Cao Rong personally led people to chase Hu Chuquan, and at the same time, he immediately sent an urgent official letter to Biqiu Jian, asking Biqiu Jian to control all the roads from Hanoi County to Bingzhou and strictly check them.

Now Cao Rong's biggest worry is that after Hu Chuquan escapes, he will tell Shen Chen the news that Liu Bao, Liu Qubei and others have been controlled by Cao Jun, so that Shen Chen will definitely not be fooled to attack Bingzhou again, so the deployment of the Wei army in Bingzhou will all be in vain.

The situation will return to the original situation of Cao Wei's declining and collapsing more and more, and no victory can be saved. Cao Rong also counted on this time to inflict heavy damage on Shen Chen, so as to repel the Han army on the Western Front and give them time to breathe.

In this case, Cao Jun, who was still in Henan, Hanoi and other places, was about to go crazy, and was assigned by Cao Rong to search in a netting style, wanting to arrest Hu Chuquan as soon as possible.

However, Huchuquan seems to have disappeared into the land of China, and there is no trace at all.

Cao Rong would never have thought that at this time, Hu Chuquan did not return to his tribe in the north, but went south to join the Han army.

It's normal that he didn't think of it.

One is that Hu Chuquan is a Hun person, all his capital property and strength come from his own Xiongnu tribe, even if the tribe is seized power, but as the prestige of the Xiongnu Shan Yu will definitely allow him to control his own people after returning to the tribe.

Therefore, you should know with your toes that if Hu Chuquan is a man with all his heart, he will definitely not return to the tribe.

Second, to the south is Sima Yi's army of more than 100,000 people, like a net of heaven and earth.

Isn't running south a net?

The third and most important point is that since Hu Chuquan plans to join the Han, then he must contribute to the Han Dynasty, otherwise why does the Han army want him?

When you return to the tribe, whether you are to eliminate Liu Bao and Liu Qubei, or to control the tribe to cooperate with the Han army, you can make meritorious achievements.

Only by voting for the name can you gain a foothold on the side of the Han, and it is impossible to defect without doing anything.

Therefore, under careful analysis, Cao Rong felt that Huchuquan would inevitably flee north. And they plan to return to their tribe and sabotage their operations.

It's just that he ignored one point, that is, Hu Chuquan didn't think about reporting the news at all, and he only had one thought now - to save his life.

Liu Xuan, Liu Bao, Liu Qubei, none of these younger brothers and nephews are reliable, and they are filial piety and sell him directly.

If Hu Chuquan still runs to the tribe, he doesn't know how he died.

So in order to save his life, he ran to the Han army camp as soon as possible, and then defected to the Han army in the name of Xiongnu Shan Yu, as for how many people will be left in the tribe in the future, it is not something he should consider.

Therefore, Cao Rong and his strategist group, after careful analysis and study one by one, believed that Huchuquan must go north. The result was a battle of wits and courage with the air, and a lonely search was captured.

On June 14, the fourth day after Hu Chuquan escaped, because he did not know what day and where Hu Chuquan escaped, Cao Rong could only search for him along the bank of the Yellow River.

In ancient times, it was extremely inconvenient to go out, and he needed boats and horses, and Hu Chuquan had horses, but he definitely didn't have a boat, so he could only find a ferry.

The big ferries are Mengjin, Yanjin and Baima, but there are countless small ferries on the banks of the Yellow River, so it must be right to look for them along the banks of the Yellow River, but I don't know where they are.

By the fourth day, Cao Ru had already chased to the Wushejin ferry, and at the same time, Gucheng, west of Luoyang, ushered in some uninvited guests.

It is the twilight summer season, Luoyang is in a hot period because of the unique basin climate, the average temperature is about 20 degrees, the sun can not be regarded as scorching, but it also makes people feel a little hot and uncomfortable.

Shen Chen rode on the jade horse and looked out to the east.

The mountains are verdant and wooded, and there are plenty of fields and villages on both sides of the road, the wheat in the fields has been harvested, and there are still some wheat stubbles left in the fields, and the villages are silent, and in the distance, there is a river trickling and roads with pavilions and houses, all the way to the end of which are some manors.

"The Grand Governor."

The scout came back and reported: "The village outside Luoyang is empty, we have found a few families in the mountains who are hiding, they say that Cao Wei has moved all the people around Luoyang, and now there are only some troops in Luoyang. ”

"Huh."

Shen Chen sneered and said, "Cao Wei's old problem is that he likes to migrate people. ”

Deng Ai asked the scout, "What happened to their city?" ”

The scout replied: "The gates of the cities are closed, and there are some Wei troops on the city, because the distance is too far, and it is not easy to ride horses and gallop to observe, so they can't see the whole situation, and the other party's guards are relatively lax." ”

"Let's go!"

Shen Chen waved his hand and said, "Deng Ai, Jiang Wei, the two of you will lead the two schools from the north and south cities, and the rest will march with me from the west city." ”

"Yui!"

The crowd quickly responded.

Soon the various units of the Han army began to disperse and quickly galloped towards Luoyang.

Under normal circumstances, Shen Chen would definitely investigate the Luoyang intelligence before acting.

But this is Luoyang, not an ordinary small county town.

Luoyang and Chang'an have a problem, that is, the city is too big, according to the records, Luoyang City is nine miles from north to south and seventy steps, and from east to west six miles and ten steps, which is called "Ninety-six City".

Its actual area is 11.16 square kilometers, and the east-west city wall alone is four kilometers long, and the north-south city wall is about 3.8 kilometers.

Although it is much smaller than the area of 36 square kilometers of Chang'an City, it is still a behemoth compared with the ordinary small county town of two or three square kilometers and the length of the city wall is basically less than one kilometer.

Due to its huge size, even though Dong Zhuo had an army of more than 50,000 people in history, he did not dare to defend Luoyang in the face of the attack of the Kwantung coalition army, and could only choose to flee to Chang'an in the west.

At this moment, the hinterland of the Wei army was empty, and the capital had been moved to Yecheng, Shen Chen judged that there should not be many defenders in the city, so he did not continue to investigate, and directly launched a surprise attack.

It's not that he is not careful, but if the huge city continues to investigate, he can only use cavalry to look around the city, so that it will be seen by the Cao army at the head of the city, not to mention riding horses, simple foot reconnaissance is easy to be discovered, and the enemy will be prepared.

Therefore, they launched a direct attack, and before the enemy could react, they set up a ladder outside the enemy's four-kilometer-long western city wall and climbed to Luoyang City.

The cavalry of the Han army galloped like flying, and the sound of galloping horses' hooves suddenly let the Cao army on Luoyang City see that all kinds of whistles, gongs and drums, and horns resounded throughout the world, but it was obviously too late, and the Han army quickly killed under the city and carried ladders to climb the city wall.

What is surprising is that when they went up, there was almost no hindrance, and the first Han army to rush to the city wall jumped off the female wall and looked left and right, and saw that the city wall that stretched for several kilometers was empty.

For a while, the Han army was a little confused.

By the time Shen Chen came up, the Han army had already controlled the west city gate, and he came in through the city gate and walked to the city wall to overlook the entire city.

Luoyang's wide streets and houses are lined up one after another, and the signboards still seem to tell the prosperity of the past.

To the north is a vast palace complex, the remnants of the Luoyang Imperial Palace of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which Cao Wei rebuilt on top of these ruins and has now become a new palace.

Shen Chen came to Luoyang for the first time, he had been to Chang'an before, but Chang'an City did not shock him too much, because most of the city in Chang'an City was a palace, the palace area was too large, and there were so many fewer residences, but it lacked the vast tolerance of the ancient Chinese imperial capital, and only a little solemn.

In the past, Luoyang was also occupied by the imperial palace, and 7 square kilometers of 11 square kilometers of land were Luoyang Imperial Palace. Later, during the Cao Wei period, only the North Palace was occupied, and the area of the imperial palace was only about 4 square kilometers, and the remaining 7 square kilometers were the residences of the people in the inner city.

Together with the outer city, Luoyang's population exceeded one million at its peak at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. As a result of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, a large number of victims poured into Luoyang, and countless houses were built outside the city, which has now become a new urban gathering area.

"This is Luoyang?"

Shen Chen looked at this vast city and couldn't help but praise: "It is worthy of being the first region in human history with a population of more than one million, and it may even be the first capital city with a population of more than one million." ”

"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Dong Zhuo": At the beginning, Chang'an was hit by the Red Eyebrows Rebellion, and the palace camp temple was burned down. Moved back to Weiyang Palace. So millions of Luoyang people migrated to Chang'an.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the total population of Luoyang and the surrounding areas reached millions, although I don't know how millions are millions, but compared with other countries and regions in the same period, it can be said to be unique in the world, and there is no other place to compare with it.

Although Dong Zhuo set a fire in Luoyang, the traces left by millions of people are not so easy to clean up. What's more, Cao Wei built the capital here again and restored Luoyang.

Perhaps the only problem with this city is that there is no population, there were nearly 200,000 people here during the Cao Wei period, but now they have all migrated to Yecheng by Cao Rong.

"Report!"

At this time, the scout came over and said: "Cao's army has only a few thousand defenders in the city, and General Deng and General Jiang have gone to chase after it." ”

"A few thousand defenders?"

Shen Chen wondered for a while, in such an important place as Luoyang, Cao Wei would let thousands of people go?

What do you mean?

Look down on him.

Or did Cao Ei already plan to endure the pain of parting his love, cut off his tail to survive, and decided to give up all the land south of the Yellow River and retreat to the north of the Yellow River?

If this is the case, Shen Chen will have to admire Cao Rong's courage.

And the other party also handed over a complete Luoyang city to him, put yourself in his shoes, if he is a native of the Han Dynasty and does not have such a sense of protection of the ancient city, maybe he really plans to give up Henan, and such an important town as Luoyang must not stay, and he must learn from Dong Zhuo to burn it down.

It seems that Cao Ei's ideological consciousness is quite high.

Shen Chen touched his chin and thought.

But he soon thought of another possibility.

Didn't Cao Ei plan to ambush him in Bingzhou?

probably felt that with the help of the Huns' repeated horizontal jumps this time, the success rate would be very large.

As long as he can defeat him, Luoyang will naturally have no loss, and he may move the capital back in the future.

Shen Chen felt that this situation would be more reliable.

The only question is, since the other party wants to ambush himself in Bingzhou, hasn't he considered his plan to feint Luoyang?

Although he turned the feint attack into the main attack, it was too strange that Cao Wei did not have any defensive strength in Luoyang.

According to the intelligence, there are at least 20,000 people coming here in Luoyang, so are these people going to escort Cao Rong to move the capital?

Shen Chen was a little puzzled.

But there are too many confusing things on the battlefield, and since they have achieved their strategic goals and captured Luoyang City, they don't care about anything else.

He planned to immediately go to Hanoi County from the Mengjin ferry tomorrow, outflank the Wei army in Keiguan with Pang De's army, and then send someone to send a message to Zhao Yun, telling him not to act in Bingzhou, and to come directly from Jiguan to Luoyang.

In this way, Shen Chen's main force of 70,000 on the western front will all arrive in Luoyang, as long as the several roads leading from Taihang Mountain to Bingzhou are blocked, and the main force goes south to fight Sima Yi with Zhuge Liang, and comes to close the door and fight the dogs, then even if Cao Wei still has Bingzhou, Jizhou and the small half of Youzhou, it will not last long, and Cao Wei should be eliminated this year.

Thinking of this, he didn't think about why Luoyang had so few troops, but stationed in Luoyang City, rode around the city, and ordered the soldiers to control the various city gates, and enjoyed the overall landscape of Luoyang from the Han Dynasty to the Cao Wei period.

About an hour later, Shen Chen was strolling around Vermilion Bird Street, Jiang Wei came galloping on horseback, turned over and dismounted when he approached, and reported: "Metropolitan Governor, important news." ”

"Oh?"

Shen Chen asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Cao Ei himself is now in the Wushejin area."

"What?"

Shen Chen was surprised: "Hasn't he gone to Yecheng yet?" ”

Jiang Wei replied: "We chased after and captured the captive, and one of the generals of the Cao army said that during the migration, the Xiongnu ran away from Huchuquan, and Cao Rong was afraid that he would tell us, so he immediately let the army in Luoyang search for him." ”

"No wonder there are hardly many defenders in Luoyang City."

Shen Chen immediately thought about it.

It seems that Cao Rong didn't know that they had already known about the repeated horizontal jumps of the Huns, and they didn't know that Zhao Yun's side was a disguise, so they were completely blinded.

Now Cao Rong was worried that Hu Chuquan's escape would expose their plan to ambush the Han army in Bingzhou, so he was in a hurry to chase after him.

It's just that what Cao Rong didn't know was that he thought that Shen Chen was in Qinshui, but Shen Chen changed his thinking, didn't need Bingzhou so much, and killed in Luoyang.

This information gap was obviously fatal enough for Cao Wei.

At that moment, Shen Chen said without hesitation: "Order the soldiers, all assemble and go outside the East City Gate!" ”

"Assemble them all?"

Jiang Wei immediately knew what Shen Chen wanted to do, so he asked, "Do you want to keep some people in Luoyang?" ”

"Who's left?"

Shen Chen said: "The opportunity to capture Cao Ei alive has come, what do you want Luoyang to do if you catch Cao E, give me a slogan to the soldiers, kill Shejinkou, and capture the Wei puppet emperor alive!" ”

"Yui!"

Jiang Wei suddenly became excited, and immediately reined in his horse and left.

Soon the Han army was a sensation, and the Han army that was originally scattered at the gates of Luoyang City gathered in an instant, and under the leadership of generals at all levels, they came to gather outside the east city gate.

At this time, it was already afternoon, and Luoyang was still sixty or seventy kilometers away from Shejin Ferry, but Shen Chen couldn't wait that long, even if it was dark, he had to go.

So the Han army swarmed and rushed like a tide towards the Wushejin ferry in the northeast.

(End of chapter)