Chapter 70

Liu Bin couldn't help but smile. He naturally knew that Li Ru, the first counselor under Dong Zhuo, would definitely not have only this knowledge. In history, after Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian failed, he asked Dong Zhuo to move the capital from Luoyang to Chang'an. Now he might still choose this strategy. But he didn't want to say it, but signaled Guo Jia to continue. Guo Jia looked at Liu Bin and continued, "I have also heard of Li Ru. He is still very tricky and definitely not such a strategy. He must have a later move to deal with the situation after the failure to seek peace."

After saying that, he turned his head and said to Li Su, "This strategy was spoken by Li Ru. Did he say anything else when he said this strategy?"

When Li Su heard this, he quickly said, "Reporting to the commander, when Li Ru talked about this method, he did say another method, but he just said that if this matter succeeds, then that method is not needed. If this matter fails, it will not be too late to talk back. So he did not say it in public, so his subordinates didn't know what he was going to say."

After hearing Li Su's words, Liu Bin and Guo Jia looked at each other and smiled. As expected, Li Ru had a backup plan, but it shouldn't be unexpected. So Liu Bin said to Li Su: "Okay. Then you go back first. You said I refused Dong Zhuo's matter. Then you said I said, I am a relative of the Han Dynasty, the King of Jin, and the world belongs to our Liu family. How could I share the world with him, a traitor? Moreover, I have been deeply grateful to the emperor and cannot repay him. Of course, I will not be connected with him, a traitor. You can save your worries. Let him arrange your own funeral."

After saying that, he pondered for a moment, and then said, "As for Lu Bu, you also tell him that as long as he reforms in the future, no longer helps evildoers and kills innocent people, I can continue to blame him and forgive his past mistakes in the future. If he wants to join the Youzhou Army, I welcome him. As long as he strictly abides by the rules and regulations of the Youzhou Army, I can treat him equally and give him the opportunity to make achievements."

Li Su quickly agreed.

Liu Bin thought for a while and said, "Lord and you, do whatever you should do when you go back, don't reveal anything. I will ask Fengxiao to send someone to help you next. If you can make achievements in the future, I will not treat you badly. Okay, that's it, you can go back quickly."

Li Su quickly responded and went back obediently. When he went back, he acted very embarrassed. After all, his main task this time was to ask for peace from Liu Bin for Dong Zhuo. Now that he has failed, he naturally has to pretend to be embarrassed.

On the other hand, Liu Bin also put away his smile and said, "Why is Huang Zhong and the others doing in the Bingzhou side? Is everything going well?" Guo Jia saw Liu Bin serious and said, "Everything is going well. According to the information coming, Huang Zhong arrived in Bingzhou and divided his troops into three groups. Zhang Liao and Gaoshun each led an army to capture all parts of Bingzhou. Huang Zhong led his soldiers from Youzhou to the south, preparing to cross the Yellow River, and surround Dong Zhuo from behind. He cut off Dong Zhuo's retreat. Zhang Liao and Gaoshun have recovered most of the important Bingzhou areas and conquered nearly 50,000 Bingzhou surrendered soldiers. However, they also knew our rules and did not take the opportunity to expand the army. Instead, they gathered these prisoners temporarily and waited for the lord's instruction. Huang Zhong and the others seemed to have crossed the Yellow River, and they should have arrived at their established destination tomorrow."

After hearing this, Liu Bin nodded. He asked Huang Zhong and the others to bring people into Bingzhou, not only to occupy Bingzhou, but also to cover Dong Zhuo's retreat and give Dong Zhuo a heavy blow. Of course, he did this not to keep Dong Zhuo, but to other things. Dong Zhuo cannot die yet. This is a policy that Youzhou has formulated, so of course it cannot be arbitrarily. However, the money that Dong Zhuo plundered from Luoyang and millions of ordinary people in Luoyang, Liu Bin was not going to let him take it to Chang'an. It's okay that Liu Bin does not lack money now, but he lacks people. Anyway, he is not going to occupy it now, so let it be for others if he leaves it to others. But this money and the people Liu Bin is not going to leave it to those princes. Although he does not lack money himself, he cannot be favored by others. Liu Bin is not the kind of person who helps others and is a typical person who harms others and benefits himself.

After hearing Guo Jia's words, he just nodded, then sighed helplessly and shook his head, saying, "We are here to solve Dong Zhuo's affairs as soon as possible and return to Youzhou as soon as possible. Bi Qianzhi, Gongsun Zan, a dog thief, is really capable. He actually incited to besiege 500,000 troops to besiege Youzhou by Goguryeo and Gongsun Du. Although we were prepared for a long time, the other 500,000 people were still beyond my expectations. If we don't return quickly, maybe the other thief will not be able to withstand the other thief. In that case, the loss will be great. The family business that we had finally gathered in the past few years may be destroyed by this dog thief. So I want to beat Dong Zhuo's attention and ask him to compensate me. So this matter must be fast. By the way, what's the situation in Youzhou now? It's that level?"

It turned out that Liu Bin and Guo Jia had already received the news that when the war broke out in Sishui Pass, Gongsun Zan and others had colluded with the Xianbei, Goguryeo, Gongsun Du from Liaodong and some of Wu Heng's people gathered 500,000 troops to attack Youzhou, preparing to destroy Liu Bin's foundation and replace it. However, this news was temporarily suppressed by Liu Bin, and only he and Guo Jia knew about it. This time, the reason why Liu Bin personally led troops to attack Dong Zhuo and let Huang Zhong and others enter the palace and Bingzhou was that he wanted to give Youzhou an empty one.

These people have an opportunity, an opportunity to destroy his power, so that these people will not help but jump out, so that they can sweep away, completely eliminate the troubles of Youzhou, and eliminate the opposition forces of Youzhou. But he did not expect that Gongsun Zan would collude with so many people at once and gather these many soldiers. So it is inevitable that he would be worried. Although he pretended to be chatting and laughing in front of others, he was still very worried and caring about the situation in Youzhou. After all, this is his old nest.

After hearing Liu Bin's words, Guo Jia knew that Liu Bin was worried about the situation in Youzhou, but in fact he was also worried. However, in order to calm Liu Bin's nervous mood, he still said, "My lord, please put it in the core. Didn't we make arrangements before coming? Although the number of enemy troops this time was a bit beyond our expectations, we were already prepared. Everyone had retreated to the city, and the plan to strengthen the clear walls outside was also implemented, and the losses were not too great. Moreover, our efforts over the years

It was not in vain. The city walls were tall and strong. Although the enemy was large in number, they could not be defeated in a short period of time. With Wenruo and Zang Ba and others in charge, and Gan Ning took the navy to wait for an opportunity to attack the enemy's rear route, they should be able to persist until we return. Relatively speaking, although there will be some losses this time, it is also a great gain to be able to solve all the problems and solve all the hostile forces behind us. There is a large land population in the north, so you can rest assured."

Liu Bin nodded then. He also knew this, but he was a little concerned and confused. He said again: "When will the personnel who came from Youzhou to send a message? This matter is related to the overall situation. It is not good to come too early, and it is not good to come too late. After all, it takes a open and upright reason to return to the army. It is too early, and our efforts to come here will be in vain. If it comes too late, we may fall into a battle with Dong Zhuo, and it is not easy to get out."

Guo Jia thought for a while and said, "The person who came this time was Taishi Ci. He broke out alone and came from Youzhou to report the news. He would have about five days left. In other words, we still have five days left. It should be enough."

Liu Bin nodded and said, "That's good. I hope Dong Zhuo will act faster and don't delay. I will give him a chance to survive. If he doesn't catch it himself, don't blame me for being rude to him. As long as I make sure Dong Zhuo takes his men to retreat from Luoyang, I will pounce on me immediately, don't worry about the Xiliang army. If they want to run, let them run away. First go up and intercept the money they plundered, and stop all the people he snatched, and then transport them to Bingzhou. If some ministers of the court can be rescued, it's best to rescue some, and then we will announce the news and immediately return to help. The mess of Yangluo will be handed over to Yuan Shao and other vassals. Didn't Yuan Shao think he is the leader of the princes? Then I handed over Luoyang to him. I see how he cleaned up this mess. If he wants to play with me, he was still a little tender."

When Guo Jia heard this, he smiled bitterly in his heart, but he still wrote it down. Liu Bin pondered for a moment and said, "Immediately ordered Wenhe and Zhang Liao to select young and strong people from the surrendered troops in Bingzhou and start training to form a new Bingzhou Legion. The remaining old and weak will all give me severance payments and put them back to their hometowns. Well, no, organize these old and weak, and implement military garrisons in Bingzhou, and all of them will go to the farmlands. After our troops returned to the rescue, the Bingzhou Legion also entered the grasslands, went to the Xianbei territory, and made trouble for me. They made great efforts to cover the way for those people. Let them know that they were not allowed to do whatever they wanted to take advantage of me. If they wanted to take advantage of me, they did not have that good tooth. Since they came, they would like to leave without leaving something, so there would be no such cheap thing."

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