Luoyang, the capital city

After the large-scale expansion of the army, Prime Minister Dong Zhuo held a heavy army, easily subdued the ministers of the court, did the things of the "former sage" Yihuo, abolished the emperor, completely controlled the government and government, feasted and drank every day, indulged in pleasure, and quickly corrupted in the extreme desire for power.

The emergency military information sent by the fast horse arrived in Luoyang, and Li Ru, who was in charge of secret spy affairs, did not dare to make the decision, so he hurriedly went to Dong's mansion with the urgent documents, broke through Yingying Yanyan's fat powder array, and found Dong Zhuo, who was drunk and confused.

This frontier warlord who was worshipped by the emperor as prime minister, although his body was hollowed out by wine, and his brain was dizzy and hungover, when he learned that the Kwantung princes had led a large army to attack, his heart was shocked beyond measure, and the unprecedented sense of crisis quickly restored him to his true character as a hero.

Dong Zhuo immediately repelled the left and right, and ordered to summon the generals under his command to come and discuss. Since Li Ru was in control of everyone's whereabouts, it didn't take long for the Xiliang Army led by his son-in-law Niu Fu and the Wenhou Lu Bu Ma to reach the Xiangfu in no particular order.

In the battle with the Taoist Shi Zimiao, Lu Bu was injured a lot, and he has not been able to return to his peak state so far. As his father-in-law, Dong Zhuo felt inexplicably sad in his heart, but also felt a little happy at the same time, after all, this invincible righteous son in the world was too unruly.

Especially recently, he always walks towards his mansion, and the look in his eyes is very complicated, like a lone wolf wandering alone on the grassland and being kicked out by wolves.

After Li Ru got Dong Zhuo's permission, he read out the emergency document in public, and as soon as the words fell, Wenhou Lu Bu heard that the Kwantung heroes led the army to knock on the pass, and immediately stepped forward and laughed.

"Father, don't worry, in my eyes, the Kwantung princes are just a group of local chickens and dogs, grasshoppers enshrined on the main platform of the gods, and they will die on their own within a few days. The child was willing to personally lead the army of tigers and wolves, kill the Kwantung princes without leaving a piece of armor, cut off their heads, and hang them at the gate of Luoyang, Kyoto. ”

Dong Zhuo listened to the words of his son Lu Bu, and he was very happy in his heart, and stroked his beard with both hands: "Fengxian bravely crowned the three armies, and the first in the world in terms of force, since you are willing to lead the army to go, I can sit back and relax." ”

As soon as the prime minister's words were finished, his son-in-law Niu Fu was the first to come out and said loudly: "How can you use a knife to kill a chicken!" There is no need to bother Wen Hou to go in person, the head of the Kwantung princes is as easy for me as reaching into my pocket to take something. ”

Dong Zhuo opened his drunken eyes and stared carefully, and saw the volunteer general, nine feet and three points tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a leopard's head and eyes, and his hands above his knees.

At this time, Huaxiong was only the captain of the Xiliang Army, Dong Zhuo saw that he dared to compete with his son Lu Bu, and as soon as he was happy, he was promoted to the rank of captain of the Xiao Cavalry, and transferred 20,000 Ma Bu troops, and immediately rushed to Bishui Pass with Li Su, Hu Zhen, and Zhao Cen to meet the enemy.

Among the princes of the Eighteenth Route of Kwantung, Bao Xin, the minister of Jibei, knew that Sun Jian, the Marquis of Wucheng, was brave and martial, and at this moment when everyone in the world was watching, he took the initiative to take the post of vanguard officer, worried that he would come out on top and win the first merit, so he secretly dispatched his brother Bao Zhong to lead a thousand cavalry, take a shortcut to the road, and arrive at Bishui Pass first.

At this time, Xiao Cavalry Captain Hua Xiong arrived at the wall, heard someone scolding outside the pass, said a lot of ugly words, and immediately called a song of five hundred Xiliang Iron Horse, from the right side of the mountain road quickly rushed down.

Bao Zhong saw that the general guarding the pass came out of the formation, and the menacing thing was not like a vulgar thing, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand and raised it, and more than a thousand cavalry behind him immediately took arrows and bows to shoot at the formation, and the arrows were like a shower waterfall, telling the other party to stop immediately.

Xiliang Tieqi knew the stakes and froze, but the lord general Hua Xiong walked forward alone without any scruples, and did not pay attention to the arrows everywhere at all.

Bao Zhong, as the younger brother of Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, was born in the Bao family of Pingyang Gate Valve, and his vision was naturally unusual.

Later, his gaze turned to this person's mount, and after a closer look, it was clearly a good horse Hua Li produced in the Western Regions, with thick muscles and bones far better than ordinary horses, and even more rare was the pattern of the horse's body like frost and broken jade, like an ancient beast ink unicorn.

The two were silent and confronted each other for a moment, Bao Zhong found that the five hundred Xiliang cavalry were dusty, and their clothes were wet with sweat, and he suddenly understood: "At this time, the reinforcements who have just arrived at Bishui Pass are hurrying to recover at this time, how can they get their wish." The success of the first battle will surely fall into my hands. ”

Xiaoqi Captain Hua Xiong was not even stunned by Wenhou Lu Bu, how could he put Bao Zhong, the son of the gate valve, in his eyes, and immediately let out a long roar, and immediately slapped his horse and rushed forward.

Bao Zhong saw that Xiliang Tieqi was motionless, and immediately understood that the other party was trying to boost morale with fighting generals, he had learned martial arts with famous teachers since he was a child, and his relatives and brothers were not the enemies of the Ten Rivers, so he developed a very high self-esteem and arrogance, and did not give orders to the cavalry behind him, and also rushed alone.

Suddenly, the generals of the two sides staggered, the golden spine goose wings in Bao Zhong's hand passed by on Hua Xiong's golden wire chain armor, and the long-handled hundred refining knife of the captain of the cavalry smashed Bao Zhong Bao Shuyi's heart shield through the golden armor with one blow, and the ribs in his chest were shattered.

Bao Zhong snorted, endured the sharp pain of broken bones, and immediately turned the horse's head and killed the enemy general. After all, Hua Xiong has been on the battlefield for a long time, and knows that the mount is burly, and the speed of turning is slow, so he continues to run forward for some distance before adjusting back in a small circle.

Seeing the injury in Bao Zhong's chest, he was secretly proud in his heart, and when he heard the sound of the other party's horse's hooves, he gradually intensified, and rushed forward on his horse not to be outdone. Just when the two sides were about to make contact, Hua Xiong clenched the long-handled hundred refining knife with both hands, and with the help of the momentum of the mount, he divided the yin and yang in one go, and the sound of breaking the wind actually split out a long sword qi, bypassing Bao Zhong's neck.

With a "poof", the pure white knife qi passed through his neck, Hua Xiong squinted his eyes, vaguely heard the unusually familiar hissing wind, and immediately stretched his ape arm, grabbed Bao Zhong's head, and raised it high above his head.

The headless neck cavity suddenly spewed out a column of blood with a high zhang, and a little blood flower fell, staining Bao Zhong's mount Qing Horse red, and scaring more than a thousand archers from afar on the spot.

These people are all the sons of the Bao family of the Pingyang Gate Valve, and when they saw that the Lord was about to be killed, they were at a loss, and they fell into confusion and frenzy one after another, not knowing whether to fight or retreat.

Hua Xiong saw the opportunity, and hurriedly raised his head and howled, arousing the murderous nature of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and then took the arrows himself and killed this archer.

The private army of the Bao family, without the backbone, was defeated by the charge of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in a blink of an eye, and the generals and colonels at all levels were captured one after another, anyway, Bao Zhong died in front of them, and it was difficult to escape death after going back, so it was better to simply surrender.

Outside the Bishui Pass, the "vanguard" of the enemy army who knocked on the pass was dead, and the morale of his subordinates plummeted, and they were successively tied to their relatives and became prisoners. Xiao Cavalry Captain Hua Xiong couldn't help laughing, collected the prisoner's weapons and equipment, washed Bao Zhong's head, salted it with lime, put it in a wooden box, and sent a fast horse to the Dong Mansion in Luoyang, the capital, to report the victory to Prime Minister Dong Zhuo.

When Dong Zhuo learned of this, he was overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to add the title of governor of Huaxiongdu, supervising Li Su, Hu Zhen, Zhao Cen and other miscellaneous generals stationed in Bishui Pass, and also in charge of the defense and other affairs of Bishui Pass.

Ye Zhiqiu learned about this from the deity, and couldn't help but be amazed: "The thief Dong Zhuo values military merits, and he can reward his merits in a timely manner, which is really a good move." From then on, the officers and men of the Xiliang Army and the Bingzhou Army, except for those who have two hearts, no matter who they are, will fight bravely. The coalition army of the princes of the Eighteenth Route of Kwantung looks at the majestic and mighty army, but in fact it is just a plate of loose sand, and it is difficult to say that it can win against the Bingzhou army, let alone the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. I'm not optimistic about the future of the coalition!"

The vanguard of the coalition army, Wucheng Hou Sun Jian, led the army to the near Bishui Pass, and Liu Bei's own formation of Zhongshan Taishou was responsible for transporting grain and grass, and occupied a dangerous position nearby, and cooperated quite tacitly.

It didn't take long for them to learn about Bao Zhong's death, and the story was very detailed, after all, some people were willing to risk their lives to escape in order to pass on the news.

After the death of a disciple of the gate valve, Liu Bei, who was born after the clan, did not feel anything, for him, Bao Zhong was just a stranger.

However, Wucheng Hou Sun Jian is different, he won the position of vanguard officer in the hands of Yuan Shu, the leader of the coalition alliance, but someone might as well take the first step and go to Bishui Pass to fight, stealing his limelight or second, and the defeat and loss of the momentum of the coalition army are things that Sun Jian and Sun Wentai cannot tolerate.

"Insufficient success, more than failure! It is a shame for my generation that there are such unworthy people among the heroes of the Kanto region. Either way, I'm going to get my face back. ”

Subsequently, Sun Jian led four generals under his command and led a hundred elite cavalry to break away from the headquarters and go to Bishui Pass to fight first.

The four generals were divided into Cheng Pucheng Demou, a native of Tuyin County, Youbei County, Youzhou, who made an iron spine snake spear; Huang Gai Huang Gongfu, a native of Lingling County, Jingzhou, who used a hundred iron whips; Han Dang Han Yigong, a native of Lingzhi County, Liaoxi County, Youzhou, who made a big knife; Zu Mao Zu Darong, a double knife general, and a native of Fuchun, Wu County.