There are nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses in the Yuzhou military camp, among which the real combat effectiveness is the army of Zhennanhou's cronies, and the number of soldiers and horses is about 30,000. The remaining 20,000 horses are more responsible for the logistics and supply of transportation, mostly civilians, but they are also burdened with combat tasks in wartime, which is also the basic habit of the Northern Dynasties, and the army is soldiers during the war. However, the garrison was obviously inferior in training and combat quality, and this time the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou led the troops to Luoyang to press, and did not use more than 20,000 people and garrisons.

As soon as the ugly hour arrived, there was a change in the direction of the south of the city. Looking down from the castle tower, although you can't see the specific situation outside the castle clearly, you can also feel that someone is approaching the direction of the city wall. The soldiers in charge of the night vigil on the castle tower immediately reported the situation, and before the news could be transmitted to the castle tower, these soldiers had been killed by a group of soldiers who suddenly came from behind. Then the city gate was taken over and replaced.

An experienced general whispered: "Tell me to go down, and you won't open the city gate without my permission." Today's big event has been accomplished, and everyone is a hero! ”

The order was passed down, and the castle tower looked still calm, as if nothing had happened. But after the people under his hand counted it, he sent a message back: "General, the number of soldiers and horses defending the city is wrong. ”

The general's face was gloomy, but he didn't think much about it. After investigating the situation in detail, I learned that it was because someone in the city had caused a riot for no reason, and some of the guards at the city gate were recruited to quell it.

At this time, in the yamen of the military station in the city, there was also a group of people who suddenly came out, and this group of people rushed directly into the yamen of the military station regardless of anything else. When I got inside, I realized that there was no one at all. was about to evacuate, but saw that arrows were shooting out of the surroundings, and there were no more than a few, so they wanted to break through, but they killed a team of men and horses from outside the military station and strangled them. The group quickly entered the military station. It took less than a quarter of an hour to clean up the corpses and bloodstains. When it's ready, it's as if nothing happened.

More or less changes are taking place in many parts of the city, and some people of unknown origin rush out, some to create chaos, and more to seize control of the important city defense yamen. This contention continued for more than an hour. By the end of the ugly hour, it seemed that everything had subsided. Outside the moat in the south of Luoyang City, there is already a light, which shows that the men and horses in the Zhennan Hou military camp are already waiting outside the city.

"Open the gates!" The general who was in charge of taking over the south gate of the city immediately gave orders to his subordinates.

As he gave his order, the gates slowly opened. In order to prevent fraud, the soldiers and horses of the Nanwangfu outside the city first sent a team of more than 1,000 people into the city. To prevent early detection. The centaurs entered the city in silence, and a qiē looked like a silent pantomime.

"Why didn't you see General Xu enter the city?" The general searched in the crowd for a long time, and suddenly realized that something was wrong. But before he could continue asking, someone suddenly grabbed him from behind, and the next moment, the long sword had already cut his throat, and he could no longer make any sound.

"Do things!" A group of people were dressed in the same clothes as the soldiers of Nanwangfu, but they had stepped up to the city tower earlier.

Suddenly, a red light shot into the sky. Then, the entire inside and outside of the castle tower was suddenly lit up with red light. Many people who don't know why are looking up at the countless red lights rising into the sky. After a moment of brilliance, shouts of killing came from the castle tower.

"Oh no, I've been tricked!" This is the first thought in the hearts of all the soldiers of Nanwangfu.

However, the current situation seems to be very favorable to the Nanwang army, and some of the men and horses have already entered the city gate, and have already reached the city gate, but have not yet reached the city tower. However, at this speed of travel, it should not take long to occupy the city tower, and if you can quickly send troops, then you can take advantage of the unpreparedness of the inner city to enter the inner city of Luoyang in less than half an hour.

At this time, it was a choice for Xu Yan, the general of the Southern Wangfu who was in charge of leading the troops, whether to withdraw the troops or continue the attack. Win in the face of danger.

Xu Yan had been instructed by thousands of people before Zhennan Hou returned to Yuzhou, he must not act rashly, the Dongwang Army is well-trained and will win every battle in the past two years, even if it is only a group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals in the Dongwang Army who are guarding Luoyang City now, but there is the depth of Luoyang City Tower and moat, which is enough to hold Luoyang. But Xu Yan still has the determination to make contributions in his heart, although he is a general raised by Huang Shilang, the Marquis of Zhennan, but he is always under the haze of the Marquis of Zhennan, if he wants to go further, he can only win higher achievements on the battlefield, not be a general.

"Speed up into the city!" Xu Yan gave the order, and then the army continued to enter the city.

However, the falling rocks flying from the city tower have proved that there are still a large number of soldiers and horses defending the city of the Eastern King Army on the city tower, and they have a certain degree of defense. If you enter the city so hard, you will definitely suffer heavy losses for the Nanwang army.

The army of the Southern Kings, who entered the city first, had already gained a firm foothold, and they launched the first round of onslaught on the tower from the inside. The cavalry did not have the slightest role in the struggle for the control of the city gate, and according to the order issued by the commander Xu Yan, the main task of the cavalry was to raid the inner city while there was not much defense in the city. Because only by entering the inner city of Luoyang can it be regarded as close to the power core of the entire Wei Dynasty. The East Palace, the Imperial Palace, and the Imperial Palace are both within the inner city.

After the cavalry quickly came out, more soldiers and horses came in and out of the city gates. Although Xu Yan has not yet entered the city, he has also settled down a little after learning about the situation inside, and now it seems that even if the Eastern Wang Army is on guard, it is also on guard afterwards, and now the Southern Wang Army has entered the city, and the resistance of the Eastern Wang Army seems to be very weak, and it seems that the overall situation has been decided.

"Xu Shuai, in this situation, it is better to withdraw the troops as soon as possible." A general named Sun Ke reminded, "If you rush into the city, even if you capture the outer city of Luoyang, our army's logistics and grass will inevitably be cut off, and at that time, ...... I'm afraid it won't last long. ”

Xu Yan nodded slightly, he didn't think about what Sun Ke mentioned, and as the coach, he naturally had to predict what would happen in the future. However, judging from the current situation of the East Wang Army, the outer city of Luoyang can no longer be defended, and the inner city has a good chance to conquer it in one night. If the grain and grass are transferred immediately at this time, there will be no problem, even if the inner city cannot be captured, Zhennanhou will not sit idly by when he learns the news, and then Zhennanhou will come with 100,000 troops from Yuzhou, and the outer city of Luoyang has been down. When the time comes, it will be a natural success.

"General Sun, I'm bothering you to go back and allocate grain and grass. By the way, introduce the follow-up soldiers and horses into the city! Xu Yan said, he had already ridden his horse to the direction of the Luoyang City Gate, at this time the city tower had fallen into a chaotic battle, and the situation in the city was much better, and it was convenient for him to enter the city earlier to preside over the overall situation.

Sun Ke took the order and left. He took some of his men and horses back to the Yuzhou military camp sixty miles away. The number of men and horses he led was only six or seven hundred, and before he was halfway, he had been ambushed by the Eastern King's army, and the whole army was annihilated.

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The battle for the castle tower was going on, and by mid-dawn, the battle for the castle gate had become one-sided. As the commander of the Southern Wang Army, Xu Yan had already climbed the city tower in person, and at this time, there were only sporadic battles left on the city tower, and the overall situation was decided. Xu Yan was most concerned about the people who were sent into the inner gate of Luoyang in the palace first, and there was no news at this time.

"Non-stop. Attack the inner gate! ”

Xu Yan immediately gave an order, he didn't care about where the Dongwang Army came from, and now the most important thing is that the Nanwang Army has taken control of the south gate of Luoyang, and it has actually entered the city, and the rest of the things are much more convenient. What he led today was 30,000 elite soldiers, and the news he had received before was that the defenders in the city totaled only 10,000 or 20,000, and they were all old and weak. Not to mention launching a counterattack, even if you stick to it, you can only wait to die.

Just when he was about to personally lead his troops and horses into the inner city of Luoyang. The herald outside still brought a piece of news that shocked Xu Yan: "...... Soldiers and horses of unknown origin have been found outside the city! The number is about 1,000 or more. ”

After the garrison was outside Luoyang, the Nanwang Army also arranged a fairly complete intelligence monitoring system, in order to have a clear view of the surrounding areas of Luoyang. Although the soldiers and horses that suddenly appeared now seemed to be about a thousand people, it was also a dangerous signal that there was an enemy in their rear. Consider Xu Yan. Now that Luoyang City is too busy to take care of itself, it should not take the initiative to send soldiers and horses, and it is too late in time. Most likely, there is another way of people who covet Luoyang, that is, Su Tingxia's department, which has just withdrawn from the Bohai Kingdom.

"Close the gates. Continue to march. Be sure to take the Luoyang Palace before dawn! ”

Xu Yan already felt that Qianqiu's achievements were in one fell swoop, the city was not well guarded, and there were his people as the inner line, and now that the outer city had been conquered, as long as the inner city of Luoyang was taken again, that qiē should be decided. At that time, the East King and the Empress will be unable to fly, and he can already imagine what it would be like for the palace to fall and then he can sit on the dragon chair. Although he has no ambition to be the emperor, the whereabouts of the king of the south are unknown at the moment, and he has the elite soldiers of the king of the south, even if he ascends the throne, it is possible.

The soldiers and horses continued to approach the direction of the inner city gate of Luoyang, in order to strike a blow, Xu Yan didn't want to leave too many soldiers and horses to guard the Luoyang city gate that he had just taken. But he also knew that there were also a lot of people and horses of the Dongwang Army in the outer city of Luoyang, and there were also unidentified soldiers and horses outside the city, so it was best to stabilize the defense of the city gate, so that even if he could not enter the palace city, he could still leave a way out.

A vicious battle unfolded in the outer city of Luoyang, there are three inner gates between the inner city of Luoyang and the outer city in the south of the city, although the soldiers and horses are not as much as the outer city, the city wall and the city tower are not as dangerous as the outer city wall, and there is no moat as a barrier, but just rely on the cavalry to break through, it is obviously impossible to attack the strictly guarded city gate. The cavalry who arrived in advance suffered a big loss without defense, thinking that they could pass the guò order to let the soldiers guarding the inner city open the city gate and surrender under fear, but when they showed their identity, the people in the city not only did not open the city gate to surrender, but simply responded with arrows, because there was no moat protection, the cavalry of the Southern King Army was very close to the city gate, and only a few rounds of arrows, the cavalry team was seriously injured. In desperation, the cavalry could only temporarily retreat and seek a second round of attack.

I thought that the soldiers and horses of the East King Army in the inner city would take the initiative to attack after gaining power, which was also the wishful thinking of the Southern King Army. If you take the initiative to attack, it will be difficult to engage the Nanwang army head-on with the situation of infantry in the city.

To the surprise of the Southern Wangjun, there were no soldiers and horses coming out of the front gate, but they were attacked from behind. After all, the outer city of Luoyang is not a wilderness outside the city, how many people and horses are here, and the connection between the outer city and the inner city is closer to street fighting, even if the soldiers and horses killed are infantry, it is not enough for the brave and good cavalry of the Southern King Army.

For a while, there was chaos outside the inner city gate of Luoyang, and the cavalry was originally waving troops at a city gate to prepare to break through, but they didn't expect that this would also give the Dongwang army a chance to gather and annihilate. At the beginning, the cavalry of the Southern King Army was very wolf to deal with the unknown number of soldiers of the Eastern King Army, but when they found that the number of soldiers and horses of the Eastern King Army rushing out from behind them was not large, the cavalry of the Southern King Army had already stabilized their position, and under some pursuit, the Eastern King Army had basically disappeared. In the follow-up, Xu Yan's Chinese soldiers and horses have completed the defense of the outer gate of Luoyang, and Xu Yan himself has personally arrived at the outer gate of Luoyang with his soldiers and horses.

"Why haven't you taken the gates?"

After Xu Yan arrived and saw the corpses all over the ground, his heart was on fire. It has been an hour and a half since the army entered the city, and it will be dawn in less than an hour, and in this case, it has not yet entered the inner city, and the battle will not be easy to fight after dawn. And now there is almost no shaking on the side of the city gate, and the main battlefield has been moved to the streets and alleys three hundred steps away from the city gate, and it is difficult to take the city gate if it goes on like this.

"Siege!"

Xu Yan gave an order, and the soldiers and horses began to approach the direction of the inner city gate, and this time it was not from one city gate to attack the city, after all, there were three inner city gates, one could not be shaken, and there were two gates.

But now they have encountered the biggest problem, in the case of the East Palace, the people who are connected with them in the city gate cannot easily open the city gate to greet them, in the case of only storming the city gate, the lack of siege baggage is highlighted. Not to mention ladders and siege vehicles, even rolling logs and even strong crossbows, this army is very lacking. After all, the Nanwang army has been guarding the Yuzhou Pass for a long time, and most of the conflicts with the soldiers and horses of the Southern Qi are also stubborn or carried out on the plains, and the Nanwang army has not taken the initiative to attack the city for many years.

"Xu Shuai, now ...... I'm afraid it's not easy to attack the inner city! Adjutant General Xu Liang stepped forward to play. Xu Liang is Xu Yan's younger brother and his cronies, how can it be so easy to attack the city without an important siege at the moment?

And now there are such worries in the army, and many people are already afraid of war.

"Disturb the morale of the army, slash!"

Xu Yan knew that this was the time for Liwei, and it was also the time for the whole army to be united. The only way is to make an example of him, and the person he kills is not more suitable for his own brother Xu Liang. (To be continued......)