After the righteous son Liu Zhen left, Liu Cun, who returned to Linzi, was really depressed for a long time, working hard every day, going to the Shadowless Mountain Base Camp every three days to teach the fourth batch of 200 students.

After each class, Liu Cun, together with Guan Hai, Zhang Rao, and other generals and colonels, watched the training of the reorganized Fourth and Fifth Divisions of the Qingzhou Army, discussed various issues with the instructor group and Guan Hai and other generals, and finally extracted all the officers and men who were good at mountain warfare and reorganized them into the Fourth Division, which was good at tackling tough fortified positions, and the Fifth Division, which was good at mountain warfare, revised the training plan, and formulated a new training program and corresponding tactics, so that the training results were markedly improved.

The rest of the days, Liu Cun spent most of his time in the Linzi General's Mansion, analyzing intelligence with the military commanders of the Military Command Bureau, and discussing with the strategists of the shogunate behind closed doors.

In mid-February, Sun Jian's division of the Southern Route Army of the Dong Coalition Army made the decision to fight independently again without waiting for Yuan Shao's reply, and launched an attack on the Xiliang Army stationed in Liang County.

On the evening of 16 February, four hundred-stone-class fast paddle steamers arrived at the southeast wharf of Luoyang and unloaded 25,000 sets of armor, 30,000 spearheads, 10,000 horizontal knives, and 500,000 sharp arrows for sale overnight.

Dong Zhuoxian was very happy to see the ordnance sent, this was what he needed most at the moment, and he wanted to order another piece of knives, guns and sharp arrows from Qingzhou, but Zhao Rong, the envoy who went with the ship, had a sad face.

Zhao Rong told Dong Zhuo about the causes and consequences of the influx of 600,000 Jizhou victims into Qingzhou, and hurriedly returned the next morning with two batches of Western Regions BMWs that Dong Zhuo had given to Liu Cun.

The sullen Dong Zhuo had just returned to the Shuai Mansion. Li Ru, who went to bid farewell to Zhao Rong, quickly came back and picked up the wooden board wrapped in thick cloth in his hand. Xing Chong rushed to put a few cases in front of Dong Zhuo.

"What's that?" Dong Zhuo asked suspiciously.

Li Ru smiled and opened the thick cloth on the wooden board, Dong Zhuo only glanced at it and couldn't raise his head again. After looking at a bowl of tea, he raised his head and asked excitedly, "Where did you come from?" ”

Li Ru laughed: "Mr. Zhao Yande was drinking tea and chatting with his subordinates on the dock, and he forgot to take it away before leaving, hehe!" ”

Dong Zhuo sighed: "This Liu Zijian is ruthless!" Yuan Shao and the others plotted against Qingzhou, and Liu Zijian immediately retaliated, not only giving us an additional 500,000 first-class arrows, but also drawing Yuan Shao's troop deployment into a map and handing it over to us through this way. It's scary to think about! It seems that I have to re-evaluate Liu Zijian. ”

Li Ru said with a smile: "Your Excellency, in addition to the symbols representing Yuan Shao's military camp, the number of troops, the marching route, and the camp on this board, there is not a single word on it, who can prove that this is the information sent to us by Liu Zijian?" ”

"Also, who will believe the matter of giving us an extra 500,000 sharp arrows? The subordinates calculated on the way back just now, when Mr. Zhao Yande came, the section of the river that passed through Yuan Shao's guard was all at night, and now it was raining thick drizzle. With only a little camouflage, the four hundred-stone paddle wheels are difficult to be spotted by the defenders on the shore! ”

"Taking a step back, even if the defenders see it, they can't really see it, and they won't be able to grasp anything at all. This is the terrible thing about Liu Zijian! ”

Five days later, Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, led his troops into the Yellow River crossing in Heyangjin (the crossing of the Yellow River in the west of present-day Meng County, Henan Province), and was detected in advance by the scheming Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo adopted Li Ru's strategy and mobilized 5,000 suspicious soldiers to challenge Wang Kuang. Secretly sent 20,000 elite infantry cavalry troops to cross the river north from Xiaopingjin upstream, and sneaked behind Wang Kuang's headquarters by detour. Suddenly launched a fierce attack, the unsuspecting Wang Kuang's troops were defeated, 35,000 officers and soldiers were almost wiped out, a large number of weapons and equipment were captured by the Xiliang army, and the mountains of military rations and horses were accepted by Dong Zhuoxiao.

Wang Kuang, who fled rampantly with more than 100 personal guards, had no face to see Yuan Shao, hurriedly returned to his hometown Taishan County, recruited troops with the help of the county guard Ying Shao, and vowed to return to Luoyang and defeat Dong Thief.

Dong Zhuo relieved the crisis north of Luoyang, had no worries for the time being, and obtained a large number of equipment and grain and grass supplements, and finally was able to free up troops, and ordered his fierce general Hua Xiong to lead 10,000 iron cavalry to support the southern front, and arrived in time when Hu Zhen and Lu Bu, who were demoralized and demoralized, arrived in time when Sun Jian was about to be defeated, 10,000 cavalry suddenly crashed into Sun Jian's middle road and flank junction and fought hard, Lu Bu and Hu Zhen's morale was greatly boosted, and they didn't care about private grievances, so they all returned to fight together, and quickly repelled Sun Jian's troops who were in chaos, and then covered all the way to recover the lost ground.

If Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang firmly contained Dong Zhuo's 25,000 Xiliang army as agreed, the 30,000 soldiers led by Sun Jian would be able to inflict heavy losses on Lu Bu and Hu Zhen's troops, capture the Longmen south of Luoyang, and enter Luoyang, where the troops were weak, and completely defeat the Xiliang army.

Seeing that victory was in sight, Hua Xiong led tens of thousands of cavalry to suddenly kill, causing Sun Jian to fight desperately before he had time to adjust, and finally retreated on the whole line under the return of Lu Bu and Hu Zhen's remnants, Sun Jian lost 16,000 soldiers, and only more than 300 men and horses were left in the precious 3,000 cavalry.

The Xiliang Army, which had regained the lost territory, did not chase after it, and the battle situation around Luoyang once again formed a confrontational situation, and the two northern and southern divisions of the Dong coalition army, which were greatly injured, were at a loss, and Yuan Shu deliberately deducted Sun Jian's food and salary, Sun Jian jumped like thunder, and the division within the coalition army intensified again.

Liu Cun, who received the news, was overjoyed, made an exception to put down the affairs at hand, and went home to drink with Tai Shici, Fu Min and Lu Pei, who came to report on the defense affairs.

When the wine was half-drunk, all the generals were amazed when they talked about Sun Jian, who was as brave as a tiger.

According to the inference of the battle situation, if it weren't for Wang Kuang in the north of Luoyang who was unexpectedly annihilated by the Xiliang army, Sun Jian would probably rush into Luoyang, forcing the uncaring Xiliang army to retreat west to Guguan, and the entire battle situation would change as a result, and the general trend of the world would also change.

Lu Pei knew that the lord Liu Cun did not tell Tai Shi Ci and Fu Min the secret secret, so he kept his mouth shut, hid the process of persuading Gong Sun Chan in his stomach, drank Youzai Youzai, and silently listened to Liu Cun and Tai Shi Ci's deduction.

Several possibilities have found cause and effect, and also foreseen different endings, Tai Shici was excited, and talked about Gongsun Chan after a cup with Liu Cun:

"Gongsun Bogui did a good job this time, put aside the grievances and closely cooperated with Lord Liu Yu, the two armies attacked in the north and south of Dongguang (now southeast of Cangzhou), and achieved a record of killing more than 10,000 enemies and capturing more than 30,000 enemies.

Liu Cun drank a glass of wine and put forward a different opinion: "Actually, this battle does not mean that Gongsun Zhan and Liu Yu will put down their mustard, but more of a last resort, and it is not the real main force of the Yellow Turban Army that they annihilated, but the poor people who have to rise up to resist under the double pressure of heavy taxes and local tyrants!" ”

"Even if the leader is sent by the Yellow Turbans of Montenegro, it doesn't mean that the more than 40,000 mobs are the Yellow Turban Army, if it is really the Yellow Turban Army, how can the two teams in Youzhou win so easily?"

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