Although Dong Zhuo has to bear a lot of responsibility for this matter, in fact, Huangfu Song is also a lot of responsibility, after all, the reason why Liu Zheng rose was precisely because he did not wipe out the Yellow Turban Army in Runan before, which gave Liu Zheng a chance to breathe, so he grew stronger.

So if you really want to dig deeper, Huangfu Song is naturally also responsible, and he can't escape the blame.

On the contrary, it was Lu Zhi, who was quite arrogant.

"Tens of thousands of Yellow Turban remnants have made you like this, in my opinion, we don't have to care about the Yellow Turban thieves in Runan at all, but first jointly exterminate the Zhang Jiao of the giant deer, and the general trend has been decided, those Yellow Turban remnants can be cleaned up at any time, as long as the group of dragons is leaderless, they will not be able to make any waves."

"You can't say that, now those yellow turban thieves in Runan have already beaten the tiger prison after all, if the tiger prison is really broken by them, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Huangfu Song disagrees with Lu Zhi's contempt. Although Huangfu Song has never fought with Liu Zheng head-on, judging from the recent situation shown by Liu Zheng, he has become very interested in Liu Zheng.

In particular, Huangfu Song also heard from Cao Cao, his subordinate, that when Liu Zheng first saw him, he was just a personal soldier under the Yellow Turban Xiaoqu Shuai, and now in just three months, he has become the largest Yellow Turban Qu Shuai in Runan and Yingchuan.

has even replaced the position of the former Bocai and become the upstart in the Yellow Turban Army.

Now it has developed to the point where he can attack the Tiger Prison Pass and attack Luoyang, which has to make Huangfu Song put Liu Zheng in a more conspicuous position.

"Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo, you are also too high to look at that yellow turban thief, only 50,000 yellow turban thieves, who can really fight, I am afraid that there are not even 10,000 people, do you think you can rely on these people to defeat the tiger prison?"

"Even if he can defeat the Tiger Prison Pass, is there really no one in Luoyang, not to mention the general's men and horses, that is, Lang Wei led by Guangluxun, the guards led by the guards, the Jingshi garrison led by Zhijinwu and the city gate soldiers led by the captain of the city gate, are not those Yellow Turban thieves can fight."

Lu Zhinai was the minister of the humerus of the Han court, and he had a very thorough understanding of the deployment of the Han army.

"Brother Lu Zhi, now the imperial court is no longer the period of Emperor Wu, now the imperial court has greatly weakened the central army, and the five schools of the Northern Army led by us have been taken away, a large number of central soldiers and horses, and now there are at most 30,000 people in Luoyang, if Liu Zheng's men and horses can really break the tiger prison, it will still pose a great threat to Luoyang."

"I understand all this, but we are stumped now to give up the advantages we have won so hard and run to deal with that Liu Zheng?"

Lu Zhi raised his eyebrows and asked a rhetorical question, which immediately made Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song speechless.

"This is also unlikely, now we can only eliminate Zhang Jiao as soon as possible, and then the class teacher will return to the court."

"Well, that's right, that guy Zhang Jiao, he fought with us the day before yesterday and lost 30,000 people again, and now there are not many people left here in Jizhou, we can take this opportunity to defeat Julu City in one fell swoop."

"After all, Julu City is the lair of the Yellow Turban Thieves, if we can drive the Yellow Turban Thieves away from Julu City, it will inevitably severely demoralize the Yellow Turban Thieves, and when the time comes, it will be much easier for us to pursue those Yellow Turban Army."

Lu Zhi quickly steered the topic to how to deal with Zhang Jiao.

Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo no longer continued to discuss with Lu Zhi about dealing with Liu Zheng. Instead, he began to formulate a corresponding strategy for the horns of Julu City.

And Liu Zheng, who was outside the Tiger Prison Pass, was drinking wine and eating barbecue with Xu Huang and Zhou Cang at this time, and his life was leisurely.

Liu Zheng, who killed all the way from Hongnong County to the Tiger Prison Pass, did not rush to attack the Tiger Prison Pass.

For Liu Zheng, the purpose of his coming here is not to attack the Tiger Pass, and attacking the Tiger Pass will not be of any benefit to Liu Zheng, on the contrary, it will also lose his troops.

The Tiger Prison Pass several zhang high is not easy for people to enter, just the majestic and majestic city wall, it is intimidating, if someone does not open the door directly from the inside, and wants to break the city wall and the city gate to kill in, with the current technology, Liu Zheng does not believe that this pass can be broken at all.

And if you want to go to Luoyang without going from the Tiger Pass, you can take the waterway, and the other is to bypass the Tiger Pass and take the mountain stream path.

But neither of these methods will work.

The north of the Tiger Pass is the Yellow River, the water of the Yellow River, not to mention the turbulent current, but also the terrain is treacherous, if you want to ferry up, the possibility is too small.

The south side is full of mountainous areas, the terrain is rugged and difficult to walk, and it may not be a problem for three or five people to pass, but Liu Zheng has 50,000 soldiers and horses here, and 50,000 people climb the mountain peak together, which is not a trivial matter.

Not to mention the time-consuming and labor-intensive, even the military rations may not be able to keep up, but I am afraid that before I arrive in Luoyang, I will already starve to death.

This is why when Zhuge Liang went on the Northern Expedition later, he did not listen to Wei Yan's strategy and attacked the Meridian Valley. Because the mountain road from Chengdu to the Meridian Valley is rugged and difficult, it is not suitable for a large number of soldiers and horses to pass at all, and the food cannot be supplied, and there is no grain and grass, let alone a war.

Therefore, if Liu Zhengruo wants to fight Luoyang, the Tiger Prison Pass is the first hurdle in front of him.

However, he didn't want to fight Luoyang, and naturally he didn't want to fight the Tiger Prison Pass, the reason why he took his own people and gradually surrounded the Tiger Prison Pass was just to force the three major Zhonglang generals in Jizhou and give those Zhonglang generals some pressure.

"Qu Shuai, it's been two full days since our men and horses surrounded the Tiger Prison, but they only surrounded and didn't fight, and my brothers now have some complaints."

Zhou Cang picked up the wine in front of him, drank it all in one gulp, and then vigorously tore off a leg of mutton in front of him, took a bite of it, and opened his mouth at Liu Zheng while chewing.

"Whining, whining?"

"Of course, they feel that these two days have been leisurely, and there is no battle to fight, so don't they have no merits? Without merit, there is naturally no reward. ”

In the past few days, Liu Zheng imitated the reward system of later generations and reformulated a series of reward and punishment measures for his soldiers and horses.

The purpose of giving great praise to the soldiers who fought bravely and fearlessly was also to cultivate the character of these Yellow Turban soldiers under his command to fight bravely.

Of course, this is all based on the fact that Liu Zheng has enough prestige and can also give them a lot of rewards.

With the gold that Liu Zheng got from Cai Mao as a confidence, Liu Zheng rewarded the first group of people under his command to follow in one go.

Many new Yellow Turban soldiers know that Liu Zheng is generous, and they like to reward their subordinate commanders, and they are more willing to work hard to follow such commanders.