Changan!

It used to be the capital of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, and it witnessed the wind and rain of the Han Dynasty for 400 years, and was known as the first strong city in the world. Now, war is on the horizon again.

Since Lu Bu ran out a year ago, and the two thieves Li Dao and Guo Yan occupied Chang'an, the people of Chang'an have not had a day of comfort.

In the huge city of Chang'an, it was first filled by hundreds of thousands of Luoyang people who were burned by Dong Zhuo and Luoyang, and now it was forcibly stuffed into 200,000 Xiliang iron horsemen, making the population in this ancient city infinitely close to saturation.

Originally, when there was no war, it could barely be supported, after all, Li Dao and Guo Yan were crazy and the two thieves knew that killing chickens and eggs was the way to take death, and for the ministers and civilians in this city, although there were Xiliang soldiers bullying and oppressing innocent people, it was almost endless, but also because of the millions of stone grain stored by Dong Zhuo, who did not have time to be burned by Lu Bu in Meiwu in the west of the city, did not do too much to seize the people's livelihood, although the city was unstable, it could barely be called stable.

It's a pity that the way of heaven is impermanent, first of all, the Central Plains is drought, and the cool land is also affected, plus Li Guo and the two thieves are only the generals who lead the army, and they don't ask anything about the people's livelihood and political affairs.

At this time, Ma Teng and Han Sui came to borrow grain because of the bitter cold in Liangzhou and the Qiang trouble, and Li Guo and the two thieves categorically refused.

Li Dao and others, who were the generals of Dong Zhuojun's troops at the beginning, were also proficient in military strategy, and at first they did not take into account the tens of thousands of Qiang and Han soldiers under the command of Ma and Han who were mixed and had low morale, anyway, there was enough food in Chang'an City, so why waste troops in vain? Just thinking about blocking the news, sticking to Chang'an, and after the Ma and Han people, who came because of lack of food, ran out of food, they would naturally retreat and leave, or even collapse without attacking.

But what Li Guo and the others didn't expect was that although the news channel of Chang'an City, located in the center of the Han Dynasty, was blocked, it still attracted Cao **, who had become famous in the battle of the Kwantung princes to defeat Dong Zhuo, and was already the pastor of Yanzhou in the Han Dynasty. Originally, the two of them were under the control of 200,000 Xiliang iron cavalry, and they did not put Cao **, who only had more than 20,000 soldiers and was mostly infantry, and the cavalry was originally the nemesis of the foot soldiers, and the ratio of troops was ten to one.

But Li Guo and the two thieves never thought that Cao Mengde, who was born after the eunuch, really had two brushes, and he did not take the nearest path from Yanzhou to Chang'an as expected, went east to Wancheng and crossed the Wuguan Pass and went north, and attacked Chang'an through Jingzhao, but unexpectedly went around a long way, personally led the troops out of the direction of Luoyang, the "waste capital", and followed the traces of Dong Zhuo's coercion of the people of Luoyang to fill Chang'an, and hid his tracks all the way, not only took advantage of the situation to uproot Yang Feng and Han Xian's troops who were estranged because of the secret dispute between Li and Guo Yan. Unexpectedly, he pursued the strategy of supplying on the spot and nourishing the war with war, not only won the general Xu Huang, but even expanded the strength to more than 40,000 people under the surrender of troops several times.

"My lord, Tan Ma Lai reported, Yuan Benchu's horse infantry 70,000, since the tenth day of the former soldiers out of Hanoi, has crossed the river in the former day, into the territory of Sili, its forward Hebei general Yan Liang led 10,000 cavalry, did not set foot in Yanzhou, straight to Chang'an, from our army is only less than two days away!" This time, Cao ** took Ma Teng and Han Sui to attack Chang'an, and the generals only brought the Xiahou brothers, Cao Ren, Yu Ban, and Cao Chun, who was called the Cao family's Qianli Ju and others, in addition to Xun You, the mastermind, the strategists were accompanied only Cheng Yu and Mao Jue, and others such as Xi Zhicai, Xun Yu and others were left in Yanzhou by Cao **, because I was afraid that because of the mobilization of almost all the elites of Yanzhou, the strong and middle-class family of their own nest was Yuan Shao, who wanted to pick peaches, or Lu Bu, who had not been able to let Cao ** rest assured, took the opportunity to have something else" ideas". Even after learning that Yuan Shao, an old friend and ally, he really did not hesitate to tear his face and wanted to snatch the Son of Heaven with his old Cao, and sent Cheng Yu and the new general Xu Huang to make a detour to Qingzhou, just to prevent Yuan Benchu, whose character has always been not very good, in case of a whim, cut off his own back road. Now hearing the news obtained by Xun You's horse exploration, Cao ** has been in the wind and sun in the past few months, sharing weal and woe with the soldiers, and his dark face has shown a somewhat contemptuous smile when he heard the words.

"Ha, this old friend! After all, the original is still the original beginning! **I know that its color is strong and timid, ambitious and wise, jealous and less powerful, many soldiers and unclear divisions, arrogant and inconsistent government orders, I didn't expect that since the war with Gongsun Zan in Hebei, there has been no growth at all! In the military tent, Cao ** didn't seem to be worried that Yuan Shao was coming behind the army, and said to Xun Yu who was standing aside with a smile: "In the past, when Wen Ruo came to vote from the beginning, he once commented that Yuan Benchu did great things and spared his life, and he died when he saw small profits, which is really thorough. With such a good opportunity to win Yanzhou, I turned a blind eye, only caring about being a few months late, worried that the Son of Heaven would be waited for by me, so I rushed to join in the fun. If it is a certain one, it must take advantage of the emptiness of Yanzhou to cut off its back road first, so that its lone army hangs under the 200,000 Xiliang iron cavalry, without help and no food, dare to save it and wait for work, and ambush it halfway, then there is no Cao Mengde in the world! ”

"Yuan Shaoqi has won the hearts of the people with generosity, if there is another plan of the lord, I am afraid that the result will be the same as the lord's words, and there will be no home!" Xun You first agreed with Cao **, the color on his face was even heavier, and he said: "It's just that Yuan Shao's subordinates came this time, and there are frustrated, Tian Feng and other resourceful people for it, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Gao Lan, Gao Gan and other generations are the minions, and the cavalry and Jizhou elite soldiers led by the state are twice as good as our army, and with the power of the previous victory, the army is excited, the combat power is high, and the lord cannot underestimate the enemy!" ”

"What Gongda said is very true! There are upright people such as Xun Gongda who are the masterminds by his side, and he is expected to have no worries about this trip! will definitely be able to successfully save the Son of Heaven from the head of the thief, and obey the Son of Heaven to order not to surrender! ZTE Dahan! Cao ** was not annoyed by Xun You's disappointing words, but showed a smile of confidence, and said: "**This young friend Yuan Benchu is indecisive, although the land is wide, although the food is abundant, and although there are many soldiers, it is just in vain to do his best for the big thing of **, and it is not enough to make ** take it to heart." ”

"That's what the lord said!" Xun You also stayed in Luoyang City before, when Cao ** was not yet the captain of the northern part of Luoyang, Xun You was recruited into the palace because he was promoted to filial piety and served as a waiter of the Yellow Gate. I also have a good understanding of the "deeds" of Cao ** and Yuan Shao, and if you say that you understand Yuan Shao in Cao Jun, there is indeed no one who can be the right of Cao **. Said at the moment.

"By the way, is there any news from Qingzhou? Counting the time, Zhongde and Gongming should have been in Linzi for more than half a month, and I don't know if Ang'er can handle the relationship with Qingzhou this time! That Qin Zhongming kid, don't look at his age, he is not a good match! Cao ** stood up and stretched, hammered the faintly painful head with a bamboo slip, and forced a little smile and said: "This time Yuan Shao can use the plan of connecting Qingzhou to force a certain army to retreat, it must be the plan of his subordinates Tian Feng, Fu Zhu and others, but unfortunately Yuan Benchu can listen to it but can't use it, and he thinks very highly of himself, and Lu Bu has Qin Xu beside him The kid has never been willing to suffer, and he must be able to see through this strategy to devour the wolf, and looking at this battle report today, he must have not gotten anything good in Qingzhou, and Lu Bu is very lucky...... Hiss ......"

"The lord is tired even when he is tired, but he still has to focus on his body!" Xun You knew that Cao ** had this headache, so although he saw that Cao ** didn't care much about Yuan Shaolai's move of "grabbing meat to eat", he also knew that Cao ** was worried about Cao Ang in Qingzhou under the pretext of worrying about Cao Ang in Qingzhou, but he was actually a headache about the pass that could not be conquered at the moment, so he persuaded: "As for the matter of Qingzhou, the eldest prince has the posture of heaven and man, with Zhongde, Gongming and other wise and brave people on his side, and it is rumored that he has a very good personal education with that Qin Xu, so he must be able to ......."

"Mengde, Ang'er! Zixiu! Just as Xun You was thinking about what words to use to persuade Cao **, who had been under heavy "mental pressure" in the past few months, he suddenly saw Cao Ying's general Xiahoudun rushing in, which could make this always solemn general so happy, although he rashly listened to Cao Ang's name and made Cao **'s heart shocked, but he still patiently listened to Xiahoudun's report.

"Meng De, Mr. Wen Ruo sent an urgent letter saying that Zixiu had left Qingzhou and returned to Chenliu under the escort of Gongming and others, but he did not stay, and said ...... I have to take Qin Xu's help, which will help me Yanzhou break Yuan Shao's clever plan to grab merit, and I am coming here soon, and I will come here without saying it, and I will uphold the lord in person! Xiahoudun is a friend of Cao ** youth, and they are related to each other, they are the most popular generals, and they are Cao Ang's martial arts master, and they are overjoyed, until they finished saying the news, they realized that they had lost their manners in front of Xun You, but they still said with a smile on their faces.

"Zixiu is coming to Chang'an? Good! It is worthy of being the children and grandchildren of my Cao family, courageous, before ** was always worried that he would grow up under the wings of us, and he had always been gentle and docile, and he was very tired of killing, but he didn't expect that these two trips to Qingzhou became sensible. Cao ** heard the news that Cao Ang, the precious son who has never liked the war very much, took the initiative to come to Chang'an, and was stunned at first, and the book that had been smashing his head was also thrown to the ground by Lao Cao, and the headache actually decreased a lot.

"Herald! Today, the whole army will have a meal, so that the sergeants will have a full meal, and go to the front of the pass to scold the battle! I want to see that this Fan Chou was once a general of the Xiliang Army, but he still hung the war-free card for so long with a male soldier in his hand, but he still has the face to continue to hang up. It also makes my son see the majesty of his father! Cao ** put the bamboo slip in his hand on the table in the account and said with a smile. (To be continued.) )