Luoyang, Prime Minister's Mansion.

Dong Zhuo looked at the scouts kneeling in the mansion, and then looked at the warblers and Yanyan under the hall, and saw that they were all trembling and silent, and they were even more violent, kicking the desk in front of him to the ground, and shouted angrily: "Get out, get out of here!" ”

"Father-in-law! What happened? A loud voice sounded outside the door, and a nine-foot man with a golden crown on his head and a hundred flowers robe on his shoulders paced in from outside the door, it was Dong Zhuo's first general, Zhonglang General Wenhou Lu Bulu Fengxian.

Dong Zhuo saw Lu Bu coming to the hall, and his face was slightly pale: "It's not Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Wang Li who should be killed as grass thieves and dead prisoners who made my father angry."

Since his father sat in Luoyang, he has neither killed Yuan Shao's family, nor treated Wang Li's relatives harshly, but he is thirsty for love, and has entrusted Yuan Kui and Wang Yun with important responsibilities and introduced them as ministers.

Now Yuan Shao, Wang Li, and Cao Cao, these birdmen, dare to lead the 500,000 coalition troops of the princes of the eighteen towns to go to the tiger prison with Sun Jian as the vanguard and go straight to Guanluo. ”

As he spoke, the fire in his heart began to soar upwards again, Dong Zhuo opened his hideous mouth, and shouted angrily at the guards beside him: "A few special shafts dare to deceive the prime minister, and the prime minister can't sleep on its skin and eat its flesh." Come on, tie up Yuan Kui and Wang Yun and their families, and the prime minister will personally skin the two alive! ”

There was a sound of "click" armor rubbing, and a team of guards jumped out of the house, stepped on their horses and went straight to the south of the city, and the city was suddenly in chaos.

Li Ru saw that the soldiers had already walked out of the house, and stepped forward to admonish: "Prime Minister, then Yuan Kui, Wang Yun and others are just fish swimming at the bottom of the kettle and turtles in the urn, and a brigade of guards can be captured, so it is not a trouble."

At present, the most important thing is to determine the protection of this tiger prison as soon as possible. The Tiger Prison Pass is the gateway to Luoyang, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the morale of the guards is low, and there is no general to sit in the town, and the 500,000 Kwantung coalition troops are waiting for the day, eyeing the tiger.

Confucianism thought that once the Tiger Prison Pass was lost, the sun would be tantamount to being exposed to the world. Please send a large army to reinforce the tiger prison as soon as possible to block the enemy outside the pass, so that Luoyang can sleep in peace! ”

"Hmm!" Dong Zhuo nodded, looked at Li Ru with a pair of tiger eyes, and asked, "In Wenyou's opinion, what should the situation be now?" ”

Li Ru bowed and said: "Although the Kwantung Coalition Army is fierce and has many generals, the princes are suspicious of each other. Confucianism believed that as long as the prime minister could send a general to frustrate his edge, he would hold the tiger prison. Within ten months, the Kwantung coalition army will retreat! ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Li Ru seemed to have a pearl of wisdom in his hand, smiled lightly, and explained: "The Kwantung Coalition Army was originally scattered, but due to interests, they were gathered together because of the so-called righteousness, how could a mere covenant restrain all the princes of the eighteen towns?"

Send a fierce general to defeat its head, block the army under the pass, its edge is exhausted, and the Kwantung coalition army will inevitably be in a dilemma. If the war is delayed until the end of the month, the grain and grass of the 500,000-strong army will be beyond their means, and the interests of the princes will be uneven, and the suspicion will be even worse. And then at this moment, mention another brigade of elite soldiers, and attack it unprepared, and the coalition army will inevitably be defeated! ”

"Then who do you think can be the general?"

"You have to be a soldier who has a banner, a dragon and a tiger!"

Hearing this, Lu Bu's eyes widened, the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand was inserted on the ground, and he clenched his fists and shouted: "Father-in-law, the princes outside the Guanxi are just the ones who sell their heads, and they regard them as if they were grass mustards. Bu Yuanti a brigade of tigers and wolves guarded the tiger prison, beheaded the generals, and hung their heads outside the pass! ”

Dong Zhuo stroked his long hair and said proudly, "Okay! Red rabbit in the horse, Lu Bu in the people. This phase has Fengxian, why worry that the Kwantung coalition army will not be broken! ”

Dong Zhuo is proud, and the soldiers under his command are even more proud.

As soon as the words fell, a general behind Lu Bu had already stepped forward, and his voice was like a loud bell: "Use a knife to cut chickens?" Cutting off the heads of the princes, Hua Mou, is like probing for things. Wen Hou is my Xiliang general, and the thieves also want Wen Hou to take action, won't it make everyone laugh

Speech? If the lord is willing to let Hua raise troops, Hua will kill all the enemies who come to him! ”

Everyone looked at it urgently, and saw that the man was eight feet long, with a tiger body and a wolf's waist, and a leopard's head and ape arms.

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed, but saw that the soldiers who went to Yuan Kui and Wang Yun's mansions had returned one after another, with one hundred and eighty people behind them, one by one, they were desperate for grief, and the first two were Taifu Yuan Kui, Yuan Ciyang, and Shangshu Ling Wang Yun.

Seeing that the two of them were tied up and escorted to him, Dong Zhuo was furious, spit out a mouthful of phlegm at Wang Yun, and kicked Yuan Kui down the stairs viciously and shouted angrily: "Come on, cut all these people to the prime minister!" ”

A group of soldiers rushed up and pulled Yuan Kui and Wang Yun down the street and pressed them to the ground with their families and servants, and raised their long knives high for Dong Zhuo's order.

"Wait!"

Suddenly, a hoarse voice came from the lobby, and I saw a flash of light in Jia Xu's sleepy eyes, and he stood up slowly: "Prime Minister, these two people should stay for the time being!" ”

"Why?" Dare to stop Lao Tzu from killing! Dong Zhuo looked at Jia Xu coldly, a ray of fierce light lurked in his eyes, and he had the meaning that if Jia Xu couldn't say one, two, three, he would be beaten together.

Jia Xu hugged his fists at Dong Zhuo, and then sat down with the small table: "Prime Minister, Yuan Ciyang and Wang Zishi are the uncles of Yuan Benchu and Wang Li, and they are famous in the sea. In the previous Yong'an Palace was burned, you have not yet offended the prince's division, and now you have cut down two people with a knife because of the thief Kou Guan, and I am afraid that the rumors in this Luoyang City will spread with the wind, or Prime Minister Yun is afraid of the two, or Prime Minister Yun is jealous of his ability, and he is afraid that the reputation of the Prime Minister will be unfavorable. ”

Seeing that Dong Zhuo was noncommittal, he knew that Dong Zhuo didn't care about this at all, and his reputation for Dong Zhuo was simply a floating cloud, and it was not easy to fool.

Jia Xu secretly rolled his eyes, smiled bitterly and continued: "Second, the knife can only maintain deterrence if it is not unsheathed, Yuan Benchu and Wang Deyu are still in the Kwantung Coalition Army, Yuan Ciyang and Wang Zishi are in their hands, and we can still maintain some deterrence against the two." If it is known that these two people have been killed, I am afraid that the two will storm the Tiger Prison regardless of casualties, can the prime minister guarantee that the Tiger Prison will not be lost? ”

Dong Zhuo stroked his beard and nodded: "Third?" ”

Jia Xu's eyes flashed with a cold light, licked his lips, and smiled sympathetically: "Third, if our soldiers are in charge of the tiger prison in the coming day, we will take down Yuan Benchu and Wang Deyu by the way, but if they don't surrender, they will be killed together."

At that time, with the heads of the Yuan and Wang clans to build a Beijing view, the heads of the Taifu, Shang Shuling, Bohai Taishou and the Qinghe State Minister will swing to the entrance of this vegetable market, and the small people are all frightened. The prime minister's majesty is added to the sea, and the hegemonic name is spread in all directions, who else in the world dares to disobey? ”

The old man in the clan said that only the poisonous snake lurking in the weeds is the most terrifying, and sure enough, Cheng will not deceive me!

I always thought that Li Ru was ruthless, but it turned out that Jia Xu, who looked like he was sleeping every day, was really wilted and ruthless. If Li Ru is just a wild wolf, then this Jia Xu is a poisonous snake lying in the grass!

Lu Bu, Hua Xiong and other Xiliang generals shivered when they looked at Jia Xuqi, but Dong Zhuo laughed, thinking of Jingguan's majestic posture in his mind, and a cruel smile flashed at the corner of his mouth: "Then according to Wenhe's words, these two people, their families, and servants will be sent to the prison." ”

"No!"

"Order: Xingyang Taishou Xu Rong is the commander, Hua Xiong is the captain of the Xiao Cavalry, Li Meng, Li Su, Hu Zhen, Zhao Cen, and Wang Fang are the deputy generals, commanding 50,000 troops, rescue the tiger prison! Be sure to take the Kanto region and capture Yuan Shao and Wang Li alive, there must be no mistakes! ”

"No!"

"Order: Hu Ben Zhonglang will make Lu Bu the guard general of Luoyang, and sit in Luoyang with his own minister!"

"No!"

……

Tiger Prison Pass.

With the continuous sound of war drums and horns

Piercing through the sky, several strong banners were waved in the wind on the endless plains, and the 20,000 pioneers of the Kwantung Coalition Army swept from a distance like waves and tsunamis like waves and tsunamis, stretching for several miles.

The red clothes, silver armor, red tassels, and golden swords shimmered with a chill.

Looking at the endless sea of steel, the guard of the pass Han Mao Zhuozhuo's face turned pale, Emperor Guangwu has been in the Han Dynasty for more than two hundred years, as the tiger prison that guards the imperial capital of Luoyang, he has experienced any battles, they are just a group of soldiers who rely on military salaries to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble to get by, a group of ordinary people who only know how to bully the soft and fear the hard and have not seen blood.

"School... Captain! A soldier swallowed his saliva, pointed at the army under the city and said in fear, "The army under the city, I'm afraid... I'm afraid there are two... Thirty thousand? ”

"What are you afraid of? What is there to be afraid of in a group of native chickens and tile dogs! Seeing that the soldiers shrank back and were panicked, he snorted coldly and shouted angrily, "Our ancestors have been born and raised in Si for generations, this is our hometown, and behind us are our fathers and fellow villagers, do you plan to switch and lure thieves and let the rebels enter the customs and bully your parents, brothers, wives and children?" ”

Originally, the military service in the Han and Han dynasties was divided into guards, garrisons and service.

Wei, that is, the garrison force in which local soldiers take turns to serve in the central capital; Shu is the side of the war, and the Shu is divided into the main pawn, the change pawn and the tun shu. The main pawn and the guard pawn are both guarding the borders of the counties to which they belong, such as the Qinghe Kingdom, the Zhongshan Kingdom, etc.; Tunshu is different, what Tunshu guards is the Han Frontier, which is a border army in the true sense. However, military service refers to the way of serving locally, such as the county soldiers, such as the soldiers guarding the Tiger Pass.

In a word, everything that belongs to the local forces basically refers to this kind of conscription.

The soldiers guarding the city of Tiger Prison are the conscripts of local soldiers.

Yes, they are the natives of Tiger Prison Pass, and behind them are their hometown fathers, if they don't stick to the pass and fight hard to kill the enemy, do they still want their parents and babbling children to stand in the pass to block the traitor's sword?

The lieutenant's words calmed everyone down a little, and all the soldiers unconsciously straightened their chests together, and suddenly heard a trembling voice coming out of the crowd, and the spirit that everyone had just lifted collapsed again.

"But... But Captain, they have there... There are 20,000... Ten thousand troops, we just... There were only two thousand five hundred. ”

"Humph! The soldiers will block the water and come to the earthen tun. We were ordered to guard the tiger prison, and we should be like a tiger, like a tiger, and the momentum is like a tiger, so what is the fear of the 20,000 or 30,000 rebels? It's nothing more than a death, and the head falls off but the bowl has a big scar!

Guan has been kind to you for a long time, and you are a certain humerus brother. However, when the war comes, if you dare to talk nonsense and stir the hearts of our army, the captain's big sword will not recognize people! ”

The captain coldly watched the soldiers under his command unsheath their long knives and slashed them on the city wall, the fire splashed stone chips in all directions, and the tassels on the pockets fluttered and the momentum was compelling.

"Well said!" A burst of applause came up from under the inner city, and a column of generals and colonels walked up from under the city wall. The first person was the new commander of the reinforcements, Xingyang Taishou Xu Rong.

"In front of Ben Shuai, the dragon has to be coiled, and the tiger has to lie down. Koto Tigers? You're a joke! Xu Rong put his hands behind his back, slowly paced to the battlement, looked at the exhibition banner under the city, and faced the hunting west wind at the head of the city, sneered, turned his head to look at Hua Xiong and shouted, "The heaviest momentum in the first battle, Captain Hua, do you dare to go to the sea to catch turtles and go out of the customs to capture tigers?" ”

Hua Xiong stepped out of the crowd and smiled proudly: "Sun Jian is just a sick insect ear, Hua Mou regards it as if he is a bid to sell the head, a native chicken and a dog, handsome and see Hua go to take the head of the dog thief!" ”

The sound was like a bell, and it shook everyone's eardrums.

The Great War is imminent!