Cao Cao wants to enter Luoyang.

Unlike Yuan Shao's hostile attitude towards Yanbei, Cao Cao was more jealous than hostile to Yanbei. Even to a certain extent, Cao Cao was reluctant to be hostile to Yanbei. After all, the two are old friends, and they once crusaded against Dong Zhuo together, and at that time, there were 8,000 soldiers and horses in Yanbei to support their momentum.

It's just that in this troubled world, even the princes who control the death of all living beings in the eyes of others can only live on the tip of the knife and save their lives, who can take friendship too seriously?

The friendship between the princes in troubled times is just a paradox. If you want to live to calm the world, you must first pacify these old friends. It was as if all the old friends were locked up in a large mansion with only a knife in the yard...... How should people choose?

No one can guarantee that the deceased friend will not kill him with the knife one day, and then he can only take the knife into his own hands.

In this way, even if they were old friends at the beginning, they would hurt each other and incur hatred because of the fight for this knife.

Henan and Hebei, so close, Cao Cao didn't think that he would never have a conflict with Yanbei, and what he wanted to do now was to push the possible conflict a little bit, so he had to enter Luoyang!

Cao Cao's first thing to do was to mobilize Yanzhou's elite soldiers to garrison Henan, across the Yellow River from Hanoi County, and then personally led his troops to the west to attack the Tiger Prison, and broke the troops and horses east of the Tiger Prison with a devastating momentum, under the Chen soldiers and Tiger Prison, and then sent someone to send a small box to the Guannei.

He asked Xu Huang to give the wooden box to Yanbei.

Yan Bei, who looked at Han Valley in the south of the Tunbing Ferry, was extremely curious when he received the wooden box, he thought that Cao Cao would directly attack the Tiger Prison Pass, but he didn't want to besiege it without attacking, and sent someone to send such a wooden box...... When he opened the wooden box, he saw a piece of medicinal herb lying quietly on the letter in the box.

Angelica.

"Mengde is a wonderful man." Yan Bei closed the letter, played with the medicinal herbs in his palm, and put it back in the box after a while, and said to the attendant: "Send this wooden box back to the Yecheng Treasury Mansion, so that you can keep it." ”

Cao Cao's letters are full of old friends' reminiscences, such as his wife's strong temper Ding's temperament makes him difficult to handle, accepting Huan's sister-in-law, who is in love with his brother-in-law Bian Bing, as a concubine, and giving birth to two more sons. In addition, he didn't ask why he sent troops to block the Tiger Prison, nor did he ask him what he entered Beijing for, but only invited him to the Tiger Prison for a while. As for what Cao Cao really wanted to say, he used all the medicinal materials to say it all.

He wanted Yanbei to return to Jizhou.

This is like a joke for Yanbei, in order to welcome the emperor, more than 100,000 people in Jizhou were mobilized before and after, and I don't know how much preparation was done inside and out...... He didn't go back to collect Angelica.

However, it is necessary to go to the Tiger Prison Pass to meet Cao Cao. Like Cao Cao, Yanbei did not want to go to war with Cao Cao now, and he also planned to go to the Tiger Prison to persuade Cao Cao.

In fact, they all know that war is inevitable and that most of what they do is in vain, but they are still willing to try.

The friendship of sour jujube must be broken.

"If the general rushes to the tiger prison now, it will be too late." Guo Jia, who went from Yecheng to Luoyang, arched his hand and said: "Li Dao will not be able to get out of Hangu Pass for a few days. It's just that I feel that it doesn't make any sense, and I can't stop anymore. ”

No one can stop.

But Guo Jia knew better that the Tiger Prison had an ample supply of food and grass and a reliable garrison of soldiers, and Cao Cao might be able to wipe out all the Baibo troops stationed outside the pass, but the Tiger Prison Pass ...... In less than a year and a half, he couldn't beat it!

Yan Bei just smiled and said to Guo Jia: "I'll go and have a look, and I'll come back after meeting Meng De." After I leave, I must urge Yang Feng to repair the city wall of Luoyang, and Liu Bao's Hun soldiers will blockade Luhun Pass in the southwest, and if there is an opportunity, they will seize Hangu and turn all of them into turtles in the urn! ”

The city walls of Luoyang are not high, nor can they be said to be not strong. However, it was destroyed by fire at that time, and it was necessary to spend manpower to repair the cracked places everywhere, and the other was to rest the four gates and corners of the city, and at least two large camps were needed. After all, Luoyang City is too big, not to mention the distance from the east gate to the west gate, the inner city and the outer city separated by Luoshui alone divide Luoyang into two parts, if the war is together, it is difficult for the enemy outside the city to transfer from one city gate to another, but it is also not easy for the defenders in the city to transfer.

Since Yanbei had already made up his mind to go to the Tiger Prison to meet Cao Cao, Guo Jia was inconvenient to say more, and gladly accepted the task of urging Yang Feng to repair the Luoyang City Wall.

Not long after Yanbei took Dian Wei Budong to the Tiger Prison, Sun Zong, a lobbyist sent to Li Dao at Hangu Pass, returned and brought back the conditions for Li Dao to continue eastward.

"He wants the general to give up Luoyang City?" Guo Jia smiled, this was nonsense for him and even for Yan Bei, "Li Dao is not stupid, but he treats the general as a fool, right?" This is impossible, have you seen Guo Yan, Duan Xuan and others? ”

Sun Zong smiled very easily, and then said with eager joy: "Tempting left and right, the generals of Liangzhou didn't know the general's intention to enter the imperial court, except for Duan Xuan, and thought that the general just wanted to come to Luoyang to send food to the emperor. Although they were afraid of the general, Guo Yan and the others were still willing to take the emperor to the east. As for Duan Xuan...... He, Dong Cheng and others plan to rescue the emperor from Li Dao's camp, hoping that the general can respond and resist Li Dao's soldiers and horses! ”

That's kind of interesting.

Guo Jia didn't speak when he heard this, thinking about Dong Cheng and the foreign general Duan Xuanli in the middle of the court, and he could be a little sure. It's just that the information he has at the moment is still too little to estimate, so he stroked his palm and said: "It's easy to respond, but you need a little planning...... Everything will be returned from the tiger prison, and then there will be a plan. ”

In this way, Guo Jia seemed to have a plan in his heart about diverting the tiger from the mountain, and said to Sun Zong: "Wait for two days, and I will send a message to the general first." ”

Thinking of this, Guo Jia wrote a letter and sent people to Pegasus to chase after Yanbei's army.

At the same time, far away on the other side of the world, Qingzhou dispatched nearly half of its warships to attack the seaports along the Bohai Sea, followed by the general Jiang Qi's army marching north and attacking the Bohai Sea. The Bohai County garrison Lu Yi had been preparing for war for a long time, and although he was a little slack, he was still able to stabilize the situation and attack each other between several cities on the banks of the great river.

It's just that at this time, no one expected that Yuan Shao's purpose was not to capture the Bohai Sea, but to take advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of Guan Haikou going north and Yanbei leaving Hebei to attack Donglai County.

Han Meng, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang generals led their troops to the south, divided the defenders of Donglai Zhu County, Tian Yu, the general of Youzhou who lacked soldiers and short generals, was difficult to resist alone, and retreated from the north of Donglai County, losing several cities at a very fast speed, fighting all the way and retreating more than 4,000 soldiers from various counties and counties to Huang County, backed by the seaport and the enemy.

Tian Yu knew very well that his subordinates were not the pirates of the Guan brothers who were used to plundering, their real advantage was on the sea!