the same time that the Qin family was mobilizing, other families in Luoyang City were also mobilizing, and the whole city was preparing for war. This was naturally Jia Xu's order.
The news of the fall of Hangu Pass and the disappearance of Li Cunxiao has been suppressed by Jia Xu and has not been announced. After all, if such important events were announced, it would definitely cause a commotion.
Jia Xu originally wanted to limit the battlefield to the front line of Yewang Yiyang, but he did not expect that the Tang army dared to bypass the two cities and march directly to Luoyang without capturing Yewang Yiyang.
In this case, the fall of Hangu Pass could no longer be concealed, and Jia Xu could only announce that Hangu Pass had fallen.
However, Jia Xu still did not announce the disappearance of Li Cunxiao. After all, the life and death of Li Cunxiao would affect the morale of the entire army.
"Military advisors have determined that the number of Tang troops that have bypassed the cities of Yewang and Yiyang is between 60,000 and 70,000," Ge Nie reported in a deep voice.
"so much?"
Jia Xu suddenly looked surprised. He thought that Cheng Xi's statement that "the Tang army had more than 40,000 troops" was to cover up his excuse of abandoning the city and escaping. However, he did not expect that the number of Tang troops was actually greater than what Cheng Xi said.
After Jia Xu ordered Tan Daoji to lead an army of 10,000 to support the front line, there were only 5,000 main troops left in Luoyang City at this time, including 4,000 Flying Tigers. The remaining 30,000 troops were all new recruits with little combat effectiveness.
and fighting spirit are very limited.
The main force of the Tang army of 60,000 to 70,000 was about to invade, but Luoyang only had 30,000 new soldiers and 5,000 main troops. Such a disparity in strength made even Jia Xu feel a little unsure.
Therefore, Jia Xu ordered the reorganization of private soldiers from various major families and used them to defend the city.
In fact, with the thorough implementation of Qin Hao's policy, there are actually not many private soldiers left in the aristocratic families under the Qin Army. After all, if the number is exceeded and reported, it will be directly defined as a rebellion, and then the family will be confiscated and the ancestors will be destroyed. Therefore,
Of course, the aristocratic family would not dare to expand its private army.
However, although the aristocratic family does not have a large number of private soldiers, it still has hundreds of guards.
Through various efforts, Jia Xu was able to gather together five thousand generations of family soldiers.
Just relying on these 5,000 private soldiers was definitely not enough, so Jia Xu ordered to open the treasury and temporarily recruit 50,000 strong men to participate in the defense of Luoyang. This made the ministers feel at ease, but there were still some
People are worried.
These ministers were not worried about the Qin army's ability to defend the city, but they were worried about the city of Luoyang.
Five thousand main force, 30,000 new soldiers, 5,000 lineage soldiers, and 50,000 Luoyang strong men. From the data point of view, as long as they are not deliberately seeking death or going out to attack, there is no problem at all in defending the strong city of Luoyang.
But the key point is that the city of Luoyang has some evil ways.
Even though the city walls of Luoyang are very tall, the defensive equipment such as arrow towers and towers are complete and numerous. On the surface, they appear to be very defensive, but in fact they are just like decorations. So far, they have not been able to defend the city a few times.
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During the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Yellow Turban army attacked Luoyang and the Han army defended Luoyang. As a result, Luoyang was lost and the Han court retreated to Guanzhong.
However, since it was the big man who gave up on his own initiative, Luoyang City cannot be blamed this time.
After that, the Han coalition counterattacked Luoyang, the Ming army defended Luoyang, and the Han coalition successfully occupied Luoyang.
Later, the princes of Guandong allied forces to attack Dong, and the Liang army defended Luoyang. In the end, Luoyang was lost, the Liang army retreated into Guanzhong, and Luoyang fell into the hands of Qin Hao.
Luoyang City seems to have been defended against a curse. It seems that its defense is very strong, but it falls every time the enemy comes. It has not been defended even once so far.
With the precedent of so many losses, the ministers in the court would naturally be afraid that Luoyang would be captured by the Tang army again.
Many officials proposed moving the capital to His Majesty the Emperor or annexing the state to prevent His Majesty from falling into crisis if Luoyang could not be defended.
Moving the capital before the enemy came would only make the situation more chaotic. Faced with these speculators who were afraid of the world being in chaos, Jia Xu naturally reprimanded them severely and silently wrote them down in the little notebook in his heart.
Their famous names.
Later, Jia Xu announced to the court that Li and Tang's army had no siege equipment and it was impossible to attack Luoyang. In addition, he had requested reinforcements from Hebei. As long as he held Luoyang for a month, the reinforcements from Hebei would come back.
When these two pieces of news came together, the civil and military officials in the court felt a lot more at ease, but those with ulterior motives were jumping up and down even more.
For those who had previously remained hidden but now stood up to make trouble, one by one, they were all recorded in Jia Xu's notebook.
Although the imperialists headed by Ma Rixi, Kong Rong, and Yang Jun wanted to muddy the waters and create opportunities for Li Shimin, they were beaten by Jia Xu's combination of punches and did not know how to fight back.
In general, the Tang army's imminent invasion of Luoyang and the deliberate instigation by the imperialists in the city did bring a lot of turmoil to Luoyang. However, under Jia Xu's various methods, the city of Luoyang was panicked but not chaotic, and everything was heading towards
The good side is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Jia Xu had a big plan in mind, a big plan to wipe out all these die-hard Han loyalists.
These people are so well hidden. Even when Qin Hao became king before, they only jumped out to kill some miscellaneous fish. The real big fish were all lurking. If they didn't jump out on their own initiative, there would be no way of knowing who they were.
If it weren't for the lack of troops in Luoyang this time, and if Li Shimin's army was coming, these people might still not take the initiative to jump out.
Therefore, Jia Xu planned to take advantage of the fourth, no, the third Luoyang War, to lure out all the lurking imperialists. He wanted to leave Qin Hao a court without any hidden dangers.