With a "dang bang", the wine bottle in Dong Huang's hand fell to the ground, he looked at the Xiliang army general kneeling in front of the hall with a shocked face, and muttered to himself: "Hangu Pass and Tongguan are all lost?" ”

If it were someone else, Dong Huang would definitely not believe it, but the other party is Cao Ju, Dong Huang knows Cao Ju very well, Cao Ju made a move, and it is strange that Hanguguan and Tongguan are not lost.

The officials in Yongzhou also have the same expression, only one person is different, squinting his eyes, his right hand is brushing the beard under his chin, and his expression is still calm, this person is Jia Xu.

With a "boom", Dong Huang stood up, walked out from behind the desk, frowned, walked around the hall with his hands behind his back, and said to himself, "Tongguan is lost, Cao Ju's army will inevitably go straight to Chang'an, and we will not even have a way to retreat." ”

Before this battle was fought, Dong Huang was thinking about how to withdraw from the army, and the officials in the hall rolled their eyes when they heard this.

They hadn't seen Cao Ju and didn't know how powerful Cao Ju was, so they didn't understand why Dong Huang was so afraid of Cao Ju.

Don't drive stood up, hugged his fists, and said loudly: "Young General, the city of Chang'an is tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack, rich in grain and grass, 20,000 with armor, and 60,000 troops can be transferred back to obey orders at any time, how can you be afraid of that Cao Juye." ”

When Dong Huang heard this, he felt that he was a little out of shape, and he couldn't help blushing, coughing lightly twice, hiding the embarrassment in his heart, and asked the general: "How many troops does Cao Ju have?" ”

The general replied: "General Hui, about 30,000 horses." ”

It turned out that Cao Ju only had 30,000 horses, Dong Huang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, his spirit was lifted, and he thought to himself, I have 20,000 troops, and I have the advantage of the city, if Cao Ju dares to attack Chang'an, once I mobilize 60,000 troops to come back to help, Cao Ju will definitely die in two attacks.

has confidence, Dong Huang can't wait for Cao Ju to come over and attack the city, and then he will kill Cao Ju under Chang'an City, in this way, in the future in the Xiliang Army, who else dares to disagree with him, the young general, Dong Zhuo's successor in the future.

Dong Zhuo has a son who died early, but only Dong Bai was left with a daughter, and there was no male child, yes, there are only two people who can take over Dong Zhuo's foundation, that is, Dong Zhuo's nephew Dong Huang, that is, the son of Dong Zhuo's eldest brother Dong Zhen, and the other is Dong Zhuo's younger brother Dong Min.

Dong Huang and Dong Min both understood what was going on, so they secretly competed, hoping that Dong Zhuo would choose to be his successor.

This time, Dong Zhuo left Dong Huang in Yongzhou to guard against Ma Teng and Han Sui, and did not bring him to Luoyang, which made Dong Huang very depressed, thinking that Dong Zhuo deliberately alienated him.

After making up his mind, Dong Huang's mind calmed down, and suddenly remembered Dong Zhuo's advice to him, hurriedly looked at Jia Xu, walked quickly to him, hugged his fists, bowed down and asked, "May I ask sir, why do you teach me?" ”

Jia Xu stood up, returned the salute to Dong Huang, and said: "The young general tortured the old man, the Taishi had an explanation, and asked the old man to fully assist the young general to guard the land of the three auxiliaries. ”

After a pause, Jia Xu straightened up and said: "The young general should not be too worried, but he should not be careless, then Cao Ju dared to attack the land of Sanfu with 30,000 soldiers and horses, and he must have something to fear." ”

"Not bad." Dong Huang nodded and said, "Cao Ju is good at using troops, and his fierce generals are like clouds, which is really difficult to deal with, but I, Dong Huang, may not be afraid of it, and the battle of Chang'an will inevitably make it suffer from this." ”

In fact, Chang'an City, which attacked 20,000 defenders with 30,000 troops, and 60,000 troops outside who may come back to rescue at any time, if it weren't for the brain-dead, it is estimated that they would not be stupid.

Dong Huang said to the general: "You wait to find out the movement of Tongguan as soon as possible, as soon as there is news, come to report immediately, if you can find out the movement of Cao Jun in time, the general will forgive you and others for the crime of losing Tongguan." ”

The general was overjoyed, hurriedly thanked Dong Huang, and left quickly.

was troubled by this incident, where was Dong Huang still interested in drinking, and immediately took the generals to arrange the city defense of Chang'an City, and Cao Ju's spies must not be allowed to get involved.

The civil officials of Yongzhou, big and small, also went back to their homes, and they didn't take what Cao Juxing's soldiers came to commit seriously.

Jia Xu also went back to his house, but as soon as he entered the mansion, the doorman said to him: "Master, someone sent a letter, saying that the villain must hand it over to the master." ”

"Huh?" Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, watched as the doorman took out a letter from his arms and handed it to him, stretched out his hand to take it, turned it over and saw that the sealing fire paint was still there, and the letter had not been opened.

Jia Xu took the letter and asked lightly, "Who is the person who gave it away?" ”

Mendin replied: "Hui master, it is a young man, he did not say his identity, only said that he asked the villain to hand over the letter to the master, and stuffed the villain with a small piece of silver ingot and left." ”

Jia Xu is honest and honest, and he also requires the people in the house, so Jia Xu has been standing in Cao Wei for so many years, not because he has no enemies, but because he has no handle that can be caught by his opponent, so Jia Xu lived a long life, 77 years old.

Seeing that the doorman confessed honestly, he took out the silver ingot and offered it with both hands, it was just a small silver ingot, Jia Xu nodded and said, "It's okay, you can just accept it, and it can be regarded as a reward from the old man." ”

Mending was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked Jia Xu, who took the letter and walked to his study.

When he arrived at the study, he looked left and right to see that there was no one, so he went into the study, closed the door, and opened the fire paint of the letter.

Unfolded the letter, only read the first line, the corners of Jia Xu's mouth hooked up a smile, and he thought to himself, sure enough, it was a letter sent by Cao Ju.

After reading the letter and reading it again, Jia Xu took out the fire fold and burned the letter, thinking to himself, the concubine Cao Ju recruited me, this matter is a little difficult.

Jia Xu is a smart man, what he has learned in his life is to find a master, display his talents, and pay homage to the prime minister, but although Dong Zhuo, the old man, is also a corporal of etiquette and courtesy, he is not a master, so Jia Xu pays attention to other princes, which one is the master he has been looking for.

In history, after Dong Zhuo's death, Jia Xu did not find the master, so he followed Zhang Xiu first, and after meeting Cao Cao, he surrendered to Cao Cao and assisted Cao Cao to achieve hegemony.

After burning the letters, Jia Xu read the book in the study for a while, and it was not until the next person came to call for dinner that he left the study and went to eat.

A letter, not so much that Jia Xu will turn to Cao Ju's command, Jia Xu has his own plans, if Cao Ju can easily capture Chang'an City, it is equivalent to having a foundation, otherwise, the duckweed-like master is not Jia Xu's choice.