"It won't be long before Dong Zhuo starts tearing at Han Fu's body like a wolf."

"That's right. Knowing that it hurts when bitten by a wolf, one will risk his life to run away instead of thinking about resisting," Cao Cao said calmly.

"Han Fu's escape and Dong Zhuo's pursuit is what we want."

Xun Yu also nodded slightly and said, "Although Han Fu is a vassal of the alliance, his heart is not against Dong, and he has a great conflict with Zhao Qing. He has a large number of soldiers. Jizhou is one of the sources of food and supplies for the alliance. He will definitely not listen to the alliance's orders in the future and form his own army, which will eventually cause estrangement and division in the alliance."

"But things will be different after this battle. If he is lucky enough to survive, he will honestly serve as the granary of the alliance."

Cao Cao smiled after hearing this and said: "Wen Ruo's brilliant plan kills two birds with one stone. Not only can it weaken Dong Zhuo's power, but it can also destroy Han Fu's prestige and boost our morale. He is truly a talented person."

Everything is linked together. If Xun Yu was the one who laid out the plan, then under the manipulation of Liu Zhaoqing and Cao Cao, the two people who played the chess, the game was solved in a way that no one else could replicate.

"Thank you for your praise, Captain Cao. This plan has not yet been implemented." Xun Yu shook his head and said.

"So what should we do next?" Zhang Liao asked at this time: "Watch Han Fu being hunted down by Dong Zhuo?"

Although she admitted in her heart that this was a good idea, Zhang Liao had long been unhappy with Han Fu, a guy with a good personality, but this was definitely not Liu Zhaoqing's plan.

Liu Zhaoqing doesn't have the time for that.

"Should we go to clip Dong Zhuo's wings?" Cao Ren on the other side also spoke.

According to the original plan, Liu Zhaoqing and Cao Cao's song was to burn Dong Zhuo's food supplies when Dong Zhuo was pursuing Han Fu.

But now that Dong Zhuo's food supplies have been burned, are they going to guard the west of Luoyang and wait for the food supplies from Chang'an and Liangzhou to be delivered before intercepting them?

That is of course impossible, not because it cannot be done, but because the results are too small to be worth doing.

"Zixiao is right." Liu Zhaoqing nodded: "Next, let's go rescue Huangfu Song."

"Save Huangfu Song?" Xiahou Dun frowned: "Now?"

Cao Cao thought about it and understood Liu Zhaoqing's idea: "Dong Zhuo sent at least 30,000 to 40,000 people to chase Huangfu Song. He must have thought that Huangfu Song was the one who burned the granary. He was extremely angry and worried about Lu Bu's safety, so he sent so many soldiers."

"That is why the frontal defenses are so fragile. We can defeat them with just one strike."

"Now that the situation on the front battlefield has changed, Dong Zhuo will definitely transfer some of his troops back to the front, so the number of troops left behind to hunt down Huangfu Song may be less than 20,000."

"That's right." Liu Zhaoqing nodded. "My daughter Wenyuan and I saw Huangfu Song's troops before. With Dong Zhuo's elite troops, we only need more than 10,000 troops to swallow him. The reason why we sent so many troops was because Lu Bu was in my hands before."

"Now that Han Fu has attracted his attention, we can start with these ten thousand people and slowly eliminate Dong Zhuo's elite troops."

After listening to this, everyone nodded in agreement. Although five thousand enemies and more than ten thousand may seem disproportionate, for them with their "luxury configuration", it is not difficult to defeat them.

Dong Zhuo's army of 300,000 has at most 150,000 elite soldiers. If we can defeat more than 10,000 of his elite soldiers, it will effectively weaken his strength.

It can also give them a good start.

Liu Zhaoqing then continued, "When we return, Han Fu's army will be defeated by Dong Zhuo and will have to retreat to the river. By then, it will be our turn to show our abilities."

Xiahou Yuan was stunned by this series of schemes. He never thought that Liu Zhaoqing could be so calculating.

"Alliance Leader Liu is really too scary. Fortunately, it's okay."

"What's okay?" Liu Zhaoqing was surprised.

Xiahou Yuan patted his chest and said in relief: "Fortunately, we are in the same group."

"..."

-

Not far outside Luoyang City, Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi were being chased by Dong Zhuo's army of more than 10,000 people.

The men under their command were all temporary instigators, and were all soldiers from the county. No matter in terms of equipment or training level, they were no match for the silver-armored army behind them.

Thanks to their command level, they were able to deal with more than 10,000 people.

However, what worries the two is not their current situation, but the fact that the number of troops chasing them has obviously decreased, which also means that there may be some problems on the front battlefield.

However, this worry disappeared when a blue arrow streaked across the sky.

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"That is……"

Huangfu Song looked up and watched the blue arrow penetrate Dong Zhuo's army that was pursuing him.

Before he could figure out who was helping him at this time, he saw a group of black cavalry, led by a female general in silver-white armor, marching into Dong Zhuo's army without any trace.

She slashed left and right, and the well-equipped soldiers of Dong Zhuo's army were like paper in the face of the silver spear in her hand.

Soon she broke through many obstacles and came before Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi.

"General Huangfu, Mr. Lu, please follow my master to defeat the enemy!" Zhao Yun said to Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi.

"Your master is..." Huangfu Song had never seen Zhao Yun.

"The leader of the anti-Dong alliance, Marquis of Changping Liu Zhaoqing."

Huangfu Song was surprised, but Lu Zhi smiled: "After escaping, he dared to come back to kill the enemy. Only he dared to do this."

Huangfu Song now understood that Lu Zhi's speculation was correct. Liu Zhaoqing's purpose of entering the city to burn food and grass was not to completely cut off Dong Zhuo's retreat, but more likely to attract Dong Zhuo's attention.

Not only can it share the pressure on the front battlefield, but it can also divide some of Dong Zhuo's troops.

"Defeat the enemy, does that mean..." Huangfu Song looked at Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun nodded, holding his gun, and said calmly: "Destroy this Dong Zhuo army."

"But, Dong Zhuo's army has nearly 13,000 soldiers, and Lu Zhi and I only have 2,000. Add yours..."

"My Lord has said: That is enough."

Lu Zhi also spoke up at this time: "Yizhen may have forgotten our abilities?"

Huangfu Song knew that Lu Zhi was talking about their outstanding abilities, and then looked at Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun nodded to him, turned his white horse around, and led the team with a spear to continue charging towards the more than 10,000 Dong Zhuo troops again.

Not only Zhao Yun, Huangfu Song soon saw another tiger roar coming from the distance, and another outstanding person holding a crescent halberd was leading the team to kill the enemy on the other side.

On the further side, there was a general wearing a blindfold holding a sword. With one strike of the sword, he shot out two dark rays of light, instantly killing hundreds of enemy soldiers.

Just relying on these words, Dong Zhuo's elite troops, which were leaderless, seemed to have no power to resist.

Huangfu Song sensed the opportunity. If they turned around to fight at this time, they could work together with Liu Zhaoqing's team to encircle Dong Zhuo's army.

He immediately ordered his soldiers and Lu Zhi to change direction and head towards Dong Zhuo's army.

This troop was well-trained. Although there was no general in charge, they immediately withdrew their formation when they saw Liu Zhaoqing's troops suddenly attacking.

If this goes on, Liu Zhaoqing will not be able to control this team in a short time, and if it drags on for too long, it will be very disadvantageous to Liu Zhaoqing's plan.

Zhao Yun was aware of this, so there was no need for Liu Zhaoqing, who was far away, to give orders.

After asking Liu Zhaoqing for orders in her heart, she handed over the command of the team to Zhou Cang, and then rushed into the enemy army alone, intending to kill another enemy general.

This time, Zhao Yun encountered even fiercer resistance than when she helped Han Fu break through before, but this time, she was helped by her teammates.

"Miaocai, help General Zhao Yun charge into the enemy line." Cao Cao said to Xiahou Yuan beside him when he saw Zhao Yun charging into the enemy line.

Upon seeing this, Xiahou Yuan immediately pulled up the bow in his hand, pointed it towards Zhao Yun, adjusted the direction, and released the string. A huge arrow blasted away all the soldiers who tried to stop Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun rode the white dragon and rushed directly into the thick smoke caused by the arrows. After a burst of shouting and howling, as the smoke gradually dissipated, Zhao Yun appeared on top of the corpses holding the head of the enemy general.

"He is truly a fierce general." Cao Cao could not help but sigh in his heart when he saw this. "No wonder Zhao Qing dared to run to the northern frontier and fight in the battles of Bailang Mountain and Mobei."

Such a powerful general is one of his confidences.

And the key point is that in Cao Cao's eyes, Zhao Yun was someone he had never heard of before, and he didn't know where Liu Zhaoqing found Zhao Yun.

However, such a powerful general had only become famous in Hebei before, but after this night attack on Dong Zhuo, his reputation would spread throughout the Central Plains.

The death of the enemy general completely destroyed Dong Zhuo's army's will to resist. Although they were still able to shrink their formation, they were completely unable to put up a stubborn resistance.

With Zhao Yun charging into the battle line, Xiahou Dun and Zhang Liao leading the team to defeat the enemy, and Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and Xiahou Yuan cooperating, even Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Xun Yu and others did not need to take action. Dong Zhuo's army was like a big pie that was quickly eaten up.

In less than half a minute, Dong Zhuo's army was killed and torn into pieces, and fled in disarray.

Liu Zhaoqing and Cao Cao came to Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi and bowed to them: "Greetings to General Huangfu and Mr. Lu."

These two, especially Lu Zhi, can be regarded as one of Liu Zhaoqing's benefactors. When Emperor Ling was still alive, when Liu Zhaoqing first met Luoyang and was framed by the Ten Attendants, it was the great Confucian scholars headed by Lu Zhi who stood with him.

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun had also spoken for him in the court. His intention of coming to suppress Dong Zhuo's army this time was also to rescue the two of them.

"I haven't seen you for a long time. You look even more charming than yesterday." Huangfu Song exclaimed.

"Thank you, General Huangfu, for your appreciation." Liu Zhaoqing smiled, and then said to him and Lu Zhi, "Dong Zhuo's army has been completely routed, but Meng De and I have other things to do. Can we leave the task of annihilating the remaining enemies to you two?"

"Anything else?" Lu Zhi looked at him. "Could it be... that you still want to go back to the front line?"

Liu Zhaoqing nodded: "That's right."

After Liu Zhaoqing and Cao Cao led their team away, Huangfu Song looked at the two people's team going away, stroked his goatee and said:

"It is just as Zi Gan said three months ago. Zhao Qing left Luoyang and resigned from the position of Shaofu not to escape, but to accumulate strength. Now, I am afraid that he has accumulated too much."

"If Yizhen doesn't believe me, he should believe the late emperor." Lu Zhi smiled, "He is the only Han marquis the late emperor has entrusted to him."

"Yes..." Huangfu Song sighed, raised his head and said, "It's a pity that the late emperor passed away so suddenly. Otherwise, with his assistance, our Han Dynasty and the people of the world would have a chance to revive."

Lu Zhi was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "The fate of Yanhan has been broken many times, and we can no longer predict the future situation. We can only do our own thing well. At least, we still have lords like Zhao Qing who truly care about the people."

Huangfu Song nodded and said, "Let's hunt down and kill all the remaining remnants of the army, and then go find Zhu Jun."

"In troubled times, all we old guys can do is add some fuel to the most hopeful fire."

-

Liu Zhaoqing and Cao Cao's team continued their journey through the woods.

Looking up at the sky, it is still night.

He was not being lazy when he entrusted the task of annihilating the remaining remnants of Dong Zhuo to Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi. Time was indeed too important to him.

He had to do more while the night was dark and Dong Zhuo was still fighting with Han Fu's army.

The shouts and cries of killing in the distance were deafening, and one could often hear the howling of wild beasts and various lights rushing towards the sky.

That was the noise caused by the battle between Dong Zhuo and Han Fu's army. Liu Zhaoqing and Cao Cao's team did not participate in it, but chose to avoid it through a large forest.

They rode non-stop all the way to the Yellow River, and during the journey they encountered some of Dong Zhuo's remaining troops, but they were all killed.

"Shut up!"

Pulling the reins, Liu Zhaoqing rode his horse to a stop by the Yellow River.

Cao Cao followed closely behind, looking at the surging Yellow River under the night sky, she said: "Next, what we should do is to let Han Fu's army lure the enemy deep into our territory, right?"

"Yes." Liu Zhaoqing nodded, "But this is premised on the fact that most of Han Fu's army can escape to the other side of the river and show signs of disbanding."

"The latter shouldn't be difficult." Cao Cao thought for a moment and said, "However, the former is a little uncertain."

"Only when Han Fu is defeated will Dong Zhuo decide to pursue him. But if only some of his soldiers escape, Dong Zhuo will probably give up the pursuit for safety's sake." Xun Yu said after thinking for a moment.

"So, we have to help Han Fu's army once again, which is to help them cross the river."

"But we don't have that many ferries. How can we help?" Zhang Liao asked.

Liu Zhaoqing said, "Meng De, you take your troops back and hide your whereabouts. Wen Ruo, you go with them. I will leave one hundred Yellow Turban riders with Generals Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao to stay here with me."

"Leave the ferry boat matter to us."

"Ah? But Alliance Leader Liu, what exactly are you going to do?" Xiahou Yuan was curious.

At this time, Cao Cao was also wondering what Liu Zhaoqing should do to allow Han Fu's remaining 100,000 troops to cross the river, but at this time she was not as leisurely and curious as Xiahou Yuan.

It will soon be daybreak and their advantage will be weakened. The longer they stay in this place, the easier it will be to be targeted.

They needed to hide again, and then kill Dong Zhuo and lead the army as planned.

"Then you better be careful. If anything happens, we can shoot arrows into the sky to inform each other," Cao Cao said.

After Liu Zhaoqing nodded, Cao Cao took most of the troops away.

When only Liu Zhaoqing, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, and a hundred Yellow Turban riders were left on the riverbank, Zhao Yun spoke up, "My lord, what should we do next?"

"The ferry that Meng De used to cross the river is less than a mile upstream, and I have sent my daughter to inform the generals in Han Fu's army. They will also know that a place to cross the river has been prepared here."

Afterwards, Liu Zhaoqing led the team upstream and indeed saw some ferries.

But... there are only less than ten ferries, which are enough to transport 510,000 soldiers, but it is almost impossible to transport an army of 100,000.

The ferry that Han Fu originally used to cross the river was burned when Dong Zhuo burned the food and grass, so these are the only ferries he has now.

But Liu Zhaoqing did have other solutions: "We can just connect the boats together."

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