Chapter 457: Cao Rui: It is urgent to move the capital
"Eight hundred miles in an expedited? Could it be that something big happened in Chang'an? Ma Tan's expression suddenly froze, and he hurriedly took it over and immediately took it apart and took a look.
However, after a brief glance, Ma Jian suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it was eight hundred miles to expedite his retreat, the wording was not strong. Judging from Ma Tan's understanding of the prime minister, it should not be that something big happened, but simply let him stop wasting.
"No, in order to call me back, I even used an eight-hundred-mile expedited service." Ma Jian scratched his head, and felt the pressure increase sharply for a while.
Before he marched east from Chang'an, Zhuge Liang repeatedly told him to defeat Hongnong. In particular, he emphasized to Ma Jian that he could not go too far alone.
"But speaking of which, I shouldn't be alone in going deeper, and I will enter the enemy territory for five hundred miles?" Ma Tan calculated the approximate border between the two sides and his current location, and it didn't seem to be too deep.
Ma Tan bypassed Hangu and led the Han army to cross Heyin along the Beibi Mountains and went south, almost unhindered by the Wei army along the way. After Heyin broke the last resistance of Cao Weiguan's Chinese army, the army arrived in Luoyang.
Looking at it this way, it doesn't seem like a lonely army, right?
At this time, Deng Fan also stepped forward and saw the news that the rear had ordered him to retreat. Seeing this scene, Deng Fan hesitated a little and asked cautiously,
"General, what should we ...... next?"
"Withdraw, the prime minister has been sent over eight hundred miles in an urgent manner, do you want to be pumped too." Ma Tan rolled his eyes and waved his hand in reply.
"Anyway, there is a high probability that this Luoyang will not be able to be captured, and even if it is entered, it will go to the inner city at most."
"Let's just be such a few people, and we have made a lot of money when we come here to show our faces and show our majesty. Anyway, the original goal was to break through the remnants of Guanzhong, and now that the mission has been completed, it is indeed time to retreat. ”
Saying that, Ma Jian couldn't help but sigh helplessly. I've finally come here, and I still don't feel willing to go back empty-handed.
But what can he do, he can't really disobey Zhuge Liang's call and die and not leave, right?
In the end, Ma Jian made a decision, and in the last two days in Luoyang, he made a final reconnaissance of the terrain, and then the whole army abandoned the camp and withdrew westward to Guanzhong.
In the next two days, Ma Jian took Deng to go around the Luoyang Yin area several times. Although he only brought a few cavalry men, the Tuntian soldiers of the Wei army fled everywhere they went. Ma Tan wandered all the way to dozens of miles east of Luoyang, and no one could stop him.
This alone is estimated to be enough to blow, after all, not everyone can take a few people around the heart of the enemy country. Along the way, Ma Tan also found that although he couldn't shoot arrows without Ma Zhong, Deng Fan would subconsciously draw the terrain along the way.
The case has been solved, Ma Zhong is an external sniper, and Deng Fan is an external atlas......
Luoyang Yin, as the capital area of Cao Wei, has very convenient road transportation. A galloping road with Luoyang as the center continues to radiate outward, extending in all directions, connecting the large and small counties in the periphery.
However, Ma Jian found a phenomenon, there are three galloping roads on the road from Luoyang to Hujiaoguan. With the exception of this one, the other roads are in disrepair, and most of them are dilapidated and unusable.
This is nothing, after all, Cao Wei is not as big as the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is basically enough to maintain only one gallop road. But Ma Jian smelled the fighter planes from it, especially when he found a family fort built by a wealthy family along the way, his eyes lit up.
A bold plan to die had been formed in his mind. However, this plan is not now, but for the future Ji Han expedition.
Two days passed in a flash, and the Han army's scouts had already found out that the Wei army's large army had arrived at the Tiger Pass. If there is a little more time, Ma Jian may still be able to fight Wei Jun outside Luoyang City.
It's a pity that in just these two days, there have been three consecutive 800 miles to expedite Ma Tan's withdrawal.
"Come on, that's the end of the crusade." Ma Jian waved his hand, and finally gave the order to retreat.
The 5,000 soldiers of the Han Army quickly packed their bags, and the group took advantage of the night to leave the camp. By the time the Wei army in Luoyang found that the Han army was gone, Ma Tan had already led his troops from Heyin to cross the river to the north and return.
Ma Jian left, and the news quickly spread throughout the city, calming everyone's hearts. When Cao Rui heard about this in the palace, he was in a happy mood for a while.
But on second thought, is it really worth rejoicing that TNND has become less bad news?
! Cao Rui couldn't be happy again in an instant.
In particular, less than a day after Ma Tan left, 20,000 reinforcements from Kanto arrived outside Luoyang City. In the following days, a large number of Qinwang's troops arrived one after another, but Ma Jian had already gone away.
Cao Rui was even more uncomfortable now, nearly 100,000 troops consumed a wave of grain and grass, and he didn't even touch Ma Yan's hair. Especially because of the fall of Guanzhong, Hangu can't block the Cuihan Road, and Luoyang Yin is already a place where the Shu army can't stop it if they want to, and they can't catch up if they want to.
Now Luoyang has become a front line, according to the frequency of wars in Xishu over the years, maybe their army will hit Luoyang City next year.
Thinking of this, Cao Rui couldn't help but shudder, and immediately made a judgment,
"Now the relocation of the capital is an urgent agenda, and even if it is slowed down, it may have to happen!"
quickly made up his mind to move the capital, Cao Rui convened a court meeting on the same day, and gathered all the ministers to discuss how to move the capital.
None of the people present objected to the decision to move the capital, not even a symbolic one. After all, no one wants to experience another incident of being suddenly rushed to the capital city by Ma Tan, it is really scary.
Once the capital has been moved, the next step is where to move.
Xu Du can't go, it is less than three hundred miles away from the Kunyang front, and it is not much safer than Luoyang.
At this time, a minister from Qingzhou proposed to move the capital to Linzi. It is absolutely safe to place the capital on the front line of Qingzhou, with Mount Tai and the Yellow River as a block.
However, this proposal was immediately rejected, after all, most people are unwilling to go to the dilapidated Qingzhou to live a hard life.
There was also a suggestion to go to Nanpi, but it was also rejected without suspense. After discussing with Cao Rui, Baiguan finally confirmed that it was better to move the capital back to Yecheng.
Yecheng was originally the capital of the original Wei State, and Cao Pi moved the capital to Luoyang after obtaining legal documents from Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. Now that Luoyang can't stay anymore, it is reasonable to move back to Yecheng.
What's more, Yecheng is not only rich at the moment, but also has two natural hazards: the Yellow River and Taihang Mountain. In particular, the state on the other side of Taihang Mountain has not yet fallen, and it is already the safest choice at present.
In the end, with the unanimous approval of the ministers, Cao Rui issued an edict to move the capital to Yecheng, and moved the temple and the court to Hebei.
At the same time as moving the capital, Cao Rui also sent people to Chang'an to negotiate peace with Xishu to see if he could redeem the generals of the Dian tribe. After all, if the 200,000 troops were buried in Guanxi in one go, the impact on Cao Wei would be too great.
Just when Cao Rui was discussing with his ministers how to ransom people, an urgent military report suddenly came in from outside.
What was sent was the battle report from Hefei, but to Cao Rui's consternation, this was not only not an emergency, but a ...... Good news?
(End of chapter)