The Three Kingdoms

"But even so, I still want to meet him!"

Sun Quan's tiger eyes and green eyes flashed with a persistent light: "Can you arrange it?"

"promise!"

Guo Jia nodded silently: "I will send the letter of challenge and invitation as soon as possible. Before the two armies battle, I will meet with Cao Mengde!"

"it is good!"

Sun Quan smiled, and his eyes swept away: "Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, Zu Mao, you all return to your own barracks immediately, sit in the army, surround Luoyang City without attacking it, and do not attack Luoyang without my military order."

"promise!"

Although the generals really wanted to attack by force, since Sun Quan's military order had been issued, they could obey it. (To be continued.)

[Chapter 270 of the main text: The Battle to Destroy Wei Sixteen]

Wu Jun besieged the city, and people in Luoyang City were panicked.

In an ordinary and unremarkable courtyard, Li Nie was wearing a blue Confucian gown and a Lunjian on his head. He was personable, with an extraordinary temperament, and a bookish air on his body, like a great Confucian, sitting on a stone bench under a big tree.

On the top of the stone table, there was a chess piece, and he was playing chess against himself.

Li Nie likes to play chess, except of course playing chess with Sun Quan. In the whole Wu Dynasty, few people like to play chess with Sun Quan. The mind can become sharp in peace.

"The city has been besieged for many days, but it has never been attacked. It seems that His Majesty has a big heart!"

After a while, Li Nie made a move. Although his eyes were on the changes on the chessboard, his heart was always immersed in the offensive and defensive battle of Luoyang City.

The battle of the Central Plains is about to come to an end.

But the more he got to the last moment, the more he had to be careful, the world was unpredictable, although Cao Wei had no ability to counterattack, but after all, with a hundred thousand soldiers in hand, he might jump over the wall in a hurry, and maybe he could really do some unexpected things.

"Your Majesty's idea is advisable, and the chance of success is very high, but Luoyang is the capital of the Great Wei after all. Even if the hope of the Great Wei has been lost, the people are Wei people after all. How can the love for Wei for more than ten years be broken overnight? , if you want the city to be chaotic and self-defeating without attacking, it is easier said than done!"

After Li Nie felt Sun Quan's current thoughts outside the city, he couldn't help sighing.

After all, the Cao Wei court was not the former Han Dynasty that had existed for hundreds of years. It had already set sun and set, people were scattered and unable to recover. As a dynasty that had only risen for more than ten years, the Great Wei Dynasty was still flourishing. Come quickly, come too fast, at least they can keep Guanzhong.

Moreover, with Cao Mengde, the wise and powerful founding monarch, still alive today, there are no longer a few diehard loyalists to Cao Wei.

Otherwise, when the Wu army broke through the pass violently and powerfully, so many Wei generals would not have died.

Under the general trend, many people will be disappointed and desperate. Naturally, there are those who are defeated and surrendered, but under such circumstances, there are many who would rather die than surrender. This is the heart of the Wei Dynasty. The human heart still exists.

"Governor, Sima Lang has returned to the city!"

Queen Guo was dressed in ordinary civilian clothes, but she could not contain her various amorous feelings. She walked through the arched gate of the courtyard with small lotus steps, and stood behind Li Nie, reporting respectfully.

"When?"

"Last night!" Queen Guo said: "He came in from Luoshui, and even alarmed the guards guarding Luoshui, but let him escape cleverly, and now we are asking to see you outside the door!"

"He has been out of the city for many days, busy deploying Guanzhong, collecting the hearts of the people in Guanzhong, and rectifying the strength of various families, but at this time he suddenly ventured into the city, he must have a plan!"

Li Nie's eyes lit up suddenly: "Let him come to see me!"

"promise!"

Queen Guo nodded to accept the order, and soon walked in with Sima Lang after walking out.

"Sima Lang pays homage to the Commander!" Sima Lang bowed his hands.

"Boda, how is the situation outside the city?"

Li Nie remained motionless, holding the chess piece in his hand, his gaze still on his own chessboard, hesitant to make a move, and asked a question as if talking to himself.

"Governor, Your Majesty has issued an order that the entire army should only encircle and not attack Luoyang. His Majesty intends to use time to drain the morale of the Wei army. He has repeatedly persuaded the generals in the city to surrender, hoping to leave Luoyang City without bloodshed. !"

Sima Lang replied.

"Is that all?" Li Nie frowned.

"Zhou Shangshu also proposed a strategy to His Majesty, and His Majesty accepted it. The army outside the city hopes that our Jinyiwei can confuse the hearts of the people in the city and break the strong city with the people's chaos!"

Sima Lang added: "As long as the people are in chaos, a million Wei people will be able to break through the hundreds of thousands of Wei troops, and achieve the goal of opening a city gate and breaking it without attacking!"

"Good idea, good strategy, but even if we overestimate our Jin Yiwei, it's a bit embarrassing for our Jin Yiwei!"

Li Nie sighed. After all, Luoyang City is the core of the Wei Dynasty. They can spread rumors in secret, but once they go out to confuse the people, they will be killed. He thought about it and gave a low drink : "Jinser!"

"Here!" Queen Guo stepped forward.

"Is there any news from the Prime Minister's Mansion?"

"There is no news for now!"

Guo Jinse shook his head, and then said in a low voice: "But because of the defeat of Chang'an and the death of Xun You, the news that the Prime Minister Xun Yu vomited blood and was sick in bed should be true. It's full of favors!"

"Manboning!"

Li Nie narrowed his eyes slightly: "This is a man with a ruthless means. This man is upright and hard to instigate rebellion. He is really a big trouble!"

"Governor, do we want to continue spreading rumors to confuse the people?" Sima Lang said, "As long as we step up our efforts, Bike will stir up people's hearts!"

"Mere rumors, even if they are true, will eventually lead to rumors of death. Wei Jun's army suppressed the city and trained soldiers to sharpen their weapons. The people are not stupid. They will not disregard their lives and cause civil unrest. These methods are not enough to cause civil unrest!"

Li Nie shook his head, placed a piece on the chessboard, and said in a gloomy and decisive voice, "We have to make a strong medicine!"

"What strong medicine?"

When Sima Lang and Queen Guo heard the words, they both asked expectantly.

"Now that our army is besieging the city, it should be chaotic under normal circumstances, but the reason why the city is stable is that Cao Wei has prepared in advance for the battle of Luoyang. Although Cao Cao lives in the palace and doesn't care about things, he was defeated in Wuzhangyuan. Afterwards, preparations for the decisive battle in Luoyang have already begun, and he should build multiple granaries in the city, if there is a shortage of food and grass in the city at this time, what do you think will happen to Luoyang City?"

Li Nie was playing with the black chess piece in his hand, the corners of his mouth raised slightly inadvertently, with a sinister smile.

Food is the most important thing for the people, and Luoyang, which has no food, will collapse without attack.

"At that time, the generals and soldiers of the Wei army must forcibly confiscate food from the people in order to ensure sufficient food for the army!"

Sima Lang's eyes burst out with a bright and hot light: "It's autumn, and the people don't have much food. If we add fuel to the flames, the people will inevitably mess up. One person is not enough to mess up the army, and a thousand people are not enough to mess up the city." , but if all the people are boiling, the safety of the dynasty will be disrupted; if millions of Wei people in the city are in chaos, Luoyang will be destroyed!"

"But the generals of the Wei army guarded the granary so tightly that we are helpless!"

Queen Guo said with some concern: "Unless we have an army of [-], the number of people we can muster will not exceed [-]!"

"Hehe, it doesn't have to be their granary that was actually burned down!"