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Chapter 110 Siege!

Luoyang City East
The setting sun is like blood. Although no major battles occurred today, facing the pressure of Daqian's 20-strong army, just looking at the endless Daqian army camps in the distance is enough to mentally challenge the Luoyang defenders. This caused great pressure. This pressure made the Luoyang defenders seem a little helpless when facing the harassment from time to time by the Daqian Army.

There is something in "Sun Tzu's Art of War: Planning and Attack"
"The first is to attack the enemy, then the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, and then the second is to attack the city. The method of attacking a city is as a last resort."

All strategically important cities have thick walls, high walls, moats and moats, are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and can win more with less. Therefore, Sun Tzu's military skills are like a god, and he still has to attack the city as a last resort. Of the policy.

The Eastern Capital of Luoyang, whether it was the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties in Lin Yi's previous life, the city wall was less than ten meters high, or in this devilishly revised version of the 'Datang World', the city wall is nearly twenty feet high (I changed it , the original version of Ma Dan is thirty feet tall, almost a hundred meters high!), they are all powerful cities in their respective worlds that are difficult to conquer!
Luoyang, the eastern capital, was one of the three major capitals of the old Sui Dynasty. It was the strongest city outside Chang'an and Jiangdu.

Just looking at the grass-roots team like Li Zitong in the original work, which was still able to rely on the rivers to resist Du Fuwei's elite Jianghuai Army and Shen Faxing's Jiangnan Navy, we can infer the power of Luoyang.

In fact, Luoyang's defensive power is even better than that of Chang'an and Jiangdu. In addition to the natural barriers of the surrounding mountains and rivers, it is surrounded by long walls. It is grand, with twelve gates on all sides, and the gates can echo each other, and the gates are all closed.

Not to mention that there are also unique [Mojia] mechanism creations on the city wall.

The 'World of the Tang Dynasty' was truly a treasured place for Lin Yi. In addition to various magic scriptures and talented geniuses, there was also an unbroken inheritance from hundreds of schools of thought.

Among them, in addition to Lu Miaozi, who was healed by Lin Yi from an old injury and is currently traveling around the world to help Lin Yi find the "Jingyan Palace", there is another character who was ignored in the original work.

Sha Tiannan can be called the richest man in Luoyang together with Rong Fengxiang (also known as Bichen, one of the eight masters of the Demon Sect, nicknamed "Demon Dao"), and he is also the cousin of Dugu Feng, the [Dugu Clan].

The Sha family, headed by Sha Tiannan, started out with mineral deposits and is world-famous for its hardware craftsmanship. It has more than a hundred weapons factories across the country and more than a dozen mines in Guanzhong alone. It can be said that it is a big businessman who controls the lifeblood of the military industry.

Later, under Li Jiancheng, an arms factory was established in Chang'an City.

The city-defending god crossbows designed and supervised by Sha Tiannan for Luoyang: 'Big Flying Stone' and 'Eight-bow Crossbow Machine'

The former can throw boulders weighing fifty kilograms and has a range of 500 steps; the latter's arrows are as big as giant axes and can attack enemies within more than [-] steps.Both are highly maneuverable and flexible super city defense tools that can be quickly mobilized on the city wall.

120 "big flying stones" and 150 "eight-bow crossbows" kept Luoyang impregnable.Even with the capabilities of Xu Shiji, Li Jing, Qin Shubao, and military advisors Shen Luoyan, Xu Xingzhi and others, they were able to attack the city from all sides day and night for more than ten consecutive days, but they still could not conquer Luoyang.

This time, the commander-in-chief Li Jing used the Qingcheng Palace in the northeast of Luoyang as his base camp to increase the total strength of the army to 12. If the military strength stationed in the surrounding towns is included, the total number of large-scale troops sent out for this expedition is more than 20. It is said that with Lin Yi's support, Li Jing tried his best and was determined to win.

Under normal circumstances, Luoyang is a fortified city that cannot be conquered, so Li Jing's strategy was to isolate Luoyang first and cut off all food routes, so that the soldiers and civilians in the city would be short of food and would collapse without attacking.

Now, Lin Yi said that he did not want to wait any longer for more than ten days.

Then, Lin Yi, the 'Green Emperor', will take action as an abnormal situation!
After all, after more than ten days of hard work, the food supply in Luoyang City must have almost bottomed out, and morale is in chaos.

Although it has not yet reached the best time mentioned by Li Jing and others, with Lin Yi's 'unparalleled flurry', the difference is not big.

Near noon the next day, a death squad consisting of thousands of criminals with the most heinous crimes swarmed up. On the tower, Wang Xuanshu frowned and shouted loudly: "Kill!" As soon as the word fell, thousands of arrows shot out like meteors, suddenly rushing to the front row. The kamikaze soldier was hit by an arrow and struggled and fell.

Wang Xuanshu, the second son of Wang Shichong, was different from Wang Shichong's eldest son Wang Xuanying, a playboy who was weak, incompetent, greedy for life and afraid of death.At this time when the life and death of the Wang family in Luoyang was at stake, Wang Shichong was sent to the most critical city wall, facing the main force of the army.

Under the rain of arrows, a trace of fear flashed in the eyes of the dead soldiers in the rear, and they instinctively wanted to hide back. However, thousands of dead soldiers came like a tidal wave. How could they return?In an instant, the body that fell to the ground was lost in the flood of black people, and the crowd couldn't help but rush towards the city gate.

The arrows on the city top are like locusts, and the dead soldiers under the city wall are like ants.

A hail of arrows rained down, and hundreds of people struggled and fell to the ground, unwilling to give up, and were immediately crushed into dust.The entire city of Luoyang looked like a Shura slaughterhouse. Lin Yi, who was watching the battle from a high platform alongside Li Jing and others, showed no expression on his face.

"Zengguang Xianwen" says: Compassion does not lead to military affairs, emotion does not establish affairs, justice does not manage finances, kindness does not serve as an official!
War is not a child's play!
What's more, Lin Yi's men are actually an army of benevolence and righteousness, but they just use some scum who commit adultery, robbery, and commit heinous crimes as death squads.

Instead of driving away the mob and common people like most forces to consume the arrows, rolling wood and other materials of the defenders.

Most of the thousands of death squads currently come from the members of the 'Four Bandits' who were captured by Lin Yi (Li Qinglian) when he was at Pegasus Ranch.

As for the famous "Four Bandits", Xiang Batian, who can't grow even an inch of grass, Fang Jian Ding, who can't leave no chickens and dogs, Mao Zao, who is a thousand miles away from the scorched earth, and the Ghost Crying God, who is known as the disciple of the "Evil King" Shi Zhixuan. No. Cao Yinglong. After making outstanding contributions to some of Lin Yi's experiments, they also made the blue silver grass in the backyard of the Xingyang Military Commander's Mansion more lush~
After a while, the dead soldiers rushed to the moat, but the suspension bridge had already been pulled up. These dead soldiers had no equipment to cross the river. The hundreds of people at the head could not stop and were pushed by the tide of people behind and fell into the river.After the two arrows rained down, the ten-foot-wide moat was filled with dead men who fell into the water, struggling like drowning ants, gradually sinking and losing their life.

On the high platform in the Daqian army's formation, Lin Yi sighed when he saw this hellish scene of Shura.Xu Shiji, Shen Luoyan and others around him thought Lin Yi couldn't bear it.

Then, before Shen Luoyan, the beautiful military advisor next to him, could open his mouth to express his condolences, Lin Yi said with a hint of regret: "It's a pity that there are too few evil people like these 'Four Bandits'. There are only over 5 people in total. In the past two years, there have been many consumption, it is estimated that after this wave, everyone will be dead."

Li Jing, who was standing on the other side of Lin Yi, twitched the corner of his mouth. Just now, others thought Lin Yi was sighing softly.Back then, he watched with his own eyes the Commander Lin beside him, finding all the Golden Wolf Army soldiers one by one, and burying them all in the ground like slaughtering chickens~
In the words of Lord Qingdi: "Can't bear it? It doesn't exist. I'm just purifying the environment!"

Seeing that Xu Shiji and others didn't know how to respond to the military commander's words, Li Jing, who was the first to follow, quickly followed up and said: "The military commander said that if the three bandits Xiang, Fang, and Mao could be like Cao Yinglong, they could pull the army together." With more than 3 bandits, we can probably destroy the city of Luoyang now~"

Lin Yi glanced at Li Jing with a smile on his face and thought to himself: "You have a good sense of consciousness! No wonder you can be among the '24 Heroes of Lingyan Pavilion' of the Tang Dynasty in any world's history. Not only did you have the ability to command the army, Yes, he even became prime minister later~"

Looking at the battlefield ahead, the moat that was tens of feet wide and several feet deep was instantly filled with thousands of dead men who fell into the water. More than ten thousand elite soldiers following behind, led by Qin Shubao, held up their shields and marched past thousands of people. , swarmed under the city wall.

Afterwards, the army like a tidal wave moved out dozens of siege ladders, hundreds of people climbed the beams and flew hooks, and ran toward the city wall with a roar.

The soldiers rushed to the bottom of the city on the corpses, clamoring and climbing up the ladder. Hundreds of well-trained warriors from the army swung their flying hooks and threw them up to the top of the city, grabbing firmly on the bluestone of the city wall.The soldiers on the city drew their swords and swung their knives, but the flying hook and rope were designed by Lu Miaozi and made of the 'Jinxing·Lanyincao' cultivated by Lin Yi. They kept cutting them with several blows.

At this time, the archers who entered the "Feiyu Camp" behind the city held long bows and began to shoot back at the city. For a while, there was a hail of arrows from both sides, harvesting the good heads.In just a moment, the wooden shields wrapped in cowhide in the hands of the soldiers of the 'Panshi Camp' guarding the 'Feiyu Camp' under the city wall were filled with feather arrows.

As the city wall that Daqian Army mainly attacked, there were sixty "big flying stones" and eighty "eight-bow crossbows" to defend against the enemy. In just a moment, under these heavy firepower, corpses were piled up under the city wall. It was piled several feet thick.

That is to say, the death squads consumed a lot of arrows and stones before. In addition, the pressure of the army and the lack of food and grass these days have greatly weakened the combat power of the soldiers. From time to time, soldiers on the city fell to the bottom of the city. The arrow's momentum was actually suppressed.

Wang Xuanshu was supervising the battle from the side and saw arrows flying down the city like locusts, as if there was a rain of arrows. There were many people injured by arrows at the top of the city.Wang Xuanshu was in a state of excitement for a moment, and he clung to the stone pillars of the city tower with such force that his veins swelled.

Occasionally, a ladder was set up next to him. Wang Xuanshu slashed with the sword in his hand, and the ladder that was higher than the top of the wall was broken from it. The Ganjun who had not climbed half way down howled and fell, and was instantly wiped out by the crowd.

However, there were hundreds of ladders and flying hooks, and the "Feiyu Camp" of the cadres under the city shot arrows like rain, and the "Broken Army Camp" like a forest of spears, attacked the soldiers on the city in chaos.Although the swords and soldiers on the city were prepared, they had no fighting spirit. Under the offensive of the Qian army, they were unable to withstand it for a while.

At this moment, Qin Shubao, as the vanguard general, slashed and jumped up onto the city wall. Without using his maces, he held a horse pole with both hands and waved it left and right, sweeping a three-foot gap around him.
Then he shouted: "Knowledge!"

"I'm here, Old Cheng!" A roar came in response, but at the edge of the city wall where Qin Shubao had swept away the gap, a burly figure turned over, holding a long Xuanhua ax in each hand.

After coming up, Wa Ya and Qin Shubao each went in one direction, trying hard to maintain this vacancy.

Gradually, three to five, a dozen, twenty or thirty cadres here began to form a large scale, and eventually reached hundreds of cadres, completely occupying this section of the city wall and taking root.

"Damn it!" Wang Xuanshu, who was nearly thirty feet away on the city wall, saw this and his eyes were about to burst.

In front of the military formation in the distance, Li Jing, who was paying attention to this place, bowed his hands to Lin Yi beside him and saluted: "The time has come, please ask the military commander to take action!"

Lin Yi nodded, tapped his foot lightly, and instantly shot towards the gate of Luoyang City like an arrow from a string.
In an instant, they arrived about ten meters away from the city gate. Before the defenders on the city wall could react, they stretched out their hands, and a pair of enlarged versions of the 'Drum Urn and Golden Hammer' created by the clone Lu Sheng appeared in their hands.

Compared with Li Yuanba, the "first hero of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" in "Shuo Tang", who holds a pair of hammers weighing 0.5 kilograms in total, the enlarged version in Lin Yi's hand has a single volume of about [-] cubic meters (don't ask me if I don't). How do you calculate the volume of a regular spherical shape? Put it in water!). Ordinary iron can weigh three to four tons, which is about seven or eight thousand kilograms. One made of fine iron by Lin Yi weighs almost ten thousand kilograms!

Each hand held a 'Golden Hammer' with a book value comparable to the 'Ruyi Golden Cudgel'. After a run-up of more than ten meters, a pair of giant hammers blasted towards the tall and thick gate of Luoyang City with a violent whistling sound. ~~~
(End of this chapter)