Accompanied by Xu Shu, he went out of the city gate, and went to Xu Shu again with a fist and arched his hand, and said goodbye, and then led the three hundred Hun cavalry under his command to go away.

Looking at the backs of Qubei and the others gradually moving away, it was not until they walked away that Xu Shu said to Tao Hu, who went out of the city with him: "You immediately go to Youzhou and inform Your Highness that the right virtuous king of the Xiongnu came to pick up Juci, but Juci still does not want to return to the Xiongnu with him!" ”

"No!" Tao Hu responded with a fist, took the dry food handed over from the soldiers on the side, turned over and jumped on the healthy horse led by another soldier, and did not return to the city to make more preparations, his legs were clamped towards the horse's belly, and the horse rushed north.

A few days later, the Laishui Juma River in Zhuo County was on the bank.

The murmuring water flows eastward, making a "whooshing" sound. The flowing water rolled the thin waves, and the waves rolled up and fell, setting off clouds of snow-white silver light on the surface of the river.

Liu Wei crossed his hands on his waist and looked to the southeast across the riverbank. Standing behind him, in addition to Guan Qing, there were also Wang Liu and Wang Zhen, who had already healed most of their injuries.

Wang Liu and Wang Zhen have already changed into the armor of the Luoyang Army, but the two sisters are not used to wearing relatively heavy scale armor, they are wearing the standard leather armor of the dragoon guard.

This kind of leather armor is made of hard cowhide, and in the production process, after many gravitational extrusions, it looks like a thin layer of cowhide, but in fact it is pressed with at least five layers of cowhide, and its hardness is not much worse than that of iron, and it is lighter.

Wearing hard leather armor, Wang Liu and Wang Zhen's slender figures were tightly wrapped in leather armor, revealing a bit of softness in their might.

They are also like Guan Qing, with high buns on top of their heads, and they don't comb their buns like ordinary women.

Not far behind Liu Wei, Wang Liu, and Wang Zhen, Guan Qing, Deng Zhan, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun were busy commanding the three guards of the Luoyang Army to build camp tents.

It was still early, and there were still some hours before the curtain ended, but the army had only reached the bank of the Juma River, so Liu Wei ordered the army to be stationed until early tomorrow morning, and then cross the river.

"Your Highness, the barracks have been built!" Just as he was looking across the riverbank, a dragoon guard ran up behind Liu Wei and bowed down to him with a fist. "Pass the order down and bury the pot to cook!" His gaze was still on the other side of the riverbank, and Liu Wei raised one arm and gave a faint command to the dragoon guard.

"No!" The dragoon guard answered, turned and ran back to the barracks that had just been built.

"Your Highness, why don't you go to the river?" Turning his head to see the dragoon guard running back to the barracks, Wang Zhen, who was standing behind Liu Bian, asked Liu Bian very curiously: "It's still early now, and there is no enemy army on the other side of the river, if you cross the river, you can still go a few miles......

"Give Pang Tong time!" Standing on the bank of the river, the corners of Liu Wei's mouth pulled slightly, as if he was talking to himself: "When this king arrives in Dezhuo County, the siege of the city will be launched immediately!" At present, in the city of Zhuojun, the morale of Gongsun Zhan's army has not yet fallen to the bottom, and the grain and grass have not been completely consumed, so it is definitely not the best time to attack the city! If the king does not arrive, Pang Tong can take the opportunity to delay in the name of the king's arrival, only need to delay for another three or five days, and wait until the grain in the city is cut off, why worry that Zhuo County will not break? ”

"Ugh!" As soon as Liu Wei said this, Wang Liu and Wang Zhen, who were standing behind him, glanced at each other, and their eyes showed puzzled looks.

The two sisters, who have only known to practice swordsmanship since childhood, are the same as Deng Zhan, although their swordsmanship is not weak, they can't command battles, and they can't understand Liu Wei's intentions.

Breaking through Zhuojun with the least casualties is, of course, Liu Bian's true idea, but at the same time, Liu Biao has another idea, that is, he is also waiting, waiting for Cao Cao to send troops to Chang'an.

Li Dao and Guo Yan occupied Chang'an, and the Xiliang Ma clan army besieged the city, but they were not the opponents of Li Dao and Guo Yan, and the reason why they formed a confrontation was because there was infighting in the city.

Near Chang'an, the only people who have the ability to defeat Li Dao and Guo Yan are Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and his king of Luoyang.

If the Luoyang army attacks Chang'an, once the city is broken, as the king of Luoyang, Liu Wei supports Liu Xie to return to Luoyang, it will be difficult to shirk, and in this way, Luoyang, which he has worked so hard to manage, will be handed over to Liu Xie.

Thinking of Liu Xie, Liu Wei's eyes narrowed slightly, and he subconsciously snorted coldly.

Wang Liu and Wang Zhen, who were standing behind him, heard him suddenly let out a soft cold snort, and looked at each other even more confusedly, Wang Liu looked at Liu Wei's back and opened his mouth, but he didn't ask anything.

At the same time that Liu Wei led the three guards to Zhuo County, Ma Chao had already returned to Chang'an, and the army of the Xiliang Ma clan also withdrew from outside Chang'an on the day Ma Chao returned to the barracks.

The news of the withdrawal of the Xiliang Ma clan soon spread to Puyang, and Cao Cao, who had been waiting for news in Puyang, was rewarded and did not delay any longer, and immediately raised an army of 50,000 and marched in the direction of Chang'an.

From Yanzhou to Chang'an, along the way through Henan Yin and Hongnong counties under Liu Wei's rule, the Yanzhou army marched all the way west, although the Luoyang army did not send soldiers and horses to accompany it, but the local officials mobilized the people to provide food and clothing, and rewarded the Yanzhou army that went to Chang'an Qinwang.

Cao Cao raised troops to serve the king, and Jia Xu, who had lived in Puyang for many days, also set off for Youzhou to convey the news to Liu Wei that Cao Cao had raised troops.

In the Central Plains, the war was opened, and the Yuan Shu in the south did not stop at this time.

In the city of Yangzhou, Yuan Shu convened his generals and strategists to gather in the conference hall to discuss how to deal with the war in the Central Plains.

Kneeling in the main seat of the chamber, Yuan Shu looked around at the people in the hall and asked everyone: "Everyone, the army of the king of Luoyang has united with Yuan Shao and Liu Bei to surround Gongsun Zan in Zhuo County. Gongsun Du was stepping up his attack on Yuyang again, and saw that Youzhou was about to fall into the hands of King Luoyang and others. Cao Cao of Yanzhou also raised troops to Chang'an, intending to defeat Li Dao and Guo Yan in order to seek King Qin. What do you think, what should we do? ”

Yuan Shu asked a question, but everyone in the hall lowered their heads one by one, and no one said anything for a long time.

Seeing that everyone was speechless, Yuan Shu's brows tightened, his eyes narrowed slightly, his tone became a little cold, and then he asked again: "You are wise and far-reaching on weekdays, but today you have no countermeasures?" ”

Yuan Shu's words made everyone in the hall lower their heads.

Just when Yuan Shu was full of depression and was about to have a seizure, a person stood up from behind the low table, walked quickly to the middle of the front hall, hugged his fists and said to Yuan Shu: "Qi Ming Gong, Ming Gong and the King of Luoyang are already in a situation, I can't wait to take advantage of the fact that the King of Luoyang has not returned, take the opportunity to attack Luoyang, so that there is nowhere to return when it returns, and it will not take long for the Luoyang army to be chaotic!" ”

The man who spoke was about forty years old, of medium stature, and of ordinary appearance, the type of person who would be difficult to find as soon as he entered the crowd.

As soon as this person's voice fell, a sneer came from the side.

Hearing someone sneer, Yuan Shao and the person who spoke turned their faces to the person who made the sneer.

The one who made this sneer was a middle-aged scribe in his thirties. The scribe, dressed in a moon-white robe, sneered as he picked up the wine bottle on the low table and took a sip slowly.

"Why is Yao Qing laughing?" Looking at the middle-aged scribe, the man standing in the hall frowned slightly, his face was unkind, but he was not angry, but asked the scribe.

"The Duke of Ming and the King of Luoyang are in flames, I don't know whose plan it is?" Asked by the man, the scribe stood up, walked out from behind the low table, and went to the middle of the front hall, first bowed with his fists in his fists, and saluted Yuan Shu, and then looked up and down at the person who asked him and said, "Does Master Li know about this matter?" ”

The one who proposed to attack Luoyang was Li Feng, the former chief secretary of Yuan Shao's account, and the one who sneered was Yuan Lian, who had recently joined Yuan Shao.

Previously, Yuan Shu sent assassins to assassinate Liu Wei, which was the idea of Li Feng and other close staff. Yuan Jian strongly opposed it at the time, but because he had only been in Yuan Shu's service for a short time, he did not attract Yuan Shu's attention, so the assassins were successful.

Now that the assassination has been exposed, Yuan Shu's move to send assassins has also been found out by Liu Bian, and there is no room for turning around between him and Liu Bian.

Seeing that Li Feng was stunned in the hall by Yuan Lian's question, Yuan Shu waved his hand at Yuan Lian and said to him: "The events of the day were also confused for a while, and now that the matter has come to this, it is useless to mention more!" Yao Qing didn't pursue it again, and said what should be done now? ”

Yuan Shu played a round in it, and Yuan Shu knew that it was not appropriate to continue to ask Li Feng, so he hugged his fists and bowed, first saluted Yuan Shu, and then said to Yuan Shu: "The assassination of the King of Luoyang by the Duke of Ming is already known to the King of Luoyang. Fortunately, Ming Gong did not come forward, and there is still something to be done in this matter! ”

"Oh?" Hearing that there was still a chance to ease the relationship with Liu Wei, Yuan Shu was stunned for a moment, and asked Yuan Shu, "I don't know what Yaoqing has planned?" ”

"Order Sun Ce to go on a journey and offer the jade seal of the country!" Maintaining the posture of clenching his fists and bowing, Yuan Jian then said to Yuan Shu: "Claim to the king of Luoyang, be loyal to the Han family, this matter can be done!" ”

As soon as Yuan Shu's words fell, Yuan Shu's brows tightened.

The jade seal of the country was handed over to Sun Ce in order to borrow troops from Yuan Shu to fight back to Jiangdong. In Yuan Shu's view, the Han dynasty has declined, and it is the time for him to become emperor. Let him give the jade seal of the heirloom country to Liu Bian, and he also wants to argue to Liu and declare his loyalty to the Han family, how can he agree?

Tightly furrowed his brows, Yuan Shu did not speak. Li Feng, who has always been good at catering to Yuan Shu, knew that Yuan Shu was unwilling to hand over the jade seal, so he hurriedly hugged his fists and bowed, and said to Yuan Shu: "Qi Ming Gong, although the king of Luoyang is powerful at the moment, he can conquer Youzhou in the north, and there is a lot of consumption of soldiers, horses, grain and grass, and it is the time of exhaustion. Our army is recuperating and recuperating, and if we surrender to the tired army before the war starts, won't it make the world laugh and lose their big teeth? ”

"What's the matter with the master book?" Yuan Shu's proposal had already been denied in his heart, and Yuan Shu turned his head to look at Li Feng and asked him.

"Soon after the Xiongnu left Luoyang, the Duke of Ming could send people to enter Luoyang, and assassinate the Xiongnu while the King of Luoyang had not returned!" Hearing Yuan Shu's question to him, Li Feng's face was smug, and he hugged his fists and said to Yuan Shu: "Even if the assassination fails, Duke Ming can also take the opportunity to spread rumors, saying that the Xiongnu died in Luoyang." The Huns are savages, and they have always been fierce and brainless! Knowing that Ju Ci is dead, he will definitely not investigate in detail, so he will send troops to attack the king of Luoyang. At that time, Ming Gong ......"