Chapter 468 Luoyang, here I come
News about Huainan soon came, and the tall poet was indeed neat in his work. Not only did he block and deal with Li Lin's army, but he also added that Li Lin committed suicide for fear of crime.
At this point, Li Heng breathed a sigh of relief.
Immediately afterwards, he sent his trusted eunuch Dan Tingyao to the south to welcome the emperor to the capital. At the same time, his great lord also set off from Lingwu to return to the palace. However, Yang Feng was not interested in staying in Chang'an to wait for him to greet him. Because the soldiers and civilians of Shaanxi County raised troops to expel the rebels, Guo Ziyi's army had recovered the entire Guanzhong army at this time. Yang Feng followed Li Chu directly to the east, and distributed Wang Sili in Lantian to lead the rear army to the Shangluo Road to clear the siege of Nanyang.
At this time, Lu Jing was already having a hard time.
Although it is not as famous as the Battle of Suiyang, the Battle of Nanyang is actually equally fierce and has reached the point of eating each other. A dead rat can be sold for 400 people. By the way, his opponent was Tian Chengsi who shot Yang Feng's crossbow. Originally, he should have abandoned the city and fled for two months in history. Wang Sili should be able to save him faster. As for the task of attacking Luoyang, Yang Feng and Guo Ziyi, Wang Sili followed the battle of Chang'an. Although Li Heng was afraid of insufficient troops before sending troops, because of the violent combat effectiveness of Yang Feng and the three towns of the Western Regions, the army under Li Chu has actually had a lot of troops. Not only did Wang Sili be divided, but Li Guangbi's younger brother Li Guangjin also led 20,000 troops to reinforce Li Guangbi. The latter and Shangdang Jiedushi Cheng Qianli had led his army to conquer Tumen Pass and fight out of Jingxing.
In short, the Tang army turned into a full-scale counterattack at this time.
However, what surprised Yang Feng was that An Lushan was not killed by his subordinates.
This is also normal.
After all, in history, the Anshi Group maintained its offensive during this period, and even the 100,000 troops of Shi Siming, Cai Xide, Gao Yanxiu and Niu Tingjie were still besieging Taiyuan, so An Lushan was not so indispensable to this group, but their situation was very bad at this time. Not only was Guanzhong recaptured by the Tang army, Shi Siming also had to run away from the four attacks of Li Guangbi and Cheng Qianli who left Jingxing, Xin Yunjing of Datong, Liu Zhengchen of Pinglu, and Li Gao on the sea. In order to ensure internal unity and facilitate the guard and mutual assistance of all departments, he must have the supreme commander.
Even if this supreme commander is already ruined.
At this time, An Lushan was basically not concerned about the matter. He was tortured by poisonous sores and could only rely on alcohol to relieve his pain every day. In fact, everything was handled by An Qingxu, Yan Zhuang and others.
But An Lushan's flag did not fall.
This is very important to the rebels at this time.
Compared with this, his increasingly violent and moody temper could only bear it for the time being.
After all, if you don’t have the hearts of others, you will be dispersed.
Yang Feng led the Iron Cavalry in the Hezhong to show off his might and escorted Li Chu all the way eastward, performing a glorious return in Huayin, which is his hometown, and then drove into Tongguan to the Lingbao battlefield to worship his old boss and Geshuhan. He also paraded the military and swore to the east to meet Guo Ziyi. The two departments, plus a total of 100,000 troops directly under the imperial court, drove through the Lushan soldiers to Hangu Pass...
Hanhangu Pass.
There are two Hangu Pass, one between Shaanxi County and Tongguan. This is Hangu Pass during the Qin Dynasty and the real Hangu Pass.
But there is another Hangu Pass, which is one of the eight passes in Luoyang, which is Hangu Pass since the Han Dynasty and is also the western gate of Luoyang. An Lushan has heavy troops here. The generals Li Huaixian and Ashina Chengqing guarding Hangu Pass are almost all the elite troops here. It is obvious that this is also their last effort. If Yang Feng can be blocked at Hangu Pass, it means that they can still control Guandong. If Hangu Pass cannot be defended, there is no need to defend Luoyang. They will retreat directly to Hebei and take a step forward.
"Li Huaixian."
Yang Feng sneered.
This is also a hero. The origin of Lulong Town, Heshuo, after the Anshi Rebellion!
Then he immediately picked up the hand cannon and steadily aimed the muzzle at the big flag on the city wall. At the same time, the huge crossbow arrows on the city wall were shot in densely. However, after flying over a distance of 400 meters, the lethality of these crossbow arrows was no longer enough to pose a threat to him. Even if they could hit the target, it didn't matter. The armor that penetrated his could not penetrate his energy shield, so he didn't even look at it, and directly aimed the sight at the flagpole and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
The sound of cannons suddenly rang out on the battlefield.
In almost the blink of an eye, the broken wood burst out from the flagpole that was thicker than a human leg, and then fell down with a harsh breaking sound amid countless screams.
"I, Yang Feng, who dares to fight me!"
Yang Feng threw the cannon to the side, grabbed a falling crossbow arrow, and shouted arrogantly at the city wall.
Tens of thousands of soldiers lined up behind him shouted in unison, and the sound of weapons hitting the ground seemed like thunder. Amid the sound of this drumming, Yang Feng picked up the mace and shield beside him. The next moment, all the war drums behind him were ringing at the same time. Li Chu even beat one of them with the drumstick in his hand. In the sound of the war drum, Yang Feng roared, held the shield and dragged the mace and started running wildly.
Running alone.
All the soldiers behind him didn't move, just clamoring like crazy there.
The defenders on the city wall looked at the scene in a daze, looking at the figure running wildly on the narrow ancient road in front of the pass like a violent rhino, dragging the mace with the dust.
Four hundred meters away passed in a blink of an eye.
Crossing the trench in front of the city, Yang Feng jumped and stood under the city gate in an instant. With the screams of a general, the soldiers on the city wall realized that all the bows and crossbows in their hands were aimed at Yang Feng. The dense sharp arrows seemed like clouds, and the sound of heavy rain hitting his shield, and even heavy stones mixed with the attack. In this attack that almost submerged him, Yang Feng roared and jumped towards the city, and pushed the dense sharp arrows instantly.
After passing the arrow bush, the heavy shield hit the general hard, and the latter immediately screamed and flew backwards. Then Yang Feng swept the mace in his hand quickly, and there was no one living person within three meters around. The next moment he threw the shield to the right, then flew up into the air with his mace, and suddenly reached the air ten meters high. He raised the mace in the air with both hands, and a long roar fell down with the man and the rod. The mace hit the top of the city tower hard.
Just like the big cannibal warship that was smashed by him, under the 800-pound mace, the city tower instantly splashed countless broken wood and rubble, and then the entire city tower broke from the middle and collapsed directly.
Yang Feng fell heavily on the city wall.
The entire city tower in front of him collapsed.
"Those who surrender are exempt from death!"
He held the mace and glanced at the sides with his majestic eyes in the flying dust.
The rebel soldiers holding weapons on both sides were trembling and looked at him with fear. Suddenly, a soldier screamed, threw the weapon in his hand to the ground, and then screamed, rushing towards the steps of the downtown without any effort. The other soldiers looked at each other in a row, and then everyone screamed and rushed towards the steps. This scene was like a plague, spreading rapidly along the city wall to the sides. All the rebels guarding the city began to rush to the nearest steps, rushing down the city wall to open the door to escape east. Several generals tried to stop it, but in a blink of an eye, they were washed down and stepped under countless big feet.
"Well?"
Yang Feng was stunned for a moment.
He was actually here to pretend to be a fool and was not ready to really attack the city.
Hangu Pass is not easy to attack. This famous dangerous pass is at the entrance of a canyon. On one side is Jianhe and the other is a mountain. The east-west road crosses the pass. The entire Hangu Pass is centered on the Guan Building and is divided into two gates. The outer wall is connected to the city walls on the mountains on both sides of the north and south, completely blocking the entire canyon. Of course, this is not the point. The key is that the army cannot be deployed. The reason why Yang Feng arranged an array 400 meters away is because he could no longer make him show off his power like this.
There is not enough space to move forward.
If you attack, you either have to make a tough attack and prepare for a large number of casualties, or just have dozens of trenchers in front of the gate. The advantage is that this trench city is not large, and the range of the counterweight trench machine can almost cover the entire trench city.
But the trencher takes time to make it.
Although Yang Feng had built a lot of them in Chang'an before, it was impossible to push the things over the Wushan Mountains, even if they were dismantled, they would not work. Many places in the ancient mountain roads were still wooden plank roads. How could it be possible to carry tons of large wood through, so they could only create new ones.
This time he was just showing off his power and scaring the defenders to destroy their morale. He did not really want to attack the city. It would take at least another month to attack the city. It would only start after the first batch of stone-capping machines were built. But this was too shameful. Tens of thousands of elite soldiers actually scared him away like this? Is this still the elite Fan Yang who was rampant in the world? Is this still the army of Anshi that collapsed overnight in the prosperous Tang Dynasty?
"Oh, why can't you let someone pretend to be a good person?"
Yang Feng stood on the empty city wall, looking at Guancheng that was clearing under his feet, and couldn't help but sigh.
A sudden harsh whistling came.
His left hand suddenly stretched to the side, and a giant arrow shot from a crossbow was immediately grabbed in his hand. The arrow was even less than a foot away from his head. He turned his head with a hint of sneer and looked at a general lying on the crossbow dozens of meters away on the left. The latter was also looking at him with incredible eyes. The next moment, Yang Feng suddenly jumped out and arrived in front of them in an instant like a flash of lightning.
"May I have your name?"
He looked at the general at a distance of almost half a meter and said.
"An, An Wuchen!"
The latter said tremblingly.
"The An Lushan clan has no sins!"
Yang Feng said.
After saying that, the mace in his hand roared and fell, and blood and minced meat burst into pieces.
Yang Feng raised his mace, carried it directly on his shoulders regardless of the blood on it, and then looked into the east.
"Luoyang, I'm here!"
He suddenly roared.
Chapter completed!