The spring breeze is blowing and it is slightly chilly.

Liu Pet stands on the dirt slope.

His expression was quite complicated, staring at Cao Ang, who was in front of him, inspecting the progress of the project.

Ashamed, grateful, and full of respect, these emotions are mixed together and fill Liu Chong's heart.

When the city was broken yesterday, Liu Chong's army and Cao Ang's tiger camp were combined and launched an attack from the north.

What Cao Ang saw, he also saw.

However, what others thought of, he didn't expect.

Except for sighing and sighing, and then hurriedly entering the city with the army, Liu Chong never thought about repairing the tombs and filling in the pits one by one.

As the king of the Han Dynasty and a relative of the Han family, Liu Chong felt very ashamed.

Although the prince buried here, the relationship with him can only be counted from the legal theory, and the blood relationship between them has long been unknown how many generations have passed.

But that's not an excuse for his complete negligence.

On the other hand, Cao Ang.

I dragged myself to the north of the city early this morning, for such a thing.

Busy before and after, all kinds of commands.

At this moment, I looked around the tomb again, for fear that something would go wrong and that when I felt that something was wrong, I even had to get started in person and tinker twice.

Liu Chong felt that he was more like a member of the Han family than himself.

See the truth in the subtleties.

Among the members of the alliance who crusaded against Dong Zhuo this time, I am afraid that those who care about the face of the heavenly family and pay attention to the majesty of the royal family like Cao Ang dare not say that this is the only case, but it is rare.

Cao Ang cares about the face of the heavenly family.

Don't you just care about your face?

Therefore, Liu Pet is quite grateful to him.

……

"Your Highness, let's prepare for the sacrifice."

"You are a clan relative, and you will be the chief priest this time!"

The tomb has been filled in, and all but the valuables that accompanied the burial cannot be restored.

At this moment, only one last process remains, and that is to perform sacrifices to rest the deceased.

Therefore, Cao Ang came to invite Liu Chong.

However, after Liu Pet stared at Cao Ang with blazing eyes for a while, he suddenly shook his head.

"Zi Yu has a great heart and does this good deed, although I am a clan, but I am quite disqualified, the main priest must be you!"

In a sacrificial ceremony, who will be the main sacrifice is nothing more than a consideration of identity and status.

Liu Pet's words.

It is tantamount to putting Cao Ang in front of him.

This was never possible before.

You must know that even though Liu Chong followed Cao Ang to participate in the Dong Alliance and merged his army into the Tiger Camp, the two still had different identities.

Liu Pet just didn't want to get involved too deeply, so he didn't care about the big things, ignored the small things, and all the votes and expressions followed Cao Ang's will.

But he is a prince after all.

He is also a powerful vassal king with soldiers and land.

The reason why Cao Ang came here is just because he lost a bet, at best, he admires Cao Ang a lot, and he can't talk about any more.

But after today.

But it means that Liu Chong has a substantial recognition of Cao Ang and is full of respect for his many actions.

In the future, if the battle against Dong ends.

If Cao Ang wants to invite Liu Pet and completely join his camp, it is not unachievable.

Liu Pet's tone was categorical.

Cao Ang was stunned for a moment, but he also understood something, and immediately stopped refusing.

After bowing his hand slightly to Liu Chong.

Then he turned and commanded the men to begin their preparations.

And while the two were talking.

Xu Jing, who has been following Cao Ang to do clerical work in the past few days, is standing aside, holding a bamboo slip in one hand and a brush in the other.

Sometimes he writes and paints, sometimes he stares at Cao Ang for a long time, and then he buries his head in writing.

I don't know what I'm thinking.

…………

Perhaps because Gong County didn't hold on for too long, Dong Zhuo couldn't sit still at all.

Again, some soldiers and horses were allocated.

Yanshi County must be strictly guarded.

In any case, it is necessary to hold back the pace of the coalition forces.

Therefore, in desperation, the defenders of Yanshi County could only take the initiative to attack, and several troops successively blocked and harassed outside the city, and even ambushed along the way.

Unfortunately, it has had little effect.

Sun Jian led the vanguard troops, and the more they fought, the more they fought, the more fierce they became, with thousands of soldiers and horses, but they fought with the momentum of tens of thousands of people.

It has successively encountered the defenders of Yanshi County in several places and fought many major battles.

Victories were achieved without exception.

After learning from the experience of the defeat at Chenggao Pass, Sun Jian became more and more cautious, not daring to be careless in the slightest, for fear of making the same mistake again.

No matter what kind of traps the enemy has laid out.

Sun Jian only led the vanguard troops to advance slowly, step by step, and pulled out the obstacles on the road little by little.

As he did.

Within a few days, the vanguard army would be the first to arrive at Yanshi County, and the main force of the Chinese army would also arrive later.

It's just that he has such a rapid momentum.

But some people are dissatisfied.

At this moment, in the camp of the Southern Route Army.

Later General Yuan Shu was holding a battle report sent from the front line, his brows furrowed, and he was in a displeased mood.

……

"Huh!"

I took a closer look at the report.

Then he turned out the several copies he had received from the table, all of which Sun Jian sent back to the Chinese army camp.

Every single one is a good news!

It can be seen how much credit Sun Jian has received recently.

The more he looked, the deeper Yuan Shu's brows wrinkled.

After so long.

He just threw these war reports on the case.

said in a somewhat weird manner: "He really deserves to be a battle-hardened veteran, but this time he galloped across the battlefield, but even Lu Bu was beaten by him and fled." ”

"It's just that I don't know what to do earlier, when I needed him to raise face for me, he lost to Huaxiong, and now I don't need it, but there are frequent successes."

"It's really a backbone in the back of the head!"

Yuan Shu had a deep grudge against Sun Jian.

He never forgot the incident when Sun Jian was defeated by Hua Xiong, which made him lose face.

This is a stain that is difficult to erase no matter how many good news is sent back now.

Of course.

Yuan Shu is just a yin and yang weirdness.

I don't have any other ideas at the moment.

Therefore, after complaining for a few words, Yuan Shu turned his head to a middle-aged scribe who was standing on the side and said.

"In addition to sending such a good news this morning, Sun Wentai also said that there is a shortage of grain and grass in the army, so you can urge me first, and hurry up to transport the grain and grass to him, so as not to worry about the future."

Yuan Shu was going to meet Sun Jian's request.

However, the middle-aged scribe did not immediately follow Yuan Shu's instructions, but hesitated for a long time and spoke several times, as if he didn't know what to say.

That's what it looks like.

couldn't help but arouse Yuan Shu's curiosity.

"Hong Wen, what do you have to say? Or is there something wrong with what I just arranged? ”

I heard Yuan Shu ask.

After all, this person no longer hesitated.

Three or two steps came to Yuan Shu, bowed to him, lowered his voice, and said carefully.

……

"General, in my opinion, the batch of grain and grass that Sun Wentai asked for should be delayed in his hands, and it must be delayed no matter what."

"Oh?"

Yuan Shu suddenly raised his eyebrows.

He didn't expect his advisors to give such a suggestion.

I looked up and down a few times and recalled carefully.

It is determined that there is no contradiction between this person and Sun Jian, and even the two are not familiar with each other at all.

Yuan Shucai continued to ask: "Sun Wentai is currently on the front line, fighting bloody battles with the enemy, opening the road to Yanshi County for the main forces of the Chinese army such as us, and clearing all obstacles on the road. ”

"It has a heavy responsibility on its shoulders, and at such a critical moment, how can it delay the delivery of its grain and grass?"

The scribe raised his head and glanced at Yuan Shu.

Then he lowered his head again.

He said in a faint voice: "General Sun does have a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, but what he shoulders is the heavy responsibility of crusading against Dong Zhuo's coalition army, not the heavy responsibility of the general. ”

Yuan Shu, who didn't care about it originally.

At first glance.

The whole person was taken aback.

In his mind, he seemed to grasp some key point, which made him can't help but move forward.

"Make it clear!"

The person who was called Hongwen confided his thoughts after bowing his hand slightly to Yuan Shu.

"General Sun has won successive battles on the front line, and even if he was defeated by Hua Xiong before, it is difficult to hide his outstanding achievements."

"After the Dong thief is destroyed, the coalition army will be rewarded for meritorious deeds, and General Sun, as a person with great merit, will be rewarded heavily, that is, it is not impossible to increase the official and become an important minister of the court with real power."

"In this way, can you still order and command Sun Wentai at will to do anything, like now?"

"Then he will be out of your grasp!"

……

As the words of the scribes continued to advance.

The expression on Yuan Shu's face became more and more ugly.

Originally, he hadn't thought of that.

But at this moment, after being reminded by others and deducing and constructing it in his mind, Yuan Shu had to admit that what this person said was the truth.

Is there anyone in the world who is willing to live under men?

What's more, someone with the ability like Sun Jian will not be satisfied with the status quo and live under others.

Now this guy needs his own support, whether it is soldiers, horses, food and grass, or fame, he can't do without his own control.

That's why it's honest.

But if he relied on the meritorious reputation accumulated in the process of crusading against Dong Zhuo, and flew high from then on, then how old was he Yuan Shu at that time?

And when I thought of Sun Jian's defeat to Huaxiong before.

Not only did he not say good things for him and exonerate him, but he fell into the well and kicked him.

Yuan Shu was extremely sure.

As long as there is a chance, Sun Jian will definitely run away!

And Yuan Shu was reluctant to let Sun Jian run away.

Although he was born in a famous family in the world of the fourth and third princes, relying on the fame of the Yuan family in Runan, he also recruited a lot of talents.

But a brave general like Sun Jian is really unique.

Even though Yuan Shu was arrogant by nature and looked down on people whose status was inferior to his, he also knew that talents were precious.

If Sun Jian is in hand.

Your own strength is strong!

Otherwise, his strength will be greatly weakened.

After figuring it out.

Yuan Shu couldn't sit still.

He immediately stood up, walked briskly around the table, and grasped the scribe's arm with one hand.

Then he said with some urgency: "Then according to your plan, we will postpone the distribution of grain and grass, and only do the documents that have not received Sun Wentai's request for food." ”

"The right to dry him, suppress his momentum, and let Sun Wentai know who is the foundation for him to gallop on the front line."

……

The weather can be changeable in spring.

There was light rain from time to time.

On a plain not far from Yanshi County.

Sun Jian took a hat, wore a coat, and braved the slanting wind and drizzle, and inspected the barracks.

With a gust of cold wind blowing.

Even with Sun Jian's physique, he felt a little cold and couldn't help but shiver.

After wrapping the clothes on his body tightly, Sun Jian couldn't help frowning.

"Gongfu, hasn't there been any movement on General Yuan's side, why hasn't the grain and grass in the rear been delivered yet?"

Huang Gai on the side shook his head.

The voice also said with some doubts: "General Hui, the last general has sent people back many times to urge food, and has already stated that the military situation on the front line is urgent. ”

"But there has been no response for many days, and not half a grain of grain has been delivered."

Sun Jian's brows furrowed even tighter.

couldn't help but slam his fist on the trunk of the tree on the side, and the whole person was even more annoyed.

"This is both a rainy day and a cold spring, and now there is no food and grass, and the soldiers are cold and hungry, how can they have the strength to fight the enemy!"

"In a few days, let alone breaking through the defense line of Yanshi County, I'm afraid that the places that have been taken before will have to be obediently spit out at that time."

Seeing that his own general was angry.

No one dared to speak.

Only his subordinate general, Cheng Pu, said to Sun Jian after a little thought.

"General, in the opinion of his subordinates, if you blindly wait, I'm afraid you won't be able to wait for food and grass."

"This place is only a little distance away from the rear camp, and the rear camp has plenty of grain and grass, and the enemy defenders have been defeated and retreated, and it is impossible for there to be more troops to intercept the grain and grass."

"Therefore, after a few days of hard work, I have also sent grain and grass."

"However, now I don't see the particles, I'm afraid that something has happened in the rear camp."

Hear that.

Sun Jian's eyes suddenly flashed.

He can fight, but he can also think.

Hearing what his subordinates said, they immediately reacted, and couldn't help but put their hands behind their backs and paced left and right a few times.

Half an hour later.

Only then did he turn around abruptly and instructed the generals under his command: "I will leave for the Chinese army camp now, and I must find out the situation." ”

"Now order the soldiers to pack up and retreat back more than thirty miles at once, I will try not to clash with the enemy head-on during these days when I am not in the army, and save some food and grass for the rest of the food!"

Wait until everyone has promised.

Sun Jian didn't dare to delay time.

Immediately ordered someone to lead the fast horse, and after one turned over, he braved the heavy rain to return and leave.

……

And at this moment, it is not far from Sun Jian's camp.

Lu Bu, who was in charge of leading the troops to confront Sun Jian, was also complaining.

"I don't know what my father-in-law thinks, he ordered me to lead my troops to guard Yanshi County, but he wanted to send a Hu Zhen over, and he even ordered me to be restrained by him."

"The eldest husband lives between heaven and earth, how can he be controlled by others everywhere, what skills does the surnamed Hu have, but he is relying on the headquarters of the Xiliang Army, so he stepped on my head."

"Today is good, such a ghost weather, he sits in the city and enjoys Qingfu, but I brave the heavy rain and fight with the enemy army."

"It doesn't make sense!"

From this self-talk.

It can be seen that Lu Bu has a grudge against Dong Zhuo and Hu Zhen.

Just as he complained.

Outside the tent, the shouts of soldiers were suddenly heard.

"General Qiyu, the enemy army has retreated!"

Lu Bu was stunned at first.

Then he didn't bother to put on his hat, but just lifted the curtain and rushed out quickly.

Turning over and getting on the horse, after coming to a high place.

Looking into the distance, looking at the place where Sun Jian's camp was stationed before, he saw that the camp tents that were originally neatly arranged were only left with some sundries discarded when the army withdrew.

Other than that, there are no people.

See this.

Lu Bu didn't know that Sun Jian's troops, the vanguard of the coalition army, who had been entangled with him for many days, had indeed withdrawn temporarily.

Lu Bu was overjoyed.

He has really been tortured by Sun Jian these days, and his scalp is almost numb.

In terms of personal martial arts, he thinks that he is invincible in the world, and no one dares to fight him one-on-one.

However, in terms of marching and fighting, the role played by individual force is actually not very large.

He really can't win the war, Sun Jian.

Even if Lu Bu's troops were slightly larger, they were still beaten.

If it weren't for the task given to him from above, which was to delay and obstruct as much as possible, Lu Bu would have given up the defense line a long time ago and ran away.

Let's see if we continue to fight.

In two or three days, he would abandon all the defenses outside the city and retreat to Yanshi County.

And at this time.

Sun Jian retreated!

How can you not make Lu Bu overjoyed?

……

After returning to the camp.

Lu Bu immediately ordered the generals.

"Send a few teams of cavalry, search and probe me along the way, be sure to find out the route of the enemy's march, determine their position at the moment, and prevent them from cheating."

"Hurry up and send a good news to Luoyang, telling Xiangguo that we have defeated Sun Jian's vanguard army here, and the enemy army that we fought has fled."

"The commander of the enemy army, Sun Jian, was almost killed by me, and the coalition army threw away their armor and countless baggage before they could get rid of our pursuit."

"Through the unremitting efforts of the whole army of our army, we have continuously recovered a large amount of lost territory, and we will lead troops to counterattack in the near future, please Xiangguo reward our soldiers!"

Lu Bu gave a command.

A piece of good news is written.

I don't know if I have been trained under Dong Zhuo for a long time, and in Luoyang City, the capital of goodness, I have learned the essence of being an official and a general.

Lu Bu's good news is really profound.

I don't know how Dong Zhuo will react.

……

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