"Taishi, I think we should take the initiative to fight, and take advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold to divide the troops and refuse. As long as we can defeat the enemy army with lightning tactics, then we can re-raise the prestige of our Xiliang army, at that time, who else dares to attack us? The first person to stand up and speak was Li Yu. As an existence second only to Dong Zhuo in the Xiliang Army, his words have to be taken seriously for a long time.

Li Yan opened his mouth, and Guo Yan, who was standing on the side, also took the initiative to say, "Not bad." The art of war is cloudy, and the first strike is the strongest. Then we might as well do it first, presumably the so-called five-way coalition army categorically would not have thought that we would strike first, which is called surprise. ”

"Not bad." General Zhang Ji, who was standing on the side, also nodded in approval. And only Xu Rong was silent, as if he didn't agree.

Xu Rong, a native of Liaodong. The only one who is not a senior general of the Dong Zhuo family who was born in Xiliang.

He can have the glory he has now, and everything is completely made by himself. He has led the army to defeat Cao Cao and Sun Jianbu, and can be described as a fierce general.

It was precisely because of these exploits that he was able to stand on top of this palace and discuss things with Dong Zhuo and others.

Xu Rong did not speak, which caused Li Yu, who spoke first, to be unhappy. Because of the difference in origin, in fact, they are very repulsive to Xu Rong, if it weren't for the extraordinary strength and courage of this person, I am afraid that he would have been excluded a long time ago.

But even if there are some military exploits, they still can't be placed in the eyes of Li Yu and others. Now seeing that he expressed his attitude, Xu Rong didn't approve of it, and said a little angrily for a while: "General Xu, why don't you say it?" Could it be that you are scared, and you will not be able to cooperate with the enemy? ”

As soon as Li Yu said this, the faces of everyone else changed greatly, especially Dong Zhuo, who was in the first place, and he hesitated. To say that he was already extremely suspicious, that is, he was also a good guard against his son-in-law Li Ru at that time, and he was also on guard against his son Lu Bu every day.

Xu Rong just didn't approve of taking the initiative to face the battle, in his opinion, Chang'an City was tall and strong, relatively speaking, the besieging side would definitely suffer. Why abandon the fortified city and take the initiative? Isn't this playing to the weaknesses and avoiding the strengths?

But who would have thought that Li Yu would actually say that he wanted to cooperate with the enemy, how could this be endured, and immediately he shot back in anger: "How can I be afraid, have you forgotten who defeated Cao Cao and Sun Jian in the first place?" ”

"Humph! A little credit always has to be lip service. Hearing this answer, Li Yu's voice changed a lot.

"Yes, this is all the credit of the past, then today I am making new contributions, and I also asked the Taishi to issue an order, let me hit whoever I want, there is no other word." At this time, Xu Rong was also squeezed there, and he couldn't express his position. Otherwise, with Dong Zhuo's temperament, I am afraid that he will really doubt him.

Xu Rong suddenly expressed his support for taking the initiative and was willing to play the vanguard, which made Dong Zhuo very happy. "Okay, with General Xu's words, I am relieved. In this way, everyone agrees, so let's discuss the matter of taking the initiative. ”

Now that we have a general policy, the next step is to discuss how to fight. Even if the coalition army came from the Five Routes, according to Dong Zhuo's intentions, it was to send the Five Route Army to meet them, strive to break them one by one, and then win the victory as soon as possible and re-consolidate their position.

After some discussion among the five of them, they finally decided that Li Yu would attack Cao Cao; Guo Yan attacked Sun Jian; Xu Rong attacked Yuan Shao; Li Ji attacked Liu Bei; Fan Chou attacked Zhang Chao.

Xu Rong had been better than Cao Cao and Sun Jian before, which made Li Yu and Guo Yan think that these two teams were easy to bully, so naturally the persimmons would be picked up softly. As for Li Ji, he found Liu Bei, who had few soldiers, as his opponent. And because Xu Rong has been excluded, this time his opponent was replaced by the most powerful Yuan Shaobu.

Fan Chou's qualifications are not enough to rank among the top four, but it can indeed be said that he is the fifth tiger general under Dong Zhuo's account, which imposes it on him, and it is most suitable for Zhang Chao, who is unknown.

In order to win this battle, Dong Zhuo has invested enough money in this battle, and he still has 10,000 Xiliang iron cavalry under his account, and this time he sent half of them, respectively, one team to one thousand, and another 30,000 infantry to five people, that is, 6,000 per team.

In this way, a total of 35,000 people met the enemy, and in terms of numbers, it was on par with the five-way coalition army.

It's just that this distribution, although even, is not fair. Just like for Xu Rong, what he has to deal with is Yuan Shao, which is an opponent with 20,000 troops, and he does only have 1,000 cavalry and 6,000 infantry, which is obviously too different in strength.

But Dong Zhuo really doesn't look at these, what he needs is to win. Even if Xu Rong draws all the way, and wins the other roads, only Yuan Benchu will be left alone, and it will not be able to become a climate.

The matter was decided in this way, and Dong Zhuo strictly ordered that he would go to war in three days.

On the night when Dong Zhuo made a battle plan, a carrier pigeon flew out of the sky over Chang'an City and disappeared into the night.

This is the news released by the members of the Tianyan who are lurking in Chang'an City. Because the matter was not too urgent, the black eagle that Zhang Sheng trained without using the eagle envoy. In fact, after several years at this time, Zhang Sheng had successfully trained several black eagles that could deliver messages. But according to Zhang Chao's intentions, this thing should not be used for non-urgent matters, so it did not come in handy for the time being.

On the second day of Dong Zhuo's rearmament, Zhang Chao took Zhao Yun, Dian Wei and several iron guards out of the city, and he received the news from the members of Tianyan and began to survey the terrain. Of course, to the outside world, he just said that he was idle in the city and wanted to go out for a walk.

For Zhang Chao, most people's imprints are still on the plane of Brother Gongzi, and it is understandable to see him behaving like this.

It wasn't until the city gate was about to close after dark that Zhang Chao rushed back, but this time when he came back, he obviously had a confident smile on his face, and he was confident.

And that night, Zhang Chao's main tent was brightly lit and full of people.

Early the next morning, Zhang Chao didn't get up because he slept late, but an envoy sent by Yuan Shao came outside the barracks, to the effect that Zhang Chao was invited to go to the county guard mansion to discuss the military.

Woken up by Xu Chu on duty, Zhang Chao knew that he was discussing the military, so he smiled and said: "This Yuan Benchu also has his own source of intelligence!" Well, that's it, let's see what strategy they have for the enemy. ”

After changing his clothes and eating breakfast, Zhang Chao slowly walked towards the county guard's mansion.

At this time, in the conference hall of the county guard's mansion, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Liu Bei were all present, and they all knew what was going on, and for a while, some people were happy and some were worried.

Dong Zhuo actually wanted to strike first, and at the same time arranged the five-way army to fight, which was something that no one expected before.

I thought that this time by joining forces in one place, I could deter Dong Zhuo's old thief, and then force him to hand over the emperor, and I didn't even think about fighting with him, after all, everyone is just starting out now, and the family background is not rich, and the more people fight, the fewer people fight.

This is also the reason why the coalition forces have long been gathered together, but they have not launched an attack on Chang'an. But he never expected that Dong Zhuo couldn't hold his breath, and sent 35,000 soldiers to attack in five ways.

Naturally, there are exceptions to this, for example, Yuan Shao is secretly happy in his heart.

The news he got was that Dong Zhuo was divided into five ways to deal with them in the five ways alliance, and regardless of the strength of the opponent, they were all treated equally, that is, how many soldiers and horses you have, the number of troops he sent is the same, so his advantage is obvious.

Yuan Shao has always regarded himself as the leader of the Five Roads Alliance, which is of course the largest number of civil generals and troops he has led. To put it mildly, the other four roads all rely on their own snorts, and only in this way can they compete with Dong Zhuo.

borrowed his own light, but he did not fully respect himself. For example, in the past few days, except for Cao Cao, no one has taken the initiative to meet him and discuss military affairs. This made him feel ignored, but it was hard to say anything.

Now that Dong Zhuo has sent troops, in this way, it is obvious who is more important. And he also wanted to see how these people reacted? In the end, do you want to ask for yourself.

When Zhang Chao came to the conference hall slowly, what he saw was the scene of everyone's frowning on the surface.

"Oh? But what happened? Zhang Chao asked as if he didn't know anything.

For Zhang Chao, although he has an astonishing five hundred elite light horses, he himself is still despised by others. I only know that I drink and have fun in the barracks every day, otherwise I go out of the city to play, and this meeting is so late, this is completely the image of a son, where is it like a general who leads the troops to fight?

He already had this imprint, but now that he had asked such an ignorant question, he would not have brought the image that had been taken with him thoroughly.

Naturally, no one will bother with him. Everyone is just an alliance now, once Emperor Xian is rescued, maybe when he will become an enemy, if so, the worse this person is, the better it will be to deal with it in the future?

For this reason, no one blamed Zhang Chao for not, but they all nodded to him kindly, only Liu Bei did not, but fell into contemplation.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei went back and told him that Zhang Chao had two guards by his side, and their strength was so high that they could fight with them for hundreds of rounds without showing defeat. When he heard this, Liu Bei was indeed taken aback, he thought that only Zhao Yun was a tiger general, but he never thought that even the guards had such skills.

Doesn't that mean that Zhang Chao is deliberately hiding his strength? How could someone like this not know what was going to happen? And he deliberately pretended to be innocent, why? Is he really stupid, or is he pretending to be stupid?