At the end of November of the first year of Yonghan, in the Taishi Mansion in Luoyang City, the empty front hall had neither Xiliang generals nor beautiful delicacies at this time, and some were just relatively silent plus two pots of new wine. Dong Zhuo clutched the two pieces of news from Huayin and was silent for a long time. One is that Lu Bu and Long Jun were defeated and injured in Shilipo, and the other is that Long Jun planned to use the corpse of Liu Bian, the king of Chen Liu, and Cai Yong and Zhu Jun, who had just been recalled to Beijing, to secretly give Dong Zhuo some time to deal with the Kwantung coalition army.

Looking at Dong Zhuo, who was silent on the main seat, Li Ru secretly probed Long Jun's decision in his heart, and recalled Cai Yong and Zhu Jun were both political means used by Dong Zhuo to win over the world's celebrities, which could be regarded as buying horse bones. But once these two people are sent to Guanzhong, I am afraid that the reputation of Zhenbei Hou will once again be famous all over the world, and as for the bones to be returned to Liu Bian, it is purely Long Jun's appearance for the group of people loyal to the Han family to see.

Dong Zhuo, who couldn't make a choice, after introducing a cup of spicy new wine, asked Li Ru in a hoarse voice, "The text is endless, Li Ru knows what his father-in-law thinks in his heart, gives up Luoyang and turns to the fortress, makes a mistake with a time difference, completely kills Long Jun, and then relies on Guanzhong to conquer the Kwantung Domain." But can this kill the Long Family's army? If it weren't for the stability of the rear, how dare Long Jun swagger to appear on the ten-mile slope of Tongguan, and how dare he be with Lu Bu for a long time, and then send this news.

"Lord, in fact, whether it is to hand over these two people or fight with Long Jun endlessly, it is not the best strategy for us now! The previous subordinates have deduced the current situation, and found that in fact, we have a third choice, as long as we "

"Shut up!" Dong Zhuo shouted angrily and interrupted what Li Ru wanted to say, he didn't know what the third way was, but he Dong Zhuo was unwilling to retreat, even if he retreated, he would choose his own Zhongxing land Guanzhong, not the nominal territory and state.

Looking at Dong Zhuo's angry expression, Li Ru's face darkened, and he admired Long Jun who put them in a dilemma.

The silence lasted for a long time, and Dong Zhuo calmed down the depression in his heart, so he asked self-deprecatingly, "Is it that in addition to this method, the old man can only make wedding dresses for others?" ”

Feeling Dong Zhuo's grief, Li Ru took a deep breath, picked up the wine cup in front of him, and sneered, "Actually, otherwise, we still have a fourth way, it depends on whether the lord dares to gamble!" ”

Hearing this, the decadent Dong Zhuo instantly came to his senses, and said with a look of hope, "Let's talk about it!" ”

"Actually, it's very simple, what Long Jun promised, we will give it to him, but it's not really giving, you need to think that the snake is holding for a while, now Cai Yong is still in Yingchuan, there is still a distance from Luoyang, and when he goes to Xinzheng, let's let Long Jun pick up Cai Yong by himself, during this period, I forget it, we can trust him for at least two months." As for the Kwantung Coalition Army, the 17th Road Domain Town said that it is for the country and the people, in fact, except for a few people, the others are no different from Long Jun, they all think about themselves, as long as we are willing to be officials, it is okay to delay for a while, at this time, the army of Fengxian and Li Dao will be recalled, leaving 10,000 garrisons in Huangchi, and then we will defend the Tiger Prison Pass and fight a decisive battle with the Kwantung Coalition Army here. Winning or losing depends on providence. ”

Li Ru's move can be regarded as a desperate gamble, once Long Jun receives Cai Yong, will Long Jun still stick to the agreement and not send troops to Luoyang at that time? Don't forget that among the Kwantung coalition forces, Nanyang Taishou Yuan Shu and Changsha Taishou Sun Jian are on the southern front, in case these people are allowed to jointly break through from Yingchuan to Sili, even if the Xiliang army wins the victory of the Kwantung coalition army, they will lose to Long Jun and a few people on the southern front.

After looking down and weighing the gains and losses for a long time, Dong Zhuo raised his head, stared at the son-in-law who gave him advice with burning eyes, and said in a deep voice, "What if they all lose?" What should I do? ”

"Retreat to the state and take advantage of the Taihang risk to hold the Taihang Bacheng, you can keep the Guandong princes out, and then Chen Bing Hedong will concentrate on dealing with Long Jun in Guanzhong."

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you, the bodies of Zhu Jun and Chen Liuwang will be sent to Gutong Pass by you, and tell Long Jun that the old man is only blind in one thing in his life, but next time, I will definitely hang his head in my Xiliang army camp."

"Whoa."

At the end of the first year of Yonghan, on the eve of Chinese New Year's Eve, because the Kwantung Allied Army was convicted, the Taishi Dong Zhuo was furious about this, thinking that it was caused by the year name, so he divided the Taichang who was in charge of the new calendar of the world by the death penalty, and then changed the Yuan Chuping to want the world to be peaceful, and then did not hesitate to canonize the eighteenth road clan town that gathered in the sour date, Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao was promoted to Jizhou Thorn History, Dian Military Captain Cao Cao was promoted to Yanzhou Thorn History, Beihai Taishou Kong Rong was promoted to Qingzhou Thorn History, Nanyang Taishou Yuan Shu was promoted to Yuzhou Thorn History, etc., as for the original Thorn History was either demoted or promoted to Jiuqing, Anyway, there are rewards in the eighteen-way feudal towns.

In January of the first year of Chuping, Long Jun, who had just spent Chinese New Year's Eve with his family in Chang'an, laughed out loud after receiving the news, and praised Li Ru between words. Subsequently, according to the agreement with Dong Zhuo, the main force of the Long family army did not move, and Long Jun led Long Huwei and several generals under his command to cross the Yellow River and go northeast.

In February of the same year, Yuan Shao, the leader of the coalition army, refused the holy decree and lashed out at Dong Zhuo's wolf ambitions. After Dong Zhuo learned about this, he did not be as angry as before, and according to Li Ru's arrangement, he ordered Zhang Liao to command 10,000 troops and state troops to cross the river (note: the Yellow River) from Wenxian to Taihang.

At the end of February, the Kwantung coalition army has been fighting with the Xiliang army again for more than half a month, failed to make meritorious contributions, and the coalition army was sad in the face of the tiger prison and natural danger, at this time, Changsha Taishou Sun Jian, who should have supervised the grain and grass on the southern front, suddenly came here, and attacked the head of the tiger prison pass several times with his bravery, but because the rear army could not keep up in time, Sun Jian almost folded at the head of the city.

"Damn, they're all a bunch of soft eggs!" Sun Jian, who was sitting in the tent and letting the military doctor bandage his wounds, was scolded angrily, obviously he dragged Hua Xiong, the main general of the Tiger Prison Pass, but the soldiers of the coalition army just couldn't climb the city, and even fled under the enemy's first round of arrow rain.

Zu Mao, who followed Sun Jian here, laughed and said, "The lord is right, they are all a group of soft eggs, and the mother's eggs are not as brave as our Changsha athletes." ”

Different from Zu Mao, Cheng Pu is a rare wise general among the four generals in Changsha, and he laughed at Sun Jian's resentment and Zu Mao's laughter, but thinking of his own lord's rectum, he felt that it was better to tell Sun Jian something to save and provoke the scheming alliance leader. So he walked behind Sun Jian, took the bandaged bandage from the military doctor, and said with a smile: "Don't be angry, lord, in fact, it's okay like this, our Changsha army won't die here." ”

Seeing Cheng Pu with a helpless smile, Sun Jian was puzzled, "What do you mean?" ”

"From the beginning of Chen Liu's army, didn't the lord find out that the battles in our coalition army were all small feudal towns? Less than half of Liu Bei's 5,000 troops were left in the first battle of Fengqiu, and the Hanoi army of Zhang Yang's Hanoi army was completely lost in the first battle, and the armies of Wang Kuang, Kong Rong, Zhang Chao, Qiao Mao and others were successively folded under the Tiger Prison Pass. ”

'Bang', the table in front of him was kicked over by Sun Jian, and the anger in the tiger's eyes burned, he was not a fool, after Cheng Pu's analysis, he knew that this was Yuan Shao preserving his strength, so he shouted angrily, "Didn't he Yuan Benchu ignore the great cause of the world?" Cao Mengde just watched him mess around like this? ”

"The great cause of the world? My lord, alas! Pressing Sun Jian down with a chuckle, Cheng Pu explained with a smile, "It's because of the great cause of the world that he Yuan originally wanted to be like this, as for whether he wants to be He Jin or Dong Zhuo, we have no way of knowing!" As for that Cao Mengde, he is not a fool, knowing Yuan Shao's intentions, how can he sit still and wait to be killed? As the initiator of the coalition, I think the purpose of his preservation of strength is just to balance Yuan Shao. ”

"I knew that it would be better for the general to raise troops and accompany the Marquis of Zhenbei to defeat Dong Zhuo! I saw that Yuan Shu slowly swallowing on the road, and mentioned Long Jun several times, I guess I had this intention in mind! ”

Listening to Sun Jian's complaints, Cheng Pu shook his head with a smile, and then asked, "Attacking the city today, didn't the lord find out who the military general in the Xiliang army wearing capital armor was?" ”

"Who?" Suddenly, Sun Jian remembered the man who fought with the Marquis of Zhenbei in Luoyang, so he exclaimed, "Lu Bu? ”

Looking at Sun Jian, who realized it later, Cheng Pu secretly wiped the sweat for Sun Jian, although Sun Jian was brave and extraordinary, but today's person gave him a stronger sense, and he only relied on one person to defend the wall of seven battles, if Sun Jian fought with him, the consequences would be unimaginable. Then he nodded lightly and said with a smile, "Lu Bu has already arrived here, what happened to Guanzhong, otherwise how could the world-famous Lu Bu appear here and not deal with the old enemy Long Jun?" ”

"Do you suspect that Guan Zhong and Dong Zhuo reached a deal? Or maybe Long Jun had a bad feeling for the Kwantung Coalition and wanted to use Dong Zhuo Lu Bu's hand to deal with the coalition army? ”

If Long Jun was here, he would definitely give Sun Jian a thumbs up, and Sun Jian would have guessed it all. But Cheng Pu didn't dare to think so, not to mention that he couldn't afford to provoke Long Jun, even if he could afford to provoke it, once this kind of dirty water was splashed on Long Jun, at least half of the coalition army would be embarrassed by the Changsha Army. So Cheng Pu smiled and said, "The subordinates guess that this should not be the case, don't forget that far away in Liangzhou, Dong Zhuo still has a team of military horses, as long as Zhang Ji sends troops to help the wind, Long Jun can only stand still." ”

"This battle is really embarrassing!"

The winter wind of the tiger roaring by, blowing his cheeks painfully, Long Jun, who had already passed through Wushan, after learning the news that the coalition army was blocked in the Tiger Prison Pass, hurriedly accelerated his pace and rushed eastward, since Dong Zhuo asked him to find someone in person, then if he didn't satisfy Dong Zhuo's careful thoughts, wouldn't it seem that he Long Jun was a little stingy? As for how many benefits Long Jun can intercept, he doesn't know in his heart.

"The order goes down, the whole army speeds up and rushes to Dongyuan, Dong Zhuo and the Kwantung coalition army don't have much time to give us, we have to give Li Ru a good memory, some people they can't calculate!"

"Whoa! The order goes down, and the whole army speeds up! ”

In the middle of March of the first year of Chuping, the Tiger Prison was closed, and Lu Bu once again became famous at home, defending the crumbling Tiger Prison Pass with one enemy and four enemies.