Zhang Ji listened to Jia Xu's words and rushed in front of Duan Xuan again and roared urgently: "Mr. Jia, Ji is willing to be the vanguard of the thieves for General Zuo, and lead the people of the headquarters to break through Tongguan!" ”

Duan Xuan saw that Zhang Ji was a little remorseful in his heart, since he decided to return to Wei Xuan, he naturally had to seize the time to behave. However, Jia Xu did not agree to Zhang Ji but said with a smile: "Two generals, there are still hundreds of miles from Huayin to Chang'an, and there are still forty or fifty thousand elites in the hands of Li Dao and Guo Yanlai, so there is no need to worry about not fighting in the future, but the most important thing at the moment is to attract Li Dao and Guo Yan to Tongguan, just the letter of help from the previous two generals is far from enough, and the two should be so ......."

Zhang Ji and Duan Xuan were overjoyed when they heard this, so they went down happily to prepare.

Three hundred miles away, Li Dao and Guo Yan of Baling had just led their troops out of Chang'an City, and there was a dispute over who would go in front, and it turned out that Li Dao felt that his status was the highest among the Xiliang soldiers, so he should be the commander of the three armies, and of course he should march behind. And Guo Yan thought that the garrison of Tongguan mainly relied on infantry, and his own infantry was not enough, so Li Wei brought ???????????????? 10,000 infantry should be the main force stationed in Tongguan, and only when field battles are needed is the time when the two of them each send out 10,000 Xiliang cavalry. Of course, this is Guo Yan's reason on the surface, but in his bones he is also dissatisfied with Li Dao, and he doesn't want to be misunderstood by his generals that he is obedient to Li Dao.

To say that Li Dao and Guo Yan were like brothers before Dong Zhuo was killed, they supported each other, but power is magical. When the general of Xiliang defeated Wang Yun and killed Lu Bu, he found that Niu Fu was dead and Hu Zhen was dead, and Xu Rong, the first person in Xiliang, had already surrendered to Wei Xuan. Originally, the generals who were also second- and third-rate in the Xiliang Army suddenly reached the highest point of strength, and naturally they were a little fluttering. Scholars also began to compete for power and profit.

Before he completely broke with Fan Chou, Li Wei often hosted banquets in his own house to invite Guo Yan, and sometimes left Guo Yan to stay in his own home. Guo Yan's wife was afraid that Li Wei would send a concubine to Guo Yan and take away her love, so she wanted to provoke their relationship. Once Li Wei sent wine and food to Guo Yan, Guo Yan's wife said that the dark vegetable soup in the dish was poison, and Guo Yan's wife picked out the tempeh to show Guo Yan before Guo Yan ate it, and said a lot of bad things about Li Wei, which made Guo Yan suspicious.

Once the seeds of suspicion germinate, the opportunity to grow wildly, this time the two heard that Wei Xuan was preparing to go west to Chang'an, and finally led their troops out of Chang'an City.

After all, Li Dao is the leader of the Xiliang soldiers, under the persuasion of his subordinates, in order to take into account the overall situation, he decided to invite Guo Bi to solve the differences between the two sides, during the banquet, not only Li Dao himself frequently persuaded to drink, but also let the generals under his command come to accompany Guo Bi, showing full sincerity, and as a result, Guo Bi was drunk and was helped back to his camp, Guo Bi remembered what his wife told him, suspected that Li Wei wanted to poison him, and quickly asked his subordinates to fetch and drink fecal juice to induce vomiting and hangover. After a bowl, Guo Yan vomited a lot, but he was still not at ease, and drank two bowls in succession, but in the end he didn't spit out anything, but swallowed it directly.

When Guo Yan woke up from the wine, he felt that he seemed to be suspicious, and it was impossible for Li Dao to let him leave Li Dao's camp if he really wanted to harm him, but directly detained himself or directly solved it, and then sent someone to collect his team overnight, which means that his three big bowls were drunk in vain.

But after drinking all the dung juice, of course, he can't make people think that he is suspicious, so if it is spread out, not only will his subordinates distrust him, but he will also be ridiculed by Li Wei's people. Then he Guo Yan will become a joke of Quan Xiliang and even Quan Dahan.

So Guo Yan didn't do anything, and at dawn he tried to kill himself and directly led his troops to attack Li Dao, Li Dao was already guarding against Guo Dao, and among the people who sent Guo Bi back were Li Dao's people, and after hearing Guo Yan's decision, he immediately sent someone to inform Li Dao, and Li Dao was shocked when he heard it, and immediately began to prepare.

When Guo Yan came to the front of Li Dao's camp with people, he found that Li Dao was already in full battle, so he began to attack hard, and after two days of fighting, there were thousands of dead and wounded, but there was no way to distinguish the winner for the time being.

The Son of Heaven, who was left in Chang'an by the two, heard that the two warlords were fighting in Baling, so he sent people to persuade peace, but the two naturally ignored the Son of Heaven and still confronted each other in the same place.

Guo Yan harmed ???????????????? Afraid that Li Dao would make a mistake and continue to murder himself, he conspired with others to prepare to kidnap the Son of Heaven to his camp, and then summoned the secretary of state to deprive Li Dao of his military power in the name of the imperial court, but the plan was leaked to Li Dao by his subordinates, Li Dao felt that Guo Yan's method was very good, since Guo Yan had the seeds of suspicion in his heart, it was impossible for the two sides to return to the previous intimate relationship, and now Wei Xuan was marching into Chang'an, and the Xiliang Group needed a strong core, so he took the lead and sent his nephew to kidnap the Son of Heaven to his camp. Later, Li Wei pretended to ask the ministers to come forward to persuade him, and he felt that the idea was to let Guo Yan march in front in the name of the imperial court and the Son of Heaven first, and once Guo Yan confessed this time, he would continue to wait for him in the future.

Guo Yan saw that his plan to kidnap the Son of Heaven was robbed by Li Dao, and then kidnapped the minister who came to persuade peace, so one kidnapped the Son of Heaven, the other kidnapped the minister, and the two continued to fight.

After Li Dao kidnapped the Son of Heaven, he was so neglectful of the Son of Heaven that he didn't even leave the largest military account in the barracks to the Son of Heaven, and even disregarded the most basic interests. The Son of Heaven dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and even in order to save his own life, he had to be named Li Dao as the Taifu, above the three dukes. Li Wei got his wish and overwhelmed Guo Yan a lot, although Guo Yan had many ministers in his hands, he couldn't add himself to the rank of knight, and he was extremely depressed.

Li Wei, who had the Son of Heaven in hand, was promoted again, and naturally ordered Guo Yan to be in front of him, and he headed towards Tongguan after the disaster. Although Guo Yan was not convinced, he also knew that if he didn't rescue Tongguan again, there would be no good fruit to eat when Wei Xuan led the troops to Chang'an, so he swallowed his anger and marched forward.

When the two armies arrived in Shaanxi County, Zhong Miao and others felt that it was inappropriate to coerce the Son of Heaven all the way to the battlefield, so they wanted to reconcile Li Dao and Guo Yan and move the Son of Heaven to Xinghe County. To put it mildly, the ministers took turns to persuade Li Dao and Guo Yan to agree to reconcile, and promised to use their beloved sons as hostages to calm down. It was agreed to let the Son of Heaven stay where he was, and the two parts of the men and horses continued eastward.

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The two led their troops to leave Shaanxi County, and one day they heard that Dong Cheng and others were carrying the Son of Heaven to the north, preparing to cross the Yellow River and go to Hedong to seek refuge from Wei Xuan. Li Dao and Guo Yan were shocked, they were able to be promoted so quickly, and they were able to continue to be powerful after Dong Zhuo's death, in addition to having a certain number of Xiliang soldiers in their hands, they relied on the Son of Heaven in their hands. If the Son of Heaven runs away, and then is greeted by Wei Xuan as Luoyang, and they are dismissed and cut off, then they will really become traitors and Han Sui, Ma Teng and others for two weeks. And the morale of Wei Xuanfeng's edict against the thieves will definitely be high, and the morale of the Xiliang soldiers will be seriously frustrated.

So the two left the infantry in place, and led their 10,000 cavalry to intercept the Son of Heaven by the Yellow River.

There are also smart people among the ministers, most of Dong Cheng's army is infantry and the combat effectiveness is very poor, if they go directly from Shaanxi County to the northeast of Hedong, they will definitely be intercepted by Li Dao and others, so they chose to go north first and then go west. However, although they did not meet Li Dao and Guo Yan by the Yellow River, Li Dao and Guo Yan did not see the Son of Heaven and naturally searched all the way west along the Yellow River, and finally stopped the Son of Heaven and his party by the Wei River.

Although Li Dao and Guo Yan were very angry, the Son of Heaven was still useful to them, and the Manchu Dynasty was also indispensable to the imperial court, so they suppressed the anger in their hearts and stationed the original ???????????????? All the troops west of Chang'an came to see the Son of Heaven, and the two turned around and headed towards Tongguan.

It's just that they delayed for a few days in Baling, and they delayed for several days in order to chase the Son of Heaven, and when they delayed it again, they delayed for several days. Before they could march and join the infantry, the infantry in front had already been defeated, along with Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji and the soldiers under their command.

Li Dao and Guo Yan Dawei were surprised and hurriedly asked, but the headquarters of the two did not know what the reason was, they were waiting for Li Dao and Guo Yan's cavalry in the same place, and on the third day, they saw Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji coming from the direction of Tongguan, the lineup was chaotic, and the soldiers lost their armor, so the infantry left by Li Dao and Guo Yan also ran in the direction of Chang'an. That is to say, they never saw Wei Xuan's army retreat like this.

Li Wei, Guo Yan and others wondered why they asked Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji to ask about the situation ahead, and the two had already been instructed by Jia Xu, so Duan Xuan came forward to add oil and vinegar to talk nonsense, anyway, the combat power of Wei Xuan's army was very strong, first he used cavalry to raid, and the two were forced to retreat to Tongguan, but Wei Xuan dispatched a giant catapult and directly smashed the tall city wall of Tongguan. The two struggled to support for two days, and without seeing Li Dao and others for reinforcements, they could only retreat.

Li Ji and Guo Yan didn't believe it, and sent someone to find Zhang Ji, Zhang Ji was even more good at acting and saying that there were people in the Wei Xuan army who knew how to demons, and his nephew Zhang Xiu led the cavalry to meet the general and was defeated by the Wei Xuan army with infantry, and his nephew Zhang Xiu was even more missing. Hearing that Zhang Ji had even lost his nephew, Li Ji and Guo Yan felt that Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji might really encounter a rift and cruel battle, and they ran to complain about the two of them and swallowed their words.

Originally, they didn't expect Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji to be able to block Wei Xuan's army, but because the two of them delayed too much time in the same place, they didn't arrive at Tongguan in time, of course, they couldn't blame Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji for this matter, so they comforted the two and let the two camp in Lintong, Li Wei and Guo Yan decided to take their respective cavalry to the meeting Wei Xuan, at least to delay the speed of Wei Xuan's advance, so that Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji had the opportunity to collect the remnants, and also gave their infantry the opportunity to build the camp stronger.