Great Han Empire

Chapter 952 Troubled Times Heroic Chapter Wins Central Plains
After the northern army broke through Yongmen, the defenders were defeated in the direction of the west city. The upper west gate and Guangyang gate at the east and west ends of the west city fell immediately.

The defenders withdrew into the palace, defending the south and north palaces.

Under the command of Wen Chou, the Northern Xinjiang Army forcibly broke through the East and West Gate Avenue between the South and North Palaces, completely divided the rebels in the South and North Palaces, and quickly captured the East and West Gate of the East City.The rear general Yushi on the Dongcheng battlefield and the middle base general Yu Du immediately led their troops into the city, and together with the Northern Xinjiang army on the Xicheng battlefield, they surrounded the South and North Palaces from the east and west.

The Northern Xinjiang Army was worried that the rebels would put all their eggs in one basket and burn down the South and North Palaces, so they did not launch a strong attack after completing the siege.The two sides formed a confrontation.

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At dusk, in the Jiade Hall of Nangong, Luoyang civil and military officials had a fierce dispute.

Yuan Wei, Yuan Zhong, Wang Gong, Lu Kuang, Sui Zhan, Gao Xiang and others demanded to break out.

Yuan Zhong said that although the northern army has broken through the east and west cities, the gates of the south and north cities are still under our control, and the complex roads connecting the south and north palaces are still intact. The army can be assembled at any time.If we break through immediately, we still have a glimmer of life. If we hesitate and let the northern army capture all the gates of the southern and northern cities overnight, we will be unable to fly.

Yuan Zhong suggested that the troops stationed at Xiamen and Gumen in the north city and the troops that had already retreated to the north palace should be withdrawn to the south palace together. At midnight, the army tried their best to break through from the direction of Pingcheng gate in the south city.Yuan Zhong believes that the main force of the northern army has already entered the city from the direction of the west city and the east city, and there must not be many troops remaining in the direction of the south and north cities at this moment.After the army rushed out of the Pingcheng Gate, they immediately crossed the Luoshui River and retreated in the direction of Dagu Pass.

Xin Ping and Xun Chen firmly opposed it.

The Northern Frontier Army did not take advantage of the momentum to enter the South and North Palaces, mainly because they were worried that we would burn the palace.It is precisely from this point that they have not yet occupied the gates of the southern and northern cities, and have not cut off our way to break through from the southern and northern cities. Their purpose is to give us the illusion that we still have a chance of survival .If we forcibly break through, we will be surrounded and wiped out of the city by the northern army.

"The Northern Xinjiang Army captured the Middle East Gate Avenue and cut off our connection with the North Palace from the ground, but why didn't they destroy the complex road above the Middle East Gate Avenue? Why did they leave a complex road connecting the South and North Palaces?" Tell us?" Xin Ping said excitedly, "Obviously, they just want to lure us to break through."

"Outside the gate of Pingcheng is Taixue and Sanyong (the three buildings of Biyong, Mingtang and Lingtai), and the Northern Xinjiang Army will garrison heavy troops to protect it. After Sanyong Palace, it is the Luoshui River. The Northern Xinjiang Army saw us Breaking through the Sanyong Palace, the northern soldiers on the other side will immediately burn down the pontoon bridge. Without a bridge, how can we cross the river? The entire army will be wiped out by the Luoshui River."

"Taking a step back, even if the northern army was caught off guard and allowed us to cross Luoshui and Dagu Pass, how would we break through Guangcheng Pass? The Northern Army on the Yingchuan battlefield would block it with all their strength, and we would be unable to move an inch. Even if we broke through Guangcheng Pass, is Luyang City still in Liu Biao's hands? If Luyang is in the hands of the Northern Xinjiang Army, we will still be surrounded and wiped out at the foot of Huoyang Mountain."

Xin Ping was furious, and hit the map on the table with his big hands repeatedly, "Break out, break out, where is the chance to break out now? If you want to die, you can die yourself. Don't let tens of thousands of soldiers be buried with you for nothing."

"My lords, please be calm. At this point, there is no hope of breaking through, and there is no possibility of breaking through." Xun Chen persuaded, "No matter how Liu Biao and Yuan Tan play in the middle, and no matter how Cao Cao and Liu Bei are in the east, Whether the attack on the West Two Routes went well or not, the fall of Luoyang is already a fact. The northern army captured Luoyang so early, which means they have taken the initiative of the entire battle situation. Li Hong can immediately divide his troops to support Guanzhong, Yingchuan and Yanzhou. Liu Biao and Liu Bei , Cao Cao will soon be defeated and retreat. We have lost all hope, breaking through must be a dead end."

However, Xin Ping and Xun Chen's persuasion had no effect.

Yuan Wei has a high prestige among the officials in Luoyang. Many civil and military officials are his former students. He is determined to break through and will not surrender to the death. At this moment, to stay is to surrender, to betray.No one wants to betray the old master at this moment.

Yuan Shang was completely desperate, but when he heard that there was still a chance of breaking out, he chose to break out without hesitation, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, "Bring father's body, we break out, break out immediately."

Xin Ping and Xun Chen had no choice but to accept their fate, but Yuan Wei no longer trusted them, "You bring 5000 people to stay and hold back the Northern Xinjiang Army in the palace." Yuan Wei looked at them, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "We are brothers, we live together. I have died together for decades, no matter what choice you make, I will not blame you, but for the sake of the original face, please be sure to stick to it for three days, no matter what method you use, you must stick to it for three days. After three days, If we haven't broken the siege yet..." Yuan Wei's eyes were reddish, he looked up to the sky and sighed, turned and left.

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Night quickly enveloped Luoyang City.

The rebels withdrew from Xiamen and Gumen.Sima Yi and Wei Yan on the Beicheng battlefield immediately led their troops to enter.

On Dongdongmen Avenue, General Li Hong, General Qu Yi of the Left Guard, General Zhang Yan of the Right Guard, General Jia Xu of the Guard, and others surrounded the little emperor, and rushed to a place about 200 steps away from Fudao.

The Fudao straddles the South and North Palaces, just like an "air corridor". At this moment, the inside and outside of the Fudao are brightly lit, making it look extremely magnificent.Jia Xu hurriedly introduced to the little emperor.The little emperor looked excited and kept yelling, not sure if he listened.When the little emperor saw the pile of corpses at the city gate just now, his face turned pale with fright, but now he forgot all about it.

"General, the rebels from the North Palace are evacuating to the South Palace." The rear general Yushi came on horseback, pointing at the densely packed figures in the back road, and said, "Do you want to cut off the back road to prevent the rebels from the two palaces from joining?"

"Let them reunite." Li Hong waved his hands, "If Beigong can be kept, that would be considered lucky."

"I don't know if the enemy will break out of the siege?" Qu Yi smiled, "If Yuan Shao is in the city, I guess the rebels will break out soon. With Yuan Shao's character, he would rather die in battle than surrender. There are still."

"Fengji and Shenpei have a very high status in Luoyang. After they both died in the battle of Yongmen, the rebels could continue to retreat to the palace and persist. They didn't all collapse, which means that Yuan Shao must be here." Zhang Yan waved his hand a little excitedly. Waving the horsewhip in his hand, "If Yuan Shao can be killed in this battle, the peace of the world will be just around the corner."

"I hope so, I hope so." Li Hong smiled, "Yuan Shao is our strongest opponent and the pillar of the rebels, Yuan Shao has fallen, how many rebels can confront us head-on?"

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In the middle of the night, Yuan Shang and Yuan Wei gathered more than 2 people, rushed out of Nangong, and rushed towards Pingcheng Gate along Pingchengmen Avenue.

After the Northern Xinjiang Army broke through the East and West cities, the Northern Xinjiang Army that entered from Guangyang Gate in the West City was blocked at the intersection of Xiaoyuanmen Avenue and Guangyangmen Avenue, while the Army that entered from the Dongcheng Gate Avenue in the East City General Bei was also blocked at the intersection of Kaiyangmen Avenue and Huamen Avenue.The Pingchengmen Avenue in the middle of the South City is still under the control of the rebels at the moment, and Yuan Shang and Yuan Wei led the army to the Pingchengmen without hindrance.

Pingcheng Gate is the main gate of Luoyang City, and its defense is extremely strong.At the beginning of the siege, the northern army gave up the storming of the Pingcheng Gate, and instead chose the easternmost Kaiyang Gate among the four gates of the South City as the target of attack.Xiaoqi General Wang Dang is now directing the army to continue attacking outside Kaiyang Gate.

Ma Yan, who was stationed at the gate of Pingcheng, opened the gate, and commanded the soldiers to build a moat bridge on the moat outside the urn city as quickly as possible, and then pushed the raft pontoon bridge that had been prepared already into the moat.

This kind of raft pontoon bridge is about fifteen feet long (about 35 meters today), which is the same width as the moat. It looks like a giant raft on the surface, but there is a boat-shaped base every two feet below it to enhance buoyancy. Equipped with five wheels.After the raft pontoon bridge is pushed into the moat, as long as the two ends are fixed with thick ropes, it can be walked on.The defenders originally built this kind of raft pontoon bridge to temporarily add more passages on the moat in order to save time for transporting supplies, but now it has become a tool for them to escape.

There are not many Northern Xinjiang troops outside the Pingcheng Gate, mainly soldiers and civilians from the Chariot Battalion.At this moment, the bonfire on the battlefield was burning brightly, illuminating the top and bottom of the city wall, and the stone cannons on the positions outside the city continued to bombard the city tower intermittently.

The officers and soldiers of the Northern Xinjiang Army suddenly saw the enemy troops coming out of the city, and immediately cheered happily.

Wang Dang, who was commanding the battle on the Kaiyangmen battlefield, received the news and immediately ordered Wu Meng general Wu Xiong to rush to the Pingcheng battlefield to command, "Order the troops on the Pingcheng battlefield to withdraw immediately and retreat in the direction of Kaiyangmen, so that the people in the city Enemy breakout."

"When will the floating bridge on the Luoshui River burn down?" Wu Xiong was impatient.

"Wait until the enemy has fled to the river and then burn it. Don't worry, lest the enemy be forced back into the city." Wang Dang said with a wave of his hand, "Urgently tell the two adults Zhang Baiqi and Sun Qin on the battlefield in the west city to mobilize the army immediately. Block the enemy's westward retreat to Yiyang."

Wu Xiong rode away with a team of personal guards on flying horses.

"Urgently tell the general that the rebels are breaking out from the direction of Pingcheng Gate. Please immediately capture the Guangyangmen Avenue and Huamen Avenue in Nancheng to cut off the way for the rebels to retreat to the palace." Wang Dang yelled at the messengers. , "Quick, quick, report immediately."

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Ma Yan took the lead and advanced bravely with the prelude to the assault.

If the army wants to break through, it must first break through the five moats in front of the moat.When digging the moats, I didn't expect to break out today. If I had known this, I wouldn't have dug so many moats.Ma Yan couldn't lift his head from the arrows shot by the Northern Army, lying on the ground he cursed and complained to himself.

"My lord, the northern border army has retreated, they are retreating..." Several personal guards lying beside him suddenly cried out in surprise.

The arrows were gradually thinning out, Ma Yan looked up and took a closer look.The Northern Xinjiang army and civilians on the opposite side are retreating, and the stone cannons and crossbows are being dragged out of the battlefield.Ma Yan shook his head, with no joy on his face. The Northern Xinjiang Army moved out of the way, which meant that they were ready to encircle and wipe out.

Mayan smiled self-deprecatingly.Breaking through, is it a joke?Luoyang City has fallen, and the eight dangerous passes are also controlled by the Northern Xinjiang Army. Where can the army break through?Yuan Shang and Yuan Wei had nowhere to go, and they had to let tens of thousands of innocent soldiers be buried with them before they died.Ma Yan turned his head to look at the soldiers around him, thinking that they were about to be surrounded and decapitated, his heart ached, and tears almost fell down.The soldiers only know how to work hard, they don't know that breaking through is actually death, and they may think that this is a hopeful way of survival.

"My lord..." A military officer in the distance shouted, "My lord, let's push the trench bridge up quickly, hurry up..." Before he finished speaking, a long arrow came screaming, and instantly nailed him to the ground. on the ground.

Ma Yan let out a mournful cry, looking up to the sky and screaming miserably.If you can't stick to Luoyang and protect the country, if you can't save your brother's life, what's the point of living?He jumped up suddenly, raised his hands and yelled, "Brothers, push up the trench bridge, put it up, put it up..."

He didn't raise his shield, and his whole body was exposed to the arrows of the northern border army. He immediately became the target of the arrows. He was shot through and fell to the ground on his back.

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In the early morning, Yuan Shang and Yuan Wei rushed out of Pingcheng Gate with their troops.

Lu Kuang and He Ji rushed forward with the vanguard.This avenue extends directly to the bank of the Luoshui River, and the Mingtang and Lingtai are on the east and west sides of this avenue.To their surprise, they did not encounter any resistance along the way, and the northern border army allowed them to pass through the Sanyong Palace and approach the bank of the Luoshui River.

In the dark night, a fire suddenly ignited on the Luoshui River, and the five pontoon bridges were instantly engulfed in flames.

The road going south was cut off.

Without the slightest hesitation, Yuan Wei ordered, "Go west, march westward along the Luoyang River, capture Henan City, go straight to Qinglong Mountain, and break out from the direction of Yiyang."

"When we arrive in Yiyang, we are surrounded by high mountains and steep mountain roads. It will be even more difficult for us to break through." Chen Lin dissuaded, "It is better to retreat to the city and guard the palace to the death. We have the palace in our hands. Li Hong dare not not agree to our conditions. We You can return to Jingzhou in a big way."

"From Yiyang City to the south along the Hei Jianshui is Lu Hun Pass." Yuan Wei sneered, "As long as we retreat to Lu Hun Pass, we can return to Jingzhou smoothly. Withdraw...to the west..."

After a little hesitation at the Luoshui River, the army turned westward, but after only four miles, they were stopped by the northern border army.

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Zhang Baiqi and Sun Qin led an army of [-] to block them head-on.

The generals of these two armies are all from the Yellow Turban Army, especially Li Damu, Guo Daxian, Yuancheng, and Luoshi, the former Heishan Yellow Turban Army generals, who hate Yuan Shao to the bone. Cracked, the soul flew away.

Lu Kuang and He Ji were the first to bear the brunt, and the vanguard army was quickly overwhelmed by the overwhelming Northern Xinjiang army. Both of them died on the spot, leaving only a few of the 3000 men left.

Zhang Baiqi and Sun Qin commanded the army to take advantage of the situation to hide and kill.

"Drove them to the river, drove them into the river, and drowned them." Zhang Baiqi yelled repeatedly, "Kill them without mercy, don't keep one, don't keep one."

"Kill, kill me... Take revenge for Shuai Bai, take revenge for Shuai Sui..." Li Damu waved the banner and roared up to the sky, "Brothers, take revenge..."

Tens of thousands of soldiers roared like thunder, and the passionate killing shook the night, and the rushing crowd set off heavy waves like a tidal wave, which was unstoppable.

Gao Xiang, Sui Zhan and others protected Yuan Shang and Yuan Wei while fighting and retreating.

"Back to the city, back to the city..." Yuan Wei looked at the wolf-running army, which had completely collapsed, so he could only order to retreat, but it was too late.

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Wang Dang and Wu Xiong led an army of [-] to kill from the direction of Kaiyangmen, cutting off the rebel army's retreat back to Pingcheng Gate, protecting the Sanyong Temple, and blocking the rebel army in the Xiaoyuanmen area.

Zhang Baiqi and Sun Qin led an army of [-] troops into the enemy's formation, hacking and killing wantonly.

The soldiers in northern Xinjiang were red-eyed, and it happened to be night again. When they caught something and chopped it up, their blood flowed like a river.

The rebels had no way to escape, so they had to flee southward to the Luoshui River. Thousands of people drowned in Luoshui River.

The [-] troops from northern Xinjiang covered up and killed from three directions: east, west, and north. No one was left alive, and corpses were scattered all over the field.

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On the fifth day of April, at dawn, the sun rises.

The fighting in the southern city of Luoyang gradually stopped, the battlefield was in a mess, and there were countless corpses floating on the Luoshui River.

In the city of Luoyang, 10,000+ Northern Xinjiang troops surrounded the South and North Palaces tightly.

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In the morning, Zhang Baiqi, Sun Qin, Wang Dang, and Wu Xiong led their troops into Luoyang City from Pingcheng Gate.

The four rushed to the Tianzi Xingyuan near the consumption gate of Dongcheng.It used to be the three mansions of Taiwei, Sima and Situ of the Luoyang court, with many halls and magnificent momentum.

"No one left alive?" Li Hong stood up in surprise and looked at Zhang Baiqi without speaking for a long time.

"Nine times out of ten, Yuan Shao is in the army that broke through the encirclement. Send someone to look for it." Qu Yi glared at Zhang Baiqi and the four of them. Enduring the cold "hum" a few times and gave up, "I want to see people when I live, and I want to see corpses when I die, so hurry up and find them."

Wang Dang looked disdainful, and was about to open his mouth to mock Qu Yi, Zhang Yan immediately frowned at Wang Dang, signaling him not to be troublesome, "We estimate that Yuan Shao will personally command this time in Luoyang, so you should send someone to look for it immediately."

"What if he falls into the river and drowns?" Wang Dang was obviously very dissatisfied with Li Hong and Qu Yi's attitude.There is hard work without credit. I killed tens of thousands of people and lost thousands of brothers, but I didn't even have a word of comfort.Is one rebellious dead body more important than the lives of thousands of my brothers?
"To die is to see the corpse." Qu Yi said angrily, "Go and fish it for me in the river."

"If he is eaten by fish, will I have to pay for my life?" Wang Dang was furious, and shouted at the top of his voice, "If I don't fish, you dare to cut off my head?"

Qu Yi was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Wang Dang to confront him face to face, so he shouted violently, reached out and drew his knife, "Wang Heizi, I think you are looking for death because you think you have a long life?"

Li Hong stretched out his hand to stop Qu Yi, "Yun Tian, ​​they have worked hard all night, please be considerate." Then he turned his head and waved to Wang Dang, "Let's go to rest first, try your best to find it, forget it if you can't find it." .”

Zhang Baiqi and others bowed to leave, and Zhang Yan personally sent them out.

"Yuntian, send someone to shoot in the palace again, tell them that the army that broke out from the siege was wiped out, and tell them to surrender quickly." Li Hong sighed, "If Yuan Shao dies, the hope of appeasing the rebels will also be in vain. Not only Yuan Shao Brothers Tan and Yuan Xi have formed a deep blood feud with us, and even Liu Biao, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan will fight us to the end for their own lives and will never surrender."

"If Yuan Shao was in Luoyang, the chances of him surviving would not be great." Qu Yi sneered, "Even if he was alive, he would not surrender, let alone help us appease the rebels."

"But it's better for him to be alive than to be dead." Li Hong said helplessly, "If he's dead, he's dead, but at least there must be a dead body, so that the rebels won't mistakenly think that we have smashed him to ashes, and he has a dead body." Dead corpse, we should have an explanation when we appease the forces of the Yuan faction."

"Maybe he's still in the palace." Qu Yi comforted, "Yuan Shao may not have died so easily."

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