Dong Zhuo received the letter and read it, and was immediately furious.

"Good! Very good! Xu Rong really had a secret communication with Xu Ding. ”

It turned out that when Dong Zhuo saw the smear, Xu Ding's hidden words loomed, to the effect that Xu Rong would use a bitter trick to win Dong Zhuo's trust, and then give them an internal response.

At this time, Xu Rong was brought, Xu Rong paid homage to Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo snorted coldly: "Xu Rong, what do you have to say about this letter." ”

Xu Rong didn't know the reason, and replied honestly: "Prime Minister, this letter was brought to me by Xu Ding, and the paper is full of words of concern. ”

"Is that really the case? You really didn't hook up with Xu Ding to murder Prime Minister Ben. Dong Zhuo stared at Xu Rong, and secretly said in his heart, as long as Xu Rong admitted, he could still let Xu Rong go.

After all, Xu Rong is a talent, and it is a pity to kill him.

"Rong is entrusted and trusted by the prime minister, how dare you do something sorry for the prime minister, Rong is willing to attack with a crime, please ask the prime minister to allocate me a soldier and horse, Rong is willing to be the vanguard, and will not repel Xu Junhou and swear not to return to the city." Xu Rong swore an oath.

"Hahaha, what a mouthful of Xu Junhou, in vain Prime Minister Ben trusts you so much, I didn't expect you Xu Rong to be such a wolf-hearted thing, someone will escort Xu Rong down, behead him at noon tomorrow, and inform the whole army." Dong Zhuo was angry and slapped the case again, pinched the letter paper in his hand, and immediately crumpled it.

Xu Rong was a little confused, what was the situation.

Why did the prime minister suddenly want to kill me.

What am I doing wrong?

I really didn't betray the prime minister, I really want to work for the prime minister.

Xu Rong wanted to say something, but Dong Zhuo didn't give him a chance, so a few wrestlers came up and escorted Xu Rong out.

"I'm angry, Xu Rong really has a problem." Dong Zhuo was so angry that he couldn't kill Xu Rong on the spot, and when he calmed down, he politely said to Jia Xu:

"If it weren't for Mr. Jia, he would have almost fallen into Xu Ding's way, and Mr. Congcai is really admired."

"The prime minister praises it falsely, but he can't praise the talent of the slightest, and it just so happens that he will know some small ways." Jia Xu said half-truthfully and humbly, Jia Xu's character is based on the first principle of saving his life, and he naturally does not dare to show too much talent in front of Dong Zhuo, so he is extremely humble.

Dong Zhuo is angry, and sometimes he is too emotional.

Jia Xu can see this clearly.

However, he wanted to keep his head open and hide his clumsiness, but Li Ru would not let him go easily, and only listened to Li Ru: "Wenhe is too modest, the prime minister doesn't know, Wenhe's talent is far better than mine, if the prime minister has Wenhe's assistance, he will definitely be like a tiger's wings, and defeating the Kwantung rats is just around the corner." ”

Hearing this, Dong Zhuo was even more surprised, he knew his son-in-law's ability, Jia Xu was stronger than Li Ru?

Li Ru's character, Dong Zhuo, understands better, and he also disdains people who do nothing.

Being able to get such a high evaluation from Li Ru can only show that Jia Xu has real skills, so he got up and dragged Jia Xu's hand and said: "Mr. Wenhe, Zhuo has the ambition to swallow the sky, and is willing to work with Mr. to participate in great things, I hope Mr. will not refuse." ”

Faced with Dong Zhuo's eagerness, as well as Li Ru's eyes that were attentive on the side, but hidden knives, Jia Xu had no choice but to nod and respond: "The prime minister invites him, and he dares to be late." ”

"Hahaha, okay, there is Wenhe, why worry about not being able to eliminate the Kanto rats." Dong Zhuo sat back with great joy, and then said: "Jia Xu listened to the seal, this prime minister ordered you to be the military advisor of the army, and he was appointed as the general of Dongzhonglang, and he was still a scholar." ”

"Prime Minister Xie!" Jia Xu hurriedly thanked.

Dong Zhuo then asked, "Wenhe, what do you think of the current situation?" ”

Jia Xu had already had a draft, and replied: "Prime Minister, Li Shangshu's proposal to retreat to Guanzhong is very correct, avoid the edge of the Kwantung Coalition Army, sweep the rear should be the first priority, accumulate strength and wait for the time to move, you can decide in one fell swoop, what you have to do now, I think that when you withdraw from Luoyang City immediately, you can't delay it, so as not to have many dreams at night." ”

"Let's leave now, but Wenhe, the emperor's tomb has not been dug up yet, and only half of the treasure has been obtained, and the population of Luoyang City has only migrated half, and there are hundreds of thousands of people." Dong Zhuo said with some reluctance.

At this time, what is the war is fighting is money, food and population.

The population base is large, and the war potential is strong.

Only when there is more money and food can we have the morale of the army and maintain sustained combat effectiveness.

"Otherwise, Prime Minister, Xu Ding will break through the Luoyang Pass in a row, below the Tiger Prison Pass and the Revolving Gate Pass, no matter how Yuan Shao and others prevaricate, it is impossible to continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and they must bring a large army into the pass, and it is the right time to retreat at this time, if Yuan Shao and others arrive at Luoyang City, we will definitely have a bloody battle with the Kwantung Coalition Army, and the gains outweigh the losses." Jia Xu said.

Yuan Shao, as the leader of the alliance, has a deep blood feud with Dong Zhuo, once he arrives in Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo has not withdrawn, even if Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu don't want to fight Dong Zhuo, but with righteousness on their backs, they have to fight.

Otherwise, it is disloyalty and unfilial piety.

Dong Zhuo's killing of Yuan Kui was a stinky move, which directly blocked the way for Dong Zhuo to cooperate with the Yuan family, and also blocked the channel for collecting talents in the Kanto region.

A person who dares to kill even his old boss with him, who dares to do things under you.

So Jia Xu took a deep look at Li Ru, and it should not be difficult for Li Ru to think of this, why he didn't stop it at that time.

It's just that only Li Ru himself knows about this, so he showed a wry smile in the face of Jia Xu's eyes.

Jia Xu quickly comprehended and showed a clear expression.

"Good! Withdraw tomorrow! Dong Zhuo also struggled in his heart for a while before agreeing with Jia Xu's opinion.

However, Jia Xu shook his head and said: "Prime Minister, you must withdraw tonight, I am afraid of accidents after dawn." ”

Dong Zhuo frowned.

Jia Xu has to make inches.

Li Ru hurriedly said: "Prime Minister, Wen He's words are reasonable, since Xu Ding can win over Xu Rong, he should be the internal response to rebel, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not win over others." ”

Dong Zhuoxin also chuckled, realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Immediately let Fan Chou and Zhang Ji go to defend the East Gate and the Middle East Gate, and let Lu Bu go too." ”

Lu Bu was in the mansion, and when he was fine, Dong Zhuo usually asked Lu Bu to follow him as a bodyguard, so Lu Bu was the first to rush to the Middle East Gate and the Upper East Gate when he heard the news.

It was all guarded by his state army.

Although Dong Zhuo's move made Lu Bu a little annoyed, because it was a distrust of his merger with the state army, he was naturally not too happy if he had doubts about the merge state army.

When I came to the Middle East Gate, everything was fine, and then I went to the East Gate, and then I found that Zhang Liao, who was on duty, did not know where to go.

"Back to the general, Zhang Liao took his eight hundred generals to the north."

"To the north?" Lu Bu was puzzled, what Zhang Liao was going to do when he left his post late at night.

He also took all of his 800 parts with him.

So he immediately chased north.

Next to the upper east gate is Yong'an Palace, the west side of Yong'an Palace is Beiguan, there is a long road between the two palaces, which leads directly to the north-facing valley gate, and the valley gate is facing the north mountain.

Outside the city were the soldiers and horses of Xu Ding and others, and Dong Zhuo sent his henchmen to guard them.

Whether it is Dong Zhuo or Lu Bu, Li Ru and others, they will not think that Xu Ding's siege will hit the grain gate, after all, Xu Ding is good at using tactics, and he will definitely set up a suspicious formation and look for a breakthrough from other city gates, so on the contrary, the defensive force over there is relatively less.

Thinking of this, Lu Bu had a bad premonition.

(End of chapter)