The fierce battle lasted until late at night, and finally ended with the complete defeat of the Hun army, Dong Zhuo straddled the high-headed horse, and climbed to the top of the city of Tongguo in the dark night and fierce firelight, and Huyan Xiu Tu could only lead thousands of remnants of the defeated army to flee from the west gate to the direction of the Meiji royal court.

Now that Dong Zhuojun has taken Tongguo City, taking advantage of this unstable moment for the Huns, tens of thousands of iron horsemen will definitely destroy the Hun court in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that in order to break through Tongguo City in a short time, Dong Zhuo lost a full 10,000 troops and 30,000 soldiers and horses, and now only 20,000 are just over the beginning. And these 20,000 soldiers and horses, most of them are still soldiers captured by Wang Qiu, although they have just experienced a fierce battle and accepted the baptism of war, but they are far from being called elite soldiers.

"Baichuan, where is Ding Yuan's department now, is there any news?"

Dong Zhuo is independent in the cold autumn, standing at the head of the city of Tongguo Xicheng, quietly watching the mighty rolling Yellow River in the distance outside the city, under the vast night, the world is vast, Dong Zhuo's mountain-like body is also melted into the night, and it also exudes a reckless atmosphere, deep and majestic.

Xu Jiang tidied up his clothes and said unhurriedly, "Back to the lord, General Jianyang ordered someone to send a battle report, General Jianyang has captured Zhongling three days ago, captured thousands of enemy troops, and is now leading the army to Tongguo City, and I think it will be there in less than two days."

There are also Zhang Yi and Li Su, they have taken Dingxiang County, Zhishan County, cut more than 10,000 enemies, and are marching to Wucheng County, as long as Wucheng County is taken, this Dingxiang County will be completely in the hands of our army. ”

With his hands behind his back, Dong Zhuo didn't look back, and then asked, "What about Zang Ba Zhang Liao, hasn't there been any news yet?" ”

Xu Jiang said, "Our army has been sending troops for ten days, but although the second general of Zang Ba Zhang Liao is leading the light cavalry, it is too remote, so so far, there is no news." ”

Dong Zhuo nodded and said, "Send an order to go down, order the army to rest for a day, and send another order to Ding Yuan, let him speed up the march, and be sure to arrive in Tongguo tomorrow to join our division." ”

"Does the lord plan to wait for General Jianyang's army to arrive, gather 30,000 troops to cross the river directly, and follow the example of Wei Huo's direct attack on the Xiongnu Shan Yu Wangting?"

"Hahaha!" Dong Zhuo raised his head and laughed, "Those who know me, Xu Baichuan also!" ”

It is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. Just when Dong Zhuo was full of ambition and wanted to pacify the Xiongnu in one fell swoop, an accident came.

The next day, Dong Zhuo did not wait for the master of Ding Yuan's department, but received an urgent report.

After Dong Zhuo slowly closed the letter in his hand, Xu Jiang on the side looked at Dong Zhuo's tightly knit brows, and asked eagerly, "Lord, what does the book say?" But what happened in Taiyuan? ”

Dong Zhuo stretched out his hand to hand the letter to Xu Jiang and said, "See for yourself!" ”

Xu Jiang quickly stepped forward to take the letter, opened it and read it carefully. After a long while, Xu Jiang's brows were also tightly wrinkled, and he said worriedly, "Lord, it seems that these families in Bingzhou can't be suppressed at all just by Du Ji Wenshu, my lord, withdraw the army!" ”

Dong Zhuo snorted coldly and said disdainfully, "Those family gates, one by one, regard their one-third of an acre of land as more important than their lives, and they were originally afraid that a certain family would eat their family property, but now a certain family has chosen to shelter Ding Yuan in the matter of Ding Yuan killing Wang Qiu, they naturally want to oppose a certain family, and now they want to completely drive a certain family out of the state." But they don't look at who a certain family is, is it a soft persimmon that they want to pinch? ”

"Scholars?"

Ma Chao on the side shouted and shouted: "Lord, what happened, who is going to fight against the lord, I went to cut them?" ”

Wang Qiao also asked suspiciously, "Withdraw the troops?" Lord, but something happened in Taiyuan? ”

Looking at the two people in front of him, Dong Zhuo didn't hide it, and said bluntly, "According to the news from Jinyang, something happened in Taiyuan......

This urgent report was sent by Du Jiwen Shu, who stayed in Taiyuan, and the news on the letter showed that what Dong Zhuo was most worried about had finally happened, and those families in Taiyuan were already ready to move.

However, things are much worse than Dong Zhuo thought before, the family led by the Wang family of Qi County in Taiyuan County called on the gate lords of the large and small scholars in Taiyuan County, gathered nearly 30,000 private soldiers, attacked the county government, and occupied the city, now Taiyuan County governs fifteen counties, only the county governs Jinyang, and Yuci near Jinyang, and the three counties of Fenyang in the upper reaches of the Fen River are still in the hands of Dong Zhuo, and the remaining twelve counties have been controlled by the Wang family and other family valves.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand, in this era, land, knowledge, wealth, official positions and other resources are controlled in the hands of the family gatekeepers, like the Wang family of Qi County, the wealth of the family is richer than the state treasury, tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, and there are as many as 10,000 volumes of books, and the official position, not to mention, was killed by Ding Yuan Taiyuan Taishou Wang Qiu, was split by Dong Zhuo's car and the state did not drive Wang De, as well as the general Wang Qiao, who made the first contribution to Dong Zhuo's army last night to capture Tongguo City, these are the people of the Wang family in Shanxi. In addition, some local county orders, the county lieutenants are all people from the family gate, and it is easy for these people to capture the city and county!

What's more, the troops of Taiyuan County were pulled by the original Taiyuan Taishou Wang Qiu to Yanmen to take advantage of the fire to rob and fish in troubled waters, and the defenders who stayed in the counties were as many as Jinyang still had nearly 3,000, and as few as the Jiexiu, and there were only more than 100 old, weak, sick and disabled guards in Wu County. On the other hand, those family lords all have private soldiers and doormen who support their families at home, and the number of doormen is thousands, and the few are hundreds, so they can naturally easily occupy the twelve counties of Taiyuan.

Dong Zhuo knew that in history, Cao Cao once killed Jiujiang too much to guard the border and forcibly accepted Bian Rang's wife as his concubine, which provoked the condemnation of the entire Shilin, and even Zhang Miao and Chen Gong, who had followed Cao Cao for a long time and sought the position of Yanzhou assassin for Cao Cao, took advantage of Cao Cao's troops to Xuzhou, and led Lu Bu into Yanzhou, except for the three cities of Juancheng, Dong'e and Fanxian, which were designed by Xun Yu and Cheng Yu to defend completely, and the rest of the cities were broken and occupied by Lu Bu.

And now, Dong Zhuo can be said to have offended the family gate valve in the state, and the car split a Wang De before, although it aroused the opposition of the scholars, but it was not enough to meet Dong Zhuo against him. But this time, the Shanxi Wang clan lost a Taiyuan Taishou Wang Qiu, and Dong Zhuo was obviously on Ding Yuan's side again, so how could the Shanxi Wang clan give up with Dong Zhuo?

Besides, even if the Shanxi Wang family endures this time, what about the next time, Dong Zhuo's attitude towards the family gate valve is already there, and no one can guarantee that Dong Zhuo will not do anything to these family gate valves in Bingzhou in the future, and even Dong Zhuo can't swear to guarantee this.

The first strike is strong, and the second strike suffers. Therefore, Taiyuan's family gate valve also made a decisive move.

What's more, the family in Bingzhou just planned to drive Dong Zhuo Ding Yuan out of Bingzhou, so that Dong Zhuo Ding Yuan had no place in Bingzhou, and they could use Wang Qiu's death to gain the support of ministers in the DPRK and Central China and celebrities from all over the country, and the odds of victory were in their hands, how could they tolerate rude men like Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan who were born in a poor family to continue to "act as prestige" in Bingzhou and oppress the people of the Shi clan?

Wang Qiao rubbed his hands together and said eagerly, "Lord, if this is the case, what should our army do?" If the army is withdrawn at this point, won't it lose a great opportunity to level the Xiongnu royal court in one fell swoop, so it's a pity! ”

"The surname Wang, what do you mean, let the lord ignore the turmoil in the rear and continue to attack the slaves, do you want your Wang family to occupy Taiyuan, so as to break the foundation of the lord?"

Ma Chao's eyes were full of anger, and he turned his face on the spot, completely ignoring the feelings of joining forces with Wang Qiao last night to defeat Hu Yanxiu Tu.

"Lord Mingjian, the so-called matter of eating the king's Lu and loyalty to the king, since the last general followed the lord, he has no relationship with the Wang family, how can he continue to have his heart to the Wang family? The last general really felt that it was a pity to withdraw the troops, so he proposed it, if the lord ordered the withdrawal of the army, the last general naturally did not say a word, led the troops to charge, and recaptured the twelve counties of Taiyuan for the lord, and asked the lord to learn from it! ”

In the face of Ma Chao's criticism, Wang Qiao didn't care about arguing with Ma Chao, and clarifying to his real boss Dong Zhuo was the point!

"Don't worry about Zigao, although Zigao has followed a certain family for a short time, but Zigao is loyal to a certain family, this is still in the eyes of a certain family, and a certain family will naturally not blame Zigao!"

After comforting Wang Qiao, Dong Zhuo said again, "But Zigao's words are not wrong, it would be a pity if our army withdrew its troops now!" ”