However, Xu Ji naturally would not be as reckless as Sun Jian in these matters, so he also politely declined, and now Yuan Shao is the leader of the alliance of the princes, even if he has any personal grievances, he has to wait until Dong Zhuo is eliminated before discussing it. Sun Jian naturally didn't say much, after all, he just wanted to express his attitude.

In the early morning, the princes built three layers of the platform outside the sour jujube camp, and checked the banners of the princes from all walks of life. And Cao Cao invited Yuan Shao to ascend the altar and make a bloody alliance. Yuan Shao did not shirk it, and immediately dressed himself with a sword, generously went up, burned incense to worship heaven and earth, and took out the book of alliance from his arms. His alliance said: "The Han family is unfortunate, and the emperor is out of control. The thief Dong Zhuo, took advantage of the provocation and indulgence, added disaster to the supreme, and abused the people. Shao and others were afraid of the loss of the society, entangled the volunteers, and went to the country. Whoever is allied with me and works together to make the ministers have no two aspirations. There is this alliance of Chongqing, and it is impossible to lose its life, and there is no legacy. The emperor and the queen of heaven, the ancestors and the spirits, are all learned! ”

After Yuan Shao finished reading, the princes will be bloody, everyone is excited by the words in Yuan Shao's alliance book, all are impassioned, and the blood will ask Yuan Shao to the big tent to raise the account, and then they will be seated in order according to the title, Xu Ji is the second highest status among the princes of Zhulu Yuan Shao, naturally Yuan Shao is the chief who sat down in Yuan Shao, and Xu Ji's opposite is Cao Cao, who advocated this crusade, and then sat in turn.

Cao Cao saw that everyone had already sat down, so he spoke: "Today, since the leader of the alliance has been established, everyone will listen to the dispatch and support the country together, and don't count the strength or weakness. But if there is a self-harm act among the coalition forces, it will be severely punished! Yuan Shao also nodded when he heard this: "Although Yuan Shao is not talented, but now that he is promoted by Chenggong and others as the leader of the alliance, he will be rewarded for his merits." Guilty will be punished. The state has permanent punishment, and the army has discipline. It is advisable to comply. Don't break it! Everyone in the tent then shouted that they would obey, but Xu Ji sneered in his heart. Early this morning, he had seen outside Yuan Shao's camp, although there were 30,000 people with this alliance leader, but he really had the strength to fight, I am afraid that less than half of them were ten, and the so-called thief was just a good time for him to earn fame.

However, Xu Ji is naturally impossible to debunk, to put it bluntly, the purpose of his holding is actually the same as Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo entered Beijing and had the natural danger of Bishui Pass, how could these rabble break it? And now Dong Zhuo's defensive heart must be very serious, how can he easily plot? Therefore, Xu Ji didn't think that the princes could win at the beginning, and more importantly, Dong Zhuo still had a way out. Since Luoyang retreated westward, Chang'an was Chang'an, and after Chang'an was Dong Zhuo's starting place, Xiliang, how could these uneven miscellaneous armies of the princes be able to deal with? However, Xu Ji never mentioned these ideas to others.

And Yuan Shao saw that everyone seemed to be quite satisfied with their reactions, and then said: "The land supervised by my brother Yuan Shu is on the left and right, so he will be the governor of grain and grass, and deal with the camps, so that there is no shortage. However, it is even more necessary for one person to be the pioneer to meet the challenge of Bishui Pass. The rest of them are in danger and think they will respond. I wonder who would like to take on this responsibility? "It's not a good thing for everyone to look at each other for a while. And Yuan Shao made it clear that he would never contribute, otherwise he would definitely not need to say such a thing, but Xu Ji naturally would not go to charge the big head, he knew very well that Dong Zhuo was not a character to provoke. Once he succeeds, it's okay to say, but if he is frustrated, he is afraid that he will be targeted by Yuan Shao, and at that time, he will definitely damage the morale of the coalition army, and Xu Ji will not be able to bear it.

But after all, there are people who are willing to come out, such as. Sun Jian.

"Changsha is too guarded by Sun Jian and is willing to be a striker!" Xu Ji was not surprised to hear this, Sun Jian's loyalty to the Han Xu Ji was not clearly known. But Sun Jian needs more credit, but he knows it, Sun Jian doesn't have the luck of his own. If he still wants to be promoted, the only expectation is his military exploits, and continuous combat exploits can ensure his promotion, and only in this way can Sun Jian's goal of entering the official career be achieved.

And the person Yuan Shao wants to see the most is not Sun Jian, but of course Yuan Shao also knows that Xu Ji is not a stupid person, and he will never jump into such an obvious trap, so when he saw Sun Jian like this, he had to smile and say: "Wentai is brave and brave, and he can take on this important task." ”

At this time, Dong Zhuo, who was far away in Luoyang, of course, also knew about these major events outside the Bishui Pass, but Dong Zhuo actually didn't pay too much attention to it, no matter how many soldiers were in front of the Bishui Pass, he didn't want to cross it, and Dong Zhuo didn't think that Yuan Shao's rabble could have any big impact on him, so he was still lascivious every day. But Dong Zhuo's indifference does not mean that Li Ru will also despise it. Li Ru's vision has always been extremely accurate, and the crisis he saw from the flamboyant actions of Yuan Shao and others was not a threat to Luoyang, but a letter from Cao Cao that put Dong Zhuo on the cusp of the storm, and the rather inappropriate approach of his own father-in-law exacerbated the deterioration of this situation, and now Dong Zhuo has become a well-known national thief, and the result of this is probably not optimistic.

But Li Ru knew these but couldn't do anything, every time he wanted to advise Dong Zhuo about this, Dong Zhuo would take care of him or simply ignore it, Li Ru knew that this was a manifestation of people after they had power, but the anxiety in his heart was already to the extent of endangering his life, but Dong Zhuo was still the same.

And after Sun Jian received the task of the pioneer, Xu Ji was assigned to an inconsequential position, and he was responsible for staying in the sour jujube camp. Yuan Shao's intentions are not difficult to see, he doesn't want Xu Ji to get even a little benefit in this war, so Xu Ji will be placed in such a position, otherwise in terms of the elite and combat effectiveness of Xu Ji's corporaries, at least it is the front, but no.

However, this is also just the fulfillment of Xu Ji's wish, he has already seen that the princes' march will not have any results at all, and he will have to retreat to the sour jujube camp in disgrace at that time, and then it will be the time for him Xu Ji to play, and now is the time to recharge before the war. At this time, Yuan Shao's plan was not limited to this, in addition to attacking Bishui Pass head-on, there was another way to attack Mengjindu, but Mengjindu was only responsible for containment, otherwise once Dong Zhuo's defense line was connected, the alliance of princes would be difficult to advance. However, all this is still based on the premise that Sun Jian can make achievements.

At this time, Dong Zhuo finally received a letter of help from the guards of Bishui Pass, which said that the alliance of princes was in sight, and there seemed to be millions of them. Of course, Dong Zhuo would not believe that the princes had such soldiers and horses, but the guards of Bishui Pass were only more than 20,000 people. If you want to resist these people, you are afraid that there is still some strength to catch it, so he summoned his generals to discuss this matter. At this time, Lu Bu had not yet done an inch to defect to Dong Zhuo, and when he heard this, he immediately shouted loudly: "Please don't worry about your father-in-law." These princes outside the Guan, Lu Bu regarded them as grass mustard, and I would like to ask my father-in-law to give me 5,000 fine horses, and Lu Bu can behead them and hang them in the capital! Dong Zhuo was naturally overjoyed and said: "God is fortunate to be the first, so you can sit back and relax." As soon as the words fell, a person shouted: "Why do you need to slaughter a knife to kill a chicken?" You don't have to be gentle. A certain beheading of the princes is also like probing the bag and taking the ear! ”

When Dong Zhuo heard this, he immediately fixed his eyes and took a closer look, only to see that the person who spoke was nine feet long. was born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, but it turned out to be the young general Huaxiong in Kansai. Dong Zhuo has his own plans in his heart, first of all, Luoyang City may not have the strength of those guys outside the Guan, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not assassinate himself, so Dong Zhuo is extremely reluctant to let Lu Bu go on the expedition, and now that Huaxiong volunteered is obviously the best result, so Dong Zhuo immediately became the captain of the Xiao Cavalry. He even boldly allocated a total of 50,000 Ma Bu troops, and together with Li Su, Hu Zhen, and Zhao Cen, they rushed to Bishui Pass to meet the enemy in the starry night.

After all, the princes are numerous, and they are not fast in their march. At this time, Sun Jian didn't know that he was not only facing those people in the information he had heard before, so Sun Jian still came with the idea of winning the first merit, but when he arrived at the pass, he found that there was an extra camp outside the Bishui Pass. But this situation failed to stop Sun Jian's fiery fighting spirit, and he immediately led his troops to launch a battle against Dong Zhuojun in the camp.

Sun Jian was dressed in silver armor and wrapped in red silk at this time. Henggu ingot knife, riding a flower-maned horse. With a heroic spirit, he pointed at the camp with a horizontal knife and scolded: "Help the evil puppet." Why not drop early! At this time, Hua Xiong was stationed at the gate, and the person stationed in the camp outside the gate was Hu Zhen, at this time, Hu Zhen was about to make a contribution, how could he endure seeing Sun Jian fighting outside the camp so arrogantly? When even if he led his troops to fight. When Sun Jian saw that the main gate of the enemy camp was wide open, he knew the other party's intention, and when he stepped forward, he shouted: "Come and get a name, Sun Jian will not kill the nameless!" ”

Where did Hu Zhen endure such contemptuous treatment? Sun Jian saw Hu Zhen's angry face and guessed that he was still angry with the other party, so he stepped forward on the horse, but said that Hu Zhen thought that he would be able to pick Sun Jian's spear under the horse with his horse, but Sun Jian just slashed the ancient ingot knife in his hand and covered his face, and he didn't care about his attack.

Hu Zhen saw Sun Jian's momentum in his heart was already three points empty, and his heart was uncertain, and his hand was naturally soft, he knew that he had no chance to kill with one blow, if this spear really pierced the past, I was afraid that it would be too late to reach Sun Jian, and he would have been split into two pieces by the big knife, so Hu Zhen immediately changed his move and put the spear across his head, only to hear a loud "bang" Sun Jian's ancient ingot knife had already slashed at Hu Zhen's iron spear.

Hu Zhen didn't expect Sun Jian's strength to be so great, and blood was already oozing from the tiger's mouth immediately, obviously he couldn't stand Sun Jian's slash. Hu Zhen felt the power of Sun Jian's blow and knew that he was probably not Sun Jian's opponent, so he immediately cheered up and turned his horse back and threw out a spear to ride the horse away, where did Sun Jian allow the prey in his hand to fly, and immediately chased after him, and at this moment closed suddenly a cold arrow went straight to Sun Jian, Sun Jian heard a sharp whistle to the soul of a handful of pull the reins, sat down and the horse was forced to raise its front hooves high, and then saw an arrow tail still trembling sharp arrow across the horse's belly straight into the ground.

Sun Jian followed the direction of the arrow and saw a thick man holding a carved bow and staring at Sun Jian coldly, Sun Jian roared angrily: "Piff, dare to hurt people with secret arrows!" But the man who closed it just handed the carved bow in his hand to the soldier beside him and replied: "There is only life and death between the battle arrays, why are there so many rules?" If I have Wen Hou archery, can you talk a lot? Hearing this, Sun Jian also regained his composure, pointed at the man with the knife in his hand and said, "Who are you?" ”

The man seemed to smile contemptuously and replied in a loud voice: "I am Hua Xiong, the captain of the cavalry under the account of Xiangguo!" Sun Jian sneered when he heard this: "Okay, Huaxiong, today you and I are our respective assistants, can you dare to fight tomorrow?" Closing Huaxiong Ha Lu Ha Da Lu smiled: "Why don't you dare? I'm afraid you're not my opponent and won't make me happy! When Sun Jian heard this, he also laughed, and then said coldly: "It's useless to talk more, tomorrow's battle will naturally be known." ”

But how could Sun Jian forget the purpose of his visit? He didn't come to play heads-up with the guards of Bishui Pass, Sun Jian's core purpose was to win the first victory of the coalition and win Bishui Pass. And what he did today is just a means to achieve this goal, and Sun Jian can be regarded as influenced by Xu Ji to a certain extent. Over there, as long as the end is achieved, the means and process are irrelevant, and Sun Jian made an agreement with Hua Xiong with such an idea. As for whether it is useful or not. You have to try it to know the way, don't you?

Without mentioning how Sun Jian was here, he only said that Hua Xiong convened everyone in the gate that night to discuss how to deal with Sun Jian, and Hu Zhen at this time was also exchanged from outside the pass, and Li Su had an idea for Hua Xiong: "General, tonight I will lead an army down the pass from the path, and after attacking Sun Jian's village, the general can lead his troops to attack Sun Jian's front village, so Sun Jian will be captured by the general." As soon as Hua Xiong heard that this idea seemed to make sense, he immediately ordered the sergeant to have a full meal. In the middle of the night, he led his subordinates to pass.

It is the night moon and the white wind is clear. Because Sun Jian was already a little prepared for stealing the camp, he deliberately left the pass twenty miles before going down to the village, and when Huaxiong led his troops to Sun Jian's camp, it was already the middle of the night. Seeing Sun Jianyingzhai Huaxiong, he ordered to march forward with a loud noise. At this time, Sun Jian had only been resting for a long time, and when he heard the sound of drums, he naturally got up in a hurry, and he knew that Huaxiong had come to attack the camp without asking more. So Sun Jian had to put on his horse, and before Sun Jian could figure out how many Huaxiong soldiers and horses there were in his camp, he ran into Huaxiong head-on.

The two horses intersected, and the fight was not counted, and Sun Jian suddenly heard the sound of drums behind his camp. Looking back, I saw that another Biao army horse had arrived, but it was also a Huaxiong army in costumes, but it turned out to be Li Su's army after detouring Sun Jian's camp, and Li Su led the army to arrive and did not fight with Sun Jian's sergeants. Just relying on the advantage of cavalry to wantonly set fire to Sun Jian's camp, Sun Jian was entangled by Hua Xiong at this time and could not solve these problems, and Sun Jian's personal guards were all leaders in the camp at this time. Sun Jian had nowhere to ask for help.

In this way, Sun Jian's subordinates were naturally in chaos, and Sun Jian's subordinates were all in their own melee at this time. Only Zu Mao has been following Sun Jian's side, and Sun Jian saw that the camp had been lost. He called for a few horsemen around him to break through and leave. Where can Huaxiong let Sun Jian go? Naturally, they chased after him. Sun Jian turned around and saw Hua Xiong riding a horse and chasing, and then saw that Hua Xiong's horse was about to catch up and hurriedly took the arrow, and released two arrows in a row, who expected that Hua Xiong had guessed that Sun Jian had this trick and dodged it for him. Hua Xiong even had a smile on his mind: "It seems that Sun Wentai's archery skills are generally tight." ”

When Sun Jian heard this, he was even more angry in his heart, and when he forced himself to press his anger and wait to release the third arrow, because the force was too strong, the magpie painting bow in his hand that had followed Sun Jian for a long time turned out to be in two ranks, and Sun Jian had no choice but to abandon the bow and run away. As he was fleeing, Sun Jian heard Zu Mao behind him speak: "The lord has a red curtain on his head, I am afraid that he will be recognized by the thieves." It can be taken off and worn somehow. Sun Jian didn't want to follow, but Hua Xiong chased more and more tightly, so he had to take advantage of the temporary departure from Hua Xiong's sight to change the red curtain and Zu Mao's helmet, the two Zu Mao put on the red curtain and went all the way, Sun Jian had to grit his teeth and go to another way before he could stop it.

And Huaxiong's soldiers only chased those who wore red curtains, so Sun Jian was able to escape from the path. On the other side, Zu Mao was chased by Hua Xiong and had no way to escape, so he hung the red curtain on the unburned courtyard pillar of a family, but he abandoned his horse and hid in the woods. Huaxiong's department saw Chiwei in the distance under the moon, surrounded on all sides, and did not dare to approach for fear that Sun Jian would deceive. Hua Xiong ordered the soldiers to shoot him with arrows, so he knew that it was a plan.

Hua Xiong then stepped forward and took down the red curtain from the pillar of the court. And Zu Mao saw that Hua Xiong was alone, so he had the heart to kill Hua Xiong, so he killed from behind the forest and slashed straight at Hua Xiong with two knives. Hua Xiong is naturally not a light and unprepared person, he was already aware of it when Zu Mao appeared, and when Zu Mao swung his knife up, he shouted loudly, returned to his horse and slashed straight at Zu Mao. At this time, Zu Mao had lost his horse, naturally not as fast as Hua Xiong, seeing Hua Xiong's fierce and fierce Zu Mao had to return the knife to block, who knew that Hua Xiong was just a false move, seeing Zu Mao's return knife immediately changed the move into a pick, and immediately picked up Zu Mao's blade, and then cut Zu Mao under the horse with a knife.

After killing Zu Mao, Hua Xiong did not give up, and only ordered the soldiers to act recklessly, killing until dawn, and Hua Xiong led his troops back to Bishui Pass.

At this time, it was already the destiny of heaven, and Sun Jian's generals Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang looked around to find Sun Jian in a secluded place, so Sun Jian packed up his military horses and camped temporarily. It's just that now that the army has been damaged, it is no longer practical to attack Bishui Pass, so Sun Jian had to camp here first, while waiting for Yuan Shao's arrangement. But what made Sun Jian most sad was that Zu Mao, the general of the guards around him, died tragically at the hands of Hua Xiong as the savior, so Sun Jian also knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to enter again, so he sent someone to report the matter of Yuan Shao's water pass in the starry night.

And Yuan Shao was also shocked when he learned of this: "I never thought that Sun Wentai would be defeated by Huaxiong!" But Yuan Shao also knew that it would be difficult for the princes to advance if the Bishui Pass could not be lowered, but at this time, although the coalition army was in charge of him, it was not his Yuan Shao's word, so he immediately gathered the princes to discuss how to take the Bishui Pass. (To be continued......)