After Wu Qiong left, Liu Zhang immediately called a team of personal soldiers, handed over a letter to them, and ordered them to return to Hanzhong and hand it over to Wei Yan in person, without a moment's delay on the way.

Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "Lord, this time Wu Qiong returns to Chang'an, Dong Zhuojun will inevitably be attracted to all of them, it seems that there will be no problems with the left route army's trip, once the western route army breaks through the Qinling defense line, more than half of the northern expedition will be completed!" ”

Liu Zhang said: "Wu Qiong has figured out the 'details' of our army, how can Dong Zhuo not be in a hurry? ”

"Haha......" everyone laughed softly.

Although Liu Zhang did not expect that Wu Qiong would send someone to sue for peace, he was sure that Dong Zhuo would try his best to understand his truth and truth, in order to intimidate Dong Zhuo and improve the morale of his army, he asked people to build a large number of warehouses, real information, and sent troops to strictly guard it, and no one was allowed to approach. This is not only to deceive the real with the fake, but also to be afraid that once the guard is loose, someone will be mixed in, and he will get Dong Zhuo's spies and the internal response to buy at a high price, and he will also deceive Wu Qiong, and even the 100,000 troops under Liu Zhang's command will be kept in the dark. As for the large equipment placed outside the armory, it cannot be faked, most of them were moved from the Luoyu Pass, and at the same time, in order to oppress the defenders on the other side, they ordered craftsmen to rush to make a lot these days, which formed a spectacular scene that could not be seen as far as the eye could see.

The soldiers that Wu Qiong saw had a lot of food, and it was absolutely guaranteed that no soldier would go hungry, and that all soldiers would have enough physical strength to train and fight, which was not half adulterated. Once the soldiers are on the battlefield, no one knows if they can come back alive and how much, so Liu Zhang asked to improve the treatment of soldiers from the day he became independent of Yizhou, such as preparing an egg for all soldiers in the morning.

Liu Zhang has made up his mind to attack the west, but the feint attack has to be the main attack, right? Otherwise, how could the enemy be fooled? Therefore, it is reasonable to practice the tactics of crossing the river by boat, not to mention that Liu Zhang knows that once the plan of attacking the east and the west works, after Dong Zhuojun is transferred, he will immediately turn to the main attack here, and then the two armies will enter the hinterland of Guanzhong, which is the beginning of Dong Zhuo's demise.

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Li Yan said: "Once the plan of the lord's discord works, can our army take advantage of the chaos of the defenders on the other side to launch a fierce attack and break through Weishui in one fell swoop?" ”

Liu Zhang said: "If the discord plan is really successful, our army must immediately launch a fierce attack, once we break through Weishui, Dong Zhuo will only be more afraid, and will be able to mobilize more enemy troops, in this way, the pressure on Wen Chang will be greatly reduced, and it will be easy to break through the Qinling Mountains." At that time, Gu will use himself as bait to attract Dong Zhuo's main force, and then cooperate with Wen Chang to annihilate Dong Zhuo's main force in one fell swoop! In fact, Wu Qiong is right, Dong Zhuo's hundreds of thousands of cavalry is indeed an insurmountable mountain, once our army enters the Guanzhong Plain and has a field battle with it, I am afraid that the final defeat will be our army, even if we are lucky enough to repel them, with the mobility and flexibility of the cavalry, it is bound to not be completely annihilated, if they escape, attack our army, lead to the defeat of our army, and cause a big disaster for the people, for the long-term peace and stability of Guanzhong, we must completely annihilate this cavalry, and the best way to annihilate them is to attract them all to a certain place, so that they lose their ability to maneuver! ”

Full of favor said: "The son of the daughter is not in the hall, the lord is in danger, Jing is safe, how can he be in danger alone, the lord is still sitting in Luoyu Pass, and it is better to take charge of the overall situation!" ”

"There are 100,000 troops with Lonely, how can it be counted as being in danger alone? If the soldiers knew that Lone was afraid of death and hid far behind, what would the soldiers think? How low will morale go? How will this battle be fought? Only when Lone stays with the soldiers can they have the courage to fight to the death. Once Dong Zhuo knows that Lone is with the soldiers, he will not suspect anything else, and will definitely eliminate Lone at any cost, so no one else can replace Lone's fragrant bait, Lone knows that Berning is worried about Lone's safety, if it is not safe for Lone to be in an army of 100,000, is there still a safe place in this world? ”

said that Wu Qiong returned to the North Shore with the news that was true and false, and that it was difficult to argue with the truth.

Zhang Ji learned that Wu Qiong was back, and hurriedly greeted him with his nephew Zhang Xiu. ZHANG Ji

Wu Qiong glanced at Zhang Ji deeply, and the killing intent that flashed in his eyes Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew did not notice it.

Zhang Ji knew that Wu Qiong was deeply trusted by Dong Zhuo, so he didn't dare to hold it up, and after greeting him respectfully, he carefully asked about Wu Qiong's gains from this trip.

Wu Qiong restrained her mind and said to Zhang Ji in an ordinary tone that the matter was very important, and without Dong Zhuo's consent, she didn't dare to spread the word and sent Zhang Ji away.

After sending Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, Wu Qiong ordered someone to call Li Le, and after some whispering, Wu Qiong got into the carriage and went straight to Chang'an.

Two days later, the dusty Wu Qiong returned to Chang'an.

Although the Red Eyebrow Rebellion and the Guangwu Dingdu Luoyang have had a great impact on Chang'an, in the past, with the Han Dynasty's prestige and prestige in the Western Regions, the glory of Baiyi yearning is not there, but after all, two hundred years have passed, the Han Dynasty still regards Chang'an as the Xijing of the empire, second only to Luoyang, with two hundred years of heavy and business, Chang'an has already walked out of the dilapidated scene after the Red Eyebrow Rebellion, and is one of the most prosperous cities in the world, but the current Chang'an is a lifeless look, the streets are left and right, Nearly half of the shops that used to flourish are now closed, and those who still insist on opening their doors to do all kinds of business are also full of doors; Occasionally, a few more people walked by in the streets, all of them bowing their heads and bending down, hurrying to and fro with frightened faces, as if there was gold and silver to be picked up on the ground, and as if a large knife would protrude at the corner of the street and slash at them; The streets are full of knee-deep weeds because of the lack of people to tidy up, and the streets are full of dirt and dirt, and the most unbearable thing is walking on the streets, and a fishy smell comes to your nose......

And the culprit of all this is none other than Dong Zhuo! Dong Zhuo is a person who is poor and extravagant, under his connivance, the Xiliang army in Chang'an can be said to be all evil, in just a few years, tens of thousands of people have been killed and raped for no reason, as for the people who took away their land and homes, and the people who were beaten cannot be counted (Dong Zhuo doesn't like to take people to prison, generally speaking, he likes to solve them with knives and fists, rather than putting people in prison, because then he has to increase an expense to maintain the lives of prisoners, so now Chang'an's prison may be the cleanest place in the entire Han Dynasty). In just a few years, there were only about 100,000 people left in Chang'an City, which originally had a population of nearly 300,000, and these were people who were nostalgic for their homeland or who really had nowhere to go.

Wu Qiong looked through the car window at a few ragged and desperate people kneeling at the door of a restaurant, just hoping that the owner of the restaurant would give him a bowl of leftovers like swill, he couldn't help but shake his head: "Liu Zhang is right, those who win the hearts of the people win the world, Xiangye is like this...... This...... Alas......" sighed, since he couldn't change Dong Zhuo's mind, naturally he couldn't change the fate of these people.

Wu Qiong's car drove directly to the outside of the palace, this palace was Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an and ordered people to rebuild it on the site of the original palace, originally just to house Emperor Xian, so it was built very roughly, in addition to Huihong's door eyebrows and the main hall of the meeting, only a "sleeping palace" was built for Emperor Xian, and all other buildings, in line with the principle of "economy", Dong Zhuo vetoed them one by one. When Emperor Xian was robbed by Lu Bu to Luoyang, Dong Zhuo lived in this palace in a grand manner, of course, before that, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to rebuild pavilions and pavilions, and collect a large number of rare treasures to decorate.

The soldier outside the palace stopped the car, Wu Qiong opened the curtain of the car, and said: "This official is Wu Qiong, I am returning from the envoy on the order of the prime minister, go and report it quickly!" ”

The armor guarding the palace recognized Wu Qiong and said, "Lord Wu, please wait", and someone went in to report.

When he was young, the armor led Wu Qiong into the palace.

Wu Qiong, who came to the palace that inherited the name of Moyang Palace, sat in the center of the main hall, surrounded by four fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls, fat as a mountain, wearing yellow robes, golden crowns and hair, and a pale face with a hint of indulgence, and said: "Xiaguan Wu Qiong, I have seen Xiangye!" ”

"Get up!" Dong Zhuo didn't move at all, picked up the wine cup on the table, and drank it all.

Wu Qiong thanked him, then straightened his waist and bowed his hand to a person who was seven and a half feet tall and had a cold and handsome face beside Dong Zhuo: "Lord Li is also here, the official is polite!" ”

This person is Dong Zhuo's number one resourceful Li Ru, Dong Zhuo trusts him very much, and asks him about everything first, in order to pull him away, Dong Zhuo even married his daughter to him.

Li Ru returned the salute and said, "Lord Wu has worked this trip, I don't know what Liu Zhang's intention is when he learns about Xiangye?" ”

Dong Zhuo opened his eyes violently, although his face was a little pale, but at this moment he emitted a fierce and violent aura, Wu Qiong was glanced at by him, and he couldn't help but shudder in his heart, and said: "Xiangye, the subordinate general explained the meaning of Xiangye to that Liu Zhang carefully, but that Liu Zhang saw through our army's plan......"

Wu Qiong described the meeting with Liu Zhang in detail one by one, and Li Ru nodded and frowned suddenly, not knowing what to think in his heart.

Dong Zhuo half-squinted and enjoyed the intimate massage of the two girls, and the other two knelt beside Dong Zhuo on the left and right, one poured wine for him, and the other carefully cut the stewed cooked beef into a small piece with a knife, whenever Dong Zhuo opened his mouth full of fishy smell, the girl immediately sent a small piece of beef into his mouth. Dong Zhuo listened to Wu Qiong's narration, while the two girls on the left and right were full of sibling desires, without any pity for the jade, he grabbed a handful of the girl's pink skin from time to time, whenever this happened, the girl's skin would always leave a dark black ecchymosis, the girl did not dare to refuse, shouting pain, but had to endure the pain of the heart and pretend to be a joyful look. They were originally the daughters of the owner of a cloth village in Chang'an, just because they sold a batch of Shu brocade, they were charged with collaborating with the enemy, their father was killed, the shop was occupied, and their mother was sent to the military prostitute camp after being on the street. The two girls were finally sent to Dong Zhuo, and this team leader also became a partial general. These two girls have only been in the palace for half a month, but they have already seen five girls of the same age as them being beaten to death by Dong Zhuo for no reason, no wonder they always look submissive and trembling, otherwise they may not be alive now! They also thought about assassinating Dong Zhuo, and even thought about committing suicide, but Dong Zhuo was always accompanied by armor guards, two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls, who couldn't lift their hands and shoulders, how could they succeed, not to mention that the team that broke the death said that it was easy to want to die, but should children think about their parents? Although their father is gone, their mother is still alive, and if they are even the slightest bit restless, the team will make their mother die. Two kind-hearted and filial little girls had to be wronged for the sake of their mother, but they didn't know that their mother had been violently killed on the day she entered the military prostitute camp.