High! It's really high!

For Li Ru, Zhang Huang was so impressed that he was full of energy.

If Zhang Huang was surprised by Li Ru's losses in Han Sui's hands in the previous episode, then this time, Zhang Huang sincerely felt that Li Ru was really worthy of being a poisonous man, and that was really not a slight poison.

After Dong Zhuo left Zhang Wen's handsome tent with a dark face, Zhang Huang guessed that he wanted to take revenge. As expected, after returning to his residence, Dong Zhuo immediately sent his confidants to Li Ru, who was far away in Longxi, asking how to take revenge and vent his resentment.

In fact, while waiting for Li Ru to reply, Dong Zhuo also discussed this matter with Zhang Huang privately. At that time, their plan was to deliberately defeat the battle.

"I would rather give up this excellent opportunity to prove my ability to the court and General He Jin than to make Zhou Shen have a good time!"

This is what Dong Zhuo said. This person has always been a hero who speaks the same thing.

Unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo's letter had just been sent, and the next day he received a letter sent by someone from Li Ru, and responded to the possibility that such a situation might occur.

It's a talent of a god!

At that time, Zhang Huang almost bit his tongue in horror.

It turned out that Li Ru was always paying attention to the direction of the court. When he heard that the general of the bandits had ruined 30,000 troops but did not receive the punishment he deserved, he realized with a far-sighted vision that the general of the bandits Zhou Shen must be an important piece that General He Jin had introduced to control the military. It is natural that when the situation turns around, General He Jin will inevitably put pressure on Zhang Wen, who is the head coach, through his own power, and ask Zhou Shen to win the greatest contribution of the battle to suppress the rebellion.

In this way, Dong Zhuo will inevitably be in the same state as the general Zhou Shen. According to Li Ru's understanding of Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo will definitely not be able to swallow this anger at that time. He will pull Zhou Shen down at all costs.

This method of dying together was something Li Ru didn't want to see. Therefore, he prepared a plan in advance and sent someone to Dong Zhuo.

It is worth mentioning that the famous general Huangfu Song, who should have been Dong Zhuo's biggest enemy, did not mention a word in the letter. It is obvious that more than half of Li Ru had already expected that Huangfu Song would be hidden by General He Jin, so he would not have to worry about it.

The day after receiving Li Ru's letter, Dong Zhuo deliberately released the news, thinking that Han Sui was defeated and fled back to Jincheng in a panic, which was a great opportunity to seize merits, and Zhou Shen was assisted by Sun Jian. In this case, even a pig was definitely not likely to lose.

It seems to be a sour complaint, but Dong Zhuo tried his best to raise Sun Jian and belittle Sun Jian in this rumor. It is not difficult to guess what the general of the bandit would be after learning about this rumor.

If you hate Dong Zhuo, you can't escape. Dong Zhuo doesn't care about being jealous of him. In addition, Sun Jian, who had no connection with this matter, would most likely be hated by Zhou Shen.

Yes, disagreement!

Li Ru's first plan to teach Dong Zhuo was to distract from the relationship between the general Zhou Shen, the siege, and the deputy general Sun Jian. There was no need for the two to turn against each other. As long as Zhou Shen had a knot in his heart when he was at Sun Jian and subconsciously did not want to follow Sun Jian's kind advice, that would be enough.

As for the others, Li Ru pointed out a fact that Dong Zhuo ignored in the letter: Do you really think Han Sui has no more effort to fight back?

In his letter, Li Ru pointed out that it was inevitable that Han Sui would lose to Huangfu Song before. In fact, he could win even if he changed his individual, but he was not as beautiful as Huangfu Song's winning.

Why?

Because Han Sui's 100,000 Qiang soldiers had too much difficulty in logistics.

You should know that Huangfu Song defended directly at his doorstep. Behind Meiyang is Luoyang, and food and grass are not a problem at all.

And what about Han Sui?

Han Sui belonged to the power of King Song Yang, Heshou Pinghan. The nests of this power were in Wuwei County and Jincheng County. Han Sui suddenly asked Han Sui to cross Hanyang County, and Fufeng County fought with the Han court. He had already lost in logistics transportation.

Therefore, unless it is captured in one go, as long as the morale of the Qiang soldiers is drained, there is no possibility of achieving another victory.

However, now that Han Sui has returned to Jincheng County after his defeat, that is his territory. Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shen traveled all the way to pursue him. Do you really think Han Sui is a soft persimmon?

Even Dong Zhuo read this incisive judgment for a long time, he still said nothing and could not refute it. After all, Han Sui suffered a loss when he was in Longxi, and he was definitely not an easy person to deal with.

After understanding this, Dong Zhuo took action according to Li Ru's plan: after venting rumors and divising the relationship between Zhou Shen and Sun Jian, he led the army to rush for more than a hundred miles, and went deep into the enemy's hinterland and ran to Zhou Shen to avoid the time when Han Sui attacked Zhou Shen's army, Dong Zhuo had to hesitate whether to save or not.

What? Why do you think Han Sui will deal with Dong Zhuo first?

This is very simple. If Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shen's army were not far apart, I believe Han Sui would never have been foolish to come to his door; but if the two armies were far apart, "defeating each one" had always been the most common strategy for generals.

As for why Han Sui dealt with Zhou Shen first instead of Dong Zhuo, haha, one is a defeated man who doesn't know the so-called defeated man, and the other is a difficult guy who has dealt with several times. As long as Han Sui is not stupid, he will definitely choose Zhou Shen who is easy to deal with.

There is no doubt about it!

The situation did not develop beyond Li Ru's expectations. Zhou Shen did not listen to Sun Jian's advice and finally suffered another defeat. Dong Zhuo, who simply ran around Han Sui's territory. In addition, when Dong Zhuo ran away, Han Sui did not send troops to pursue him. It was obvious that the latter knew that Dong Zhuo's difficulty was difficult. In the idea that it was better to have less than more things, he did not bother with Dong Zhuo. After all, what Han Sui had to do after returning to Jincheng was to solve the problem with Liangzhou Geng Bi and Hanyang prefect Fu Xie, who were provoking trouble in his territory, rather than Dong Zhuo, the evil dragon who was obviously coming to fight.

This is tacit understanding!

Without need, Han Sui and Dong Zhuo will not easily anger each other. After all, today's enemy is very likely to be tomorrow's allies. Take Dong Zhuo for example. As long as Han Sui does not attack his Longxi, the stronger Han Sui develops, the more beneficial it will be for Dong Zhuo's Longxi. This is the so-called self-respect for the enemy!

As for Han Sui, most of the time, he thought of this, so he turned a blind eye to let Dong Zhuo go. After all, Dong Zhuo could not be a real enemy with him. For a long time in the future, they were still neighbors, and it was too stalemate to be unfavorable to the development of both sides.

So, Dong Zhuo was nothing, but Zhou Shen became the target of Han Sui's killing chicken to warn the monkey, and used it to intimidate the Han court to continue to send troops to encircle and suppress him.

Dong Zhuo was so proud that even General He Jin could not save the enemy General Zhou Shen. If he took a step back, he would still respect Zhou Shen? You should know that in this advance and pursuit, Zhou Shen, who had lost his troops and returned in a mess, has become the best foil for Dong Zhuo, who escaped from Han Sui's 100,000 troops without hurting one soldier and one soldier.

However, Zhang Huang was also a little confused about this matter. That is why Li Ru supported Dong Zhuo's approach.

Later, when he met Li Ru again, Li Ru explained to Zhang Huang: As for the situation at that time, unless the court spent a lot of manpower and material resources, fighting Han Sui by city, it would be absolutely impossible to win by sneak attack alone. After all, Jincheng and Wuwei are Han Sui's territory, and fighting Han Sui there is no less difficult than Han Sui's previous attack on Meiyang.

But the problem is that the current imperial court is severely damaged by the "Yellow Peril" relationship and has no spare energy to engage in such a large-scale confrontation with Han Sui.

Therefore, at that time, Li Ru concluded that the imperial army counterattacked Han Sui, and the Bian Zhang rebel army was just a flash in the pan. Once Wuwei was confirmed, it would be difficult for the two counties of Jincheng to conquer, and the court would definitely stop when they meet. Anyway, the Xiliang rebellion was not a day or two, and it was not a short time before, but did not see that Situ Cui Lie intends to persuade the emperor to give up Liangzhou?

To put it bluntly, as long as Han Sui and others stay in Xiliang and don’t cause trouble, the court will not spend a lot of effort to fight Han Sui.

In other words, even if Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shen gained any advantages in the early stage, it would be useless, because the court did not have the financial and manpower to support a large-scale battle.

Since that's the case, Li Ru didn't think about how to make Dong Zhuo shine in the battle. He adopted another way to highlight Dong Zhuo: Since Dong Zhuo cannot be raised, then pulling Zhou Shen down can also be judged!

And this is precisely why Zhang Huang admires Li Ru and sincerely laments that Li Ru is worthy of being a poisonous man.

It's like a joke that when two people are chased by a bear, there is actually no need to run too fast, as long as they run faster than their companions, it's enough.

If you can't defeat the enemy, you will cheat your friendly troops!

Facts have proved that Li Ru's vision is indeed vicious.

Shortly after Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shen returned to Zhang Wen's army separately, news came from the court: There was no need to pursue the rebels anymore, and Fufeng County should be recovered as much as possible.

At the same time, Han Sui seemed to realize that their foundation was unstable, so he no longer wanted to attack Luoyang. He focused on consolidating his power in Hanyang County and the western part of Fufeng County, building passes, garrisons, and ruled with the Han Dynasty.

Seeing that Han Sui took the initiative to stop the campaign, the Han court did not attack again. Within a month, the commander Zhang Wen was recalled to Luoyang, and another 70% of the army was also recalled. The remaining army was taken over by Xia Yu, the captain of the Qiang, and stationed in Fufeng County instead of Zhang Wen to prevent Han Sui from invading again.

The two sides chose a truce in tacit understanding. As for the governor of Liangzhou Geng Bi and the prefect of Hanyang Fu Xie, they were still fighting with Han Sui, hoping to restore local central sovereignty, but the court chose a truce and no one was optimistic about them.

Everyone could see that the court did not achieve the expected results in this battle, so they were not prepared to continue fighting. As for Geng Bi and Fu Xie who were still working hard for this, they were equivalent to being abandoned by the court.

Of course, it is not ruled out that if they did well, the court would raise troops to encircle Han Sui again, but unfortunately, Han Sui was not so easy to deal with.

Back to the point, after Zhang Wen was recalled to Luoyang, Dong Zhuo and others returned to the capital to report their troops after handing over the army with Xia Yu, the captain of the Qiang, to report back, including Zhou Shen, the general who was defeated in two battles and lost in two battles.

Seeing Zhou Shen's hair and beards were messy and his face was pale and bloodless, Dong Zhuo felt very happy and wanted to laugh a few times.

But the only one of them stayed, that was General Zuo Fu Song. In the last appointment issued by the court, Huangfu Song was ordered to station in the royal cemetery, in order to prevent evil men like Han Sui from fighting against the imperial tomb again.

But anyone guessed that this was just an excuse, and they could understand it without thinking. As the most dazzling hero in this battle, General He Jin would never recall him back to the capital.

The name is to be filial to the emperor on behalf of the emperor, but in fact it is just a disguised exile and demotion. If nothing unexpected happens, before General He Jin completely takes control of the military, as long as the court does not have any major changes in the future, Huangfu Song will definitely not be able to return to the capital.

Even Dong Zhuo sighed and felt deeply about the lonely fate of this strong enemy. It was ridiculous that he was the most skilled general in the court, but he used it to guard the cemetery for the emperor!

However, just when Dong Zhuo felt regret for his strong rival Huangfu Song, Huangfu Song, as the person involved, was regretting another person.

"What a pity Fu Xie!"

That was the emotion that Zhang Huang said to Huangfu Song before leaving. Huangfu Song was unintentionally speaking. In these days, to be honest, Zhang Huang learned a lot from Huangfu Song, especially Huangfu Song's core military use idea of ​​"the master uses open conspiracy and the supplement is treacherous". Since he was favored, Zhang Huang should treat Huangfu Song with courtesy. Before leaving, he personally said goodbye to Huangfu Song was the minimum.

"Fu Xie? The new Hanyang Prefect?" Zhang Huang asked in confusion, feeling a little distracted in his words. After all, he had never heard of this person.

Huangfu Song seemed to see Zhang Huang's disbelief, shook his head and said seriously: "When I was fighting against the Yellow Turbans, this person was once the Sima of our army..."

Sima in the army? Sima in the army?!

Zhang Huang was slightly stunned, and immediately raised Fu Xie's opinion a little in the letter.

Huangfu Song's participation in the army was praised by Huangfu Song, which is amazing!

In history, when Huangfu Song attacked the Yellow Turbans, two wise and brave heroes were assisting him, one was joining the army, Yan Zhong, a native of Hanyang, and the other was the army Sima, and Fu Xie, a native of the northern region.

Huangfu Song was not happy with Yan Zhong because this guy was purely flattering the horse's legs. When Huangfu Song successfully defeated the Yellow Turban, he suggested that Huangfu Song take the opportunity to gain troops and seize the opportunity to dominate the south.

Thinking about how loyal Huangfu Song was to the court and the emperor? He rebuked Yan Zhong, and Yan Zhong ran away with a red face, but he ended up fleeing to Xiliang and becoming a famous scholar in Liangzhou. Even Han Sui wanted to rob and coerce him to serve as the commander of the rebel army. It is conceivable that his ability was. However, Yan Zhong would rather die than follow. He died of anger and angered himself to death.

Another one is Fu Xie, the current prefect of Hanyang. In history, this person was as tough as Huangfu Song. He refused to pay bribes to the eunuchs. He also repeatedly impeached the eunuchs to the emperor Liu Hong. Not only was he very famous, but he could also be called "Jian Zai's heart" and was one of the few officials in Liu Hong's heart whom he trusted wholeheartedly.

But this uncle Fu Xiefu was too upright. Even after offending eunuchs repeatedly, the eunuch leader Zhao Zhong sent his younger brother, the city gate captain Zhao Yan to win over him and threaten him. He still refused to give the other party a good face, but instead taught Zhao Yan a lesson with righteousness.

So after Fu Xie criticized Situ Cui Lie's proposal to abandon Xiliang in the dynasty, Zhao Zhong saw that the opportunity was not to be missed, so he designed to transfer Fu Xie out of the capital and move him to the prefect of Hanyang County, Liangzhou.

Unlike the stubborn guy like Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, Fu Xie is indeed a rare talent. After taking office, he sympathized with the people and recruited rebels. Many Qiang people were moved by him and surrendered to Hanyang. They became Han Sui's most feared opponent for a while, and they were unhappy.

Later, when Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, was eager for quick success and instant benefits, he died of internal strife in the army. What is incredible is that when Wang Guo, the rebel leader of Han Sui, attacked Fu Xie, thousands of Qiang cavalry under the kingdom kowtowed outside the city and asked Fu Xie to surrender. Even the kingdom also sent Huang Yan, the former prefect of Jiuquan County, to persuade him to surrender. As a result, Fu Xie would rather die than surrender and eventually died in the battle.

Afterwards, Geng Bi's subordinate Ma Teng also defected to Han Sui and jointly elected Wang Guoweishuai and took control of the entire Liangzhou for the first time.

It was not until that time that Huangfu Song was re-activated by the court and continued to act as a fire-fighting role to send troops to Liangzhou again to conquer the kingdom.

Unfortunately, because General He Jin was killed, Dong Zhuo, who assisted Huangfu Song, was recalled to the capital, so he failed to completely wipe out the rebel forces in Liangzhou.

While saying goodbye, Zhang Huang finally couldn't help asking Huangfu Song a question that had been buried deep in his heart for a long time.

"Why did the general build a 'Beijing Temple' when he was in Yingchuan and Runan?"

When Huangfu Song suddenly heard this question, he was shocked and looked at Zhang Huang's extremely serious expression thoughtfully.

Zhang Huang didn't say anything, but just looked at Huangfu Song quietly. For some reason, he was a little nervous, maybe because he was subconsciously afraid of hearing answers from Huangfu Song that he didn't want to hear.

After a long time, Huangfu Song slowly spoke out two words: "Build momentum!"

"Build momentum?"
To be continued...