Cheng Yaojin walked out alone, but his mind went blank.
He didn't know where to go after leaving the city gate.
Just when he was about to leave the gate of Luokou Cangcheng, he was stopped by a familiar voice: "Brother Zhijie, where are you going?"
Cheng Yaojin turned around and saw that it was his old friend Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao.
Qin Qiong had known Cheng Yaojin since he was a child, and had joined the Wagang Army through different channels.
The relationship between the two is naturally closer than that of ordinary Wagang generals.
After Qin Qiong surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, in order to maintain the morale of the Wagang Army, Li Mi was only notified of the incident within a small area.
Even generals of Cheng Yaojin's level thought that Qin Shubao was missing on the battlefield.
So, at this time, Cheng Yaojin opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "Uncle Bao, why did I meet you here?
I, old Cheng, thought you were dead."
Immediately, he woke up again, slapped his thigh and said, "I know Well, you kid must be greedy for life and afraid of death, so you surrendered to the Sui army."
Qin Qiong frowned slightly and said: "It is true that I surrendered to the imperial court, but it was not because I was greedy for life or afraid of death.
It was for the thousands of Wagang brothers under me, who all have families and families, old and young.
Yes, there is a family behind everyone.”
Qin Qiong paused and continued: "Of course, there are more important reasons.
As far as I can see, the Holy Emperor is not as dim as the legend says.
The turmoil in the world is caused by his temporary joy in achieving success and wasting the people's power.
He himself admitted this .
But now, he has begun to work hard, encourage farmers to work, and try his best to recuperate the people's livelihood.
During the Heluo War, he did not recruit Bashu, Liangzhou, Guanzhong, and Jing on a large scale.
Military labor in areas such as Zhouzhou, Jiangdong, and Huainan.
And what these anti-Sui princes are looking for is just hereditary princes, or even the title of Ninth Five-Year Plan.
If they dominate the world, it will not necessarily be better than it is now.
What's more, they are not.
It is possible to overthrow the Sui Dynasty.
You have seen the current combat power of the Sui army.
There is still a glimmer of hope if all the rebel kings unite, but this is almost impossible. " Cheng Yaojin waved his hand, interrupted him and said, "You are trying to persuade me to submit to the imperial court and work for the emperor, but I just refused to protect him."
Qin Qiong laughed and said, "Yes, I advise you to serve the imperial court with me, to calm down the turmoil in the world as soon as possible, and to restore peace to the world.
As long as you are willing, I will introduce you."
At this time, Lai Hu'er rode up on horseback, holding Cheng Yaojin's big ax in his hand.
He interrupted and said, "No need to introduce me.
Brother Zhijie, let's join the gang."
After that, he threw the big ax to him.
Cheng Yaojin.
Cheng Yaojin took the thrown ax with both hands, grinned and said twice with a half-smile, which was considered his agreement.
The news that Luokou had fallen to the Sui army quickly spread to Li Mi's mansion in Xingyang and Luo Shixin's Chinese army's tent south of Luokou.
Li Mi and Luo Shixin were both shocked.
The loss of Luokou Cang was not a trivial matter, which put the hundreds of thousands of Wagang's main forces gathered in Heluo into a dangerous situation.
The first is to put Luo Shixin's headquarters and the more than 200,000 friendly troops gathered next to him in a situation of being attacked from both sides.
Moreover, not only the more than 200,000 troops, but also the more than 100,000 Wagang troops in Xingyang, Jinyong City and other places relied on this Luokou warehouse to supply food and grass.
Without this warehouse, grain and grass would have to be raised from the land of Yanqingxu in Henan and transported thousands of miles away, which would consume a lot of material resources and troops.
But these are not the biggest threats to the Wagang Army.
The biggest threat is that Yang Guang can recapture these tens of millions of tons of grain, and he has the conditions to return from the relatively peaceful areas ruled by the Sui Dynasty such as Bashu, Liangzhou, Runan, Huainan, and Jingzhou.
A large army was mobilized and gathered in Heluo, the eastern capital.
At that time, the military strength of both sides will be reversed, and the Wagang Army will be absolutely weak.
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Therefore, when he heard that the food in Luokou had not been burned, Li Mi's first reaction was to take back the Luokou warehouse.
Luo Shixin in the south of Luokou also thought the same.
Li Mi personally led more than 50,000 troops urgently mobilized from Xingyang and surrounding areas to attack Luokou from the east.
Luo Shixin divided half of the more than 200,000 troops from the west and led Pei Renji and his son to attack Luokou from the west.
More than 150,000 soldiers from the two sides surrounded Luokou warehouse like an iron barrel.
The Luoshui River channel was also blocked.
However, the water gate on the side of Luokou Cang facing the Yellow River could not be blocked by the Wagang Army.
The Yellow River has a wide waterway, and it is impossible to attack the Sui army's Viking warships on the river from both sides.
The Sui army on the shore tried to set up iron ropes to block the river, but they were attacked and killed by Viking sailors riding Viking ships in the river.
Facing nearly ten times the enemy, Lai Hu'er hunkered down in the Luokou warehouse.
Except for the water gate that opened toward the Yellow River, all city gates were sealed with sacks.
Because Wagang's army counterattacked too quickly, there was no time to prepare rolling logs and rocks on the city wall.
When he arrived, he loaded many light ballistae on those Viking ships.
Yang Guang gave him all the explosive bombs brought from the south.
But the strange thing is that these light ballistae are not arranged on the city wall.
Now it is not urgent to defend the city, but urgent to attack it.
As time goes by, the Wagang Army can only find itself in an increasingly disadvantaged situation.
Therefore, Li Mi and Pei Renji did not make sufficient preparations and launched the attack without building enough siege equipment.
Giant catapults threw hundreds of kilograms of boulders against the city wall of Luokoucang.
Everyone on the wall could feel the trembling of the earth.
But that's all.
Although the city wall of Luokoucang is not high, only three or four battles high by the standard of ordinary cities, the thickness of the city wall of Luokoucang is very large, more than ten battles wide.
The soil used to build these city walls was all locally sourced from the earth dug up when digging the grain caves, so it could be piled so thickly.
Therefore, no matter how powerful the trebuchet is, it can only leave a few huge depressions in the thick rammed earth city wall, but it cannot destroy the entire city wall.
The catapult continued for an hour, smashing the city wall into bumps and bumps, and almost all of the battlements were shattered, but the main structure of the city wall was not damaged at all.
Not even a crack appeared.
Seeing that it was useless, Li Mi ordered the entire army to launch a general attack from all directions.
He did not even bother to use conventional siege techniques and strategies, and prepared to use the human sea tactics of 150,000 troops to flatten Luokou City.
He was determined to annihilate this Sui army, and secretly vowed to skin these Sui soldiers alive after capturing the city.
The traitor Cheng Yaojin will also be cooked alive.
The black soldiers of the Wagang Army swarmed towards the foot of Luokou City like bees returning to their nest.
They first braved the cold arrows from the city head and filled the trench with firewood and gravel.
The two thousand long archers on the top of the city used precise long-range shots to eliminate the Wagang army one after another.
Because all the battlements were destroyed by trebuchets, in order to prevent the people from under the city from firing arrows to counterattack, a shield bearer holding a scull shield was placed in front of each long archer for defense.
When the dense rain of arrows from the city came, they crouched behind the sword-shielder to avoid the arrows.
After the arrow rain has passed, he takes advantage of the gap between the two waves of arrow rain to release his own arrow
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