Chapter Twenty-Three: Yuan's Door is Full of Beheadings
After Lu Bu and others withdrew their troops, Chen Lin ignored Yuan Shao at all, and was only busy catching up with Fang Yue, and kept talking about the past, so that Yuan Shao who came forward was not happy, Wang Kuang was a good person, seeing Yuan Shao's embarrassment, he hurriedly said to Chen Lin: "Chen Taishou turned out to be old friends with my Hanoi Lieutenant, hahaha, fortunately, thanks to the proper command of the alliance leader, our army can win a great victory, come to Dingguo, and meet the alliance leader." Fang Yue was helpless, smiled at Chen Lin, and turned to greet Yuan Shao. Chen Lin, Sun Jian and the others pretended to see Yuan Shao and hurriedly visited, but they originally thought that this was the end of the matter, but Sun Jian said loudly: "The alliance leader's army of more than 100,000 is here, I don't know how many people from the Dong army are coming, and how many people will the alliance leader kill?" Sun Jian remembered that there were only more than 6,000 left in the 30,000 army, so he was angry. Yuan Shao was stunned for a moment, glaring angrily, now Yuan Shu and Sun Jian are completely out of touch, because Sun Jian doesn't understand Yuan Shu's love at all, so at this time Yuan Shu sneered: "I don't know if Sun Taishou has tens of thousands of troops to fight, how about collecting it?" "Because Yuan Shu has already noticed the soldiers and horses that Sun Jian, Chen Lin and others have returned.
Yuan Shu's words really angered Chen Lin, Cao * was Yuan Shao's best friend, and he was angry in his heart, but he bowed his head and didn't speak. Chen Lin scolded sharply: "We and the three of us have less than 50,000 troops, and when we go out to fight, we encounter Dong thieves who fortify the city and treacherous schemes, and fight for life and death with national thieves in front. Even if we die in battle at the front, we are not much better than you and other deceitful and famous-stealing people. Chen Lin originally didn't want to offend, but when he thought of the dead Hanzhong sergeant, Chen Lin was furious. The crowd was speechless by Chen Lin's words, Sun Jian laughed and pulled Chen Lin up: "Happy, go, Bozhi, go back and drink with someone, the province is upset here." After speaking, regardless of the alliance leader's face, Chen Lin also left quickly, and Cao * was embarrassed. Cao * This time nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, at this time there were less than 3,000 left, sighed, dejected and left, Cao * did not say goodbye to anyone that night, and led the remnants of the Xiahou brothers and others to Yangzhou, continue to recruit troops, hoping to fight again.
Sun Jian and Chen Lin scolded happily, but as soon as Chen Lin turned around, he was worried, the allied army's grain hoarding was said to have been burned in large parts, and now it is like this with Yuan Shao, where will the Hanzhong army go. At dawn the next day, Huang Yan rushed in and said very happily: "The eldest young master, the second young master is back." Chen Lin hurriedly rushed out, seeing that Chen Ze and Gao Shun had returned safely, Chen Ze told Chen Lin and the others about his encounter, Jia Xu exhaled and said: "It's so dangerous, it's so dangerous, fortunately, the second general and Gao Duwei didn't meet the retreating Lu Fengxian." Chen Lin remembered that Lu Bu happened to retreat from here last night, and he couldn't help but shout happily. Gao Shun Chen Ze returned, Chen Lin's heart was somewhat stable, and now Chen Lin and Sun Jian are the same, with more than 6,000 soldiers and horses. Chen Lin hurriedly went to find Sun Jian, hoping to discuss with Sun Jian what to do in the future. Just as Chen Lin was meeting with Sun Jian, he suddenly heard the scout running in and saying: "The alliance leader is marching in a big way, and more than 100,000 allied troops are advancing out of the camp, and they are going to Zhongmu and other counties to attack and kill." ”
Chen Lin and Sun Jian were shocked, this Yuan Shao has changed sex? When I asked, I was even more surprised, it turned out that Dong Zhuo beheaded the Yuan family, and there were more than 1,000 Yuan clansmen in Luoyang, and none of them remained.
Luoyang is now a turmoil, since Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, Luoyang has not had a quiet day, Dong Zhuo connived at his subordinates to loot in Luoyang every day, and the people panicked and panicked every day. At this time, there was a person in Luoyang, it was Sir Wu Kuang, the general of He Jin's department, after He Jin's death, Wu Kuang and Dong Jun killed He Miao, because He Miao had always confronted He Jin, and Wu Kuang was deeply disgusted. After a series of events happened in Luoyang, Wu Kuang became an ordinary lieutenant under Dong Zhuo at this time, with 1,200 subordinates, most of whom were rare subordinates back then. In the entire Dazhou, most of the armies that can fight well have been exhausted in the chaos of the Han Dynasty, and even the most elite Sili army is not one out of ten. Although Wu Kuang now leads more than 1,000 people, these Luoyang's original troops are neither Dong Zhuo's old troops, nor are they as deeply loved by Dong Zhuo as the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, so life is extremely bad.
Today, the whole Luoyang is talking about the killing of the Yuan family, Wu Kuang Yu returned to the barracks, thinking of his son Wu Ban in Hanzhong, Wu Kuang was somewhat relieved, fortunately Wu Ban was sent to Chen Lin back then, it is said that he has now become a deputy general, if it is not that Hanzhong is too small, I am afraid that Wu Ban is now a captain, and he is only a captain after so many years. Dong Zhuo's Wu Kuang is extremely disgusted, but what can he do, now in Luoyang, he can't even guard the city gate, it seems that these more than 1,000 subordinates will be taken over by Dong Zhuo sooner or later. Wu Kuang is unwilling, it is said that the Hanzhong Army is the second shepherd after Sun Jian to express his desire for Dong, I don't know what is going on now, is it outside the Bishui Pass. Wu Kuang thought about it, no, he had to find a way to leave Luoyang, remembering that Chen Lin's mentor was Yang Ci back then, and now Yang Ci's son Yang Biao is very close to Dong Zhuo, so it is better to visit Yang Biao.
At this time, Dong Zhuo in the palace was furious with Li Ru: "If you kill it, you will kill it, what's the matter, if his Yuan family gathers troops against him, he can kill his whole family." "It turned out that the matter of beheading the Yuan family was Dong Zhuo's whim, and he didn't discuss it with Li Ru. Li Ru was shocked when he learned about it, because not to mention the status of the Yuan clan in the Han Dynasty, it is reported that the reason why the Guanqian army is not moving forward now has a lot to do with the reason why the Yuan clan is in Luoyang. Presumably, the Allies will attack in a big way soon, and this time Hu Zhen will definitely not be so easy, so it is better to quickly withdraw Hu Zhen to Bishui Pass, and defend it with such a Xiong Pass, so as not to be cut off by the Allies Hu Zhen's retreat.
In fact, the reason why Dong Zhuo ordered the killing of the Yuan family was related to the anonymous letters he had been receiving all the time, and he didn't know who wrote those letters, he always said something about what the Yuan family wanted to do inside and out, and so on. But Dong Zhuo couldn't allow Li Ru to question him, so he started a fire, and after smashing it all indiscriminately, Dong Zhuo was quiet. shouted to Li Ru: "Anyway, what should I do now? Li Ru remembered his previous attitude towards Dong Zhuo, and he was a little afraid, and only Li Ru had died if he had been replaced by someone else. At this time, seeing that Dong Zhuo was quiet, he took the initiative to ask himself, Li Ru didn't dare to ask about the Yuan family, and what he had to do now was to remedy it. So Li Ru: "My lord, Yuan Benchu will definitely command the Kwantung anti-thieves to attack, Confucianism thinks that Wencai should retreat to Bishui Pass, so as not to be cut off from retreat, and then Wencai will lose contact with our army in Kanto, and the grain and grass will be cut off, which is not good, so Confucianism thinks that Wencai should retreat to Bishui Pass." ”
Dong Zhuo Husheng said: "I don't know how Feng Xian's trip went, Wen Cai has already replied that he failed to kill Sun Wentai, and hopes that Feng Xian can gain something." As soon as Dong Zhuo finished speaking, there was a report: "Report, Wen Hou led his troops to attack the anti-thieves, won a complete victory, killed more than ten enemy generals, beheaded 20,000 people, burned countless grains and grass, and now Wen Hou is leading the army back to Luoyang." Dong Zhuo laughed and shouted that Feng Xian lived up to a certain one. Li Ru hurriedly said: "How can the people valued by the lord be lost, at this time, the Kwantung Army was defeated, and it happened that Wen Cai retreated, the lord." ”
Dong Zhuo also didn't care about the counties outside Bishui Pass, and he didn't want to leave too many soldiers and horses there, so after thinking about it for a while, he decided to agree to Li Ru's proposal and transfer Hu Zhen back: "Okay, then call Wencai back, send Li Wangyuan to temporarily guard Bishui Pass, and Wencai will go back to Luoyang to talk to a certain person." Li Ru knew that Dong Zhuo was like this to his subordinate generals, which was why many of Dong Zhuo's old subordinates were very close to Dong Zhuo. Li Ru thought about it, even if Yuan Shao and others entered the army, and Li Meng was in Bishui Pass, there should be no problem, and Hu Zhen came back, not with the troops, but quickly and alone to come back to report on his work.
Chen Lin and the others were surprised when they heard that Yuan Shao had entered the army. Jia Xu gently pulled Chen Lin, only Chen Lin felt it, and knew that Jia Xu had something to say to himself, so he said to Sun Jian under the pretext: "Wentai, go back to the camp first, it's good to be prepared." So he left Sun Jian, and on the way Chen Lin: "Wenhe, do you have something to say?" Jia Xu said: "My lord, I expect that this attack of the alliance leader will definitely succeed." Chen Lin sighed and asked curiously: "Why?" ”
Jia Xu: "If what Xu thinks is good, then Dong Thief must have withdrawn his troops back to Luoyang, because Yuan's family was beheaded, Yuan Benchu must be angry, even if it is done to the world, Yuan Benchu can only attack violently." Therefore, as long as Dong Thief is not stupid, he must not be willing to fight with Yuan Benchu after Bishui Pass, but will retreat to a Xiongguan like Bishui Pass. ”
Chen Lin: "Since it was Hu Wencai who was going to withdraw his troops, why did Wen He no longer say it in front of Wentai, and still carry Wentai on his back?" Jia Xu smiled: "Lord, now that our army is far away from Hanzhong, the grain and grass are not enough, and most of the grain and grass of the allied army have been burned, our army will be difficult in the future. ”
Chen Lin looked at Jia Xu in horror, this Jia Xu was too unkind, even an ally like Sun Jian was hidden, but Chen Lin knew that what Jia Xu said was the truth, and Jia Xu was doing everything for his own good. Chen Lin: "Can this work?" Jia Xu smiled: "Our army and my cavalry, there are only a few people in the allied army, but they are absolutely reluctant to send them out, so they can do it." "The cavalry arrived at the three cities before Yuan Shao, and only if the three counties were really withdrawn as Jia Xu said, Chen Lin could take a city alone, otherwise more than a thousand cavalry would go out, but it would be more than auspicious, thinking of Lu Bu's previous 20,000 cavalry.
After thinking for a long time, Chen Lin gritted his teeth and shouted, "Okay, call Zhong to come." ”