Back to Luocang, it was not prominent among the dozens of large and small granaries in the Sui Dynasty.
Its geographical location is not important, and its grain storage capacity is only 3.5 million dan, which is less than a fraction of the Luokou warehouse.
But now it is crucial for the Sui Dynasty.
There are more than 600,000 people in Luoyang, the eastern capital, who are not engaged in agricultural production.
After the Wagang Army blocked Tongji Canal and captured Luokou Cang.
The food rations for the population of more than 600,000 are mainly provided by the grain stored in Huiluocang.
It can be said that if the Sui court lost Luocang again, the Eastern Capital would face famine.
Back at the top of Luocang Fortress, a garrison suddenly screamed and shouted to his companions: "Look there, is there a big army coming?"
The other soldiers followed his finger and looked into the distance.
In the northern sky, flags cover the sun and dust is flying.
Sure enough, an army was rolling in like a dark cloud.
That was the 30,000 Wagang elite led by Shan Xiongxin.
Today, there are 7,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Huiluocang Tun, which is the largest number of soldiers and horses among the satellite cities around Luoyang City.
The person commanding these five thousand soldiers and horses was Sima Dekan, a general named Hu Benlang.
A granary fortress was guarded by a general named Hu Benlang, which shows that Yang Guang attached great importance to it.
But even so, facing Shan Xiongxin's army, he still looked extremely fragile.
After the Wagang army arrived at Luocang City, they began to dig trenches and build camps in the surrounding areas, obviously planning to besiege for a long time.
Shan Xiongxin looked at the solid wall of Huiluocang and thought that even if Huiluocang could not be conquered, as long as Huiluocang was cut off from the outside world for a long time, he could achieve the purpose of cutting off the supply of the Eastern Capital.
At dawn on the second day, the Wagang Army launched its first attack on Huiluocang, which had four closed gates.
The two thousand selected first-person suicide squads wore double armor and carried special oversized wooden shields.
A series of ladders were set up under the city wall back to Luocang.
Then they swarmed up to the top of the city like a swarm of termites.
What greeted them were rolling logs and rocks, hot oil and blazing fire.
In addition, cold arrows were shot at the Wagang soldiers on the ground from time to time.
The shields of some Wagang soldiers who were climbing the ladder were hit by huge rocks.
The soldier's arm was immediately fractured, and the soldiers and their shields rolled down the ladder together.
Some people's large shields were ignited by the burning oil, and they quickly threw away their shields, and then were hit on the head by a rolling log, killing them on the spot.
Shan Xiong certainly knew in his confidence that it was impossible to invade Huiluocang with these two thousand men.
This was just a bait he threw to attract the main force of the Sui army defending the city to this section of the city wall.
His real main attack point is on the other three sections of the city wall.
The attack lasted for a while, and a few Wagang soldiers successfully climbed to the top of the city, but were immediately killed by the defenders at the top of the city, and their bodies were thrown off the city wall.
Shan Xiongxin twisted his neck and estimated that the time was almost up.
He made a gesture to the soldier beside him.
The soldiers immediately galloped away.
After a while, the remaining three sections of the city wall were already filled with killing sounds.
Rows of catapults frantically hurled stones towards the city.
The crossbowmen's strong bows and crossbows also poured arrows towards the city.
Under the cover of fierce shooting, the Wagang army set up rows of ladders on the city wall, and several siege vehicles assembled overnight were also pushed under the city wall.
The real main attacking force of the Wagang Army quickly climbed up the ladder, and a large number of soldiers rushed towards the city along the ladder of the columbine.
These Wagang troops attacking the city did not encounter too many snipers from the opponent because of the cover of flying rocks and arrows.
When they were about to reach the top of the city, in order to prevent accidental damage, the shooting cover was also stopped.
A new recruit of the Wagang Army waved his sword and shield, jumped over the battlements excitedly, and stood on the city wall.
Before he could turn around and find a whole row of Sui soldiers crouching under the battlements behind him, he found a half-foot-long spear blade emerging from his chest, and then his body fell straight to the ground.
The Wagang soldiers who jumped up to the city one after another realized that the calm just now was an illusion.
What greeted them were the swords, guns, swords and crossbows of these Sui soldiers.
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Caught off guard, they suffered a large number of casualties, but they quickly recovered and fought with the Sui troops at the top of the city.
Sima De, who was standing on the watchtower and commanding, found that the soldiers seemed to have difficulty intercepting the Wagang soldiers who were pouring out from the carriages.
He shouted loudly: "Let the three thousand reserve troops in the city fall into the camp and destroy those columbiners."
Following the sound of drums and trumpets with a unique rhythm, a large number of soldiers in Huiluo City surged up from the inside of the city wall to support the defenders at the city head.
The five Wagang troops who climbed to the top of the city covered each other back to back and fought with the defenders.
Unexpectedly, the number of people on the other side suddenly increased greatly.
More than a dozen spears came at them all, and it was impossible to dodge or block them all.
In an instant, three of the five Wagang soldiers were stabbed to the ground by the spears.
The other two people only managed to survive for a few more seconds.
One of them had his eyes bare and raised his sword to chop at a Sui soldier.
Unexpectedly, a crossbowman came quietly from behind and aimed an arrow at the back of his head from close range.
He fell straight down like a stake.
Another person was chopped and stabbed by several steel knives at the same time, and fell in a pool of blood.
At the exits of several columbines, the Wagang army that was swarming out was pressed back by the Sui army's spearmen and shield-bearers who formed a simple military formation.
Behind these Sui armies, there were also cold arrows fired by crossbowmen from time to time. .
Moreover, these crossbowmen fired arrows very fast, even faster than ordinary archers.
It turned out that they used repeating crossbows specially made by Tianxing City Workshop.
Just when these Wagang troops were pushed back to the vicinity of the columbist by the opponent, a group of shirtless and strong men with earthen jars in their arms rushed over.
He smashed the earthen jar in his hand at the Wagang soldiers who gathered in front of the columbine door, and sang a jingle in a strange accent: "If the earthen jar breaks, Wagang will die.
I don't know if Wagang broke the earthen jar or the earthen jar."
"Dead Wagang" After these earthen jars shattered, the fire oil inside flowed all over the floor.
The Sui army defenders had practiced this thing on a daily basis and knew how powerful it was, so they all gave way.
Some veterans of the Wagang Army, Youzi, also knew that the other party was going to use a dirty trick, and quickly retreated into the columbine.
A torch flew over, and with a roar, fire shot into the sky.
Those Wagang soldiers who had not yet had time to dodge suddenly became flaming people.
Many people jumped from the towers several meters high.
The Wagang soldiers below the city were all frightened when they saw the burning people flying down from the top of the city, crying heartbrokenly.
Shan Xiongxin gritted his teeth and was about to order the 20,000 soldiers in reserve to launch a full-scale attack on the city.
A soldier hurriedly came to report: "General Qi, our frontline scouts discovered a large number of Sui troops heading back to Luo City thirty miles away.
There are about 15,000 troops."
Shan Xiongxin smiled evilly and said to himself: "Okay, we are finally here, I was afraid you wouldn't come."
Then he ordered to stop the siege
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