Chapter 1827: The Third Luoyang War (End)
Chapter 1827 The Third Battle of Luoyang (End)
Chapter 1825: The Third Battle of Luoyang (End)
After Qin Jian encouraged Cheng Xi for a few words, he said to everyone: "Li Tang's attack is fierce now, and there are many new soldiers in Luoyang City, and there are not enough elites.
The military advisor has ordered that from now on, all private soldiers of the major families must join the city defense army to guard Luoyang.
I, the descendants of the Qin family, must set an example. All men over the age of sixteen must participate in the war and defend Luoyang. "
“Yes, Fourth Uncle.”
All the Qin family disciples shouted in unison. They all looked excited, except for Hu Hai, who looked frightened.
He has not even mastered the first level of the Ancestral Dragon Art. How can he survive if he goes to the battlefield?
The Qin family spared no effort in cultivating their own children. They even took out the ancestral secret skill "Ancestral Dragon Jue" without reservation and taught it to all disciples of the right age.
This was something that had never happened before, and precisely because of this, the disciples of the Qin family felt a sense of belonging to the Qin family, and the whole family was united as one.
Hu Hai is also a disciple of the Qin family, so he can naturally learn the complete version of the Ancestral Dragon Art. However, he does not know how to cherish such a precious opportunity. He often slacks off when practicing, so that he has not been able to break through the first level of the Ancestral Dragon Art.
At this time, Hu Hai felt extremely regretful. When he first practiced Kung Fu, it would have been better if he had worked harder.
At the same time that the Qin family was mobilizing, other families in Luoyang City were also mobilizing, and the whole city was preparing for war. This was naturally Jia Xu's order.
The news of the fall of Hangu Pass and the disappearance of Li Cunxiao has been suppressed by Jia Xu and has not been announced. After all, if such a major event were announced, it would definitely cause a commotion.
Jia Xu originally wanted to limit the battlefield to the line of Ye Wang Yiyang, but he did not expect that the Tang army dared to bypass the two cities and march directly to Luoyang without capturing Ye Wang Yiyang.
In this case, the fall of Hangu Pass cannot be concealed, and Jia Xu can only announce that Hangu Pass has fallen.
However, Jia Xu still did not announce the disappearance of Li Cunxiao. After all, the life and death of Li Cunxiao would affect the morale of the entire army.
“Military advisors have determined that the number of Tang troops who have bypassed the cities of Yewang and Yiyang is between 60,000 and 70,000,” Genie Chenshenghui reported.
"so much?"
Jia Xu suddenly looked surprised. He thought that Cheng Xi's statement that "the Tang army had more than 40,000 troops" was to cover up his excuse of abandoning the city and fleeing. However, he did not expect that the number of Tang troops was actually greater than what Cheng Xi said.
After Jia Xu ordered Tan Daoji to lead an army of 10,000 to support the front line, there were only 5,000 main troops left in Luoyang City at this time, including 4,000 Flying Tigers. The remaining 30,000 troops were all new recruits with little combat effectiveness. and fighting spirit are very limited.
The main force of the Tang army of 60,000 to 70,000 was about to invade, but Luoyang only had 30,000 new soldiers and 5,000 main troops. Such a disparity in strength made even Jia Xu feel a little unsure.
Therefore, Jia Xucai ordered the reorganization of private soldiers from various major families and used them to defend the city.
In fact, with the thorough implementation of Qin Hao's policy, the aristocratic families under the Qin army actually have not many private soldiers left. After all, if the number is overnumbered and reported, it will be directly defined as a rebellion, and the family will be confiscated and exterminated. Therefore, the aristocratic family Of course, we dare not expand the number of private soldiers.
However, although the aristocratic family does not have a large number of private soldiers, they still have hundreds of guards.
Jia Xu was able to gather together five thousand generations of family soldiers by cooperating here and there.
Just relying on these five thousand private soldiers was definitely not enough, so Jia Xu ordered to open the treasury and temporarily recruit 50,000 strong men to participate in the defense of Luoyang. This made the ministers feel at ease, but there were still some People are worried. These ministers were not worried about the Qin army's ability to defend the city, but they were worried about the city of Luoyang.
Five thousand main force, 30,000 new soldiers, 5,000 family soldiers, and 50,000 Luoyang strong men. From the data point of view, as long as they are not deliberately seeking death or taking the initiative to attack, there is no problem at all in defending the strong city of Luoyang. , but the key is that the city of Luoyang has some evil ways.
Even though the city walls of Luoyang are very tall, with arrow towers, arrow towers and other defensive equipment, they are all of various types and numerous in number. On the surface, they appear to be very defensive, but in fact they are just like decorations. So far, they have not been able to defend the city a few times. .
During the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Yellow Turban army attacked Luoyang and the Han army defended Luoyang. As a result, Luoyang was lost and the Han court retreated to Guanzhong.
But because it was the Han Dynasty who gave up on his own initiative, Luoyang City cannot be blamed this time.
After that, the Han coalition counterattacked Luoyang, and the Ming army defended Luoyang. The Han coalition successfully occupied Luoyang.
Later, the princes of Guandong allied forces to attack Dong, and the Liang army defended Luoyang. However, Luoyang was lost. The Liang army retreated into Guanzhong, and Luoyang fell into the hands of Qin Hao.
Luoyang City seems to have been cursed. It seems to have strong defenses and the generals responsible for guarding it are all famous generals. However, it falls every time the enemy comes. So far, it has not been successfully defended once.
With the precedent of so many losses in the past, the ministers in the court would naturally be afraid that Luoyang would be captured by the Tang army again.
Many officials proposed to move the capital to His Majesty the Emperor or to merge the states to prevent His Majesty from falling into crisis if Luoyang could not be defended.
Moving the capital before the enemy came would only make the situation more chaotic. To face these speculators who were afraid of the world being in chaos, Jia Xu naturally reprimanded them severely and silently wrote them down in the little notebook in his heart. Their famous names.
Subsequently, Jia Xu announced to the court that Li and Tang's army had no siege equipment and it was impossible to attack Luoyang. In addition, he had requested reinforcements from Hebei. As long as he held Luoyang for a month, the reinforcements from Hebei would come back.
As soon as these two pieces of news came out, the civil and military officials in the court felt a lot more at ease, but those with ulterior motives became even more excited.
Jia Xu has written down all of these people who were hiding in silence before but now stepped forward to make trouble.
Although the imperialists headed by Ma Rixi, Kong Rong, and Yang Jun wanted to muddy the water and create opportunities for Li Shimin, they were beaten by Jia Xu's combination of punches and did not know how to fight back.
In general, the Tang army's imminent invasion of Luoyang and the deliberate instigation of the imperialists in the city did bring a lot of turmoil to Luoyang. However, under Jia Xu's various methods, the city of Luoyang was panicked but not chaotic, and everything was moving towards the direction of Luoyang. The good side is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Jia Xu had a big plan in mind, a big plan to catch all these Han Dynasty diehards.
These people are really hidden. Even when Qin Hao became king before, they only jumped out as a bunch of fish to die. The real big fish were all lurking. If they didn't jump out on their own initiative, you wouldn't know who they were.
Had it not been for the lack of troops in Luoyang this time and the arrival of Li Shimin's army, these people might still not have jumped out.
Therefore, Jia Xu planned to take advantage of the fourth, no, the third Luoyang War, to lure out all the lurking imperialists. He wanted to leave Qin Hao with a court without any hidden dangers.
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