As the morning rose, Li Hao led the team out of Luoyang.

Luoyang City under the rising sun is majestic, with mottled walls full of traces of history.

Li Ru followed Li Hao and said, "There are eight passes in Luoyang, among which Mengjin Pass, Xiaopingjin Pass, and Hulao Pass are the most important. The commander of Mengjin has expressed his willingness to surrender, but there is no news about Xiaopingjin for the time being."

Li Hao asked: "Who is guarding Xiaopingjin Pass now?"

Li Ru said respectfully: "This man is resourceful and extraordinary," said Li Ru.

Jia Xu!

Li Hao raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, and became interested.

Jia Xu, whose courtesy name was Wenhe, was a famous strategist in the early years of the Three Kingdoms, a military strategist, and a hero of the founding country of Cao Wei.

Jia Xu was originally a general of Dong Zhuo. After Dong Zhuo's death, he offered advice to Li Jue and Guo Si counterattacked Chang'an. After Li Jue and others failed, they became Zhang Xiu's counselor. Zhang Xiu used his strategy to defeat Cao Cao twice. Before the Battle of Guandu, he persuaded Zhang Xiu to surrender to Cao Cao.

Looking at Jia Xu's life, he can be said to be full of legends.

After going through the princes such as Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Zhang Xiu, and Cao Cao, he was not only able to die in his prime, but also became the Grand Marshal who was one of the three Dukes. This point alone is enough to imagine Jia Xu's ability.

Li Hao recalled Jia Xu's life and suddenly thought of a very interesting question.

Xun You and Zhang Liao were the counselors and military generals that Cao Cao relied on in history.

Now they are all attracted by themselves. If they can also subdue Jia Xu, wouldn’t they have poached Cao Cao’s future corner?

Just as Li Hao was thinking about it, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from afar.

But there were dozens of knights coming from the front. The leader looked thin and vicissitudes, and his eyes seemed to be able to see through everything.

Everyone rode their horses and stopped dozens of meters away from Li Hao and others. The middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of face walked off the horse and bowed and said, "Secretary Jia Xu, pay homage to the Tingwei."

Jia Xu!

Li Hao was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that he was thinking about conquering Jia Xu just now, and he met a real person here.

He glanced at the dozens of cavalry beside Jia Xu who had not brought weapons. He had already guessed Jia Xu's purpose in his heart, and smiled and said, "What is Wenhe's intention?"

Jia Xu said frankly: "When the Xiaguan heard about the incident in the capital, he came to surrender to the court."

Jia Xu looked extremely natural and did not regard surrender as a shame.

He said, and glanced at Li Ru with a little surprise, feeling a little surprised.

Jia Xu frowned, feeling vaguely that the things in Luoyang were not as simple as he thought before. If it were a normal coup, with the relationship between Li Ru and Dong Zhuo, it would be unlikely that he would survive.

The current relationship between Tingwei and Li Ru is really different from the winner and the captive.

Li Ru, it's so peaceful.

The most important thing is that Luoyang changes too quickly, it is simply incredible.

When Jia Xu first heard the news, he felt that the incident was too sudden.

With his understanding of Dong Zhuo, if it was resolved so easily, he would not have been in charge of the government for nearly a year. With Dong Zhuo's prudence and the strategies of Li Ru and others, it would never be possible to make such a low-level and ridiculous mistake.

Now that Jia Xu saw Li Ru and Li Hao’s closeness, he recalled the recent rumors about Dong Zhuo’s critical illness, and suddenly there was a bold guess in his heart.

Could this coup be a show from beginning to end?

surrender!

Li Hao was a little unable to react, but thinking of Jia Xu's various actions in history, he roughly understood his decision.

If Jia Xu was talking about his achievements, he might not be as good as Xun You and others.

But when it comes to the ability to stand in the team for life, Jia Xu is really a talent that young people can reach at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At least in the history that Li Hao knew, no one has changed four or five lords like Jia Xu, and he can still be the ultimate powerful figure of his ministers.

He was silent for two seconds and couldn't help but laugh, "You are very interesting."

Jia Xu woke up from his meditation and dared not continue thinking.

He smiled and said, "Yan Zi once said: Those who know the current affairs are heroes, and those who make changes are heroes. I am just afraid of death and cannot be praised by the court guards."

"Okay, what a person is afraid of death. How many of the billions of creatures in the world are not afraid of death." Li Hao couldn't help laughing in the face of Jia Xu's straightforwardness and invited him: "I have always heard of Wenhe and have great talents, I don't know if I can ask Wenhe for advice."

Jia Xu's eyes lit up slightly and he was a little excited.

Although he didn't know where Li Hao heard the so-called famous name, he is now a good opportunity to perform in front of his future boss. For Jia Xu, who has always been ambitious but never had the chance to show it, Li Hao's invitation is like a long time of drought, and he is so beautiful in his heart.

Jia Xu said happily: "I dare not be a Tingwei for advice. It should be because someone learned from Tingwei?"

Li Hao couldn't help laughing.

Jia Xu is really a wonderful person.

Li Hao has known many famous scholars during this period, but most of them are arrogant, or conceited and wise people. No one has ever been as ignorant as Jia Xu.

At the same time, Hulao Pass.

By June, the Western Liang army had already become exhausted under the siege of the princes. The war started to be far away from the Sili area and now it burned to the edge of Sili.

Dong Min and others led tens of thousands of troops out of the customs war, hoping to resist the coalition forces of the princes outside Sili.

However, facing the fierce coalition of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the tens of thousands of Xiliang troops were finally defeated because they were outnumbered.

Over the past few months, the Western Liang army had retreated to the vicinity of Hulao Pass under the siege of the princes.

Further down the road, it is Sili.

Once the war burns to Sili, it means the failure of the Xiliang Army's combat plan.

Therefore, now, both Dong Min and the Xiliang army have become more impatient and uneasy.

Because if you retreat further, the war will burn to Luoyang!

If the capital is occupied, it will be a complete failure for the Xiliang army.

Hulao Pass, government office.

The room was dim, the doors and windows were closed, and only two figures were sitting in it.

One is a tall, big, burly and stubborn middle-aged man, Dong Zhuo's younger brother Dong Min. The other is quite handsome, and he is Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu.

The two sat opposite each other, and a pot of hot tea was placed on the short table in front of them.

Dong Min said heavily: "Have you arranged it?"

Niu Fudao: "It has been arranged and Li Jue and others will arrive at Hulao Pass tonight."

"That's good."

Niu Fu said unwillingly: "Uncle San, do we really want to surrender to that child? With the strength of our hands, even Lu Bu."

"Enough!"

Dong Min stared into a bronze bell and said coldly with an unkind look on his face: "Hmph, this is the order of my eldest brother, and you can question it."

Niu Fu didn't say anything, but the unwillingness on his face did not completely dissipate.

Dong Min sighed, the anger on his face faded away, and he smiled bitterly: "You are unwilling to surrender to that child, am I willing to do it?

But now all the princes are coming to attack, and the eldest brother is still fine when he is here.

Now that the eldest brother is critically ill, if we offend the Lu brothers again, we will not even have the chance to retreat. Once we are defeated, Li Jue and others can still change their families, but we do not even have the chance to surrender.

The eldest brother is also for the sake of my Dong clan’s goodness, otherwise do you think the eldest brother is willing to make such a cowardly choice?”

Niu Fu remained silent and sighed silently.

He knew that the most painful thing to make such a choice was actually Dong Zhuo.

"Fu understands it, and he will definitely not speak nonsense in the future." Niu Fu took a deep breath, bowed and bowed to show that he was taught.

Then, he looked heavy and said, "Although the generals have returned, Guo Si seems to be strange."
Chapter completed!