Chapter 258 - The Princes' Alliance
"I just want the world to know that I, Cao Mengde, have the courage and courage to assassinate Dong Yuanying!" Cao Cao said very proudly.
Long Xiangtian understood that Cao Cao had gained this reputation, which would inevitably make more people willing to follow him.
No longer chatting, the two began to meditate, thinking that they would spend the night in peace with the Lu family, but what happened after that was beyond Long Xiangtian's expectations.
The reason is that Lu Bohao's five sons have bad intentions and are determined to kill Cao Cao and Long Xiangtian, and then go to the court to ask for rewards.
This thing was discovered by Cao Cao, at first Lu Bohao's five sons were too enthusiastic about themselves, Cao Cao had doubts, although Lu Bohao and Cao Cao's father had an old, but it was many years of not coming and going, and Cao Cao and they had never met, when Cao Cao revealed his identity, their eyes were not suspicious, but like seeing treasures, Cao Cao felt that there was a problem, so when he was meditating and resting with Long Xiangtian, Cao Cao quietly used his magical powers, hid in the wall, and went to find out what the five brothers were doing, and sure enough, they found that they were discussing how to deal with themselves and Long Xiangtian, so Cao Cao came back and told Long Xiangtian about it。
Long Xiangtian was taken aback, he never thought that the plot was actually Lu Bohao's son who was plotting against him, and now how to persuade Cao Cao not to do it will not work, the murderer will always kill him, Long Xiangtian wanted to persuade Cao Cao to leave their lives and then escape, but Cao Cao said that if they were released, their whereabouts would be exposed immediately, and then the vicinity would have to be surrounded by water, and it would be dangerous at that time. Cao Cao insisted on killing them, Long Xiangtian had no choice, Cao Cao was right, but Long Xiangtian was reluctant to do it, so Cao Cao had to go alone, although Lu Bohao's five sons were all Jindan real people, but in the face of Cao Cao, who was good at sneak attacks, it was effortless for the five people to be easily solved by Cao Cao, and after they were eliminated, Cao Cao and Long Xiangtian immediately fled from here, because if they met Lu Bohao, the Yuanying Zhenjun, at this time, it would be bad.
Along the way, Long Xiangtian didn't say a word, he was always obsessed with what happened just now, Long Xiangtian also knew that if you don't kill others, they will harm you, but Long Xiangtian still felt that Cao Cao was too cruel, but Cao Cao didn't think so, in this world, benevolence and righteousness are worth a few dollars. In the end, the contradiction broke out, Long Xiangtian quarreled with Cao Cao, and left Cao Cao in anger, in fact, Long Xiangtian deliberately wanted to leave, because he really didn't want to continue to follow Cao Cao.
After leaving Cao Cao, Long Xiang Tiandong hid in Tibet, and after a few months, he finally returned to Jingzhou.
Cao Cao also returned to Yanzhou soon after, after the failure of the assassination of Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao became famous, and Cao Cao, who returned to Yanzhou, consulted with his father and decided to take this opportunity to sell his property, scatter his family assets, recruit volunteers, and crusade against Dong Zhuo.
This decision requires courage and courage, which is what truly reflects Cao Cao's heroism, not the so-called daring to assassinate Dong Zhuo, which is just talking.
For his son, Cao's father is still relatively supportive, but relying on their Cao family alone, and they are not a big family, the capital is still too small, but Cao's father knows a huge rich Wei Hong, and Cao Cao thinks that if he can get his help, great things can be done.
So Cao Cao invited Wei Hong to drink, I don't know what means were used, anyway, Wei Hong quickly agreed to give up all his family wealth, but he also seemed very heroic.
At the same time as Cao Cao recruited troops and horses, he also issued an edict to inform the assassins and taishou of various local states and counties to jointly raise troops to defeat Dong Zhuo, and a great drama of princes fighting Dong was about to be staged.
At this time, Cao Cao's reputation played a huge advantage, and all of a sudden, many talents emerged to join Cao Cao. For example, Le Jin and Li Dian were kept by Cao Cao as the front officials. In addition, Xiahoudun and his brother Xiahouyuan also attracted thousands of strong men to vote. Together with the soldiers and horses brought by Cao Ren and Cao Hong, there were a total of 6,000 soldiers and more than 10 good generals.
However, after Cao Cao's leaflet was issued, almost no one paid attention to him, because all the princes did not want to take him seriously, but even so, Cao Cao recruited all the soldiers.
The one who came was Yuan Shao!
Yuan Shao actually had this intention for a long time, as soon as he received Cao Cao's notice, the family discussed and felt that this was an opportunity, so under the leadership of Yuan Shao, the Yuan family gathered the subordinate martial arts, led 30,000 soldiers, and left the Bohai Sea to join Cao Cao.
Yuan Shao was born noble, and after the famous family, his uncle Yuan Kui, after four generations of emperors, all held the position of the third duke, which was extremely prominent. Many officials, both in the imperial court and in the local government, were protégés of the Yuan family. Moreover, Yuan Shao once served as a general in the imperial court, and when he killed the permanent servants, he made the greatest credit. Such a character came, and the other princes were finally able to put down their subordinates and join their ranks one after another, so they suddenly recruited sixteen soldiers and horses, plus Yuan Shao and Cao Cao for a total of eighteen roads and horses, ranging from 30,000 to 120,000.
Who are they?
The first town, the later general Nanyang Taishou Yuan Shu
The second town, Jizhou Thorn Shi Han Fu
The third town, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kongling
The fourth town, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai
The fifth town, Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang
In the sixth town, Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao
The seventh town, Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao
The eighth town, Shanyang is too guarded by Yuan
The ninth town, Jibei is too shou Baoxin
The tenth town, Beihai Taishou Kongrong
The eleventh town, Guangling is too guarded by Zhang Chao
The twelfth town, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian
The thirteenth town, Xiliang is too shou Ma Teng
The fourteenth town, Beiping Taishou Gongsun Zhan
The fifteenth town, the party is too guarded by Zhang Yang
The sixteenth town, Yangzhou is too guarded by Sun Jian
The seventeenth town, Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao
Coupled with Cao Cao, who was removed from his post by the imperial court controlled by Dong Zhuo, a total of eighteen princes.
Although Long Xiangtian, who knew the news, had already expected things to develop like this, he didn't expect time to pass so quickly, and it was only a few months since he returned to Jingzhou, and he was already the eighteenth prince begging for Dong, Long Xiangtian of course wanted to join in the fun, because his eldest brother Lu Bu was in Dong Zhuo's camp, Long Xiangtian was determined to stop Lu Bu and let him abandon the darkness and turn to the light.
Long Xiangtian originally planned to go alone, but when he explained the situation to Liu Biao, he didn't expect that Liu Biao actually asked him to lead all the Jingzhou people to participate in the alliance of the princes.
Long Xiangtian felt a little strange, because according to the history of the earth, Liu Biao should not be involved in this matter, so he asked the reason, it turned out that Liu Biao felt that this was an opportunity to train Long Xiangtian, just like the original crusade against the Jingbei Yellow Turban Army.
I didn't think that because of my own reasons, although I had to bring a team of people, Long Xiangtian was still very happy, after all, with people and horses, I had the right to speak, otherwise if I went alone, it was estimated that I would have to rely on Cao Cao.
So in this way, Long Xiangtian led 10,000 Jingzhou troops to ally with the princes in the name of Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, and thus became the prince of the Nineteenth Road.
When Long Xiangtian came, he was surprised to find that Liu Guanzhang was actually in Gongsun Zhan's camp, it turned out that after Long Xiangtian left the imperial capital, he sent a flying talisman to Liu Bei and them, explaining their situation, and asked them to leave, find another way out, Liu Bei followed Long Xiangtian's advice, took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to leave the imperial capital, and then found the senior brother Gongsun Zhan, who studied under Lu Zhimen, so he became his subordinate and participated in the alliance.
All the princes arrived, everyone began to elect the leader of the alliance, although there were miscellaneous discussions, but with the support of most voices, Yuan Shao became the leader of the alliance without giving in, and appointed his brother Yuan Shu as the governor of grain and grass, that is, the task of managing the logistics supply of pills and other things, Sun Jian expressed his willingness to be a pioneer, Yuan Shao agreed, but Long Xiangtian felt bad, because according to this development, Yuan Shu would definitely deduct the logistics supply to Sun Jian, but Long Xiangtian was powerless to refute, the logistics of the Yuan family would naturally not be left to outsiders, and Sun Jian did not go for the striker, anyway, Long Xiangtian did not go back, he had soldiers but no strong generals, and he knew that Hua Xiong must be a difficult character, of course, he didn't want to touch this nail, so Long Xiangtian didn't say a word and arranged it with them. So under the leadership of Yuan Mengzhuo, a total of about 400,000 troops began to attack Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo has 200,000 Xiliang elites under his hands, and also annexed 100,000 Bingzhou troops from Ding Yuan, although the strength is not as good as the Dong coalition army, but Dong Zhuo is not afraid at all, after listening to Li Ru's suggestion, Dong Zhuo began to transfer troops and send generals, and ordered his fierce general Hua Xiong to lead 200,000 troops to block the first line of defense of the coalition army.
In the final analysis, the coalition army is a group of rabble, they have common interests, and naturally there will be conflicts, Jibei is too conservative to Bao Xin, thinking of Sun Jian as the vanguard, afraid that he will rob the first credit, so he secretly sent his younger brother Bao Zhong, allocated him 3,000 soldiers, and told him to take the path first to come to Bishui Pass to call the battle. The result can be imagined, Hua Xiong flew down with five hundred guards and killed Bao Zhong, where did Bao Zhong see such a fierce man, he was suddenly out of proportion, and was cut off by Hua Xiong's hand, beheaded his body, captured Jin Dan alive, and the rest were killed.
Soon after, Sun Jian led his subordinates Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, and Zu Mao to the front of the pass.
Sun Jian ordered people to call the battle, Huaxiong's deputy general Hu Zhen led 5,000 soldiers out of the customs to fight, Cheng Pu stepped forward, against Hu Zhen, Cheng Pudao called the moral scheme, so that a divine soldier, for the iron spine snake spear gun, is Penglai to seize the treasure and get, at first glance, its appearance and Zhang Fei's early Zhangba snake spear gun is quite similar.
Although Hu Zhen is Huaxiong's deputy general, his strength is far inferior to Huaxiong, and he is not a divine soldier in his hand, and after a few rounds, Hu Zhen was interrupted by Cheng Pu and stabbed in the throat by one of his guns, but Hu Zhen reacted quickly, and immediately went out of his body and fled back to the pass.
Seeing this, Hua Xiong decided to go out in person, but Sun Jian took it out four times, four to one, although Hua Xiong was powerful, but his two fists were difficult to defeat four hands, and in desperation, he had to retreat to the pass.
Huaxiong could not hold out, so Sun Jian ordered his soldiers to attack the fortification, but the defense of Bishui Pass was extremely strong, and the defenders in the pass rained down arrows, so it was difficult to capture it for a while, so Sun Jian had to urge Yuan Shu to supply logistics while attacking the city.