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Just when the sun was already down the mountain and before night fell, several Han cavalry rushed out of the Han army camp and headed straight for Kunyang City, which immediately aroused the vigilance at the top of Kunyang City. The soldiers guarding the city looked at the cavalry one after another. Of course, they were not coming to attack the city, but all the defenders could guess that they were coming to deliver letters.

The four cavalry did not come to the same place, but came under the city walls on the east, west, south and north respectively. The cavalry soldiers shouted: "Your Highness the King of Han gave General Li Dian a letter, please transfer it to General Li Dian as soon as possible!"

After shouting loudly, the cavalry opened their bows and arrows and shot a headless arrow onto the top of the city. The arrow was wearing a letter, and each of the city walls shot a letter with exactly the same content. The soldiers had already picked it up and rushed down to the city.

It was dinner time, and Li Dian sat in his camp drinking a slutty wine. Although drinking was not allowed during the war, this military rule did not restrict the ruler like Li Dian.

Li Dian was in a bad mood. He had always been a general of Xiahou Dun, but he was not considered Xiahou Dun's confidant. Xiahou Dun was suppressed by Cao Pi, Cao Ren gained power, and all Xiahou Dun's confidants were cleansed. Although he was not a confidant, he was also implicated and was demoted to the lieutenant by Cao Zhen using the excuse of losing Ye Cheng.

Although he is used as the garrison of Kunyang, he still doesn't trust him and sent a confidant aide to serve as Sima to hold great power. He actually only has the power to command the war, and the rest of the power of the lord is in the hands of Cheng Liang. How could he be happy?

He sighed and drank the wine in his glass. At this time, his confidant teeth hurriedly walked Yang Lian into the tent and whispered: "General, report urgent matters!"

"What's up?"

Yang Lian quickly walked into the tent, took out a letter and handed it to Li Dian, "This is the letter from the Han army shooting up the city, it seems to be the handwritten letter from the King of Han to the general."

Li Dian was shocked and quickly put down his ear cup and took the letter. He did not read the letter first, but asked, "How many people know about this letter?"

"Many soldiers in the city should have seen it, but the soldiers in the Nancheng City are all under low-ranking officials, so don't worry about the general."

Li Dian opened the letter and read it quickly. It was indeed a handwritten letter written by King Liu Jing of Han. Xuchang was about to conquer it. I hope he could see the general trend clearly and serve the Han Dynasty and not let the soldiers die in a meaningless battle.

After reading the letter, Li Dian felt in a mess. He didn't know what to do. Liu Jing actually wrote to him in person. Yang Lian next to him asked in a low voice: "General, what did the King of Han say?"

"The King of Han hopes that I surrender and stop resisting."

Yang Lian hesitated and said, "General, if it was really a letter written by the King of Han, I think the general should submit to the Han army. Cao Zhen was ruthless and unrighteous and did not trust the general at all. Seeing that Cao Pi was about to take office, why did the general still serve Cao Pi?"

"Hey! I know too, just... let me think about it!"

As he was talking, a burst of rapid footsteps came from outside, and Li Dian's personal guard said, "Please stay with Sima!"

Then he heard Cheng Liang ask sternly: "Where is General Li? Let him come to see me!"

Li Dian was secretly shocked. Cheng Liang came here so by chance. Did he know that the King of Han sent him a letter? He quickly walked out of the tent and saw Cheng Liang bringing a large group of soldiers to block his tent. Li Dian Gong bowed and said, "Is there anything wrong with Cheng Sima?"

The Han army shot four letters to the city, but some of them fell into Cheng Liang's hands. He was furious and rushed to Li Dian to question him. Cheng Liang sneered and said, "General Li is really good at pretending to be confused. Do you really don't know why I came?"

Li Dian shook his head, "I don't know why Cheng Sima came to provoke a military officer to ask for punishment."

Cheng Liang was also worried that Li Dian would resist, so he immediately ordered: "Tie him for me!"

A few soldiers rushed up immediately and tied Li Dian with ropes. Li Dian struggled hard and said, "Cheng Liang, what do you want to do?"

Cheng Liang took a step back, took out a letter from his arms, and shouted: "You colluded with the Han army and tried to surrender in the city. Even Liu Jing wrote you a letter, do you pretend you don't know?"

Li Dian suddenly understood in his heart. It turned out that the Han army had more than just shot a letter, but there was no intention of colluding with the Han army in the letter. This was clearly because Cheng Liang took the opportunity to frame him and seize military power. Li Dian said furiously: "You shameless villain, for your own selfishness, regardless of the enemy's presence!"

Cheng Liang is indeed selfish. He wants to take all the military power of Kunyang. Then he comes to negotiate with the Han army to gain his position. Unexpectedly, Liu Jing wrote to Li Dian, which made him very jealous. He waved his arms and shouted: "Catch him up and rectify the Dharma on the spot!"

He shouted this sentence, which immediately angered Yang Lian, the toothed behind him. Yang Lian roared, drew his sword and rushed forward and slashed several soldiers in a row, saving Li Dian. He was rushing to Cheng Liang's eyes and swung his sword to slash him. "Rare..." Before Cheng Liang finished speaking, his head was chopped away with a knife and his body fell down. Yang Lian shouted to his surrounding soldiers: "Do it and kill me!"

Dozens of personal soldiers rushed up to participate in the battle and killed all the subordinates brought by Cheng Liang. Li Dian could not stop him. Seeing Cheng Liang being killed by Yang Lian, he couldn't help but sigh. Now, he had to surrender if he didn't surrender.

That night, Li Dian launched a mutiny, killing Cheng Liang's four confidant generals and controlling all military power. He immediately ordered Kaicheng to surrender to the Han army. Liu Jing personally surrendered, and 15,000 Cao's soldiers officially surrendered to the Han army. Liu Jing then appointed Li Dian as the Marquis of Kunyang Ting and the General, and promoted the Ya general Yang Lian as the captain, rewarding five taels of gold.

The Cao army in Kunyang surrendered to the Han army and cleared the last obstacle for the Han army to capture Xuchang. Liu Jing immediately ordered Zhao Yun to hire the two armies to merge, and he personally became the commander-in-chief, Zhao Yun, to hire the left and right deputy commander, and a 100,000 army surrounded Xuchang City.

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Xuchang City has long been in chaos, but this chaos is not superficial chaos, but people's hearts are chaotic. After the Han Dynasty's economic rigor, Xuchang's business was in ruins and withered. The grain was the same as Yedu, and the rationing system was also implemented. The streets and alleys were already deserted. All the families with a little money had left Xuchang, and only the poor families who had no choice but to stay in Xuchang, waiting for the government's grain rationing relief.

It was this kind of grain rationing system that after Cao's army forcibly captured all the people, the people of Xuchang could only swallow their anger and dare not make trouble publicly, but the people's support had long been clear, and no one would support the regime that forcibly captured their relatives to fight.

Jia Kui walked slowly on the street with several followers. Jia Kui served as the guard of Yingchuan. After Cao Zhique was transferred back to Yedu, Jia Kui also took over Xuchang's government affairs and served as Xuchang Cheng. Especially in the past few months, Jia Kui has been busy until late at night almost every day.

Jia Kui was not in charge of military affairs. Until the day before yesterday, Cao Zhen captured strong men in the city on a large scale. Jia Kui learned that the Han army in Luoyang had captured Xiangcheng, which surprised him. Obviously, Xuchang will become the first target of the Han army's concentrated forces to attack, and there are only 10,000 troops in Xuchang City. How can we defend this magnificent city with a circumference of more than ten miles?

Jia Kui has experienced the loss of Wancheng. How familiar is this scene of Xuchang? The loss of Wancheng has happened in Xuchang again. Will Cao Zhen leave Cao Hong's old life again? He really doesn't know.

But Jia Kui knew very well that he would persuade Cao Zhen again no matter what. If Cao Zhen didn't listen, then Jia Kui would be considered to have done his best.

Jia Kui entered the military camp, and the barracks were also busy and chaotic, with various military objects everywhere, looking messy. A group of soldiers ran out of the camp with torches. Jia Kui shook his head, and he went directly to Cao Zhen's tent and said to the guards: "Please report to General Cao for me, I have something to discuss with him."

The guard turned around and entered the tent, and came out for a moment and said, "Please come in!"

Jia Kui quickly walked into the big tent. In the big tent, Cao Zhen discussed military affairs with several aides. When Jia Kui came in, he said to everyone: "Let's do it according to the plan discussed just now. Let's go back and rest first! If you have something to do, we will call everyone."

Everyone stood up and saw the greeting of Jia Kui, so they each stepped down. Only Cao Zhen and Jia Kui were left in the tent. Cao Zhen smiled and said, "I originally wanted to ask the teacher to come and discuss military affairs together, but I was afraid that the teacher's affairs would be busy, so I did not disturb him."

Jia Kui knew that he was insincere. If he really listened to his advice, he would not have been disdainful to him after taking office, nor would he hide the news that the Han army had arrived in Xiangcheng from him. It was nothing more than that he was a military advisor of Xiahou Dun.

Jia Kui smiled and replied, "Thank you General Cao for his importance, but I only care about government affairs. Military affairs are not my responsibility. I am here today to discuss with the general about the people of Xuchang."

Of course, Cao Zhen was just talking. He had his own aide and did not want Jia Kui to participate in military affairs. It was not only that Jia Kui was once a military advisor to Xiahou Dun, but more importantly, once Jia Kui participated in the military, with his status, he would definitely divide a large part of his power, which Cao Zhen would never tolerate.

It is also true that Cao Zhen recommended Jia Kui as Xuchangcheng. On the surface, Cao Zhen hoped to reuse Jia Kui, but in fact he wanted to tie him to government affairs and had no time to take care of military affairs.

Cao Zhen picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said carelessly: "I don't know what Jia Shou wants to talk to me. Now that the military affairs are busy, the Han army is getting closer, I'm afraid I don't have much energy."

"I understand that General Cao is holding a heavy burden on his shoulders. I'm going to be short. General Lian encountered a similar situation in Wancheng. The Han army launched a large-scale attack on the city, with only 10,000 troops in the city. General Lian forced the civilians to defend the city. In the end, not only did the city not defend, but also...

Cao Zhen's face became more and more gloomy, and finally he couldn't help but say, "What Jia Shou meant is that I would be killed by the rioters like General Lian?"

Jia Kui hurriedly said, "I didn't mean that I mean that forcing the civilians would seriously damage the reputation of Wei Gong in Xuchang. Wancheng originally supported Cao's army, but in the end it turned into beating drums and drums to welcome the Han army into the city. I was worried..."

"Enough!"

Cao Zhen stood up suddenly and threw Cao Pi's order to Jia Kui, "This is the order of the world, you can see it yourself!"

After saying that, he turned around and rushed away angrily, walked to the door of the tent and ordered his personal soldiers, "Please go back to the county yard, this is not the place he should stay."

Cao Zhen turned over and urged the horse to run away. Several personal soldiers stood behind Jia Kui and said, "Jia Shou, please!"

Jia Kui looked at Cao Pi's order and saw it said, "Defend Xu Du at all costs..."
Chapter completed!