"Then what are your plans?" Cao Mengde looked at Sima Yi.
Sima Yi rolled his eyes and said, "I have a great plan. Is Li Hugo's sister Zou Xiangyu in Luoyang?"
As soon as he mentioned Zou Xiangyu, Cao Mengde's face suddenly darkened. He had long coveted Zou Xiangyu's beauty. However, Zou Xiangyu was a loyal girl who was not easy to surrender, so he kept her in jail during this period without giving her anything to eat or drink.
"Yes, how about in my house?" Cao Mengde said.
Sima Yi said: "We can use this Zou Xiangyu as bait, and then lure Li Huguo to take the bait. When the time comes, Li Huguo will be eliminated alone, and Li Huguo's men will be like the monkeys on the fallen tree. As the saying goes, when a tree falls, the monkey will scatter. A group of rabble-rousers only need to let Xu Zhu and Dian Wei each lead a fine armor and bring it to Li Yuguo when he comes to pick him up, and then appear to block him to death. The two generals are brave enough to be worthy of ten thousand men. What about Li Yuguo? Are they their opponents?"
Cao Mengde was overjoyed: "Okay! Sima Yi listened to the order. From now on, you will be my Zuo Yilang. From now on, you will help me make plans and achieve great things together!"
"My lord! Thank you for your great kindness, I will definitely tie a ring of grass and die in retribution!" Sima Yi bowed to the ground and knelt down on the ground. Although he lowered his head, Sima Yi's eyes were smart and he obviously had a plan. He said in his heart that he might as well just endure it. You have to be angry for a while and get through the current difficulties first!
As for Li Yuguo, he slowly woke up from the carriage. He saw this long blood-red cloak still covering his body. This was a cloak made by Diao Chan for him. Even in the cold wind of winter, Neither can blow it through.
Li Yuguo grabbed his cloak and felt sad. He opened the curtain of the carriage and found countless soldiers and horses outside.
"Ming Gong, are you awake?" Xun Yu came over and said.
Li Huguo stood up unsteadily and said, "Wen Ruo, how is the situation outside now?"
"Brother... there is one thing, we..." Zhao Yun hesitated, and Yang Paifeng beside him kept wiping his tears. For Yang Paifeng, Diao Chan was just like her sister. At this time, the news of Diao Chan's death came. How could she not be sad
Of course, she didn't believe that Diao Chan would die, because she taught Diao Chan a lot of skills, one of which was called walking in the snow to find plum blossoms, which was to use strength in steep places, so if Diao Chan fell into the waterfall, she would not necessarily die, let alone You want to see people when you are alive, and you want to see the corpse when you die. It is said that Cao Jun did not find Diao Chan's body.
Despite being sad, Yang Paifeng still maintained a sense of happiness and hope.
Li Huguo said: "But it doesn't matter..."
"The traitors Li Ru and Niu Fu. Their brothers-in-law knew that we had lost Luoyang, so they wanted to defect to Ma Teng, but unexpectedly they were intercepted by Cao Mengde's troops on the way. Cao Mengde killed Li Ru and Niu Fu, along with a hundred thousand troops. All the grain and grass have been transferred to Cao Mengde's hands. Now Cao Mengde is in the Central Plains, with 300,000 soldiers and horses!!" Zhao Yun said.
Li Yuguo clenched his fists and remained silent. He said, "Is there any news? Meng Qi, tell me..."
"This..." Ma Chao looked at Xun Yu, but Xun Yu shook his head with Ma Chao.
"Meng Qi, now I am in trouble. All the foundations I built for more than a year have been reduced to ashes. Once Luoyang was lost, Hongnong County and Yiyang County all fell into the hands of the enemy. Now I don't have many troops left. If you want to leave, , I won’t embarrass you..."
"Lord!" Ma Mengqi suddenly jumped off his horse, and Ma Chao said, "Lord, you are trying to defeat me. I, Ma Chao, am also a capable general in Xiliang. Since I promised my father, I will stay by your lord's side. Three years later, how can we not keep our word? To be honest, Cao Jun sent a superstition, saying that Mrs. Zou has been captured by Cao Jun and is now trapped on Sanli Slope in Yongning. If the lord does not go to greet her within ten days , Cao Mengde will take Mrs. Zou as his concubine, and then we will sever all ties with you, my lord, and have no contact with you!"
"Meng Qi!" Why are you more straight-tempered than Lu Bu?"
Only then did Ma Chao realize that he had fallen into Li Huguo's trap. He lowered his head and said, "My lord, you can't go. This is obviously a Hongmen banquet arranged by the enemy, and they want to invite your lord into a trap!"
"In this battle in Luoyang, I thought over and over again in my dream. In this battle, our enemy discovered three flaws." Li Yuguo's complexion also recovered a lot at this time. He said, "First of all, we succeeded in using tricks to force Lu Bu back. If not Cao Mengde made a sneak attack, and we could take Luoyang directly after Lu Bu left. At this time, we could support an emperor. However, we lost this battle. Why did we lose? Because we were arrogant and thought we relied on the orthodoxy of the court, so we looked down on other princes. .”
"You must know that among the princes in the world, each of them has hundreds of thousands of mercenaries and hundreds of generals, so they are powerful. However, we only occupy Luoyang, but Luoyang is the heart of the Central Plains. Under the enemy, the transportation is very convenient. You can't live here for a long time. Look, Cao Mengde did not establish the capital in Luoyang after taking over the emperor and the queen mother. Instead, he directly moved the capital to Xuchang. Why? That's because he knew that Luoyang's transportation was developed. It is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and if he occupies this place, he may make the same mistake again!"
"Secondly, we committed a military taboo. We mistakenly thought that the surrounding princes were loyal to us. However, we did not know that the princes now have their own agendas. Today we occupy Luoyang. The princes respect us very much, not you and me, but It’s about respecting the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty! So it doesn’t matter who becomes this general. It’s just a false name, but what about us? We were careless and sent 90% of our troops to Yuncheng, hoping to pacify Yuncheng in one fell swoop and then capture Chang’an. !”
"In this way, we will give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it. Cheng Yu and Guo Jia under Cao Mengde are both very resourceful people. After careful consideration, they must be able to see the flaw in the emptiness in our rear, so they took Luoyang , ushering in the Emperor, in other words, now the princes of the Central Plains have to obey Cao Mengde!"
Li Yuguo spoke carefully and got to the point, and everyone listened carefully. However, they had just been defeated, and everyone was disheartened and very uncomfortable.
"But now Cao Mengde's troops have captured Luoyang Chang'an. Their morale is now strong, but they have also exposed a weakness, that is, they are all proud. They have already obtained Li Ru Niufu's troops, so they know that we are still a remnant army. Even if they lay a trap, they will not use the entire army, but only send an army of ten thousand people, because they feel that since we have no morale now, they will definitely be able to take us down in one fell swoop!" Li Hugo looked at the people around him.