Around the fifth day of the fifth month, the Liu Bei army on the two fronts of the north and south, almost launched a final general attack on the remaining Yuan Shu territory in the Central Plains when there was no news about each other.

Gao Shun Ganning's general attack on Wancheng was launched on the third day of the fifth month. By the seventh day of the fifth month, Wancheng had been completely captured. Chen Lan was awarded the title and the spoils were also divided and counted.

On the northern line, on the fourth day of the fifth month, Guan Yu was also in Dongyuan County, Hedong County, and prepared to go downstream with his 30,000 troops and cross the Yellow River south of Xiaopingjin.

The timing of Gao Shun and Guan Yu's attack was so close, which was a coincidence on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also showed that those famous generals with a sharp attitude towards the battle had similar talent and smell in terms of judging the situation in the time and situation.

When the enemy has reached the end of his strength and he can push everyone down with more effort, everyone wants to seize this opportunity.

If you wait any longer, you will be quick and slow.

Not only did Liu Bei's camp have a keen sense of smell, but the generals on Yuan Shao's side were also keen. Guan Yu didn't know that when he marched from the Yellow River waterway, Yuan Shao also had a keen general in Yewang's area in Hanoi County, doing the same preparations.

Just like when the entrepreneurial entrepreneurship trend is approaching, people working towards the entrepreneurship often flock to it.

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Outside Dongyuan City, on Qinghe Wharf, 30,000 troops were shipped out for many miles. Thousands of caravans, hundreds of boats, and many temporary rafts, the pioneers had already gone down the river, and the rear team was still queuing at the city gate, and the scene was spectacular.

Guan Yu personally led the central army, and the vanguard had his own generals leading the way.

Guan Yu did not have many famous generals under his command when he went to Liangzhou two years ago. He had just been transferred to Hedong shortly before the war. Moreover, because Hedong was short of ships, he had no plans to be the main attack. The southern line could not break through the Xiong Pass. Seeing that Luoyang was about to be snatched by Yuan Shao, he was jealous and wanted to steal the heads, so he sent troops.

Therefore, most of the generals who followed the expedition were confidants promoted from relatively grassroots positions.

His eldest son Guan Ping is now finally winning the championship. Although he had no chance to participate in the war or had no military achievements before, he still relied on his father to lead the pioneer at the level of Sima in other departments at the beginning.

Considering that Guan Ping was not experienced enough and his military strategy was not enough, Guan Yu also sent him a special assistant to join the army, named Pan Jun. He was the scholars from Jingzhou who came to join the army when Guan Yu pacified Wuling County and Yidu County six years ago, and that was the group who came to join the brothers Xiang Lang, Dong He and Ma.

Because Pan Jun was young, he was less than 20 years old when he came to join the country, but he was just working with Guan Yu for six years. However, after working with Guan Yu, he was prone to promotion if he showed his face to the senior leader frequently, so now he is 25 years old.

In addition, there are several young talents who came to the same group of people who have come to invest, and are now gradually showing their faces and are appointed by Guan Yu, including Zhao Lei, Yin Guan, Hao Pu, and Xi Zhen, all of whom are unknown people. Hao Pu and Xi Zhen are military positions, while the other two are civil positions, respectively serving as posts of the rear guard and logistics officer, and joining the Central Army. There is no need to repeat them.

At this moment, with all 10,000 pioneers setting off, and the 10,000 of the central army also got on board under the supervision of Hao Puyinguan, and Guan Yu himself had to set off.

He and Xu Huang who saw him off finally drank three bowls and explained to Xu Huang solemnly: "Gongming, I will not leave you more troops when I go to Luoyang this time. In addition to temporarily recruiting peasant soldiers to defend the city, I can only give you a standing army of ten thousand people for mobile defense. You must also be responsible for keeping the food routes well and be careful.

From then on, when Qinghe reaches the mouth of the Yellow River, I will leave another two or three thousand teams to Xizhen to guard it, which will facilitate the protection of the waterway retreat. From here to the mouth of the Yellow River, I have also sent civilians to build beacon towers in the past few months, and sentries are stationed everywhere. If there are fireworks, you should pay attention to patrols.

Further downstream, when our army sailed along the Yellow River to Xiaopingjin, Heyin County, once we landed, we would send Hao Pu to guard the south bank ferry. However, there are about a hundred miles between Xiaopingjin and Qingshui River estuary, and there are many cliffs on both sides of the shore that cannot be built. So we will send a ship to travel back and forth every few days to report military information.

However, I heard that Lu Bu went deep into the grassland and was infected with the epidemic, Yuan Shao took the opportunity to send his rich nephew, the high-ranking official, to take the status of Bingzhou Observation, and often invade Lu Bu's authority. I guess Yuan Shao's army is now in a hurry to fight for power and profit, so that we will have no worries.

Lu Bu is also a famous general in the world, but he is loyal and fickle. Sun Tzu said that if the general is capable and the king does not control him, he will win. Although Lu Bu is capable, Yuan Shao will not trust him and will definitely control him. He will not dare to make him enter Luo. He is afraid that his achievements will be too great in the future and will not lose his master's position. He will have to wait for Yan Liang, Wen Chou and others to break through the Hulao Pass to make achievements.

In terms of the mutual accompaniment between the king and the minister, our army has a great advantage. The king treats me more trust than my brothers, and I am not suspicious of the great merits that I can make, and it is far better than Yuan Shao. If we do not make full use of this advantage, wouldn’t God not take it, and we will suffer the consequences.”

Xu Huang actually knew these tactical arrangements, but Guan Yu finally confirmed them with him before leaving.

Xu Huang immediately said that he would never miss the situation. After Guan Yu left, he would guard Dongyuan County and ensure that the road from Anyi, the county and grain base, was unobstructed.

In short, when Guan Yu entered the army this time, his food route was still a bit far away - mainly because the other side of Hedong County was not Henan Yin, but Hongnong County, but it was only close to Sanmenxia, ​​and the Gushan Mountains on the south bank stretched for more than a hundred miles, so the south bank could not be docked with cliffs.

Guan Yu's fleet had to flow downstream for more than a hundred miles before it could have a flat anchorage on the river beach, which was also one of the difficulties of this battle. However, Guan Yu felt that the Luoyang defenders were like a broken house. As long as he kicked the house on the door, the whole building would collapse by himself, and then he felt that the tactics were feasible.

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After explaining and saying goodbye to Xu Huang, Guan Yu spent a day and a half, walking in a warning manner, and mooring at night, reaching the Xiaopingjin Ferry of Heyin County, 140 miles away.

When Guan Yu's troops arrived, it was only the evening of the fifth day of the fifth month - on the timeline in Guanzhong, Zhuge Liang and Dian Wei's reinforcements had to be prepared to set off the next day.

Xiaopingjin naturally had Yuan Shu's defenders, but there were no famous generals. They were all mobs, and the number was only a few thousand.

At that time, the first batch of people arrived at Guan Ping and Pan Jun's 10,000 vanguards. Guan Ping did not wait for his father's main force in the central army, and directly led his two hundred boats and rafts to launch an attack.

Guan Yu also made a very long logistics preparation for this time. He knew that water marching could not rely on both amphibious and land schooners, because the seaworthiness of the schooners was not as good as professional ships. If there were no warships at all, they would be done if they encountered enemy naval interceptions.

In the northwest, caravans were able to kill all directions in terms of logistics efficiency, which was based on the premise that the enemy had no navy or even ships. Caravans at least solved the problem of whether there was any problem, and it would be great if there was any battle or not.

Therefore, Guan Yu spent two months in Dongyuan County to build a small boat and raft that could be boarded by 10,000 people before he dared to launch this battle. All the vanguards were on professional ships, and their sailing speed was faster, and they could face the battle even when they encountered enemy ships. Only the main forces of the central army's rear army were all in caravans.

These preparations were indeed not in vain. Guan Ping and Pan Jun had light and flexible ships that could quickly detour, and they could quickly expand the width of the line when attacking the ferry.

In addition, there are no strict fortifications on the dock except for a few towers. So after a rain of arrows suppressed and restrained, the flanks were rounded up and landed on the shore, which did not give the defensive side the opportunity to attack without a steady foothold.

After all, the banks of the Yellow River, which are nearly ten miles away around Xiaopingjin, are all river beaches that can be docked, so it is impossible to block them in all aspects of defense. At most, it is just to say that other places except for the ferry, the water in other places is relatively shallow, and if you want to go directly to the shore, the boat will be stranded.

But this kind of beach-grabbing battle is to save lives, make quick breakthroughs and gain a foothold, and losing some ships is essentially secondary.

After Guan Ping got ashore, he brought the war horse, held the Qinglong sword that was the same as his father, and rushed back and forth with his personal soldiers. He quickly killed the enemy soldiers at the ferry and killed two enemy soldiers.

Guan Ping's side died in battle and was injured by only two or three hundred people, even drowning. As a landing battle, it was already very small to pay only this price. While few dead people died, there were as many as thirty or forty boats stranded on the beach, and more than twenty of them were knocked out by rocky beaches and had to give up on the spot.

After Guan Ping took Xiaopingjin, he did not rush to advance, but just stabilized his position. After waiting for two hours, Guan Yu's central and rear troops arrived one after another, and then sent troops to guard the ferry and the main force advanced to Heyin County.

Guan Yu was also very satisfied with Guan Ping's first battle in the Ferry. However, he was afraid that his son would be proud, so he did not praise him with a reserved attitude, but still taught him a lesson with a stern face, "Be sure to be humble and continue to work hard."

Late that night, Guan Yu's army attacked Heyin County overnight. There was no general in Heyin at all. The county magistrate and the guards in the city were so scared that they turned against Guan Yu's banner.

Guan Yu's army was resting in the city in the middle of the night. The next morning, although the fatigue of rushing for a long distance was not relieved, the soldiers were still very excited, and they cheered up and marched quickly and headed straight for Luoyang.

There are still fifty miles of land from Heyin County to Luoyang, and there is also a tributary of the Luoshui River in the middle. It can be reached in one day by marching at a normal speed. Guan Yu's urgent marching can be reached in more than half a day.

In the afternoon, Guan Yu's army led the Changchen to the west of Luoyang City. In addition to the troops who stayed at the ferry crossings along the way, a total of 25,000 people - 5,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantrymen, seemed to be strong and powerful, and the army was strong.

The reason why we didn't bring more cavalry this time was that it was difficult to transport horses through the Yellow River, so we didn't bring many. So basically, we used war horses to play a caravan on land, and one-third of the caravans were divided into special caravans and cavalry during the water route. The horses stood in the caravan and eased their horsepower. Even so, it was already a very burden on the transport capacity.

When Guan Yu arrived at the city, he knew that it would definitely take time to build siege weapons, so he decided to force and persuade him to surrender first. He was indeed a little contemptuous in his heart, because he was the only famous general in the world who had once attacked the thieves and attacked Luoyang City, except Zhao Yun.

Many people will develop path dependence on the places they have built and feel that they can easily get it.

After all, the four people who worked hard to defeat Dong in the past, Luoyang, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhu Jun and Sun Jian participated in the grand event. Now Zhu Jun is ill, so the world is in such chaos, and Sun Jian was assassinated and shot to death by the Lu family of Wujun a few years ago.

"Who else in the world except Zilong has captured Luoyang City like me?" Guan Yu thought to himself.

In this way, he came to the city with confidence and arrogance, and shouted coldly:

"I am the former general Guan Yu! Listen to the traitor of Yuan Shu's army on the city! I abandon the darkness and turn to the light early. The King of Hanzhong still refuses to blame you, and may still be able to retain your military power. Rebellion is Yuan Shu's business, and you may not know it. But if you force me to attack the city, then you will not be innocent!"

He breathed a little slow, and saw that the city was facing a strong enemy and was waiting for it. Guan Yu was rarely patient and gave them another chance:
Chapter completed!