Ten days later, Ao Lie led his elite soldiers and generals to march all the way and had already stepped into the junction of Sili and Bingzhou. In two or three days, the fast horse galloped and we could reach Luoyang.

In this march, Ao Lie deliberately chose to take the route of merging the state to Sili, in order to see the former eldest brother Lu Bu with his own eyes before fighting with Dong Zhuo. No matter what the reason, it is not wrong for Lu Bu to indeed take refuge in Dong Zhuo in history, although Ao Lie can't believe anything he says, Lu Bu joined Dong Zhuo just for a red rabbit horse.

It's a pity that along the way, Ao Lie never saw Lu Bu, and after many inquiries about the news, he learned that Lu Daoding was dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's behavior, and had already led his troops to Dong Zhuo to explain the law, and Lu Bu, as the number one general under Ding Yuan, naturally followed him to Luoyang.

Although he missed Lu Bu, while inquiring about Lu Bu's news, the elite of the Blood Killing Battalion also heard some other valuable information.

First of all, as in history, Dong Zhuo coerced hundreds of officials in the court and recognized his official position as a self-proclaimed Taishi, and now Dong Zhuo is already a very popular minister, and he is not inferior to Ao Lie's hussar general and champion Hou, and even strictly speaking, the official position is above Ao Lie. Because Ao Lie's official position is listed in the three dukes, that is, he is at the level of the three fairs, while Dong Zhuo's position is above the three dukes. However, because Ao Lie has been repeatedly promoted by Liu Hong's father and son, and has been given various awards, he is not inferior to Dong Zhuo in terms of prestige and identity. What's more, Ao Lie's official position was personally canonized by two generations of emperors, while Dong Zhuo's official position was coerced by hundreds of officials to self-appoint, which is better and which is inferior, naturally it is clear at a glance.

Another piece of news is about Cao Cao. Cao Cao in the early years, even though he had some ambitions, but he just wanted to make contributions to the Han Dynasty, and at this stage, Cao Cao was still relatively upright, and it had nothing to do with Xiaoxiong. Therefore, Cao Cao's assassination of Dong Zhuo in the name of offering a knife still happened as in history, but Cao Cao didn't have time to start, and Dong Zhuo noticed that something was wrong, Cao Cao hurriedly took advantage of the situation to Dong Zhuo, and then found an excuse to leave the Taishi Mansion, ran out of Luoyang City without looking back, and returned to Chenliu to recruit troops and horses, intending to gather people and horses to recruit Dong Zhuo.

There is another piece of news that also caught Ao Lie's attention. After Yuan Shao returned to the old land of Jizhou, he took advantage of the reputation of the fourth generation and the third prince of the family to recruit troops and expand his subordinates. And Dong Zhuo didn't seem to want Yuan Shao to cause any trouble, so he simply gave Yuan Shao the title of Bohai Taishou, trying to make up for the resentment between each other by sealing the official. Yuan Shao generously accepted the official position granted by Dong Zhuo, but his attitude towards Dong Zhuo did not improve, and his intention to train the army at all times and be ready to return to Luoyang at any time was obvious.

Three days later, Ao Lie led the army to a place thirty miles outside Luoyang City, and looked at the Bingzhou army camp from a distance. Because Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang for a short time, he could only control Luoyang, and the troops were not very sufficient, so the control of the surrounding areas of Luoyang was not enough, which made Ao Lie lead the army to approach Luoyang easily. After arranging for the men and horses to rest temporarily, Ao Lie only took Xu Chu, Dian Wei and thirty elites of the bloody killing battalion into the Bingzhou army camp and visited Bingzhou Assassin Shi Dingyuan.

Not far from entering the Bingzhou Army camp, Ao Lie saw a majestic middle-aged general walking out quickly, it seemed that it should be Ding Yuan. What really excited Ao Lie was that he saw the figure of a tiger general behind Ding Yuan. With a resolute face and a majestic figure, he also carries a Fang Tian painting halberd diagonally behind his back, which is the sworn brother Lu Bu that Ao Lie has not seen for many years. At this moment, Lu Bu was smiling, following behind Ding Yuan, looking at Ao Lie intently, as if he wanted to understand all the changes in Ao Lie's body over the years.

"Ha Luha, the hussar general is coming, and Ding Yuan is far away." The person who came was indeed Ding Yuan, and after seeing Ao Lie, Ding Yuan immediately greeted him warmly.

Ao Lie bowed his hand and saluted back: "Ding Tingshi is too polite, how dare you work Ding Tingshi to greet him in person?" ”

Ding Yuan grabbed Ao Lie's arm, looked at Ao Lie's body, looked up and down, and said with a hearty smile: "I have heard the prestige of the hussar general and champion Hou for a long time, and when I saw it today, I really am a young hero and a dragon among people." Quick, take a seat in the big tent. ”

Under Ding Yuan's enthusiastic guidance, Ao Lie had no choice but to follow Ding Yuan to the big tent step by step, and at the same time turned around and handed Lu Bu a look, signaling Lu Bu to meet separately later. Although Lu Bu and Ao Lie haven't seen each other for many years, they have a common heart with each other, and they nodded slightly, indicating that they understand.

After entering the tent, the guests and hosts on both sides were seated. After sitting down, Ding Yuan asked straight to the point: "The unknown prince is here, what advice do you have?" ”

Ao Lie smiled humbly and said: "I don't dare to give advice, I come here to ask for something." It is reported that Ding Tingshi was very dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's cholera Jingshi and intended to raise troops to fight against Dong Zhuo, but is there such a thing? ”

As soon as Dong Zhuo was mentioned, Ding Yuan's originally smiling face immediately sank: "Hmph! Dong thief deceived the king, and even coerced hundreds of officials to proclaim themselves as the Grand Master, did he really bully me and others without hard bones? That's right! This assassin does have this plan, either Dong thief ambushed him, or this assassin is martyred, there is no third possibility! ”

Hearing the impassioned words of Ding Yuan, Ao Lie cheered loudly: "Okay! Ding Thorn Shi is full of enthusiasm and admires him deeply. In this way, when a certain person returns to the camp to rectify the soldiers and horses, he will send troops to fight against Dong Zhuo with Ding Tingshi in the future! ”

"Ha Lu haha, when today, the righteous and thin clouds, who is the prince! It is no wonder that the first emperor and the current prince favored the prince. After Ding Yuan heard that Ao Lie was going to send troops together, he laughed happily.

Smiling, Ao Lie suddenly said: "By the way, I have heard for a long time that the Zhonglang general Lu Bu under the history of Ding Assassin is brave, known as the tiger, I don't know if I can get together with General Lu for a while?" ”

Ding Yuan smiled and pointed to the outside of the tent, and said, "The one standing outside the tent is Feng Xian." The prince is known as the little overlord, and Fengxian is called the tiger, it seems that the prince and Fengxian are heroes and heroes. Maybe there's no need to be on duty today, so let's go and get together with Fengxian. ”

Ao Lie arched his hand towards Ding Yuan, said thank you, and then turned around and walked out of the big tent and came to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu said without any expression on his face: "Please ask the prince to meet in a certain tent." ”

Ao Lie smiled and nodded.

Lu Bu also stopped talking, turned around and walked towards his camp with Ao Lie. Lu Bu's camp tent was not far from Ding Yuan's Chinese army tent, and after walking dozens of steps, he arrived. Ao Lie turned around and gave Xu Chu and Dian Wei a color, signaling the two to stay outside the tent and not let people come to disturb them.

After entering the account, the expressionless look on Lu Bu's face disappeared, replaced by a deep sense of concern. A pair of tiger eyes stared at Ao Lie firmly, and Lu Bu asked with some excitement, "How has the second brother been doing in the past few years?" ”

Ao Lie just wanted to answer, but saw Lu Bu shaking his head with a self-deprecating smile, and said at the same time: "Look at what the foolish brother asked, now that the second brother's name is known to the world, how can he have a bad life." ”

"Big brother, how have you come over the years? Why don't you hear from you at all? Ao Lie asked with concern.

Lu Bu smiled, and then roughly summarized the experience of the past few years. It turned out that in the past few years, Lu Bu had been fighting against the Huns in northern Xinjiang since he joined Ding Yuan's account, and it was not until half a year ago that he was transferred back after being promoted to the post of Zhonglang General due to accumulated military merits, so Ao Lie has never received news from Lu Bu.

The two brothers talked and laughed, briefly talked about their experiences in the past few years, and sighed at each other's bloody battles in the past few years. On the battlefield, if you don't pay attention to it, you may lose your life, and today the two brothers can get together intact, which has to be very emotional.

After revisiting the brotherhood, Ao Lie felt that Lu Bu had not changed much, and he was still the heroic, straightforward, and ambitious big brother he used to be. So, Ao Lie directly asked the doubts in his heart: "Big brother, what do you have to do with Dong Zhuo?" ”

"Huh? How do you know the truth? Lu Bu looked at Ao Lie in surprise. Obviously, Ao Lie guessed right, with Ao Lie's understanding of Lu Bu, Lu Bu is by no means a capricious and self-righteous villain as recorded in history, although Ao Lie doesn't know what Lu Bu took refuge in Dong Zhuo for, but Ao Lie knows that there must be a reason for this.

Ao Lie looked at Lu Bu seriously and said, "Actually, I don't know anything. A certain just saw the killing machine in the eyes of the eldest brother, the killing machine of Ding Tingshi. At the moment, Dong Zhuo is the only enemy of Ding Zhuoshi, so there is a guess that there must be an unknown secret between the eldest brother and Dong Zhuo. ”

Lu Bu sighed and said, "After all, I can't hide it from my second brother." Yes, the foolish brother does have the intention of killing Ding Yuan. And it is indeed related to Dong Zhuo. ”

"I can't hide it from my younger brother because my younger brother is too familiar with the habits of my eldest brother. Big brother, are you willing to tell your little brother what happened? Ao Lie said softly.

Lu Bu glanced at Ao Lie and slowly said that he wanted to kill Ding Yuan. As mentioned above, Lü Bu was helpless when he was a child, he grew up with wolves, and later met a group of Huns, when the Huns wanted to kill the young Lü Bu, he happened to be rescued by a passing strong man, and handed Lü Bu a knife, so that Lü Bu killed the group of Huns. Since then, Lu Bu has never seen the strong man who saved his life, but Lu Bu deeply remembers that person's name - Dong Zhuo!

To this day, not counting Ao Lie, Lu Bu's martial arts have been the best in the world and created the name of the god of war, but he has never had the opportunity to repay Dong Zhuo who saved him back then. It wasn't until Ding Yuan led the army to come and wanted to crusade against Dong Zhuo that Lu Bu planned to assassinate Ding Yuan and repay Dong Zhuo for saving his life.

"I see." Ao Lie finally understood why in history, Lu Bu would kill Ding Yuan, who treated him like a son, for a red rabbit horse. That has nothing to do with the Red Rabbit Horse at all, but Lu Bu wants to repay Dong Zhuo for saving his life, and the Red Rabbit Horse is just a disguise.

"Big brother, Ding Yuan, you can't kill." Ao Lie said in a firm tone.

Lu Bu frowned, and said with some displeasure: "Second brother, the temperament of a foolish brother, you know the Tao, you don't repay kindness, not a certain character." What's more, it's a life-saving grace, if Dong Zhuo hadn't made a move, how could there be today's Lu Bu? ”

Ao Lie knew that Lu Bu had always had a clear sense of enmity and hatred, and it was very difficult to stop Lu Bu from repaying his kindness, and after thinking for a while, Ao Lie said thoughtfully: "Big brother, think about it from another angle, Ding Tingshi treats you like a mountain, and he is also as kind as a mountain, if you kill him, won't you take revenge?" What face does he have to face the heroes of the world in the future? "Lu Bu did not worship Ding Yuan as his father-in-law as recorded in the romance, and Ao Lie didn't know if Lu Dao was an error in the historical record or because of the effect caused by his arrival. But there is no doubt that Ding Yuan values Lu Bu, and treats Lu Bu like his own son.

Lu Bu was persuaded by Ao Lie, and said in embarrassment: "The words of the second brother are also reasonable. After being silent for a moment, Lu Bu made up his mind and said to Ao Lie very resolutely: "Second brother, the foolish brother knows that you are leading the army to come this time, and you are also going to crusade against Dong Zhuo. But with the foolish brother here, you will never be allowed to be unfavorable to Dong Zhuo. As for Ding Yuan, if he doesn't kill him, he will be regarded as returning Ding Yuan's kindness over the years. Give Brother Fool a year, and within a year, Brother Fool will guard Dong Zhuo and protect him. A year later, the foolish brother will come to your army to plead guilty, and you will be at your disposal! ”

PS: Dong Zhuo's rescue of the young Lu Bu has no historical data to corroborate, it was made up by Da Kun, just to increase the compactness and twists and turns of the plot. Book lovers, don't take it seriously.