Meiji, the big tent of the Chinese army.

Ma Yue sat according to the case, Jia Xu, Guo Tu, Fu Zhu, and Guan Ning were on the left, Pei Yuanshao, Zhou Cang, Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Gao Shun, and Fang Yue were on the right.

Jia Xu's voice fell, and Pei Yuanshao said: "Bo Qi is the assassin of Liangzhou who was sealed by the Son of Heaven, how can he sit idly by and watch the rebellion in Liangzhou?" ”

Zhou Cang's generals echoed one after another: "Yes, the lord must not sit idly by. ”

Ma Yue Huoran raised his hand to stop the hustle and bustle of the generals, turned his gaze to Fu Zhu, and asked, "Then note, what do you think?" ”

Frustrated, he clenched his fists to Ma Yue, and said loudly: "The lord ~~ I think it is not appropriate to send troops at this time." ”

"Huh?"

"What?"

"Oppose sending troops?"

Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, and the generals changed color one after another, and looked at each other angrily.

Ma Yue asked, "Why is that?" ”

Frustrated and replied: "The matter is very clear, the Liangzhou Rebellion was clearly planned by Dong Zhuo, and its purpose is nothing more than to occupy the land of Liangzhou as the foundation, and now that the Liangzhou Rebellion broke out for nearly half a month, are the Ma Teng rebels still resisting?" Has Dong Zhuo's army occupied the entire territory of Liangzhou? There is no definite news! Rushing to send troops when the enemy's situation is unclear is a taboo for soldiers. ”

Jia Xu and Guo Tu nodded imperceptibly, as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent and not being defeated in a hundred battles, it was really inappropriate to rashly send troops before knowing the exact enemy situation.

Fu Zhu continued: "And compared with Dong Zhuo, the lord is at an absolute disadvantage, the governance of the Hetao has just begun, it is the time when everything is waiting to be rejuvenated and working hard, it is extremely unwise for the lord to choose at this time, and to start a war with a strong enemy like Dong Zhuo when the foundation is not stable." ”

Ma Yue frowned and said: "But Liangzhou is not trivial for this general, especially Ma Teng is still the uncle of this general's family, and there is no reason to stand by." ”

"In February, Dong Zhuo led an army of 20,000 to attack and occupy Hedong, which has caused panic among the Kwantung warlords, if Dong Zhuo takes advantage of the chaos to attack Liangzhou, the power is even more like Zhongtian, and the Kwantung warlords are bound to be even more panicked. ”

Jia Xu stroked the willow whiskers under his chin and smiled silently.

Guo Tu couldn't help but add: "The lord can not only use the strategy of combining and arguing, but also the tactics of encircling Wei to save Zhao, uniting with the Kwantung warlords to attack Hedong, and forcing Dong Zhuo to mobilize a large army from Liangzhou to the east to reinforce in order to reduce the pressure on Ma Teng's army, as long as Ma Teng's army can hold out until the wheat is ripe in autumn, our army can fully intervene in the war in Liangzhou." ”

"Good!" Ma Yue got up and said quickly, "Where is Guo Tu?" ”

Guo Tu solemnly said: "The villain is here." ”

Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "Immediately send envoys to Bingzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou, Hanoi, Hongnong, Luoyang and other places, and ask the imperial court and surrounding states and counties to send troops together to attack Dong Zhuo." ”

Guo Tu said: "Figure~~ Command." ”

Ma Yue said again: "Pei Yuanshao and Fang Yue listen to the order. ”

Pei Yuanshao and Fang Yue flashed out, clasped their fists and said proudly: "The last general." ”

"With Pei Yuanshao as the main general, Fang Yue as the deputy, stay in the old camp of Meiji."

"Yes."

"Gao Shun and Zhou Cang listen to orders."

"The end will be."

"With Gao Shun as the main general and Zhou Cang as the vanguard, he led 2,000 cavalry troops to attack Caisangjin and oppress Hedong."

"Yes."

"Dian Wei and Xu Chu listen to orders."

"The end will be."

"Point up a thousand iron horsemen~~ Go to Liangzhou with General Ben!"

"Yes."

Ma Yue finally set his eyes on Jia Xu and said slowly: "Wenhe." ”

Jia Xu clenched his fists and said, "Yes." ”

"Go to Liangzhou with General Ben."

Jia Xu said: "Xu~~ take the order." ”

"Report~~" Ma Yue had just finished the assignment, and suddenly the junior colonel entered the account to report, "General, General Jutu has returned from the horse, Princess Yiyang's car has arrived at the thirty mile pavilion south of Meiji." ”

"Oh, Princess Yiyang's car has arrived at the Thirty Mile Pavilion?" Ma Yue's expression moved, and he turned to Guo Tudao, "Gongzhi, you send someone to greet you, and General Ben won't go." ”

Guo Tu hesitated: "This~~ I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate, right?" ”

Ma Yue said indifferently: "There is nothing inappropriate, General Ben is not available now, and it will not be too late to discuss the matter of the marriage after General Ben returns from Liangzhou." ”

Guo Tu said helplessly: "Tu takes orders." ”

……

Luoyang, harem.

"Bear with it, bear with it!" Emperor Han Ling was furious and said, "I asked you to guard Liangzhou, do you know what this means? Dong Zhuo is trying to blackmail me, and he thinks that I can't do anything about him, so he is so arrogant! Dong Zhuo has already ridden on my head, but you still have to endure with me! How to endure, how to endure, ah!? ”

Yuan Kui, the captain of Si Li, said hurriedly: "But at the moment, the treasury is empty, and the imperial court is short of money and food, but Dong Zhuo is a soldier with enough food, and he has newly won the elite of Yang Feng in Hedong, and there are 100,000 tigers and wolves under his command. ”

"If you can't win, you have to fight, I can't bear this breath!" Emperor Han Ling said angrily, "Dong Zhuo is so arrogant, if I still can't bear it, wouldn't the officials of all the states and counties in the world want to see my jokes?" Wouldn't these rebellious ministers and thieves also follow Dong Zhuo's example and stretch out their hands to the court and me to ask for officials? When the time comes, where will the face of the court be? What is my face? ”

Yuan Kui was speechless, but he couldn't help but secretly wonder angrily in his heart, if the Son of Heaven could withstand the front of the Liukou soldiers and not bend when the eight hundred Liukou soldiers came to the city, how could the magistrates of the prefectures and counties in the world blatantly ignore the dignity of the imperial court like now? If there is no precedent of Ma Yue, no matter how arrogant Dong Zhuo is, he is afraid that he will not dare to openly reach out to the court to ask for an official, right?

If you really want to talk about it, the culprit is still the horse leaping horse butcher, 800 rogue soldiers are coming to the city, the court has lost face and lost its prestige, once the solemn disguise is removed, the true face of the foreign power and the middle cadre will be exposed, and then there will be warlords from all over the country to support the army and respect themselves, and from then on they will not obey the orders of the court.

But Yuan Kui didn't dare to say this after all.

Situ Wang Yun persuaded: "Your Majesty, the minister is still the same sentence, it is not appropriate to force Dong Zhuo to be too anxious, if Dong Zhuo is forced to be in a hurry, he is likely to make a desperate bet and wave his army to attack Luoyang, the situation of the new army in Xiyuan and the new army of Si Li, Your Majesty has also seen it, how can such an undertrained and demoralized army withstand Dong Zhuo's tiger and wolf army?" ”

Emperor Han Ling let out a long sigh, and the anger in his heart finally subsided, and he sighed: "Is it ~~ really there is no way to take Dong Zhuo?" ”

"Not necessarily." Situ Wang Yun said, "The imperial court can't send troops, but the Kwantung warlords and Ma Yue of Hetao can send troops!" Now that Princess Yiyang's car has entered the Hetao, why don't Your Majesty push the boat down the river, marry Ma Yue with the princess, and secretly order him to lead the army to crusade against Dong Zhuo, after all, Dong Zhuo's dominance is also a great threat to Ma Yue. ”

Yuan Kui said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks this plan is feasible. ”

"Okay." Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty said, "Yuan Aiqing, immediately draft a secret decree for me, and order Ma Yue, Ding Yuan, Han Fu, Gongsun Zhan, Zhang Ji, Wang Kuang and others to attack Dong Zhuo together." ”

Yuan Kui said: "The old minister obeys the order. ”

……

Jinyang, and the state of the history of the palace hall.

Ding Yuan is convening Lu Bu, Cheng Lian, Song Xian, Zhang Liao four generals to discuss, Zhang Liao because of his outstanding performance in the military operation against the Black Mountain thieves, with only 300 elite soldiers to break through 18 cottages, has forced the landing of 20,000 thieves, coupled with Lu Bu's strong recommendation, has been entrusted by Ding Yuan with a heavy responsibility, as a foot military captain.

Ding Yuan raised the book in his hand, and said loudly: "The horse butcher has just sent an official document to say that Dong Zhuo has planned a rebellion in Liangzhou, and Lord Geng has been killed by the general Ma Teng, and the Liangzhou army has also fallen apart. ”

The generals in the hall looked solemn.

Ding Yuan said this, and then said: "The horse butcher has sent 2,000 troops to attack Hedong, and has also invited this official, Lord Han Fu of Jizhou, Lord Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, Zhang Ji of Hongnong, Wang Kuang of Hanoi, etc., to raise troops and fight Dong Zhuo together, I don't know what you think?" Should the state send troops? ”

Song Xian replied without hesitation: "Of course you can't send troops, the account of the bison crossing has not been settled with the horse butcher." ”

Zhang Liao hesitated, but still said: "The last general thinks that he should send troops. ”

……

Yecheng, the meeting hall of Jizhou Thorn History.

"Hahaha~~" Han Fu held the book in his hand, looked up to the sky and laughed miserably, "Interesting, really interesting, the official really didn't expect that the horse butcher would dare to shamelessly ask the official to join forces with him to deal with Dong Zhuo, this guy burned the official's 30,000 elite soldiers in Meiji, and this account has not been settled with him, and he still has the face to ask the official, hum!" ”

Strategist Xin commented: "But my lord, I thought I should send troops. ”

"What!" Han Fu frowned and said, "Should troops be sent?" Will the revenge of the 30,000 soldiers not be avenged? ”

"Of course, the blood feud of 30,000 soldiers must be avenged, but now is not the time." Xin commented, "Right now, the number one threat to adults is Dong Zhuo and not Ma Yue!" It is most important to unite all the forces that can be combined to weaken Dong Zhuo's strength, and in order to achieve this goal, it is not impossible to cooperate with the enemy temporarily. ”

Zhang He nodded and said, "The last general thinks that what Mr. Xin Ping said is extremely reasonable. ”

Han Fu pondered for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, then let's cooperate with the horse butcher for the time being, where is Zhang He?" ”

Zhang He straightened up sharply and responded, "The last general." ”

Han Fu said: "Lead 5,000 light horsemen to Jinyang, and after joining the army of Ding Yuan, fight Dong Zhuo together." ”

Zhang He said: "Obey." ”

……

Hedong County, Anyi City.

In front of the gate of Dong Zhuo's official residence.

"Huh~~"

"Sigh Rhythm ~~"

In the deafening neighing of horses, more than a dozen fast horses stopped abruptly in front of the gate, more than a dozen knights turned over and dismounted, and went straight to the gate, and the two teams of soldiers guarding the gate of the official residence held Jin Ge and stepped forward to block the way, and the officer led by yelled: "Who is it? Dare to trespass on the General's Mansion! ”

"Presumptuous!" Suddenly, a martial artist with a full face came out of the group of knights, and shouted, "Dare to block the way of the military division, don't want to live?" Give Lao Tzu a dodge~~"

The officer guarding the gate looked at it, and sure enough, he saw a middle-aged scribe with a slender figure and a cold description among the dozen knights. The officer did not dare to slack off, waved his hand, and hurriedly led two teams of soldiers to retreat, Li Ru and his party did not stop, and hurriedly entered through the door.

It is said that Li Ru was leading the army to attack Liangzhou, and suddenly heard that Dong Zhuo wrote to the imperial court to ask him to guard Liangzhou, and he couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly entrusted the military affairs to the general Xu Rong, and then only led a team of light horses to go straight to Anyi, Hedong to meet Dong Zhuo. Li Ru and his entourage set out from Anding County, killed hundreds of fast horses along the way, and finally arrived at Anyi in the evening of the third day.

When Dong Zhuo heard the news and came out of the hall to greet him, he happened to catch up with Li Ru, who was limping.

Dong Zhuo thought that Li Ru was injured, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Why is Wen Xiu (Li Ru's cousin) like this?" ”

Li Ru said: "It's just that the saddle is rubbed a little bit, and it's not in the way." ”

"So General Ben is relieved." Dong Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "Wen Xiu is not in Liangzhou to supervise the war, why did he come to Anyi again?" ”

Li Ru wiped the frost on his face with his sleeve, and gasped: "Confucianism was shocked to hear that the lord had written to the court in Liangzhou and asked him to guard Liangzhou, but is there such a thing?" ”

Dong Zhuo said: "This is true. ”

"Oops." Li Ru sighed, "The lord is in a hurry. ”

"How?" Dong Zhuo was stunned and said, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Li Ru said: "Has the lord ever considered the consequences of this move? ”

"The consequences? What can be the consequences. Dong Zhuo said disapprerovingly, "At present, the Han family is declining, and the princes of the world have different intentions, who else will take the order of the Son of Heaven in their eyes?" Even if General Ben's letter angered the Son of Heaven, so what, did the Son of Heaven really dare to be unfavorable to General Ben? Even if the Son of Heaven insists on going his own way, the hundred officials in the court are not afraid that the general's tiger and wolf army will enter Luoyang? ”

Li Ru took a breath and was speechless for a while.

Dong Zhuo smiled and said: "Wen Xiu can rest assured, this general has 100,000 elite soldiers in his hands, what can the imperial court do?" At this time, if General Ben didn't provoke the imperial court, it was already the creation of the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials in the court, and they still dared to provoke General Ben? ”

Li Ru sighed and said: "My lord, although the Han family has declined, and the imperial court is not to be worried, but the Kwantung warlords and the horse butchers of the Hetao cannot be underestimated!" Because of the matter in Hedong, the warlords of Kwantung have become wary of the lord, and this time the lord wrote to the court to ask him to guard Liangzhou, and he became the target of public criticism! As the saying goes, the tree is a big move, and this time I'm afraid that these warlords will join forces to plot against the lord. ”

"Huh?" Dong Zhuo said in horror when he heard this, "No, the horse butcher will join forces with Ding Yuan, Han Fu and others?" ”

"Report~~" Dong Zhuo's voice fell, and suddenly a pro-soldier walked in, knelt on the ground and said urgently, "General, the north is urgent." ”

"Northland?" Dong Zhuo was taken aback and said hurriedly, "Speak quickly!" ”

The pro-soldier said: "Tan Ma returned, Ma Yue took the general Gao Shun as the main general, and the fierce general Zhou Cang as the vanguard, and raised the horse infantry army of 2,000 to cross the river (the ancient name of the Yellow River), and was pressing towards Cai Sangjin. ”

"Cai Sangjin?" Dong Zhuo's face changed, and he said hurriedly, "Map, get the map quickly." ”

A small official had already spread out the map on the table, Li Ru stretched out his hand and pointed to the map, and said in a condensed voice: "Here, Cai Sangjin is here, about three hundred miles northeast of Anyi. ”

Dong Zhuo set his eyes on Li Ru and asked in a condensed voice, "Wen Xiu, could these two thousand centaurs just be the vanguard of the horse butcher?" The follow-up army will follow? ”

"It's hard to say at the moment." Li Ru said in a condensed voice, "You can send more scouts and horses to sneak into the north to find out the news." ”

"Report~~" Li Ru's voice fell, and another pro-soldier entered the house and said urgently, "General, report urgently to the party." ”

"What? Go to the party! Dong Zhuo said in a condensed voice, "Ding Yuan in the state!?" Speak quickly. ”

The soldiers said: "Tan Ma returned, Shuozhou Assassin Shi Ding Yuan with the general Lu Bu as the main general, Zhang Liao, Song Xian and other deputy generals, and Han Fu's general Zhang He joined forces, a total of 8,000 horse troops, 10,000 infantry troops, out of the pot pass to the west, and Ma Yue's Gao Shun army approached the east of the river in a horn trend. ”

"Report~~" When Dong Zhuo and Li Ruzheng were frightened, they had their own soldiers entering the emergency road, "General, Hanoi Emergency, Hongnong Emergency, Pingyin Emergency!" ”

"What?" Dong Zhuo jumped up in surprise and said quickly, "Hanoi, Hongnong, Pingyin!" Zhang Ji, Wang Kuang, and Si Li's lieutenant department all sent troops? How~~ How can this be? It's impossible, absolutely impossible~~"

"Lord, the matter has come to this, and regret is useless." Li Ru said in a condensed voice, "Whether the lord wants to or not, this battle must be fought!" Fortunately, before leaving, General Li Xun had been ordered to lead 40,000 troops to march eastward quickly, and the 8,000 light cavalry of the front army could reach Anyi before dark, and the follow-up infantry troops could also arrive within three days. ”

(To be continued)