Chapter 14: The First Decision of Guandong

When I passed by Huashan, my fourth uncle launched a final fierce attack on Guo Huai. After taking Luoyang and expelling Sima Yi to Nanyang, he also began to attack Guo Huai's troops who were still surrounded.

Although Guo Huai is also an excellent general, he is not able to bear the deal with him with a super luxurious lineup like Zhao Yun and Pang De and Kong Ming. Every day, the gunstones and crossbows made the Wei army unable to raise their heads, the city gates were broken, the city walls cracked, and the Wei army's corpse was in a mess and blood flowed. In fact, as early as the night of the fire in Luoyang, Guo Huai discovered that something was wrong. He was frightened at the time and wanted to go out to save the city, but he knew it was too late. He thought, Zhuge Liang was wise, this might be It was Ji Han's plan to deliberately burn the wasteland in the wild to deceive himself out of the city. Fortunately, he gathered himself outside the city to annihilate himself. But shortly after, the news came that Luoyang City was broken, and Sima Yi's sixty or seventy thousand elite soldiers were lost, and he barely broke through the siege, fled to Nanyang, and went to meet Xu Huang. After hearing this news, Guo Huai, who has always been strong, almost fainted. Sima Yi left. What should he do? Hangu Pass is the west gate of Luoyang, and the yard is now someone else's. What can this gate be like? But I have already come to leave. It's too late. Not to mention that Zhao Yun and Pang De attacked the city every day, no matter how fast he walked, he was not as fast as Zhao Yun and Pang De's cavalry. Even if he walked, which route could he take? He was occupied by Ji Han. He was hesitating, the Han army had blocked the east and west sides of Hangu Pass. This Hangu Pass was like a person's throat, a thin valley road. If he was blocked on both sides, it would be difficult to fly. Hangu Pass was called the mighty pass and was extremely strong, but it would be fine if he dealt with ordinary troops, but Ji Han Over the years, I don’t know where to get so many siege weapons. In front of them, the solid city wall was simply vulnerable. It was as if nothing had happened. At the critical point, Ji Han brought in a huge catapult cart that could throw hundreds of pounds of rocks onto the city wall. After one go, a large area of ​​the city wall collapsed. Later I found out that this thing was planned to be delivered to Luoyang, but it was finished before it was delivered to Luoyang. They sent it here nearby. But where could they eat it?

Ji Han fought for one day, and made Hangu Pass surrender for one day. Ensure the safety of the personal and property of the entire military and civilians, otherwise, he would never let anyone go. Guo Huai fought his life and gritted his teeth and persevered. At first, he thought that no matter how powerful Ji Han was, he should stick to his will and maintain his integrity. But when the number of people in his city was halfway down, he began to shake. And at this time, Ji Han announced that who could capture Guo Huai, surrender, could reward ten thousand yuan and be granted the title of Marquis of Guannei. At this moment, Guo Huai felt that everyone around him had a wrong look. They looked at their eyes secretly, as if they were looking at a mountain of gold that could move.

Finally, on the tenth day of October, Guo Huaixian City surrendered.

I arrived in Luoyang on October 25th. At this time, Guandong was pacified and all the eight passes of Luoyang were in the hands of Ji Han. The battle of Luoyang, which lasted more than four months, ended with Ji Han's complete victory. Taking advantage of Cao Rui's first succession to the throne, Cao Wei was unstable, and Ji Han was prepared to join forces with Eastern Wu to catch Cao Wei off guard, which was also considered avenging his previous shame and avenged his father's great revenge.

After losing Luoyang, Cao Wei was shocked. Cao Rui issued an edict to blame himself and asked Sima Yi to retake Luoyang with all his strength, asking Cao Zhen to defeat Zhang Fei's troops and advance to Luoyang. However, Sima Yi was fighting with Lu Xun at this time, and Cao Zhen was defeated by Zhang Fei for several consecutive games, so he could not face his attack head-on. If he wanted to counterattack, he could not do anything at all.

When the Eastern Wu learned that we had taken Luoyang, he quickly sent a congratulatory letter and asked Ji Han to send troops to help defeat Sima Yi together.

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"Prime Minister, this time I pacified Luoyang, I finally fulfilled my father's wish for life. I thank you on my father!" I and Kong Ming walked and talked while walking.

Although this place is no longer the Nangong Beigong of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and due to the fire, there are broken walls and ruins everywhere, and the desolate scenes are everywhere, but I am still very excited. No matter how broken or broken it is, it is also the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty for 200 years. Three parts of success, the career has been restored to Wuzhu, the north is settled in the Central Plains, and the old capital. My father's will during his lifetime has been realized one by one. How can I not thank my husband, how can I not thank everything he did? In this world, if there is a perfect man, then this perfect man is him. He is not God, but everything he has done is greater than God. In order to fulfill his father's wish, in history, he went out to pray for the mountains six times and died of exhaustion in Wuzhangyuan. In this world, he worked hard to help me and work with me to fulfill his father's father's wish.

Unfinished career. Finally, with equal strength, he perfectly defeated Sima Yi, proving that he was the well-deserved wise man. And the gentleman, like his father and his teacher, although I always say that I don’t need anyone to support him, he guided me and helped me to check, and quietly repaired my mistakes when I did something wrong, and bravely shielded me from the wind and rain when I was in danger. In fact, many times, I really want to call him Father, rely on him like I have in history, hide under his wings, and enjoy the fatherly love I rarely get from my father. But no. I am not the original me now, and I have no right to be weak. At this time, my eyes have long turned to the East and the South.

Kong Ming, as usual, did not accept my gratitude: "Why did Your Majesty say this? He eliminated evil spirits, settled the Central Plains, restored the Han Dynasty, and returned to the old capital. This is why the ministers repay the former emperor and loyal to His Majesty's position. How can I thank you?" In his heart, everything he did was normal, and this is a duty of a minister to fulfill his duties.

Actually, I knew that Mr. would say this. For some reason, both of us understood each other's intentions, but as soon as we spoke, we would be like a court in the court, which was not as casual as I communicated with others. Perhaps, this was my "imperial style" specially cultivated by Mr. I also changed the topic: "Sir, how do you view the matter of Eastern Wu?"

"The people of Eastern Wu are not trustworthy." Kong Mingdi replied in a very quick and decisive way. "Sun Quan was extremely ambitious and skilled in balance. When Ji Han was weak, he formed an alliance with Ji Han. But Ji Han was strong, but he could not ignore the embarrassing situation of Sun Wu. I, Ji Han, established a country. Your Majesty was appointed as the emperor and inherited the orthodox Han family. Cao Wei received Zen, also known as the empire. Only Sun Quan of Eastern Wu was still a king. His name was wrong and his words were not satisfactory, and he was still granted by Cao Wei. From then on, could he be rewarded by Ji Han? Or would he also become emperor by himself? Your Majesty, if he was emperor, how would I, Ji Han treat him? If he agreed, how could we face the old ministers of the Han Dynasty? If he did not agree, how could we maintain a good alliance with them?"

This is indeed a problem. To put it directly, if Sun Quan became emperor, how could I maintain a good alliance with him? Obviously, I cannot congratulate him as in history. However, as his strength increases, there will definitely be a change in this regard. Ji Han has just swallowed Luoyang and it is impossible to deal with Eastern Wu and Cao Wei at the same time. Our strength is enough to support the two battlefields at the same time.

"However, although in the future, the Eastern Wu will definitely be our enemy, but now they betray the alliance, it is not enough that the place where our army borders the Eastern Wu is that there are only three gorges, but now there is Shangyong, which has hundreds of miles of gorges, and birds are afraid of fish. Shangyong Hanzhong was called Tianzhuo in ancient times, and Cao Cao sighed. They attacked these two places, both of which were attacking. The Eastern Wu was good at water battles. If they abandoned the water and climbed the mountain, they were not their strengths, and they would definitely lose our allies. For the Eastern Wu, it would not be worth the loss. The benefits are now seized.

It is the most important thing. Jingzhou and Yangzhou are all more prosperous and stronger than Yizhou. At present, fighting for these places is the most important thing. However, as Ji Han's strength increases, the dispute over interests will increase, and the greater the risk of our opposition to him. For example, when we go south to Jingzhou, we will have a conflict with Lu Xun." Kong obviously wanted to take back Jingzhou. For him, it was his retreat, the place where his father and he first met. And I also thought so, after all, I was born there.

"Forget it, eating too much will cause indigestion. Jingzhou, let's take advantage of Dongwu." I finally gave up. "It's better, sir, Lu Xun is a little helpless in dealing with Sima Yi's remnants and Xu Huang. Since we don't want to turn against Dongwu at the moment, let's show it and send someone to help him. If you get Jingzhou, you will draw a line with them and don't fight. What's going on in the future? Then you can adapt to the situation."

Kong Ming nodded.

In early November, Jiang Wei, Wang Ping and Wang Jun were ordered to go to Nanyang, meet Zhuge Qiao, cooperate with Lu Xun to fight against Sima Yi, and accept Lu Xun's dispatch. Zhao Yun and Pang De's troops went east to Hulao Pass and cooperated with Zhang Fei to deal with Cao Zhen.

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Xiahou Ba left Luoyang and walked east with makeup. He pretended to be a refugee and was mixed with the people. As a result, because of his strong health, he was arrested on the way and built a strong man for more than ten days. Later, he finally found an opportunity to escape. He did not dare to act casually. He hid among the mountains, forests, grasslands during the day, and then dared to travel east at night. He was thirsty and hungry, and sometimes he stole, sometimes he robbed, and sometimes he could not steal, so he could endure it. Sometimes, he even fed with rotten corpses and rats.

He never knew that he could endure hardships and resist hunger. Every time he was at this point, he hated Sima Yi even more. If it weren't for his bullshit plan and letting himself be ambushed and lured the enemy, how could he be captured by Ji Han? How could he endure so much? What would he be Ji Han's detailed work? Even in this regard, he deserves to die!

However, he also knew that the Sima family had deep roots and had no real evidence, so he was afraid that he would not be able to move him down. What's more, the family of Empress Dowager Guo was still helping him. Could it be that he could tell His Majesty that he heard Ji Han and two small soldiers chatting, and then he suddenly realized that Sima Yi was Ji Han's careful work to seize the Great Wei Dynasty? In this way, even if he was a royal relative, he would be scolded. Even if Sima Yi used improperly in the northern border and was quickly defeated by the enemy in Luoyang, without direct evidence, it would not prove his guilt.

However, it is certain that Your Majesty should have some awareness of the death of his biological mother. When he was with Cao Zhao in the northern border, he had heard that Cao Zhao vaguely revealed his dissatisfaction with Empress Guo. Cao Zhao was the closest person to His Majesty. He was dissatisfied with Empress Guo, so he must be dissatisfied with Empress Guo. Your Majesty was kind and filial to his mother. His mother died inexplicably. It turned out that it was just that he was the crown prince. He became the emperor at this time. If he grasped the truth, how could he not take revenge?

However, no matter how filial His Majesty is to serve his mother, he is now the emperor, and his focus is on the world. The world is in chaos and the Great Wei crisis. In this case, will he have the determination to take measures to deal with Sima Yi? If His Majesty thinks that the Sima family cannot be moved, or thinks that it is not time to move the Sima family, and he will jump out by himself, wouldn’t he begging for trouble?

No matter what, you harmed me, you lost the northern border and sent it out of Luoyang, I also have to find a way to kill you, eliminate the harm to the Great Wei, and avenge me!

By the way, why don’t you go north and go to Hanoi to join the Grand Governor Cao Zhen? Perhaps only he can have the strength to fight against Sima Yi.

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Sima Yi never expected that in the Battle of Northern Xinjiang, he had to be regarded as an abandoned son and threw him away by him as an abandoned son. Xiahouba regarded him as his lifelong enemy and wanted to kill him to relieve his hatred. But he knew one thing, the current situation was really unfavorable to him.

The first letter from Zhuge Liang said that he would conquer Luoyang within seven days, and then said to the public that it was Sima Yi who gave Luoyang to Diji Han, making it difficult for him to gain a foothold in Cao Wei.

He didn't believe it, but it was useless for seven days. Zhuge Liang took Luoyang down. If he hadn't run fast and became a body, he would have stayed in Luoyang and became a prisoner of war. In such a disastrous defeat, this rumor would not have been made by Ji Han. Now the rumors have been flying all over the sky, saying that the general is incompetent and exhausted the three armies; what about collusion between inside and outside and betrayed Kyoto; some people say that he used Luoyang for Sima Zhao's life, but found that Sima Zhao had not come back. They turned to say that this proved that Sima Zhao was Ji Han's detailed work, and he returned to Ji Han to arrange for Sima Yi.

Sima Yi has encountered countless failures, but never failed once as miserable as this time; Sima Yi has also encountered countless difficulties, but never had a dilemma like this time.

When escaping from danger, the team was still in charge, but when the Han army disappeared, the Wei army, who was dragged down by continuous marches, had no good expression on him. Even someone dared to show that look of contempt in person.

Sima Yi thought that he needed a victory. Only victory could save this team and himself.

"If the Grand Governor asks for self-protection, he can attack Dongwu!"

Sima Yi couldn't help but remember the content of the letter again.
Chapter completed!