Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Occupation of Luoyang
Liu Meng's side is considered to be going well, but something big happened in Luoyang.
On that day, Lu Bu led the remnants of the army back to Luoyang first, but found that a force of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses had come to Luoyang, and the leader was Yan Gang, a general under Gongsun Zhan.
It turned out that Liu Meng sent someone to Jizhou to deliver a letter to Gongsun Zhan, saying that Emperor Xian had encountered difficulties in Luoyang many times, hoping that Gongsun Zhan could send troops to help, and the letter also knocked on the side in the hope that Gongsun Zhan could shelter Emperor Xian.
Liu Meng's original intention was that although Gongsun Zhan seemed to be quite powerful, he was only suitable for guarding a place and not suitable for hegemony in the world, and his power was in the northernmost part of the world, so it had little impact on Liu Meng.
Taking a step back, it is not so easy for Gongsun Chan to plan to do the thing that coerced the Son of Heaven, you must know that now Youzhou Mu is Liu Yu, and his person is also a clan member of the Han family, although he is not good at military, but he also has a lot of soldiers and horses, and he will definitely not sit back and watch Gongsun Chan act recklessly, and if Liu Yu and Yuan Shao are together, it will be enough for Gongsun Chan to drink a pot.
Gongsun Zhan's evaluation in history is not high, leading the white horse to fight the alien race is the pinnacle of his life, and in his later years, he is ashamed to be a prince all the way, not only has his character become cruel and murderous, but he only knows pleasure with heavy troops, but at this time Gongsun Chan has not become like that, he is still the white horse general who is brave and loyal and willing to guard the border fortress.
It can't be said that he coveted the land of Jizhou, and later fought with Yuan Shao privately is not loyal to the Han family, it can only be said that this is the general trend, whether you have the Han family in your heart or not, it has become a foregone conclusion that the princes will fight each other, and a reasonable excuse will trigger a big war, and you don't want to find a way to grow your power so you will be destroyed.
At this time, the battle situation in Jizhou was quite favorable to Gongsun Zhan, because Liu Bei's three brothers did not become famous in the battle against Dong, so now they are still attached to Gongsun Zhan, Youzhou is a place where there are many strong men since ancient times, and the soldiers are also brave, and Yuan Shao is only the first to get Jizhou, and he has not had time to develop his military strength, and the generals and soldiers are all falling behind, so they are defeated and retreated by Gongsun Zhan, fortunately, Gongsun Chan has been fighting with foreign races for a long time, and the main forces under his command are all cavalry, and the siege ability is relatively weak, otherwise Yuan Shao will not be able to resist at all.
Therefore, Gongsun Zhan did not hesitate after receiving Liu Meng's letter, and immediately sent Yan Gang to lead the soldiers and horses to Luoyang by way of the state.
At this time, Yan Gang was meeting Emperor Xian in person, expressing Gongsun Zhan's desire to ask Emperor Xian to move to Beiping.
After the Xiliang army released the news that it was going to slaughter hundreds of officials, many officials abandoned their officials and fled, leaving only a few Han diehards, Wang Yun and Cai Yong District a few people.
Emperor Xian is also frightened these days, Luoyang was in danger before, and finally looked forward to Liu Meng, who he valued, to lead the army to help, but he was also defeated, but fortunately, the Xiliang army was withdrawn.
Emperor Xian was planning to refuse Yan Gang, he had great ambitions, and at this time the Xiliang Army had retreated, and it was time for him to show his strength, so how could he go to Beiping.
But just now he wanted to refuse, but someone came to report that Lu Bu was defeated and returned and was seriously injured.
Emperor Xian was shocked when he heard this, and after careful inquiry, he learned that the withdrawal was a trick of the Xiliang army to lure the enemy, and Lu Bu was defeated and had to be covered by Cao Cao to escape his life, and he did not know Cao Cao's situation for the time being.
Emperor Xian panicked, and the blood that had just ignited in his chest cooled down.
Yan Gang also said at this time: "The saint must not hesitate any longer, there are not many soldiers and horses brought by the last general this time, if you wait for the Xiliang army to kill, it will be too late." ”
The six gods of the emperor agreed without a master.
But how do Wang Yun and others want to offer the emperor to Beiping, they are all die-hard loyalists of the Han family, and they are not mediocre people, so they can naturally see the current situation clearly, if the Han family, which is already stormy, moves the capital because of the invasion of the Xiliang army, it will be labeled as cowardly, and the Han family will really be helpless at that time.
So they all tried hard to persuade the emperor.
But under the threat of life, the young Emperor Xian's mind was blank, and he couldn't think too much at all, he only knew that if his life was gone, there would be nothing, and no matter how big his ambition was, he would turn into empty talk, and he insisted on going to Beiping.
He didn't trust Gongsun Zhan, but he thought of Youzhou and Liu Yu, because of Liu Meng, Emperor Xian had an unusual favor for the Han clan, and now that Liu Meng was defeated, he planned to use Liu Yu's power to realize his ambition.
Wang Yun and the others saw that Emperor Xian had made up their minds, and they didn't say anything, but they all seemed to have lost their spirits, and they all knew that the Han who had been working hard for them was finished.
Yan Gang saw that Emperor Xian agreed, so he ordered the whole army to set off immediately.
Emperor Xian knew that Wang Yun and the others were loyal ministers, so he asked Yan Gang to protect them.
But Wang Yun and others refused to go to Beiping with Emperor Xian, and they were willing to live and die with this imperial capital.
The situation was in crisis, although Emperor Xian couldn't bear to see them like this, but he had no choice but to follow Yan Gang's army and leave alone.
After Cao Cao defeated the Western Liang army and returned to Luoyang, Yan Gang and others had already left for a long time.
learned the ins and outs of the matter from Wang Yun and others who stayed behind, and Cao Cao couldn't speak for a long time.
Wang Yun and the others understood something, how could he Cao Cao not understand? Cao Cao couldn't tell how he was feeling now.
There is anger, hesitation, powerlessness and loss.
After a long time, Cao Cao led the army out of Luoyang without saying a word, and returned to Chen to stay.
It's just that Cao Cao looked at the Luoyang city wall and laughed for a long time after leaving the city, and the tears of laughter came out, and the soldiers under him were all frightened, they had never seen Cao Cao so out of shape, and no one understood what Cao Cao was laughing at.
Only Cao Cao knew that he was laughing at himself at the beginning.
Cao Cao did not take Luoyang as his own, because he knew that his foundation was in Chen Liu, and the Tiger Prison Pass was still occupied by Liu Meng, he wanted to occupy Luoyang and must conquer the Tiger Prison Pass, otherwise Chen Liu and Luoyang would not have figured it out, but at this time, although he was disappointed in the Han family and wanted to stand on his own, but Chen Liu's strong enemies were surrounded, and he had a good relationship with Liu Meng, how could he attack the Tiger Prison because of Luoyang?
Although Lu Bu was seriously injured, it was more of a loss of qi and blood, and after a few days of recuperation, he recovered most of it, Luoyang was a piece of fat, but he knew that he had no capital to occupy it now, so he led the remnants of the army to his friend Zhang Yang.
When Liu Meng arrived in Luoyang, he was shocked.
"Ding, the host occupies Luoyang, and you can get 22,000 killing intent points per month."
Liu Meng has actually forgotten to write a letter to Gongsun Zhan, because Gongsun Zhan's army has not appeared after fighting for so long, and then the Xiliang army was defeated and returned, he didn't have any hope, that is, Gongsun Chan wanted to invite Emperor Xian away, Cao Cao and others would not allow it, how could he have thought that it was such a coincidence, Yan Gang happened to be Cao Cao leading the troops outside, and when Lu Bu was defeated, he scared Emperor Xian, and many coincidences made Liu Meng achieve his original intention.