It turned out that Zhao Yun had already anticipated the enemy's actions, and he asked Yu Yu to hold Yecheng with 8,000 foot soldiers, and he took 6,000 cavalry from his headquarters to operate outside the city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhao Yun divided the cavalry into two parts, one part was active in Kunyang and Xiangcheng to protect the grain routes of the army; Some of them were divided into pieces, with 100 cavalry as a team, which haunted the mountains and forests between Duyang, Yecheng and Wuyang day and night, frequently attacking the grain transportation team of the Jingzhou army and attacking the camp of the Jingzhou army, so that the Jingzhou soldiers were worried and tired, and their morale was gradually declining.

Zhao Yun kept in touch with Guan Yu through carrier pigeons, asking him to wait patiently in Luyang City, as long as he seized the opportunity to burn the grain and grass of the Jingzhou army and forced Deng Yi and Pang Ji to withdraw to Wancheng, the rebels' first counterattack on Yingchuan this year would be considered a failure.

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August 15, early in the morning, Luoyang City.

This is a relatively important traditional festival in later generations, but now in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there is nothing too special.

Of course, there are also some regions where people perform a series of rituals and celebrations called "autumn newspapers" on this day to thank the gods for their protection.

But obviously, Yuan Shao, who was trapped in the dangerous city, had no way to do these sacrifices and celebrations.

Yuan Shao, Yuan Wei, Feng Ji and others gasped and climbed the Yongmen Tower, and everything in front of them made them dumbfounded.

The catapults outside the city are one after another, densely packed. Each catapult was surrounded by soldiers, ready to go. In the distance, the people gathered into a long line, driving the baggage carts to transport the stone bullets.

Overnight, the Northern Army set up thousands of catapults outside the city, dense enough to destroy all the defenses on the walls of Luoyang.

Yuan Shao's whole body was full of blood, his body shook involuntarily, and then his eyes suddenly went black, and he was dizzy.

Yuan Shao screamed in pain, and tried his best to stretch out his hands to support the city wall in front of him, but his hands lost sensation at this moment, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't lift them.

Yuan Shao fell on his back.

Feng Ji, who was standing next to him, was quick-eyed, grabbed Yuan Shao's clothes, and shouted anxiously: "Lord, lord...... What happened to you...... What's wrong with you......"

Yuan Shang, Yuan Wei, Xianpei, Gao Rou and others rushed up and carried him into the gatehouse.

Yuan Shao's mouth was crooked, very crooked, and saliva kept flowing out.

Yuan Shao's eyes widened, looking at Yuan Shang with tears streaming down his face, trying to say something, but the sound came out intermittently, and no one could understand it.

"Quick, quickly ask the healer to come and ......," Feng Ji shouted loudly, "Don't touch the lord, don't shake him." ”

"Due south, block the gatehouse, no one is allowed to come in, hurry up, ......"

The judge looked at Yuan Shao, who was gradually unconscious, and for a while, all thoughts were lost, and he staggered out of the door and hugged him.

The soldiers around the gatehouse saw the trial come out, hugged them together, and asked, "Sir, how is the lord?" How is the lord? ”

As soon as the judge wanted to speak, he heard the sound of drums outside the city like thunder, and a huge roar was like a violent hurricane sweeping through the heavens and the earth, shaking the earth.

The judge raised his hands high, raised his head and shouted: "Withdraw, order all the soldiers to withdraw to safety." ”

The drums of the alarm rose to the sky. On the city wall, in the tower, in the urn city, and behind the Fengyuan wall, all the guards rushed to the city as fast as they could.

The judge turned around and slammed into the door of the open building, and shouted at the panicked Luoyang Wenwu inside: "Back lord, let's go quickly, retreat quickly." ”

"Now the lord can't move." Yuki glared and shouted, "He might die." ”

"Let's go, we won't be able to leave after a while, we are all going to die here, let's go quickly, ......" The judge rushed to Yuan Shao's side in a few steps, picked him up, and rushed out without looking back.

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The sound ......of the war drums became more and more violent, as if they were about to break through the sky and go straight to the sky.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers from northern Xinjiang roared loudly, and the huge waves converged into torrents, crashing head-on into Luoyang City with a devastating momentum.

Li Yi, Xu Maogong, Zhuge Liang, Yue Fei, Xu Da, and all the ministers of civil and military affairs all raised their arms and cheered at this moment.

The city of Luoyang trembled in the torrent and groaned in the impact.

"Release, release......" Huang Zhong waved his arms and shouted hoarsely, "Let me ......"

The drums beat more and more intensely, like a mountain collapsing and the ground cracked.

On the battlefield of Dongcheng "let go of the ......", Li Jing galloped on his horse and shouted loudly, "Let go, let go ......"

On the battlefield in Beicheng, Sima Yi waved the order flag again and again, and his mouth was also roaring again and again: "Brothers, let go, let ......"

On the battlefield in Nancheng, Zhang Fei was naked, and personally beat the giant war drums, roaring like thunder: "Let go...... Bomb the towers, blow them down......"

Five thousand catapults raised their heads to the sky and let out a deafening roar.

Five thousand stone bullets rushed into the sky with a thrilling roar, tumbling all the way, and smashed into Luoyang City with thunderous momentum.

On the azure canopy, the sky was covered with stars in an instant, and the black, white, and gray stone bullets were like meteors passing through the sky, leaving beautiful traces on the canopy.

"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......"

All the meteors fell into Luoyang City, and Luoyang City boiled and shook at this moment. It was like a wounded beast that let out a terrible howl.

The two-storey gatehouse of Yongmen bore the brunt of the blow and was devastated.

The heavy catapults of the Northern Xinjiang Army continued to bombard the gatehouse, and the 100-pound stone bullets smashed down like a raging storm, and the roof of the gatehouse was wiped out in a blink of an eye, and bricks, wood, and gravel flew all over the sky. Then the upper floor of the gatehouse was overwhelmed and collapsed.

Because of the weak support points and insufficient thickness of the horse face on the city wall, it was difficult to withstand the crazy attack of stone bullets, and they were destroyed and fell one after another.

Because all other buildings, large and small sheds are all made of wood, they are basically vulnerable, and they have been turned into broken wood under the heavy blow of stone bullets.

After the gatehouse of Yongmen collapsed, the urn city outside the city gate was bombarded by the heavy catapults of the Northern Xinjiang Army. The urn city is mainly made of rammed earth walls, and the thickness and hardness of the city walls are far from being comparable with the main city walls. As pieces of stone bullets weighing dozens of catties and hundreds of catties hit the wall continuously, the walls of the urn city began to collapse little by little.

Feng Yuan and the Horse Rejection Belt under the city were also the main targets of catapults. Feng Yuan is only fifteen feet, and it is also made of rammed earth. It was very difficult to force the attack with manpower, but with the intensive bombardment of catapults, this low earthen wall was smashed like soft mud, and in a short time it became a broken wall.

As for the rejection of horses and deer, they were quickly overwhelmed by stone bullets.

Yuan Wei, Yuan Shang, Feng Ji, Xian Pei and others stood on Yongmen Avenue a hundred steps away from the city gate, stunned as all the defensive facilities on the city wall turned into powder, and their faces were like ashes for a while, except for deep fear and pain in their hearts, they no longer had half of self-confidence, and their hopes of holding Luoyang City were completely destroyed.

The soldiers and men in Luoyang City stood on the streets, looking at the dense and violent "stone rain" in the sky, one by one, they were stunned, blood and death occupied their hearts in an instant, and the breath of defeat instantly enveloped the entire Luoyang City.

Tears flowed from the trial.

Years of hard work have disappeared in a blink of an eye, and since Yuan Shao occupied Luoyang, he has been working hard to strengthen the defense of Luoyang City. It can be said that this city entrusts the efforts of countless soldiers and ministers under Yuan Shaoji's command.

But now, with the almost frenzied attack of the Northern Frontier Army, all this is gone.

With the collapse and destruction of various defensive facilities such as gatehouses, horse faces, and towers, the defense of Luoyang City became fragile.

Now that Yuan Shao has fallen, the morale of the soldiers is low, and the only reliance is on this hundred-foot-high wall.

"Order the chariot battalion, return fire, return fire immediately......" Feng Ji suddenly shouted, desperate and miserable, "We also have catapults, we also fight, fight, give me ......"

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Gao Ran saw the stone bullets flying out of the city, he scolded angrily, and roared loudly: "Order, all heavy catapults, extend the attack into the city, hit me, hit ...... hard"

500 heavy catapults were replaced with 50 to 70 pounds of stone projectiles, and the projectile distance was greatly increased.

With Gao Lan's order, 500 stone projectiles crossed the city wall and rained down on the catapult positions in the city.

The defenders in the city were caught off guard, smashed to the ground, and ran away with their heads in their hands. More than a dozen of the catapults were damaged to varying degrees.

It turned out that in the previous few months of preparation, Li Yi had already divided the city into different areas and formulated the coordinates. Now the catapult attack, you only need to adjust the attack angle according to the coordinates, and you can quickly cover the designated area.

Feng Ji and the judge were taken aback, and hurriedly ordered the catapult to be withdrawn to the back.

But it was too late, the second round of strikes of the Northern Xinjiang Army came in an instant, and the soldiers and people in the car formation were severely damaged, and everyone rushed in extreme fear and dispersed. The stone bullets of the Northern Xinjiang Army rained down one by one, destroying most of the few catapults in the city.

The judge wanted to cry without tears, squatting on the ground with his head in his arms, desperate.

"What to do? Now what? Feng Ji dragged him up, "What now?" How could Li Yi have so many catapults? How could he build so many catapults in three months? ”

"Only in the evening, after the Northern Xinjiang Army stops bombardment, we will try to recover." The judge said in a hoarse voice.

"Recovery? How to recover? If the Northern Xinjiang Army continues to bombard like this, in a few days, all the facilities on the city wall will be destroyed, even the women's wall will be destroyed. Feng Ji shouted at the top of his voice, "How can you restore the city wall that is dozens of miles long?" ”

"This is the main direction of attack of the Northern Xinjiang Army." The judge pointed his finger in front of him and said weakly, "Let's take Yongmen as the center and rebuild defenses along the walls at both ends of Yongmen. There are still 60,000 people in the city, and there are 200,000 people, even if we fill it with people, we can block the northern Xinjiang army outside Luoyang City. ”