In December, the army that set out to fight Hedong returned to the court in triumphal victory.

At this time, the Luoyang court had already fallen into the dead silence before a storm came.

During this period, on the surface, Dong Zhuo and the court's ministers were still in harmony with each other, because he was promoted from the Taiwei to the Prime Minister, and the vacant positions were specially made by Situ Huang Wan as the Taiwei, Sikong Yang Biao as the Situ, and Guanglu Xun Xun Shuang as the Sikong.

Among them, Xun Shuang's promotion was even faster than Cai Yong, who had been in the third stage in the weekly calendar in three days. He started to be summoned after Dong Zhuo came to Beijing to take power, and within 93 days, he was promoted to Sikong and ranked in the Taishen.

The rapid promotion speed is astonishing, which shows that Dong Zhuo is eager to use the reputation of these famous scholars and scholars to consolidate the Han court that he had just taken over.

In dealing with the party members headed by the Yuan brothers, after failing to pursue Yuan Shao who fled to Hebei, Dong Zhuo pardoned Yuan Shao's crimes under the dissuasion of Zhou Wei, Wu Qiong and other court officials, and gave him a position as the prefect of Bohai, hoping to temporarily stabilize Yuan Benchu's heart that had always been restless about the new court.

While stabilizing Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo also took a two-pronged approach and began to win over other party members. Yuan Shu, who was brothers with Yuan Shao but had old grudges, became an important target for Dong Zhuo to win over. Dong Zhuo intended to support Yuan Shu to fight and split Yuan Shao's power among party members, so he made a special report and represented Yuan Shu as the latter general.

In addition, Cao Cao in Yuan Shao's group was also regarded as the captain of the cavalry. Other party members who remained in Kyoto also had promotions and rewards. However, Dong Zhuo's painstaking arrangements eventually made the escape from Luoyang with Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and others.

In addition, the military affairs in Hedong were barely smoothed out. When the soldiers of Liangzhou first entered the capital, the unstoppable military front finally made a pause. For a moment, undercurrents inside and outside the court and the country continued to surge.

Although Dong Zhuo also began to kill the officials of the Censor Rushi Censor to shock the sluts and ambitious people in the court, it was still useless for the situation of sudden change.

Even there are rumors that Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun, had already made a letter from the three officials of the capital, and transferred letters to other prefectures and counties to state all kinds of crimes after Dong Zhuo entered the capital. He kept in touch with all forces to fight Dong Zhuo together. It is said that many prefectures and counties have already dealt with this monstrous thing.

The situation was so unfavorable that Dong Zhuo attached more importance to the military force of Liang and the troops of the two states. Therefore, a winter hunt that promoted the military power was soon held in Shanglinyuan in winter.

The Book of Zhou records that the king hunts in all four seasons, called spring search, summer seedlings, autumn hunting, and winter hunting. As etiquette hunting, the hunting was inherited by the emperors of the descendants. In ancient times, hunting was a military ceremony and a comprehensive exercise for military training.

Although the Shanglin Garden in the western suburbs of Luoyang City is not as large as the Shanglin Garden complex in Chang'an, the former Han Dynasty, it is also the largest among the several royal gardens in the west of the city. The forbidden lands set by the royal family are only used for royal nobles. There are many free-range animals among them. In the past, the princes and grandchildren of Luoyang often came here to hunt.

Therefore, Dong Zhuo also decided to set this significant winter hunt in Shanglinyuan.

The sunny day in winter is clear and the large tent and the sun set up by the prime minister Dong Zhuo has been renovated early in front of a palace in Shanglinyuan.

The platform is made of civil and architectural structure, and stands wide. Standing on the platform, you can see the scenery of the winter scenery in front of you. The large tent on the platform is also wrapped with several layers of red and purple gauze curtains. The tent is covered with soft wool blankets, dazzling gold and silver utensils, fragrant wood tables, and colorful lacquer plates. Everything is showing the owner's prominent position as much as possible.

Dong Zhuo's strong and fat body was lying on the couch, with several beautiful maids kneeling and serving beside him. The tables on both sides of the lower heads were sitting on the side. According to the degree of closeness and rank, they sat with officials from the prime minister's government such as Li Ru, Jia Xu, Tian Jing, and Zhou Wei, Wu Qiong, Liu Ai, and Liu Xiao who were close to Dong Zhuo. They were drinking warmly and sat on the high platform, looking at the wide hunting ground before the platform, and many generals were riding horses and raising bows and shooting prey.

This is a specially built hunting ground. Early in the morning, special soldiers held nets, whispered trumpets and drums to drive out wild animals that were either living in the forest or foraging in winter, and slowly drove them from three sides to encircle them, until all wild animals such as deer, elk, mountain rabbit, pheasant, wild boar, etc. were driven into this place, and they had already tied up a fence in front of the platform, and a bluff was empty to wait for prey to enter the hunting ground. Many generals and officials who were ready to show their skills were shouted after Dong Zhuo's orders, and they all rushed to enter the field, tapped the bow and led the arrows to kill the prey.

The generals and officials intend to show their martial arts and cavalry in front of the prime minister Dong Zhuo and his lord. Therefore, although each general and official do not have many cavalry followers, everyone is full of energy, taking horses and drawing bows, and arrows keep stopping. In the whistling sound, several wild beasts are ruthlessly shot by sharp arrows in almost every moment.

Each general and the officer competed with each other, using their own shooting strategies to shoot the prey they were interested in one by one. Among the generals, some were superb personal skills, some were able to shoot arrows, some were able to shoot left and right, and some were able to turn over and back. Some were also more concerned about the cooperation between the followers and cavalry, just like commanding troops on the battlefield, constantly dispatching followers and cavalry to hunt wild animals around and prevent the beasts from escaping from escaping from the gap.

The layman watched the fun, while the expert looked at the trick. Most of the civil servants and officials sitting on the platform with Dong Zhuo just felt that the galloping knights in front of them were either neat and orderly, or messy, or shot a few arrows in a row before shooting a cunning rabbit.

However, Dong Zhuo was very insightful about the situation in the field. He was not only a powerful general who could shoot left and right, but also a long-time general who had commanded a large army to fight. He was even more familiar with this small-scale hunting. While raising the golden cup in his hand, he refused to refuse the toasts from the civil servants on both sides, he drank it generously in one go, while commenting on the hunting situation in the field with great interest.

"After all, Xu Rong is the most neat in the cavalry team. They are also the most strategic in hunting. The knights' shooting skills are not bad. However, Xu Rong is cautious and does not like to compete with other generals. In the end, he will be at a disadvantage in the number of prey."

"Although Guo Aduo shoots and hunts a lot, he is too busy fighting. He shoots too much and misses many times. The cavalry team is messy and generally has to be at a disadvantage."

"Haha, it seems that Fengxian is the most good at shooting. The knights under his command are also good at shooting. They are moving forward and retreating in a proper manner. This time, he is afraid he will win the first place!"

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Dong Zhuo finished the evaluation of the generals who were competing for riding and shooting skills in the audience one by one. At this time, the generals and officials on the hunting ground also hunted all the beasts in the field, and they all held the best and largest prey they had hit, rode their horses to the front of the stage and offered prey to Dong Zhuo.

The number of prey that everyone caught was indeed almost the same as Dong Zhuo expected. The Bingzhou cavalry team led by Lu Bu caught the most prey, and many of the prey were shot from the front, preserving the intact fur.

Dong Zhuo on the high platform looked at his elite soldiers and generals below, laughed and asked the officials on the stage to prepare brocade robes and arrows on the stage to distribute bows and arrows to the generals. At the same time, the generals below also asked the generals to come on stage together and follow Dong Zhuo to read the army.

The meaning of winter hunting is to talk about military parades during the slack season. Although Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses are now elite troops who have been on the battlefield for a long time, their members are complex, including the old Liangzhou subordinates who have followed him for many years, some of the soldiers and horses who were stationed in Sanfu, as well as the newly arrived Bingzhou soldiers and horses.

Therefore, it is particularly necessary to review the armies.

Among them, Lu Bu's Bingzhou troops were listed as the first to enter the market.

Since Lu Bu killed Ding Yuan and transferred to Dong Zhuo, he has been valued by Dong Zhuo. Recently, he has directly promoted him as the General of the Cavalry and was awarded the title of Marquis of the Duting. Under Dong Zhuo's current command, he is the highest military officer. In addition to Niu Fu and Dong Yue, the only relatives of Dong Zhuo, Xu Rong and Duan Wei were awarded the positions of General of the Central Army. Even Li Jue, Guo Si and others are just a lieutenant.

The generals and officials from Liangzhou were vaguely dissatisfied with the Bingzhou people who had not made any contributions after the transfer.

For example, after the prey that Lu Bu hunted was just ranked first, Guo Si, who was dissatisfied, complained privately:

"What a abilities you can do when riding a horse and shooting a hunting job? If you want to talk about real skills, you will still have to see a good or bad on the battlefield!"

The tall and majestic Lu Bu knew a little about the dissatisfaction of the former former generals under Dong Zhuo. He was a proud and self-proud man, so today he was about to show his strength in front of other generals and officials, so that they would not sit in the well and watch the sky all day long, thinking that the soldiers and horses in the whole world were the most powerful in Liangzhou.

On the hunting ground

After the beast was hunted, it removed the fences on other sides to surround it, and this large open space soon became a military field for Dayue.

The cold air that came from the northern grassland swept across the sky above Shanglin Garden like a blade. Amid the shrill cry of the cold wind, frightened birds kept flying up from the dense forest where they lived, "Puchi--Puchi--" in panic, and passed through the sunlight shining on the clear sky in chaos.

After the noisy birds cries disappeared, the forest returned to silence. Only the nearby military parades were the whistles of many soldiers waiting to be reviewed echoed.

A team of cavalrymen lined up in the vast wilderness of Shanglinyuan, first entering the eyes of everyone on the stage from the west. The moving cavalry team stirred up a roll of smoke and dust, and the sound of horse hooves mixed with the clanging of swords and swords.

The galloping war horses kept spraying white mist from their noses, and dusty faces appeared behind the horse's head. Following the cavalry was a small infantry phalanx.

The neat and heavy footsteps and the vibrating sound of the armor with the same rhythm rang out in his ears like thunder, and a black steel frenzy surged like a bamboo shoot on the fields of Shanglinyuan. Under the sunshine in the clear sky, cold light flashed on the straits of the straits, and the ring-headed knife sheath was inlaid with gold edges, which invisibly increased the power of the marching team.

The raging cold wind swept the dust under the team's feet. The "Lu" flag in the middle of the team was blown and even the war horses made Xi Yuyu's neighing. However, the arrogant cold wind had to calm down in the face of the captivating military power. After several attempts to hit the steel city wall, the cold wind let out a few "Woo--" wails, and suddenly stopped in front of the fast-moving team.

"Stop--" Before the Buqi arrived at the stage, the leading military officer raised his hand, and the personal soldiers guarding both sides immediately opened their voices and shouted loudly, "Stop moving forward-----". The entire infantry phalanx followed the leading military officer shouting loudly, and stopped in an instant, stopping and stamping the spear, like a rock, resolutely, letting the strong wind slap the armored clothes......

"Haha, Fengxian, are these people under your command of the camp? They are indeed all bears!"

Although it was a big reading, all the soldiers and horses could not be transferred to Shanglinyuan, because among the armies, the elite troops selected from their respective armies. I heard that Lu Bu had the strongest soldiers and horses, called "Sank Camp", and the armor and tools were all refined and neat, and every attack was broken. Therefore, after Dong Zhuo took a look, he knew that the extraordinary force of this mixed army of the brigade turned to Lu Bu in the tent and asked.

"It's the trapped camp, prime minister!"

Speaking of this army, Lu Bu, with a wide forehead and square face, couldn't help but look proud. This was the army of the camp under his command, and the most powerful and good at fighting tiger and wolf army among the Bingzhou soldiers.

"Perform the orders and move forward and retreat freely, what a camp of trapping!"

Dong Zhuo wiped the wine that was stained with his beard and couldn't help but praise him loudly.

While speaking, the cavalry, which was originally with the infantry, began to roar and rush.

They used the infantry garrisoned in formation as the imaginary enemy and began to divide into two forces to form a cavalry formation to simulate the formation of the infantry.

Moreover, their cavalry formations are different from ordinary cavalry formations. The common cavalry formations in the past were mainly composed of the arrow formations, and they rushed forward, aiming to use the speed and impact of the war horses to penetrate the enemy formation in one fell swoop.

Although that kind of cavalry formation is simple and easy to use, it also has obvious disadvantages. It is that when facing armored soldiers or the same number of cavalry guarded by armored soldiers or light armored soldiers, it is difficult to attack head-on and scatter and defeat like light armored soldiers. Therefore, you have to choose long-distance raids, division and siege, cutting off the enemy's rear, and back-strike to restrain the shortcomings of the front-on-front formation.

The cavalry formation formed by the cavalry team under Lu Bu's command is obviously not an ordinary vanguard formation, but rather a bit like the fish scale formation when infantry formation formation. This large cavalry formation is composed of many small cavalry formations layer by layer, paying great attention to the spacing between each cavalry, so as to ensure that after the rush is not moved, the cavalry in front can slide across and let the cavalry behind strike again.

This cycle seems to weaken the power of the cavalry when they rush up, but in fact it will increase the toughness and strength of the cavalry when they break the formation. The sharp arrow is like a sharp knife. You can cut and pierce a wooden board at will, but when you encounter a stone slab, the iron plate will expose your own shortcomings of being hard and easy to fold. The cavalry formation in front of you is like turning the sharp knife into an iron cone, hitting the stone slab one after another. The iron plate, the hardest stone will turn into powder, and the strong iron plate will turn into a thin piece.

It is said that this tactic of forming a cavalry formation is like infantry taking turns to rush forward. It was first created by Huo Cavalry of the former Han Dynasty. The specific details are unknown. However, as a cavalry general and also good at commanding cavalry to break the formation, Dong Zhuo couldn't help but lit up. Of course, he knew the power of this cavalry formation.

"Hahaha, good knight, good riding formation!"

If this cavalry formation was not made up of a group of soldiers with excellent cavalry for a long time, it would not be able to exert its original power. Therefore, the only thing that shows this cavalry tactics on the field was that the small group of elite cavalry under Lu Bu's command could not arouse Dong Zhuo's inner fear. Moreover, as a veteran of the battlefield who has experienced a long battle formation, Dong Zhuo knew even more that this cavalry seemed invincible in breaking the formation, but on the battlefield with ever-changing information, it was just a drop in the ocean. If you were not careful, you would also be flooded by the tide of war.

The horses and horses under Lu Bu's command were ahead of their reputation. After some demonstration, Dong Zhuo praised his elite troops and became closer to Lu Bu. The other people who had underestimated themselves and thought that Lu Bu had only obtained their official position by relying on his back to the master had to calm down. When they looked at Lu Bu, they also had a hint of awe in their eyes.

No wonder the Prime Minister attaches so much importance to Lu Bu and the Bingzhou soldiers under his command. When he saw him today, he was indeed well-known and extremely elite. He is not inferior to the soldiers and horses of Xiliang. There are even signs of surpassing them in some places.

For a time, the focus of the on-stage and off-stage eyes was on the elite brigade team under Lu Bu's command, so that the other brigades who appeared behind seemed overshadowed compared to Lu Bu's soldiers.

Among them, the generals and officials in Liangzhou had the most unnatural expression. At the beginning, Lu Bu personally led the cavalry to hunt the most, and now Lu Bu's most powerful soldiers, so that cavalry would not be fine. Now, the Huangzhong Yicong under Dong Zhuo's command has the strong armored and sharp soldiers in the Luoyang arsenal, and has become a truly iron cavalry, and will not be compared by the cavalry in Bingzhou.

But for the likes of infantry, there will be no one among the generals who can compare with infantry in the trapped camp for a while. If there are other outstanding places in front of the prime minister today, wouldn’t it be that all the people in Bingzhou would be suppressed by these people in every situation?

Dong Zhuoan sat on the couch, looking at his elite soldiers and generals with joy, and at the same time, he looked at Zhou Wei, Wu Qiong, Liu Ai, Liu Xiao and others with a deep sense. This is his biggest reliance. Even if he does not rely on the imperial court's elusive ministers, with this army that can conquer and fight, he can still stand in the court.

As for the little thoughts of fighting among military generals, in Dong Zhuo's opinion, it is also a good thing. It is better to fight two horses together than to run alone. Only in this way can these soldiers and horses be able to better burst out their combat power and be better in their own hands.

Dong Zhuo raised the golden cup meaningfully and said to the tent:
Chapter completed!