Chapter 90: Confrontation
Regarding the merger with Ding Yuan and the joint crusade against Dong Zhuo, Tai Shici and others did not object, but were a little excited. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
After all, whether it is Tai Shici or Zhou Cang, they are all in the prime of life at this time, and with the remnants of the Han family for hundreds of years, it is not that they will collapse in a short time. Zhou Cang is okay, but Tai Shici and Sun Guan still have some thoughts of making contributions and serving the imperial court. In addition, Dong Zhuo's tyranny is also in their eyes, and now they dare to bully the Son of Heaven, how could they not support such a righteous act as Yan Shao?
"Sure enough, it's young..."Passing by Tai Shici's tent, seeing that he was packing up the equipment for tomorrow's rise, Yan Shao shook his head and sighed.
Tai Shi Ci heard the voice and looked out, just in time to see Yan Shao. "My lord, but what's the matter?"
"It's nothing, I just happened to be passing by..."As he spoke, Yan Shao opened the curtain of the tent and walked in. Ziyi, what do you think about tomorrow? β
Tai Shi Ci groaned, now he has been cultivated by Yan Shao as the only handsome talent under his command, and the military book is not too much to read.
"Although there are many soldiers and horses under Dong Zhuo's command, the only elite ones are the Xiliang Army, and others such as the Northern Army and the Xiyuan Army have just experienced chaos, and people's hearts are fluctuating, so it is not a trouble. Although the number of our army is small, the Bingzhou army under the command of Ding Tingshi is the elite of the border army, and it fights against the Hu people all the year round, and it may not be inferior to the Xiliang army. Although our army is the smallest in number, it is all cavalry, and it has experienced dozens of battles, which should not be underestimated, this victory is not small, and it is a thief for the country, and Ci and others will do their best..."
Looking at Tai Shici's serious appearance, Yan Shao sighed again that it was good to be young.
It's just that he took advantage of the mentality of Tai Shici and others, but he inevitably felt a little guilty in his heart.
Yan Shao's previous behavior at Dong Zhuo's banquet was really because he was loyal and patriotic? No kidding...
To be honest, he is very patriotic, but unfortunately he does not love Liu's country.
The reason why he showed loyalty and patriotism in the past was just for the sake of benefit, which is the so-called name...
Yan Shao has figured out from a long time ago that his biggest advantage in this troubled era is that he has a little understanding of the heroes of this era, and he can take this opportunity to recruit heroes for his own use.
The problem is that those heroes who can be called are not so easy to be loyal to Yan Shao.
After all, these so-called heroes are not, so it's impossible to come to the door casually and pounce on them alone, right?
The so-called good birds choose trees to perch, and virtuous ministers choose the master to do things.
Real talents will choose their own lord, just like Tai Shici back then, it was because he felt that Kong Rong was not a person worthy of allegiance, so he repaid Kong Rong's kindness and defected to Liu Xuanββββββ although Liu Xuan was also an incompetent guy, and he may not even be better than Kong Rong.
There are also the most famous Liu Guanzhang three brothers, in order to get good talents in Jingzhou, looking for talents everywhere.
The key is that those so-called talents avoid Liu Bei like snakes and scorpions. It's not surprising, after all, Liu Bei at that time only had one Xinye Town under his command, and there were only a few thousand soldiers and horses under his command, although there was a name of imperial uncle. It's a pity that this title is not very attractive to ordinary talents, except for those loyal ministers of the Han family. Later, he also looked at the thatched house three times before he found Zhuge Liang.
As for the subsequent Five Tiger Generals, as well as a series of famous ministers and strategists, they were all after he occupied Jingzhou and even Yizhou...
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The story of Liu Bei and others illustrates a very serious problem, that is, talents in this era are not.
If you want to persuade them to defect to themselves, it is not enough to rely on lip service.
Then when recruiting talents, you need two things, one is strength and the other is fame.
Yan Shao still has some strength, and he doesn't dare to compare with Dong Zhuo and others at this time, but he is much stronger than Liu Bei, and what he lacks now is fame.
Don't underestimate the fame, the two Yuan brothers are not as talented as Cao Cao, Yuan Shao is better, Yuan Shu is a waste at all, but with the identity of the Yuan family's son-in-law, he insisted on raising a banner in Runan. Before Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan and unified Hebei, he was almost the biggest prince in the world.
And Yuan Shao, with his identity as the third prince of the fourth world, has been rushed by many heroes.
However, fame is also divided into attributes, just like Cao Cao, he will not be able to get the allegiance of people like Zhuge Liang in his life.
What Yan Shao has to do now is to take advantage of this opportunity to gain fame.
That's why he deliberately provoked Dong Zhuo at the banquet, and then went out of the city to join forces with Ding Yuan. Because he knows very well that there is almost no harm in going against Dong Zhuo at the moment, but it can bring him many benefits, especially in terms of fame, and the righteous act of opposing Dong is enough to make him praised by the people of the world, which has a vital role in future development.
What's more, at this time, the Han family still has some shadow, at least the people loyal to the Han family have not been killed, including the generals under his command, they are also quite loyal to the Han family in their hearts, so he needs to show his loyal and patriotic side, and bury his plan deep in his heart.
Because he couldn't tell his subordinates that he was only doing this to gain fame and then become a gravedigger of the Han Dynasty himself.
In the case that the Han Dynasty has not completely collapsed, doing so will only lead to self-defeat.
Even if he is as arrogant as Dong Zhuo, he still knows that he will abolish the emperor first, and then come to a Zen position, like Yuan Shu, who does not know life and death, after all, there are still relatively few, and the final end will be more miserable.
The next day, Dong Zhuo was thinking about how to clean up the two horsemen who lost his face yesterday, when he heard a report from his subordinates, saying that Ding Yuan and Yan Shao were leading troops to fight outside the city.
"These two horsemen, I haven't looked for them yet, they came to find my bad luck first!" Dong Zhuo was furious and led the army to meet Li Ru.
I saw that at this time, the Bingzhou army and the Beihai soldiers and horses had already set up a formation, and there were Lu Bu and Tai Shici in front of the formation.
Before Dong Zhuo could speak, Ding Yuan had already pointed at Dong Zhuo and scolded. "The country is unfortunate, and the eunuchs have seized power, so that all the people are miserable. If you have no size, how dare you abolish it and want to disrupt the court? β
In a fit of rage, Dong Zhuo signaled his subordinates to step forward to challenge, and the result was self-evident.
His subordinates were in the hands of the two, and they could barely fight for two or three rounds, and they were picked off the horse one after another, so brave that almost everyone looked sideways, Ding Yuan glanced at Yan Shao with some surprise, he didn't expect that there was a brave general who was not inferior to Lu Bu under the command of this young man.
Seeing that his subordinates were not angry, Dong Zhuo was furious and actually went into battle in person.
To say that he was actually a brave general when he was young, and the force value is definitely not low, but it is a pity that the years are urging people to get old, plus he has rarely fought again over the years, and now he is full of fat, where is the demeanor of the year.
If it is against an ordinary general, it will be okay, but it is still Lu Bu, but in a few rounds, Lu Bu has knocked off the helmet on his head with a halberd and fled in embarrassment.
Although Dong Fatzi is fat, ordinary horses can't carry it, but he rides a red rabbit horse, and Lu Bu is just an ordinary mount, where can he catch up? In the end, he actually watched Dong Zhuo flee into the city.