Xiang Kang's luck is actually not very good, if the news of Shen Yangjun's sudden defection to Han can reach Luoyang one day earlier, and Shen Yang's letter to Sima Wei can also be sent to Luoyang City in advance, then Sima Wei, who is trapped in the lonely city, is likely to really open the city and surrender after learning that there is no hope for reinforcements, and honestly hand over his remaining army and land and city to the Han army, in exchange for life and the glory and wealth given to him by Xiang Kang, and go to the rear of the Han army like Wei Bao to be an idle landlord with no worries about food and clothing.

But it's a pity that the news and letters were a day late, giving Xiang Yu's letter the opportunity to be delivered to Luoyang first, and at the same time, Xiang Yu's messenger was still under the protection of the Henan soldiers who escorted him westward, and luckily escaped the interception of the Han army's scout sentry team, sneaked to Luoyang City, and successfully presented Xiang Yu's letter to Sima Wei.

The content of Xiang Yu's letter is very simple, mainly two contents, one is that Xiang Yu told Sima Wei that he had sent the general Huan Chu to lead an army to reinforce Sima Wei first, and promised to personally lead the main force of the Chu army to rescue the Henan army as soon as possible, and the other is to ask Sima Wei to keep the vital Ao Cang important land at all costs, and also patted his chest and promised that as long as Sima Wei can hold Ao Cang, so that the main force of the Chu army does not have to worry about the supply of grain and grass, Sima Wei is to lose all the land and cities except Ao Cang, The Chu army must have snatched it back for Sima Wei.

Xiang Yu's credit is actually not bad, and what he said can basically be fulfilled, so of course his letter gave Sima Wei a reassurance, and Shen Yang's letter of persuasion to Sima Wei lost its effect, and the letter was directly torn apart by Sima Wei in public, and the messenger was also expelled from the city by the Henan army.

Fortunately, the Han army is just worried that others will make trouble in the fierce battle in Luoyang, not that they are not sure to rely on the strong attack to take Luoyang, before the Han army arrived at Luoyang City, the Han army has already made certain siege preparations, after the Han army moved to Luoyang City, the main force of the Han army prepared more siege weapons, filled in more Luoyang moat, the first large-scale assault also had many Han warriors successfully rushed to the city wall, but suffered too much in the Henan Army defenders, so they did not drive down the city, failed to succeed in the siege, and when the second siege was over, the balance of victory was more tilted towards the Han army.

In this battle, the Han army dispatched hundreds of dragging trebuchets alone, and used incendiary bombs drenched with fire oil and sulfur at any cost, successfully causing a fire in Luoyang City, and also burned down the Luoyang City Tower, which was a huge threat to the besieging party, and dispatched sixteen large ladder cars and eight Lu buses, from morning to night, storming the northwest two gates of Luoyang City continuously, and also broke through the northwest two gates of Luoyang City in the fierce battle, forcing the Henan army to retreat to the inner gate, from beginning to end is pressing the Henan army.

If it weren't for the Henan Army's sufficient materials to defend the city, which burned the Han army's large-scale siege weapons with countless torches and rockets, Sima Wei fled back to Luoyang City with tens of thousands of defeated soldiers and strengthened the defenders in the city, the Han army would probably have broken through Luoyang City during the day, but even so, the Han army units that took turns to fight still killed the defenders with heavy casualties, and successfully rushed to the city wall many times, and at the same time, the main force of the Han army had already prepared enough dry food torches, ready to continue the attack at night, and vowed not to give up if Luoyang was not taken.

When it was almost evening, seeing that the situation was not good, Li Zuoche could only hurriedly say to Sima Wei: "King, the army of Han thieves takes turns to fight, the physical consumption is not very large, and there are still a few ladder cars and Lu Gong cars have not been used, tonight will definitely attack the city overnight, whether our army can survive this night is not much sure, we should take advantage of the strength of the army to fight, preemptively abandon the city to flee west, and retreat to Xingyang to defend Aocang, so that we can have the hope of a comeback." ”

Sima Wei hesitated, saying that he was reluctant to take the initiative to give up his national capital Luoyang, Li Zuoche saw his thoughts, so he stomped his feet and said: "King, you can't look forward and backward anymore, it is a pity to take the initiative to give up Luoyang, but in order to keep Luoyang's last hope and send our lives here, we no longer have any hope of making a comeback!" Ao Cang is our lifeline, only by keeping Ao Cang, the army of the King of Western Chu does not have to travel thousands of miles from Pengcheng to the front line to replenish supplies, and only then can we be sure to recapture Luoyang City and all the land for us! ”

After hesitating for a long time, Sima Wei said very reluctantly: "This king can abandon the city and go east, but the Han thieves are now attacking the city, and our army is fighting fiercely on the front line, so there is no way to withdraw the army to reorganize the team, break through the siege in formation, and go out of the city directly in a mess, there is no difference between sending it to death?" ”

"Your Majesty can conclude that when the sun sets, Xiang Kang Xiao'er will inevitably take advantage of the afterglow of sunset to rotate his siege army." Li Zuoche said quickly: "Taking advantage of that opportunity, we hurriedly sent an envoy who didn't know the inside story to fight the city under the white flag, pretending to ask for negotiation of surrender conditions, to bargain with Xiang Kang Xiao'er, and buy time for our main force. We also took the opportunity to assemble our troops, distribute dry food and torches, and suddenly break through the east gate, so that we can hope to break out of the encirclement and retreat to Xingyang to defend Aocang! ”

Sima Wei was still extremely hesitant, but Li Zuoche was so anxious that he almost yelled, repeatedly urging Sima Wei to hurry up and follow the plan, fortunately, Sima Wei also knew that Li Zuoche was completely out of loyalty, so he tried every means to fight for his last chance to recover, and finally Sima Wei gritted his teeth, nodded or said: "That's it, hurry up and arrange an uninformed messenger, just wait for Xiang Kang Xiao'er to rotate the siege army, and immediately go out of the city to trick Xiang Kang Xiao'er into postponing the siege." ”

This time it was completely expected by Li Zuoche, and when the sun set, Xiang Kang really issued an order, withdrew the troops on the front line to rest and eat, and rotated the fresh army to go up to continue the siege, and the envoy of the Henan army, who did not know the truth, took advantage of the opportunity of the temporary retreat of the Han army, and immediately went down the city with a white flag, and trotted to the front of the Han army to ask for negotiation of surrender conditions. And this time, not only Xiang Kang, but even the world's top two think tanks, Chen Ping and Zhang Liang, were all deceived by Li Zuoche's delaying tactics because the Han army was already victorious, temporarily stopped the rotation of the army to attack the city, and called the envoy of the Henan army to listen to the surrender conditions proposed by Sima Wei.

In order to buy time for the main force of his army to assemble and break through the siege as much as possible, Sima Wei deliberately put forward a surrender condition that Xiang Kang would never agree to, that is, let Xiang Kang continue to recognize him as the prince and king, and reserve Handan County as a land for him, and let Sima Wei continue to command the remaining Henan army and accept Xiang Kang's orders. Xiang Kang, in order to consider the surrender of other princes and kings in the future, thought about it for a while before bargaining and saying that Sima Wei would be named the Marquis of Guling, and the four counties of Guling, Yangxia and Tuoku would be given to Sima Wei as food, and he also asked the Henan army to unconditionally lay down its arms and surrender and accept the reorganization of the Han army.

Of course, the envoy of the Henan army did not dare to do this for Sima Wei without authorization, but just promised to go back and report to Sima Wei, Xiang Kang was also careless, and asked the time to be Shi Zheng and said casually: "Okay, go back and tell Sima Wei that before the second quarter of the time, you must give an answer to the king, and when it comes to the second quarter of the year, you still don't hear from him, and the king will immediately continue to attack the city!" ”

Xiang Kang quickly regretted his careless decision, because it was just the beginning of the hour, the east gate of Luoyang, which had been closed before, suddenly opened, and the Henan army rushed out after the emergency regrouping, and the Han army had previously shaken the hearts of the defenders in order to encircle the three and one missing, and gathered the main force in the northwest of Luoyang, and it was too late to immediately send troops to block and block, giving the main force of the Henan army a chance to quickly get out of the city, and the remnants of the main force of the Henan army were in a hurry to flee for their lives, and the morale was extremely high, and they were extremely resolute in rushing to kill. Soon killed the few Han army teams outside the east gate, and rushed to the direction of Xingyang, Xiang Kang had no choice but to quickly order Long He and Zhong Liwu to lead the army to pursue with all their might, not to give Sima Wei a chance to escape to Aocang with the brigade to regroup.

In the end, after sending troops into the city to take over Luoyang City, which was abandoned by Sima Wei, Xiang Kangcai said with a wry smile to Zhang Liang and Chen Ping next to him: "Fighting geese all day long, I didn't expect that the three of us would be pecked by the geese together. ”

"The king forgave his sins, Weichen and others were incompetent, and they couldn't see through Sima Wei's tricks in advance, giving him a chance to escape." Chen Ping also honestly pleaded guilty and said: "Weichen and others are derelict in their duties, please punish the king." ”

"It's okay, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and it's not strange to miscalculate for a while." Xiang Kang waved his hand generously, and said with a smile: "Besides, the possibility that Sima Wei can escape to Aocang to continue to hold on is very small, and today General Zhou Shu has already sent a battle report, saying that he has taken Huaixian County and is preparing to launch a rush in Guangwu." If all goes well, by the time Sima Wei escapes to Aocang, our partial division should also cross the Yellow River, blocking the way for him to escape into Aocang. ”

Chen Ping hurriedly nodded in agreement, but Zhang Liang still had a long-term vision, and after thinking about it, he said: "King Han, Sima Wei took the initiative to abandon his capital and flee eastward, I'm afraid it's not just to survive. If he just wants to live, he still has the option of surrendering on his own initiative, and the surrender conditions you gave him are quite good, but he still doesn't think about it, and resolutely abandons the city and flees eastward, I'm afraid there are other reasons. ”

"Another reason?" Xiang Kang's eyes rolled, and he quickly said, "Could it be that my brother has already got in touch with him?" Tell him that my brother will soon send troops to counterattack Sanchuan, so he wants to flee to Aocang and give priority to keeping the food and grass necessary for my brother's all-out counterattack? ”

"With only this explanation, calculating the time, it is time for the King of Western Chu to receive the news of our exit and make a certain reaction." Zhang Liang replied, and said: "King, for now, we had better not waste time, we must go east as soon as possible, go all out to take Aocang and Xingyang and other places, seize control of the chasm, first be invincible, and then think about how to deal with the all-out counterattack that the King of Western Chu will definitely launch soon." ”

Xiang Kang nodded slowly, suddenly smiled in his heart, and said secretly: "Third Brother Liu, I'm sorry, it's my turn to take your place and confront my brother in the chasm." ”

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Let's take a look at the situation on Sima Wei's side, relying on the groundbreaking collective brain pumping of Xiang Kang, Zhang Liang and Chen Ping's world's top traitors, after luckily breaking out of the Han army's Luoyang encirclement, more than 10,000 remnants of the main force of the Henan Army panicked like a bird with a frightened bow, and just fled eastward all the way. So that the remnants of the main force of the Henan Army can quickly cross the river and flee for their lives.

Not to mention, Sima Wei's control over the army in the territory still has two brushes, even knowing that the situation is critical, leaving the city is tantamount to death, the defenders of the Henan Army in Gongxian County still obeyed Sima Wei's order, poured out of the nest to form a formation, ready to cover Sima Wei's eastward retreat, and used the urgently requisitioned boats to urgently build two new pontoon bridges on the ferry in the west of the city, which already had a pontoon bridge, opening up three roads for Sima Wei to cross the river directly.

Then, when the sky was light, when Sima Wei fled east to the vicinity of Gongxian County with the remnants of the Han army, the defenders of Gongxian County plucked up their courage and took the initiative to launch a counter-charge against the Han army's pursuers, using blood and life to buy Sima Wei time to escape. As a result, although the local defenders of the Henan Army were weak in combat effectiveness and their equipment could not be compared with the main force of the Han Army, the Han Army's pursuers were entangled by the defenders of Gongxian County for nearly half an hour before they killed the enemy blocking the road, and the remnants of the Henan Army took the opportunity to rush through Luoshui, cut the pontoon bridge, temporarily cut off the pursuit road of the Han Army, and obtained the opportunity to break away from the Han Army's pursuers. A great deal of valuable time was wasted before the pursuit was resumed.

The wasted time can no longer be recovered, and after finally crossing Luoshui, Long and Zhong Liwu have been chasing until Cheng Gao has not been able to catch up with Sima Wei's remnants, and the generals and soldiers are all tired and weak, and they know that the Henan army still has troops stationed in Xingyang and Aocang, and they will definitely suffer a big loss if they chase it again, so they have no choice but to hate and retreat, and the remnants of the Henan Army led by Sima Wei continued to roll and crawl, fleeing all the way east.

The matter is not over, after the east fled to Xingyang City, Sima Wei didn't even want to enter Xingyang City, and continued to enter Aocang in the east, but the Xingyang defenders suddenly sent people out of the city to report, saying that the Han army's partial division Zhou Shu's department had succeeded in crossing Guangwu yesterday and moved to the south bank of the Yellow River. Li Zuoche stopped him and said, "King, it's useless to lose your temper now, our army is extremely tired, and we can't risk going to Aocang to send troops to Zhou Shupifu to rob and kill." For now, it would be better for us to enter the city for a while to rest, and wait for the army to recover a little, and then we will take the army to Ao Cang to join the defenders. ”

Looking at the remnants of the main force of the self-army that had been so tired that he was lying down countless times, Sima Wei had no choice but to quickly adopt Li Zuoche's suggestion, take the remnants of his main force into the city to rest, and at the same time go to Ling Aocang and order the defenders there to hold on to it with all their might, and wait for the remnants of his main force to recover some vitality before going to meet them.

There was an accident, only an hour or so after entering the city to rest, there was an urgent report from Ao Cang, saying that Uncle Zhou had personally led the Han army from Guangwu to Ao Cang, at this time Li Zuoche, who was born in the literati, had already gone down to rest, Sima Wei was worried that Ao Cang was lost, so he did not discuss with Li Zuoche, and decisively ordered the Xingyang guard general to lead the main force of the defenders to save Ao Cang, but what surprised Sima Wei again was that it didn't take much time for his own soldiers to wake him up, and shouted with a crying voice: "King, something is wrong, The army we went to save Ao Cang was defeated and returned, and Uncle Zhou took his army to chase and kill with all his might, and he was about to kill under Xingyang City! ”

"Rubbish!"

After roaring angrily, Sima Wei could only drag his tired body and hurriedly get up, and quickly summoned the generals of the Henan army to prepare to defend the city, but after Li Zuoche heard what had happened, he immediately cried out and said, "King, why are you so careless?" Uncle Zhou made a feint to attack Aocang, making it clear that he was diverting the tiger from the mountain, luring us to dispatch the Xingyang defenders to rescue Aocang, and then take the opportunity to meet our reinforcements, and then you can easily take Xingyang City, why don't you impulsively send troops without discussing it with Weichen? ”

"It's not that I'm afraid that Ao Cang will make a mistake!" Sima Wei replied angrily and said: "Things have come to this point, it's useless to regret it, what to do next, hurry up and think of ideas for this king!" ”

"Your Majesty, there is really nothing you can do this time." Li Zuoche said helplessly: "Uncle Zhou is chasing and killing with all his might, he will definitely take advantage of the opportunity of our defeated soldiers in Xingyang to return to the city to flee for their lives, and rush into the city with all his might, we will open the city to let the army come back, it is extremely dangerous, if we don't open the city and let the army in, our tired division will definitely not be able to hold the city, and your majesty will have the ability to penetrate the sky and the earth this time, and there is no way." ”

Of course, Sima Wei did not believe in this evil, in addition to forcing the tired and dying soldiers to go to the city to defend it, and personally boarded the north gate of Xingyang, commanding the army to cover the defeated soldiers to return to the city, but because of the proximity, before waiting for the exhausted remnants of the Henan Army to make deployment arrangements, the Xingyang defenders who had gone out of the city before had been chased by the Han army's partial division, and rushed to the north gate of Xingyang like a tide, crying and shouting to ask the companions in the city to open the door immediately.

Considering that he had to rely on the Xingyang defenders, who had relatively sufficient physical strength, to guard the city, Sima Wei gritted his teeth, and ordered the city soldiers to desperately release arrows to prevent the Han army from approaching, and at the same time opened the city gate to let the defeated soldiers enter the city, but Sima Wei forgot a very important thing, that is, his soldiers were so tired that they couldn't even stand on their feet, and where did the physical strength pull out the strong bow and send out feather arrows? Therefore, no matter how the defenders of the city released their arrows, the arrows they shot were soft and weak, even the ordinary leather armor worn by the grassroots soldiers of the Han army was difficult to penetrate, and how much of a blocking effect could it play?

"Kill! Be sure to take this opportunity to go into the city! ”

Contrary to the Henan soldiers who are holding the arrows, the Han army soldiers who are more physically strong are determined to take advantage of the situation to attack the city, Uncle Zhou's love Li Bi is the first soldier, carrying a steel knife to fight a bloody way in the defeated crowd of the Henan army, the first to rush into the Xingyang city gate, the Han soldiers behind roared and followed, frantically slashed and quickly seized control of the city gate, the Han soldiers behind took advantage of the situation to enter the city, and the Henan army reserves in the city were too tired to stop at all. The Han army continued to enter the city, and the loss of Xingyang quickly became a foregone conclusion.

Seeing that the situation is not good, Sima Wei can only take a part of the army that can still be commanded, hurriedly fleeing from the east gate out of the city, and he didn't even dare to fight the handsome flag, wearing the clothes of ordinary soldiers and running directly with his head, Li Zuoche, who had had enough during the period, didn't want to run anymore, and would rather be a prisoner of the Han army than go to live a precarious life, but unfortunately Sima Wei didn't forget him, and insisted that his own soldiers put him on a war horse, forcibly took him out of the city and fled, and forced him to give himself an idea to find the safest way to escape.

"Let's go south, go to Jingxian, where we are still under our control, and when we get there, we can rest and replenish for a while." Li Zuoche replied very helplessly: "The main target of the Han thief army is Ao Cang, and you will not be able to take care of Jingxian for a while, as long as the king hides your whereabouts and immediately blocks the news when you arrive in Jingxian, it will be difficult to attract the pursuit of the Han thief army." ”

After listening to Li Zuoche's suggestion, Sima Wei and his entourage of dozens of people stumbled, relying on the Han army to temporarily have no time to look south, and finally fled south to the small town of Jingxian County, and then immediately blocked the news, not letting outsiders know that Sima Wei himself had arrived in Jingxian County, and sure enough, it did not immediately attract the pursuit of the Han army. Then he only stayed in Jingxian for one night, and after recovering some physical strength a little, Sima Wei fled eastward with a group of people on fast horses, and fled to Kaifeng County, which was controlled by the Chu army.

Sima Wei himself fled with Li Zuoche, but without his presiding over the overall situation and stabilizing people's hearts, before Xiang Kang led the main force of the Han army to the scene, the defenders of the Henan Army in Aocang took the initiative to lay down their weapons, and the Han army led by Uncle Zhou surrendered, and the important land of Aocang, which was related to the fate and future of the Central Plains battlefield, also fell into the clutches of Xiang Kang!