Soon, many homeless cannon fodder troops began to appear outside Luoyang City, and the soldiers defending the city were like facing a great enemy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

King Fu ordered, all officials agreed, and the guards had no opinion. Not long after, Luoyang City began to clear the wilderness, and formed social soldiers and militias, which were issued by the government. (Junk weapons, of course)

And, at the suggestion of Li Zilong. The Luoyang government has increased the intensity of setting up tents for relief, and the news of a reward for catching spies and killing one enemy and rewarding one or two pieces of silver has come out!

For a while, hearing the news, the whole city was excited. Many outlaws, as well as ordinary people, carried their own bows, arrows, knives and guns to guard the city.

If there is really money to make the brave man out, the defenders of Luoyang City are high.

After a few days, there were more and more thieves.

If you look down from the sky, from the two lines of Xin'an and Yiyang, the road is full of a sea of red turbans and spears, rolling like a prairie fire, countless, I really don't know how many come.

100,000? 200,000?

"There are too many thieves and soldiers...... How can there be so many? From time to time, the soldiers who defended the city talked to each other with fear on their faces.

A team of people in the army can count one flag, and if you count it casually, it is tens of thousands of flags. Counting all the hungry women, children and so on, I'm afraid that there are nearly 200,000 people, and it is really impossible to stop casually.

It's just that these people are just besieging but not attacking, and the soldiers defending the city don't have the courage to go out of the city to attack, and their faces are very ugly.

There are too many people on the other side. The enemy is outnumbered, and just looking at the number of people, people don't have the courage to go out. Even if it was Zhu Jiajun, his face was solemn.

"It's still increasing, let me see, how many can you come?"

Putting down the binoculars, Li Zilong and the others took a deep breath, and their tone was still strong, but they didn't know what they thought in their hearts.

Night!

The fire outside the city is like a mountain, like a starry sky.

At the head of the city, the defenders of Luoyang did the same, lighting fires one by one, and there were groups of three or five around the fires, surrounded by sergeants who were roasting the fire.

The offensive and defensive sides are at loggerheads, and neither relaxes the other.

Judging from the current situation, the army of thieves surrounded Sanque and attacked the west, south and north of Luoyang.

Luoyang City has four passes in the east, west, south and north distributed on all sides, and the core is each other's horns, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The four levels are the gates, which are generally rectangular city checkpoints erected.

Similar to the Guancheng on the Great Wall, the location of the Guancheng is very important, and it is chosen in a favorable terrain for defense in order to receive the effect of resisting powerful invaders with very few troops.

Each gate city also has urn cities, moats, and moats. In addition, there are "horse blocking walls" on the periphery of Dongguan, which are one zhang high, and there are also female walls and moats, and mutual support is also very convenient.

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Late at night, the army camped outside Luoyang City.

The camp tents are stacked on top of each other, and they are afraid that they are more than ten miles long.

At night, bonfires are lit, and the dense lights are like stars in the night.

For some reason, there are many thieves, but there are few thieves.

The next day, they still did not give orders for the Chinese army to attack the city, but let the displaced people on the side invade the surrounding fields and villages, and carried out the acts of robbing, taking, and burning the light.

For a time, within a few days, after the invasion of soldiers and horses. Within a hundred miles outside Luoyang City, there is a desolate scene.

The essence of the suburbs of Luoyang was all destroyed. Even the trees on the banks of the Jinshui River have been cut down, and the sight is completely empty, as if it has become a loess plateau.

Everywhere the fields were also in shambles, and the wheat seedlings that had been planted on the fields were not fully ripe but were all harvested.

The people in Luoyang City, after hearing the news, all turned pale, so don't expect a harvest this year.

There are locusts in natural disasters, and now people have cottage locusts.

People are scary than bugs!

They do not produce, but they cause others not to produce, and wherever they go they are left with death and ruin. It's so hateful!

"The middle army of thieves is too far behind, and the number of thieves on the side is too large and too long, and it is impossible to sneak attack. And the Chinese army is still across the river! After many days of reconnaissance, Zhu Jiajun also thought about a sneak attack, but found that the other party made it clear that he was besieging but not attacking. He also put the headquarters on the opposite side of the river in the rear.

It is impossible for Li Zilong and others to do so, only temporarily.

After a few more days, finally there were no more things around me that could be three lights.

After the trumpet sounded, among the mighty soldiers and horses, a huge banner with the word "Chuang" fluttered in the wind, and they finally had to take action.

Under the banner, Li Zicheng appeared.

He wears a white felt hat, a blue cloth arrow jacket, a bow and arrows on his back, and a sharp sword hanging from his waist. The red tassels on the big red cloak and felt hat are constantly blowing up.

Behind Li Zicheng, there were all the generals of the army, Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, Song Xiance and others were all on the side. (Strange, why don't you see Niu Venus and Gao Yingxiang?) ）

Song Xiance was inconvenient due to his legs, so Li Zicheng prepared a cart for him, which was carried out by a few pawns. With another fan in his hand, he is pretending to be Zhuge Liang, hehe.

After carefully observing Luoyang City, Li Zicheng sighed slightly and asked Song Xiance beside him: "What do you think, sir?" ”

Song Xiance shook the fan in his hand and replied: "General, the art of war is cloudy: those who are good at fighting will cause people but not others. Luoyang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is well prepared, and the soldiers are sufficient, so we only need to surround it but not fight, and contain it with appropriate troops, so that it cannot go out to rescue. ”

"Soldiers, the way is noble and not noble, the ruler holds power, and the ruler obeys orders."

This is said to be very level, and it is the principle of using troops in the "Taibai Yin Jing" written by Li Zhen in the Tang Dynasty, which means to contain the enemy without being contained by the enemy. If you can contain the enemy, you will have the initiative, and if you can be held back by the enemy, you can only be at the mercy of the enemy.

However, except for Li Zicheng, who understands a little, the other thieves are all illiterate, and they listen in vain. I don't know what to do!

In the end, Lao Song had to explain in the vernacular.

It means that it is better to be tempted!

commanded an army of 300,000 for the first time, even if most of them came to make up the numbers, it also made Li Zicheng proud: "Okay, try it first!" ”

The next minute, the horn sounded in the middle of the army.

Several small formations came out of the main formation, estimated to number about 20,000 people.

Suddenly, Li Zilong sighed, he put down the binoculars, and said to himself: "In the thief army, there seems to be the shadow of a cannon, but I didn't expect that they still have such a big killing weapon?" ”

When the other defenders heard this, they hurriedly picked up the binoculars and took a look, and sure enough, they saw that there were many people pushing multiple heavy artillery pieces in the rear opposite.

No wonder, the thief army besieged but did not attack, and the competition was to move the looted cannon slowly.

Fooled! Knowing this, they should have launched some sneak attacks a few days in advance, even if it was just to disrupt the opponent's position, which would definitely delay their plan to transport the cannons.

- (To be continued.) )