At the end of the first year of the first year of the first peace, the princes from all walks of life gathered sour dates and officially issued the "Discussion of Dong Xuanwen" to all states and counties in the world.

What puzzled those in the know was that in the various armies that gathered in the sour jujube and the two coalition army camps in Nanyang and Hanoi, not a single soldier of the Langya army has been seen so far, and Liu Cun's figure has never appeared from beginning to end.

The snow is covered with snow and frost.

A few days ago, Yuan Shao, who was elected as the leader of the alliance by the princes of all walks of life, only then rushed to the base camp of the sour jujube coalition army with Wang Kuang, the Taishou Wang Kuang of Hanoi, and the generals Yuan Shu, Jizhou Mu Hanfu, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Ling, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai, Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao, Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao and other dozens of people came out of the camp to greet them, and surrounded the alliance lord Yuan Shao with laughter and entered the main account of the Chinese army with extraordinary grandeur in the center of the camp.

Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, behaved very humbly, and immediately stepped forward to comfort his old friend Cao Cao when he entered the big tent, explaining in detail that because Cao Cao had no official position after escaping after the assassination attempt on Dong Zhuo, he could only include Cao Cao and the 5,000 men and horses led by him under the banner of Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao.

Cao Cao didn't care about this, and said with a smile that as long as he could eradicate the national thieves, such a broad and open-minded mind made the princes from all walks of life applaud continuously, and then held a feast for the alliance leader Yuan Shao to catch the wind, and drank from noon until nightfall.

Yuan Shao left Cao Cao alone after the banquet, and the two moved to a wide and warm back tent to continue talking.

The subordinate sent fragrant tea, Yuan Shao waved his hand to let the subordinate retreat, and truthfully told the resourceful Cao Cao his worries:

"Meng De, don't look at our large number of people, in fact, the 350,000 troops are stationed in various places. Competing against Dong Thief's fierce Xiliang army, the odds of victory are not great......"

"Of the 350,000 troops. 150,000 soldiers from Yanzhou, Dongjun, Qiaochenliu, Shanyang and Jibei were stationed in Sujuo, and 50,000 soldiers from the highway (Yuan Shuzi) and Changsha Taishou Sun Jian's department gathered in Luyang. The 50,000 Yuzhou troops under Kong Ling needed to guard Yingchuan and other places to protect the transportation of grain and grass, and at the same time, strictly prevent the Yellow Turban thieves from attacking. ”

"In the end, nearly half of the 50,000 Ji troops under the command of Brother Wenjie (Han Fuzi) stayed in Yecheng, and the rest had to transport military rations for all parts of our coalition army, which is difficult!"

Cao Cao also knew that it was difficult, the coalition army seemed to be strong, but in fact, they were each doing their own thing, and although the princes from all walks of life were famous. But when it comes to the battlefield, these people definitely can't.

Only Liu Cun was pinned on by Cao Cao before, so after Cao Cao led the 5,000 soldiers and horses he recruited into the sour jujube camp to settle down, he immediately asked Qiao Mao to inquire where the Langya army was stationed? Is Lord Liu Zijian coming?

Qiao Mao smiled bitterly, and said frankly that Lord Zijian entrusted the caravan to send 10,000 stone military rations, but there were no soldiers, horses and ordnance, which made Cao Cao stunned at that time, and repeatedly pondered what happened.

At this moment, Cao Cao listened to Yuan Shao's words, and told his thoughts truthfully: "Brother Ben also saw it. Today, the strongest and most powerful and most powerful soldiers in the Han Dynasty are Yizhou Mu Liu Yan, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, Youzhou Mu Liu Yu and Gongsun Zhan, these people are as respectful as Liu Qingzhou. ”

This also means that they will not tear their faces with Dong Zhuo for the time being...... These states are pastoral. The number of troops is not the most but the most capable of fighting, only the Langya Army under the command of Lord Liu Zijian, since Liu Zijian is in the list of princes of the Eighteen Roads. Why didn't Brother Ben try his best to invite Liu Zijian and his Langya Army? ”

How could Yuan Shao inform Cao Cao of the methods he secretly used against Liu Cun, but he sighed a few times with great regret. Putting the topic aside:

"I'm afraid Meng De doesn't know that Brother Fool has sent letters three times to ask Brother Zijian to be the leader of this alliance. He always politely refused, and finally he was in a hurry, and he even took out the five-year covenant he made with the first emperor in Luoyang to talk about things, that is, the 'promise of the monarch and ministers' that has spread all over the world: within five years, Brother Zijian will turn Qingzhou into the granary of my Han, everyone will have food to eat, and every family will have a house! ”

Therefore, Liu Zijian is now bent on cultivating wasteland and doing business, and he can't be moved! Later, the foolish brother retreated and seconded 30,000 Langya troops to him, but he blocked me back with a word, saying that he could borrow anything, but his wife and children and soldiers under his command could not borrow, look at ......"

Cao Cao laughed, sighed after laughing, and finally could only discuss with Yuan Shao the combat strategy of the Dong coalition army and the implementation of the responsibilities of the princes from all walks of life.

Almost when the allied forces of Dong from all walks of life gathered in sour dates, a huge team of 40,000 Yellow Turban soldiers and 170,000 displaced people was camping at the northern foot of Mangdang Mountain.

As far as the eye could see, there were piles of lit bonfires within a radius of ten miles, and the huge momentum frightened the officers and soldiers of the surrounding two counties into closing the city gates in panic.

Around the piles of bonfires, densely packed with men, women and children who are unclothed and numb, endure hunger and warm each other around the bonfire, and soon fall asleep unconsciously in exhaustion, no one knows how many people will become stiff corpses after dawn tomorrow morning, and whether they will become one of these corpses.

Erected in a simple military tent to the east of more than 100,000 displaced people, Guan Hai, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army East Road, and Zhang Rao, the deputy marshal, and more than a dozen generals and colonels are still discussing intensively.

In the past two months, in order to have more than 200,000 mouths to eat, Guan Hai's troops have captured three county towns at the heavy cost of more than 30,000 people lost in battle.

Guan Hai, who has been fighting for more than two years, and his generals and colonels are extremely confused, looking at the Central Plains region full of holes and thousands of miles, and then looking at the nearly 200,000 ragged and old folks who are following behind him, they don't know how to get out of this repeated predicament, but Guan Hai's mind has appeared again and again Liu Cun's compassionate face for the world.

At this moment, Guan Hai and his brothers were not worried about the attack of the officers and soldiers, and the cold weather, numerous injuries and diseases, and the exhaustion of a huge amount of food and grass were the biggest enemies they urgently needed to face.

There was silence in the big tent, the sound of crying among the victims in the distance was clearly audible, and the hearts of every general were very heavy, before several Xiaoshuai put forward the suggestion of "abandoning the homeless people and leaving them to fend for themselves" was severely reprimanded by Guan Hai, and now no one dares to put forward such an opinion, but now that the food of the 40,000 Yellow Turban soldiers is not guaranteed, how can they still take care of the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims who follow closely?

You must know that there were more than 250,000 victims who followed them not long ago, and those who died in more than half a month are scattered, and there are still more than 170,000 today.

After a long silence, Deputy Marshal Zhang Rao finally spoke: "Dashuai, after more than two years of back and forth, all parts of the Central Plains have been riddled with holes and thousands of miles of red land, most of the land has become wasteland, and the population is no longer one in ten!" Even if we capture a few more cities, we won't be able to eat the food we get for a few days, and maybe there will be tens of thousands of more mouths to eat behind our butts. ”

All the generals and colonels immediately echoed the voice, and they all thought that there was no way for them to live in the Central Plains.

Zhang Rao motioned for everyone to be quiet: "At present, only Xuzhou in the east and Qingzhou in the northeast are the most stable and wealthy, not to mention more than 200,000 people to eat, that is, 500,000 people, these two places can also afford to raise, but these two places are not easy to fight." ”

"The army of Xuzhou has expanded several times, and the old thief Tao Qian also invited Zang Ba, Sun Guan and others who lived in seclusion in Tancheng as generals, and our South Route Army Chang Feng Marshal received Zang Ba's letter and immediately led 30,000 soldiers and horses to Xuzhou to help Tao Qian old thief stick to Xuzhou and block our eastward road."

"Let's not talk about whether we can enter Xuzhou, presumably the brothers can't bear to fight with their former siblings, right? Otherwise, we would have fought a few months ago. ”

The lamentations of the generals came out from time to time, and they felt very uncomfortable.

The two Yellow Turban armies that once fought hand in hand parted ways in a blink of an eye, and they really couldn't get down this hand if they really wanted to meet each other, not to mention that today's Xuzhou army has enough food and food, and the strength has reached more than 80,000 people, and the current army of more than 40,000 tired soldiers really dare not venture to Xuzhou in the east

Zhang Rao's voice sounded again: "Since the brothers are unwilling to fight Xuzhou, then there is only Qingzhou." ”

There was an uproar in the big tent, I didn't expect Zhang Rao to be so bold and want to fight the wolf-like Langya army, and the anxious little handsome had already jumped up:

"Deputy marshal, the younger brother would rather go to Xuzhou than fight Qingzhou, the little brother's cheap life was saved by the Langya army, not only did he not pursue the previous matter, but seeing that the little brother did not want to stay in their army, he happily let the little brother go, and gave the little brother a bag of grain to eat on the way to ......"

"Such a benevolent and righteous teacher, even if he can beat them, the little brother will not have the face to beat them again!"

The generals and colonels echoed each other, some said that the Langya army was benevolent and righteous, and some said don't mess with the Langya army, the Langya army has only held its own territory in the past two years, and it has not come out to embarrass us, it is already considered lucky, if the Langya army is serious, who can beat them?

Zhang Rao and Guan Hai glanced at each other, smiled and sat down slowly.

Seeing that the time had come, Guan Hai stood up and slowly glanced at the familiar faces, and when the brothers were quiet, Guan Hai said his agreement with Liu Cun:

"Most of the brothers here, I'm afraid they won't forget the battle of Xucun two years ago, when the Langya army of 3,000 rangers surrounded our 800 cavalry, and their commander Liu Cun and Liu Yuanjun also arrested me with his own hands, but Liu Yuanjun didn't embarrass us, he understood that the reason why we rebelled was a last resort, so he let us go."

"Before parting, Liu Yuanjun said to me: If it is not easy to mix outside in the future, or if the way of heaven changes, you must be the first to think of me Liu Cun! I agreed, and promised Liu Yuanjun: If the way of heaven really changes, as long as Guan Hai is alive, no matter where he is, he will come to the adult and lead the horse for the adult for a lifetime! ”

The brothers who remembered that battle in the colonel were embarrassed for a while, and those who did not participate in that battle also heard this anecdote, and everyone has always admired Liu Cun's generosity and Guan Hai's firmness.

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