After the alliance sacrificed to the heavenly hall, the princes of Zhonglu returned to their respective camps to rest, waiting for the night food before going to Cao Cao Xingyuan to celebrate the alliance and discuss the specific plan of action for the next step.

In order to avoid suspicion, although he lived in Cao Cao's Xingyuan, he could not personally go to thank him for his friend pushing him to inherit the position of the leader of the alliance, so as soon as he returned to the camp, he sent someone to send a sword to Cao Cao. The sword is not a nameless sword, but the sword in the romance that is as famous as the Qingyu sword.

Cao Cao has coveted Yuan Shao's sword for a long time, and he can't ask for it for a long time, and now Yuan Shao cut his love, and immediately pulled out the sky to dance, a set of swordsmanship down, and found that the messenger had not left for a long time.

Cao Cao immediately fired the flint and the fire sickle, burned the silk cloth letters, and at the same time found a new piece of silk paper, in which the dragon flew and the phoenix danced four words: Go all out.

Maybe it's because of the difference in the environment of the two, or because of their personalities, Cao Cao is like a doer, if he wants to do something, he will do everything possible to do it well, and Yuan Shao seems to be timid, thinking about things always before thinking about winning and losing, although this cautious character seems to be old and serious, but when the odds of winning are only five or five or even three or seven and you need to let go, it becomes indecisive, but restricts your hands and feet, and Cao Cao's four words are undoubtedly to persuade him not to think so much, and to eat one bite at a time. Things have to be done one by one, and now it's not about thinking about the way back. It's better to put more thought about how to exterminate Dong Zhuo.

Cao Cao's four words were well-intentioned, but his old friend obviously misunderstood what he meant. Instead, he wrote back a letter to inquire about his true thoughts again, and in this letter he wrote the following paragraph in his heart: 'If I (Yuan Shao) follow the Yellow River in the south, guard Yan and Dai in the north, and have both Karasuma and Xianbei, and then fight for the world in the south, then maybe I can succeed!" ’

After reading it, Cao Cao smiled slightly, but asked the messenger to go back directly, he had nothing to write. I don't want the messenger to say that it is okay to say it without writing, judging from the performance of the envoy, there is no need to ask, this Fa Xiao, who knows him very well, has already expected him to be like this, Cao Cao was forced, and had to say the word 'feasible', and the messenger left.

After receiving Cao Cao's reply, Yuan Shao was very satisfied, and this idea bubbled up in his heart for a long time, but he couldn't say it to the strategists around him. I could only consult this wise old friend, and now that I got an answer, I immediately lay down and began to rest, and Meimei slept for a few hours of napping. After I got up, my spirits became more and more vigorous.

People are in good spirits when they are happy, and this is the most appropriate thing to use in the current Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao had already sent someone to set up the banquet tent before going to bed. By the time he woke up, it was all set up and waited until sunset. After the food, wine, and the Ejimu table were also ready and arranged, someone was sent to beat the drum of the lifting tent. Knock knock, the drum sound sounded like a muffled thunder, and the princes from all walks of life came to Cao Cao Xingyuan neatly dressed, and the first people to come to Xingyuan were naturally Cao Cao and Liu Lan.

Since the selection of Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance, Yuan Shao decided to temporarily live in Cao Cao Xingyuan when the alliance was made, for this reason the princes of all walks of life can only change the station again, the original army is lined up, now in order to show respect, with Cao Cao Xingyuan as a point, set up camp around, is to the sound of drums, the princes have rushed to the big tent in less than a quarter of an hour.

In front of the gate, Cao Cao specially arranged two columns of halberd-wielding armor soldiers for Yuan Shao, in fact, it was Yuan Shao's request, vanity, the reason why he claimed to me was that Cao Cao specially arranged it was just to sound good, otherwise wouldn't they think that he, the leader of the alliance, had just put up a shelf? But if Cao Cao arranged, it was not Yuan Shao pretending to be a fork but Cao Cao taking care of the face of his alliance leader, so that the princes would not have any prejudice against Yuan Shao, but they still felt that Cao Cao was thoughtful.

is not only thoughtful, but also meticulous, it can be said that Yuan Shao, the leader of the coalition alliance, has chased the prince with his pomp.

There are 6 rows of 24 halberd-wielding armor soldiers at the Yuanmen, and they form a deep road from the Yuanmen in the shape of two characters until the banquet of the Chinese army, and on this road, they are paved with red felt, which is very grand. In the tent, however, the red felt was replaced by soft lambskin.

The big tent sits in the north and faces south, the west side is placed in the jade case, the wooden table is nine, the east side is placed in the jade case, the wooden table is ten, in order to show the sovereignty of Yuan Shaomeng, the main seat is specially transported to the sand and soil cushion to be more than three feet higher than the princes' position, the red silk is hung all around, the luxury is incomparable, and behind the princes' seats, there is a mouthful of wine urn, the heat is steaming. Nineteen handsome maids were waiting beside the nineteen wine jars. At this time, in addition to the waiting maids in the big tent, there was also a team of musicians who came early to prepare in a corner, keeping the bell and holding the device, with a solemn expression, and were kneeling and sitting to adjust the pitch.

The quiet big account soon ushered in the seventeenth princes, when the first to arrive has been explained to Cao Cao and Liu Lan, the celebrant led the two into the account and invited Cao Cao to sit on the right, when Liu Lan sat on the right, Cao Cao's face sank and stopped the celebrant and asked him to change Liu Lan's position to the second on the right.

The celebrant looked embarrassed: "Captain Xiaocai, this is the order of seats that the alliance leader has already drawn up, and the subordinate officials will never dare to change it without authorization." ”

"It doesn't matter." Cao Cao was very tough, but Liu Lan stopped him, waved his hand, and said, "Meng De, don't be embarrassed for him, the last position is the last position, it's the same everywhere." As he spoke, he sat down at the bottom of his stomach.

Cao Cao looked at his back and sighed in a low voice: "If you don't fight, you won't fight." As he spoke, he took a seat on the right.

After a while, all the princes of the Eighteen Roads arrived, and the musician played the ceremonial music, but this time it was Xiaoya who played it, and the ceremonial music was melodious, but he did not hear the ceremonial official call the name of the tent curtain and was lifted, quite surprised, when they all looked at it, it was Zhang Yang and Yu Fuluo.

"Bounce a bird!" Zhang Yang shouted, the tiger eyes glared at the musician, the sound of ritual music disappeared immediately, the expressions of the princes were different, but the most was the contemptuous eyes, the three locks of long beard Zhang Yang took in all this, and suddenly he smiled, and bowed to the princes and said: "Zhang is uninvited, and the princes are not strange." ”

After speaking, he didn't mean to be polite, and went straight to the last position on the left. Pointing to the open space where the jade case was not placed, Yi pointed out: "Just put two jade cases here." Let me both be seated. ”

The ceremonial official looked at the princes of all roads in embarrassment, but he didn't want more than a dozen people to close their eyes and pretend not to see it. The ceremonial officer can see it. No one among the princes was willing to stand up for him, or even if they were disdainful of Zhang Yang, at least at this time they did not want to fall out with him because of this trivial matter.

The ceremonial official was helpless, Zhang Yang was about to kill people here, and he was forced to have no choice but to order someone to carry the jade case, which was also unlucky, but the jade case was the last one, the ceremonial official apologized, and Zhang Yang, who had a seat, didn't say anything. But he hung Yu Fuluo in the big tent, so he was not embarrassed, his face was flushed, he glared at Zhang Yang fiercely, and counted his grievances on the head of Zhang Yang who came with him, if he couldn't see that this was Zhang Yang deliberately out of his embarrassment, he would have lived for thirty years in vain, and snorted coldly, okay, you are a Zhang Yang, you are the first year of junior high school. I'll do fifteen, let's see, thinking about brushing up our sleeves and turning away.

"Wait."

Just as Yu Furo was about to leave the account, a voice suddenly sounded.

Yuvro's face was gloomy and he turned around. His face was instantly solemn, he could ignore these county guards, but he was the only one who didn't dare. That was Liu Lan, and he immediately became respectful. I don't know what he's going to do, but he looks like he's listening. Then I heard him say, "Come and sit with me." Saying that, Liu Lan said to the ceremonial officer: "It's always okay to change to a bigger couch!" ”

The ceremonial officer was a little embarrassed at first, but when he saw Cao Cao nodding, he immediately said to Liu Lan with a smiling face, "Yes, of course you can." ”

Yu Fuluo looked at Liu Lan gratefully, he couldn't wait to leave immediately after being so humiliated, if he changed someone else today, he would never go down this step, but Liu Lan, especially when Qingshuihe had a grudge, didn't dare not sell his face, and came to the front to bow down and thank him.

"They are all here to please Dong, why not favor one over the other."

Although Liu Lan said it to Yu Fuluo, the spearhead was aimed at these county guards and state pastors who were eating vegetarian meals, and they rolled their eyes one by one and pretended not to hear, of course, they were still giving Cao Cao face, otherwise Liu Lan would really be attacked by the group because of this sentence.

After a while, the ceremonial officer changed a couch for Liu Lan, and the two sat down together. In the Han Dynasty, kneeling and sitting were usually done with a small table with a seat of one seat, while the couch was slightly larger and could accommodate two people to sit together.

Soon after the two sat down, Yuan Shao arrived, with golden helmets and golden armor, and his majestic hair. Since childhood, he has been a showy character and now sits on the throne of the alliance leader, it is even more spring-winded, majestic and heroic, under the greeting of everyone, his eyes do not squint, and he strides onto the main throne, while facing everyone, all the princes bow their hands together, and say: "See the alliance leader." ”

Yuan Shao naturally accepted the salute and motioned for everyone to sit down, looking around the field, there was no Zhang Yang and Yu Fuluo in the list of banquet guests, but now the two of them appeared here, there was no reason to provoke people, so they turned a blind eye and passed, and immediately ordered a banquet, after several rounds of wine, Cao Cao stood with the bottle, and said: "Today, since the alliance leader, each listens to the dispatch, and supports the country together, don't care about the strength or weakness." He meant something, and the princes knew it, but Yuan Shao, who had not seen the situation, only regarded it as Cao Cao's polite words, and immediately took over the conversation, saying: "What Meng De said is good. He turned to look at the princes and said: "Although Shao is not talented, he is promoted as the leader of the alliance, and he will be rewarded for his merits, and he will be punished for his crimes." The state has permanent punishment, and the army has discipline. Obey it and do not transgress it. ”

"No." Everyone stood up in unison and sang a promise: "We came to the alliance to discuss the great cause of Dong, and the established leader of the alliance must be sincerely supported, but the order is to listen." "The speaker is Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang.

"The alliance leader is established, but I don't know what the alliance leader has to break the thief." When singing praises of virtue, there was a discordant voice sounding, it was none other than Yuan Shu Yuan Road, who had always looked down on his brother.

"Dong thief is perverse, now the three-way alliance will be allied, how can Dong thief be worthy of a blow from the princes of my seventeenth road."

"Vulnerable?" Yuan Shu sneered in his heart, although the Dong thief is vulnerable, but Xu Rong is not easy to deal with at all, Yuan Shu has suffered a big loss in this, and even Sun Jian, who is the most dependent and known as the Jiangdong Tiger, has been defeated on his head, if Xu Rong is really regarded as a local chicken and tile dog, hehe, it doesn't matter if the alliance is not involved, he still continues to go back to his Jingbei Luyang and wait for the opportunity.

Cao Cao, who was on the side, saw that the two brothers were about to quarrel again, so he hurriedly became a peacemaker, lined up in the round, and said: "I am waiting here for the sake of the community, since the goal is the same, as long as everyone works together, there will be no problem because of some disputes over how to march and array." Saying that, he swept his eyes at everyone and made a quartet: I hope that the princes will actively contribute their words and suggestions, so that the princes can reach a consensus as soon as possible! ”

"What Meng De said is good!"

Yuan Shao raised the case, didn't even look at Yuan Shu, turned to the princes on Cao Cao's side, and said: "The Dong thief is fighting is nothing more than the danger of the Yellow River, the steepness of the mountain, and the pass of the water.

To break Luoyang, you must first break Xu Rong, and Xu Rong's main force is now scattered in Xingyang, Chenggao, Taigu and other places, first of all, I and the highway each sent an army out of Hanoi and Luyang to lead the enemy in Chenggao, Taigu and other places, and Meng De and Liu Yanzhou (Liu Dai), Zhang Chenliu (Zhang Miao) and other sour jujube coalition forces directly arrived in Xingyang, a successful battle behind the enemy, Chenggao, Taigu defenders will panic and retreat, our army can take advantage of the situation to reach the Bishui Pass.

Bishui Pass is also known as Tiger Prison Pass, which is slightly different from Romance. Liu Lan was surprised when he heard it for the first time, but after so many years, he has long been clear about the difference between romance and history. The wall of Bishui Pass stands thousands of miles, connects Songyue in the south, borders the Yellow River in the north, only a deep gully valley in the southwest leads to Luoyang, a husband is a pass, ten thousand people are not open, it is most appropriate to describe Bishui Pass.

If the coalition forces want to enter Luoyang, if they don't take the Bishui Pass, they can only cross the Yellow River from Hanoi to seize the Mengjin and Xiaopingjin ferries, or Yuan Shu will attack Guangcheng and Yique mountain passes, but it is obviously difficult to do it with the strength of the two-way coalition army, and the sour jujube coalition army will be transferred to Hanoi or Luyang, and the soldiers will be less than enough, and the more soldiers will inevitably be detected and become uselessOnce he is forced to send Mengjin or Guangcheng defenders to support Bishui Pass, then his Hanoi coalition army or even Yuan Shu's Luyang coalition army can take advantage of the situation to storm on, no matter which side of the two roads succeeds, he can reach Luoyang directly.

The magic of this step is that it fully calculates the factors of Dong Zhuo's insufficient troops.

Dong Zhuo originally had a total of 100,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Hedong Army, and after entering Luoyang, he collected a total of 50,000 Xiyuan Army and Bingzhou Army, Dong Zhuo's total strength was a total of 15 people, but don't forget that at the beginning of the war against Dong, he first fought with the Baibo Thief and suffered a lot of losses in Hedong, plus he also had to maintain the order of Luoyang, which trapped him with a full 30,000 to 50,000 people, so Dong Thief's real available troops did not exceed 100,000, and in Guangcheng and Yique, Hu Zhen commanded 10,000 horses, and the corresponding Yuan Shu was also 10,000, but after being defeated by Xu Rong, his current strength is less than 7,000.

In Hanoi, Yuan Shao and his princes had 30,000 horses, but there was the danger of the Yellow River, so Dong Zhuo only sent 20,000 troops to garrison, that is to say, Dong Zhuo had 70,000 horses scattered in the Xingyang line, but the coalition army on the Xingyang line gathered a full 250,000 horses, although the combat strength was low, but if only Xu Rong on the Xingyang line ignored Cheng Gao and Taigu, and completed his work in a battle, he would definitely be able to succeed in a battle.

After Yuan Shao finished speaking, everyone looked at the huge map that Yuan Shao had hung on the side, recalling Yuan Shao's so-called three-pronged strategy before, and immediately their eyes lit up, and they exclaimed in unison: "Clever plan, really good plan!" ”

Especially Cao Cao, who had been pondering and pondering, his eyes immediately bloomed with brilliant brilliance, and even everyone saw the subtlety, so he saw the essence of this strategy. The combat strength of the sour jujube coalition is weak, and it is necessary to attack the enemy together to break through Xu Rong, and this first step is an easier step, but the key is the second step.

The city of Bishui Pass is strong, and the sour jujube coalition army will inevitably suffer heavy losses if it is forcibly broken, but it is Yuan Shao's real purpose but the coalition army will deter Bishui Pass with momentum instead of storming Bishui Pass, once Dong Zhuo is forced to draw defenders from other directions to help, then the coalition forces in the two directions of Hanoi and Luyang can attack calmly, and this is the essence of the three-pronged approach. (To be continued......)