As Zhu Wei knew, Sun Jian sent troops from Nanyang to attack Luoyang, and there was actually an official road from Nanyang Wancheng to Dagu Pass.

Luoyang, as the confidant of the entire Han Dynasty, was originally the core of the world's official roads, just like the heart of the human body through the bloodlines of the body, it can be said that all roads lead to the imperial capital.

As for Nanyang, it is an important hub connecting the southern part of the Han Dynasty to the heart of Luoyang, so there is naturally a direct official road from Nanyang to Luoyang, the imperial capital, and this official road is also quite lenient.

It's just that although the land of Luoyang and Nanyang was originally the most densely populated place in the Han Dynasty, it is now a barren land with ten rooms and nine empty rooms on the road, whether it is the northern part of Nanyang County or many counties and townships in the south of Luoyang, most of the population either took the initiative to flee and leave because of the war, or were relocated under official means.

In these days, population is arguably the most important resource, so most of the local separatist forces have concentrated the population in the core areas of their rule, leaving the periphery completely deserted.

Just like what Zhu Wei did in Yuzhang County, the population was concentrated near Yuzhang City, and making the remote area a population vacant land was also to make it easier to control the land of Yuzhang.

Now that Jingzhou and Luoyang are located, they are under the control of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao respectively, so the northern part of Nanyang County, which is located at the junction of the two forces, and the southern part of Yin, Henan, where Luoyang is located, naturally cannot leave a large number of people and give the other party a chance to plunder.

It's not worth it to garrison troops here, there are fewer soldiers, you can only send meat to others, and if there are more soldiers, then supplies or something is also a problem, so I simply gave up and turned this side into a blank area of power.

Therefore, in these areas, except for a few people who do not want to leave their hometowns, they are places where bandits and bandits are entrenched, because the border place of several forces is often also the border place of the three sides, so it has become a paradise for lawbreakers.

In this way, Wei Yan led the army to Dagu Pass quickly with the help of the official road, and naturally the road was smooth, faster than Sun Jian's speed from Nanyang to Luoyang.

After all, the rogue and bandit forces entrenched here would not dare to provoke a regular army like Wei Yan, and the garrison of Cao Cao's army was basically on the side of Yingchuan County, but there was no army stationed in Luyang and Guangchengguan in Liang County, which were the areas where Dong Zhuo's army was stationed in the past.

Maybe there is still Cao Cao's scout eyeliner here, after all, Cao Cao needs to guard against the surprise attack of Zhu Wei's army, so if you put the scout eyeliner here, you can give Cao Cao an early warning as soon as possible.

But Wei Yan's goal was Luoyang, even if it was discovered by Cao Cao's scout eyeliner, by the time they sent the news back, and then the upper echelons analyzed and judged Wei Yan's purpose, Wei Yan had already arrived at Dagu Pass.

At this time, the side of Dagu Pass, as Zhu Wei knew before, was controlled by the Xiliang Army of Wu Xi's department stationed in Luoyang.

Wu Xi was originally Guo Yan's general, and he was once instructed by Guo Yan to burn the school house to intimidate Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and then followed Guo Yan to be stationed in Chang'an Yi County, that is, Dong Zhuo was originally set up in Wubao Military Town outside Chang'an City.

But later, I didn't know what he thought, and suddenly led the army to betray Guo Yan, and led the army to attack and kill Guo Yan, and then used Guo Yan's head to ask the Son of Heaven for credit, but Cao Cao used the name of the Son of Heaven to seal the name of a captive general, and then he led the troops to the name of the Son of Heaven.

Originally, Wu Xi was stationed in Chang'an, but later because Ma Teng and Han Sui's Liangzhou army came to Chang'an, he couldn't stay in Chang'an.

At this time, Cao Cao appointed Zhong Xuan as the lieutenant of the school, and supervised all walks of life in Guanzhong, but Zhong Xuan went to Chang'an and said that Ma Teng and Han Sui surrendered to the name of Xu Du Tianzi, but he also handed over Chang'an to Ma Teng and Han Sui, and these Liangzhou troops were stationed.

Next, Zhong Xuan returned to Luoyang with Wu Xi's army, so Wu Xi's army became the Luoyang garrison, and was directly under the command of Zhong Xuan, the captain of Si Li.

Although Wu Xi's army still has a certain small warlord nature, it is also a state of temporarily listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement, in the original history, with Cao Cao's victory over Yuan Shao to unify the Central Plains, Wu Xi's small force was naturally completely absorbed by Cao Cao's army.

Of course, Wu Xi actually didn't control much of the troops, and when he originally betrayed Guo Yan, he only had about 1,000 soldiers and horses in his headquarters, and later after attacking and killing Guo Yan, although Wu Xi also annexed some of Guo Yan's troops, more Guo Yan's troops were still annexed by Li Wei.

Therefore, Wu Xi later controlled more than 2,000 Xiliang old soldiers, and in addition, he also coerced some young and strong people as the new army, probably with 4 or 5,000 troops, but the actual combat effectiveness was still the more than 2,000 Xiliang old soldiers.

Now the strength of the Wu Xi faction on the side of Dagu Pass is 500 old soldiers from Xiliang plus about 1,000 recruits, but they don't pay much attention to the defense of Dagu Pass.

After all, in Wu Xi's opinion, Luoyang is now a very safe rear, and he should not encounter any foreign enemies.

Besides, Luoyang is so dilapidated now, although there are some people who have returned to their hometowns, but in general, it is still an abandoned imperial capital with little oil and water, and it has no value worth being attacked at all.

Although Wu Xi is only twenty-four years old now, he is still a very young age, but after experiencing the chaos in Chang'an before, Wu Xi is actually a little less motivated.

Wu Xi is not a child of a scholar's family, just an ordinary Xiliang commoner who grew up after participating in Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army, so even if Wu Xi has a general-level qualification, no one will value him in these years.

In addition, Wu Xi did a lot of bad things with Guo Yan at the beginning, especially the old thing of burning the school house to coerce Emperor Han Xian, which became a stain on his life.

Wu Xi knew that he had no possibility of developing upward, and now that he could get the official position of a miscellaneous general with the help of Guo Yan's head, it was already the pinnacle of his life development.

Therefore, Wu Xi grabbed some land in Luoyang, and then forcibly coerced the population as his own households, preparing to be a rich and powerful household in Luoyang.

Perhaps this is also the reason why, at such a young age as Wu Xi, there are no achievements on Cao Cao's side, and there is no historical record, obviously he basically retired in the later period.

Of course, as a small warlord in Xiliang who has experienced the chaos in Guanzhong, Wu Xi still knows that in today's years, only soldiers under his command can save his life and money, so he mainly stationed his army in Luoyang, by his own side.

Originally, Wu Xi's idea was right, and after Cao Wei took control of the Central Plains in the future, he would take Luoyang as the imperial capital, so Wu Xi could really live his small life in peace.

However, Wu Xi would never have thought that Luoyang, which seemed to him to be just a ruined capital, had now become Zhu Wei's target, so his current attitude just allowed Wei Yan to seize the opportunity.

Wei Yan hurriedly marched to the half-day distance outside Dagu Pass, then stopped and let the army repair for a day, and at the same time sent scouts to probe the situation at Dagu Pass.

When Wei Yan found that Dagu Pass was unguarded, he was naturally overjoyed, and then Wei Yan thought of a sneak attack strategy, and the next day Wei Yan selected 500 elites from the army to pretend to be a business travel team, and personally led the team to Dagu Pass......