Lao Dong allocated one-third of the income from the salt pond in Hedong to Ding Yuan to support the army.

But as for the reinforcements that Ding Yuan wanted, forget it.

It's not that Lao Dong wants to do things so desperately, but that Kansai at this time is in a situation where the east and west fronts are at war.

To his west, the Tunken rebel army that had risen in Liangzhou was sweeping through Liangzhou, and they, along with Beigong Boyu and Han Sui's rebel army, were threatening the Sanfu area.

Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou Legion had already fought against the mutant army in the Chencang area many times, and now it was at a critical point in the Battle of Chencang, and it was impossible to draw a single soldier.

This is especially true of the section of the Eastern Front. This time, the Kanto side went against the norm and began to take the initiative to mobilize troops to launch several battles against its own side on the Kansai front.

This greatly exceeded Dong Zhuo's early expectations, in his eyes, the Kanto region, which had experienced the changes of the White Horse Temple, was almost a dry bone in the mound, and he didn't expect that it would be able to rise up now.

However, this is estimated to be the last breath, so at this time, Dong Zhuo will not send the troops from the front line of Cuihan to Bingzhou.

Besides, in the end, don't you still have Yanmen Pass and Lou Fu Pass? Can you stop the Hu people, but can't stop the Taishan army?

Therefore, Dong Zhuo assessed it and thought that the southward movement of the Taishan army was indeed serious, but it was not the most important at present, so he allocated the military strength "reasonably".

But when Ding Yuan sent a military report again, he said that not only Yanmen Pass was lost, but Fanzhi was also lost.

At this moment, Dong Zhuo finally couldn't sit still, he had done the history of the Bingzhou assassination before, and he knew the shape of the state very well. As soon as Yanmen Pass is lost, the two major basins in the heart of the state will be directly exposed to the iron cavalry of the Taishan army.

And once Fanzhi is also lost, it means that the Hebei and Bingzhou occupied by the Taishan army are completely opened.

Previously, a very important reason why Dong Zhuo was able to sit firmly in Diaoyutai was that he knew the predicament in the Pingcheng area.

Although it is also a basin, because of the sparse population and the halogen of the land, it is very difficult for the Taishan army to obtain supplies in the local area.

If you want to transfer from Hebei, you need to bypass the Taihang Mountains from the north, and this transportation difficulty alone will make the Taishan army unable to support it.

Therefore, Dong Zhuo judged that as long as the Yanmen Pass was guarded carefully, the Taishan army would inevitably retreat by itself.

But now that Yanmen Pass and Fanzhi have been lost, the situation is really critical.

Just when Dong Zhuo was thinking about which of these soldiers in his hands could support the state, the state sent another military report.

But it was the waste-like Ding who made the wall clear the wilderness, and reversed the Shihao and the people of Yuanping. Under the leadership of Yang Feng, a white wave thief general, the local Qiantou gathered troops to respond to the Taishan army.

At this time, the defense of northern Taiyuan was left with Yangqu.

In Ding Yuan's own words, the people of Taiyuan at this time were panicked, and there were countless people who went out of the city to take refuge every day. If there are no more reinforcements, Taiyuan will not be guaranteed, and the state will not be protected.

Dong Zhuo, who was still hesitant about whether to rescue or not, could only convene a meeting with the generals in the army to discuss together.

His personal servant Niu Fu was very direct, and he said this:

"The Taishan army is sharp, and our army is difficult to compete with. And once I am reluctantly withdrawn, I will immediately be in a dilemma. Therefore, it is advisable to abandon the land of annexing the state and guard the Kansai region. ”

Niu Fu's words represent a large number of generals in the army, they are all front-line generals in the eastern and western battlefields, and they know very well that the two-sided battle has reached a critical period.

If you are distracted by the annexation of the states to the north at this time, the battle on both sides will be deadlocked, and the advantages that have been fought by blood and sweat will be lost for a while.

So what they mean is to exchange land for time, let Ding Yuan's old boy take the Bingzhou people to defend in Taiyuan, let them calmly clean up the enemies on both sides, and then go north to rescue when the time comes.

However, Niu Fu's views were opposed by Li Ru.

Li Ru, as Dong Zhuo's mastermind, analyzed from the overall situation:

"Taiyuan, the backbone of the world, looks around. If the state is abandoned, Hedong will not be protected. Hedong is hardworking, Shima is strong, and Jingyi is capitalized. If the lieutenant abandoned it, there was an uproar in the army. It is better to allocate 30,000 elite soldiers and rely on the middle strip to build a defensive line. If you can help too far, you can protect the east of the river if you retreat. ”

As the mastermind, Li Ru naturally thought farther than Niu Fu, and he analyzed the necessity of rescue for Dong Zhuo politically.

That is, don't look at Dong Zhuo as if he is a festival of the Kansai army, but in fact, his lineage is basically two parts.

One part was the Liangzhou army that followed him, and the other part was the Hedong soldiers. The two major armaments are like the two wheels of a car, one on the left and one on the right to defend Dong Zhuo's martial arts group.

And if the Taishan army is allowed to take Taiyuan, then Hedong will inevitably be unprotected. And if you can't keep Hedong, the Hedong soldiers will be distracted. At that time, the carriage of the Taishi Mansion will collapse one wheel and face the danger of overturning.

Not to mention, if the Taishan army occupies Hedong, then they can threaten Chang'an and Luoyang from the east and west. After all, Dong Zhuo was the Taishou of Hedong before, and how he used the geography of Hedong to ride the wall on the east and west sides naturally goes without saying.

Therefore, Li Rucai immediately stated that reinforcements must be sent.

But this rescue is more strategic. Li Ru meant to build a defense line in Hedong, just hold Hedong, and Taiyuan will depend on how Ding Yuan fights.

Dong Zhuo didn't speak, he pondered for a while, and then asked the thin person in the crowd:

"Wenhe, what do you think?"

After Jia Xu heard this, he respectfully stepped out of the ranks.

He naturally has opinions on this matter, but Dong Zhuo didn't ask before, and he won't take the initiative to mention it, especially since Li Ru has already expressed it. But since Dong Zhuo took the initiative to ask, he would not keep it, even if Li Ru had already expressed it.

This one seems to be different, but in fact it is the same attitude, that is, not daring to be the first.

Here's what Jia Xu said:

"Taishi, now I'm familiar with the Taishan army in Kansai?"

Dong Zhuo groaned for a while, a little embarrassed, but still told the truth:

"As for the troops, let's be between us and them. He has Youyan Tuqi, and I have Liangzhou horses. He has Jizhou wealth, and I have the benefit of Tianfu. He has a hundred elite soldiers, and I am not bad, and the Yong, Liang, and Yi soldiers under his command are all veterans. It's ......"

Jia Xu is very direct:

"It's that the Taishan army is more united, but I'm Kansai is divided?"

Dong Zhuo was stunned when he heard this, but still admitted:

"I'm not going to hide it from you, indeed. Listen to us, aren't they all the old brothers we have brought out over the years? You expect the military inside and outside the West Park to give us their lives, that's unrealistic. If you talk about Yizhou again, now there are more and more Liu Yan's small actions, I heard that his style in Chengdu is comparable to that of the Son of Heaven, and even Che Yu is modeled after the Son of Heaven. What kind of attitude do you say about him? ”

At this time, Dong Zhuo's nephew Dong Huang interjected ignorantly:

"How so? Aren't Liu Yan's two sons in Kyoto, and he dares to oppose us? ”

Dong Zhuo choked and scolded:

"You're a fool and you're not going to step down?"

It's not that he doesn't love his nephew, it's that he's too stupid to ask. dare to want to be the Son of Heaven, who cares about the life and death of his son? Besides, doesn't he have a young son by his side? That's even more emboldening.

Don't talk about Liu Yan, when Dong Zhuo raised troops in Hedong to enter Chang'an, wasn't his younger brother Dong Min also a hostage in Beijing? Does he Dong Zhuo care?

You can't say too much about this, and if you say too much, it will affect the feelings of brothers.

No one cared that Dong Huang retreated angrily, everyone was watching Jia Xu and listening to what he had to say.

After getting Dong Zhuo's answer, Jia Xu asked rhetorically:

"In fact, the Taiwei also understands that we are not competing with the Taishan army, and the only thing we can rely on is the danger of mountains and rivers. But in this case, why should the rivers and mountains of the state be handed over? Even if we hold the east of the river, the Taishan army can still cross the river from Longmen and enter the pass. When the time comes, what is the difference between Hedong Shou and not? ”

At this time, Li Ru's face was already a little stiff, and then, Jia Xu continued:

"Taishi, in the final analysis, it is not my soil, it is Ding Yuan who is more anxious than us. As long as we send reinforcements into the annexed state, Ding Yuan will continue to fight. Only by giving him hope can he hold on. And we can consume the Taishan army at the lowest cost. ”

Finally, Jia Xu concluded:

"Instead of handing over the soldiers and civilians of the state to the Taishan army, it is better to let it turn into scorched earth, inch by inch of mountains and rivers, and see how many people can die in the Taishan army!"

Dong Zhuo understood, and his attitude towards Jia Xu was more complicated.

This person is really easy to use, before the rebellion of the White Horse Temple in Kanto, this person only affected a few key people slightly, which made the little emperor Liu Wei, who had the advantage, lose a fine light.

Then He Jin even won inexplicably.

He probably never thought that it was this skinny little man in front of him who saved his life.

But this person is indeed a bit desperate in his work, which is a bit contrary to Dong Zhuo's rough Kansai temperament. Dong Zhuo admits that he is not a good person.

But there is one thing Dong Zhuo can guarantee, that is, he doesn't play these yin. If he wants to kill you, he will draw a knife and kill you on the spot. The same is true for him to kill the Qiang handsome back then, everyone in front of him was so happy to drink and eat meat, but just because these people took a big one in front of him and yelled at five and six to drink, he drew a knife and killed them all on the spot.

This is the character of the Kansai man, if he wants to kill you in the morning, he will not keep you until the evening.

This is Dong Zhuo's advantage, so he often has the heart of a servant, and everyone is willing to die for him. But this is also his shortcoming, that is, he is not tactful enough politically, especially in the power struggle.

This is also what Dong Zhuo has recently reflected.

He found that political struggles, especially power struggles, should not be bloodied nakedly, and everyone thinks that you are fighting for power. It often has to rise to the point of ideological struggle and line struggle.

For example, the previous gang of Qingliu and the eunuchs fought to the death, wasn't it just to fight for power and profit? Isn't it just for the quota of filial piety every year?

But Qingliu just said that all this is a confrontation against the oblique, is it to help the world and relieve the Han family?

Laughing to death, as a Kansai martial artist, a frustrated person outside the center of power, he Dong Zhuo really wanted to ask:

"The world is so corrupt, isn't it the work of these families?"

In the past, Dong Zhuo may have said this immediately, but now he understands those people after taking control of the government.

This power struggle really can't be the same as on the battlefield.

So, even though he felt uncomfortable with Jia Xu's methods, he still persuaded himself to accept and learn.

Himself, he is no longer the Dong Feifei who has nothing to rely on but is resentful, but the Taishi of the Han Dynasty! It is the guardian who can truly make the Great Han great again.

In fact, at the beginning of the meeting, he himself was inclined to rescue and merge with the state. This is not so much politically, but strategically.

As a first-class commander who also belonged to Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo vaguely saw who the target of the Taishan army was.

Is that Zhang Chong and Bingzhou really to beat himself? Dong Zhuo thinks not. With Kansai's strength and size, that Zhang Chong should know very well that this must be a protracted battle.

Therefore, the end point of Zhang Chong's use of troops will not be Chang'an, because he will fall into the quagmire of the Kansai battlefield. When the princes in the Central Plains integrated their strength, it was Zhang Chong who was miserable.

Since it is not Chang'an, it is Luoyang.

At this time, Luoyang was like a hooded stag, he thought he was still the protagonist, but he didn't know that he had long been the prey in the eyes of others.

If he Dong Zhuo is Zhang Chong, he will also fight Luoyang. Conquer Luoyang, with the danger of Cuihan and the annexation of the state, then Kansai can be completely locked in the northwest.

At that time, Zhang Chong will be able to calmly attack the Central Plains.

Dong Zhuo had never fought Zhang Chong head-on, but he knew that if he thought so, then Zhang Chong's thief must also think so.

Maybe that's what the hero sees.

He Dong Zhuo is a hero, and that Zhang Chong thief is not bad, even if he is half a hero, it is normal to think of one.

After thinking about it for a long time, Dong Zhuo finally made up his mind.

After the meeting, Dong Zhuo finally ordered his general Hu Zhen to lead 3,000 soldiers from Bingzhou, 30,000 soldiers from Xiyuan, and more than 10,000 soldiers from Liangzhou, with a total strength of 50,000 troops.

Speaking of which, Dong Taishi still wants to take the Xiyuan soldiers as the main head of the injustice to go to the state to fight an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood.

Not to mention the "shrewdness" of Master Dong, at this time, Ding Yuan also reached his most critical time.

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Taiyuan County, Yangqu, Yikou.

As the backbone of the world and the key to the north, the state is unique in terms of geopolitical defense. On its outer edge surrounded by mountains, the terrain is dangerous, the east is Taihang, the west is Luliang, the north is Hengshan, and the south is Zhongtiao.

And relying on these mountain systems, Yanmen and Loufu are firmly guarding Taiyuan in the basin. It can be said that guarding in Taiyuan, retreating to defend the country, and controlling the mountains and rivers when entering.

But unfortunately, once the Yanmen Pass is broken, along the Fenshui from north to south, there is only one pass that can protect Taiyuan.

That's Xinkou.

This place is the only way to go south to Taiyuan in the north, its two sides are mountains, the east is Wutai Mountain, the west is Yunzhong Mountain, the mountains are undulating, and the Hutuo water passes through it in the middle.

And the army will move down the waterway, so Xinkou is the last barrier in Taiyuan.

Of course, Ding Yuan, the assassin of Bingzhou, also understood this, so when the original civilians rebelled, he immediately ordered the general Guo Lin to lead 5,000 troops to drive Yangqu, and the most important thing was Yikou.

Thus, around this dangerous pass, the first bloody battle of the Battle of Bingzhou began.

(End of chapter)