But he said that Li Ru's life should not be extinguished, he was over thirty years old and had no children, and he did not dare to take a concubine, so he took his wife Dong Yuan to a temple near Changning Yuan outside the city early in the morning to worship Buddha and ask for children. Halfway back to the road, I suddenly saw a fire in the direction of the West Garden, and sent someone to inquire, and soon figured out the general story of the matter.

Li Ru heard the news, how dare he return to Luoyang City, and after a little groaning, he took his wife and escorted by his own soldiers to go straight to the Tiger Prison Pass, fifty miles north of Luoyang City.

There are more than 30,000 Xiliang elite soldiers stationed in this tiger prison, and while guarding against Ma Chao, they often plundered Hanoi County, and even the Wu Fort of Sima's family in Wen County was taken by them. Fortunately, Sima Fang was prepared and moved his family to Liyang for refuge in advance, only losing some family wealth. And the Tiger Prison guard is the second general under Dong Zhuo, Guo Yan, and the deputy general is Niu Fu.

The two of them couldn't help but be confused when they got the news, but Li Ru said: "Those who murdered Dong Gong, Wang Yun and Lu Buye!" We still have hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in our hands, why be afraid? Dong Gong treats us like a mountain, and at this moment, it is time to work together to capture Luoyang and cut Wang Yun and Lu Bu with a thousand knives, thinking that Dong Gong will take revenge! ”

Guo Yan thought for a while and said, "Although what the military advisor said is reasonable! But once we withdraw our troops, the Kwantung princes and Ma Chao will definitely take advantage of the weakness to enter, and it will be difficult to resist at that time? ”

Li Ru smiled bitterly: "Luoyang is the land of four wars, if all the princes want to work together, how can we defend it?" Now we have only one way out! ”

Guo Yan said: "The military advisor tried to speak! ”

Li Ru Zhengse said: "Hijack the Son of Heaven to confront the princes from all walks of life, or cooperate with him, or find a prince to take refuge!" Otherwise, we will be like lost dogs, and we can only dissolve and seek our own future! ”

Guo Yan pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "I am willing to listen to the command and dispatch of the military division!" The surnames of more than 30,000 people in the Tiger Prison were fully handed over to the military advisors. ”

Li Ru nodded, and said confidently: "When you quickly send people to Bishui Pass and Hangu Pass and Nanyang Wancheng, let Li Dao, Fan Chou, and Zhang Xiu send troops to attack Luoyang at the same time, and now the defenders of Luoyang City are unstable, and it is a good time to capture Luoyang in one go!" ”

Guo Yan said: "That tiger prison pass"

"We need a certain amount of time to take Luoyang City, and it is enough to leave 10,000 elite soldiers!"

Soon, Li Dao of Bishui Pass, Fan Chou of Hangu Pass, and Zhang Xiu of Nanyang all learned the news of Dong Zhuo's violent death, and the princes of Guandong, including Ma Chao, who was preparing to send troops, also learned about it in a very short time. And Wang Yun and Lu Bu became famous for getting rid of the national thieves, especially Lu Bu, who received the post of chariot general comparable to the three princes because of his efforts to eliminate the thieves.

But not long after they were happy, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Xiu, and Fan Chou led 100,000 elite soldiers to attack Luoyang City from all sides in the name of avenging Dong Zhuo. The ministers panicked, because ninety percent of the soldiers and horses in Dong Zhuo's hands were in the hands of Li Dao and other descendant generals, and there were still many descendants of Xiliang soldiers in the city who originally belonged to Dong Min and Dong Huang, and there were only less than 30,000 soldiers who could really participate in defending the city, and the situation was extremely unoptimistic.

But Wang Yun and Lu Bu were not worried, because Luoyang City was a famous fortified city in the world, and it was by no means so easy to break. Moreover, the grain and grass in the city are enough for one or two years, as long as they insist on a few days, and wait for the Kwantung princes to break through the barrier to rescue, Li Dao and the others will naturally not be worried.

But Wang Yun made a big miscalculation this time, and now the Kwantung princes are busy expanding their territory, developing their power, and excluding dissidents, how can they care about them? Even if there is, they are powerless, such as Cao Ying, Liu Dai, Zhang Miao and others in Yanzhou are all small warlords, and most of the soldiers in their hands are newly recruited villagers, if they don't unite, who would dare to confront Dong Zhuo's elite troops? Besides, today's princes from all walks of life have long lost confidence in the Han family, and they all want to fish in troubled waters and slowly become bigger, and no one wants to lose their strength in vain.

Cao Ying thought about it, but he didn't even have a piece of land at the moment, and his subordinates were only about 10,000 people, and he still had to rely on Zhang Miao for supply of grain and grass. Although Yuan Shao's strength was slightly stronger, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and under the advice of Feng Ji, Guo Tu and others, he also adopted a wait-and-see attitude and did not move.

Only Ma Chaobing's 60,000 troops were outside the Tiger Prison Pass, and the army pressed the camp and only the symbolic surname sent people to fight, and the guard Niu Fu could not defend it, and Ma Chao also did not move, forming a confrontation situation.

History has an accidental surname, but also a necessary surname, because of the arrival of Ma Chao, the history of the late Han Dynasty has undergone a great deviation, not only Yuan Shu hung up early, Yuan Shao also changed a territory, Cao Ying is sandwiched between Yuan Shao and Ma Chao, it is not generally difficult to develop! What's even more interesting is that without Diao Chan, Wang Yun also killed Dong Zhuo. And Li Ru did not die, and Jia Xu's plan to become famous also came to naught. At present, Li Dao and Guo Yan led 100,000 troops to attack Luoyang, but Lu Bu could not retreat, and the situation became more and more chaotic.

Up to now, Ma Chao has basically lost the advantage of the Prophet of the Traverser, and every choice in the future must be extremely careful, he just wants to wait and see for a while, and strike a fatal blow at the best time. Ma Chao has coveted Dong Zhuo's Xiliang elite soldiers for a long time, and the combat power of these elite soldiers is not comparable to the miscellaneous army obtained by the Yellow Turban thieves and robbers of the Kwantung princes, if they can be co-opted, they will undoubtedly be a big trump card in the future.

However, it was said that 100,000 Xiliang soldiers attacked Luoyang City under the command of Li Dao and others, but Luoyang City was not an ordinary city, how could it be so easy to take down. In history, Li Dao and others were able to break through Chang'an, it was because Lu Bu went out of the city to face the battle, Li Dao and Guo Yan used Peng Yue's trick to drag Lu Bu, and Zhang Ji and Fan Chou took the opportunity to take the empty Chang'an City. But now the situation in Luoyang City is very different from that of Chang'an, several people have attacked three times in a row, and there is no breakthrough in the actual surname of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.

After Ma Chao got the news of Fa Zheng's return outside the Tiger Prison Pass, he moved his mind and asked the interrogator who came with the army: "In Zhengnan's opinion, what will be the consequences if Li Ru, Li Dao and others attack Luoyang and occupy the palace?" ”

The judge thought for a while and said: "Li Rufei is not a mediocre talent, and the princes of the world have different intentions, such as Luoyang City is broken, Li Dao and others will definitely vent their anger with the ministers of the court, but the Son of Heaven is fine!" ”

Ma Chao frowned, the situation in front of him was very complicated, the ministers of the DPRK and China such as Wang Yun, Huangfu Song, Gai Xun, Huang Qi and others were all loyal to the Han Dynasty, and they had no use value, so it was better to get rid of them all by Li Wei's hands. Besides, if it is late, there will be changes, in case Lu Bu, Wang Yun and others abduct the Son of Heaven and break through, then the matter will be even more uncontrollable.

After pondering for a while, Ma Chao had a plan, since it was already chaotic, the surname Suo would make the world even more chaotic! made up his mind, so he personally wrote a letter and asked someone to send it to Luoyang to be handed over to Fa Zheng and Wu Kuang. Now the two thousand Shenwei battalions that have infiltrated Luoyang City have already been mixed into Wu Kuang and Zhang Zhang's troops, and no one can see the flaws.

After receiving the instructions, Wu Kuang and Fa Zheng began to carry out the order, first of all, Fa Zheng acted as Wu Kuang's envoy and personally went out of the city to negotiate with Li Ru, expressing his willingness to surrender the city gate, but asked to make Wu Kuang a former general afterwards. Li Ru has an absolute superiority in troops, and he is not afraid of Wu Kuang's tricks, not only happily agreeing to come down, but also adding a county title.

An agreement was reached, and Li Ru launched a full-scale siege on the third watch of the second day, but in the southeast, west, and west directions, only a small force beat gongs and drums and bluffed, and 60,000 troops were concentrated in the north of the city. Lu Bu and the others didn't know the truth and didn't know the truth, so they had to defend with all their might on all sides, but Wu Kuang directly put down the drawbridge and opened the city gate.

The Xiliang army, who was holding back his anger, suddenly found an outlet for catharsis, and after entering the city, he began to kill people everywhere and set fires. Li Dao and others each led their troops and horses to take the palace and the other three city gates.

Lu Bu, Yu Fuluo and others were caught off guard, and the entire Luoyang City was suddenly in chaos, shouting and killing, shouting, and crying one after another, and some houses were set on fire after being set on fire, and the huge city was as bright as day.

Due to the disparity in strength and the fact that the incident happened too suddenly, Lu Bu also knew that it was impossible to block the Xiliang elite soldiers of Li Dao and Guo Yan's people, so he asked Li Su to defend the east gate, and he led his generals to rush left and right and go straight to the mansion. Now he can only take care of his own life, once he is surrounded by Li Dao and others, it will be a dead end. Therefore, Lu Bu took Yan's mother and daughter, plus Bian's, Yi's and two foreign girls and fled straight to the east gate, leaving Wang Yun and others out of the clouds.

Yu Fuluo and Yang Feng and others at the south gate and north gate were not fools, and Li Ru would never let them go, so when he saw that things were not good, he took his family and his own tribe to Kaicheng and fled for his life, and he didn't even have time to bring grain and grass.

The defenders of the city fled, and the ministers of the court and the Son of Heaven were unlucky, and while they were still asleep, they were surrounded by the army, and all of them were captured, and none of them escaped the net.

Two flowers bloom, one for each table, Luoyang City here is a mess, and the Tiger Prison Pass fifty miles away is not peaceful. Ma Chao calculated that it would take half an hour to get from the Tiger Prison Pass to Luoyang at the earliest, so he suddenly launched a strong attack in the first half hour of the third watch.

Before that, the Xiangyang cannons he and Ma Jun worked together were also transported to the front of the Tiger Prison Pass, and the 100 large Xiangyang cannons were loaded with 500 carriages before they were installed. As soon as the night entered the second watch, Ma Chao installed the Xiangyang cannon in front of the command sergeant Tiger Prison, and 100 large Xiangyang cannons would be fired together.

The cannon is extremely simple, with a weight of about three tons hanging from the short lever arm, and five skin pockets mounted side by side on the long arm, which can fire up to five stone shells at a time. When firing, only two trained people need to load the stone projectile, adjust the angle, and the pull force is either by the joint efforts of the sergeants or the power of the horses. Because of the winch and pulley set, it is not difficult to pull it up, but the strength is absolutely terrifying, it can easily throw a 70-kilogram boulder 200 meters away, and if a stone bullet of 30 or 40 catties can reach between 300 meters and 400 meters, ordinary bows and arrows cannot shoot so far.

Due to the full preparation work done in advance, with the sound of a gong, a hundred Xiangyang cannons were fired in unison. One hundred fifty or sixty kilogram heavy stones smashed straight towards the head of the Tiger Prison Pass with the sound of the howling wind.

The more than 10,000 defenders had already begun to concentrate on guard, but it was impossible to see anything 200 meters away with torches alone at the third watch. At this time, I heard the sound of "whirring" breaking the sky, and I thought that the wind was blowing suddenly! When the boulder approached, these defenders were frightened and shouted: "The sky is going to fall!" God is angry! ”

Only listening to a series of muffled sounds of "knock", "knock" and "knock", mixed with screams in the middle, the first round of 100 boulders suddenly smashed inside and outside the city wall. (To be continued.) )