blenderwars 165: Fighting hard to no avail, but withdrawing troops!
165: Fighting hard to no avail, but withdrawing troops!
After Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu received Liu He's order, although they were confused, they also knew that this was the only way to deal with the possible crisis of the emperor.
Therefore, although forcibly sieging the city would cause them to suffer a lot of losses, they did not refuse.
After all, if you can capture Luoyang and save the emperor, the political capital you will gain will far exceed the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers!
In the early morning of the next day, the three-way coalition forces launched a strong attack on Luoyang at the same time as agreed!
The siege of 300,000 main pawns and nearly a million auxiliary soldiers, even if it is divided into three sides, the visual pressure is not comparable to the battle of Hulaoguan.
The rain of arrows covered the sky.
Countless auxiliary soldiers carried ladders and simple bridges with wooden boards, rushing towards the moat like ants.
The guards fought back with strong bows and crossbows, and from time to time they could harvest the next piece of life.
Before opening the moat, the coalition had no way to fight back.
Even Liu He's army of crossbowmen could not enter the defense line formed by hundreds of powerful crossbows and a hundred stone bows in Luoyang to counterattack.
You can only rely on auxiliary soldiers to take your life to fill.
Fortunately, due to Dong Zhuo's series of salacious operations, and the first batch of defenders who served as cannon fodder in the city tower, they were all miscellaneous troops forcibly recruited by Sili 05.
Originally, morale was not high, and it was added that he had not undergone serious training.
Even with the blessing of a strong bow and a crossbow, there is almost nothing on the head, and the victory depends on the number of arrows caused by the rain.
On the other hand, the coalition army has accumulated a lot of experience after several sieges and fortified villages, and knows how to effectively avoid arrow clusters.
In the east battlefield in charge of Liu He, after the auxiliary soldiers dropped more than 3,000 lives, three simple pontoon bridges were finally successfully built on the moat.
"Siege!"
Liu He gave an order, and the second batch of auxiliary soldiers who had been ready for a long time, carrying the ladder and sandbags, began to rush forward.
Their mission is to attract the attention of the defenders and use their flesh to open the way for the large army behind.
Han Fu and Cao Cao stood behind Liu He, looking serious, and did not question Liu He's order.
After a group of people finally successfully crossed the moat, all the generals showed an excited look.
"The first level is finally over!"
Cao Cao couldn't help sighing: "As expected of the capital, more than 3,000 lives were lost just to cross such a small moat!
"Fortunately, this first hurdle is still over."
Han Fu's face was also sinking, and the words he said were not very pleasant: "It's just to cross the moat, as long as you are willing to die sooner or later.
"The point is after this!
Han Fu's words came true immediately.
After the first batch of heavily armored infantrymen followed behind the auxiliary soldiers, they raised their shields and cautiously crossed the pontoon to the opposite side.
Before they could form a shield formation, a rain of arrows that was several times denser than before hit, and immediately shot down most of the more than 1,000 selected fronts.
Even if the rest were able to form a formation, they lost their combat effectiveness because they were too few.
This is the long-awaited crossbowmen of the forbidden army showing their power!
Compared with untrained rookie recruits, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guards is undoubtedly several grades higher.
Although the soldiers and horses of the fifth battalion today have long lost the strength of the early Han Dynasty, they still have enough to eat and warm clothes, and they are trained in the military camp every day.
Even if the morale is still low, as long as it is not low enough to collapse, the combat effectiveness is still not to be underestimated.
"I didn't expect Luoyang's firepower to be so strong." Liu He frowned when he saw the soldiers who crossed the moat fell one after another on the way, "When I heard that Dong Zhuo sent soldiers who were not directly related to the city to guard the city, he also asked Hu When Zhen this subordinate was defeated and commanded in the future, he thought the battle would not be too difficult.99
"I didn't expect Liu Xie to come out, it would be so difficult just to break through the defense line and touch the bricks of the city wall!
After another batch of heavily armored and selected front troops were completely wiped out, and the first trench was not even touched, Liu He decisively ordered the withdrawal of the troops.
Fighting again will only increase casualties, and it will not make any sense!
Back in the handsome account, Liu He also received military reports from Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao.
The attack from the west and the south was equally slow. After paying thousands of casualties but still unable to fill the first trench, Eryuan also chose to withdraw his troops temporarily.
"An effective countermeasure must be negotiated!
Liu He threw the General's newspaper on the table with a "pop", and glanced at the crowd majestically.
"I can't spend it with the bandit army like this anymore. Everyone said, do you have any good ideas?"
Everyone looked at each other.
In the end, it was Han Fu who spoke first: "Leader, why don't we join forces in three ways, and attack from three sides at the same time, our soldiers are really insufficient!
Without Liu He speaking, Cao Cao immediately frowned and retorted: "But Han Shijun, then the main direction of our army's attack will be too obvious."
"Even if I can gain the upper hand for a while, what should I do when the thief Dong takes the emperor hostage to the city wall?"
Han Fu was speechless.
He almost blurted out, then he would change the main attack direction and order someone to move back, but he was not stupid to the end.
After all, if you can move, is it because the Son of Heaven cannot move?
When the time comes, if you move around, if there is no victory, the morale of several parties will get lower and lower!
"Han Shijun was worried about the situation of the battle, and he didn't think about it for a while, which is understandable." Liu He first comforted Han Fu, then looked at Cao Cao and asked expectantly, "Does Meng De have any ideas?
However, Cao Cao also bowed his head in shame: "Xiaoguan has no good idea, and I am ashamed of the leader's expectations.
"Humph!"
Hearing this, Han Fu raised the corners of his eyes and let out a loud laugh.
130 He thought that the son of the eunuch could really talk about it, but it turned out to be nothing to say?
At least I can give my opinion!
"It's nothing, Meng De doesn't need to mind, I'm too impatient.
Although Liu He was a little disappointed, he didn't expect that even Boss Cao couldn't do anything, but he quickly adjusted his mentality.
The current Cao Cao is not the hegemon of the roost in history, and he has only just started his army, and he is inexperienced, so it is normal that he cannot do anything.
After all, what is blocking the front is not the wall of the Hu people, but Luoyang, the capital of Han Dynasty!
If it was so easy to capture, it wouldn't be called Luoyang.
Yan Liang looked around and found that no one was talking, so he pouted and said, "Sir, the casualties will be heavy. After the first trench, our bowmen will be able to counterattack effectively!"
"Isn't it all about fighting for human life? We Youzhou children are all heroes who are not afraid of death, and the arrows in the city are not infinite, and if they don't have arrows, they will be finished!"
Cao Cao's eyes lit up at first, as if he had thought of something, but he quickly shook his head and denied it: "Luoyang is the capital, and there is no shortage of supplies."
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