Black Fairy, the master is a female ghost

Three days later, Lu Xunhuan, along with two great masters from the palace, led an army of 300,000 and set out on a westward expedition.

The last time the former crown prince attacked the Zhou Kingdom, he captured Luoyan Pass. Although he withdrew his troops later, Luoyan Pass was still in the hands of the Dongyan soldiers.

Therefore, a few days later, Lu Xunhuan led the vanguard army and successfully crossed Luoyan Pass, aiming at Luocheng.

At this time, the Zhou Kingdom had become extremely weak after several wars and severe internal friction.

Lu Xunhuan's vanguard army had only 50,000 men, but after passing the checkpoint, they had a smooth journey.

Without encountering much resistance, they advanced three hundred miles and arrived outside the east city of Luocheng.

After arriving, he did not attack the city immediately.

Instead, he asked the soldiers to set up camp on the spot, cut down trees, build chariots, and wait for the subsequent 250,000 troops.

He led the vanguard of Eastern Yan to station his troops here, and the defender of Luocheng hurriedly sent someone to rush 800 miles to Kyoto City to request reinforcements.

But at this time in Kyoto City, King Xia Yu not only received a request for help from Luo City, but also received a request for help from Liang City in the west.

In other words, Eastern Yan and Western Chu advanced from the east and west at the same time, attacking the Zhou Dynasty from both sides, and seemed to have the potential to destroy the Zhou Dynasty.

The two southern states are no longer under the control of Kyoto City, so Xia Yu naturally did not receive any requests for help.

But in fact, the Southern Liang army had already captured Qingtian Pass.

Xia Yu received requests for help from both the east and the west, and was so frightened that his face turned pale. He hurried to discuss with the Sixth Prince and others.

After everyone discussed it, they issued an emergency conscription order, requiring families with multiple males to send at least one person to join the army.

On the other hand, the Sixth Prince personally rushed to Qingfeng Sect and Feixian Sect, offered a large sum of money, and asked the masters of the two sects to come out and kill the generals leading the troops of Dongyan and Xichu.

So far, the Sixth Prince, Xia Yu and others only knew from the request for help report that the general leading the Eastern Yan army was surnamed Lu, but they did not know that this person surnamed Lu was Lu Xunhuan.

Lu Xunhuan led his troops to wait outside Luo City for a month.

The follow-up troops have all arrived, and all kinds of war supplies are in place.

The soldiers cut down trees on the spot and made more than 2,000 chariots that he wanted.

Only then did he give the order to besiege the city with an army of 80,000.

The other 220,000 troops crossed the plains and valleys, passed Luocheng, and stationed to the west of Luocheng.

The army stationed west of Luocheng was divided into three parts.

The central army of 100,000 blocked the road that Zhou Guo’s reinforcements had to take.

The left and right armies, each numbering 60,000, set up ambushes on the mountains on both sides.

His 300,000-strong army will not only capture Luo City, but will also conquer Kyoto City in the future.

Although he had only been in Kyoto for a few hours, the tall city walls and solid defenses left a deep impression on him.

It is necessary to besiege Luocheng and attack the reinforcements in order to consume the Zhou Kingdom's military strength as much as possible.

By the time the country's vital forces were almost completely wiped out last week, it had basically lost its vitality.

By that time, Kyoto City will not have many troops available, and it will be easier to attack Kyoto City in the future.

If he didn't care about anything and just captured Luo City first.

Then Zhou Guo’s troops would not come here to reinforce, and might retreat to Kyoto City. If a head-on fight breaks out at that time, it will be much more difficult.

Furthermore, he was not in a hurry to attack, so the pressure on Los Angeles was not so great.

The reinforcements from Zhou Kingdom may prioritize heading west to resist the attack from Western Chu.

Let Xichu fight hard like last week.

In fact it is.

He had stationed his troops in the east of Luocheng for a month without making any movement. Last week, most of the newly recruited troops were sent to the west, where they had fought many battles with Western Chu.

After a month of waiting, 300,000 troops and supplies arrived.

He thought the time was right, so he surrounded Luo City.

The Eastern Yan army besieged Luocheng, and the news naturally spread to Kyoto. Then, Kyoto forcibly conscripted men into the army and sent them to Luocheng.

The defenders in Luocheng, seeing that the Eastern Yan army surrounded Luocheng but did not attack, naturally understood the strategic intentions of Eastern Yan.

After some discussion, several generals defending the city decided to abandon Luocheng and lead the 150,000 soldiers who arrived one after another to concentrate their forces to attack the north of the city.

Try to break out of the encirclement from the North City and return to Kyoto City.

Lu Xunhuan only used 80,000 soldiers to besiege Luocheng, with only 20,000 soldiers in each direction.

From the perspective of the Luocheng defenders, it is somewhat weak.

They believed that by launching a surprise attack and catching Dongyan off guard, they would be able to break through.

Around Luo City, more than 2,000 chariots were lined up in a long line, surrounding the city without leaving any gaps.

The generals and soldiers of Zhou State had never seen a chariot before, and they thought it was just a useless wooden wall built by the people of Dong Yan.

It's just a wooden wall, and it can be chopped down in a few strokes as long as the army rushes over.

Little did they know that the support behind the wooden wall was extremely strong.

I didn't know that the wooden wall was divided into two floors.

What they didn't know was that behind the wooden wall, the soldiers of Eastern Yan had made sufficient preparations.

Shortly after dark, the north gate of Luo City suddenly opened.

Ten thousand cavalrymen rushed out of the city and quickly formed a line outside the city.

Soon, the cavalry formed up and the commander ordered a charge.

Behind the cavalry, the infantry and archers followed closely.

Outside the north city gate, the soldiers of Eastern Yan lit a flare at the moment when the enemy cavalry charged.

The flare was launched into the air and exploded with a loud bang, and beautiful fireworks bloomed in the sky.

The defenders of Luocheng naturally saw the signal flares and knew that it was the army in the north of Dongyan sending a warning or asking for help in other directions.

But once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Now that we are out, we can only make a concerted effort and try to quickly open the north exit.

Ten thousand cavalrymen, with iron hooves rolling, came like the wind, and the ground north of the city was shaking.

Behind the wooden wall, the Dongyan archers watched eagerly.

When the enemy cavalry came within thirty steps, a general gave the order: "Send."

Densely packed square holes appeared on the wooden and earthen wall.

Sharp arrows shot out from the square holes, and after a moment, they covered the sky and earth, endlessly.

The Dongyan archers hid under the floor and still used three rows of rounds to shoot.

As a result, arrows rained down like rain, killing the enemy cavalry crazily and without interruption.

For a moment, people and horses fell to the ground and war horses cried sadly.

Many war horses rushed forward at high speed and crashed into the wooden wall with great force.

But unfortunately, the wooden wall remained intact, but the warhorse was killed by hitting it head-on, and the cavalry also died in front of the wooden wall.

At night, visibility is low.

The infantry and archers who were farther behind could only hear the neighing of the horses and were unaware of the actual situation, so they continued to rush forward quickly.

But what greeted them was a merciless rain of arrows.

A quarter of an hour later, all 10,000 cavalrymen defending Luocheng were wiped out.

The infantry and archers were exposed to the enemy's long-range attacks and suffered head-on critical hits.

Everyone panicked and retreated hastily, leaving behind countless corpses, before they retreated out of the range of the enemy's arrows.

After listening to the soldiers' emergency report, the Luocheng defender realized that the enemy's wooden walls were extremely strong.

And the attack from behind the wooden wall was fierce.

Seeing that their attempt to break out had failed, the defenders of Luocheng hurriedly ordered their archers to light rockets and shoot at the enemy's wooden wall.

If you can't force your way through, use fire.

Everyone organized themselves, and then the archers advanced under the protection of the infantry holding shields.

Soon, rows of rockets streaked across the night sky and madly hit the wooden wall.

But their attack was naturally counterattacked by the archers of Eastern Yan.

Arrows were flying all over the sky, and many archers who went forward to fire arrows, including the infantry who covered the archers, were hit by arrows and killed in front of the formation.

Only half can be returned.

The rockets they launched actually hit the wooden wall and were burning on it.

But after they retreated, the Dongyan soldiers took out bamboo tubes from behind them, climbed onto the floor, poured water from top to bottom, and quickly put out the fire.

When the generals defending Luocheng saw the wooden wall on fire, they felt relieved, thinking that they could burn it down.

But in the blink of an eye, all the flames on the wooden wall were extinguished.

A general gritted his teeth and said, "Push the catapult out."

The two sides were deadlocked for a stick of incense.

The soldiers of Eastern Yan had already seen catapults being assembled and standing tall under the city walls.

The general hurriedly gave the order to load the javelins.

One after another, huge bows were carried out from the tent a hundred steps away and quickly sent to the back of the chariot.

Lu Xunhuan specially designed a placement point for the giant bow on the newly designed chariot frame.

The giant bow was taken and placed in a fixed position on the chariot, with the two points at the top of the front bow arc clamped.

Place the javelin at the back and you can draw the bow.

After a while, ten catapults were assembled in Luocheng and pushed forward a short distance.

Then you have to load the burning fireball and throw it towards the wooden wall.

But before they could throw the fireball, the air vibrated and with a whistling sound, the enemy's javelin arrived first.

The long javelin hit the wooden frame of the catapult with great impact force.

Some of the javelins were still on fire.

The catapults were hit by javelins. Perhaps it would be fine if they were hit by only one javelin, but the opponent's javelins were fired continuously, and in a blink of an eye, all the catapults were hit by several javelins.

The wooden frames of some catapults had been shot off, and they were shaking and useless.

Some catapults simply collapsed.

Even though some of the catapults had not fallen yet, the javelins they fired had already severely damaged the soldiers behind them who were preparing to launch fireballs.

When several generals in Luocheng saw this situation, their faces turned green.

If I can’t break through, will I just die here?

Some generals were unwilling to accept this, as they had hundreds of thousands of soldiers on their side.

If you charge, you will die. If you don’t charge, you will die too. It’s better to give it another try.

Then, after a while, the sound of killing broke out.

The soldiers of Luocheng charged forward desperately, overwhelming them.