From west to east, Chang'an, Tongguan, Hongnong, Hanguguan, Luoyang, Hujiaoguan...... This is a straight line, and it is the most important one in the history of Chinese civilization and military history. In fact, due to the sheer sensitivity of the three levels and two cities on this line, any movement will cause a ripple effect.

Then, when Gongsun Xun led his troops across the Yellow River from the east of the river to Hongnong, although a battle was not fought, it immediately caused absolute turmoil on this line, and when he turned to the east and tried to take Hongnong County, Hongnong County, it immediately caused a chain reaction.

Dong Zhuo of Chang'an ordered his younger brother Dong Min to leave Chang'an and enter Huayin behind Tongguan, a place that could calmly support Tongguan in front and Pujin in the north; And Jia Xu, Lu Bu, as well as Niu Fu and Li Ru, who faced the pressure of Gongsun Xun, all adopted the most conservative military strategy, one could not go out of retreat, and the other was stationed to protect himself; At the same time, the troops around Luoyang to the east of Hangu Pass also immediately contracted their defenses and guarded around Luoyang...... It is even rumored that Dong Zhuo did not hesitate to order through the Nanyang detour to let part of Luoyang's military forces return to Hanguguan to ensure that Gongsun Xun would be locked in Hongnong.

In fact, this is the problem why Dong Zhuo is difficult to fight, don't look at his troops are not less than 100,000 at all, and they are stationed separately, how can it sound like they are similar to the White Wave Thieves and the Hun Rebellion, but in fact, the latter two are just 'thieves', and Dong Zhuo and his subordinates are a complete military group.

From a military point of view, as long as the command system of Dong Zhuo and Niu Fu is there, then they are a whole, a military system attached to Dong Zhuo, the political core, and a formal army that is dynamic, can be supplemented and continued, and is willing to listen to the command.

It is too difficult for such a force to be expected to collapse through one or two military victories, as it did against the White Wave Thieves and the Huns...... According to the old sentence, if you want to shake Dong Zhuo's overall situation, the only way to do it is to attack Guanzhong!

In the same way, the same is true of Gongsun Xun's troops, if the Hebei side does not fight to Changping, it is impossible for his political power in that place to collapse, and it is meaningless for the expeditionary force here not to kill Gongsun Xun himself.

There is even Yuan Shao, if you don't kill Yuan Shao, then with his political prestige, he can make a comeback in any place.

This is the terrible thing about the so-called political prestige, these three people may still have half of Yuan Shu, and they are not of the same class as the rest of the world, and what they said to Yuan Shao on the day of frustration is indeed extremely incisive - that is, to take advantage of this first-mover advantage to quickly establish a complete military and political system and military and political group, and once a thriving and upward strict military and political group is formed, then everyone can straighten their waists and pole up.

And if he wants to establish such a group, Fu Zhu also gave a clear answer - Yuan Shao himself, talents, army, territory, and fame.

The principles of the world are all the same, and they may be said differently, but the essence is the same, just like those people said 1,800 years later, leaders, cadres, armies, finances, diplomacy, ...... Aren't they all the same thing?

The so-called territory is nothing more than the meaning of population, economy, that is, the reserve force and finances of the army; As for diplomacy, of course, there was no need for diplomacy in the late Han Dynasty to ensure the stability of the situation, but they needed the same prestige and righteousness to stabilize people's hearts, and this point, Gongsun Xun was working hard, Yuan Benchu was born, and when his uncle and brother's family died, it was already over!

So......

"General Wei went to Hongnong, as if he was in the middle of the world, this is a godsend, but why is Ming Gong still hesitant?" Guo Tuli was in a large mansion in Chenggao City, and he was earnestly persuading his lord Yuan Shao.

As for Yuan Shao, dressed in plain clothes and wearing a filial piety belt, he was standing on top of a pavilion with windows on all sides in the courtyard, looking at the sunset in the west, Guo Tu, who heard it at this time, persuaded again, but slowly shook his head: "It's not hesitation, but a thousand things, I don't know where to start......

Guo Tu wanted to speak again, but when he saw Yuan Shao holding his forehead slightly, he turned his head sideways, knowing that the other party didn't want to talk more, so he didn't dare to disobey this 'Ming Gong', so he had no choice but to leave.

And when he walked out of this courtyard, he bumped into Xu Yu Xu Ziyuan with a letter or something like that, and the two glanced at each other, but they didn't bother to pretend to each other...... One didn't mention that Yuan Shao couldn't listen to people at this time, and the other didn't say what he was doing.

In fact, Xin Ping and Guo Tu specially chose to block the frustration when Feng Ji was there, and Xu You, one of Yuan Shao's two most trusted masterminds, didn't have time to participate, so he simply tore his face with these characters from Yingchuan.

In this way, the two of them sneered in their hearts and didn't say anything, after one in and one out, Guo Tu went to the city to find his relatives to talk, and Xu You also went straight into the attic in the backyard to see Yuan Shao.

Yuan Benchu saw another person coming in, and his faint headache worsened a little, and he was about to send the other party away, but unexpectedly, Xu You came to the attic, and actually solemnly bowed to Yuan Shao, and then respectfully sent a document and confessed guilt.

"Ziyuan, what does this mean?" Yuan Shao took the letter, still at a loss. "Why such a gift?"

"Return to the general of the chariot cavalry." Xu You raised his head and looked at each other. "I want to go to the old Zhiwei general Gongsun Wenqi, but I have been taken care of by Yuan Che for many years, so I can't help but resign, and this time the road is far away, and my family has a large population, and I hope to borrow some money to let my family go to Changping......"

Rao is Yuan Shao had already prepared for the other party to make a moth, and at this time he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, stunned for a long time, and hurriedly went to open the letter, sure enough, it was a sincere letter, plus a signed IOU!

The situation is like this, although he probably still understands that the other party is talking about some recent things, but Yuan Shao is still a little uneasy in his heart.

So, he could only step forward to support Xu You and respond seriously: "Ziyuan, you and I have been friends for more than ten years, is there anything you can't say directly, do you have to use this method?" ”

"Did Yuan Cheqi think I was joking?" Xu You shook off the other party's arm and replied with a straight face, causing Yuan Shao to change color suddenly. "Do you think I'm really not going to go? I told Yuan Che to ride you clearly, if you are still hesitant after today, I really have to leave...... It's not that I want to bear you, but I have the old and the young in my family, if it comes to personal relations, I can certainly sit with you and wait for death, but after I die, who will raise the old and young in the family? ”

"How do I sit and die?" Yuan Shao was also extremely helpless. "Ziyuan, don't others know that you don't know my difficulties?"

"What's the difficulty of the general cavalry?" Xu You asked curiously. "Is Gongsun Wenqi in Danhan Mountain?"

Yuan Benchu immediately stopped.

"The beginning, the beginning." Xu You became more and more emotional, but suddenly changed color and scolded sharply. "You don't even know what you're going to do right now...... That's why I look ahead and be in a dilemma! Do you think your current situation is better than Gongsun Wenqi's situation in Danhan Mountain? I'm telling you, you're exactly like him when he was in the most difficult time, and if you can't rise up and move forward, you'll have no choice but to die! ”

"Why is that?"

"Why is that?" Xu You panted and turned to the west side of the attic, pointed to the banners and military horses all over the city, and scolded loudly. "What do you think this is? Is this what you are looking forward to in Luoyang and Runan, you can have a lot of time to squander, you can pretend, and feel sad?! See for yourself, it's a war! It's in the fight for the world! If you win, it is unspeakably expensive, and if you lose, you will have dry bones in the grave...... Wushejin was defeated, haven't you woken up yet? In today's situation, either you die or I die! You're here to be indecisive and ruined your chance! ”

Yuan Shao's face turned blue and red, but he took off the filial piety cloth on his head, threw it aside, and then stepped forward again and grabbed Xu You's arm: "Ziyuan, of course I know that I should make a decision, but the current situation is indeed difficult to ......."

"What's so hard?" Xu You sneered. "Do you really think that people don't understand your ridiculous mind? As I expected, what you are worried about is that if you go to Hebei and take the four counties of Jizhou, you will inevitably be the first to confront Gongsun Wenqi, and his soldiers are strong and strong, and he is known as the world's famous generals, so he is afraid...... Right? ”

Yuan Shao became more and more ashamed, but he was speechless.

"As for going to the Central Plains, it is nothing more than that there are many people who follow you among the princes of the Central Plains, and they are all party members and celebrities, and the high families are old...... It's not that it's hard to do it, and it's that you don't want to do it, but Gongsun Xun just took the initiative to jump into the Hongnong dangerous land, and Liu Bei and Cao Cao are also fighting all day long, diligently seeking to restore the country, so you are afraid that you will be ridiculed at this time, so you are uneasy, right? Xu Yu sneered more and more. The former is called lustful and timid; The latter is called to sell fame and reputation; Together, there is also a resourceful and undecisive! I wanted to ask you at the beginning, just with your hesitation for a while, what if I left you, shouldn't I? ”

Yuan Shaoxi's ears were red, but he just grabbed Xu You's arm and didn't let go: "I know that Ziyuan will not abandon me, and I ask Ziyuan to teach me!" ”

"The original." Xu You also bowed his head and sighed. "As you said, we have been old for many years, although we have never had the name of master and slave, but we have always had the reality of master and slave...... Today I will be open and honest with you. ”

"Please teach Ziyuan." Yuan Shao let go of his hand and returned the salute.

"Let's talk about the four counties of Jizhou first." Xu You didn't help Yuan Shao up, but turned his back to the east in the attic. "I was originally afraid of fighting with Gongsun Wenqi, why am I not afraid? What if this comes up and is beaten down, and is trampled into meat by Bai Ma Yicong? But what about being afraid? At the beginning, I asked you, who is the biggest enemy if you want to sweep the four seas like Emperor Qin and Gaozu, and the world of Yuyu? ”

"Naturally, it's Gongsun Xun." Yuan Shao did not hesitate. "Although Dong Zhuo is raped, he is too violent, and his background is too low, which is unpopular, not to mention his age; As for my brother Yuan Shu, it's not that I underestimate him, but I just don't have to be careful of Liu Yan and Liu Biao, he is just majestic in front of others, and he is not worth mentioning in front of me; As early as a few years ago, at the Mengjin banquet, I decided that he was the only enemy of my great success, not the master of the north as I thought before! ”

"Isn't that the end of it?" Xu You turned around angrily and asked. "Since Gongsun Xun is your biggest enemy, how can you give him the territory of Hebei?! If Gongsun Xun beats Guanzhong and comes back to eat Hebei, do you still have any hope of winning? This kind of thing, if you don't fight, just give it to him! In the same way, why does Gongsun Xun want to fight for the Son of Heaven, because if he doesn't fight, someone will use the Son of Heaven against him! ”

Yuan Shaowan was like an initiation: "I understand, it's because the four counties of Jizhou are next to Gongsun Xun, so you must take it!" It's because Gongsun Xun is the strongest, so he must come up and be his enemy...... If you avoid it for a while, you won't have a chance to win in the future! ”

"That's exactly what it means!"

"But ......"

"I know what you're worried about." Xu Yu continued to speak solemnly. "Do you think that Gongsun Wenqi now occupies a beautiful place and is condescending, and the other four counties are easy to get, and he will take advantage of the secluded and sudden riding to directly rush us down?"

"But I am so worried." Yuan Shao is also becoming more and more serious. "But Ziyuan, what you just said is right, the four counties of Hebei are absolutely unacceptable...... What can I do? ”

"Then don't just take the four counties of Jizhou!" Xu Yu said earnestly. "At the beginning, although Qingzhou only had six counties, they were all rich lands, with a population of one million in the Plains, eight hundred thousand in Beihai, and the rest of Jinan, Le'an, Qi and Donglai, all of which had a population of four or five hundred thousand, adding up to nearly four million people, and now Qingzhou has no owner, isn't this a godsend? Gongsun Wenqi can take the annexation of the state as a reliance, can't you take Qingzhou as a backup? ”

Yuan Shao bowed slightly: "In other words, that is, Gongsun Xun will merge with You, I will fight with Qingzhou, and then the two sides will compete for power in Jizhou?" ”

"It's not enough." Xu Yu took a step forward, and Yuan Shao, who was dressed in plain clothes, continued. "And Yanzhou, I asked you to go to Jizhou to face Gongsun Xun face to face, but I didn't let you give up the Central Plains! Yanzhou is behind you now, and all the princes of Yanzhou are under your command at this time, why can't you take it? If you want me to say, it should be Gongsun Wenqi who is a tiger warrior who is secluded, and you are rich in Qingyan at the beginning, and then the two sides come to Jizhou in person to fight it out! ”

"But......" Yuan Shao shook his head slightly. If you have too much appetite, will you get nothing out of it? Gongsun Xun is going to Guanzhong, can he really leave me so much time? If he doesn't succeed, what if he turns around and comes back? Moreover, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Jizhou are all in big trouble, and Jizhou is in Gongsun Chan and Han Fu; Yanzhou is in all kinds of princes; Qingzhou is surrounded by millions of yellow turbans around Mount Tai...... Of the four million Qingzhou population you mentioned earlier, I'm afraid that one million of them have become yellow turbans. ”

"I don't know when he'll be back," Xu Yu sneered. "I don't care. But I have a great plan for the green and Yan things......"

"Ziyuan teach me!" Yuan Shao hurriedly surrendered his hand again.

"How about a strategy to drive the tiger and devour the wolf?" Xu You continued to twist his beard and sneered. "Didn't Gongsun Chan beg Bohai to guard it? Give him this seal is, anyway, Bohai has long been his...... Then ask him to go with us to fight Qingzhou! There is also Taishan's Qingzhou Yellow Turban, why don't you let Liu Yanzhou, Bao Guoxiang, and Qiao Taishou go to crusade against them? The territory of the three of them is next to the Yellow Turban Thief. When the time comes, let's take the opportunity to annex the three of them, break the yellow scarf again, and then tell the Qingzhou scholars and the local clan that we are here to defend Gongsun Zan for them...... Originally, you were afraid of Gongsun Wenqi, are you still afraid of the Yellow Turban Thief and Gongsun Bogui? ”

Yuan Shao woke up almost instantly, but he was overjoyed

"That Zhang Miao, Zhang Chao ......" Yuan Shao was about to speak happily, but suddenly remembered the two of them.

"When the interruption keeps ......" Xu Yu suddenly changed color, but he only said two and a half sentences. As for Liu Dai, Bao Xin, and Qiao Mao, if these three people are aware of current affairs, they will naturally be better......"

Yuan Shao nodded slowly, and then asked again: "But if this is the case, the big rivers of Hebei and Henan are separated by ...... I must have fought hard with Gongsun Xun in Hebei, who will be the queen for me? ”

"I've been thinking about this matter for the past few days." Xu Yu sighed. "For example, Gongsun Xun, there are still Gongsun Yue and Gongsun Fan to rely on, and at the beginning, Yuan Highway was an opponent, and you really had no one to control it."

"How's Mengde?" Yuan Shao suddenly spoke.

"Mengde is excellent." Xu You frowned slightly. "It's the only thing that's too good...... And I really watched it a few days ago, he really wants to ask Dong Xin to restore the country! ”

Yuan Shao sighed: "If you take the long-term view, you have to slowly discover talents." ”

"But Cao Mengde is still available." Xu Yu said suddenly. "You can still rely on him to stabilize the situation in Yanzhou."

"What does that mean?" Yuan Shao was in a trance for a while.

"Isn't he from Yuzhou?" Xu Yu squinted. "It's a talent you trusted at the beginning, how about letting him go to Yuzhou to be a Yuzhou assassin?"

Yuan Shao only felt that there was a sudden brightness in front of him...... It's a brilliant idea!

Cao Cao went to Yuzhou, with Cao Cao's talent and his family's local power, he would definitely be able to quickly gain a foothold in the north of Yuzhou, and then block Yuan Shu, and as long as Cao Cao and Yuan Shu pulled in Yuzhou, then Yanzhou would naturally be safe and sound.

Yuan Shao exhaled a long breath, and then learned to do the same as he had done before, bowing down to himself, a resourceful man who had been by his side for a long time, and bowed to him.

And Xu You also accepted the other party's salute proudly.

"Ziyuan, Ziyuan!" Yuan Shao sighed for a while. "A few days ago, I saw Fu Gonghe, and I only felt that he could come to see me, and God helped me; I only know today that you are also the one who God helps me! ”

Xu You sneered, twisted his beard and said, "Originally, I'm going to pour you a bucket of cold water...... Where can we be the so-called wise men who can solve it with a few words? Before, he said it so thoroughly, everyone thought that you were going to make a decision immediately, but unexpectedly, you were delayed for a long time because of fear and fame. The same is true for things in the future, I don't know how many troubles are waiting for you! ”

Yuan Shao smiled bitterly for a while, but he said with a strong spirit, but this time, he pointed to the Yellow River in the north under the sunset and sighed: "The road ahead is worrying, and the ambition is difficult to reward, everyone knows this truth...... But Ziyuan, you look at the water of the big river, winding eastward, more than ten thousand miles, how many bends have been made in the middle, and how many times she has changed the way, but she has tried her best to go east, and in the end she still merges into the sea? If you wise people can help me, let's work together, and my ambition will one day go straight to the East China Sea, right? ”

Xu You laughed, but suddenly shook his head.

"Ziyuan, what does this mean?" Yuan Shao was slightly puzzled. "Am I wrong?"

"That's right." Xu Youshu smiled and shook his head. Either way, this passage is still true. It's just that in the beginning, why did you let us people work so hard with you for your ambition? ”

Yuan Shao couldn't help laughing: "Yes, I took it for granted again...... If it can be done, it will definitely be rich and prosperous with Ziyuan and all of you! ”

"No, even if you can't do things first, you have to share prosperity."

"Not bad." Yuan Shao hurriedly solemnized. "Now I will share the wealth with you!"

"In that case, I should have known why I didn't mention a way to deal with Han Fu, right?" Xu You lowered his head and chuckled. "Yingchuan everyone, followed Han Fu's family to Yecheng to resettle, they left their hometown, and moved in a hurry, and when they arrived in Yecheng, they had almost nothing, and they couldn't even get an official position in the local area...... Otherwise, why did Xin Zhongzhi and Guo Gongze be so urgent recently? ”

Yuan Shao immediately laughed again: "In this way, as long as I want to take Jizhou, these Han Fu villagers are all my help?" But then again, a little bit of official position, wealth, and they are. Of course, Ziyuan has the most credit...... Today's guidance, no matter what the future, you and I will share the wealth. ”

Xu You smiled more and more: "Actually, it is also your help to frustrate those local clans and heroes." ”

"What does that mean?" Yuan Shao was really puzzled.

"Because although they may not like you at the beginning, they don't like Gongsun Wenqi even more." Xu You couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. "Otherwise, I would have gone to the past like Tian Feng a long time ago......"

"What do they dislike about Gongsun Xun?" Yuan Shao became more and more serious. "Origin, or martial arts style?"

"They don't like Gongsun Xun's harshness in treating the clan when he was governing Hebei." Xu You seemed to be smiling. "Gongsun Xun has been governing Hebei for ten years, and wherever he governs, the clan and the strong are honest like dogs, but once they are controlled by him, there is nothing they can do...... But when the people next to me saw it, they couldn't help but feel related. ”

"Since Gongsun Xun is strict with them, I will be lenient with them;" Yuan Shao said suddenly. "Gongsun Xun is powerful, and I will be virtuous; Gongsun Xun is martial, and I will use the text...... In this way, with my family and prestige, why can't I gather young people and work together in Jizhou, and go north without moving forward! ”

Xu You was dumbfounded.

Just when the two of them were making a decision to compete with Gongsun Xun in the attic, suddenly, someone downstairs came to report and brought a letter from Cao Mengde, who was stationed ten miles west of Chenggao City.

"It must be a war." Xu You came back to his senses and immediately sneered. "Why didn't I see that Cao Mengde was so loyal before? Sure enough, it was Bandang who saw the loyal ministers. ”

"You're wrong." Yuan Shao took a few glances at the afterglow of the sunset, but shook his head directly. "Cao Mengde and Liu Xuande really couldn't bear it, and they had already marched to Luoyang again...... According to the letter, Cao Mengde received a summons from an old man in the past, saying that Dong Zhuojun was because Gongsun Xun broke through Hongnong County and directly threatened Shaanxi County...... Calculate the time, he and Liu Bei should have arrived in Gong County at this time. How, does Ziyuan think Dong Jun is really retiring? Can this battle be made again? ”

"I don't know." Xu You shook his head slightly. "It doesn't matter if you retreat or not, it doesn't matter if you succeed or not, Luoyang has nothing now...... It's just an empty city, Cao and Liu want to be important ministers, so let them go and be good, they will always wake up. ”

"Then we ......" Yuan Shao threw down the letter and tied the filial piety belt on his forehead again. Let's call all the gentlemen to come over and discuss the matter of turning to the Qingzhou Yellow Turban? ”

"Yes." Xu Yu was unimpressed.

It was dark, and as Yuan Shao guessed, Cao and Liu had already entered Gong County west of Chenggao, and what made the two of them overjoyed was that there were no defenders here. After careful questioning, I learned that a few days ago, the Dong army here suddenly withdrew westward...... In this way, it just confirms Neiying's statement.

Early the next morning, the second general left Lu Dai and Jian Yong, who had inconvenient legs, to lead more than 1,000 people to garrison Gongxian, and then still did not dare to slack off, and cautiously continued to advance westward...... The latter told them that Luoyang, twenty miles ahead, was not an empty city, and there were still three or five thousand soldiers and horses garrisoned, after all, it was Luoyang.

However, the messenger also assured that as long as Cao Cao could march to the east of Luoyang in the evening within three days, and then enter the city through the gate facing Tongtuo Street, his master would have a way to open the door.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei were pleasantly surprised, but they couldn't help but interrogate cautiously...... After all, the previous rout of Erzhang was too miserable, and if it weren't for Yuan Shao's intention not to march into Luoyang this time, and Gongsun Xun suddenly inserted Hongnong, they wouldn't dare to come...... However, the result of the cross-examination was embarrassing.

"The military is dangerous, and it is normal for the two generals to have doubts." In the official temple, this person looked pale, but replied forcefully. "In the next servant, he is not qualified to argue with the two, but the master has a word, and I hope that the two generals will be cautious against each other."

"Come on." Cao Cao is opposite.

"Luoyang Shimin does not exist for a hundred years, Dong Zhuo has been suffering for a long time, General Cao abandoned Luoyang before, isn't it so that one day he can return to the imperial court and re-support Sheji? I hope the general will not hesitate! ”

"How come I don't understand that?" Cao Mengde was also a little sneering. "I have been a fellow colleague of your master in the northern part of Luoyang, and I have drunk wine in your Wen's garden more than once...... In the past, just like in front of him, it was just a military danger and had to be guarded against. ”

"But has General Cao thought about it?" The man was still bloodless. "The general has doubts in his heart, and if the interrogation continues, he will only become more and more suspicious, and I am a lowly person, I don't understand anything, I just interrogate me, and I say a lot, it is not a flaw but a flaw, what should I do at that time?"

"It's not that I don't understand this truth." Cao Cao glanced at Liu Bei, whose face remained unchanged, and could only continue to respond. "And it's really not that I don't believe in your master and you, it's just that I have nearly 10,000 soldiers here, and my lives are all in my hands, how can I not be cautious?"

"Then I have only one way to prove my innocence...... My master told me before he came! "This man suddenly gave up his hand in the hall." Allow me to take a few steps back and show something. ”

Cao Cao is naturally indispensable.

And this servant took a few steps back, but took out a dagger from his arms, and then as soon as he closed his eyes, he thrust it into his neck in the stunned eyes of Cao Liu and the generals in the hall, and immediately blood splattered three feet!

The corpse fell to the ground, and the blood gushed for a long time before it gradually eased...... But the house was already full of blood.

"I don't want to kill a righteous man today!" One person in the hall sighed at a moment's length, it was Wei Zi, the wealthy man who funded Cao Cao's army, this person was a native of Chen Liuxiangyi, and he had been filial piety. "Mengde, you are too suspicious!"

Cao Cao was so ashamed that no one in the hall said anything more.

And after a while, when he came back to his senses, Cao Mengde no longer doubted, and while ordering someone to bury this person, he discussed with Liu Bei and sent troops together that night.

The two agreed that Xiahoudun would lead a thousand soldiers to defend the Yanshi as a rear road, and then Cao Liu would join forces, plus the Yu Ban Department borrowed from Bao Xin before, a total of 9,000 people, and the whole army would attack Luoyang that night!

In the early summer, the stars were brilliant, and the whole army marched in the evening and overnight.

However, the closer they got to Luoyang, the more gloomy Cao and Liu became...... They are all people who have lived in Luoyang for a long time, the prosperity of the day, the silence of today, how not to make them sad? Especially Cao Cao, what the servant said before his death made him think of the embarrassment when he escaped from Luoyang, and he remembered that he could not stop Dong Zhuo from moving the capital by organizing a coalition army of 100,000 this time, and he was even more ashamed and angry.

The road went smoothly, until outside the consumption gate in the east of Luoyang City, the fire was raised and shaken, but sure enough, someone opened the city gate and took the initiative to greet him. Cao Cao and Liu Bei were half surprised and half overjoyed, and hurriedly led troops to meet them, but they were still cautious and let Le Jin enter the city first to control the city gate.

When Le Jin sent someone to report that the city gate had been obtained, Cao Liu and the others put their minds at ease and asked Yu Ban to answer outside the city, and then personally led the crowd into the city.

"Xuande!" Cao Cao forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart and turned back to speak. "Although it's just an empty city, it's Luoyang after all, and I don't want you and me to do this!"

Liu Bei's face remained unchanged, but he was also excited in his heart, although he had some feelings for Luoyang, but more than that, he was thinking that after recapturing Luoyang this time, he would inevitably be famous and shocked the world, in order to express his grievances for thirty years.

"As agreed." Seeing this, Cao Cao also quickly put away his superfluous words and pointed to the road next to the city wall to the south. "You go north from here, seize the Middle East Gate and the Upper East Gate along the way, and meet Yu Sima outside the city there, and then join forces to take the North Palace; I followed Lao Wen and his people and went directly along Tongtuo Street to suppress Nangong and various offices...... Finally, let's join forces in Xicheng again, and be sure to expel the remaining Dong Zhuojun from Luoyang! ”

Liu Bei bowed his hand slightly, and then took Zhang Fei and his own 2,000 people, and went straight north along the city wall. Outside the city, Yu Banbu, who came to help the battle as a guest army, also immediately followed the city wall and went north outside the city according to the military order.

And Cao Cao was cautious here after all, and he saw that all Liu Bei's 2,000 people had entered the city, so he turned around and let his soldiers and horses set off.

And when his 4,000 people marched together with the old man surnamed Wen, and even after Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong and others had begun to disperse and occupy the suppression of the official office...... For some reason, Cao Mengde was just about to urge the horses, but he suddenly remembered the face of the servant before he died, the embarrassment when he escaped from Luoyang City, the actions he did in Lu Bohao's house, and the difficulties when raising troops...... Then my nose was sore, and I almost burst into tears.

"Old Wen, thank you very much this time." Cao Mengde thanked the old man who looked a little pale under the torch, but sincerely thanked him.

Then, before the old man surnamed Wen Luoyang had time to react, Cao Cao suddenly gave an unbelievable order: "Wen Qian, burn the city gate!" ”

"Why are the gates burning?" Lejin was puzzled. "General Liu and Yu Sima have not yet captured those two city gates, in case there is a change, this is our only way back! And burning the city gate at this time is tantamount to telling the defenders in the city that we have arrived. ”

"It's just going to be a dead end!" Cao Cao snapped under the torch. "I just want to tell those Xiliang thieves that this time, I will never run away again!"

Le Wenqian was helpless, but since he had entered the city, nine times out of ten, this battle was a big victory, and he had nothing to say...... In fact, Wei Zi and the others who followed behind Cao Cao were also speechless...... He simply withdrew from the city gate and set fire to the city gate tower of Luoyang.

Immediately, Cao Cao personally drove the whole army forward, and all the departments went to the Three Dukes' Mansion and the Jiuqing Bureau, while Cao Cao himself took more than 2,000 people to Nangong.

Walking to the South Palace, seeing that the city wall that collapsed and burned down because of the eunuch was still there, Cao Cao, who had always been emotional, almost shed tears again.

However, before I could think about it, suddenly there was a shout of killing from all sides!

In the direction of Beigong in the north, between the three princes' mansions and the official offices behind them, the sound of the battle was suddenly strong.

At this time, Cao Cao still didn't care, because after all, he had set the fire before, and the sound of the battle at this time was probably the thousands of Xiliang soldiers and horses in the city who hurried to see the fire.

According to what Ying Lao Wen said before, there should only be three or four thousand people in the entire Luoyang City at this time, and with the combined efforts of Cao and Liu, there should be no problem.

However, when he was about to shout left and right and order to enter the North Palace, he was suddenly startled. It turned out that the old friend of Luoyang, Lao Wen, who had a servant with the will to die, had disappeared.

"General, Mengde!" Weiz next to him couldn't help but be anxious when he saw this. "Quickly enter the North Palace and sweep it!"

Cao Mengde opened his mouth to speak, but no one could say it.

And Wei Zi was just about to say again, in the middle of the night, in Luoyang City, where the shouting and killing were getting heavier and heavier, a burst of crossbow arrows shot out from behind the broken Beigong wall, and the partition wall shot into Cao Cao's army array, and Wei Zi, who bent down to speak on the horse, was directly hit by an arrow on the back of his neck and was killed on the spot!

The firelight was linlin, shouting and killing, Cao Mengde finally understood that he was no smarter than Erzhang! And when he heard the sound of dense horses' hooves coming from the end of Tongcamel Street, he hurriedly reined in his horse and turned around, and saw the Luoyang Gate that was burned by his own order, but he had to admit it...... Not only is he not smarter than others, sometimes he is too stupid!

———————I'm the naïve dividing line—————

"In the first year of the first peace, Xun from Hedong light troops into Hongnong, the world shook, Shi Shao was in Chenggao, and he wanted to retreat. With Luoyang in front of the left and right, there are many doubts. Shao Nai said: "Today's heroes, only Gongsun and Wu'er, although Dong Zhuo was raped for a while, he was also old and immoral, so he didn't have to worry about it. Therefore, Xun is strict, and I am lenient; Xun Yiwu, I Yiwen; Xun to advance, I to retreat; Whenever it is the opposite of Xun, things can be heard. Then he abandoned Cao Liu in front and retreated to take Kanto and Hebei. —"The World Speaks New Words". Speech

PS: Thank you to the book friend Z Zhaoze, the forty-third alliance leader...... Appreciate