In the face of the yellow scarf bandits, thousands of cavalry in Luoyang did not rush up. They just looked at each other from a distance. When the army showed some flaws, they were ready to rush up and bite. Unfortunately, the leaders of the two bandits were not fickle. They were still not easily fooled in the face of Luoyang cavalry. Of course, the whole yellow scarf army was not fooled There are large-scale cavalry, only one thousand cavalry in Zhang Yan''s hands. Facing thousands of court cavalry, they also limit their idea of sending troops. Almost at the same time, Jingzhou Huangjin in the South marched towards Luoyang. However, after crossing Luoshui, Jingzhou Huangjin tied the camp to the west of Luoyang.
In this way, on the afternoon of the 9th, the Huangjin army surrounded Luoyang City. The north and West were blocked by the Huangjin army, while the South was Luoshui, which was more than ten feet wide. As for the dozens of ships that Huangfu Chaobo harvested last time, they had already arranged personnel to sail to a place in the east of Gongxian County to hide a few days ago. Now Luoyang has been surrounded by the Huangjin army, and the battle of Luoyang is very difficult Open the curtain.
As soon as the yellow scarf army was dispatched, the personnel of the surrounding ten towns immediately withdrew to Luoyang. Although there was still one or two days to grow grain, for the sake of safety, Huangfu Chaobo forced all the personnel to withdraw to Luoyang. The atmosphere of Luoyang suddenly became tense. It was impossible to say that it was not tense. After all, it was a total of 200000 troops. Even if the Huangjin army left 5000 soldiers and horses in each of the two counties, and the two camps had to leave 10000 to 20000 soldiers and horses to guard them. As a result, the number of troops involved in the attack on the city was about 40000 in the west gate and 40000 in the north gate, and 70000 in the east gate Left and right forces.
After the yellow scarf army besieged the city on three sides took up the camp, they did not attack the city immediately. Instead, they arranged about 20000 soldiers to guard the three gates. The other soldiers were sent to prepare the equipment for the next day''s attack.
In Luoyang City, Huang Zhong and others stood on the northwest corner of the outer city wall of Luoyang, looking at the Yellow Sea outside the city, combined with the news from the shadow, they quickly found out the key direction of the yellow scarf army''s attack. The east gate is the focus of the Huangjin army''s attack, followed by the Baibo army''s direction in the north gate. As for the 50000 Jingzhou Huangjin army in the west gate, if not considering the main force of the Huangjin army in other directions, Huangfu Chaobo is ordering the cavalry to solve the bandits in the West first.
For the South Gate direction, because there was no water army in the yellow scarf army, and there was only a few miles of space outside the south gate, it was not enough for the army to launch, so the yellow scarf army did not arrange siege troops here. Now that we know the attack priority of the yellow scarf army, it''s easy to arrange the troops in Luoyang. Two thousand crossbow soldiers were assigned to the East and North walls. Dian Wei''s Pro Guard soldiers transferred 1500 people to Zaozhi, who was responsible for the coordination of the western and southern walls. Although there is no yellow scarf thief army outside the south gate, the people in the city are not careless. Who knows if the yellow scarf army has soldiers there?
The next morning, the yellow scarf camp outside Luoyang sounded a long horn.
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The movement of Huangjin camp alerted the general who was on duty at the head of the city. At the same time, it ordered the taxi soldiers who had been waiting in the city to go up to the wall and enter the predetermined position. Soon it was quiet, and the head of the wall became lively. Teams of taxi soldiers went up to the head of the city, and the items were moved up from under the wall. At the same time, there are thousands of players going to the city together. After Huangfu Chaobo communicated with Zhao Zilong, Zilong Club quickly gathered more than 8000 players to participate in the city defense. In addition, more than 1000 players of Luoshen club participated in the city defense. These players were divided into four parts by Huang Zhong and assigned to the four walls. Of course, the players were not the main force of the city defense. But at the same time, the yellow scarf barracks in the north and West also heard the bugle. For a moment, the whole city of Luoyang became lively.
When Huangfu Chaobo and others arrived at the east wall, the yellow scarf army had all left the camp and was advancing near the wall. Seeing that Huangfu Chaobo had gone up to the wall, the general on duty immediately saluted and said, "Lord, General Huang, Lord Lou!"
"Well! Are the yellow scarf thieves ready to attack? " Huangfu Chaobo said;
"Lord, look, the yellow scarf thieves should be ready to attack. There are 30000 soldiers in the east city, and there should be tens of thousands more making siege equipment." The general on duty takes a few people to the edge of the city wall and points to the yellow scarf military lines in the distance below the city;
looking up, Huangfu Chaobo sees a Yellow Sea in the distance, which is different from the last time when the thieves attacked the city. It can be seen that the elite of the yellow scarf soldiers is far beyond the level of the thieves. Thirty thousand soldiers were divided into 30 thousand men''s squads of three times ten. In the front two rows were light soldiers. In the middle of the third row, each thousand men''s squadron was guarding some equipment. In the last row, there were ten soldiers in the squadron. Obviously, their weapons and equipment were better than those in the front two squadrons.
"Brother, sir, it seems that the yellow scarf thief is really ready today." Speaking of this, Huangfu Chaobo turned to Sun Ping, who was beside him, and said, "did the news come from the other city walls? What''s the attack of the yellow scarf thief? "
"General Hui, there is no news from the other walls yet!" Sun Pingdao;
"Lord, don''t worry," Huang Zhongdao said, "it''s not so fast. It will take a day or two for the yellow scarf thief to fill the moat, unless Zhang Yan tries to fill the moat at all costs. Only in this way, the loss in this aspect alone will cost 10000 people. I just don''t know if he can accept it."It took the yellow scarf army nearly an hour to push the army to less than two li away from the Luoyang city wall. After a little rest, the drum of the yellow scarf army''s attack sounded. Several thousand soldiers came out of the first line of soldiers. These soldiers were not armed, but with a shield in their right hand and a cloth bag on their back. These are the light soldiers who fill the moat. Their main function is to fill several passages in the moat of Luoyang City to provide a way for the siege troops and siege equipment behind.
The archers on the city wall have been shooting for a long time, but for the crossbow soldiers, after the last siege by the bandits, Huangfu Chaobo has summed it up, but it''s a little tangled. If there are obstacles or heavy infantry in front of him in the field, it''s almost a very powerful firepower output, but it''s more tangled for siege and garrison, right The shooting distance at large elevation angle should not be too far, otherwise the landing point can not be found basically, and for downward firing, the crossbow will slide down from the crossbow machine when the angle is large. Of course, when large crossbows are used, they always shoot at a small elevation angle, because a huge crossbow has such great lethality.