On the chaotic battlefield, Zhang Fang laughed cruelly.
When he first saw Shangguan Si's general flag, he almost thought he had seen it wrong.
Who is Shangguan, worthy of commanding tens of thousands of troops?
I still remember that at the end of last year, Shangguan, who was an aide to the Yi Mansion, had been transferred to the Forbidden Army and was known as a "general". However, he never led more than 5,000 troops. His command was clumsy, and he was repeatedly seized of opportunities and beaten to disgrace.
His ability is mediocre.
Just now they urgently interrogated the prisoners, and found out that the Shangguan had already made the decision in the city. This made Zhang Fang even more dumbfounded.
At the same time, there was also a sense of ambition. Maybe they could send out cavalry to seize the door first with lightning speed, and try to see if they could capture Luoyang.
Once the thought comes to this, I can't suppress it no matter what.
The generals were even more excited and clamored to enter the city.
They care about the money of rich families.
They want the treasures in the palace.
They even wanted to see the noble ladies who were once unattainable, shedding tears and being ravaged beneath them.
Just thinking about it makes me so excited that I can hardly control myself.
The robbery at the beginning of the year ended hastily, which was not a happy outcome!
As a result, the proposal to seize the city was approved by all members without any objection.
Zhang Fang didn't do anything, so he sent Zhi Fu to gather his cavalry and rush toward Daxia Gate.
At that time, the fastest runners had already rushed to the city gate. The gatekeepers cocked their crossbows and all looked at Shangguan Pu.
This person is a younger brother of the Shangguansi clan. He is waiting inside the gate with two thousand people, ready to respond at any time.
Shangguan has made it very clear that the city gate cannot be closed until he comes back, lest he "be harmed by villains".
Shangguan Pu understood and knew that his brother did not completely trust Wang Yan, Mi Huang, Man Fen and others, and was worried that they would take the opportunity to close the city gate and seize Luoyang.
He resolutely carried out the order. When everyone looked at him anxiously and even warned him, he turned a deaf ear and just looked outside the city.
The rumble of horse hooves gradually approached.
Anyone with some experience knows that it was the enemy who was showing great victory and sent out cavalry to try to seize the door.
"General, if you are overwhelmed by defeated troops and cannot maintain any formation, it will be chaos..." Someone couldn't help but stand up.
Shangguan Pu hesitated slightly.
During this moment of hesitation, the first group of defeated soldiers had already rushed in, scrambling for the road, and almost crowded the city gate.
"General, we can't close the door anymore, let's fire arrows." Someone else urged.
Shangguan Pu's face was extremely tangled and he could not make up his mind.
After just a moment of delay, the surging troops had already overwhelmed the archers and fled backwards.
"It's over..." Shangguan Pu's mind went blank. Surrounded by his own soldiers, he stumbled back.
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When Shao Xun saw Mi Huang, his three thousand soldiers had already been prepared and waiting for orders in the camp.
"Shangguan saw that the enemy had come from afar and was outnumbered, so he bullied them. He led more than 10,000 men on the spot and left the city through Daxia Gate to fight with the thieves. It looked like he was going to be defeated. I don't know how many people can come back. "Xiao Langjun quickly led his troops out of the city and arrived at Daxia Gate to defend it." Mi Huang said in a hurry, sweating profusely.
"Why don't you close the city gate?" Shao Xun asked while giving orders to the officers to form a team.
The three thousand soldiers, who had been ready for the battle, jumped up, organized into groups in units of buildings, and then left the city in batches.
"Shangguan Si's people are guarding the Daxia Gate and cannot close it." In fact, Mi Huang had really considered this issue and concluded that Shangguan Si was not that stupid and had already made arrangements.
"What do you want the governor to do?" Shao Xun, already neatly dressed and wearing a red forehead, asked solemnly.
"Langjun can make his own decision." Mi Huang said decisively: "You go to Daxiamen first, and I will supervise the rest to follow."
"Okay." Shao Xun originally wanted to ask him if he dared to take a risk. When Mi Huang said this, he stopped talking nonsense. Surrounded by the soldiers of the teaching team, he got on his horse and rushed out.
Jinyong City is very close to Daxiamen, and we will arrive in a moment.
Shao Xun's expression also changed when he saw the defeated troops rushing towards the city in a chaotic manner.
The plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and now all the plans were in vain. We had to stop the chaos first.
"Crossbowmen come forward, shoot!" He gave the order decisively.
The former owner of the building, Li Zhong, realized the seriousness of the problem.
Without Shao Xun's instructions, he immediately ordered the crossbowmen to step forward and fire crossbow bolts to stop the retreating troops.
At the same time, the archers expanded to two hundred were divided into three parts. One hundred people cooperated with the crossbowmen at the front. The remaining hundred people divided into two groups and tried to climb to the top of the buildings on both sides to shoot from a high position.
This can not only stop the rout, but also kill the enemy troops that may follow.
His mind is very clear and he can draw inferences from one instance, which is very rare.
"Yu An!" Shao Xun shouted.
"Servant is here."
"Take a hundred people, search for Roman chariots and bullock carts, and drag them all to the street to build a fortification."
"As commanded."
After ordering Yu An, Shao Xun called the messenger and ordered him to return to Jinyong City immediately and ask Governor Mi to come with his horse.
After everything was arranged, he drew his heavy sword and ordered the sword and shield bearers to take the lead, followed by the spear bearers, to prepare for the attack.
Chen Yougen was wearing heavy armor and surrounded Shao Xun with a hundred elite soldiers of the teaching team.
In all the battles in Luoyang, Shao Sima was injured in five places, which was shocking.
This cannot go on.
Who knows whether a stray arrow will take away Shao Sima's life next time? This was unacceptable to him. He was still waiting for Shao Sima to fulfill his promise and allocate land to his brothers.
"Woo..." A dull horn sounded.
What followed was a dense barrage of arrows.
The defeated soldiers who were rushing back fell to the ground like wormwood encountering a strong wind.
Crossbowmen are generally old soldiers.
They watched all this with indifference and kept shooting.
On both sides of them, a group of infantrymen came forward with spears, stabbing to death the defeated soldiers who were lucky enough to survive, and delaying the footsteps of the defeated soldiers, giving the crossbowmen more time.
After a while, some more archers climbed onto the roof. They were busy with their bows and arrows, and occasionally shot to defeat the soldiers, but most of the time they still stared at the city gate.
"Mi Huang, you will not die well." Shangguan Pu shouted in grief and anger among the defeated soldiers.
Shao Xun noticed him, handed the epee into Chen Yougen's hand, and then picked up his bow and arrow.
"There are no good people in Luoyang." He sighed softly.
The bow string was loosened, and the long arrow shot through the air, hitting Shangguan Puxian's gate.
The rain of arrows is still being fired, corpses are scattered all over the imperial street, and blood is flowing like a river.
The person in front fell down, and the person behind stepped on the corpse and stumbled forward.
Some people were carried away by long arrows and survived for a while. They still struggled to get up and tried to escape.
Someone was crawling on the ground, wailing and crying, begging his brothers in the army to let him pass.
There were also people who crashed into houses on both sides in an attempt to escape.
But it was no use. The crossbowmen were just like enforcing the night management discipline of the military camp. Anyone who ran around and collided without distinction between friend and foe would be shot.
People are fragile, and the blood will eventually run out.
After being attacked head-on by crossbowmen, resulting in hundreds of casualties, the defeated soldiers finally woke up and stopped rushing back.
Shao Xun called the messenger and gave some instructions.
After a while, more than a dozen people climbed onto the roofs on both sides and shouted loudly.
"Running around, hitting and killing without mercy!"
"Return and kill the enemy, get a super reward at the festival level!"
"The cavalry is coming in a hurry, but the horse power is low!"
"The streets are narrow, perfect for killing enemies!"
Under their repeated shouts, the defeated soldiers looked at me and I looked at you, at a loss.
In the end, some veterans of the Chinese army gritted their teeth and turned around. The spearmen took the initiative to step forward. The rest cooperated with each other and quietly waited for the judgment of fate.
The defeated soldiers who were not from the Chinese army were infected by them, and they also carefully picked up weapons on the ground, preparing to fight with the Western soldiers.
"Boom..." The sound of horse hooves was close to my ears.
In an instant, the first batch of dozens of riders rushed in.
When he saw the densely packed spears, he was very surprised, but it was too late to slow down and he crashed into them.
For a while, people were on their backs.
The Western cavalry at the front fell to the ground one after another, and those behind hurriedly slowed down, but behind them, more cavalry came, all crowded together.
For a moment, the narrow streets and city gates were filled with war horses neighing and chaos.
"Kill the thieves!" The archers on the roofs on both sides fired continuously, staring at the cavalry sitting on horseback with obvious targets, and called them one by one.
The defeated soldiers were relieved.
The bold ones stabbed the cavalrymen directly with their spears and knocked them off their horses.
Others slashed the horse's legs with knives, and when the painful horses pushed the cavalry off their backs, other people who had been waiting for a long time stepped forward and stabbed the cavalry to death before they could get up.
Unfortunately, the double-sided stirrups and high-bridge saddles had not been invented at this time. The cavalry's legs and waist could not effectively use force. It was very difficult to fight, and their own goals were huge, so they fell to the ground one after another and were hacked to death by the defeated troops.
It was almost a replica of the Battle of the Boundary Bridge between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan - the cavalry in front was heavily killed by crossbows, and the corpses of men and horses formed obstacles. The infantrymen cut and killed indiscriminately, and were severely defeated.
Now it has so much meaning.
The city gate was filled with Western cavalry.
Some people realized something was wrong, dismounted directly, and tried to fight on foot.
There were also people sitting stupidly on horseback, urging loudly.
The defeated soldiers killed more than a hundred knights in a row, and their morale gradually increased. They rushed to the city gate with shouts, stabbed with spears, decapitated with ring-headed knives, and some even launched sneak attacks with cold arrows. Their cooperation became more and more skillful.
Infantry, have they ever had the opportunity to kill cavalry so easily? What I didn’t say, just kill them, they are no match!
"March with drum beat!" Shao Xun took back the heavy sword and ordered.
"Dong dong dong..." The drum rumbled.
The officers and soldiers of the Royal Army lined up in a neat array, holding their long spears, and ran quickly towards Daxia Gate.
The archers also gathered over one after another.
There is no one to direct them, they will work as a group, aim at the enemy riders who are still sitting stupidly on their horses, and shoot them one by one.
The enemy cavalry outside the city seemed to realize that something was wrong, and they all turned their horses' heads and retreated.
The enemy cavalry in the city screamed in fear and tried to escape, but there was no chance.
At this point in the battle, there was no suspense, it was almost a one-sided massacre.
