March 191 A.D.

After being silent for several months, Lu Bu suddenly wrote to the imperial court, posthumously worshipping Jia Xu as the general of Zuo Zhonglang and the marquis of Duting.

After Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty played the quasi-performance, Lu Bu issued a wide range of texts and crusaded against Dong Zhuo again, the obvious reason was to punish the traitor, but many people speculated that Lu Bu sent troops this time to avenge Jia Xu, although Lu Bu's move was reckless, but it made many talented people come to serve him, and this unexpected joy made Lu Bu unexpected.

This time the conquest of Dong Zhuo was probably in accordance with the strategy arranged by Jia Xu when he was there, Ma Teng led the greedy wolf iron cavalry to attack Liangzhou, and Ma Chao led the troops of the Qiang Alliance to attack and harass the subordinates of Dong Zhuo's army in the Liangzhou area.

At the same time, Xu Huang led 20,000 troops from Hongnong to force Wuguan and contain the 50,000 horses of Li Dao and Guo Yan.

With Gao Shun as the main general, Zhang Yan and Zang Hong as the auxiliaries, and at the same time, with Fu Zhu as the mastermind, he led 50,000 troops to force Tongguan and contain the 80,000 troops led by Xu Rong who was stationed there.

Ordered Zhao Yun to lead Tai Shici, Zhang Liao, and Liu Ba to lead 30,000 troops to support Xu Huang.

As for Lü Bu himself, he personally led an army of 50,000 troops, led Dian Wei and Guo Jia to take Pingyang County directly, preparing to pass through Pingyang County to Fenyin County in Hedong County, cross the big river (that is, the Yellow River) to capture Xiayang County in Fengyi County and then threaten Chang'an.

This time, Lu Bu can be said to have poured out of the nest, and only Tian Feng was left to garrison in Bingzhou, with less than 50,000 troops.

However, the reason why Lu Bu dared to do this was because he had greeted Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in advance, and at this time they were busy digesting the territory they had just attacked, so they did not have the leisure and strength to attack Lu Bu's hometown. That's why Lu Bu dared to come out of the nest like this.

"Lord, Lu Bu has sent troops to our army." Li Ru stood in front of Dong Zhuo and arched his hand and said.

"Oh? Did he finally take it easy? It's good, it's good. Dong Zhuo drank a glass of Qiongyu liquid, let out a sigh of relief, and then said, "Wenyou, what is your best plan?" ”

Li Ru opened his mouth and said: "Although Lu Bu's troops are divided into four ways this time, only two roads are the most important. ”

"You're talking about Ma Teng in Xiliang and Lu Bu in Pingyang." Dong Zhuo said lightly.

"Exactly, Lu Bu seems to be powerful this time, but in fact, I speculate that his real purpose should be in Xiliang, but this person is very affectionate, and it is indeed possible that he crossed the river to threaten Chang'an because of Jia Xu."

"Come on, come on, but it's really a coincidence, who do you think will have the ability to kill Jia Xu? It won't be Wen You, hahaha, you can have wanted to get rid of it a long time ago, but now you have fulfilled your wish. Dong Zhuo's tone was relaxed and joking.

"Lord, don't make fun of me. Xia Guan always wondered who did it, and he actually made me carry this black pot on my back, although it feels good to carry such a pot. Li Ru said with a wry smile.

After a pause, Li Ru said with a straight face: "Does the lord still remember the old way of claiming to be an immortal?" ”

"You mean him?" Dong Zhuo's heart moved, nodded and said: "If it is him, it is possible, but I heard that the assassins are a group of ordinary people, and if he makes a move, I am afraid that Lu Bu will have to die." ”

Li Ru nodded and said: "That's right, Xia Guan thinks that this immortal probably can't directly meddle in the affairs between us mortals, otherwise why don't you directly use force to threaten or ...... that time?"

"Well, that's the same thing. But what is the reason for this man's doing? ”

"Lord, how can such a person do useless work, and he is restricted from taking direct action, so what kind of person can be such a person?" Li Ru smiled mysteriously.

Dong Zhuo's eyes lit up: "Are you saying that he also has an opponent, and his opponent is likely to support Lu Bu?" He pondered for a moment, then clapped his fat hands and said, "Then it makes sense." ”

Dong Zhuo stood up, his fat body staggered around the room, and muttered: "Interesting, interesting, then let's say that the person waiting is likely to be Lu Bu?" ”

"At the moment, it seems that he is the most promising, and the appearance of the mysterious old way has confirmed this suspicion on the one hand." Li Ru nodded and said.

"Haha, after waiting for so long, this person finally appeared, not bad, very good." Dong Zhuo said with a hearty smile, this is his true joy from the heart, after breaking through the demons in his heart, Dong Zhuo's state of mind has become transparent, and he has been waiting for the person from the Zhongxing Han family to appear.

During this period of time, Dong Zhuo's pressure has also been very great, not only to the big men in the court, but also to the arrogant generals under his command who have already been dissatisfied with his inaction at this time.

For those who are martial artists, what they need is to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, but after Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, he not only stopped expanding externally in the military aspect, but also began to secretly rectify the factional struggle internally, which made the people of several major factions already dissatisfied.

In addition, Dong Zhuo, under the advice of Li Ru, began to strictly enforce military discipline, so that the various subordinates of the Xiliang Army no longer did whatever they wanted as they did in Luoyang before.

Li Ru's move, on the one hand, is to reshape the reputation of the Xiliang Army and win back the hearts of the people, after all, the capital has been moved to Chang'an, and the people can no longer make life miserable here, which is also a huge loss for themselves, and Li Ru will naturally not do this kind of thing.

The reason why the Xiliang army was not restrained when he was in Luoyang at that time was to appease the group of Xiliang soldiers under him.

Dong Zhuo's descendants are mainly cavalry, and a considerable part of the cavalry is Qianghu people, this group of people in Xiliang has a bandit habit, this is also Dong Zhuo in order to stimulate their combat effectiveness and deliberately indulge the result, and since the Han Dynasty, the Qianghu people are afraid and afraid of the Han people most of the time, and have repeatedly launched uprisings against the tyranny of the Han people, which also makes the Qianghu people have a natural hatred for the Han Dynasty, so when they entered the Han capital Luoyang, The desire to commit violence in the hearts of these people is naturally difficult to contain.

Another major aspect is still Dong Zhuo himself, at that time his mentality was extremely distorted, he himself wanted to destroy this decadent Han Dynasty, so not only did not stop and restrain these behaviors of his subordinates, but even indirectly connived and encouraged, which led to the tragic situation before Luoyang was destroyed.

But now that he has come to Chang'an, Dong Zhuo's mentality has also changed, since he hopes that someone can come out to reverse the situation, he will leave some fire for the Han Dynasty as much as possible.

Therefore, after coming to Chang'an, Dong Zhuo began to vigorously rectify military discipline on the one hand, and on the other hand, he began to restrain himself, whether it was for the royal family or the scholar family, it was not as brutal as before, although it was still arrogant and arrogant, so that everyone dared to be angry and dare not speak, but it was not as easy to kill and exterminate the clan as before.

Li Ru looked at Dong Zhuo, his eyes trembled slightly, as Dong Zhuo's henchman, he naturally knew that Dong Zhuo's smile was sincere, and he didn't know how long it had been since he had seen such a sincere smile on Dong Zhuo's face, it seemed that after entering Luoyang, Dong Zhuo's smile had become fake.

However, the truth at this time made Li Ru feel uncomfortable from the bottom of his heart, and he sighed secretly in his heart and said, "Lord, how do you want to deal with it now?" ”

Dong Zhuo looked at Li Ru with a smile and said, "I intend to go in person, and I will be here for a while." ”

After Li Ru heard this, he was in a hurry, and hurriedly opened his mouth to stop him: "The lord must not!" ”

Dong Zhuo waved his hand to stop Li Ru's next words and said, "Wenyou, I have made up my mind." You go to prepare the troops and horses, five days later, I personally led 50,000 cavalry to Xiayang, Hua Xiong, Hu Zhen, Li Su with me on the expedition, you garrison Chang'an. ”

"Lord!"

"Wen Hexiu has to persuade again!" Dong Zhuo said to Li Ru in a rare stern manner.

Sighing, Li Ru knew that no matter how he persuaded him, he couldn't change Dong Zhuo's mind, and finally stopped persuading Dong Zhuo, and his brain began to work at a high speed to measure the pros and cons of Dong Zhuo's personal expedition this time.

Dong Zhuo returned to his seat, sat down slowly, picked up the wine glass on the table, shook it slowly, watching the turbid wine keep spinning, becoming more turbid, and his eyes slowly became deeper.

The two were silent for half a pillar of incense, and Dong Zhuo suddenly spoke: "Wen You." ”

Hearing this, Li Ru woke up from his contemplation and asked blankly, "Lord, Wen You is here." ”

Dong Zhuo's eyes were still looking at the swirling wine, and he said leisurely: "You say, what should I do after I die?" ”

Li Ru's heart froze, Dong Zhuo had the will to die, could it be that this time the pro-conquest was ......

Dong Zhuo suddenly looked at Li Ru, and after seeing the expression on Li Ru's face, he was stunned at first, and then suddenly understood that after Li Ru heard his words, he probably thought that he was going to die.

Dong Zhuo raised his head and drank the wine, and said, "Hahaha, Wenyou, it's not what you think." I, Dong Zhongying, haven't lived long enough. It's just that people are inherently dead, and they suddenly feel it, hahaha, this flower world Lao Tzu still wants to enjoy it for a few more years to be enough. ”

Li Ru smiled bitterly: "Lord, father-in-law, don't make such jokes, the son-in-law really can't afford it." ”

"Hahaha, virtuous son-in-law, virtuous son-in-law, you, you!" Dong Zhuo put down the wine glass and found that the skin on the back of his hand was a little loose and old, and he couldn't help but sigh: "It's still old after all." Wenyou, your age is not too young, hurry up and have a child, at least you have to leave a queen for yourself, Yao'er is young now, if you have a child, it just so happens that their uncle and nephew can be a companion. ”

At this time, Dong Zhuo is no longer the Dong Taishi who dances the world and disturbs the dynasty, he is just an ordinary old man, gossiping with his son-in-law.

Li Ru became a little embarrassed at this time, his expression was very cowardly, and after a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "Eh, my son-in-law has been taking tonic recently." ”