Chapter 918: Luoyang Stained with Blood Again (Part I)

The Kwantung Coalition Army has already lost 210,000 troops and paid such a huge price, but it has only captured four Xiong Passes, and even the old capital Luoyang has not yet been breached.

If you want to attack Chang'an and rescue the Han Emperor, you must also break through Luoyang, Yewang, Yiyang and other fortified cities, and also break the Hangu Pass, which is a heroic pass through the ages, before you can enter the Guanzhong army in Chang'an.

But according to this casualty trend, even if the coalition forces are all gone, they may not be able to capture Hangu Pass, let alone Chang'an City.

It can be seen from this that how difficult it is to take away Sizhou from Dong Zhuo's hands, and the price is simply unbearable for Qin Hao.

If this is only by the strength of the Qin and Jin armies, even if he can capture Sizhou, Qin Hao will definitely be greatly injured, and finally add wedding clothes for others.

And forming a coalition of princes and using the power of all princes to seize Sizhou was the least costly way for Qin Hao.

After Yang Su's 40,000 troops withdrew, Luoyang's troops also reached 80,000, but it was obviously unrealistic to want to compete with 330,000 coalition troops.

So immediately afterwards, Li Shimin ordered to transfer back 40,000 troops from Mengjin Pass.

After the Tiger Prison was breached, although Yique Pass, as the southern gate, lost the value of continuing to defend it, Mengjin, as the northern gate, still had its heavy responsibility.

The other princes did not border the Liang army, and even if Sizhou was captured, it would be an enclave, and it would not be more than a long-term occupation.

The princes only sent troops to fight against Dong Zhuo for the sake of righteousness and reputation, but the father and son of the Qin family were different.

Qin Wen and Qin Hao, one in the north and the other in the south, once they seize Sizhou, they can connect Bingzhou with Jingbei, and they are also specially here to seize Sizhou.

Mengjin Pass can block the threat of Qin Wen in the north, but once Mengjin Pass is lost, Qin Wen can continuously transfer troops south, which is not beneficial to the Liang army, so Li Shimin did not transfer Yang Lin's 50,000 troops back.

However, because of the shortage of troops in Luoyang, Li Shimin had to transfer back most of Mengjin's troops, but he also left Yang Lin as a general.

If the Jin army came to attack, although Meng Jin's 10,000 troops were not much, they could play the role of 20,000 in Yang Lin's hands, which was enough to support Li Shimin to send reinforcements for a month.

Although Li Shimin has no reinforcements to send for the time being, he has already asked Dong Zhuo for reinforcements, and I believe that he will definitely get a response soon.

Now there are only 130,000 troops left in the entire Sizhou, Li Shimin placed 10,000 in Mengjin, and 120,000 concentrated in Luoyang, obviously preparing to defend Luoyang.

Luoyang, as the former capital of the Han Dynasty, is naturally the strongest fortified city in the world...... One.

At the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, because Xiang Yu broke Mengjin, the imperial court was forced to abandon Luoyang and move the capital to Chang'an, and Qin Wen had to give up the Tiger Prison to defend Luoyang.

Qin Wen originally wanted to rely on Luoyang to consume the Yellow Turban's troops, but because Zhu Yuanzhang offered a plan to attack the cities of Sizhou, Luoyang was in an uncomfortable situation in a lonely city, and this made the stupid decision of the Ran court to give up Luoyang.

Although Qin Wen was unwilling to give up the fortified city of Luoyang, it was difficult to disobey the holy decree, but Yang Gon, the father of Yang Ye, would rather die than evacuate at any time, but led 30,000 lonely troops to defend the old capital of Luoyang.

Yang Gon had an army of 30,000, but he blocked Zhang Jiao's 700,000 army for ten days of fierce attack, which shows the solidity of Luoyang.

Now there are still 330,000 coalition troops, and it is not impossible for Li Shimin to hold Luoyang with 120,000 troops.

In the face of nearly three times as many enemies, relying on a fortified city, it is not difficult to defend it only from the perspective of low attack and defense.

But you must know that defending the city is not guarding the gates.

There are no residents in the level, and in addition to the people in the city, there are also families, and the families have their own soldiers, and these are external forces that are difficult for the defenders to control, which also adds some surprises to the defense of the city.

Of course, most of the big families will not easily participate in the dispute between the princes, because defeat means the extinction of the clan.

This price is too great, and if there is no absolute certainty, the family will never dare to participate in the struggle of the princes.

Dong Zhuo violated the interests of the family in order to implement the new policy, so he was disgusted and spurned by the family in the world.

When it comes to rebelling against his own family, Dong Zhuo's methods can be described as cruel, and he has slaughtered countless people from his family in Guanzhong.

It was with this bloody method of countering violence with violence that Dong Zhuo completely shocked all the families under his command, even if the princes of the Thirty-six Roads jointly crusaded, the territory under his command was still not chaotic.

No matter how disgusted and spurned Dong Zhuo by the family, they still didn't dare to make the slightest move, at least not on the surface, they didn't dare.

But in the confrontation with the Kwantung Coalition Army, if Dong Zhuo is defeated, then the first one to fall into the well must be the family clan in his territory.

The Luoyang family is naturally dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo and him, in the past, Dong Zhuo was so powerful that the Luoyang family did not dare to resist, but now the Kwantung Coalition Army is leading Luoyang City, what are you afraid of?

The family of the world has currently carried out three migrations, the first is the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the second is the Hanming Dispute, and the third is the Ming War.

No matter which migration wave, the destination of the family's migration is the line from Luoyang to Guanzhong.

In the second wave of migration, most of the local families in Luoyang have moved to Guanzhong, and the families that have not moved into Chang'an have basically died under the cleaning of the Yellow Turban.

So at present, there are basically only two kinds of families in Luoyang City:

First, he was reluctant to have his ancestral business, or he couldn't compete with other families, so he turned back from Guanzhong and settled down again in Luoyang;

Second, in order to escape the war in the Central Plains, he moved from the Central Plains to settle down.

No matter which one it is, after several years of cultivation, the strength of the family has been restored to a certain extent, and Luoyang Chang'an, a place where the family is concentrated, is naturally no exception.

If the family is divided by region and a list is sent according to the strength of the family, the strength of the Luoyang family is definitely second only to the Chang'an family.

If this force can be concentrated, it will be a dangerous force that can shake Dong Zhuo's rule, and Qin Rongyu, who was sent to Luoyang by Qin Hao, is to gather this force to help Qin Hao capture the fortified city of Luoyang.

When Qin Hao was blocked out of the Tiger Prison Pass, no matter how much he coerced and lured Yu, there were still many families who did not dare to participate, but when Qin Hao led the army to Luoyang, these families all came to the door.

Of course, this is not that Qin Hao likes the family, but Dong Zhuo is too hated by the family, and almost all the families are eager to kill him.

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