When the generals heard that Cao Hong was beheaded, they naturally knew that Cao Cao was making a show, but they still had to cooperate with Cao Cao, so they all knelt down and pleaded with Cao Cao: "King, although General Cao is guilty, it is all caused by the King of Chu being too cunning, and it is not a crime of war. ”

Cao Cao suddenly sighed when he heard this: "Thinking of the generals and the intercession of the generals and you to save you twice, I will spare your life today, but the death penalty is forgiven, and the living crime is unforgivable, this king ordered you to lead 20,000 soldiers in Luoyang City to resist Liu Qi'er in Yique, if you can hold on for half a month, not only is there no fault, but there is merit, if you can't hold on, the two crimes will be punished together." ”

Cao Hong hurriedly thanked Cao Cao, tremblingly agreed, and at the same time said: "Wechen hopes to get Sima Zhongda's help, otherwise, even if Wechen fights for his life, I'm afraid it will be difficult to hold Yique Banyue." ”

Cao Cao naturally knew that with the talent of his cousin, it would be absolutely impossible to complete the task of holding Yique for half a month, so he only agreed with a little groaning, but he still told him uneasily: "You remember to this king, this time you must obey Sima Zhongda's constraints no matter what, although he is in the army, in fact, he is the commander of the army, if there is any more mistakes, you can blame this king for not being merciful." ”

Cao Hong immediately bowed down and agreed, and after receiving the military order, he selected the 20,000 soldiers who had already been ready, and invited Sima Yi to assure him that he would definitely act completely according to the order.

As soon as Cao Hong's army arrived in Yique, Cao Cao heard a news from Cao Cao's fast horse that the 70,000 army led by Liu Qi, the king of Chu, had come to Xiazhai ten miles away from Yique.

Hearing this news, Cao Cao couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart, and hurriedly summoned Dong Zhao, Man Chong, Lu Qian, Liang Mao, Mao Ji, Chang Lin, Xu Yi, He Kui, Yun Qian, He Qia and other henchmen to discuss countermeasures. In order to show the importance of this matter. Cao Cao specially invited Cheng Yu, who had long been out of political affairs.

After the generals came, Cao Cao had a gloomy face and said slowly: "The princes should also know that during this time, Liu Qi used intrigues and tricks, and Zixiao died in Yingchuan, Runan, Qiaojun, Huainan, Yangzhai and other places. Zhang Liao surrendered, our army lost nearly 100,000 people, the entire Yuzhou of the king will not be guaranteed, now Liu Qi's army is advancing by taking advantage of the momentum, has arrived at Yique, only more than ten miles away from Luoyang City, and Zhou Yu of Hangu Pass attacked very urgently, and the soldiers guarding the pass fought hard for many days, but there was never any hope of keeping. I wonder what the public has to protect it? ”

Dong Zhao, Man Chong and the others were silent when they heard what they said, and the scene suddenly became deserted.

Cao Cao sighed, looked at Cheng Yu slowly, and then said softly: "Zhongde, I don't know why you can teach me?" ”

I only heard Cheng Yu cough, and arched his hand and said: "Thanks to the king's attention, Weichen will say a few words that don't like it, and the king should see it." Now Liu Qi, the king of Chu, is under the banner of avenging the Son of Heaven, and the so-called teacher is famous. If the king wants Liu Qi to quit the army, there is only one way, and that is to punish the murderers who murdered the queen and the prince. Give an explanation to the king of Chu, and at the same time ask the Son of Heaven to issue an edict to comfort him, Liu Qi has always saluted the Son of Heaven, and he can only withdraw his troops if he gets the edict, otherwise. He will be charged with disobedience to the Son of Heaven, he is different from others, he is a relative of the Han family, holding the banner of the Han family, and he only obeys the emperor's orders, even if there are 100 and 10,000 dissatisfaction in his heart, then he can only obey and disobey, otherwise the foundation on which he relies will collapse, and his foundation will be difficult to preserve. ”

"But how can the real murderers who killed Queen Fu and the prince really deal with it? That's the king's ......" Yun was just about to speak, when he suddenly saw Cao Cao's fierce eyes looking at him, he was so frightened that he was full of excitement, his face was pale, his heart was pounding, and he didn't dare to say a word more.

I saw Cao Cao nodded, and then said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid that even so, Liu Qi'er will not give up, hmph, this child has always been unprofitable and does not get up early, since he has spent countless soldiers, horses, money and food, and finally came to the outside of Luoyang City, he will definitely lead troops into the city in the name of meeting the Son of Heaven, so that the entire Luoyang, including the Son of Heaven, will gradually be controlled by him, and then this person will be more able to take advantage of the Son of Heaven's hatred for us and counterattack us, I am afraid that before long, my generation will all become ghosts under the sword." ”

saw Cheng Yu say slowly: "The situation is just as the king said, but why doesn't the king come and retreat to advance?" ”

"Oh? How to retreat into the method? Cao Cao's eyes were full of inquiry, and he said casually.

I saw Cheng Yu stroke his beard and sighed softly: "Presumably the king also knows that Luoyang is now surrounded by the Chu army on three sides, and the Chu army has launched attacks day and night with more than 100,000 troops, but our army has repeatedly lost troops and generals, whether it is in terms of morale, the number of soldiers and weapons and equipment, it is not as good as the other party, not to mention that there are always some young people in the city who are interested in the Han family, before Liu Qi's army arrived in Luoyang, there were people who constantly conspired to rebel, and now Liu Qi's soldiers are in the city, I am afraid that this situation will be more strict. What's more, Chu Jun still has an elusive water army, once they are attacked along the river, we are afraid that we will even cut off the way back, so we want to keep Luoyang It is really difficult for us to ascend to the sky, in this case, why don't we let out Luoyang, but the king welcomes the Son of Heaven to Yecheng, in this way, the king has a strong foundation in Yecheng, needless to say, the people's hearts, but also the location of the river, the relatives of the Son of Heaven, Liu Qishi is unknown, and our country is safe. ”

Cao Cao listened to Cheng Yu's analysis and immediately fell silent.

Although he was very unwilling to abandon Luoyang, he knew that this was also a helpless move with no way, not to mention moving the capital to Yecheng, which was also a good thing for him.

First of all, Yecheng is where his nest is, and the seat of the feudal country can be more convenient to control the Son of Heaven, and there is no longer any need to run back and forth between the feudal country and the king, which is naturally more conducive to consolidating his rule, not to mention that Yecheng has been operating for nearly ten years, and it has long been impregnable and popular with the people.

Besides, after he left Luoyang to Liu Qi, he would rely on the Yellow River to defend it, and Liu Qi would not be as light as he was in the Central Plains. And more importantly, with the contraction of the defensive line, this will allow him to draw out tens of thousands of mobile troops, and it will be more convenient for him to recruit sergeants in Hebei, not only can he solve the long-troubled defense problem, but he may even turn to the offensive, at least he can take the opportunity to pacify the Gongsun Kang forces in Liaodong first, so as to greatly improve his strength.

In addition, Liu Qi is now in the city, and those officials who are interested in the Han family will inevitably deliberately stay and defect to Liu Qi, in this way, although they will lose some talents, but they no longer have to worry about someone rebelling against them, so that their rule will be more stable.

Therefore, after some consideration, Cao Cao decided to accept Cheng Yu's construction and coerce the Son of Heaven to move the capital to Yecheng.

In fact, Cao Cao already had such a plan before asking Cheng Chengyu, so he asked Cao Hong and Sima Yi to lead the army to garrison Yique and asked them to resist for three days, because he wanted to use these three days to move the capital to Yecheng.

But Cao Cao wanted to see the attitude of his henchmen towards this matter, so he summoned his henchmen to inquire, and now seeing that Cheng Yu's proposal coincided with his own, and the henchmen also raised their hands in favor, they were naturally sure in their hearts.

After that, Cao Cao sent Xu Chu to lead the escort army to Gongcheng, hijacked the Son of Heaven and moved the capital to Yecheng, and strictly ordered the civil and military officials to pack their bags and set off in five days, while the food, equipment and other items were ordered to be loaded the next day, transported to Liyang through the Yellow River, and then transferred to Yecheng by land.

The Son of Heaven thought that now that Liu Qi had attacked the city of Luoyang, his hard life was finally over, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to force him to move the capital, although he had a hundred and a thousand unwilling, but he had no choice but to be pinched in the hands of the other party, and he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to secretly sigh that his fate was not good, and he was held hostage by Cao Cao to the north, I am afraid that there is no hope of returning to Luoyang in this life.

After ten days of intensive deployment, the preparations for moving the capital were finally done, and Yecheng, because Cao Cao ordered an emergency mobilization, so a lot of preparations were made, and there was a relatively proper resettlement plan for civil and military officials, garrison soldiers and the people who moved away.

Before leaving, Cao Cao had already secretly issued military orders to Sima Yi and Cao Hong, as well as Jia Kui, the Hongnong Taishou stationed at Hangu Pass, telling them to prepare and immediately lead the army to evacuate Luoyang after the deadline was reached, and immediately lead the army to cross the river and go to Heyang for garrison.

In addition, Cao Cao also specially designated the imperial historian Xi Wei as the captain of Henan Yin and Si Li, and led an army of 3,000 to guard Luoyang, although it seems that Xi Wei's power status has been greatly improved, but people with a discerning eye know that Cao Cao is ready to sacrifice Xi Wei, because now Liu Qi's soldiers are coming to the city, under the banner of avenging the emperor, and Xi Wei is the main participant in killing Queen Fu and killing the prince, Liu Qi will not let him go no matter what.

And the reason why Cao Cao decided to sacrifice Xi Wei was not only because Xi Wei participated in the killing of Empress Fu and the killing of the prince, mainly because he found out that this person actually expressed sympathy for the Han Emperor, and once sighed after the prince was poisoned, saying that he was someone else's executioner and a sinner of the Han Dynasty.

Since then, Cao Cao began to alienate Xi Wei, and even this time to discuss countermeasures, he did not summon him, Xi Wei not only offended the Son of Heaven, but also had a bad heart for himself, this time when he was in danger, it was strange not to let him stop the disaster.

As for Yun Qian, it was entirely because of the trouble caused by that superfluous sentence, he dared to say that killing the queen and poisoning the prince was Cao Cao's instructions, although this is indeed the truth, but a henchman who can't speak will be more terrible than the enemy's meticulous work, since this is the case, then you still die here, so that you can posthumously present the position of a minister after your death, and this is not a loss to your years of follow-up. (To be continued......)