Hua Xiong's heart was shocked, thinking of the name behind him, and thinking of Dong Zhuo's benefits to himself, he fell into a dilemma for a while. After hesitating for a long time, Hua Xiong bowed and said: "Lord Liu, it is difficult to make a decision in the next moment, please give me some time in the next time, so that I can think about it carefully!" ”

Liu Zhang saw that Hua Xiong did not refuse, so he nodded and said, "Okay, General Hua is really a loyal and righteous person, please ask the general to live in the camp temporarily, and when you figure it out, you can come to me!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" Hua Xiong bowed and said.

Liu Zhang believes that since Hua Xiong did not refuse at this time, he will definitely take refuge in him in the future, it is very simple, Dong Zhuo will die in a few years, and he has been locked up until this time, and when Dong Zhuo dies, no matter how loyal he is, he will not be able to find the object of allegiance, who else can he take refuge in Liu Zhang at that time? Called two personal soldiers and instructed them: "Prepare a tent for General Hua, remember, General Hua is my guest, you must treat me as a guest, if you are offended, don't blame me for being ruthless!" In addition, General Hua can walk in the camp at will, and no one is allowed to stop him without reason! ”

Liu Zhang wanted to set up a banquet for Hua Xiong to catch the wind, but Hua Xiong refused in the name of the defeated army's general Wuyan to take the seat, Liu Zhang knew that he had not yet decided whether to surrender, so he was unwilling to drink with Liu Zhang and others. He was not embarrassed, but asked his own soldiers to take him down, and he offered him good food and drink.

After Hua Xiong left, Liu Zhang's banquet did not stop, after all, Dian Wei's credit is here!

When the wine was drunk, Sun Jian led his eldest son to visit with Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang to congratulate Liu Zhangjun on winning glory for the allies; Not long after, Liu Bei's three brothers also came; Then Liu Dai also came to congratulate him in person, during the banquet, he took Dian Wei's hand and thanked him again and again, if it wasn't for Dian Wei, he, the leader of the alliance, would have no face today. Dian Wei is fighting wine with Xu Chu, after being pulled by Liu Dai, he turned to fight with Liu Dai for wine, a few glasses down, Liu Dai spoke into a big tongue, the seemingly honest Dian Wei took the opportunity to put forward his son's lack of grain and grass, Liu Dai called the soldiers in a daze without saying a word, and sent five thousand stone grain and grass, one thousand gold, and a batch of weapons and armor.

Liu Zhang secretly gave Dian Wei a thumbs up, Dian Wei didn't understand what this action meant, but looking at Liu Zhang's expression, he still understood that he had done a good job, and thought: "This will make us meritorious again, and the son will definitely reward us with a few beautiful bars!" ”

After the guests and hosts were happy, Liu Dai, Sun Jian, and Liu Bei left one after another.

On the second day, Dong Zhuo was newly defeated, and there was no plan to enter the army for the time being, so Liu Zhang began to rectify and surrender the army. Sure enough, as Liu Zhang predicted, these people are not Dong Zhuo's descendants, they were bullied by the Xiliang Army in the past, and they had already complained, Liu Zhang's timely guidance almost opened a criticism meeting for Dong Zhuo, and then Liu Zhang threw out sweet dates one by one, and this surrendered army immediately turned to Liu Zhang's command. This army of soldiers and horses are all veterans who have been in the army for several years, and they can be pulled into the battlefield at any time to participate in the battle, but the people's hearts are not attached, and it is not suitable to send them out of battle for the time being. After thinking about it, Liu Zhang organized 2,600 troops into a battalion, transferred Huang Zhong as the main general, and transferred Gong Du and Guan Hai as deputies to train the army.

In these two days, the scattered Allied soldiers slowly found back, Sun Jian's dark face slowly relaxed, without it, his soldiers and horses returned to the team of about 5,000 people, plus those who fled back together, his remaining soldiers and horses were about 6,000 people, which greatly surprised him, but thinking of folding Zu Mao, his good mood could not be maintained. The remaining 30,000 people who had fled had also returned to the camp, and the number of missing was less than 1,000.

The Allied troops, who did not want to make progress, feasted and drank in the camp all day long, and stayed up all night.

The worried Xun Yu was too lazy to attend such a "meeting", which, in Liu Zhang's words, was out of sight and out of mind.

Liu Zhang was also reluctant to participate in these things, but as one of the princes, if he was unconventional, he was very likely to become the target of public criticism, so he had to go every day with Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Xun You and Man Chong. He often secretly sighed, fortunately this was in ancient times, if in the later life, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child drank like this every day, then he would not be blamed to death!

Last night, the spies came to report that the enemy army had increased its troops in Bishui Pass, and after Liu Dai got the news, he immediately summoned the princes to come to a meeting, and he knew that this time it was no longer a wine talk.

When the princes learned that the enemy had increased their troops, numbering no less than 50,000, they were all shocked, and they knew that this was probably the prelude to the enemy's attack.

The princes knew that the enemy army would come at any time, but they did not have the courage to strike first, and the final result was still passive defense.

Liu Zhang understands the truth that it is easy to be a thief in a thousand days, and it is difficult to prevent thieves in a thousand days, such a passive defense, the enemy army can calmly arrange troops, and it may be the enemy's main battlefield anytime and anywhere, which is a very, very dangerous thing for the allies. But he understands these people's plans very well, even the most brave and impulsive Sun Jian has been worn out of sharpness, he naturally will not let his soldiers go to death alone, and can only be trapped in the village unreasonably.

Of course, the princes also understood the danger of passive defense, so they sent a wide range of spies (they could not trust others, if they handed over their safety to others, they would not know when they would be betrayed) to monitor the enemy's movements, and also secretly watched the movements of the princes, and at the same time greatly increased the defense of their own camp.

On the fifth day, almost at the same time, all the princes received news that the enemy army was coming, with about 100,000 soldiers and horses.

The princes who learned the news took a breath of cool air, judging from the current situation, the number of enemy troops in the entire Bishui Pass battlefield is probably more than 120,000, which is close to the total number of allied forces in the east, and the princes have their own plans and guard against each other, so two soldiers may not be able to send out the combat effectiveness of one soldier, if calculated according to this, the strength of the coalition army is far inferior to the enemy.

The noisy meeting was held for nearly an hour, and when the spies came to report, the enemy had set up camp in front of the village, and there was a cavalry horse with a number of about 10,000 people and went straight to Dazhai, and the princes had not come up with a solution at all.

The princes who had nothing to do had to order their own troops and horses to assemble at the west gate of the village.

In a few moments, the sky resounded with the deafening sound of horses' hooves.

The wild gallop of more than 10,000 horsemen overshadowed the heaven and earth, watching the enemy cavalry galloping in a charging formation, even Gongsun Zhan, who commanded the cavalry to fight all the year round, had to praise from the bottom of his heart: "The Xiliang Iron Cavalry really deserves its reputation...... but in his heart he was comparing this cavalry with his Youzhou Iron Cavalry, but the result was not very optimistic.