The city of Luoyang was about to be destroyed, and under the pressure exerted by the ministers of the court headed by Yuan Wendu and Huangfu Wuyi, Wang Shichong had no choice but to hand over the command of defending the city.

The general of the dark guard was ordered to lead 3,000 dark guards, as the commander of the city, to control the guards of various provinces, carry all kinds of strange weapons, and go to fight against the Wagang army.

The people of Luoyang City, who were already ready to be killed, heard that the general of the dark guard had taken over Wang Shichong's position, and the whole city was uplifted, and their morale soared, and they took up arms to resist the invasion of the Wagang army, buying time for the deployment of the dark guard.

Even the many generals of the Wagang Army did not expect that since this secret guard general took over the command of the city defense, the situation would take such a sharp turn.

The bow and crossbow of the Dark Guard have the characteristics of long range and high accuracy, and they are well versed in the way of capturing the thief and capturing the king first.

It only took a few days for the Wagang army to retreat, and the positions originally captured were lost one by one, and they retreated to the East City Tower of Luoyang.

The square between the two armies was formed by bulldozing the houses after the Wagang army entered the city, in order to prevent the Luoyang army from sneaking up at night.

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Today's Luoyang East City Tower is a few hundred meters of open space, and even the wide streets under the city wall, have become a battlefield for the two armies to confront each other.

"Who's in command here?"

On the eve of preparing to attack and recapture the East City Tower, Zhen Ming, who was wearing silver armor, rode a war horse and came to inspect the front of the confrontation between the two armies.

The 20,000 soldiers were all elites from the Sixteen Guards Mansion and were well-equipped.

It's just that there are such elite soldiers, such a high-walled and fortified city, but the city tower has been captured, which is really incomprehensible.

The 20,000 soldiers looked at Zhen and were silent.

"All the generals of the Weifu are out of the ranks!"

Zhen Ming shouted bitterly, and several generals rode out of the ranks, and at a glance, they were all six-grade junior generals at the level of Sima joining the army, and none of them were above the general level.

"Why are you alone? What about the generals of the various guards? ”

One of them, with a clear indignation in his voice, raised his voice: "Report to the generals, the generals have gone out to have fun!" ”

Zhen Ming shouted bitterly: "Bastard! At the moment of the great enemy, he still has the heart to go out and have fun, and tell me the truth, if there is a violation of military law, this general will never spare it! ”

Under questioning, I learned that the generals who now command the battlefield are all relatives of the clansmen who have just been appointed by Wang Shichong, who neither know how to fight nor are they willing to go to the battlefield, and they sneak out to visit the flower building every night to drink flower wine, and they don't care if Luoyang City can hold them.

These generals of the Wei Mansion have suffered a lot of the arrogance of these Wang Shichong's relatives on weekdays, and when they saw a famous and prestigious secret guard general who dared to have a hard encounter with Wang Shichong, they finally couldn't help but vomit bitter water.

These relatives of Wang Shichong, who are in important positions, do not know what war is at all, relying on a hot mind, whimsy, blind command, regardless of the life and death of the soldiers, obviously the defenders of the city, as soon as the generals drink alcohol, as soon as the alcohol is in their brains, their ideas become wild, and they order 3,000 death squads to go out of the city and attack the enemy camp at every turn.

In fact, this kind of behavior is well applied at night, but it can also become a magic weapon to win, but it is a pity that these Wang Shichong relatives who rely on hot-headedness and slap their butts to make decisions have no concept of attacking the camp at all, and others attack the enemy camp at night, at least they also pick a night when the wind is dark and windy, and the night is stormy, in order to cover their whereabouts, but these generals do not understand the art of war and do not listen to any advice, specially select the bright moon hanging, the sky is clear, fanfare, chanting poems to see them off, the result is often an order to go out of the city, throw away the armor and flee back, Sometimes there was a total annihilation, but these generals did not report it, and the fallen soldiers did not even receive a pension.

Some people were unwilling to do such stupid things and died in vain, so they escaped from the barracks overnight, only to be caught by the law enforcement team, whipped and beheaded, and later, there were more and more deserters, and many even joined the camp of the Wagang Army and turned against Luoyang.

Wang Shichong's method of dealing with this is very simple, catch the relatives of the defected soldiers and generals, behead them on the head of Luoyang City, and try to deter those Luoyang soldiers who want to defect, so that people inside and outside the city are panicked and resentful.

The reason why Luoyang East City was breached was precisely because of the stupid command of these generals, and the soldiers defending the city all coped with things, had no intention of defending, and people wanted to flee.

The most hateful thing is that sometimes the soldiers finally mustered up their morale to fight bravely for the family in Luoyang City, repelled the attack of the Wagang army, and suffered heavy casualties, but the generals under the command turned around to report to the emperor to invite merit, took all the credit on their bodies, and added officials to knighthood.

Forget it, the command mistake led to a fiasco, but these generals shirked their responsibilities and randomly found a scapegoat to behead the matter.

The soldiers all dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and no one was willing to contribute to the defense of the city.

Hearing this, Zhen Mingku had already roughly understood the reason why Luoyang City was broken so quickly.

If it weren't for the fact that most of these soldiers had parents and wives in Luoyang City, and their loyal and patriotic thinking since childhood firmly imprisoned their actions, they would have rebelled.

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Although Wang Shichong was nepotistic and did not care about the life or death of the soldiers, it became a great opportunity for Zhen to win the hearts of the army.

After listening to the grievances of these soldiers, the first thing Zhen Minghard did was to immediately send hundreds of elite soldiers of the Dark Guard Army to go to the willow alleys of Luoyang Flower Street overnight, and capture these generals who were having fun in the good rooms back to the barracks one by one, stripped them naked, hung them all up, and whipped a hundred in front of all the soldiers, beating them to the point that they were completely skinned, and screamed.

The officers and men in the army were all so excited that their eyes were full of tears, it was rare for someone to dare to avenge their grievances, and to fight against the invincible Wang Shichong's relatives, and I don't know who shouted a secret guard general mighty, and the echo in the army was like thunder, high-pitched and straight into the sky.

Zhen Mingku took advantage of the situation to ascend and shouted, showing his determination to live and die with the city, encouraging the soldiers to cheer up, recapture the city tower, and drive the Wagang army out of the city.

He also said that he would record the merits of each of them in the account, and when the enemy retreated in the future, he would personally perform meritorious deeds in front of the emperor, and reward them for meritorious deeds, with the guarantee of the general of the secret guard, and the soldiers all fought bravely to kill the enemy and shoulder their respective responsibilities.

The rewards and punishments of the general of the secret guard were clear, first of all, Wang Shichong's people were stabbed, and the military law was enforced, and for a time, the morale of the army was unprecedentedly high.

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The process of recapturing the Luoyang East City Tower took only three days.

The Wagang army had to withdraw from Luoyang City, and the Luoyang East City Tower fell into the hands of the defenders.

The process of capturing the city tower is incredible, if you don't see it with your own eyes, no one will believe it, the Dark Guard's sharp weapon to repel the Wagang Army is actually 30 strange water-absorbing and spraying machines, which the Dark Guard soldiers call "water dragon cannons".