Luoyang's offensive and defensive battles entered a white-hot heat as soon as they started.

Since it is the dry winter season, the originally wide and deep moat river is much shallower than usual. Due to the severe cold, a layer of thin ice has formed in the ditch. Although it is not as easy as a river, people can easily step on ice, but shallow ditches have lost the function of isolating the enemy. As long as some dead branches, weeds, stones, and soil are thrown into it, it will not take much effort to pass.

In half a day, Liu Xiujun broke through the moat, approached under the city wall, and entered the range of the crossbow on the city.

Looking down from the high city wall, there were people everywhere, and they rushed from all directions. There was no need to aim at crossbow arrows, just shoot at the crowd.

There are strong bows and hard crossbows arranged at the top of Luoyang city, and what is lacking is not equipment, but people. Although Guo Jixin recruited 20,000 soldiers, many of these temporary patchwork recruits were not accustomed to crossbows, and most of them were auxiliary soldiers and did some hard work. This kind of bow-shooting and archery was mostly undertaken by veterans.

Ten thousand Yulin soldiers were on the front battlefield with the greatest pressure. They were familiar with crossbows and ordered strict orders, and were the backbone forces in this battle in Luoyang's city defense.

The Yulin Army opened its bows and crossbows at the same time, and the arrows splashed down the city like rain, condescending to the heights and extremely lethal.

Because the crossbows on the city were too fierce, the attacking party was very difficult to advance, and every step forward would have to pay a huge price. Their upward shooting power was far less than the other's downward shooting. In order to balance the lethality of the crossbows on both sides, Liu Xiu ordered the soldiers to pile up soil to form a mountain.

The ground in winter is much harder than usual, but the climate in Luoyang does not form a thick layer of frozen soil. The soldiers used shovels to dig cold and hard soil, and piled up into piles bit by bit. From time to time, soldiers fell to the ground by arrows, and the bodies piled up into piles of soil and turned into part of the mountain of soil.

The guards of the city concentrated more bows and arrows near the Tushan Mountain, making the idea of ​​a mountain of soil a mountain of soil accumulating corpses accumulating mountains. Hundreds of soldiers who piled up soil died here, and Liu Xiu finally ordered the attack to stop when the sun sets.

The 100,000 troops retreated like a tide. Guo Ji breathed a sigh of relief and survived the first day of the siege.

There is no doubt that the Luoyang army took a big advantage. The enemy had just touched the city wall and only dozens of people were killed by arrows on the city, but the casualties of the attacking side were at least ten times that of the defending side.

The fifth reunion said: "Mr. Guo, the weather is severe and the enemy's garrison will not be very strict at night. I want to bring death-death attacks on the enemy camp at night to destroy the enemy's spirit, how about it?"

Guo Ji shook his head and said, "The Tongma Emperor personally attacked, and all the soldiers brought were elite soldiers. All the generals were doing their best. They should not be easily done. Liu Xiu knew the military strategy well and was always prepared for military use. I think it would be difficult to achieve success in sneak attacks, and it would be easy for the enemy to seize them. If there was any mistake, it would be overturned in the spirit of our army."

Since he said that, it is not convenient for the fifth reunion to say anything else.

The two people have a big age gap, different positions, and very different ways of thinking.

Guo Jiji is responsible for defending the city. When Liu Yu and Liu Mao are not around, he is the backbone of the entire Luoyang City. He naturally has to be considerate and focus on stability. The burden on the fifth reunion is not that heavy, and he is young and vigorous, so his ideas are naturally more radical.

The Luoyang Army rested overnight. When they woke up the next morning, they saw that there had been major changes outside the city.

About two hundred steps away from the city wall, two huge earth mountains were piled up, about the same height as the city wall. On each mountain were dozens of soldiers, wearing strong crossbows, and shooting towards the top of the city.

It turned out that yesterday, Zang Gong personally took advantage of the darkness of the night to build these two hills so that the crossbowmen could shoot at the top of the city.

The crossbows on the earthen mountain are very powerful. Although there are not many, they have caused certain casualties. More importantly, they have a great deterrent effect on the city wall. Originally, soldiers could walk at the city wall, so they need to be careful at this time.

Guo Ji ordered the use of a catapult cart. The chain pike chart has a relatively low accuracy and is not suitable for partition wall throwing. Only a single catapult cart was used. Hundreds of catapult carts were framed on the open space. A soldier stood on the city wall to observe and directed the aim of the catapult cart. In the first round of launch, most of the stones fell nearby, and there was no big gain except killing a few siege soldiers. The soldiers on the city wall then directed the adjustment of the elevation angle. When the second round of stone bullets was fired, many of them hit the dirt mountain. By the third round, the two dirt mountains were almost covered by stone bullets, and no one dared to attack the dirt mountain.

The city wall was no longer attacked by powerful crossbows, and safety was restored, but the more thrilling attack and defense battle in the city wall began.

The soldiers pushed the heavy cloud ladder to the city wall, and the hook in front grabbed the head of the city. The soldiers climbed the long cloud ladder and climbed up quickly. The soldiers on the city shot arrows down to shoot as much as possible. There were a group of strong sword and shield soldiers on the city wall, fighting against the enemy who climbed up the city at any time. When they emerged, they would kill them on the city wall.

In order to inspire morale and quickly take down Luoyang, Liu Xiu promised that if he attacked Luoyang, everyone would receive a heavy reward. What moved the soldiers the most was that those who first ascended can be awarded the title of marquis!

So all the soldiers rushed up like chicken blood, trying to fight for their lifetime of wealth.

But wealth is not so easy to obtain.

Luoyang City has been at the forefront of the Han Dynasty since the Zhu Yu era, and is subject to attacks from time to time. It is almost always ready to deal with siege. Not only is it complete with the equipment to defend the city, but it also forms a complete set of defensive tactics.

When dealing with cloud ladder siege, you can of course use anything you can smash down along the ladder. Long logs, wooden boards covered with long nails, even boiling oil, or even boiling water that is even costless, are thrown down condescendingly, and the lethality is really great.

Of course, the most effective thing is fire attack. The cloud ladder is made of wood, so it can naturally be ignited and burned. The soldiers on the city wall threw the dead branches bundles of grass and quickly piled up a pile of firewood at the foot of the cloud ladder. The grease was poured on the pile from top to bottom, and then threw the torch down. The fire started to burn. If it was burned from below, the soldiers on the cloud ladder would be difficult to escape.

Despite the emperor's personal pressure and the tempting high rewards, the soldiers who were red-eyed still couldn't shake the city walls of Luoyang.

After returning to the city wall for nothing, Liu Xiu had the idea of ​​the city gate again, so he crashed into the car with a wheel.

The soldiers braved their arrows and pushed the car into front of the city gate, and used the thick wood hanging above to hit the city gate, making a huge sound. Under the continuous impact, the heavy city gate trembled continuously.

Within the city gate, Luoyang soldiers were piled up at the door, and with the help of thick wood and other objects, they pressed against the city gate tightly to avoid being knocked open from outside. On the city gate, they threw down the wooden rocks without any money, smashed the soldiers who attacked the city, and smashed the car into pieces.

After a storm-like attack, the attacking side withdrew. Thousands of corpses were piled under the city wall, as well as broken ladders and car crashes, and bricks and stones all over the ground were messy.
Chapter completed!