At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

When encountering famous prefects who are particularly famous, or prefects who simply don't like each other, they insist on not cooperating, and the governors who are not very famous or have relatively low qualifications are quite helpless.

Cao Yin and Wang Rui are such a pair of colleagues in the officialdom, and their relationship is very bad.

When the world was bustling with people, Wang Rui didn't know why, but unexpectedly released the news that he was going to kill Cao Yin while seeking Dong, which made Cao Yin very frightened.

Cao Yin thought that the court was in chaos now, and if he was killed, he would have no place to seek justice, so he thought of a wave of extreme operations to save his life.

After some thought, he decided to forge the official documents of Guanglu Doctor Wen Yi, the perpetrator of the case, and kill Wang Rui first.

But Cao Yin felt that this kind of thing had a big flaw. He was surrounded by good people, so it was easy to see that he forged official documents, and it was possible for someone who was not easy to send to sell him.

Just at that time, Sun Jian led his army to cross the border and asked for grain and fodder support.

Cao Yin looked at Sun Jian and found that Sun Jian had soldiers in his hands, and his education level was not high. The words "I don't study much, don't lie to me" were written on his face, which was just right for making a knife.

After the Sun family became emperor, they naturally wanted to find celebrities to recognize their ancestors, so they chose the soldier sage Sun Wu as their ancestors, just like the Cao family chose the Han minister Cao Shen.

But Sun's real origin is a farmer.

Sun Jian’s father grows melons for a living, and he is probably a small landlord, or a slightly richer self-cultivator. Sun Jian is from a real bottom class background, worse than Cao Cao’s and Liu Bei’s. He can make a fortune thanks to his own talent And the luck of the times.

Naturally, Sun Jian did not read many books. He was able to be an official mainly because he was brave, famous, and able to fight.

So Cao Yin decided to use a knife to kill people.

Give Sun Jian food and fodder to make Sun Jian happy, then take out a forged official document and hand it to Sun Jian, saying that this is an order, and ask Sun Jian to execute it on his behalf to kill Wang Rui.

Anyway, when the time comes, the court will push the responsibility to Sun Jian, which has nothing to do with him. He can easily resolve the death crisis and make Sun Jian, a fool, a scapegoat.

Sun Jian's cultural level is not high, and his political brain is not good. What's more important is that he is surrounded by all the trilogy of warriors, and he has no educated people as his staff.

Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Zu Mao and the others are good at charging and fighting in battle, and they are no match for a celebrity when they play tricks and tricks.

A group of people took official documents and looked left and right, but they didn't see any flaws, and they didn't know what a flaw was.

Sun Jian thought about it. Although he felt that the situation was not right and that it was not in line with common sense, he insisted that there was nothing wrong with it.

And the key point is that Wang Rui has always looked down on Sun Jian, and often makes ironic remarks, mocking Sun Jian for being a big boss, mocking him for his humble background, which makes the boss of Sun Jian unhappy.

Even if there is fraud, if the court pursues it later, I will seek refuge with Yuan Shu, relying on Yuan Shu's banner, can Yuan Shu not protect me?

Whether it's true or not, let's talk about it first!

Just do it!

Sun Jian led the troops to set off, and when he tricked Wang Rui into opening the warehouse to provide them with food and fodder under the guise of asking for food and fodder, he surrounded Wang Rui and forced him to death.

After forcing Wang Rui to death and robbing a batch of food and fodder, Sun Jian led his army to continue northward, recruiting troops and buying horses to expand his strength along the way.

It was June at this time, and Guo Peng in Qingzhou still did not lead the army to set off. Instead, he led the army to start the final arrangement and mobilization before the summer grain harvest in the territory under his control, and carried out the summer grain harvest operation.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo, who had solved the sequelae of moving the capital and stabilized the situation in Guanzhong, started to act again.

Even with tens of thousands of strong troops in hand, it would be a lie to say that Dong Zhuo was not worried or afraid in the face of the hustle and bustle of the Kanto princes.

For Dong Zhuo, it is better not to fight if he can not fight. Brother Dong feels that although he is very strong, he is too strong to fight against the whole world.

Dong Zhuo hadn't faced off against the princes of the Kanto region yet, so he didn't know the strength of the princes of the Kanto region, but he was a little worried because of the momentum.

Therefore, under the persuasion of his subordinates, in June, Dong Zhuo instructed the Chang'an court to send out a five-member team consisting of Dahonglu Han Rong, Shaofu Yinxiu, Zhijinwu Humuban, General Master Wu Xiu, and Yueqi School Captain Wang Gui. The envoy team went to Kanto to persuade Yuan Shao and others to ask for a strike.

If Dong Zhuo is shrewd, he is also shrewd, and if Dong Zhuo is naive, he is also naive. The opponent has the right to crusade against him, but he actually hopes that the opponent will stop the war. Isn't this a clear show of weakness to give the opponent confidence?

Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had just raised the banner of revenge, and if they were asked to strike at this time, wouldn't they be slapping themselves in the face?

Sure enough, Hu Muban, Wu Xiu, Wang Gui and Yin Xiu were all killed, and only one Han Rong was spared from death because he was a fellow clan of Jizhou Mu Han Fu and had a great reputation.

June's attempt to persuade him to make peace naturally failed. Dong Zhuo was furious when he heard the news, and immediately assembled his troops in Luoyang to prepare for war.

Anyway, you don’t want to think about it, so let’s compare who is better!

Dong Zhuo became angry and decided to go to war at all costs to protect his vested interests.

Chapter 211. 210 One Guo Peng Comes

Among the disadvantages, Dong Zhuo's character of not admitting defeat, not being afraid of getting into trouble and daring to challenge difficulties and obstacles is revealed.

Do you know how much I, Dong, has gone through from being the son of a small official in Xiliang to the status of being under [-] today?Don't you think Mr. Dong is an idiot?

So Dong Zhuo immediately held a military meeting, and determined many strategies at the military meeting.

The first is to take the initiative to seize the opportunity to judge the strength of the Kwantung Allied Forces, and to judge whether to focus on fighting and supplement by talking, or to focus on talking and supplement by fighting in the future.

A group of people discussed for a long time, and decided that Dong Zhuo's veteran Xu Rong, a native of Liaodong, would lead the army to attack the army of Kong Ni, the governor of Yuzhou who was stationed in Yingchuan, the nearest to Luoyang.

There is no doubt that the troops of the Kwantung Allied Forces are basically recruited temporarily. Few of them have participated in the war, and almost all of them are recruits.

The new recruits practiced for a few days and went to the battlefield. They didn't even know how to use weapons. They relied on instinct, so there was no need to talk about fighting.

So Kong Ni's army was smashed, Xu Rong and Li Meng led the army to confront Kong Ni, and the two sides fought for a while, and Kong Ni's army was defeated.

Xu Rong led his army to wantonly massacre Kong Ni's recruit Danzi troops, completely destroying them, and looting Yingchuan, which was severely damaged.

Kong Ni had no power to resist, and watched helplessly as the army was defeated. The army was defeated like a mountain, and there was nothing he could do except run away.

In the end, Dong Zhuo ordered hundreds of Kong Ni's captured soldiers to be wrapped in steps, stand upside down on the ground, pour the boiling hot oil down, and kill them in this brutal way.

Kong Ni was lucky enough to escape with his life, but he fell ill from fright, and soon died.

Kong Ni, a famous scholar, had no power to fight back against the tiger and wolf division, so he was crushed like this. Together with his army, the defeat was worthless and quite ugly.

The fragile nature of the Kwantung Allied Forces is clearly visible.

Their fragility is obvious, and they are vulnerable without even thinking about it. How can the temporarily recruited army compare with the elite army that Dong Zhuo has fought for many years?

The recruits who encountered such elite soldiers would probably be frightened immediately, let alone fight.

Most of the Kwantung Allied Forces are such recruits.

As a result, Dong Zhuo's fear of the Kwantung Allied Forces was greatly weakened, or even disappeared, and he was not worried at all.

Extreme fear is followed by extreme inflation, extreme trust in oneself.

So Dong Zhuo ordered Xu Rong's troops to turn north and attack the Taishan soldiers under the command of Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi who was stationed in Mengjin.

Xu Rong cleverly used a trick to get Wang Kuang, who led the Taishan soldiers, to join Han Hao. He thought that Xu Rong would lead the main force to break through Mengjin head-on, so he concentrated his forces on Mengjin and fought with Xu Rong's suspects.

As a result, Han Hao did not expect that this was Xu Rong's suspicious strategy, so Han Hao was caught off guard by the elite army sent by Xu Rong to cross the river from Xiaopingjin to the north to raid the rear, and almost the entire army was wiped out.

Yuan Shao, who was stationed in Hanoi, originally planned to attack Luoyang directly, but seeing Wang Kuang's defeat as a forward, he immediately ordered to stop advancing and defend on the spot, and continue to wait and see.

Having won both battles, Dong Zhuo's self-confidence continued to swell. Seeing that the pressure on the southern and northern fronts eased, Dong Zhuo added troops to Xu Rong, and then ordered Xu Rong to continue to lead the army to attack the main force of the Kwantung Allied Forces in the direction of Suanzao.

The news of Dong Zhuo's two-match victory reached Suanzao in July.

The celebrities who were chatting and drinking at the Suanzao party suddenly heard the news, and many of them were so frightened that they couldn't even hold the wine glasses in their hands steadily, and fell directly to the ground.

They were waiting for Yuan Shao to lead the main force to attack, and they would march to Luoyang with them.

As a result, the news of Yuan Shao's march did not come, but when the news came that Kong Ni and Wang Kuang's entire army was wiped out one after another, they were immediately dumbfounded.

Dong Zhuo, who can kill and fight, has all elite soldiers under his command!

Only then did they realize that their military strength could not be compared with Dong Zhuo's anyway, and if they really wanted to fight, it would be very miserable.

A group of celebrities looked at me and I looked at you, and they were very disturbed.

Originally, everyone was still discussing that we have a large number of people, one hundred thousand people can attack Dong Zhuo, and prepare to march, but the news came that Kong Ni's entire army was annihilated, and a group of shocking talents were all frightened into quails, huddled in the jujube, motionless up.

As a result, there was more than one bad news. According to the scouts sent by them, they found that Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses were marching in their direction, as if they were about to attack Suanzao.

Needless to say, the number of Kwantung allied forces gathered by Suanzao is at least over [-], including Yuan Shao's army, the total number of troops is definitely higher than that of Dong Zhuo.

As a result, most of them felt that they should stick to their defenses. Only Chen Liuweizi and Jinbei Minister Bao Xin felt that they should take the initiative and not be trapped in Suanzao.

They were dissatisfied with the fact that the coalition forces had not attacked or mobilized for several months, but in fact they had nothing to do.

Because they also know that their army is not as strong as Dong Zhuo.

One side is elite soldiers who are like wolves and tigers, and the other is weak newly recruited men. They have just practiced like an army, but they are still far away from real elite soldiers.

However, this does not mean that those who want to enter the army are afraid to enter the army. People with courage have courage no matter what the situation is, and those who are not courageous will make up excuses even if they have no excuses.

Bao Xin is waiting, waiting for Guo Peng to come.

Is Guo Peng coming?

coming.

At the end of June and the beginning of July, the summer grain harvest was bumper, and the four counties sent Guo Peng good news.

It is estimated that summer grain can get more than 60 shi, and autumn grain can get more than 130 million shi, which is enough to feed a hundred thousand troops for a year and there is still some surplus. The rations of the refugees are also guaranteed.

Of course, this is also thanks to God for not being a demon this year, there is no invasion and no locust plague, otherwise Qingzhou's harvest will be discounted.

With such a large amount of income, Guo Peng nodded in satisfaction, and then ordered the formation of an army to discuss Dong.

Together with Gongsun Zan, who arrived in Qingzhou on June 25, he joined forces with eight thousand soldiers and embarked on the journey on June 29.

Guo Peng didn't go directly to Suanzao, but went back to Qiao County.

In mid-July, Guo Peng led his army to Qiao County, where he met Cao's Xiahou family and his father, and explained to them the current situation and what might happen in the future.

The implication is very simple. If you are worried about encountering military disasters, you can leave Yuzhou. It is indeed not safe here. There is no safety guarantee if you stay here. I can't protect you. It is best to go to Qingzhou.

In fact, when Xu Rong led his army to smash Kong Ni's army and wreak havoc on Yingchuan County, Guo Dan, Cao Song and others who got the news were already frightened, and they met several times to discuss what to do.

As a result, Guo Peng is now clearly on the side of begging Dong, and they have no way out.

With Dong Zhuo's tyranny, he will definitely march to Peiguo, and by then, they will have no way out.

In order to avoid disaster and safety, they had no choice but to accept Guo Peng's opinion, and led the people in the manor to Qingzhou, seeking a piece of safety.

It is Guo Peng's lair, it is absolutely safe, they can settle in Qi State for refuge first, if the war goes well, maybe they can come back.

Regarding this uncertain statement, Cao Song seriously asked Guo Peng how likely it was that they would come back.

"When there is a war, the situation is hard to say. Although we have a sense of justice, since ancient times, there has been no situation where ministers have defeated the emperor without causing chaos in the world.

Father-in-law, to be honest, it is hard for my son-in-law to say what the future situation will be like, but no matter what, Qingzhou is the safest place. If all the family members go to Qingzhou, they can be guaranteed safety. "

Cao Song's official career has been ups and downs for decades. As soon as he heard it, he heard Guo Peng's idea that the world would be in chaos and order would no longer exist, and he wanted to separate Qingzhou.

It is justifiable to separate Qingzhou with the position of Qingzhou pastor, and it is unlikely that this position will be taken back, Guo Peng himself will not agree.

So Cao Song quickly understood everything under shock.

He asked his family to prepare to sell the real estate, and suggested to Xiahou that they should sell all the real estate, don't think about coming back, and prepare to rebuild their home in Qingzhou.

Chapter 212. 210 Er Yuan Shu Feels Moisturized in His Heart

For Cao Song's suggestion, Xiahou was shocked at first.

But after Cao Song's analysis, Xiahou also understood.

They have all bet on Guo Peng for a long time, one is prosperous and the other is damaged. There is really nothing to say, let's take refuge first.

Not only that, Cao Song and Xiahou also gave Guo Peng a big gift together.

They can pack up and take away the things that cannot be taken away, such as land and houses, etc., Guo Peng can sell them on his own, and the money from the sale can be used as military expenses, which is convenient for Guo Peng to recruit soldiers and horses to expand his strength.

Cao Song's approach surprised Guo Peng.

After all, he is a fine man who has been an official in the court, and Cao Song should have heard his subtext.

Invest in me thoroughly. You have no other choice but me. Do your best to make me stronger, so that you can have prosperity and wealth under my protection.

Guo Peng's words can be said to be very sincere.

The Cao family and the Xiahou family really have no better choice. The best children are all serving in Guo Peng's army. The future of the family is in the hands of Guo Peng. What else is there to say?

The Cao family and the Xiahou family fell to Guo Peng together, entrusting their family interests and future to each other, and fighting for Guo Peng wholeheartedly.

In addition, Cao Chun also donated all of his family property to Guo Peng for military support.

Cao Chi has passed away for many years. When he was an official, he accumulated a lot of wealth. After his death, his two sons Cao Ren and Cao Chun inherited it. Now Cao Chun decided to donate his share to Guo Peng and give it all to Guo Peng. Peng use.