Luoyang City.

Cao Ying stood at the head of the city with difficulty, and through the female wall, he saw the enemy camp that could not be seen at a glance.

More than 200,000 enemy troops besieged the capital of the Han Empire.

Countless "Liu" flags, fluttering in the cold wind, at a glance, like rolling waves, vast and majestic.

The flag, like a sharp blade, pierced Cao Ying's heart.

There are still more than 60,000 soldiers available in the city, and the food in the garrison can be enough to last for a year.

But the tragedy is that the ruling core of the entire Cao group is trapped in this isolated city south of the river.

Almost all the regular army of the Cao family, and the only remaining good generals and ministers are all here.

Outside of Luoyang, no one could help Cao Ying.

After five days of siege, the defection of the sergeants across the city began to occur.

In the following days, the defection intensified, and even began to appear in formation, hundreds of soldiers under the leadership of the officer, defected out of the city en masse.

The army is on the verge of collapse, and the civilians in the city are even more terrified.

Many anti-Cao officials took advantage of this opportunity to incite rebellion on a large scale.

Other dignitaries who were originally pro-Cao did not want to be buried with Cao Ying on the wrecked ship that was about to sink, so they also joined the ranks of the rebellion.

At the beginning, Cao Yingshang was able to use his authority to deal brutal blows against the riots in the city, which stabilized the situation to a certain extent.

But then, Liu Feng outside the city soon launched a powerful psychological warfare.

Within a few days, the southern army shot tens of thousands of announcements into the city of Luoyang, claiming that this time the army was only to kill Cao thieves and restore the Han Dynasty, Luoyang City, but if someone can kill Cao Ying, he will be rewarded with 10,000 gold and sealed 10,000 households.

In addition to the reward, Liu Feng also sternly warned in the announcement that anyone who is stubborn and dedicated to helping thieves will destroy his three clans after the city is broken.

These tens of thousands of announcements pointed the finger directly at Cao Ying. Liu Feng was not enough, and after treating those defectors well, he sent these people back to the outside of Luoyang City, and asked them to form a group to shout and surrender.

While the psychological warfare was unfolding, Liu Feng did not forget to show his force, trebuchets, strong bows and crossbows, and bombarded Luoyang City day and night.

Cao Ying, who was trapped internally and externally, had no way at all in the face of Liu Feng's powerful offensive. Although there are still many wise men around him, it is obvious that human intelligence can no longer change it to such a point where the mountains and rivers are exhausted.

On the fifteenth day of the siege, Liu Feng's double offensive finally took effect.

The anti-Cao magnates in the city successfully rebelled against a part of the defending army, and a rebel army composed of soldiers and guests of the great clan raided the upper east gate and succeeded, and quickly got in touch with Liu Feng and asked him to send troops to help.

Liu Feng, who heard the news, immediately ordered the veteran general Zhang Ren to lead 10,000 troops to test the attack.

Zhang Ren led the army to the east gate in the starry night, and was colliding with the rebels and the officers and soldiers who came to seize the gate in a fierce battle, Zhang Ren's 10,000 foot cavalry killed a big battle, and completely captured the upper east gate.

After confirming that this was not Cao Ying's plan to lure the enemy, Liu Feng was naturally overjoyed, and immediately raised his army and launched a general attack on Luoyang.

Tens of thousands, as dense as an ant colony, poured into the city from the upper east gate in the east of Luoyang City. After learning that the southern army successfully entered the city, the large and small anti-Cao forces quickly turned from dark to light, and assisted Liu Feng's army to launch the encirclement and suppression of the Cao army.

At this time, Cao Ying, when he heard that the Upper East Gate had fallen, was surprised, and urgently transferred Xu Huang in the southern city to lead an army of 10,000 to recapture it.

Wei Yan, who was stationed south of Luoyang, immediately mobilized his 30,000 soldiers and horses to launch a fierce attack on Jinmen, Xiaoyuanmen, and Kaiyangmen south of Luoyang.

Gan Ning, who received an urgent order a little later, also led his 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack the Shangxi Gate and Guangyang Gate in the west of the city.

In addition to the north, hundreds of thousands of troops from the south launched a general attack on Luoyang.

The battle was fought from night to dawn, although the number of southern troops pouring into the city was increasing, but Xu Huang took advantage of the weakness of the narrow streets and the strength of the troops that were not conducive to deployment, led 10,000 soldiers and horses, and struggled to support them, and carried out bloody street battles with the southern army several times his size.

#####北宫, Longyunmen.

The old man stood on the female wall, silently watching the fierce street fighting several streets away.

The raging fire reflected his pale face, and the thunderous shouts of murder shook his eardrums.

At this time, Cao Ying's face was like ashes, and he was indescribably desolate.

The place here is the north palace of the imperial city.

Luoyang City of Han has an inner city and an outer city, and the inner city is the palace city, and it is divided into the south palace and the north palace.

Before Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, a fire burned Luoyang City clean, and the magnificent imperial city was also put into action.

After Cao Ying welcomed the emperor's capital in Xuchang, Luoyang City originally lost its significance as the center of imperial rule.

However, since the battle of Guandu, Cao Ying began to consciously order people to start repairing the palace city of Luoyang, and in the years since he seized Jizhou, he has rebuilt the north and south palaces on a large scale several times.

A few years ago, according to the old style of the Han Dynasty, the majestic and magnificent North Palace was completed.

Theoretically, the North Palace was completed, and the Han Emperor was supposed to return the capital to Luoyang from Xuchang, but Cao Ying never hinted at the intention of moving the capital.

Clever people quickly guessed that Cao Ying was mostly building this gorgeous palace city for himself, and he preferred to be the first owner of this new palace city.

Now, Cao Ying is standing in this palace city that belongs to him, silently watching the fierce battle outside the city, he knows in his heart that the hard work of many years turned out to be a dowry for others.

What a great irony.

Thinking of this, Cao Ying shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Just as Cao Ying was thinking, in his field of vision, the battle on the street had changed.

With the help of the numerical advantage, the southern army finally broke through the defense line of the army, and a large number of enemies were rushing towards the direction of Beigong.

Cao Ying understood that the last resistance had failed.

At this moment, his mood was not desperate and distressed by the defeat in the outer city, on the contrary, his expression was even a little lighter.

The panicked pro-army entourage on the left and right was strange for Cao Ying's "abnormal" performance.

Cao Ying stepped down from Longyun Gate, rode his beloved war horse, and slowly walked towards the south court.

didn't go far, and several horses galloped in, and the one who came was Xu Huang.

The panting and bloodied general, galloping to Cao Ying, said with a heavy face: "Prime Minister, the last general is incompetent, he failed to block the offensive of the thief army, the defense line of Buheli has collapsed, and a large number of thief troops are killing Beigong.

Cao Ying's face didn't show joy or sorrow, but nodded slightly: "I know, Gongming, you have worked hard." ”

Xu Huang was stunned, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly said: "Prime Minister, the thief army will soon be killed here, it is better to protect the Prime Minister to break through." ”

"Breakout?" Cao Ying shook his head and smiled, and sighed: "So far, where else can it suddenly go." ”

Xu Huang has followed Cao Ying for many years, no matter how adversity it is, he has never seen Cao Ying discouraged, and now, he not only sees Cao Ying who is discouraged, but also faintly hears that he has the intention of giving up.

Xu Huang's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly said: "I see that there are few enemies in Beicheng, if we can concentrate our troops and horses and fight to the death, we may not be able to fight a bloody way." When the time comes, we will try our best to cross the Yellow River north, and as long as we can return to Jizhou, we will definitely have a chance to turn the tables. ”

Although Xu Huang was enthusiastic, in fact, even he knew that what he just said was almost an incompleteable plan.

Let's not talk about breaking through the siege of Beicheng, let's just say that the rolling Yellow River has been cut off by Liu Feng's powerful naval army at this time, even if they can break through to the river, how can they survive this natural danger. What's more, Hanoi County on the other side of the river was already in the hands of the traitor Sima Yi at this time.

"Gongming, you are familiar with the art of war, can't you see that Liu Feng deliberately showed weakness to me over there in Beicheng?"

Cao Ying asked rhetorically, which suddenly made Xu Huang speechless.

"But, Prime Minister, how can we sit still, no matter what, we have to give it a try." Xu Huang exclaimed excitedly.

Cao Ying sighed and said silently: "Gongming, the general trend has gone, you and I know it." You have followed me for so many years, and you have worked hard, but I can't give you wealth. Go ahead, decide for yourself. ”

Cao Ying didn't want Xu Huang to surrender to the enemy, but he didn't want Xu Huang to die in vain, so he could only say one sentence: where to go, decide for yourself.

"Prime Minister, Prime Minister—"

Xu Huang understood what Cao Ying meant, and his heart was full of grief and indignation, but he didn't know what to say, and he was already in tears.

Cao Ying also ignored him anymore, turned around and walked out.

Xu Huang stood there in a daze, watching Cao Ying go away.

A moment later, Cao Ying came to the court hall, which was the place where the emperor had been in his early dynasty and the most solemn and glorious place in the entire North Palace.

In my ears, the sound of shouts and killings rumbled, thinking that the enemy soldiers had attacked the inner city.

"Run for your lives, all of you." Cao Ying waved his hand and shouted.

The left and right followers hesitated for a long time, although they couldn't bear it, but in the end the birds and beasts scattered.

Cao Ying walked into the empty hall alone, looking around at the carved railing, golden and brilliant, and there were endless regrets flashing in the eyebrows.

Walking in the hall, it seems to remember every detail of this majestic hall.

After a long time, he held up the candle and set fire to all the curtains in the temple without reluctance.

The flames spread rapidly through the hall, and soon, the windows, doors, and beams of the main hall were all ignited.

In the midst of the fireworks, Cao Ying gasped step by step, walked up the imperial steps with difficulty, and sat on the throne upright.

He watched as the splendor in front of him turned to ashes in the fire, and suddenly, he looked up to the sky and laughed.

"The world...... World...... Haha......"

(To be continued)