Chapter 127: Return to Tiger Prison
After escaping from Luoyang, the defenders in Luoyang City did not have too many people chasing them out.
After all, in Luoyang City, there are not many defenders on its own.
After experiencing an attack by the Yellow Turban Thieves, although the casualties were not large, the city of Luoyang was already in chaos, and He Jin ordered someone to shoot and wound the Han Emperor, and now the life and death of the Han Emperor are uncertain, and the defenders of Luoyang City will naturally not easily come out of this city.
Liu Zheng saw that there was only a group of more than 1,000 people following behind his own people, and he did not stop to eliminate this wave of people, but let them follow, and he took the remnants of thousands of people and went directly to the Tiger Prison.
There is such a big thing in Luoyang now, and if you continue to stay here, you are just waiting for death, and Liu Zhengcai doesn't want to stay here.
On the way, Liu Zheng listened to Xu Huang and Huang Zhong talk about the attack outside the city.
It turned out that Xu Huang and Huang Zhong, after learning that Liu Zheng was going to sneak into Luoyang City to do something, began to bring people to cover for Liu Zheng here at the East City Gate.
It has always been a small-scale attack on the East City Gate, although it has caused a lot of momentum, but there are not many people who are really attacking the city.
Most of them were feints, and then sent the 1,000 archers under Huang Zhong to shoot a wave of arrows, and then withdrew, and when the officers and troops on the city gate were a little slackened, Xu Huang sent people up again to harass them.
This repeated battle has lasted a siege battle to the present.
Although Xu Huang, Huang Zhong and others did not lay down the east gate of Luoyang. But if they insisted on it for such a long time, it could be regarded as a long time for Liu Zheng and them.
If it weren't for Xu Huang, Huang Zhong and others fighting hard to attack the city gate on the east city gate, attracting the attention of the defenders in Luoyang City.
Liu Zhen, Zhou Cang and others in Luoyang City were not so easy to hit the General's Mansion and capture He Jin alive.
Although the 8,000 men led by Xu Huang and Huang Zhong eventually lost more than 3,000 people, it was all worth it for Liu Zheng.
After all, it was extremely difficult for the more than 10,000 people who were now near Luoyang City to break through from Luoyang, let alone escape from here, even if they broke through the Tiger Prison Pass, the defense line of the three major lieutenant generals was extremely difficult.
At the cost of thousands of deaths, in exchange for them leaving Luoyang, and seizing the crown prince Liu Wei as a hole card, so that the officials and soldiers can throw into the trap, such a deal is a big profit for Liu Zhen.
Liu Zhen took his own people and soon returned from Luoyang to the Tiger Prison Pass.
As soon as he returned to the Tiger Prison Pass, Liu Zhen found that the Tiger Prison Pass had not been completely lost and was still under their control.
Xu You, Sun Xia and others, who were responsible for guarding the Tiger Pass, had not yet been defeated by the official army, but the 40,000 soldiers and horses who had originally stayed in the Tiger Pass had suffered heavy losses, and when Liu Zheng returned here, more than half of the 40,000 horses had been killed or wounded, and only more than 15,000 people remained.
With such heavy casualties, this is still a defensive tiger prison, not an active attack, you can imagine what kind of attack Xu You has suffered in the past half a month, and the battle must have been extremely tragic.
Originally, the defense of the Tiger Prison Pass was already very difficult, and there was a danger of being broken by the official army at any time, but it happened that Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses returned to the Tiger Prison Pass, which suddenly increased the defenders of the Tiger Prison Pass by thousands of people, which reduced Xu You's pressure a lot.
And as soon as Xu You saw Liu Zheng and the others coming back, his face was immediately overjoyed.
"Qu Shuai, I live up to expectations, lead people to guard the Tiger Prison Pass, and block Zhonglang's general Lu Zhi's several attacks, but I can wait until you come back!"
It has been more than half a month since Liu Zheng left the Tiger Prison Pass, and the one-month period agreed by Xu You and Liu Zheng is approaching.
In fact, Xu You had already received the news of the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou at the Tiger Prison Pass, and already knew that the great sage and mentor Zhang Jiao had died, and most of the rebel army had been destroyed, leaving only some remnants of the party and fleeing to other states and counties.
It can be said that only Liu Zheng's force is left to make great achievements now, but Liu Zheng's force is now only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses left in this tiger prison, and it can't become a big climate.
"Mr. Xu You, fortunately, I went to Luoyang, and I also fulfilled our expectations, not only looted a lot of resources, but also captured this kid."
Liu Zheng pushed out the prince Liu Wei, who had been staying by his side.
Xu You looked at Liu Zheng beside him, he didn't know Liu Zheng, frowned, and waited for Liu Zheng to explain his doubts.
"...... this?"
"Who do you guess this kid is?"
Liu Zheng glanced at Xu You with a smile and sold a pass.
Xu Yu was so smart, he immediately thought of the child who could attract Liu Zheng's attention, he must not be a mortal, so he immediately spoke.
"Isn't Mo the heir of a dignitary?"
"Well, do you know whose heir this is?"
"The son of the great general He Jin?"
Xu You heard Liu Zheng's answer, his heart was shocked, and then he immediately reported to Gao, Xu You didn't think that the kid in front of him would be the prince, only that he was the son of the general He Jin, after all, the heirs of other officials, even if they were caught by Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng would definitely not attract attention.
Only the son of the general of the dynasty, or the son of the other three princes, can barely make Liu Zheng pay attention to it.
Liu Zheng heard Xu You's answer and smiled faintly.
"Mr. Xu You, you're only half right."
"Half?"
"Well, this kid does have something to do with He Jin, but he is not He Jin's son, but He Jin's nephew!"
"He Jin's nephew?"
Xu You was stunned and began to think about it, and soon his face changed suddenly, and then his expression was shocked.
"This ...... This...... This kid...... Is it the crown prince of the emperor? ”
Although Liu Zheng did not directly say Liu Bian's identity, Xu You was a capable person after all and knew a lot of news, so as soon as Liu Zheng said that Liu Biao was He Jin's nephew, Xu You immediately guessed Liu Bian's identity.
Although He Jin has two younger sisters, one is married to Liu Hong, the emperor of the dynasty, and the other is married to the adopted son of Zhang Rang, the child of Zhang Rang's adopted son will definitely not attract Liu Zheng's attention.
"Haha, with this kid, we don't have to be afraid of Lu Zhi outside the city."
"By the way, Xu You, you may not know what happened to us in Luoyang, and Emperor Han may be dead."
Liu Zheng said a word to Xu You, and as soon as this sentence came out, it immediately made Xu You look extremely shocked just now, and he became even more surprised, and his eyes widened.
"Emperor, the emperor is dead?"
At the moment, Liu Zheng told Xu You about what happened in Luoyang in the past few days.