Chapter 4 Discussion of the Alliance
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On the seventeenth day of the first month of the third year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival has just passed, and the breath of the Spring Festival has not completely dissipated, but a piece of news quickly covered the joy of this period of time with a layer of haze.
After accompanying his old mother to spend the Lantern Festival, Dong Zhuo officially drove to Chang'an in person and raised 80,000 troops to declare war on Ma Teng in Liangzhou, which also means that after nearly two years of recuperation, the largest force in the world and the common target enemy of the princes in the world once again opened the fangs of the Tiger King of the Mountains and Forests.
On the eighteenth day of January, Dong and Ma's army encountered in Niyang County, Beidi County, the easternmost part of Liangzhou, Dong Zhuo broke the 20,000 cavalry that Ma Teng had hoarded here, and officially opened the Ma Teng defense line all the way back and lost the turf all the way. On the nineteenth day of January, Liangzhou Mu Ma Teng and Jincheng Taishou Han Sui, Di Wang Dou Mao temporarily rested his troops, and unanimously to the outside world, 50,000 troops in Gaoping County, Anding County, and Dong Zhuojun both sides combined more than 100,000 men and horses to start a fierce battle, Ma Teng's side was defeated again, and Anding County also fell after Beidi County, Ma Teng's army retreated Wuwei to defend, Han Sui was injured and recuperated by his son-in-law Yan Xing again temporarily served as Jincheng Guard, and Dou Mao, the king of Di, returned to Longxi and then joined hands with the Di tribe to retreat to Longxi to the southwest thirty miles.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that no matter how strong Dong Zhuojun's combat strength is, Ma Teng's Liangzhou army is not a vegetarian, and if he really has the heart to defend, he will never be forced to retreat so quickly. There is obviously Ma Teng's will in this, and it is useless to add Han Sui and Dou Mao later, because the three parties have no intention of resisting, but even if they are acting, the princes of the world will accompany him to act, because compared to others, Dong Zhuo's threat is real.
On the twentieth of January, Xuzhou Mu Cao Mengde officially issued a proposal to the world to convene the princes of the world to form an alliance to fight against the national thief Dong Zhuo, which is an upgraded version after the previous discussion of Dong Zhuowen, which in addition to the previous discussion of Dong Zhuo's crimes in the history of Dong Zhuo's text was explained again. It also discussed the current situation in the world at this time. In particular, on the grounds that Liangzhou Ma Tengxing shì is critical, it is directly pointed out that Dong Zhuo is the root of cholera in the world and the root of the Han Dynasty, and the princes from all walks of life, as the pillars of the Han Dynasty, have the obligation to contribute to the elimination of national thieves in the Qing Dynasty at this time of crisis.
And the focus is clear, and the state pastor Lu Fengxian. This was once the most powerful under Dong Zhuo's command, and under the Tiger Prison, he even humiliated the world's first military general of the Seventeenth Route Princes Alliance Army with his superb strength. In the end, the Yanshi Fire Bull Array outside the city broke down against Dong's alliance army, and it can be regarded as his handiwork. It can be said that the alliance army was unexpectedly defeated by Dong Zhuo with great momentum, which has a lot to do with him, but now it has abandoned the darkness and turned to the light.
Of course, in order to win over Lu Bu, Cao Cao also deliberately helped him clear his name. As evidence of this, the reason why he followed Dong Zhuo at the beginning was just to be deceived by his clever words, and only later did he discover the true face of Dong Zhuo, but he also had too much helplessness, Dong Zhuo actually threatened the life of the Han Emperor, he had to temporarily endure the humiliation and burden for his life, and even made enemies with the princes of the world.
There are naturally a lot of flaws in this, and any one pointed out may be completely overthrown, but Cao Cao himself is just looking for an explanation that can barely say the past, and the princes will naturally automatically ignore the flaws if they want to explain, and now they can still stand up to the heads of various forces who are not capable of anything, and they must have a good idea of what to do at this time, Cao Cao believes that there will be no big problem in accepting Lu Bu into the alliance.
Of course, it's okay to really make up a suitable explanation, but firstly, he doesn't have so much energy, and secondly, this is also to prevent something from going wrong on Lu Bu's side in the future, which can check him a little.
When Lu Bu received the news, he also sneered in his heart, Cao Cao played this is a good means, obviously he has not given him any clear reply for the time being, only responded that he thought about it for a while, but this is obviously not known to outsiders, even if he stood up to clarify at this time, it was quite a bit of a matter of three hundred taels of silver here, not to mention that he came out to clarify whether there was no such thing as Cao Cao said or that he did not want to participate in the alliance to discuss Dong? In short, everything is wrong, it is better to be wrong, and I originally wanted to keep a low profile but suddenly stood on the cusp because of this.
Although Lu Bu has not expressed his position on Cao Cao's remarks, it is obviously unrealistic to say that he did not hear it, and it can only be understood as acquiescence, which caused an uproar.
For the princes who participated in the previous battle against Dong, if Dong Zhuo was their first imaginary enemy, then Lu Bu should be the second person, and the actual second Li Ru was hidden in the dark because of his identity and was not known to most people.
Now such a No. 2 enemy is about to become their ally, although the second time for the time being, the Dong Alliance is still gone, such as Sun Ce, Yuan Shao and others can't stand it first, but Yuan Shao's frequent deflated temperament has become much more stable recently, and he can bear it at this time, but Sun Ce can't bear it anymore, and takes the lead in firing at Lu Bu and Cao Cao, and even thinks that Cao Cao's in-laws make him feel ashamed.
However, this remark immediately changed the next day, and Sun Ce said that their head Lu Jiang Taishou Sun Bofu had a serious illness recently, and although he has now recovered, he seems to have burned out his brain a little, and said some confused words, and even forgot what he said afterwards, so this matter is over.
And if Sun Ce's opposition can only be regarded as a small wave, after all, Sun Ce is now only in the third-rate princes' forces, and his influence is far inferior to that of Lu Bu, and the contradictions in his remarks also make outsiders inevitably despise this youngest prince today; And Yuan Shu needs to pay attention to standing up, after all, this is a figure who is barely considered to be of the same class as Lu Bu, and combined with the background of the fourth and third princes behind him, he will surpass Lu Bu, who is only in Saibei or a pure martial artist, in terms of influence.
It's just that no one expected Yuan Shu to come out but not to object, but to "repay grievances with virtue" to open his mind to welcome Lu Bu, a powerful help to join the alliance of princes to fight Dong Zhonglai, thinking that there is such a general, and Dong Zhuo loses this general, and it will be of great benefit to them to discuss Dong under the elimination of the other's strengths.
There are at least two points that can be seen from this, one is that Yuan Shu is responding to Cao Cao's call and agreeing that the princes will once again unite to crusade against Dong Zhuo, and the other is that his attitude towards Lu Bu is obviously not as friendly as he said verbally, what does he think of Lu Bu? is just the so-called "general", not a prince who sits side by side with him, which is clearly secretly belittling Lu Bu.
Of course, Lu Bu and Cao Cao just laughed at this kind of little trick, and they didn't take it seriously, but Cao Cao was vigilant in his heart, and he and Guo Jia were discussing in private: "Now I see that either Yuan Dao's usual incompetence is pretended, or there are still some capable people under his hands, this move shows his position to Yuan Benchu, which will not cause Yuan Benchu to be dissatisfied, and secondly, Lu Fengxian over there will not do anything to him because of this, otherwise he will have to discredit himself." ”
And Lu Bu looked at the southeast corner in his study, and a sneer crossed the corner of his mouth: "Sooner or later, I will ask you Yuan Highway to taste the power of a certain general!" (To be continued......)