Since the death of Huangfu Gui, the death of Zhang Huan, and the death of Duan Cheng in prison, the famous "Liangzhou Sanming" ended their decades-long era, and the status of the military and even the warriors has plummeted.

Even if He Jin and He Miao brothers later joined the military, they were still not favored, at least in the eyes of civilian officials, the era of the military's martial calves showing off their might is over.

But as the saying goes, there is never a shortage of talented heroes in the world, and the successive rebellions in various parts of the country, or the invasion of foreign nations taking advantage of the weakness of the Han Dynasty, or the outbreak of the "Yellow Peril" that shocked the whole world last year, made many talents step on the big stage of the world one after another.

Huangfu Song, Gongsun Zhan, Sun Jian, Dong Zhuo, Ding Yuan, Cao Cao, Bao Xin, Liu Bei, etc., plus the already well-known such as Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Liu Fu, Liu Biao, etc., it is foreseeable that the talents who have the ability to take charge of the military authority of the Han Dynasty in the future are rapidly emerging and growing.

During this gap between the two eras, Zhang Wen filled the vacancy of the military's current lack of heavyweights as the former lieutenant.

Che cavalry general Zhang Wen, this veteran is actually not a famous general, the force value is mediocre, and the strategy is mediocre, not to mention that it can be compared with "Liangzhou Sanming".

But Zhang Wen is very peaceful, sleek, although indecisive but also gentle and polite, plus he has a good relationship with the civil official circle, and was first recommended and promoted by Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng, which makes Zhang Wen can get a lot of support among the military, the civilian circle and the eunuch group, which is an excellent conciliator.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the Han court introduced this veteran to temporarily serve as the second-in-command of the military.

But the problem also comes, the highest achievement Zhang Wen has achieved is only the captain of Si Li. What does Captain Sili do? In the simplest way, Sili Xiaowei is a supervision agency like the Ming Dynasty's East and West Factories and Jinyiwei, but its authority is far more than that of the latter two.

The lieutenant has the right to supervise, impeach, and dispose of any matter that is unfavorable to the Han Dynasty. This included questioning the imperial court's statecraft, impeaching the courtiers, and supervising the Jingshi as well as the localities. What's more critical is that it has a direct army, and its scope of authority covers Yushitai and the "Three Lieutenants", and it is the nominal boss of the Third Lieutenant, not only responsible for the people's livelihood like Jing Zhaoyin.

Si Li's lieutenant, Shang Shuling, and prime minister, these are the three most special official positions in this era, and their powers are incredibly large for various reasons. There is no need to say much about the prime minister; The Shangshu order of the Xun Yu era was almost his hall, and in Cao Cao's absence, he was in charge of everything, and the three princes and nine kings almost became decorations; And the lieutenant Si Li was once above the military. The dignity is even above the three princes and nine kings, and in the end, the stall is getting bigger and bigger, Cao Cao has no choice but to be in charge by himself, the prime minister and the lieutenant of the department, which is ridiculous and inevitably frightening.

To put it mildly, that is, Zhang Wen, who has special interpersonal relationships and special opportunities, can make the military, civilian officials, and eunuchs all acquiesce to this matter. Of course, the most critical reason is that Zhang Wen has no ambitions, and he is relatively easy to be persuaded or manipulated.

And this time, he was pushed out by the imperial court to be the commander of the Western Army. Zhang Wen also knew that the imperial court was forced to be helpless, and Huangfu Song was the best candidate, but who would have thought that this guy didn't know which tendon was wrong, and he would not send troops to aid Dong Zhuo.

Now it's all right. The Son of Heaven was furious, and Zhang Wen was helplessly arrested by the imperial court.

However, Zhang Wen also knew his ability, so he immediately asked for assistance after accepting the appointment of Liu Hong, the son of heaven. Although he is not very good at fighting. But as long as his subordinates are good at leading troops in battle, there is not much difference between the two.

No, several generals who were very capable in Zhang Wen's opinion were temporarily arrested by him. He was unilaterally added to the squad.

In mid-August, Dong Zhuo received an order from the imperial court and rushed to Meiyang with Zhang Huang and three hundred close cavalry guards day and night. He didn't take Li Ru with him, firstly, Li Ru was a civil official after all, and he couldn't bear to travel day and night; Second, Dong Zhuo needs someone to stay in the south of Longxi County, Li Ru and Duan Xuan are both literate and martial, even if Dong Zhuo is not in Longxi, there should be no difference; As for the third point, after all, Dong Zhuo is the master who does not see the rabbit and does not scatter the eagle, the reason why the Longxi army suffered serious losses before was because it was plotted by Huangfu Song, and had to fight with Han Sui, and now Zhang Wen has carried the banner of the Xiliang rebels, if he does not take the opportunity to ask for some benefits, Dong Zhuo will definitely not send the Longxi army. Of course, the biggest reason is that the morale of the Longxi Army is generally low, and it will take a certain amount of time to recover its combat strength. This will be the best evidence for Dong Zhuo to deal with the criticism of the imperial court and his colleagues.

On the day Dong Zhuo arrived at the Meiyang military camp, Zhang Wen ordered a banquet to be held in the handsome tent to wash the dust for Dong Zhuo. Although because of the discipline in the army, he had to replace wine with tea, which made this reception banquet a little less interesting, but it could be seen that Zhang Wen valued Dong Zhuo very much and tried his best to win him over.

Later, Zhang Huang learned that Dong Zhuo rose up in the period when Huangfu Gui served as the captain of the Qiang Guard, and served as the military Sima in Zhang Huan's morale as the captain of the Qiang Guard, to put it bluntly, this guy is a soldier under the two consecutive bigwigs in the "Liangzhou Sanming", and his qualifications in the military are very old, so it is no wonder that even Sun Jian had to retreat.

If it weren't for Dong Zhuo's great ambition and straightforward personality that offended many civil officials, otherwise, with his qualifications, it could be said that he was waiting for promotion. Compared with him, Sun Jian can only be regarded as a newcomer, and only Huangfu Song, who is from a famous family, can overpower Dong Zhuo.

During the banquet, Zhang Huang pretended to be one of Dong Zhuo's guards and stood behind him.

Originally, Zhang Huang would not accept this kind of drudgery that could only watch others suffer, but who asked Zhang Wen to invite Huangfu Song and Sun Jian?

Huangfu Song, that is the famous Han general that Zhang Huang wants to see the truth the most so far, he wants to see if this guy has three heads and six arms, otherwise, how can he defeat the Yellow Turban Army under his command one by one in such a short time.

As for Sun Jian, it is Zhang Huang's old acquaintance, and the grievances between the two are very complicated, and they will really not be clear for a while.

In addition to these two, there was also the Dangkou general Zhou Shen in the seat. The rest, the new Qiang Lieutenant Xia Yu and Hanyang County Magistrate Shi Gaixun were trapped in Jincheng County, the new Liangzhou Assassin Shi Geng was struggling to defend in the broken Hanyang County, and most of the Hanyang County Taishou Fu Xie, who went to take up his post, had only arrived in Hanyang County not long ago, and was working hard to restore the combat effectiveness of the local officials and troops.

Because of the fact that Jincheng, Hanyang, and Youfufeng almost all fell, Zhang Wen did not rashly recall these four people.

At this meal, the atmosphere was very strange since everyone sat down. Even a fool can see the disagreement between Dong Zhuo, Huangfu Song, and Sun Jian.

"Won't Zhang Shuai introduce me?"

Dong Zhuo sneered wickedly, although it seemed that he wanted Zhang Wen to introduce the new face of Dangkou General Zhou Shen, but in fact, he was staring at Huangfu Song from beginning to end with a sneer and a mocking look on his face.

Dong Zhuo's dissatisfaction Zhang Wen knew it, anyone who fought alone, fighting with an army several times his own, and the friendly army did not come to the rescue for a long time, he would be indignant in his heart.

"This is Lord Zhou Shenzhou, the general of the Dangkou!" Zhang Wen introduced to Dong Zhuo.

Afterwards, Zhang Huang learned from Dong Zhuo that the general Zhou Shen was also a great figure, and he served in the Southern Army and the Northern Army successively when he was over forty years old. After guarding the palace gate and going north to block the invasion of the territory and looting, he is one of the few generals in the military who can carry the flag.

However, in recent years, due to the proximity to the great general He Jin, although the military power has become more and more stable, it has also been resisted by many generals and colonies of the Northern Army. You must know that although they belong to the same military, the northern army and the southern army have always been independent of the system, and they are not the same way as the generals who are in charge of the world's soldiers and horses.

According to rumors, the general He Jin also noticed that the prestige of the current northern and southern armies was gradually declining, so he wanted to try to win over these two armies to stabilize his position. Because of this. Or someone hints that He Jin wants to be the second Huo Guang, or even Wang Mang.

Although these are just hearsay rumors, it can be seen that the status and prestige of the current northern and southern armies are declining day by day. Many people jokingly claim that the Yugoslav Army has become a guard of honor. In addition to looking good, it is vulnerable, embroidered pillows, empty shelves; As for the Northern Army, since Dong Zhuo colluded with Zhang Huang to bury most of the strength of this army during the Battle of Jizhou, the great Northern Army of the Han Dynasty has long existed in name only. Only the cantonment cavalry battalion still retains its combat effectiveness.

In addition, Zhang Huang Ke has seen Dong Zhuo and Bao Hong, the captain of the Tun Cavalry, hook up and drink on their backs, and he has also seen Dong Zhuo spare no effort to use wealth to win over the generals and soldiers of the Tun Cavalry Battalion. In the future, whether this heavy cavalry will be biased towards the imperial court or Dong Zhuo is still unknown.

"Although Dong is the first time to see the dignity of Zhou Dangkou, he has also heard about General Zhou's great achievements, this time the general is the deputy general, Zhang Shuai must be at ease!"

After Zhang Wen's introduction, Dong Zhuo took the lead in toasting Zhou Shen with enthusiasm. Zhou Shen is Zhang Wen's deputy general, in a sense, he is the deputy marshal, and he wants to come to the court because he is worried that something will go wrong with Zhang Wen, an old man who has basically never fought any battles, so he transferred Zhou Shen, an experienced veteran, to assist him.

"Dong Poyu's words are serious." Zhou Shen's reaction was very cold, after all, although Dong Zhuo was old, his reputation was very poor. Even Dong Zhuo's former boss Zhang Huan tried all kinds of persuasion for Dong Zhuo's ambition to no avail, and he parted ways and drew a line with Dong Zhuo, the proud general, not to mention other military people. The Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, who doesn't know that Dong Zhuo is a cunning and cruel evil Jiao, peeping at the supreme authority anytime and anywhere?

Dong Zhuo didn't care about Zhou Shen's cold attitude, because he didn't look down on Zhou Shen very much in his heart. This time, if he didn't want to fall into the face of Huangfu Song, he wouldn't have bothered to talk nonsense with this kind of old guy.

"What about these two?"

Seeing this, Dong Zhuo looked at Huangfu Song and Sun Jian with a smile, and compared to the latter, his eyes fell on Huangfu Song for a longer time. Obviously, Dong Zhuo planned to take revenge on Huangfu Song for plotting against him.

"This is Jiangdong's Junjie, Sun Jian, Sun Wentai, a meritorious person who crusaded against the 'Yellow Peril', and is currently serving in the military." Zhang Wen didn't seem to know that in fact, Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo had a conflict because of Zhang Huang as early as when they were in Luoyang.

"Yizhen, you know." Zhang Wen pointed at Huangfu Song.

"Huangfu is really righteous!" Dong Zhuo sneered wickedly, and the corners of his mouth were full of sarcasm: "Lord Huangfu, the general of the left car, how can Dong not know him?" ”

Huangfu Song's face tightened when he heard this, how could he not know that Dong Zhuo was deliberately ridiculing him? But it is undeniable that the cultivation of the famous children of the Tiger General family is excellent, although there was a trace of unswerving in his eyes, but he did not quarrel with Dong Zhuo, but said lightly, "That is in the past, the contemptible person is just a white body now." ”

White body, that is, no official position, commoner.

"Oh?" Dong Zhuo's face was full of surprise. Pretending to be puzzled, he asked, "Why was Brother Yizhen stripped of his official position?" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a young general behind Huang Fu Song with an angry face, the saber in his hand for Huang Fu Song was withdrawn a few points, and his tone was cold and he scolded through gritted teeth: "Dong Zhongying! Don't deceive people too much! ”

This young general is Huangfu Song's nephew Huangfu Li, the future pillar of the Huangfu family.

It can be seen that Huangfu Li's strength is extraordinary, and due to his anger, it can be vaguely seen that the thin mist around him is rolling, and the cold is pressing.

Huangfu Li's attack. made Zhang Huang a little helpless. He originally just wanted to watch a lively scene, but now that Huangfu Li has shown strong hostility towards Dong Zhuo, how can he, who is dressed as Dong Zhuo's guard, stay out of the matter?

How can there be a lord who is humiliated and guards or does not care?

As a last resort, Zhang Huang had no choice but to show a little breath. Several big people in the tent only felt a strong oppressive force attacking, and suddenly, the momentum leaked by Emperor Fu Li was completely pushed back.

Who is this?!!

Several big people who sensed that the situation was different looked at Zhang Huang in surprise.

Everyone knows that Huangfu Li is a family handsome man carefully cultivated by Huangfu Song, although he is young, his strength is extraordinary, and now. A little-known little guy beside Dong Zhuo actually completely overwhelmed Huangfu Li in terms of momentum, which is simply incredible!

Huangfu Song looked at Zhang Huang deeply for a while, and then scolded his nephew: "Shouting and screaming, what kind of system is it?" Do you have a part to say here? Retire! ”

He seemed to be teaching Huangfu Li a lesson. But in fact, he had secretly used his breath to block the coercion from Zhang Huang for Huangfu Li.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo, who also realized that the situation was a little bad, also turned around and signaled to Zhang Huang, knowing that Zhang Huang's true identity was not visible.

Zhang Huang retracted the coercion with interest. But he was a little puzzled in his heart, because the pressure brought to him by Huangfu Song was not unbearable, and this pressure was far weaker than that of Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo.

Could it be that Emperor Fu Songqiang is in the military strategy?

Zhang Huang was a little surprised.

But in fact. Huangfu Song was not a fierce general who was known for his military strength, and the "fierceness" of his use of soldiers was that he was proficient in strategy and military formation, and he was the same type as Xu Rong under Dong Zhuo.

"There is always no shortage of talents on Dong Poyu's side." Huangfu Song said lightly, it is not difficult to see his appreciation for Zhang Huang, after all, he has never seen a person of this age who can completely suppress his nephew Huangfu Li with the use of momentum alone, once such a handsome man is cultivated, he will be a pillar and a hero in the future.

"Hahaha!" Dong Zhuo patted Zhang Huang on the shoulder and introduced with a smile, "This son is called Zhang Xiu, and he is the nephew of a general under Dong's command. When he first saw him, Dong was also shocked! ”

It may be that Dong Zhuo has a weak heart, lest Zhang Huang's true identity be discovered by Huangfu Song or Sun Jian, so he has no intention of worrying about Huangfu Song anymore, anyway, he has already ridiculed Huang Fu Song. Moreover, Huangfu Song had already paid the price for his refusal to send troops to rescue.

"Zhang Xiu......"

Sun Jian muttered, his sharp eyes looking Zhang Huang up and down. He felt that this young man was a little familiar, but when he looked closely, he felt that it was different from the person he remembered.

Sun Jian didn't know that this was Zhang Huang's trick on his face in advance, although he was surprised by Zhang Huang's strength in his heart, he didn't make any speculation, but he was simply reminded of the memories in his heart.

The kid surnamed Zhang, who was also surnamed Zhang, and fought side by side with him Sun Jian in an army, but later had to kill Sun Jian because of his different positions.

"I don't know how that kid is ...... now"

Sun Jian muttered in a low voice, and Gu Zi raised his glass and drank a cup of stuffy tea.

He was not well-informed, and he would never have known that the kid who escaped from under him in Luoyang was the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, the "Little Heavenly Master" Zhang Baiqi, who later almost wiped out the entire Northern Army. I also don't know that this kid is now under the pseudonym Zhang Xiu and standing under his nose.

Glancing at Dong Zhuo and then at Zhang Huang, who was alias Zhang Xiu, Sun Jian shook his head imperceptibly.

In his opinion, "Zhang Xiu" is indeed a rare young handsome, but with Dong Zhuo such an evil head, how can he learn well?

But he was in no mood to pay attention to it, because he still had a thorn in his heart, a thorn called "Zhang Huang".

Sun Wentai......

Zhang Huang looked at Sun Jian's gloom for some reason, and some complicated emotions of unknown reason surged in his heart, he instinctively felt that Sun Jian's loss and gloom at the moment might have something to do with him.

"Okay, okay, it's not too early, everyone eats."

Zhang Wen is a sleek character, seeing that the-for-tat between Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song inexplicably melted and dissolved, although he didn't understand what the reason was, he also knew how to take the opportunity to round the field.

You must know that Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song, including Sun Jian, who is gloomy at the moment, are the pillars of the country that he is trying his best to win over. Although it is said that Dong Zhuo may have wolf ambitions, there are two Huangfu Song and Sun Jian pressing him, which is enough.

The atmosphere in the tent gradually improved, but when Zhang Wen asked how to deal with the more than 100,000 fierce Qiang soldiers under the command of Bian Zhang and Han Sui, the atmosphere inevitably became strange.

Because as we all know, the reason why the war situation has become so erosive is that Huang Fu Song refused to send troops to support Dong Zhuo, and if you want to get to the root of why Huang Fu Song did this, it can only be said that Dong Zhuo is not a good thing, and his strategy of leading the way to the east can not hide from those bright-eyed courtiers in the court?

The reason why Huang Fu Song was only stripped of his official position and not imprisoned in the prison is nothing more than that the courtiers know that Huang Fu Song is not deliberately embarrassed by Dong Zhuo because of personal grudges, but is just afraid that Dong Zhuo will support his own army and hide ghosts.

If it weren't for the fact that Huangfu Song had offended the eunuchs because he refused to pay bribes, he would not have ended up like this, after all, there were many Wenchen Wu who knew his personality and would intercede for him.

Huangfu Song's only mistake was to misestimate Han Sui's ability, who called Han Sui was just famous in the local area, but he served as a petty official like this.

"I hope that you will join hands and work together to retreat the invading Qiang soldiers, so as to live up to the important tasks entrusted by Your Majesty and the imperial court!"

Zhang Wen encouraged at the end of the banquet.

Working together? Retired Qiang soldiers?

Zhang Huang quietly glanced at the few people in the banquet, Zhou Shen with an arrogant face, Dong Zhuo with a playful expression, Huangfu Song with a calm face, and Sun Jian, who was silent, were also interested in their hearts.

Do you want these people to work together with one heart and one mind?

I'm afraid it's hard! (To be continued......)