Chapter 918: Luoyang, which is stained with blood again (Part 1)

The Kanto Alliance Army had already injured and lost 210,000 troops. At such a huge price, it only captured four powerful passes, and even the old capital Luoyang had not yet been broken.

If you want to attack Chang'an and rescue the Han Emperor, you must also break through the strong cities of Luoyang, Yewang, Yiyang and other places, and also break the Hangu Pass, the ever-lasting heroic pass, before you can enter Guanzhong to visit Chang'an.

But according to this casualty trend, even if the coalition forces are all completely destroyed, they may not be able to attack Hangu Pass, let alone Chang'an City.

This shows how difficult it is to take Sizhou from Dong Zhuo, and the price is simply unbearable for Qin Hao.

If this is only the power of the Qin and Jin armies, even if they can seize Sizhou, Qin Hao will definitely be seriously injured and eventually add more wedding clothes to others.

The formation of a coalition of princes and the use of the power of the princes to seize Sizhou was the least expensive method for Qin Hao.

After Yang Su's 40,000 troops were withdrawn, Luoyang's troops also reached 80,000, but it is obviously unrealistic to want to compete with the 330,000 coalition forces based on this.

So immediately afterwards, Li Shimin ordered another order to transfer 40,000 troops from Mengjin Pass.

After Hulao was broken, although Yique Pass, as the southern gate, lost the value of continuing to defend, Meng Jin, as the northern gate, still had his important responsibilities.

The other princes did not border the Liang army. Even if they captured Sizhou, they were enclaves, and there were not many of them that could not be occupied for a long time.

The princes sent troops to attack Dong Zhuo just for justice and reputation, but the Qin family's father and son were different.

Qin Wen and Qin Hao, one in the north and the other in the south. Once Sizhou is captured, they can connect Bingzhou and Jingbei, and they are also specially designed to seize Sizhou.

Mengjin Pass can block the threat from Qin Wen in the north, but once Mengjin Pass is lost, Qin Wen can continuously mobilize troops south, which is not helpful to the Liang army to add fuel to the fire, so Li Shimin did not transfer all Yang Lin’s 50,000 troops back.

However, because of the shortage of troops in Luoyang, Li Shimin had to transfer most of Mengjin's troops back, but he also left behind Yang Lin, a general.

If the Jin army invaded, although Meng Jin's 10,000 troops were not large, it could play a role of 20,000 in Yang Lin's hands, which was enough to support Li Shimin to send reinforcements for one month.

Although Li Shimin has no reinforcements to send, he has also requested reinforcements from Dong Zhuo, and he believes that he will receive a response soon.

Now there are only 130,000 troops left in Sizhou. Li Shimin placed 10,000 in Mengjin, and 120,000 were concentrated in Luoyang, obviously preparing to defend Luoyang to the death.

As the fore capital of the Han Dynasty, Luoyang is naturally one of the most solid cities in the world...

During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Xiang Yu broke Mengjin and forced the court to abandon Luoyang and move the capital to Chang'an. Qin Wen had to give up Hulao Pass to defend Luoyang.

Qin Wen originally wanted to rely on Luoyang to consume the Yellow Turban troops, but because Zhu Yuanzhang offered his plans to attack the cities of Sizhou, Luoyang was in a state of being in an isolated city. This was actually a foolish decision to give up Luoyang.

Although Qin Wen was unwilling to give up the strong city of Luoyang, it was difficult to violate the imperial edict. However, Yang Ye's father, Yang Gun, would never die than evacuate. Instead, he led 30,000 troops alone to guard the old capital of Luoyang.

Yang Gun blocked Zhang Jiao's 700,000 troops with an army of 30,000 troops, and a fierce attack of ten days, which shows the strength of Luoyang.

There are still 330,000 coalition forces, and Li Shimin wants to defend Luoyang with a 120,000 army, but it is not possible that he has no chance of Li Shimin defending Luoyang with his army of 120,000.

Facing nearly three times the enemy, relying on a strong city, it is not difficult to defend it from the low point of offense and defense.

But you have to know that defending a city is not guarding a pass.

There are no residents in the level, and in addition to the people, there are also aristocratic families in the city. The aristocratic families have their own clan soldiers. These are external forces that are difficult for the defending generals to control, which also adds some surprises to the defending city.

Of course, most aristocratic families will not easily participate in the disputes between princes, because failure means extermination of the clan.

This cost is too great. If you are not sure, the family will definitely not dare to participate in the struggle of the princes.

In order to implement the new policy, Dong Zhuo infringed on the interests of the aristocratic families, so he hated and despised the aristocratic families in the world. The reason why Dong Zhuo became famous is that the aristocratic families played the greatest role in this.

When it comes to resisting one's own aristocratic family, Dong Zhuo's methods can be described as cruel. He has slaughtered countless aristocratic families in Guanzhong.

It was precisely because of this bloody way of using violence to fight violence that Dong Zhuo completely shocked all the families under his command. Even if the thirty-six princes jointly attacked, his territory was still not in chaos.

No matter how disgusted or despised Dong Zhuo, they still dared not make any changes. At least they did not dare to do anything on the surface.

But if Dong Zhuo was defeated in the confrontation with the Kanto Alliance, the first to take advantage of the situation would definitely be the aristocratic family in his territory.

The Luoyang family naturally dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo and his own. In the past, Dong Zhuo was powerful, and the Luoyang family did not dare to resist. Now the Guandong Allied Forces are all in charge of Luoyang City. What are you afraid of?

The world's aristocratic families have undergone three migrations. The first was the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the second was the Han Ming Fight, and the third was the Battle to Destroy the Ming Fight.

No matter which migration wave or the destination of the family migration is the front line of Luoyang to Guanzhong.

During the second wave of migration, most of the aristocratic families in Luoyang had moved to Guanzhong, and those who had not moved to Chang'an basically died of the cleaning of the Yellow Turbans.

So there are basically only two aristocratic families in Luoyang City:

First, he was reluctant to give up his ancestral property or could not compete for other families, so he turned back from Guanzhong and settled his home in Luoyang;

Second, when the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, in order to avoid the war in the Central Plains, they moved from the Central Plains to settle down.

No matter which one it is, after years of cultivation, the strength of the aristocratic families has been restored to a certain extent, and Luoyang and Chang'an are naturally no exception.

If the aristocratic families are divided by region and assigned a list according to their strength, the strength of the Luoyang aristocratic families is definitely second only to the Chang'an aristocratic families.

If this force can be concentrated, it will be a dangerous force that is enough to shake Dong Zhuo's rule. Qin Nongyu, who was sent to Luoyang by Qin Hao, wanted to gather this force to help Qin Hao capture the strong city of Luoyang.

When Qin Hao was blocked outside Hulao Pass, no matter how coerced and tempted Nongyu, there were still many aristocratic families who did not dare to participate. However, when Qin Hao led his troops to Luoyang, these aristocratic families came to the door together.

Of course, this is not because Qin Hao is attracted to many aristocratic families, but because Dong Zhuo is attracted to the hatred of the aristocratic families, and almost all aristocratic families want to kill him.
Chapter completed!