Great Han Empire

Chapter 590: Troubled Times Heroic Chapter Dangerous
Zhu Jun gave Yan Liang a slightly surprised look, and then he was not discouraged, and continued to analyze the situation for Yan Liang, explaining in detail the benefits of detaining Dong Zhuo's army in Luoyang.Although he was not absolutely sure of killing Dong Zhuo, he believed that if Luoyang was in chaos, Dong Zhuo would lose the best chance to go south to occupy Yingchuan and Nanyang.Yan Liang sat there quietly, neither in a hurry nor in a hurry, as if he was listening attentively.

"My lord is the general of my great man. You should put the country and the people of the world as the most important thing. You should send troops as soon as possible to fight against the king..."

Yan Liang shook his hand and interrupted Zhu Jun's words, "My lord, don't tell me about the country and the common people. I don't understand these things. I just want to ask you a question. What's the benefit to northern Xinjiang if the main force of Dong Zhuo's army stays in Luoyang?" ? Can Wu Xiong and the Northern Xinjiang soldiers stationed at the Mengjin and Xiaopingjin Passes be temporarily freed from the danger of annihilation?"

Zhu Jun's face changed slightly, but he didn't speak.

If Dong Zhuo can't occupy Yingchuan and Nanyang, and can't take the initiative to the maximum extent, he is likely to destroy Guandong in a fit of anger, destroy the foundation of the great Han, and die together with the great Han.Today's situation is different from the situation at the beginning of the year. Today's Dong Zhuo has completely seen Li Hong, knowing that Li Hong is not his brother, and Li Hong will kill him sooner or later, so he will never give up today's attack on Li Hong Opportunity.

In the past, Li Hong held a saber and wanted to surround Dong Zhuo in Guanzhong, gradually driving him to a dead end, but now Dong Zhuo fought back vigorously, and he gave Li Hong a stick in the middle, completely cutting off the connection between Beijiang and Jing and Henan. up.In order to survive, Northern Xinjiang must attack Luoyang. That is to say, if Dong Zhuo's main force is left in Luoyang, the two will fight to the death, and this is exactly the result Zhu Jun wants to see.If Li Hong didn't turn against Dong Zhuo and defeat Dong Zhuo as soon as possible, how could Chang'an be captured?When will Qin Wang Zhongxing's great cause be realized?
Yan Liang's words stumped Zhu Jun, and he couldn't give Yan Liang a reasonable explanation.

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"I am far more aware of the affairs of Northern Xinjiang than adults." Yan Liang looked at Zhu Jun, who was speechless for a while, and said, "Northern Xinjiang has no money and food to fight. It was like this at the beginning of the year, and it is still like this now. If Northern Xinjiang wants to fight, unless the general can take pain Make up your mind to give up northern Xinjiang. Your lord should know why the Yellow Turban riot broke out in Yanqing and Xu Sanzhou. This riot started in March and has continued until now. There are continuous wars everywhere, people are devastated, the people are miserable, and the country is devastated. Why? So? The cause seems to be that the two floods of the year before last and last year caused millions of people to be displaced and became homeless and devoid of possessions, but what is the real reason? It was Yuan Shao, it was Dong Dajun, it was that The rebellion of the gang of big men. In order to fight the war, the gang of rebels not only robbed the relief provided by the imperial court to the victims of the disaster in the three states, but also plundered the money and food of the three states. Dong attacked Luoyang, and even if the Yellow Turban riot broke out in Yanqing and Xu Sanzhou, it would not lead to the catastrophe of the country's ruin like it is now."

"Northern Xinjiang faces the same problem. There are more than 200 million refugees resettled in the sixteen counties of Northern Xinjiang. As long as the general decides to send troops to fight, these people will have no food and no way of life. Today, when the Yellow Turban Army is raging across the world, they will How to do it? They will join the ranks of riots without hesitation, and then rush to Jizhou, to the Central Plains..." Yan Liang sneered, "My lord, I would like to ask, under such circumstances, can northern Xinjiang be preserved? Can Sheji still be kept?"

"I don't understand why Yuan Shao and his gang wanted to attack Dong Zhuo? Especially when my strength was greatly injured by the expedition to the desert. Dong Zhuo may be my traitor, but it is not Dong Zhuo who brought disaster to the country, but Yuan Shao and the gang of rebels." , it should be them who were attacked, not Dong Zhuo. Yuan Shao and the gang of rebels dragged me into the abyss of defeat."

"So, no matter whether it is starting from Sheji or Beijiang, the general will not take the initiative to attack Dong Zhuo for the time being. Even if Dong Zhuo wants to attack Hedong for various reasons, or attack our Northern Xinjiang army stationed in Luoyang, the general will not In response to the war, he will never attack Luoyang and Chang'an at the cost of abandoning the northern border. The general is not Dong Zhuo, nor Yuan Shao. In his mind, the lives of the people are his life, and he will not abandon the northern border for his own self-interest. any life in Xinjiang."

"What if it's for the Son of Heaven, for the Dahan Sheji?" Zhu Jun asked immediately.

"The Son of Heaven is in Chang'an, intact. What is Sheji? I don't know, but I know that if there are no people in the world, there will be no so-called Sheji. Why are thousands of living lives in the world not as good as invisible?" Untouchable Sheji? Why?" Yan Liang asked sharply.

Zhu Jun was speechless, speechless.

After a long time, Zhu Jun stood up with a dull expression, cupped his hands and said, "General, I will take care of myself."

"My lord is leaving?"

Zhu Jun nodded, turned around and wanted to go.

Yan Liang waved at the guards standing beside him, "Send your lord down to rest."

Zhu Jun suddenly turned around and said angrily, "How dare you detain me?"

Yan Liang sighed, "Your Excellency, please stay in the Tiger Prison for the time being, it's safe here."

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Li Ru, the rebellious general, was ordered to rush to Hulaoguan to supervise the battle.

The school lieutenant Wu Qiuyi and several army Sima rushed to the gate to greet him.Wu Qiuyi is in his 40s, not tall, but very strong, with a round and fat face, a pair of majestic eyes, his expression is always serious, and he doesn't smile much. color.Li Ru was very indifferent to Wu Qiuyi, after a few casual greetings, the two strode towards the camp one after the other.

"Is there any movement at Hulao Pass?"

"No." Wu Qiuyi replied, "Yan Liang has no signs of withdrawing."

"Withdrawal?" Li Ru looked back with contempt on his face, "It turns out that the Lord expects Yan Liang to retreat without a fight, and give you Hulao Pass for nothing? No wonder you haven't launched an attack on Hulao Pass until today. I See if you don't want to stay in Luoyang anymore."

A glint of anger flashed across Guan Qiuyi's eyes, but there was no expression on his face, "I recruited these soldiers from Xuzhou, and they followed me to Luoyang to defend our home and country. They are the Northern Army of the Great Han. It is not Lord Xiangguo’s Northern Army, nor is it Lord General’s Northern Army. The Northern Army’s expedition to the desert has made unrivaled feats for the Han Kingdom. Am I going to order the soldiers to attack them just because of a word from Lord General? what?"

Li Ru stopped, turned around slowly and looked at Wu Qiuyi, "Master Wu, just pretend that I didn't hear what I said today. Lord Xiangguo has already arrived in Luoyang, if he hears this sentence, you should know the consequences. "

Wu Qiuyi sneered.

"I brought the emperor's decree." Li Ru raised his head slightly, with a stern expression, "The general colluded with Yuan Shao, Han Fu and other traitors to conspire to depose the emperor and bring chaos to the court. Is this a serious crime? Immediately attack Hulao Pass and defend the capital?"

Wu Qiuyi took a step back, and looked at each other with several of his subordinates, hesitating.

"You guys discuss it and see when to launch an attack. After discussing it, come to see me at the big tent." Li Ru turned around and walked towards the big tent of the Chinese army with fifty personal guards.

Looking at Li Ru's haughty back, Guan Qiuyi slowly narrowed his eyes, and the muscles on his face trembled twice involuntarily.

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Li Ru's two personal guards lifted the curtain and found that the big tent was full of junior officers of the Northern Army, about 20 of them, arguing loudly around something.

"Didn't you see the military discussion here? Get out of here." A military officer stared and shouted loudly, "Whose personal guards are you? Are you blind?"

The two personal guards were stunned by the military officer's aura, and one of them suddenly reacted and cursed loudly: "The general who is against the rebellion is here, who dares to make a noise in the big tent? You want to seek death?"

"Scare me with the rebellious general? You think I'm scaring you too much." When the soldier saw that a soldier dared to confront him face to face, he got so angry that he drew his knife and rushed forward, "I'll chop you up." .”

Li Ru walked in at the right time, surrounded by several personal guards, rushing in.When the military marquis saw Li Ru, he stopped suddenly.

There was an instant silence in the big tent.

Li Ru glanced at everyone slowly, and said coldly, "What are you doing here?"

The military officer holding the knife suddenly grinned and said softly, "Kill you."

Before the words were finished, there was a sudden scream in the big tent, and the screams soared to the sky, and several vigorous bodies flew upside down like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.

Li Ru's emaciated body trembled repeatedly, and the severe pain hit his heart and lungs. The huge oncoming impact pushed him back a few steps, and then he flew up. He tried his best to shout and relieve his pain. But he heard nothing, he felt like a feather floating in the air, he tried to open his eyes wide, took a last look at the white clouds in the sky, and then fell hard to the ground, dead.

Dozens of Li Ru's personal guards were pierced by thousands of long arrows in an instant, blood was everywhere, and corpses piled up all over the withered grass outside the big tent.

Wu Qiuyi walked up to Li Ru's body expressionlessly, raised his foot and kicked Li Ru's blood-stained head, "Chop it off, wipe it clean, and send it to Hulao Pass."

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On the case table, Li Ru's head was placed upright on a lacquer plate, and the great pain he had suffered before his death could be seen on his pale face.

Yan Liang bent over and looked at Li Ru's head carefully, as if admiring a priceless treasure.

With Li Ru's death, the Northern Army and the Northern Frontier Army completely broke up, and the great battle in Luoyang began.

Zhu Jun was so ruthless, seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, he even put a knife on his neck and forced himself to do it.If you don't do it, you have to do it.Zhu Jun is also called King Qin to eliminate traitors and save the country?Yan Liang couldn't figure it out, what is the difference between Zhu Jun and Dong Zhuo doing this?Dong Zhuo didn't care about the lives of the people in the world, so why did Zhu Jun care about the lives of the people in the world?When Zhu Jun exterminated the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan and Nanyang, he killed tens of thousands of people, 10,000+, without blinking his eyes. Now, how can he care about northern Xinjiang?Care about Gyeonggi?In Zhu Jun's heart, there is only the emperor who doesn't understand the world, the dilapidated court, and the invisible and intangible society.As for everything else, like the head in front of him, it is just a passing cloud, something that can be used and sacrificed.

Yan Liang stretched out his hand to pat Li Ru's cold face, and he couldn't help sighing when he remembered the past years of fighting in Western Xinjiang.Why did Li Ru die?Die for whom?

Zhu Jun, you dragged northern Xinjiang into the flames of war in Luoyang, what good does this do for the big man?
The sound of heavy footsteps approached from a distance.Yan Liang stood up straight, staring at Zhu Jun who was striding into the lobby with a murderous look.

Zhu Jun glanced lightly at the heads on the case table, and then asked, "Your Excellency, have you decided?"

Yan Liang really wanted to roar loudly to vent the anger in his heart, but he tried his best to hold back, he snorted heavily, pointed at Li Ru's head and asked, "Is this a master plan?"

Zhu Jun shook his head, "It's just a coincidence, I don't know about it. What does the general plan to do? When will he attack Bi Guiyuan?"

Yan Liang vigorously spread out the map on the case table, pointed to Ying Chuan and said, "Wu Qiuyi's army immediately withdrew from the tiger prison and attacked in the direction of Yang Zhai in order to support Mu Kongyi in Yuzhou, defeat Hu Zhen and Li Meng, and protect the Yuzhou counties."

Zhu Jun immediately vetoed it, "No. Immediately concentrate the main force to attack Bi Guiyuan. As I said, even if we cannot kill Dong Zhuo, we can force Dong Zhuo to send troops from Hongnong County and Henan Yin to quickly return to Luoyang. As long as Niu Fu, Lü Bu and Hu Zhen's armies concentrate on Luoyang, and Hedong, Nanyang and Yingchuan will be safe."

Yan Liang resolutely refused.Luoyang has an army of more than 2 people, and the combined army of myself and Wu Qiuyi only has 9000 people. Excluding the troops stationed at Pass and Xingyang, the army that can participate in the attack on Dong Zhuo will not exceed 7000 at most.Due to the disparity in the strength of the two sides, Yan Liang believed that it was impossible for his side to severely injure Dong Zhuo, let alone force Dong Zhuo to order troops from various places to return to aid.

"Do you think Dong Zhuo is an idiot? My lord, don't forget that Dong Zhuo is a warrior who has been on the battlefield for decades." Yan Liang said, "I don't have this ability. If my lord has this ability, please attack Dong Zhuo with my lord and Wu Qiuyi. I will guard the escape route for you to ensure that after you are defeated by Dong Zhuo, you can safely retreat back to the tiger prison."

Knowing that he could not persuade Yan Liang, Zhu Jun hurried out of the customs to discuss with Guan Qiuyi.

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Tian Chou came back from Yuzhou.

Under Li Hong's order, he went to Yuzhou and Jingzhou to buy grain, but Dong Zhuo launched an attack just after the autumn harvest began.

If you want to buy food, you must first ensure the stability of the two states, especially the stability of Yingchuan and Nanyang counties.If Dong Zhuo snatched all the food from these two counties, the army of Yuan Shu, Kong Ni, Sun Jian and others would not be able to protect themselves, and they would never have any more food to sell to Beijiang.

Tian Chou returned to Hulao in a hurry, just to understand the current situation, to meet Li Ru, and to report to Li Hong urgently, asking him to put pressure on Dong Zhuo in Chang'an. However, the first thing he saw was Li Ru's head , which made him fall into an ice cellar, "Brother Zishan, what are you doing? Why did you kill Li Ru?"

Yan Liang smiled wryly, and explained the crisis situation in Luoyang in detail, "Zhu Jun has made us suffer, and we will be beaten if we don't fight now."

"Before I left Hedong for Luoyang, the general told me repeatedly to ensure the balance and the connection between Northern Xinjiang and Jing and Henan, but I haven't done any of them now." Yan Liang said dejectedly, " Zhu Jun said that when Dong Zhuo arrived in Luoyang, the Northern Army was attacking Hedong, Mengjin and Xiaopingjin, but I have not received any accurate information so far. Zitai, is Zhu Jun lying to us? Is he deliberately trying to break the balance and let Dong Zhuo Fight us?"

Tian Chou stared blankly at Li Ru's head without saying a word.

"Since Wuqiu Yi's troops besieged the tiger prison, we have lost contact with the general and also lost news of Wu Xiong." Yan Liang walked up and down the lobby with his hands behind his back, restless, "Although we have Lu Bu and Hu Zhen The news that Zhu Jun went out to the south and led the army to attack and rob, but this does not prove that Zhu Jun's words are true. If all this is Zhu Jun's trick to destroy the balance of power, and it is a means to lure us into being fooled, how will we explain to the general in the future? ?”

Tian Chou thought for a long time, and suddenly said: "The arrow has been wound, and there is no way to retreat. We can only join forces with Zhu Jun to attack Dong Zhuo."

Yan Liangnong frowned slightly, and said very worriedly: "Even if we fail in this fight, we will just retreat from the tiger prison, or retreat to Yuzhou to meet Kong Ni and Sun Jian, but northern Xinjiang will be in trouble. According to the current situation in northern Xinjiang According to the current situation, after we fell out with Dong Zhuo, the general will definitely seize Luoyang in order to open up the connection with Jing and Henan. However, now that the northern border is short of troops, money and food are in short supply, it is impossible for the general to capture Luoyang in the short term As time goes on, the northern border becomes more and more difficult, and the possibility of attacking Luoyang becomes smaller and smaller."

"If the general can get money and food support from Jizhou, and can quickly mobilize the army outside the Great Wall to go south, then around March next year, the general can cross the river and attack." Tian Chou patted Li Ru's head and said, "As soon as Li Ru dies, northern Xinjiang has already died. There is no way out, only to capture Luoyang. Brother Zishan, don't think too much, we are worthy of Northern Xinjiang and Sheji, if the general wants to kill us in the future, he will have to kill us."

Yan Liang smiled helplessly, and shouted loudly: "Come here, please Master Zhu Jun to enter."

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The latest news was sent from Luoyang. Dong Zhuo went to Mengjinguan to supervise the battle early this morning.

Zhu Jun immediately proposed that Sun Luan lead 1000 people to guard Hulao Pass and Xingyang.Guanqiu Yi and Tian Chou led 3000 men to attack Biguiyuan, and moved all the grain, grass and luggage hoarded in Biguiyuan to Xingyang.He and Yan Liang led an army of five thousand to attack Mengjin.

Yan Liangyan obeyed, and led his army to attack Luoyang at dusk that day.

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(End of this chapter)