Everyone, at different stages, will make different choices. Xin Bi, who could abandon the Yuan clan and join Cao back then, is now loyal to the Great Wei, which is not incomprehensible.

To the public heart, Xin Bi Shi received the great Wei favor, from Cao Cao, he Xin Bi has been reused by Cao Wei, until the Cao Rong Dynasty, he was the official residence of the three dukes. After receiving so many favors, it is impossible for Xin Bi to have no sense of belonging to Great Wei.

To put it selfishly, most of the Xin family lives in Hebei, and there are many marriages with the Hebei family.

Xin Bi can't surrender, once he surrenders, it will inevitably affect his family, and in order to clear up the relationship between the Hebei family and Xin Bi, those married children, even grandchildren, grandchildren, will be implicated, and the future of the Xin family in Dawei will basically be broken.

Of course, if he doesn't surrender, Xin Bi can also follow Sima Yi and retreat to the Tiger Prison Pass, which is not something that Xin Bi is embarrassed about, it is purely that Xin Bi himself can't get over that hurdle.

Rather than retreat to the Tiger Prison Pass and accept the fact of defeat and loss of land, Xin Bi should choose to live and die with Luoyang.

Anyway, he is already seventy years old, and he can't live for too long, so it is better to use his own death to set an example for the ministers of Great Wei. At that time, not to mention that he can be famous in the world, the Son of Heaven will definitely treat his family in Hebei well.

Even, in the future, even if the Han Dynasty is really prosperous, he must maintain three points of respect for himself, the enemy courtiers who are loyal to the country, and no king will not like the courtiers who are loyal to the country.

Why not exchange a dying body for the peace and wealth of your family.

Xin Bi made his own decision, and although Sima Yi respected Xin Bi's decision, Sima Yi also had Sima Yi's consideration to let Sima Yi wait for the reinforcements that could not come at all in Luoyang, and Sima Yi would never do it.

Respect is respect, Sima Yi really allocated 3,000 soldiers and horses to Xinbi, and reorganized the remaining 7,000 soldiers and horses, ready to break through at any time.

By the way, he also issued a military order to his two sons to retreat to Hanoi County, so as not to let the two stupid sons stupidly defend Meng Jindu and not know how to protect themselves.

In this era, of course, there are loyal ministers who are generous and righteous, but the first consideration of most of the children of the big families is definitely the safety and survival of their own family.

In this way, on January 24, the eighth year of Jianxing, in the evening, after a day of siege, the Han army collected its troops and returned to the camp. The east gate of Luoyang suddenly opened, and Sima Yi led the troops out of the east gate and went straight to the Tiger Pass.

The Han army was at the east gate, but it arranged a containment force, but the number of troops was not much, only more than 1,000 people.

In addition, it was in the state of collecting troops and returning to the camp, and Deng Ai, who was holding back the east gate, did not take much precautions, and when Deng Ai reacted, Sima Yi was breaking through from the east gate, and then led the troops to chase after it, it was a little too late.

Sima Yi's breakthrough time was very good, it was the time when the Han army returned to the camp and relaxed their guard, and the time was close to evening, and it would not be long before night.

Once your vision is limited at night, it is impossible to follow the ground trail to track the enemy.

Deng Ai led the troops in pursuit, and after chasing until nightfall, he had to retreat.

At this time, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi didn't have time to take care of Sima Yi who came out of the east gate Sima Yi ran away, Luoyang is now extremely empty in defense.

And early the next morning, before the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Zhuge Liang and others took the initiative to attack the city, the gate of Luoyang was opened.

As soon as the clans in Luoyang City heard that Sima Yi took the initiative to abandon Luoyang, they immediately acted keenly without collusion, and everyone brought their private soldiers to the south gate of Luoyang, and met Xin Bi who was guarding here, as well as three thousand Wei troops.

Of course, Simbi knew what these things wanted to do, but he hadn't left yet, and he still had to defend the city, so how could he allow these things to play "eating pot pulp".

Then Xin Bi was arrested by this group of people from the big family, with private soldiers, and then opened the south gate of Luoyang City.

Simbi, the one who wants to cry without tears. He didn't expect that with 3,000 soldiers, he had never done a private soldier led by a big family in the city.

It's strange, and it can only be blamed that Xin Bi doesn't understand military affairs, and he is used to the perspective of the superiors, so he doesn't understand the thoughts of the low-level soldiers at all.

Sima Yi slipped away with an army of 7,000, how much war spirit do you think the 3,000 soldiers left behind by you?!

It's not something they want to stay.

And at this time, as long as there is a sober person in the family who says, Sima Yi has slipped away, the east gate is still open, and the Shu army has not launched an attack for the time being, as long as the Wei soldiers who are a little smarter, they all know what to do at this time.

Xin Bi was stupid enough to think that these 3,000 soldiers would take the initiative to stay and follow him desperately. It's really not unjust to be caught.

In the Luoyang family's "Qi Food Pot Pulp", Zhuge Liang finally led the army to conquer Luoyang and entered Luoyang City with a smile on his face.

After entering the city, the first thing is, of course, to get out of the list and the people, and everything is as before.

The second thing is to "exchange opinions" with the families in Luoyang and maintain harmony with each other.

As for Simbi, that's the third thing.

It's not that Zhuge Liang doesn't want to persuade Xin Bi to surrender, but that Xin Bi would rather die than surrender After knowing Xin Bi's intentions, Zhuge Liang cut him down to make it all right.

This is to give Xin Bi a chance to make a name for himself in the world and go down in history, so no one thinks that Zhuge Liang did something wrong.

Even if Zhuge Liang let Xin Bi go back, Xin Bi would have to bear the charge of losing Luoyang, being defeated and captured, and at that time, Xin Bi would not be a loyal minister who kept the festival for the Great Wei, but a sinner who lost the city and land.

Sometimes, killing people is also for the sake of perfecting a person.

When the news of Xin Bi's killing reached Yecheng, Cao Rong immediately scolded Sima Yi for being incompetent and Shu thieves for being cunning. Then he ordered to treat the Xin clan favorably, and directly promoted Xin Bi's eldest son Xin Chang to be the Jizhou pastor, and his son-in-law Yang Tan to be Taichangqing.

By the way, Yang Tan's wife is Xin Xianying, the daughter of Xin Bi, and his second brother is Yang Xian, who has just let his son apprentice Zhang Xi.

Cao Ei's move is not only to appease the Xin family, but also to continue to win over the Yang family.

And the people of the Xin clan have a grudge against Shu Han, but few people will resent Zhuge Liang who ordered the killing of Xinbi, but they have a lot of dissatisfaction with Sima Yi who abandoned Luoyang.

This is determined by the values of this era. The victory or defeat on the battlefield is only determined by the battlefield, and death is just inferior to others, not to mention that others will help you go down in history.

Of course, Zhuge Liang didn't know these things at this time, he was still busy in Luoyang City, arguing with a group of Luoyang families, and at the same time ordered Wei Yan and others to take Mengjindu as soon as possible, and then collect troops to join in Luoyang.

There is no way, now Zhuge Liang also needs enough troops to guard Luoyang Zhang Xi has led 20,000 troops south on the third day after capturing Luoyang, and now Zhuge Liang has only 15,000 people guarding Luoyang.

That's why Wei Yan and others were asked to solve the battle in Mengjindu as soon as possible and come to Luoyang to coordinate the defense.

As for Zhang Xi, Zhang Xi took the initiative to lead his troops south.

On the one hand, Zhang Xi didn't want to see the faces of the Luoyang family, and he didn't want to deal with these things.

Messing with these things, Zhang Xi is really not in the mood.

On the other hand, Zhang Xi also had to lead the troops back to the army to aid Jingzhou, and there was really something unexpected on the Jingzhou side of the province.

At this time, Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang had not yet received Wang Ji's latest battle report, and they didn't know that the Eastern Wu Army was struggling in Jiangling County, and even they didn't know that Zhou Yu had returned to Jianye to recuperate due to illness.

At this time, Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang thought that Zhou Yu personally led the troops to attack Jingzhou, so neither of them dared to be careless, and after capturing Luoyang, they still decided to quickly return to the army and rescue Jingzhou.

However, before returning to the army to rescue Jingzhou, Zhuge Liang suggested that Zhang Xi should make a detour from the north of Yingchuan County when he led his troops south.

The truth, Zhang Xi actually understands it.

As soon as Luoyang fell, Yingchuan County lost its significance in responding to Luoyang, and Chen Tai and Jia Kui, who were guarding Yingchuan County, would definitely not dare to continue to stay in Xiangcheng once they learned that Zhang Xi led his troops to appear in the north of Yingchuan County.

Zhang Xi has appeared in the north of Yingchuan County, which shows at least two problems, one is that Luoyang has been lost, otherwise Zhang Xi would not have the time to wander to the north of Yingchuan County. Second, if the two of them continue to stay in Xiangcheng, then Xuchang will be in danger.

Once Zhang Xi occupied Xuchang, it would be equivalent to cutting off the back road of Xiangcheng, trapping Chen Tai and Jia Kui in the southwest of Yingchuan County, and there was no place to run.

It's nothing if Chen Tai can't run, with the personal relationship between Chen Qun and Liu Bei, even if Chen Tai is caught by the Shu thief, he has to be treated with good words, even if Chen Tai is unwilling to surrender, the Shu thief can only be a gift out of the country, and he doesn't dare to do anything to Chen Tai.

But Jia Kui can't do it, if the dignified Yanzhou assassin is arrested in Yingchuan County, the whole Yanzhou will be in turmoil.

At that time, even if there is a tiger prison in front of Yanzhou, how do you know that Zhuge Jin in Xuzhou and Lu Xun in Huainan will not take advantage of the situation to attack Yanzhou? !

Again, from the standpoint of Chen Tai and Jia Kui, can these two not know the truth about Xuchang?!

In order to be able to threaten the grain and grass supply line of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Shu Thieves, Chen Taike transferred all the remaining soldiers of Yingchuan County to Xiangcheng, and now Xuchang is guarded by less than 1,000 people.

If you really want Zhang Xi to rush to Xuchang before the two of them, I am afraid that as long as there is one attack, Xuchang will have to lose.

And Xuchang will definitely be lost, once Xuchang is lost, the entire Yingchuan will not be able to be saved, and at that time, not to mention Guo Huai, who has just returned to Runan, even Yanzhou, will be forced to open the door.

Therefore, the two immediately withdrew from Xiangcheng and surrendered to Xuchang.

(End of chapter)