At the beginning of June of the first year of Jianxing, Cao Wei moved the capital to Yecheng.

As Shen Chen expected, Cao Rong was not crazy enough to take the Mengjin Ferry from Hanoi County to Yecheng, but took a relatively safe east to cross the Tiger Prison Pass, to Suoju, and then went north to Yuanwu and Baima, and crossed the river from Liyang back.

After Dong Zhuo's rebellion, Luoyang was completely crippled, and when Liu Xie returned to the east, Liu Biao sent people to repair it, and built a little palace in Luoyang, which was originally dilapidated and in ruins.

When Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, because of the special geography of Luoyang, he was designated as the capital by Cao Pi, and he officially began to rebuild.

After several years of repair, Luoyang slowly had a little bit of what it once was, and then Cao Pi migrated a large number of people and tuntian around Luoyang, cultivated fields, absorbed displaced people, and let Luoyang gather people.

According to historical records, by the late Three Kingdoms, during the period of Cao Rong and Cao Fang, the population of Luoyang was about 300,000, so at this time, Luoyang gradually recovered some prosperity, and the population was more than 100,000 to 200,000.

When Cao Rong moved back to Yecheng, Luoyang was not as restored as one-third of its heyday, and even as good as Xiangyang in the current era, but it was already the premier metropolis in the north, so the relocation work was still very troublesome.

Not only property and materials had to be moved, but also the population had to leave and return to Yecheng. Fortunately, last year's wheat matured in April and May this year, and the harvest of the first half of the year can be taken away without leaving any losses.

But even so, the mighty capital relocation team still left at a very slow pace. By the time of June 10, Cao Rong had just arrived at the Baima ferry to cross the Yellow River.

At this moment, north of Hakuba, on the vast plain, the river embankment is high and low with a slope, if you stand on the high slope and look into the distance, you will see that there are at least 100,000 people along the river in the west, and the scale of at least 100,000 people is slowly moving northeast along the river.

The people in front began to board the boats under the organization of the government, and the people in the back continued to move towards the ferry, and on a high slope to the south of the ferry, Cao Rong was overlooking the bank of the Yellow River.

Behind him was the Son of Heaven Luan and thousands of guards Cao Jun, who were going to cross at least a third of them today, and then in the next few days, all of them would cross the Yellow River and return to Yecheng.

Cao Rong is here not only to inspect the entire river crossing work, but also to wait for official documents and war reports from various places to prevent the problem of key information being left behind when he crosses the river.

You must know that Cao Rong is not an incompetent faint king, he has also been personally conquered twice in history, although he has been defeated twice by Ma Jian twice, he has just arrived in Chang'an Zhuge Liang and withdrew his troops. Once, because of Sun Quan's incompetence, he helped him defeat Sun Quan before he reached Huainan Manchu.

But it is undeniable that Cao Rong, like his father and grandfather, is a wise man who can do great things. Now it has reached an extremely critical moment for Cao Wei, and he must know the situation on the front line at all times in order to respond.

Even if his hole cards are almost empty, even if Cao Wei is now weakened to the extreme, he can't do nothing, at least he must do something to save the situation.

Conspiring with the Han army on the Western Front is what he is most concerned about now.

"Isn't there any news from Biqiu Jian?"

Cao Rong asked.

Next to him is Xu Xuan of Shangshutai, who originally handled the national government affairs by Chen Qun, who also recorded Shangshushi, and such official documents would also be done by Chen Qun.

But now Chen Qun has gone to Yecheng in advance to arrange the affairs of the new capital, so there are only Wei Zhen, Dong Zhao and Xu Xuan by his side.

Xu Xuan replied: "Your Majesty, General Zhenbei replied before, and has already controlled the families of Liu Bao, Liu Qubei and others, and they are also willing to continue to contact the Han army and lead the Han army to Qinshui, I believe it will not be long before there will be a return." ”

As one of Cao Rong's most trusted cronies, Biqiu Jian was previously the general of Luoyang Diannong, responsible for the Luoyang garrison and the Tuntian soldiers and horses, and now he was sent to the state and appointed as the general of Zhenbei.

Cao Rong's face still did not change at all, and now he was looking forward to and nervous about the news from the north, looking forward to the hope that the plan would succeed, and nervous because the Han army was strong, if the strategy failed, and the state was lost, then even Luoyang, Hanoi, Henan and other counties might not be able to hold it.

At that time, Sima Yi's main force will have to face the two-way attack of the Han army's western front and the central line, and Xiahou Yuan's side will not be able to support Sima Yi.

So Cao Rong's current mood is very complicated, he can't afford to lose anymore, and if he loses again, he loses Huainan after losing Guanzhong, loses Huainan and loses Hedong, and then Luoyang, Henan, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Hebei, and then he doesn't have to lose.

Therefore, this time it can be regarded as a desperate bet, using the rebellion of the Huns to counteract, and not expecting to be able to completely annihilate the Shen Chen army on the Western Front, but only need to repel them and beat them back to Guanzhong, so that the Cao army has a respite, and in another three or five years, the new army can be trained, then the situation will be much better.

"Ugh."

Cao Rong let out a long sigh and looked at the bank of the Yellow River with his hands behind his back.

It was the height of summer, the Yellow River was rolling, the green grass slopes on the south bank were blown by the wind, and the dense crowd slowly passed by the riverbank, poured into the ferry, and took a boat towards the Liyang ferry in the north.

The blazing sun shone on the earth, and the breeze came slowly, blowing the corners of Cao Ei's clothes into a hunting sound. He looked north at the east sun, his eyes were neither happy nor sad.

Suddenly a horse came galloping down the hillside, hurried to the foot of the mountain, and after verifying his identity, the knight came to Cao Rong with sweat, and knelt down on one knee to report to him: "Report, Your Majesty, and the state is urgent." Shen Chen's main force of tens of thousands of troops marched towards the Duan clan and went to Qinshui. ”

"Are you sure it's Shen Chen's main force?"

"Yes, not only is the banner of the word "Shen", but the number of troops is also more than ten miles, at least fifty or sixty thousand. ”

"Good!"

Cao Rong suddenly turned his head to look at everyone, and said with joy on his face: "Shen Chen has been fooled." ”

Dong Zhao and Wei Zhen hurriedly bowed their hands and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty." ”

The knight said: "But they have a partial division, marching from Yuanxian County, Shandong, from Zhongtiao, and our scouts in Jiguan are playing the banner of "Pang", which should be the enemy general Pang De, with more than 10,000 people. ”

"Not to be expected."

Cao Rong nodded slightly, he and his strategists could guess Shen Chen's feint attack on Luoyang.

It is impossible for the other party to feint Luoyang without dividing its troops.

Just like the classic idiom of encircling Wei to save Zhao, in fact, the Qi army did not encircle Wei Daliang at all, but only sent a small force to make a feint to lure the Wei army back.

This time, Cao Rong and their strategists also thought so, they felt that if Shen Chen wanted to storm Bingzhou or Luoyang, he would definitely be strongly blocked by Biqiu Jian.

Although he may not be able to lose, since there is a guarantee of victory for the Huns, he will definitely not choose a strategy that may not be able to break through the state or capture Luoyang.

Therefore, if they are transferred to Shen Chen's position, they will inevitably choose to unite with the Huns and join forces with the outside world, and first take the geographically important annex state.

After all, attacking Luoyang needs to face the strict defense of the Wei army, and attacking Bingzhou has the help of the Xiongnu, and the chance of victory in the face of the Cao army is very large.

And now that Cao Wei has moved the capital to Yecheng, Luoyang's role is not so great.

On the contrary, merging states is more strategic, once the merger of states is in hand, not to mention Luoyang, the whole of Hebei will be threatened by the Han army, so Shen Chen can't be stupid enough not to want to merge states.

However, since it is necessary to unite the Huns to take and annex the state, then the strategic intention must not be so obvious. Therefore, Shen Chen will most likely divide his troops to raid Jiguan Road and Shaanxi County, pretend to form a siege of Luoyang, and lead Cao's army back to help.

Cao Rong and his group of advisors had thought of this, so now that they learned that a partial division had appeared in Luoyang, they naturally didn't feel that there was anything wrong.

The only thing that makes people feel a little strange is that the Han army didn't launch an attack from Shaanxi County?

It stands to reason that if you really want to feint Luoyang and do a full set of dramas, you must attack on both sides at the same time, and it is impossible for there to be no movement on the side of the Cuihan Ancient Road.

Of course.

It is also possible that the information has not been sent yet.

The movements of the Han army were relatively close to Bingzhou and Keiguan, and the Wei army's scouts were able to capture the opponent's movements at the first time.

On the side of the Cuihan Ancient Road, due to the full withdrawal of the Wei army from Tongguan, there are only a few hundred Wei troops guarding in the area of Xin'an and Mianchi, and it is normal for the news to be delayed.

Thinking of this, Cao Rong said in a deep voice: "Tell Zhong Gong to be careful." Even if it is an ambush for the Han army, it is necessary to be cautious. Especially the Huns, we must keep an eye on them. It would be bad if they did not defect to the Han army at the critical moment, but against us. ”

"Yui!"

The cavalry messenger immediately went back.

After he left, Cao Rong seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, looked around and said: "Now as long as Zhong Gong can keep an eye on the Huns, they will not dare to rebel again, then everything will be fine, I believe that this time Shen Chen will not have such good luck." ”

Wei Zhen said: "Now Shen Chen didn't know that the Huns had rebelled, and when he rushed to Bingzhou, thinking that he could unite with the Huns to raid us, but was ambushed, I don't know what kind of mood he would have." ”

"Hahahahaha."

Cao Rong thought of this moment, and the haze in his heart suddenly disappeared.

Shen Chen has been fighting Cao for many years, and the blow to Cao Wei's forces is too great, and he has become an old enemy.

Each of the three generations of their ancestors and grandchildren had to fight against Shen Chen, and it was not very smooth since Cao Cao, and almost never won against Cao Pi and his generation.

If he can defeat Shen Chen and even get rid of him, it will probably be immeasurable for the morale of Cao Wei's forces.

So when I think about him winning this time, I can't help but be a lot happier. The worries of the past few days have also been alleviated, and the mood is much better than before.

But next to him, Dong Zhao poured a bowl of cold water and said: "Your Majesty, Shen Chen is scheming, I'm afraid that even if he enters the state, he will not act according to the original plan, in case he is stationed in Qinshui and does not enter if he is suspicious, what should I do?" ”

"I'm sure Zhong Gong will have a way."

Cao Rong looked around at a few people and said: "We set a plan to let the Han army go to Gaodu County, let the Huns outside the city, and then they pretend to defect, the Han army and the Huns besiege Gaodu, and when they attack the city, the Huns suddenly rebel again, attack the Han army, and this should be combined with the outside to defeat the Han army." I don't believe it, Shen Chen will look at the low-hanging fruit and be suspicious. ”

"Shen Chen is cunning, but we have no other way, we can only hope that everything goes well."

Wei Zhen sighed.

"Hmm."

Cao Rong nodded.

At this time, a knight suddenly galloped over and reported to Cao Rong: "Report, Your Majesty, when the Baiguan and the Minister boarded the ship, he found that Huchuquan was missing. ”

"What?"

Cao Rong frowned and said, "What's the matter, didn't you see it?" ”

The knight said, "It's too chaotic to move, and our troops have to maintain order, so it's hard to keep watching. ”

The migration of more than 100,000 people, even if there is a Wei army to maintain it, it will inevitably cause an extremely chaotic situation.

Therefore, it is impossible for Cao Rong to send people to watch Hu Chuquan all the time, not to mention that there are dozens of clansmen around Hu Chuquan as family members, unless the Wei army does not maintain order at all, and all of them are staring at Hu Chuquan alone, otherwise it is impossible to stare at him twenty-four hours a day.

In the final analysis, it was the Wei army that was defeated and retreated on the battlefield, resulting in a serious shortage of troops, otherwise, if the foundation of Cao Wei was still there, at least tens of thousands of central troops would maintain it when they migrated, and it would be impossible to let Hu Chuquan run away.

Knowing that Hu Chuquan was missing, Cao Rong said angrily: "This fang really has a different intention, immediately send someone to Yanjin and Mengjin ferries, once caught, immediately killed!" ”

"Yui!"

The knight departed at once.

After he left, Cao Rong was annoyed and said: "The Huns are really not credible. ”

Only Dong Zhaohu was suspicious: "Your Majesty, the minister is puzzled. ”

"What's the puzzle?"

"Now that the Huns have been informed of their intention to defect, if Hu Chuquan is a smart person, he will obediently join us together, why should he run away?"

"It's not easy."

Cao Rong sneered: "Liu Bao Liu Qubei and others conspired to defect to the Han Dynasty, and he didn't care about Hu Chuquan's life or death, he probably knew that his power among the Huns had been hollowed out, and I am afraid that he was already disheartened with Liu Bao and the others, and he didn't dare to have extravagant hopes, for fear of being liquidated by me, so he fled." ”

"Then you shouldn't run."

Dong Zhao said: "If Hu Chuquan has no real power, he should not think about returning to the tribe, but should follow His Majesty and beg His Majesty to punish Liu Bao Liu Qubei and others, so as to regain his power, how can he leave?" ”

Wei Zhen was reminded, his eyes widened suddenly, and he said: "This shows that Hu Chuquan didn't want to continue to stay in Dawei from the beginning, he wanted to join Han from the beginning!" ”

"But now Liu Bao and Liu go to humble them, if he votes for Han, what about their families and clansmen?"

Cao Rong scratched his head and said, "Don't you care about these kitchen springs?" ”

Dong Zhao frowned and said: "Liu Bao and Liu Qubei don't care whether Hu Chuquan is dead or alive, and maybe Hu Chuquan is the mastermind behind the defection of Han, he has long wanted to escape while the chaos of moving the capital, but he didn't expect our people to intercept the news that they were preparing to join Han." ”

"If Hu Chuquan is the mastermind behind the scenes, and their family members have been captured, do they completely disregard the life and death of the proton?"

Cao Rong also frowned puzzled.

But Wei Zhen said: "The Huns, barbarians, father and son cannibalize, brothers turn against each other, how can there be family affection?" What's more, Shen Chen may not necessarily care about the life or death of the Huns, if Hu Chuquan is bent on defecting to the puppet Han, he will definitely send the news out, then."

Cao Rong suddenly came to his senses and shouted: "I can't let Hu Chuquan go back, I have to chase it myself!" ”

After that, he turned over his horse and said to the guards on the left and right: "Go!" ”

At the moment, thousands of Wei rode and went west.

(End of chapter)