Li Rui and Bei Gongchun have been paying close attention to the situation in Luoyang nervously.

Thanks to maintaining contact with Bei Gongjing, they are always able to get the latest news on the Luoyang war situation in a timely manner.

However, ever since the main force of the Forbidden Army was annihilated in Ningping City, Luoyang has been receiving bad news after bad news. None of the news they received was comforting.

When he learned that Zhang Xiong, Xiao Yu, Yang Jun, and Bei Gongjing had all retreated into Luoyang, Bei Gongchun sighed and said to Li Rui: "Luoyang can't be defended anymore."

During this period, Li Rui has been busy counting the population, recruiting refugees, organizing the army, and measuring the land. He is exhausted, but fortunately, after this period of hard work, the mess has been sorted out, including population, land, and warehousing.

All the crucial data in other aspects have been obtained. When Kitamong Jun was talking about this, he was dozing off. After hearing this, he cheered up and said feebly: "Yeah, I can't hold on this time no matter what.

, for Da Jin, I’m afraid it will fall into pieces..."

Bei Gongchun smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that the Jin Dynasty would be destroyed just a few decades after its founding. Alas!"

Li Rui said: "When the Jin Dynasty was just founded, the end of the world had already begun to appear. It is a miracle that it can survive these decades."

Isn't that right? When I led the Jin Dynasty, as early as the founding of the People's Republic of China, party strife had intensified. Classes were solidified, ideologies were corrupted, plagues were rampant, clans were fighting, scholars were alienated, and barbarians were eyeing... All the things that should be in the end of the dynasty were in place.

It is already a miracle that it has been able to withstand decades of ups and downs and only collapsed now!

Bei Gongchun did not continue this topic, but just asked: "When will we leave? I'm worried that if we go late, something will happen to Jing'er!"

Li Rui said: "Let's go now!"

He excitedly pulled out a plan that he had prepared long ago and handed it to Bei Gongchun: "General, this is the battle plan I prepared in advance. You can see where there is anything that needs to be improved."

Bei Gongchun took it and flipped through it. The dense hieroglyphics and papa-like fonts made him dizzy. He only read a few pages before he had to put it down. He rubbed his temples and said to Li Rui: "You'd better dictate it directly.

I don’t want to irritate my eyes too much.”

Li Rui asked with a sad face: "Is my handwriting so ugly?"

Bei Gongchun said: "It's not ugly. The mountains, rivers, trees, sun, moon, stars, birds and animals are all lifelike in your paintings. How can you say it's ugly?"

Li Rui was about to cry... What I wrote was words, not paintings of villains. This hurts me. General, won't your conscience hurt?

He said bitterly: "If people in Nanyang didn't raise geese, they wouldn't be able to find a decent goose feather, so why would my handwriting be so messed up!"

Bei Gongchun said: "Even if you have a quill pen, you may not be able to write beautifully. Stop talking nonsense and tell me your plan quickly!"

Li Rui angrily took back the plan and opened it, preparing to read it to Bei Gongchun, but he only read a few lines. He was also dumbfounded: What was written on it? Why couldn't he understand a single word?

What? I had no choice but to close the plan and dictate from memory:

"My plan is to divide the troops into two groups. The 10,000 forbidden troops and 3,000 new cavalry will go to attack Xuchang, forcing Shi Le, who is storming Yingyang, to return to rescue and eliminate his threat to the new city; the other group will use Wuhuan.

The sudden cavalry acted as the vanguard, followed by 3,000 Jingzhou veterans and 4,000 foreign troops. They crossed Funiu Mountain via the Wanluo Ancient Road and quickly advanced to the foot of Luoyang City to support the Major General's retreat!"

Bei Gongchun raised his thick eyebrows: "Are you planning to put all your family wealth on it?"

Li Rui said: "No, no, don't we still have 50,000 new soldiers?"

Bei Gongchun sneered: "Do you know why those 50,000 new annexes are new annexes?"

Li Rui said without thinking: "Of course it's because we defeated them."

Bei Gongchun continued to sneer: "Then how did you defeat them?"

Li Rui said: "Wuhuan's sudden cavalry, Jingzhou veterans, and foreign troops!"

Bei Gongchun asked from his soul: "If these elite forces are lost, will these new soldiers continue to attach themselves to you? Guess whether they will continue to follow you, or they will draw their swords and kill you as soon as possible?"

Li Rui was immediately speechless.

Bei Gongchun patted him on the shoulder and said: "Boy, remember, don't put all your strength into it before the overall situation is determined. You must leave a third of your strength at all times, otherwise if something happens, you will

I don’t have the energy to deal with it!”

Li Rui curled his lips: "You're right, have you forgotten the glorious deeds of leading a thousand men against the opponent's tens of thousands of troops twice?"

Bei Gongchun sighed: "If I don't fight hard, I will die! Do you know? Behind every battle that is called a miracle in which a small number defeats a large number, there is the sorrow of dying if you don't fight hard. What you have on hand

There are tens of thousands of people, so there is no need to imitate me!"

Li Rui thought what he said made sense, so he asked: "Then what should we do?"

Bei Gongchun said: "Let King Xiangyang lead 10,000 forbidden troops and 3,000 Jingzhou veterans, plus a thousand Wuhuan cavalry to pretend to attack Xuchang and attract Shi Le to return. You and I can bring a thousand Wuhuan cavalry and one thousand Wuhuan cavalry."

Qian Qin rode to Luoyang via the Wanluo Ancient Road, while the remaining people stayed to guard the base camp."

The so-called Qin Cavalry was adapted from the refugee cavalry, with a total of 3,200 people organized into eight battalions. These are men with strong martial arts and superb riding skills. Their combat effectiveness is not bad. They repeatedly beat the mountain slips.

The officers and soldiers under Rui's command, however, were unlucky. They ran into the Wuhuan cavalry with extremely fierce impact, and Wang Li, who commanded them, was not a very clever general, so they were severely defeated.

Beigong Jun temporarily divided them into three teams. The most brave, upright, and able to obey orders are the vanguard, the weaker ones are the center defenders, and the worse ones are the rearguards. During this period, he has focused on training the vanguards, although his time is limited.

, they still have no way to organize a cavalry wall charge like the Wuhuan Cavalry, but they can also enforce orders and prohibitions.

After all, those who fail to obey orders will either have their heads hung up on Diao Dou, or they will have their butts beaten to pieces and are lying in the barracks crying and howling.

Li Rui asked: "Isn't it too little to only bring two thousand people?"

Beigong Chun glanced at him: "How large an army do you think the Wanluo Ancient Road can quickly pass at this time?"

Well, the number of troops that can pass through any road within the specified time is very limited. This is especially true for mountain roads like the Wanluo Ancient Road that run through the mountains. If you insist on passing a large army, the only result will be serious consequences.

There was such a blockage that I couldn't get out for half a day.

Li Rui murmured: "That's a little too little..."

Bei Gongchun said: "We are going to save people, not to fight the barbarians!"

Li Rui scratched his head, reluctantly agreed, and then went to Sima Fan with this plan.

At this time, Sima Fan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. Luoyang could no longer hold on. No matter how unwilling he was to admit this fact, he could not avoid it. Others might gloat at his misfortune: You Sima family is a bunch of bastards.

It was almost doomed! But he couldn't rejoice in the misfortune. This was the power of his Sima family. If he died, the Sima family would be crushed into the dust and turned into mud! He was so anxious that he wished he could take the three thousand with him.

The Jingzhou veteran fought back to Luoyang to fight against the barbarians! But he also knew that there were more important things to do, and the mess in Nanyang had not been sorted out yet!

If the mess in Nanyang is sorted out, the Western Jin Dynasty will have a way out; if it can't be sorted out, it will be doomed. Even if it is lucky enough to escape from Luoyang, it will only turn into a bereaved dog and run around. Therefore, he can only wait patiently.

Help Li Rui sort out this mess.

Of course, he didn't just wait. After resting for more than 20 days, the 10,000 forbidden troops secretly headed north, gathering in the Wuyang and Kunyang areas, ready to go north at any time. A large amount of grain, grass, and ordnance were also transported to Kunming by land and water.

Yang. While Li Rui was writing lines of hieroglyphs and even lumpy characters with a painful expression on his face, drafting a plan to rescue Luoyang, the Jin army also tried its best and launched a beautiful attack on Zhaoling, which is next to Wuyang.

During the attack, three thousand Jin troops set out at sunset, rolled up their armor and marched for more than fifty miles at night. At dawn, they launched a fierce attack on the Hu people defending Zhaoling County and captured them in one fell swoop. They killed more than a thousand enemies and captured nearly a thousand people.

More than 7,000 civilians were rescued, and thousands of war horses and more than 500 camels were seized.

Although the results were not great, the battle was fought cleanly. They set off at sunset, attacked the city at dawn, and by the time the sun rose, the battle was over. This once again proved that as long as the commander is reliable, the combat effectiveness of the Forbidden Army is still quite strong.

There is nothing you can do if you encounter a guy like Wang Yan. No matter how powerful the army is under his leadership, it will turn into a pile of scattered sand, a group of sheep that will scream and run away after a slight scare.

This victory also gave Sima Fan confidence. This forbidden army is still very effective. With such a strong army in hand, it will be more certain to rescue Luoyang.

But, when will it be possible to send troops northward to relieve the siege of Luoyang?

Just when he was extremely anxious, Li Rui came to his door and brought a piece of good news.

The good news is that he has sorted out the mess in Nanyang and is finally free to support Luoyang.

The bad news is that he only plans to use two thousand cavalry to support Luoyang.

Sima Fan's eyes widened: "Only two thousand cavalry are used to support Luoyang? Are you kidding me?"

Li Rui said: "What do you mean by using only two thousand cavalry? This operation requires nearly 20,000 cavalry, okay?"

Sima Fan went crazy: "You are right to use nearly 20,000 people, but more than 14,000 people were invested in the direction of Xuchang alone to support the feint attack, and the actual strength of the troops going to Luoyang was only 2,000 cavalry! You know
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