Chapter 339

After some preparation, a few days passed.

In 190 ad, on August 10, the first year of the Han Dynasty, Huangfu Chaobo stood on the commanding platform of the camp outside Luoyang. Looking at the more than 10000 troops passing by, he said in his heart, "the battle of supporting and controlling Luoyang has begun!"

Huangfu Chaobo, as the commander-in-chief, didn't make himself the commander-in-chief of the expedition. Instead, all the soldiers were under the command of Huang Zhong. Huangfu Chaobo knew in his heart that it was better to give them to professionals when it comes to marching and fighting. Originally, Huangfu Chaobo was not ready to come, but Lou GUI meant that he, as the commander-in-chief, asked others to help him, but he didn't go with others It's not right for the Marquis to say that, so Huangfu Chaobo only accompanied him throughout the whole journey, so even Dian Wei rushed to Huang Zhong to lead the troops. In the past, all the Marquis just cheered, and they would not really take part in the war. According to Lou GUI, this is "taking advantage of the situation"!

Luoyang is less than 50 miles away from Yanshi, and then 50 miles to the East is Gong county. These two counties are on the way from Luoyang to Guandong. If they are not taken, Huangfu Chaobo will be blocked by the two cities if he wants to transport materials from Hulao pass to Luoyang City. Therefore, these two cities are the first to be taken by Huangfu Chaobo when he controls Luoyang. Huang Zhong's actual available soldiers for this expedition are only the 6000 intermediate soldiers. However, according to the information that the cavalry have inquired back these days, the two cities should be occupied by the rebels, and the number should be 3000 to 4000. After the army set out, Huang Zhong didn't rush. According to his normal speed, he should start in the morning and arrive outside Yanshi in the afternoon. First, he scattered all the 3000 Xiliang cavalry. Every move within 20 li of the surrounding area was quickly reflected in Huang Zhong's hands. The army was led by intermediate soldiers, followed by 6000 junior soldiers, and then by tens of thousands of four route princes. As for the siege equipment, Huang Zhong only asked the craftsmen of Luoyang City to make hundreds of ordinary siege ladders. Yanshi and Gong county are small counties, and the city walls are less than two feet high. In addition, the city guards are only ordinary rebels. According to the news from the denouncer, there are only less than a thousand archers among the rebels, and they have to guard the four walls separately. Therefore, it is very light for Huang Zhong to fight these two cities alone Matsu can take it, but it will cause a lot of casualties. Now that there are tens of thousands of troops supporting the situation, it is impossible to say that we can still persuade them to surrender directly.

The army arrived outside Yanshi at about three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day. Huang Zhong did not arrange to camp, but directly raised his troops to attack the city. According to his arrangement, two deputy generals each LED 3000 junior soldiers to attack the north and South gates. Among the 3000 cavalry soldiers, 2000 were stationed outside the east gate, and the other 1000 were cruising outside the whole battlefield. While outside the west gate, Dianwei led two shield soldiers to attack the city directly with the Siege ladder. He personally commanded 2000 archers to escort the formation. As for the long spearmen, he protected the 2000 archers in the main formation. Of course, this was just his habit Besides, there are tens of thousands of princes standing behind the siege army. It took nearly half an hour for all the soldiers and horses around to be in place. Huangfu Chaobo and Kong Yu were together, watching Huang Zhong arrange his troops. For marching and fighting, Huangfu Chaobo had no experience at all. It was better to watch professionals do it honestly.

After all the soldiers and horses were in place, Huang Zhong gently mixed the reins of the horse. Huang fat horse walked to the place outside the gate of the city, stopped the reins of the horse, and said to the guard soldiers on the upper floor of the city, "who is the commander of the city? Come forward and answer quickly!"

Then a young general came to the gate of the city and said, "I'm Li Jin, the chief General of the city. I don't know why the general should invade my city."

"Ha ha... Your city? You're not afraid of the wind? Listen to all the people in the city. At the order of Huangfu Chaobo, the general of Henan Yin Luoyang, who wanted to steal, he led a hundred thousand troops to take over the city. If you wait for a pillar of incense to surrender, you can take it lightly. Otherwise, the army will attack the City and will not be spared. " After that, he said nothing more. He aimed his bow and arrow at the flag of the tower. The rebel generals on the tower only heard a buzzing sound in their ears, and then heard the flagpole behind them crack from the middle, and the flagpole several feet high fell down directly. The crowd turned pale, thinking that it was a good thing that the arrow was aimed at the flagpole. If it was aimed at them, they would not be able to survive. The rebels on the wall of the city were even more frightened, and their morale was even lower.

"Will... general... You said A young general beside Li Jin shivered;

after looking at the performance of the people in the city wall and the army of several miles outside the city, Li Jin sighed. He was originally a captain of the Xiliang army. When Dong Zhuo's army entered the west, he intercepted the army of Guandong Marquis with General Xu Rong. He was going to wipe out Cao Cao's pursuers, but he didn't expect that General Xu Rong was suddenly killed by a cavalry The captured army was broken by the Kanto army because it lost its command. After breaking through the encirclement, they took their men and gathered up the defeated soldiers. In the end, there were more than 700 people. However, they lost their way in the mountains and inadvertently ran into a mountain stronghold. After breaking the stronghold, they occupied it. However, they did not want to stay in the mountains, so they had to bring all the strength of the stronghold into the army The old and the weak of the stronghold all came down the mountain. They didn't expect that after they turned out, they went to the side of the city (actually, the system automatically refreshed, but NPC's memory has all these antecedents and consequences). At that time, the city gate was opened. After they led the soldiers into the city, they found that the city had been empty for a long time, but they found food and grass in the barracks in the county So he took the lead to occupy the county. He also took the post of county magistrate, and all the people of Shanzhai were settled in the county.Although he has the advantage of the city, Li Jin knows that he only has 600 real soldiers under his command. The other 2000 soldiers are just bandits who have just transferred from the military camp. The other 5000 are old and young Confucians in the mountain stronghold. He wants to defend tens of thousands of Imperial troops outside the city with his 3000 disabled soldiers, which is just a fool's dream. In addition, the general shoots down the flag with one arrow, It's demoralizing. Thinking of this, Li Jin said, "come on, open the gate of the city, and all the generals will come down with me."

Seeing Li Jin willing to surrender, the surrounding people were relieved. He quickly asked the soldiers to open the gate of the city, and followed Li Jin out of the city to surrender.

"Boom

Looking at the slowly opened gate, Huangfu Chaobo was stunned. "That's all right?" Pointing to the city gate that is being opened, Huangfu Chaobo road;

Kong Yu and Tao Qian all looked at each other and laughed, saying: "otherwise, Chaobo thought it would be better. With the strength of tens of thousands of troops, could this small county still want to be a Mantis arm?"