nanming man

Chapter 332
Luoyang City is known as the capital of China, and it is a big city of great political significance in the world. Taking Luoyang is of great significance to the Qing court.

After Li Zicheng captured Luoyang, he grew rapidly, and the dynasties of the past dynasties, if they do not have Luoyang, they will rarely win the world.

For the Qing court, only by taking Luoyang and occupying Zhongzhou can they conquer Guanzhong in the west, Jingxiang in the south, and Huaisi in the east.

If the Qing army cannot capture Luoyang and occupy Henan, then the influence of the Qing army will be limited to the north of the Yellow River, and its power will not be able to enter the south, and it can only become a separatist regime.

After Duoduo crossed the river from Mengjin in the first month, he asked Beizi Wakda and Boluo to lead more than [-] Qing troops to drive away tens of thousands of young men and dig trenches to besiege Luoyang.

Back then when Li Zicheng besieged Luoyang with 10 people, his army stormed Anximen for dozens of days without counting casualties, but he insisted on not taking it down.

Later, Li Zicheng had no choice but to let Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai, the Ming generals who surrendered in the city, yell outside the city all night, "Welcome the king without paying the food."

The defenders in the city heard Li Zicheng's political slogans and saw that King Fu would not pay him any food, so they burned Anximen in a fit of anger, and Li Zicheng entered Luoyang.

Facing a big city like Luoyang, it is difficult to be taken down without any internal problems.

Duoduo asked Boluo to surround Luoyang and invited Gao Yihuan to rescue him. He and Gao Yihuan fought in Ruzhou, and Luoyang was handed over to Wakda and Boluo.

At this time, Wakda and Boluo were already outside the four gates, digging criss-crossing deep trenches, and surrounded Luoyang for four months.

At this time, in the Songshan Mountains in the southeast of Luoyang, a team of 6000 people was moving rapidly along the road.

This is Jin Shenghuan and his party who were ordered by Gao Yihuan to go to Luoyang for rescue.

Now Duoduo's attention was attracted by Gao Yihuan's retreat, and his army also rushed forward to the area of ​​Jia County, which made the distance between him and Luoyang wide, and gave the Wei army a chance to raid Luoyang.

The goal of Jin Shenghuan and his group was to take advantage of the opportunity of Duoduo being dragged in Jia County to break through the Dagu Pass, then drive directly to the city of Luoyang, meet Li Yan and Bai Wang to break through, and finally evacuate Luoyang quickly before the Qing army reacted. Return to the south of Henan by the same route.

After four days of marching, six thousand Wei troops had arrived at the foot of Goushi Mountain near Daguguan, only [-] miles away from Luoyang.

At this moment, the army was on their way silently, when a group of scouts came running over and saluted, "General, fifteen miles ahead is Dagu Pass! There are [-] Qing soldiers stationed there!"

Upon hearing this, Jin Shenghuan waved his hand, "Let the army stop and rest!"

The soldiers marched continuously for the past few days, and many places were led by horses on foot. The soldiers were already tired. When the military order was issued, the soldiers rested on the spot.

The soldiers of Xuanhu and Longqi Battalions drank some water and ate some dry food, and fell asleep. Jin Shenghuan called Hu Dawei, Xu Heihu and others to discuss how to break through the Dagu Pass.

Luoyang is located in a basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides and the Yellow River on one side. The terrain is like Shu and Guanzhong.

After the Qing army crossed the river from Mengjin, the passes that originally defended Luoyang were useless, and they were occupied by the Qing army one after another, and then sent some soldiers to garrison, which cut off Luoyang's connection with the outside world.

Jin Shenghuan was the one who attacked Luoyang this time, and he said first: "From what we have learned before, there are more than 1 Qing troops near Luoyang. It should not be difficult to defend the army. The difficulty is how to kill Luoyang without anyone noticing."

As he said that, Jin Shenghuan picked up a wooden stick, drew a picture on the ground, and then continued: "The problem now is that Dagu Pass is in front of us. Although there are not many Qing troops in this pass, attacking it will alarm Luoyang." The Qing army. If the Qing army in Luoyang knows we are coming, they will definitely be prepared, then our plan to accept Luoyang may be difficult to realize."

Hu Dawei frowned and said: "Then we can only sneak attack at night. If we show up during the day, the other party will definitely light a cigarette and report."

After hearing this, Jin Shenghuan looked at Yi Daosan who was at the side, "Captain Yi, are you sure?"

Yi Daosan pondered slightly, cupped his hands and said, "Do your best in this humble job!"

Seeing this, Jin Shenghuan immediately said: "If the sneak attack succeeds, then we can make some preparations and then raid Luoyang. If the sneak attack fails, then we will rob Dagu Pass, and then I will stay at the pass to guarantee a retreat. If I choose the Tiger Camp, I will go straight to Luoyang without stopping. Regardless of whether Li Jiedu can be brought out, he must return immediately and cannot stay in Luoyang."

Xu Heihu and Hu Dawei had no objection and nodded.

Dagu Pass, also known as Taigu Pass, is one of the eight passes set up for the Royal Yellow Turban in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

It is located in the southeast of Luoyang, east of Longmen Pass, and west of Hulao Pass. It was originally an important pass. However, in the unified dynasty, the inland passes were basically ignored. After a long period of disrepair, it seemed a bit weak. stand up.

On April 22, at five o'clock in the night, Taigu Pass was closed, and several dim lanterns were hung on the top of the city. From time to time, moths and mosquitoes bumped into them, and their wings flapped and made a "pop, pop, pop" sound.

On a night in early summer, the moon and stars are thin, and there are frogs and mosquitoes chirping everywhere.

After closing the upstairs, several soldiers of the Qing army were gambling in the building, and from time to time let out a triumphant laugh. A few soldiers outside the closed building were startled by the laughter, glanced at the figure gambling on the window, and continued to doze off again .

On the hilltops on both sides of the wall, there is a small Qing army stationed on each hilltop. There are six people on each hilltop.

It has to be said that the Qing army still has a good way of defending Guancheng, but the people who execute it are obviously not good. They are not single-minded Tartars outside the pass, and they act like the Ming Dynasty's official army.

At this time, in the darkness, more than a dozen figures slowly climbed up the mountain under the cover of night.

The three green battalion soldiers above were sitting around a fire, roasting a hare.Next to them was a tent, and there were bursts of snoring inside, and several Qing soldiers were snoring and sleeping.

Yi Daosan glanced at the three of them, immediately took out a hand crossbow, and then made a gesture, and then two more black shadows also took out the hand crossbow, aiming at the three Qing soldiers who were not saying a word.

Suddenly, Yi Daosan made a gesture, and the three crossbows were released at the same time, and the poisoned sharp arrow shot out with a "swish", and the three Qing soldiers by the campfire fell to the ground instantly.

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped out from Yi Daosan's side, and quickly entered the tent. After a while, Hu Dawei left the tent with three bleeding heads.When he walked to the campfire and saw the rabbit dripping with oil, he immediately threw the head away, picked up the barbecue, and took a big bite, not caring about the burning of his mouth.

Yi Daosan checked on the top of the mountain, patched the Qing army's corpse again, and then made a gesture, and the black shadows raised their fire and shook down the mountain.

"The wolf smoke is under control!" Seeing this, Jin Shenghuan was overjoyed, and then waved his hand, and a pair of black shadows quietly approached the wall with a ladder on their shoulders.

At this time, a few people also fell from the hills on both sides, and they landed on the wall like ghosts. When they raised their hands, they were like a crossbow arrow, shooting down the dozing Qing army.

The black shadows were very proficient at this, a few of them blocked the outside, and a few of them went down the Guanlou with their waists down.

Hu Dawei led several people and blocked the barracks of the Qing army in the pass.

There were only [-] Qing troops stationed at Dagu Pass, so as long as they were not allowed to light the beacon and make too much noise, it would be very difficult to get news from Luoyang.

At this time, the closed door was suddenly creaked and pushed open by the black shadow, Jin Shenghuan saw the closed door and shouted, "Kill!"

Thousands of cavalry immediately raised their torches and followed him to the closed entrance hundreds of steps away.

(End of this chapter)