Just when Luoyang fell and the alliance of princes officially settled in, a fierce battle was also taking place in Liangzhou, the western part of the Han Dynasty.

The two sides of this war were the 150,000 Western Expeditionary Army led by Dong Zhuo, the great master of the Han Dynasty who was in power and opposition, and the combined army of Ma Teng, Han Sui and Dou Mao, the king of Liangzhou.

Of course, it is said that it is a joint army, in fact, they are also part of the alliance of the princes of Dong, Ma Teng participated in the first time of the alliance of Dong Princes, but later because the alliance army was defeated, he also voted for Dong Zhuo with other princes in Guanxi; But before and after this, there were small movements, which made the second alliance against Dong at the beginning of Cao Cao's efforts to unite the forces that could be united, plus a certain kind of Cheng dù on this alliance Ma Teng played an important role in it, so it was also counted among the alliance princes, and because it incorporated all the forces that originally belonged to the alliance of other small princes in Guanxi except for Dou Mao, the king of Di and Han Sui, the Taishou of Jincheng, and they were unrivaled in Liangzhou for a while, and it seemed that Dong Zhuo was defeated in the early stage of Dong Zhuo's invasion of Liangzhou, but its fundamental strength was not damaged. So it doesn't affect his status at all.

What's more, with the achievement of the plan of the Second Princes' Alliance, after converging in Xingyang City, the alliance army began to press towards Luoyang step by step, and Ma Teng's side also seemed to be deliberately cooperating, and began a Jedi counterattack against Dong Zhuo in Chang'an.

Originally, Dong Zhuojun, under the leadership of Dong Zhuo's second son-in-law Niu Fu, fought in Liangzhou and had forced into Wuwei County; And Ma Teng retreated step by step, it was just the time to garrison Gu Zang, Jincheng Han Sui and Longxi Dou Mao became three corners, and resisted Dong Zhuo together.

At this time, when the allied army finally broke through the Tiger Prison, Gongxian and Yanshi, and then the army came to Luoyang City. And it didn't take long for the imperial capital to be captured, and the news that Li Ru also led the army to escape came, and Ma Tengjun, who had always seemed to be powerless under Dong Zhuojun's attack, broke out strongly as if it had bottomed out.

First of all, Ma Teng's army stationed in Zhangye County set out in the starry night, and after converging with Han Sui's army in Yunjie County on the border of Wuwei and Jincheng counties, it turned around and arrived at Yuanwei County under Dong Zhuo's base.

In the following days, the battle in Liangzhou, which was about to be calmed down, underwent unexpected earth-shaking changes, and the Ma Teng army, which should have been at a complete disadvantage, counterattacked. In turn, it not only suppressed Dong Zhuojun's further offensive. Moreover, in those counties and cities occupied by Dong Zhuo's army step by step, they repeatedly staged a combination of internal and external strategies, and on the premise that the enemy did not understand what method was used, they actually used the same routine, and they repeatedly succeeded and quickly recovered a large part of the lost territory. And the pace of progress continues. There is no sign of stopping; Similarly, Dong Zhuojun showed no signs of being able to turn the tables. Because with the loss of various territories and cities, and the loss of their soldiers, the number is also decreasing. By now, the forces that were supposed to occupy a certain advantage were no longer comparable to Ma Teng's army.

In addition, with the cooperation of Han Suijun and Di Army, at this time, Dong Zhuojun was at a disadvantage.

It turned out that Ma Teng's army retreated step by step, but it was actually a battalion step by step, and even the little losses in the battle with Dong Zhuojun were mostly captured soldiers originally obtained from several other small princes in Guanxi, such as Ma Play, Cheng Yin and others, Ma Teng was obviously very suspicious of their loyalty, so in this offensive and defensive battle, they became a glorious cannon fodder party, which could take the opportunity to consume these uneasy elements without arousing Dong Zhuojun's suspicion.

In fact, he has planted a certain amount of secret in every county town, and when he pulls up the horn of counterattack, that is, the moment when these people begin to enter the stage of war, even if there is no way to deceive the city gate, they can use various methods to create chaos in the city, so as to provide convenience and help for the siege outside.

Of course, when Dong Zhuojun finally reacted in the end, their battle line had been broken and retreated to the south of Hanyang and Anding County, and the area of Ayang County.

At this point, because Dong Zhuojun has already taken precautions, it is no longer feasible to use the previous strategy, but the current Ma Teng and Han Sui combined army does not need to be afraid of Dong Zhuojun at least in terms of numbers, as for the combat power, it depends on the specific performance, and now there is no doubt that the morale is rising, Ma Tengjun unsurprisingly also took the initiative and the upper hand in the subsequent head-to-head confrontation.

Among them, Ma Chao's table xiàn is particularly eye-catching, it can be called dominant, not only in the head-to-head battles repeatedly defeated Dong Zhuojun, forcing it to continue to retreat from Ayang County, losing and retreating; It also perfectly interprets what it means to take the head of the enemy general among the three armies, as the commander of this Dong Zhuo army, Niu Fu is in charge of the heavy protection, and he is actually hit by his "flying spear", which is just in the fatal part of the chest, penetrating from under his ribs, making him die on the spot.

Coincidentally, Dong Zhuo also came out of Chang'an City to watch the battle, and when he happened to see this scene, he was so angry that he vomited blood and fainted.

Of course, from another point of view, fortunately he was present at the time, and he only fainted, so that he would not cause chaos in the army's heart because of Niu Fu's death, and he was able to retreat with his whole body, although he was still a little wolf, and there were some inevitable losses in the process of being pursued by Ma Chao.

Then when Dong Zhuo woke up again, he had already appeared in the mansion specially prepared for him in Chang'an City, his breath was leisurely, although his vitality was still there, but his body had a sense of powerlessness that gushed out from the bottom of his heart.

This must not be entirely due to the fact that I witnessed the death of my son-in-law Niu Fu today, but more from the news I continue to receive from Luoyang.

Li Ru was already on his way to join him, and although he knew that none of the decisions Li Ru had made were fundamentally wrong, he still felt uncomfortable, and some of Li Ru's actions made him even more resentful and dissatisfied.

Maybe since I don't know when, Dong Zhuo can no longer trust Li Ru so much, this is his son-in-law, he has always relied on the most important adviser and right-hand man, but at one time his trust in him was at most on the same level as Wang Yun, Wang Yun has been proven to be suspicious of himself, so what about Li Wenyou?

Although sometimes I feel that I shouldn't think like this, but now Dong Zhuo's heart and mind are in a mess is a fact, so that when Li Ru finally arrived to meet him and asked people to see him, his first reaction subconsciously was that he didn't want to see him, and then he changed his mind and decided to dry him for a while, saying that he was resting at this time, and then announced him in.

Seeing that he was treated like this, Li Ru did not dare to have the slightest dissatisfaction in his heart, in his opinion, this was nothing at all, and now how to deal with the Dong Alliance Army and the Ma Teng army in the west is the most important matter.

"Li Wenyou greets the Taishi......" Li Ru did enough etiquette in the face of Dong Zhuo, and it was completely the attitude and humility that a subordinate should have when he saw his superiors.

It's just that this doesn't seem to be able to satisfy Dong Zhuo, he frowned and looked at Li Ru below, he didn't know what thoughts were turning in his mind, but he just didn't mean to tell him to get up.

Li Ru sighed in his heart, if possible, he really didn't want to get too stiff with Dong Zhuo, after all, this was his father-in-law and his wife's father, and he was a person who was relatively close to him in this world when his family was basically hung up when he was young, but the relationship and trust between people often need to be double-sided, even if Li Ru works hard, it is useless to get Dong Zhuo's approval. (To be continued......)