Chapter 397
Seeing that the other party was coming in a fierce manner, Li Mi had no choice but to order the food to be transported into Luoyang as soon as possible, and all the siege equipment was destroyed and burned. These things could not fall into Xu Ziling's hands, otherwise it would feel uncomfortable. Although Li Mi was confident of defending Xu Ziling's attack, if he could open the suspension bridge in the city gate and replay the scene of his capturing Luoyang, I believe that Li Mi would become a laughing stock for all the people in the world after he was defended for a long time.
Li Mi sent heavy armored infantry to guard both sides of the cavalry. Archers and miscellaneous soldiers in the back to transport food into the city. A few scouts quickly burned the military camp. Li Mi was so distressed that he couldn't speak for the siege equipment that destroyed everything and the burning military camp. However, there was no way that the enemy was too powerful. The cavalry had five or six thousand people who could not divide the troops into horns to deal with it.
Besides, if the soldiers outside the city mutiny or the guards are tempted to surrender, it will be a nightmare.
So Li Mi decided to withdraw his entire army and return to Luoyang to station.
Xu Ziling led the cavalry to slowly stop outside the five or six hundred steps of the Wagang Army and then divided the troops into two directions and the two wings of Li Mi to hope to find a breakthrough. However, Li Mi could easily command the army to wait for a long time to turn into defense while protecting the engineers and miscellaneous soldiers to transport grain into the city.
Although Xu Ziling could not find a breakthrough, it might be better for the soldiers of the Zheng army to be very energetic. Li Mi, who was majestic for the first time, felt as pitiful as a turtle in front of him.
Xu Ziling rode Weiming, Song Shidao and Ba Fenghan and three cavalrymen slowly out.
Xu Ziling was smiling under the scrutiny of thousands of people.
The smile is so red that the lips are red and the teeth are white and the sun is very bright.
Ba Fenghan didn't look cool, as if there was no army of tens of thousands in front of him, but just a group of pitiful insects.
Song Shidao looked calm. His gentle, polite, graceful and elegant look could nod and praise the most stubborn and strict old masters.
"How is the secret man lately?" Xu Ziling smiled and said that his voice was not loud, but the soldiers in the east city wall in the whole army could hear it clearly. He seemed to be a little curious and asked, "Why is the secret man's barracks leaving? Should I send a few people to carry two buckets of water to help? You must know that this is very enthusiastic and helpful."
"Young Master Xu, you are kind." Li Mi said calmly in his unique gentle voice: "I have always known that Mr. Xu is enthusiastic and has been famous for a long time, but he has not had a deep conversation with Mr. Xu. If Mr. Xu has the interest to change the Japanese Duke in the Manqing Court in the city, I would like to ask the young master to gather together? I just don't know if Mr. Xu has the courage to come to the meeting to help others?"
"It is better to choose a day than to meet the day." Xu Ziling laughed as soon as he heard it, "Don't think about this master preparing some wine in the camp. I wonder if the Duke of Secret can now appreciate his face? If the Duke of Secret dares to come to my master for a visit, it will be fine."
"I'm busy with work." Li Mi snorted: "Thank you, Mr. Xu, for your kindness."
"Last time I invited the military commander Zu to have a banquet." Xu Ziling laughed and said, "He also said he was busy, but it was a pity that he had time now. I don't have the ability to invite him to have a banquet from the underworld. But it doesn't matter. Zu Junzhi said that the Secret Duke would serve him. I just don't know who will send him to drink in the future if the Secret Duke didn't come?"
"Junyan's hatred." Li Mi snorted femininely: "I will never forget Mr. Xu's love, I will definitely be rewarded."
"My Duke, don't be too polite." Xu Ziling laughed loudly and said, "I am indeed good to the Wagang Army, but I don't expect any kindness to repay you. I am not a person who can repay you with kindness? Besides, the Mi Duke is also quite caring for me. Not only did I send the King of Arrows to bring two or three thousand people to greet you, but also asked the Junma Zu to hold a banquet for a banquet. Unfortunately, I was discussing with the Turks about buying a horse and not having time to attend the banquet. A real regret in my life!"
"Did Mr. Xu buy his horse?" Li Mi suddenly grabbed a little and asked slowly.
"Not bad." Xu Ziling laughed and said, "The Turks don't seem to be able to do business. This young master said that they would exchange their lives for their horses. I didn't expect that they would agree without thinking. I would like to say nothing else but this generousness alone makes me admire."
"You..." Li Mi almost vomited blood after hearing this. He wanted to tear the proud boy in front of him to pieces. But after all, he was a hero of a generation, even though he was teasing and suppressing his opponents, he could still suppress his anger in his heart and said: "Young Master Xu is indeed very good at doing business. But the Turks would not easily abandon Mr. Xu, a distinguished guest. They would definitely come to Mr. Xu to do business again."
"You are coming." Xu Ziling said indifferently: "Let's come to find the Mid-Duke first because you owe the Turks money. The Mid-Duke shouldn't have paid anything but asked the Turks for five or six thousand cavalry and horses, and now there is no thing to return it. What should I do if I don't think about this business? The Mid-Duke seems to be a little bit conscience-making to make money from others in vain!"
"You..." Li Mi almost didn't explode his blood vessels, but he was also secretly in his heart that the Turks sent out five thousand cavalry this time, plus the two thousand cavalry who had been dressed as horses and robbed the Central Plains and disrupted people's livelihood. However, now there is no one left. If you don't win the situation in front of you, Xu Ziling will be difficult to talk to the Turks about the conditions.
"I'm busy with secret business." Xu Ziling said with a smile: "I won't bother you, but when I see Prince Tuli or the envoy of Jie Li Khan, I remember to thank them for their good foals on the grassland for me."
Li Mi felt that if he continued to tell Xu Ziling, he would be so angry that he vomited blood. He waved his hand and ordered the army to slowly shrink its defense. As the last batch of grain trucks slowly drove towards Luoyang, Li Mi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, although there was no verbal battle, he could finally get dozens of grain in the car, plus the sufficient grain stored in Luoyang could support it for more than two or three months. If Chen Zhiluo and Fan Wen reinforcements fought a protracted battle with Xu Ziling, it would be fine.
More importantly, the current Imperial City is surrounded by itself and it is absolutely impossible for me to defend for a month. I will definitely still have most of the advantages.
Although I dare not expect the surrounding Guanzhou, Xianzhou, Hulaoluo, Luokou and other troops to come to help, as long as Feige passes a letter from Xingyang, Xu Shiji, only this general guarding Xingyang has to rush 30,000 defenders to attack Xu Ziling to use Luoyang's city to store grain to deal with the Xu Ziling army, which has no food or assistance outside the city, to fight the situation of winning.
Li Mi ordered his confidant to defend the city gate strictly and never repeat the change in his entry into the city that day.
On the one hand, hurry up and use a small amount of lightweight siege equipment transported into the city to speed up the siege. As long as the imperial city is captured and the Great Zheng army is destroyed, Xu Ziling will be powerless and withdraw. Li Mi absolutely does not believe that Xu Ziling will avenge Wang Shichong as long as Wang Shichong dies, it would be strange if he doesn't immediately turn the Great Zheng army into his own army.
Xu Ziling smiled faintly and ordered all infantry to camp. Digging dozens of wide trenches. As long as there are trenches to block Li Mi's heavy armored infantry, they will turn into iron cans. They are slow to move and can cross the trenches to effectively attack. This requires asking whether the gun and spear in their hands will agree. Xu Ziling deeply understands that having the highest level is the powerful hand that holds the throat of war is the key to victory.
He didn't think that Li Mi's heavy armored infantry had any difficulty in attacking him. He had countless ways to toss and die of this gang of heavy armored canned meat.
It is a problem to talk about the difficulty in dealing with Li Mi's loyal Boshan public camp.
However, Xu Ziling would not force himself to come here. He was thinking more about the future rather than overthrowing Li Mi. He fought this Li Mi in the future while fighting Wang Shichong while keeping the secrets of his own army, so that the world could not understand them.
Otherwise, if there is such a huge threat to the world, it will definitely be the target of public criticism.
With dozens of trenches, there is a line of defense against the forcibly advancing Li Mi's heavily armored infantry. Xu Ziling had no worries and could use cavalry and navy to ravage Li Mi's Wagang army to the fullest until they became the laughing stock of the world. With Luoyang's tall and huge city walls, no one could resist that kind of superiority, but no one knew that Luoyang's natural danger was dead.
No matter who is in charge of this, the greater the dependence. Without any tactics or strategies, only defending to the death will be forever consumed. There is no unbreakable city in the world without unbreakable defense. Unfortunately, even if you know this truth, it is still impossible to resist the temptation of a thirty-foot-high wall.
Because wisdom is impossible for everyone to have it, soldiers cannot bear it and will not give up on the city wall. The defender of Luoyang will be a replica of the Battle of Yanshi.
Even more than that.
Since ancient times, the Central Plains has had a great wall to protect the natural danger Great Wall. However, there are almost no dynasty that can cross the Great Wall after the Great Wall has been built and expand its territory. All dynasties have been established and have never counterattacked. According to the worries of natural danger, there are only passive dynasties that can make people cross the Great Wall and storm down and storm outward and explore from the undirected frontier.
How can this principle be understood? It was not until a thousand years later that all natural dangers were to be held to death.
Born in distress and die in happiness.
The Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty were the most powerful dynasties in history. They had been raided by the Turkic Wolf Cavalry and the Huns before, and the protection of the Great Wall. The Han people suffered disasters. Their blood only knew that the awakening explosion was like the world powers that were washed away and invaded the Great Wall thousands of years later. There were no more. There were thousands of Chinese people awakening and the souls of thousands of Han people.
There is also no eternally powerful country in the long river of world history without fortresses or castles that cannot be attacked.
There is no absolute defense in the world.
The Three Kingdoms had Zhuge Wuhou, the wisest man in the world at that time, but once he entered Shu, he had no plans to defend the natural danger of Shu, and he could not make any plans to advance to the Central Plains for the rest of his life. The same is true because Shu was too dangerous, rich and easy to defend, so he exhausted the passion and fighting spirit of all the people in Shu Kingdom. Although Zhuge Wuhou always wanted to send troops to the Central Plains to improve the combat power and morale of the soldiers, he always had the advantage of defending the situation worse and worse. As a result, the once prosperous Shu Kingdom perished in mediocrity and peace and arrogance and extravagance.
The same is true for the eastern capital Luoyang in front of you. Once anyone is trapped in the city, even if the powerful army in the world is invincible, it will be difficult to consume the trap and consumption of the thirty-foot city wall.
Chapter completed!