In the big tent, Dong Zhuo, the general of the Jizhou crusade army, was studying the tactics of the decisive battle on a sheepskin map with detailed information about the terrain, rivers, and cities in Jizhou. Around him, surrounded by many officers of intermediate and higher levels. Among them, there are three people who have reached the level of "more than 2,000 stones".

"There are so many moth thieves! In a head-to-head battle, even if you win, you are afraid that you will kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 ......."

Although Dong Zhuo had previously informed the generals of the decision that he had to fight in the near future, the sect member who served as the "Protector of Wuhuan Zhonglang General" still vaguely expressed his dissatisfaction from time to time when discussing tactics.

However, relying on his deep qualifications and high official position, the sect member dared to secretly express his dissatisfaction in front of him. The other generals in the tent basically don't have the courage to do so.

Through months of fighting in Jizhou, Dong Zhuo has fully demonstrated the fierceness and wildness of him and his subordinates as Liangzhou people. This kind of ferocity that has been tempered in decades of Qiang chaos is not at all something that the people of Kanto who have been peaceful for a long time can resist.

For example, the infantry captains and shooting captains from the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty are all noble children from clans and families, and their official positions are only slightly lower than Dong Zhuo. In private, the two often refer to these Liangzhou iron horsemen as "hillbillies" with contempt. However, on the bright side, the two children of the family were respectful to Dong Zhuo and would never offend him in person. Who knows how those Liangzhou barbarians, who can quench their thirst with the blood of the enemy in battle, will deal with those who go against their will.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything.

An extremely handsome and sturdy man didn't even look at Dong Zhuo's expression, and loudly echoed the words of the sect member.

"Zhang Jiao not only has a lot of soldiers, but also is good at Taoism, which is by no means an easy person. General Dong Lang, a cavalryman under a certain command, is good at riding and shooting, but he is not suitable for conflict military formations. If the army goes into battle, if it wants to forcibly break into the moth thief army formation, don't count a certain family's 'White Horse Righteous Cong' into it! ”

Dong Zhuo's face changed, and he said unhappily:

"Gongsun Changshi is afraid?"

The handsome man sneered:

"Heh, even if a certain Gongsun Chan faced several times the Xianbei Jingqi, he never frowned. These moths, who were born farmers and are not used to wielding knives and guns, are worthy of fear? ”

He paused, glanced around the generals with his eyes, and then said:

"A certain family is just a pity for Master Lu's efforts."

"Nonsense! Come, drive him out of the tent for me!" ”

Dong Zhuo was angry by Gongsun Zhan's words, blowing his beard and glaring at him. With a vigorous clapping of his hands, he wanted to let the soldiers outside the tent drive this stunned young man who was full of disbelief out of the big tent.

In fact, although Dong Zhuo behaved like this on the surface, he still had a good impression of Gongsun Zan in his heart.

Not to mention anything else, everyone is from the border area, and they are all from the border to defend the frontier of the Han Dynasty, and they have been fighting bloody battles with the surrounding barbarians all year round. Although everyone belonged to different states and counties, from this point of view, they were peers, or in the words of later generations, to put it more in detail, the same interest group that was collectively called "warriors" in the Han dynasty.

Moreover, Gongsun Chan is known for respecting his teachers and superiors. After all, his teacher Lu Zhi had just been dismissed from his post and sent to prison, and it would be strange if Gongsun Chan didn't show such a reaction. With these backgrounds, Dong Zhuo really has nothing to be angry about Gongsun Zhan's provocation. Just to maintain his prestige in the army, Dong Zhuo rushed to catch up without the slightest hesitation.

Moreover, Dong Zhuo's henchmen in the army also faintly heard a rumor in the army, saying that he Dong Zhuo was jealous of Lu Zhi's great achievement in exterminating the Yellow Turban Army, and vigorously provoked in front of Zuo Feng, the little yellow gate, which made Zuo Feng target Lu Zhi and ask for bribes.

This rumor is vicious, and from the bright side, the biggest beneficiary of Lu Zhi's imprisonment is Dong Zhuo, who is a deputy general. Therefore, Lu Zhiyan, like Gongsun Zhan, even if he doesn't fully believe this rumor, is at least half-convinced.

To put it mildly, Gongsun Zhan's behavior is not bad. Liu Bei, another student of Lu Zhi, slipped away without saying a word when Dong Zhuo had just taken over the position of chief general. This is the real act of not giving a little face!

However, whether it is Liu Bei, who has already slipped away, or Gongsun Zhan, who stayed behind and did not contribute to the work, they all belong to the "volunteers" who volunteered to come to help. These "volunteers" who do not receive the Han family's salaries belong to the models of filial piety that need to be vigorously commended by the imperial court, and from a moral point of view alone, Dong Zhuo really can't do anything with them.

Of course, if you compare the strength, that's another matter. As long as Dong Zhuo doesn't care about his reputation at all, he can still cure the sins of these volunteers. But for Dong Zhuo, this approach is completely worth the loss.

"No need to call someone!"

was expelled by Dong Zhuo's order, and Gongsun Chan did not do anything drastic. He just snorted coldly from his nostrils, and under the gaze of the generals in the big tent, he turned around and left with an expressionless face. This scene made a few generals who were thinking of watching the excitement, such as the captain of the shooting sound, a little surprised.

Gongsun Chan is just an angry young man, not a fool.

Dong Zhuo's position as the general of Dongzhong Lang is nothing important. As the long history of the border county, Gongsun Chan is also an important official with a rank of 600 stones. With a complaint, Dong Zhuo, who was only two thousand stones, couldn't cure his crime.

However, don't forget, Dong Zhuo, as the chief general of the Jizhou Crusade Army, also has a title, but he is "holding the festival"!

The so-called "festival" represents the identity of the emperor. Any envoy who holds a "festival" represents the emperor in person, symbolizing the emperor and the state, and can exercise rights. For example, the feudal princes were divided, the criminals were arrested, the rebellion was suppressed, the envoys to foreign countries were sent to foreign countries, and the peace was signed and negotiated by the festival.

As a general who "holds the festival", it means that Dong Zhuo can kill people without official positions in peacetime, and can kill officials below 2,000 stone in wartime. If Gongsun Chan doesn't know what to do and makes trouble in the big tent, it will certainly make Dong Zhuo very faceless. But Dong Zhuo was annoyed, if he really wanted to kill Gongsun Zhan, then it would be Gongsun Zhan's turn to be unlucky!

Waiting for Gongsun Zhan, who was angry, calmly walked out of the big tent, Dong Zhuo took the momentum of successfully driving away Gongsun Zhan, glanced around at the generals, and shouted:

"But do you have a different opinion?"

The generals looked at each other a few times. At this moment, even the deputy general sect member did not make a different sound.

- Let's fight!

Carefully speaking, in the 400 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the Han army has experienced countless battles of slaughtering cities and destroying the country. Even the Huns, who once dominated the northern desert steppes and whose territory was no less than that of the Han Dynasty, were beaten into an obedient watchdog by the Han army, and they stayed honestly in Xihe County, Bingzhou. A mere bunch of moth thieves is not worth fearing everyone.

An important reason why Lu Zhi, the former commander of the Jizhou Crusade Army, refused to fight before was that he didn't want his subordinates to suffer too many casualties. After all, in the composition of the Jizhou Han Army, the proportion of Lu Zhi's disciples and protégés is not low. From Lu Zhi's standpoint, how to keep these disciples and protégés as much as possible and obtain enough merit is a little more important than destroying Zhang Jiao as soon as possible.

However, Dong Zhuo, who is from Liangzhou, does not have as many concerns as Lu Zhi. Anyway, it's not his own lineage, and it doesn't matter to him to die more or less. Not only that, even if Dong Zhuo himself personally led half of his soldiers lost half of the battle, as long as he returned to Bingzhou and issued a conscription notice, he would be able to gather more warriors. Anyway, the money spent on conscription is not Dong Zhuo's own, and for the people of Liangzhou, the best way out for them is to mix a military salary in the Han court.

Of course, Dong Zhuo will not let his subordinates die in vain.

Seeing that the generals did not disagree, Dong Zhuo began to arrange the battle tasks to the generals with satisfaction.

At present, the total strength of the Jizhou crusading army is about 40,000, and it is claimed to be 120,000 to the outside world. This kind of claim is a convention, and it is not Dong Zhuo's deliberate boasting.

Among them, based on the "infantry battalion" and "shooting sound battalion" of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, a large number of "good family sons" in the Sili area were temporarily recruited to form an army of about 10,000 imperial courts, which was the main force of the crusading army. The rest of the auxiliary combat units include more than 2,000 Liangzhou iron cavalry brought by Dong Zhuo from Xiliang, and a division of Jizhou Prefecture, about 1,000 county soldiers.

These troops, which add up to 16,000 men, are the ones that can truly be called the "Han Army". As for the remaining 20,000 or so close to 30,000 people, most of them are local powerful private soldiers, and the other half are volunteers from all over Jizhou who have gathered spontaneously.

As a veteran general in the Han army, Dong Zhuo expressed his disdain for the combat effectiveness of the powerful private soldiers and volunteers in these days.

Among them, Haoqiang's private soldiers are also so-so. Although they are poorly trained, equipped with little armor, and not have enough weapons, they have high morale in order to defend their homeland. If it is a fight, it is normal to defeat the Yellow Turban Army with the same number of people.

However, those so-called volunteers really made Dong Zhuo look down on them.

It is said that the weapons and equipment of these volunteers are much better than those of the powerful private soldiers, and the combat skills and experience are also more powerful, and there are many warriors of the "ten kills" and "one hundred beheadings". From the point of view of military level alone, they are at least much stronger than the powerful private soldiers.

However, after gaining an in-depth understanding of the details of these volunteers, Dong Zhuo would never dare to send these guys to a large-scale battlefield.