Hongnong City has just been captured, and Wu Yi will not let these people pour into Hongnong City at this time when the enemy and friends are unknown.
However, even if these people were kept out of the city gate, uncertain factors still existed, so the Han army on the city was nervous.
"Send the order!" Wu Yi said in a deep voice: "Without my general order,
No one is allowed to open the city, and anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"
"No!"
"Everyone, please brace yourself and don't take it lightly."
"Do you understand?"
"No!"
Wu Yi is still a little nervous now. After all, Hongnong City has just been captured, so there can't be any mistakes.
Just when Wu Yi was arranging his soldiers to defend the city at the top of the city, there was a commotion below the city, not far from the city gate.
It seemed like there was some pushing and shoving in the crowd.
There was also a quarrel.
"General!" the colonel was puzzled.
"Don't worry about them!" Wu Yi waved his hand: "Just keep an eye on them."
At this time, Yulin Colonel Jiang Bin hurried over. When he arrived, he said excitedly: "Old General!"
"One will eventually be found in prison."
"Who?" Wu Yi asked in confusion.
Hongnong is also a large county. It has a prison. It is normal for some prisoners to be detained in the prison. But looking at Jiang Bin's expression, it seems that this person has a good background.
"Xiahou Ba!" Jiang Bin blurted out.
"Who?" Wu Yi was also stunned.
"Xiahou Ba!" Jiang Bin added: "He is Xiahou Yuan's son."
Although Xiahou Ba is not well-known, his father is famous, and he is the famous Cao Wei general Xiahou Yuan.
Just——
How could Xiahou Ba be imprisoned in Hongnong Prison?
"Bring him to me quickly!" Wu Yidao.
"No!"
Jiang Bin accepted the promise and turned around to mention Xia Houba.
Because there are too many so-called Hongnong people gathered outside the city, Wu Yi dare not leave even a step now, fearing that something unexpected will happen after leaving.
After a while.
Jiang Bin led Xiahou Ba to the top of the city.
Xiahou Ba's face was ashen. This was the second time he was captured by the Han army. The last time he was in Hedong, he was captured by Xu Shu, the imperial censor of the Han Dynasty.
But later Xu Shu released him and Xu Gai.
"Untie!" Wu Yi said as he stepped forward and said politely: "General Xiahou, you have been wronged."
Xiahou Ba was stunned for a moment.
Although the Han army had captured him before and then released him, and he had some favorable impressions of the Han army, the Han and Wei Dynasties belonged to the enemy country, and he was also charged with killing his father. His father Xia Houyuan died at the hands of the Han army. "General Xiahou!" After the guard untied the rope, Wu Yi sighed: "I already know about the general. Wang Ling is a common man who is envious of talents and talents. This thief deserves to be killed."
That is to say, when Jiang Bin went to prison to mention Xiahou Ba, Wu Yi was not idle. He called a Wei army prisoner and asked why Xiahou Ba was imprisoned.
As soon as Wu Yi finished speaking, Xiahou Ba frowned.
"General Xiahou!" Wu Yi continued: "Cao Wei's strength is exhausted, why don't the general take advantage of this to abandon the secret and turn to the bright?"
"Hahaha!" Xiahou Ba laughed when he heard this: "The old general was joking. Ba was originally a Wei general. If Wang Ling hadn't deliberately framed him this time,
How can the old general capture me?"
"Abandon Wei and surrender to Han..." Xiahou Ba waved his hand and said, "I'm sorry to have to obey my order!"
"That's the case..." Wu Yi also sighed, and then said: "I won't embarrass General Xiahou." As he said that, he looked outside the city,
Then he said: "At this time, there were tens of thousands of people outside the city. Just as a precaution, I had no choice but to throw the general out of the city."
"Drop it?" Xiahou Ba was stunned for a moment.
But at this moment, several guards, under Wu Yi's instruction, brought out a bamboo basket with a pile of ropes inside.
"General Xiahou!" Wu Yi smiled: "Please!"
This made Xiahou Ba stunned. He asked: "Is the old general going to leave the city?"
He has been released once by the Han army. This time, although he was not captured by the Han army, it was because Wang Ling imprisoned him before the war. Otherwise, at this time, he would either die in battle like Wang Ling, or he would still be fighting with the Han army.
.
Of course, he was in prison and already knew about last night's battle.
Wang Ling did not really go out of the city to fight Wu Yi. After imprisoning him, he stayed in the city and was not as arrogant as before.
Xiahou Ba had some guesses about this.
Wang Ling is a close confidant of Sima Yi, but he is not favored by Sima. There is no other reason. The Xiahou family is a clan, so naturally he is closer to the royal family.
"Hahaha!" Wu Yi smiled when he heard the sound and said: "Since General Xiahou is unwilling to abandon Wei, I can't help others. General Xiahou invites you!"
Wu Yi spoke truthfully, but Xiahou Ba was a little confused.
In any case, he is now a general of the Wei Dynasty. Although he was not captured by the Han army, he is now in the Han camp. This——
"Old General!" Xiahou Ba hesitated.
Wu Yi sighed: "General, there is no need to be suspicious. This is the difference between Han and Wei."
"I, a great man, rule the world with benevolence and righteousness;" Wu Yi said: "As the saying goes, everyone has his own ambitions. General Xiahou is unwilling to abandon the dark side and surrender to the bright side, and I can't force him."
Xiahou Ba was stunned.
Last time, Xu Shu said that the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was unwilling to kill prisoners because in the eyes of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, all Han, Wei and Wu were descendants of Yan and Huang. Therefore, if the captured Wei generals were unwilling to surrender to the Han, the Han would release them one by one. Now here we are again.
The Han Dynasty and the Wei Dynasty do seem to be fundamentally different.
At the same time, Xiahou Ba also thought about his situation.
Wang Ling died in battle and Hongnong fell.
I——
"Old General!" Xiahou Ba suddenly raised his hands and said, "Old General's benevolence and righteousness made Ba Mao enlightened. If the old general does not give up, Ba is willing to do the hard work of dogs and horses."
"General Xiahou, get up quickly!" Wu Yi hurriedly supported Xiahou Ba and said: "General, he abandoned the dark and turned to the light. He is not loyal to me, Wu Yi, but to the Han Dynasty."
"Thank you, old general!" Xiahou Ba saluted with his hands raised.
At this point, Xiahou Ba has no other choice. The Great Wei of today is no longer the Great Wei of the past. Has the Great Wei changed since the emperor was captured and returned to Wei?
"General Xiahou!" Wu Yi asked: "There are many people outside the city. With the general's plan, how should I deal with them?"
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This matter has always troubled Wu Yi.
At this time, Xiahou Ba surrendered, so he wanted to hear his opinion.
Xiahou Ba walked to the edge of the city wall and looked outside the city.
"Old General!" Xiahou Ba said: "Let Ba give it a try."
"Oh???" Wu Yi was stunned for a moment. He didn't know what Xiahou Ba wanted to try, but he still said politely: "Then I will give you General Xiahou."
After Wu Yi finished speaking, Xiahou Ba immediately faced outside the city and shouted loudly: "People below the city, listen, I am Xiahou Ba, General Pingxi of the Great Wei Dynasty."
As soon as Xiahou Ba finished speaking, the noisy people below the city quickly became quiet.
"I was originally ordered to assist Wang Ling, the prefect of Hongnong, to guard Hongnong;" Xiahou Ba shouted loudly: "But Wang Ling was jealous of talents and did not listen to advice, so he innocently imprisoned me, causing Hongnong to fall."
Many people are confused.
Of course they know Xiahou Ba's reputation.
But they didn't know that Xiahou Ba was imprisoned by Wang Ling.
"General Xiahou!"
Suddenly, a young man outside the city shouted loudly.
"The general has surrendered to the Han?"
Hiss——
Everyone was stunned.
The common people basically didn't know that Xiahou Ba was imprisoned by Wang Ling, but many sergeants knew about it, but they were just low-level soldiers, even if they sympathized with Xiahou Ba.
But what can they do?
Xiahou Ba smiled and said: "The great Han Renyi, when he learned that I was imprisoned, instead of harming me, he wanted to release me back to Wei." As he said, he asked everyone: "Great Wei, is this possible?"
Quiet——
It was suddenly very quiet outside the city.
Han and Wei are enemy countries, although in recent years, the two countries have formed alliances from time to time, and even made peace once.
However, whether it is the soldiers of the Wei Dynasty or the people at the bottom of the Wei Dynasty.
In fact, they all know.
Sooner or later, Han and Wei will go to war.
As an enemy country, you don’t even have to think about capturing the other party’s generals. They will either force them to surrender or kill them.
However, what Xiahou Ba said was that the Han army planned to release him.
The Han Dynasty is different from the Wei Dynasty.
"Everyone!" Xiahouba continued: "I know that among you there must be the Hongnong Wei army. You are not willing to accept that the Han army captured Hongnong, right?"
There is still silence outside the city.
But things are just as Xiahou Ba said. Among the people outside the city at this time, there are many Wei soldiers who escaped from the city when the fire burned the city yesterday.
Because it rained heavily last night, they knew that the fire in the city must have been extinguished.
They wanted to return to Hongnong, but later they learned that the Han army had entered the city and Hongnong had fallen. Under the instigation of several low-level generals, they thought that they might be able to take the opportunity to regain the city by pretending to be ordinary people and entering the city.
If this is true, if the emperor learns about it in the future, they will definitely be promoted to higher ranks.
So, they recruited some of the people who had escaped from the city, and then they mixed in and arrived at Hongnong City.
"Hongnong has been captured by the Han army. If you want to seize the city..." Xiahou Ba shook his head and said, "It will only increase casualties."
"General Wu Yi is benevolent and righteous;" Xiahou Ba continued: "If you are unwilling to surrender to the Han, you can retreat, and General Wu Yi will not pursue you."
"He has surrendered to the Han Dynasty!"
"Don't listen to him."
"The imperial clan of the Wei Dynasty has surrendered, what are we still holding on to?"
"We are Wei generals, how can we surrender to the Han Dynasty?"
"Can the great Wei defeat the great Han?"
"It is definitely impossible to seize the city now."
"..."
In an instant, there was another discussion outside the city, and a group of people surrounding the central circle started arguing. Among them were several generals who wanted to lead everyone to retake Hongnong.
"General, surrender!"
"Yes, General!"
"Now that the Han Dynasty is strong, the Wei Dynasty will fall sooner or later."
"Now even the clan has surrendered."
The surrounding soldiers kept talking.
They had held out hope before, thinking that by following the generals, they might be able to make achievements, but now that Xiahou Ba has surrendered to the Han Dynasty, Xiahou Ba naturally already knows the purpose of these people.
Moreover, the Han army has already said so.
The city will not be opened for the time being.
Their plan to pretend to be ordinary people and enter the city has been difficult to implement.
At this point, those generals who wanted to establish meritorious deeds also knew that their plan could not succeed. Now there were only two choices before them.
Surrender or retreat.
"You are holding the people hostage!" Xiahou Ba continued: "No matter success or failure, the people will suffer disaster. How can you bear it?"
Just after Xiahou Ba finished speaking, Wu Yi also said loudly: "Cao Wei's strength has been exhausted. The Han Dynasty will definitely dominate the world in the future. If you can abandon the dark and turn to the light, you may achieve unparalleled achievements."
There is a strong city ahead and a powerful enemy.
Except for a few low-level generals, most of the soldiers have actually been shaken.
As for the people, they were already being coerced. Facing the heavily armed Wei army, they were asked to come and summon the city. How dare they refuse to obey.
At this time, the Han army made it so clear.
Of course they prefer peace and let them go home safely.
After some persuasion by Xiahou Ba, not to mention, it really worked to a certain extent.
Soon some soldiers stood up and shouted: "General Xiahou, we are willing to follow the general and surrender to the Han Dynasty. We are willing to follow the general to surrender to the Han Dynasty."
As more and more Wei troops shouted, several low-level generals in the middle circle had no choice but to accept the reality.
It worked, Xiahou Ba continued: "In that case, please follow the order, with the common people on the left and the soldiers on the right."
Wu Yi heard this and secretly admired, this Xiahou Ba is really good.
In this way, not only all of them, but at least most of the Wei army and the people will be separated.
The city quickly took action. The people, old and young, moved to the open space on the left, and most of the soldiers followed the instructions and moved to the right.
It takes about as long as one stick of incense.
The originally chaotic crowd has been separated.
The common people on the left are still a little messy, but the Wei troops on the right are lined up in an orderly manner.
Looking at the number of people on both sides, Wu Yi couldn't help but be secretly shocked.
The common people accounted for the majority, about ten thousand people, but the Wei army also had a large number, at least five or six thousand people.
It's no wonder that there were five to six thousand Wei troops before a few low-level generals tried to sneak into the city by pretending to be common people, and then took the opportunity to seize Hongnong.
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"Old General!"
Xiahou Ba turned around and saluted: "Most of them have been separated. Even if there are a small number of soldiers among the people, they can no longer play any role."
"Thank you, General Xiahou!" Wu Yi thanked him.
Now that the people outside the city have been separated from the Wei army, the Wei army naturally had no choice but to surrender to the Han army. Before gathering, they had piled all the weapons they carried in the open space in front.
Now, they can no longer pose a threat to the Han army.
There was a gap of a hundred paces between the common people and the soldiers. Now, as long as the Han army is happy, Wu Yi can just give an order to shoot the Wei army on the right.
"Open the city!" Wu Yi ordered: "Chief Lieutenant Jiang led three thousand elites out of the city to quarantine, and let the people enter the city first."
"Promise!" Jiang Bin agreed immediately.
Not long after, Jiang Bin led 3,000 Han troops to the outside of the city and stood between the people and the Wei soldiers. The Wei soldiers did not make any move and were still waiting quietly for arrangements.
"The people enter the city first!" Jiang Bin said loudly, and then turned to the Wei soldiers and said: "Everyone, please wait for a moment, and then enter the city in an orderly manner after the people enter the city."
A crisis was resolved safely because of Xiahou Ba's return to the Han Dynasty.
...
A few days later.
Hefei Frontline.
Cao Shuang had a frown on his face. It had been more than ten days since he attacked Hefei, but Hefei still remained motionless.
A hundred thousand troops besieged Hefei, but they couldn't defeat it.
Just when Cao Shuang had a headache, a messenger quickly entered the tent.
"I've seen Da Sima!"
After the envoy entered the account, he saluted Cao Shuang.
"What is Minister Cheng doing here?" Cao Shuang asked in confusion.
The visitor is Cheng Xiao, the Huangmen servant. Logically speaking, he should be in Luoyang. What is he doing at the front line at this time?
"Grand Sima!" Cheng Xiao said: "The emperor has issued an edict, ordering Grand Sima Cao Shuang to immediately return to the court and rush to the aid of the capital."
Cao Shuang was stunned when he heard this and asked hurriedly: "What happened in Luoyang?"
The class teacher returned to the court and rushed to the aid of the capital.
The problem is somewhat serious.
Cheng Xiao said: "The Han army has defeated Hongnong and endangered the capital."
"What?" Cao Shuang's eyes widened. He never dreamed that the Han army had actually defeated Hongnong. Once Hongnong was defeated, the gate of Luoyang was opened. As the chief minister and the great Wei clan, Cao Shuang naturally knew the seriousness of the matter. .
Early the next morning, Cao Shuang left Zhong Yu's 20,000 Xuzhou army behind, while he took 70,000 troops and quickly headed north towards the capital, Luoyang.
February 13, 243 AD.
Luoyang Imperial Palace.
"Everyone, please tell me!" Cao Rui glanced at the civil and military ministers in the hall and asked, "What should we do now?"
"Your Majesty!" Sikong Cuilin came out and said: "Western Shu has defeated Hongnong and Luoyang is in crisis. How about..." He paused before saying noncommittally: "It is better to temporarily move the capital to Xu. They have all avoided its edge."
Moving the capital——
Cui Lin's words can be said to have stirred up a thousand waves with one stone.
But no one objected.
The rivers of the Wei Dynasty are declining.
This is also the second time that the Wei Dynasty mentioned moving the capital, and it was forced by its opponents. The last time was in the 24th year of Jian'an, when the Han general Guan Yu surrounded Fancheng, which shocked the government and the public. Many people proposed moving the capital. Finally, If Sima Yi and others hadn't dissuaded him, Cao Cao might have really moved the capital.
Just over twenty years ago, Cao Cao wanted to move from Xudu, but now a minister proposed to move from Luoyang to Xudu.
Cao Rui frowned.
He wanted to take advantage of Liu Chan's western expedition and the Wei Dynasty to take back Hefei, but what he didn't expect was that Zhuge Liang actually sent people to capture Hongnong.
"I second the proposal!"
While Cao Rui was thinking, some ministers supported moving the capital.
Moving the capital is the last thing Cao Rui wants to see.
After all, the impact of moving the capital is too great. This is to announce to the world that the Wei Dynasty is afraid of the Han Dynasty and was beaten by the Han Dynasty to move the capital.
What if we don’t move the capital?
Hongnong has been captured by the Han army, and the Han army can send troops to Luoyang at any time.
Oh my God!
While Cao Rui was hesitating, a eunuch ran in from outside.
"Your Majesty!"
"The general has returned to Beijing and is waiting to meet you outside the palace!"
As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, Cao Rui seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw: "Quickly pass!"
Not long after, General Sima Yi slowly entered the hall.
"Sima Yi, a humble minister, pays homage to His Majesty!"
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."
"My dear, please come back quickly!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
When Sima Yiping stood up, Cao Rui said: "It's just the right time for Aiqing to come back. The Han army has defeated Hongnong. All the ministers advised me to move the capital to Xudu. I don't know Aiqing..."
Before Cao Rui finished speaking, Sima Yi said coldly: "Anyone who talks about moving the capital can be killed!"
Hiss——
Sima Yi's words immediately caused the entire hall to fall into silence.
Especially Sikong Cuilin.
Although Cui Lin made some contributions to Cao Rui's return to the throne, the person who is really favored by the current Wei Dynasty is Sima Yi.
"Oh???" Cao Rui asked: "If I follow your wishes, how should I deal with this matter?"
"Return to your Majesty!" Sima Yi bowed and said: "Zhuge is cautious by nature. This time his troops invaded our territory, he really wanted to contain our army and did not want us, the Wei Dynasty, to retake Hefei Er."
"Ignore it?" Cao Rui asked.
"No!" Sima Yi said: "If you ignore it, Zhuge Liang will definitely send troops to Luoyang, and the country will be in danger."
Cao Rui was stunned for a moment when he heard this, thinking that it was as if you had said it as if you had not said it.