Sun Jian sent more than 30,000 troops, but his generals only brought Huang Gai. The other two generals Cheng Pu and Han Dang remained in Pingxian County, respectively, responsible for guarding the city and continuing to mobilize troops using ships... Since Zu Mao was broken some time ago, Sun Jian's number of generals was not sufficient.

At this time, Sun Jian was not sure that Dong Zhuo was busy moving the capital. The scouts he sent only touched the approximate area near Pingxian County and reported that there were a large number of Dong Zhuo's troops stationed in Luoyang Imperial City and Yanshi County. It was just that Dong Zhuo was mobilizing the people and heading straight towards Luoyang, for some reason.

Therefore, the main purpose of Sun Jian's leading troops out of Pingxian County this time is to explore Dong Zhuo's reality and reality. If Dong Zhuo's defenses in both Luoyang and Yanshi are very tight, Sun Jian can only continue to wait for the subsequent troops to arrive before taking action.

At the same time, Sun Jian was also considering whether he would go to Heyin County to meet with Yang Rui, the deputy leader of the alliance. Later, he planned to plan Dong Zhuo. Sun Jian had only a little concern. As a "indifference", Yang Rui left a little more powerful impression on Sun Jian. He almost took Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance!

Not to mention that Sun Jian had some doubts about Yang Rui, his tentative dispatch this time brought great panic to Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo's troops had discovered the activities of the anti-Dong Alliance camp in the Beim Mountain area. At this time, they realized that Sun Jian was leading his troops to arrive again. Dong Zhuo immediately thought that Sun Jian was about to invade the army, so he hurriedly left Hu Zhen, Duan Wei, Wang Fang and other generals stationed in Luoyang Imperial City, and he himself quickly left Luoyang and fled to Hangu Pass.

The so-called "vegetables and trees" are probably the same. The anti-Dong Alliance camp that appeared in the Beim Mountain area was actually Yang Rui's subordinates. However, Dong Zhuo regarded it as Sun Jian's pioneer. In this way, the 10 advanced level drawings agreed by Yang Rui and Li Ru naturally could not be obtained for the time being.

Li Ru of course also raised doubts about Dong Zhuo's reaction, and speculated that the troops in the Beim Mountain area were probably Yang Rui's troops, and Sun Jian's troops might not be able to capture Luoyang Imperial City overnight. At the beginning, Li Ru even suggested that Dong Zhuo try to counterattack Pingxian County.

However, Dong Zhuo completely denied Li Ru this time, which shows how deeply he was afraid of Sun Jian! Dong Zhuo's concern for Sun Jian has actually been around for a long time. As early as when he was attacking the rebels of Xiliang, Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian had worked together. At that time, because Dong Zhuo was arrogant and dissatisfied with the military's orders, Sun Jian suggested several times that Zhang Wen wanted to kill Dong Zhuo. From then on, Dong Zhuo was quite afraid of Sun Jian.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo is quite familiar with Sun Jian's powerful strength, and has always put a lot of pressure on Dong Zhuo. Therefore, Dong Zhuo's fear of Sun Jian has become stronger over time, which has led to Dong Zhuo's current reaction.

Dong Zhuo led Li Ru and other troops to evacuate Luoyang Imperial City. Hu Zhen, Duan Wei, Wang Fang and other generals who stayed in Luoyang were also in a bad mood. As soon as Dong Zhuo left Luoyang, Hu Zhen and other generals gathered almost all the troops near Luoyang Imperial City into the city. They were preparing to defend Luoyang to the death, waiting for the retreat of the northern Hulao Pass, Gong County and Yanshi County. They also retreated to Hangu Pass.

Currently, the generals guarding Hulao Pass include Zhang Ji, Fan Chou, Xu Rong, etc. Yanshi County and Gong County County are also stationed with generals such as Li Jue, Guo Si, Li Meng, Li Su, and Hu Zhen. If the troops of Hu Zhen are united with this squad of generals, they can be said to be still a powerful force.

The tasks assigned by Dong Zhuo before leaving did make Hu Zhen and others strictly guard the Luoyang Imperial City. After cooperating with the other three defenders to retreat one after another, they could retreat to Hangu Pass. Therefore, Hu Zhen and others' actions were not wrong. Moreover, after Hu Zhen reorganized the army, Dong Zhuo's troops in Luoyang City still had more than 200,000 people. It should not be too difficult to defend the Luoyang Imperial City, which is high and deep in the city.

However, the problem lies in the mentality of these guards. Hu Zhen and others have been following Dong Zhuo for a long time. Their understanding of Sun Jian is not far from that of Dong Zhuo. They are also full of fear of Sun Jian's strength. They are already a little scared before the war has begun!

However, after Sun Jian led his people to approach Luoyang, he found that the place where he passed by was already deserted except for a mess. Not only did he not have any Dong Zhuo's troops, but even the NPC civilians were missing. All the villages, large and small towns were empty, and all kinds of materials disappeared out of thin air.

Recalling the rewards of the scouts before, Sun Jian immediately thought of a possibility, so Sun Jian urged his troops to gallop towards Luoyang Imperial City. After more than an hour of marching, Luoyang Imperial City had already come into the eyes of Sun Jian and others. Moreover, as they rode along the way, Sun Jian and his men did not encounter any resistance, and even there was no trace of people passing by!

This undoubtedly made Sun Jian even more sure of his thoughts, so he immediately led his troops to attack the northern gate of Luoyang Imperial City - Gu Gate. According to Sun Jian's judgment, it is likely that the people in Luoyang Imperial City were empty at this time!

However, when the troops rushed to the valley gate, Sun Jian's troops were shot by a rain of arrows on the city wall, and immediately overturned Sun Jian's previous judgment. However, Sun Jian was not too surprised. After a little frowning and thinking, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Next, Sun Jian seemed to be very sure and ordered people to set fire and smoke forty or fifty miles outside the valley gate. Then he led his troops to detour to the upper east gate on the east side of Luoyang City, in the direction of the Middle East Gate. However, these two gates were still closely guarded and heavily troops were arranged!

After discovering this situation, Sun Jian's expression seemed to be more certain, and the soldiers of his troops still set fire and smoke in the view of the two city gates, in order to charm the guards in the city. He himself still led most of the soldiers to detour towards the gate on the south side of Luoyang Imperial City.

Moreover, while he was moving, Sun Jian sent only two or three thousand people to approach Luoyang City, while other tribes advanced sixty or seventy miles away. Although the walls of Luoyang Imperial City were extremely high, the distance that could be watched was only thirty or forty miles, so most of Sun Jian's tribes could not be discovered by the guards in the city.

"Hmph! How dare Dong Zhuo deceive me? How can he hide it from me Sun Jian!"

When Sun Jian arrived near Kaiyang Gate in the south of Luoyang City, he found that Dong Zhuo had also arranged a lot of troops here. This situation was slightly beyond Sun Jian's expectations. However, he was just thinking a little and prepared to gather his troops and attack Kaiyang Gate forcibly!

"General, please observe for a while, and wait for the other party's reaction." Huang Gai, who was with Sun Jian, spoke and suggested.

Huang Gai was a general who followed Sun Jian to fight and attack. His relationship with Sun Jian was naturally different. This can be seen from the way he spoke. It is precisely because of this that Sun Jian also respected Huang Gai's advice enough, and then retreated two or three thousand tribes around him to stay in Shili, waiting for the reaction in the city.

"Report! The Sun Jian flag was found in Kaiyangmen!"

In the south palace of Luoyang City, the soldiers who sent the troops rushed to report the information. In the past two hours, the soldiers who sent the troops had reported the situation in the three directions of Gu Gate, Shang East Gate, and Middle East Gate, all said that they had discovered the flags of Sun Jian's major corps and Sun Jian himself!

"Which is this Sun Wentan performing?" Hu Zhen said as if to herself.

After learning about Sun Jian's previous actions, Hu Zhen, Duan Wei, and Wang Fang, the three generals guarding the city in Dong Zhuo camp, had all come to Nangong Yu's study room and were preparing to discuss countermeasures to avoid being caught by Sun Jian off guard.

"Sun Jian has only been here for two or three days. He can't mobilize enough personnel. Now that Sun Jian's flag appears one after another in the north gate, east gate, and south gate, it must be a doubtful plan. Now why don't we take advantage of the opponent's foothold and go out to the city to fight for a few formations first to consume Sun Jian's strength?

Sun Jian is not three heads and six arms. Now my city is not short of troops, and I send many soldiers. I think Sun Jian can't stand it! Why should I hesitate? If I am worried about any omissions, the two of you will be stationed in the city. I will lead my troops out of the city and rush out for a while!"

Seeing that Hu Zhen was undecided, Wang Fang immediately spoke up for the battle.

"Duan Wei thought that our focus was on defending the city, and let him know how Sun Jian made a fuss. If we were unmoved, even if Sun Jian was brave and good at planning, wouldn't he have no place to be brave?

Therefore, why don’t we defend the city here, just wait for several troops from Hulao, Gongxian, Yanshi and other places to arrive, and then retreat to the west of Hangu Pass. At that time, not to mention Sun Jian alone, what can we do if the 18 heroes come together?"

Duan Wei also said, but he did not agree with Wang Fang's strategy of fighting out of the city, and believed that it was best to defend the city and wait for help.

"General Wang and General Duan's words make sense, and my judgment coincides with General Wang.

Although Sun Jian has many doubtful soldiers, he thinks that his troops have not been in place. It is better to go out of the city to fight, and while consuming the opponent's strength, he will also kill Sun Jian's majesty. Otherwise, if Sun Jian's troops arrive, we will have no chance to fight again.

Moreover, we cannot wait for the soldiers of Hulao, Gongxian and Yanshi alone. It will take four or five days for these troops to arrive. If the heroes of Guandong follow you, it is uncertain whether the troops will have time to meet up. Therefore, Hu Zhen secretly thinks that we still need to keep our own retreat..."

Hu Zhen's words have already expressed his position and he also believes that he cannot sit in the guard. Moreover, he believes that several city gates have problems at the same time. It is true that the soldiers and horses are in the east of the city and the north of the city are true. There have been soldiers and horses on Beimang Mountain a day or two before, so they should not be removed at this time.

Only in the south of the city should be a small number of suspicious soldiers set up by Sun Jian. Although there was no movement outside Guangyang Gate, it was either a plan or a heavy army was slaughtered! So Hu Zhen and Wang Fanling mobilized 70,000 to 80,000 troops and went out of Kaiyang Gate to fight against Sun Jian's troops.

After Hu Zhen and Wang Fang left the city, Sun Jian's troops, who were originally ten miles away, retreated one after another, as if they were about to avoid the battle. Their reaction was indeed in line with the two of them's previous thoughts, so the two followed closely behind and prepared to kill.

However, after only chasing for thirty or forty miles, a sudden burst of drums in front of him. More than 20,000 Sun Jian's circumnavigation suddenly flashed out and met Hu Zhen and Wang Fang's tribes. Hu Zhen, Wang Fang knew there was an ambush, but when he saw that the terrain was flat in front and there were only 20,000 to 30,000 people on the other side, he did not retreat, but instead prepared to fight with Sun Jian's tribes head-on.

As soon as he joined the battle, Hu Zhen and Wang Fang regretted it. Sun Jian's side seemed to have few people, but they were all high-level special troops. After his soldiers met the opponent's troops, four or five people couldn't do anything about it. The situation on the battlefield suddenly became unfavorable to Hu Zhen's side.

From this, Hu Zhen and Wang Fang also speculated that there were probably generals in the opponent's military formation, and they supported their subordinates with special skills. Otherwise, even if Sun Jian's subordinates were all high-level special troops, their soldiers had two general skills to assist, and there would not be such a big gap between them and their soldiers.

"Kill! Who dares to fight me?!"

At this moment, Sun Jian's troops had already rushed out for a future. Hu Zhen and Wang Fang recognized the other side, which was the general under Sun Jian - Huang Gai! Hu Zhen and Wang Fang were timid, but if he retreated at this time, his morale would be ruined, and his side would undoubtedly be defeated in the melee!

So Hu Zhen and Wang Fang looked at each other and rushed towards Huang Gai together, barely taking Huang Gai's attack, but they could not gain any advantage.

"Are you too little General Sun Jian? Let's fight alone!"

At this time, Sun Jian suddenly rushed out of the middle of his subordinates as if he was roaring. He immediately turned Hu Zhen and Wang Fang and his face changed rapidly...

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Chapter completed!