Anyi cattle auxiliary army camp

Yan Xing, who was sitting in Niu Fu's big tent, quickly looked at Niu Fu who was sitting on the top general's seat, and it seemed that Niu Fu's complexion had become good again.

Niu Fu is in a really good mood now, because the Baibo army in Hedong suffered two consecutive defeats after Yan Xing galloped to aid Hedong, with nearly 20,000 casualties and horses, and also lost one Baibo Xiaoshuai, one Baibo Qu Shuai, and even the big city of Linfen was recovered by the Xiliang army. Under the threat from both sides, he had to retreat with hatred and give up continuing to besiege the big city of Pishi.

Of course, the reason why Niu Fu was able to maintain a pleasant face in front of Yan Xing was mainly because the witch in Niu Fu's camp asserted for Niu Fu that Yan Xing was his lucky general and could remove evil for him after divination.

Therefore, although Yan Xing had refused Niu Fu's solicitation before, and Niu Fu also ruthlessly detained Gan Ling and others, but this time they met, the two were smiling and smiling, Yan Xing's attitude became more and more respectful, and Niu Fu's smile was so kind.

Of course, Niu Fu's eyes were still mixed with mixed emotions when he looked at Yan Xing, although he was smiling on the surface.

Any subordinate under the command of any general who can fight and has a respectful attitude towards Shangguan will feel comfortable in his heart, but if this subordinate has other outrageous behaviors, it will also make Shangguan have more scruples.

Niu Fu looked at Yan Xing, it was like eating a fresh fish, he opened his mouth, he could enjoy the deliciousness of the fish, but when he wanted to swallow it, there was a touch like a fish in his throat, so Niu Fu's heart was actually mixed.

During this time, there were rumors about Yan Xing, and they never stopped. There were rumors in the barracks that Yan Xing was arrogant and arrogant, and wanted to support the army and respect himself. There were also many people in Anyi City who violently criticized Yan Xing's unauthorized killing of local governors.

But in the end, these remarks were forcefully suppressed by Niu Fu after Yan Xing led the army to achieve great victories in Xiangling and Linfen.

Now that the struggle between the Kwantung Prefecture and Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses has entered a white-hot stage, Dong Zhuo has previously ordered the Dong army on the front line to attack the remaining soldiers and horses of the two brothers Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao.

First of all, the soldiers and horses led by Hu Zhen attacked Luyang, when Sun Jian was outside the city for the Changshi Gongsun Qiu Zudao practice, in the face of the surging Xiliang cavalry, all the people in the curtain changed color, almost turned into a one-sided massacre.

Fortunately, Sun Jian is a veteran general who has been in battle for a long time, when he was young, he dared to kill the pirates single-handedly, and now he is a general who commands tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, although the cavalry of the Xiliang soldiers keeps emerging from the distant horizon, and there are more and more of them, but Sun Jian is sitting still in the curtain, as if he regards these surging Xiliang cavalry as nothing, he calmly commands the soldiers and horses outside the city to slowly retreat and enter the city.

On the other side, Hu Zhen, who was originally thinking of a surprise attack, saw that Sun Jian's soldiers and horses were in good order, and he did not panic at all, so he immediately hesitated, if he took the initiative to attack at this time, Sun Jian's army was slowly retreating, and there were not many of them, there was indeed a great chance of defeating Sun Jian's army, but if Sun Jian still had ambush soldiers, or the soldiers and horses in the city suddenly killed, then Hu Zhen might have to return with a feather.

This is the first battle of Hu Zhen's army, Dong Zhuo gave him the real power to lead the army, if he fights for the first time, he will be defeated directly, then he is afraid that the generals such as Lu Bu and Xu Rong, who covet their own power, will take advantage of the situation to seize their own power.

Hu Zhen hesitated in an instant, his hesitation gave Sun Jian's soldiers and horses enough time to react, and after Hu Zhen decided not to attack, Sun Jian's soldiers and horses had all retreated into the city, and the soldiers on the city wall were all swords and crossbows, with a posture of being ready for battle.

The futile Hu Zhen immediately outside the city, but he was not angry, he simply took his many horsemen, showed off his military strength under Luyang City, and showed off his own soldiers and horses for a while before turning around and slowly retreating.

Hu Zhen's attack on Sun Jian's military affairs ended in a hurry.

Relying on Sun Jian's courage, his army escaped a catastrophe. But Wang Kuang and others in Hanoi County were not so lucky.

Since the defeat or disbandment of the Dong coalition army in Yuzhou and Suoju, Hanoi's threat to Luoyang has been greatly weakened, and Wang Kuang, who knew that he could no longer compete with the Dong army of Luoyang with the strength of his own side, turned to the defensive, wanting to rely on the Dahe defense line to resist the attack of the Xiliang army.

It's a pity that although Wang Kuang tried his best to recruit troops to defend the section of the Dahe defense line in Hanoi County, when facing the resourceful Jia Xu and the fierce and brave Third Captain of the Xiliang Army, Wang Kuang's Taishan soldiers and Hanoi County soldiers were still powerless.

Jia Xu took office as the commander of Pingjin, during this period of time, he has found out in detail the reality of the enemy and the enemy in this section of the defense line of the big river in the north of Gongwei, and now the Xiliang army has turned to attack, he quickly saw the Achilles heel of the opponent's Wang Kuang army, and for Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou three captains, planned a plan to attack the west.

As a result, on the basis of the original confrontation between the enemy and us, the third lieutenant suddenly increased his troops in Heyang, as if he wanted to cross the river from here, and Wang Kuang, who was like a frightened bird, hurriedly followed the additional troops to Heyang to defend.

After successfully mobilizing the defenders on the opposite bank, the Xiliang army took advantage of its own cavalry, ran a long distance, and turned to cross the river from the ferry port of Xiaopingjin, and directly attacked Wang Kuang's camp, Wang Kuang's soldiers and horses were transferred to the direction of Ha Duong, in a hurry, there was no time to return to defense, so under the enemy's outnumbered, a massacre of soldiers and horses in Hanoi was quickly launched.

After the war, Wang Kuang's Taishan soldiers and Hanoi county soldiers were all lost, if it were not for Hanoi County, as well as Yuan Shao's Bohai soldiers and Han Fu's Jizhou soldiers and horses led by Zhou Cheng to defend the city, I am afraid that the entire Hanoi County will fall under the iron hooves of the Xiliang army.

However, it was difficult for Wang Kuang, who was greatly injured, to threaten the Dong army in Luoyang, and Yuan Shao and Han Fu, who had their own thoughts, were not willing to consume their own forces to help replenish and restore Wang Kuang's troops, and because Wang Kuang was in office, he also wantonly oppressed the people of Hanoi and exploited the goods, grain and grass to replenish military supplies, so after his defeat, the hearts of the people in Hanoi became more and more turbulent, and Wang Kuang's rule was also in jeopardy.

In a fit of rage, he also broke with Yuan Shao and others, and with a small number of remnants, he went to his hometown of Taishan County, breaking away from the Dong coalition army, which had declined to the extreme.

On the other hand, on Dong Zhuo's side, the Dong army in front of him won consecutive battles, and even Hu Zhen's futile attack was whitewashed by him as a small victory. Therefore, Dong Zhuo's prestige is also in full swing again, and there are many people who are attached to his staff and courtiers, jumping up and down, pushing Dong Zhuo to the position of the Grand Master.

The story of the Han family, no merit can be crowned marquis, and the surname Liu is not a king. This is the former Han Gaozu Emperor and the ministers cut the white horse, made an oath, although there is no merit to be a marquis, this oath, to today's world, has been destroyed to seventy-seven eighty-eight, some of the emperor's favored ministers, such as the ten permanent servants and the like, can be whitewashed to establish a great merit, mixed with the prominent position of the marquis.

But the surname Liu is not allowed to be the king, but it is an oath that the emperors of all dynasties have abided by, even if he is as obscene as the Emperor Ling, he has never been crowned king without authorization, "only the name and the instrument, not the fake people" This is one of the principles of the empire can be forever, and the White Horse League swears to guard against the right ministers to steal the throne and covet the world of the Han family.

However, although Dong Zhuo, the "king", could not be sealed, it did not hinder his promotion as a powerful minister. The position of Taishi, although not a prince, but is located above the princes and kings, if Dong Zhuo enters the position of Taishi, then he has really achieved the nominal one person under ten thousand people, even the young son of heaven, must be careful to accept his Dundun teachings.

In the overall situation of the succession of good news in front and Dong Zhuo's advancement to the Taishi, the Hedong war on Niu Fu's side has also become a key point, if the northeastern border of Hedong falls into the hands of the White Wave Thief, it will not only affect the war in Luoyang, but also affect Dong Zhuo's road to the Taishi.

Thinking of his wife's face full of anger and angry appearance, Niu Fu was suddenly frightened in his heart, he didn't want to, he was treated by Dong Zhuo as an ordinary general who didn't know soldiers, and then transferred back to Chang'an, mixed with an idle position in the court, and those court doctors who sat and talked about the Tao, the same as the ancients, and then faced the fierce wife Dong at home, only promised, dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.

Now it just so happened that Yan Xing's good fighting could greatly get him out of this embarrassing situation. Therefore, Niu Fu treats those gossips uncharacteristically with a tolerant attitude, and still wants to reuse Yan Xing.

Until the white wave thieves who ravaged Hedong were pacified.

However, although Niu Fu planned to continue to reuse Yan Xing, he had been following Dong Zhuo for some time after all, and he knew a little bit about the methods of controlling people's hearts, and he also knew that the things that Yan Xing did without authorization could be big or small, all in his own thoughts.

From a small point of view, this is just the domineering behavior of a fierce general in the army, but from a large point of view, it is a general with bad intentions who suppresses dissidents and forms a party for personal gain.

Thinking of this, Niu Fu opened his mouth and smiled at Yan Xing:

"Yanming, the war in Xiangling and Linfen has already been known, thanks to your timely assistance, this place in Hedong has turned the corner again, and Yanming can be in the first place in the whole Hedong!"

As soon as Yan Xing heard such an explicit temptation, he knew that Niu Fu still couldn't rest assured of himself after all, so he hurriedly said:

"It's still thanks to the strategy of General Zhonglang, if it weren't for General Zhonglang's garrison in Anyi and stabilize the rear, how could the soldiers in front of him fight hard to kill thieves and serve the country loyally, if it wasn't for Zhonglang General to rush to the aid of Jiangyi, how could his subordinates defeat the Baibo thieves, this is all the work of Zhonglang General's strategy!"

"Haha."

After Niu Fu listened to Yan Xing's flattering words, he was in a much more comfortable mood, and he laughed unceremoniously twice, and accepted it without blushing at all, which was originally what he wanted to write on the good news he gave Dong Zhuo.

It's just that after he finished laughing, he remembered the white wave thief who was still entrenched in the northeast border of the river, and began to say again:

"Since the White Wave Thieves have been defeated by Yan Ming twice, and the Guo Tai Thief Chief has besieged the Pi Clan, and the White Wave Thief Kou's offensive since the beginning of the spring has been thwarted, I will intend to lead the whole army in the spring of the next year and attack the White Wave Thieves in a big way, what does Yan Ming think?"

Hearing that after Niu Fu saw his own big victory over the White Wave Thief, he actually had the idea of personally leading the troops to attack, Yan Xing's heart couldn't help twitching, Niu Fu's ability to lead the troops to fight had already been fully revealed in the previous Hedong War, if it weren't for Yan Xing, Xu Kun, Li Dao and others at that time to lead the troops to fight and save the crisis, I am afraid that as early as last year, Hedong County, which was in a bad situation, would have completely fallen.

However, it is not good to explain Niu Fu's ability to lead troops so bluntly at the moment, and if he blindly shirks, it will make Niu Fu even more dissatisfied, and it is not conducive to his own situation in Hedong, so Yan Xing thought about it before he slowly spoke:

"If it is the beginning of spring, the general personally leads the troops to fight, it is naturally invincible, it is expected that with Guo Tai and others, it will be difficult to resist the general's tiger might, but the subordinates are worried that after the white wave thief heard that the general personally went to battle, and then fled north to Taiyuan and other places, the army went out, wouldn't it be in vain. Guo Tai and the others, after waiting for the general to lead the troops back to Anyi, they can re-attack Yong'an, Yangxian, Pingyang and other cities in the northeast of the river, so, I am afraid-"

"Hmm."

Hearing Yan Xing talk about this, Niu Fu suddenly calmed down and began to think. What Yan Xing said, in Niu Fu's ears, is very reasonable, the last time was not also as soon as he came out, he was scared of the white wave thief Kou fled north, although the process was a little tortuous, but this time I was only afraid of Guo Tai and others, as soon as they heard that their own horse was out, they would immediately repeat their old tricks and flee to Taiyuan and other places, and then wait for Niu Fu to withdraw back to Anyi, and the white wave thief Kou attacked again and killed back to Hedong County.

Niu Fu thought about this clearly, and he nodded, but he was still a little uneasy, so he asked again:

"But if I don't personally lead the soldiers and horses into battle, with only your soldiers and horses, can you have the confidence to defeat the White Wave Thieves?"

"Eh-General Qiyu, my Xiliang soldiers and horses, the victory is running fast, coming and going like the wind, although the Baibo army is numerous, but the subordinates only need to avoid the real and attack the false, the enemy must be saved, and the thief is unexpected, I dare not say that I will win, but relying on the general Huwei, my subordinates dare to speak, and they will definitely be able to defeat the main force of Baibo."

"Good!"

After hearing Yan Xing's guarantee of victory, Niu Fu high-fived and admired, and his emotions rose a little higher, and he asked some questions about the military information of the White Wave Thieves one after another, and Yan Xing answered them fluently, obviously already having a strategy in mind.

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Half an hour later, Niu Fu, who was sitting at the top, couldn't think of anything else to ask Yan Xing, he simply smiled, looked at Yan Xing and said:

"Yan Ming is good at marching and fighting, this point, the general already knows, but, there is another thing, but Yan Ming needs to remember, do not act too impatiently, if there is a major decision, although the war is urgent, you can act cheaply at the opportunity, but you still need to take into account the hearts and public opinion of the people of this Anyi. Remember, remember! ”

Niu Fu spoke, and the smile on his face became a little stiff, this can be regarded as an end to Yan Xing's previous affairs, and he ended with "act too hastily, act on the spot" as the conclusion, suppressing all the public opinion attacks that were unfavorable to Yan Xing, but at the end Niu Fu still warned Yan Xing himself that the war in Hedong could be authorized to Yan Xing during the war, but in the final analysis, it was still up to him, the Zhonglang general of the garrison in Anyi, to decide.

"Thank you for the protection of the general, and the subordinates remember the good words!"

Yan Xing replied respectfully.

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After this meeting with Niu Fu, Yan Xing's purpose of coming to Anyi can be regarded as complete, with Niu Fu's attitude, the military supplies from the rear of Anyi, at least until the Baibo chaos is calmed down, will continue to be supplied, not afraid of being deliberately deducted by the Hedong County Government, and those public opinion that attacked him, with Niu Fu's face-to-face assertion, also means that Niu Fu has to suppress and support Yan Xing.

The matter of Anyi was solved, and Niu Fu's attitude was also clear, Yan Xing thought about many things in Jiangyi and Linfen, plus the big surnames such as Fan in Anyi City, at this time, he was afraid that he would grit his teeth, and Yan Xing did not stay in Anyi for long, during which he met with Gan Ling, who had been promoted to Sima of other departments, and hurried back to Jiangyi.