Dong Zhuo was relieved when he heard what Li Ru meant, disagreed, and said: "Our side has won two games in a row, and the morale is high, where does the meaning of thinking about returning come from?" ”

Li Ru didn't dare to say more, and responded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, what Ming Gong said is." ”

Li Ru's words reminded Jia Xu.

Jia Xu said: "Ming Gong, Wen You's words must not be worried. ”

Dong Zhuo attached great importance to Jia Xu, and when he saw that Jia Xu also said the same, he asked, "How do you say it?" ”

"Ming Gong has been in the army for a long time, and he must know more about military affairs than me, and it is a good thing to win against thieves, but sometimes this good thing can also become a bad thing."

"You mean?"

"Huai' 'Yin' Hou broke the cauldron and sunk the boat, so the soldiers can fight to the death, and now they have won a strong enemy, and as Ming Gong said, I have eight passes for solid, strong cities for defense, and the sour jujube thieves are about to disperse, I am worried that the soldiers will be impetuous and impetuous because of these good news, and the morale of the army will be scattered 'chaos'?"

Li Ru's so-called "thinking of returning soldiers" is just a general statement, but Jia Xu starts from the hearts of the people and is reasonable.

Dong Zhuo pondered for a moment and said, "Qingyan is very true. Asked Jia Xu, "In my opinion, what should I do now?" ”

"There are no more than three ways to gather morale: one is to break the enemy, the second is to strictly enforce military discipline, and the third is to encourage them with money and goods."

"Fang has won two consecutive victories, and it is not available to break the enemy for the time being. Okay, according to the plan, I will give an order, order the three armies to strictly enforce military discipline, and divide the goods of the soldiers. ”

Although he heard Dong Zhuo say this, Jia Xu knew that when it came to "light wealth and heavy soldiers", Dong Zhuogu was well-deserved, he never spared money, and he has always been generous to the soldiers of the army, and it is precisely because of this that he can turn the army that was originally a Han soldier into his "private" soldier, so that He Jin, He Miao and other troops can be willingly attached, and only then can a fierce general like Lu Bu be willing to turn his back on the master, but it is said that "serious military discipline". But it has never been Dong Zhuo's strength. Of these last two, I'm afraid only the last one Dong Zhuo can do.

Thinking of this, Jia Xu said unconsciously: "Relying only on the 'temptation' of wealth and goods is not a long-term thing." If military discipline cannot be taken seriously, morale will soon or surely dissipate. ”

But this is also a helpless thing, and the reversal of military discipline is not an overnight force. What's more, Dong Zhuo gathered people with kindness and wealth, and he never thought about "serious military discipline" at all. In this way, we can only hope that Jizhou and Jingzhou can have civil 'chaos' as soon as possible.

Otherwise, after a long time, I am afraid that it will be really as Li Ru said, and it will be difficult for the soldiers to return and fight.

Kwantung Coalition Army and Dong Army. The two armies are facing each other, and between the enemy and us, each has its own shortcomings and strengths.

The Kwantung Coalition Army's strengths are in: the states and counties are combined, the momentum is huge, and there is the support of public opinion in Shilin.

Dong Jun's strengths are in: relying on the strong pass, the soldiers are fierce, controlling the court and the Son of Heaven, thinking that it is "righteousness".

The weakness of the Kwantung coalition was that the princes who raised the army had their own ideas, and most of them focused more on "self-interest" than "justice". Yuan Shao was only the nominal "leader of the alliance", and he could not truly unify the roads. It is impossible to command them with his arms and fingers.

Dong Jun's shortcomings are: Because he is at a disadvantage in public opinion and is "fighting away," his morale will inevitably be low if time goes by.

In this regard, the wise people in the coalition army and the Dong army can see it, so there are various statements put forward by Wen Chou, Li Ru, Jia Xu and others against the "morale" of the Dong army. But no matter what Dong Jun's "morale" will eventually be, at least for now, especially when Dong Zhuo accepted Jia Xu's suggestion and once again rewarded his soldiers, Dong Jun should still be able to maintain a relatively high fighting state in the short term. In other words, that is to say, after experiencing an attack on the side of Wen Chou, Cao Cao and other rebels, and a counterattack by Dong Zhuo, the current battle situation between the rebels and the Dong army has temporarily shifted from offense and defense to a stalemate.

After turning into a stalemate, the two sides are now competing for patience and food strength.

Dong Jun didn't say it, but the righteous army was on his side.

Wen Chou is not short of patience, because he got a large amount of grain from Kong Ling, and within a few months, he will not lack food.

But Wen Chou and Sun Jian are not lacking, it does not mean that there is no shortage of other rebels, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu may be better, after March, not long after April, the dozen or so rebel armies of Sour Zao will not be able to hold on.

First of all, in terms of food.

One is rations.

There are more than 100,000 cavalry horses and horses, people eat horses and chew, the daily use is great, it has been two or three months since the first month, the food brought by their soldiers and horses has been eaten almost by each other, and it is about to be gone, the sour jujube belongs to Chenliu County, it is Zhang Miao's territory, Chenliu County is not big, relying on the power of this county, not to say whether Zhang Miao is willing or not, even if he is willing, he can't afford to raise more than 100,000 soldiers and horses.

The other is the military uniform.

It's early summer in April, and the weather is getting hotter, but many of the rebels didn't think of bringing summer clothes when they came to sour dates, only winter clothes, February, March, or open arms, or whatever, barely able to make do, in April, this winter coat is how can not be worn, but there is no summer clothes, many soldiers are shirtless, or just wear a **, once in the camp, there are shirtless people everywhere, no military style and military appearance, not good-looking, not like an army, this state and appearance can not go to the battlefield.

The second one is patience.

Since the start of the army, the sour jujube righteous army has been stationed together for a few months, from the beginning of spring to the summer, only Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, Bao Xin went out to fight, the result was defeated, or a fiasco, Cao Cao almost wiped out the whole army, not long ago, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu each lost a battle, and it can also be called a "fiasco", Yuan Shu's loss is not small, he was killed for a while at his own door, Wang Kuang is also like Cao Cao, almost the whole army was wiped out, it has to be counted, the entire coalition army has won a few months, and Wen Chou and Sun Jian have won a few battles, but what is that victory? It doesn't affect the "big picture" at all. Wen and Sun didn't even see the gate of Yique Pass, they only went out of the county for a hundred and ten miles, and as soon as Cao Cao's side was defeated, they withdrew.

On the whole, Dong Jun seems to be "invincible", and victory is "far away", or in other words, let alone "victory".

Therefore, the dozen or so rebel armies of the sour jujube have lost their fighting spirit and have no patience to wait.

The lack of food and clothing and the lack of patience made it logical that from mid-April, the coalition forces of the sour jujube began to return to the county one after another.

In Yingchuan County, Wen Chou and Sun Jian heard the news.

When Sun Jian heard the news, he came to find Wen Chou.

"Zixiao, have you heard? The sour jujube side has withdrawn. ”

"I heard."

"More than 100,000 steps to ride, in the name of begging for thieves, will be in the sour jujube, stationed for several months, except for Cao, Zhang, Bao Sanjun, the rest of the fight, I heard that they only drink every day and high meeting, now the stars are scattered, I am really ashamed to be with them! The so-called heroes and celebrities are the laughing stock of the world. ”

Sun Jian started with military merits, and those "celebrities who sit and talk about celebrities" are fundamentally different from sour jujubes, and he is not a person all the way at all, when it comes to anger, he blushes, holds the hilt of the sword tightly, and just wants to draw his sword and come out to vent his anger. (To be continued.) )