In April of the first year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (188 years), the princes of the Eighteenth Road will be allied with sour dates, a total of more than 300,000 troops, and the military camp stretches for more than 200 miles, which is magnificent.

Cao Ying, who was the landlord, ordered people to slaughter cattle and horses, and the princes of the assembly.

During the banquet, talking about the strategy of advancing the army, Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, first proposed: "The so-called three armies cannot be said to be without a commander, if you want to enter the army, you must set up an alliance to dispatch the three armies and restrain the various departments, I don't know what the public thinks?" ”

Everyone agreed.

Cao Ying smiled slightly, and said, "Why don't you listen to your words?" ”

Everyone held their breath and listened to Cao Ying's words, but Yuan Shao, the only Bohai Taishou frowned slightly, his expression was quite displeased, and he got up and said: "Meng De, I raised the army to help the Han family, not to respond to your letter to the thief, I hope you don't misunderstand this." ”

Cao Ying smiled, a hint of cunning flashed in his little eyes, he had already seen Yuan Shao's intentions, Yuan Shao was so eager to show his intentions, but he was worried that Cao Shao would want to be the leader of the alliance. At the moment, Cao Ying did not break Yuan Shao's intentions, and bowed his hands to everyone: "Yuan Benchu, the third prince of the fourth generation, and the old officials of the family, are the famous ministers of the Han Dynasty, and can be the leader of the alliance." ”

"Huh?"

As soon as Cao Ying's words came out, Yuan Shao was stunned for a moment.

It wasn't until everyone echoed each other that Yuan Shao came back to his senses and repeatedly excused himself: "Shao is young and knowledgeable, and he has little reputation, so he must not be the leader of the alliance." ”

Cao Ying said with a smile: "This is what everyone expects, so there is no need to shirk it in the first place." ”

Yuan Shao pretended to excuse himself again, and then readily agreed.

The next said, Cao Ying ordered people to build three layers of platform outside the sour jujube city, the platform was full of five-color flags, white and yellow Yue, and the seal of the soldiers, and then the princes of the eighteenth road lined up the stage in turn, respectfully invited Yuan Shao to take the stage, the horn sounded in unison, the three-way drum stopped, Yuan Shao was wearing gold armor, a golden helmet on his head, and a sword was on the top.

Yuan Shao walked to the stage, his eyes swept over the princes from all walks of life, and said loudly: "The Han family is unfortunate, the emperor is out of control, and the thief Dong Zhuo is perverse, adding disaster to the supreme and abusing the people. We were worried about the loss of the community, so we gathered volunteers to go to the national disaster. All our alliances, when we work together, there will be no two ambitions, if this alliance is violated, the world will fight together. The emperor and the queen of the earth, the gods and spirits learned from it. ”

After the alliance was dismissed, Yuan Shao was promoted to the general.

He ordered his younger brother to be the governor of Yangzhou Assassin Yuan Shu to supply grain and grass to the battalions, and made the Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian as the vanguard, leading 8,000 elite soldiers to Bishui Pass.

……

Luoyang, Dong Zhuo's official residence.

"Report~~" A junior colonel rushed into the hall, ran down at the end of the hall and said quickly, "The water is in a hurry!" ”

"Huh?" Dong Zhuo's face changed, and he said loudly, "Speak quickly!" ”

The junior colonel said: "Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian led 8,000 elite soldiers, is attacking Bishui Pass at night, Yuan Shao led the 18th Kwantung coalition army is less than 100 miles away from Bishui Pass, General Fan Chou asked Lord Taiwei to send the army to help, I am afraid that it will be lost." ”

Dong Zhuo looked around at the generals in the hall and said quickly: "Bishui Pass is in an emergency, who can lead the army to the rescue?" ”

Dong Zhuoyi's son Lu Bu came out of the queue and said loudly: "The child is willing to go." ”

Lu Bu's voice fell, and Hua Xiong came out and said loudly: "It's just a thief, why do you need to lead the troops in person by General Xian, and the last general Hua Xiong swore to behead Sun Jian and returned." ”

"Kill chickens with a cattle slaughtering knife, and the young general is willing to go."

Hua Xiong's voice fell, and another young Xiao general flashed out of the ranks, Dong Zhuo looked at it, but it was Zhang Liao, the general of Lu Bu. Dong Zhuo saw that Zhang Liao was young, handsome, and heroic, and the courage of the generals under his command was commendable, and he did not retreat slightly because of the strength of the Kwantung Coalition Army, so he was overjoyed at that time and said: "Okay, take Huaxiong as the main general, Zhang Liao as the deputy, and lead 30,000 troops to aid Bishui." ”

Hua Xiong and Zhang Liao clenched their fists and said loudly: "The last general will take the order." ”

……

In April of the first year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (188).

When the princes of the Eighteenth Route met with sour dates, Ma Yue led an army of 20,000 from Linrong. After five days of rapid marching, the general Fang Yue led 5,000 vanguard light cavalry suddenly appeared under Lianxian County in the north of Beidi County, broke the city that night, and then went down to Lingzhou, and the follow-up army of Ma Yue crossed the river from Lingzhou to the west, officially opening the prelude to Ma Yue's army attacking Liangzhou.

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Longxian, Niu Fu official residence.

Today Niu Fu drank a few more cups, and when he was about to go to bed, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and then a pro-soldier broke into the door, Niu Fu was furious, and when he was about to have a seizure, the pro-soldier had already knelt on the ground, and said urgently: "General, the big thing is not good!" ”

Niu Fu forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "What's the alarm? ”

The soldiers gasped twice, and said in a condensed voice: "I just received an urgent report of 800 miles from the Taishou of Beidi County, Hetao Ma Yue suddenly sent troops to Liangzhou, Lian County and Lingzhou have fallen, and the vanguard cavalry of Ma Yue's army is less than 100 miles away from Fuping County!" Fuping County is in danger, please send troops to rescue as soon as possible! ”

"What!?" Niu Fu was taken aback, the wine was all gone, and he said in a speech, "Ma ~~ Ma Yue is really out~~ sent troops to Hetao?" ”

The soldier said: "Sure enough, the troops were dispatched." ”

Niu Fu said: "How many soldiers and horses are coming?" ”

The soldier said: "I haven't found out." ”

"What?" Niu Fu frowned and said angrily, "Order, send more horses, no matter what, find out how many troops the horse butcher has brought to attack Liangzhou!" ”

"Yes."

The soldiers agreed and took the order.

Niu Fuchang took a breath, stretched out his hand to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead, and said to himself: "Sure enough, as expected by the military division, the horse butcher really took the opportunity to attack Liangzhou, huh~~ I hope that the tricks left by the military division can once again show their might and help the general repel the horse butcher." ”

Thinking of this, Niu Fu was calm, raised his head and said loudly: "Someone is coming." ”

The two pro-soldiers entered in response, clenched their fists and said, "What does the general command?" ”

Niu Fu said: "Hurry up and invite Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu, the two generals, and say that this general has urgent matters to discuss, go quickly!" ”

"Yes."

The two pro-soldiers said yes and went their separate ways.

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Lingzhou, Ma Yue big tent.

Jia Xu pointed to the military topographic map of Liangzhou on the case, and said to Ma Yue: "If the lord wants to take Liangzhou, the safest way is to follow the strategy of first easy and then difficult to advance steadily, first attack the north, Wuwei, where Dong Zhuo's power is the weakest, and the five counties of Zhangye, Dunhuang, and Jiuquan, which are remote and sparsely populated in the north, and then gradually and step by step, capture the two counties of Anding and Hanyang one by one, and finally solve the three counties of Longxi, Jincheng and Wudu, where Dong Zhuo's power is the strongest. ”

Ma Yue pondered for a moment and asked, "Is there any other strategy besides the method of steady progress?" ”

"Yes." Jia Xu nodded and said, "In addition to steady progress, it is a surprise victory." ”

"How do you win?"

"In return, all the money, grain, and baggage of the Niu Auxiliary Army are stationed in Luoyang, north of Longxian." Jia Xu stretched out his hand and patted a place north of Longxian County heavily, and said in a condensed voice, "Our army can set up a battle in Beidi County to attract the attention of the Niu Fu army, and then the lord can personally lead the elite cavalry to attack Luoyang for thousands of miles, burning the grain and grass of the Niu Fu army in one fell swoop." ”

Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "Li Ru has always been wise, he may not have expected that our army would burn cattle and auxiliary grain and grass?" ”

"The lord's surname is like to take risks, and the world knows it, so Li Ru may have guessed that the lord's guild will send surprise soldiers to burn cattle and auxiliary grain and grass, but ~~" Jia Xu said this, and then said with a look of deceit, "If Li Ru sets up an ambush in Luoyang to calculate the lord, then he will make a mistake." ”

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Longxian, Niu Fu official residence.

Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu had already received the order, Xu Huang's eyes were like torches, but Zhang Xiu looked sleepy and yawned, obviously awakened from sleep by Niu Fu's personal soldiers.

Niu Fu said in a deep voice: "Two generals, General Ben has just received an eight-hundred-mile urgent report from the Taishou of the Northland. ”

"Oh?"

"Huh?"

Xu Huang was shocked, and Zhang Xiu's sleepiness suddenly disappeared, and the two asked in unison, "What happened?" ”

Niu Fu took a breath and said, "The horse butcher has really sent troops to Liangzhou!" ”

"What?"

Zhang Xiu was obviously taken aback.

"As expected." Xu Huang said excitedly, "Before leaving, the military advisor gave a bag to the general, and told him in person that if Liangzhou Ma Yue attacked, he could dismantle it and look at it, there was a strategy to retreat from the enemy, why didn't the general open the bag?" ”

Niu Fu said: "This is exactly what General Ben wants. ”

After that, Niu Fu solemnly took out a brocade bag from his arms, opened it in front of Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu, took out a silk book from it, opened it and read it hurriedly, and sighed: "That's the fate." ”

Zhang Xiu hurriedly said: "What did the military advisor say? ”

Niu Fu said: "The military advisor said, the horse butcher's surname is like to take risks, especially good at surprise soldiers, and win in danger, so this attack on Liangzhou is bound to try to burn my grain and grass, and the military advisor ordered me to ambush heavy soldiers in the land of Luoyang Tun grain, if the horse butcher leads the army to burn grain and grass, he will intercept and kill it, and the big thing can be determined." ”

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(To be continued)