In dealing with the world, Sun Jian has many shortcomings. But on key issues, he was still able to think through. If Sun Jian made peace with Dong Zhuo in private, not to mention anything else, Yuan Shu, who was sitting in the rear, would inevitably turn against Sun Jian. And Dong Zhuo's own financial resources are not good, and it is impossible to have enough baggage supplies to support Sun Jianjun.

What's more critical is that Sun Jian waged war against Dong Zhuo under the banner of "eliminating Han thieves and clearing the monarch's side". If he dared to make a truce with Dong Zhuo, he would immediately be despised by the people of the world as a person who "has no faith in his words and acts for the tiger". And Sun Jian's subordinates will also secretly disagree because of this.

When people's hearts are scattered, the team will not be easy to lead. At that time, Sun Jian, even if he could get the official position of the third prince from Dong Zhuo, what could he do?

It was precisely because he saw through the consequences of Dong Zhuo's action with the eyes of a military strategist that Sun Jian immediately invited Ji Ling, Zhang Xun, Qiao Rui and other generals under Yuan Shu to be present together to meet with the envoy Li Dao. After Li Dao put forward the conditions that Dong Zhuo was willing to give, Sun Jian didn't have to think about it at all, and immediately rejected Dong Zhuo's proposal in front of all the generals of the army, and decisively drove Li Dao out of the barracks on the spot.

Sun Nut's behavior is undoubtedly extremely appropriate. If he had behaved at that time, or even just hesitated slightly, he would inevitably be discovered by Yuan Shu's cronies, and then Yuan Shu's suspicion of him would have been aroused. However, after such a performance, Yuan Shu greatly believed in Sun Jian's character, and naturally gave Sun Jian benefits in the future.

Seeing Li Dao fleeing back in embarrassment, knowing that his dissension plan had failed, Dong Zhuo was not annoyed. This kind of thing is a small action and is not on the table. Dong Zhuo never expected that Sun Jian would really agree to negotiate peace. However, Sun Jian's attitude was so clear. There is no place to use at all, which makes Dong Zhuo a little regretful.

After Sun Jian drove away Li Dao, he immediately urged the army and rushed straight to Luoyang. The resistance of the Liangzhou army was not strong, but only slightly delayed Sun Jian's march. However, when Sun Jian saw the city wall of Luoyang from afar. What caught his attention was a few columns of smoke rising into the sky!

The good show of burning Luoyang has finally begun!

Seeing the smoke rising from Luoyang City, Sun Jian was furious, and his eyes were about to burst, and he was about to go crazy. He never imagined that Dong Zhuo, who was the [self-styled] Xiangguo of the Han Dynasty, would do such a heartbreaking thing!

This is a big man's minister, can he do something?!

- Dong Zhuo. I swear to kill you!

In the face of the fire that burned all over the city, Sun Jian no longer thought about chasing and killing Dong Zhuo's rear army. For him, the most urgent task now is to put out the fire.

As a general who knows the art of war, Sun Jian can also guess who Dong Zhuo will send to stay behind the last arson.

Lu Bu will only be Lu Bu.

There are a lot of cavalry under Lu Bu, and they are proficient in cavalry warfare, and their martial arts skills are even more terrifying. He was harassed by the side. Sun Jianjun's advance speed will be slowed down by at least half.

Of course. These were not the main reasons why Lu Bu would be dispatched. According to Sun Jian's judgment, the biggest reason why Lu Bu served as the post-break task was that Lu Bu was not Dong Zhuo's descendant, and even if his subordinates were damaged, Dong Zhuo would not care, and would even be more at ease.

After such a dangerous task. Of course, it must be handed over to the non-descendant troops who will not be heartbroken when they die.

After the direct confrontation with Lu Bu, after discovering that Lu Bu was broken in front, Sun Jian understood that his pursuit would inevitably be fruitless. So, he was very direct about putting all his attention. It was all put on directing the non-commissioned officers to fight the fire. Due to Sun Jian's timely rescue, part of the Han family palace was successfully preserved.

This is also the reason why the arsonist was perfunctory and did not strictly follow the plan. Seeing the huge unlit pyres piled up in the palace, Sun Jian was even more sure that it must be Lu Bu after the break.

Sun Jian was fighting the fire in the palace and saved some jade seals and other things, not mentioning it for the time being. However, it was said that after the Yuan-Sun coalition army recovered Luoyang, it immediately gained momentum. Among the people who are most depressed about this matter, of course, there is Dong Zhuo, and the depressed person who is second only to Dong Zhuo is actually Yuan Shao.

Luoyang was restored, but the hero was not Yuan Shao. How can Yuan Shaoqing, who led the troops in Hanoi and confronted the Liangzhou army for several months, be embarrassed?

The two brothers, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, have direct competition with each other. Due to the sudden death of Yuan Kui, the previous head of the Yuan family in Runan, there was no clear confirmation of who the next head of the family was, so he was simply killed by Dong Zhuo, and the protégés and former officials attached to the Yuan family had a great controversy about who was the new head of the Yuan family. Yuan Shu's momentum is booming, which means the decline of Yuan Shao's power.

Today's Yuan Shao is alone, far away from his own territory, and even the supply of military food needs to rely on the snort of Jizhou Mu Han Fu. With the resumption of Luoyang, the war against Dong was victorious, and Han Fu also had a justifiable reason to reduce the military rations and materials for Yuan Shao.

There was no supply of grain and grass from Jizhou, and his brother-in-law Liu Dai was also exhausted by the sour jujube coalition army before, and Yuan Shao suddenly fell into a dangerous situation of cutting off supplies.

In order to save the few grains and grasses, Yuan Shao had to start cutting the supply of military rations for his subordinates. As a result, the hungry soldiers began to plunder the food of the people in the station, and the people who lost the food had to pick unripe mulberries for food to satisfy their hunger, or flee their homes in groups.

The people take food as the sky, and if there is no food, the army will be in chaos. In view of this, Yuan Shao had to use his brains and think of a batch of food to tide over the difficulties. The first choice he thought of was to get grain and grass from Jizhou, which was rich in natural resources.

Since Jizhou Mu Hanfu refused to continue to provide Yuan Shaojun with sufficient food, there was only one way to get grain and grass supplies from Jizhou again:

Drive away Han Fu.

Han Fu's roots in Jizhou are not strong. Because he has not been in office for a long time, most of the Taishou of Jizhou counties are only superficially obedient to him, and no one will firmly support Han Fu. And more importantly, the military power in Han Fu's hands is not strong, in this troubled era where success or failure is determined by force, although Han Fu is in a high position, he can be regarded as a weak giant.

Yuan Shao's current troops, including the 3,000 troops led by Cao Cao, totaled more than 20,000. The total strength of Jizhou is as high as more than 50,000. Judging from the comparison of this number, Yuan Shao seems to have no chance.

However, don't forget that the counties of Jizhou are only superficially obedient to Han Fu. If Yuan Shao is willing to win over the county guards, most of the county soldiers in each county will be more willing to take a sideline attitude, and then follow the victor after Yuan Shao and Han Fu divide the victory.

In this way, the number of soldiers and horses that Han Fu could mobilize dropped to more than 20,000 at once. Among the more than 20,000 people, there is also a close confidant of the former Jizhou Assassin Wang Fen - Lu Yi is sandwiched in it. Because Han Fu has been lukewarm to Lu Yi since he took office, Lu Yi is very uncomfortable. Yuan Shao had sent someone to contact Lu Yi before, and he was confident that if he turned his face to Han Fu, there was a ninety percent chance that Lu Yi would join the camp against Han Fu.

The 4,000 people in the Luyi Division are the essence of the entire Jizhou Prefecture Division. If he came out to fight against Han Fu, Han Fu would have to send at least 10,000 people to fight against him. In this way, Yuan Shao has a huge advantage in his calculations against Han Fu.

"But that's not enough!"

Xu You, the first person who proposed the plan to seize Jizhou, talked eloquently in front of a group of Yuan Shao's henchmen.

"The relationship between General [Yuan Shao] and Han Jizhou can be coerced secretly, but it is not appropriate to be a direct enemy. Although Han Jizhou [Han Fu] is a former official of the Yuan family, after all, he has served as Jiuqing and has a high name. If the general of the chariot cavalry openly attacked him, it would inevitably make the corporal of the world disappointed. ”

"But, Mr. Xu, if you don't do it, will Han Jizhou automatically give up Jizhou to his father?"

It was Yuan Tan who raised the question. Yuan Tan is Yuan Shao's eldest son and was born to Yuan Shao's former wife, Li. He is in his early twenties this year, he is in his prime, his appearance is dignified, and he treats people and things freely, which has the demeanor of Yuan Shao when he was young. Yuan Shao attaches great importance to this eldest son with a demeanor similar to himself. After the army rose against Dong, he took Yuan Tan with him, taught him by word and deed, and cultivated this son's ability to deal with things.

"Don't be anxious, even if you don't do it publicly, there is a way to make Han Jizhou automatically back down. Rules, you come and tell Childe what you can do. ”

The public rule is the word of Guo Tu. Guo Tu is a famous man in Yingchuan, who once served as a "senior treasurer" in the county, so he met Yuan Shao. After the outbreak of the Anti-Dong War, Yingchuan soon became one of the battlefields. Guo Tu had no choice but to take his clansmen and leave his hometown to join the powerful princes. And the force he chose was "Yuan Benchu, the model of the world".

The "Superior Treasurer" is the governor of the county, and the envoy sent to the Assassin Prefecture Pastor at the next higher level is responsible for "calculating" to the superiors. The so-called "upper accounting" means that the local chief executive regularly submits the accounting documents to the higher authorities to report on the state of local governance. The rectangular officer is not a permanent officer, and if necessary, he is temporarily appointed by the county magistrate, usually a temporary county magistrate.

The Yingchuan Guo family, although the number of people is not wide, is not small. The first two generations of Guo Tu's ancestors also served as officials of 2,000 stones, and they were considered to be famous families in Yingchuan. He himself was a man of learning and was well known in the state and county. Therefore, as soon as Guo Tu came to Yuan Shao's hands, he was entrusted by Yuan Shao with an important task and served as the shogunate. And the other clansmen of the Guo clan were also arranged under Yuan Shao's care. Among them, there was a distant clan named Guo Jia, who was arranged to Cao Cao's ministry and served as an important position of "calculator" of grain and grass.

Guo Tu is the latest adviser under Yuan Shao, and he has been promoted and favored by Xu You. Now that Xu You has given him such a good opportunity to show his face, of course Guo Tu must take advantage of it. He bowed to Yuan Shao with a respectful expression, and then straightened up and talked eloquently.

"Han Jizhou's prestige is well-known, and it cannot be easily cut down for no reason. However, I think that there is no need for the lord to do it, and naturally someone can do it for the lord! (To be continued......)