Chapter 1 is full of dangers, and everyone is surprised in verse 21. The candle flame flickered, the figure swayed, and the intense murderous aura that fell from the sky suddenly enveloped the entire tent, making people suffocating.

Li Hong's expression was cold, a pair of eyes glared at Pang De fiercely, the muscles on his face twitched violently a few times involuntarily, and a cold chill rushed out from the depths of his heart, spreading all over his body in an instant.

Zhang Wen and the others immediately got up and said goodbye. Pound's hurried and nervous voice echoed through the tent. General Yu Shi, who acted as an agent for Linfen's affairs, reported that early yesterday morning, Duan Xuan's army, which was stationed on the opposite bank of Pubanjin in Hedong, launched a fierce attack on Pubanjin, and Liang Baiwu and Yang Zhen were caught off guard and lost the ferry.

Now the two are directing a large army counterattack. At the same time, Niu Fu's army attacked Fenglingdu from the direction of Hongnong County, and Fan Chou's army attacked Maojindu.

Li Yun and Yang Chun, who were stationed in Fenglingdu, and Li Yao and Liao Lei, who were stationed in Maojindu, were now leading the army to fight to block it.

Yu Shi said that I first received an urgent report from Pubanjin Liang Baiwu in Linfen Xingyuan, and I thought it was a conflict between soldiers on both sides, so I didn't pay enough attention to it.

In the afternoon and evening, after receiving successive dispatches from Fenglingdu and Maojindu, I realized that Dong Zhuo's army was attacking Hedong from three directions.

Jade estimated that the number of Dong Zhuo's troops attacking Hedong was about 30,000, which meant that each of the attacked ferries was now suffering a heavy blow from the opponent's army of 10,000.

The Northern Xinjiang Army stationed 3,000 troops at each ferry, and it could barely hold it for the time being, but once Dong Zhuo increased his troops, the three ferries could not be held.

Trapped in this jade, he ordered the urgent requisition of 10,000 Tuntian soldiers to support the three battlefields. However, considering that the autumn harvest had begun in Hedong, Jade consulted Li Hong on whether to recruit more Tuntian soldiers to ensure the safety of Hedong.

"It is not advisable for the Hedong Tuntian soldiers to be recruited again, so as not to affect the autumn harvest." After Li Hong heard Jade's urgent report, he immediately said to Zhu Mu,

"Gongding, write back to Lord Yu, and tell him that Hedong has limited food, and there is a large army in northern Xinjiang garrison. In addition, there is a natural danger of the Yellow River, and if Dong Zhuo wants to occupy it, he will have to pay a heavy price, so Hedong is not Dong Zhuo's goal, Nanyang and Yingchuan are Dong Zhuo's real goals. ”

"Lord Jade knows this." Xu Rong said with a solemn expression,

"Dong Zhuo's army attacked Hedong from three directions, and the situation should be very critical, but Lord Yu only requisitioned 10,000 Tuntian soldiers, which shows that he has already seen that this is Dong Zhuo's feint strategy. After Dong Zhuo attacked Yuan Shu, the balance was immediately destroyed, and he knew that we would definitely fight him in anger, cut off his retreat, and force him to retreat to Chang'an. So he simply preempted the first step and attacked us first in order to take the initiative. Xu Rong looked at Li Hong and continued,

"I think Lord Yu means to ask you if you want to immediately force your way across the Yellow River, capture Hangu Pass, and cut off the retreat of Dong Zhuo's army."

"I know, so I told him not to recruit any more tuntian soldiers." Li Hong said,

"To cross the river and capture Hangu Pass, we need enough troops, ordnance and food, but this will take at least more than a month to prepare. More than a month later, Dong Zhuo had already grabbed food from Nanyang and Yingchuan, and when we fought again, it would be a bloody battle between the two sides. After a long time, we had to return in vain because of the lack of food and grass. Li Hong then spread out the map on the desk and pointed to the desert outside the Saiwai,

"If we send troops back from outside the country, it will cost even more. Even if we abandon northern Xinjiang, the two sides will mobilize more than 100,000 troops to fight in the Gyeonggi area, and we will be the ones who will suffer the defeat in the end. Li Hong shook his head and sighed,

"Dong Zhuo must occupy Nanyang and Yingchuan this time, otherwise he will not take the initiative to break the balance and balance, let alone take the initiative to fight us."

"Dong Fatzi chose a good time for this attack, and he hit our key point at once." Zhu Mu thought about it for a long time and didn't find a way to deal with it, and he couldn't help but smash it on the table in anger.

"We were all fooled, thinking that he would not dare to start a war in two directions at the same time, who knew that he had already appeased Han Sui and Ma Teng, and had already secretly arranged his troops. We were all deceived by Dong Zhuo. This month, our attention was focused on the eldest princess and a few old ministers from Chang'an, completely ignoring the movement of the northern army on the Gyeonggi side. We should think of Dong Zhuo to fight back. ”

"Dong Zhuo asked Zhang Wen and several old ministers to come to northern Xinjiang, probably to divert our attention, so that he could quietly adjust the deployment of troops in the Gyeonggi area." Li Wei said,

"Dong Zhuoxuan's attack at the end of September is indeed very good. We are busy with the autumn harvest here, Yuan Shu is busy fighting for Jingzhou with Liu Biao, Yuan Shao, Han Fu and Liu Dai are busy fighting the Yellow Turban Army, and the three sides have not deployed heavy troops around Gyeonggi, and no one can stop his attack. ”

"Now that the autumn harvest in Yin, Henan Province has just begun, Dong Zhuo has robbed him of all the food to make military rations, and the common people have driven him away and become a homeless person. In this way, even if his military rations are exhausted, he can still capture the homeless people to be vegetable people, and he can maintain a month's rations for the army no matter how he fights. A month later, he occupied Nanyang and Yingchuan, and when the money and food were sufficient, he was even more fearless. ”

"Originally, our counterbalancing strategy was to suppress and weaken Dong Zhuo's strength, but now that we have given him such a beating, the checks and balances that we have worked hard for several months to establish have not only been completely destroyed, but the situation has suddenly reversed, and Northern Xinjiang has become the target of Dong Zhuo's suppression and attack." Li Wei pointed to the map and said,

"Now the situation in Gyeonggi has returned to the state of confrontation at the beginning of the year, but the strength of all sides has changed a lot."

"Northern Xinjiang was deeply affected by the Gyeonggi crisis and the westward migration of the imperial court, and the military funds of the border army and the relief of the border counties were all cut off. At the beginning of the year, we could give up the victims, and we could risk the destruction of Luoyang, join forces with Yuan Shao and others, and concentrate all the main forces to attack Dong Zhuo, but we missed that opportunity, so that now we are stepping into a desperate situation. What about Yuan Shao? He was the worst, he lost the first battle against Dong, and then the strength of the Yuan Lord's split was greatly reduced, and then he fell into a melee with the Yellow Turban Army. In the past few months, he has not only not advanced an inch, but has become farther and farther away from Luoyang. What about Yuan Shu? Like Yuan Shao, he has suffered a serious loss in strength. But the good thing is that Nanyang did not suffer from the disaster of the Yellow Turban Army, but Yuan Shu had nothing to do, so he had to fight with Liu Biao for Jingzhou, so he gave Dong Zhuo a golden opportunity. This time, not only will he not be able to save Nanyang, but he may not even be able to save his life. ”

"Now it seems that Dong Zhuo is still smarter than us. He has the Son of Heaven in his hands and an army of more than 100,000 people, but he keeps his head down, endures and endures, retreats and retreats, even if there is nothing to eat or drink, he endures it until today. Finally gave him such a chance. If there was no Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro and Qingzhou, without Yuan Shu's willfulness and recklessness, and without the division of Yuan Valve, how could Dong Zhuo have a chance to swing his sword and fight Gyeonggi again? ”

"Now that the trend of checks and balances has collapsed, Lian Yuanshu is beyond the reach of the whip, and it is useless. After Northern Xinjiang lost the tripartite balance with Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu, the alliance with Yuan Shao immediately lost its meaning. Now that we are broken with Dong Zhuo and surrounded by Dong Zhuo and the army led by Yuan Shao to fight against Dong in the north, where is our way out? Will you sit back and wait or will you be trapped? Li Hong looked at Li Wei with a serious expression and laughed,

"What do you mean by a trapped beast? We still have a chance. As for Yuan Shao, he is in danger now, and he will not break the alliance with us. It's just that he sees that our advantages are gone, and he is likely to take the opportunity to blackmail us. ”

"What can he blackmail us? It's nothing more than us beating Dong Zhuo and attacking Luoyang, and he gave us grain and grass. Zhu Mu said disdainfully,

"And then there's the matter of the emperor. Just now, the adults have already said to the eldest princess's mansion that the Son of Heaven and Sheji can only choose one. But now that we are given such a dozen to Dong Zhuo, it is not a matter of choosing only one, but only one choice, because we only have one Jizhou to rely on. ”

"The affairs of Jizhou can now be handed over to the eldest princess." Li Wei said,

Yuan Shao said that the Son of Heaven was not from the first emperor, but he never said that the princess was not from the first emperor. At the beginning of the year, in order to unite us to fight Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao tried every means to invite the princess to northern Xinjiang, so it was not okay for him not to admit this eldest princess. With the eldest princess, plus Zhang Wen and Cui Lie, the old ministers of the Han Dynasty, as well as the Taifu Liu Yu and Lord Liu of Youzhou, we have to decide the money and food in Jizhou. If Han Fu doesn't give it, we will take advantage of the truce between the Yellow Turban Army and them in winter, and simply occupy Jizhou. Li Hong, Xu Rong and Zhu Mu looked at him in a little surprise.

Zhu Mu shook his head and said, "Zhong Yuan, are you in a hurry to overthrow the Great Han Society?" Li Wei knew that he was speechless, and smiled embarrassedly,

"Our months of hard work have been in vain, and now we still have to join forces with Yuan Shao, I knew it was like this......" He shook his hand self-deprecatingly,

"Forget it, don't talk about it, don't talk about it. Dong Zhuo is Dong Zhuo, not comparable to ordinary people, we despise him too much. What's next? Shall we fight Luoyang or Chang'an? ”

"If we can borrow money and grain from Jizhou and embezzle some of the funds used in Tuntian, we can probably launch an attack on Dong Zhuo in November." Xu Rong said slowly,

"But the forces we can use are limited, and we can only hit Dong Zhuo's vital point, and the result of hitting this vital point must be beneficial to northern Xinjiang."

"Luoyang." Li Hong said,

"Hit Luoyang, drive Dong Zhuo back to Chang'an, and then open up the connection between Northern Xinjiang and Jing and Henan. As long as we can occupy Hongnong County and Henan Yin, and control Luoyang, we will basically solve the financial crisis in northern Xinjiang. ”

"But ......," said Zhu Mu worriedly,

"If Dong Zhuo is ferocious, before the soldiers retreat to Chang'an, he will set Luoyang on fire......" Li Hong and the three of them looked at each other, and they all had a feeling of shock.

At the beginning of the year, the reason why he was reluctant to fight Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao was that he was afraid that Luoyang would be destroyed after the Gyeonggi melee.

In today's situation, if Luoyang is destroyed, the consequences are self-evident.

"Dong Zhuo will send someone soon." Li Hong thought for a moment and said,

"The four of us have a number in our hearts, so we have never mentioned Yan Liang and Wu Xiong in Luoyang, as well as our seven thousand Northern Xinjiang soldiers, because we all know that Dong Zhuo does not dare to kill them. Dong Zhuo fought Hedong to test our reaction, to test our patience, and to test our attitude towards his attack on Yuan Shu. He knew that we didn't dare to fight him for the time being, relying on our 7,000 soldiers in Luoyang. ”

"Dong Zhuo only needs a month, he can turn over. The 120,000 northern and southern armies have received enough salaries and have a full stomach, and it will be difficult for us to fight again. Li Hong thought of Dong Zhuo and his majestic body like a small mountain, and couldn't help laughing.

"Gongding, the last time you saw Dong Zhuo in Chang'an, he got fat?"

"It's not fat, it's very fat." Zhu Mu exaggeratedly gestured,

"I heard Tian Yi say that he has been very nervous since he returned to Chang'an, and he couldn't sleep all night, so he spent all day drinking, eating and drinking. In less than two months, he became a huge fat man. ”

"Alas, it's hard to be a man, and it's even harder to be a Xiangguo adult." Li Hong sighed,

"We must understand Dong Zhuo, first of all, he doesn't want the Han Society to be ruined in his hands, that's for sure. What good is it for him that the society is ruined? However, when we want to destroy him, Dong Zhuo will have no social work in his heart. He thought to himself, I can't live, what else do I want to do? Am I leaving this great country to the enemy? ”

"So we're going to put on a smiling face and make a look of submission. In this way, Dong Zhuo will be less hostile to us, and he will not feel that we are going to destroy his murderous aura. At this point, he definitely doesn't want to tear his face with us. Now there are still a lot of enemies around us, and if we fight, who will be better in the end? Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and many people who want to kill Dong Zhuo. Before Dong Zhuo finishes killing these people, he will only suppress and weaken the strength of Northern Xinjiang, and when he is strong enough, he will fight us to the death. ”

"But we're not going to make him strong. In order to buy enough time for us to send troops, in order to kill Dong Zhuo before he becomes stronger, we must stabilize Dong Zhuo now, and the best way to stabilize Dong Zhuo is to let Dong Zhuo fight Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao, and we also have to create opportunities for him to keep going on expeditions. How to create opportunities for him? That is to let the Yellow Turban Army entangle Yuan Shao and fight to the death. Han Fu lost Yuan Shao's support, and he might not dare to be as arrogant as he is now. This person resolutely supports Yuan Shao's deposition as the son of today, and opposes us everywhere. Yuan Shao is dead, and this person is probably honest. If Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are all dead, then after we defeat Dong Zhuo and occupy Luoyang, we will be able to use the eldest princess to raise the banner of Dong Daqi and get the support of money and food from various prefectures and counties. Li Hong vigorously pointed at Luoyang City on the map, and said coldly: "We not only want to conquer Luoyang City, but also keep Luoyang City." ”

"Okay, then let's help Dong Zhuo and let him kill Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao as much as possible." Li Wei said excitedly,

"How many troops does the general plan to use to attack Luoyang? Do you want to use the army outside the fortress? Li Hong shook his head and looked at Xu Rong.

Xu Rong smiled slightly: "If Yan Liang, Wu Xiong and seven thousand Northern Xinjiang soldiers can come back, plus the current 10,000 troops in Hedong, and then transfer 10,000 troops from General Liyi, we have 27,000 people enough to take Luoyang." Zhu Mu was overjoyed and asked, "Lord Xu, 27,000 people are enough?" ”

"The situation in Gyeonggi is complex and volatile, but as long as we can seize that fleeting moment, things will become very simple." Xu Rong smiled calmly.

"We can't afford to call in too many troops, so we can only seize the opportunity." Li Hong said with a smile,

"We can't move the grain harvested in the autumn in northern Xinjiang, and we must first ensure that the people still have food to eat when they are fallow next year, and we want to move the grain in the Tuntian area of Jizhou. In addition, the eldest princess was asked to come forward to send people to other counties and counties in Jizhou to buy grain, and there was also the matter of misappropriating the funds used in Tuntian, and the eldest princess was also asked to do it. It's a lot of nonsense, but now I'm relieved. I only need to convince the eldest princess that she is alone, and the rest of these headaches are the eldest princess's. Li Wei and Zhu Mu looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and a trace of worry flashed in their eyes.

Li Hong visited the eldest princess overnight, and then convened with the eldest princess the main subordinates of the eldest princess's mansion and the hussar general's mansion to discuss the matter.

The flames of war have already burned to the northern frontier, and it will not be possible to fight it. Li Hong said, I and the general Xu Rong of Longxiang led the army south to Hedong to meet the battle, and the military and government of northern Xinjiang were temporarily represented by Li Wei.

Li Hong ordered Yang Feng, the general of Yangwu, and Sun Qin, the general of Qiangnu Zhonglang, to hold their own festival charms, and hurried to Shangdang Huguan to meet with the general of the Zhenjun army, Lu Yi, and led 10,000 troops from Huguan to Hedong to support.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Hong and Xu Rong took 3,000 Black Panther Yicong and 2,000 Tiger Ben troops south to Hedong. In the face of the sudden war, the eldest princess and Zhang Wen, Cui Lie and others from the eldest princess's mansion had to work day and night for the survival of northern Xinjiang.

Cui Lie, Ma Riyan, Yuan Peng, and Chen Ji had a lot of friends among their protégés and former officials in Jizhou, and in order to solve the money and grain in northern Xinjiang, the four of them were ordered by the eldest princess to rush to Jizhou under the escort of Wei Duan and five hundred tiger guards.

The eldest princess, Zhang Wen, Ding Gong, and Cai Yong lobbied the officials of Tuntian in northern Xinjiang, hoping to embezzle more money from the Tuntian funds to fill the military funds.

At the end of September, the deliberations of the northern Xinjiang provinces ended under the auspices of the eldest princess, and the officials of northern Xinjiang returned to their respective offices one after another.

October of the first year of the first peace of the Great Han Kingdom (190 AD). At the beginning of October, Bi Gui Yuan. Dong Zhuo secretly rushed to Luoyang.

"Can you take the Tiger Prison Pass?" This is Dong Zhuo's first sentence when he sees Li Ru,

"Where is Yan Hutou?" Li Ru hurriedly replied: "Yan Liang was surrounded by the army in the Tiger Prison Pass. Wu Xiong was surrounded by Li Dao and Guo Yan at Xiaopingjin Pass. ”

"Is there a fight?"

"Not yet." Li Ru glanced at Dong Zhuo, who was so fat that he could barely see his eyes, and asked cautiously,

"Shall I go to Hedong immediately?"

"Don't go." Dong Zhuo waved his hand and said,

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