94. Offensive and defensive objections

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Just when the sour jujube coalition army looked like they were separated and dispersed, the remaining Dong coalition forces in Hanoi and Luyang also reacted differently after hearing about the situation of Yanzhou's food exhaustion and dispersion.

After Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance stationed in Hanoi, saw clearly the situation of the war against Dong, he had already shifted his gaze from Dong Zhuo, who had a deep blood feud with him, to Jizhou Mu Han Fu, who had many constraints on him in the alliance.

Although Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, still advocated the march, even Yuan Shao did not agree with the march, he was weak, and he had the lesson of Cao Cao's lone army before, so he could only turn from attack to defense, and constantly strengthen his own defense line of the river.

Wang Kuang, who was in an offensive posture before, did not feel much when facing the fierce Xiliang soldiers, but when he turned to the defensive, he suddenly felt that the pressure doubled, and this section of the river, which originally stretched for hundreds of miles and could be attacked in many places, has now become his own long defense line, and the troops in Wang Kuang's hands have become overstretched, and the idea of the coalition army to march into Luoyang from the north has also failed.

In contrast, on the contrary, it was Yuan Shu and Sun Jian's soldiers and horses after the confluence of Nanyang and Yuzhou that showed the most positive performance, Yuan Shu supplied grain and grass to Sun Jian in Nanyang, and Sun Jian annexed Yuzhou soldiers and horses, and the troops in his hands were more abundant, and he frequently sent scouts to spy on Yuyuan, Taigu and other passes, faintly threatening Luoyang's march.

One south and one north, one attack and one defense, the situation is becoming more and more obvious.

And Yan Xing's surprise attack on Yanzhou Fengqiu and burning the rebels' grain and grass also caused an uproar in the Dong army's camp.

It is said that after Xu Rong, who was still in Xingyang to recuperate from foot disease, heard the news, he was furious and knocked the decoction served by the servant directly to the ground, startling the people around him.

Subsequently, Xu Rong sent someone to order Yan Xing to return to Xingyang, and on the other hand, he played Luoyang, impeaching the commander Yan Xing for ignoring military orders and marching without authorization, and led the cavalry to cross the chasm and return to Yan Xing in Zhongmu.

These two military reports were delivered to Luoyang almost at the same time.

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Luoyang Bi Gui Yuan

In the past, the royal garden was located, but now it is the residence of Xiangguo Dong Zhuo in Luoyang.

After doing the matter of King Hongnong for Dong Zhuo, in order to avoid the public opinion of a large number of Han ministers in the court, Li Ru had to take the initiative to remove all his duties, and after refrigerating himself for a period of time, he returned to Xiangguo's mansion and continued to give advice to Dong Zhuo.

Nowadays, there are many swords and soldiers in the Kanto region, and there is also an undercurrent in the court, Li Ruyan, who returned to the Xiangguo Mansion, was extremely worried about reversing the decline of Dong Zhuo's camp, but after he really started, he found that what he could do when he returned to the Xiangfu was actually extremely limited.

In the court, Dong Zhuo relied more and more on Situ Wang Yun, who catered to his wishes everywhere, in military affairs, Li Ru did not take charge of the army, and Dong Zhuo, who had been fighting horses for a long time, personally taught the generals and schools of each side out of the town, and did not tolerate others to put their beaks. In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Dong Zhuo also became aware of the opinions of Changshi Liu Ai and Tian Jing, but Li Ru's identity became embarrassing.

All Li Ru can do is to speak out and make plans at the right time, so as to achieve the purpose of influencing Dong Zhuo's decision-making and consolidating his own position.

Therefore, after seeing that his henchmen in the army, General Yan Xing and the main general Xu Rong, had a gap and impeached each other, Li Ru had to come to ask to meet Dong Zhuo in a hurry.

The court has been moved to Chang'an, there is no court discussion, and there is no need to behave in front of the ministers, Dong Zhuo, who is in Bi Guiyuan to command the military of all parties, has become extremely comfortable, indulging in wine and hunting, and summoning the carefully selected beauties in the garden to sleep every night.

Li Ru walked to the outside of Dong Zhuo's residence, and saw that the door of the hall was closed, and Fan Chou was guarding outside the hall with a cadre of armor soldiers.

Fan Chou, who was draped all over his body and had a short black beard, also nodded and greeted Li Ru after seeing him coming.

"Captain Fan, Confucianism wants to meet Xiangguo, but I don't know that Xiangguo has already woken up?"

"Well, Xiangguo has woken up, he has finished washing, and he has summoned people to serve the morning food, but please join the army for a while before going in, I'm afraid it's not very convenient at this time."

Li Ru knew the elegance when he heard the string song, and knew that Dong Zhuo's meal must also be served by a beautiful woman, and he had all kinds of fun and frolicking during the banquet, so Fan Chou said this, and it was indeed inconvenient for him to enter at this time.

Dong Zhuojiu was in charge of the army in the border area, and his original unruly personality was contaminated with a lot of Hu Feng, he didn't like to act according to etiquette and behavior, and when the scholars and doctors in the city and court were humble and wronged in the city of Luoyang, they could only endure negative emotions and not have a seizure, and now they have temporarily got rid of the court ministers who abide by the etiquette and law, and naturally can't help but have fun.

Li Ru was noncommittal about Dong Zhuo's wanton drunken behavior, not only was it inconvenient to persuade Dong Zhuo on the surface, but in his heart, he didn't feel much discomfort about Dong Zhuo's wanton behavior that did not conform to the etiquette and law, and he did not abide by the etiquette law.

"The disease of the widow, the lust of the widow", this common disease of meat eaters and superiors, even Mencius can deal with it calmly, and it is transformed into a condition for "implementing benevolent government", and Li Ru will not care about it.

After waiting outside the hall for half an hour, after the beauty who was waiting for Dong Zhuo to eat withdrew, Fan Chou sent someone to inform Li Ru that Li Ru had the opportunity to meet Dong Zhuo.

In the past, when he was stationed in Sanfu and Hedong, Dong Zhuo had to summon Li Ru almost every day to discuss matters, and Li Ru had almost no scruples when he met Dong Zhuo.

Li Ru still walked into the lobby with a respectful face, stood in the hall and cautiously saluted Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo looked in good spirits after eating the court, full of red light, after seeing Li Ru come in, he brushed his deliberately trimmed beard, and smiled at Li Ru:

"Wen You, I asked to see you early in the morning, did you enter the morning food, is there something important?"

After listening to Dong Zhuo's question, Li Ru's heart warmed slightly, and the irritability caused by waiting outside the hall for a long time also subsided, and he also smiled:

"Thank you Ming Gong, Confucianism has already entered the court food, and I came here today for Zhongmu's good news!"

"Oh, haha, I already know about this matter, Du Wei Yan Xing attacked Fengqiu at night and burned the grain and grass of the army of sour jujube, and the rebels of sour jujube have been in chaos, and this good news has been delivered to my couch last night."

Dong Zhuo laughed, and when he talked about the good news of the front-line army, his mood was even higher.

In the past two or three months, Dong Zhuo's troops have been unstoppable, first swept away Kong Ling in Yuzhou, and then defeated Cao Cao in Bianshui, and now he has burned the grain and grass of the sour jujube coalition army, plus the first Huangfu Song to enter the court, Guanzhong and three auxiliary soldiers and horses, for Dong Zhuo's camp, it can be said that it swept away the gloomy atmosphere of the spring Guandong soldiers rising and rebelling on all sides, and the front-line army has been reported successively.

Li Ru also laughed for a while, and then said slowly:

"But the military report of Yan Xing, the commander who has made great contributions, and the military report of the mutual impeachment of Xu Rong by Zhonglang, has Ming Gong ever seen it?"

Hearing this, Dong Zhuo quickly stopped smiling, and there was a secret report that these two people had formed a gap in the army to his hands before, but now when he heard Li Ru personally talk about this matter, he calmed down and began to ask:

"Two impeachment of each other? Today's Chang'an's newspaper and the military newspaper of the soldiers and horses on the front line, I haven't had time to read it, but there is such a thing, the military newspaper has been brought, and you can submit it quickly. ”

Li Ru naturally came prepared, and then took out the military report from his sleeve and forwarded it by the temple people who were waiting in the hall, Dong Zhuo unfolded and read the military report of the two of them, snorted coldly, and the general newspaper slapped it on the desk hard, making a muffled sound, and then loudly reprimanded:

"These two verticals, the most taboo generals in the army, have just won the battle, and they are fighting in private, if this goes on for a long time, everyone will follow suit and form their own faction. Then there is no need for the rebels in Kanto to attack, and we and the other side will be defeated first! ”

Li Ru waited for Dong Zhuo to finish his angry reprimand, and then began to say slowly:

"This kind of dispute between lieutenants and colonels in the army, although it is a battle of will, but as Ming Gong said, in the long run, it will become a dangerous situation, so it is necessary for Ming Gong to make a decision and draw up a program to calm down the dispute and gather the hearts of the army.

After hearing Li Ru's words, Dong Zhuocai slightly suppressed the anger on his face.

Indeed, the generals and colonels in the front-line army disagreed, and the only one who could act as an arbiter was himself in Luoyang.

The content of the mutual impeachment between the two can be ignored for the time being, but the decision of offense and defense needs to be decided immediately.

Yan Xing, the commander who had just burned the grain and grass, was the main attacker, advocating taking advantage of the victory to march and destroy the Yanzhou rebels who had begun to run out of grain in one fell swoop, while Xu Rong pointed out that Sun Jian's soldiers and horses who had entered Yuzhou were the trouble of his henchmen, and advocated that Yuzhou should be attacked first and then Yanzhou.

If it was according to Dong Zhuo's original intention, he naturally wanted to first kill the bunch of assassins and Taishou in Yanzhou who were appointed by him but betrayed him one after another, and cut off the heads of these people to deter other rebels who were stubborn and had bad intentions.

But if this is the case, in order to unify the army's heart, he will inevitably need to change generals before the battle, or replace Xu Rong, the main general who advocates fighting Yuzhou first, or directly let Yan Xing, the commander who has made great contributions, be in charge of the army alone and be responsible for pacifying the Yanzhou rebels.

These two things involve a lot of things, and the consequences are not small, and you need to consider them carefully.

So after Dong Zhuo pondered for a while, he suddenly asked:

"Does Jia Wenhe know about this?"