In the Luoyang Palace, Cao Zhen reported to Cao Pijuan: "Your Majesty, the minister set up an ambush outside the city, captured three people alive, and killed seven people.

After overnight interrogation, it was learned that they were ordered to contact the fine work in Luoyang City. They confessed that Xu Shu gave them four sentences for contact, and someone would take the initiative to contact them at that time! After speaking, Cao Zhen presented it.

Cao Pi took a look at it, and it wrote: The royal city is red all over the place, and the righteousness is in Shanxi. The sword soldiers rose left and right, spreading their wings and soaring into the sky.

Cao Pi looked at it for a long time and said in annoyance: "What does this mean, righteousness, Wangcheng, it means that there are people in the city who are fornicating with thieves!" ”

Cao Zhen said: "The ministers tortured and interrogated, and they couldn't tell the meaning, it seems that they shouldn't know."

And they act in batches, in teams of ten. Before departure, Xu Shu arranged for each team alone, and they didn't know what they were talking about, but they just had a meal together before leaving! ”

Cao Pi looked at it and said, "Zidan, regardless of whether it's true or not, you first rush to the outside of the city to transfer a part of the newly transferred Qingyan soldiers and horses for reorganization, and so on!" Qingzhou soldiers and horses are not good, there is no military discipline, and Qingzhou soldiers are not allowed in case of trouble.

Dispatch Yanzhou soldiers and horses into the city to strengthen the guard, and then transfer 10,000 soldiers and horses from Yecheng to strengthen the Luoyang guard, I suspect that there are spies in the city about Yu!

In addition, secretly search, set up cards strictly, and find suspicious people to be arrested and interrogated, Luoyang can't be messed up! Cao Zhen took the order.

Cao Pi urgently summoned Sima Yi and Jiang Ji to come and show them the poem, and the three of them thought hard about the meaning of the poem.

Suddenly, Sima Yi said: "The minister has an idea, Your Majesty will listen to it." Wangcheng is regarded as referring to Luoyang, and the red everywhere refers to the Han and the Han is still red.

At first glance, Shanxi refers to the annexation of the state, but ancient Shanxi is a vast area including Sili.

The last two sentences spread their wings as feathers, the swords rise left and right, and the sky at the end is closed. It should refer to collusion with Guan Yu and internal and external actions! ”

Cao Pi exclaimed: "Yes, yes, I said that Guan Yu didn't leave in Lu Hun, regardless of the sinister of being isolated and helpless, he held on, he originally wanted to entangle the main force of our army, and wanted to break Luoyang inside and outside, and settle the world in one battle, so courageous!" ”

Jiang Ji objected: "Your Majesty, maybe this is fraud, what the minister can't understand is who will collude with Guan Yu, all the secretaries of the court and the central government are loyal people, who will risk the risk of the Zhu clan to do such a stupid thing, the truth is worth scrutinizing at this time." ”

Cao Pi said disdainfully: "Loyalty, the most difficult thing in the world to see through is people's hearts, people's hearts are fickle." As early as the twenty-third year of Jian'an, Jin Yi, Wei Huang and others rebelled and wanted to welcome Guan Yu into Xuchang.

Then in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, when the army of the first emperor was holding Liu Bei in Nanyang, there was a Wei conspiracy to bewitch Chen Yi, the captain of Changle, to attack Yecheng and respond to Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

Among them, I was shocked by Wang Cang, who was good friends with me, and his two sons were all in collusion with Wei Wei. Can you guarantee that there will be no Wei Wei and his ilk making waves again?

When I first succeeded to the throne, my younger brother Cao Zhi actually cried for Shanyang Gong, my own brother is still like this, others, it's hard to say! ”

Speaking of this, Cao Pi stood up and said, "Guan Yu dispatched troops so quickly, I suspect in my heart that someone leaked the news of my inheritance to Guan Yu in advance, and Guan Yu has already been prepared. I suppressed this thought before, but now it seems that I have to think about it. ”

Jiang Ji looked at Cao Pi and said: "Your Majesty, maybe Guan Yu's dispatch of troops is a coincidence, from a military point of view, it is more like relieving the pressure on Longyou and Yizhou in the west."

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Chu competed for power, and Wu Zixu divided the soldiers and horses into three teams to attack and harass in turn, which made the Chu army exhausted and people's hearts fluctuated.

Guan Yu's dispatch of troops is more like this kind of strategy, and the minister estimates that Guan Yu will withdraw if he calculates that our army will transfer troops over. ”

Cao Pi sneered: "Guan Yu is an attack, in my opinion, it is a go." ”

Pulling out the sword suddenly, Cao Pi said coldly: "Guan Yu, old horseman, wants to attack Luoyang and seal his throat with a sword." It's a pity that I'm a mediocre person, you Guan Yu will honestly fall in front of me! ”

Two days later, Cao Zhen came to see Cao Pi again: "Your Majesty, in the past two days, the ministers have made a secret visit, arrested all the suspicious people for investigation, and found out that they were neither the people of Si Li, nor had more than 100 relatives in Luoyang, and they were strictly interrogated.

Really find out the fine work sent by Guan Yu. According to their confessions, they infiltrated Luoyang from the trail, carrying gold leaves on their bodies, collecting pottery outside the city and pretending to be merchants or collecting some dry firewood and game to sell.

The meticulous workers went into the city and spread the proverb: 'A thousand miles from north to south, and the golden drum rises in thousands of people.' Drink all the wine in the cup and sweep away the sunshade clouds. ’

These people coaxed the people in the city, saying that this was a martial song to suppress evil spirits, and it was sung ten times a day to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters. ”

Cao Pi listened: "Have you found out who they are going to connect with?" ”

Cao Zhen said: "No, Xu Shu said that someone in Luoyang City will take the initiative to contact them when the time comes, and they will act according to that person's instructions, and they don't know who it is." ”

Cao Pi snorted and said: "Yes, yes, these gang of chaotic ministers and thieves are getting smarter and smarter, let Guan Yu cooperate with them, the situation is not good, they don't show their heads, who can't find out, think I can't do it!" ”

Cao Pi pointed at Cao Zhen and said: "Zidan, you immediately find a way to buy these fine works, let them continue to wander in the city, transfer out the thieves who colluded with Guan Yu in the city, and find out that Hou Zhen wants to destroy his clan!"

Let the small work outside the city go first, let them continue to send signals and keep an eye on them.

You have to spread your eyeliner widely, monitor everywhere, loosen the outside and tighten the inside, especially the officials in Jingzhou, as well as Xuzhou, and the officials who had contact with Liu Bei before are also among them.

At an extraordinary time, Zidan, don't go wrong, the accident in Luoyang is not comparable to one or two defeats! ”

Cao Zhen clenched his fists and said: "The minister will do his best to protect His Majesty and Luoyang." ”

Cao Pi praised: "Okay, at this time, I can rest assured that you brothers of my own family, Zidan, you recruit the general to come, I want to discuss with him Luoyang soldiers and horses to secretly check all the generals and colonels, and see if those people are suspicious." "Cao Zhen retreated and went to invite Xiahoudun.

Outside Lu Hun City, after a few days of confrontation, Guan Yu began to act. Zhao Lei, Deng Ai, and Liao Hua were assigned to bring the fortification materials and take turns to build fortifications along the river overnight.

Seeing this, Cao Ren led his troops and horses to stop him, Guan Yu personally led his soldiers and horses to engage in battle, and the Han army Cao Jun confronted each other, shouting and insulting each other, and shooting arrows at each other.

Cao Ren sent cavalry to attack around the rear, and Guan Yu also sent cavalry to stop it.

Gan Ning and Pang De led their troops to sneak out, shoot Cao Jun's scouts, and kill Xincheng to the north of Luhun.

Cao Ren had already instructed the scouts to report once a moment without delay, and seeing that the scouts in the southwest were sparse in reporting for an hour, it was expected that something would happen.

Cao Ren sent a message to Ren Fu and Duan Zhao, because Cao Pi blamed the two heavily, Cao Ren was afraid that he would not win the battle, and the two were punished for several crimes, so they were handed over to the two to guard the camp.

Now that the two armies are engaged in a small-scale battle in front of the battle, it is inconvenient to withdraw, so the general sent a military order to the two people: "The scout is not in time to return, I am afraid that there will be changes in the southwest, if Guan Yu wants to attack, he will step out of the new city, cover my unpreparedness, destroy my grain and grass, and form a front and rear attack on our army."

The two of you are light and simple, and you can go back to the new city quickly.

If they arrive in the new city, the thieves will die down before they arrive, and they will be unmanned. Wait for the thieves to attack the city, and suddenly kill the defeated thieves.

If the thieves have arrived, they will march in formation and enter the city to garrison. This is a great opportunity to atone for your sins, and be careful not to miss it along the way. The two of them were ordered to rush to the new city.

After the two left for half an hour, Cao Ren quietly sent out the cavalry that had withdrawn in advance, and ordered the partial general Zhu Gai to lead the cavalry to the north.

Guan Yu saw the retreat of the Cao cavalry, and he had already paid attention to it, and when the Cao cavalry left, he noticed something unusual, and sent Guan Ping to lead the cavalry to follow the Cao army.

Cao Ren had already prepared, and when the cavalry left, he commanded the generals of the Cao army to rush towards the Han army, and the two armies collided. Cao Ren personally led the circle of soldiers and horses to the Guanping cavalry and shot arrows to block it.

Guan Yu shouted loudly and led the sword and axe to intercept Cao Ren, and the Cao army and the Han army started a full-scale war. Guan Ping commanded the cavalry to leave the battle and go south first, making a detour.

Deng Ai, who was building a garrison in the distance, saw that the two armies were fighting, and ordered to collect wooden barrels, and divided 3,000 soldiers and horses to dig ice and get water by the river, and soaked all the excess cloth.

Prepare to go straight to the north to the Cao army camp, the Cao army divided troops to intercept, and Zhao Lei on the side led his troops and horses to cover.

Cao Ren saw Deng Ai rushing out of the block and running towards his camp, he didn't care too much, three thousand soldiers and horses, as long as the Cao army guarding the camp was not confused, the Han army couldn't do anything at all.

Deng Ai ran to the Cao army's camp, pretended to attack the camp, and began to dig the forts after measuring the range of Cao's bows and arrows. A layer of soil and a piece of cloth, the first month is cold, the water is poured and immediately frozen, and then mixed with cloth, and soon the front low wall is repaired.

How could the Cao army in the village watch the Han army build a barracks in front of his big camp and kill out of the camp to stop it, Deng Ai had already taken precautions and shot back with random arrows.

Cao Ren learned that Deng Ai had built a fortress in front of his camp and felt bad. The camp is a camp, their own in and out of the front village is restricted, the deployment of soldiers and horses is exposed, the position of the front village is the best in the four villages, relying on the advantages of the terrain, the four villages become each other's corners.

Once forced to abandon the existing Qianzhai, the Han army can besiege the remaining three villages at the same time, and tens of thousands of people will scatter their forces.

It is unrealistic to retreat and re-establish the camp, Guan Yu will not let himself set up a large camp again, so he will retreat to the new city, Cao Ren ordered to shrink the troops and horses to retreat, and forced Deng Ai to retreat.

Guan Yu immediately recalled Zhao Lei and Liao Hua and launched an attack together.

Cao Ren rode the armies, either attacking suddenly, or engaging in battles alternately, rectifying and retreating. Deng Aide reported that he immediately built a low wall outside, arranged bows and crossbows, and waited for Cao Jun to come back.

Cao Ren retreated to the vicinity of the camp, and when he saw Deng Ai's posture of being in a tight position, he couldn't help but sigh: he had fallen into Guan Yu's way.

How did Cao Ren know that this was Deng Ai's ability to adapt to the situation according to the battle, how could he have a plan arranged in advance.

Cao Ren ordered the rest of the three villages to demolish the excess timber and transport it to the front village, the low wall is to take advantage of the cold after all, and it is very low, as long as there is a fire, the ice will collapse naturally. Cao Ren reorganized his army and blocked the Han army, so that the Han army would not take the opportunity to carry fortification materials to build.

Twenty miles south of Xincheng, Gan Ning listened to the scout's report that Cao's army sent troops from the camp to the north. Gan Ning waved his hand, and the scout stepped back.

Gan Ning smiled: "It seems that Cao Jun really thinks that we are going to attack the new city!" ”

Pang De said: "I don't know what the hell Mr. Xu is doing, let's pretend to attack the new city and get close to Luoyang!" ”

Gan Ning stretched out his arm and said, "What's the matter, Cao Jun has about 3,000 soldiers and horses, eat them!" I am the Chinese army, you are the right wing, and the captain Li Xing (taken from the name of the brother of Sanlixing) is the left wing, attacking the Cao army on three sides, and the battle is quick and decisive! "Pound and Li Xing promised.

Gan Ning turned his head to Han Guan on the side and said: "Captain Han, most of our army participated in the battle, and there was Yun Chang on the front to resist it, but just in case, you lead five hundred people to guard the four sides, so as not to suddenly come to the aid of the Cao army, and report to me immediately if the situation is not right, I can respond in time, this is a major matter related to the overall situation!" ”

Han Guan promised: "The general can rest assured, he will definitely be on guard against the Cao army!" ”

Gan Ning nodded, and the Han army was divided into four teams. Gan Ning rushed to Ren Fu and Duan Zhao with his horses first.