Just when the Sugar Jujube coalition was in harmony and they were separated and returned, the remaining Hanoi and Luyang coalition forces in the two places of Dong responded differently after hearing the situation of Yanzhou's food and troops being dispersed.

After seeing clearly the situation of fighting against Dong, Yuan Shao, the leader of the garrison in Hanoi, turned his attention from Dong Zhuo, who had a deep hatred of blood with him, to Han Fu, the Jizhou Mu, who was very hindered by him in the alliance.

Although Hanoi prefect Wang Kuang still advocated the march, even Yuan Shao did not agree to march. He was weak and learned from Cao Cao's previous lesson of being alone, so he could only turn off attack to defend and continuously strengthen his own river defense line.

Wang Kuang, who was in an offensive posture, had no feeling when facing the fierce Xiliang soldiers. After turning to the defensive, he felt that the pressure doubled. This section of river that originally stretched for hundreds of miles and could attack in many places has now become a long line of defense on his side. The troops in Wang Kuang's hands also became sluggish, and the coalition's idea of ​​marching into Luoyang from the north was completely disappointed.

In contrast, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, who had merged with Yuzhou, performed the most actively. Yuan Shu supplied food and grass to Sun Jian in Nanyang. After Sun Jian merged with Yuzhou's troops, his troops were more abundant. He frequently sent scouts to spy on the passes of Huayuan, Taigu and other passes, and there was a vague advance to force Luoyang.

One south and one north, one attack and one defense, the situation becomes increasingly obvious.

The incident of Yan Xing leading his army to attack Fengqiu, Yanzhou and burning down the rebel food and grass also caused an uproar in the Dong army camp.

It is said that after Xu Rong, who was still raising his foot disease in Xingyang, was furious after hearing the news, he knocked over the medicine he brought to the ground, scaring the people around him.

Then, while Xu Rong sent someone to order Yan Xing to return to Xingyang, he reported to Luoyang, impeached the commander Yan Xing, disregarding the military order and advancing without authorization, and led the cavalry to cross the Honggou River and returned to Zhongmu, Yan Xing was prepared and ready to deal with this situation. He treated the soldiers sent by Xu Rong to send the order, and on the other hand, he also followed the original plan to defend Zhongmu and did not retreat, and began to report to impeach the General Xu Rong, General Xu Rong, who was stubborn and failed to advance, and missed the opportunity for war.

These two military reports were delivered to Luoyang almost at the same time.

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Biguiyuan, Luoyang

The former royal garden is now the residence of Prime Minister Dong Zhuo who temporarily rested in Luoyang.

At midnight, Li Ru, who was in a hurry, came to Dong Zhuo's residence. After doing the matter of becoming King Hongnong for Dong Zhuo, in order to avoid public opinion from a large number of old Han officials in the court, Li Ru had to take the initiative to remove all his positions, refrigerate himself for a period of time before returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion and continue to provide advice for Dong Zhuo.

Nowadays, there are wars in Guandong, and undercurrents are also surging in the court. Li Ru, who returned to the prime minister's mansion, tried his best to restore the decline of Dong Zhuo's camp, but after he really started, he realized that what he could do when he returned to the prime minister's mansion was actually extremely limited.

In the court, Dong Zhuo relied more and more on his work and catered to his wishes. In military affairs, Li Ru did not take charge of the troops. Dong Zhuo, who had been in the army for a long time, personally gave face-to-face advice to the generals and schools who went out of town, and could not tolerate others' opinions. In the prime minister's mansion, Dong Zhuo also became more concerned about the opinions of the chief secretary Liu Ai and the chief clerk Tian Jing, but Li Ru's identity became embarrassing.

All Li Ru could do was to make suggestions and make plans at the right time to achieve the goal of influencing Dong Zhuo's decision-making and consolidating his own status.

So after seeing that his confidant general Yan Xing and the chief general Xu Rong had a quarrel and reported impeachment from each other, Li Ru had to come and ask to meet Dong Zhuo in a hurry.

The court had moved to Chang'an. Without court discussions, there was no need to pretend to behave in front of those officials and ministers. Dong Zhuo, who was in Bi Guiyuan, commanding all the military affairs in various places, became particularly comfortable. He even hunted while drinking and summoned the beauties selected from the courtyard to sleep every night.

Li Ru stepped outside Dong Zhuo's residence and saw that the door of the hall was closed. Fan Chou and a group of soldiers were guarding outside the hall. He and Fan Chou were also old acquaintances. He smiled and then stepped forward to greet him.

Fan Chou, who was covered in black and short beards, nodded after seeing Li Ru coming over and greeted him.

"Prince Fan, Ru wants to meet the prime minister, but I don't know if the prime minister has woken up?"

"Well, the Prime Minister woke up and had finished washing. He summoned people to serve court food. However, please wait for a while before entering. It may not be convenient at this time."

Li Ru knew the elegance when she heard the strings and songs. He knew that Dong Zhuo must have a beauty serving him during this meal, and he had fun and had fun during the meal. So Fan Chou said this, and it was indeed inconvenient for him to go in at this time.

Dong Zhuoji was in charge of the army in the border area for a long time. His original rebellious personality was even more contaminated by Hu Feng. He did not like to act according to etiquette. Before, when the scholars and officials in Luoyang were silly and slandered, they could only endure negative emotions and not have to do anything. Now that he has temporarily gotten rid of the court ministers who abide by etiquette and law, he naturally couldn't help but have fun.

Li Ru did not object to Dong Zhuo's unrestrained behavior of drinking and sex, which was not convenient to advise Dong Zhuo on the surface. In his heart, he did not feel much discomfort about Dong Zhuo's unconforming to etiquette and law.

"I am sick, I am lustful." This common problem of meat eaters and superiors can even be treated calmly, and it will be transformed into the conditions for "implementing benevolent government", so Li Ru would not care even more.

After waiting outside the hall for half an hour, a group of beauties who were serving Dong Zhuo's food withdrew, Fan Chou sent someone to inform him that Li Ru had the opportunity to meet Dong Zhuo. Before entering, he untied his sword and took off his silk shoes.

When he was stationed in Sanfu and Hedong, Dong Zhuo summoned Li Ru almost every day to discuss matters, and Li Ru had almost no such concerns when meeting Dong Zhuo. Today's changes are absolutely unimaginable when it comes to Dong Zhuo and Li Ru in the past.

Li Ru still walked into the lobby with a respectful expression, stood in the hall and saluted Dong Zhuo carefully. Dong Zhuo looked in good spirits after entering the court food, and his face was full of redness. After seeing Li Ru in, he stroked his beard that had been deliberately trimmed and smiled at Li Ru:

"Wenyou, I asked for a meeting early in the morning. Is there anything important to have it?"

After hearing Dong Zhuo's question, Li Ru felt a little warm. The irritability that he had been waiting outside the hall for a long time also subsided. He also smiled:

"Thank you, Ming Gong. Ru has already entered the court food. We came today for the good news from Zhongmu!"

"Oh, haha, I already know this. The commander Yan Xing attacked Fengqiu at night and burned the army of the famous and corrupt scholars of the sages and grass. The rebels of the sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sac

Dong Zhuo laughed and said that the good news of the front-line army was even more intense.

Over the past two or three months, Dong Zhuo's military power has been unstoppable. He first wiped out Kong Yichang from Yuzhou, and then defeated Cao Cao in the Bian River. Now he has burned the food and supplies of the Sour Jujube Alliance. In addition, Huangfu Song, the first to enter the court, and the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong and Sanfu started. For Dong Zhuo's camp, it can be said that it has swept the dark atmosphere of the wars in Guandong in Kaichun and the rebellion on all sides, and the front-line army has heard the news.

Li Ru also laughed for a while before slowly saying:

"But has the military newspaper that Ming Gong had seen Yan Xing, the commander of the Chief Secretary, impeached each other with Xu Rong?"

Hearing this incident, Dong Zhuo quickly stopped his smile. The secret reports of these two men having a gap in the army had been passed into his hands. Now when he heard Li Ru talk about this matter in person, he calmly looked at him and began to ask:

"The two of them impeach each other? Today's Chang'an newspaper and military newspapers from various fronts, I had not had time to read this incident, and I had brought it to you quickly."

Li Ru naturally came prepared, and then took out the military newspaper from his sleeve and passed it on from the temple servants who were serving in the hall. After Dong Zhuo opened the military newspaper that they had their own opinions, he snorted coldly. The general newspaper slapped the desk hard, making a dull sound, and then shouted loudly:

"These two men are most afraid of losing peace among the generals and the army. They have just won the battle and are fighting in private. If this continues, everyone will follow suit and form a faction. Then, if the rebels from Kanto attack, we will be defeated first!"

Li Ru waited for Dong Zhuo to scold him before he started to say slowly:

"Although this kind of dispute between lieutenant generals and chief clerks is a dispute of intention, as Ming Gong said, if this continues, it will lead to a crisis. Therefore, Ming Gong still needs to make a decision and formulate a program so that the dispute can be calmed and the morale of the army can be gathered. I wonder if Ming Gong's intention is to be Yan Duwei or Xu Zhonglang's proposal?"

After hearing Li Ru's words, Dong Zhuo slightly closed the anger on his face.

Indeed, the generals and schoolmen in the front line army had disagreements, and the only one who could act as arbitrators was the only one who lived in Luoyang.

The content of the two impeachments of each other can be ignored for the time being, but the decision of offense and defense needs to be decided immediately.

Yan Xing, the commander who had just burned food and grass, was the main attacker. He advocated taking advantage of the victory to march and eliminated the Yanzhou rebels who had already begun to lose food in one fell swoop. Xu Rong pointed out that Sun Jian's troops entering Yuzhou were the confidant, and advocated that he should attack Yuzhou first and then Yanzhou.

If Dong Zhuo's original intention was to first think of the group of governors in Yanzhou who were appointed by him but betrayed him one after another, the prefect beat them all and cut off the heads of these people to shock other rebels who were stubborn and ill-behaved.

But if this is the case, in order to unify the army, he will inevitably need to change generals in the near future, or replace Xu Rong, the chief general who advocates attacking Yuzhou first, or directly let Yan Xing, the commander who has made great contributions, take charge of the army and be responsible for combating the rebels in Yanzhou.

These two things involve a lot of things and the consequences are quite large. You still need to consider carefully.

So Dong Zhuo pondered for a while and suddenly asked:
Chapter completed!