Cao Yuan was worried and trapped in a lonely city at the head of Jinyang City, he didn't know that in the land of Kanto, there were colleagues in a more embarrassing situation than him.

In Jinyong City, Pei Qian, who had a haggard face, listened to the report of his subordinate Peng Shi with a frown.

After the Cao army killed Zhai Hao in Liang County and defeated the Yan army's foot cavalry, it was unstoppable and marched to break through the Yique Pass, and then the Cao army broke through the fortresses such as Yuyi Pass and Chenggao with internal and external flanks, and marched into Luoyang City after converging the follow-up army led by Cao Cao.

Within three days of the siege, the walls of Luoyang City fell.

Pei Qian and Wei Xuan could only lead their troops to retreat to Jinyong City in the northwest corner.

Luoyang City is dilapidated, Henan Province, which is dedicated to recuperation, has not been rebuilt, and some of the buildings in the original city have also been hastily completed because the Son of Heaven moved the capital, so Pei Qian and Wei Xuan did not plan to defend Luoyang City at all, and after the siege of Cao's army, they had decided to shrink their forces and surrender Jinyong City.

Jinyong City is a small city built in Luoyang in the northwest corner of Luoyang Mountain in recent years, relying on the northwest corner of Beibi Mountain. The city is small and strong, there are a variety of city fortifications, named 'Jinyong', there is a solid meaning of golden bell, Pei Qian wants to use this as the last city wall of Luoyang.

With Jinyong City, less than 10,000 soldiers and civilians have resisted Cao Cao's army to this day.

Gong Cao Zhang Shi says:

"Fu Jun, Captain Wei sent someone to report that the Cao army outside the city had sent General Zhai's body back, and there was an envoy who wanted to see Fu Jun."

Pei Qian shook his head, waved his hand and said:

"Cao Cao wants to break the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city, place General Zhai's body, and as for the envoy, if he doesn't see him, send him back."

"No."

Zhang Shi took the order and left, Pei Qian looked at his disappearing figure, and lowered his palm weakly.

Cao Cao outside the city is really a tricky enemy.

After besieging Jinyong City for many days, Cao Cao realized that if he wanted to capture this fortified city, he could not use force alone, but must first break the determination of the soldiers and civilians in the city to defend it.

For this reason, he strictly forbade the Cao soldiers who attacked Luoyang City to burn, kill and loot, and now he sent Zhai Hao's corpse back, gradually making the soldiers and people defending the city lose their determination to resist.

And Pei Qian is powerless about this.

He let out a long sigh, when Yan Xing's power grew sharply before, the Pei clan in Hedong also rose with the tide, and even Pei Qian himself had some thoughts in his heart when he heard those proverbs that "there is a new son of heaven in the West".

But now that Henan has fallen, Jin Yong is besieged, trapped in a lonely city, and he feels physically and mentally exhausted, if it weren't for the obsession of reinforcements coming from the east to barely support, he couldn't help but kill his wife first, and then hang himself in the city, so as not to become a prisoner of the stairs and be humiliated by Cao Jun.

Pei Qian looked at the empty inner hall with bloodshot eyes, and kept asking questions in his heart.

"Yanming, Yanming, where are you now?"

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Outside Luoyang City, Cao Jun's camp.

At this time, in Cao Cao's tent, the military generals who went to Henan with the army this time were all ordered to come and gathered in one place.

They had just learned of a major incident on the north bank of the Great River, a major incident concerning their current powerful enemy, Yan Yan, and their temporary ally Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao's confidant Guo Jia was in front of a map, explaining the North Shore military newspaper that he had just learned of not long ago to the gathered civil and military forces.

"It is said that on the same day, the Hebei general Yan Liang led 20,000 steps to ride in the shooting dog gathering and was lured by the light soldiers of Lu Yi, went to the river to pursue, and encountered the elite infantry of the Yan thief in the field, the two armies fought, the Hebei army with an irregular formation was defeated, the main general Yan Liang was killed on the spot, and many people such as Yuanjin, Lu Weihuang, and Zhao Rong died in the chaos, and 20,000 Hebei soldiers and horses suffered countless losses, and almost all the troops were wiped out."

"Hey, this Kansai soldier and horse is so good at fighting!"

After listening to Guo Jia's words, Cao Jiang Deng Zhan gasped and couldn't help but exclaim.

Speaking of which, the Cao army and the Yan army, which have their own enterprising directions in recent years, have not had much experience in fighting, and the only two battles were fought with Zhai Hao, the Xiliang general who guarded Luoyang, the first time Cao's army was attacked by the Xiliang cavalry, and the second time Xiao lost Zhai Hao in the battle formation, and the experience of fighting with Yan Xing's main infantry cavalry, so far, there has not been a single one.

Deng Zhan's exclamation is actually the voice of many Cao Jun's civil and military forces.

On the one hand, they were surprised that the soldiers and horses of Guanxi who had come to the rescue of Luoyang with great fanfare did not arrive for a long time, and it turned out that they were not afraid of the enemy and cowardly, but attacked the east and west, and turned to the north bank of the river; On the other hand, he was surprised by the courage and skill of the Guanxi soldiers and horses, and actually defeated the Hebei army in one fell swoop, and also killed Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang on the battle array.

However, there are also Cao generals who don't think so, for example, Cao Hong, who was angry about Yan Caozhi's loss of face at the last meeting, said:

"Hebei Yanliang was defeated, I don't think it may be that the soldiers and horses of Guanxi are good at fighting, didn't Guo Xianjiu also say that it was Yan Liang who was brave and fell into the trap of the Guanxi army, and there will be a disaster of defeating the army and killing the general. But it's ridiculous, Yuan Benchu, who has always been known as the vertical and horizontal Heshuo, has won fewer victories and more defeats since he fought with the Xiliang soldiers, I think he will lose Yecheng's little money sooner or later without our help! ”

In the face of Cao Hong's ruthless ridicule of the Hebei allies on the north bank of the river, other Cao generals were not afraid and let out laughter.

Indeed, the Cao army had no good intentions towards Hebei's temporary allies, and the fundamental reason why he was willing to temporarily form an alliance with Yuan's army and counterattack Henan was not that Yuan Shao betrayed Xuzhou, but that in recent years, Yan Yan's troops in Guanxi had become too strong and had threatened Xudu.

At the beginning, Cao Cao designated Xuchang as the new capital, because Yan Yan of Sanhe was constrained by the strong enemies of Central and Liangzhou, and he was unable to look east at all, so he could not pose a threat to the new capital.

Now five years have passed, Yan Yan has eliminated the strong enemy in Guanxi, and in the face of his increasingly powerful troops after defeating Yuan's army and capturing the state, Cao Cao, who returned to Xudu in vain, has to think in advance about how to get along with this strong neighbor in the west.

Therefore, after discussing with a group of advisers, Cao Cao decided to join forces with the Yuan army, which was intent on uniting, to seize the land of the Three Rivers, block the passage of the soldiers and horses from Guanxi to the east, and suppress Yan Yan's forces back to the area west of Hongnong.

"Okay, Zilian, don't interrupt."

Cao Chun, who has always been disciplined and dignified, stopped the banter of the generals, and Cao Hong also secretly glanced at Cao Cao, who was at the top, and found that his clan brother unexpectedly closed his eyes and pretended to sleep at the military conference today, so that he did not see two familiar sharp eyes as before.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and continued to listen to Guo Jia's words.

"It takes time for the military newspaper to travel between the north and south of the river, and after estimating the victory of the soldiers and horses of the Yan thieves, the lost cities of Hanoi have been recovered during this time, and it is possible to go north at any time to rescue Shangdang and attack Yuan Shao's army besieging Jinyang from behind."

"Of course, it is also possible to ignore the danger of Shangdang and Taiyuan, cross the river to the south, rescue Luoyang City, and fight a decisive battle with our army on the south bank!"

Another Cao general, Liu Ruo, heard this, and asked suspiciously, relying on his identity:

"Guo sacrificial wine, Yan thief is on the north bank, seeing that there is an urgent need for Shangdang and Taiyuan not to be saved, will he really cross the river to the south and compete with our army in Henan, if you want to rescue Luoyang, this Luoyang City, hasn't it been broken by our army, haha!"

Speaking of the end, Liu Ruo and some Cao generals laughed. Those of them who fought against Yanshi, Gongxian, and Wushi were invincible, and they were naturally qualified to laugh at those who attacked a small Jinyong City without defeating the civil and military.

After seeing many generals in Henan breaking through many cities and passes, he was arrogant, and Liu Ye, who had newly invested in Cao Ying, shook his head secretly, and Guan Yu, who had always been at odds with the generals, was even more speechless, disdainfully deviating from his proud head.

Guo Jia also needed to move out of Cao Cao, the lord, to come to the town of these unruly Cao camp generals, he chuckled and said:

"Jiacai is shallow in learning and does not dare to make decisions. However, Sikong has already made a clear decision in his heart, and Captain Xiahou has already led the army to patrol Hejin everywhere! ”

Sure enough, Guo Jia's voice fell, and General Cao Jun, who was originally smiling proudly, instantly became silent.

The Xiahou lieutenant in Guo Jia's mouth is Xiahou Yuan, he has a very close relationship with Cao Cao, and currently serves as the lieutenant of the military academy that Cao Cao held before.

Since Cao Cao thought that the Yan thieves on the north bank might cross the river and go south, and also sent Xiahou Yuan, the general in the army, to patrol Hejin, the generals who had just laughed secretly glanced at Cao Cao, who had not spoken all the time but was domineering, and consciously closed his untimely mouth.

"Next, the various departments in the army still need to make scheduling adjustments, and Jin Yongcheng must also be taken as soon as possible, so the division-"

Before Guo Jia's words were finished, a military official outside the tent suddenly trotted to the tent door with the sound of hurried leather boots on the ground, and announced loudly.

"Come in!"

Cao Cao's eyes, which had been silent, opened instantly, the momentum on his body was not angry and arrogant, and the edge in his eyes was terrifying.

"Sikong, there are many places on the Beibi Mountain that are burning with beacon smoke and rising to the sky!"

"Let's go, let's see!"

When Cao Cao heard this, he pressed his sword and got up, and after only saying a word, he walked out of the handsome tent with sonorous iron armor and brisk steps.

After many civil and military officers looked at each other, they were also busy keeping up, and the pace was hurried and chaotic, and Yuguan walked out of the handsome tent.

Cao Cao didn't care if the people behind him could keep up with him, he quickly climbed to the nearest watchtower with his hands and feet, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and sure enough, starting from the direction of Beibi Mountain, there were already many beacon smoke successively conveying the urgent enemy situation of a large number of enemy troops.

"It's coming, it's coming."

Cao Cao squinted his eyes, looked back at Guo Jia, who was panting and had just climbed the watchtower, smiled, pointed in the direction of the soaring beacon smoke, and laughed loudly:

Sure enough, as expected, Miaocai was still a little slower and couldn't catch up. Yan Yanming's Kansai soldiers and horses have arrived! ”

Guo Jia couldn't help but catch his breath, and also looked in the direction pointed by Cao Cao, only to see multiple black smoke rising into the sky, as if announcing to both the enemy and the enemy inside and outside the city that Yan Xing had arrived with the Guanxi army!