In Sun Jian's opinion, the Xiliang Army led by Dong Shouye would definitely not be able to stop himself from attacking Zhu Jun. Sun Jian thought that after defeating Dong Shouye, he would collect the soldiers he had lost before, and his strength would at least skyrocket by 40,000 or 50,000. At that time, after resting in Luoyang, he and Zhu Jun led the troops west to Hangu Pass, went to Chang'an to teach Dong Zhuo, and finally won back the Son of Heaven and revitalized the dynasty.

This is the ideal state.

Zhang Wen was the leader of Sun Jian's crusade against Xiliang, and this person had a certain prestige in the court, Sun Jian thought that if he made a smooth progress in Luoyang, it would soon be able to make Zhang Wen useful.

Sun Jian's expectation was that he and Zhu Jun led their troops all the way west, conquering Hangu Pass, Shaanxi County, Huayin and other places along the way, and finally reached the city of Chang'an. At this time, he asked Zhang Wen to contact the clans in Chang'an City to create Dong Zhuo's rebellion together, and when the time came, the inside and outside should cooperate and successfully defeat Dong Zhuo.

But what Sun Jian doesn't know now is that Zhang Wen is dead. Before Sun Jian had a decisive battle with Dong Shouye, Sun Jian's army of 80,000 at that time was full of will and ambition, so he wrote a secret letter to Zhang Wen, informing Zhang Wen of his plan, and asking Zhang Wen to cooperate with him at that time.

Xu Huang knew that this letter was important, so he immediately presented the letter to Dong Shouye, and Dong Shouye also presented it to his father Dong Zhuo after receiving it.

Dong Zhuo was furious after reading this letter, so he sent someone to arrest Zhang Wen to his side and questioned him on the spot, but of course Zhang Wen refused to admit it. Dong Zhuo didn't care whether Zhang Wen admitted it or not, and beheaded Zhang Wen on the spot on the charge of collaborating with the enemy.

Now that Zhang Wen is dead, how can he cooperate with Sun Jian?

Zhang Wen actually died not long ago, and now Sun Jian has not received the news that Zhang Wen was beheaded, so he is still dreaming of achieving a career together.

After Dong Shouye finished arranging a plan against Zhu Jun, he flew to Tiger Prison Pass and met Xu Rong. Dong Shouye asked Xu Rong not to be troubled by the war on the eastern and western fronts, and to continue to do a good job in Tuntian, as for Zhu Jun and Sun Jian, they would find a way to solve it. At the same time, more than 4,000 people who originally belonged to Zhu Jun were officially transferred to Xu Rong.

After Zhu Jun left Luoyang, he left a total of more than 6,000 people, of which there was a school of people and horses led by Song Guo, and now Song Guo is under the command of Dong Shouye, and the people and horses of this school belong to Dong Shouye, and the remaining more than 4,000 people have been temporarily led by Xu Rong, but they have not been reported to Dong Zhuo, and now Dong Shouye has officially informed Xu Rong that this group of people and horses belong to him.

In this way, Xu Rong has 16,000 people under his command, and of course, Dong Shouye will not add people to Xu Rong for no reason. Instead, he hoped that after Xu Rong defeated Zhu Jun and drove Sun Jian out of Luoyang, he could draw a group of men and horses from Xu Rong's command to continue to garrison Yangcheng and maintain Yangcheng's suppression of Nanyang, Yingchuan and other counties, and even Jingzhou and Yuzhou. Now I hope that Xu Rong will train this group of people so that they can take on their mission in the future.

In this regard, Dong Shouye hoped that Li Meng, the general under Xu Rong, could be transferred out and arranged to be stationed in Yangcheng. Dong Shouyetongguò got along with Xu Rong, Li Meng and others during this time, and quite recognized Li Meng's ability. But Li Meng is Xu Rong's general, and Dong Shouye still has to ask Xu Rong's opinion. Xu Rong also strongly supports this.

Dong Shouye returned to his camp from Xu Rong that night, and set off with his men and horses early the next morning.

When the army arrived outside Xingyang City, Dong Shouye immediately dispatched his soldiers to cut wood and materials to build siege equipment.

At the same time, the existing siege equipment in hand was used to besiege and harass the city. Because Xingyang City was an empty city before, Zhu Jun did not get a good renovation of the city after occupying it, so there were almost no materials to defend the city in the county.

However, Zhu Jun is not an ordinary person after all, he has rich experience in battlefield combat, and many things can be turned into magic. Under his auspices, he made full use of the various resources available in the county to prepare some materials for defending the city to deal with the attack of the Xiliang army.

Dong Shouye also unceremoniously commanded the troops to attack the city, but most of them were feints, mainly to consume the defenders' materials, so there was almost no big loss in terms of troops.

After tossing and turning several times, the defenders of the city also learned well, and became no longer able to see rabbits and eagles.

Seeing that the feint attack was ineffective and could not consume any materials, Dong Shouye ordered a real siege of the city, and this time the momentum really came, and it immediately had an effect, the defenders suffered a lot of losses due to the previous paralysis and carelessness, and Dong Shouye also lost hundreds of lives in this round of tentative attacks.

After tossing and turning like this for five or six days, Dong Shouye suddenly ordered the withdrawal of the army and marched quickly in order to rush to the Tiger Prison Pass.

Zhu Jun decisively ordered the pursuit at this time, because he had already received the news that Sun Jian had captured Dagu Pass and entered Luoyang at any time a few days before. In Zhu Jun's opinion, the Xiliang Army must return to the division to rescue Luoyang, Zhu Jun wants to take the opportunity to capture the Tiger Prison Pass, and then attack the Xiliang Army with Sun Jian.

Zhu Jun's ability to grasp the fighter on the battlefield is very strong, and just when Dong Shouye led the army to enter the customs, Zhu Jun, who secretly followed behind, suddenly attacked.

At this time, half of the Xiliang army had already entered the pass, and the other half was entering the pass, and they looked a little flustered from a distance. When I saw that I was being attacked by the enemy, I was even more panicked, and for a while, the sounds of fighting, shouting, and screaming were endless.

However, it is obvious that the commander of the Xiliang Army is not an incompetent person, and he immediately commanded a school of men to immediately snipe at Zhu Jun's men and horses to buy time for the large army to enter the pass. At this time, the situation is no different from the half-crossing attack, the attacking side is taking advantage of the enemy's scattered formation to launch an attack, which will cause greater panic on the other side, and eventually cause the opponent's psychological defense to collapse, and can no longer organize its effective counterattack, and is finally defeated by the attacking side.

In Zhu Jun's view, the Xiliang Army is now the most panicked time when entering the customs.

At this time, there were also defenders on the pass, and there were not many people and horses that had been placed on the pass in order to paralyze Zhu Jun before, that is, two or three thousand people. Now the Xiliang army and Zhu Jun's men and horses are mixed together, and the defenders on the Tiger Prison do not dare to release arrows casually.

Zhu Jun was very good at marching and fighting, and when he saw that the enemy organized a counterattack, he immediately dispatched the most elite troops under his command as a sharp knife to break through and attack the sniper troops of the Xiliang army.

This elite army is the two thousand Danyang soldiers that Tao Qian gave to Zhu Jun.