Although the atmosphere in the room was somewhat eased by Zhong Xuan's efforts, Yan Shao's previous domineering appearance still made some ministers a little disgusted.

Some things are so strange, such as Dong Zhuo or Li Dao, no matter how domineering they are, these people take it for granted and take it for granted, but like Yan Shao or Cao Cao, even if they are a little bit arrogant, they will feel disgusted.

In any case, Yan Shao's previous actions made the ministers in the room understand one thing, that is, Yan Shao did not take them seriously. But they had no choice, who let them not even have a single soldier in their hands. But after hearing Yan Shao's words, some people were still surprised.

"Don't keep Luoyang?"

It was still the minister surnamed Zhang, looking at Yan Shaodao.

The other ministers didn't stop him this time, because they also looked at Yan Shao in surprise, not knowing what he meant.

Luoyang is a fortified city, even if there is no ordnance to defend the city, with a strong city wall alone, they can keep out the Xiliang army that is chasing them. But now Yan Shao told them that he didn't defend Luoyang? Truth be told, if they weren't convinced that they had just heard clearly, they might even wonder if they had just had auditory hallucinations.

"Why don't you guard Luoyang? Shouldn't this be the best place to be? ”

"Yes, with the city wall of Luoyang, we can hold out for a long time, why did you say General Yan?"

Some people even looked at Cao Cao and asked if this was the same opinion he shared with Yan Shao.

There is no way, who made Yan Shao's attitude not very friendly, in comparison, they are more familiar with Cao Cao. When Cao Cao was serving in Luoyang, he knew many people.

Compared with Yan Shao, Cao Cao's attitude was much better, and many of the ministers present had a close relationship with him, and he had no way to keep a straight face.

"Yes, I discussed with Fuxian on the way back to give up Luoyang and go directly to the Tiger Prison."

"But why?" The minister surnamed Zhang couldn't help but question. "Who would do this if you give up the city defense of Luoyang, but run to the wilderness to escape for your life."

"We" This time it was still Yan Shao who answered, and he sneered. "Please think about it, do you think Luoyang can hold it?"

"How can you not hold it? With the city walls of Luoyang and these soldiers and horses, even if there are 100,000 thieves like Li Dao, what can they do? ”

This sentence attracted a burst of echo.

They couldn't understand why Yan Shao wanted to give up Luoyang, with the walls of Luoyang and the army in the city, even if Li Shao's soldiers and horses had 100,000, they were helpless, and they could hold on here all the time.

"Look, I'll just say it, these people don't understand anything at all" Turning his head sideways, Yan Shao said to Cao Cao next to him.

This sentence attracted the angry eyes of a crowd, and also made Cao Cao smile bitterly, and kept giving Yan Shao a face, making him a little more restrained.

You must know that the people present are all his old acquaintances, even if this is not the case, at least these people are important ministers in the court, and they still have to give some face.

At this moment, Zhong Xuan seemed to understand and suddenly spoke.

"Indeed, Luoyang cannot be defended, it is better to leave as soon as possible"

Zhong Xuan's words aroused everyone's puzzlement, and they all looked at him one by one, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Seeing this scene, Zhong Xuan could only explain it patiently.

"Ladies and gentlemen, think about it, although the walls of Luoyang City are strong, but there is one thing missing in the city, and what is the same thing about Luoyang compared to Hangu Pass?"

To be able to sit in this position, after all, there are no stupid people, and it doesn't even take too much time, someone has already figured it out.

"You mean to say?"

"Food!"

"It's not rough" Cao Cao nodded and explained. "Luoyang's city defense is strong, just like the previous lord said, even if they give them 100,000 soldiers and horses, it will be difficult to break through, which is very similar to Hangu Pass. However, there is another point that is also very similar to the food problem, Luoyang has long been deserted, there are less than 2,000 people left in the city, almost completely deserted, not only there is no ordnance for city defense in the city, but even there is not much food. ”

"It would be fine if the number of people in the city was relatively small, but now the soldiers and horses in Luoyang City and all the other miscellaneous things are added together, there are more than 30,000 people, and the grain and grass we carry are not enough for us to last too long. If we just stay in Luoyang City, as long as Li Dao and Guo Yan besiege Luoyang, it will be enough for us to be unbearable."

Cao Cao's words caused a commotion, and they still remember the tragic situation in Hangu Pass not long ago, not to mention the bark of the trees, and even the moss on the city walls was almost scraped clean. It's okay for them to be ministers, at least they have a bite to eat, but the ordinary soldiers and people are hungry and skinny, and they are miserable.

This kind of encounter, to be honest, they definitely don't want to go through it once, absolutely don't want to.

"But we don't have much food, so Li Wei doesn't have a lot of food, right?" This time, it was Zhong Xuan who questioned it. "As far as I know, the grain and grass in Chang'an City have always been not very sufficient, and the pressure on logistics on them to catch up this time is also very great, and they may not be able to hold out for too long, maybe they will have already withdrawn before our grain and grass are exhausted?"

Zhong Xuan used to be regarded as serving in Chang'an City, and because of his own ability, he was also reused to a certain extent, and he had some understanding of the situation in Chang'an City, so he asked such a question.

"What this lord said is quite reasonable, but what if they still have more food and grass than we do? You must know that they can rely on Chang'an, and we can only rely on Yanzhou, Yanzhou has suffered from frequent wars, grain and grass is not very sufficient, not to mention that this time the army dispatched and scraped the grain and grass in Yanzhou, now I dare not say that there is no harvest, but there is absolutely not much left, and if it is really besieged, even if Yanzhou can send grain and grass, what is the use? I'm afraid that the grain and grass have already been taken by Li Dao and them before they are sent to the city, and when the time comes, Li Dao and these thieves will have to thank us."

"Hmm" This time, Zhong Xuan was silent.

He also had to admit that it was indeed possible.

After all, Chang'an is a big city, when Dong Zhuo left Luoyang, he moved all the people of Luoyang to Chang'an, which made Chang'an's population swell again, of course, this is also related to the famine in Chang'an later. Chang'an was originally a city with a large population, at least in this era, hundreds of thousands of people are already difficult to feed, and it has also reached the limit of Chang'an and the surrounding areas, and hundreds of thousands of people have been stuffed all of a sudden, you can imagine what the result will be, one by one, in fact, this is why after Dong Zhuo's death, Luoyang has not recovered, and until now it is still less than 2,000 people Another reason.

That's right, Luoyang was indeed burned, but only the city was burned, only the buildings in the city, and the land outside the city couldn't be burned, right?

As long as someone is there, and if you wait patiently for a few days, you can still work again. In addition, Luoyang is a borderless place, isn't it like a paradise.

It's a pity that the people of Luoyang have already been relocated to Chang'an City, and even if those people want to come back, it is impossible to let them come back, which has also led to Luoyang being deserted.

Although Chang'an has fallen into starvation because of the increase in a large number of people, the land around Chang'an has also been developed a lot, and the overall income of grain has increased, and most importantly, most of this grain has fallen into Li Dao's pockets and was used by them to raise soldiers, which is another reason why there is famine in Chang'an.

No one dares to guarantee how much grain and grass Li Dao and Guo Yan have in their hands now, if it is really like what Yan Shao said, there are more numbers than they imagined, then the siege will be long-lasting. To be honest, even for Zhong Xuan, the scene he experienced in Hanguguan not long ago was like a nightmare, and he really didn't want to think about it, let alone experience it again.

"If we are really completely besieged, then we are afraid that we will need to kill the war horse to maintain it this time, and if we lose the war horse, how can we escape the pursuit of the Xiliang army? It's better to just flee all the way to the Tiger Prison Pass, with the strength in our hands, in fact, we don't need to be particularly afraid of Li Dao and Guo Yan, maybe there is still a possibility of winning. ”

Yan Shao is full of confidence.

Not long ago, he and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses had just come to face off against Li Dao, and with more than 10,000 men and horses, they were evenly matched with Li Dao and Guo Yan. Of course, this so-called parity is only for the vanguard soldiers and horses of Li Dao and Guo Yan, that is, the more than 20,000 people who have just come from Hangu Pass. As for the remaining soldiers and horses, as I said before, Hangu Pass is not so easy to pass, especially Zhao Yun's fire and a bloody battle, which makes Hangu Pass even more difficult to walk.

The remaining thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses are impossible to live without a certain amount of time, which is why Yan Shao and Cao Cao want to leave as soon as possible.

In fact, with the bravery of the generals under their tent and the elite of the soldiers and horses, Yan Shao and Cao Cao can be said to be not inferior on the scene, and even occupy a certain upper hand, both of them believe that if the stalemate continues, the chance of winning is still there, and it is not small.

But this is limited to the fact that the opponent's soldiers and horses have not continued to increase, if the soldiers and horses on the opposite side have been increasing continuously, with 10,000 against more than 60,000 people? To be honest, Yan Shao and Cao Cao are also lacking in confidence.

Therefore, after gaining some upper hand slightly, Yan Shao and Cao Cao also broke off contact and ran back to Luoyang.

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The controversy between Yan Shao and Cao Cao and the ministers did not take long to reach Liu Xie's ears.

When he first heard the news, Liu Xie was also taken aback, as if he didn't expect that after Yan Shao and Cao Cao arrived in Luoyang, they would actually give up the idea of Luoyang.

To be honest, he was not very happy with this decision, but he quickly looked at Yang Biao next to him, wanting to ask the old man's opinion.

"Hmm" Yang Biao was actually a little surprised by Yan Shao's decision, but when he noticed Liu Xie's gaze, he still groaned, and then said slowly. "I have to say, Yan Fuxian and Cao Mengde's idea still has a certain amount of truth, there is not much grain and grass in Luoyang City, but there are tens of thousands of horses, if we are really besieged by Li Dao, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out for too long, of course, we can also gamble, but we may not be able to bet to win, if we win, those rebels retreat because of the exhaustion of grain and grass, then everything is easy to say, but if not, then it will be troublesome"

As I said before, everything I experienced in Hanguguan not long ago is still vivid, even Yang Biao and Liu Xie are not willing to go through it again.

After receiving Yang Biao's advice, Liu Xie finally made up his mind.

"Since Boss Yang also said so, let's leave Luoyang, but where should I go?"

This is another question, now that Kanto is the world of the princes, it is really a question of where to go.

Of course, you can also choose to continue to stay in Luoyang, but not to mention the threat of Li Dao and Guo Yan being close at hand, far away, one is the population and the other is grain and grass. The population is still easy to solve, as long as the region is stable, the people will naturally gather here, and the key is food.

Luoyang has been abandoned for a while, and it is impossible to restore the original grain production in a short period of time.

"Is this, we can ask Yan Fu and Cao Mengde first, maybe they will have some proposals, they have been in Kanto for a long time, and they will have a relatively better understanding of the situation there, and the most important thing at the moment is to leave Luoyang as soon as possible."

With Yang Biao's reminder, Liu Xie naturally will not continue to persevere, this is also a very meaningless insistence, if Li Dao and Guo Yan really come to the door, the matter will really be completely over.

And after Liu Xiedu decided to leave, it was impossible for those ministers to stay, not to mention that the experience of Hanguguan still made them palpitate, but they didn't want to come once, hungry

So when there was no need to mobilize at all, the ministers quickly packed up the things they had not put down at all, and set off with Yan Shao, Cao Cao and some other generals.

Among them, Yan Shao and Cao Cao were responsible for the defense of the periphery because they had more cavalry, and they were followed by Xiongnu soldiers and horses. Yang Feng, Xu Rong and other generals of the Western Liang Army, as well as Bai Bo, were responsible for defending the Son of Heaven.

Of course, considering the identity of the white wave thief, they are definitely the farthest from the position of the Son of Heaven, while the soldiers and horses of Yang Feng and Xu Rong and others are relatively closer.

Yan Shao, who finally got in the mood during this period, also had frequent contact with Xu Huang under the guidance of Zhao Yun, well, in fact, it was not very often, at most three or five times. However, in such a situation, three or five times of contact is indeed relatively frequent.

For Yan Shao's overture, Xu Huang was also a little moved.

It's a pity that before Yan Shao could get Xu Huang, the pursuers behind him had already arrived