Chapter 52 Raising the Army

Maybe it's because good things are destined to grind a lot, when Gao Shun and Guo Jia took turns to fight, and finally tried their best to persuade Guo Cui and set a date for marriage, a huge change occurred in the world.

On the Chang'an side, Li Dao and Guo Yan had infighting!

Whether it is Li Dao or Guo Yan, these two are both wolf ambitions. In the past, when Dong Zhuo was there, they were intimidated by his authority, and they could also work for Dong Fatzi obediently. But now that Dong Zhuo has been dead for a long time, they all think they are the bosses, and no one wants to obey anyone. Now one of them is the Great Sima, the other is the general of the chariot cavalry, they are all in the position of the power of the party, and they are both in Chang'an City to control the young emperor, if it is possible to cover up the contradiction in a short time, but once the time is over, the two sides will never be able to get along with each other in peace and quiet.

Although there were disagreements, at the beginning, the two also had a tacit understanding and never put each other's contradictions on the table. However, Fan Chou's sudden murder by Li Dao became the fuse for the two to completely turn against each other.

Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji were all generals under Dong Zhuo, and after Dong Zhuo was killed, the four of them each brought their headquarters into Luoyang to avenge him. After Wang Yun was executed and Lu Bu fled, the court had no power to resist and was completely controlled by these four people. Among the four, Li Dao and Guo Yan have a higher status, but Fan Chou and Zhang Ji are only slightly lower than Li and Guo.

After Li Dao and others took control of the Han Emperor, Ma Teng and Han Sui either felt angry at their behavior, or out of the purpose of wanting to take advantage of the chaos and get a little more benefit, in short, they waved tens of thousands of troops and attacked Chang'an. After several days of fierce fighting, Ma Teng and Han Sui's army were defeated by Li Dao and other armies, and fled in defeat. Li Wei ordered Fan Chou to pursue, but unexpectedly, Fan Chou only brought a few soldiers and horses to feign chase, and after a few miles casually, he quickly led the army back to Chang'an. Li Wei was greatly annoyed by Fan Chou's perfunctory attitude, and openly ordered the sword and axe men to cut Fan Chou to death in the council hall when the generals were deliberating.

Fan Chou's death inevitably caused an uproar. The next day, Li Wei invited Guo Yan to a banquet, with Fan Chou's previous experience, how could Guo Yan dare to go to the banquet again, maybe this is the Hongmen banquet set up by Li Wei, and he is ready to do it on top of the banquet. With this kind of thought, Guo Yan not only did not go to the banquet, but gathered people and decided to strike first and get rid of Li Dao. After Li Dao learned the news, he was furious, he not only gathered troops and horses, wanted to fight Guo Yan to the death, and even plundered the emperor, empress and a group of palace concubines into the military camp. Seeing this, Guo Yan seemed to be unwilling to be left behind by Li Dao, and plundered the ministers and officials in Chang'an City into his military camp.

The two sides confronted each other outside Chang'an City for a long time, but they could not tell the winner. After that, the two armies negotiated peace under the mediation of Zhang Ji and led the Son of Heaven back to Chang'an. On the way back to the city, Dong Cheng, Yang Feng and others took advantage of the slack of garrison of Li and Guo to lead more than 1,000 people to snatch the Han Emperor in the chaos and flee to Anyi.

Li Dao and Guo Yan were naturally furious and led the army to chase down.

Dong Cheng and others had few soldiers, so they were naturally far from being the opponents of Li and Guo's armies, so they immediately followed the advice of Yang Biao, the imperial commander, and asked the emperor to issue an edict to summon the army of Cao Mengde from Yanzhou to come to Kuangfu Han.

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And now, Cao Cao, who received the edict of the Son of Heaven, is gathering with all his subordinates to discuss the rebellion of the Chang'an army and the escape of the Han Emperor.

"Today's misfortune is that the royal family is in decline and treachery is rampant. Li Guo's evil thief dared to surrender troops in the capital, causing the saint to suffer in the court, which is really an unforgivable crime! Cao Cao knelt on his head, looked distressed, and said with a sad face, "Now that the Holy Lord has ordered me to lead my troops to fight against thieves, support the royal family, and return the world to the right path, what do you think?" ”

"Duke Wen of the former Jin Dynasty welcomed King Xiang of Zhou, and all the princes everywhere obeyed. Han Gaozu mourned for the righteous emperor, and all the heroes of the world returned to their hearts. Today, the Son is covered with dust, and the Lord Justice should be the first to advocate volunteers at this time of crisis, and obey the orders of the Son of Heaven not to obey, so that Cao Gong is the place where everyone wants, which is the strategy of the world. At this time, if you don't plan early, if someone else takes the lead in leading the army to rescue the Son of Heaven, it will be too late to regret it! "The first to speak was Xun Yu, among the strategists under Cao Cao's account, Xun Yu was undoubtedly the one who was most loyal to the Han family. In this troubled era, many knowledgeable and wise people can see that the Han family is about to collapse, and there is no possibility of saving. With Xun Yu's eyesight, it is impossible for him not to realize this, but he is unwilling to give up, that is, he must unswervingly devote himself to the ideal of recovering the Han Dynasty. It can be said that he defected to Cao Cao's tent in the hope that Cao Cao could support this dangerous building that would collapse sooner or later. And now the great opportunity is in front of us, as long as the army is waved westward, eliminate the two thieves Li and Guo, with the help of Cao Cao, the Han family may really wait until the day of Zhongxing again, how could Xun Yu not seize the opportunity, and try his best to persuade Cao Cao to raise troops to serve the king.

"However, I have just driven Lu Bu out of Yanzhou, and now the territory of Yanzhou is not very stable, in case I lead the army out, and other princes take advantage of this opportunity to lead troops to invade my Yanzhou, what should I do?" It can be seen that Cao Cao is still very interested in crusading against Li Dao and Guo Yan. Now he is not the high-ranking and powerful minister in the future, the Han family still has a lot of weight in his heart, and Cao Cao is naturally angry about the practice of Li and Guo robbing the emperor and the ministers. It's just that the last time Lu Bu took advantage of his absence to sneak attack Yanzhou, the lesson was too profound, and if he sent troops this time, he would have to face more than 100,000 soldiers and horses under Li and Guo, which was more difficult than the last expedition to Xuzhou.

"The Lord can rest assured." It was Guo Jia who spoke this time, and I saw him talk eloquently, "The last expedition to Xuzhou was just a private fight between the princes. And this time, if the lord decides to send troops to fight against Li and Guo, he will go to King Qin at the edict of the Son of Heaven, if anyone dares to take advantage of this time to covet Yanzhou, it can be regarded as an edict against the Son of Heaven, and help Li, Guo and other thieves to be evil, and to be a thief who is a great rebel! At that time, if the lord can help the Son of Heaven, he can order the loyal and righteous people in the world in the name of the Son of Heaven to rise up and ask for it! ”

Cao Cao's eyes flashed, Guo Jia's analysis was reasonable, meticulous, and the most important thing was to get to the point and solve all his worries.

"Fengxiao's words are very good, I have made up my mind, raise 50,000 elite soldiers, and ask the thief and the king!"