Zhou Tai protected Yuan Shao and rushed back and forth in the Hebei cavalry camp, and he was covered in sweat.

Now Zhou Tai has been hit by four spears in a row and has suffered five knife wounds, although these wounds have not hit his vital point, but they have also caused him great trauma.

And Zhou Tai is indeed very brave, even if he is so seriously injured, he is still not afraid, he protects Yuan Shao, fights desperately in the formation, and vows to take Yuan Shao out of this encirclement net.

Yan Liang and Xu Huang's army continued to kill the soldiers around Zhou Tai on the side, but even if they killed many of the guards around Zhou Tai, they would still continue to rush out of the soldiers of the Yuan army from the main formation to defend Zhou Tai and Yuan Shao and help them escape.

In the end, Yuan Shao escaped under the protection of Zhou Tai, who was seriously injured.

However, this battle was an unprecedented defeat for him.

Previously damaged Sun Jian, Yuan Shao still felt that Sun Jian was careless for a while, allowing Liu Jian to take advantage of the loophole.

Now he understands that the combat power of the Hebei Army is really much stronger than he imagined.

After Liu Jian's victory, he was not complacent.

After expelling Yuan Shao, he officially sent troops to Hangu Pass.

Previously, it was Yuan Shao who wanted to take Hangu Pass and occupy a geographical advantage.

But now Yuan Shao is no longer able to continue to drive troops to Hangu Pass, he can only lead his troops back to the north bank of Luoshui to station, and once again confront Liu Jianjun.

Since Yuan Shao no longer has the ability to take Hangu Pass, Liu Jian will naturally not let go of this opportunity.

Hangu Pass is a place of contact between Sizhou and Yongzhou, and it is a necessary way to enter Luoyang.

Moreover, if he can be stationed at this pass, he can also completely block the army in the east from Qinchuan, and use the danger of Hangu to make the Guanzhong Plain a blockade important place for him Liu Jian.

At present, the important place of Hangu Pass is in the hands of Li Dao, a general under Dong Zhuo, but now Li Dao's main troops and horses are in Yongzhou to quell the rebellion of the rebels, and there is no time to take care of Hanguan for the time being.

Therefore, the number of defenders in Hangu Pass is relatively small at present.

This also gave Liu Jian a good opportunity.

The news of the war between Liu Jian and Yuan Shao naturally spread to Hangu Pass quickly, but the two sides broke out in a relatively large-scale battle this time, so Linghu, the guard general of Hangu, mistakenly felt that this was just a war between Yuan Shao and Liu Jian for Sizhou, and it would not involve Hangu Pass, so he did not report to Li Dao in time.

It is precisely because of this that within less than two hours after defeating Yuan Shao, Liu Jian immediately ordered Yan Liang and Wen Chou to be the vanguard of the front, and commanded the infantry led by Zhao Rong, Lu Weihuang and others to march in the direction of Hangu Pass.

And Xun Yu in the rear, calculating the time, had already sent people on time to transport catapults, rushing carts, ladders and other siege items to the front of the battle.

The sudden siege battle started under this important pass between Guanzhong and Sizhou.

Because Hangu Pass was not heavily guarded. , the Hebei army almost swept the autumn leaves with a swift wind, and knocked down Hangu Pass.

Soon, Linghu Cuo, the guard of Hangu Pass, was also escorted by Wen Chou to Liu Jian, who was rushing towards Hangu Pass.

Ling Hu Cuo is a fierce general under Li Wei, with the courage and courage of Xiliang people who are not afraid of death, after seeing Liu Jian, not only did he not beg for mercy, but scolded and refused to surrender.

Liu Jian was also too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and directly ordered his subordinates to cut off Ling Hu's head.

In the end, Liu Jian completely took over Hangu Pass, and he sent Xu Huang to lead heavy troops to garrison Hangu Pass.

In this way, the throat of the land of Guanzhong and the land of Sizhou was completely controlled by Liu Jian.

However, although Liu Jian's attack on Yuan Shao is justified, Hangu Pass is still in the hands of the imperial court, and it is a little rash to wave a large army to defeat Hangu Pass?

In response to this, Liu Jian had actually planned in advance.

After taking Hangu Pass, he ordered people to send Linghu Cuo's head to the imperial court, and on the other hand, he began to count the amount of civilian goods and grain and grass looted by Li Dao and Guo Yan in Hangu Pass.

According to Jia Xu's description of Liu Jian, the greed of Li Dao and Guo Yan is very high, even in the Xiliang army, the two of them are among the most greedy and brutal.

Hangu Pass is far away from Chang'an, close to Sizhou, and now belongs to the garrison of Li Dao and Guo Yan.

According to Jia Xu's inference, a large amount of wealth and grain hijacked by Li Dao and Guo Yan among the people must have been hidden in Hangu Pass.

After rushing into Hangu Pass, Liu Jian immediately sent someone to count the grain and straw in Hangu Pass, and compared it with the original grain and grass in Hangu Pass and the goods.

In this way, the extra grain can be known to be the smuggled goods looted by Li Dao and Guo Yan.

Although Liu Jian knew that he would definitely be able to find out the goods and food hidden by Li Dao and Guo Yan among the people this time, when the real number was counted, the people of the Hebei army were still surprised.

Not to mention the huge amount of goods, the grain and grass counted alone is enough for the 50,000 army for two years.

Moreover, Li Dao and Guo Yan did not have a long time to serve as soldiers in Hangu Pass, which shows that this is what they have accumulated in a short period of time.

The vast amount of goods and food they had plundered did not know where they had squandered it, or they had been hidden somewhere else.

However, the grain and grass that are now hoarded in Hangu Pass alone are enough to make these two people speechless.

Liu Jian immediately ordered people to write a table of the actual amount of grain and grass in Hangu Pass, as well as the excess goods and grain and grass they had confiscated, and ordered them to hurriedly transfer it to Chang'an and report it to Shangshutai.

Of course, in order to completely confirm the evidence of these two people's crimes, Liu Jian also spread the news.

He asked the school government to widely spread the matter in Sizhou and Guanzhong, and completely confirmed the charges of Li Dao and Guo Yan.

After Liu Jian's recital arrived in Chang'an, it immediately caused an uproar.

Li Dao and Guo Yan's behavior is really too much.

They plundered so much money, food, and goods from ordinary people, so you can imagine what a large-scale massacre they carried out against ordinary civilians when they plundered these goods!

What a crime!

Moreover, Liu Jian was in the middle of the recital, and the matter of his capture of Hangu Pass was also high-sounding.

It was only after receiving reports from the local counties and counties that he led his troops into Hangu Pass, in order to search for evidence that Li Dao and Guo Yan had looted people's wealth, stored grain, and intended to rebel.

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Situ Fuzhong.

"Li Dao, Guo Yan...... These two pieces of waste are really bad for me. ”

Wang Yun slapped the table heavily and yelled angrily.

When the other princes beside him saw Wang Yun's expression, they were immediately a little surprised.

After all, they had never seen Wang Yun like this before.

It's no wonder that Wang Yun has such a big temper, after all, the trouble caused by Li Dao and Guo Yan this time is really too big, and it also involves the imperial court and their royal family ministers, making it impossible for them to fight back against Liu Jian politically.

Originally, now the imperial court was engaged in political confrontation with Liu Jian, and the imperial court seized Liu Jian's disobedience to the imperial court's orders and marched to Sizhou without authorization to discredit him.

But Liu Jian escorted Li Xiang, the rebel leader of Sizhou, to Chang'an, so that people all over the world have a very positive understanding of Liu Jian's ability to enter Sizhou to quell the rebellion.

Now in the eyes of many people, if Liu Jian does not enter Sizhou to stabilize grain prices and quell Li Xiang's rebellion, Sizhou may already be in chaos now, and it may even be directly separated from the hands of the imperial court and become a base for the rebels.

In this matter, the imperial court and Liu Jian have been pulling each other's political public opinion and refusing to give in to each other......

Now Liu Jian suddenly took Hangu Pass and occupied an absolute advantage militarily, which made the imperial court very worried.

And what the imperial court can do now is to use Liu Jian to attack Hangu Pass privately, accusing Liu Jian's behavior, and even pushing him to the rebellious side.

But the problem is that Liu Jian is now using the money and food accumulated by Li Dao and Guo Yan in Hangu Pass to make a fuss, and he captured Hangu Pass, not only did he not make any political mistakes and did not damage his reputation, but because he exposed the behavior of Li Dao and Guo Yan, he became a hero in the hearts of the people in Guanzhong and Sizhou.

And the imperial court also has Wang Yun, Yang Biao and other Wang Biao headed by the princess, but now they have become the target of public criticism, I don't know what to do?

Wang Yun has been sending people to recruit Lu Bu and Zhang Liao during this time, but he has not received a response, no matter what kind of promises he makes on his side and how many benefits he gives to the other party, the other party just does not give a positive answer.

It wasn't until the imperial court learned that Dong Zhuo's illness was close to healing, and they were training the three armies in the school field, that Wang Yun and Yang Biao's hearts fell into an ice cellar.

If this matter is really true, then it is almost impossible to expect Lu Bu and Zhang Liao to come to them in the short term.

But Wang Yun still didn't give up, he still kept sending people to recruit Lu Bu.

It's just that he doesn't have much hope for the success of this matter, at least for now.

The Bingzhou family led by Lu Bu and Zhang Liao could not vote for a short time, so Wang Yun and their side did not have many soldiers and horses that could be used.

Only Li Dao and Guo Yan are still nominally part of the imperial court, although they are not directly subject to Wang Yun and Yang Biao, but at least they still serve the imperial court.

But now these two bastards have caused such a big deal and put themselves in the spotlight.

Now that Liu Jian has captured Hangu Pass, he has enough evidence to punish them, and if the court does not deal with these two people, he is afraid that he will not be able to explain in front of the world.

Moreover, Liu Jian's intentions were very vicious, and Li Dao and Guo Yan hijacked people's goods and food.

What Liu Jian's recital reads: These two people want to rely on wealth and food to support themselves and rebel against the imperial court.

If something is involved in rebellion, it will be difficult to solve.

Especially from the perspective of the imperial court, this matter is even more sensitive.

Moreover, Liu Jian really worked hard this time, and he put his heart and soul into it, not only did he find out where Li Dao and Guo Yan were stockpiling grain in Hangu Pass, but he was also able to roughly provide the location of the goods and grain that the two of them hoarded in other places in Guanzhong.

According to these provided locations, Liu Jianzuo neglected the imperial court, saying that Li Dao and Guo Yan scattered these materials throughout Guanzhong, making it clear that they wanted to respond to the local rebels and rebel at any time to overthrow the imperial court.

This is a blatant act of rebellion, please check it out to the court!

If someone stands in the way of this, then they must have bad intentions and are in the company of traitors!

But whether Li Dao and Guo Yan have any objections, Wang Yun knows best in his heart.

Do you say these two people are good people? They're certainly not good people, do you say these two people are greedy? They must be greedy and murderous, but you said that these two people wanted to rebel against the court, is that possible? Wang Yun dared to pat his chest and said, "It's definitely impossible now." ”

Since they didn't have the intention of overthrowing the imperial court, what was the purpose of them looting so much grain, grass and supplies?

It can only be said that these two people are too greedy!

They don't have any other ideas, they just want to rob, they just want to fill their pockets, they just want to strengthen their army! But they had absolutely no intention of rebelling against the imperial court, at least not for now.

But their behavior has been related to Liu Jian and rebellion, especially now, it was originally a sensitive period when all places were swarming to rebel, since Liu Jian brought up this kind of thing, then the court must take action, otherwise the chain reaction will be great.

Therefore, Wang Yuncai scolded Li Dao and Guo Yan vigorously.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what should we do now? Could it be that the crimes of Lao Fuzhi and others Li Dao and Guo Yan are really not successful? ”

Sikong Chun Yujia hurriedly said: "No, we don't have many troops in our hands now, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao didn't come to vote, the northern and southern armies are basically all controlled by Dong Zhuo, and most of them are brought to Liangzhou, and at the moment only the soldiers and horses of Li Dao and Guo Yan can be used as the peripheral assistance of the Beijing Division, even though they are somewhat suspicious of the imperial court, but at least now they are people from the imperial court!" The Imperial Court needed to use their forces to resist the covetousness of the Kwantung Bureaucrats. ”

Zhao Qi sighed: "Sikong's words are very true, Li Dao and Guo Yan are indeed useful to the imperial court at present, if the great imperial court does not punish them, I am afraid it will be difficult to convince the hearts of the people in the world." ”

Yang Biao sighed: "Yes, now that the evidence that these two people want to rebel on the spot has been confirmed by Liu Jian, if the imperial court doesn't even give a little attitude, then when it comes back to the world, wouldn't it encourage everyone in the world to increase troops at will, store grain at will, and expand arms at will, and the court will ignore it?" ”

"This is Liu Deran forcing us to cut off our arms!"

Wang Yun said angrily: "Otherwise, the old man said that these two Liangzhou dogs are really waste, and they were actually caught by Liu Deran with such a big handle, and they would not be wronged to die!" ”

Chun Yujia said: "Liu Deran is really a good move naked conspiracy, now let the court be in a dilemma, if he really decrees the crime of these two thieves, or takes away the military power in their hands, who knows what these two Liangzhou puppets will do?" What if they do it again...... At the moment, there are not many soldiers and horses in the imperial court city, so everything is over. ”

When Wang Yun heard this, he couldn't help but rub his eyebrows with a headache.

"Li Dao and Guo Yan must not force them into opposition to the imperial court......"

Yang Biao said: "If we write a secret letter to Li and Guo, let the two of them go to the imperial court to show their loyalty, and at the same time state that these grains, grass and goods collected in Hangu Pass are for the purpose of forming an army for the imperial court, so that the two of them take the initiative to give up these materials and give all these materials to the imperial court for building an army, so that they can be exempted from their criminal responsibility, and the reputation of the imperial court will not be ruined." ”

When Wang Yun heard this, he clapped his hands heavily and said, "This method is very wonderful, just do it!" The old man personally wrote a secret letter to Li Dao! ”

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However, just when these ministers of the prestigious clan headed by Wang Yun wanted to write secret letters to Li Dao and Guo Yan, asking the two of them to take the initiative to sacrifice all the hoarded goods to show their loyalty to the imperial court, the Qingliu faction led by Xun You, Ma Riyan, Liu Biao, Dong Zhao, Zhang Ji, etc., also gathered in Ma Riyan's mansion to discuss this matter......

After all, Ma Riyan is also a famous figure in Kansai, and he can also guess the thoughts of Wang Yun and others.

He said: "The final result of this matter must be that Wang Yunhui secretly sent someone to inform Li Dao and Guo Yan, so that they could take the initiative to give up grain, grass and goods, which would not only give the court a step down, but also preserve their reputation." ”

But as soon as he finished saying this, he saw Zhang Ji smiling.

"Ma Gong's words are very true, Wang Yun's thoughts must be like this, but according to Zhang's understanding of Li and Guo, I am afraid that the two of them will never give up these goods and goods that have been snatched with great difficulty, even if they don't want to be famous and don't want the position of general, they will definitely not give up."

"This is the difference between the people of Liangzhou and the Central Plains, Wang Yun wishfully asked them to give what they already had, haha, I'm afraid it's impossible."

"Let's just watch the show."

(End of chapter)