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Above the head of Luoyang, the rapid sound of trumpets spread all over the world.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

The people in the city stopped and watched with confusion on their faces.

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 business travelers could only change to land, land, land, land, and travel to and from Luoyang. The daily opening time of the city gate was greatly shortened, and the inspection at the city gate became increasingly severe.

Therefore, although there are a total of one million troops fighting fiercely outside the pass, the more than two million people in the city still have their lives.

It was not until the sound of the horn suddenly sounded that they suddenly realized that it was the time of war.

Empress Zhang Yu, Empress Dowager Xu and others who were embroidering in the harem couldn't help but feel nervous when they heard the rapid and loud horn sound.

"This is the horn of the enemy's army outside the city. What's going on?"

Xu was a little panicked.

Even if she was like this, such as Diao Chan and many palace maids, she was even more panicked.

Zhang Yu's expression quickly returned to normal. She held Xu's hands and said softly: "Don't worry about mother. Not long ago, Xu Chu and Dian Wei had crossed mountains and ridges and were preparing to attack Hulao Pass, but were repelled by His Majesty. He suffered heavy casualties. Now, maybe they have been recuperating in the mountains for several days and want to make a desperate bet and use thousands of remaining soldiers to scoundrels to nuke Luoyang City."

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

Although Xu had no knowledge, he knew that this Luoyang City, which has been renovated repeatedly by Liu He, was not something that only a few thousand people could defeat. Therefore, he felt very confident.

Zhang Yu gave Diao Chan a look, and Diao Chan understood and immediately cheered her son Liu Tai and daughter Liu Shu sat next to the empress dowager and tried different ways to make the empress dowager happy.

"Daughter-in-law, where are you going?" Xu asked with concern when he saw Zhang Yu standing up.

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Your Majesty and several uncles are not here. Since there are rebels outside the city, we should go and investigate, so as not to panic in the city and in the palace."

Xu said, "You are pregnant with Longzi and have a bad health, so let others go."

"Don't worry, my mother, although I am not as proficient in martial arts as military generals, when I teach them over the years, I also practice swordsmanship every day just to strengthen my body. Moreover, this month is not big, so it's okay."

Seeing her say this, Xu stopped persuading: "Since that's the case, you can go and go quickly. If something is wrong, just send someone to Hulao Pass to report He'er to the handling. This military and national affairs cannot be interfered with by the female serfs."

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

After saying that, she walked outside under the escort of a team of imperial guards, several palace maids and eunuchs.

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

Zhang Yu immediately recognized him: "You are General Sima Han of the Yemen? What happened outside?"

General Han replied: "Grandmaster, Sun Ce led 100,000 troops and suddenly came from Hangu Pass. Now it is less than five miles away from the city gate. General Ye, who is guarding the city, specially ordered the last general to lead his army to guard the palace."

When they heard that Sun Ce had led a total of 100,000 troops, the palace maids and eunuchs had their faces pale in an instant, and even began to tremble all over.

The reason is very simple. There are less than 20,000 defenders in Luoyang City today, and there are less than 30,000 Yulin Guards in the palace, which is really a huge gap.

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

"No need, Jiangdong rats are not worth mentioning. How can we enter the Luoyang city gate? Go and tell Wei Wei about this matter, and he will decide."

Wei Wei is one of the nine ministers, responsible for the safety of Luoyang City. The current Wei Wei Wei is Lu Zhi's nephew and Yang Biao's son-in-law, named Lu Yong and Zi Zihe.

After Liu He wiped out Han Sui, he appointed this person as the prefect of Dunhuang. Because he wiped out bandits in Dunhuang, stabilized refugees, purified laws and regulations, and cracked down on powerful people, he was transferred back to Luoyang a year ago to take over as the Weiwei Daquan.

After General Han took the order and left, Zhang Yu shook her sleeves: "Go back to Changqiu Palace and change her clothes."

Luoyang City was originally the most magnificent and sturdy city of the Han Dynasty. After more than ten years of hard work and repeated expansion and renovation, it was even more impregnable and indestructible.

The city gates on all sides not only expand the city wall and increase the city wall, but also have a horse-faced wall protruding every fifteen feet of the city wall. Once the enemy attacks the city, the enemy on the ladder will be attacked on three sides at the same time.

In addition to the dense crossbows of the Scarlet Crossbows on the city walls and the extremely thick iron gate at the city gate, they all show people the easy defense and difficult attack of this Han capital.

With these things, Luoyang City was built into a dangerous place comparable to Tongguan.

However, all this was completely ignored by Sun Ce, who had been blinded by hatred and three parts of desire.

He pointed a spear and shouted, "Kill me, those who climb the city tower will be rewarded!"

On the west gate of Luoyang City, General Ye, who was guarding the city, was a Jingzhao person. He was originally a soldier under Gao Shun and made contributions. It was not until he was over thirty this year that he finally became the garrison of the capital of Kyoto. In this Luoyang City, when it comes to military power, it is only under the Weiwei.

It is precisely because of this that General Ye cherishes this opportunity very much. Now he can be called a glorious family for his down-and-out gentry family. However, the battle in front of him is extremely dangerous. If he is not careful, his life will not be preserved, and he may also affect the family, which makes him feel twelve points of spirit.

"The Scared Crossbow is ready!"

With the order of General Ye, hundreds of shocked crossbows completed the filling of crossbow arrows in an instant.

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

Seeing that the enemy's front, including Sun Ce himself, had already rushed to less than 200 steps outside the city gate, General Ye made a quick decision.

"put!"

Thousands of powerful crossbow arrows that were enough to break gold and gravel made a loud noise in the air like a roar of strong wind, and shot towards Jiangdong soldiers in one go.

"spread!"

As soon as he saw the other party preparing to shoot arrows, Sun Ce decisively issued a military order.

The 40,000 soldiers and horses in the front quickly dispersed, and each two soldiers kept a distance of more than one meter.

"Soul..."

Most of the thousands of crossbow arrows were buried in the soil, leaving only one tail feather and a small piece was exposed.

Hundreds of unlucky Jiangdong soldiers were directly taken out by the crossbow arrow, and they were already extinguished before they could shout out.

As a veteran of all battles, General Ye’s commander’s power is far from comparable to Gao Shun and others, but it is by no means general.

He even had the effect of this shocking crossbow that would never give the enemy a chance to breathe, so he deliberately divided hundreds of crossbows into two batches, and put a wave every other one.

The first wave had just landed, and the second wave had already arrived one after another. Taking advantage of this time, the first batch of crossbows that had just fired the crossbow arrows quickly loaded the new crossbow arrows back in the hands of the soldiers who were specifically responsible for filling the crossbow arrows.

"Dangdangdangdang..." Sun Ce looked crazy, waving the overlord gun and desperately blocking the crossbow arrows, while not slowing down at all.

After he swept away three or four crossbow arrows, even though Sun Ce's arm strength and martial arts skills felt a little numb with his right hand.

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

"Where is the cloud ladder? Hurry up!"

He shouted angrily, and several soldiers who had just followed quickly put the ladder on the city wall.

General Ye frowned and looked solemn, without a moment of neglect.

"The crossbow arrows should not be relaxed, and the enemy must not have the opportunity to swarm in. Our army has few soldiers and it is difficult to compete head-on. We must kill the enemy in batches to have a chance of victory."

After giving orders to a general who was specifically responsible for commanding the Swordsman Crossbow, he quickly summoned other soldiers.

"Boundists, stone casters, and wooden rock rolling stones, ready to attack!"

Fierce battles here are in full swing. Outside the south gate of Luoyang City, a piece of bushes and vines suddenly shaking in the barren mountains of more than 20 miles. Then a hole was opened from it, and several figures walked out of it.

"Bao, bah..." Xu Chu's mouth was stained with some broken leaves and he spitted it out casually.

"Fortunately, my lord wisely found several old hunters, took us and others to explore the terrain in advance, and found this cave, where there was a lot of dry food, clear water, and golden sore medicine. Otherwise, we would have no way to heaven and no way to enter the ground this time."

Dian Wei also walked out. Although he was wearing a bandage on his shoulder, his complexion was very rosy, and he obviously recovered well.

"Okay, we have recovered from 70% to 80% of our injuries, so it's time to attack again."

While speaking, a soldier from the Pingshan Flying Army came through the dense forest.

"The two generals, their subordinates climbed to the top of the mountain next to them for a long time and found that there was movement in the west of Luoyang City."

Dian Wei and Xu Chu looked overjoyed when they heard this.
Chapter completed!