The book is picked up again.

Three days later, ten miles outside the city in the direction of Chang'an to Luoyang.

"Da Da Da ......"

"Phew!" After Yang Ying, who went to investigate the news, came back, he immediately turned over and dismounted, saluted Li Zhi, and reported: "Lord Qiqi, I have already explored and understood, after Cao Gong was brought to Chang'an, he did not defend the city, but directly attacked with the whole army of 150,000 troops, and fought with Dong Zhuo for three days!"

But after that, both sides ceased fighting, and Cao Gong also returned to Chang'an.

I heard that Cao Gong suffered a small loss in this battle, and lost 20,000 or 30,000 horses, and now he only has 1230,000 men.

And Dong Zhuo didn't get much better, all his infantry was lost in that battle, and now he only has 80,000 cavalry left. ”

"That's ......" After hearing Yang Ying's report, Li Zhi smiled bitterly and rubbed his temples with a headache.

At the beginning, he was afraid that Cao Cao would suffer because of carelessness, so when he was in the Tiger Prison, he told Cao Cao many times, but Cao Cao didn't seem to take his words to heart.

Now, as he expected, Cao Cao suffered because of carelessness.

He knew that the reason why Cao Cao went out of the city to fight must be because Cao Cao felt that Dong Zhuo was just a group of recruits, and his combat power was definitely not strong, as long as he was cautious, he would definitely be able to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop, and even if he couldn't be annihilated, he would definitely make the enemy suffer a lot.

But Cao Cao forgot that cavalry is cavalry! Even if it's a recruit, even if it's their war horses, they're better than the infantry!

There weren't many cavalry under Cao Cao's command at all, and there was no way to stop the enemy's cavalry from charging at all, so it was strange that Cao Cao didn't suffer a loss!

The mistake made by Cao Cao is not too big, and it has not lost many people, and there is still a chance to redeem it.

However, Li Zhi was afraid that Cao Cao would be angry because of his dignity, so he continued to go out of the city to fight Cao Cao.

After thinking about this, Li Zhiyi, who was restless, waved his hand and ordered: "The whole army is set off!" Get to Chang'an as early as possible! ”

After doing this, he hurried and rushed in the direction of Chang'an.

"Boom ......"

Li Zhi's guards were all cavalry, and after a while, they came to the gate of Chang'an.

"Appeal ......"

As soon as Li Zhigang stopped his horse, he heard a loud cheer from the city, "Who is coming, the common name is the surname!" ”

After hearing this familiar voice, Li Zhiyile raised his head and said loudly: "Miaocai, I can't recognize Ben Hou after not seeing him for a few days?" ”

That's right, the person defending the city is Xiahou Yuan.

After hearing Li Zhi's words, Xiahou Yuan leaned down and looked down, and found that it was Li Zhi, his face was happy, and he laughed and said, "Isn't Luoyang Hou stationed in Luoyang?" How do you have time to come here? ”

As he spoke, he kicked a lieutenant on the side, and said angrily: "What are you doing in a daze?" Didn't you see Luoyang Hou coming? Why don't you hurry down and open the city gate to welcome the Marquis of Luoyang into the city?! ”

After speaking, he turned his head to Li Zhi and shouted loudly: "Please stay with the Marquis of Luoyang, a certain family will go and open the city gate for you!" ”

After that, he ran excitedly towards the bottom of the city wall.

"Uh......" Yang Ying under the city was stunned for a moment when he saw Xiahou Yuan being so enthusiastic

, looked at Li Zhi with a puzzled face and asked, "My lord, I and General Xiahou have only seen each other for a few days, why is he so enthusiastic?" ”

"Well, this ......," Li Zhi said. After touching his chin and thinking for a while, he looked in the direction of Chang'an City with a smile and said, "I'm afraid they urgently need someone who can persuade Brother Mengde, so Miao Cai was so excited after seeing Ben Hou." ”

Li Zhi was still very puzzled before, it is said that Cao Cao has so many civil and military generals beside him, when Cao Cao decides to go out of the city to fight Dong Zhuo, one of them can see that something is wrong, right?

Why didn't they stop Cao Cao? Could it be that they have collectively lost their minds?

And after seeing Xiahou Yuan so enthusiastic, Li Zhi figured out that it was not that Guo Jia, the Xiahou brothers and others had not dissuaded Cao Cao, but that they couldn't persuade him!

There are not many people under Cao Cao who can persuade Cao Cao, only three or two.

Originally, Guo Jia had this qualification, but Liu Bei's incident at the beginning was too bad, so he lost this qualification.

In this way, in the entire Chang'an City, no one can stop Cao Cao's decision, as long as Cao Cao makes up his mind, then others can't stop him even if they see something wrong!

And Xiahou Yuan also saw this, so he was so happy when he saw Li Zhi,

Because Cao Cao and Li Zhi had a fateful friendship, and they were friends with brothers, no matter how stubborn Cao Cao was, he would listen to Li Zhi's words!

In this way, if the previous events occur again, then Li Zhi can persuade Cao Cao not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Therefore, Xiahou Yuan welcomed Li Zhi's arrival very much, and even the speed of greeting was a little faster, after coming down from the city wall, it didn't take long to open the city gate, laugh and walk out, bow to Li Zhi, and say: "It's been a long time since the Marquis of Luoyang, let's enter the city quickly." ”

"There is a lot of talent" Li Zhi was not polite, he was really tired these days, so after nodding, he led the army into the city.

"Haha......" After Xiahou Yuan took Li Zhi to Cao Cao's residence, he immediately laughed and said to Cao Cao: "Lord, who do you think is coming?" ”

"Huh?" Cao Cao, who was lying on the table studying the situation of friend and foe, frowned after hearing Xiahou Yuan's words.

Now when he is worried, he is really not in the mood to receive a mess of people.

So he waved his hand without raising his head, and said, "Lone is very busy now, no matter who comes, let him go to the side hall and wait!" ”

"Hehe......" After Li Zhi heard Cao Cao's words, he immediately laughed, came to Cao Cao's back, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Brother Meng De, why is you so angry?" ”

"Huh?!" Cao Cao, who was originally patted on the shoulder, was instantly furious, but after hearing that it was Li Zhi's voice, he immediately turned around with surprise on his face and asked Li Zhi, "Brother Xingzhi, why are you here?" ”

"Hehe......" After Li Zhi laughed playfully, he didn't answer, but lay on the table and looked at the enemy's posture on the map.

After a long time, he straightened up and said to Cao Cao with a smile: "If you don't come again, does Brother Meng De plan to go out and fight Dong Zhuo directly?" ”

This is not Li Zhiwu's target, but the map on the table is marked like this, judging from the situation on the offensive and defensive map on the table, Cao Cao's next plan is to go out of the city and fight hard with Dong Zhuo!

"It's... Alas......! After Cao Cao heard Li Zhi's words, the smile on his face froze, and then he sighed helplessly, nodded, and said, "Brother Xingzhi is right, Brother Wei does have this plan."

But being a brother is also forced to be helpless!

Brother Wei also knows that the best choice for Brother Wei now is to guard Chang'an City, but if Chang'an can't open the situation as soon as possible, the situation in the world will fall to the point of being out of control!

Therefore, even if you fight all the soldiers and horses in your hands, you must defeat Dong Zhuo as quickly as possible! ”

In fact, Cao Cao didn't know that he really shouldn't go out of the city to fight now?

The outside of the city is full of cavalry, and these infantry of theirs are naturally at a disadvantage!

But Cao Cao had a reason to have to send troops!

Because Dong Zhuo was proficient, or Li Ru was proficient, he saw Cao Cao's eagerness to win, so they didn't plan to attack the city at all, and they had been stationed outside the city waiting for the opportunity.

In this way, although there is no danger in Chang'an City, Cao Cao has no way to deal with Dong Zhuo!

If he wants to deal with Dong Zhuo now, he must open the city gate and rush out to attack Dong Zhuo's army.

But Dong Zhuo's army is all cavalry, although the number suffers, but there is a big battle in the arms, really calculated, the difference between Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo's combat power is not too big.

If Dong Zhuo attacks Chang'an, then Cao Cao, who has Chang'an City to rely on, will take advantage of it, and in this way, Dong Zhuo will lose the upper hand invisibly!

And if Dong Zhuo does not move outside the city, then Cao Cao must go out of the city to fight if he wants to win, so that the two sides are in a relatively fair competitive environment.

And Li Ru took a fancy to this, so he didn't move, just to put the two sides in a level playing field, so that they could have a chance to win, and he was sure that Cao Cao would inevitably go out of the city, because Cao Cao couldn't afford to delay!

"......" After listening to Cao Cao's words, Li Zhi probably figured this out, sighed helplessly, rubbed his temples, and said with a wry smile: "Sure enough, Li Ru is still the same Li Ru, it's really too difficult!" ”

"Yes......" After Cao Cao sighed a little melancholy, he nodded, and said helplessly: "Li Ru is indeed very difficult to deal with, and I don't know what kind of shit luck Dong Zhuo has taken, and he can be assisted by such a resourceful person!" ”

When he said this, Cao Cao had some envy and jealousy in his eyes.

In his opinion, Dong Zhuo is just a lump of mud that can't be wiped on the wall, what qualifications does he have to have such a strategist?

Li Zhi didn't think so much at the time, and when he knew that his side had to take the initiative, he stared closely at the map on the table and thought hard.

He wanted to come up with the best of both worlds that would allow him to settle the battle as quickly as possible without losing too many troops.

Seeing this, Cao Cao knew that Li Zhi was thinking of a plan, so he didn't bother him, but waved his hand at Xiahou Yuan on the side, and whispered to him: "Miaocai, you go and let people prepare a sumptuous banquet, and you want to have a good drink with the virtuous brother in the evening." ”

"No!" Xiahou Yuan also whispered a sentence and then slowly retreated, and at this time, Cao Cao and Li Zhi were left in the entire hall.

Cao Cao saw that Li Zhi had not come back to his senses, and he did not urge, but came to a table and sat down and carefully tasted tea.

However, he had just taken a sip of tea......