As a modern person, with the idea that "the world is the world of the people of the world, and those who can live in it will be able to live in it", Wu Fan had no respect for the emperor. The so-called emperor, if the people govern the country well, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and are praised by the people, then you are worthy of the salary, power and welfare given to you by the taxpayer, and you are considered competent.

Otherwise, the emperor at this time would be even less than a dog guarding the house when discussing his competence in Wu Fan's opinion.

Since he is incompetent, should he be allowed to leave the throne?

No, now is not the best time to let him go. After all, he still has the name of the emperor. Whoever controls him can pacify the world at the lowest cost!

In history, Cao Cao, who had a keen political vision, did this. Although this move was cursed by those who confuse loyalty to the king and the country's idea, it is undeniable that Cao Cao's move was very successful and quickly unified the north, which was the most serious separatist rule of the emperor, so that the people of the north could get rid of the suffering of separatist melee as soon as possible.

As the saying goes, those who achieve great things do not care about minor details. In order to realize his ideals, Cao Cao couldn't even care about "big festivals".

Although the current situation in this world has changed from history, Wu Fan has previously summarized the law of deliberate historical trajectory that has always been deliberately developed. In this way, various princes named "sent troops to fight against the thieves by the orders" are likely to evolve into Luoyang by storm and then control the emperor.

Whoever controls the emperor will take the initiative. Wu Fan must not ignore this, so he decided to send troops to Luoyang immediately!

Soon, Tian Feng and others who were executing military and political instructions were all recalled. Wu Fan briefly explained the situation in Luoyang to them, and then began to dispatch troops and left-behind candidates.

After some dispatch, Wu Fan ordered Hua Xiong, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Zhou Tai, and Li Zhan, who had just become a subordinate, to go to war with him. In terms of left-behind personnel, Tian Feng still ordered him to act as the prefect, Zhang Ren, Lu Dai, Qiu Liju were mainly responsible for military affairs, and others were responsible for internal affairs.

In terms of the army, four troops led a total of 35,000 troops, namely Qingzhou soldiers * 110,000 (equipped: Jinglan), the chief general Wu Fan and deputy general Hua Xiong; the cavalry * 110,000, the chief general Cao Ren, the cavalry * 110,000, the chief general Xiahou Yuan, the infantry * 15,000 (equipped: Jinglan), and the chief general Zhou Tai.

In this way, Xuchang has 57,000 troops left and ten left-behind generals, so there is no problem with defense.

After the dispatch was completed, Wu Fan immediately led the generals and his army out of Xuchang and came to Luoyang.

There was nothing to say all the way, and it was five days after he arrived in Luoyang. The bandits besieged Luoyang had been defeated. Yuan Shao, Ma Teng, Li Qu, Guo Si, the three princes who were ordered to fight the bandits were all set up camps outside the city. Cao Cao also set up camps in the east of Luoyang City. After Wu Fan led his team to arrive, he ordered the troops to camp next to Cao Cao's camp, and he led his subordinates to come to Cao Cao's central army tent.

In the tent, Cao Cao and his generals were analyzing the situation in Luoyang. In this military operation, Cao Cao and Wu Fan had only two troops, including Cao Cao and Wu Fan, with a total of more than 80,000 people. Xiahou Dun of Puyang and Cao Ang of Runan were unable to go to war due to limited troops in the city, so he did not appear here.

Cao Cao was very pleased to see Wu Fan leading his subordinates to come in time, and then asked Wu Fan and his subordinates to come to the table to check the deployment of troops in Luoyang City, and study the next action plan of Cao's army.

Since Cao's army was one step late, when they arrived in Luoyang, the bandit army had been wiped out by the three fronts, and the order in the city was basically controlled. Therefore, Cao Cao, who could not find a legitimate reason, was unable to send troops to the city and could only station all outside the city.

At this time, Yuan Shao's army was about 20,000 troops stationed in four city gates. Li Qun and Guo Si were about 15,000 troops stationed in front of the palaces of princes and ministers. Ma Teng's army was about 12,000 troops, but he actually seized the opportunity and stationed around the imperial city.

As for the troops stationed outside the city by the three vassal army: Yuan Shao's army had about 80,000, Li Qun and Guo Si had about 70,000, and Ma Teng's army had about 50,000.

The original defenders of Luoyang City, namely the Emperor's Army, had insufficient troops and food, and had no war and rebellion when hundreds of thousands of bandits besieged the city. They even attacked each other in order to grab food, because they believed that there was food in the imperial city. When the bandit army was wiped out, there were less than 5,000 troops left in the emperor's army, and they were all stationed in the imperial city at this time.

This is the basic situation. It is not clear who has the intention of taking the emperor and who came just to quell the rebellion.

After listening to Cao Cao's analysis, Wu Fan said:

"In my foolish opinion, Ma Teng'an was in the northwest and had no ambitions. He was the most likely to come just to suppress the rebellion. If so, he was also the best target for our army to use. Although Li Que and Guo Si were also people who had no ambitions, they were led by their army to be stationed in front of the houses of the princes and ministers. It was obvious that there was a master's guidance and preparation for the princes and ministers to be taken away even if the emperor failed. Yuan Shao's army was stationed at four gates, and seemed to have no concern for the emperor and ministers, but this person's ambition was the greatest among the three, and there were capable ministers under the tent to offer advice. This move was actually to block the emperor in the city and then slowly plan it. If I guessed right, a large army of Yuan Shao's army should be rushing to Luoyang at this time."

After hearing this, Cao Cao nodded repeatedly and said:

"Meng Xuan is right. According to the information sent back by the spies sent by our army to Hebei, except for the 80,000 troops that confronted Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, Yuan Shao's army sent tens of thousands of troops to gather in Yecheng. It is expected that it will arrive in Luoyang in four days!"

Wu Fan frowned slightly and said:

"In this way, our army must step up its operations. The first step at the moment is to send an elite force to the city of Luoyang."

Everyone nodded, but they could not think of any reason for sending troops to Luoyang City.

Cao Cao frowned and thought for a moment, then asked Wu Fan:

"Meng Xuan, how much military food did you bring this time and how long can the troops eat?"

Wu Fan said:

"Twenty-hundred thousand soldiers' food can be eaten by the troops for 60 days."

Speaking of this, Wu Fan suddenly realized and looked at each other and smiled at Cao Cao.

Wu Fan said:

"If the lord enters Luoyang under the pretext of sending food, it is best to send more than three thousand troops, and it is necessary to dispatch effective generals."

Cao Cao nodded and said:

"Meng Xuan, I plan to send my two thousand personal guards, led by you personally, and then select the generals you think are suitable as the deputy generals. What do you want?"

Wu Fan clasped his fists and said:

"I have this intention!"

Afterwards, Wu Fan named Dian Wei, Xu Zhu, who were also in the tent, as interim deputy generals, Hua Xiong and Zhou Tai, four of them went into the city with him.
Chapter completed!