The wind and clouds will meet, and the curtain will rise!

Cao Cao came to Chenliu, met with his father, and received economic support from Wei Hong, a wealthy local businessman, first issued an edict, reported to all provinces, and then gathered volunteers, erected a white flag to recruit soldiers, and wrote the word "loyalty". Within a few days, the applicants gathered.

First of all, he was a Yangping patriot, surnamed Le, named Jin, and the word Wenqian, who came to vote for Cao Cao; Then there were Shanyang Julu people, surnamed Li, the name dictionary, and the word Mancheng, who also came to vote for Cao Cao. Cao Cao accepted it as a pre-account official.

Later, there was a Peiguo County native Xiahou Yuan, the character Yuan Rang, and his brother Xiahou Yuan, the word Miaocai, each led more than 1,000 strong men to the meeting. These two people are Cao Cao's brothers: Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was originally the son of the Xiahou family, and later lived in the Cao family, so they are of the same clan. Immediately afterwards, the Cao brothers Cao Ren and Cao Hong each brought more than 1,000 troops to help.

In this way, with the support of Wei Hong's wealth and the purchase of clothes and armor equipment for him, more than 10,000 soldiers were gathered in the rest of the month, which caused the Quartet to shake, and there were countless people who sent food.

"Welcome!"

Cao Cao didn't expect that the first prince to arrive would be Yuan Shu, he thought that even if Yuan Shu was close to Nanyang, he would wait for most of the others to arrive, at least some of them, before they arrived, just like the arrogance in his bones as he knew it before.

"Meng De, you did a good job, Dong Thief deceived people too much, we should join forces to deal with him." Yuan Shu said proudly, "As long as you are willing to support Meng De, we will definitely be able to defeat Dong Thief and re-enter the court." ”

Cao Cao understood all of Yuan Shu's thoughts after listening to it, first of all, Liu Bian's succession was promoted by him Yuan Shu, and even because he was one of the Nine Qings, when Dong Zhuo abolished Liu Wei and set up Liu Xie as the emperor, his impact was the greatest, and his performance was naturally positive; Secondly, there may be a high-ranking person's support, which made Yuan Shu fall in love with the status of the leader of the alliance and want to hold it in his hands, of course, it may also be to suppress the possible Yuan Shao; In the end, I probably want to return to the court, return to Jiuqing and the like.

"The first one on the highway is actually a loyal minister of the Han family, and it is also an honor. If you want to wait for the rest of the people to arrive, you will inevitably be infected by the actions of the highway, and then support the highway. "Cao Cao is so cunning, he fooled around casually, but when he thought about it carefully, he found that there was no useful information. After all, he couldn't force others to support Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu didn't hear this, his face was overjoyed, as if he was winning, and he raised his head and said: "Meng De rest assured, as long as the Dong thief is defeated, Shu will definitely recommend Meng De as Shangshu." ”

"So, thanks for the road!" Cao Cao suddenly had a little more worry about this time to ask Dong, if it was all people like Yuan Shu who had not yet fought and began to fight for power and profit, I am afraid it would be difficult.

Then Cao Cao didn't want to give Yuan Shu a chance to say more, and said sideways: "Please!" ”

"Please!" Yuan Shu was knowledgeable and reserved, and said nothing else, and walked out of the depths of this temporary camp with Cao Cao, talking about Fenghua and Xueyue along the way.

They are all like-minded people, and there are three irons in life!

However, Cao Cao was full of joy at the first arrival of Yuan Shu, and the name of the fourth and third dukes was much louder than the name of him who failed to assassinate Dong and fled in embarrassment.

Sure enough, Yuan Shu's first arrival played a positive role, and Chen Liutaishou, Yanzhou Thorn History, and Yuzhou Thorn History arrived quickly, and even Yuan Shao, who was on the road, nervously issued an order to speed up the march after getting the news.

The text was issued, and the princes of each town all raised troops in response: the first town, and the later general Nanyang guarded 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 County 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 Xiang 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, the right Beiping Taishou Gongsun Zhan. In the fifteenth town, the party is too flamboyant. The sixteenth town, Wucheng Hou Changsha guarded Sun Jian. The seventeenth town, Hou Bohai of Qi Township, guarded Yuan Shao. The eighteenth town, Donglai Taishou Zhang Hong. The nineteenth town, the grandson of the Marquis of Liao.

Two months have passed, and the princes from all walks of life have arrived one after another, and they have set up camp for more than 200 miles, occupying the small place of sour jujube for a time. Cao Cao slaughtered cattle and horses, invited princes from all walks of life to a banquet, and discussed the strategy of marching.

Taishou Yuan said: "Today, if you are righteous, you will establish the leader of the alliance; Command the people, and march. ”

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Xu Rong.

The princes of all walks of life, with the marquis of Liao are the most famous, the highest prestige, if the alliance leader, he is the best candidate, but Gongsun Du did not arrive, only his subordinate Xu Rong led the troops. It's just that even so, everyone knows the strength of the Liaodong Army, and if they can't get their support, everyone doesn't dare to say much.

Xu Rong put down the wine glass for a while, and said: "My lord is seriously ill and not good at walking, and there are barbarians outside the Saiwai who look down on Liaodong, so I can't come, and I hope you Haihan!" ”

This has been said once before, but now it has to be said again. Everyone said they didn't dare. Xu Rong continued: "Therefore, before leaving, my lord explained to Xu that the intention of this trip was to suppress the formation and increase enough pressure on Dong Thief, if he could make an unwise decision, it would be the best. Other than that, everything is at the behest of the alliance leader. ”

The implication is that whoever wants to be the leader of the alliance should be, just don't think about us being cannon fodder.

However, even so, everyone had to praise: "Liaohou Gaoyi! ”

So, Jizhou Assassin Han Fu said: "Yuan Benchu is the fourth and third dukes, and there are many old officials, and after the Han Dynasty is famous, he can be the leader of the alliance." ”

Hearing this, Yuan Shu was immediately unhappy, but his face was not so thick, so he recommended himself, so he glanced at the dog-legged Wang Kuang. Then I listened to Wang Kuang and said: "The son-in-law of the Yuan family on Yuan Highway is the first to respond to the edict and can be the leader of the alliance." ”

Yuan Shao, who was going to resign, was suddenly unhappy, he thought that his younger brother was trying to steal his limelight, so he straightened his face and didn't say a word.

Subsequently, the rest of the princes from all walks of life spoke and recommended, and in the end, Yuan Shao was better and won the position of alliance leader. Yuan Shao, who failed to achieve a crushing victory, responded this time without half a point of resignation.

The next day, build three layers of Taiwan, all over the five flags, build white and yellow Yue, soldier talisman general seal, everyone with Shao on the altar, blood for the alliance——

"The Han family is unfortunate, the emperor is unified, and the thief Dong Zhuo ......"

After the oath was completed, everyone went down to the altar with Shao.

As soon as Yuan Shao became the leader of the alliance, he appointed Yuan Shu as the grain and grass officer to deal with the battalions. It can be regarded as a consolation to his younger brother's failure to compete for the position of alliance leader.

At this point, Yuan Shu could only respond, but he secretly hated Han Fu and others who supported Yuan Shao, and kept it in his heart.

"After the oath of today's alliance is completed, there should be a pioneer who will challenge the tiger prison, and the rest of the people will respond according to the danger."

Changsha Taishou Sun Jian felt that the opportunity had come, and he responded first: "I am willing to be the front." ”

Yuan Shaoxi said: "Wentai is brave and brave enough to take on this important responsibility. ”

Sun Jian was also happy, and immediately led the people of the headquarters to go straight to the tiger prison to kill.

Sun Nut is as Yuan Shao said, very brave, personally risking arrows, several killings, if it weren't for Li Ru getting the news earlier, under the instruction of Dong Zhuo, he sent additional men and horses, I'm afraid the tiger prison will not be able to hold on for a day. However, even so, after Sun Jian's several times of rushing and killing, the Tiger Prison Pass still had a sense of crumbling, and the guards hurriedly sent people to the Luoyang Prime Minister's Mansion to report the emergency.

Li Ru received the document and went straight to the palace to report to Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo was furious and summoned the generals to discuss.

Wenhou Lu Bu has been worried about not having the opportunity to make meritorious contributions since he joined Dong Zhuo's command, and now that the opportunity appears, he can't bear to miss it, so he suddenly stepped forward and debuted: "Don't worry, father!" The princes outside the gate, but the generation of local chickens and dogs, the children are willing to mention the division of tigers and wolves, behead them, and hang them in the capital! ”

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed and said: "My son is brave, and now I can sit back and relax!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a person turned out behind Lu Bu and said in a loud voice: "Kill chickens with a knife? If you don't go to the Marquis of Wen in person, you will behead the heads of all the princes, such as taking things. ”。

Dong Zhuo saw that it was Hua Xiong, who was not dealing with Lu Bu, and he was happy again, and then saw that Li Ru kept giving him a look, so he quickly agreed.

Dong Zhuo Jiahuaxiong was the captain of the Xiao Cavalry, and he allocated 50,000 horses and infantry troops, and ordered Hu Zhen and others to rush to the Tiger Prison Pass to support the starry night.