At this time, Liu Cheng asked, "Prime Minister, I wonder how many soldiers you plan to station in Hanguguan?"

The personnel on both sides were stunned, and Dong Zhuo was also confused, but he still said: "At least three thousand soldiers were stationed!"

Liu Chengdao: "From the current situation, after Zhang Zi, the prefect of Nanyang, was killed by Sun Jian, Yuan Shu took over Nanyang as the general and served as the prefect of Nanyang. Han Hao, the prefect of Hanoi, was recommended by me, but he did not expect that he would rebel against the court, so Hangu Pass has become our only way out. It is not that I don't believe in the prime minister, but it is related to the life and death of my tens of thousands of troops. So to be on the safe side, Hangu Pass needs my people. Since the prime minister intends to station 3,000 troops in Hangu Pass, I ask half of these 3,000 people to be mine, which is not an exaggeration!"

There was an inexplicable light flashing in Dong Zhuo and Li Ru's eyes. They looked at each other and now they knew that Liu Cheng was also a smart person. If he didn't count the victory, he would count the defeat first. It seemed that it was not easy to fool Liu Cheng.

Dong Zhuo had no choice but to agree: "Okay, you can send 1,500 people into Hangu Pass, but the person who led the troops could only be appointed as deputy positions!"

"Yes, but this person is not under the jurisdiction of the garrison general. The role of this general is to ensure that our army can retreat to Hongnong County if it loses to the Kanto coalition forces of the princes."

Liu Cheng even thought of such details, and Dong Zhuo and Li Ru were really helpless and speechless. It seemed that it was not easy to block Liu Cheng's army east of Hangu Pass and fight to the death with the Guandong princes coalition forces. We must find another way!

Dong Zhuo nodded: "Okay, this matter is settled! Next, let's discuss the specific garrison situation!"

After another long discussion, the two sides decided to station 5,000 troops in Mengjin Pass, 3,000 troops in Xiaopingjin, 10,000 troops in Hulao Pass, 5,000 troops in Xingyang, 1,000 troops in Arctic Pass, and 1,000 troops in Xuanyuan Pass; 1,000 troops in Dagu Pass, Guangcheng Pass, and Yique Pass respectively. As for Wu Pass, which leads from Nanyang to Chang'an, Dong Zhuo sent troops to garrison, and 3,000 troops respectively.

The remaining troops were stationed in Luoyang City and around. If the war was intensified, they could send troops to reinforce at any time. Due to too many passes and cities that needed to be defended, Dong Zhuo and Liu Cheng used nearly 30,000 troops to garrison alone, and only 70,000 to 80,000 troops left, which was far from the 300,000 troops and horses of the Kanto Alliance.

However, Liu Cheng was not worried too much about this. The elite troops of the Kanto Princes coalition were at most about 100,000. This was the permanent soldiers of various prefectures and counties in the past. The more than 200,000 extra were all young and strong recruited in the past one or two months. They had almost not undergone much training and could only fight a smooth battle. Once the war was in a stalemate, these people would not only not be able to help, but would also drag them down.

At this time, Li Ru said: "General Liu, according to our report, in addition to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Han Fu, Han Hao, and Zhang Miao, the princes of Guandong who were close to the jujube, were still on their way to the jujube. Moreover, they also had important food, supplies and supplies, and the march was slow. After careful consideration, our prime minister decided to take the lead in sending troops before they completed the alliance, and caught them off guard. I wonder what the general thought?"

This idea is good, Liu Chengdao: "It's feasible. I don't know how the Prime Minister plans to attack, who will lead the troops to attack?"

Dong Zhuo said: "The attack should not be too many troops. The purpose is mainly to disrupt the deployment and steps of the Guandong princes coalition. The prime minister decided to send Hu Zhen and Zhang Xiu to lead 5,000 troops to attack the princes who came from the north and were still on the way, such as Zhang Yang, the prefect of Shangdang, Gongsun Zan, and others to cut off the food and supplies of Han Fu, Han Hao, Zhang Yang and others. Should the general also send a group of troops to build the Guandong princes?"

Liu Cheng thought for a while and said, "Okay, I will also send a group of troops to make trouble for the princes of Guandong. Since the Prime Minister sent General Hu Zhen to lead troops to the north, then I will send troops to the south of the Guandong coalition army! In addition, there is another thing that I think the Prime Minister should do too!"

Dong Zhuo said in surprise: "What's the matter?"

Liu Chengdao: "Why did Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu dare to rebel so boldly? Why could so many soldiers gather in such a short time? It's all because of the support of the Yuan family. Now the tens of thousands of soldiers of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are gathered in the sour jujube, but you still keep the Yuan family in Luoyang City to enjoy the blessing of the Yuan family. If you don't kill the chicken and scare the monkey, do you want to keep the Yuan family forcing Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to retreat? Yuan Wei can endure humiliation for the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. After all, these two are the hope of their Yuan family, but these two brothers are afraid that they won't care about the life and death of Yuan Wei and others. They are now full of wings and don't need Yuan Wei anymore. They are all at this point, and you still keep the Yuan family's delicious food and drinks. People in the world will only treat you as a fool and will not think that this is your virtue!"

Dong Zhuo was a little hesitant. After all, the reputation of the Yuan family was too famous.

"Hmph!" Liu Cheng snorted coldly and asked, "Is the Prime Minister afraid of the Yuan family?"

Dong Zhuo immediately furiously said, "Will our family be afraid of the Yuan family? Although the Yuan family has four generations and three masters, Huang Wan, Yang Biao, Zhang Wen and others have also different family backgrounds, why don't our family still kill them?"

"Then you destroyed the Yuan family!"

Dong Zhuo insisted on fighting against Liu Cheng: "You said that if you destroy the Yuan family, our family will destroy the Yuan family? Who do you think you are? Why should our family listen to you?"

Dong Zhuo took a few breaths and asked Li Ru: "What do you think about this?"

Li Ru was also a little hesitant, and he said: "It is only Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu who rebel. If Yuan Wei's family is rashly moved, it will probably arouse the fierceness of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu even more, and it will have too much impact. Public opinion will be detrimental to the Prime Minister!"

At this time, Jia Xu smiled sinisterly and said, "Mr. Wenyou's attitude is very surprised. Are you afraid of causing public opinion that is unfavorable to the Prime Minister? You are the person who even the Queen Mother dares to kill, and are the leader of the decree and establishment. What else in the world you dare not do? You actually said that you were worried that killing Yuan Wei would lead to public opinion that is unfavorable to the Prime Minister. Isn't this ridiculous? Or are you also like Wu Qiong, Zhou Wei, He Yong and others, all the insiders who are trapped by the Yuan family by the Prime Minister? What is your purpose of lurking around the Prime Minister?"

Li Ru's face changed when he heard this, and he immediately said sternly: "Jia Xu, you are bold! I, Li Wenyou, are loyal to the Prime Minister and have never had any unfair intentions. What is your intention to deliberately alienate me and the Prime Minister? Or is it because this was instructed by General Liu?"

Jia Xu smiled indifferently: "I'm just saying the facts. Your attitude is too abnormal, which is really suspicious!"

At this time, Dong Zhuo looked at Jia Xu with a stern face and asked, "Our family did kill Wu Qiong and Zhou Li, but after the killing, our family regretted it again. It is reasonable to say that Zhou Li may be an insider arranged by the Yuan family, but Wu Qiong is absolutely impossible. His entry into the court was arranged by the original minister. Jia Wenhe, how did you know that they were an insider arranged by the Yuan family by the original minister?"

Liu Cheng answered this question for Jia Xu: "Prime Minister, in fact, I have known that these people are insiders arranged by the Yuan family by the Prime Minister, but I didn't know you. After all, our relationship was not good enough to share information! You should have insiders from the Yuan family around you. Although I don't know how many there are, who are they, I am sure you have no secrets to the Yuan family. If you don't get rid of the Yuan family, our every move will be known clearly by the Guandong princes. Does the Prime Minister think we can defeat the Guandong princes? The Prime Minister can ignore me, but I, Liu Cheng, never want to die inexplicably. If you don't get rid of the Yuan family and dig out the insiders who are placed by the Yuan family, I think there is no need to fight this battle. If the matter is not secret, what else can I fight? I will lead my army to withdraw back to Hedong tomorrow!"

Dong Zhuo's face was unstable. It was obvious that after listening to Liu Cheng's words, he was weighing the gains and losses in his heart.

After a while, Dong Zhuo seemed to remember something, looked at Li Ru and asked coldly: "Wenyou, do you think it is to kill or not?"

Seeing Liu Cheng and Dong Zhuo staring at him with a sharp look, Li Ru suddenly started to sweat on his vest. He knew that Liu Cheng and Dong Zhuo were both suspicious of him. If they still insisted on the Yuan family at this time, they were afraid that Dong Zhuo would immediately start to doubt him. So he bowed and said, "Since Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu responded to Cao Cao's manifesto, the Yuan family has actually broken the face with the Prime Minister. These two brothers will not be grateful to you because the Prime Minister did not touch Yuan Wei's family. Once he hit Luoyang City, he is afraid that you will not care about your once polite to the Yuan family, so it is better to eliminate future troubles. Huang Wan, Yang Biao and Zhang Wen have all killed, are you afraid that there will be one more Yuan family?"

Dong Zhuo withdrew his gaze, swept to Hua Xiong, and shouted immediately: "Hua Xiong, please take people to the Yuan family and first interrogate how many insiders the Yuan family has installed around our family. How many people are there now? Whose name is? You must know the true nature clearly!"

"Receive the order!" Hua Xiong immediately agreed with his fists, turned around and left.

"Wait!" Liu Cheng called Hua Xiong and said to Dong Zhuo: "Prime Minister, torture is a meticulous job. General Hua is afraid that he can't do it. I heard that Lord Li Ru is proficient in this, so why not let him take charge of this matter with General Hua's assistance?"

Dong Zhuo thought about it and felt it was true, so he said to Li Rudao: "Wenyou, if you go to Hua Xiong, you must interrogate and find out a result as soon as possible, and all the insiders who were placed by Yuan's family are pulled out by Benxiang. When Benxiang thinks that there are insiders arranged by others around him, he may lose his head at any time. Benxiang can't sleep or eat. You must do this for Benxiang!"

"Yes, don't worry, Prime Minister!"

Liu Cheng didn't know if Li Ru was arranged by the Yuan family by Dong Zhuo to use this person to ruin the world. He just had some suspicion. Dong Zhuo was a suspicious person by nature. Liu Cheng knew that Dong Zhuo had already had some doubts about Li Ru in his heart, but this was enough.

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Chapter completed!