Li Yi defeated Zhang Xiu, and the morale of the coalition army was greatly shocked, but Dong Zhuojun was demoralized. In the following days, the coalition army continued to send generals to challenge the Tiger Prison, but Dong Zhuo has not been able to retreat, and he is now afraid of the challenge.

Although Dong Zhuo hung up the battle exemption card, the princes knew that the idea of fighting Dong Zhuojun through challenges was unrealistic, but still none of the princes took the initiative to send a large army to attack the Tiger Pass.

This truth is very simple and clear, the wall of Tiger Prison Pass is tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack, plus there are 60,000 troops in the city, if you want to take it down, you don't want to lose more than 100,000 people, don't even think about it.

As for the loss of more than 100,000 troops, it is not unacceptable to capture the Tiger Prison Pass, after all, the total number of the princes' alliance is as high as more than 300,000. However, who will be the first to go into battle? If this one person goes into battle, suffers heavy losses, and the people behind him quit, who will the first person to fight to reason? Looking for Yuan Meng's master? What is the use of you teasing me?

In short, for various reasons, this matter has been delayed.

Time blink of an eye to the end of March of the first year of Chuping, the princes came to this tiger prison, and it has been almost a month. Dong Zhuo, who lacked military rations, was certainly anxious, but the coalition forces of the princes outside the Tiger Prison Pass and the Revolving Gate Pass were not able to hold on?

With an army of more than 300,000 people, people eat horses and chew them, how much grain and grass must be consumed that day!

As long as you are sensible, you know that this situation cannot continue. But someone had to bring it up, but the princes were not willing to be the first to do it.

In the end, Cao Cao, who presided over the alliance of the princes, stood up, and he put forward a proposal to divide his troops to attack Luoyang.

Although the terrain around Luoyang is dangerous, there are still a lot of places that can be attacked, and Luoyang Baguan is to defend Luoyang from being attacked.

Cao Cao suggested that the army of the princes should be divided into three routes to attack Luoyang.

The first was to attack from Hanoi County to the north of the Yellow River. The target is Mengjin and Xiaopingjin, two important ferry crossings on the south bank of the Yellow River. As long as you break through any place, you can directly threaten Luoyang.

The second way is to attack Luoyang from the east, and the target is the Tiger Prison Pass and the Revolving Gate Pass to the east of Luoyang. As long as it breaks through from here, it is also a mortal threat to Luoyang.

The third way was to attack from the south, and the targets were Yique Pass, Otani Pass, and Xuanyuan Pass.

Everyone wanted to do their own thing, but Cao Cao's plan came up. It was immediately approved by the princes. Moreover, even how to distribute the three-way army was quickly decided.

The army that attacked from the north bank of the Yellow River was mainly composed of the princes of Yuan Shao, Han Fu and Wang Kuang. These three princes, Yuan Shao and Han Fu are the most powerful, and they all brought 30,000 troops to the alliance. And although Wang Kuang's strength is a little worse, he is the host, who calls him the Hanoi Taishou. So, anyway. He has to go back, or his lair may be occupied.

The attack on Luoyang from the Tiger Prison Pass and Revolving Gate Pass in the east was still the main force of the army, including Cao Cao, Qiao Mao, Liu Dai, Liu Bei, Bao Xin, Zhang Chao, Kong Ling, Kong Rong, Zhang Miao, Yuan Yi and Ding Yuan, a total of eleven princes, nearly 200,000 troops.

However, the strength of the army that attacked from the south was slightly weaker, including Li Yi, Gongsun Zhan, Sun Jian and Yuan Shu, a total of four princes, and the army was only more than 60,000 points.

Everyone didn't have much hope for this army, because Li Yi didn't mean to seriously attack the pass at first glance. And Gongsun Zan is only Li Yi's leader, and it is also difficult to expect him to really contribute. Sun Jian was originally a person who was willing to contribute. But at the beginning of this war, he was ruthlessly pitted by Yuan Shu, and his troops were defeated. There is an estrangement with Yuan Shu, and now I am afraid that I will not try my best to fight. As for Yuan Shu, everyone knows very well what he is, if you expect him to be able to make meritorious achievements on the battlefield, it is better to count on the old sow to go up the tree.

After the distribution was completed, everyone took action. Yuan Shao, Han Fu and Wang Kuang were the first to withdraw their troops. Ben Hanoi went.

Seeing that the three of them were gone, Li Yi discussed with Gongsun Zan and others, and also evacuated from the Tiger Prison Pass and went to Yingchuan County in the south. Because Sun Jian was at the revolving gate, he automatically became the vanguard of their army. The first to rush to Yangcheng in Yingchuan County.

However, Li Yi did not rush to Yangcheng directly with the army, but slipped away halfway on the pretext of going back to his hometown to worship his ancestors. In fact, it was the Li Chamber of Commerce under his command that finally found the whereabouts of a cattle man after years of inquiry.

This person is none other than Xu Shu.

Seriously, in this era of the late Han Dynasty, it was really difficult to find someone who was not a celebrity. With the energy of the Li Chamber of Commerce, it still took Li Yi several years to finally determine the specific situation of Xu Shu.

It all started with an incident that happened last year.

Last year, Xu Shu took revenge for someone, and then smeared white mud on his face, scattered his hair and fled, and was caught by officials. The official asked Xu Shu what his name was, and Xu Shu didn't say a word, so the official tied Xu Shu to a pillar to make a look of preparing for dismemberment, and beat the drum to order the people in the surrounding markets to come out and identify him, but they didn't dare to say that they knew this person. Later, a friend of Xu Shu came to rescue Xu Shu. Xu Shu was very grateful, so he stopped dancing with guns and sticks, and changed his usual temperament to study.

And the object of his study is none other than Li Yi's third uncle Xun Jing. Xun Jing originally didn't want to accept Xu Shu as a disciple, but seeing that Xu Shu was sincere and down-to-earth, and he was also handsome, he reluctantly agreed.

Xu Shu stayed in the Xun family, and Li Yi naturally got the information quickly. However, he was in the desert at the time, and the whip was out of reach, so he could only let this matter drag on. After all, Xu Shu is not an ordinary person, and if he is not full of sincerity, it may be difficult to take him under his command.

It's just that to Li Yi's surprise, when he rushed to Xun's house in person and interviewed Xu Shu, although Xu Shu did not directly refuse him, he did not agree to follow him, but just said that he had been following his teacher Xun Jing for a short time and needed to continue studying.

This seemed to make sense at first, but Li Yi understood that Xu Shu had politely rejected his solicitation.

But for a talent like Xu Shu, Li Yi didn't want to give up, he planned to learn from Cao Cao in his previous life and take the road of saving the country with a curve. Of course, Li Yi would not be as stupid as Cao Cao, and even sent someone to arrest Xu Shu's mother, and then threatened Xu Shu. This is absolutely impossible to make Xu Shu truly return to his heart, and it will only make him completely lose Xu Shu's talent.

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Li Yi took Dian Wei and others to Xu Shu's old family community city and bought tens of thousands of catties of grain in one go.

When buying grain, Li Yi also asked the store which nearby villages were the poorest. The shopkeeper told him that the four villages in the south of the city were the most suffering, including Xujia Village.

Dian Wei and the others were puzzled as to why the lord bought so much grain. The old lady of the Xu Shu family can't finish eating for a lifetime, and it's a pity that it's broken.

However, Li Yi thought about it all night yesterday and already had a plan.

According to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", when Xu Shu fell for Cheng Yu's trick and had no choice but to throw himself into Cao Cao's account, Mrs. Xu committed suicide by hanging herself. From this point of view, Mrs. Xu must be a clean person. Such a person will not be easily favored. If you buy something good and send it alone, you won't accept it.

On the other hand, if he really wants to do that, with Xu Shu's ingenuity, he will definitely see that he is pulling the relationship, and the plan to win him over will be in vain.

So he had to make sure that he came to Xujia Village inadvertently, and came to Mrs. Xu without his opinion. When you don't know it's Xu Shu's mother, help her.

So how do you do it casually?

Li Yi thought about it for a long time, and finally felt that he would spend more money to buy grain, and the relief of ten miles and eight villages would be relieved to Xujia Village when the time came. Even if Xu Shu was ten times smarter, he would never have thought that he was specifically going to him.

In this way, he relieved many people, demonstrated his benevolence and righteousness, and also won over Xu Shu. Just because Xu Shu is a filial son, and he is a generous person, it is very likely that he will be moved by his benevolent and righteous behavior.

So Li Yi bought tens of thousands of catties of grain.

Of course, it will not seem abrupt to do this, because in the past few years, Li Yi has been asking the Li Chamber of Commerce to do similar things in his hometown in Yingchuan County, but mainly in Xiangcheng County and Yingyin County, and Changshe County rarely takes care of it.

However, tens of thousands of catties of grain are not easy to distribute, so when the grain is gone, it is already dark.

Of course, just doing such a thing, Li Yi knows that it is very difficult to achieve his goal. So he also made two preparations.

For people in troubled times, there are two problems, one is to eat enough, and the other is to be cured when they are sick. You know, plague often occurs at this time, and many times it is because the patient does not receive timely treatment after getting sick, and then the infection spreads.

After Li Yi formed the army, he always paid great attention to the unexpected, and set up a special military medical department in the army to provide good medical conditions for the soldiers. After years of development, the level of military doctors in the Northern Xinjiang Army has become very high. And the military doctor in the pro-guard army who accompanied Li Yi was the best among them.

So he hit the idea on these military doctors.

When the first village distributed food, Li Yi said to the villagers of this village: "Tomorrow, Li will go to Xujia Village for relief, and will send doctors to each village to diagnose and treat patients. ”

More than 1,000 villagers who received relief were grateful to Dade, and after their spread, all ten miles and eight towns learned that the hussar general Li Yi had come in, and distributed food to help the people, and the name of benevolence and righteousness was well deserved. (To be continued.) )