The eastern sky had just shone with a fish-belly-colored light, the earth had not yet fully awakened from the darkness, and the city of Luoyang, which was being rebuilt, was still immersed in a tranquility before dawn fell.

A group of cavalry left the main gate of the palace and rushed to the military camp in the city. Walking in front of this group of cavalry on horseback was Liu Wei, who had just left Tao Huanniang's dormitory.

Wearing the golden armor that Tao Huanniang just made for him, and the golden crown was covered with a bun, although Liu Wei did not toss on Tao Huanniang's delicate body like nephrite at night, under the background of the armor, he did not look sluggish, but was full of energy.

Behind Liu Wei was Deng Zhan and a team of dragoons who accompanied the guards. Everyone in the team was wearing armor and majestic, especially the long golden feathers on the helmets of the dragoons, trembling slightly as the horses moved, which made people feel that they were more noble than ordinary soldiers. Only the man in the dark cloth who rode a horse and walked beside Deng Zhan was mixed in this brightly armored team, which seemed to be very inconsistent with the style of the team.

He is none other than Pang Tong, who was the first genius to serve Liu Wei. Before dawn, Deng Zhan went to Pang Tong's house to wake him up, led him to wait outside the palace, and went to the military camp with Liu Wei to point the general. In a hurry, Pang Tong didn't have time to change into a new one, so he had to put on his dark coat that was still patched, and followed the team of dragoons, which made him look very shabby.

Leading Pang Tong, Deng Zhan and a team of dragoon guards, riding horses along the streets of the city, it didn't take long for Liu Wei to see the main camp of the army that had just been built.

In the main camp, the main force of the army is stationed, and the camp where the officers and soldiers defending the city are stationed is far away from this barracks.

A group of soldiers guarding outside the Yamen saw Liu Wei leading Deng Zhan to come, and hurriedly bowed with his fists and saluted him.

Liu Wei didn't rein in his horse, and rode a war horse into the barracks.

As soon as he entered the barracks, he had not gone far when Liu Wei saw that a neat phalanx had been formed on the school ground, and on the periphery of the phalanx, there were also many officers and soldiers dressed in neat clothes and armor, and they were waiting there in a line.

"Drive!" Seeing the officers and soldiers who had already lined up in an array on the school field, Liu Wei clamped his legs towards the horse's belly and rode his horse towards the school field.

As soon as he got to the colonel's field, two soldiers ran in front of him.

When the two soldiers approached Liu Bian, one of them helped Liu Bian pull his bridle, and the other helped Liu Bian get off his horse.

When Liu Wei jumped off the warhorse, Deng Zhan, Pang Tong and the team of dragoons who followed him also dismounted, and walked with him towards the Dianjiangtai on the school field.

Before he stepped onto the stage, the generals who were already waiting under the stage all greeted him and bowed to Liu Wei with their fists in court.

hugged his fists and saluted back to the generals, and Liu Wei said to Xu Shu, who came up with the generals: "There are still many affairs to be dealt with in Luoyang City, and in the absence of this king, I will have to worry about the military division!" ”

"Your Highness, just rest assured, your majesty will live up to your mission!" first answered Liu Wei with his fist, and then Xu Shu made a gesture of invitation to Liu Wei and said to him: "The soldiers are waiting for His Highness's order to go on the expedition, and His Majesty wishes His Highness a triumphant return!" ”

Nodding at Xu Shu, Liu Wei strode towards the high platform. When Pang Tong, who was following Liu Wei, was about to go to the high platform, Xu Shu was stunned for a moment, stretched out a hand, stopped Pang Tong, and asked him with a little surprise on his face: "Dare to ask Your Excellency, is it Pang Tong Pang Shiyuan?" ”

"It is under you, dare to ask Your Excellency?" Stopped by Xu Shu, Pang Tongyi looked at Xu Shu from head to toe in surprise, he didn't know Xu Shu in his impression, so he asked Xu Shu: "How do you recognize you?" ”

Xu Shu traveled the world earlier, and heard that there was a strange and ugly young man who walked and studied in the world, and all the celebrities who mentioned this young man to Xu Shu were all praised. At that time, Xu Shu silently wrote down Pang Tong's name and surname and his appearance characteristics in everyone's description. Xu Shu was able to recognize Pang Tong, needless to say, it must be because of Pang Tong's distinctive face.

But Xu Shu is the first strategist before Liu Biao's account after all, no matter what, he will not bluntly recognize Pang Tong because his face is really bone-like.

"Under the surname Xu Mingshu character Yuan Zhi!" Knowing that the ugly young man in front of him was Pang Tong, the look on Xu Shu's face suddenly flashed with astonishment and joy alternately, and he hurriedly clasped his fists and bowed to Pang Tong and said: "I have heard that Brother Pang is famous for a long time, but I didn't have the opportunity to see it, and I didn't want to meet in this military camp today." ”

"Brother Xu's name is like thunder, I have heard that Brother Xu is acting in front of His Royal Highness's account!" Xu Shu reported to the door, Pang Tong hurriedly hugged his fists and bowed to him back, and said to him: "It is a blessing to meet today in the next three lives!" ”

"Brother Pang is too humble!" Xu Shu straightened up, with a smile on his face, and asked Pang Tong, "I wonder why Brother Pang came to the barracks with His Highness?" ”

"Brother Xu doesn't know!" Putting down the fist he picked up, Pang Tong said to Xu Shu: "Yesterday, I didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and I bumped into His Highness outside the palace, and I was very frightened in my heart, but I didn't want His Highness to ask General Deng to lead His Highness into the palace and treat him with courtesy!" Although he was young and frivolous, he also knew that he had learned about Entu, and now he had thrown himself into the account of His Royal Highness......"

"Very good! Very good! Knowing that Pang Tong had joined Liu Wei, Xu Shu hurriedly took Pang Tong's hand, and while caressing the back of his hand, he said to him: "Your Highness is benevolent, and you can get Brother Pang, which is like a tiger with wings." Dare to ask this Brother Pang, but he wants to go out with His Highness? ”

His hands were held by Xu Shu, Pang Tong smiled slightly, and said to Xu Shu: "I want to go out with His Highness, and it is a blessing to be able to serve His Highness, and to work with Brother Xu is a blessing in this life!" ”

Pang Tong's face was very asymmetrical, and his smile did not have the slightest sense of goodwill, but added a little more hideousness to his ugly face.

But Xu Shu didn't care about Pang Tong's smile at all, holding his hand with a smile on his face, his expression was a little calm, as if the heart that had been hanging in his throat could finally be put down, and he couldn't stop nodding at Pang Tong.

Liu Wei, who had already been on the stage, saw Xu Shu and Pang Tong standing in the audience and just talking, and did not urge them out loud, but just stood on the stage and looked down at the two who were like old friends when they met for the first time.

Holding Pang Tong's hand, Xu Shu nodded several times in a row before he let go of his hand and made a gesture to Pang Tong and said, "Brother Pang, please!" ”

"Brother Xu, please first!" As soon as Xu Shu asked him to go to the stage first, he immediately stood sideways and made a gesture to Xu Shu very humbly.

Knowing that Pang Tong would not take the stage first, Xu Shu was not too polite with him, stepped on the stairs on the side of the stage, went up to the stage, and stood behind Liu Wei.

When Pang Tong and the generals also boarded the general platform one after another, lined up, Liu Wei pressed his sword in one hand and looked around at the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers who had not even made a sound for a long time.

"Soldiers, I haven't fought for some days, but I'm anxious to wait?" After first looking around at the officers and soldiers, Liu Wei then shouted to them: "Do you want to fight?" ”

"Yes!" As soon as Liu Wei's shout fell, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers all raised their swords and shouted loudly.

"Tell this king, why do you want to fight? Who do you want to fight with? The performance of the officers and soldiers obviously made Liu Wei very satisfied, and with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he shouted to the officers and soldiers again to ask a question.

"For General Hu, for the brothers who died on the banks of the Yellow River!" This time, the officers and soldiers did not immediately respond to Liu Wei, but one of the generals pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword, straightened his chest and shouted: "For the sake of the fathers and villagers who were bullied by the Xiliang Army, we will fight with the Xiliang Army!" ”

"Fight with the Xiliang Army!" As soon as the general's shout fell, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers shouted in unison.

The shouts of the officers and soldiers were very neat, and their voices were full of confidence, and the powerful sound waves rushed out of the barracks and floated all the way up to the houses on the streets of the city.

In the houses on the side of the street, many people who were still sleepy were awakened from their sleep by this shout, and one by one they got out of bed, opened the door and stretched out their heads to look in the direction of the barracks.

"What's the matter?" An old man in his fifties squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of the barracks, and asked his neighbor who had opened the door earlier than him.

"It seems that the king of Luoyang is going to lead the army!" The neighbor had just opened the door, and before he could understand what was going on, he replied to the old man with some prevarication.

"Old woman, come out and see!" The neighbor replied very unconfidently, but the old man took it seriously, and hurriedly turned his head and shouted into the house: "The king of Luoyang is going to lead the army to the battle, and the revenge of his son and daughter, now someone will avenge us!" ”

Before the old man's words fell, a mother-in-law about his age had already run to the door, holding the door frame tightly with both hands, and before her head reached out of the house, two lines of old tears from her mother-in-law had already burst out of her eyes.

"You mother-in-law, what are you crying about!" Seeing that his wife was crying, the old man slapped her on the shoulder blade and scolded angrily: "The king of Luoyang is going to kill the Xiliang army and avenge our son and daughter, this is a good thing......"

Originally, the old man wanted to scold his mother-in-law, but before he finished speaking, he himself choked up. It's no wonder that the old couple can't restrain their love, if it wasn't for the Xiliang Army forcibly relocated the people, their family is now living a stable life. But fate played tricks on them, Dong Zhuo moved the capital, and the people of Luoyang all suffered, and the two sons and daughters of the old couple all died on the way to move the capital.

The shouts from the barracks came one after another, shaking the sky, and there were more and more people in the city who got up and waited to see off the army, but with the work of the small half-pillar incense, almost all the people in the city got up, and many even walked out of their homes and stood on the street, looking forward to the direction of the barracks.

The shouting in the barracks gradually subsided, and when the shouting completely stopped, it was not long before a group of cavalry rushed out of the barracks.

The cavalry rushed out of the barracks, and as they rode along the streets, they shouted loudly: "The army is out of the city, and the idle people will immediately avoid it!" ”

When the cavalry rushed closer, the people who had already run into the streets jumped back to their doors. Soon, the streets were empty, not even a single pedestrian. In the streets where the cavalry rushed, the doors were wide open, and although the people did not run to the street again, they stood at the door one by one, looking in the direction of the barracks.

Many of the people, far from the cavalry passing through the streets, went out of their homes and flocked to the junctions of the streets, stretching their heads out to watch the army leave the city. However, after a while, the intersection adjacent to the few streets that the opening cavalry had just passed through was filled with a crowd of black presses. Every citizen who waited to watch the army march out had hope and hope flashing in their eyes.

The scourge of the Xiliang Army to Luoyang City is something that the people in the city will never forget. Everyone hated the Xiliang Army to the core, and wished that Liu Wei's army would go out to fight and kill the Xiliang Army without leaving a piece of armor.

The cavalry of Qingdao had already walked for a while, and only then did an army of black pressure appear in the direction of the barracks.

The army slowly drove out of the barracks, and the heavily armed officers and soldiers marched in orderly steps, along the road that had just been walked by the cavalry, towards the city gate.