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At this time, the Luoyang Imperial Court had already fallen into a dead silence before the storm.

During this period of time, on the surface, Dong Zhuo and the ministers of the imperial court still got along harmoniously, because he entered the Xiangguo from Taiwei, and the vacated position was specially based on Situ Huangwan as Taiwei, Sikong Yang Biao as Situ, and Guangluxun Xun Shuang as Sikong.

Among them, Xun Shuang's promotion speed is comparable to that of Cai Yong in the three days of the Zhou calendar, and he is even more than that, he began to count from Dong Zhuo's recruitment after entering Beijing to take power, and within 93 days, he was promoted one after another until he became the secretary of the Taiwan Division.

The speed of his promotion is staggering, and it can also be seen that Dong Zhuo is eager to use the names of these famous scholars and Confucians to consolidate the Han court that he has just taken over.

In dealing with the party members led by the Yuan brothers, after Dong Zhuo pursued Yuan Shao, who fled to Hebei, to no avail, he also pardoned Yuan Shao's crimes under the persuasion of Zhou Yu, Wu Qiong and other court officials, and gave him a position of Bohai Taishou, hoping to temporarily stabilize Yuan Benchu's heart that had always been uneasy with the new court.

While stabilizing Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo also took a two-pronged approach and began to win over other people in the party, among which Yuan Shu, who was a brother with Yuan Shao but had old grudges with each other, became an important target for Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo intended to support Yuan Shu to resist and split Yuan Shao's forces among the party, so he played a special role and made Yuan Shu a rear general.

Incidentally, Cao Cao in Yuan Shao's group was also listed as a captain of Xiao Cai. The other party members who remained in Kyoto also had their own promotions and rewards, but Dong Zhuo's painstaking arrangement finally failed with the escape of Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and others to Luoyang.

In addition, the military affairs in Hedong were also barely rounded, and when the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou had just entered Beijing, the unstoppable soldiers finally had a setback, and for a while, the undercurrents inside and outside the government and the opposition were surging.

Although Dong Zhuo also began to kill killers, killing the court officials who served the imperial history to disturb the Dragon Sect to deter the juniors and careerists of the government and the opposition, it still did not help the overall situation that suddenly turned down.

Even, it is rumored that Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao has fraudulently written a letter to the three princes of Beijing, transferred the letter to other states and counties, stated all kinds of crimes after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, and constantly contacted all parties to discuss Dong Zhuo.

The situation was so unfavorable that Dong Zhuo paid more attention to the soldiers and horses in Liang, Liang and the two states, so a winter hunt to promote military might was soon held in Shanglin Yuan in winter.

In the "Zhou Li", it is recorded that the king's four seasons of field hunting, respectively called spring search, summer seedling, autumn hunting, and winter hunting, as a ritual field hunting was inherited by later generations of emperors. In ancient times, hunting was a military ritual as a comprehensive exercise for military training.

Shanglin Yuan of the royal garden in the western suburbs of Luoyang City, although it is not as large as the Shanglin Garden complex of Chang'an in the former Han Dynasty, but it is also the largest area in several royal gardens in the west of the city, the forbidden land of Shanglin Yuan is only used for the use of royal nobles, among which there are many free-range beasts, and the princes and grandsons of Luoyang in the past often go here to hunt.

Therefore, Dong Zhuo also decided to set this significant winter hunt in Shanglin Yuan.

On a sunny day in winter, the sky is clear, and in front of a palace in Shanglin Yuan, the general platform and the big tent specially built for Xiangguo Dong Zhuo have been renovated early.

Standing on the platform, you can see the scenery of the mountains and rivers in front of you in winter. The large tent on the platform is also wrapped in several layers of red and purple light gauze curtains, and the tent is covered with soft wool blankets, dazzling gold and silver utensils, fragrant wood tables, and colorful lacquer plates, all of which show the prominent position of the owner of the tent as much as possible.

Dong Zhuo's sturdy and fat body reclined on the couch, and there were several beautiful maids kneeling and serving on the side, and the cases on both sides of the lower head sat on the collapsed, according to the degree of closeness and rank, sitting such as Li Ru, Jia Xu, Tian Jing and other officials of the Xiangguo Mansion, as well as Zhou Yu, Wu Qiong, Liu Ai, Liu Huan and other court officials who were close to Dong Zhuo, they warmed their wine, sat on the high platform, and looked at the wide hunting ground in front of the platform, many generals were galloping horses and bows, shooting the prey's sassy and heroic posture.

This is a specially built hunting ground, early in the morning, there are special soldiers holding nets, blowing trumpets and drums, to drive out the wild beasts that inhabit or forage in the forest in winter, and slowly expel and encircle from three sides, until the roe deer, elk, mountain hare, pheasant, wild boar and other wild beasts are all driven into this place in front of the platform has been fenced, vacating a bluff waiting for the prey to enter the hunting ground, and many generals who are gearing up and ready to show their skills, after Dong Zhuo's order is issued, have shouted to ride horses and enter, bow and arrow, Kill the prey.

The generals intend to show their martial arts and riding archery in front of Xiangguo Dong Zhuo and their own lords, so although each general does not have many riders, everyone is full of energy, walking horses and bows, arrows do not stop, in the whistling sound, almost every instant, there are several beasts are ruthlessly shot by sharp arrows.

And each of the generals was competing with each other, each performing his own shooting strategy, and shooting the prey in front of him one by one. Among the generals, some of them have superb personal skills, some can shoot arrows from the left and right, and some can turn over and shoot back, and some generals pay more attention to the mutual cooperation between the horses, just like commanding the soldiers and horses on the battlefield, constantly dispatching the horses from the horses to surround and hunt the beasts from all sides, so as to prevent the beasts that have escaped from the gap.

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway. Most of the many clerks and officials sitting on the high platform with Dong Zhuo just felt that these galloping and flying knights in front of them were either neat and orderly, or chaotic, or hit with one arrow, or shot a few arrows in a row to shoot a cunning rabbit.

However, Dong Zhuo has a clear understanding of the situation in the field, he himself is not only a fierce general who can shoot left and right, but also a veteran general who has commanded a large army in fierce battles, and he is even more familiar with this kind of small-scale hunting.

"Among the cavalry, after all, Xu Rong is the most neat, they have the most strategy for hunting, and the archery skills of each knight are not bad, but Xu Rong is cautious and does not like to compete with other generals, after all, he will fall behind in the number of prey."

"And Guo Aduo's guy, although there are many hunts, but there is too much competition, there are many shots, there are many misses, the cavalry team is disorganized, and it is generally about to fall behind."

"Haha, at the moment, it seems that after all, Feng Xian is the best at shooting, and the knights under his command are also good at shooting.

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Dong Zhuo competed with the generals in the audience for riding and archery ability, and commented on them one by one. At this time, the generals on the hunting ground also hunted all the beasts in the field, and they also held the best and biggest prey they had hit, rode their horses to the front of the stage, and offered their prey to Dong Zhuojin.

Among them, the number of prey caught by the people was really as much as Dong Zhuo expected, and the Bingzhou cavalry team led by Lu Bu hit the most prey, and many of the prey were shot from the front, preserving the intact fur of the prey.

Dong Zhuo on the high platform looked at his own group of elite soldiers and generals under the stage, laughed and asked the subordinates in the costumes on the stage to give the brocade robes, bows and arrows that had been prepared on the stage to the generals, and at the same time let the generals in the audience also come to the stage together and review the army with Dong Zhuo.

The meaning of winter hunting, that is, when the farm is slack, the military parade is stressed, and the soldiers and horses under Dong Zhuo's command now, although they are all elite divisions that have been on the battlefield for a long time, but the members are complex, including the old Liangzhou department that has followed him for many years, some of the soldiers and horses when they were stationed in Sanfu, and the new soldiers and horses from Bingzhou.

Therefore, it is particularly necessary to read all the armies.

Among them, Lu Bu's Bingzhou soldiers and horses were listed as the first to enter.

Since Lu Bu killed Ding Yuan and switched to Dong Zhuo, he has always been valued by Dong Zhuo. Recently, he was directly promoted to the rank of lieutenant and given the title of Marquis of Duting. The position of Zhonglang General, under Dong Zhuo's current command, is the highest military attache title, except for Niu Fu and Dong Yue, two relatives of Dong Zhuo, only Xu Rong and Duan Xuan were awarded the position of Zhonglang General, and even Li Dao, Guo Yan and others are just a school captain.

And the generals of the original Liangzhou series were faintly dissatisfied with this batch of mergers who did not make an inch of merit but came to the top after they switched.

For example, after the prey hunted by Lu Bu was set as the first place just now, Guo Yan, who was dissatisfied, complained in private:

"What a skill to ride a horse and shoot hunting, if you want to talk about real skills, you still have to see a high and low on the battlefield after all!"

The tall and majestic Lu Bu also knows a little about the dissatisfaction of the old generals under Dong Zhuo, he himself is a high-minded and arrogant and self-respecting person, so today he is also going to show the strength of his soldiers and horses in front of other generals, lest they sit in the well and watch the sky all day long, thinking that the soldiers and horses in the whole world are the most elite in Liangzhou.

on the hunting grounds

After the beast was hunted and killed, the fence on several other sides was removed, and this large open space soon became a training ground for the Great Parade.

The cold air from the northern grasslands swept over the upper forest like a knife, and in the terrible cry of the cold wind, frightened birds flew up in horror from the dense forest where they roosted, and chaotically passed through the clear sky illuminated by the sun.

When the noisy birdsong died down, the forest fell silent again. Only on the nearby drill ground of the big parade horses echoed the long howls of many soldiers waiting for the review.

A group of cavalry galloped in the vast wilderness of Shanglinyuan, and in the eyes of everyone who first entered the platform from the west, the marching cavalry kicked up billowing smoke and dust, and the sound of horses' hooves was mixed with the sonorous sound of swords colliding.

The galloping war horse constantly spewed white mist from its nose, and behind the horse's head there were faces that were dusty. The cavalry was followed by a small phalanx of infantry.

The sound of neat and heavy footsteps and the vibration of the equally rhythmic armor "whoosh--" sounded in the ears like muffled thunder, and a black steel frenzy surged like a bamboo in the fields of Shanglin Yuan. Under the sunlight in the clear sky, the cold light on the spears flickered, and the scabbard of the ring-headed sword was inlaid with the golden edges of the Dao, which invisibly increased the prestige of this marching procession.

The raging cold wind swept the dust under the feet of the team, and the banner of the word "Lu" in the middle of the team was blown to the sound of hunting, and even the war horses let out a neighing sound. However, the arrogant cold wind had to calm down in the face of the breathtaking military might, and after several ineffective attempts to storm the steel wall, the cold wind let out a few "woo--" screams, and stopped abruptly in front of the fast-moving team.

"Stop--" Before the cavalry reached the stage, the leading military officer raised his hand, and the pro-soldiers guarding both sides immediately opened their throats and shouted loudly, "Stop advancing--Stop advancing--". The entire phalanx of infantry shouted loudly with the leading officer, and in an instant they all stopped with their spears, and stood still like a rock, allowing the wind to beat their armor wantonly······

"Haha, Fengxian, are these the people in the camp under your command, they are really all bears!"

Although it is a big parade, but not all the soldiers and horses, all of them can be transferred to Shanglin Yuan, because among the various armies, the participants in the parade are the elite selected from their respective armies, I heard that there is a strongest army under Lu Bu, called "trapped camp", the armor is refined and neat, and every attack is broken, so after Dong Zhuo took a look, he knew that this mixed cavalry army was extraordinary, and turned his head to Lu Bu in the tent and asked.

"It's the trap camp, Xiangguo!"

Speaking of this army of soldiers and horses, Lu Bu, who had a wide forehead and square face, couldn't help but have a hint of pride, this was the trapped camp soldiers and horses under his command, and it was also the most elite and warlike tiger and wolf division among the soldiers and horses in Bingzhou.

"Orders are forbidden, advance and retreat freely, what a camp!"

Dong Zhuo wiped the wine on his beard, and couldn't help but praise loudly.

As he spoke, the cavalry, which had been with the foot soldiers, began to roar and gallop.

They used the infantry stationed in formation as an imaginary enemy, and began to divide into two forces, forming a cavalry formation to simulate the impact of the infantry soldiers.

Moreover, their cavalry formation is also different from the ordinary cavalry formation, the common cavalry formation in the past is based on the sharp arrow formation, rushing up, aiming to use the momentum and impact force of the war horse to cut through the enemy formation in one fell swoop.

Although that kind of cavalry formation is simple and easy to use, it also has obvious disadvantages, that is, in the face of armored soldiers or the same number of cavalry, it is difficult to be like a light armored soldier, frontal assault, rush and defeat, so you have to choose long-distance running, division and encirclement, cutting off the enemy's rear road, back charge and other means to make up for the lack of frontal confrontation.

And the cavalry team under the command of Lu Bu in front of him, the cavalry formation formed is obviously not an ordinary arrow formation, but a bit like a fish scale formation when the foot soldiers form a formation, this large cavalry formation is composed of many small cavalry formations layer upon layer, and attaches great importance to the spacing between each horse, so as to ensure that after a rush does not move, the cavalry in front can cut and gallop away, so that the cavalry formation behind can attack again.

This cycle seems to weaken the power of the cavalry when it rushes up, but it will actually increase the toughness and strength of the cavalry when breaking the formation. The sharp arrow is like a sharp knife, you can cut and pierce a wooden board at will and briskly, but when you encounter a stone slab or iron plate, it will expose its own shortcomings of being rigid and easy to break, and this kind of riding formation in front of you is like turning a sharp knife into an iron awl, hammering and hammering the stone and iron plate, no matter how hard the stone will turn into powder, and no matter how strong the iron plate will become a thin sheet.

It is rumored that this kind of cavalry formation is like a cavalry formation in turns, and the tactic of rushing into battle in turn was pioneered by Huo Hussar of the former Han Dynasty, and it is impossible to know how it exactly, but Dong Zhuo, who was born as a cavalry general and is also good at commanding cavalry to break the formation, couldn't help but light up in front of him, of course he knew the power of this kind of cavalry formation.

"Hahaha, good knight, good cavalry!"

If this kind of cavalry formation had not been trained for a long time by a group of skilled horsemen, it would not have been able to exert its original power. Therefore, the display of this kind of cavalry tactics in the field is only a handful of elite cavalry under Lu Bu's command, which cannot arouse Dong Zhuo's inner jealousy, and as a veteran of the battlefield for a long time, Dong Zhuo knows better that this cavalry seems to be invincible when it breaks the formation, but on the battlefield with ever-changing information, it is only a drop in the ocean, and if you are not careful, you will also be drowned by the tide of soldiers.

The cavalry horses under Lu Bu's command took the lead, and after a demonstration, Dong Zhuo was full of praise for his elite men and horses, and his attitude towards Lu Bu became even closer. And the others who originally had a heart of underestimation, thinking that Lu Bu had only relied on his back to the master to gain his official status, also had to calm down, and when they looked at Lu Bu, there was a hint of awe in their eyes.

No wonder Xiangguo attaches so much importance to Lu Bu's gang and the soldiers and horses under his command, when I see it today, it is really worthy of its reputation, it is extremely elite, compared to the soldiers and horses of Xiliang, it is not much better, and there are even faint signs of exceeding it in some places.

For a while, the focus of the eyes on and off the stage was on the elite cavalry team under Lu Bu, so that the other cavalry horses who appeared later were overshadowed by Lu Bu's soldiers and horses.

Among them, the faces of the generals of the Liangzhou series are the most unnatural, at the beginning, the cavalry team led by Lu Bu hunted the most, and now it is Lu Bu's soldiers and horses that are the most powerful, and the cavalry is forgotten.

But like foot soldiers and the like, among the generals' men and horses, there will really be no one who can be compared with the foot soldiers trapped in the camp for a while, if there are other outstanding places in front of Xiangguo today, wouldn't it be that all of them will be pressed down by these people.

Dong Zhuoan sat on the couch, looked at his elite soldiers and strong generals with a happy face, and at the same time looked at Zhou Yu, Wu Qiong, Liu Ai, Liu Huan and others with deep meaning, this is the biggest reliance in his hands, even if he does not rely on the ministers of the court with evil intentions, with this army that can fight well, he can still stand on the court.

As for the careful thinking of the contest between the generals, in Dong Zhuo's opinion, it is also a good thing, it is better to go alone, it is better to fight two horses together, only in this way can these soldiers and horses better burst out of combat power, and can they be better in their own hands.

Dong Zhuo raised the gold bottle meaningfully, and said to the Jiji Wenwu in the tent:

"With my son Fengxian here, with all of you, with this army of chaos and helping the needy, there will be no chaos in this world, and I will not have to worry about it, come, gentlemen, please drink this!"