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More than 20 years ago, Dong Zhuo's fire burned Luoyang City into ruins, so that when Emperor Liu Xie fled from Chang'an and returned to Luoyang, it was difficult to find even stuttering.

But after all, more than 20 years have passed, and no matter how dilapidated Luoyang is, its excellent geographical location will not change, which is destined for Lao Cao to rebuild Luoyang after unifying the north.

Twenty years is enough time for Lu Ren to build Yizhou into a rich land coveted by everyone almost from scratch, will it not be enough for Lao Cao, a guy with huge manpower and material resources in his hands, to rebuild Luoyang? In addition to these political and economic factors, Lao Cao's adolescence was spent in Luoyang after all, and the memories and dreams of Lao Cao's youth are preserved here, so Lao Cao will spare no effort to rebuild Luoyang if conditions permit.

At this moment, Lao Cao was riding a horse in a certain suburb of Luoyang, recalling the scene when he and Yuan Shao, Zhang Miao and a group of sons and daughters were playing here when they were teenagers. It was a heartless, but happy time, but decades have passed, Yuan Shao, Zhang Miao and others have died, and many of them even died at the hands of Lao Cao. As an enemy, Lao Cao will be ruthless, but after all, they used to be Lao Cao's childhood playmates, to say that Lao Cao is really not embarrassed and sad at all, but it is really unreasonable. Lao Cao is ruthless, but don't forget that Lao Cao is a poet and sentimental person after all.

Sighing softly, Lao Cao fell into memories and sentimentality. But before Lao Cao was sentimental, a song that wanted to sing about the sentimentality at this time had just thought of a beginning, and several heralds on fast horses rushed to Lao Cao's face, and after a few reports, a letter was handed to Lao Cao's hands.

When he took the letter, the sentimentality in Lao Cao's heart was immediately thrown aside, and he unhurriedly opened the letter and newspaper to read it carefully. After a closer look, Lao Cao's two thin eyebrows were immediately twisted into one place, and after a while, he handed the letter to Jia Xu and Cheng Yu beside him.

After a while, when Jia Xu and Cheng Yu finished reading the letter, Lao Cao squinted his eyes and said, "Lu Ren's battle is very beautiful!" Since last year, when the winter was about to enter the winter, he started to fight with Budugen, killed Budugen before the beginning of spring this year, and then destroyed the 30,000 elites of Liaodong in Xisai Mountain. Calculating the time, it was not even five months before and after, and he Lu Ren actually leveled the army of 80,000. ”

Lao Cao's time is right. Budugen led 50,000 nomadic cavalry to attack Chrysanthemum Harbor in September and October in late autumn last year, and was defeated by Chrysanthemum Harbor around the end of December. Then as soon as the spring began, after slowing down the strength of the ten years and letting everyone spend a year, the battle of Xisaishan began again, and it was fought for about 20 days, which was in February of the 20th year of Jian'an.

Lao Cao sent troops when he heard that Lu Ren was fighting again in Xisai Mountain, and the approximate time was the end of the first month. However, in addition to the vanguard going relatively fast, the main force of the Chinese army led by Lao Cao did not go fast, so at this time it only came to Luoyang. It's not for anything else, Lao Cao is also worried about Lu Ren's dynamics in Liaoxi, in case the situation is not right, Lao Cao can also bring the main force back to Hebei in time, so the corresponding intelligence exchanges have not been interrupted, and relevant information will be sent to Lao Cao's hands almost every day.

"Wen He, Zhong De, what do you think Lu Ren's current actions are trying to do?"

With the transportation conditions at that time, it was very difficult for the Central Plains to communicate with the western and eastern Liaoning, and the circulation of relevant information was of course very inconvenient. But Lu Ren had considered this issue, so there were intelligence officers who asked people to pass on some information to Lao Cao, so now Lao Cao knew that the Chrysanthemum Port side was already sending the more than 40,000 nomadic tribes back to the grassland, and at the same time, he also knew that Lu Ren had captured more than 20,000 Liaodong soldiers to go to Yizhou, and he also knew that Lu Ren was planning to use these 20,000 Liaodong soldiers as a bargaining chip to negotiate peace with the Gongsun clan. Because this is all real information, there is no need to play any tricks, so it is much less troublesome to deal with.

At this moment, in the face of Lao Cao's questioning, Jia Xu did not say anything, and Cheng Yu pondered for a long time before saying: "I know that although Lu Ren has won two battles in a row, his own loss is really not small. Although it didn't reach the point of killing a thousand enemies and losing 800 of himself, but against 80,000 people, according to common sense, Lu Ren had to lose 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers. And Yizhou's troops have always been small, and the military system used by Lu Ren is also different from that of the Central Plains, and the loss of 10,000 or 20,000 troops at once should hurt Lu Ren's vitality. ”

I have to make it clear that Lu Ren actually didn't lose so many troops. The loss of Chrysanthemum Port was about 3,000, and the main loss of the Battle of Xisai Mountain was the death of Deng Ai in the early stage, and the statistics at the end of the final battle were about 4,000, and the total number of the two battles combined was about 7,000. Although it is said that these more than 7,000 men and horses are quite painful for Lu Ren, in fact, only one-third of these more than 7,000 are Lu Ren's Yizhou soldiers, mainly because of the loss in the battle of Deng Ai's guard, and the remaining two-thirds are the Liaoxi soldiers on the side of Chrysanthemum Port.

That is to say, there are only more than 2,000 Yizhou elites among these 7,000 people, and the rest of the Liaoxi soldiers were lost in the siege of Gongsun Yuan in the siege of Chrysanthemum Port, and the real main elite of Lu Ren did not suffer much loss.

But for the people on Lao Cao's side, where do they understand these twists and turns? Because of historical limitations, they all extrapolated based on common sense at the time, which is not wrong, right? And Lu Ren also deliberately guided him in this regard, anyway, let Lao Cao think that Lu Ren's loss was not small. Of course, Lu Ren didn't play too much, and in terms of numbers, it was completely within the acceptable range of people on Lao Cao's side. Coupled with the inconvenience of information circulation at that time, it was not difficult to hide this matter from Lao Cao.

In short, Lao Cao agreed with Cheng Yu's statement at this time, and nodded lightly: "Lu Ren was not good at military affairs in the past, and in order to build Yizhou, he has always been heavy on the commercial valley and light on the military. He fought well in these two battles, but the loss of 10,000 or 20,000 men and horses was indeed a big one for him. Now that he has taken 20,000 Liaodong soldiers back to Yizhou, does he want to use these 20,000 Liaodong soldiers to make up for his lack of troops? ”

Cheng Yu said: "It's completely possible. However, it was reported that Lu Ren promised the Liaodong soldiers that he would only let the 20,000 Liaodong soldiers serve in Yizhou for three months and then let the Liaodong soldiers return to Liaodong, which made people a little guessable. ”

Lao Cao didn't say anything, but lowered his head and thought about it. After a while, Lao Cao's eyes drifted to Jia Xu, Jia Xu knew that this was Lao Cao asking himself, and he couldn't pretend to be dumb anymore at this time, so he slowly said: "It's not that simple." Lu Ren's move seemed to be intentionally trying to negotiate peace with Liaodong, but in fact, he was only afraid that he was plotting against Liaodong. ”

"Oh? How so? ”

Jia Xu said indifferently: "First, with Lu Ren's wealth, where would he care about that mere five thousand catties of silver?" Of course, if it was exchanged for five thousand catties of gold, Lu Ren might go crazy; ”

"This is natural."

"Second, more than a dozen beautiful and bewitching widows are certainly exciting, but Lu Ren is not a person who has never seen a beautiful woman, and among the ladies around him, which one is not the national beauty? and that Lu Lan, whether it is her appearance and temperament or her singing and dancing skills, she can be described as unparalleled in the world, if Lu Ren wants to accept her as a wife, it is not difficult, but Lu Ren did not do so. Lu Ren didn't touch such a woman, and he really couldn't think of anything that could make Lu Ren's heart move by those dozen or so widows. ”

Lao Cao nodded slightly, but his mind recalled the collected Lu Lan's propaganda posters, and his heart inevitably trembled a few times, but he immediately threw it aside, and turned to Jia Xu with a smile and asked, "What about Yiwen and Zhizhi?" ”

Jia Xu said: "In my opinion, whether it is five thousand catties of silver, or more than a dozen beautiful and charming widows, they are simply the bait thrown out by Lu Ren, just to find an excuse to use troops against Liaodong." It's just that Lu Ren's play is very similar, and he also stubbornly gave the dozen or so widows the name of a vassal envoy, so that Lu Ren could attack Liaodong more justifiably. ”

But after all, more than 20 years have passed, and no matter how dilapidated Luoyang is, its excellent geographical location will not change, which is destined for Lao Cao to rebuild Luoyang after unifying the north.

Twenty years is enough time for Lu Ren to build Yizhou into a rich land coveted by everyone almost from scratch, will it not be enough for Lao Cao, a guy with huge manpower and material resources in his hands, to rebuild Luoyang? In addition to these political and economic factors, Lao Cao's adolescence was spent in Luoyang after all, and the memories and dreams of Lao Cao's youth are preserved here, so Lao Cao will spare no effort to rebuild Luoyang if conditions permit.

At this moment, Lao Cao was riding a horse in a certain suburb of Luoyang, recalling the scene when he and Yuan Shao, Zhang Miao and a group of sons and daughters were playing here when they were teenagers. It was a heartless, but happy time, but decades have passed, Yuan Shao, Zhang Miao and others have died, and many of them even died at the hands of Lao Cao. As an enemy, Lao Cao will be ruthless, but after all, they used to be Lao Cao's childhood playmates, to say that Lao Cao is really not embarrassed and sad at all, but it is really unreasonable. Lao Cao is ruthless, but don't forget that Lao Cao is a poet and sentimental person after all.

Sighing softly, Lao Cao fell into memories and sentimentality. But before Lao Cao was sentimental, a song that wanted to sing about the sentimentality at this time had just thought of a beginning, and several heralds on fast horses rushed to Lao Cao's face, and after a few reports, a letter was handed to Lao Cao's hands.

When he took the letter, the sentimentality in Lao Cao's heart was immediately thrown aside, and he unhurriedly opened the letter and newspaper to read it carefully. After a closer look, Lao Cao's two thin eyebrows were immediately twisted into one place, and after a while, he handed the letter to Jia Xu and Cheng Yu beside him.

After a while, when Jia Xu and Cheng Yu finished reading the letter, Lao Cao squinted his eyes and said, "Lu Ren's battle is very beautiful!" Since last year, when the winter was about to enter the winter, he started to fight with Budugen, killed Budugen before the beginning of spring this year, and then destroyed the 30,000 elites of Liaodong in Xisai Mountain. Calculating the time, it was not even five months before and after, and he Lu Ren actually leveled the army of 80,000. ”

Lao Cao's time is right. Budugen led 50,000 nomadic cavalry to attack Chrysanthemum Harbor in September and October in late autumn last year, and was defeated by Chrysanthemum Harbor around the end of December. Then as soon as the spring began, after slowing down the strength of the ten years and letting everyone spend a year, the battle of Xisaishan began again, and it was fought for about 20 days, which was in February of the 20th year of Jian'an.

Lao Cao sent troops when he heard that Lu Ren was fighting again in Xisai Mountain, and the approximate time was the end of the first month. However, in addition to the vanguard going relatively fast, the main force of the Chinese army led by Lao Cao did not go fast, so at this time it only came to Luoyang. It's not for anything else, Lao Cao is also worried about Lu Ren's dynamics in Liaoxi, in case the situation is not right, Lao Cao can also bring the main force back to Hebei in time, so the corresponding intelligence exchanges have not been interrupted, and relevant information will be sent to Lao Cao's hands almost every day.

"Wen He, Zhong De, what do you think Lu Ren's current actions are trying to do?"

With the transportation conditions at that time, it was very difficult for the Central Plains to communicate with the western and eastern Liaoning, and the circulation of relevant information was of course very inconvenient. But Lu Ren had considered this issue, so there were intelligence officers who asked people to pass on some information to Lao Cao, so now Lao Cao knew that the Chrysanthemum Port side was already sending the more than 40,000 nomadic tribes back to the grassland, and at the same time, he also knew that Lu Ren had captured more than 20,000 Liaodong soldiers to go to Yizhou, and he also knew that Lu Ren was planning to use these 20,000 Liaodong soldiers as a bargaining chip to negotiate peace with the Gongsun clan. Because this is all real information, there is no need to play any tricks, so it is much less troublesome to deal with.

At this moment, in the face of Lao Cao's questioning, Jia Xu did not say anything, and Cheng Yu pondered for a long time before saying: "I know that although Lu Ren has won two battles in a row, his own loss is really not small. Although it didn't reach the point of killing a thousand enemies and losing 800 of himself, but against 80,000 people, according to common sense, Lu Ren had to lose 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers. And Yizhou's troops have always been small, and the military system used by Lu Ren is also different from that of the Central Plains, and the loss of 10,000 or 20,000 troops at once should hurt Lu Ren's vitality. ”

I have to make it clear that Lu Ren actually didn't lose so many troops. The loss of Chrysanthemum Port was about 3,000, and the main loss of the Battle of Xisai Mountain was the death of Deng Ai in the early stage, and the statistics at the end of the final battle were about 4,000, and the total number of the two battles combined was about 7,000. Although it is said that these more than 7,000 men and horses are quite painful for Lu Ren, in fact, only one-third of these more than 7,000 are Lu Ren's Yizhou soldiers, mainly because of the loss in the battle of Deng Ai's guard, and the remaining two-thirds are the Liaoxi soldiers on the side of Chrysanthemum Port.

That is to say, there are only more than 2,000 Yizhou elites among these 7,000 people, and the rest of the Liaoxi soldiers were lost in the siege of Gongsun Yuan in the siege of Chrysanthemum Port, and the real main elite of Lu Ren did not suffer much loss.

But for the people on Lao Cao's side, where do they understand these twists and turns? Because of historical limitations, they all extrapolated based on common sense at the time, which is not wrong, right? And Lu Ren also deliberately guided him in this regard, anyway, let Lao Cao think that Lu Ren's loss was not small. Of course, Lu Ren didn't play too much, and in terms of numbers, it was completely within the acceptable range of people on Lao Cao's side. Coupled with the inconvenience of information circulation at that time, it was not difficult to hide this matter from Lao Cao.

In short, Lao Cao agreed with Cheng Yu's statement at this time, and nodded lightly: "Lu Ren was not good at military affairs in the past, and in order to build Yizhou, he has always been heavy on the commercial valley and light on the military. He fought well in these two battles, but the loss of 10,000 or 20,000 men and horses was indeed a big one for him. Now that he has taken 20,000 Liaodong soldiers back to Yizhou, does he want to use these 20,000 Liaodong soldiers to make up for his lack of troops? ”

Cheng Yu said: "It's completely possible. However, it was reported that Lu Ren promised the Liaodong soldiers that he would only let the 20,000 Liaodong soldiers serve in Yizhou for three months and then let the Liaodong soldiers return to Liaodong, which made people a little guessable. ”

Lao Cao didn't say anything, but lowered his head and thought about it. After a while, Lao Cao's eyes drifted to Jia Xu, Jia Xu knew that this was Lao Cao asking himself, and he couldn't pretend to be dumb anymore at this time, so he slowly said: "It's not that simple." Lu Ren's move seemed to be intentionally trying to negotiate peace with Liaodong, but in fact, he was only afraid that he was plotting against Liaodong. ”

"Oh? How so? ”

Jia Xu said indifferently: "First, with Lu Ren's wealth, where would he care about that mere five thousand catties of silver?" Of course, if it was exchanged for five thousand catties of gold, Lu Ren might go crazy; ”

"This is natural."

"Second, more than a dozen beautiful and bewitching widows are certainly exciting, but Lu Ren is not a person who has never seen a beautiful woman, and among the ladies around him, which one is not the national beauty? and that Lu Lan, whether it is her appearance and temperament or her singing and dancing skills, she can be described as unparalleled in the world, if Lu Ren wants to accept her as a wife, it is not difficult, but Lu Ren did not do so. Lu Ren didn't touch such a woman, and he really couldn't think of anything that could make Lu Ren's heart move by those dozen or so widows. ”