Sima Yi defeated Jiang Wei for 30,000 people and sent the news that Jiang Wei was captured alive to Luoyang, but Luoyang's reaction made people feel very desolate.
Luoyang has been surrounded by Wei Ba and Lu Xun, and all the eight passes were lost. However, the only two remaining armies of Wei State had no intention of rescuing Luoyang. Xiahou Ba stayed in Xingyang and confronted Xiahou Xuan, and only sent Xiahou Wei to take a thousand
The personal guard returned to Luoyang. Sima Yi was even better. He had tens of thousands of troops and captured Jiang Wei alive as soon as he made a move. Then he returned to Jinyang, instead of taking advantage of the victory to return to Luoyang to help.
They all seemed to have forgotten that Luoyang had not yet fallen, and the emperor was still in Luoyang.
Only Wang Ling led more than 10,000 people to support Luoyang quickly. However, he could not get close to Luoyang and was stopped by Meng Da in Gucheng. Facing the 20,000 infantry and cavalry led by Meng Da, Wang Ling tried his best, but he still didn't.
If he could break through Meng Da's position, he had to retreat to Xin'an.
When he learned that Wang Ling's retreated, Luoyang was completely desperate and no one expected to defend Luoyang. It was obvious that Sima Yi and Xiahou Ba were not willing to rescue him, while Wang Ling was powerless. With Cao Shuang and the more than 20,000 people led by him, he was basically
Can't defend Luoyang City. Cao Shuang has no combat experience, but he is facing two famous generals, Wei Ba and Lu Xun. He is not the same opponent.
Lu Xun carefully planned and carried out a textbook-style pre-war deployment. After he sent the combat plan to Wei Ba's camp, Wei Ba was amazed and followed the implementation without changing a word.
In mid-August, the autumn harvest was completed, and Lu Xun completed all the deployments and prepared to launch an attack on Luoyang City. The attack point he chose was the West Gate. The south gate of Luoyang was Luoshui. The navy could enter, but could not directly attack the city wall.
If the formation is set up in front of the city, there is insufficient space and it will not be possible to form a concentrated attack effect. So he placed the main position at the west gate. Although there is also river water outside the west gate, the space is enough to set up the formation, and in terms of the layout of Luoyang City, it is also necessary to make the formation.
, the west is a market and garden, and once an attack is launched, the losses will be relatively small. The other three directions are either residential houses or palaces. Once affected by the war, it may cause unimaginable results.
Early in the morning of the 21st, Lu Xun ordered the attack to begin.
With a command, the war drums sounded and broke the tranquility of the morning. Three thousand thunderbolt cars roared in unison. They threw the flaming bombs as dense as locusts into the sky, and with a whimpering whistling sound, they crossed the tall city wall and flew.
Enter Luoyang City.
"Papapapapapa", a series of sounds sounded like fried beans. Fire bombs exploded on the walls, roofs, and streets, and then white smoke ignited all the combustible objects next to them.
The Jin City in the western part of Luoyang City suddenly became thick and the red flames soared into the sky.
There were also a large number of stone bombs mixed in the fire bombs. Lu Xun once attacked Luoyang City with Zhuge Liang. That time, because the number of fire bombs was insufficient and the number of Thunderbolt chariots was limited, he could not use it to his fullest. This time,
Wei Ba gave him sufficient supplies and sufficient preparation time. He could prepare in an orderly manner. While attacking with the fire bomb, the stone bomb also flew into Luoyang City.
The size and weight of these stone bombs were carefully estimated by the craftsmen of the baggage camp. In view of the stronger and thicker buildings in Luoyang City, they used larger stone bombs, which made the impact more amazing.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The continuous roar made the entire Luoyang City tremble. Even in the palace far away from the battlefield, you could clearly feel the tremor caused by the stone bomb falling to the ground. Cao Shuang, who was at the forefront, had a pale face.
He was on the Xijue in Beigong, and he was more than 200 steps away from the battlefield. Neither the fire bomb nor the stone bomb could threaten his safety. However, standing high and looking far, the battlefield in front of him made him
Even more frightened.
Houses were scattered everywhere by stone bullets. A thatched on the roof was lit by fire bullets, and the soldiers hiding between the houses, holding shields and water spoons, were not hit by stone bullets.
Death is to be suppressed by a collapsed house, and even the huge shield in his hand is useless. A heavy rock bullet flew over, even a wall was knocked down, and the shield was even more useless like a piece of paper.
The Wei soldiers may have the courage, but their courage cannot offset the gap in the arms. Lu Xun outside the city seemed to have figured out Cao Shuang's deployment long ago, and several thunder chariot positions were severely damaged at the first time, and before a few stones were issued
As the bullets were bombed, countless stone bullets flew over, smashing the Wei army's thunder chariot to the east and west.
After only one meal, the West City became a ruin. Looking around, there was almost no complete house or a complete battle flag. The originally glamorous battle flag was not already
Burned means burning.
There was no sight of a standing soldier. They were either buried in the ruins or smashed to death, and the rest of them fled to a safe area, and no one dared to stand within the attack range of the Jin army.
There was a dead silence, only the sound of the house burning and collapsed.
Cao Shuang was stunned.
"Dongdongdongdong! Dadongdongdongdong!" The intense war drums sounded again, and there were roars of shouts and killing outside the city. Immediately afterwards, countless soldiers of Jin appeared on the west city wall. They ran along the city wall, shaking their hands.
The battle flag opened the city gate.
More Jin army soldiers rushed into Luoyang City.
Cao Shuang gave the order at the top of her lungs, ordering the soldiers to come forward to block the attack. However, the answer was dead silence.
Just when Cao Shuang was furious, Xiahou Wei came up with a few guards. He held his hands behind his back and glanced at the city: "Is the city broken?"
"The city is broken, my uncle is very happy?" Cao Shuang said angrily: "General Cavalry and his army are in Xingyang and refuse to return to help. He is just waiting for this day, right?"
Xiahou Wei glanced at him and turned around and walked into the city tower. He waved to Cao Shuang: "Brother Zhao, come, I have a few words to ask you."
Although Cao Shuang was frustrated, she had no choice but to deal with Xiahou Wei. First, Xiahou Wei's seniority was higher than him, and second, Luoyang City was in crisis, and surrender was probably an inevitable result. He had no contact with Wei Ba at all.
It is inevitable that Xiahou Wei will be asked to tie the bridge and set the line. At this time, offending Xiahou Wei is naturally not a good choice.
He followed in.
The two personal guards brought by Xiahou Wei immediately closed the door and blocked the door.
Cao Shuang was shocked: "Uncle Ji Quan, what do you mean?"
"Who is that boy in the palace?" Xiahou Wei ignored him, his face turned cold, he drew out the long sword from his waist, held it in front of him, and gently stroked the sword edge with his fingers. "I only asked once,
If it weren't for Taichu's care, I wouldn't even bother to ask this time."
Cao Shuang's face suddenly turned pale. Xiahou Wei mentioned Xiahou Xuan, so he naturally had a connection. Xiahou Wei asked about the origin of the emperor at once, and of course he also had a result of the origin of the emperor.
"I... really don't know." Cao Shuang said stammeringly: "When the late emperor was there, the emperor entered the palace and said he was the son of Cao Kai, the king of Rencheng. I later asked Cao Kai, and Cao Kai also recognized it.
But..."
"But...what?"
"However, I think Cao Kai seems to have something unspeakable and he is not sincere. But at that time, the late emperor decided, so I didn't think much about it. Later... Later, Empress Dowager Guo's behavior was weird and he was eager to negotiate with Wei Ba, so I felt that there might be something else.
”
"So, you really don't know?"
"I really don't know."
"Idiot!" Xiahou Wei cursed angrily: "I'll tell you who he is." He walked to Cao Shuang and stared at Cao Shuang's eyes: "His surname is Yuan, and he is Yuan Shang's grandson. Emperor Wu conquered Liucheng, Yuan
Xi, Yuan Shang's brothers were beheaded by Gongsun Kang, and the story was reported to be in Yecheng. Yuan Shang had a concubine who was taken to the palace by Gongsun Kang. Ten months later, the concubine gave birth to a son. Gongsun Kang always thought it was his son, but he was
Yuan Shang's posthumous son. This posthumous son grew up and gave birth to two children. Cao Fang is actually Yuan Fang, the eldest of these two children."
Cao Shuang was stunned.
"Now do you know why Cao Rui appointed Gongsun Yuan as King of Yan?" Xiahou Wei sneered: "It's very simple. Cao Rui is actually the son of Yuan Xi, and his name should be Yuan Rui."
Cao Shuang was shocked: "How is that possible?"
"This is what Taichu said to my brother in person. Wei Ba sent someone to search in Liaodong, found evidence and found another child. He had long known that this boy in Luoyang City was not a seed of the Cao family." Xiahou Wei
Sighing: "It's a pity that the stupid woman thought she was smart and wanted to do Jing Ke's plan, but Wei Ba was prepared for it. Instead, he used their speculative mentality to easily defeat Qing Xu, and then took Yanzhou one after another.
Zhou, Bingzhou. Until now, we want to support Cao, but we don’t have the strength to fight against him, so we can only be slaughtered."
Cao Shuang was sweating profusely. He now knew why he could become the regent minister and why Cao Yu was squeezed out at the last moment.
It turned out that the late emperor did not dare to let Cao Yu take charge of the troops, but he was naturally because he was stupid.
"What should I do now...?"
"You were deceived by that stupid woman. Yu Jin's plan was to use the stupid woman's head to protect his life." Xiahou Wei put away his long sword: "Let's go."
Cao Shuang followed tremblingly.
...
Empress Dowager Guo hugged Cao Fang-Yuan Fang, looking at Xiahou Wei walking in side by side, Cao Shuang had no trace of blood on her face.
Since Guo Xiu went to see Wei Ba, no news came, she was a little uneasy. Lu Xun sieges the city, but the negotiations were not completed, and Guo Xiu has not shown up again, so she guessed that the situation was out of control. Guo Xiu is probably the case.
The assassination failed and now I can’t even surrender.
Today's scene has been previewed in her mind many times.
"Take out the evidence of your contact with Jiang Wei and give you a full body." Xiahou Wei said gritting his teeth: "Otherwise, the three tribes of the Guo family and Yi tribes in Xiping will not be left with a ruler."
Empress Dowager Guo breathed a sigh of relief: "Please wait." She turned around and entered, and after a while, she took out a brocade box and sent it respectfully to Xiahou Wei: "From the beginning, I knew that this day would be there.