In this year, Sun Ce had developed 50,000 troops from 10,000 troops. In order not to anger Lu Bu, he continued to receive assistance from Lu Bu. The middle and lower-level officers of the 50,000 troops were all selected from the 10,000 troops sent by Lu Bu. The Jiangdong Corps basically followed the organization and style of the Central Army, with strict discipline and strong style. In addition, half of these 50,000 troops were recruited from Danyang County. Danyang has been strong since ancient times, and the Jiangdong Corps' fighting power is much higher than the Jingzhou soldiers with soft folk customs. Sun Ce also obeyed Lu Bu's military orders, leaving only 10,000 troops to Cheng Pu, and Sun Jing stayed behind. He and Zhou Yu each brought 20,000 troops and attacked Jiangxia fiercely. Huang Zu was a famous scholar, who was able to rival Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. After a short time, he was in danger and quickly sent people to Yuan Shao for help.

Yuan Shao was shocked. Jiangxia was the east gate of Jingzhou. Once Jiangxia was lost, Jingzhou would be like a woman untied her clothes and would definitely be ravaged by Sun Ce's Jiangdong Corps. Yuan Shao knew very well that Sun Ce had a grudge against him to kill his father. If Sun Ce captured Jiangxia, he would definitely start a massacre in Jingzhou. At that time, the base he had finally managed would be greatly damaged.

Yuan Shao discussed with all the strategists how to deal with it. Because Yuan Shao was not paying attention, the group of strategists under his command once again became a common enemy.

Feng Ji, Shen Pei advocated continuing to attack Luoyang City. They said, "Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are all yellow-haired boys who are only twenty years old. I think there is any ability. Huang Zu is a famous general in Jingzhou and will definitely be able to defend Jiangxia City. Now is a great opportunity to attack Luoyang. If he hesitates, Lu Bu's Central Army will strengthen Luoyang's defense, and our Jingzhou army can only sigh."

Guo Tu, Xu You, and Xun Chen proposed to temporarily postpone the attack on Luoyang. Instead, they wanted to return to rescue Huang Zu. They said, "Sun Ce, Zhou Yu can sweep Jiangdong within one year when he was in his prime. It shows his ability. Although Huang Zu is a famous general, he has no extraordinary generals and is arrogant and lazy. He is not Sun Ce's opponent. If Sun Ce breaks through Jiangxia and the Jiangdong army invades the hinterland of Jingzhou, and if he cannot capture Luoyang at that time, he will be attacked from both sides and unstable foundations, and will be extremely dangerous."

The strategists on both sides said that they were right, and Yuan Shao was a guy who was short-smart and lacked decisive ability. He thought for a long time and finally decided to listen to both sides, divide his troops into two groups, attack Luoyang City, and help Huang Zu, Jiangxia, along the way.

When Yuan Shao made such a balanced decision, his advisers rarely unified their opinions and opposed them unanimously. Because the dispersion of troops is a taboo in military strategists, military strategists pay attention to concentrating their troops to defeat them. If they want to win the best of both sides, they will often be defeated and returned home. This time, Yuan Shao's body was shocked and showed a rare decisiveness: "I have decided, send troops from both sides!"

Guo Tu, a counselor under Yuan Shao, was responsible for military intelligence. From the detailed works that Guo Tu had planted in Luoyang City, Yuan Shao found that Lu Bu had a meager force in Luoyang City. Lu Bu seemed to have only dispatched 30,000 to 40,000 troops this time, and these more than 30,000 troops still had to monitor the Xiliang army with unstable morale. There were probably only 20,000 soldiers who could actually go to the front-line battlefield to fight the Jingzhou army.

The military intelligence organization in charge of Guo Tu has just been established for less than two years, but it has been established from scratch. Compared with the Military Intelligence Department, which Lu Bu instructed Guo Jia and Jia Xu to establish for three years and inherit the Han Dynasty's Royal Inspector Wind Organization, Guo Tu's Military Intelligence Department is not a little worse. Guo Jia and Jia Xu can proudly pat their chests and make a military order to Lu Bu: "We will definitely send the information that the lord wants Yuan Shao to know. The lord doesn't want Yuan Shao to know, they don't want to know."

Jia Xu has been working in intelligence for three years and has accumulated rich experience. This poisonous man has used his strengths of insight into people's hearts on this stage suitable for his own development. Yuan Shao and Guo Tu have been in Luoyang City for less than a year. They never dreamed that the fine work of the deceased man raised by the Yuan family turned into a double-faced spy.

Yuan Shao trusted Guo Tu very much and believed in the information he had sent under his command. Because Lu Bu had always tried his best to hide his troops, Yuan Shao never knew how many troops Lu Bu had now, nor did he know Lu Bu's real military deployment at all. All he could know was that Lu Bu was willing to mislead him.

Yuan Shao knew from Guo Tu that only 20,000 troops could be dispatched in the Luoyang area, but he did not dare to take it lightly, because Lu Bu's performance in the fight against Dong's alliance made Yuan Shao's lingering fear. Even though the Jingzhou army had been strictly trained under Yuan Shao's strict supervision for more than two years, Yuan Shao knew in his heart that the customs of Jingzhou were relatively weak, and most of them were gathered from private soldiers from aristocratic families. One against one, a Jingzhou soldier was definitely not the opponent of a central war soldier, so Yuan Shao was preparing to send a hundred thousand troops to attack Luoyang City.

Yuan Shao now has an army of 300,000, of which 40,000 were in the hands of Huang Zu, Jiangxia County. 20,000 were led by generals Jiang Yiqu, Lu Weihuang and others to attack the rebellious barbarians in Wuling County. 20,000 were guarded in Shangyong County to serve as the governor of Yizhou Liu Yan, 30,000 were guarded in the west of Lujiang County to serve as the governor of Yangzhou Yuan Shu, 20,000 were commanded by Wen Chou to guard Yingchuan County, and Runan County came to deal with the increasingly rampant Huang Gai, Wei Yan Guerrilla Corps, Xiangyang, and Jiangling, and 20,000 were left in large cities such as other large and small cities and passes, and there were 20,000 troops. Yuan Shao was able to mobilize only 130,000 troops.

Yuan Shao sent 30,000 troops to Cai Mao and Zhang Yun to support Huang Zu in Jiangxia to resist Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's 40,000 Jiangdong Army.

During the attack on Luoyang, Yuan Shao was preparing to lead the imperial army in person. He ordered general Yan Liang to lead 20,000 troops as the vanguard, general Chunyu Qiong to lead 20,000 troops as the rear army, and to lead 60,000 central troops to prepare to attack Luoyang City.

Yan Xing, who came to join Yuan Shao, thought that Yuan Shao would treat him like a guest, was very disappointed because Yuan Shao believed that Yan Xing was a rough martial artist from Xiliang and a person like Dong Zhuo. He did not feel any gratitude to Yan Xing for killing Dong Zhuo and avenged his uncle Yuan Wei for Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao also thought that Yan Xing was defeated by Lu Bu repeatedly, so he ignored Yan Xing's volunteering and threw Yan Xing to Chunyu Qiong to be responsible for escorting food and grass.

Yan Xing was ashamed of being very dissatisfied with Yuan Shao, but Yan Xing had only more than 2,000 Jincheng soldiers under him, and he had to bow his head.

Yuan Shao's 100,000 troops were stationed in various places, and they all had to arrive in Wancheng, the capital of Nanyang County, to gather. They also needed to prepare food, grass and supplies. It would take ten days to wait for all the people, horses and supplies to be fully prepared. During these ten days, Lu Bu had already received accurate news and was ready to face the attack.

Before facing the battle, the unstable factors must be eliminated. Lu Bu solved the aristocratic families inside and outside Luoyang City that were extremely likely to collude with Yuan Shao, such as the Hongnong Yang family. In addition, Lu Bu also had to solve the little emperor Liu Xie in the palace. Lu Bu originally wanted to take Liu Xie back together when he left Luoyang and returned to Yecheng. Now it seems that he must take action against Liu Xie, otherwise there will always be some remnants of aristocratic families who will use him to make a fuss.

Lu Bu led his troops into the palace. The thirteen-year-old Liu Xie wore a dragon robe and a dragon crown. He trembled all over and stood shakingly in front of the steps.

The palace was controlled by the Central Army ten days ago. This time, Lu Bu entered the palace by sitting high on the Red Rabbit Horse and broke in without any politeness.

Seeing Liu Xie standing there in a big manner, Lu Bu raised the Fang Tian Painted Ridge and shouted: "The criminal Liu Xie, who is a criminal, has proclaimed himself emperor without authorization, is ruthless, and he is not surrendering?"

Liu Xie looked up at Lu Bu with murderous aura, and made up his dragon crown, tried to calm down, and said in a pretentious manner: "I am the emperor's 95th emperor, you are a minister, how dare you speak to me like this!"

Lu Bu bowed to Yecheng: "There is only one emperor in the Han Dynasty. The emperor is in Yecheng. You are just a puppet pseudo-emperor held by a group of chaotic officials. If you know yourself and surrender, you still think that you and the emperor of the dynasty are brothers, so you can spare your life."

Lu Bu did not want to kill Liu Xie without any intention. He would not be the master of Wu Sanguixue, who used bowstrings to strangle Emperor Yongli to death and became accused of eternal infamous. Although Lu Bu was called Shangfu, he was also a minister. Although Liu Xie was a pseudo-emperor, he was also a member of the royal family. If Liu Xie was executed, it would be contrary to the principle of a minister. The court and the country would definitely have many slander and discussions, and they would still hand Liu Xie over to Liu Bian. Regardless of whether his elder brother Liu Bian would execute his younger brother Liu Xie, it was considered an internal matter of their Liu Han royal family, and Lu Bu's reputation could be protected.

Liu Xie also pretended to be the emperor's demeanor, and Lu Bu's Fangtian Painted Ridge was already on his neck: "Liu Xie, I have given you ten days, but you still don't realize it. Dong Zhuo was killed by Wang Yun, Wang Yun was executed by me, and the ministers of the aristocratic families who held you were tied up and were ready to be taken to Yecheng. Your emperor's dream is broken, so you should go to Yecheng to see your brother obediently and beg him to spare your life."

Liu Xie was still standing there with his head held high, refusing to kneel down at Lu Bu. Lu Bu was furious and picked up Fang Tian Painted Ridge, preparing to teach Liu Xie a lesson.

Seeing that Lu Bu's halberd was about to fall on Liu Xie, a trauma fell on his thin body. A stunning girl of fourteen or fifteen years old suddenly jumped out from behind Liu Xie, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to Lu Bu: "General, I beg you to give the emperor the last bit of face!"

Lu Bu's eyes lit up suddenly. The woman was not tall, and was one and a half shorter than Lu Bu. Her face was also small, the legendary slap face, with thin and curved eyebrows, big and watery eyes. Her delicate and small cherry mouth was also particularly small under her delicate and small nose, but her lips were pouting unconsciously, which made Lu Bu unable to help but feel the urge to cover her small mouth with her big mouth.

The queen's dress with a phoenix crown and a robe looked too generous when worn by a fourteen-year-old girl, but it also made her look particularly petite and charming. She generally gave Lu Bu an impression of a pendant, pretty and lovely person, and she could not see the majesty of the mother's charity in the world.

When she cried, she was like pear blossoms and raining, which made Lu Bu feel a little pity in his heart.

When Lu Bu remembered this girl, he should be the queen Fu Shou, who was married to the palace at the beginning of this year. (To be continued...)
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