For the sake of the trophy just now, Guan Yu looked down on Sun Jian a little.

However, he soon discovered that as long as he did not talk about money and was greedy for sharing the spoils, Sun Jian could still return to a state of cheerfulness with a heroic spirit.

At least he always tells the truth when praising his friends, and he won't be sarcastic.

On the way back to the army, Sun Jian sincerely asked about the situations he had not seen in the first half of today's battle: "...I don't know how the general killed Hua Xiong today, but Hua Xiong didn't know the general's reputation and dared to fight with the general."

When Guan Yu heard this question, he felt as if he had eaten dogwood and pepper hotpot. He touched his beard and said modestly: "Then Hua Xiong is not so arrogant and did not respond to the challenge. He just led his army to the battlefield. I caught him and was killed in the formation."

"If this is the case, the general's courage is not as strong as possible." Sun Jian commented pertinently, which is also the truth. Although Sun Jian's army killed Hua Xiong in official history, it was not a one-on-one challenge, but a one-on-one challenge, but a one-on-one battle. It is hard to say whether Sun Jian's one-on-one challenge is stronger than Hua Xiong.

Cheng Pu next to him wanted to find some face for the lord, so he put it together: "Hua Xiong didn't know how to avoid the general, he really deserved to die."

Guan Yu was not going to take on this topic, but just twisted his beard and said nothing.

In the end, a small school beside Guan Yu explained: "I guess Hua Xiong saw that our soldiers were similar in armor and did not recognize the general in the distance, and he could not dodge him during the battle."

As he said that, he also mentioned Guan Yu's faded green battle robe, which looked very low-key.

Cheng Pu then showed an expression of "understanding" and thought to himself: It turned out that Hua Xiong was sneak attacked among the soldiers. No wonder he wore such a shabby battle robe. Who would have thought that a famous general would wear so badly?

He couldn't help asking: "General Guan is the prefect, why did he wear this old robe when he goes into battle? Could it be because he is not conspicuous?"

Guan Yu opened his eyes and looked Cheng Pu up and down, already knowing what he was thinking, so he just snorted coldly: "This robe was given by my brother General of the West, and he often went on battle when he was trying to fight the Yellow Turban. Although his reputation is not comparable to that of the past, how could he dare to forget his roots after his brother's gift!"

This is said very beautifully, and it blocks all the malicious speculations back.

Sun Jian also realized that Cheng Pu was a little stingy and ashamed, and hurriedly stopped: "General Guan Gao Yi, Jian admired him. Why should De Mou ask such useless words? Let's not say these things. After returning to the camp, he would like to celebrate General Guan's decisive achievements! We must work hard to defeat Lu Bu together and treat each other honestly!"

The two armies quickly returned to the camp and drank for a night of celebration. The soldiers also said that Guan Yu and Zhao Yun had a reputation as the general, and that they were not bad for the time being.

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Starting the next day, Guan Yu and Sun Jian each guarded their camps and trained their soldiers. They occasionally gathered together to discuss issues such as "how to repel Lu Bu and Hu Zhen crossed the river to attack". In general, the thinking inertia of the coalition forces was still on how to defend.

After all, Hua Xiong could not help but cross the river and was defeated and defeated. In Guan Yu's view, Dong Zhuo's offensive would definitely be more than that, and someone would always find the place for Hua Xiong.

The situation in the Yingchuan battlefield is still the one who takes the initiative to cross the river and suffers the loss. Then continue to defend. When Hu Zhen and Lu Bu take the initiative to reveal their flaws, the coalition forces will be able to defeat the enemy at a smaller price.

Unfortunately, for more than ten days, apart from small-scale stolen camp harassment and scout confrontation, Hu Zhen and Lu Bu did not launch a large-scale offensive again, which made Guan Yu and Sun Jian feel a little uncomfortable and could not understand the enemy's new ideas.

They had to discuss whether there was a possibility of "let the enemy's main force ignore it, first go to the downstream of Yingchuan for a distance, and sneak attack on Yangcheng County."

But since the total strength is not very advantageous and he still has to sneak attack and attack the city, it seems too risky, so he has to give up first, and the front battlefield froze for a moment.

When it was delayed until late February, some bad news came from the external global variables of the entire battlefield that was unfavorable to the Dong coalition.

It was February 24th. A messenger from the rear of Yingchuan County reported to Sun Jian: "Report to the general, Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, gave way to Yuan Shao in the fifteenth of this month. On the 19th, the governor of Yanzhou, Liu Dai, attacked Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun in Chenliu! Yuan Shao suggested that Liu Dai also submit to Cao Cao as the prefect of Dongjun."

Yecheng is much farther from Yingchuan than Dongjun and Chenliu, so it is normal for two messages that happened several days to be transmitted to Sun Jian.

After hearing this, Sun Jian was slightly surprised: "What? Isn't Qiao Mao an important contact person who first joined forces with the alliance to challenge Dong? Although Liu Dai was Qiao Mao's boss, how dare he kill him? What is the charge of Qiao Mao!"

Within one tenth, there were two internal strifes within the alliance to fight against Dong, which would inevitably greatly hit the momentum of the party to fight against Dong. Although the princes east of Luoyang had nothing to do before the beginning of winter last year, and the troops had returned to their own stations, at least their existence could still strengthen their momentum. Of course, Sun Jian did not want them to openly have internal strife.

Well, to be precise, it is actually just an internal strife at the moment, because Han Fu made Yuan Shao's case appear to be very peaceful and very voluntary, and Han Fu can still live for another four or five months in peace.

If history had not disturbed, Han Fu would have committed suicide in July this year because of fear.

Faced with Sun Jian's question, the messenger replied: "It is said that Qiao Mao had the crime of overcoming power and gathering people, and was arbitrarily expanding counties and counties, and spreading rumors and confusing the public, slandering the alliance leader and the alliance's righteousness."

Sun Jian was stunned: "Let me say it in detail!"

The conflict between Qiao Mao and Liu Dai in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is written because "Liu Dai asked Qiao Mao to borrow grain, but Qiao Mao refused to give it to him." This is of course unpleasant to family words. "The Three Kingdoms" only briefly talks about Liu. Qiao has never dealt with old grievances, but it is also vague.

The messenger explained to Sun Jian carefully:

It turned out that Qiao Mao was originally just the prefect of Dongjun, but recently there were Zhang Miao, the prefect of Chenliu County, which was adjacent to Dongjun, and Wu Zi, the prefect of Jiyin County, who was in charge of the three counties. The reason why they welcomed Qiao Mao was actually because they traced Qiao Mao's contribution at the beginning of the alliance, so they wanted to support him.

This "special contribution" is quite complicated to explain. As mentioned earlier, during the establishment of the Dongdong Alliance last year, there were actually two waves of franchise waves.

The first wave was caused by Zhang Miao, Zhang Chao, Cao Cao, Zang Hong, and others. It was in the first month of last year, but they did not have an absolute title at that time.

The second wave was the joining of Qiao Mao, Yuan Shao, Liu Dai and other princes in February last year. The representative incident was that Qiao Mao distributed "Letters from the Three Dukes of Luoyang to request troops" by Yuan Shao and Liu Dai. In this way, the title of the Dong Alliance to challenge the Dong Alliance was further expanded, and more people came.

But there is a problem here, that is, until now, before February 191, people did not know that the "Three Officials' Letters" distributed by Qiao Mao was forged by Qiao Mao himself. Everyone thought that this was true that the Three Officials asked for help from the local authorities.

Just a few days ago, to be precise, a few days before Qiao Mao was killed, he himself revealed the inside story and openly declared that "I made up the letters that gathered the princes last year." Then he used this as a credit to enhance his position within the Dong League, which seemed that "if I hadn't made a quick decision to forge the letters, maybe there wouldn't be so many people who would have responded to the righteousness."

Zhang Miao and Wu Zi also leaked this inside story because Qiao Mao leaked it, and felt that Qiao Mao’s contribution was higher than the original evaluation, so he had to welcome him - as for whether there are other insider transactions here, no one knows.

Maybe it was Zhang Miao and other veteran princes who were "the first batch of Juyi faction in January last year" who wanted to disgust Yuan Shao and others "the second batch of Juyi princes gathered together by letters from the three officials in February last year". There was factional struggle, so they took some benefits to persuade Qiao Mao, who was the "second batch of Juyi princes liaison officers" to rebel, exposed the fake scandal, and overall cracked down on the common prestige of the second batch of Juyi princes.

But as the biggest beneficiary of the second batch of princes of the Gathering of Yi, Yuan Shao definitely did not want his name to be damaged. At the same time, the governor of Yanzhou Liu Dai was also one of the second batch of princes of the Gathering of Yi. With Yuan Shao's acquiesce, Liu Dai killed Qiao Mao on the way to "destroy the overall prestige of the coalition forces."

Qiao Mao did not even get the benefits given by Zhang Miao and Wu Zi, and was directly eliminated by his superiors and governors.

The first internal strife between the princes of the Dong coalition army was directly killed by a certain number of princes, and then began.

From then on, the ban on "the alliance of "Dongdong cannot attack each other and cannot grab each other's territory" was completely smashed and the magic box has been opened.

Sun Jian and Guan Yu couldn't figure out so many twists and turns, and it was estimated that they would be able to figure it out in two months. But at least they had a possibility that was related to their own interests.

After listening, Guan Yu patted his thigh and sighed regretfully: "No! We all know this news. Old thief Dong Zhuo is afraid that he will get the news earlier than us. He ordered Hua Xiong to take the initiative despite the unfavorable military conditions in order to fight the first battle against Dong's alliance this year, intimidate the princes, and make others dare not be ready to move the wall and push everyone.

But now Qiao Mao was killed, and Qiao Mao revealed such a scandal before his death, which made the world know that the letter of help from the three princes of Dong Zhuzhuo after the gathering last year was fake. I am afraid that those princes would have more reason to be afraid of the enemy! In this way, Dong Zhuo had no political target to establish his authority.

From then on, Dong Zhuo can only look at military affairs by commanding wars. So he still forced Lu Bu and Hu Zhen to cross the river to attack us? Lu Bu has not seen any movement for more than ten days. Is this the reason?"

Sun Jian also woke up: "This statement is not unreasonable. At the beginning, it may be because Hua Xiong was beheaded. Dong Zhuo felt that he had lost a little. Anyway, he had lost his face and didn't have to hurry to find it back. It's better to be fully prepared. It may be because Dong Zhuo no longer has to consider intimidating other princes, so he is not in a hurry to attack us to establish his authority! Alas, those trash in Shandong can't even shake the flag and shout! It will only drag us back!"
Chapter completed!