Sima Ying's main force set out, formed a retreat formation, and slowly withdrew toward the north.
The rebels were swarming like a black tide on the plains of Hebei.
Just two hours after the army started, Sima Ying received a military report that the Qianxiu army was defeated.
His blood was so anxious that he almost lost control and started to curse.
In the end, he still suppressed his emotions and whispered: "This military information must be kept strictly confidential.
Except for the generals and commanders above, anyone who leaks it will be executed."
Still angry in his heart, he was still struggling with the thought of Qian Xiu San.
Could it be that Wan Dajun couldn't do it just by monitoring and surrounding more than 10,000 people?
In the end, he was killed.
Now that the 30,000-strong army has been destroyed and Chaoge has been occupied by the other side, whether they can safely withdraw to Yecheng is now a question.
I just hope that Shi Chao's amazing army can make some achievements.
Shi Chao led more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry, sneaking all the way under the cover of night, evading the opponent's scouts and cavalry, and interspersed to Wen County, Hanoi, where they crossed the Yellow River and quietly appeared in the Heluo Basin.
Half of General Sima Ying's food was made into dry food and given to this army, which was enough for them for ten days.
In these ten days, their lowest goal is to contain and attract the army commanded by fifty or sixty thousand Sima in Hanoi.
The highest goal is to take advantage of the opportunity to capture Luoyang City.
At this time, Sima Yu sent some troops to the western front to guard the remnants of Zhang Fang's army in Hongnong.
Therefore, the Heluo land around Luoyang has extremely few troops, with less than 10,000 people actually.
Most of them are stationed in Luoyang City, so it is reasonable for Shi Chao's more than 10,000 people to sneak into Luoyang City without being noticed.
But they were still discovered by the scouts who patrolled the Acropolis daily.
Luoyang City immediately became vigilant and closed its four gates day and night.
In the court hall of Luoyang Palace.
The ministers are having a court meeting.
The first thing to discuss is of course this urgent matter.
"Your Majesty, I believe that some troops from Hebei should be recalled immediately to return reinforcements and first eliminate the rebels who have entered our land of Heluo Sili."
Shangshu Pushe Wang Yan first put forward his own opinion.
All ministers expressed their support.
"No, now is the opportunity for a decisive battle between our army in Hebei and Sima Ying's rebels.
If troops are suddenly mobilized, the situation in Hebei will be reversed in an instant.
And this plays into the rebels' ambitions.
I am determined to annihilate this army alone."
Sima Yun The old god said calmly.
When the officials heard this, they felt a little stupid.
"Your Majesty, we currently have only 5,000 defenders in Luoyang City.
It would be great if we could protect Luoyang City from being attacked by this rebel army.
It would be amazing if we could drive these more than 10,000 enemy troops away from Heluo.
That's one thing.
It's hard to achieve this goal by annihilating the enemy.
We don't have that many troops," Shangshu Ling Pei said.
Sima Yu still said confidently: "Of course I am confident.
This lone army that goes deep into my hinterland must have no logistical supplies and is completely supported by the dry food they carry with them.
Then they will definitely not build forts and have our army confront them for a long time, but they must be Wandering around Heluo, looking for opportunities to attack cities and seize territory.
As long as our army strengthens the walls and clears the country, and then uses elite cavalry to find opportunities to attack them quickly, we will definitely be able to defeat them in one battle. " The ministers murmured, but found nothing wrong with what Sima Yu said.
Seeing Sima Yu's confident look, they said nothing more.
Shi Chao's army arrived at the gates of Luoyang City and circled the city several times, but did not find any loopholes to exploit.
With his more than 10,000 lightly armed infantry and cavalry, it would be tantamount to wishful thinking to capture Luoyang City by force.
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Shi Chao was wondering whether he should capture a small city as a base and to replenish supplies.
So he came to the north of the suburbs of Luoyang and found that although the three small towns here were all garrisoned with troops, they did not have many troops.
Observation revealed that there were only a few hundred defenders on the walls of some cities.
He chose a small town that seemed to have the weakest troops to attack, and then his teeth were shattered.
This small city is Sima Yu's system city Acropolis.
More than ten thousand troops surrounded the small town and attacked day and night.
However, except for leaving corpses everywhere under the city wall, there was no progress.
Shi Chao counted the number of people and found that in two days and one night, nearly two thousand soldiers were lost.
The loss of 20% of his troops made Shi Chao furious.
He decided to launch another general attack at dawn the next day.
If it didn't work this time, he would have to move elsewhere.
The next day, it was bright and clear.
Amidst the noisy trumpet sound, all the soldiers led by Shi Chao rushed out and rushed towards the acropolis.
At this time, the Acropolis was actually guarded by only 500 black-armored iron guards and 100 systematic Yang-piercing archers.
The captain who defended the city deployed a hundred iron guards and twenty-five archers on each side of the city wall.
There are also one hundred iron guards as mobile reserve forces.
The first thing the rebel soldiers encountered was intensive arrow shooting, but Shi Chao had experienced this many times.
All the attacking rebels were armed with shields.
Many of the shields were simple shields made from wooden boards and other materials, but they were always better than nothing.
Simple ladders were built densely along the city wall, and the rebel soldiers followed them with shield ants filled with arrows.
But the moment they reached the top of the city, a gleaming steel blade always struck, piercing their heads, chests, abdomens, and even cutting off their heads directly.
Following the screams of pain one after another, corpses fell from the top of the city several battles high.
Some rebel soldiers were lucky enough to get to the top of the city without the "care" of the iron guards, but there would always be an arrow that penetrated into his body that was exposed due to climbing the city, and then twisted his body in pain and fell to the floor tiles at the top of the city.
He was killed by a steel knife.
Shi Chao looked at the battle situation anxiously.
If it continues like this, he is afraid that he will lose all his infantry.
Fortunately, the thousands of cavalry around him have suffered almost no losses in the past few days.
If the city cannot be captured, he can only take these The cavalry plundered Heluo in all directions.
Suddenly, a bodyguard cavalryman next to Shi Chao bowed and fell off his horse.
There was a huge arrow stuck in his back.
Shi Chao's bodyguard was equipped with the best armor in the army, and this arrow actually almost penetrated the body of this bodyguard.
When Shi Chao was terrified, hundreds more people around him fell to the ground from their horses after being hit by arrows.
Shi Chao turned around and looked around, but found no trace of the enemy at all.
It was only when he cast his gaze far away that he realized that there was a row of people far away who were firing crossbows at them.
These people were the 600 long archers sent by Sima Yu from Luoyang City to support the Acropolis.
Behind them were more than a thousand horsemen.
Shi Chaoyao pointed at these longbowmen and shouted loudly: "They are over there.
All the cavalry will attack and kill them."
As he spoke, another batch of heavy arrows attacked, and hundreds of rebel cavalry rolled down.
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