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Luoyang, the former imperial capital, is now in ruins. There are broken tiles, ruins, and weeds everywhere.
When Dong Zhuo evacuated, a fire burned many buildings in the city. At the same time, Xiliang soldiers robbed all the people, aristocratic families, and officials inside and outside the city who were unwilling to go to Chang'an, and robbed them of all their belongings and killed most of them.
Therefore, when the princes were fighting for hegemony in the world, no one paid attention to Luoyang. Without people, it is meaningless to occupy a dead city, because there is no way to raise a single soldier here!
After Liu Cong's army left Yique Pass, they stationed themselves outside Luoyang City and began to repair the palace and buildings in the city.
Cao Zhen of Dongling Pass was a little puzzled when Liu Cong sent people to repair the Luoyang Palace. You must know that there are eight passes around Luoyang. Only by guarding these eight passes can Luoyang be defended. Now Liu Cong has only occupied Yique Pass. Even if Luoyang is rebuilt, can it be defended?
If they send troops from three sides, Luoyang will be captured soon. Doesn¡¯t the restored palace become theirs?
If you want to guard it, you need more than 50,000 troops. Although Jingzhou has it, it is all placed in Luoyang. Does Liu Cong still want to dominate the world?
"Report to the general, General Cao Xiu sent a letter from Hulao Pass!" A soldier entered Cao Zhen's tent and held up a letter.
Cao Zhen hurriedly took the letter, opened it, and frowned.
It turned out that Cao Xiu wanted him and Zhang He to send troops at the same time to launch a surprise attack on Liu Cong outside Luoyang City. Liu Cong only has 10,000 troops, but most of them are repairing the palace and stationed in the city. There are only 3,000 in the military camp outside the city. According to Cao Xiu's idea, they attacked in three directions and could quickly defeat Liu Cong. By the time Wei Yan at Yique Pass found out, they had already withdrawn.
However, Cao Zhen quickly rejected Cao Xiu¡¯s idea. How could Liu Cong not think of such a simple question?
Even if Liu Cong didn't expect it, he had Pang Tong and Fazheng beside him. These two people defeated Xu Huang and Xia Houyuan back then. How could he not have expected it?
Besides, does Liu Cong really only have that few troops?
"This must be Liu Cong's plan!" Cao Zhen thought of this and suddenly felt a chill on his back. He immediately wrote a letter and asked people to hurry up and send it to Cao Xiu. At the same time, he sent dozens of scouts to find out about the Han army.
Sure enough, time was short, and the scouts reported that groups of Han troops had already rushed to Dongling Pass. At the same time, there were two groups of troops fighting towards Hulao Pass and Sishui Pass respectively.
In the camp outside Luoyang City, Liu Cong, Fazheng, Pang Tong, Deng Ai and others were discussing matters in the commander's tent.
Cao Zhen was right. The strength of the Han army here was not 10,000, but 20,000.
"Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, and Zhang He are hiding in the pass. It seems that it is not easy to break through the pass!" Fazheng's face was full of sadness.
"The three of them are all veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time. Ordinary strategies will be seen through. It seems that the only option is to attack by force!" Pang Tong was also a little helpless. Attacking such a dangerous pass is obviously not the best way.
"If we want to attack by force, which level should we attack first?" Liu Cong asked.
Although Wei Yan sent Xiang Chong, Fu Wei, and Niu Jin, each with 5,000 troops and horses, to Hulao Pass, Sishui Pass and Dongling Pass respectively, everyone knew that with 5,000 troops, even in a field battle, You may not be able to win against the opponent, and it is simply impossible to attack the enemy.
"My lord, in the opinion of my subordinates, we should make a fuss about Hulao Pass. Zhang He is a famous general in the world. Although Cao Zhen is young, he is very resourceful. In contrast, although Cao Xiu is strong in martial arts, he has a reckless personality. We may have a chance You can take advantage of it!" Pang Tong expressed his thoughts.
"What Shi Yuan said makes sense. We should first besiege Hulao Pass with a large army, and the lord should personally lead the troops. Wait until the enemy is in chaos, and then adapt accordingly!" Fa Zheng agreed with Pang Tong's point of view.
"General, this method is feasible!" Deng Ai also agreed, "General, in Luoyang, we will look for opportunities based on the movements of Cao's army!"
"Okay, the army is ready to break camp!"
"No!"
So, Liu Cong, Pang Tong, and Fazheng led the Feitian Camp's 15,000 troops to Hulao Pass. Deng Ai led the remaining troops of Feitian Battalion and continued to be stationed outside Luoyang City.
In front of Hulao Pass, Xiang Chong led five thousand soldiers and horses and was already stationed here. When Liu Cong's army arrived, a total of 20,000 troops camped for more than ten miles in front of the pass, with great momentum.
At that time, the eighteen princes attacked Dong Zhuo, and hundreds of thousands of troops attacked Hulao Pass, but they still could not break through. Finally, Dong Zhuo planned to move the capital to Chang'an and voluntarily abandoned Hulao Pass before the coalition forces entered Luoyang. This is enough to show that Hulao Pass is difficult and dangerous, easy to defend but difficult to attack.
But the purpose of building the Eight Passes of Luoyang at that time was to defend Luoyang, so for the passGenerally speaking, it is indeed easy to overcome difficulties. But for the soldiers and horses from Luoyang City, it is not extremely difficult and dangerous. Therefore, Cao Xiu, who was behind closed doors, did not dare to be careless in the slightest when he saw the 20,000-strong army.
The next day, the Han army dispatched 3,000 soldiers and horses, and the orderly formation arrived in front of the pass, with thunderbolt chariots placed at the foot of the pass.
When Cao Xiu saw the Han army's thunder chariot, he was not surprised. He is naturally familiar with Thunderbolt cars. However, compared with theirs, the Han army's was obviously smaller.
Liu Cong, Pang Tong, Fazheng and other three people also came to the pass under the protection of five hundred personal guards.
Liu Cong pointed the sword in his hand and shouted loudly.
"Cao Xiu, do you know your guilt?"
Cao Xiu was a little dazed when Liu Cong asked him this question.
"Youlittle Liu Cong, you led your army to invade my territory for no reason, and you still dare to say that I am guilty. It is simply a contradiction of right and wrong, and strong words!"
"Cao Xiu, our Han Dynasty has had an iron law since the founding of our country by our ancestors. Foreign names are not allowed to be crowned king. But your Cao family is a eunuch, and Cao Cao dares to call himself king? You still pretend to be ignorant of such a heinous crime of rebellion! If you repent! , Xianguan pleads guilty, and I can still spare your life. If not, when my army breaks through Ye City, I will kill you and other three tribes!"
"Ha" Cao Xiu laughed wildly after listening to Liu Cong's words, "The ants still want to shake the big tree, and they are overestimating their own abilities! The Han Dynasty has long since changed, and the King of Wei is the king of the world. I advise you to surrender as soon as possible, otherwise Wei The king's army is marching south, waiting for you to die without a burial place!"
"Send the order, attack immediately!" Liu Cong also knew that Cao Xiu could not persuade him to surrender. He said all this just to gain righteousness, so he stopped talking nonsense.
"No!"
Passing the order on, he waved the flag in Chong's hand, and more than twenty thunderbolt vehicles fired stones at the same time.
The rocks all over the sky flew up to the critical moment with whistling and thunderclaps.
"Ah" Many soldiers of Cao's army were unable to dodge and were killed or injured. They screamed one after another.
"Quickquickraise your shieldplank" Cao Xiu was shocked. He was naturally aware of the power of the Thunderbolt Chariot. But I didn't expect that the Han army's thunder chariot was not as big as theirs, but it was much more powerful than theirs, and it was much stronger. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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