May 2, 239 AD.
Luoyang.
Today, the official road in the west of the city is surprisingly quiet. In the past, before dawn, there would be carriages and horses heading to Luoyang or coming out of Luoyang.
‘It’s so quiet.’
In a small farmyard not far from the official road, an old man about sixty years old,
After taking a look at the official road, he couldn't help but shook his head and muttered.
"Grandpa——"
An eight or nine-year-old girl asked in confusion: "Grandpa, what are you looking at?"
“I didn’t see anything!”
"Go back to the house."
The old man took the girl's hand and walked into the house, and then a young man came out of the house.
This young man is his old man’s son.
"Don't go out today." The old man said.
The young man was stunned for a moment,
Asked: "What's wrong?
Father, my son still has to work in geography...otherwise no one will grow the crops."
"The crops are more important... or your life is more important."
The old man rolled his eyes and said, "Didn't you see that there wasn't even a single pedestrian on the official road today?"
"It looks like something big is going to happen."
After the old man finished speaking, he had already led his young granddaughter into the house. However, his words made the young man interested. He returned to the house and asked: "Father, you said something big was going to happen...what big thing is it?"
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He is very curious——
"What else could there be?"
"One mountain cannot tolerate two tigers."
As soon as the old man finished speaking, the young man was startled and asked: "Father, you mean..."
Before the young man finished speaking, the old man nodded slightly and frowned slightly. He sighed and said: "As the saying goes, there are no two days in the sky and no two kings in the country... The big man will release His Majesty at this time... This..."<
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"This is to make me, the great Wei Dynasty, kill each other."
"Ahem -" the young man sighed and said with a smile: "What's the point of fighting each other? They all have the surname Cao. It doesn't matter who becomes the emperor."
"You know nothing." The old man rolled his eyes.
"The big man is very clever..." The old man shook his head,
He said: "They would not have released them long ago.
If they didn't release him too late, they had to release the original majesty only half a year after my new king of Wei came to the throne."
"Alas——"
While the old man was speaking, the originally quiet official road suddenly heard the sound of horse hoofbeats, and there were quite a few of them.
"Here we come..." The old man came to the door and glanced at the official road in the distance.
Walking at the front was a group of cavalry, numbering about two to three thousand people. Behind this cavalry was an infantry team of more than 20,000 people.
"Hurry in...it's going to be a war again."
The old man did not dare to let his children and grandchildren continue to watch the fun outside. Their home was not far from the official road. Now it was too late to escape. They could only close their doors and pray to God that this military disaster would not harm their village.
"Drive~"
"Drive~"
The speed of the cavalry is not very fast, as if to allow the infantry behind them to keep up with them.
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Ten minutes at noon.
Luoyang, Ximen.
The city gate is now closed, and the soldiers at the top of the city are standing ready. However, there is a group of more than 20,000 cavalry outside the city, and they are staring at the top of the city.
"General, the emperor treats you well, why do you want to rebel?"
A middle-aged general at the top of the city shouted loudly to the outside of the city.
The leader of this army of 20,000 infantry and cavalry outside the city is none other than the Great General Sima Yi of the Wei Dynasty, and his two sons, General Sima Zhao of Diannong Zhonglang, and Sima Division who joined the army in the General's Mansion.<
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"Father!" Sima Zhao frowned and said, "Are we really going to attack the capital?"
A few days ago, they welcomed back the captured emperor Cao Rui. Cao Rui's original intention was that he was also captured because of the defeat, and now King Cao Yu of Yan has ascended the throne as emperor.
Since this is the case, then I will abdicate and make way for others.
But——
Sima Yi was very opposed to this. He reminded Cao Rui that even if he abdicates now and allows King Yan to continue to be the emperor of Wei, King Yan will definitely not tolerate him.
Because no matter what, he has been the emperor of the Wei Dynasty for so many years.
This sentence reminded Cao Rui.
He has also been an emperor and knows what choice he would make as a king of a country when faced with the current situation.
Return to court and reset?
Haha——
Cao Rui knew that if he chose to return to the throne now, a bloody storm would surely break out in Luoyang. He did not want internal strife in the Wei Dynasty, so he decided not to return to Luoyang and stayed in Hongnong County first, and then found an opportunity.
Sneak out quietly and remain anonymous from now on.
But——
On the second night after he returned to Hongnong, a group of men in black suddenly appeared at the prefecture of Hongnong County. Their goal was very clear, to kill Cao Rui, the emperor of Wei who had just returned to China.
Fortunately, Sima Yi took precautions and arranged for a guard in advance to pretend to be Cao Rui and move into the prefect's mansion. As a result, the guard was killed on the spot by the men in black.
‘It came so quickly——’
Cao Rui, who was wearing the uniform of a bodyguard, had a gloomy face. He did not want to compete with King Cao Yu for the throne, and he was already prepared to remain anonymous.
But——
Cao Yu had no intention of giving him this chance.
After brazenly sending a killer to assassinate him, Cao Rui knew that he had to face it.
However, in order to paralyze Cao Yu.
Cao Rui asked Sima Yi to immediately declare to the outside world that the emperor Cao Rui, who had just been released and returned to China, had been assassinated, and then quietly mobilized troops from Wancheng and went straight to Luoyang.
Sima Yi suddenly mobilized troops from Wancheng, but he still couldn't hide this from Cao Yu in Luoyang. Just yesterday morning, the news of Sima Yi's troop deployment reached Luoyang.
Also because he knew the news, Cao Yu immediately ordered the four gates of Luoyang to be closed tightly to prevent Sima Yi's troops from invading Luoyang.
Since the other party already knew it, there was no need to hide it, so this morning Sima Yi led more than 20,000 Wancheng soldiers and horses, as well as 3,000 light cavalry brought from Hongnong, and went straight to Luoyang to kill.
Attack Luoyang?
Haha——
Facing his son's question, Sima Yi said coldly: "This is the capital of our Wei Dynasty. We are the soldiers and horses of the Wei Dynasty... How can we attack our own capital by ourselves?"
"But..." Sima Zhao was stunned when he heard this.
Although what my father said is right, they now represent the emperor Cao Rui, and the emperor of Luoyang City is Cao Yu. They are now on Cao Rui's side.
If you want Cao Rui to return to Luoyang and become emperor, you can only ask Cao Yu to abdicate.
Without capturing Luoyang, how could Cao Yu abdicate on his own?
"Why are you panicking?" Sima Yi said, "Surround the city first..." As he said that, he couldn't help but smile coldly, as if he was already confident.
As for the question from the city guard, Sima Yi ignored it at all and immediately ordered the army to camp on the spot.
Inside Luoyang City.
At this moment, people are in panic. Although there are more than 30,000 defenders in Luoyang City, more than Sima Yi's men, both ordinary people and officials in the court are all frowning.
What's even more terrible is that as soon as Sima Yi led the army outside Luoyang City, undercurrents began to surge in the court.
"Everyone!"
In the palace hall, as soon as Situ Weizhen entered the hall, he said to everyone: "These are extraordinary times. Your Majesty has decreed that no one should leave the palace for even half a step."
"Those who disobey the order will be killed without mercy."
The ministers wanted to see Emperor Cao Yu, but Cao Yu and the others did not see them. Instead, they waited for Situ Weizhen and the imperial edict from Emperor Cao Yu.
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This chapter has been completed!