Chapter 167: Grassland Changes
What Cao Cao didn't know was that Chen Gong was very prejudiced against him after this incident, and made up his mind not to let an unrighteous person like Cao Cao rise.
When the princes were fighting for hegemony in the back, they repeatedly caused trouble for Cao Cao, and gave advice to Zhang Miao and Lu Bu, almost causing Cao Cao to die.
If Cao Cao knew that Chen Gong would have gone against him after leaving this time, he probably wouldn't have let Chen Gong leave!
At the end of December, Cao Cao finally returned to Chen Liu's hometown alone, and immediately persuaded his father to support him in raising an army against Dong Zhuo.
The Cao family is also a wealthy family in Chenliu, rich and rich, with many collateral relatives, Cao Cao soon recruited a group of brave men, tens of thousands, and began a big training with the help of some cousins of the family.
Then Cao Cao publicly listed Dong Zhuo's many crimes, such as killing hundreds of officials, causing chaos in the court, abolishing the Son of Heaven, fornicating the harem, and so on.
It is even more bold to directly pretend to pass on the holy decree and issue a letter to the world to ask Dong Zhuo, at this time Cao Cao has long been famous all over the world because of the assassination of Dong Zhuo, and is known to the world.
In the face of Cao Cao's request for Dong Weiwen, there were many responders in the world, whether it was loyal to the Han Empire, or some ambitious scholars, all of whom openly responded to Cao Cao's call.
Some people even have ample reasons to expand the army and recruit troops, and to develop their strength on a large scale, and for a time there is an undercurrent in the world, and everyone wants to make a name for themselves and achieve a career.
Xiao Yun also responded to Cao Cao's call and began to dispatch troops to prepare for the expedition.
The area of this world is too large, because it has been a month when Cao Cao issued a letter to ask Dong Yuwen, and the New Year is approaching, even if the princes who responded to Cao Cao's call are ready to lead the army to the Tiger Prison Pass to meet the alliance, how can it be in March of the next year!
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Luoyang Taishifu.
"Bastard, Cao Cao, this ungrateful villain, this Taishi is not kind to him, he not only assassinated me, but now he is gathering all the heroes of the world to fight against this Taishi, it's really damned!" Dong Zhuo threw the vase on the ground and scolded angrily.
"Father-in-law is angry, although there are many people in the world who respond to Cao Cao, but these people are all ghosts, many of them are ambitious, and it is impossible for them to truly unite to attack us, father-in-law, don't worry!" Li Ru stepped forward and comforted.
"Wen You, do you think I want to send all the remaining soldiers and horses from Liangzhou over?" Dong Zhuo thought for a while, and still asked a little uneasy.
"Father-in-law, you must not! Those soldiers and horses still have to defend Liangzhou, even if they take 10,000 steps back, this time it fails, with Liangzhou here, we still have a way to retreat, otherwise our plan fails, that is, there is really no way to retreat!" Li Ru hurriedly dispelled Dong Zhuo's plan to transfer troops from Liangzhou again.
When Dong Zhuo came to King Qinwang of Luoyang, he took away 1.2 million Xiliang troops, including the elite Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Flying Bear Army, and now there are only about 600,000 troops left in Liangzhou to defend everywhere.
You must know that Liangzhou and Bingzhou are all close to foreign races, if there is no certain number of troops to defend, how can those foreign races not invade?
"Father-in-law can win over Lu Bu more, he is now in the same boat with us, and when the princes come to attack, they can't miss Lu Bu and the Bingzhou army. Li Ru suggested to Dong Zhuo.
"Don't worry, since he became the official of Wenhou, the relationship with this Taishi has eased a lot, I will raise his prestige for him, I believe that the princes will take the initiative to settle accounts with him at that time!" Dong Zhuo smiled knowingly.
After he and Lu Bu reached an agreement to abolish the Son of Heaven Liu Wei, Dong Zhuo was the official to the Taishi, and Lu Bu was also the official to the Marquis of Wen, but Lu Bu was not good at words in the court, resulting in the entire court almost Dong Zhuo covering the sky with one hand.
When Dong Zhuo did bad things, he always remembered to put Lu Bu on it, just so that Lu Bu would take the blame for him when the time came!
"Father-in-law Shengming, so I'm relieved!" Li Ru patted his ass.
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Deep in the northern prairie, at the foot of Helan Mountain.
In the royal court of the Southern Xiongnu, Yu Fuluo, the king of Zuoxian, was convening his subordinates to discuss the matter.
"I've seen Shan Yu, I don't know what Shan Yu summoned us for?" dozens of tribal leaders said to Zuoxian King Yufu Luo.
"I got the news that the Han Empire is about to be in chaos, and this is a rare opportunity for us!" said Yu Fuluo, King of Zuoxian, looking at everyone solemnly.
"Oh, I wonder how chaotic the Han Empire can be?" asked a tribal leader curiously.
"Haha, now that Emperor Ling of Han has died of illness, his two sons are still only young, without real power, Luoyang was occupied by Dong Zhuo, and the Son of Heaven was deposed, which has caused the dissatisfaction of the princes of the world, and someone has issued a requisition order to levy Dong Zhuo, and there are many responders, you say, is this our opportunity?"
"Yes, this is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"
"Last time, Lu Bu made us lose a lot, this time we must retaliate back!"
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All the tribal leaders shouted.
"Shan Yu, we not only lost hundreds of thousands of troops in our last attack on Bingzhou, but also lost three priests, I am afraid that the other party has a master, we can't take it lightly!" An elderly tribal leader said to Zuoxian King Yufu Luo with some concern.
"Hmph, I was careless last time, and now my son Liu Bao is still in the hands of Xiao Yun, this time I must kill that Xiao Yun with my own hands to relieve the hatred in my heart!" Zuo Xian Wang Yu Fu Luo said fiercely.
"Shan Yu, we can unite the Jiang clan and Xianbei to act together! This opportunity is extremely rare, I believe that the Jiang clan and Xianbei will definitely be tempted!" said a Xiongnu wise man to Yu Fuluo, the king of Zuoxian.
"That's a good idea, if the Jiang clan and Xianbei also send troops, then it's foolproof!"
"Shan Yu, we can also cooperate with the demon clan, and let the demon clan play the vanguard when the time comes, so that we can reduce our losses!" a fierce-looking tribal leader suggested.
"It's not good to cooperate with the demon clan, will this attract public anger!" another tribal leader objected.
In ancient times, the human race and the demon race were the enemies of life and death, but later the human race occupied the upper hand, and now it is even more suppressing the demon race, and most of the demon race are hiding in the depths of the mountains and rarely come out.
There are several demon tribe gatherings on the northern grassland, and a large number of wolves often attack the grassland tribes under the leadership of the wolf king, for which the southern Xiongnu have fought with the demon tribe several times!
"Hmph, what if the demon clan suddenly attacks our tribe when we go to attack the Han people? The best way is to cause trouble, and we will offer some tempting conditions to let the demon clan cooperate with us to invade the Han together. The fierce-looking tribal leader said coldly.
"Tell me how we should convince the demon clan to cooperate with us?" Zuo Xian Wang Yu Fuluo couldn't help but be moved when he heard this, and looked at the fierce-looking tribal leader and asked.
"Shan Yu, the demon clan may not know the news of the Han people's civil strife, we can tell them this news for free is also a condition, besides, the demon clan is the most happy to eat fine skin and tender meat, as well as the Han people's food and wine, we can promise to give most of these things to the demon clan, I think they will definitely agree!" said the fierce-looking tribal leader in a deep voice.
"Okay, get rid of evil, then I will send you to persuade the demon clan to cooperate with us, you can be confident!" said Zuo Xianwang Yu Fuluo staring at Rid of evil with sharp eyes.
"Shan Yu rest assured, his subordinates will definitely do this!" said Shan Evil.
"Okay, I'll be rewarded for completing this matter! As for the Jiang clan and Xianbei, who of you is willing to persuade the other party on my behalf!" said Zuo Xianwang Yu Fuluo after praising the evil spirit, looking at the rest of the people.
"Shan Yu, I'll convince the Jiang clan!"
"Shan Yu, I'll convince Xianbei!"
Immediately, two of his subordinates stood up and asked for orders.
"Okay, it's a great achievement to do this, I'm waiting for your good news!" Zuo Xian Wang Yu Fuluo raised his wine glass and toasted to the three of them.
Then let the three of them set off with gifts and some promises.