Chapter 306 Mutual Calculation

Hu Cai led more than 2,000 remnants of his troops and fled into the city of Anyi. While holding on, he sent a sentry post to the Baibo Valley to ask for help from the rest of the Baibo army.

Zhang Jai worried that there would be too many casualties in the forced siege, so he just besieged instead of attacking. He commanded the captured Baibo bandits to dig two gaps outside Anyi city to prevent the enemy from breaking out at night.

Since Pound's troops had been seen through by the enemy, under Dong Zhuo's order, Duan Yan began to send out troops to test, with the cooperation of infantry and cavalry, the cavalry pursued and the infantry surrounded and intercepted.

In fact, Liu Ye was already prepared. After ordering Ma Chao to secretly cross the Wei River to break through Tongguan and reveal his main attack direction, he immediately sent a message to Pang De to lead the army and civilians to plunder the local people and retreat.

After General Pang De escorted the people back to Guanzhong, he couldn't hold back his excitement, and immediately led five thousand cavalry to go south again, just to join forces with Zhang Jai's troops. With Zhang Jaw as the main general, he controlled the 13,000 troops in Anyi.

But in fact, this time the Baibo bandits invaded Hexi County for no reason.

After Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, held the emperor hostage, and forced 400,000 people in Luoyang to move to Bingzhou, he took Jinyang (later Taiyuan), the capital of Bingzhou, as the accompanying capital, and announced that the emperor would move his capital. Always be placed.

However, compared to building a Xingyuan for the little emperor Liu Xie, Dong Zhuo recruited more civilians to build a magnificent Wubao in the suburbs of Jinyang more than ten miles away (wealthy families often build Wubao to defend against bandits, and shelter the people. For their own use, the suzerain supervisory system abandoned in the Northern Wei Dynasty was Wubao).

Dong Zhuo stored countless treasures from looting rich households from Luoyang City and excavating imperial tombs in Wubao, and this Wubao was named "Meiwu" by Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo even said: If the matter is successful, he should send troops to conquer the world; if the matter is not successful, keeping this is enough to die.

However, Dong Zhuo collected countless gold, silver and jewels but didn't know how to distribute them to his soldiers, which made many people in Dong Zhuo's army resentful and dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's stinginess. It was a reward to the soldiers under his command, but now it is nothing.

Li Ru, who was as careful as a hair, noticed the dissatisfaction of the soldiers in the army, and immediately went straight to Meiwu.

"Prime Minister, everyone is fighting for the Prime Minister because the Prime Minister is generous and hopes to be rewarded by the Prime Minister. Now that the Prime Minister has so many treasures in his hands, how can he not reward the soldiers?"

After all, Li Ru was a military think tank, although Dong Zhuo was unwilling to share the treasures in Meiwu, he still gave some of the treasures in the army to the generals under his command.

And Li Ru said: "Although the prime minister still has one hundred thousand troops under his command, Bingzhou is desolate, and even with the people captured from Luoyang, there are only a million people, how can he support one hundred thousand troops? "

Dong Zhuo frowned. Naturally, he didn't want to retreat into Bingzhou, but he was really scared by Liu Ye's beating.

At this time, Li Ru suggested: "The Baibo bandits have always been entrenched in Hedong and Hanoi, and they even come to Shangdang to plunder from time to time. Does the Prime Minister want to get rid of this enemy army?"

Dong Zhuo worried: "I heard that there are hundreds of thousands of Baibo thieves. Even if only forty-one of them are young and strong, there are still fifty or sixty thousand men who can fight. Our army has lost a lot in Guanluo. How can we lose more?"

In fact, Dong Zhuo's elite soldiers, together with Li Jue and Guo Si and other fierce generals, would not be difficult to defeat the Baibo bandits, but once the war started, it would take at least a year and a half, and Dong Zhuo would definitely not be able to bear it.

Li Ru smiled and said, "It's better to lead the disaster to the east."

"Winning water to the east?" Dong Zhuo looked puzzled.

"Liu Ye has a strong personality, so naturally he can't tolerate the sharp sword of the Baibo thief hanging over the city of Luoyang. Our army only needs to win over a little bit, promise a big profit, and at the same time explain the truth to the Baibo thief. The shield that prevents Liu Ye's army from advancing eastward, Liu Ye and Bai Bo's army are like two tigers fighting each other, and the prime minister can be Bian Zhuangzi."

Dong Zhuo nodded immediately after hearing Li Ru's words: "It makes sense, it makes sense!"

Before Li Ru finished speaking, he continued: "Besides, since the Baibo bandits come to Shangdang to commit crimes from time to time, our army must place heavy generals to deter the Baibo bandits. The prime minister, please send Marquis Wen to lead the Bingzhou army to Shangdang and station in Huguan. Deter Yuan Shao and the Baibo bandits."

The key reason why Li Ru's schemes were all accepted by Dong Zhuo was that he got along with Dong Zhuo day and night, and he really knew his father-in-law very well.

Before Dong Zhuo could be said to be a strong soldier, so although he was a little afraid of Lu Bu's soldiers, he could still reuse them. After all, even if Lu Bu rebelled, he could forcefully suppress them.

However, with the deaths of Niu Fu and Dong Min, the loss of Tongguan and Wuguan, a total of 40,000 troops were killed, and the strength of Dong Zhuo's army was reduced. Naturally, he was very afraid of Lu Bu and was quite defensive.

That being the case, it might as well send Lu Bu to Shangdang. First, it can deter Yuan Shao and other rebellious parties in the east, and second, it can shock the Baibo bandits and keep away from him.

Seeing the expression on Dong Zhuo's face, Li Ru said again: "However, please ask the prime minister to reward Wen Hou with gold, silver and jewelry, so as not to make Wen Hou feel resentful."

It doesn't matter just to drive Lv Bu away, the key is not to make Lv Bu unhappy. Now it's a state of internal and external difficulties. If Lv Bu rebels, then Dong Zhuo is really doomed.

When he heard that he was going to promise a huge profit to the Baibo thief, and also wanted to give Lu Bu gold, silver and jewelry, Dong Zhuo, who regarded money as his life, felt distressed, but seeing Li Ru's firm face, he had no choice but to agree.

Ever since, two groups of envoys came out from the city of Taiyuan and headed towards the Baibo Valley on the east side of the river and the Lü Bu barracks outside the city respectively, carrying a large amount of gold, silver and jewels.

In Lu Bu's barracks.

Dong Zhuo's envoys had just been sent away, Gao Shun, who had always been taciturn, immediately objected.

"Marquis Wen! Our army was used by Dong Zhuo before, but it was a last resort. Now that we have returned to Bingzhou, why should we listen to Dong Zhuo's words?"

Zhang Liao nodded, "That's right. Now that we have returned to our hometown, our army has nothing to worry about. Why not go north to recover Wuyuan and Yanmen counties, and drive out the Southern Huns."

Wuyuan is Lu Bu's hometown, and Yanmen is Zhang Liao's hometown, so Zhang Liao naturally doesn't want to leave his hometown.

The tall and tall Lu Bu shook his head slowly with a dark complexion.

"Dong Zhuo's old thief has been staring at our army. Duan Yan and Li Jue's barracks are attacking our army. If there is any change, we will inevitably suffer from it. I think it is better to follow Dong Zhuo's words and go to Shangdang. It will not be too late. .”

Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, the monarchs and ministers, can be said to have their own ghosts and plot against each other.