Chapter Five Hundred and Thirtieth Stalemate

After a few days of adaptation, the soldiers of the Nanyang Army became more and more proficient at coordinating the siege. Soon, under the cover of the archers and the protection of the sword and shield soldiers, the siege ladder quickly approached the city wall, and then quickly assembled it and put it on the top of the city. After fixing it, the Nanyang soldiers who had already prepared bit their ring-shoulders with their mouths, held the shield with one hand, and tilted it above his head, hiding his body under the shield as much as possible, while holding the shield with the other hand. Quickly climb up the ladder. Before climbing halfway, I heard the voice from above the city wall.

"The Rolling Stones are ready, cast!"

The siege soldiers stopped immediately, sticking their bodies as close as possible to the ladder, forming an angle between the shield in their hands and the ladder, hiding their bodies under the shield as much as possible, and felt a huge force smashing them as soon as they got close. On top of his own shield, but fortunately, because the angle between the shield and the ladder is relatively small, the boulder at the top of the city rolled down along the slope of the shield. Even so, the Nanyang soldier still felt his blood pumping up in his chest. However, he couldn't take care of that much now, while suppressing the turbulent Qi in his chest, he climbed up with hands and feet, and quickly climbed towards the top of the city.

As more and more siege ladders climbed to the top of the city, more and more Nanyang soldiers attacked the top of the city along the ladders. The fierce battle at the top of the city began between the two armies. After half an hour of fierce fighting, Ji Ling saw that his soldiers could not gain a firm foothold on the top of the city, so he gave the order to call for gold. Afterwards, the soldiers who heard the order retreated like a tide.

At the end of the day, like this, several rounds of attacks were repelled by the Luoyang defenders. Until the evening, the Nanyang army could not surpass the city for a quarter of an hour. Then, amidst the sound of gold, the two princes ended the day However, the army did not withdraw from the city. Instead, they set up a temporary camp in Nei Tengye, the gate of the outer city, controlled the outer city wall in their own hands, and then waited for the next day's battle.

In the following time, both the Nanyang Army and the Hanoi Army were attacking the city with all their strength. Unfortunately, in the face of the Luoyang defenders who were shrinking their defenses, the armies of the two princes could not take advantage of it at all. Two days later, Ji Ling of Luoyang finally got the news that Luyang had fallen. After discussing with Shu Zhao, who joined the army, Ji Ling decided to take a break and fight with all his strength. Unfortunately, Nanyang, who sent all the heavy infantry in his hand, was on the field. In the end, the army returned without success on the battlefield, and even the heavy infantry lost more than 3,000. In desperation, Ji Ling had no choice but to order the soldiers to rest for a whole day on the pretext that the soldiers were tired and unable to fight again.

At this time, at Hangu Pass, although Lu Bu's army was attacking with all its strength, Hangu Pass with Zaoyi and Dianwei sitting in it was still as stable as Mount Tai. In addition, the news of Lu Yang's fall had spread to Lu Bu's army yesterday. Surprised, he quickly called all the generals to discuss the matter. At this time, there were only generals in Lu Bu's army. Chen Gong was still borrowing food in Hanoi and had not returned. Suddenly, when he learned that Lu Yang had fallen and the Nanyang army's rear was blocked, all the generals asked Lu Bu to cease fighting for several days on the grounds that the soldiers were exhausted. On the next day, a decision will be made when the battle in Luyang or the battle in Luoyang is resolved.

In fact, it's not that the generals in the army shied away. It has been more than ten days since Lv Bu's army launched an attack on Hangu Pass. Lv Bu's army has lost 35,000 soldiers. Originally, Lv Bu's army only had 80,000 troops. Finally, in the middle of the day, Zhang Liao recruited another 10,000 troops in several counties, but so far there are only 55,000 soldiers. There are 35,000 cavalry among them, so if calculated, there are only 20,000 infantry left. This is why all the generals strongly opposed Lu Bu's continued attack on Hangu Pass.

You know, at the most, Wei Xu had 15,000 infantry under his command, but now there are only 5,000 left, let alone other generals. Everyone who is a general wants to have as many soldiers as possible. . In the end, under the persuasion of Zhang Liao's generals, Lu Bu had no choice but to order a truce for a few days, and the strange thing is that Hangu Pass actually stopped the war before Luoyang City. As a result, the battlefield in Luoyang fell into a rare calm, but the battle in Luyang County was about to start.

Let's rewind time a few days,

Going back to September 5th, the eyes returned to the Longhua cavalry led by Zhao Yun again. After I dispatched troops from Longhua two days ago, Zhao Yun led the army, except for stopping in Tuyin City to transfer Baima Yicong, at other times, the Longhua cavalry was on the road. Along the way, 6,000 knights and 20,000 war horses left Youbeiping, crossed Yuyang and Guangyang, entered Jizhou from Zhuojun, then passed through Zhongshan to Changshan, and finally entered Zhaojia Village in the middle of the night two days later.

Although Luoyang had already been notified, the 20,000 horses still surprised everyone in Zhaojia Village. As soon as they entered the village, Zhao Yun ordered the cavalry to rest, and at the same time, let the cavalry of Zhaojia Village feed the 20,000 horses. , Prepare to continue marching the next day. Soldiers and horses could rest, but Zhao Yun couldn't. After chatting briefly with his brother and sister, Zhao Yun picked up the battle report and arrangement of Luoyang handed over by Zhao Feng and looked carefully at it against the map. Knowing the urgency of the matter, I didn't disturb him any more, but quietly looked at Zhao Yun from the sidelines.

While looking at the map and the battle report, Zhao Yun asked Zhao Yu about the situation in Luoyang from time to time, because after all, Zhao Yu had stayed in Luoyang for such a long time, and also participated in the last defensive battle, so he must know something about the situation in Luoyang However, Zhao Yun didn't even know that he met Zhao Yu, so Zhao Yun simply asked someone to call the person in charge of the Shadow Guard's Zhao Family Village over. At this time, Zhang Yi had successfully arrived in Yecheng, and negotiated with Han Fu that Jizhou would dispatch 20,000 soldiers from various counties. In order not to arouse the vigilance of Zhang Yang and Yuan Shao's forces, the soldiers went to Liyang to gather to listen to the order and prepare to be dispatched by Liyang's white horse. The Hong Kong water army cooperated with Zhao Yun's army.

Even if the hostile forces hear the news, they will think that the Jizhou army sent soldiers to Luoyang to support them. Now the army has gathered towards Liyang, and it is only waiting for Zhao Yun to lead the army to join them. Moreover, in the past few days, the Shadow Guard has adjusted the situation in Hanoi clearly. What makes Huangfu Chaobo feel strange is that the cities in Hanoi are obviously divided into two parts. In addition to the 20,000 soldiers, only Huai County has 20,000 soldiers, and the other cities have only 2,000 soldiers. And Wenxian, Pinggao, Zhouxian and other cities west of Hanoi have soldiers ranging from 5,000 to 10,000.

Although it is not clear what the reason is, this situation is exactly what Huangfu Chaobo wanted. After all, if you go all the way west from Jizhou, if there are more cities along the way, the general rules are not good. After clearing Dangyin, Zhao Yun's army can directly rush into the side of Huai County.