Nine hundred Lu Han soldiers and three thousand Cao Wei cavalry formed a melee, and there was no longer any distinction between military formations and ranks.
The swords of both sides clashed, the weapons struck each other, and the cry of killing resounded in the sky above Luoyang City.
With a "pop" sound, Dian Wei's sharp ax split the head of another Cao soldier.
Dian Wei's armor was splashed with white brains and crimson blood.
A ring-headed knife stabbed towards his chest fiercely, passing through the first layer of scale armor before it had time to penetrate the second layer of mail.
A centurion of the black-armored iron guard instantly slashed out the horizontal sword in his hand, cutting off the arm of the Cao soldier holding the ring-shaped sword, and then rushed over and knocked the man to the ground with his shield.
Two Cao soldiers stabbed their spears into the abdominal cavity of one of Dian Wei's soldiers almost at the same time.
The soldier vomited a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground.
Two flying axes spun around and split the heads and necks of the two Cao soldiers.
The two Viking longship sailors moved forward quickly, and used the big axes in their hands to chop down the Cao soldiers on the left and right.
After pulling out the throwing ax from the corpse and inserting it into the belt around their waists, they continued to charge forward.
Because the two sides were fighting together, Cao Jun's cavalry could hardly play any role, so they jumped off their horses one after another to participate in the melee.
As a result, only Man Chong and a dozen soldiers stood in the army on big horses, standing out from the crowd like chickens.
Cheng Lian, who was watching the formation from behind, loudly ordered: "Capture the thief first, capture the king first, and give priority to those generals of Cao's army who are riding horses."
After hearing this, the soldiers of the Han army tried their best to express their gratitude to Man Chong and his relatives.
Soldiers go to kill.
At this time, the entire Cao army suffered heavy casualties, and the morale of the entire army was already shaky.
When Man Chong saw Lu Bujun getting closer and closer, the muscles on his face twitched twice and he pulled out his sword from his waist.
This man was a civil servant, and his martial arts was limited to the Confucian Six Arts of the Gentleman, so he did not have a high force value.
But now he could not retreat even half a step, otherwise the entire Cao army would collapse immediately.
Suddenly, several flying axes spun in the air and were thrown towards him.
He dodged two by moving left and right, and deflected one with his long sword, but the last huge ax struck him squarely. head.
Man Chong's body fell straight from the saddle.
At this moment, the soldiers of Cao's army who had suffered heavy losses were no longer interested in fighting and ran towards the east gate in unison.
Cheng Lian commanded the Han army to pursue them closely, capturing the military camp and the government office in the city in one fell swoop, and forced the remaining Cao soldiers to land or drive out of Luoyang City.
Immediately afterwards, all the Black Armor Iron Guards rushed onto the city wall and started chasing the last few hundred Cao Jun infantry remaining on the city wall.
These soldiers were naturally no match for the Iron Guards.
Except for a few who were killed, the rest all knelt down and surrendered to the Han army.
Not long after the battle in the city ended, the following two thousand Han troops also arrived in Luoyang.
At this time, the fast horse of the Wei army scout who conveyed the news of Lu Jun's attack had just passed through the official road south of Luoyang.
The scout did not know that Lu Bu's army was attacking Luoyang.
Therefore, when Cao Cao learned that Luoyang had also fallen, it was already the second day after he held a court meeting to discuss the strategy of resisting Lu.
On that day, he mobilized 3,000 garrison troops in Xudu City to go to Luoyang to strengthen Luoyang's defense.
Cao Cao muttered in his heart that he shouldn't.
Although Luoyang was not on the front line and had relatively few garrison troops, it was once the capital of the previous dynasty.
The city walls were tall and strong, and it was hundreds of miles away from Lu's County.
In addition, if Lu Bu's army directly attacks Luoyang, which is downstream of Luoshui River, isn't it afraid that the garrison of Hongnong County will cut off its supply route?
If Cao Cao could get accurate military intelligence reports, he would not have such doubts.
The Han army that invaded Luoyang by surprise attack only had more than 3,000 troops.
These troops could last for three to four months based only on the food stored in the central grain depot in Luoyang City.
Of course, there is no need to worry about being cut off from supplies by Cao's army to the west.
On the contrary, for the Cao troops stationed at the Hangu defense line and the Cao troops stationed in the counties of Hongnong County, the news that Luoyang had been captured by the Han army put them in a dilemma of being attacked from both sides.
The combined strength of these Cao troops was 15,000.
The capture of Luoyang actually made it extremely difficult for them to obtain grain and grass supplies from Jizhou and Yanzhou.
Cao Hong, the general of Cao Wei who was stationed in Hangu, issued a military order and gathered about 5,000 soldiers from the entire county and rushed to the bank of Luoshui River to set up camps in an attempt to isolate the Han army defenders in Luoyang.
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Just as the five thousand soldiers of Cao's army were sweating like rain, they were digging ditches and building walls by the Luoshui River.
Gao Shun personally led a tiger warrior division and came along Luoshui to kill.
The neatly arranged Mo Dao formation and the turtle shell formation of heavy infantry came towards the Cao army's camp which was being built.
The drums of the attack rumbled.
Cao's army was forced to form a formation to fight.
The Han army had an absolutely overwhelming advantage in terms of numbers and quality of soldiers.
Cao Wei's soldiers were quickly defeated in front of the forests of Mo Dao blades, the indestructible shield wall, and the javelins like the torrential rain.
The army was defeated like a mountain, and thousands of Cao's troops abandoned their unfinished forts and fled to the northwest.
All the cavalry in Huben's division began to pursue these defeated troops, killing them all the way and killing most of the enemies.
Taking advantage of this great victory, Gao Shun quickly divided his troops to attack various counties in Hongnong.
There were not many troops stationed in these counties at this time.
With the help of the powerful siege equipment of Lu Bu's Han army, they were captured one by one by the Han army.
The more than 10,000 Cao troops stationed in Hangu soon fell into an isolated and helpless situation.
But Hangu guard Xiahou Dun was not worried.
Cao Cao had already sent a message to him that hundreds of thousands of Cao Wei's troops from Nanyang in Yanzhou and Jizhou would soon arrive at the Hongnong battlefield.
In addition, Cao's army starting from Wancheng will attack Wuguan to contain Lu Bu's possible attack on Xiahou Dun from the direction of Tongguan.
Cao Cao said in the Zhaoling that Hongnong would be a decisive battle and asked Xiahou Dun to defend Hangu no matter what.
Only in this way will Lu Bu be unable to provide more troops and supplies to the battlefield in Hongnong, Henan, thereby ensuring that Wei's military strength has an absolute overwhelming advantage in this area.
In Wancheng, thousands of miles away from Yecheng, guard Cao Ren also received Cao Cao's order to mobilize at least 50,000 troops from Ruyang into Henan Yin to support Henan Yin and Hongnong's war.
In addition, the edict also ordered him to dispatch a partial force of more than 10,000 people to attack Wuguan.
If he could capture it, he would go straight to Shangluo and completely block the return route of the Han army who invaded Hongnong.
Even if he could not capture Wuguan, he would at least have to take it.
Attracting a large number of Lu Bu Han troops in Shangluo.
After reading this edict, Cao Ren muttered to himself that Nanyang County had a total of 108,000 troops.
If he followed the edict, there would only be 50,000 horses left to defend the two hundred miles from Fancheng to Wancheng.
The defense is simply stretched thin.
He was just thinking that soldiers had come to report: "Captain Jia Xu has come to see the general."
Cao Ren was just trying to find someone to discuss sending troops.
When he heard that Jia Xu was coming, he was overjoyed and said quickly: "Quickly."
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