Soldiers come to the world

Cao Zhi followed Cheng Yu's advice and decided to do his best to buy time for Cao Wei. He learned from Hua Xin that his elder brother had secretly negotiated with Liu Jing twice, but both failed. The reason was that Liu Jing's conditions were too harsh. Ask them to abolish the newly established young child emperor.

However, the situation is changing rapidly. When the Empress Dowager Fu issued a decree in Chang'an not to recognize the newly established emperor in Yedu, in fact, this step of Tian Ziqi has lost its meaning. Whether the new emperor will be abolished or not, people in the world will basically no longer regard him as the emperor. What happened, even the prime minister of the Cao family has no appeal.

Now that Cao Zhi has no political capital to negotiate with the Han army, Cao Zhi's only hope is to beg Liu Jing to see a half-year truce between the Han and Cao families for the sake of his younger sister Cao Xian. Of course, the name is to let the people of Hebei live a peaceful life. New Year, and allow farmers in Hebei to complete spring plowing.

Cao Zhi knew that Liu Jing was not in Chang'an, but in Taiyuan, so he immediately sent Situ Dong Zhao to Taiyuan with his personal letter to meet Liu Jing.

Liu Jing was indeed in Taiyuan. Just when he was preparing to lead his army through Jingxing and march into Hebei, he got the news of the coup in Yedu. This news made Liu Jing temporarily change his plan. He ordered Wei Yan to lead [-] troops to guard Jingxing. He himself sits in Taiyuan, quietly watching the changes in Yedu.

In the early morning, Sima Yi hurried through a long corridor and came to Liu Jing's temporary official room. Seeing that the door was closed and there were several guards standing at the door, Sima Yi stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Is it convenient now?"

The guard smiled strangely, "His Royal Highness is resting, Xiangguo please don't disturb him for the time being."

Sima Yi knew in his heart that His Highness drank a few more glasses last night, and there were several dancers who accompanied him. He probably slept very late. At this time, Liu Jing's voice came from the room, "Is it Sima Xiangguo?"

"Yes! Xiangguo has something to see His Highness."

"Please come in!"

The guard pushed open the door, and Sima Yi walked into the room, only to see Liu Jing sitting in front of the case reviewing the document, full of energy, he glanced at it, but couldn't see the figures of the dancers, Liu Jing knew what he was looking for , then smiled and said: "I sent it away in the middle of the night, and Xiangguo doesn't need to look for it."

Sima Yi chuckled, and didn't say anything to persuade Liu Jing not to get close to women. He knew that the King of Han did it occasionally, so there was no need to go into it. At this moment, Liu Jing put down his pen and asked, "Is there any news from Yedu?"

"His Royal Highness, Cao Zhi has sent Dong Zhao as an envoy to come to Taiyuan to seek an audience with His Highness, and it is estimated that he will arrive tomorrow."

This was expected by Liu Jing, but now he is no longer interested in this kind of negotiation, and asked again: "How is the recruiting situation in Yedu?"

"It is said that there is still some effect. Li Fu said that according to the preliminary information they have, they have recruited about 3 people."

Liu Jing smiled contemptuously, "It's only 3 people, not many, I thought they could recruit at least 10 people."

"Your Highness, don't underestimate the opponent. Xiahou Dun is a fierce general of Cao Wei. His strategy and experience are second to none in the Cao army. Besides, there are famous generals such as Zhang Liao and Xu Huang. Although we won the Central Plains War, if we take it lightly, once Hebei loses, Cao Jun will be defeated." It will also come back, Your Highness, be careful!"

Liu Jing nodded. He accepted Sima Yi's remonstrance, and he really couldn't be careless. After pondering for a moment, Liu Jing asked again: "What purpose does Zhong Da think Cao Zhi sent Dong Zhao to Taiyuan for?"

"Weichen has considered this issue. Weichen thinks that Cao Wei needs time the most at the moment. They must want to buy time and prepare for the final stubborn resistance."

Liu Jing sneered and said: "I won't give them time. In the past, a compromise was reached because the situation was not urgent. I also need to let the soldiers rest, but now it is not necessary, and I, Liu Jing, will not be the second Song Xianggong."

"Then how does His Highness plan to reply to Cao Zhi?"

"You don't need to reply, just detain Dong Zhao directly. This person is a talent, and I can use him in the future."

.......

Dong Zhao never dreamed that he would become a prisoner of the Han army as soon as he arrived in Taiyuan. He failed to see Liu Jing and was directly imprisoned by the Han army in Taiyuan city. This made Dong Zhao sigh in his heart. Zhao Zhao's bad luck, but Cheng Ke who arrived in Taiyuan on the same day was a different story. He was personally received by Han Wang Liu Jing.

In Taiyuan City Army Yamen, Cheng Ke knelt down respectfully and bowed to the Han King Liu Jing, "Cheng Ke, the little man, pay homage to His Highness the King of Han!"

Liu Jing met Cheng Ke, of course, because of his grandfather Cheng Yu. Cheng Ke did not come on behalf of himself, but on behalf of his grandfather. Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled, "Mr. Cheng, please sit down!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Cheng Ke sat down on one side, with Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang sitting on both sides. He took out his grandfather's letter and raised it over his head, "This is a handwritten letter from my grandfather to Your Highness. Please read it."

The guard next to him passed the letter shaft to Liu Jing, but Liu Jing was not in a hurry to open it, and asked with concern, "How is Ling Zu?"

Cheng Ke looked sad and shook his head, "Grandfather has been bedridden since he came back from Xuzhou. We don't know if he can survive this disaster. We can only pray for God's blessing."

Liu Jing opened the letter scroll, but he was taken aback for a moment. He saw that the scroll was densely filled with small characters. When he unfolded it slowly, he found that both sides of the letter were full of words. Roughly estimated, there were at least tens of thousands of characters. .

Cheng Ke hurriedly said, "Grandfather has written this letter for more than three months. He begs His Highness to read it carefully."

Liu Jing only glanced at it for a while, and then understood the content. It turned out to be the lesson of Cao Wei's decline summarized by Cheng Yu, and he hoped that he would avoid repeating the same mistakes of Cao Wei.

It can be said that every sentence was condensed with Cheng Yu's painstaking efforts, which made Liu Jing feel inexplicably moved. Although Cheng Yu also had a feeling of entrusting the family, it was more because Cheng Yu, as a civil servant, was not satisfied with the failure to realize it. Aspirational regrets and expectations for Shinhan.

Liu Jing carefully put away the letter scroll. He wanted to carefully read the precious inheritance left by Cheng Yu, and he said to Cheng Ke: "I understand the painstaking efforts of Lingzu. Please go down and rest first, I will have a good time." arrange."

Cheng Ke saluted, then slowly backed away, Liu Jing walked to the window with his hands behind his back, stared out of the window for a long time, after a while, Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and said, "Does your Highness feel in your heart?"

Liu Jing nodded, "When a person is about to die, his words are kind. I believe Cheng Yu's hard work in the end will help me a lot."

"Does Your Highness understand Cheng Yu's intention?"

"I know that he hopes that I can treat his children and grandchildren well."

Sima Yi next to him smiled and said: "My minister suggested that he should be allowed to work on six departments first. If he is really capable, he will be released as county magistrate after a year. Step by step, what do you think, Your Highness?"

"This plan is feasible, and this matter will be handed over to Sima Xiangguo."

After a pause, Liu Jing said to Zhuge Liang again: "There are still ten days before the New Year, and we are temporarily resting in Bingzhou. After the New Year, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the western, eastern and southern routes will march towards Hebei at the same time!"

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The time gradually came to the end of December. At this time, Luoyang has been besieged for nearly half a year. Luoyang has long lost the prosperity of the former capital of the Han Dynasty. The chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty brought disaster to Luoyang. It turned into a dead city with no cooking smoke and swarms of rats and snakes.

After Cao Cao unified the Central Plains, Zhong Yao gradually brought the population of Guanzhong and Bingzhou back to Luoyang, which gradually restored Luoyang's vitality. By the 20th year of Jian'an, Luoyang had become a large city with a population of nearly 5, although it was far from the former capital of Han Compared, but finally there is a glimmer of life.

But this Han-Cao war brought a heavy blow to Luoyang. Xu Huang led [-] Cao troops to defend Luoyang, while [-] Han troops were in the outlying city. Xu, Ying, Chen, Hong and other places near Luoyang had been captured. The occupation of the Han army made Luoyang an isolated city.

After nearly half a year of siege, Luoyang City, like all besieged cities, is also facing the most severe food crisis. Cao Jun's food storage in Luoyang is not much, only [-] shi. This is the food that Xu Huang prepared to fight for two months, but there is no Thinking about it, this hardship lasted for half a year.

Although Xu Huang tried every means to mobilize the army and civilians to plant the easy-to-grow black soybeans in the open space of the city as food, and implemented a strict food rationing system in the city, the daily ration of ordinary people was reduced to less than [-], and they could barely survive.

Despite all efforts, after mid-December, Cao Jun gradually fell into a situation where food was exhausted. The average Cao Jun soldier only had half a grain of food every day, and his war horses and livestock had already been killed. Even Xu Huang's beloved horse was killed. Soldier.

Ordinary people have no rations, so they can only peel bark and catch rats. The elderly and children face the threat of death.

But there was no news of the reinforcements that Xu Huang was looking forward to, not even a pigeon letter, and even Xu Huang began to despair.

This morning, Xu Huang was sitting in the big tent thinking silently, when suddenly, "Boom!" came from outside the tent. There was a muffled sound, Xu Huang raised his head in surprise, followed by a few more muffled sounds, Xu Huang suddenly realized, could this be the Han army starting to attack the city?

He stood up, walked quickly to the outside of the tent, and was stunned for a moment, only to see pieces of paper fluttering everywhere in the sky. Almost every soldier had grabbed a piece of paper and was gathering together to whisper.

A piece of paper also floated in front of Xu Huang's eyes. He reached out and grabbed the piece of paper. The piece of paper was only the size of a palm, with two lines written on it, "Yedu is surrounded, Cao Wei will be destroyed, Luoyang will surrender, and food will enter the city." . '

Xu Huang stared blankly at the piece of paper. The last news he got was that Cao Pi had passed away and Cao Zhi was the prime minister. But now it has been 20 days and there is no news from him. Could it be that Yedu was really captured by the Han army? Yet?

impossible!If Yedu was breached, why didn't Cao Zhi be escorted to call the city to surrender? Xu Huang took a closer look and realized that Yedu was besieged and Cao Wei would perish, which meant that he was not yet destroyed. This made him a little relieved, Xu Huang Immediately ordered: "All the pieces of paper are confiscated, no storage is allowed, and offenders will be beheaded!"

At this time, a soldier rushed over, bowed and said: "General, the Han army has sent an envoy!"

Xu Huang pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Take him to my big tent."

Not long after, Cao Jun soldiers led a scribe to Xu Huang's big tent, and the scribe saluted, "Join the army under the tent of Xia Zhangxin, Dudu Zhao."

"Zhang Canjun came to persuade me to surrender?" Xu Huang said coldly.

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