Chapter 407 – Smashing Luoyang
While Zhang He and his men were pulling back from the battlefield, Ji Ling and his 19,500 men returned to Luoyang.
Before they could resupply and chase after Guan Yu Army, an urgent report came from Yuan Shu's scouts, who were monitoring Hulao Gate's movement.
The reports came to Yuan Shu and Ji Ling that Cao Cao's forces rushed at Luoyang again with their 25,000 soldiers. Also, a unit of 2,000 light horsemen had already shown up on the horizon, capturing all farmers and civilians beyond the city wall.
Yuan Shu changed his mind. As he did not want Luoyang to fall, he ordered Ji Ling to defend the city instead of pursuing Guan Yu.
As such, Ji Ling's 19,500 men had to face the elite army of Cao Cao.
Ji Ling did not mind it. Since it was a common sense in this era that an attacker force's number had to be five times bigger than the defender, Ji Ling did not think that Cao Cao could defeat him with only 25,000 men.
