Super Cultivation System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1061 The Difficulty in Luoyang
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

From the top of Luoyang City, the sound of urgent trumpets spread in all directions.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

The people in the city stopped to watch, their faces full of confusion.

Although the bloody battle outside Hulao Pass lasted for nearly a month, it had almost no impact on Luoyang City. The only impact was that many merchants and travelers had to change to land and water transportation, disembarking at Mengjin Port and traveling to and from Luoyang. The daily opening hours of the city gates were greatly shortened, and inspections at the city gates became more stringent.

Therefore, even though there were a total of one million troops fighting fiercely outside the Great Wall, the more than two million people in the city were living their lives as usual.

It was not until the horn suddenly sounded that they suddenly realized that they were in wartime.

Queen Zhang Yu, Queen Mother Xu and others who were embroidering in the harem couldn't help but feel their hearts tighten when they heard the rapid and loud sound of the horn.

"This is the horn sounding that the enemy is outside the city. What's going on?"

Xu became a little flustered.

Even she was like this, so people like Diao Chan and many palace maids were even more panicked.

Zhang Yu's complexion quickly returned to normal. She held Xu's hands and said softly, "Don't worry, mother. Not long ago, Xu Chu and Dian Wei crossed the mountains and tried to attack Hulao Pass, but were repelled by Your Majesty, suffering heavy casualties. Now, perhaps they have been recuperating in the mountains for a few days and want to make a desperate attempt to disturb Luoyang City with a few thousand remaining soldiers."

After hearing this, Xu also calmed down a little: "Well, my daughter-in-law is right."

Although Xu was no longer knowledgeable, she knew that Luoyang City, which had been renovated many times by Liu He and had nearly doubled in size compared to more than ten years ago, could not be conquered by just a few thousand people, so she felt at ease.

Zhang Yu gave Diao Chan a look, and Diao Chan understood. Immediately, her joyful son Liu Tai and daughter Liu Shu sat beside the empress dowager and tried various ways to cheer her up.

"Daughter-in-law, where are you going?" When Xu saw Zhang Yu stand up, she asked hurriedly with concern.

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Your Majesty and the uncles are not here. Since there are rebels outside the city, we should go and investigate to prevent people in the city and the palace from panicking."

Xu said, "You are pregnant with a dragon, and your body is not in good condition. You should let someone else go."

"Don't worry, mother. Although I am not as proficient in martial arts as the generals in the army, I have also practiced swordsmanship every day when teaching them these years, just to strengthen their bodies. Besides, the baby is still young, so it should be fine."

Seeing her say that, Xu stopped trying to persuade her: "In that case, you should go quickly and come back quickly. If something goes wrong, send someone to Hulao Pass to report to He'er for handling. This military and national affairs is not something that women like us can interfere in."

Zhang Yu bowed slightly: "Don't worry, mother."

After saying that, she walked outside, escorted by a team of royal guards, several palace maids and eunuchs.

Not long after walking out of the Queen Mother's bedroom, I saw a man in armor rushing over. After seeing Zhang Yu, he immediately stepped forward and knelt down to pay his respects.

Zhang Yu recognized him immediately: "Are you General Han, the Sima of the Yemen? What happened outside?"

General Han replied, "Your Majesty, Sun Ce led a hundred thousand troops and suddenly attacked from Hangu Pass. Now he is less than five miles away from the city gate. General Ye who is guarding the city has specially ordered me to lead the army to protect the palace."

When they heard that Sun Ce had brought an army of 100,000, the faces of the palace maids and eunuchs turned pale instantly, and they even began to tremble all over.

The reason is very simple. There are less than 20,000 defenders in Luoyang City now. Together with the 10,000 Yulin Guards in the imperial palace, the total number is less than 30,000. It is really a huge disparity in numbers.

Zhang Yu's expression changed several times in an instant, but she quickly calmed down.

"No need for that. Jiangdong rats are not worth mentioning. How could they enter the gate of Luoyang? Go and tell the Weiwei about this matter. He will make the decision."

The Weiwei was one of the Nine Ministers, responsible for the safety of Luoyang City. The current Weiwei was Lu Zhi's nephew and Yang Biao's son-in-law, named Lu Yong, with the same name as Zihe.

After Liu He wiped out Han Sui, he appointed this man as the prefect of Dunhuang. Because of his outstanding political achievements in eliminating banditry, stabilizing refugees, enforcing laws and regulations, and cracking down on powerful people in Dunhuang, he was transferred back to Luoyang a year ago to take over the power of the Weiwei.

After General Han left, Zhang Yu flicked her sleeves and said, "Go back to Changqiu Palace and change clothes."

Luoyang City was originally the most magnificent and solid city in the Han Dynasty. After more than ten years of painstaking management by Liu He, and repeated expansions and renovations, it became even more impregnable and indestructible.

The four city gates not only expanded the city wall and raised the city wall, but also had a protruding section of wall every fifteen feet. Once the enemy attacked the city, the enemies on the ladders would be attacked from three sides at the same time.

In addition, the densely packed crossbows on the city walls and the extremely heavy iron gates at the city gates all show that this Han capital is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

With all these factors, Luoyang City was built into a strategic place comparable to Tongguan.

However, all of this was completely ignored by Sun Ce, who was already overwhelmed by hatred and a little desire.

He pointed with his spear and shouted, "Charge them! The first one to climb the tower will be rewarded handsomely!" On the tower of the west gate of Luoyang City, the General Ye who was guarding the city was a native of Jingzhao. He was originally a soldier under Gao Shun. He had made meritorious services along the way. Now, at the age of over 30, he finally became the defender of the capital of Kyoto. In Luoyang City, when it comes to military power, he is second only to the Weiwei.

It is precisely because of this that General Ye cherishes this opportunity so much. He is now a glory to his impoverished aristocratic family. However, the battle ahead is extremely dangerous. If he is not careful, not only will his life be in danger, but his family may also be implicated. This makes him extremely alert.

"Prepare the Shocking Crossbow!"

At General Ye's command, hundreds of Jingshen crossbows were loaded with arrows in an instant.

"Kill..." Sun Ce, with a white cloth tied on his forehead, took the lead and rushed out first.

Seeing that the front of the enemy army, including Sun Ce himself, had rushed to within less than 200 steps outside the city gate, General Ye acted decisively.

"put!"

Thousands of powerful crossbow arrows, strong enough to break gold and shatter stone, made a loud noise in the air like the roar of a violent wind, and shot towards the Jiangdong troops in unison.

"spread!"

As soon as he saw the other side preparing to shoot, Sun Ce decisively gave the military order.

The 40,000 soldiers in the front quickly dispersed, with a distance of more than ten feet between every two soldiers.

"Susu..."

Thousands of crossbow arrows, most of them sank into the mud, leaving only a small part of the tail feather sticking out.

Hundreds of unlucky Jiangdong soldiers were directly blown away by the crossbow arrows and died before they could even shout out.

General Ye is a veteran who has fought many battles. Although his command ability is far from being comparable to that of Gao Shun and others, it is by no means mediocre.

He even used the crossbows to not give the enemy a chance to catch their breath, so he deliberately divided the hundreds of crossbows into two groups, firing one wave every other time.

As soon as the first wave landed, the second wave followed. During this time, the first batch of crossbows that had just fired arrows were quickly loaded with new arrows in the hands of the soldiers who were responsible for reloading the crossbows.

"Dang dang dang..." Sun Ce looked like a madman, waving the Overlord Spear and desperately blocking the crossbow arrows without slowing down at all.

After he deflected three or four crossbow arrows, even with Sun Ce's arm strength and martial arts skills, he felt a slight numbness in his right hand.

But at the moment, he didn't care about all these and quickly rushed to the city wall.

"Where's the ladder? Hurry!"

He shouted angrily, and several soldiers who had just caught up with him hurriedly put the ladders on the city wall.

General Ye's brows were furrowed, his face was solemn, and he did not slack off for a moment.

"We must not relax our efforts in firing crossbows. We must not allow the enemy to swarm in. Our army is small and it is difficult to confront them head-on. We must kill the enemy in batches to have a chance of winning."

After giving instructions to a general who was in charge of commanding the Jingshen Crossbow, he quickly gathered the other soldiers.

"Archers, slingers, and logs and stones, prepare to attack!"

While the fierce battle was going on here, outside the south gate of Luoyang City, in the barren mountains more than 20 miles away, a patch of bushes and vines suddenly shook, and then a hole was torn open in it, and several figures walked out of it.

"Puh, phuh..." There were some broken leaves on Xu Chu's mouth, and he spat them out casually.

"Fortunately, our lord was wise and found a few old hunters to lead us to explore the terrain in advance. We found this cave, which contained a lot of dry food, clean water, and golden wound medicine. Otherwise, we would have no way out this time."

Dian Wei also came out. Although he had a bandage on his shoulder, his face was very rosy and he had obviously recovered well.

"Well, our injuries have been healed to about 70% and it's time to attack again."

As he was speaking, a soldier from Pingshan Feijun came out from the dense forest.

"My two generals, I have climbed to the top of a nearby mountain to investigate for a long time and found that there is movement to the west of Luoyang City."

Dian Wei and Xu Chu were overjoyed when they heard this.

"The opportunity has come!" The two looked at each other and saw joy in each other's eyes.

(End of this chapter)