"Report to the commander-in-chief, the rebels outside the city are withdrawing." A messenger in Luokoucang City rushed to report.

"Removed?" Zhang Zhongjian, the bearded man, looked in disbelief. He stroked his face and bearded, turned his head to look at Li Jing beside him...

Li Jing sat there calmly, as if he was entering a meditation with an old monk.

After a long time, he said slowly, "Do you know when they started to withdraw their troops and to which side did they withdraw their troops?"

"Master General, as soon as the sun sets, the rebels outside the city are already camping, and now they have set off. They have divided into two groups, one of which is about 50,000 rebels heading west with the banner of Wei. Another about 100,000 rebels heading towards Hulao under the banner of Zheng."

"The rebels besieged us for several days, but now they suddenly withdrew. General, do they want to fight Luoyang and Hulao Pass? Do we go out of the city to pursue? There are not many soldiers and horses in Luoyang City. If Li Mi really goes to fight Luoyang City, we can't put your highness in danger." A lieutenant said.

Zhang Zhongjian didn't think so. He pondered: "Although the rebels arranged together, the rebels temporarily put together and did not get along with each other. Although they were large in the army, their weapons were simple, lacking armor, and less food. Nowadays, we have few soldiers, but we have a strong city to rely on. Luokoucang City, Hulao, and Luoyang are all the strongest cities in the Central Plains. At this time, we should not blindly go out of the city to fight with the enemy, but should stick to the city and waste it with Li Mi and the others. We have been waiting for it, and it has been a while since Hebei besieged Dou Jiande. It will take not long to destroy Dou Jiande and go south. Huainan has recovered. They can go north for a long time. As long as we wait, Li Mi and other rebels will not continue their food and grass and their morale will be weak. At that time, our reinforcements will be newly arrived, and we will be able to annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop."

Li Jing nodded. The best way to deal with it at this time is of course to defend Yicheng. But Zhang Zhongjian was the garrison of Luokou Cang City. He just retreated into Luokou City for the time being. If Zhang Zhongjian really wanted to send troops, Li Jing could not stop it. "Marson Zhang said it well. Hulao and Luoyang are all fortresses in Gaocheng, but the few soldiers were the city. Li Mi and other rebels could not defeat us. Now they are divided into two places to attack, which is even more impossible to succeed. According to my general's opinion, Li Mi and others are trying to lure us out of the city and then fight with us in the field. This is a matter of time. We cannot go."

"But if Li Mi really goes to fight Luoyang City, your highness will not have many soldiers around you. What's more, the Dongdu army has also surrendered to Wang Xuanying and others. This Dongdu is their nest. If they come to cooperate with each other inside and outside, wouldn't we put Your Highness in danger?" Another general was still hesitating.

"If Li Mi really goes to attack Luoyang, I will lead the headquarters to rescue me by then. I will take all the responsibility. This matter is agreed upon. There is no need to say anything more. The generals will go back and strengthen their defense!" Li Jing said solemnly.

At night.

Twenty miles away from Luokoucang City, by the Luoshui River, two rebels who retreated separately before dusk gathered here.

In the dark night, Wang Xuanying, Li Mi, Huangfu Xiren, Dou Hongsheng, Du Ji and others gathered together, all of whom were solemn.

Wait, wait, wait.

"There is no movement in Luokou Cang City!" Detective Ma Lai reported.

"There is no movement in Luokoucang City!" After an hour, I took the horse to report again.

......

"There is still no movement!" It was getting dark, and the horse was hiding again.

Silence, silence, or silence. Li Mi and others who had been waiting by the Luoshui River for a night were all silent.

"We should wait a little longer and send some troops to attack Huzhu. We will try to march towards Luoyang." Huangfu Xiren said with a pale face and a little devastated.

No one answered, and after a while, Wang Xuanying spoke out and broke the embarrassing silence.

"Where is Chen Pojun now?"

"He is still in Yanshi, and seems to be reorganizing the troops of the Eastern Capital. He has no intention of killing him immediately. However, depending on the situation, there will be at most two or three days. It is estimated that he will appear in Luokou City." Li Mi replied weakly.

"The strategy of seducing the enemy has failed." Wang Xuanying sighed, "Strong attack, we will attack Luokou Cang City!"

Dou Hongxian shook his head and advised: "The city is small and solid. If you attack but do not attack, you will lose your military power. Now that you have defeated your army, what can you do? In my opinion, we should take advantage of the opportunity of Chen Pojun leaving Luoyang and go to Yanshi to attack Chen Kefu. If you defeat Chen Pojun, the Hebei army will be in chaos."

Huangfu Xiren, who was clamoring to tear Chen Pojun out to feed the dogs yesterday, said with a pale face: "Chen Pojun captured Yanshi camp and re-engaged 40,000 Eastern Capital soldiers. Now it is the time for morale to be strong. He stayed in Yanshi but refused to move forward for a long time. I guess he set up some traps waiting for us to go. Chen Pojun is too cunning, and I think it's better to attack Luokoucang City. Chen Pojun now has 60,000 troops, but Luokoucang City only has 30,000 troops. What's more, if we take Luokoucang City, we can cut off Chen Pojun's food and grass, and we can solve the food and grass problem."

Chen Pojun's reputation was like a huge stone pressing on everyone's chest. Everyone wanted to fight Chen Pojun, but everyone was like Du Huangfu Xiren, thinking that a cunning person like Chen Pojun could not stop in the wild waiting for them to fight. They must have set up a condom to wait for them to drill. Another thing is that more than 100,000 rebels gathered in Luokou, and people ate horses every day, and the food and grass were almost finished.

If soldiers have no food, they will not gather. Without food, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses will be in trouble without fighting.

At dawn, Wang Xuan ordered the entire army to return to the army and besiege Luokou Cang City again. The entire army attacked and wanted to capture Luokou Cang City before Chen Kefu arrived.

Under Luokoucang City, Zheng army lined up outside the city and confronted Luokoucang City from afar.

Li Mi, Huangfu Xiren, Dou Hongxian, Du Ji and others rode on the horse. Wang Xuanying looked at the tall Luokou Cang City and waved his hand violently: "As planned, start."

Li Mi waved his hand and the drum sounded loudly, which shocked the earth and went from slow to fast. At first, you could hear the drum beats, but later it turned into a piece of sound. The drum sound suddenly stopped.

Li Jing, Zhang Zhongjian and others stood at the top of the city, watching condescendingly at the hundreds of thousands of rebels.

"Shi Shuai Li is expected to be the enemy's prophet. These rebels really wanted to lure us out of the city yesterday." Zhang Zhongjian said to Li Jing with a smile.

The generals on the city looked over and saw the neat formation of the rebel army advancing slowly.

"They actually dare to come back, so they don't have to go back." Li Jing looked at the rebel army formation that was more than 100,000 under the city, but he was not worried, but instead looked confident. He slowly stroked his beard, and Li Jing looked calm and calm.

Amid the rumbling sound of cowhide drums, Zheng Jun launched a tide-like attack.

Li Jing said to Zhang Zhongjian calmly: "Give them some good things."

"The stone throwing car, the force crossbow is prepared. The thunder throwing car is prepared for turret bombs, and the flowering bombs are prepared!"

The soldiers put stones on the throwing carts, and the powerful crossbow was pulled by a few people, and the iron arrows as big as an axe were aimed at the outside of the city. The soldiers from the engineering battalion brought boxes of cast iron flowering bullets, solid bullets, turbulent bullets and other shells to the city one by one to take their place.

The soldiers watching loudly reported the distance: eight hundred steps... seven hundred steps... six hundred steps... five hundred fifty steps...

Five hundred steps...

Three hundred steps...

Two hundred steps...

One hundred steps...

Fifty steps...

The chief manager of the Engineering Battalion ran to Li Jing and Zhang Zhongjian and reported loudly: "Report to the Marshal that the rebels have entered the city, and the Engineering Battalion requested to ignite the buried mines!"

Facing the wind, Li Jing looked at the rebels rushing to the foot of the city like ants, and nodded slightly.

The engineer battalion commander ran back excitedly and shouted: "Light the mine lead!"

A engineer lit up the fire stick in his hand and ignited the fuses. After the rebels withdrew yesterday, Li Jing had already buried a large number of mines within 500 steps outside the city. However, the production of trigger mines was cumbersome, and there were only a small amount in the city. Li Jing simply asked the engineers to bury gunpowder bags and pottery cans outside the city. The rebels would never know that a large amount of gunpowder had been buried under their feet. At this time, they were like standing on a volcano that could erupt at any time.

"boom!"

Just like a thunder sounded in summer, a fire suddenly burst out at the feet of the rebels under the city, and more than ten soldiers who were rushing to the sky were bombarded.

Before the rebel soldiers could react, the mines under their feet began to ring one after another, with shocking thunder and fires storm. Within five hundred steps under Luokou City, it was like a Shura hell field.

The remaining limbs flew across the board, the heads splattered, and the air was filled with blood and fire. The blood mist was reflected in the rising sun, like a bright cloud.

The power of a gunpowder pack is not very strong, but when thousands of gunpowder packs on the battlefield explode at the same time, the scene, the scene, the power, and the result shocked all Wang Xuanying, Li Mi and others who were watching the battle behind. They all fought with the Hebei army and knew that there were firearms in the Hebei army, which was amazing. But what they had experienced in the past were mostly firearms, and the bombs flew in the air with white smoke and then exploded on the ground. Although the lethality was also very great, there was no warning at this moment, countless bombs suddenly exploded from under their feet, covering tens of thousands of soldiers in countless shrapnel. This scene was something they had never expected.

The scene of using almost one-third of the gunpowder in the city was a big explosion. Even the two planners Li Jing and Zhang Zhongjian did not expect it. Seeing the explosions one after another, the rebels in Yuanji under the city, like wheat fields hit by heavy rain, knocking countless soldiers to the ground in pieces, they all fell silent for a moment.

"It's against the will of heaven." After a long time, Li Jing sighed.

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