In Chen Liucheng, Wei Yan promoted the account to order troops, and now the Wei soldiers in the entire Central Plains have already been emptied, and after meeting the Chen Liu's reinforcements in Tongguan, who rushed to reinforce them, they urged the defeated troops all the way to capture Chen Liu.

At this time, the news received was that the Lord of Wei was seriously ill and could not be a director, and the court was caught off guard by the offensive of the Han army.

Wuyishan knew that this was due to the fact that the purple-clothed Venerable was injured by Yan Feng Xuanyuan's sword qi and died of serious injuries, and the twin puppets had long been obsessed with wine and had been hollowed out, and their weak bodies and bad news could not bear it when they were sick, so it was a matter of course.

The new monarch ascended the throne, the young lord was in the dynasty, and the state affairs were temporarily led by the auxiliary minister Cao Shuang, and the Wei State fell into chaos, Cao Shuang in addition to sending troops to the east of the river to guard the Yellow River crossing, but also gathered all the troops of Hebei to compete with the Han army in the Central Plains.

Before the Wei imperial army was assembled, Wei Yan sent the later general Liao Hua to lead 5,000 troops to take Xuchang and Runan, and then join up with Wang Ping's army to attack Guo Huai's army, occupy the Jingzhou region north of the Yangtze River, and at the same time guard against Jiangdong soldiers and horses who might come to the Central Plains to get a piece of the pie. Ordered the Yangwu general Deng Zhi who came to support to lead 5,000 troops to capture Xiaopei, Xiapi, Beihai and other Qingxu regions through Qiaojun, and Wuyishan led 5,000 soldiers and horses of the headquarters as the vanguard to capture Jibei, waiting for the opportunity to cross the Yellow River and peep into the two prefectures of Hebei and Qingdao.

Wei Yan led his army to take Puyang and prepared to cross the river to sweep Hebei. Puyang City has already gathered a large number of surrounding soldiers and horses, and as soon as Cao Shuang arrives in Yecheng, he will fight to the death with Wei Yan.

Wuyishan led the troops to Guo Xiaopei, which coincided with the fact that Deng Zhi's troops were about to march into Xiapi, and they got the news from the military newspaper that the armies from all walks of life were making rapid progress, and everything was developing towards a good situation.

The army crossed, the people along the way were frightened a day, the army marched to Jibei, first shot the letter of persuasion to surrender to the city, saw that the city guards had no intention of surrendering, Wuyishan ordered the whole army, set up camp and went down to the village, and rested temporarily.

In the early morning of the next day, the army set up a formation, and Luo Cheng and Wei Yu under the command of Wuyishan asked for battle, and the military heart was available, but Wuyishan saw that the defenders in the city could not retreat, and it was a huge casualty to storm the city. It is better to send people to the city to call for battle first, if you can trick the defenders in the city out of the field, the enemy will lose the advantage of the city's defense, and you can reduce unnecessary casualties.

The defenders in the city had already heard about the results of the battle on the front line, and there were no brave generals like Zhang Liao and Xu Chu in Jibei City.

Wuyishan waited impatiently, and sent people to attack tentatively, although most of the defenders in the city were temporary strong men, and there were only a small number of county soldiers, but the Han army, which lacked siege equipment, really had no way to take it down for a while.

Wuyishan can only temporarily rest the troops, and it is not realistic for 5,000 soldiers and horses to surround the Jibei regiment, so they can only guard the main traffic road, and the defenders in the city are at a disadvantage and do not dare to attack out of the city.

In addition, he sent people to requisition people, cut wood, build siege vehicles and other weapons, and only waited for the equipment to be fully equipped before attacking the city.

I don't want to be in the middle of the night, the Wuyi Mountain Sergeant who was studying the many materials in the storage space in the tent came to report, and the night guard caught a fine work from the direction of Jibei City.

"The villain is not a fine work, I am a member of the Bao family in the city, and I have a letter from the head of the family in my arms. ”

Lao Luo, Lao Wei and other leading generals gathered here at this time, and the fine work that was brought down shouted injustice as soon as they entered the big tent, and Wuyi Mountain made people search, and really found a letter.

Wuyishan opened the letter, read it in a hurry, and passed it to everyone, and when everyone looked at this one by one, Wuyishan said: "The head of the Bao family in the city said in the letter that he is willing to open the city gate at the third watch and help our army enter the city, what do you think?"

Wei Yu spoke first: "I think that although there is a letter to surrender, we must also be careful that the enemy dog jumps over the wall in a hurry and deceives our army. ”

Wu Yishan said with a smile: "Old Wei has made great progress, and he knows that he is on guard against knowing people, what about Lao Luo, what do you think after reading it?"

Lao Luo said: "This matter is half-true and half-false, it's hard to tell, it's better to be careful, we have come all the way from Liangzhou to today, and we should fight steadily and steadily, don't end up capsizing in the gutter." ”

"I don't want Lao Luo to be more cautious than Lao Wei today, I think it's better to interrogate the envoy carefully. ”

Wu Yishan turned to the envoy and said, "I can't untie you for the time being, I have to ask you carefully about some things." ”

"The villain understands, the general just asks, as long as the villain knows, he will tell the truth. ”

"Okay, then let me ask you, why did your master sacrifice the city to our army?"

The people who came didn't think about it, "so that the general can learn that the head of the family, Bao Shi, is the cousin of Bao Xin, the former minister of Jibei, when the princes of Kwantung raised troops to fight against Dong Zhuo, and Lord Bao of Jibei died to save Cao Cao, Cao Cao took the opportunity to annex my family's ministers, and at first he was very kind to the Bao family. Later, Zhang Miao and Chen Gong rebelled against Cao Cao to welcome Lu Bu as the pastor of Yanzhou, and was defeated and killed, Bao Xin's brother Bao Tao has always had a good relationship with Zhang Miao, but only a few words of justification for Zhang Miao's grievances, he was given death by Cao Cao, and my Bao family was gradually hated by the Cao family, and over the years, it has been repeatedly oppressed. ”

"So your master is really taking refuge?"

The envoy swallowed like pounding garlic, "Since the head of the family succeeded to the throne, the property has been repeatedly encroached upon, and the injustice has lasted for a long time. ”

"Since the Bao family is forced by the Cao family, the imperial court must be wary of you at ordinary times, how can you help me break the city?"

"On weekdays, I just try my way to extort my family's property, not to say that I am very vigilant, after all, my family does not have swords, but now the generals are pressing the border, and the guards will send all the strong men to the city to assist in the defense, and the Bao family is all pulled up to the city from the head of the family to the family. Nearly 100 members of my family are assisting in the defense at the north gate, as long as the general and the soldiers arrive at the third watch, with the lights as the signal, the head of the family will lead people to open the city gate and welcome the general into the city. ”

Wu Yishan asked again: "I see that you speak clearly and speak well, how can you be a domestic servant in Baojiaqu?"

"It's not a secret, the villain's father is the former head of the family Bao Tao, in order to prevent the persecution of Cao thief, he hid his name and surname, and lived in the Bao family as a domestic servant. ”

sent the envoy of the Bao family to wait, Wuyishan was greatly moved, if this matter was completed, then the whole game of chess would be alive.

Lao Luo took the initiative to ask to be the vanguard: "The general is the main general of the army, don't take risks lightly, it's better for me to lead a team of men and horses into the city to explore the truth, if everything goes well, the general will lead the army into the city again." ”

"Okay, listen to what he hears and looks at his deeds, what this person said, it is also reasonable, let Lao Luo you lead the troops as the vanguard, find out the situation, and the generals will lead the troops with me as backup, once they succeed, they must compete for the first place and seize the main road. ”

The plan has been decided, Wuyishan ordered the soldiers to prepare, three watches, quietly went around to the north gate of Jibei City, lit a lantern, shook three times and immediately blew out, the city gate really responded, the same torch shook three times, and then the city gate was wide open, only to hear someone shouting in the city, presumably it must be other guards who found that the Bao family led people to steal the city gate.

The selected vanguard troops under the leadership of Lao Luo, rushed directly into the city, did not see the rain of arrows ambush along the way, killed the guards at the gate of the city, Wuyi Mountain is a big hand, the army drove straight forward, when the guards in the center of the city reacted, the Han army has controlled the key points of the main road.

At dawn, the head of the city of Jibei has been planted with the banner of the Han army, the city has changed hands, the defenders have knelt on the ground to ask for surrender, the guards can not do anything, leading a team of guards from the south gate to kill, all the way to escape, escaped across the Yellow River overnight, and went straight to Liyang to report the news.

While collecting ships in Jibei County and preparing for war, Wuyishan sent people to Weiyan to report the victory.

At this time, General Wei had already gone to Puyang in person and confronted Cao Shuang for many days.