In order to give the court and a group of civil officials an explanation, Wang Shaoyu preemptively impeached Luo Dai and Xie Yinglong, who died in battle, as soon as he returned to the city.

According to him, the reason why he lost was because Luo Dai was "passive and afraid of war", and Xie Yinglong was even more ruthless, and Wang Shaoyu directly charged him with "being a thief".

Wang Yinchang, the deputy envoy of Henan's military garrison, has always worn a pair of pants with Wang Shaoyu, and is called the "two kings" in Luoyang, and now that the military envoy is not there, Wang Yinchang is naturally in power, and without saying a word, he sentenced Luo Dai to the crime of escaping, but he was martyred and did not punish him, and Xie Yinglong was miserable and went directly to prison pending trial.

Although Tian Hu, Ren Jirong and other generals are very dissatisfied with this, thinking that Xie Yinglong is not guilty, but at this stage, both public and private, they can't disobey Wang Shaoyu's will.

Regarding the city defense of Luoyang, Wang Shaoyu is still sure, Wang Yinchang asked his opinion on the matter of city defense, Wang Shaoyu patted his chest and promised: "The thief can win a victory for a while, but he will not dare to attack the city, if the thief really attacks the city, I am willing to mention the strength of the army to break it!" ”

Wang Shaoyu said that he has confidence, Luoyang is a big city, the city wall is not the kind of rammed earth county, but a real brick-clad city, such a city wall, even if it is bombarded with Hongyi cannons, it may not be able to bombard, not to mention those simple siege weapons of the army?

Secondly, as the successive routs fled back to the city, Wang Shaoyu gathered more than 4,000 people, although he suffered defeat in the previous battle, but the army also suffered a lot of losses, and he still had a great advantage in terms of troops, so he didn't believe that Li Yan could attack the city with inferior troops?

In addition, as an important capital city in Henan, Luoyang is also equipped with 16 artillery pieces, which are placed on four walls, all of which are first-class Hongyi cannons.

In fact, from Wang Shaoyu's standpoint, it is completely fine for him to think so, Li Yan's army after the previous battle was only more than 2,000 troops, and the siege method was nothing more than storming and besieging the city, from the perspective of the art of war, Li Yan could not have any way to help Luoyang City now!

Wang Yinchang heard Wang Shaoyu's decomposition like this, and his heart was also determined, you must know that Wang Shaoyu suffered a defeat, which provoked Lu Weiqi, who was sitting in Luoyang, to be furious, although Lu Weiqi was the secretary of the military department in Nanjing, not as big as the real power of the Beijing Division, but it was also a real second-class official, and he really wanted to do something that he and Wang Shaoyu were in the same sentence.

In front of Lu Weiqi, he gave up his life to save Wang Shaoyu, and now when he hears Wang Shaoyu's explanation, he is relieved, Lu Weiqi has at least an explanation.

Lu Weiqi actually doesn't need him to analyze, how can the dignified military department Shangshu not know soldiers? He didn't think that Luoyang could produce any moths, but Wang Shaoyu's battle was too ugly, and the character of contacting this person made Lu Weiqi want to use the topic to kill him, but unfortunately now the war is imminent, and he can't shake the army's heart, so he simply held down the killing intent.

The two most important things at the moment, the first is to immediately urge Li Xianfeng to return to Luoyang, Fu Fan must not lose in Luoyang! Second, it is necessary to find out whether Li Zicheng's army is still in Xin'an, if Li Zicheng's army is already close to Luoyang, then this matter will be tricky, and it will inevitably be a vicious battle.

Of course, Lu Weiqi's idea was that it was no problem that it was too late, because Li Yan never planned to attack Luoyang head-on, but just camped in a place in sight from a distance in order to observe the movements of Luoyang City.

After camping, Li Yan sent his cavalry to attack the messengers and supply lines outside Luoyang......

With the attack of Li Yan's cavalry, the merchants who sought advantage and avoided harm refused to go to Luoyang again, and the grain team that went out into the city was intercepted and killed.

The battle has reached this point, and everyone can see that Li Yan has no intention of besieging the city, what he is fighting is a grain road, and cutting off Luoyang's grain road is not actually besieging the city?

"Duke Lu, Wang Bingxian, let someone out of the city! We still have 4,000 people, and I think the army is less than 3,000, if we can break the thieves in the field, we can solve the current crisis! Wang Shaoyu stood on the city wall, looking at the soldiers singing and dancing in the distance, gritting his teeth with hatred.

In one day, Luoyang's problems were exposed, and there was no food!

In the past few years, the Fu Fan has wantonly enclosed land around, and even brought the sub-clan and the retinue they brought, and divided the fields near Luoyang cleanly, followed by a drought, and the people could not bear the labor and fled, and the surrounding land was barren and barren, and it was thrown away.

For a long time, Luoyang's food supply has relied on long-term business travel to buy, or the imperial court has been transferred from other places, but now the grain road is cut off, the treasury is empty, and one or two days can barely survive, and the time is long, no one can stand it!

Wang Yinchang glanced at Lu Weiqi with hesitation when he heard this, according to his original intention, if he goes out of the city, he may be able to solve the current crisis.

But obviously Lu Weiqi didn't think so, he glanced at the two of them, and first scolded: "If it wasn't for the defeat of your field, why would it be like this?" ”

Wang Shaoyu shrank his neck in fear when he heard this, for fear that Lu Weiqi would be angry, but in the current situation, Lu Weiqi didn't have the kung fu to get angry.

"Now we don't know what's going on outside the city, Li Chuang doesn't know if he's still in Xin'an, you see the thieves over there, the inferior troops are not on guard, singing and dancing all day long, I expect that there will be something strange in it, now there are only 4,000 people in the city, and there is barely enough to defend the city. Lu Weiqi pinched the beard on her chin and sighed.

"It's not a pity for me to wait for death, if I let King Fu fall into the domain, even if the nine clans are punished, we can't forgive the sin!"

Wang Yinchang knew what Lu Weiqi was worried about when he heard this, and hurriedly flattered him: "Lord Lu is far-sighted, and the officials admire him very much!" ”

Looking at the flattering Wang Yinchang, Lu Weiqi snorted coldly with disdain, and then mocked: "Wang Bingxian still spends more time on how to defend the city!" ”

touched a stroke of ashes, and Wang Yinchang could only smile awkwardly.

"The grain and grass in the city are empty, if it is not solved, I am afraid that there will be a big mess!" Wang Shaoyu stared at the camp of the reserve army and said unwillingly.

"Alas....." said that Lu Weiqi had a big head on the problem of food, and the most important thing in Luoyang now was precisely this grain, and he immediately asked: "General Wang Bing, can you do it by dividing some soldiers and horses to open up the grain road?" ”

"I'm afraid it won't work" Wang Shaoyu shook his head and said: "Either the whole army will go out in a decisive battle, if you only divide some troops out, then you will be broken one by one, this army has a strange way of fighting, it is not so easy to deal with"

"You can't go with the whole army, the whole army will be empty when you go to Luoyang" Lu Weiqi vetoed his plan himself.

At this moment, Wang Yinchang finally seized the opportunity to speak, and hurriedly said: "Lord Lu, in fact, there is still food in Luoyang, and there is a lot of ......."

"Where?" Lu Weiqi was stunned when she heard this, and looked at Wang Yinchang in astonishment.

"Fu Fan......" Wang Yinchang said in a low voice.

Lu Weiqi was immediately aware of this, Fu Fan has been operating in Luoyang for many years, how can he not have some savings? As Wanli's beloved son, he didn't know how many treasures he gave away just for the domain, and after all these years, I'm afraid that his wealth is already an astonishing amount!

In fact, Lu Weiqi's pattern is obviously still not opened, the property of King Fu's mansion is not to say that it is defending the city, it is enough to pull tens of thousands of troops to get up and go out to fight, and now that Luoyang is besieged, the people have begun to cut back on food and clothing, drink gruel every day, and only dare to eat plate steamed buns a day.

And the dogs of the Fu Fan family eat chicken and mutton, not to mention the gang of people in the Fu Domain, the palace of the Fu King Zhu Changxun and the Luoyang outside the palace seem to be two worlds, the outside is besieging the city, and the inside is still drinking and playing music all day long, Zhu Changxun is even in the mood to play five flying every night......

"Fu Wang..... This is a good attention" Lu Weiqi thought for a moment and then took a note, yes, now Luoyang is urgent, King Fu has no reason not to help, if Luoyang City falls, won't he be able to run away?

Thinking about the joints, Lu Weiqi immediately decided to go to King Fu's Mansion to pay respects, so that this food problem could be solved, as long as the food problem was solved, they would be invincible!

......

In the standby barracks, looking at the depressed Luoyang City at dusk, Li Yan was thinking about something thoughtfully.

"Such laxity, in case the officers and soldiers attack the battalion, we will be in trouble" Gao Yigong paced the waist knife over, and his expression was still a little worried.

"If this is not the case, the officers and troops in Luoyang will go out of the city to fight with us in the field." Li Yan smiled slightly.

"What's that?"

"Lu Weiqi is a person who understands the art of war, in his opinion, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and now that Fu Fan is in the city, he will definitely not dare to venture out of the city." Li Yan gambled on Lu Weiqi's caution, and it turned out that he was indeed not wrong.

"Who is Lu Weiqi?" Gao Yigong didn't open the plug-in, and immediately asked with a confused face.

"The Book of War." Li Yan replied lightly.

"Hiss-" Gao Yigong gasped, the military department Shangshu is not a petty official, but he didn't expect to be besieged in Luoyang City in front of him now, "Then what should we do next?" At present, although the officers and soldiers dare not go out of the city to fight, we can't get in? Is it possible to achieve such a waste? ”

"Consumed? Yes, it's just that it is consumed, and Luoyang's grain and grass can't last long," Li Yan said with a sneer.

"But I've heard that there is a prince in this Luoyang City, who is quite rich, and there is a lot of food, so it stands to reason that Luoyang can't be short of food?" Gao Yigong obviously couldn't understand why the total amount of grain was sufficient, but there would be a shortage of food.

"Hehe" Li Yan chuckled, then turned around and patted Gao Yigong's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Then wait for us to defeat Luoyang, catch the pig king and ask." ”

Borrowing grain? Li Yan knows this history, he knows exactly what kind of goods King Fu is, and let Lu Weiqi borrow them, and he should play the second move.