Luoyang, the dilapidated imperial city with the gradual transfer of soldiers to the east and west in recent years, this dilapidated imperial capital gradually recovered a little bit of vitality, a big chaos that year, after all, because of the haste to go, there are still a lot of missing people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wei Yan rode a war horse, led the troops to walk in this dilapidated imperial city, occasionally from the back of the relatively intact houses, you can see a pair of frightened eyes, when Lu Bu asked Wei Yan to guard the Hangu Pass, many people moved into the pass, undoubtedly weakened a lot of popularity.

Although he is a general, Wei Yan is not too happy, a dignified general, but he is doing the work of a civilian official, especially after learning that Lu Bu commanded the river loop and grassland, and broke out of his prestige, Wei Yan always had some regrets, Hangu Pass is very important, and it does need to be guarded by generals, Wei Yan is not incomprehensible, but the military general should be immediately swordsman, and take meritorious service on the battlefield, which somewhat makes Wei Yan a little buried in Lu Bu.

Of course, it's just a complaint, if you want to be really dissatisfied, it's not enough, this time Lu Bu has already given an order, the three armies moved together, and Wei Yan became the general who guarded Heluo, which made Wei Yan very excited, the general, after all, still has to get merit on the battlefield.

Thinking of these thoughts, the abandoned imperial city in front of him also became extremely cute in Wei Yan's eyes, and he believed that it would not be long before his prestige Wei Yan would become famous here.

"Where did Xu Sheng and Chen Xing's troops go?" Wei Yan turned his head and looked at his deputy general Wei Yue, who was of the same clan as himself, and he could also use martial arts with one hand, and he was even more good at archery, which Wei Yan valued.

"When the news came yesterday, I was almost at Hangu Pass, and now I am afraid that I have passed Hangu Pass." Wei Yue replied.

"Tiger Prison Pass is a place where soldiers must fight, whoever occupies the Tiger Prison Pass, who will occupy the initiative, this place, can not be given by Cao Cao, you bring people here to meet them, I will first lead the troops to the Tiger Prison Pass to sort out the city defense, and after Xu Sheng and Chen Xing come, let Xu Sheng lead the army to the Tiger Prison Pass as soon as possible to take over the city defense." Wei Yan said in a deep voice.

Xu Sheng and Chen Xing's military positions are almost the same, and their skills are not bad, but in comparison, Wei Yan prefers Xu Sheng more, Chen Xing always has a little arrogance, which makes Wei Yan a little unhappy, and his personality is also more radical.

After all, the opponent was Cao Cao, and Wei Yan became a little excited when he thought of the opponent he was about to face.

"The last general commands." Wei Yue bowed and said.

"In the direction of Mengjin, we must also send people to strictly investigate, at the moment our troops are not enough to divide the troops to guard, urge Chen Xing to rush to deploy the defense as soon as possible." Wei Yan took a group of men and horses, went out of the city directly, and galloped in the direction of Tiger Prison Pass.

At the same time, in the direction of Yingchuan, there is also a group of men and horses are galloping towards the Tiger Pass, it is Cao Cao's confidant general Cao Ren, after learning the news of Lu Bu's soldiers Kou Yanmen, Cao Cao knew that the time for another confrontation between himself and Lu Bu was coming, and he was not worried about the direction of Jizhou, Lu Bu had limited troops after all, and after conquering the state, it was difficult to have extra soldiers and horses to infiltrate the forces into Jizhou, but the location of Luoyang was very important at this time between Lu Bu and Cao Cao and even Yuan Shao.

Before Cao Cao took the initiative to give up Luoyang, not because he didn't want to operate, but in order to ease the relationship between himself and Yuan Shao, a buffer belt flowed out, originally as the contradiction between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao became more and more acute, Cao Cao already had the mind to take back Luoyang, and Zhong Xuan, the captain of the school, was originally going to take over Luoyang, but unfortunately, Lu Heng inserted a bar, Zhong Xuan was captured, and Wei Yan annexed Hangu Pass, which made Cao Cao throw a mouse trap, so he had to temporarily give up the plan to take back Luoyang, so that Luoyang became a common buffer zone between him and Lu Bu and Yuan Shao.

However, the victory of the Battle of Guandu and the news of Lu Bu's victory in the grassland broke the weak balance that existed before Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Lu Bu.

Next, there will inevitably be a conflict between Lü Bu and Cao Cao, in order to occupy the initiative against Lü Bu, Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren to lead 5,000 horse infantry troops to Luoyang in the starry night, even if he can't occupy Luoyang, but at least he must hold the tiger prison in his hands and maintain the initiative in the face of Lü Bu.

Wei Yan arrived at the Tiger Prison Pass one step ahead, and the dozens of old soldiers who were responsible for taking care of the Tiger Prison Pass saw that Wei Yan's army was powerful and did not dare to resist at all, so they opened the city gate, these dozens of old soldiers nominally belonged to the imperial court, if Cao Ren could arrive one step earlier, it would be a different situation, but unfortunately, there is no if in this world, Cao Ren naturally does not need to be intimidated when he enters the Tiger Prison Pass, and the old pawns on the other side directly opened the city gate, and Wei Yan has not had time to occupy the entire level at this moment.

When both sides saw the sudden appearance of a large number of soldiers and horses in front of them, they were shocked, thinking that they had been ambushed by the enemy, but looking at the reaction of the other side, it was obviously not the case.

"Kill!"

After a moment of silence, Cao Ren and Wei Yan reacted at the same time, each raised their weapons, and in the angry shouts, the two groups of men and horses collided together like two torrents in the Tiger Prison Pass.

Blood splashed, in the tragic killing sound, the two centaurs did not have the slightest intention of retreating, both of them knew very well in their hearts that at this time, whoever made a step would lose the opportunity, and the brave would win when they met on a narrow road!

Cao Ren's soldiers and horses are more than Wei Yan's, but most of these are county soldiers recruited from Yingchuan, not the main force of Cao's army, and although Wei Yan's soldiers and horses are few, many of them are the troops who followed Lu Bu to sweep Guanzhong back then, killing methods bravely, although there are few people, but they are all extremely ruthless, if it weren't for Cao Ren's army, I am afraid that it has been dispersed by Wei Yan at this moment.

Wei Yan used a big knife to dance wildly in the chaotic army, and everywhere he passed, like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, he killed the Cao army, and Cao Ren was rampage in Wei Yan's army with his soldiers and horses, and the two generals discovered each other's strength at the same time, and almost rushed to each other in unison.

"Bang~"

The two knives were staggered, bringing up a spark, Wei Yan used the power of the double stirrups to exert more force, pressing Cao Ren's head, Cao Ren tried his best to stabilize his body on the horse, the knife flashed, no longer bumping into Wei Yan, flipping, and a cloud of knives towards Wei Yan.

Wei Yan sneered, the big knife turned, a move of the green dragon claw, straight to the middle palace, another muffled sound, Cao Ren's knife cloud was scattered, and then launched a more fierce attack, making Cao Ren tired of parrying, the two fought together, in the blink of an eye, dozens of rounds, Wei Yan had the help of stirrups, the knife technique became more and more fierce, so that Cao Ren gradually felt a little powerless.

"Ah~" A guard was beheaded by a fierce soldier under Wei Yan's command.

When Cao Ren heard this, he forced Wei Yan back with a knife, turned his head to look, but saw that during the period of fierce fighting between the two, Cao Jun had been killed by Wei Yan's elite and was about to be defeated, Cao Ren saw that the situation was not good, and saw Wei Yan killing again, suddenly pulled the war horse, and the long knife in his hand slashed at Wei Yan's throat from the bottom up with a cold killing machine by inertia, although this move was not as exquisite as Guan Yu's knife plan, but it was also quite a three-flavor, Wei Yan was caught off guard, although he dodged in time, but he almost suffered a loss, and his heart was even more shocked into a cold sweat, Cao Ren saw that the trick failed to kill Wei Yan, and knew that if he continued to fight, there would be no wins or losses, so he hurriedly turned his horse and entered Wei Yan's army, beheaded several soldiers, reunited with his subordinates, and killed many people.

Wei Yan shouted loudly, and the soldiers under his tent quickly broke away from the battle, and quickly returned to Wei Yan to re-set up the formation.

Cao Ren saw that Wei Yan's soldiers and horses were not only brave and good at fighting, but also well-trained, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, raised his sword and pointed at Wei Yan from afar, and said loudly: "I am Cao Ren, the general of Chen Liu, who are you, report your name!" With such ability, why bother to work for Lu Bu's chaotic ministers and thieves? It's better to surrender our army, Cao is willing to promise the lord to promote you as a general! ”

When Wei Yan heard this, he sneered, and said proudly: "Yiyang Wei Yan, his ability is not good, but his mouth is quite slippery, are the generals under Cao Cao like you?" ”

When Cao Ren heard this, his face turned red, and he snorted angrily: "Our army is tired from afar, and it is not durable to fight for a long time, let you get a city today, don't worry about you first, and then look for you in the next day!" ”

As he spoke, his troops were slowly withdrawing from the city.

"Don't chase him!" Wei Yan looked at Cao Ren's formation, knowing that this person's ability was not weak, although he was retreating, he always prevented him from charging, and if he really caught up, he might not be pleased, his purpose was to occupy the tiger prison, not a decisive battle with Cao Jun, at this moment, it was better to occupy the tiger prison first, as for Cao Ren, when Xu Sheng's army arrived, it would not be too late to clean him up.

Seeing that Cao Ren had already retreated into the city gate, Wei Yan suddenly laughed and said, "If Cao Cao's subordinates are all such incompetent rats like Er, it is better to surrender to my lord as soon as possible, so as not to be killed on the battlefield in the future and disgrace the ancestors!" ”

"Hugh will take advantage of his tongue, and he will cut off your tongue in the coming day!" Cao Ren's face turned red, and he almost rushed up to cut people directly, this red-faced man really hated as much as Guan Yu!

Thinking of Guan Yu, Cao Ren suddenly found that these two people were really a little similar!

"Go quickly, inform Chen Xing, and immediately go to Mengjin to set up defenses, don't let Cao Jun seize the opportunity!" After Cao Ren withdrew from the city gate, Wei Yan ordered people to close the city gate and tidy up the city defenses, and at the same time ordered people to fly horses in the direction of Hangu Pass, and ordered Chen Xing to rush to Mengjin as soon as possible.

If Cao Ren fails to capture the Tiger Prison, he may go to rob Mengjin, if the Cao army occupies Mengjin, for Luoyang, the trouble may be greater than that of Cao Ren taking the Tiger Prison, because Mengjin is closer to Luoyang, once the Cao army kills from Mengjin, the Tiger Prison is equivalent to half of the waste, so Mengjin must be held in his hands. (To be continued.) )