Cheng Yaojin walked out alone, but his mind was blank. He didn't know where to go after leaving the city gate. Just as he was about to leave the city gate of Cang City, he was stopped by a familiar voice: "Where are Brother Zhijie going?" Cheng Yaojin turned his head and saw that it was his old friend Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao. Qin Qiong knew Cheng Yaojin since he was a child, and he joined the Wagang Army from different channels one after another. The two of them were naturally closer than ordinary Wagang generals.

After Qin Qiong surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, Li Mi only reported this matter to a very small extent in order to maintain the morale of the Wagang Army. Even generals of Cheng Yaojin thought Qin Shubao had disappeared on the battlefield. So, at this time, Cheng Yaojin opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "Shubao, why... why did you meet you here? I, old Cheng, thought you were dead." Immediately, he woke up again, slapped his thigh and said: "I understand, you must be greedy for life and fear of death and surrendered to the Sui Army!"

Qin Qiong frowned slightly and said, "It is true that I surrendered to the court, but I am not afraid of death. But for the thousands of brothers under my command, they all have families, old and young, and everyone has a family behind them."

Qin Qiong paused and continued, "Of course, there are more important reasons. As far as I can see, the emperor was not as stupid as the legendary one. The turmoil in the world was caused by his great joy in the shortage of efforts to waste people's efforts, and he himself admitted it. Now, he has begun to work hard to govern, encourage farmers and triumphs, and try his best to rest and rest. In the Heluo War, he did not recruit military laborers in Bashu, Liangzhou, Guanzhong, Jingzhou, Jiangdong, and Huainan on a large scale. What these anti-Sui princes were seeking was just hereditary dukes, or even the nine five masters. They were not necessarily better in the world than they are now. What's more, they were unlikely to overthrow the Sui Dynasty. You have seen the current combat power of the Sui army. There is still a glimmer of hope for all the anti-Kings to unite together, but this is almost impossible."

Cheng Yaojin waved his hand and interrupted him, "You are trying to persuade me to submit to the court and do things for the emperor? But I just refused to come to protect my son."

Qin Qiong laughed and said, "Yes, I advise you to follow me to serve the court, to quell the turmoil in the world as soon as possible, and to restore peace to the people of the world. As long as you are willing, I will recommend it to you."

At this time, Lai Hu'er rode his horse, holding Cheng Yaojin's big axe in his hand, and interrupted, "No need to introduce him, brother Zhijie, let's join here." After that, he threw the big axe to Cheng Yaojin. Cheng Yaojin took the thrown axe with both hands, and grinned and whispered twice haha, he agreed.

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The news that Luokou fell into the Sui army soon spread to the Limi mansion in Xingyang and Luo Shixin’s central army tent south of Luokou. Li Mi and Luo Shixin were both shocked. The loss of Luokou Cang was extraordinary, which put hundreds of thousands of Wagang main force gathered in Heluo into a dangerous situation.

First, let Luo Shixin's headquarters and the more than 200,000 friendly troops gathered beside him be under the enemy. Moreover, not only these more than 200,000 troops, but also the more than 100,000 Wagang troops in Xingyang and Jinyong City all rely on this Luokou warehouse to supply grain and grass. Without this warehouse, you have to raise grain and grass from the land of Qingxu in Henan, Yan, and then transport it from thousands of miles away, which will consume a lot of material and military strength.

But none of these pose the greatest threat to the Wagang Army. The biggest threat was that Yang Guang would regain tens of millions of loads of food, so he would have the conditions to recruit troops from Bashu, Liangzhou, Runan, Huainan, and Jingzhou, the relatively peaceful ruling areas of the Sui Dynasty, gathered in the Heluo area of ​​the Dongdu. At that time, the strength of the troops on both sides would be reversed, and the Wagang Army would be at an absolute disadvantage.

Therefore, when he heard that the food in Luokou had not been burned yet, Li Mi's first reaction was to take back the Luokou Cang, and Luo Shixin, who was in the south of Luokou, thought so.

Li Mi personally led more than 50,000 troops from Xingyang and the surrounding areas to attack Luokou from the east, while Luo Shixin split half of the more than 200,000 troops and was led by Pei Renji and his son to kill Luokou from the west. More than 150,000 soldiers from the two prime ministers surrounded Luokoucang like an iron barrel. The Luoshui River was also blocked. However, the water gate facing the Yellow River on the Luokoucang side was unable to block the Wagang army.

The Yellow River waterway is wide and cannot attack the Sui army's Viking warships on the river from both sides. The Sui army on the shore tried to set up iron cables to block the river, and would be attacked by the Viking sailors riding on the Viking ships in the river.

Facing nearly ten times the enemy, Lai Hu'er, he was huddled in Luokou Cang and kept his door closed. Except for the water gate that opened towards the Yellow River, all the city gates were sealed with hemp.

Because the Wagang Army counterattacked too quickly, there was no time to prepare to roll wood and rocks on the city wall. When he came, he loaded many light crossbows on the Viking ships. Yang Guang gave him all the hot bombs brought from the south. But strangely, these light crossbows were not arranged on the city wall.

Now it is not urgent to defend the city, but the siege is urgent to attack. As time goes by, the Wagang army can only fall into an increasingly unfavorable situation. Therefore, Li Mi and Pei Renji did not make any sufficient preparations and launched an attack without creating enough siege equipment.

The giant catapult cart threw hundreds of kilograms of huge rocks into the city wall of Luokoucang. Everyone on the city wall could feel the trembling of the earth. But that's all. Although the city wall of Luokoucang is not high, it is only three or four battles as the standard of ordinary cities, the thickness of the city wall of Luokoucang is very large, more than ten battles wide. The soil used to build these city walls is made of local materials and is taken from the earth dug when digging the grain caves, so it can be piled so thick.

Therefore, no matter how powerful the catapult is, it can only leave a few huge depressions on the wide and thick rammed earth city wall, but it cannot destroy the entire city wall. The catapult cart cast a continuous hour, smashing the city wall into a pothole, and almost all the battlements were shattered, but the main structure of the city wall was not damaged at all. There was no crack.

Seeing that it was useless, Li Mi ordered the entire army to launch a general attack from all directions. He didn't even bother to use the conventional siege skills and strategies, and was preparing to use the 150,000-strong army's sea tactics to level Luokou City. He was determined to wipe out the Sui army completely, and secretly vowed to take the skin of these Sui army alive after capturing this city. He also wanted to be cooked by the traitor Cheng Yaojin.

The black soldiers of the Wagang Army rushed to the foot of Luokou City like bees returning to their nests. They first used cold arrows that kept coming from the city to fill the trench with firewood and gravel. The two thousand long archers on the city to destroy the Wagang Army one by one with accurate long-range shots.
Chapter completed!