Chapter 407: The Princes of the Divide
Not to mention the celebration banquet, the filth on the side of the princes' coalition army.
In the Tiger Prison, after the guard general settled the frightened wolf rider side of the state, he immediately retouched a letter and sent it to Dong Zhuo, who was in Luoyang.
And after Dong Zhuo opened this urgent document, he saw that the ace in his hand, Lu Bu, had died on the battlefield like this, and in anger, he directly smashed the head of the sergeant who sent the document with a palm.
can take advantage of the situation and achieve today's status, Dong Zhuo is naturally not a person with wine bags and rice bags. Therefore, after venting, he quickly summoned the strategists and generals, ready to discuss what should happen next.
"Let's take a look!" After all the people under his command came, Dong Zhuo directly handed over the letter in his hand to his most trusted strategist, Li Ru, according to the usual practice. I'm going to wait for them to see it, so I can come up with an idea.
Although it was expected that it was not a trivial matter to recruit himself and others in a hurry at this hour, when he saw the letter with his own eyes, it was written that the strongest person on Lu Bu's side who took care of himself was defeated by the hands of the princes' coalition and was directly beheaded, Dong Zhuo's subordinates led by Li Ru were still almost shocked.
Among them, Niu Fu, who had the most anxious temper, asked in a loud voice after putting down the paperwork: "Father-in-law, is this really the case?" General Lu took it seriously...... Died at the hands of the rebels outside the gate? Could this guard be ...... Typo, right? ”
"Xu Zhen is also my old subordinate, so he shouldn't make this kind of mistake."
Dong Zhuo actually preferred that this news was fake, after all, the reason why he was able to take over the imperial court so smoothly in this high-martial world of the Three Kingdoms made the royal family and those gate lords in the capital dare not speak out, and Lu Bu occupied a very important role in it.
And now, Lu Bu's Dinghai Divine Needle is actually dead, once the news spreads, I'm afraid that those who have been pressed by him all this time will have something to think.
"In that case, it means it's true!"
In fact, Niu Fu also knew that such important news should not be fake, and he was just hoping for the last bit of luck before. Now that the last fluke is gone, Niu Pu and others with the same heart have to accept the reality. Therefore, I couldn't help but lose my voice for a while, and began to silently consider the impact of these things on myself and others.
Seeing that his subordinates were silent, these days they have been in power, and the politics and law of Lile are all in their hands, and their temper is becoming more and more impatient, and the hot Dong Zhuozai can't hold it back, so he directly named him: "Wen You, you are the most resourceful under my command, you can tell me what we should do now!" ”
"It's not surprising that there is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger in the world that can defeat General Fengxian," Li Ru shook the feather fan in his hand and said, "But I didn't expect it to appear among the rebellious ministers and rebels outside the gate, which is a bit of a headache......
"Don't talk about things that have passed!" Obviously, Dong Zhuo doesn't have the time or mood to listen to these tirades now. Therefore, he directly interrupted Li Ru's words and said impatiently: "The key is the present, how it should be now!" ”
"Right now?" Li Ru beckoned, and the last one passed the document back, and after taking a look, he directly mentioned it in Dong Zhuo's hand and said, "Father-in-law, do you still see anything from General Xu's letter?" ”
What else do you see?
Dong Zhuo couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he heard this, and then subconsciously took the letter and began to look at it carefully to see if there was anything missing.
However, looking left and right, it didn't seem like there was any other useful information, so Dong Zhuo directly put the paperwork aside, and said a little impatiently: "Okay Wenyou, it's already this time, don't buy any more lawsuits, let's talk about it." ”
"I don't know if my father-in-law has noticed that General Xu mentioned in the letter that after General Lu was killed, the coalition army composed of rebellious ministers and thieves was originally going to directly wipe out the wolf cavalry of Bingzhou, but they were repelled by him," Li Ru said with a smile.
Dong Zhuo took the document forward again and looked at it, then frowned and said, "So what? ”
"Although our side is disdainful of that group of rebellious ministers and thieves, it is undeniable that they do have some strength, according to the information from the front, a total of nineteen thieves committed this time, adding up to nearly a million people!" Li Ru said: "Among them, the Tiger Prison Pass, which is where their main force is, is hundreds of thousands!"
Maybe the combat power of these rabble recruited is far inferior to our Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but the number of people is there, plus there are generals leading the troops, and their combat power cannot be underestimated.
And if they really work together, with General Xu to protect them, they can get out of the pass, and it will be difficult for the leaderless wolf riders of Bingzhou to escape.
Now, according to the letters, they have mostly fled. This means that these rebels and thieves are probably not as monolithic as we think. And that's our chance. ”
"What do you mean...... Discord? Li Rudu has said this, if he doesn't understand it again, it will be a fool.
"That's good," Li Ru said with a smile.
Dong Zhuo hesitated: "Will they be fooled?" ”
"Doesn't my father-in-law already have an answer in his heart?" Li Ru asked rhetorically.
“…… So how do you do that? Dong Zhuo pondered for a moment and found that even if he failed, it would have no effect on himself. So he officially agreed to the plan proposed by his son-in-law.
"Simplicity, no one in the world suffers from widowhood, but from inequality. Instead of poverty, we suffer from injustice. Li Ru squinted his eyes and said with a cold look in his eyes: "Then we will make them uneven!" Unjust! ”
As Dong Zhuo's side made up his mind, soon, a letter carefully drawn up by Dong Zhuo's side and stamped with the Great Seal of the Son of Heaven followed the messenger out of Luoyang and galloped towards the direction of the Tiger Pass.
Because of the light car along the way, and the envoy was a fast horse and a good horse, he didn't wait too long, and he came to the Tiger Prison Pass, which was being attacked by the coalition forces outside the Guanwai one after another.
The general who was subject to the Tiger Prison received him, and after nightfall, the alliance army of the princes outside the gate collected his troops and returned to the camp to rest. One by one, the envoys and lobbyists went out of the city at night, and sneaked towards the camp of the princes who were to lobby for the alliance of the princes outside the Guanwai.
If it were usual, it would be impossible for these princes' battalions to let them and the heads of the army at all. But before they came, they had already prepared, like the envoy who was in charge of lobbying Yuan Shu to discord had Yuan Feng's token in Luoyang City in his hand.
Faced with this situation, the sergeant in charge of the guard patrol did not dare to call the shots, no matter how bold he was. So the relevant envoys met with their targets one after another.
I have to say that this time Dong Zhuo has made a bloody investment, and the conditions for opening are quite high!
Therefore, even though many princes knew that this was a discord, such as Yuan Shu, who had been suppressed by Yuan Shao in this alliance, they still accepted their will.
And this also laid the bane for the collapse of the alliance later!