Chapter 460 Cao Rui: Moving the capital is urgent
"Eight hundred miles urgent? Could it be that something big happened in Chang'an?" Ma Su's expression suddenly became frightened. He quickly took it and took it apart and took a look.
But after a few brief glances, Ma Su breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Babai Li urged him to withdraw his troops, his words were not strong. Judging from Ma Su's understanding of the prime minister, it was probably not something serious, but simply asking him to stop wandering.
"That's not the case. In order to call me back, I even rushed 800 miles." Ma Su scratched his head and felt a sudden increase in pressure.
Before he marched eastward from Chang'an, Zhuge Liang repeatedly told him to just capture Hongnong. In particular, he emphasized to Ma Su not to go too far alone.
"But speaking of it, I shouldn't be considered as going deep into the enemy's territory alone, only five hundred miles into the enemy's territory?" Ma Di calculated the approximate national borders of the two sides and his current location, and felt that it didn't seem to be too deep.
Ma Di bypassed Hangu and led the Han army along Beimang Mountain to cross Heyin and come southward. He encountered almost no obstruction by the Wei army along the way. After defeating the last resistance of Cao Wei's Guanzhong army in Heyin, the army arrived in Luoyang.
Looking at it this way, it doesn’t seem like he’s going in alone, right?
At this time, Deng Fan also stepped forward and saw the news from the rear ordering him to retreat. Seeing this scene, Deng Fan hesitated and asked cautiously,
"General, what we should do next is..."
"Withdraw, the Prime Minister rushed over 800 miles away. Do you want to be whipped too?" Ma Di rolled his eyes and replied with a wave of his hand.
"Anyway, there is a high probability that Luoyang will not be captured. Even if we attack, we will only reach the inner city."
"We only have a few people here. We can already make a lot of money by showing off our faces and showing off. Anyway, the original goal was to defeat the remaining troops in Guanzhong. Now that the mission has been completed, it is indeed time to retreat."
As he said that, Ma Su couldn't help but sigh helplessly. After all, we have come this far, but I still feel unwilling to go back empty-handed.
But what can he do? He can't really refuse to listen to Zhuge Liang's call and refuse to leave, right?
In the end, Ma Su made a decision and spent the last two days in Luoyang to conduct a final reconnaissance of the terrain. Then the entire army abandoned the camp and retreated westward to Guanzhong.
In the next two days, Ma Su led Deng Feng around the Yin area of Luoyang several times. Although he only brought a few cavalry with him, all the Wei army's field soldiers fled wherever they went. Ma Di wandered all the way to dozens of miles east of Luoyang, and no one could stop him.
This alone is probably enough to brag about. After all, not everyone can lead a few people around in the heart of an enemy country. Along the way, Ma Su also discovered that although Ma Zhong could not shoot arrows to harass without Ma Zhong, Deng Fan would subconsciously draw the terrain along the way.
The case was solved, Ma Zhong was the external sniper, and Deng Fan was the external atlas...
As the capital of Cao Wei, Luoyang Yin has very convenient road transportation. A series of Chi Roads radiate outwards from Luoyang as the center, extending in all directions, connecting the surrounding counties and cities.
However, Ma Su discovered a phenomenon. There were three galloping roads from Luoyang to Hulao Pass. Except for this one road, all the other roads are in disrepair, and most of them are broken and unusable.
This was nothing at all. After all, Cao Wei did not have as much wealth as the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was basically enough to maintain only one Chi Road. But Ma Su smelled a fighting opportunity, especially when he found a castle built by a wealthy family along the way, his eyes suddenly brightened.
A bold death plan has been formed in his mind. However, this plan is not for now, but for Ji Han's eastern expedition in the future.
Two days passed by in an instant, and the Han army's scouting horses had already discovered that the large Wei army had arrived at Hulao Pass. If he had a little more time, Ma Su might be able to fight Wei Jun outside Luoyang City.
It's a pity that in the past two days, Ma Di came three times from 800 miles to rush to ask Ma Su to withdraw his troops.
"Okay, the Eastern Expedition is over here." Ma Di waved his hand and finally gave the order to retreat.
Five thousand soldiers of the Han army quickly packed up their equipment, and the group took advantage of the darkness to break out of camp and leave. By the time the Wei army in Luoyang discovered that the Han army was missing, Ma Di had already led his troops back across Hebei from Heyin.
Ma Su left, and the news quickly spread throughout the city, calming everyone's hearts. When Cao Rui heard about this in the palace, he felt a little happy for a while.
But then I thought about it, tnnd is it really worth being happy that the bad news has become less bad?
grass! Cao Rui couldn't be happy again for a moment.
Especially after Ma Di left for less than a day, 20,000 reinforcements from Guandong arrived outside Luoyang City. In the following days, a large number of King Qin's troops arrived one after another, but Ma Su had already gone far.
This time Cao Rui felt even more uncomfortable. The nearly 100,000 troops had used up a wave of food and grass, and he didn't even touch Ma Su's hair. Especially because of the fall of Guanzhong, Hangu could not block the Xiaohan Road, and Luoyang Yin was already in a place where the Shu army could not stop it or catch up if it wanted to leave.
Now Luoyang has become the front line. According to the frequency of wars in Xishu over the years, their army may reach Luoyang City next year.
Thinking of this, Cao Rui couldn't help but shudder and immediately made a judgment,
"Moving the capital is now on the agenda without delay. Even if the move is delayed, something might happen!"
Cao Rui quickly made up his mind to move the capital. He held a court meeting that day and summoned all the ministers to discuss how to move the capital.
No one here raised any objection to the decision to move the capital, not even a few symbolic words. After all, no one wants to experience being suddenly rushed to the capital city by Ma Di again. It is really scary.
After deciding where to move the capital, the next step is where to move.
Xu Du can't go there. It's less than 300 miles away from the Kunyang front line, and it's not much safer than Luoyang.
At this time, a minister from Qingzhou proposed to move the capital to Linzi. It is absolutely safe to place the capital on the Qingzhou line and block it with Mount Tai and the Yellow River.
However, this proposal was immediately rejected. After all, most people were not willing to live a hard life in the dilapidated Qingzhou.
Someone also proposed to go to Nanpi, but it was rejected without any suspense. After discussions with Cao Rui, the officials finally decided to move the capital back to Yecheng.
Yecheng was originally the capital of Wei State. Cao Pi moved the capital to Luoyang after obtaining legal documents from Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty. Now that Luoyang can no longer stay, it is reasonable to move back to Yecheng.
What's more, Yecheng is not only rich now, but also has two natural dangers, the Yellow River and the Taihang Mountains. Especially Bingzhou at the other end of the Taihang Mountains has not yet fallen, so it is the safest option at present.
Finally, with the unanimous approval of the ministers, Cao Rui issued an edict to move the capital to Yecheng and move all the ancestral temples and court halls to Hebei.
While moving the capital, Cao Rui also issued an edict to send people to Chang'an to negotiate peace with Western Shu to see if he could redeem some of his generals. After all, if all 200,000 troops were buried in Kansai in one breath, the impact on Cao Wei would be too great.
Just when Cao Rui was discussing with the ministers how to redeem the person, an urgent military report suddenly came from outside.
What was sent was the battle report from Hefei, but what shocked Cao Rui was that not only was it not an emergency, but... a victory report?