455 Luoyang City has become a flesh mill

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Lu Xiangsheng clearly remembered that a few months ago, when Li Zicheng, who he was chasing in western Henan, was wandering around the north and south, although Li Zicheng's men had many bandits, their weaponry rate was extremely low.

At that time, among the 50,000 troops under Li Zicheng, there were no more than 10,000 people who could really equip armor, and even a large number of bandits did not have a decent weapon in their hands.

But in this way, Li Zicheng stubbornly defeated him through a protracted chase battle, an ambush, and a bloody battle.

After such a long time, Lu Xiangsheng can imagine that with Li Zicheng's ability to snowball this rogue, at this time his army exceeded 100,000, and Lu Xiangsheng was not surprised at all.

Lu Xiangsheng is also very confident in Luoyang's city defense, a thousand-year-old city, a city wall dozens of meters high, and a moat more than ten meters wide.

Even if there is a group of pig teammates in the city, there are only 10,000 elite soldiers available to him, plus the 20,000 young men he temporarily recruited.

reluctantly let Lu Xiangsheng hold a trace of Luoyang's thoughts.

But when Lu Xiangsheng stood on the city wall and saw the army of rogues outside the city, almost everyone was wearing armor, he knew that if there were no reinforcements arriving, he would not be able to hold Luoyang.

However, even if he couldn't hold it, Lu Xiangsheng didn't plan to give up, he was such a person, and running away was not his style.

Lu Xiangsheng's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty made it impossible for him to abandon the city and flee, but it was also because of his loyalty that he was destined to not be able to defend Luoyang.

If Li Zixiao guards Luoyang at this time, he will never do what Lu Xiangsheng did, Lu Xiangsheng asked King Fu for money to no avail, and after borrowing money from Luoyang Mansion and major nobles failed, he had to find another way to recruit young people.

It took him more than a month to barely make up 20,000 young men.

If it is Li Zixiao, it is time for the enemy to attack soon, and he will reason with King Fu and those nobles.

With the military strength in Lu Xiangsheng's hands, don't look at the number of only 10,000, but if you really want to fight, there is no problem at all in defeating the 30,000 Luoyang defenders in the city.

Replaced by Li Zixiao, he will take advantage of Li Zicheng's army before he arrives, seize control of Luoyang City by force, and then deploy Luoyang with a wide axe.

The first thing to do was to recruit soldiers, and there were more than 400,000 people in Luoyang at this time, including many people who fled to Luoyang to seek refuge.

If Lu Xiangsheng goes all out, it will not be a problem to pull out 50,000 young people.

As for the armor and ordnance in Luoyang City, there is no shortage of them, Luoyang has its own arsenal, and the stored ordnance is enough to equip 100,000 troops.

Of course, conscription requires money and food, so where does this money and food come from, of course, it is from the hands of King Fu and those noble relatives.

As long as they have the most money and food in their hands, if they don't use it at this time, will they get the city to be broken, and leave this money and food to raise Li Zicheng's army?

No money? No food? You put the knife on the neck of Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune, to see if he has any silver and grain.

You took someone to copy the homes of those noble families in Luoyang City, to see if you could get a lot of silver, at this time, everything is for the purpose of keeping Luoyang City, what else can not be done.

However, Lu Xiangsheng is not Li Zixiao, and the blessed king Zhu Changxun is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, if Lu Xiangsheng dares to touch him, it is equivalent to rebellion.

This is a very difficult hurdle for Lu Xiangsheng, who is loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Sure enough, in the end, Lu Xiangsheng didn't dare to attack the Fu King Zhu Changxun, so that the month passed in vain.

This is Li Zicheng's rare preparation time for Lu Xiangsheng, since he missed it, Luoyang's obvious can be imagined.

Counting on those Luoyang defenders, look at the scene of Li Zicheng's siege on the first day, in just half a day, Luoyang was in a hurry on all sides, and the Luoyang defenders even almost lost a city gate.

In the end, it was not Lu Xiangsheng who sent someone to arrive in time, took over for them to block the bandits, and killed the bandits who were about to occupy the city gatehouse.

Soon, the more than 30,000 Luoyang defenders, who were supposed to be the main force to resist the army of thieves, were in a mess, and their morale plummeted.

Lu Xiangsheng, who had no choice but to order his 10,000 men and horses, to climb the city wall, take over the defenders of Luoyang, and defend the Tartars head-on.

The larger number of Luoyang defenders instead became helpers, which is simply a great irony.

"Ruzhou, is there still no movement?"

Lu Xiangsheng, who was wearing a shabby armor, walked over and looked up to Hao Jian and asked.

"Nope." Hao Jian was covered in blood, and his face was even more tired, and he shook his head and said.

Li Zicheng continued to attack the city non-stop, and even launched a night attack at night, not giving them time to rest at all.

Lu Xiangsheng was short of troops, so he could only eat and sleep on the city wall, it was only a week after he was surrounded, and Li Zicheng had only been able to storm Luoyang City for three days, and they were a little overwhelmed.

"It's hard work, hold on a little longer." Lu Xiangsheng patted Hao Jian's shoulder and said with concern.

Thundered!

Li Zicheng had just Mingjin to collect his troops, and the artillery that Li Zicheng bought from Li Zixiao outside the city opened fire on the city to cover another group of soldiers attacking the city.

Thundered!

Not to be outdone, Luoyang City also had artillery in their hands, and the artillery on both sides fired at each other.

However, soon Lu Xiangsheng stopped the fire of the cannons in the city, he needed to keep the artillery to deal with the next siege of the rogues, and he couldn't waste it like this.

It was too difficult to knock out the artillery outside the city, because the old artillery on the head of Luoyang City was not much stronger than the old artillery in Li Zicheng's hand.

At this time, more than ten miles south of Luoyang City, on a hillside, a team of horseback stood here, two of them were riding on horses, looking at the battle in Luoyang City in the distance with monoculars.

The sound of cannons and shouts of killing in Luoyang City, they could hear it from such a distance, billowing smoke rising, and flesh and blood corpses were spread all over Luoyang City, like a purgatory.

"Luoyang City has become a flesh mill!" Qi Wei rode on the horse and said with emotion.

"That's right, at present, it seems that Lu Xiangsheng's resistance in Luoyang City is still very tenacious.

However, under normal circumstances, as long as there are no reinforcements, Luoyang City will be captured by Li Zicheng, which is already an ironclad matter, and now it depends on how long Lu Xiangsheng can hold on to the city. ”

Next to him, Li Yan was also riding on a war horse, looking at Luoyang City at this time with monoculars, and nodded and said.

At this time, Luoyang City has long lost its former prosperity and prosperity, but it is shrouded in the clouds of war, killing and death, will be the main theme of Luoyang City for a period of time in the future.

"What about the casualties of Li Zicheng's men?" Qi Wei asked.

"I received information from Zhang Fugui before, and according to the eyeliner they planted in the army of thieves, the casualties of the thieves were not small.

Moreover, due to the lack of medicinal materials and doctors under the thieves, the mortality rate of the injured thieves is particularly high, as long as those soldiers who are seriously injured are basically dead. ”

"Okay, Li Zicheng has more casualties, which is good for us, Li Yan, do you expect that Lu Xiangsheng will be able to hold out in Luoyang City for how long?"

Li Yan thought for a moment, and then said: "If Li Zicheng keeps this attack strong, it is normal for Lu Xiangsheng to be able to hold Luoyang for a week.

It is a miracle that he can hold out for ten days, but within half a month, Luoyang will inevitably fall. ”

"Well, you're about the same as I estimated. In that case, let's start preparing.

Otherwise, when Li Zicheng captures Luoyang, he will go back on his word, and if we don't prepare well, we will be passive.

The general handed over such an important matter to the two of us to do, and we are going to do it beautifully, and this time we will pit Li Zicheng again. ”

In the end, Qi Wei's face already showed a look of impatience and impatience.

"Yes, dare to prepare in advance, let's act when we go back, I have been sending people to keep an eye on Li Guo and Liu Tichun in the past two days, they are very well-behaved, abide by our commitments, and do not act rashly.

Don't think about it, they are also waiting for news from Luoyang. Li Yan put down his monoculars and said with a smile.

"Let's go, we won't come to mix here in Luoyang, let's wait until Li Zicheng defeats Luoyang City, but we must inform Zhang Fugui and let him plant the spies of Luoyang City to keep an eye on Lu Xiangsheng.

Once Luoyang City is broken, they will cover Lu Xiangsheng's escape, which is explained by the general himself. ”

"I'll send someone to inform Zhang Jusi of this. Let's go, drive! ”

After speaking, Li Yan and Qi Wei rode their war horses and returned to Ruzhou City under the protection of more than a dozen cavalry guards behind them.

And just west of Ruzhou City, at this time, there was still a team of 30,000 rogues, who were sent by Li Zicheng to act with the White Dragon Army, Li Guo and Liu Tichun.

They are very obedient, and they have been stationed in the west of Ruzhou City, pretending that they are in opposition to Ruzhou City!

And the two of them are indeed always paying attention to the battle in Luoyang in the north, and they are also monitoring the White Dragon Army in Ruzhou City.

On 17 December, Li Zicheng led his men to storm Luoyang, which had been going on for two days, and after paying a huge price in casualties, he was about to attack it.

But at this time, the weather temperature plummeted, the weather was frozen, the temperature dropped sharply, and even a goose feather snow came.

After the heavy snowfall, the entire Luoyang area became covered in silver, and the earth was covered with a layer of white.

Because of this cooling and heavy snowfall, some people are happy and some are worried.

The happy, of course, is that Lu Xiangsheng in Luoyang City has risen, and the sad one is naturally the king Li Zicheng.

This heavy snowfall directly and seriously affected the siege of Li Zicheng's subordinates, and in such weather, sending his subordinates to attack Luoyang City is not much different from suicide.

In this way, Lu Xiangsheng in Luoyang City will be happy.

This goose feather snow can buy him another period of time, so that he and the officers and soldiers in the city can breathe a sigh of relief and rest.

(End of chapter)