Thief Emperor

Chapter 745: Easily Conquer Luoyang (Happy New Year's Eve~)

Meng Qing immediately picked up the telescope and looked up at Luoyang City in the distance. He saw that the west gate of Luoyang was wide open. Countless soldiers of the Shuofang Army in armor poured out of the gate and quickly formed a camp in front of the gate.

Meng Qing slowly put down the telescope, took a deep breath, looked at Li Yun, and said, "As for the superiors, they don't have to leave the city. They can just stay in Luoyang City and fight with us for a year or two. There will be no problem."

Li Yun shook his head slightly and said, "Our encirclement is getting tighter and tighter. The Shuofang Army can now either attack from the inside or from the outside to break through our defenses and force us to withdraw from the vicinity of Luoyang."

"Otherwise, the Shuofang Army will have no choice but to find an opportunity to break out."

Li Yun said softly: "Otherwise, if he is surrounded by us, he will have to break out sooner or later, and the price of breaking out in the future will not be the same as the price of breaking out now."

Meng Qing nodded slowly. He looked up at the Luoyang battlefield in the distance and whispered, "So in the past few months, the Shuofang Army in the city has been sending out troops to make some tentative attacks and breakouts."

Li Yun looked into the distance and said nothing.

There was murderous intent in his eyes.

In the past month, the war in the Central Plains has made Li Yun a little impatient.

Every day, even every hour, a battle report was delivered to him, and what was recorded on the report were seemingly cold numbers.

If these numbers were handed to the monarchs who grew up in the deep palace, they might not feel anything and might even regard these numbers as just numbers.

But Jiang Dongjun was raised by Li Yun, just like his other child. This child grew up healthily and now he has finally grown into a teenager, but now his face is covered with blood since he was beaten.

Moreover, sometimes when battle reports were delivered, Li Yun could see some familiar names on the list of casualties.

Among his direct line of soldiers in the anti-theft team, many were truly willing to die for him, and it was for this reason that some of them actually died in this war.

For Li Yun, even if we put aside personal feelings, these people are not only a military aid, but will also be a great political helper in the future. Every loss is a huge loss for him.

By now, he was getting a little impatient.

"Meng Qing!"

Meng Qing immediately bowed his head and clasped his fists: "I'm here!"

Li Yun took a few deep breaths and said slowly: "You lead the troops to block the west of Luoyang. No matter what, we can't let the Shuofang Army in Luoyang merge with the Shuofang Army in the west!"

Meng Qing bowed his head deeply and said, "I obey your command!"

Li Yun looked at the battlefield and continued, "Give me another 5,000 elite soldiers."

Meng Qing raised his head, looked at Li Yun, and shook his head slightly: "Your Majesty, this won't do."

"What's wrong with that?"

Li Yun said calmly: "Don't worry, I won't attack the city myself. The battlefield has not reached this point yet, but this is indeed an opportunity for us."

Mr. Li said in a low voice: "An opportunity to change the battlefield situation!"

According to the intelligence Li Yun received and his analysis of the situation on the scene, it is very likely that the Luoyang defenders will leave the city in full force this time.

Even if they didn't come out in full force, there wouldn't be too many troops left to defend the city.

Even if he left 10,000 soldiers to defend the city, deployed at the various gates and walls, there might only be 1,000 or 2,000 soldiers. If he caught the enemy by surprise, he might be able to achieve miraculous results.

Even if Luoyang cannot be captured, it can still affect the battlefield in the west and make the Shuofang army worry.

Meng Qing had never questioned Li Yun's orders. He was just worried about Li Yun's safety. After hearing that Li Yun would not attack the city personally, he immediately bowed his head and clasped his fists, saying, "Master, I will arrange it right away."

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West of Luoyang City, Wei Yao, the Major General of the Shuofang Army, looked back at Luoyang City behind him, then turned his head to the west, waved his arm, and shouted: "Brothers, the general is leading the main force and is heading straight to Luoyang!"

"We will attack from both sides. The Jiangdong Army will have no chance of survival!" "As long as we defeat the Jiangdong Army, Luoyang will still be ours. All of you, follow my orders. Go west! Go forward!"

Following Wei Yao's order, the huge Shuofang army began to march westward.

Meng Qing had already formed his battle array thirty miles to the west of them. At the same time, the two counties of Xin'an and Shou'an had received the coordinated message from the Nine Departments and began to prepare to block the main force of the Shuofang Army.

Su Sheng's troops had already separated a part of their forces and headed to the battlefield west of Luoyang.

A war of such magnitude that it may even determine the direction of the Central Plains is finally no longer in the planning stage but has officially begun.

A fierce battle is inevitable.

Li Yun, on the other hand, led thousands of troops and quietly went around to the east of Luoyang City. When the news of the war on the front line came, he did not hesitate and led thousands of soldiers and horses to the east gate of Luoyang City.

This time, Li Yun himself even put on armor and rushed to the front line of the battlefield.

At noon, Li Yun gave an order and his troops began to attack the city.

The catapults were pushed to the front line of the array and the ladders were ready.

After the scouts advanced to a distance of a hundred feet outside the city of Luoyang, they used telescopes to look at the situation on the city wall. They saw that there were still many Shuofang soldiers on the east gate wall, and there was a Shuofang soldier on duty every two city walls.

The captain on the front line quickly gave the order, and as the catapults began throwing stones, the siege officially began.

As soon as the catapults started attacking the city, the captain on the front line discovered something was wrong. The Shuofang soldiers on the city walls scattered after being attacked by the catapults. Soon, there was no one on the city wall!

The captain wiped the sweat from his forehead and ordered the erection of ladders to attack the city. Then he ran all the way back to the central army, knelt in front of Li Yun, bowed his head and saluted: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

The captain swallowed his saliva and said in a hoarse voice: "Luoyang City, it seems... it seems that there are no defenders anymore!"

Li Yun was startled when he heard this. He left the camp and went to the front line. He looked at Luoyang City through a telescope and frowned: "The spies reported this morning that there is still..."

The captain followed behind Li Yun and said with his head down: "After the catapults launched a round of attacks, all the defenders on the city wall immediately scattered. I guess those people on the city wall might not be defenders..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yun picked up the telescope and looked towards the Luoyang city wall. He saw that some Jiangdong army soldiers had already climbed up to the city wall, and there was no resistance from any defenders on the wall.

Soon, with a creaking sound, the east gate of Luoyang was slowly pushed open, and a group of Jiangdong army soldiers entered Luoyang city with joy.

Someone hurried forward to announce the good news, bowed his head and clasped his fists to Li Yun and said, "Your Majesty, Captain! My army has occupied the east gate of Luoyang, and the city gate is wide open!"

Li Yun took a deep breath and frowned slightly: "I have seen it."

He looked around, then down at his armor, and laughed at himself: "I've been hunting geese all day, and today I got my eye pecked by a goose."

After saying that, Li Yun looked up at the Luoyang City in front of him and muttered, "This Wei Yao, I really underestimated him."

"This man does have some courage."

It was obvious that when Wei Yao left Luoyang City yesterday, he had no intention of coming back. Instead, he left in full force, leaving only a few people behind.

As for those on the city wall pretending to be defenders, they were either a small number of Shuofang troops he left behind, or the common people in the city "hired" by the Shuofang troops.

All the Shuofang Army's forces were now involved in the east-west attack, the internal and external attack, intending to defeat or even penetrate the Jiangdong Army between Luoyang and Shanzhou in one fell swoop!
However, Wei Yao still missed a step. He probably didn't expect that Li Yun would allocate part of his troops to attack Luoyang City so soon.

Mr. Li raised his head and looked at Luoyang in front of him, his voice hoarse.

"Pass on my military order, march into Luoyang immediately and take over all the city gates of Luoyang as quickly as possible!"

Several captains under his command immediately bowed their heads and clasped their fists.

"Follow the order!"

(End of this chapter)