The Commander's Department has been serving as Kyoto for 200 years, and it still has a high status in the minds of today's people. So when Xu Huang guarded here, he was extra attentive. Xu Huang was compared to Zhou Yafu by Cao Cao, and you can know his character. Zhou Yafu is a person who pays great attention to military regulations, and even the emperor cannot enter without permission, this is the story of the famous Xiliu Camp.

The same is true for Xu Huang, he is also famous for his good military discipline and is very careful. That's why he was able to hold on for a month under the attack of Xue Rengui's army, and he could still be impregnable.

Luoyang has been dilapidated since it was abandoned by Dong Zhuo, but the city wall has not been damaged too much. Since Emperor Qi came to the east, Cao Cao has let Zhong Xuan pass through the division for many years, and although there are few people in Luoyang now, the city defense has been restored to before Dong Zhuo's rebellion.

Wei Rui was stationed in Wen County, and in less than half a month, he received Yu Ban to Huai County, and immediately sent a large number of scouts to secretly monitor them in Pinggao and Chenggao, and collected a large number of ships, which could go south to the south to block Yu Ban at any time.

Yu Ban was in Huai County, and he also knew that Wei Rui was in Wen County. Yu Ban is a very cautious person, Wei Rui has also become famous in the past two years, Yu Ban has heard of Wei Rui's deeds somewhat, and the two have a lot of similarities. But the two are different, Wei Rui is looking for other people's shortcomings to win, while Yu Ban is strong in training and commanding.

Wei Rui's strengths made Yu Ban afraid, he was afraid that he would be caught by Wei Rui if he showed any flaws, so he would be like this.

However, Yu Ban did not stay in Huaixian, but chose to march to Pinggao. Pinggao is in the north of the river, and Chenggao is in the south of the river. The reason why Yu Ban did not go to Chenggao was because Zhang Yijun had a strong navy, and although Yu Ban also had many ships, he was afraid of fighting with Wei Rui on the river.

After Cheng Gao was stationed, Yu Ban was also thinking about countermeasures. His purpose is to rescue Xu Huang, and it is not a problem to be stopped all the time. Either he will defeat Wei Rui, or ignore Wei Rui and directly rescue Luoyang.

Yu Ban quickly made a choice, he wanted to defeat Wei Rui first, and then rescue Luoyang. If he chooses to rescue directly, it is very likely that he will be attacked from behind by Wei Rui after being blocked by Xue Rengui.

So Yu Ban moved to Wen County and invited Wei Rui to fight. However, Wei Rui didn't pay attention to this at all, he sent people to swim in the river, and he did not shy away from the forbidden scouts, just to tell Yu Ban that it is difficult for you to cross the river.

There are many Jiangdong people in Wei Rui's army, and it is no problem to play in the boat. Wei Rui selected these people, temporarily organized them into an army, sailed in the river, and recruited as long as they encountered ships, and attacked those who did not accept the call.

Many of the ships under Yu Ban's command were attacked by Wei Rui's subordinates, and many ships were captured or scuttled by Wei Rui's subordinates.

Yu Ban saw that Wei Rui should not fight, and he was also a little anxious. Wei Rui's purpose is to stop him, as long as he doesn't go to Luoyang, Wei Rui will complete the task, and there is no need to fight at all.

Yu Ban understood this, immediately returned to the Pinggao area, began to collect boats, and made preparations to cross the river. Yu Ban wanted to lure Wei Rui out, as long as Wei Rui came out, then he could forcibly start a war.

But after waiting for several days, I only saw Wei Rui's sailors, but I couldn't see Wei Rui's foot. This made Yu Ban very depressed, and Wei Rui was not fooled.

Of course, Wei Rui will not be fooled, the ships of several nearby counties are under his control, and if Yu Ban wants to cross the river, he will soon know, and it will be good to directly cavalry assault when the time comes.

Wei Rui even devised two schemes, that is, when the river was forbidden to cross the river, the river would definitely divide the forbidden army into two parts. And Yu Ban is either south of the river or north of the river, and it is impossible to do both. Then he asked the cavalry to attack the side of Yu Ban, and guaranteed that he could defeat the army without Yu Ban's command.

Yu Ban didn't let Wei Rui get his way, he once again turned back to Wenxian County and directly drove troops to attack the city, since he couldn't let Wei Rui fight, then he would attack directly.

Wei Rui actually didn't want to fight against Yu Ban in Wen County, Wen County was not tall, and even if there was a moat, it wouldn't be able to withstand it for too long.

He was a general who loved his soldiers like a son, and he didn't want his soldiers to suffer too many casualties. Although it is very advantageous to defend the city, it is a tough battle, he has only been in Wenxian for more than a month, and the materials collected to defend the city are not very many. After all, he still needs to collect ships, and he also needs a lot of manpower.

However, he also has a clever trick to deal with Yu Ban's siege of the city, and there are indeed many wells outside the city, but Wei Rui has people erect small wells on the city wall, which are only two zhang high. But after the well is added to the city wall, it is more than five zhang.

Such a well is much higher than that outside the city, and you can know the well outside the city from a high position. And even if the enemy climbs the walls, these wells can still be useful. However, Wei Rui did not believe that Yu Ban's soldiers could climb the city wall, unless there were a few peerless generals in the Yu Forbidden Army, otherwise, Wei Rui would have absolute confidence in defending Wen County.

Yu Ban attacked the city for three days, with more than 5,000 casualties, which made Yu Ban unbearable.

The casualties in Wei Rui City were less than five hundred, and there was no harm at all.

Wei Rui asked people to look at the collection of corpses outside the city every day, and estimated the casualties of Yu Ban. Seeing that Yu Ban had lost so much, he began to calculate in his heart.

Such a casualty situation, Yu Ban will definitely not be able to stand it, and will inevitably think of some ways. What can Yu Ban think of? Then the only way to cross the river is to find another way.

As Wei Rui expected, Yu Ban was also depressed outside the city.

"The recruits are really not good, they are too bad compared to the elite soldiers."

This time, Cao Pi sent more than 100,000 reinforcements, and naturally all of them could not be veterans. Of the more than 100,000, there are only 50,000 veterans, and the rest are new recruits.

Cao Cao had previously trained more than 100,000 troops in Jizhou, most of which were stationed in the area of Xuchang and Guanzhong. When Guanzhong was occupied, those veterans were basically captured by Xue Rengui, and Cao Pi asked Xu Huang to garrison Luoyang, bringing all the veterans with him.

In this way, there are not many veterans left, but fortunately, many veterans have been trained in the past two years, otherwise Yecheng is basically empty now.

More than half of Yu Ban's army were recruits, who were forcibly conscripted and participated in one or two military trainings, and then they were taken to the battlefield.

After such heavy casualties, these people have little morale left. Although Yu Ban has a strong command ability, he is not very good at boosting morale.

Yu Ban was a little at a loss, the siege casualties were too great, and the enemy army should not be invited, so Yu Ban could only find a way to cross the river.