For the sake of the loot just now, Guan Yu looked down on Sun Jian a little.

However, he soon discovered that as long as he didn't talk about money and didn't share the spoils, Sun Jian could still recover to a cheerful state with a heroic spirit.

At least when he praises his friends, he is telling the truth, and he is not yin and yang.

On the way back to the army, Sun Jian sincerely asked about the first half of today's battle, what he did not see: "...... I don't know how the general killed Hua Xiong today, that Hua Xiong didn't know the general's prestige, and he dared to fight the general. ”

When Guan Yu heard this question, he suddenly felt as if he had eaten dogwood pepper hot pot, touched his beard and said modestly: "That Huaxiong is not so arrogant, and he did not respond to the battle. He just led the army into battle, and I bumped into him, and the army was beheaded. ”

"If this is the case, the general's courage will not be as strong." Sun Jian commented pertinently, this is also the truth, although it was Sun Jian's army who killed Huaxiong in the official history, it was not a heads-up, but a killing in the chaos. It's hard to say whether Sun Jian is stronger than Huaxiong alone.

Cheng Pu next to him wanted to save some face for the lord, so he made up a sentence: "Hua Xiong didn't know how to avoid the general, he really deserved to die." ”

Guan Yu was not ready to take this topic, but he was silent.

In the end, it was a junior colonel next to Guan Yu who explained: "Presumably, Hua Xiong saw that the armor of our soldiers was similar, and he didn't recognize the general from a distance, and he couldn't dodge it during the battle." ”

said, and also mentioned Guan Yu's faded green robe, which was very low-key at first glance.

Cheng Pu showed an expression of "understanding" at this time, and secretly wondered in his heart: It turned out to be Hua Xiong, who was mixed with the soldiers and sneak attack, no wonder he wore such a shabby and dusty robe, who would have thought that a famous general would be so torn.

He couldn't help but ask: "General Guan is too guarded, why do you want to wear this old robe when you go into battle?" Is it because it's inconspicuous? ”

Guan Yu's eyes opened, he looked Cheng Pu up and down, he already knew what he was thinking, but he snorted coldly: "This robe was given by my brother General Zhengxi, and he often wore it when he asked for a yellow scarf." Although the current position is not comparable to that of the past, how dare you forget what your brother has given! ”

This is a very beautiful thing to say, and it also blocks all malicious speculation.

Sun Jian also realized that Cheng Pu was a little stingy when he asked, and he was a little ashamed, so he hurriedly stopped: "General Guan is high-minded, I admire it." Why should Demou ask such useless words, don't talk about these things, after returning to the camp, he will drink and celebrate General Guan's meritorious service! We also have to work hard to break Lu Bu together, and be honest with each other! ”

The two armies soon returned to the camp, celebrated and drank all night, and the soldiers also rumored that Guan Yu and Zhao Yun were famous for a while.

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From the next day, Guan Yu and Sun Jian each held the camp, trained the soldiers, and occasionally gathered together to drink military discussions and discuss topics such as "how to repel Lu Bu and Hu Zhen to cross the river to attack".

After all, Hua Xiong couldn't hold his breath and crossed the river to fight and was repulsed, and his troops were defeated, in Guan Yu's opinion, Dong Zhuojun's offensive would definitely stop there, and someone would always have to find a place for Hua Xiong.

And the situation on the Yingchuan battlefield is still whoever takes the initiative to cross the river and who suffers, then continue to defend it, and when Hu Zhen and Lu Bu take the initiative to show their flaws again, the coalition army can defeat the enemy at a smaller cost.

It's a pity that after a series of estrangements for more than ten days, except for small-scale illegal camp harassment and scout exchanges, Hu Zhen and Lu Bu actually did not launch a large-scale offensive, which made Guan Yu and Sun Jian a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't figure out the enemy's new ideas.

They had to discuss whether there was a possibility of "ignoring the enemy's main force and maneuvering a distance downstream of Yingchuan to attack Yangcheng County."

However, since the total strength advantage is not large, it seems too risky to sneak attack and attack the city, so I have to give up first, and the frontal battlefield is frozen for a while.

When it dragged on to the end of February, the external global variables of the entire battlefield came with some bad news that was unfavorable to the Dong coalition army.

On this day, it was the 24th of February, and a messenger from Yuan Shu from Yingchuan County in the rear reported to Sun Jiantong: "General Yu, on the 15th of this month, Jizhou Mu Hanfu gave way to Yuan Shao. On the 19th, Yanzhou assassinated Liu Dai in Chenliu and attacked and killed Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao! Yuan Shao suggested that Liu Dai make another Cao Cao the Taishou of Dongjun. ”

Yecheng is much farther away from Yingchuan than Dongjun and Chenliu, so it is normal for the two pieces of news that happened several days apart to reach Sun Jian.

After Sun Jian heard this, he was slightly surprised: "What? Wasn't Qiao Mao an important liaison for the alliance to discuss Dong in the first place? Although Liu Dai is Qiao Mao's boss, how dare he kill him? What is Qiaomao's crime! ”

Within ten years, there were two cases of internal strife within the alliance against Dong, which was bound to deal a great blow to the momentum of the party. Although the princes east of Luoyang had not done anything at all before the winter of last year, and the army had returned to their respective stations, at least their existence could still be strong, and Sun Jian certainly did not want them to cause infighting.

Well, to be exact, it is actually only an infighting at the moment, because Han Fu asked Yuan Shao to be very peaceful on the surface, and it is very voluntary, and Han Fu can live peacefully for another four or five months.

If history had not been disturbed, Han Fu would have committed suicide in July of this year.

In response to Sun Jian's question, the messenger replied: "It is said that Qiao Mao is guilty of gathering people beyond his authority and expanding the county without permission, and spreading rumors to confuse the people, slandering the alliance leader and the righteousness of the alliance. ”

Sun Jian was stunned: "Let's talk about it!" ”

The contradiction between Qiao Mao and Liu Dai is written in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" because "Liu Dai asked Qiao Mao to borrow grain, but Qiao Mao didn't give it", which is of course unacceptable. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" only briefly said that Liu and Qiao have never dealt with old grievances, but they are also vague.

The messenger carefully explained to Sun Jian:

It turned out that Qiaomao was originally only the Taishou of Dongjun, but recently there were Zhang Miao, the Taishou of Chenliu County, and Wu Ziying, the Taishou of Jiyin County, who was adjacent to Dongjun, who were in charge of the three counties. And the reason why they welcomed Qiao Mao was actually because they traced Qiao Mao's contribution at the beginning of the alliance, so they wanted to support him.

And this "special contribution" is more complicated to explain, as mentioned earlier, in the process of the establishment of the Dong Alliance last year, there were actually two waves of joining.

The first wave was carried out by Zhang Miao, Zhang Chao, Cao Cao, and Zang Hong, and it was in the first month of last year, but they did not have an absolute righteous reputation at that time.

The second wave was the joining of Qiao Mao and Yuan Shao, Liu Dai and other princes, which was in February last year, and the representative event was that Qiao Mao distributed to Yuan Shao and Liu Dai their "letters requesting troops from the three dukes of Luoyang", so that the righteous name of the Dong Alliance was further expanded, and more people came.

But there is a problem in this, that is, as of now, before February 191, the world does not know that the "Three Princes' Letters" distributed by Qiao Mao were forged by Qiao Mao himself, and everyone thinks that this is the real Three Princes asking for help from the local government.

And just a few days ago, a few days before Qiao Mao was killed, he himself shook out the inside story, openly declaring that "I fabricated the letters that gathered the princes last year", and then took this credit to enhance his status within the Dong Alliance, as if "If I hadn't taken the opportunity to forge the letter, maybe not so many people would have responded to the righteousness."

And Zhang Miao and Wu Zi also felt that Qiao Mao's credit was higher than the original evaluation because Qiao Mao had leaked this inside story, so they wanted to welcome him - as for whether there is any other insider trading in this, no one knows.

Maybe it was Zhang Miao and other veteran princes of the "first batch of Juyi faction in January last year" who wanted to disgust Yuan Shao and other "the second batch of Juyi princes who relied on the letters of the three dukes in February last year", and there was a factional struggle, so they took out a little advantage to persuade Qiao Mao, who was the liaison of the "second batch of Juyi princes", to turn against the water, expose themselves to the forgery scandal, and deal an overall blow to the common prestige of the second batch of Juyi princes.

But Yuan Shao, as the biggest beneficiary of the second batch of righteous princes, he definitely didn't want his righteous reputation to be damaged. At the same time, Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, was also one of the second batch of Juyi princes, and with Yuan Shao's acquiescence, Liu Dai killed him on the way to Qiaomao on the way to Zhang Miao on the charge of "undermining the overall prestige of the coalition army".

Qiao Mao didn't get the benefits given by Zhang Miao and Wu Zi, and was directly eliminated by his boss Assassin Shi.

Among the princes of the Dong Alliance, the first infighting that directly killed the princes of a certain road began.

Since then, the prohibition of "not attacking each other and not grabbing each other's territory within the Dong Alliance" has been completely smashed, and the magic box has been opened.

Sun Jian and Guan Yu still couldn't figure out so many twists and turns for a while, and it was estimated that it would take two months to completely figure it out. But for now, at least they have thought of a possibility that is in their own interest.

After Guan Yu finished listening, he patted his thigh and sighed regretfully: "It's not good! We all know the news, and Dong Zhuo's old thief is only afraid that he will get the news before us. He previously ordered Hua Xiong to take the initiative to attack regardless of the military disadvantages, in order to fight the first battle against the Dong Alliance this year, deter the princes, and make others dare not move the wall and push everyone.

But now that Qiao Mao has been killed, and Qiao Mao confided in such a scandal before he died, letting the world know that the letter of the three princes asking for help from the princes of Dong last year was fake, I am afraid that those princes will have even more reason to fear the enemy! In this way, Dong Zhuo has no political authority to be held.

From now on, Dong Zhuo's command of the war can be purely military, so does he still use Lu Bu and Hu Zhen to cross the river and take the initiative to attack us? Lu Bu has not seen movement for more than ten days, is this the reason? ”

Sun Jian also came to his senses: "This is not unreasonable, at the beginning, it may have been because Hua Xiong was beheaded, Dong Zhuo felt that he had been defeated for a while, anyway, his face had been lost, and he didn't need to be too anxious to get it back, it was better to be prepared." Later, it may be really because Dong Zhuo no longer has to think about deterring other princes, so he is not in a hurry to fight us Liwei! Alas, those wastes in Shandong can't even shake the flag and shout! It will only hold us back! ”

Sun Jian really hated, in his opinion, Qiao Mao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Dai were simply standing on the background board and couldn't make up the number of people, and when the background board cheerleaders were there, they still cheered and openly infighting for the enemy to see, so that the enemy didn't even have to be nervous to take the initiative to attack.