"Since you are unwilling, it is better to give this Xingyang to Benhou." Ye Zhao stood up and said.

"Ye Hou is willing to guard Xingyang?" Yuan Shao frowned slightly, looked at Ye Zhaodao, Ye Zhao was willing to do it, he naturally couldn't ask for it, but in the alliance of princes, Ye Zhao's department is also a strong force, don't look at the alliance of princes There are 300,000 troops, but among them, only Ye Zhao, Sun Jian, Gongsun Zan and so on can really fight, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu have a rich background, and there is naturally no shortage of soldiers and horses, Yuan Shu doesn't know, but Yuan Shao has recruited a lot of fierce generals during this time in Jizhou, and he can also be called a strong soldier.

It's just that Yuan Shao obviously doesn't want his elite troops to suffer too much damage, so he naturally doesn't want Ye Zhao's strong team to withdraw from the main battlefield just to guard a Xingyang, but now that the princes have no one to ask for their lives, Ye Zhao is rarely willing to take the initiative to take the task, and Yuan Shao is not easy to refuse, and even if he refuses, Ye Zhao may not listen to him, and now Yuan Shao is really a little scared of Ye Zhao.

"Brother Bo Jue also said before, Niu Fu is cautious and will not rush into battle, and our army's task is not to attack the city, in this case, I can send a general with 3,000 men and horses to guard Xingyang." Ye Zhao said indifferently.

Yuan Shao was a little careful, how could Ye Zhao not know, but he had a way to force Yuan Shao to take out his family funds.

"Then there will be Lao Yehou." When Yuan Shao heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and nodded in response.

Since the choice of guarding Xingyang was decided, Yuan Shao did not delay any longer, and ordered Gongsun Zan to be the vanguard and go to the Tiger Prison Pass first, and Yuan Shao personally supervised the army of the princes to go to the Tiger Prison Pass.

"Wenyuan, give you 5,000 men and horses to go to Xingyang." After the princes dispersed, Ye Zhao called Zhang Liao alone, looked at Zhang Liao and said, "I know that you don't want to face each other with the former robes and swords, so the task of guarding Xingyang will be handed over to you." ”

"Thank you for your understanding, Liao Ling!" Zhang Liao bowed and said.

"Xingyang at this moment, that Niu Fu may have withdrawn from the army, after you lead the army to Xingyang, don't make a noise, send 2,000 men and horses into the city, pretending to be the Xiliang army, and you will lead 3,000 men and horses to besiege the city, don't let people see the clues." Ye Zhao handed over an arrow to Zhang Liaodao.

"My lord, forgive Liao for being stupid, why is this so?" Zhang Liao looked at Ye Zhao puzzled, since there is no one in Xingyang, isn't doing this tantamount to taking off his pants and farting? Zhang Liao didn't think that Ye Zhao let himself take 5,000 people to Xingyang just because he was taking care of his emotions.

"Xingyang is the retreat of our army, and the grain and grass will be transported away through this place one after another, for me, it is the top priority, remember, no one must see the clues." Ye Zhao smiled.

Leeway?

Zhang Liao frowned, keenly aware of something, but couldn't grasp the point for a while, so he could only nod and respond: "Don't worry, the lord will know what to do." ”

At that moment, all 5,000 soldiers and horses went straight to Xingyang, and after arriving in Xingyang, it was found that the entire Xingyang had already been empty, as early as three months ago, Dong Zhuo moved the people of Xingyang and Aocang to the Tiger Prison Pass on a large scale, and at this moment Xingyang had no Xiliang army, and there was only an empty city left.

According to Ye Zhao's instructions, Zhang Liao sent 2,000 men and horses into the city, and sent a confidant military general into the city to preside over military affairs, while Zhang Liao set up a position outside the city and made a posture of watching Xingyang.

On the other side, after Gongsun Zan got Yuan Shao's order, he led the iron cavalry straight to the Tiger Prison Pass, but he went to the Tiger Prison Pass in half a day, and saw that the Tiger Prison Pass was closed, but the city head was not Lu Bu's handsome banner, but the banner of Hu Zhen, a general under Dong Zhuo, and he couldn't help but wonder.

Although Hu Zhen is a general under Dong Zhuo, when it comes to popularity, I am afraid that he is not as good as Huaxiong under his command.

Seeing this, Gongsun Zhan was not in a hurry to set up camp, and said to the red-faced general beside him: "Yun Chang, you go and call the battle." ”

"Whoa!"

The general behind Gongsun Chan was Guan Yu, Ye Zhao was also an idle chess player back then, and arranged Liu Bei under Liu Yu, but arranged Guan Yu to Gongsun Chan, and then did not care about it.

The three brothers, from the time of the Yellow Turban Army uprising, debuted, stumbled all the way for several years, the highest Liu Bei was a few county lieutenants, county commanders, and failed to be long, finally had a chance, and it was also two real power official positions, Liu Bei was naturally unwilling to give up, not to mention that Gongsun Chan was his fellow brother, Guan Yu was on Gongsun Chan's side, Liu Bei was also relieved.

However, since the two separated, the path is completely different, Liu Yu in Youzhou is benevolent government, this point, but with Liu Bei's concept, soon won Liu Yu's attention, a few years, from a lieutenant step by step by Liu Yu was promoted to a county guard, but also the military power of the guard, Zhang Fei directly to Liu Bei as a captain, can be said to be a steady progress, not only the official promotion, this vision, the ability to govern, but also under Liu Yu's training, there has been a qualitative leap, at least the county under Liu Bei's governance for more than a year, not only the population is thriving, It also reached trade with many tribes such as Saiwai Wuhuan and Xianbei.

If you look carefully, it is not difficult to find that many of Liu Bei's policies are following Ye Zhao's policies in Macheng back then, and he does not blindly compromise or blindly be tough on the Saiwaihu people, but uses both soft and hard to earn starting capital for himself, and because of this, he is deeply favored by Liu Yu.

On the other hand, Guan Yu took a different path, at the beginning, Ye Zhao arranged for Guan Yu to be a Sima under Gongsun Zhan, which can also be said to be a military marquis, in charge of a soldier and horse, before the Han family completely collapsed, there were about fifty generals at this level in the entire Youzhou, and in terms of Gongsun Zhan's official position at that time, it was already a position of real power.

Liu Bei was also greedy, he wanted to develop on Liu Yu's side, but he was unwilling to give up the military power on Gongsun Zhan's side, so he left Guan Yu by Gongsun Zhan's side.

Gongsun Chan treats Guan Yu not badly, on the one hand, Guan Yu attaches great importance to love and righteousness, and is also studious, not so many flowery intestines, quite an appetite for Gongsun Chan, on the other hand, this is a character recommended by Lu Zhi in his own letter, Gongsun Chan can have the status at that time, and it is inseparable from Lu Zhi's protection.

And Gongsun Zhan's attitude towards foreign races is simple and rude, one word, kill!

As long as you dare to stretch out your hand to the people in my territory, I will not only chop off your claws, but also kill you out of the grassland, and even chop off your head.

It is also for this reason that in the past few years, Guan Yu has almost been fighting abroad, and under the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, I don't know how many alien souls there are.

Originally, although Liu Yu and Gongsun Zhan's governing ideas were conflicting, they were so soft and rigid, in fact, they were in line with the routine of envy and power, but unfortunately, Liu Yu thought that Gongsun Zhan's attitude was too tough, often caused disputes, and the killing was too heavy, so he also complained to the court several times.

And Gongsun Chan obviously didn't look very seriously at Liu Yu's behavior of talking behind his back, and several times the Wuhuan people came in to kill the people of Youzhou, but Liu Yu chose to appease the Wuhuan tribe, which also made Gongsun Chan very angry, although after that, the Wuhuan people failed to get benefits in Liu Yu's hands, and even in the end, Liu Yu was deceived into a lot of property and captive Han slaves, but this still made Gongsun Chan unhappy.

It's just that he is nominally Liu Yu's subordinate, although he can obey Liu Yu's policies, but he can't directly scold Liu Yu, which is also the main reason why Gongsun Chan participated in this alliance, he needs an identity that can be compared with Liu Yu, and no longer be dictated by Liu Yu.

At the beginning, Guan Yu and Liu Bei played the role of lubricant between these two forces, but the feelings between people may not be felt when they are often together, but after being separated for a long time, they will slowly fade, and gradually, whether it is Guan Yu or Liu Bei or Zhang Fei, they can feel that the relationship between the two parties is not as close as before.

Especially when Gongsun Chan and Liu Yu have different concepts, Liu Bei can still maintain a neutral attitude, but Guan Yu, subconsciously, will unconsciously lean towards Gongsun Chan's side, because he also thinks that Gongsun Chan's approach is good, why should he tolerate foreign races?

The brotherly love has not been broken, but it has long lived up to the intimacy it was back then, and even followed Gongsun Chan to the south this time, Guan Yu did not follow Gongsun Chan to attend in order to avoid embarrassment, but stayed in the army, in order to avoid meeting Liu Bei.

Liu Bei is okay to say, he won't say anything nasty, but Zhang Fei is different.

Guan Yu received the order, rode his horse to the location of the place where Guan Yi was an arrow, stopped his horse, looked up at Guan Cheng, and said loudly: "The traitor in the city has not left the city to die!" ”

The tiger prison was closed, Niu Fu, Hu Zhen, Hua Xiong and others had already received the news, and watched from the city tower, seeing the soldiers and horses under the city in formation, Hu Zhen's general Zhang Bao stepped forward and said: "General, the last general is invited to fight." ”

This Zhang Bao is not the son of Zhang Fei in history, but also a fierce general under Dong Zhuo, although not as brave as Huaxiong, but in the Xiliang Army, a gun is also a rare enemy, before Ye Zhao evacuated the Tiger Prison Pass, it was Zhang Bao who took over the Tiger Prison Pass, and later the Kwantung princes raised troops, Zhang Bao was responsible for guarding Ao Cang, according to Li Ru's plan, a fire Ao Cang and Xu Ling burned clean.

It's just that now that he has returned to the Tiger Prison Pass, the Tiger Prison Pass guard has become Hu Zhen, and in this heart, he is always a little uncomfortable, and at this moment he wants to make a contribution first and increase his prestige.

When Hu Zhen heard this, he frowned and said nothing, but Niu Fu on the side said: "Don't be reckless, we are ordered to be here, to guard the pass, not to fight against the coalition army." ”

Zhang Bao said loudly: "Blindly defending it, doesn't it make the Kwantung Coalition Army think that there is no one in our army?" Besides, the main force of the Kwantung region has not yet arrived, and at this moment, it is just right to kill the vanguard of the thief army and frustrate its wisdom, the general can rest assured that the last general will take the head of the thief to see him! ”

Niu Fu still shook his head, he didn't like to take risks, and at this moment, as long as he held the Tiger Pass, it would be difficult for the coalition forces to do anything, so why take risks?

"General!" Zhang Bao looked at Hu Zhen, after all, Hu Zhen was the main general here.

"It's okay, General Zhang should be careful, this general ordered someone to prepare a banquet, and when General Zhang returns, he will drink bitterly!" Hu Zhen said with a smile.

"Don't worry, general, the last general will go back when he goes!"