Chapter 016 Just to dig Xu Rong
Although both the arsenal and Taicang are near the grain gate, they are separated by a tall wall, and there are large copper lock gates on the entrance and exit gates. As for the keys on the doors www.biquge.info of these two important warehouses, Dong Zhuo actually had an idea for a long time, but because of Lu Bu's existence, he never turned his face and took it hard.
Sometimes, you can grab it yourself and someone else will take the initiative to send it, although the final result is the same, but the nature is completely different.
Burning half of the arsenal and the complete Taicang is equivalent to the capital left by Ding Yuan to Lu Bu, and Lu Bu was also "seriously injured" in order to keep the arsenal and Taicang, and any lord with a little brain will not take the keys to the doors of the two warehouses from Lu Bu at this time. Unless he wanted Lu Bu to hate him in his heart, and he didn't want to recruit such a brave general as Lu Bu for his own use.
Now, Lu Bu, who has recovered from his injuries, came to thank Dong Zhuo for his recommendation, and took the initiative to offer the keys to the two warehouses, which naturally won Dong Zhuo's favor and smile.
Dong Zhuo praised Lu Bu again in front of a group of subordinates, and encouraged Lu Bu to work hard in the future and make new contributions to the newly established "Dahan Dong Group". In the past, Dong Zhuo was at best the CEO of a local enterprise, but now he is the chairman of the No. 1 violent group in the country.
Lu Bu thanked him again, and then he told Dong Zhuo that since they were all a "group", there was no need for him to guard his belongings outside the entire Xiliang army, which was full of love and affection, so he was willing to hand over the command of the soldiers and horses of the state and be deployed and used by Dong Zhuo.
Now, Dong Zhuo is even happier!
Look at Lu Bu's ideological consciousness, it is a turnkey, and it is a military power, and he is properly loyal and reliable! For such a good subordinate, Dong Zhuo decided that he must be commended and rewarded!
The political rewards that made Dong Zhuo, a big man, happy and happy, were very rich, Dong Zhuo not only did not take back Lu Bu's current military power, but also decided that Lu Bu would take the lead in rebuilding the state army, and the shortage of soldiers would be selected from the original forbidden army in the capital.
In fact, this is also a strategy that Dong Zhuo has discussed with Li Ru a long time ago. As a non-descendant army, the 2,000 men and horses under Lu Bu's command can be said to be no threat to the strong Xiliang, but the tens of thousands of subordinates left by He Jin and He Miao are a little troublesome. How to completely incorporate the forbidden army in the capital is something that Dong Zhuo has been busy with recently.
When Emperor Ling was alive, he reset the Eighth Lieutenant of Xiyuan, and there were several very famous generals in it, and even Dong Zhuo couldn't easily move now. For example: Yuan Shao after the fourth and third dukes, and Cao Cao, the son of Cao Song. Emperor Ling's original purpose in setting up the eight captains of the West Garden was to divide the military power from He Jin, but now that He Jin is dead, Dong Zhuo is worried that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao will come to seize control of the forbidden army, so he plans to dismember the forbidden army as soon as possible and completely hold the forbidden army in his hands.
Because of such considerations, Lu Bu, who took the initiative to express his willingness to hand over the military power, was favored by Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo allowed LΓΌ Bu to select 3,000 men from the cavalry battalion in the northern army and the guards in the southern army as supplements to form a cavalry-based force of 5,000 men.
Seeing that he had won Dong Zhuo's trust with the strategy of retreating as advance, Lu Bu pretended to resign, and then made a request to Dong Zhuo, that is, to allow him to select two generals from the Western Liang Army and the Beijing Forbidden Army to serve as deputy generals. Lu Bu's proposal was in Dong Zhuo's hands, and he liked Lu Bu's "understanding and sensibleness" more and more.
From the perspective of checks and balances, of course, it is best to match Lu Bu with a deputy general from Xiliang and a deputy general from the forbidden army, which is most in line with Dong Zhuo's wishes.
Dong Zhuo asked Lu Bu: "Feng Xian can have a favorite candidate for deputy general?" β
Lu Bu shook his head and replied honestly: "Bu Chang heard that the fierce generals in the Xiliang Army are like clouds, but he didn't have the opportunity to see them, and he only knew his fellow villager General Li Lang. As for the forbidden army of the Beijing Division, the time of Bulai Luoyang is still short, and there is no friendship. β
There is indeed nothing false in what Lu Bu said, as long as Dong Zhuo has secretly investigated him, he will understand.
The more Lu Bu had nothing to do with the generals of the Xiliang system, the more relieved Dong Zhuo naturally was, and after some thought, he decided to send Yang Ding, a subordinate general from Xiliang, to Lu Bu, and as for the deputy general from the forbidden army, he handed it over to Lu Bu to pick it himself. This is also a manifestation of Dong Zhuo's pretense of trust and generosity, anyway, he and Lu Bu have no friendship with the generals in the forbidden army, and the specific choice of which general of the forbidden army to serve as Lu Bu's deputy general does not affect the overall situation, it is nothing more than to appease those soldiers from the forbidden army.
Lu Bu won Dong Zhuo's support, did not dare to slack off, and immediately started the expansion of the army.
The foundation of the Jingshi Forbidden Army is actually not bad, but it was damaged by the two rice buckets of He Jin and He Miao, if three thousand people can be selected from them to supplement his command, this is also a big supplement for Lu Bu.
After some inquiry, Lu Bu finally asked Dong Zhuo for instructions to transfer Xu Rong, the deputy general of the Tun Cavalry Battalion, into his command. After Dong Zhuo learned that Xu Rong was from Xiangping, Liaodong, he immediately agreed to Lu Bu's request. As long as he is not a general from the four northern counties of the state, Lu Bu has no problem transferring anyone.
Dong Zhuo would not have thought that from the time Lu Bu took the initiative to hand over the key to the warehouse, he was aiming at Xu Rong, and the expansion of the 3,000 soldiers and horses was actually far less attractive to Lu Bu than Xu Rong himself.
can defeat Cao Cao and defeat Sun Jian's generals, how can you take it lightly?
When Xu Rong received the order to transfer him to the cavalry commander Lu Bu as a deputy general, he did not have any dissatisfaction, but obediently accepted the order, and soon came to report to Lu Bu's camp.
Xu Rong belongs to the kind of professional soldier who has no family background and will not mix with the government and politics, since the highest-ranking military general in the Han Dynasty asked him to be Lu Bu's deputy general, he strictly abides by the military order and comes to Lu Bu as a deputy general.
Soon after Xu Rong arrived, Yang Ding also came to report to Lu Bu. The most capable generals under Dong Zhuo are Li Dao, Guo Yan and Hua Xiong, and Dong Zhuo will definitely not send these people over. And Dong Zhuo's relatives, Lu Bu has already offended Dong Huang and Niu Fu, and the remaining Dong Min and others have been placed in important positions by Dong Zhuo, so Dong Zhuo sent Yang Ding, a subordinate who was born in Liangzhou and was loyal and reliable to Dong Zhuo, to supervise and assist Lu Bu.
With Xu Rong's assistance, Lu Bu quickly selected 3,000 soldiers from the tuncai camp. As for the war horses, I'm sorry, not for the time being. It is estimated that there will be no in the future. If you want a war horse, you need Lu Bu to fight for it yourself. It's either robbing or snatching, in short, it won't be given to him by Dong Zhuobai.
Lu Bu commanded only 5,000 people, he only selected 3,000 people from tens of thousands of forbidden troops, and most of the rest, Dong Zhuo could not let go.
After Li Ru's planning, Dong Zhuo's five people, including Dong Min, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Hua Xiong and Niu Fu, each divided 5,000 men and horses from the Beijing Forbidden Army, and Duan Xuan, Hu Zhen, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou, Dong Yue and other five people divided the remaining forbidden army.
The ministers of the court and the central government watched Dong Zhuo turn state-owned assets into private property, but they did not dare to be angry or speak, because Dong Zhuo had already clamored to kill the deposed emperor Liu Bian to warn some people.
Even if Liu Bian is the deposed emperor, it is not something that a minister can kill casually! After all, the current emperor Liu Xie is the same father as the deposed emperor Liu Bian.
However, at this time, Dong Zhuo had completely digested the soldiers and horses of the forbidden army, looking at the world, who could still deal with him?