Judging from the map, Henan County is located in the middle, and it is the place where four battles are fought.

But it is not without dangers to guard. The Sishui Pass, the Yellow River and various crisscrossing mountains surrounded Henan County.

There are eight passes outside Luoyang City. When the Yellow Turban Rebellion was booming, He Jin guarded these eight passes, blocked the Yellow Turban outside Henan, and saved the capital.

From the southern Luyang to enter Luoyang, three passes need to be conquered, namely Yique, Taigu, and Huayuan. These three passes are guarding three main roads entering Luoyang.

Long before the princes of Guandong rose up, Zhang Xiu suggested to Dong Zhuo that the commander of the Eight Passes will be set up to guard the eight gates and 5,000 troops will be guarded. Later, the war broke out, and Dong Zhuo ordered Lu Bu, Hu Zhen, Hua Xiong, and Fan Chou to lead the troops south, either to guard the pass or to defend the mountain. The enemy did not move, I did not move, the enemy did not move, I did not move.

"Don't fight!"

Logically, if Fan Chou, Lu Bu, Hua Xiong, Hu Zhen and others are either powerful generals or can use their talents to guard them.

Sun Jian and Cao Cao could not enter Henan County. However, it was magical because Lu Bu refused to listen to the order and led his troops to fight and was defeated by Sun Jian, and he also lost Taigu Pass in the central region.

Taigu Pass is located between two mountains, and one man should be the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it.

At this moment, the pass had changed hands, and Lu Bu led his seven or eight thousand troops to flee to the north in a hurry. His defeat went through two processes.

First, he went out of the city to fight Sun Jian privately, outnumbered.

Second, when the troops were defeated and retreated to Taigu Pass, the soldiers in the Pass mutiny, which led to the pass changing hands easily.

Under the banner of the "Lu" character, Lu Bu was wearing a black iron armor, a handsome red rabbit horse under his body, and a square painting halberd. He was still the same as when he fought with Zhang Xiu. But his face was completely uninspiring, and he was like a dog with a broken family.

While riding his horse, Lu Bu frequently looked up at Luoyang, with a look of fear on his face.

After traveling for more than twenty miles, Lu Bu arrived at a small stream. He looked back and saw the soldiers behind him, all exhausted, and at the same time he felt dry mouth and tongue. He couldn't help but order: "Send the order, let me rest here."

"No." The messenger responded to the promise and immediately went down. The exhausted soldiers immediately cheered and rushed to the stream and reached for water.

Lu Bu turned over and dismounted, without a bench or stone, so he sat on the ground. A personal soldier immediately brought Lu Bu a sheepskin water bag. After Lu Bu drank the water, his smokey throat relieved a lot.

Not long after, his strong generals Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng, Cao Xing and others gathered over.

"General."

Everyone bowed to Lu Bu.

"There is no seat, so you can sit on the ground." Lu Bu said with a rare look of kindness on his face.

"promise."

Everyone agreed and sat down together.

Lu Bu glanced at the generals, either hurt or embarrassed, feeling very uncomfortable.

Lu Bu is still very good at choosing generals. He knew that the generals present were all brave and good at fighting. He believed that Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were even more above everyone else.

But he led these people to fight with Sun Jian, but was easily defeated by Sun Jian. This cannot be said that these people are not good, but the four people under Sun Jian's command, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai and Zu Mao were really vicious.

Moreover, Sun Jian himself is also a general, and he will be undefeated for dozens of rounds.

As for the soldiers on both sides?

Since he followed Dong Zhuo, he either followed Dong Zhuo or hanged with women in the mansion. Not only did he never bring any troops, but his martial arts skills have also declined a little.

The most important part of his army also followed Zhang Liao, Gao Shun joined Zhang Xiu.

When he meets the vicious Sun Jian, how could he be invincible?

Moreover, when he learned that Zhang Xiu had defeated Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops outside the Sishui Pass, he couldn't help but regret it.

"Why did I believe that guy Zhang Xiu's nonsense at that time? I was fascinated by gold and silver. I asked him to take my Zhang Liao and Gao Shun away? Now, Zhang Xiu defeated Yuan Shao at Sishui Pass and was promoted to the title. I was defeated here. After I returned, I don't know if he would be dealt with by Dong Zhuo."

Lu Bu was depressed, and outsiders didn't know.

When he thought of Dong Zhuo in Luoyang, Lu Bu was even more trembling. If it weren't for his family, gold and silver were all in Luoyang, he would even want to lead his troops to leave.

Dong Zhuo is so cruel. He did not obey the orders, and was defeated. If he went back to Luoyang, would he still have good fruits to eat?

Lu Bu swallowed a secretly saliva, then looked up and asked the generals with a pleasant look, "You guys. Now that we have lost the pass, we have lost the pass, and we will definitely not have any good results after returning to Luoyang. Do you have any plans?"

"I'm so polite to us now." The generals complained in their hearts. But this matter also concerns their own capital and life, and they really started to think about it seriously.

Among them, Hao Meng was very inconsistent with Lu Bu because of Zhang Xiu's plan. It can be said that he was [rebellious behind his head]. After thinking about it carefully, he thought about a plan, and his eyes lit up. He bowed and said to Lu Bu: "General. Now he will be killed by Gong Dong when he returns, but if he doesn't go back, his family will be unable to be protected. You might as well find a city nearby and send someone to tell Gong Dong that he wants to make meritorious contributions. In fact, he is a self-respecting force. Now Gong Dong is in a critical situation. He will not kill our family in the city, which will lead to our betrayal."

After pausing, Hao Meng volunteered again: "Isn't the general with the former general? Han Shouhou Duke Zhang (the news of the cavalry general has not spread yet), are they brothers? I am willing to go to see Mr. Zhang day and night, ask him to come forward and deal with him in front of Mr. Dong for a while."

All the generals and Lu Bu's eyes lit up and looked at Hao Meng with admiration.

"You have a plan. You should immediately take fifty light cavalrymen and set off to Sishui Pass to meet my brother. After the matter is done, I will reward you with a hundred gold."

Lu Bu slapped his thigh, immediately swept away his decadent confusion, and stood up and said.

"No." Hao Meng responded with a loud voice, immediately went down to select fifty personal soldiers, and the light cavalry headed east.

After Lu Bu was dispelled from his decadence, he said with a red face: "My virtuous brother is a general. Now that Gong Dong is in danger, he must use him. Naturally, he has to give him some thin face. Our future is free. Now the army is in Yangwu, and we are settled there and ready to fight Sun Jian again."

All the generals also breathed a sigh of relief and were filled with morale. They thought to themselves: "Fortunately, we general have this virtuous brother."

Immediately, the order was passed down, and the morale of the seven or eight thousand defeated troops was greatly boosted. Soon after, Lu Bu had already rested, so he picked up Fang Tian's painting halberd and turned over to the Red Rabbit Horse, and his troops were set off in the Yang Wucheng.

The Yangwu city is a very ordinary city in the southern part of Luoyang and has no strategic value. Naturally, Sun Jian would not send troops to attack, and he would camp there to watch the situation and wait for Zhang Xiu to help his life.

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Not to mention Lu Bu's defeat and fleeing, let alone Sun Jian led a large army to camp in Taigu Pass.

When he sent troops, there were only 20,000 Changsha soldiers. After killing the governor of Nanyang County and the governor of Jingzhou, he recruited 10,000 troops. After Luyang and Yuan Shu joined him, Yuan Shu gave him another 20,000 troops.

After joining Cao Cao, he added 20,000 more troops.

Now his troops are as many as 70,000. And when he confronts Lu Bu outside Taigu Pass, he will train his soldiers from time to time.

This combat force is not weak.

Taigu Pass was narrow and could not let go of 70,000 combat soldiers. Sun Jian asked some of the troops to stay outside and led 20,000 elite soldiers into the city himself.

In addition, he and his subordinates entered Guanling Mansion and came to the hall to sit down.

"General Sun is a true god. Lu Bu is known as the "Bingzhou Flying General" and fought Zhang Xiu for hundreds of rounds outside Luoyang City. However, he was defeated by the general and now he can still occupy Taigu Pass. The convenience in front of him is Luoyang. Supporting the Han Dynasty is just around the corner."

After Cao Cao sat down, he bowed to Sun Jian sincerely and praised him.

"Meng Deyan is so powerful. Although Lu Bu is brave enough to be a tiger, he is only a personal martial arts. I think he is mediocre and has no strategy, so he was defeated by me."

Sun Jian waved his hand, but his face showed a look of conceit. Although Lu Bu was brave but not resourceful, he was still an undefeated person who fought with Zhang Xiu for hundreds of rounds. Being able to defeat him proved his ability.

Sun Jian went north this time, one was to support the Han Dynasty, and the other was to let the people of the world know that there was a Sun Jian in Wu County, Jiangdong.

After a pause, Sun Jian said again: "Now we have occupied Taigu Pass, but the left and right sacred Yuan and Yique are still in the hands of Hua Xiong, Fan Chou and others. If we advance to Luoyang, the retreat will inevitably be cut off. This is really not possible. Can Meng De have any plans to let me get these two passes?"

The terrain of this area is a mountain road, and the food road is easily cut off. Unless the three passes are officially seized and a stable defense line is formed, the rear can be worry-free.

Sun Jian had already had a strategy in his mind, and just asked Cao Cao casually. But he knew that this son of the Taiwei also knew strategy well and had plans long ago.

Cao Cao bowed and bowed to Sun Jian and said confidently: "General Sun. We are afraid that we will be cut off from the food route when we enter Luoyang."

"But so were Hua Xiong, Fan Chou, Hu Zhen and others. When they heard that when they left Luoyang, Dong Zhuo and Zhang Xiushe ordered them to be deep ditches and high bases and not to fight with the generals. Now we occupy Taigu Pass, as long as we divide our troops to attack their retreat, they dare not fight with the generals. They must abandon the pass and leave and go back to Luoyang to defend."

Sun Jian showed surprise and looked at Cao Cao, the son of the Grand Marshal. Before that, he only thought Cao Cao was a "private son".

Sun Jian nodded and said, "What Meng De said is very much my wish." At this point, Sun Jian stood up and said with a spirit: "Meng De, you and Zhu Zhi lead 30,000 troops to defend the city, and Zu Mao and I lead 20,000 elite troops to Zhuyuan Pass, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and Huang Gai, you three go to Yique. Remember to attack and not attack the pass. If Hua Xiong and Fan Chou come out to fight, they will kill them."

"By the way. You set out my flag and make them think I am in your army."

"promise."

The generals responded with a loud promise and went down together to prepare for it.
Chapter completed!