Before Chen Lin led his troops to Lushan, he heard that Hu Cen's army was fighting with Sun Jian, because Hu Cen saw that Sun Jian's army was strict and could not be broken in a short time, and he was afraid that he would be intercepted by the Kwantung Army in Yanzhou and other places for a long time in Lushan, so he led his troops back to Xingyang and other places. The army was stationed at night, and in the military tent, Chen Lin convened the generals to discuss the matter, Chen Lin said: "I didn't expect Sun Wentai to be so capable, and he was so frightened that Hu Zhen (the front was beaten into Hu Cen, forgive me) Hu Wencai's 30,000 army retreated to Xingyang, hahaha." After Chen Lin finished speaking, all the generals in the tent were yearning, as if this was the highest achievement of a martial artist. But Jia Xu was much calmer and said: "Lord, although I have seen this Hu Wencai, but this person can be reused by Dong Thief as a pioneer, there must be something outstanding, and Hu Wencai's withdrawal this time is not so simple." If it is not bad as expected, it must be a change in the Kanto region, forcing Hu Wencai to withdraw from the army. ”

Chen Lin remembered that Jia Xu had said before that the Kwantung clan would not allow Dong Zhuo to have sole power, and when the time came, he would definitely raise an army against Dong, Chen Lin was shocked and said: "Wen He didn't think that the county pastor of Kwantung Prefecture had raised troops?" Chen Lin just finished asking, and suddenly a notice sounded in the barracks: "Report, Yanzhou urgent report." "It turned out that the scouts sent by Chen Lin came back, Chen Lin hurriedly ordered the scouts to come into the camp, and when the scouts said, everyone was shocked, it turned out that it was really as Chen Lin said just now, and the herdsmen in the eastern part of the country raised troops to fight against Dong. I don't know the specific situation, the scouts only found out that after Cao *, the captain of the military academy, escaped back to Chenliu, he received the support of the Wei family of the big clan, and quickly raised an army of 5,000 people, and at the same time, Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, publicly wrote an article, showing Dong Zhuo's various evil deeds, and called on the herdsmen of the world to raise troops into Luoyang and crusade against Dong Zhuo. Cao* responded quickly, and then Chen Liutaishou, Shanyang Taishou, Jizhou Mu, Bohai Taishou, etc., issued official documents in response to Liu Dai's text, and the text did not come to Jingzhou and Yizhou for a while.

After the scout retreated, Yang Ren took the lead and said: "Lord, this is a good thing, the Eastern Army is here, so it will not be the only two of us and the other two to fight with Dong Thief alone." Chen Lin couldn't bear to snub Yang Ren's enthusiasm, so he said: "Yes, the Eastern Army is here, and it is not a problem to crusade against Dong Thief, and the generals should work hard, and the achievements are at this time." ”

After everyone retreated, Chen Lin saw that Jia Xu was still in the military tent, and he didn't say anything, and motioned for Jia Xu to sit down, and outside the tent were the two killing gods of Huang Yan and Zhoucang. Jia Xu: "I'm afraid that what the lord just said is insincere." Chen Lin knew that he couldn't escape Jia Xu's thief's eyes, so he didn't hide it, sighed and said: "Alas, Sun Wentai has been fighting against Dong for several months, although there is a lot of applause, but no one in the world except me in Hanzhong has responded, and now a piece of Yanzhou Assassin Shi has led to countless heroes, how many of these people are sincere to please Dong, and a few of them are just because of fame, who knows." ”

Jia Xu: "Don't say anything else, just say that the Yuan Highway in front of me can be regarded as gathering tonight's army in Nanyang, but in addition to providing some grain and grass, there is no intention of sending troops to the north, only arranging cronies to subdue Nanyang." The lord, persuade the lord, the lord has the Han family in his heart is the loyalty of the lord, but this time the lord has to have a long heart, so as not to be used by others without knowing it. Jia Xu was embarrassed to say that he was not the kind of person who sincerely crusaded against Dong Zhuo, so he could only implicitly remind Chen Lin not to suffer. Chen Lin knew that Jia Xu was sincere for himself, so he didn't say more, so he asked: "Wenhe, according to your opinion, after the Kwantung army raised troops, what was the situation?" ”

Jia Xu looked at the simple map for a while, and said: "The land of Chang'an is in the north and the south of the mountain, and there are hundreds of thousands of Dong thieves to defend it, and the Kwantung army wants to attack Luoyang, there are only two ways, one is to attack Xiliang from the land of the Qiang people, and from Sanfu to attack Luoyang, but this road is very far, and Qianghu has rebelled against the Han Dynasty since the Yuyang Rebellion, so this road is not passable; Then the Kwantung army could only attack Luoyang from the front line of Hanoi and Bishui Pass, but Bishui Pass and Hanoi were not so easy to capture. Lord, if you say something unpleasant, if the Kwantung army is united, it will not be difficult to go south to Dong thieves, but ......" Jia Xu didn't say what he said, but Chen Lin didn't know, that is to say, in Jia Xu's opinion, I am afraid that this time the battle against Dong will not have a good result. But Chen Lin also understands that now, it is impossible to retreat, and everyone in the world is watching.

Chen Lin looked at the map again, pointed to a place and asked Jia Xu curiously: "Wenhe, I just said that the Kwantung army can only attack Luoyang from the first line of Bishui Pass and Hanoi, why don't you say it here?" Chen Lin was referring to Wuguan, which was one of the four fortresses of the old Qin, sandwiched between the Hangu Pass in the west of Luoyang and the Tongguan Pass in the east of Chang'an. That is to say, after leaving Wuguan from the south, you can attack Hangu Pass to the east, attack Luoyang with Bishui Pass, or attack Tongguan to the west, and then take Chang'an directly.

Jia Xu looked at the Wuguan that Chen Lin said, and said with a smile: "Lord, the Kwantung army is mostly in the Central Plains, and the Bishui Pass is in front of them, how can they be willing to go near and far and bypass Nanyang to go to this dangerous place." And although it is said that going out of Wuguan can cut off the retreat of Dong thieves, but this also puts hundreds of thousands of Dong thieves' Luoyang army* into the Jedi, which is unwise, so Wuguan can be ignored. After hearing this, Chen Lin said: "Although the Kwantung army will not attack from Wuguan, but if Dong Zhongying goes out of Wuguan to attack Nanyang, won't the Kwantung Army in Yanzhou be attacked on both sides?" ”

Jia Xu: "No, Dong Thief doesn't dare, if Dong Thief dares to go out of Wuguan, go from Nanyang East, and attack the Kwantung army from Yingchuan and Bishui Pass, then as long as the Jingzhou army gathers people to go north and cut off the Wuguan, then the army will be wiped out by the Kwantung army, and Dong Thief will not make this decision." ”

Chen Lin thought about it carefully, and carefully looked at the three passes of Tongguan, Hangu Pass and Wuguan, one east, one west and one south, forming a triangular trend, even if the army captured Wuguan, then no matter whether the army attacked Tongguan or Hangu Pass, it would be attacked by Dong Zhuo's army in another pass. Similarly, it is impossible for Dong Zhuo to give up such a good defensive advantage and take the initiative to make plans, especially under the possibility that Bishui Pass may face the pressure of a large army. So Chen Lin also figured it out, the Kwantung army had no other way than to storm Bishui Pass or Hanoi, but the Kwantung army was mostly soldiers and horses south of the Yellow River, so it was unlikely that the Kwantung army would cross the river to attack Hanoi, so there would only be a line of Bishui Pass. Chen Lin thought of the majesty of Bishui Pass, and felt a headache, the strength of Bishui Pass, plus the wolf-like Northwest Army also had hundreds of thousands, and the battle of the Kwantung army against Dong was really going to be done in a hasty manner as Jia Xu said.

Jia Xu saw that Chen Lin was in a depressed mood and knew why, so he said: "Lord, the battle against Dong cannot be achieved in a day, but it is not impossible to succeed, as long as there are enough troops against Dong, I think that the lord should use the righteousness of the court as the reason, put aside the past grievances, invite Yizhou Mu to send troops, and at the same time ask Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao Liu Jingsheng to also participate in the battle against Dong, once the two of them help each other, there will be tens of thousands of more troops." Jia Xu's calculation in his heart at this time was not as simple as courting Dong, because Jia Xu knew that Liu Yan would probably not send troops, and Liu Yan spent so much effort to come to Yizhou smoothly, just to be a soil emperor, so he would not care about so many outside things at this time. But Jia Xu still suggested that Chen Lin invite Liu Yan, that is, to make a gesture to tell everyone that Chen Lin can ignore the past suspicions for the sake of the court, especially let the scholars in Shu know.

As for Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Liu Biao came to Jingzhou much later than Liu Yan entered Shu, and now Liu Yan basically controls Shuzhong, but Liu Biao is in the initial stage of accepting Jingzhou. Hanzhong can directly contact Jingzhou Nanyang or Jingzhou Nanjun from the three counties of Shangyong, Jia Xu doesn't want Liu Biao to be able to subdue Jingzhou so quickly and smoothly, at least he has to give Liu Biao a little stumbling, so no matter whether these two people end up sending troops or not, Jia Xu can stay for his own purpose.

Chen Lin naturally didn't know what Jia Xu was calculating in his heart, and only thought that Jia Xu was really designing to please Dong, so Chen Lin endured it, and decided to let go of his resentment against Liu Yan as Jia Xu said, and invited him to send troops to join the army to fight against Dong. The invitation document was written by Chen Lin, but the final * work must be indispensable to the shadowless thing, Jia Xu will definitely let Chen Lin's two invitation letters spread all over Yizhou and Jingzhou, it depends on how Liu Yan and Liu Biao accept it.

Strange to say, Yuan Shu wanted to take Nanyang County into his pocket, but he always accompanied Sun Jian in Luyang County and did not go to Wancheng. No one knows or cares about Yuan Shu's approach, only Yuan Shu himself knows that he stayed in Luyang but wanted to completely subdue Sun Jian, the tiger, especially after Sun Jian's first announcement to discuss Dong, his reputation was greatly enhanced, and many capable people and righteous people joined Sun Jian's command, plus Sun Jian's army of more than 30,000, Yuan Shu was greedy. It turned out that Sun Jian was the first to raise troops to fight Dong for him to win a lot of fame, and many wise men and women have successively thrown themselves into Sun Jian's army, among which the most famous is Lou Gui and Lou Zibo of Nanyang Zhiyong. Lou Gui is a rare famous person in Nanyang, a warrior in his forties, don't look at Lou Gui's superior force, his wit is also a must, and he is a rare person with both wisdom and bravery. Lou Gui gathered more than 1,000 people to join Sun Jian, and after talking with Sun Jian, he was immediately appointed by Sun Jian as the chief secretary and the head of the army.

Sun Jian was very prosperous, but Chen Lin did not plan to recruit troops all the way like Sun Jian, Chen Lin just took the 8,000 troops from Hanzhong, crossed the county and crossed the county, and did not commit any crimes in Minqiu along the way, and won the support of the people along the way. Chen Lin's army resolutely looked righteous and awe-inspiring, and many bloody and upright men wanted to join Chen Lin's army, because those who were soldiers would not be hungry, and Chen Lin's army said so, life must be better than starvation. Because of Chen Lin's refusal, the people who were not allowed to join the army were unwilling, and followed Chen Lin's army all the way, and the matter spread ten or ten hundreds, so that no less than a thousand men gathered behind Chen Lin's army, erecting the banner of the righteous army, and following Chen Lin.

Such a touching thing spread all over Nanyang County, and it also attracted a peerless fierce general to Chen Lin, but seeing this person with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a gold-backed knife in his hand, a two-stone iron bow on his back, and a fluttering white hair, who are you?