Xu Huang and Qu A were lying in the big tent of the Chinese army, and the tent was full of fog and the smell of medicine, so Liu Wei was naturally inconvenient to rest here, and he still had military information to discuss with Hu Zhao, so he walked to Hu Zhao's tent.

The soldiers were just about to announce, but Liu Wei waved his hand to stop them, opened the curtain and saw Hu Zhao bending over, carefully checking the topographic map of Tiger Prison Pass with the faint mutton fat oil lamp, Liu Wei slowed down his pace for nearly a thousand, but saw Hu Zhao was using his fingers to draw back and forth in the map from time to time, and every time he compared, the gloom between his eyebrows was even worse.

"Sir's eyebrows are frowned, but he has doubts about the battle of Tiger Prison Pass?" Liu Wei asked softly, he has a lot of respect for Hu Zhao, in addition to the reputation of the world, it is his tireless work to retreat from Fu Luo with an incorruptible tongue, which solves his worries.

Hu Zhao was startled, but when he looked up, he saw that it was Liu Wei, and hurriedly saluted: "The old man has seen His Highness." ”

"Sir, don't be polite." Liu Wei smiled and nodded, his eyes fell on the map, but he saw that there were different numbers of stones in various dangerous places in Luoyang on the map, and there were still a lot left next to the map, so he said suspiciously: "Sir, what do you mean by this?" ”

Hu Zhao shook his head and asked instead of answering: "What does Your Highness think about the current form of the enemy and our army?" ”

"This..."Liu Wei thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "The Tiger Prison Pass is in a dangerous place, and it is heavily guarded, which can be described as a situation where one man is the one who is the gate, and now there are ten thousand enemies like Lu Bu as generals, and the coalition forces are eager to capture the Tiger Prison Pass, I am afraid it will not be easy." ”

Hu Zhao has explained to him the dangerous terrain around Luoyang before, among which it is the Tiger Prison Pass at the east gate of Luoyang is the most easy to defend and difficult to attack, since ancient times, the capture of Luoyang is mostly to cross the river to the south to Mengjin Port or along the Ru River, Yi River to the north, although these two places are related to the pass, but it is much easier than the Tiger Prison Xiongguan.

But now the coalition forces have chosen the most difficult East Road Tiger Pass, and it is no wonder that later generations have complained about the coalition forces that fought against Dong this time, but Hu Zhao obviously does not think that the Tiger Pass is so difficult to take.

"Although the Tiger Prison Pass is located in a dangerous location, there are fierce generals of Lu Bugu stationed there, but there are many factions in the Xiliang Army, and Lu Bu can capture it with a discordant strategy, and the coalition army is overwhelming, and under the unity, the Tiger Prison Xiongguan is not unobtainable." Hu Zhao shook his head, pointed to the map and said in a condensed voice: "Your Highness, look, these stones represent Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Iron Horse. ”

"Hangu Pass, which is located west of the Tiger Prison Pass, is not to mention for the time being, Dong Zhuo's troops are mainly deployed in Yique Pass, Dagu Pass, Revolving Gate Pass, Mengjin Port and other dangerous places around Luoyang, with a strength of about 170,000, as for the troops stationed in Wudu County and Longxian County, there are no more than 100,000 people at most, but the soldiers of the old Guanhu Prison Pass are no more than 100,000 at most."

Speaking of this, Hu Zhao raised his head, his eyes were full of solemnity, and he said in a condensed voice: "Your Highness, do you know how many people are in Dong Zhuo's army?" ”

Liu Wei frowned, he really didn't know how many troops Dong Zhuo had, some of the information he knew so far was through the information of the embroidered clothes and the horse detective, and most of the other was recorded through the history of his memory, but he really didn't know how many soldiers and horses Dong Zhuo had.

"Dong Zhuo has been stationed in the frontier all the year round, in order to suppress the Qianghu Rebellion, he has recruited a large number of Qianghu and Han people as an army, and later continued to expand his strength, and there are more than 300,000 troops when he enters Luoyang, and there are about 200,000 recruits in the West Garden of the General He Jin and He Miao's Imperial Forest Army and the Eunuch's Department, plus at least more than 100,000 people in various local garrisons, that is to say, Dong Zhuo's horse infantry army has a total of 600,000!"

"More than 600,000?" Liu Wei secretly smacked his tongue, Dong Zhuo can be called the strongest prince in this era, and it really deserves his name, there are more than 300,000 troops of the 18th Route Princes in history to defeat Dong Zhuo, and now there are 20th Route Princes with a total army of 400,000, although there are more than 100,000 more than in history, but whether it is elite or numerous, it is far inferior to Dong Zhuo.

Fortunately, there are many dangers around Luoyang, Dong Zhuo needs to divide his troops to defend, and with the elite of Xiliang and the fierceness of Dong Zhuo, I am afraid that the coalition forces will not have the slightest chance to capture Luoyang.

Thinking of this, Liu Wei just breathed a sigh of relief, Huo Ran was shocked, and blurted out: "Dong Zhuo still has 200,000 troops? ”

"Nope." Hu Zhao said in a condensed voice: "There are at least twenty-five major armies!" ”

Liu Wei was taken aback, an army of 250,000 was enough to decide the outcome of this battle, but his imperial aunt, Princess Anchang, sent him information that there were no footprints of hundreds of thousands of troops in Luoyang.

He originally got this news, that is, he wanted to discuss with Hu Zhao whether he could lead the army to take the small road and take Luoyang, but now it seems that if he can't find out the footprints of these more than 200,000 people, he can't say that he has led the army to sneak attack, but he must always guard against the sneak attack of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

Hu Zhao said in a deep voice: "In addition, Your Highness must not forget that there is an enemy army in the shadows, if you can't quickly find out the movement of the two soldiers and horses, the princes from all walks of life may not be at ease, so the coalition army is in danger of falling apart." ”

Liu Wei sighed and rubbed his temples, at this time he suddenly understood why Cao Cao was disappointed in history, not only did he need to attack Dong Zhuo hard but also maintain the weak alliance all the time, he put in enough effort, but the coalition army did not want to forge ahead in the end, he finally left gloomily, and the coalition army fell apart in a blink of an eye, which may not be without hidden reasons in the depths.

The two were discussing, but they heard a rush of footsteps outside the tent and Chen Jun's voice, Hei Niu temporarily took care of Xu Huang and Qu A, and Chen Jun temporarily served as the captain of his personal soldiers. ”

"What did Gongsun Chan send someone to do?" Liu Wei frowned, nodded and said, "Let him in." ”

"No!"

Chen Jun led a young general in, and after seeing Liu Wei, he saluted respectfully: "The northern border has reported that since the beginning of spring, Xianbei, Wuhuan and other Hu people have repeatedly invaded, and now they have even started in the city of Kema City, Ning County, Guangning County, etc., Gongsun Taishou had no choice but to lead the army back to defense, but he felt that the coalition army had no advantage from cavalry, so he sent the last general to lead two thousand white horses to come to His Royal Highness's tent to obey orders. ”

Liu Wei narrowed his eyes slightly, whether Gongsun Chan was loyal to the Han family or not, but one thing can be guaranteed, he has the heart of exterminating the Hu people, and the beginning of spring and autumn are the most offensive seasons for the Hu people, it seems that Gongsun Chan has decided to withdraw from the coalition army.

"What's your name?"

"The end will be here!"

"Chen?" Liu Wei was stunned for a moment, his eyes showed a look of disbelief, and he looked up and down at this guy who called himself Chen Zhi, if he said that he was the most underestimated person in history, Chen Zhi could be said to be among the top ten.

Chen Zhiben is a native of Runan, Yuzhou, and is the most elite commander of the Bai Yu soldiers under Liu Bei's account in history, and his personal ability is by no means inferior to Zhao Yun, a victorious general of Shu Han, known for his loyalty and bravery, but he didn't expect that at this time it was Gongsun Zhan's account, and Gongsun Zhan gave it to himself with Zhao Yun.

Thinking of this, Liu Wei couldn't help but sneer, Gongsun Chan is really generous, if he knew that he missed the top generals twice, and gave them all, I don't know what kind of expression Gongsun Chan would have?

Moreover, Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi are the generals that Liu Bei will rely on in the future, and this time they have dug Liu Bei's heart hard.