Xiahou was chivalrous, hearing that Kong Ling and Li Min were defeated in front of him, he bluntly said that the rotten Confucianism was 'hateful and killable' in front of Xu Chu and his civil and military forces, and after scolding, he still felt that it was not enough, and continued: "Kong and Li can't deal with Dong Thief's strong army, and they can't protect the territory and the people, General Xu, this place is less than two hundred miles away from Yang Zhai, we set off now, we can arrive tomorrow, kill him by surprise, and take Yang Zhai first, it's better than letting these two useless doves occupy the magpie's nest!" ”

Xu Chu said with a smile: "Yuan asked Mo to say angry words. ”

Although Xiahoudun is angry, he also has his truth in this angry talk. Kong Ling and Li Min suffered a new defeat, their morale was low, and when the wind was rumoring, if Xu Chu immediately sent troops, he could indeed attack them unprepared, or he could capture Yang Zhai in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, this cannot be done at the moment.

When the coalition army first arrived, Xu Chu had not fought half of the battle with Dong Zhuojun, so he first fought with Kong Ling in this situation, and he couldn't afford this crime, and he didn't want to bear it.

After a while, more detailed information came from the front.

However, the number of Dong Zhuo's army in the two divisions of the army was about 5,000, and the number of Dong Zhuo's army that the scouts found to attack the Lun clan was about 3,000, half of them were cavalry, half of them were foot soldiers, and the number of people attacking Yangcheng was about 2,000, and the number of infantry and half cavalry was waving the banner of 'Li'. Kong Ling's military generals sent to save Lunshi County arrived first with a number of five hundred cavalry, intending to harass and delay the enemy's army, and waited for the infantry army to arrive, but the enemy general reacted quickly, and the plan was calculated, first sent a cavalry to outflank from the rear, and pretended to be dragged by the other party, and after the arrangement was completed, the two sides attacked, and the cavalry of Kong Ling's army was almost lost, and then Dong Zhuo's army took advantage of the situation to defeat the infantry army that came from behind.

Xu Chu thought for a while, and said to everyone: "The one who attacked the Wheel Clan should be Xu Rong, the lieutenant general of Dong Zhuo's army, but I don't know who led the soldiers and horses who went to Yangcheng. ”

The banners of Xu and Li, Xu Chu first thought of Xu Rong and Li Dao. But although Li Dao was a lieutenant in Dong Zhuojun before, and his title was not as good as Xu Rong's lieutenant general, in fact, the number of troops the two had was about the same. It's just to give the coalition forces a dismount, and Dong Zhuo won't send these two people over.

Xiahoudun also thought about it for a while, and suddenly said: "Or Li Meng, a native of Liangzhou." ”

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will be defeated in a hundred battles. As early as in Luoyang, Xu Chu learned about the situation of the generals in Dong Zhuo's army, and the information he got at that time was: from Dong Zhuo below, first of all, his brother Dong Min has the highest status, and then his son-in-law Niu Fu, Hu Zhen, who was born in Liangzhou, Duan Xuan, the clansman of the late Taiwei Duan Xi, Dong Zhuo's brother Dong Yue, and Xu Rong, a native of Xiangping County, Liaodong, are five lieutenant generals, and then Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and other school captains, of course, the official position that Xu Chu knows is the official position of these people at that time in Luoyang. Among the five Zhonglang generals, Xu Rong is an alternative, the only person who is not from Liangzhou, so his actual status is not much higher than that of Li Dao and Guo Yan, but because he is brave in battle and has a good command of troops, Dong Zhuo uses him as a Zhonglang general.

Dong Zhuo is a very good and cunning person, he knows that if Xu Rong and Li Dao are allowed to send troops together, Li Dao will definitely not obey Xu Rong's dispatch, and the two of them will compete for merit and profit, which is not conducive to fighting. Because of this, Xu Chu could judge that Dong Zhuo would send a steady general like Xu Rong to carry out this task, but he couldn't guess who the surname Li was.

Xu Chu couldn't guess that because Xiahoudun knew more about Dong Zhuo's generals from Cao Cao, who had been in Luoyang for a long time, he immediately thought of Li Meng, a native of Liangzhou, who was behind Li Dao, Guo Yan and other lieutenants.

"I know Xu Rong, but I don't know who this Li Meng is?"

Xiahoudun replied: "This person and Fan Chou are both from Jincheng, and they are originally subordinates of the former, with good martial arts and good riding skills, and they were probably transferred to the Guishi County to be led by Xu Rong. ”

Guo Jia heard the words and said: "Xu Rong has the style of a general, Li Meng is a sharp talent, these two people are really in the flock against scribes like Li Min and Kong Ling." But no matter what, the defeat of Kong and Li is still good for us. Now that the order and General Cao converge, we can drive the troops to Yang Zhai. ”

Xu Churan. At that moment, Xiahoudun was invited to rest first, and then discussed with Guo Jia, Xi Zhong, Xu Shu, Xin Bi, Yao Sheng, etc., and prepared to send Fei Liang, the captain of the grain school, Sima Gongsu of other departments, and Gong Yan and Huang Shao of the Ministry to accompany Chen Yi and Zhang Shiren to Yanling and Yuxian first.

This is the meaning of the three holes of the cunning rabbit. The situation ahead is unclear, and the two places of Yanling and Yuxian are firmly controlled, and a place with a radius of 100 miles between the two counties can be used as the rear base of Xu Chu and Cao Cao. Again, Cao Cao will definitely send people back to Peiguo to recruit troops, with Yu County in hand, more than 100 miles to the east is the Liang State, and nearly 100 miles to the southeast is Qian County, which avoids borrowing the Chen State - Chen Wang Liu Chong is one of the few brave warriors among the princes and kings in the late Han Dynasty, very good at crossbow shooting, ten shots and ten hits, all in the same place. During the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Zhongping period, Liu Chong took out thousands of strong crossbows hidden in the treasury, recruited young and strong people from counties and counties, and sat in the national capital, which made Chen Guo 'stand alone' in this huge rebellion, and more than 100,000 people from neighboring counties took refuge in Chen State, and Chen State became stronger. After Yuan Shao raised his troops, Liu Chong and Chen Guoxiang Luo Jun refused Kong Ling's invitation, obviously to protect themselves and repeat their old tricks, so Cao Cao did not dare to recruit troops through Chen Guo, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

After the distribution, everyone went to rest, and early the next morning, after breakfast, they immediately set camp north and headed for Yanling County.

The army walked slowly, and Xu Chu, who was eager to meet Cao Cao, led the Chinese army first, and the large army followed. In the evening of this day, Xu Chu's vanguard arrived outside Yanling City, Cao Cao's army was in Yu County, and the distance was closer than Xu Chu, so when Xu Chu arrived outside the city, Cao Cao had already ridden a horse and took his generals to meet him at the city gate.

Xu Chu and Cao Cao both slapped their horses out, and Cao Cao's laughter could be heard from afar: "Brother Zhongkang, it can be regarded as waiting for you to come!" ”

"Brother Mengde!"

Xu Chu got off the horse and looked at Cao Cao hand in hand, "Farewell to Luoyang, Brother Mengde's demeanor is still the same, I am very happy!" ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Where is it, Cao Mou's demeanor is still the same, and the demeanor of the virtuous brother is especially better than that day!" ”

The two laughed and led a large group of people into the county seat.

When Xu Chu was in Yingchuan, Yanling County was changed to Yingchuan County, although there was an excuse to 'guard against thieves' at that time, but this was still without the consent of the imperial court. Therefore, after Li Min arrived in the county, he set up the Taishou Mansion back to Yangzhai.

Xu Chu's brigade still has half a day to arrive, but Cao Cao's soldiers and horses have all arrived in Yanling and are already stationed in the military camp west of the city. Xu Chu went to Cao Cao's military tent with Guo Jia and other strategists, as well as Dian Wei, Zuo Heng and other tiger soldiers.

On the way, Guo Jia, Xi Zhong and others carefully observed the generals under Cao Cao's command, and saw that they were all bears and tigers who were not weaker than Gan Ning, Le Jin and others. ”

When he arrived in the tent, Cao Cao invited Xu Chu to sit at the same table, regardless of the guest and host, Xu Chu smiled and acquiesced, and after everyone sat down, Cao Cao said to the two people in the tent: "Zixiao, Zilian, Miaocai, this is the Zhaowu Marquis that you have admired for a long time." ”

Cao Ren's word is filial piety, Cao Hong's word is cheap, and Xiahou Yuan's word is wonderful.

The three of them admired each other for a long time, and Cao Cao introduced Shi Jian and Lou Yi one by one. Xu Chu also introduced his subordinate martial arts to everyone, and when he introduced Dian Wei, Cao Cao sighed: "Dian Jun is really majestic, worthy of the name of the ancient evil!" ”