If Sun Jian had taken down the Kaiyang Gate, there would still be room to turn the situation around. Hu Zhen and the others still had the hope of fighting Sun Jian to the death with the superior forces in the city. However, after Yang Rui had taken down the Valley Gate, Hu Zhen and the other defenders of Dong Zhuo no longer had the slightest hope of turning the situation around.
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There were still over a hundred thousand soldiers left in Luoyang. They were more than twice the number of Sun Jian and Yang Rui. However, the strength of their generals and soldiers were far inferior to Sun Jian and Yang Rui's forces. Therefore, the moment Yang Rui entered Luoyang through the Valley Gate, the outcome was already decided. The only suspense was whether or not Sun Jian's forces could hold on after such a long battle!
After Yang Rui had taken down the Valley Gate, he continued to utilize the advantage of the Iron Guards. He first charged toward the Summer Gate and the Upper East Gate. The troops at the Summer Gate were led by Wu Anguo, while the troops at the Upper East Gate were led by Zhang Liao. Each of them led around five thousand Fifth Grade Iron Guards.
Fortunately, Yang Rui didn't force his way through the Valley Gate's tower. When Yang Rui climbed up the tower, he realized that most of the Archer Skill Books dropped from the city walls were Fifth Grade. There were even three Sixth Grade Archer Skill Books!
"Volley: Sixth Grade Archer Skill Book. Fifth Grade Archers can advance to Sixth Grade Archers after using it. Usage Requirement: 100% proficiency in related Fifth Grade support-type skills and at least Level 60. "
Yang Rui carefully placed the three Sixth Grade Archer Skill Books into his backpack. This was the first time he had seen a Sixth Grade soldier and obtained a related Skill Book since he entered the game.
Before this, Sun Jian had also activated the special soldier attribute of a historical general/famous historical figure and obtained the qualification to train the Tier-7 Tiger Soldiers. These two things were linked together. This could very well mean that the main forces in the game were about to enter the era of Intermediate Soldiers (Fifth Grade – Seventh Grade)!
The game's settings for the Grades of soldiers were very detailed. First Grade militiamen were only the most primitive form of soldiers. Second Grades would have some basic combat abilities, Third Grades would have advanced skills, Fourth Grades would have grappling skills, and Fifth Grades would have an additional support skill. Based on the Sixth Grade Archer skill book that Yang Rui had obtained, the Sixth Grade Soldier skills would be a subdivision of skills. The same type of soldier might have different subdivisions.
Yang Rui had ordered Wu Anguo and Zhang Liao to lead their troops forward on the city walls to obtain the Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade skill books and quickly take over the city gates. However, the space above the city walls was limited. The five thousand soldiers each could already stretch out a long stretch of the city walls. Any more wouldn't be of much use.
Under the lead of Yang Rui and Gao Shun, the remaining soldiers headed straight for Luoyang Imperial City's North Palace. Yang Rui planned to take advantage of the chaos to take down Luoyang Imperial City's North Palace.
Luoyang Imperial City's North Palace was where the Royal Family lived, while the South Palace was where the Emperor and his ministers dealt with government affairs. However, in comparison, Yang Rui had stepped into the North Palace much more frequently than the South Palace. Thus, he was much more familiar with it.
The North Palace wasn't far from the valley gate of the outer city. In less than fifteen minutes, Yang Rui had led his troops to the northeast corner of the North Palace. Compared to the outer city. Although the walls of the North Palace were still high and dangerous, the number of defensive forces invested in them had obviously decreased. The density of the scattered soldiers wasn't high.
Moreover, as the North Palace was the inner city where the Royal Family lived, it had more city gates than the outer city. Moreover, it lacked a moat compared to the outer city. Thus, Yang Rui had many more siege points to choose from.
At this moment, Yang Rui still had all the siege weapons by his side. After a brief investigation, Yang Rui quickly launched an attack near the northeast corner of the North Palace. The Ironguard, who was more suited for city wall battles, led the charge. With Gao Shun's support skills, Gao Shun didn't even need to personally attack this time. The soldiers had already scaled the walls!
Compared to the outer city walls, the defenses of the North Palace's walls were indeed nothing. After Yang Rui led his troops up the walls, he discovered that there were pitifully few soldiers defending the North Palace. This was also the reason why Yang Rui could so easily scale the North Palace's walls.
What followed next was very simple. Yang Rui once again gave Gao Shun 5,000 Ironguard soldiers and ordered them to clear out the soldiers on the walls clockwise. Yang Rui himself led the remaining Ironguard soldiers and warriors into the North Palace to search.
Originally, Yang Rui had spent a lot of effort to attack Luoyang's Royal Palace. Other than to obtain merit points and contribution points, he was also looking forward to the various rare items in the city. Now that there weren't many soldiers defending the North Palace, Yang Rui naturally had to seize the opportunity to search first.
As for the few soldiers defending the city walls, leaving them to Gao Shun and the 5,000 Ironguard soldiers was more than enough.
Yang Rui first took down the Valley Gate and then quickly invaded the North Palace. The soldiers defending Luoyang's Royal Palace were already in a mess. At this moment, Sun Jian had climbed up the city walls from the Kaiyang Gate. Moreover, he didn't show any signs of slacking off for more than two hours. He had been pushing the frontline on the city walls toward the Small Yuan Gate and the East Gate. He had already taken down the Ping City Gate and the Xia Gate.
On the north side of the city, Zhang Liao and Wu Anguo appeared to be much stronger because Dong Zhuo's camp didn't have any decent generals to tangle with. After Zhang Liao took down the Xia Gate, he was still pushing toward the Upper West Gate. Wu Anguo had also pushed the frontline past the Upper East Gate. On the east and west walls, Yang Rui and Sun Jian's troops were about to converge.
"Heh … Now that the four walls are in danger, why don't you plan for a retreat?"
On the east side of the Small Yuan Gate, Duan Ran swung his blade and killed a soldier under Sun Jian's command. He then turned around and spoke loudly to Hu Zhen.
At this moment, Hu Zhen, Duan Ran, and Wang Fang had led a bitter battle against Sun Jian to no avail. They were even being forced to retreat. In addition, bad news about the Valley Gate, the North Palace, and the other sections of the city walls kept coming in. Hu Zhen and the other two already had thoughts of retreating. It was just that Duan Ran had brought it up first.
"If we retreat like this, we will fail our mission!" Hu Zhen forced himself to say.
The reason Luoyang's Royal Palace had fallen to its current state was because Hu Zhen had left the city. The reason Hu Zhen didn't want to leave so easily was mainly because he was worried that Dong Zhuo would punish him for neglecting his duty. Hu Zhen also knew that Luoyang's fall was already irreversible.
"If we retreat now, we can still retain some troops. If we delay any longer, I'm afraid we will face a situation of complete annihilation. Therefore, it's better to retreat early. When the time comes, we will all apologize to the Prime Minister!" Duan Ran naturally saw what Hu Zhen was worried about, so he tried to persuade him again.
At this moment, Wang Fang also came over and tried to persuade him. Hu Zhen finally sighed and relented. Then, the three generals began to discuss the matter of retreating as they fought. Because the battle with Sun Jian's troops was very intense, the three of them and their troops couldn't escape immediately.
After Yang Rui easily broke into Luoyang's North Palace, he personally led nearly twenty thousand soldiers to search the palace. However, Yang Rui was very disappointed. At this time, almost all the valuable items in the North Palace had been taken away by Dong Zhuo. Apart from a small number of older servants and palace maids, Yang Rui didn't find anything valuable.
From the looks of it, Dong Zhuo's army had probably given up on using the North Palace as their base of operations. Otherwise, there would have been some family members in there.
Yang Rui led his army to search the entire inner palace. At this moment, Gao Shun had also led his army to clear out all the defenders on the inner walls. Similar to the situation inside the city, there weren't many soldiers stationed on the walls of the North Palace. Moreover, their grades weren't too high either. Naturally, there weren't any skill books of the level of a Sixth Grade archer.
Since the North Palace was no longer of any value, Yang Rui gathered his troops and charged toward the South Palace. According to Yang Rui's judgment, the most valuable items in a city were definitely hidden in the inner cities of the three prefectures. For the Royal City of Luoyang, the South Palace and the North Palace were naturally more valuable than the other buildings. As a result, Yang Rui didn't target any of the other buildings. In truth, the Taicang and the Armory were two of the most valuable classified warehouses near the valley gates. However, Yang Rui had temporarily abandoned them!
"Who is the first to wake up from a dream? Only I know …"
Yang Rui led his army out of the North Palace. As they were heading toward the South Palace, they saw a person blocking their path! Yang Rui looked over and immediately recognized the person's identity. Wasn't that the Mister Fortune Teller from Luoyang City?!
This Mister Fortune Teller was quite mysterious. When Yang Rui accompanied Magistrate Liu to Luoyang City for the first time to buy an official position, he once tried to spend one gold coin to ask about Cheng Yu's whereabouts. At that time, he received a divination: "The forest has trees and the trees have branches. The birds wish to ride the distant wind. When the yellow clouds surge, the drifting birds will fly into the forest. At that time, if one doesn't have an inch of skill, it will be like finding a precious treasure and returning it empty-handed." Yang Rui still remembered it very clearly.
And now, it seemed that Cheng Yu's whereabouts were exactly as described in the divination. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion plot ended, he had been by Yang Rui's side and had never left! Therefore, this Mister Fortune Teller wasn't a simple character.
"Mister!"
Yang Rui first stepped forward and bowed respectfully. Then, he opened his mouth and said, "Previously, I received Mister's guidance. Now that your wish has been fulfilled, I would like to express my gratitude in advance. In this time of chaos, Mister is still unwilling to leave. I wonder if there's anything I can do for you? "
"I had a divination three months ago and learned that Luoyang City would be burned down today. The people were in a terrible situation. Five days ago, I had another divination, and the divination had eased a lot. However, Luoyang City is still unavoidable!
Since you have appeared here, you must be a person of great fortune. I have prepared a small gift for the person who entered Luoyang City first. As long as you do your best to extinguish the fire and save Luoyang City from danger, I will give you the small gift in full. You and Sun Jian are both in line with your status. You can do your best. "Faced with Yang Rui's courtesy, the Mister Fortune Teller said without any surprise or joy.
At this moment, a system prompt was sent to Yang Rui.
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