Chapter 60: The Expedition to the West

Liu Dai took the stage with everyone, burned incense and sacrificed to heaven and earth, and Liu Dai read the book of the alliance: "The Han family is unfortunate, and the emperor is out of control." The thief Dong Zhuo, taking advantage of the side to indulge ......" (the same as the covenant in the romance, if you are not clear, please refer to Luo Dashuai's masterpiece).

Everyone is allied with blood, and they all say that they are united in their hearts and minds and punish the Han thieves together.

When Liu Dai wore the golden sword symbolizing the power of the alliance leader, held the seal of the alliance leader in one hand, and held the alliance book in the other hand to loudly announce the official formation of the crusade against the coalition army, protect the country and fight the thieves, and after not winning and returning, nearly 300,000 troops shouted "Long live" in unison, and most of the sour Zao County may have felt the immensity of its momentum.

Liu Dai said: "Dai Bucai, Xi is the leader of the alliance, and he is terrified. However, if there are no rules, there will be no circle, and if you attack, you will be rewarded, and if you pass, you will be punished. If there is a disobedience to the general's order, those who are cowardly and avoid war will be engaged in military law! ”

The crowd bowed.

After the alliance was completed, everyone returned to the big tent together, Liu Dai sat in the center, Yuan Shu on the left, Cao Cao on the right, and the rest sat down according to their ages.

Now that the coalition has been formally formed, the next thing to do is to discuss how to fight.

After discussion, it was decided that the troops would be divided into three routes, Wang Kuang and Zhang Yangtun Hanoi, threatening the river defense in order to contain the Dong army; Yuan Shu, the deputy leader of the alliance, led Kong Ling and Bao Xin out of Nanyang, and went north along Luhun and Xincheng to coerce Luoyang; The rest of the princes attacked the Bishui Pass head-on.

Liu Dai said: "The big thing is decided, we will send troops tomorrow to sweep the Bishui Pass and march to Luoyang." At this time, there is still a lack of pioneers, who dares to go? ”

As in history, Sun Jian asked for the order to be the vanguard officer, and he ordered his troops and horses to set off first that night.

The plan was certain, and everyone resigned and Liu Dai went back to the camp.

Soon after Liu Zhang returned to his big tent, Liu Dai came to visit, and Liu Dai didn't know whether to reward or punish this "nephew" who single-handedly helped him to the leader of the alliance to protect the throne, although it was a joyful thing to be the leader of the alliance, but he understood that this would definitely offend Yuan Shao, and he had always been a little afraid of Yuan Shao.

In the end, selfish desires still dominated, and after Liu Zhang's persuasion, Liu Dai threw his little unhappiness out of the nine nights and talked happily with his cheap nephew. Liu Zhang took the opportunity to express his hope that his uncle would find a few people for himself, and Liu Dai would be completely caught in the joy of being in a high position, so he had the heart to hug Li, and agreed without saying a word, so he asked Liu Zhang to write the name of the person he was looking for and the passage on the brocade silk, and he would send someone to search for him tomorrow.

Liu Zhang immediately wrote down the names and origins of Cheng Yu, Yu Ban and others. Originally, he wanted to write the name of Chen Gong, but thinking about Chen Gong being Liu Dai's subordinate at this time, he was so blatantly digging into the corner......

On the second day, as the sky gradually dawned, the coalition camp within a radius of dozens of miles began to be busy, and the voices of people and horses neighed into a ......

Liu Zhang put on armor, put on the ancient ingot knife given by Sun Jian, and went to the military camp with Xun Yu and other ministers, Dian Wei and Xu Chu.

Yan Yan and Man Chong had already assembled their troops, just waiting for Liu Zhang's order.

It should be noted that at this moment, Yan Yan and Man Chong have been appointed by Liu Zhang as Zhonglang generals, and they are the commanders of the Yizhou Infantry Army and the Yingwu Army; Xu Huang still commanded Yizhou with five hundred horses; The 300 cavalry of the British army became independent, and they were also incorporated into Liu Zhang's personal guards, controlled by Dian Wei and Xu Chu, and commanded by Zhou Cang; Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Zhang Ren, Zhou Cang, Guan Hai, Li Yan and others were all military commanders, military marquis, tun chiefs and other positions, assisting Yan Yan, Man Chong and Xu Huang. So far, Liu Zhang's troops and horses have counted 800 guards (500 Dongzhou soldiers, 300 British cavalry), 4,000 Dongzhou soldiers, 500 cavalry, 6,400 British troops, and more than 11,300 troops. Since Liu Zhang is not yet the lord of Yizhou, he can integrate the generals into the army and give himself an official position, after all, there is only one senior general Yan in the Dongzhou Army, and the British Army is his private soldier, but in order to avoid suspicion, he can't appoint civilian positions to Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others, otherwise it will give the good people a kind of unwilling status quo and want to seize the state, so they can only temporarily let them serve as friends in the military aircraft, except for Xun Youde, he is a military advisor personally appointed by Liu Yan before the expedition. It can be said that although Liu Zhang's current strength is not much, but the ministers and generals are like rain, as long as he can sit in the post of Yizhou pastor and give him a few years, he will build a huge army with these people!

Liu Zhang inspected the army, then said something encouraging to the soldiers, and then ordered the whole army to be marched.

More than 10,000 people lined up in a neat queue and left the camp majestically and headed for Bishui Pass.

Along the way, hundreds of thousands of armies of princes from all walks of life stretched for dozens of miles, advancing left like a giant dragon towards the same target. When the people along the way saw such a large lineup, they avoided it from a distance.

In order to prevent these uncles from cutting themselves off on the grounds of obstructing military affairs, he mobilized the people of the county to prepare a large amount of cooked food and drinking water, and set up countless material distribution offices on both sides of the official road for the passing sergeants to use.

Liu Zhang's departure sequence was in the center, and it was obvious that this was the result of Liu Dai's deliberate care, and when he arrived at the camp thirty miles east of Bishui with more than 10,000 troops, it was already sunset.

Liu Zhang came to his station, but saw that the right side of the station was a forest, and farther away was the mother river of the Chinese nation - the Yellow River, which vaguely seemed to be able to hear the sound of the rolling Yellow River, of course, it could also be the sound of the wind blowing the leaves, but Liu Zhang agreed that it was the sound of flowing water; On the left is the headquarters of the alliance leader Liu Daijun and the place where the marshal's tent is located; The front hole is melting, and the back is Qiao Mao. The terrain is good, it is under the cover of friendly forces on three sides, and the Yellow River is close to the right side, so there is no need to worry about safety. However, in line with the principle of prudence, Liu Zhang still ordered Liao Hua to lead 500 British troops to station on the banks of the Yellow River to monitor possible sneak attacks from the Yellow River, and set up many sentry posts in the woods. After arranging these, the army immediately cut down trees to build fences, dig trenches, and build barracks.

When the army lit torches and was busy for more than two hours, the camp finally took shape, and the soldiers who had been busy for a day and half the night were already sleepy, and Liu Zhang did not ask to continue to improve the camp, leaving some soldiers on guard after dinner, and the rest of the soldiers and horses went back to the camp to rest.