Chapter 90 There are no good people in Luoyang City (Additional update for the leader, I am a Book-Eating Beast)
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. Got disgraced.
His abilities are mediocre.
Just now, the prisoners were being tortured urgently, and they found out that Shangguan had already made the decision in the city. This made Zhang Fang even more dumbfounded.
At the same time, a sense of ambition also arose. Perhaps the cavalry could be sent 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 wealthy families.
They want the treasure in the palace.
They want to see the once unattainable noble ladies shed tears and be 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 event!
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 running troops had already rushed to the city gate. The gatekeepers cocked their crossbows and all looked at Shangguan Pu.
This man is a brother of the Shangguansi clan. He is waiting inside the gate with two thousand people, ready to respond at any time.
Shang Guan has made it very clear that if he does not come back, he cannot close the city gate to avoid being "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 winning a big victory and sent out cavalry to try to seize the door.
"General, if you are overwhelmed by the defeated troops and cannot maintain any formation, it will be chaos..." Someone couldn't help but stand up.
Shangguan Pu hesitated slightly.
While hesitating, the first group of broken soldiers had already rushed in, scrambling for the road, and almost crowded the city gate.
"General, you can't close the door anymore, let's shoot the arrow." Another person urged.
Shangguan Pu’s face was extremely tangled, and it was always difficult to 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 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 weak, so he bullied them. He led more than 10,000 troops 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, so Xiaolangjun quickly led his troops out of the city and arrived at Daxia Gate to defend them," 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.
Three thousand soldiers, who had been ready for battle, jumped up, roughly organized into 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 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.
"Lang Jun 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 said I 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 has failed to keep up with the changes. Now all plans are in vain. We must stop the chaos first.
"The crossbowmen come forward and shoot!" He gave the order decisively.
Li Zhong, the owner of the former building, 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, divide the archers who have expanded to 200 into three parts. The hundred people will cooperate with the crossbowmen in the front, and the remaining hundred people will be divided into two groups. They will find a way to climb to the top of the buildings on both sides and 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, collect Roman carts and ox carts, and bring them all to the street to build a fortification."
"As you command."
Instruction completed In Yu'an, Shao Xun called the messenger again 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 formation.
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 can't go on like this.
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.
The crossbowmen are generally old soldiers.
They looked at 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 sadly and indignantly in the crowd of 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 bowstring was loosened, and the long arrow shot through the air, hitting Shangguan Puxian Gate.
The rain of arrows was still being fired, corpses were strewn across the Imperial Street, and blood flowed like rivers.
The person in front fell down, and the person behind stepped on the body and stumbled forward.
Someone was carried away by the long arrow and was not dead for a while. He still struggled to get up and tried to escape.
Someone was crawling on the ground, wailing and crying, begging the brothers in the army to let him pass.
There were also people who desperately bumped into houses on both sides, trying to escape.
But it's all in vain. The crossbowmen are just like enforcing the night management discipline of the military camp. Anyone who runs around and collides will be shot without distinction between friend and foe.
People are fragile, and the blood will eventually run out.
After being attacked head-on by crossbowmen, killing and injuring hundreds of people, 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.
"Run around and hit, kill without mercy!"
"Return to kill the enemy, get a super reward at the festival level!"
"The cavalry is coming in a hurry, but the horsepower is low!"
" The streets are narrow, perfect for killing the enemy!”
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.
"嘘嘚..." The sound of horse hooves was close to my ears.
In an instant, the first batch of dozens of riders rushed in.
I was very surprised when I saw the dense spears, but it was too late to slow down and I ran into them directly.
For a while, people were on their backs.
The Western cavalry at the front fell to the ground one after another. The people behind hurriedly slowed down, but behind them, more cavalry came, all crowded together.
For a time, 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.
Some people slashed the horse's legs with knives. When the painful horse pushed the cavalry off the horse's back, 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 yet 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 routed. Hacked to death.
It is almost a replica of the Battle of the Boundary Bridge between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan - the cavalry in front were extensively killed by bows and crossbows, and the corpses of men and horses formed an obstacle. The cavalry behind were still rushing forward, but they could not lift them up. Although they were quick, they were hacked and killed by Yuan Shao's infantry, resulting in a heavy defeat.
Now it has a bit of 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 on the horse stupidly, 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, beheaded with ring-headed knives, and some even launched sneak attacks with cold arrows. Their cooperation became more and more skillful.
Infantry, have you 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 epee again and ordered.
"Dong dong dong..." The drums rumbled.
The officers and soldiers of the Royal Army lined up in a neat array, holding the cold spears, running quickly towards Daxia Gate.
The archers also gathered one after another.
With no one to command, they will work as a group, aiming 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.
(End of this chapter)