Let's take a look at why Dong Zhuo is now in Hedong?

After successfully suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Qiang people rebelled again, and the imperial court ordered the left chariot cavalry general Huangfu Song to lead the army, and Dong Zhuobai Zhonglang would be the deputy. In July, Huangfu Song was deposed because of the unfavorable battle. In August, the imperial court worshiped Sikong Zhang Wen as the general of the chariot cavalry, took over the affairs of the Sanfu Military Region, and appointed Jinwu Yuan Peng as the deputy. Dong Zhuo is the general of the prisoner, and Zhou Shen is the general of the Dangkou.

One night in November, a meteor streaked across the sky, shining into the rebel camp, and the donkeys and horses neighed, and the rebels considered this a bad omen and prepared to retreat. Dong Zhuo was overjoyed when he learned of the situation, and the next day, Dong Zhuo and Bao Hong, the right wind, attacked together, broke the rebels, and beheaded thousands of people.

The rebels were defeated and returned to Yuzhong County, Jincheng County, Liangzhou. Zhang Wen sent 30,000 people to pursue, Dong Zhuo proposed to Zhang Wen to lead troops to meet Zhou Shen, but Zhang Wen did not allow it, and let Dong Zhuo lead 30,000 people to attack Xian Lingqiang.

Dong Zhuo sent Sima Liu Jing of other departments to lead 4,000 troops to settle in Anding County, and then marched, Dong Zhuo's army was surrounded by the Qiang and Xiongnu in the north of Wangyuan County, and the army was short of food and the situation was critical. Dong Zhuo asked the soldiers to pretend to stop the water in the Weishui to repair the embankment, claiming that it was fishing, but in fact let the army pass under the embankment quickly. When the rebels found out, they couldn't catch up.

At the beginning, Zhang Wen sent six people, of which five people, including Zhou Shen, all ended in failure, but Dong Zhuo's army was full of squad divisions, and the troops were stationed on the right to support the wind. The imperial court named Dong Zhuo as the marquis of the township for his merits, and sealed 1,000 households.

Dong Zhuo was appointed by the imperial court to quell the rebellion in Hedong this time, because he was relatively close. As a general who has been fighting in Xiliang for many years, at this moment his arrogant soldiers have been formed, and his son-in-law Niu Fu was appointed as a Zhonglang general, leading 5,000 Xiliang soldiers as a vanguard to aid Anyi.

Regardless of whether Dong Zhuo will be guilty of heinous crimes or stinking for thousands of years in the future, Dong Zhuo at this time is still a simple Han general, and he is another firefighter after Huangfu Song, the court needs him, and Hedong needs him.

Hedong Taishou Yinde saw Niu Fu and disregarded his identity, and personally went to the city gate to greet him. Huan Huan welcomed Niu Fu's people into the city, and Niu Fu came with Dong Zhuo's subordinates Xu Rong, Hu Zhen, Li Dao, and Guo Yan. However, most of these people are just military marquis or Sima.

Wei Xuan saw Niu Fu and the others two days later in Jiangyi County. After Niu Fu arrived in Anyi, he rested in Anyi for a day, and then sent his troops to Jiangyi, and then summoned Wei Xuan to lead the troops to come, Wei Xuan left Xu Huang with 2,000 people to guard Xiangfen, and brought the remaining men and horses and Bai Shu, Liu Ming, Zheng Teng, three military marquis Zhao Yun rushed to Jiangyi to join Niu Fu's army.

Niu Fu, as a lieutenant general with more than 2,000 stones, and Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, is not as jealous of the Wei family's reputation in the sea as Yin De, Wang Meng and other scholars, these people are all from military backgrounds, and they only believe in military exploits. Not only did they arbitrarily occupy the county office, but they also directly let Wei Xuan and others go to the county government to meet them, instead of the barracks outside the city.

Niu Fu's arrogance has capital, although in Anyi I also heard that Wei Xuan defeated the attack of more than 10,000 thieves with 3,000 soldiers, and killed nearly 10,000 people before and after, but no one thought that those thieves were any military merits, after all, when Zhang Jiao rebelled, it was known as one million, and successively Ji, Yan, Qing, Xu, Yu and Sili and other places.

So when Wei Xuan took a few military marquis to see Niu Fu, naturally there was no good treatment, Niu Fu sat on the Taishi chair, obviously liked the Taishi chair newly bought by the Yaxin in Jiangyi County, and sat there with a big take, and the others didn't think of giving Wei Xuan a seat.

Wei Xuan smiled bitterly in his heart, who made himself young, and a serious official is a Hedong soldier Cao Lu, but it is only three hundred stones, and any military marquis here is six hundred stones, and Sima is even more thousand stones. The key is that they are as strong as Xu Huang, with a murderous aura on their faces, and they look like they have fought bloodily on the battlefield.

Niu Fu introduced everyone to Wei Xuan one by one, these people such as Li Dao and Guo Yan all pouted and ignored them, while Hu Zhen nodded slightly, Xu Rong's attitude was better, and he stood up and smiled at Wei Xuan as a return gift.

Wei Xuan is not a person who cares about these, after all, everyone here has left a big name in the history books, and all of them are louder than Wei Zhongdao in Hedong.

Wei Xuan bowed to Niu Fu, and then came to Sima Xu Rong, who was in his early thirties, and prepared to introduce Bai Shu and others to Niu Fu.

Niu Fu waved his hand and said with a smile: "I heard that the guard Cao did a good job in Anyi, so let's look at my Xiliang cavalry." ”

Wei Xuan had no choice but to smile and say: "Since the general led Xiliang Tie to ride, the thieves naturally disappeared, and Xuan waited for the general's good news." ”

Niu Fu couldn't deny this, and asked, "How many thieves are there at present?" How is it distributed? ”

Wei Xuan then briefly told Niu Fu and others about the approximate strength of Guo Tai and Yang Feng and the two parts of the men and horses stationed in Huze, Yishi and Dongyan respectively.

Niu Fu smiled: "That is the case, then I will wait for the soldiers to send to the east tomorrow, and I can't hold on to that Hu for a day." Guards Cao is infantry will set off tomorrow to transport grain and grass and go directly to Haze. ”

Wei Xuan was stunned for a moment, but then understood that since the regular army of the imperial court arrived, he could only be responsible for transporting grain and grass with these temporary miscellaneous cards.

However, Wei Xuan still reminded: "General Niu, although the thieves are a rabble, the leader Guo Tai is brave, and Yang Feng is resourceful, so before leaving, he still sends scouts to investigate the movements of the Dong Yan and Hao Ze thieves." In case Yang Feng rushed to Haze from the Yi clan, there would be forty or fifty thousand people in the five bands of thieves. In addition, the mountainous road from Jiangyi to the east was not conducive to the cavalry march. ”

Li Dao pouted: "What did the guard Cao say, my Xiliang Army is not brave, if they gather together, it will save effort and worry." ”

Guo Yan continued: "Haha, I haven't been waiting to kill people for long, it seems that the people of Hedong don't know the name of our murderer." ”

Wei Xuan raised his head and looked at the two of them carefully, thinking that these two were the big devils who continued to plague Guanzhong and rob Hongnong and Luoyang many times after Dong Zhuo.

On the field, such as Hu Zhen also smiled, obviously not taking Mrs. Guo and other rabble in his eyes.

Cypress and others looked at these arrogant soldiers and fierce generals, and they were not convinced, but Wei Xuan had an explanation before entering the door, and the county soldiers and marquis of Cypress and others did not count, and they were not as hard as those appointed by the imperial court.

Everyone dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, and Wei Xuan also said to Niu Fu with a smile again: "Then the lower official will go down to prepare, if General Niu and you have any orders, send someone to inform Xuan." ”

Niu Fu nodded, glanced at Xu Rong, Xu Rong understood and got up to accompany Wei Xuan out of the county office. Wei Xuan saw that Xu Rong was the only one who got up to see him off, his expression was also complicated, he should be the lowest in terms of military position, but when it comes to military exploits, Wei Xuan was not very clear before, but when the princes crusaded against Dong Zhuo, Xu Rong was a great general in addition to Hua Xiong and Lu Bu, and he was not from Liangzhou.

Xu Rong's main achievements: the princes fought against Dong when Bianshui broke Cao Cao and Bao Xin, and Liang Dong defeated Sun Jian, these two battles directly destroyed the already weak confidence of the Kwantung coalition army. Subsequently, he recommended Gongsun Du as the Taishou of Liaodong, so that this area got a rare peace. Whether it was to break Cao Cao or defeat Sun Jian, the bravest of the princes at that time, it can be seen that Xu Rong was a rare all-round talent in civil and military affairs.

Wei Xuan then made friends and smiled: "Xu Jun came from afar to work hard, if you are free at night, please come to the Xuan account, Xuan Wei Xu Jun will pick up the wind and wash the dust alone." ”

Xu Rong was stunned when he heard this, and then thought that maybe the second son of the Wei family was because he came out to send him to the scene, so he smiled and said: "I have to go out tomorrow, so I won't work as a soldier." When he destroys the thieves one day, it's not too late for you and me to drink freely. ”

It's not easy to say when Wei Xuan meets people for the first time, brother, I admire you very much, Boss Cao and Jiangdong Tigers are so good, you are awesome! So he said: "The day of the thief is not far away, and I look forward to that day as soon as possible." ”

Bidding farewell to Xu Rong, Wei Xuan first went to find the county magistrate who was hiding in the back hall and shivering, and asked him to start ordering the opening of the treasury. It is impossible for Niu Fu and these people to pay for the grain, grass, military salaries, and Wei Xuan out of their own pockets, except for the ones transported from Anyi, which are naturally taken from here and locally. The county commander had long been frightened by Niu Fu and the others, and when he saw the second son of the Wei family who was easy to speak, in addition to complaining about Niu Fu and others, he also quickly agreed to all of Wei Xuan's requests. After all, because of Wei Xuan, he held the county seat, and because Niu Fu and others came here safely, he only needed to be responsible for logistics next, but he didn't want to offend Niu Fu and others at this time and be charged with insufficient supply affecting the army.

Then Wei Xuan took everyone back to the camp outside the city directly, and the reinforcements sent to Jiangyi also returned to the outside of the city together, leaving only the soldiers and horses of Jiangyi County and Niu Fu and others in Chengnei. I think that Niu Fu and the others will not leave all the 5,000 cavalry in the city no matter how strong they are, in that case, the city will be even worse than the robbery of the thieves.

On the road, Bai Shu and the others were indignant, but Wei Xuan said to Zhao Yun: "General Wu Guan Niu and the others, but they are all brave, but I don't know how well they can command the troops?" ”

Zhao Yun thought for a while and said: "The art of war, the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, these Xiliang soldiers are all above the top, I think sooner or later they will suffer." It's just that Xu Sima seems to be very special. ”

Wei Xuan smiled when he heard this: "It's a little out of place, he's not from Xiliang, he's from Liaodong." ”

Zhao Yun sighed, as if he wanted to say that it was so. However, when everyone came to the camp outside the city, they finally understood why Li Dao, Guo Yan and others looked down on the thieves, and even the military marquis under Wei Xuan.

Because people really have proud capital, the five thousand Xiliang soldiers have just arrived and are camping, and a group of cavalry outside the camp is patrolling, and there are sturdy soldiers sitting on the back of tall and sturdy Xiliang horses, and those people are obviously more imposing than the cavalry led by Zhao Yun these days. Although it may not be possible to beat the Wei family cavalry one-on-one, if it is a group of people fighting, Zhao Yun feels that he does not seem to be sure.

Of course, this is inseparable from the fact that the cavalry under Zhao Yun is only in its infancy and has no more actual combat experience.